Mel Bay Publications

Written as a sequel to the 'Complete Book of Harmony, Theory, & Voicing', this comprehensive source book of harmonic styles and colors offers a wide variety of chord types and progressions, and provid...

This book and online audio is a treasure-trove of improvisational techniques. Twenty-nine techniques are covered including: arpeggios, targeting, chromaticism, side-slipping, negative tonal space, pol...

As staff guitarist on the Mike Douglas Show for nearly 20 years and close to 30 years as Chairperson of the Guitar Department at the Philadelphia University of Arts, Bob adds to your sound palette as...

Lonnie Johnson blended blues and jazz styles, performing with blues shouters like Bessie Smith and Texas Alexander on one hand, and Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington on the other. Now learn essential...

A collection of 16 hot, intermediate-level flatpicking guitar solos from five of the leading exponents of this technique. David Bromberg is known as the leader of one of the most successful acoustic b...

World-renowned tresero (tres player) Nelson Gonzalez explains tuning and playing of the Cuban tres guitar, offering tips for beginning to advanced players. As the instrument's name implies, the tres h...

The 'Exploring' series of books within the Harmonica Masterclass Lesson Series walks you through each of the most common played positions on the ten hole diatonic harmonica. This volume for 2nd positi...

Learn jazz Guitar from one of the masters! Barry Galbraith was one of the best jazz guitarists of the 1950's. He was also a talented music reader who would write out his own arrangements of standards...

This collection presents the genius of Jimmy Wyble's solo guitar compositions. Presented in standard notation and tab, each written piece with an accompanying audio track represents the guitar mastery...

50 Tunes for Guitar, Volume 1 is one book in a 5-book series. The 50 Tunes series is a collection of Bluegrass, Old Time and Celtic tunes for ensembles, families and individuals. This book contains th...

This collection of 36 solos, etudes and technique studies was written especially for the developing intermediate guitarist. A variety of musical styles and genres are presented, along with a colorful...

This collection of 47 favorite guitar picking tunes includes reels, jigs, waltzes, fiddle tunes and more, each presented in standard notation and tablature with backup chords. As these melodies lend t...

Put some aloha into your playing with Hawaiian & Polynesian Music for Appalachian Dulcimer! More than just a repertoire collection of classic Pacific island melodies, this book includes the history an...

Collaborating with mandolinist, guitarist, and musicologist Franco Di Biase, a native of Archi in the Abruzzo region of southern Italy, world-renowned mandolinist Carlo Aonzo presents a new chapter of...

Written in standard notation and tablature for the intermediate to advanced mandolinist, "Angeline the Baker," "Darlin' Corey," and 16 other classic old-time tunes never sounded so good as in these so...

While one of a kind is a hard rating to achieve at Mel Bay Publications, Kevin Allison has done it with The Ceilidh Dance Book. A ceilidh is a traditional Scottish gathering where people share songs,...

Unique among books on the whistle and Celtic music, this book takes the role of a personal tutor. It explains in detail the peculiarities of the instrument, the ancient modal scales the Irish tunes ar...

The balalaika is most often associated with Russian folklore. In this comprehensive method book, concert and recording artist Bibs Ekkel shares his extensive knowledge of the balalaika as taught in Ru...

Ireland's Patrick Conway has collected 71 favorite Irish ballads, hornpipes, jigs, and reels and transcribed them for the D tinwhistle. Guitar chords are shown for each piece.

Beginners of all ages will enjoy learning to play tin whistle with the step-by-step method found in this book. Familiar folk melodies abound in this comprehensive collection of easy-to-play literature...

Easy Klezmer Tunes was created in response to many requests for a simplified version of Stacy Phillips' highly acclaimed 'Klezmer Collection'. Phillips has compiled a selection of pieces for beginning...

Written as a companion to the wildly popular fiddle book, this method opens up the world of fiddling to the beginning/intermediate violist. Finally fiddlers, violists and cellists can jam together! Un...