Mel Bay Publications

Anyone can learn to play the ukulele, and play it well. No previous knowledge of music is necessary. Strum and pick both harmonies and melodies. First Lessons Ukulele provides a simple approach for le...

Famous Solos And Duets For The Ukulele contains a selection of pieces taken from the earliest known methods and collections published for the Ukulele between 1909 and 1920. This is Ukulele music as yo...

The first publication dedicated to songs written and composed by Ian over the last 40 years, starting with his 1965 smash hit, 'You Turn Me On'. The book includes his many styles ranging from Nashvill...

This book offer scales and modes for the baritone uke. Each scale is shown in multiple fingers with roots on the fourth, third and second string. Scales and modes shown include Major, Minor, Harmonic...

This new book is designed for seniors who wish to learn to play the Ukulele. Care has been taken to select repertoire familiar and appealing to a more mature audience and attention has been given to t...

This left-handed Uke chord chart shows essential chords and secondary minor chord relationships from all 12 root tunes for the soprano ukulele in G-C-E-A tuning. The chords shown for each root note ar...

The ukulele is an increasingly popular instrument, appearing in everything from rock albums to traditional music. With Learn to Burn: Uke, you can quickly learn to play this versatile instrument. St...

This book and companion audio include twenty of the most popular kids' tunes of all time, arranged for small hands to play on the ukulele. Chords are supplied for other instruments to join in the fun,...

Featuring over 1, 000 chord diagrams and 37 full-sized fingerboard charts, Mark Kailana Nelson 's Mastering Chord Inversions For Ukulele is one of the most comprehensive and useful Ukulele chord books...

Take your ukulele playing to the next level! With "Ukulele Picking Tunes – Fun Solos to Play" from the renowned publisher Mel Bay Publications, you will discover the fascinating world of melodic solo...

This book is devoted to playing the soprano, concert, or tenor ukulele tuned in perfect fifths as used by the string and mandolin families of instruments, as well as the cittern and tenor banjo. The b...

This excellent beginner's text teaches introduces the beginner to the joy of accompanying songs with the baritone Ukulele with basic chords, strumming patterns, and Folk songs. Information on tuning a...

This book/dvd set presents tuning, proper positioning, basic chords (C tuning) and folk songs for strumming and singing. Very easy to comprehend even for the absolute beginner.

This book is designed to aid the beginning uke player in playing strums applicable to folk and bluegrass music. Each of the 29 songs has a different strum pattern! A complete grounding in chord accomp...

This book provides an easy and fun way to learn the Ukulele! Based on C tuning, You Can Teach Yourself Uke presents strum/sing-alongs in the keys of C, G, D, F, and B flat. The online video and audio...

The Easy Ukulele Method books give you music at your fingertips! Using both notation and tablature, this method is so easy that in minutes you will be strumming your ukulele and singing along to famil...

The Easy Ukulele Method books give you music at your fingertips! Book II reviews many of the fundamentals presented in Book I. It tests your music reading skills with worksheets, expands your knowledg...

This chart shows essential chords and secondary minor chord relationships from all 12 root tunes for the soprano ukulele in G-C-E-A tuning. The chords shown for each root note are major, seventh, mino...

Learn To Burn: How To Play Fast Using Speed Bursts is written for string instrumentalists who want to learn to play faster. Students start with two notes and build to longer, more intricate bursts of...

This book is designed to help guide a beginning music theory dialogue between instructor and student in private one-on-one lessons. Six areas of beginning music theory are covered. The major scale, th...

Essential Blues Bass Grooves, within the School of the Blues Lesson Series, presents 46 Bass patterns essential to the gigging Blues Bass player. Material is presented in standard music notation and T...

Electric Bass. Fingerstyle funk bass playing can be found in many styles of modern music. Some of those styles include: funk, soul, fusion, contemporary jazz, hip-hop, pop, and dance. This book focuse...

This book is all about Heavy Metal bass playing. It can be very fast and complicated. A variety of grooves (open string, octave, hammer-on) that range from old school to contemporary are presented. Rh...

This book, in notation and tablature, is designed to improve reading skills and present phrases appropriate to rock, jazz, fusion, funk, Reggae, disco, and new wave. Includes arpegiated and 3-note cho...