Mel Bay Publications

First Lessons Bass is intended to introduce beginning students to the fundamental concepts of playing the electric bass. The material covered in this book is approximately the material covered in the...

First Lessons Bass is intended to introduce beginning students to the fundamental concepts of playing the electric bass. The material covered in this book is approximately the material covered in the...

Mel Bay's new fingering and scale chart for bassoon is an indispensable reference guide for bassoonists as well as educators. The fingering diagrams are clear and easily understandable, with clear pho...

The Harpsicle® Harp method book is an excellent tool for learning to play the Harpsicle® Harp or any size harp from the very beginning. No musical knowledge is necessary to use this method. All the mu...

A step-by-step, self-instruction method. Includes care of the Autoharp, playing positions, chord changes, back-up strums, arpeggio strums, melody picking, rhythm picking, and much more. Each song teac...

Kim Robertson is one of America's premier Celtic Harp soloists. Her technique and range of expression are extraordinary as illustrated in this book containing the selections from her highly acclaimed...

Mel Bay's new fingering and scale chart for clarinet is an indispensable reference guide for clarinetists as well as educators. The fingering diagrams are clear and easily understandable, with clear p...

An easy-to-understand chart which features chromatic, major, and minor scale studies in a handy format. Includes staff notation and fingering diagrams for the entire range of the clarinet.

Private Lessons for Clarinet est une méthode de clarinette intermédiaire qui donne des instructions spécifiques sur la façon de pratiquer les gammes, la respiration correcte et les exercices de gammes...

Mel Bay's Modern Piano Method is designed to introduce the student to the world of piano playing from a contemporary perspective. The book will teach basic music theory concepts as well as general pia...

This new collection of chords from Gail Smith, is one all pianists have been waiting for. It will be quite useful for the player who needs to see where the chord is on the piano as well as how it is w...

While living in Mexico, Janet taught piano and music education at the Mexican Baptist Seminary from 1984 until 2000. She soon found that her Mexican students did not relate to the folk tunes found in...

Included are photos depicting the most common chords today's pianist/keyboardist will ever need to know to play country music; each shown in the left hand, except where two hands are necessary. A hand...

As opposed to The Complete Piano Photo Chord Book, this edition encompasses only the most commonly used chords that you will find in ROCK music. All photos are shown in the left hand, except where two...

As opposed to Complete Piano Photo Chords, this edition encompasses only the most commonly used chords that you will find in BLUES music. All photos are shown in the left hand, except where two hands...

Developed by Robin Jarman to enable anyone to accompany songs on the Piano without music, change key when a song is pitched too low or too high, and provide accompaniment when only the melody and chor...

You Can Teach Yourself Piano is a revolutionary concept in piano instruction. No other piano method comes close to matching this book's scope in teaching not only basic music reading skills, but also...

You Can Teach Yourself Piano is a revolutionary concept in Piano instruction. No other Piano method comes close to matching this book's scope in teaching not only basic music reading skills, but also...

Not just another book of scales and patterns, this is a method that trains the mind, the ears and the fingers to work in perfect synchronization to respond instantaneously to any given chord progressi...

Following the best-selling Jazz Piano Chords, this informative volume provides a scale reference and practice tool for any pianist wanting to learn to play jazz. Starting with diatonic, pentatonic, sy...

Piano students of Latin American heritage often do not relate to the folk tunes that most methods use because the majority of those melodies do not flow with the rhythm of the Spanish language. This m...

This beginning piano course introduces children or adult students to basic music notation and helps them build a solid foundation of piano skills. Theory and instruction appears alongside music exampl...

This beginner Piano course introduces children or adult students to basic music notation and helps them build a solid foundation of Piano skills. Theory and instruction appears alongside music example...

This book and accompanying audio is a detailed guide to learning how to play the upright Bass. Designed for beginners, no prior musical knowledge is necessary. Included are lessons on technique fundam...

At last, here is a method book for the upright string bass or 'dog house bass' as it is affectionately known in bluegrass circles. Although bluegrass bass has a style of its own, the knowledge gained...