Mel Bay Publications

This book will teach you all the basics of how to play the pedal steel guitar. Sections describe how to tune the pedal steel guitar, which picks to use, slides, explanations of signs and symbols, and...

This new book is perfect for beginners, players with a little experience and guitarists who want a good grounding in the flatpicking style. Using popular American Fiddle tunes, Joe introduces the impo...

Johnny Cash left us a wonderful country songbook, and in this one-hour and twenty minute lesson Fred shows you how to play and sing eight of Cash's most popular gems. You'll learn to back yourself up...

Killer Technique: Bass Guitar is a technique and daily study book inspired by Corey Christiansen's Gig Savers: Killer Technique book for guitar (MLB20028). This book provides concepts and daily rout...

Classical and Contemporary Studies for Bass Guitar combines essential studies from 19th century composer Giovanni Bottesini: the 'Paganini of bass , with contemporary studies by Gilbert Isbin: one of...

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 arpeggiated and 3-note ch...

This book was written for bassists who wish to learn to read music as well as for those who wish to sharpen their music reading skills. The studies in the book progress from beginning to professional...

This study examines time signatures and rhythms for the acoustic bass and the four and five-string electric bass. This method book is divided into two sections: 1) addresses simple meters, and 2) focu...

Technical exercises applicable to intermediate literature. Sets the foundation for more difficult daily study routines. Practice of these scale exercises helps one acquire agility and evenness in play...

This delightful collection of Celtic tunes for Flute features many beautiful songs, dances and airs originating from Ireland and Scotland. Designed to make playing Celtic Flute easy, this book contain...

A repertoire collection and piano accompaniment for the more advanced flutist. Keyboard accompaniment is included to diverse works such as Diversions on a Prelude (a jazz rendition of Bach's famous Pr...

Easy Classics for Flute fait partie de la série Easy Classics, écrite pour fournir aux étudiants de niveau débutant à intermédiaire une introduction agréable à certaines des plus grandes mélodies clas...

24 compositions by the legendary Irish harpist, Turlough O'Carolan scored for classic guitar solo. The solos are intermediate in difficulty and convey the beautiful, lyrical quality of the original ha...

These lessons, originally handwritten and in some cases were offered only as tab transcriptions, have now been typeset in standard notation and tab. The audio lessons in this series were initially rec...

Eric Thompson's strong, melodic picking has set a benchmark for taste and tone for nearly four decades. Eric teaches 16 of his favorite old-time fiddle tunes, which are the bedrock upon which acoustic...

As part of Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop Audio Series this comprehensive and thorough collection of fingerpicking guitar lessons contains invaluable tips and instruction implemented throughout the...

As part of Stefan Großman's Guitar Workshop Audio Series this comprehensive and thorough collection of fingerpicking guitar lessons contains invaluable tips and instruction implemented throughout the...

Steve Kaufman, Three Time National Flatpicking Champion, does it again. The third installment of a four part series brings us Steve's favorite hornpipes transcribed for guitar. Though the title says '...

An exciting collection of 29 traditional tunes from Ireland, arranged for easy flatpicking guitar. All tunes are written clearly in standard notation as well as guitar tablature. An accompanying audio...

This collection of fiddle tunes originally appeared in 'Kaufman's Collection of American Fiddle Tunes for Flatpicking Guitar' (MB 95748) but the book was so large and heavy that they couldn't put all...

In this new multi-volume series, author Joe Carr introduces beginning to intermediate guitarists to classic bluegrass ballads and waltzes. The object of the series is to ground players in good techniq...

This book helps guitarists who are currently stuck playing simple melodies develop fiddle-tune-like solos to bluegrass songs and tunes. Thirteen songs are presented in both a simple Carter-style melod...

Open Tunings for Folk Guitar is a ground breaking Guitar concept for studying the scale and chord shapes relevant to the most popular Open Tunings. By utilising a combination of modal scales and perfe...

Flatpicking Guitar has taken an interesting journey since its inception, first with Maybelle Carter, then Don Reno, Doc Watson and Clarence White. Younger players who began by listening to the origina...