Mel Bay Publications

This book is an excellent study of the history and unique musical stylings of the Hawaiian Guitar. Stacy Phillips successfully pinpoints the characteristics of Hawaiian Guitar solos. A special feature...

This book is an excellent introduction to the pan flute. The lessons provided are fun and easy, and will have you playing pan flute in no time! Includes access to online audio, video and PDF files of...

Killer Chords presents the basics of chord construction in an easy to understand manner. Many chord voicing techniques for guitar are presented in a concise, but thorough manner. Triads, seventh chord...

If you can play a few tunes on the bluegrass banjo but haven't played much with others (or at all), this book will show you what you need to know to sit in on a hot jam session. Geared toward beginner...

This book is the third release in William Bay's Christmas guitar solo series, which includes Guitar Picking Tunes - Christmas in the British Isles and Guitar Picking Tunes - An Early American Christma...

These compositions, like most of my music, are of Latin American roots, rhythms and melodies. However, the harmonies always have a jazz influence without losing that Latin flavour. Four of the five pi...

A new collection by Argentine guitar virtuoso and composer Jorge Morel. This collection features solos by three renowned Latin composers plus two original solo guitar compositions by the author/compil...

1.Band der Gitarrenschule, mit Stimmen der Gitarre, erste Tonleitern und Blattspiel-Übungen

A new collection of 30 great tunes from a variety of Fiddle traditions. Each tune has been specially arranged for Mandolin and is presented in both standard notation and tablature. The accompanying au...

An easy-to-understand beginner's approach to pan flute or pan pipe. The pan flute is a set of vertical pipes, stopped at the bottom, played by blowing across the top in a manner similar to playing flu...

98 favorite hymns, gospel songs, and spirituals arranged in several different keys for diatonic, cross harp, or chromatic harmonica solo. In notation only. The book will give many hours of playing ple...

While the ukulele is enjoying a well-deserved renaissance on the mainland, in the land of its birth, it has never gone out of style. Hawaiians took to the 'jumping flea' right from the start, creating...

A comprehensive 96-page, pocket/case sized perfect-bound book of over 90 all time favorite mandolin tunes. Includes American fiddle tunes, Celtic reels, gospel favorites, jazz tunes and more; guitar c...

This book and audio teaches excellent techniques to use for walking bass lines on guitar when playing in a duet format, either with another Guitar player or with a Singer or other instrumentalists.

From the author of Mel Bay's best-selling book, Learn to Play Fingerstyle Solos for Ukulele, we are proud to present, Favorite Fingerstyle Solos for Ukulele. This book and accompanying audio offer a v...

This instruction book for beginning lap dulcimer in DAD tuning is unique in two ways. First, it instructs the beginning student in the increasingly popular DAD tuning. Secondly, the author, a classroo...

Italian Folk Music for Mandolin is an enjoyable collection of pieces from various parts of northern, central and southern Italy. This anthology includes complete texts and translations of the songs wi...

Crystal Harmonics for Guitar provides the guitarist with practical advice on playing harmonics and how to perform them with a crystal-clear tone. The material also covers various notation systems used...

Avez-vous atteint une impasse dans vos solos de guitare blues, rock ou jazz ? Avez-vous l'impression de répéter depuis des années les mêmes schémas pentatoniques, avec les mêmes vieux licks de blues q...

The most in-depth, revolutionary presentation of the harmonic framework of music as applied to the guitar fingerboard ever presented. Leads to total mastery of harmonic and technical aspects of the gu...

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...

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...

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...