Mel Bay Publications

Learn To Burn: Electric Bass is intended for the Bass player who wants to stretch his or her limits and begin playing outside his or her comfort zone. Starting with just the right hand, the material c...

Are you unsure how to appropriately use that low B-string? Learn To Burn: 5-String Bass Guitar (Book/CD Set) will show you how, and much more. The book starts you off with right-hand technique exercis...

Learn scales and their chord relationships with this 5-String Bass Scale Chart from Corey Dozier. The chart is small enough to take with you on the go, allowing you to incorporate it into your daily w...

Put the guess work aside and get the right notes for all the chords on the five-string Bass in the first two positions. Each chord is fully arpeggiated in two octaves. All chords are presented in twel...

This clear, comprehensive Corey Dozier Wall Chart includes four movable scale diagrams for each scale on the 5-string Bass. Learning and practicing these scales will allow you to play the correct note...

For decades, Guitar students and teachers alike have struggled with the idea of left-handed individuals playing right-handed. Now that the idea of letting the dominant hand rule is widely accepted as...

Easy Way to Guitar is a popular, easy to understand children's course designed to give the student a thorough grounding in note reading and solo performance. Chord playing is introduced gradually, uti...

Easy Way to Guitar is a popular, easy to understand children's course designed to give the student a thorough grounding in note reading and solo performance. Chord playing is introduced gradually, uti...

Suitable for beginning guitarists, the Mel Bay: Guitar Primer serves as a precursor to the Modern Guitar Method, Grade 1. This easy, carefully graduated note-reading method provides an introduction to...

Mel Bay's Modern Guitar Method - Grade 3 has been created to help improving guitarists develop further skills to a grade 3 standard. This book begins with the key of A major and immediately introduces...

Now clearly at the intermediate level, Grade 4 begins by introducing the E major scale in three octaves plus the principal chords in E major. The C# harmonic and melodic minor scales are introduced fo...

Contains studies, chord melody solos, chord studies, quartal harmony etudes, triad studies and duets in the keys of A, F#m, Eb, Cm, E, C#m, Ab and Gm. Presents a comprehensive listing of chords found...

An excellent beginner's tool which teaches simple chord strumming. This package includes the companion CD, which is in stereo play-along format, allowing the student to strum along each tune with a re...

If you have a guitar and want to start playing immediately, this is your book. A best-seller for decades, Mel Bay's Fun with the Guitar will teach you 9 basic chords and will show you how to strum gui...

Le crosspicking est une technique de guitare étonnante et magnifique jouée avec un flatpick. Il s'agit d'un son unique qui, d'une certaine manière, imite la guitare à trois doigts ou le banjo à cinq c...

Aimed at beginning and intermediate guitarists, this book is packed with songs, solos, and techniques that every guitar player should know. The material includes melodies, tablature, chords, and all t...

A collection of over 200 great Bluegrass, Old Time, Country and Gospel standards. Melodies are presented with standard notation and tablature along with lyrics and chords. Learn to play songs written...

The best way to learn a musical instrument is to play it as much as possible, and the most enjoyable way is with other musicians in a band setting. Trading songs, interacting with other instrumentalis...

This Mel Bay Qwikguide begins with basic music theory about scales and keys and teaches how to transpose several songs with and without the capo. Then we look at chords in keys and explore some typica...

A collection of over 200 great Bluegrass, Old Time, Country and Gospel standards. Melodies are presented with standard notation and tablature along with lyrics and chords. Learn to play songs written...

Learning the Classic Guitar is a new direction in guitar instruction. Many ideas in these books break new ground. In developing this innovative method, Mr. Shearer adhered to the following concepts: 1...

A guide for intermediate and advanced classical guitarists, addressing technical and musical issues. Any serious student of classical guitar will appreciate this book which covers topics often heard i...

This book presents a collection of over 50 traditional 19th and early 20th century songs full of fun and foolishness written for voice and piano in 'guitar-friendly' keys. Complete lyrics, suggested g...

An excellent way to celebrate holidays throughout the year. St. Valentines's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Mother's Day, Flag Day, Columbus Day, Veteran's Day, and other holidays are included. Arran...