Mel Bay Publications

Explores guitar chord voicings, progressions, harmony, and the practical use of chord shapes in ensemble playing. This book opens the world of theory to the guitarist and suggests infinite application...

If someone is singing a song or playing a melody, how can I know what chords I can play with it?' This is a common question asked of guitar teachers and players. If you are the guitarist at a campfire...

This book assumes a modest music reading ability and some familiarity with basic classic guitar technique. A comprehensive, exploration of the requirements for developing effortless and musically sens...

This book is a collection of short, easy-to-learn guitar solos that sound impressive even when played by the beginning guitar student. The classical/folk style of these works gives the performer somet...

Studies teaching the basic notes on all six strings of the guitar. The studies are reinforced by original etudes and solos written by legendary guitar pedagogue, Jack Petersen.

The Guitar Scales Vol. 1 is a complete guide to the scales that beginning and intermediate guitarists need for practicing and soloing. Each chapter covers a specific approach to these basic scales, in...

Written by a master of Hawaiian Slack-Key Guitar, this text teaches the history, tunings, and other techniques found in Slack-Key Guitar music. Because of the altered tunings in Slack-Key Guitar music...

A D-tuning method written by one of the greatest uke soloists of all time. This fine beginner's text teaches chords, melody playing, rhythm accompaniment, strumming strokes and techniques, and moveabl...

This book contains exciting, moving and grooving original and innovative bass lines from Detroit-born Peter Washburne. His innovative approach makes use of the bass as an instrument capable of creatin...

Cette collection de 57 pièces courtes explore les éléments musicaux et techniques essentiels du jeu de la guitare classique moderne. S'appuyant sur le style séculaire de la musique écrite pour la guit...

Written by Mandolin master Dix Bruce, Getting Into Bluegrass Mandolin is specifically designed to quickly and simply show you how to play bluegrass Mandolin. This comprehensive book teaches everything...

Seven great songs and themes from film and TV arranged for Guitar solo by David Burden. This book and the series of which it is part give the classical student popular hits of contemporary music and p...

Contains more than 400 hilarious jokes about all musicians' and their respective genres; foreword written by the famous drummer Pete York.

This collection of dances and songs comes from Peggy Carter's repertoire of hammered dulcimer arrangements, drawing from years of playing live string-band music for contra dancing, Irish dancing and R...

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...

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...

Gospel tunes for banjo! Murphy teaches hard-driving Scruggs-style breaks to 5 favorite gospel tunes. Includes a fancy up-the-neck break to Amazing Grace, in ¾ time. Many familiar licks, lots of new li...

This beginner's method presents clear, concise instruction for learning to play the traditional three-stringed mountain dulcimer. Thirty-eight songs are taught with notation and fret numbers for each...

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 comprehensive book contains 139 solos for the 5-string banjo. Arranged by Neil Griffin, Mark Barnett, Karl Kurth, Carl Jackson, and Bob Forrest, this book is the perfect resource to expand you re...

This is the ideal beginner's book, presenting the basics of the 5-string banjo in a way that is both fun and easy. Janet Davis takes you on an extensive tour of this instrument's fundamental technique...

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 perfect follow-up to Beginning Mandolin. Extensive lesson on chords and movable chord positions. Note-by-note explanation of 5 great tunes. Taught by Murphy Henry with guest teacher, Christopher H...

This collection is drawn from Ken Kolodner's extensive library of arrangements for the hammered dulcimer, developed from over 30 years of teaching thousands ofworkshops. This first book in this two-bo...

This book and accompanying audio present a comprehensive array of ideas intended to add interest and decoration to basic melodies. Mastery of these embellishment techniques will also help in the devel...