Partitions moyen chez Mel Bay Publications

The Encyclopedia of Acoustic Lap Steel Guitar Solos is a collection of compositions for steel guitar from styles including Hawaiian, Jazz, Blues, Ragtime, Country, Latin and even Chinese music. Fernan...

This collection presents six legendary blues guitarists from the 1920s to early 1940s. Each has his own unique approach, style and techniques for playing. Some like Rev. Gary Davis favored regular tun...

En tant que guitariste, avez-vous déjà rêvé de jouer des lignes de basse et des mélodies contrapuntiques ? Ou peut-être aimeriez-vous ressembler davantage à un pianiste, capable de jouer couramment av...

Award-winning guitarist and folk-blues songwriter Jon Shain shares his personal approach to fingerstyle guitar. Using detailed exercises and his own songs as examples, Shain offers an intimate look at...

La pierre de Rosette est une grande tablette de pierre (environ 196 avant notre ère) découverte en Égypte en 1799. Ce livre est une pierre de Rosette pour le guitariste de jazz qui est prêt à faire un...

Lonnie Johnson blended blues and jazz styles, performing with blues shouters like Bessie Smith and Texas Alexander on one hand, and Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington on the other. Now learn essential...

A collection of 16 hot, intermediate-level flatpicking guitar solos from five of the leading exponents of this technique. David Bromberg is known as the leader of one of the most successful acoustic b...

These selected works by Giovanni Antonio Terzi, expertly arranged by 2011 GFA Winner Vladimir Gorbach, represent a last flowering of the lute fantasia in a motet-imitative style. They stand at a halfw...

The aim of this book is to gather in one place a compendium of techniques specific to the classical guitar. Each technique has a written explanation, preliminary exercises and two original composition...

As the title of his book attests, guitarist and musicologist Mart n Pedreira presents a methodical treatment addressing the most highly refined guitar techniques. In my opinion, we should not confuse...

New arrangements of ten classic hymns presented in a progressive and percussive style that will challenge and inspire the pianist, soloist and drummer. The piano, melody, and drums are charted so when...

Written in standard notation and tablature for the intermediate to advanced mandolinist, "Angeline the Baker," "Darlin' Corey," and 16 other classic old-time tunes never sounded so good as in these so...

While one of a kind is a hard rating to achieve at Mel Bay Publications, Kevin Allison has done it with The Ceilidh Dance Book. A ceilidh is a traditional Scottish gathering where people share songs,...

Unique among books on the whistle and Celtic music, this book takes the role of a personal tutor. It explains in detail the peculiarities of the instrument, the ancient modal scales the Irish tunes ar...

The balalaika is most often associated with Russian folklore. In this comprehensive method book, concert and recording artist Bibs Ekkel shares his extensive knowledge of the balalaika as taught in Ru...

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...

Learn fashionable and evocative tunes from 19th-century America! Originally collected for the fretless minstrel Banjo, many of these tunes were taught to Tom Briggs in Southern plantations, and are th...

This little songbook is a celebration of the spirit for use by ukulele entertainers and everybody else who wants to feel better in these often sad times of ours. There are no hymns or songs of praise...

A handy photo/diagram chord book which shows, in C tuning, the chords in each key. A special section on moveable chords is also included. The chords are grouped by type, including major, minor, sevent...