Partitions moyen chez Mel Bay Publications

This book and extensive online audio recording is intended to be a tune repertoire book. It includes over 100 Old-Time festival favorites. Some are cliche, others unusual, some easy, some difficult. T...

Long-time banjo picking ace Alan Munde brings his considerable banjo arranging skills to some of the most played songs in the bluegrass tradition. In these stylistic revealing arrangements, running fr...

Alan Munde has long been a major artist in the 5-string banjo world. Here for the first time, is the book and audio download combination of Alan's unaccompanied playing from his popular Solo Banjo pro...

The definitive text on playing harmonics (chimes) on the 5-string banjo in G tuning! In addition to traditional chiming methods, the author's new T3N technique for creating banjo harmonics will add ne...

This comprehensive collection features over 100 note-for-note skillfully-crafted clawhammer banjo arrangements of ?old-time? Southern fiddle tunes, in clear tablature - with suggested guitar chords at...

This book is a 'hands-on' approach to music theory with lots of playing examples for the banjo. Music theory does not have to be mysterious or difficult. In fact, taken a little bit at a time, it's ea...

In this book, multi-instrumentalist and music historian Rob MacKillop explores an unexpected aspect of the 5-string banjo repertoire with slower, expressive, and even sentimental qualities. Drawing up...

Bring festive cheer to the holiday season with "Tenor Banjo Christmas Solos" from renowned publisher Mel Bay Publications! This wonderfully curated sheet music collection presents timeless Christmas c...

Provides the intermediate clawhammer (5-string) banjo player with a fresh repertoire of 21 traditional and 5 original tunes as played by the author with the Boiled Buzzards Old Time String Band. The b...

A comprehensive repertoire book of fiddle tunes adapted for banjo, in easy to read tablature, by the renowned player and teacher of the 5-String Banjo, Tony Trischka. For the early picker to the advan...

Learn the most common scales and modes used on the major diatonic Harmonica. The intention behind these extensive exercises is to develop agility and speed on the instrument. Single-note patterns are...

The audio that accompanies the book contains nine new jam tracks. These songs range from slow to very fast, and they demonstrate common deviations from the standard 12 bar blues, including one in a mi...

This manuscript is a collection of the tunes featured on Maggie Sansone's 'Wind Drift' recording. The pieces, Celtic in style, were written for the 14/15 hammered dulcimer (the larger dulcimer with mo...

This collection for mountain dulcimer players includes two dozen wedding pieces in DAD tuning derived from the folk traditions of the British Isles and America's Appalachian community. The melodies ap...

A collection of songs, jigs, hornpipes, airs, polkas, and arches from the Celtic lands of Scotland, Ireland, and England. The songs are arranged for mountain dulcimer primarily in 1-5-8 (Mixolydian) t...

In this new addition to Mel Bay's popular 'School Of' series, MacNeil explains how to sing and accompany on the dulcimer. The book explains different chord types and how to apply them to a variety of...

This book and companion audio offer an in-depth look at how to add accompaniment and embellishments to melodies on the hammered dulcimer. The material covered in this book illustrates how to enhance s...

The mountain dulcimer has a long and interesting history in the southern Appalachian mountains, and it's an instrument that so many of us enjoy playing. The book begins with the basics of tuning, stru...

Thirty-eight all-time favorite dulcimer solos penned artistically by Colorado's Bud and Donna Ford. This text is a resource for any dulcimer player and an excellent supplement to any course of instruc...

A superb collection of 57 dulcimer solo arrangements by famed recording artist Neal Hellman. Included are original compositions and new arrangements of traditional works from Neal's popular albums. In...

Every aspect of the hammered dulcimer and its playing techniques is covered in this comprehensive, yet easy-to-understand text. A masterful teacher, Madeline MacNeil exceeds the expectations of a begi...

Beginning with the key of C and using scales, intervals, modes, grounds, and chord progressions, The Improvising Lute Player is the first book ever to help you learn to improvise on the lute. The book...

This method book is designed to help intermediate to advanced jazz students incorporate classic jazz vocabulary into their original improvisations. Using a series of standard and modern chord progress...

Private studio teachers, school string programs and Suzuki teachers preparing for recitals will welcome these tasteful piano accompaniments for the violin, viola and cello editions of Volume 2 of Bria...