Mel Bay Publications

The Complete Blues/Rock Drummer is an advanced instruction book specializing in blues and blues/rock beats. This book includes fills and instrumentals, both with and without drums for play-along. Abou...

Bill 'Stuhlly' Brennenstuhl's new book 'The Gears for Grooving on Drumset' encompasses all the tools a beginner-advanced drummer would need to really groove on the drums. The book ties together the ru...

Snare Force One and accompanying video are a comprehensive guide to playing the snare drum. The material teaches you how to read music notation, play and practice in time, and how to accelerate your p...

First Lessons Snare Drum is a proven approach for beginners featuring easily-understood lessons. Designed for independent study, private teaching or classroom use, this book provides all the informati...

Enormous demands are placed on the control and manual dexterity of the contemporary drum set player, particularly in the Jazz idiom. Today's drummer is expected to have developed limb coordination to...

Les rythmes décrits dans ce livre sont les mêmes que ceux utilisés par les batteurs professionnels. Il y a de fortes chances que le batteur de votre groupe préféré utilise certains de ces rythmes. Si...

You Can Teach Yourself Drums aims to make drumming accessible for the complete beginner. This easy to follow book teaches basic Drum set percussion concepts progressively, so that if you stick with it...

The Complete Funk Drumming Book is one of the most complete presentations of today's popular funk drumming style available. This book takes you from the very roots of rock and rhythm`n'blues drumming...

Frank Briggs ' Complete Modern Drum Set offers challenging material for the intermediate to advanced drummer. Addressing a multitude of styles, Briggs helps guide your playing to a higher plane while...

Beyond Stick Control is the book that offers the snare and drum set player various eight bar solos to develop hand technique and hand/foot coordination. The book is divided into four sections: Part A:...

Volume II is aimed at two distinct categories of readers: 1) Intermediate players who are ready for a wider range of rhythms to study and use in live playing situations: and 2) Experienced congueros w...

Volume III is the first educational product to tackle the complex subject of Timba, the new musical genre which has been played in Cuba since 1989. Timba represents a quantum leap for all the instrume...

It gives us great pleasure to present the venerable tradition of playing the darbuka drum using a method that makes it easy to hear and simple to learn. The rhythms which will introduce you to this en...

This beginner's guide to the traditional Irish Bodhran was written by successful Bodhran performer and teacher Bill Woods, who has drawn on decades of experience to create an integrated method that in...

First Lessons Cajon has been specially designed to guide beginning players through all of the necessary steps to becoming a proficient Cajon player in a pop and rock context. Basic lessons in rhythm w...

First Lessons Conga is a perfect introduction to the conga drum. The book includes lessons on music notation, posture, positioning, tuning, and hand strokes. There are also many exercises, examples o...

This book and accompanying audio are a perfect introduction to the Bongo Drum. The book includes lessons on music notation, posture, positioning, tuning and hand strokes. There are also many exercises...

This informative book by Trevor Salloum is devoted to the all too often overlooked Latin instrument, the Bongo Drums. Prepare to embark on an educational musical journey - one which offers many valuab...

Designed for beginning to intermediate musicians at a high school level, the Jazz Wizard Junior series follows in the footsteps of the original Jazz Wizard method by providing a break-through approach...

As a continuation of the first volume in this series, this lesson is designed for upper middle school and high school string students. It introduces easy optional chord theory only AFTER the student h...

This method by Tim Kliphuis is the first book to teach Gypsy Jazz Violin in the style of S tephane Grappelli. Have you ever listened to Stephane Grappellis ' solos thinking 'I wish I could do that, bu...

Good jazz is made from good musical ideas. The brilliance of jazz violinists like Stephane Grappelli and Stuff Smith came, not from instrumental virtuosity but their 'jazz intelligence'-their ability...

For more than a century, violinists have played jazz, swing, blues and similar improvisational styles. With its rich tone, considerable range, and bowed rhythms and phrasing, the violin offers a uniqu...

Jack Wilkins presents this collection of Jazz etudes with accompanying audio providing students a fun and effective way to learn to play Jazz style Blues lines. The online audio tracks provide a profe...