Mel Bay Publications

This book was written for bassists who wish to learn to read music as well as for those who wish to sharpen their music reading skills. The studies in the book progress from beginning to professional...

This study examines time signatures and rhythms for the acoustic bass and the four and five-string electric bass. This method book is divided into two sections: 1) addresses simple meters, and 2) focu...

Dans le cas du tapping à deux mains sur une basse électrique, la main droite et la main gauche jouent toutes les deux des notes. Il s'agit d'un concept relativement nouveau pour la basse. De nouvelles...

Technical exercises applicable to intermediate literature. Sets the foundation for more difficult daily study routines. Practice of these scale exercises helps one acquire agility and evenness in play...

This delightful collection of Celtic tunes for Flute features many beautiful songs, dances and airs originating from Ireland and Scotland. Designed to make playing Celtic Flute easy, this book contain...

A repertoire collection and piano accompaniment for the more advanced flutist. Keyboard accompaniment is included to diverse works such as Diversions on a Prelude (a jazz rendition of Bach's famous Pr...

Easy Classics for Flute fait partie de la série Easy Classics, écrite pour fournir aux étudiants de niveau débutant à intermédiaire une introduction agréable à certaines des plus grandes mélodies clas...

24 compositions by the legendary Irish harpist, Turlough O'Carolan scored for classic guitar solo. The solos are intermediate in difficulty and convey the beautiful, lyrical quality of the original ha...

These lessons, originally handwritten and in some cases were offered only as tab transcriptions, have now been typeset in standard notation and tab. The audio lessons in this series were initially rec...

Eric Thompson's strong, melodic picking has set a benchmark for taste and tone for nearly four decades. Eric teaches 16 of his favorite old-time fiddle tunes, which are the bedrock upon which acoustic...

As part of Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop Audio Series this comprehensive and thorough collection of fingerpicking guitar lessons contains invaluable tips and instruction implemented throughout the...

As part of Stefan Großman's Guitar Workshop Audio Series this comprehensive and thorough collection of fingerpicking guitar lessons contains invaluable tips and instruction implemented throughout the...

Steve Kaufman, Three Time National Flatpicking Champion, does it again. The third installment of a four part series brings us Steve's favorite hornpipes transcribed for guitar. Though the title says '...

An exciting collection of 29 traditional tunes from Ireland, arranged for easy flatpicking guitar. All tunes are written clearly in standard notation as well as guitar tablature. An accompanying audio...

This collection of fiddle tunes originally appeared in 'Kaufman's Collection of American Fiddle Tunes for Flatpicking Guitar' (MB 95748) but the book was so large and heavy that they couldn't put all...

Open Tunings for Folk Guitar is a ground breaking Guitar concept for studying the scale and chord shapes relevant to the most popular Open Tunings. By utilising a combination of modal scales and perfe...

Flatpicking Guitar has taken an interesting journey since its inception, first with Maybelle Carter, then Don Reno, Doc Watson and Clarence White. Younger players who began by listening to the origina...

Ideal for the intermediate-level guitarist, these 17 traditional tunes from the UK plus one from France are arranged to be played with your electric guitar plugged-in. The transformation that occurs i...

Make your old-time and bluegrass music sing through the warm open-string sound of DADGAD tuning! This book includes twenty classic old-time and bluegrass tunes, arranged and recorded by Rob MacKillop....

A dozen of the most beautiful traditional melodies from the British Isles and North America are arranged here as concert pieces, with rich harmonies and variations. Carefully voiced and fingered for f...

This book features 21 engaging public-domain and original melodies in standard notation and guitar tablature with first-verse lyrics, suggested accompaniment chords and online audio. Tips on reading t...

This book was designed for the 10-string, 3-pedal steel guitar in the versatile E9 tuning. It features 20 engaging public-domain songs in standard notation and tab with first-verse lyrics, suggested a...

In this unique collection, multi-instrumentalist Rob MacKillop presents 30 airs and dances from Scotland, Ireland and England transcribed for the modern guitar in open-D tuning (DADF AD). Although con...

El McMeen has painstakingly compiled and presented a stunning collection of fingerstyle guitar arrangements of his favorite Celtic songs, airs, and dance tunes from his 30 years of recording. These ge...