Mel Bay Publications

The accurate interpretation of swing rhythm is the most important element in jazz music. This collection of 7 jazz etudes and 11 exercises for solo guitar gives the student practice in playing this rh...

This book and CD teaches excellent techniques to use for walking bass lines on guitar when playing in a duet format, either with another guitar player or with a singer or other instrumentalists. The i...

This book is designed to teach any guitarist to compose chord melody arrangements for the Guitar, at a pace which is comfortable for both the beginner and the advanced student. Every method used is di...

Charlie Parker was arguably one of the most influential jazz musicians to have ever lived. This text presents numerous jazz lines in Parker 's style, grouped by their application in a given harmonic c...

Donnez une nouvelle dimension à votre prochain concert avec « Beethoven Revisited », le troisième volet d’une série qui jette un pont entre la salle de concert et le club de jazz. Après le succès de «...

Following the best-selling books, Jazz Piano Chords, Jazz Piano Scales and Jazz Piano for the Young Beginner, featured here are 12 pieces written in the styles of famous jazz pianists of the past. Fro...

Charlie Parker was arguably one of the most influential jazz musicians to have ever lived. This text presents numerous jazz lines in Charlie's style, grouped by their application in a given harmonic c...

Take your saxophone playing to the next level! With "Jazz Saxophone Licks, Phrases & Patterns" from the renowned publisher Mel Bay Publications, you will expand your musical vocabulary and master the...

Here is the perfect study guide for today's jazz combo drummer. A professional for more than 30 years, world renown jazz drummer and educator, Danny Gottlieb, explains and demonstrates the main skills...

Here's yet another book that should be in every serious classical and flamenco guitarist's library; this time, Ioannis Anastassakis (The Art of Rasguedo) eliminates the guesswork on how to practice an...

Ce recueil rassemble des chefs-d’œuvre renommés pour piano, arrangés pour guitare classique solo, accompagnés d’indications éditoriales et de doigtés destinés à faciliter l’apprentissage. Ces arrangem...

Written during the 1970s, the etudes featured in The Art Of Two-Line Improvisation were composed as a result of Jimmy Wyble 's explorations into the musical worlds of counterpoint, harmony and chord m...

The Peer Gynt Suite may be Edvard Grieg's most famous composition. Its melodies have insinuated themselves into our culture so that they are now universally familiar. The movements are: Morning Song,...

A unique assortment of 40 short pieces written for soprano recorder with suggested guitar chords. Selection include: Trouvere (Or la Truix); Estampie; La Rotta; Saltarello; Der Neve Villancico; Basse...

As one can easily imagine, it would be very hard for a Guitar student to start reading the scores of the traditional choro repertoire, most of them with large number of technical difficulties. It woul...

An outstanding collection of 33 classic guitar solos transcribed from piano works by Manuel Saumell, Ignacio Cervantes, and many others. Cuban song and dance rhythms have had a global impact. These ar...

At last! Here are Paolo Bellinati's long-awaited solo guitar arrangements of 10 of the 12 compositions featured on the companion online video. Written in standard notation only with brief performance...

This collection showcases the syncopated piano music of Latin American during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It features Latin rhythms, which are really African rhythms brought to the A...

Another great addition to the Avrahm Galper Clarinet Series, here Avrahm presents 42 fantastic Klezmer tunes to add to your repertoire. All arranged for clarinet and B-Flat instruments in easy to read...

Is the beginning stage of learning the guitar proving to be a frustrating experience? Do you lack songs which you can play from start to finish? Do the ones that you can play all the way through not s...

Finally a method that gets students started on the essentials of guitar while focusing on the material every rock guitarist should know. Subjects include power chords, rock scales, rock soloing, readi...

The Steve Gadd drumming transcriptions book honors the talents of one of the greatest drummers in the entire world: the amazing Steve Gadd. The book includes thirty stylistically varying transcription...

This collection of English Christmas carols, arranged by Star Edwards is a warming welcome to the season of festive cheer. Basked in tradition, each and every carol will fill your seasonal celebration...

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...

Mel Bay Publications presents a collection of arrangements and original compositions from Australian guitarist Tommy Emmanuel's 2005 CD, Endless Road. Not for the faint of heart, this outstanding coll...