Mel Bay Publications

Lively Tin Whistle Tunes is a collection of 55 spirited tin whistle solos. The selections include reels, hornpipes, jigs, sea chanteys, dance tunes and more. These tin whistle solos are ideal for perf...

Reggae Grooves For Electric Bass has been specially created to provide guidance for the bassist as well as the percussionist and rhythm guitarist on creating individual reggae grooves. The numerous ch...

This intermediate to advanced-level book is intended for the serious rock drummer. It demonstrates the obvious benefits of being a versatile percussionist. The author asserts that creative drummers co...

Beginning drum books can make or break a student's desire to learn the instrument. This book was conceived by a seasoned professional with the idea of developing a collection of exercises that effecti...

Welcome to the School of the Blues Lesson Series! This book and recording were created to help give you context to all the music you worked so hard to learn. The recorded Play-Along Trax have no Bass....

This chart provides the basics of playing the blues guitar. Common scale and chord diagrams as well as blues chord progressions are laid out in fashion anyone can understand. The note and number of ea...

The basics of playing electric blues rhythm guitar are taught on this DVD. The accompanying chart displays the basics of the material taught. Power chords, common chord shapes, fragmented chords, the...

Modern Blues is for intermediate to advanced players wishing to expand their melodic and harmonic vocabulary. The music is in standard notation as well as tablature and audio is included in which 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...

This fun and easy book and CD takes you from the very beginning. Learning right and left-hand techniques, learning your first chords, 18 great songs AND you painlessly learn them by reading notes. Any...

My First Blues Guitar Picking Songs is the perfect primer for anyone interested in learning blues guitar played with a pick. An addition to Steve Kaufman's 'My First' series, the book starts the stu...

Mel Bay's latest series, Guitar Journals, is the ultimate eference guide of studies and solos in several different genres. This fantastic blues volume contains exercises on barre chords, power chords,...

Learning the blues and the chords that are commonly used has never been easier. This book presents blues chord voicings along with applications in a logical, sequenced order. Dominant seventh, minor,...

Best Blues Solos provides a variety of pieces that range in style from the so called country blues of the old American South, to contemporary compositions written in the blues style. Guitarists will a...

This book/audio teaches you how to hear and play Groove Time. Tunes include: Evil Ways; Blue Tuesday, Truckin'; Blues Drive; She Done Me Wrong ; and Coastin'. Two improvising scales are shown for ever...

This book/online audio set presents blues melody and recorded back up improvising tracks for these nine blues tunes: Franky's Place, Bullet Train, Long Gone, Just Can't Take It, Storm Rising, Hurtin'...

This book helps guitarists who are currently stuck playing simple melodies develop fiddle-tune-like solos to bluegrass songs and tunes. Thirteen songs are presented in both a simple 'Carter-style' mel...

This in-depth blues rhythm guitar text is core curriculum of the University of Southern California's Studio Guitar Department, which is part of the prestigious Flora L. Thornton School of Music, locat...

Delta is a collection of compositions written over about a 20 year period. 'Blue Stairways', for example, is 20 years old and has never appeared on one of my CDs until now! Some of these compositions...

Virtually every country blues recording made prior to World War II that has been recovered by the collectors is commercially available. No one could have anticipated how much of the recorded legacy of...

Open Tunings For Blues Guitar is a groundbreaking 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...

Rev. Gary Davis is the real thing. The authentic blind-seer. He is a genius with a brightly burning spirit, enormous musical intelligence, technical brilliance, an encyclopedic memory, driving passion...

This book was a delight and a challenge to put together. Stefan wanted to highlight the playing of six blues players that have greatly influenced him: Big Bill Broonzy, Lonnie Johnson, Rev. Gary Davis...

The East Coast, from Florida up to Virginia, gave birth to a vibrant fingerstyle blues tradition, documented on recordings from the mid-1920s up into the 1970s and 1980s. In East Coast Fingerstyle Blu...