Mel Bay Publications

Emmanuel Labor provides a personal, one-on-one setting in which not only music aficionados can enjoy performances of some of Tommy's best-loved tunes, but also offers guitar players instruction by one...

Influenced by a wide range of musical styles, these concert pieces are meant to be played with a pick, although they certainly can be performed by a fingerstyle guitarist. The intent is not to showcas...

British journalist and writer Robert Tilling lovingly compiled this touching tribute to the great American guitar genius Reverend Gary Davis. His enthusiasm for the Reverend's powerful music started a...

Classic Ragtime Arranged for Fingerstyle Guitar Volume 1 presents staples of the ragtime repertoire as interpreted by David Laibman. The rags are presented in standard music notation as well as tablat...

Classic Ragtime Arranged for Fingerstyle Guitar Volume 2 presents staples of the ragtime repertoire as interpreted by David Laibman. The rags are presented in standard music notation as well as tablat...

The solos in this collection present a myriad of moods on the guitar. They were written to be very expressive, contemplative pieces which could be performed in a variety of secular and sacred settings...

The solos in this collection present a myriad of moods on the guitar. They were written to be very expressive, contemplative pieces which could be performed in a variety of secular and sacred settings...

This book is a collection of six pieces written with the fingerpicking guitarist in mind. Each piece is arranged in both standard notation and tablature. An extensive 3-CD set of instructional and per...

This book provides the perfect introduction to playing fingerstyle Guitar. National Board certified educator Steve Eckels has carefully designed each lesson to allow for smooth progression. Each of th...

Fiddle Tunes in DADGAD shows how fingerstyle guitarists can use DADGAD tuning to play traditional tunes, including twenty-four complete arrangements of common American, Irish and Scottish ballads, air...

This collection contains thirty of the most requested Celtic session tunes, arranged for DADGAD tuning. Accompanying audio is available as an online download, which includes performances by Rob MacKil...

Mentored by three legendary guitarists, Michael O'Dorn is the living repository of not only the Merle Travis thumbstyle technique, but also the fingerstyle legacies of Chet Atkins and French guitarist...

Rob MacKillop presents 24 superb solo guitar works by Belgian composer Gilbert Isbin, one of the most interesting, dynamic and poetic composers writing for the guitar today. All 24 pieces have been re...

The Hawaiian word for slack key guitar, k h alu, means to 'loosen the key' or retune some of the strings to create a harmonious sound with an open or alternate tuning. Slack key is a fingerpicking sty...

This book is written -with the guitar at hand- to help you as a fingerstyle guitarist, improvise in a contemporary way on the guitar. Every musician can learn to improvise. You just need to study and...

I became aware of the Dropped D tuning in 1960. It literally exploded my playing. Just by lowering the sixth string down a tone ? from E to D, my guitar sounded so much fuller. The tuning seemed to op...

This book presents three of the greatest ragtime blues guitar players from the 1920s-1940s. They all possessed what Rev. Gary Davis called that sportin' right hand. Each could sing the blues or play a...

This is a clear and concise method to help the intermediate-to-advanced guitarist develop the crafts of composing and arranging. With an accessible presentation of theory as it applies directly to the...

El McMeen has authored many guitar books for Mel Bay Publications, but this book holds a special place in his heart. This cutting-edge collection includes melodic, challenging, and exuberant band marc...

This collection covers ragtime guitar styles and techniques from the 'stumblin' bass' of Blind Blake to the evergreen piano sounds of Scott Joplin. Playing the Guitar like a Piano: Shake That Thing, 9...

This collection shows a wide variety of musical approaches in open and alternate tunings. The arrangements come from the playing of Davey Graham, Pat Kirtley, Tony McManus, John Renbourn, John Fahey,...

This book presents a practical step-by-step approach to fingerstyle guitar arranging technique.Two paths are methodically introduced:1.) A description of the technical resources used in solo arranging...

Le nom de ce livre n'est pas exagéré. Il comprend certaines des plus belles musiques que les auteurs El McMeen et Sandy Shalk connaissent, et pour rendre les choses encore plus intéressantes, aucune d...

Renowned fiddler and composer Jay Ungar and Molly Mason, his musical partner and wife, have run the Ashokan Fiddle and Dance Camp in upstate New York for many years. Jay wrote "Ashokan Farewell" in 19...