Mel Bay Publications

Tommy Emmanuel is one of the hottest fingerpicking guitar stars today. This complete transcription offers not only a look at his music, but insight to his style and techniques. The performance notes h...

The incomparable Australian guitarist Tommy Emmanuel presents four fingerstyle exercises plus an arrangement of the classic tune Freight Train and two signature compositions- Mister Guitar and Dixie M...

This book/online audio lesson is designed for the beginner and intermediate student. Basic fingerpicking styles are illustrated in all the major keys. The technique of the alternating bass is introduc...

This book/audio set presents six complete songs and 19 licks and patterns (in both standard and open G tuning) in the styles of banjoists Earl Scruggs and Allen Shelton, and guitarists Chet Atkins and...

Getting Into Guitar Styles is the Guitarist's guide to playing different musical styles. The styles that are covered include Blues, Rock, Country, Funk, R & B, Latin, Reggae, Fingerstyle, and Classica...

This book will enlighten Merle Travis enthusiasts and fingerstyle pickers alike. It will take you from an ordinary way of playing fingerstyle guitar to the extraordinary technique that Merle brought t...

This handy case-size QWIKGUIDE book offers a baker's dozen effective warm-up exercises plus 31 progressive 'Warm-Up Solos'. The book is written in notation and tablature with above average backup chor...

The Modern Fingerstyle Method gets the student up and playing within the first few pages, it was designed for the absolute beginner with absolutely no experience whatsoever. Students are directed towa...

Known as one of the strangest men in acoustic music today, Richard Gilewitz fascinates his audiences with fingerstyle gymnastics while spinning yarns too unbelievable not to be true. His ability to ma...

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...

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...