Mel Bay Publications

This comprehensive book presents a wealth of information about the Brazilian frame drum known to musicians as the pandeiro. Pandeiro Basics presents so much more than a method or set of playing techni...

Get your 'First Lesson' from a seasoned pro! First Lessons Drumset is designed to help the student develop basic 3 part coordination skills on the drum set. Learn some fundamental reading skills, snar...

Welcome to World Percussion, Nan Mercader's percussion method DVD collection. You have a powerful aid in your hands to initiate you into the world of percussion (in five languages: English, Italian Fr...

Big note solos on folk favorites designed to build technique, range and endurance while maintaining student interest. Serves as a supplement to any method.

By studying extended techniques, we open ourselves to a very subtle and delicate process of fine-tuning our instrumental abilities, resulting in the discovery of new resonances and sonic prowess. The...

Seven Festive Trumpet Solos is a collection of powerful and sparkling settings for trumpet and organ. Several of the compositions are original. Others are new arrangements on well-loved sacred hymns....

A comprehensive collection of trumpet solos for festival occasions. Piano accompaniment included. Many of the most commonly requested wedding melodies are included: Ave Maria; Bridal Chorus; I Love Th...

Complete Book Of Wedding Music For Trumpet is a comprehensive collection of Trumpet solos for festival occasions. Piano accompaniment included. Many of the most commonly requested wedding melodies are...

Trumpet/Duets. A collection of easy classical melodies, composed by Beethoven, Mozart, Händel, Rathgeber, Rameau, Brahms, Lehar, Fauré, Tchaikovsky, and Puscoiu. There are also a few carefully-selecte...

The Trumpet is a brilliant instrument which shines brightly when playing proclamatory pieces. However, the Trumpet also has a wonderfully lyrical side. The sound of an unaccompanied Trumpet causes peo...

Teacher and recording artist Craig Duncan has penned yet another excellent solo collection for the violin student. These solos are well within the capabilities of the beginning violin student playing...

This book will teach you to play the fiddle through inspiring traditional music from around the world, arranged specifically for the instrument. The material is ideal for beginners and requires no pri...

Traditional Southern old-time fiddling from the world-renowned Round Peak area of the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina, focusing on the style and repertoire of master fiddler Tommy Jarrell (1901...

This collection presents traditional Cajun tunes for fiddle in a simplified manner. The songs all include basic staff notation in the keys of A, D, and G, which are the simplest keys for a beginning s...

Continuing the reissue of the classic Phillips Collection of Traditional American Fiddle Tunes - Volume 2, Favorite American Hornpipes for Fiddle presents over a hundred classic and lesser-known fiddl...

Wow your audience with four dozen pro techniques and three sizzling tunes to show them off (including 'The Devil Went Down to Georgia'), with this 4-hour online video. A lifetime course for the price...

From the creators of BARRAGE comes this useful collection of fiddle tunes for the beginning violinist. For the violin student who wishes to learn the violin style of BARRAGE, here is an excellent plac...

This fun and easy bluegrass fiddle book and CD takes you from the very beginning. Starting with an introduction to the instrument, the book teaches you basic fiddle technique such as holding the bow,...

A Fiddle Player's Guide To Jamming features everything the Fiddle player needs to know to participate in a jam session. Suitable for beginning-intermediate level Fiddle players, this book covers all-i...

Learning to play fiddle tunes is made more meaningful when the student is supported musically by the accompaniment of a teacher, parent or friend. The 76 traditional fiddle tunes and folksongs contain...

A comprehensive 96-page, pocket/case sized perfect-bound collection of all time favorite violin tunes. Includes sea shanties, folk songs, Civil War songs, gospel songs, Celtic favorites, classics, and...

This book is for beginning and intermediate fiddlers. No prior playing experience or note reading ability is required. The solos are written in both standard notation and tablature. While writing the...

Championship Contest Fiddling contains painstakingly detailed transcriptions of 44 fiddle tunes as they were played by thirteen champions of the National Old Time Fiddlers' Contest held in Weiser, Ida...

The Modern Violin Method contains 25 lessons which introduce adults and school-aged beginners to playing the Violin. This comprehensive method provides instruction related to the fundamental skills ne...

This book, with companion video, is the second and final volume in the Glengarry Collection of Aonghas Grant's Highland fiddle repertoire. The book contains 188 additional slow airs, marches, strathsp...