Mel Bay Publications

The Hip Guitar Lines book is a window and a gateway into learning and applying advanced jazz vocabulary on the guitar. It is intended to be a resource that a jazz guitarist of any level can use to tak...

This book focuses on the intersection of melody and harmony. While valuable for all instrumental and choral composers and arrangers, it specifically explores ways to move melodic voices independently...

En tant que guitariste, avez-vous déjà rêvé de jouer des lignes de basse et des mélodies contrapuntiques ? Ou peut-être aimeriez-vous ressembler davantage à un pianiste, capable de jouer couramment av...

Depuis les débuts du style de guitare flamenco en Espagne au 19ème siècle, la relation flamenco/guitare classique a toujours existé ; cette série de 3 livres de méthodes - commencée par Juan Serrano e...

Blind Lemon Jefferson was a trail blazer, both as a singer and guitarist, but also as a commercial phenomenon, for he was the first blues musician to establish the tremendous appeal that blues, as pla...

Il est satisfaisant de jouer un morceau de musique qui sonne bien sur une seule guitare. Beyond Chord Melody se concentre sur les concepts avancés qui distinguent le guitariste débutant de celui qui e...

This electric blues guitar approach to playing roots music dives deep into gear, right and left-hand technique, and advanced soloing and rhythm accompaniment concepts, including "partial" chords that...

This book contains note-for-note transcriptions of six original solo flamenco guitar pieces or toques from the author's 2021 CD, Alma de Niño (Soul of a Child). These deep and introspective solos repr...

Award-winning guitarist and folk-blues songwriter Jon Shain shares his personal approach to fingerstyle guitar. Using detailed exercises and his own songs as examples, Shain offers an intimate look at...

Discover the rich sonic versatility of the tenor guitar in the popular GDAE tuning! The comprehensive method book "Tenor Guitar Method in GDAE" from the renowned Mel Bay Publications opens up exciting...

Cette collection de 57 pièces courtes explore les éléments musicaux et techniques essentiels du jeu de la guitare classique moderne. S'appuyant sur le style séculaire de la musique écrite pour la guit...

La pierre de Rosette est une grande tablette de pierre (environ 196 avant notre ère) découverte en Égypte en 1799. Ce livre est une pierre de Rosette pour le guitariste de jazz qui est prêt à faire un...

Ce livre s'adresse au guitariste qui souhaite explorer l'accompagnement d'un chanteur, d'un instrumentiste, d'un auteur-compositeur-interprète ou de lui-même à la guitare à cordes d'acier ou à la guit...

A great supplement to any note-reading guitar method. Helps students methodically learn the fretboard from the second position upward. The book contains fun-to-play studies and songs in upper fretboar...

Fun with the Piano is a collection of big-note, easy solos on folk favorites; and functions as an extremely successful early-intermediate supplement to any method, as well as a source of fun-to-play s...

The most in-depth, revolutionary presentation of the harmonic framework of music is applied to the guitar fingerboard ever presented. Leads to total mastery of harmonic and technical aspects of the gu...

The most in-depth, revolutionary of the harmonic framework of music as applied to the guitar fingerboard ever presented. Leads to total mastery of harmonic and technical aspects of the guitar.

Popular and creative method for teaching guitar to young children. Students start with easy one finger chord forms and strum accompaniments to numerous songs - Note reading is then methodically and ca...

This is the standard-bearer for pedal steel instruction books. It is extremely comprehensive in scope. Written by DeWitt Scott, founder of the International Pedal Steel Guitar Convention and member of...