Mel Bay Publications

The Voggenreiter Saxophone Wall Chart offers loads of useful information in a compact space. Here the saxophonist will find essential tips in clear large print including exercises for developing inton...

A graphic, easy-to-understand fingering chart for any saxophone which features chromatic, major and minor scale studies. Contains staff notation and fingering diagrams for the entire range of the saxo...

The purpose of this book is to help the student answer the question, 'What do I play?' It discusses elements of jazz, seventh chords, blues, riffs, vertical and horizontal improvisation, playing throu...

Maintaining Chops is a method for all trumpet players interested in keeping their lips and playing ability (chops) strong and ready for any performance. It is designed to keep muscles honed and trumpe...

A simple, user-friendly method, ideal for beginner trumpet students of any age. Emphasis is placed on sound fundamentals, proper embouchure and other basic techniques, using familiar tunes to teach no...

A graphic, easy-to-understand fingering chart which features chromatic, major and minor scale studies.

A comprehensive study text teaching elements of jazz phrasing, articulation, vibrato, chord studies, and technical studies leading to improvisation. In addition, a theory workbook section teaches scal...

Designed for beginning buglers and those who already play the trumpet or another brass instrument, this book addresses four major skills necessary to master the bugle: tone development, tongue techniq...

Designed for beginning to intermediate musicians at a high school level, the Jazz Wizard Junior series follows in the footsteps of the original Jazz Wizard method by providing a break-through approach...

As a continuation of the first volume in this series, this lesson is designed for upper middle school and high school string students. It introduces easy optional chord theory only AFTER the student h...

This method by Tim Kliphuis is the first book to teach Gypsy Jazz Violin in the style of S tephane Grappelli. Have you ever listened to Stephane Grappellis ' solos thinking 'I wish I could do that, bu...

Good jazz is made from good musical ideas. The brilliance of jazz violinists like Stephane Grappelli and Stuff Smith came, not from instrumental virtuosity but their 'jazz intelligence'-their ability...

For more than a century, violinists have played jazz, swing, blues and similar improvisational styles. With its rich tone, considerable range, and bowed rhythms and phrasing, the violin offers a uniqu...

Jack Wilkins presents this collection of Jazz etudes with accompanying audio providing students a fun and effective way to learn to play Jazz style Blues lines. The online audio tracks provide a profe...

Blues Violin For The Young Beginners introduces children to bluesy Violin techniques in a ground-breaking way that is both structured and fun. They will quickly learn to slide the fingers using exerci...

Tracy Silverman, ex primer violín del innovador Turtle Island String Quartet, ha creado un nuevo camino hacia la maestría en la improvisación con Modal Jazz Etudes for Violin and Viola: The Frame Meth...

This collection features 47 traditional Celtic tunes, arranged by Renata Bratt for two Cellos with rockin' groove and chop-based accompaniments. Celtic Grooves For Two Cellos includes tunes from Irela...

Easy to Play Cello Airs and Ballads is a collection of 25 nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century folk and popular songs from England, Scotland, Ireland, and the United States.  All of the song...

Celtic Gems for Cello contains 68 of the most played and loved melodies from the Celtic tradition including 25 reels, 31 jigs, 8 slip jigs and 4 Irish hornpipes. Tunes of similar style are grouped wit...

Beautiful Airs & Ballads of the British Isles for Cello is a collection of 30 traditional Irish, Scottish, and English melodies that are particularly suited to the cello.  Traditional airs, love songs...

Today the cello is usually considered a classical instrument, but from the late 17th to early 19th centuries it was used in folk ensembles to provide low, driving rhythms for dance tunes and to render...

Mel Bay Publications, Inc. is proud to present this intriguing collection of fourteen tangos by French composers arranged for solo violin with piano accompaniment. The tango is a ballroom dance of Lat...

Brazil offers a great and luxurious musical variety, not only for its large extension of land, but also for the multiple cultural interchange established along centuries among the several peoples whic...

This fun and easy bluegrass Fiddle book and companion audio takes you from the very beginning. Starting with an introduction to the instrument, the book teaches you basic Fiddle technique such as hold...

A collection of 16 Fiddle duets ranging in difficulty from moderate to challenging for the experienced fiddler. The music has been arranged with melody and harmony for old time favorites and a few new...