Mel Bay Publications

Learn to play 14 classic blues the best way--by doing! This book and CD provide your backup band as you explore Country and Urban, Acoustic and Electric, Delta, Texas, Chicago, Slide Guitar, Alternate...

Learn to play 14 classic blues the best way--by doing! This book and online audio recording provide your backup band as you explore Country and Urban, Acoustic and Electric, Delta, Texas, Chicago, Sli...

This user-friendly book, with access to online audio, shows how to transform standard three-chord blues changes into harmonically sophisticated jazz-blues progressions. The book covers chord substitut...

Mel Bay Publications, Inc. is proud to present this new series of lessons as part of Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop Audio Series. This book offers a comprehensive collection of fingerpicking guitar...

Starting from ground zero, Fred Sokolow teaches you how to accompany yourself while singing the blues. You'll learn to play melodies and solo in several keys, throughout the neck. This book will help...

In this book, six of Rev. Davis' Holy Blues are presented-- gospel songs with a taste of the blues. The online audio recordings teach these arrangements phrase by phrase as well as presenting the orig...

Rev. Gary Davis was a musical giant. His ideas spanned a wide range of techniques and styles. His repertoire featured blues, rags, show instrumentals and gospel songs. He played with his thumb and ind...

This book and online audio has been carefully prepared for guitarists who are starting to learn blues fingerpicking-and yes, the book can actually be used by an ambitious total beginner. The arrangeme...

Jazz Blues Styles presents Guitar solos in the styles of Charlie Parker, Thelonius Monk, Sonny Rollins, and other jazz blues greats.   Within the context of the blues, this book teaches: styles o...

The blues present an opportunity to be deeply expressive. Every note can be colored with pitch bends, slides, vibrato, and all manner of attacks. The style makes it easy to own the music, to close you...

This is a collection of 48 original jazz tunes in different styles, with fun melodies ideal for jamming. The pieces are in a variety of keys and are presented in standard notation and tablature. Inclu...

LESSON ONE: BEGINNINGS - THE ROOTS OF ELECTRIC BLUES - Electric blues stylists grew out of the guitar picking of versatile single-string soloists like Lonnie Johnson and Scrapper Blackwell and the cou...

Progressive Cello Solos, Beginning Level va más allá del enfoque tradicional de la enseñanza del violonchelo al integrar a la perfección contenidos educativos con una colección única de viejas melodía...

This progressive scale system coordinates basic concepts from elementary to advanced scales in preparation for the Scale System by Carl Flesch. In some aspects it goes beyond the scope of the Flesch s...

Easy Classics for Cello is part of the Easy Classics series, written to provide beginning to intermediate students with an enjoyable introduction to some of the greatest classical melodies. This book...

Warm-ups for the Violist is an adaptation of Warm-ups for the Violinist. It is targeted to help build, strengthen and develop the muscles and techniques needed for viola playing. It is especially suit...

Practicing scales is essential to building and maintaining strength, technique, tone, and agility on the viola, but it is easy to slip into the habit of playing scales automatically, without paying at...

Comenzando con un repaso rudimentario de la primera posición, este libro introduce las posiciones tercera, segunda, quinta y cuarta en un formato sencillo, seguido de estudios más avanzados. El autor...

This progressive scale system coordinates basic concepts from elementary to advanced scales in preparation for the Scale System by Carl Flesch. In some aspects it goes beyond the scope of the Flesch s...

Easy Classics for Viola is part of the Easy Classics series, written to provide beginning to intermediate students with an enjoyable introduction to some of the greatest classical melodies. This book...

This book and accompanying audio provide instruction and playable examples for guitarists looking to get into the sounds rooted in classic country music, as well as more modern approaches to the genre...

This new book is perfect for beginners, players with a little experience and guitarists who want a good grounding in the flatpicking style. Using popular American Fiddle tunes, Joe introduces the impo...

Johnny Cash left us a wonderful country songbook, and in this one-hour and twenty minute lesson Fred shows you how to play and sing eight of Cash's most popular gems. You'll learn to back yourself up...

Killer Technique: Bass Guitar is a technique and daily study book inspired by Corey Christiansen's Gig Savers: Killer Technique book for guitar (MLB20028). This book provides concepts and daily rout...

Classical and Contemporary Studies for Bass Guitar combines essential studies from 19th century composer Giovanni Bottesini: the 'Paganini of bass , with contemporary studies by Gilbert Isbin: one of...