Mel Bay Publications

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...

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...

This book, in notation and tablature, is designed to improve reading skills and present phrases appropriate to rock, jazz, fusion, funk, Reggae, disco, and new wave. Includes arpeggiated and 3-note ch...

This book was written for bassists who wish to learn to read music as well as for those who wish to sharpen their music reading skills. The studies in the book progress from beginning to professional...

This study examines time signatures and rhythms for the acoustic bass and the four and five-string electric bass. This method book is divided into two sections: 1) addresses simple meters, and 2) focu...

Technical exercises applicable to intermediate literature. Sets the foundation for more difficult daily study routines. Practice of these scale exercises helps one acquire agility and evenness in play...

This delightful collection of Celtic tunes for Flute features many beautiful songs, dances and airs originating from Ireland and Scotland. Designed to make playing Celtic Flute easy, this book contain...