Mel Bay Publications

This Essential Jazz Lines title offers in-depth explanations into Wes Montgomery's improvisational techniques as well as his approach to different chord progressions found in many Jazz standards.

John 'Bucky' Pizzarelli is one of the best known 7-string players alive. For more than half a century, 'Bucky, ' as he is affectionately known, has been a part of the fraternity of musicians who have...

This book contains a study and breakdown of 'harmony in 4ths'. The introduction of quartal harmony in modern jazz began in the 1960's. Compositions by Miles Davis and John Coltrane such as 'Impression...

A comprehensive jazz chord dictionary containing essential barre chord and rhythm chord forms. Included are chord forms ranging from major, minor, and dominant 7th shapes to extensions such as minor 7...

Designed for beginning Piano students who are looking for fun, modern music to play, Jazz Piano For The Young Beginner includes an introduction to the theory behind playing the instrument as well as 3...

This book will give bassists insight into many of the scales used in jazz. Each scale is presented with standard notation, tablature, and fingering patterns for both one octave and two octaves. The bo...

Clifford Brown fue uno de los trompetistas de jazz más influyentes y un auténtico maestro del jazz. Su fantástico tono, tiempo, sentimiento y dominio del lenguaje del jazz han inspirado a músicos de j...

Saxophonist John Coltrane was one of the most innovative, creative, and influential jazz artists of the 20th Century. Both stylistically and harmonically, he opened doors for others to follow. This bo...

Quiero Tocar El Saxofon, del reconocido autor Victor M. Barba es de verdad un libro muy bueno para aprender a tocar el saxofon, porque viene muy bien explicado y facil de entender. Ya sea que quieras...

This collection of ten jazz etudes with accompanying audio provides intermediate to advanced alto sax students with a fun and effective way to learn to play in the specific odd meters: 3/4, 5/4, 7/4,...

This collection of ten jazz etudes with accompanying audio provides intermediate to advanced tenor sax students with a fun and effective way to learn to play in the specific odd meters: 3/4, 5/4, 7/4,...

Written by one of today's great jazz educators, this is a system for building great-sounding jazz lines. The relationship of the individual lines to chords and progressions is analyzed. In addition, o...

This collection of jazz etudes by Jack Wilkins gives students a fun and effective way to learn to play jazz style blues lines. Essential Jazz Etudes...The Blues comes with audio tracks, available to d...

Here is the perfect study guide for today's jazz combo drummer. A professional for more than 30 years, world renown jazz drummer and educator, Danny Gottlieb, explains and demonstrates the main skills...

Inside The Big Band Drum Chart is a first of its kind Drum method that uses traditional and contemporary arrangements performed by a 17 piece jazz ensemble as the vehicle to study beats, musical form,...

A collection of 120 Drum set exercises designed to help the beginning to intermediate drummer develop coordination, independence and accompanying skills between the snare and bass Drum while keeping s...

With this collection of 26 folk hymns, author Peter Irvine brings shape-note music into the home, and provides adaptable music for a variety of instrumental ensembles. This format allows for instrumen...

This collection presents nineteen hymns in arrangements for the progressing beginning piano student. The left hand uses block chords, broken chords, and Alberti bass, and the right hand introduces two...

This collection of Piano solos includes twelve classic hymns, a variety of themes representative of the Christian faith's heritage. Unique arrangements are an addition to anyone's music library and ca...

A collection of 45 popular hymns, two with variations, arranged as preludes and offertories for worship services. Intermediate difficulty. Hymns include A Mighty Fortress is Our God, The God of Abraha...

This collection consists of nine engaging piano arrangements of well and lesser-known gospel tunes in an arranging style reminiscent of Floyd Cramer. Pianistic ornaments and flair have been added with...

The word gospel means “good news,” so it is no surprise that many songs of faith are uplifting, rhythmic and exuberant. Such is the case with the fresh piano settings of the 9 well-known gospel songs...

All of us can probably be rightfully described as being too unappreciative and too quick to complain. Few individuals have been criticized for being overly thankful.This book is presented to help gene...

Beautiful piano solo arrangements of hymns and sacred favorites featuring wonderful harmonic treatment coupled with innovative voice leading. Moderate to intermediate in difficulty. Songs include: Roc...