Mel Bay Publications

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...

These etudes were written at the request of students and colleagues to create music specific to the low clarinets for use in study and competitions. Due to their tessitura, etudes for soprano clarinet...

This book was written specifically for beginning students working with a private teacher or in an entry-level clarinet class. The author emphasizes correct hand positions, breath control, and tone pro...

Contains scales, chords and routines which are written for the technical advancement of the intermediate-level clarinetist. The material is presented with varied articulations, meters, rhythms, and dy...

Being a student of the clarinet is exciting. If you invest time at the beginning learning the basics of clarinet playing, you will reap rewards for many years to come. Practicing the exercises in this...

Easy Classics for Clarinet 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 bo...

This second volume of graded repertoire for guitar continues the goal of providing students a stylistically comprehensive collection of attractive and inspiring music which also meets the pedagogic ne...

A valuable wall chart for student and teacher. Shows major and minor three-octave scales, right hand arpeggio patterns, arpeggiated cadences in major and minor keys and a complete fingerboard/notation...

These melodies of Stephen Collins Foster have been freely adapted from the original songs, and will enrich the repertoire of the solo guitar through their colorful variety. These settings appear in st...

Volume 2 of this landmark publication includes 65 original compositions in standard notation plus a unique audio download available online featuring Barrios himself playing 21 original works including...

An exact contemporary of Bach and Handel, Domenico Scarlatti was already a celebrated composer in Italy by the time he moved to Portugal. Later he traveled to Spain, where he worked as a harpsichord i...

This two-hour DVD is a presentation of the 19-year project by Charles Postlewate on extending right hand technique for guitar to include the little finger. PART I presents this technique in actual rep...

A substantial amount of early music for the guitar remains unknown to modern performers and audiences. In recent years, however, musicologists, scholars and performers on period instruments have provi...

This book provides a complete introduction to using the DADGAD tuning for fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar. Understanding DADGAD For Fingerstyle Guitar systematically explores the tuning, starting with sim...

Presented in this informative text is a concise, clear picture of the fingernail, its anatomy, what affects its health, how to combat weak nail problems, how to obtain strong, healthy nails and what p...

Scholarly editions, which serve different purposes than performance editions, are not often designed with the modern guitarist in mind. For instance, Renaissance vihuela tablatures are usually transcr...

Renowned fiddler and composer Jay Ungar and Molly Mason, his musical partner and wife, have run the Ashokan Fiddle and Dance Camp in upstate New York for many years. Jay wrote Ashokan Farewell in 1982...

Internationally renowned classical guitarist David Leisner plays a live concert program with some pieces that are well-known and others that may be new to guitarists. One of the discoveries is the Son...

In this remarkable video/solo guitar recital, Serbian musician, composer, pedagogue and publisher, Uroš Dojcinovic, takes the listener on a musical journey through: Russia, Ukraine, Spain, Sout...

Conveniently broken down into easily accessible chapters, this DVD presents detailed accounts of Tárrega's musical career and style, his historical significance as a guitarist and composer, detailed d...

Mel Bay is pleased to present the long-awaited publication of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet's 'loose' arrangement of the Pachelbel Canon for four Guitars. Originally intended as an inside joke for th...