Mel Bay Publications

An authoritative yet easy-to-understand method that teaches various strum patterns and song accompaniment styles.

No music reading ability is needed to learn from this video lesson. You'll start with easy chords, strumming, and fingerpicking techniques by playing along with songs on the video. In addition, you wi...

Whispering Stones won the award for 'Best Recording' from the Washington Area Music Association and has continued to be a favorite with fans of fingerstyle guitar music throughout the world. The book...

Jerry Silverman has taken the best songs from Songs of England; Songs of Ireland; and Songs of Scotland and arranged them for voice with complete lyrics and annotated guitar accompaniment, as well as...

This huge collection of traditional and folk tunes includes song catergories such as love songs, songs of the sea, fun songs, train songs, sentimental songs, and songs based on historic events. Writte...

Master guitarist Al Petteway ventures into new territory with 15 Celtic-inspired, traditional, and New Age fingerstyle compositions in standard and alternate tunings. Derived from Al's award-winning s...

Mastering the Guitar is an innovative, exciting way to learn the guitar. Co-authored by William Bay and Mike Christiansen, this extremely comprehensive method applies the array of musical styles and t...

Mel Bay Publications is proud to present this intriguing new collection of music for fingerstyle guitar. Selections include: Tango Fleur Bleue: As De Copas: La Modone D'amour: Un Tango d'autrefois: Ma...

Basic Guitar Strumming And Fingerpicking is designed to provide the beginning Guitarist with the basic techniques necessary to succeed in the modern world of music. Numerous strumming patterns are cov...

This book presents a comprehensive guide to chords and scales in the popular G, D, E, A, and D minor tunings. In addition to their application as elementary accompaniment, there is sufficient material...

This first volume in Master Anthology Of Fingerstyle Guitar Solos includes both new pieces and outstanding previously published fingerstyle tunes. Veteran performers and talented young upstarts are gi...

This comprehensive Guitar Workshop Audio Series book and online audio brings together a variety of fingerstyle arrangements featured in three of John Renbourn's video lessons. Illustrates unique and e...

A collection of tunes representing a diversity of ideas, experiences, and geographic locations, this songbook provides a resource for use in clinical, educational, recreational, and religious settings...

This unique and effective method will help beginners and more experienced players develop both pick-style and fingerstyle accompaniment abilities with the Guitar. The streamlined approach is unique in...

This book with online audio contains a wealth of time-honored songs arranged for beginning to intermediate guitarists. Many styles are covered including American standards, country songs, blues, hymns...

This beginning guitar method is unique in that it teaches the basics of playing guitar while focusing on the style of folk guitar. Designed to teach students the fundamentals of playing chords and mel...

In this DVD lesson Buster B. Jones presents a wonderful collection of Songs of Inspiration and Joy. From a classically styled arrangement of God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen to the spirited country finger...

Esta es una colección de 22 canciones gospel de antaño arregladas para guitarra solista flatpicking. Todos los arreglos están en notación y tablatura con acordes incluidos y funcionan bien cuando se t...

Rev. Gary Davis is the real thing. The authentic blind-seer. He is a genius with a brightly burning spirit, enormous musical intelligence, technical brilliance, an encyclopaedic memory, driving passio...

Este segundo volumen, de una serie de dos partes, contiene un libro, audio y video en l nea del reconocido guitarrista de flamenco Juan Martin. Se proporcionan más de 21 solos, graduados progresivamen...

This 176-page book/online video contains six full-length contemporary Flamenco guitar compositions by Ioannis Anastassakis, MA, best-selling Mel Bay author of the Art of Rasgueado and one of the few p...

This beginning guitar method is written for aspiring classical or flamenco guitarists who want to learn how to read music up to the intermediate level. Music from the Spanish tradition such as Romanza...