Mel Bay Publications

A popular and creative method for teaching guitar to young children. This approach to learning integrates, from the very beginning, chord playing with note reading. The students start with easy one fi...

William Bay's Children's Guitar Method is a popular teaching method for young beginners. From the beginning, it integrates chord playing with note reading. The student starts with easy one finger chor...

William Bay introduces his popular and creative method for teaching Guitar to young children in Children's Guitar Method Volume 3. From the very beginning it integrates chord playing with note reading...

This method is time tested, innovative, and has proven successful in imparting essential concepts of musicianship and Classic Guitar performance to children. It's realistic approach to early childhood...

This video is a valuable tool for the teacher who is currently teaching a guitar class, as well as those who are interested in starting one. The Mastering the Guitar Class Method video contains import...

The Mastering the Guitar Class Method Short Course has been written for use in guitar classes which last for nine weeks or less. Students will receive, in a condensed form, the same high quality, sequ...

Volume 2 of the Guitar Class Method focuses on melodic development and solo playing and provides a vast collection of solos, duets and quartets in multiple styles including rock, blues, classical, Gos...

In this class guitar method, traditional fundamentals of playing guitar are presented using an innovative approach. Students are shown chords and accompaniment techniques as well as how to read music...

Mastering the Guitar Class Method is a remarkably innovative new approach to teaching guitar in class settings. This volume begins with in-depth reviews of the keys of C, G, Am, and Em presented in Vo...

A technique building regimen built around jazz chords and scale shapes. The basic chord is shown, followed by the appropriate arpeggio and scale. In addition, an 'ear stretching' etude is presented fo...

The Improvising With Mini-Arpeggios (Book/CD Set) offers a unique, simplified approach to using arpeggios when improvising. The material is for guitarists of all levels looking to improve their techni...

Paul Musso's Improvising With Mini-Arpeggios offers a unique, simplified approach to using arpeggios when improvising. This book and the accompanying online audio tracks are perfect for guitarists who...

Diatonic Arpeggios for Classical Guitar provides extended arpeggios for all chords over the full range of the Guitar's tessitura. The fingerings provided for the left hand present a wide variety of sh...

This is a very 'user friendly' text. It is ideal for daily practice sessions and contains frequently used major and minor guitar scale forms. In addition, each scale is shown in numerous positions up...

The first part of this edition teaches a very specific portion of music theory with the goal of providing a thorough foundation for building chords and arpeggios. The second part reveals the unique fi...

A collection of more than 90 hymns and gospel songs with keyboard harmony and guitar or autoharp chords. An excellent gift book or comprehensive source book for favorite hymns.

This compact book presents 130 songs in a convenient 5 1/2 inches by 8 inch format. All selections are written in leadsheet format for voice with complete lyrics, guitar chords and harmonica tablature...

Traditional Songs from Québec for English-Speakers is a collection of 25 hand-picked, powerful, and gorgeous songs. They range from rousing and rollicking to exquisite and heartbreaking and from widel...

Step inside the door of Log Cabin Pioneers as Wayne Erbsen takes you on a personal journey of finding and restoring a historic log cabin. By the magic of a crackling fire, he'll introduce you to authe...

24 snare drum solos arranged by internationally acclaimed percussion writer, Joe Maroni. These solos are ideal for recitals, contests and concerts and will develop musicianship, rhythm reading ability...

Mastering the Snare Drum is a comprehensive method developed over many years of teaching and playing, incorporating both traditional and modern techniques. The book includes extensive commentary on th...

These compositions are collaborations based on texts and tunes from a variety of sources, including the Bible, the 1940 Episcopal Hymnal, George Herbert, Thomas Tallis and others. Arranged for the mou...

As you read this, somewhere in the English-speaking world a production of a Gilbert & Sullivan operetta is being rehearsed or presented. It may be taking place in an elementary, secondary or high scho...

This book teaches non-classical or pop-style singers how to pronounce lyrics in American English. Its primary audience is singers with English as a second language, but all singers of pop music, and i...

This much-anticipated biography reveals the fascinating story of a unique man - known and admired by musicians around the world. Mel Bay started picking the guitar at age 14, then worked his way up to...