Mel Bay Publications

Madeline MacNeil's performances are characterized by her effortless vocals and impeccable mountain and hammered dulcimer playing. In this book she reveals some of the secrets of her success with the m...

This handy, pocket-sized book contains a chord reference, basic strum patterns, and songs. It includes information on holding the uke and the pick, tuning, and how to read chord diagrams. Chord diagra...

This book includes a multitude of beginning to intermediate studies, designed to build right-hand picking technique and coordination between both hands. The material includes vertical picking exercise...

Dix Bruce is a musician, writer, and 'journeyman Mandolinist' with a strong belief in teaching a wide range of material, from bluegrass and jazz standards to classics, waltzes, polkas, and other ethni...

A handy collection of 24 popular harmonica songs packaged with a split-track CD! Fun music to play. Excellent play- along repertoire for practice with a C diatonic harmonica. All selections are perfor...

Made famous by the legendary Jerry Byrd, the C6 tuning [CEGACE] for the non-pedal lap steel guitar has many advantages due to its versatility. The tuning is especially useful in playing two and three-...

Beginners of all ages will enjoy learning to play tin whistle with the step-by-step method found in this book. Familiar folk melodies abound in this comprehensive collection of easy-to-play literature...

An in-depth instruction manual for the Arabic Oud, the ancestor of the Lute and Guitar. A companion instructional online video is included showing key points to playing the Oud. Contents include: Hold...

This book/audio/video set is a complete guide to playing the 10-hole diatonic harmonica. Its purpose is to help the beginning student avoid the trial and error method of playing the harmonica through...

This book provides an easy and fun way to learn the Ukulele! Based on C tuning, You Can Teach Yourself Uke presents strum/sing-alongs in the keys of C, G, D, F, and B flat. The online video and audio...

This book presents more than 70 tunes in the unique highly developed clawhammer style known as 'Round Peak' -named after the Blue Ridge Mountain, North Carolina community where it originated. While no...

Ireland's Patrick Conway has collected 71 favorite Irish ballads, hornpipes, jigs, and reels and transcribed them for the D tinwhistle. Guitar chords are shown for each piece.

This book is an excellent introduction to the pan flute. The lessons provided are fun and easy, and will have you playing pan flute in no time! Includes access to online audio, video and PDF files of...

A comprehensive repertoire book of fiddle tunes adapted for banjo, in easy to read tablature, by the renowned player and teacher of the 5-String Banjo, Tony Trischka. For the early picker to the advan...

This comprehensive book contains over 120 Celtic tunes arranged for mandolin presented in standard notation and tablature. Includes airs, marches jigs, slip jigs, hornpipes, reels, strathspeys, countr...

This book features 121 favorite harmonic tunes in the following nine categories: Western songs, ballads, gospel songs, Irish tunes, songs of the sea, classics, international songs, folk songs, and fun...

A collection of over 200 great Bluegrass, Old Time, Country and Gospel standards. Melodies are presented with standard notation and tablature along with lyrics and chords. Learn to play songs written...

Perfect for the soprano, concerto or tenor Ukulele, Joe Carr: 20 Caribbean Pieces For Ukulele includes 20 arrangements of Caribbean folk songs. The pieces in this book are arranged for solo playing in...

Ten top songs and themes from film and TV arranged for Guitar solo by David Burden. This book and the series of which it is part give the classical student popular hits of contemporary music and piece...

One of the world's top players addresses nearly every aspect of the popular 5-string banjo style known as clawhammer or frailing. Chapter themes include fundamentals: advanced and experimental techniq...

Etudes Electric was composed in response to a need for original electric guitar literature. Selections from this volume may be performed in an applied music jury or recital in a university guitar prog...

If you want to learn modern Guitar soloing techniques used by legendary guitarists, such as Yngwie J. Malmsteen, Paul Gilbert, Alexi Laiho, Kirk Hammett, Al Di Meola, Eddie Van Halen and many others,...

This edition features modern Electric Guitar transcriptions from the Baroque era. The first section features 17 short repeatable passages from Baroque literature. Other sections include 16 unaccompani...

This guitar method focuses on playing engaging rhythmic themes entirely on open strings. What seems at first to be a simple task quickly becomes a real challenge, requiring a high level of accuracy an...

The more you play the guitar the better you'll become and the more fun and enjoyment you'll have. When I asked Rev. Gary Davis when and how I should practice on my guitar his answer was clear. He told...