Mel Bay Publications

Buster B. Jones is a master of the guitar styles of Chet Atkins, Merle Travis and Jerry Reed. He has explored their music, styles and techniques and has developed his own unique approach. Even though...

The Mystery, Tommy Emmanuel's sixth US album, was inspired by Emmanuel's travels; each of the album's compositions is a musical snapshot or sojourn - a journey that brings us together with places and...

The first authorized compilation of Doc Watson's life and music is meant to serve not only as a biography, but also as a unique instructional book. A running dialogue with Doc reveals the story behind...

How good of a musician you become is predicated on how much practice you do and the quality of that practice. In all likelihood, you don't have access to a harmonica teacher (a rare breed), so it's up...

John Townley & Jehan Paul's entertaining guide to maintaining and repairing diatonic accordions and concertinas. Learn to safely dismantle your instrument, bellows repair, fixing reed problems, replac...

The First Jam series was created to give children and beginners of all ages a book of simple, common tunes to learn. These are standard 'Jam' tunes in the Bluegrass/Old Time music styles. All the book...

The First Jam series was created to give children and beginners of all ages a book of simple, common tunes to learn. These are standard 'Jam' tunes in the Bluegrass/Old Time music styles. All the book...

The First Jam series was created to give children and beginners of all ages a book of simple, common tunes to learn. These are standard Jam tunes in the Bluegrass/Old Time music styles. All the books...

The best way to learn an instrument is to play it as often as you can with other musicians. Trading songs and interacting with other instrumentalists and singers will foster learning at a faster pace...

Discover the soulful essence of traditional American music with "Banjo Picking Tunes – Beautiful American Airs and Ballads," published by the renowned Mel Bay Publications. This handpicked collection...

This book presents easy to intermediate fingerstyle guitar arrangements of 19 familiar folk and gospel favorites. Some of these creative settings reflect the influence of Chet Atkins’ alternating bass...

The Joan Baez Suite, op. 144 is the last of the great folk song suites written by John Duarte. Stretching back to his English Suite op. 31, recorded by Segovia and many others, he brought the folk mus...

My First Country Guitar Picking Songs is an ideal book for beginners interested in learning country-style guitar and basic reading skills. Author Steve Kaufman uses his award-winning method to teach p...

26 of Steve Kaufman's Favorite Jamming Fiddle tunes presented in notation and tablature. Companion Audio available online.

This collection of fiddle tunes originally appeared in 'Kaufman's Collection of American Fiddle Tunes for Flatpicking Guitar. Steve Kaufman says he can't emphasize enough the importance of developing...

This collection of fiddle tunes originally appeared in 'Kaufman's Collection of American Fiddle Tunes for Flatpicking Guitar' (MB 95748) but the book was so large and heavy that they couldn't put all...

Three-time national flatpicking champion Steve Kaufman teaches you how to buy a guitar, the easy way to fret a note, how to read chord charts and play all the basic chords, basic bluegrass strumming p...

The capo is a tool of the trade. This will guide you through an understanding of how it works, and how to select the one that is right for you and your guitar. It is a theoretically correct method tha...

This beginning guitar book, for use with private students or in a classroom setting, is divided into 15 lessons. Beginning at the complete novice level, the lessons guide players thru learning chords,...

Immerse yourself in the fascinating birthplace of the Delta Blues with "Early Roots Of Robert Johnson", published by the renowned Mel Bay Publications. Robert Johnson is widely regarded as one of the...

Traditionally the role of the guitar in Celtic music has been confined to accompaniment of lead instruments or a vocalist. In this book Steve Baughman suggests ways to break free of this mold, allowin...

Fretless bass is a unique instrument. The approach to playing fretless bass is much more like playing upright bass than to fretted bass. This book will cover many of the important techniques required...

Focuses on the two most popular topics in the bass world today: slap bass and multiple-stringed basses. Covers a wide variety of slap techniques including triple pops, double pops, and individual stri...

These compositions, like most of my music, are of Latin American roots, rhythms and melodies. However, the harmonies always have a jazz influence without losing that Latin flavour. Four of the five pi...