Mel Bay Publications

This comprehensive, illustrated text offers an in-depth look at the mechanics and musical thought process of teaching the classical guitar the 'why' rather than the 'how' the classical guitarist does...

In The Joy of Six, Dworsky adapts African and Afro-Cuban polyrhythms to the Keyboard in a world-beat classical style. At the heart of the book are four beautiful solo pieces designed to teach differen...

You Can Teach Yourself Piano Chords combines regular music notation with visual illustrations to give a clear picture of how to voice basic piano chords. The first part of the book introduces the stud...

Beginning-intermediate level. For those with a desire to learn to play from lead sheets and unlock the mysteries of music harmony, this book will lead you on the way to playing by ear. A marvelous tea...

The classical pieces in this collection are favorites the world over. Now it is possible for the beginning piano student to play the classics in an easy, playable rendition that will sound great. Each...

New arrangements of ten classic hymns presented in a progressive and percussive style that will challenge and inspire the pianist, soloist and drummer. The piano, melody, and drums are charted so when...

Designed to introduce the young intermediate-level pianist to playing the blues, Jazzin' the Blues presents fifteen original blues compositions in various keys, styles and grooves together with downlo...

This book provides the pianist with an amazing assortment of easy, essential exercises. Players of all experience levels can utilize this method: beginners will learn to play music through creative ex...

This book represents nothing less than the magnum opus of a jazz-rock master of synthesizer technique. Creative Synthesizer Technique is a unique addition to the Mel Bay keyboard bookshelf, both for i...

Put some aloha into your playing with Hawaiian & Polynesian Music for Appalachian Dulcimer! More than just a repertoire collection of classic Pacific island melodies, this book includes the history an...

Collaborating with mandolinist, guitarist, and musicologist Franco Di Biase, a native of Archi in the Abruzzo region of southern Italy, world-renowned mandolinist Carlo Aonzo presents a new chapter of...

While one of a kind is a hard rating to achieve at Mel Bay Publications, Kevin Allison has done it with The Ceilidh Dance Book. A ceilidh is a traditional Scottish gathering where people share songs,...

Unique among books on the whistle and Celtic music, this book takes the role of a personal tutor. It explains in detail the peculiarities of the instrument, the ancient modal scales the Irish tunes ar...

The balalaika is most often associated with Russian folklore. In this comprehensive method book, concert and recording artist Bibs Ekkel shares his extensive knowledge of the balalaika as taught in Ru...

Easy Klezmer Tunes was created in response to many requests for a simplified version of Stacy Phillips ' highly acclaimed 'Klezmer Collection'. Phillips has compiled a selection of pieces for beginnin...

Written as a companion to the wildly popular fiddle book, this method opens up the world of fiddling to the beginning/intermediate violist. Finally fiddlers, violists and cellists can jam together! Un...

Scales for Soprano Ukulele provides fingering diagrams, construction formulas in whole and half steps (in standard notation) and application (usage) for the most common scales used in improvisation an...

This book offer scales and modes for the baritone uke. Each scale is shown in multiple fingers with roots on the fourth, third and second string. Scales and modes shown include Major, Minor, Harmonic...

This left-handed Uke chord chart shows essential chords and secondary minor chord relationships from all 12 root tunes for the soprano ukulele in G-C-E-A tuning. The chords shown for each root note ar...

The ukulele is an increasingly popular instrument, appearing in everything from rock albums to traditional music. With Learn to Burn: Uke, you can quickly learn to play this versatile instrument. St...

Featuring over 1, 000 chord diagrams and 37 full-sized fingerboard charts, Mark Kailana Nelson 's Mastering Chord Inversions For Ukulele is one of the most comprehensive and useful Ukulele chord books...

This chart shows essential chords and secondary minor chord relationships from all 12 root tunes for the soprano ukulele in G-C-E-A tuning. The chords shown for each root note are major, seventh, mino...