Mel Bay Publications Inc : 1328 books

From the author of Mel Bay's best-selling book, Learn to Play Fingerstyle Solos for Ukulele, we are proud to present, Favorite Fingerstyle Solos for Ukulele. This book and accompanying audio offer a variety of fingerstyle solos for the ukulele. The music stretches across several styles, including...

Written in the tradition of Mel Bay's original Modern Guitar Method, Grade 1. Combines ease of learning with outstanding music selections.Provides music theory essential to understanding the book's performance demands. Tablature was not used in this book, except in specific situations,...

This collection of jazz standard chord solos for guitar is compiled from Mel Bay and Warner Bros. collaborations Jazz Guitar Standards Vol. 1 and 2. What makes this work so special is that each artist has personally recorded their solo guitar arrangement. The book comes with online audio containing...

This book for left-handed ukulele players contains photos/diagrams of chords for every key in C tuning. A special section on moveable chords is also included. The chords are grouped by type, including major, minor, seventh, diminished, augmented, and more. A summary of where the chords lie on the...

Designed for the beginner, these diverse solos acquaint the student with musical selections by a myriad of great composers. Standard notation only.

Intermediate-level solos based on 68 fiddling favorites of reels, jigs, hornpipes and all styles of barn-dance tunes is not only interesting and fascinating, it is also very beneficial for the development of technique. As technique studies, in their respective grades, these barn-dance tunes are in a class by themselves. Excellent repertoire. Guitar chords included.

A Christmas folio featuring easy but balanced lead sheet guitar arrangements, with occasional melody- chord treatment. Simple chords with strum patterns appear above each melody line, with lyrics.

This book with online audio and video presents tuning, proper positioning, basic chords (C tuning) and folk songs for strumming and singing. Very easy to comprehend even for the absolute beginner. The companion audio in stereo play-along format and contains all of the songs from the book. The video...

A dedicated vihuela chord book, in English and Spanish, with over 300 chords for the vihuela. Chords are presented in easy to read and understand chord diagrams. Exact fingerings are shown for each diagram. Chords shown include major, minor, 7, min7, maj7, b5, sus4, aug, dim, 6, m6, 6/9, m7b5, 11,...

New classical guitar edition of the world leading Mel Bay Modern Guitar Method written by well-known concert guitarist and teacher Stanley Yates. The beginning classical guitarist will learn music reading, hand and sitting positions, practice techniques, arpeggio and scale technique, chordal and melodic...

Complete in three volumes, this widely used text presents classical guitar instruction in a logical and clear manner. The student is thoroughly grounded in left and right hand technical studies and is acquainted with the works of the masters. In notation only. Access to online audio available online.

Mel Bay's series, Guitar Journals, is the ultimate reference guide of studies and solos in several different genres. This fantastic blues volume contains exercises on barre chords, power chords, progressions, strum patterns, hammer-ons, pull-offs, bends, double stops, scales, licks and also a wide...

When Leo Fender invented the electric bass in the early 1950s, little did he know the musical revolution that would follow. Dozens of musical styles were born as a direct result of his invention. Mel Bay's Encyclopedia of Bass Riffs is an overview of over 40 different musical styles, covering 50 years...

A catalog of baritone uke chords in photo/diagram form grouped by type. Major, minor, seventh, diminished, augmented, and ninth chords are all shown in all keys in fretboard photos and diagrams. Major seventh, minor seventh, sixth, minor sixth, seventh augmented fifth, and seventh diminished fifth...