Intermediate Sheet Music from Mel Bay Publications

This collection of 41 timeless melodies is tastefully arranged for soprano and tenor recorders with suggested breath marks and accompaniment chords. Selections include a variety of influences which pr...

Irish favorites with piano accompaniment and sug- gested guitar chords. Titles include: A Visit to Ireland; Ballahaboy Fair; Bridget McBride; Captain O'Neill; Comely Jane Downing; Crossing the Stream;...

Lively Tin Whistle Tunes is a collection of 55 spirited tin whistle solos. The selections include reels, hornpipes, jigs, sea chanteys, dance tunes and more. These tin whistle solos are ideal for perf...

Welcome to the School of the Blues Lesson Series! This book and recording were created to help give you context to all the music you worked so hard to learn. The recorded Play-Along Trax have no Bass....

As part of Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop Audio Series this comprehensive and thorough collection of fingerpicking guitar lessons contains invaluable tips and instruction implemented throughout the...

Mel Bay's latest series, Guitar Journals, is the ultimate eference guide of studies and solos in several different genres. This fantastic blues volume contains exercises on barre chords, power chords,...

Delta is a collection of compositions written over about a 20 year period. 'Blue Stairways', for example, is 20 years old and has never appeared on one of my CDs until now! Some of these compositions...

Virtually every country blues recording made prior to World War II that has been recovered by the collectors is commercially available. No one could have anticipated how much of the recorded legacy of...

This book was a delight and a challenge to put together. Stefan wanted to highlight the playing of six blues players that have greatly influenced him: Big Bill Broonzy, Lonnie Johnson, Rev. Gary Davis...

The East Coast, from Florida up to Virginia, gave birth to a vibrant fingerstyle blues tradition, documented on recordings from the mid-1920s up into the 1970s and 1980s. In East Coast Fingerstyle Blu...

The blues have been a major focus of music in Texas, from the earliest days of commercial recordings right up to the present. And there has been an impressive lineage of great Texas fingerstyle blues...

Award-winning blues songwriter and performer Jon Shain brings us his fingerstyle guitar arrangements of some of the earliest blues and rags ever published. W. C. Handy, known as the 'Father of the Blu...

Blind Blake was the greatest ragtime blues guitarist to record during the 1920s. His guitar playing was unique. It captured the pulsating rhythms of the blues, ragtime, and jazz music of the period. R...

When I first heard Big Bill Broonzy. I saw a clip of him on TV playing in a nightclub lot by the light of a single bulb. The tune he was playing was a song called “Hey Hey” and it knocked me out. When...

A collection of 15 note-for-note transcriptions from Fred McDowell's Good Morning Little School Girl and You Gotta Move compact discs. All pieces contain vocal line, lyrics and fingerpicking guitar so...

This user-friendly book, with access to online audio, shows how to transform standard three-chord blues changes into harmonically sophisticated jazz-blues progressions. The book covers chord substitut...

Mel Bay Publications, Inc. is proud to present this new series of lessons as part of Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop Audio Series. This book offers a comprehensive collection of fingerpicking guitar...

In this book, six of Rev. Davis' Holy Blues are presented-- gospel songs with a taste of the blues. The online audio recordings teach these arrangements phrase by phrase as well as presenting the orig...

Rev. Gary Davis was a musical giant. His ideas spanned a wide range of techniques and styles. His repertoire featured blues, rags, show instrumentals and gospel songs. He played with his thumb and ind...

Jazz Blues Styles presents Guitar solos in the styles of Charlie Parker, Thelonius Monk, Sonny Rollins, and other jazz blues greats.   Within the context of the blues, this book teaches: styles o...

This is a collection of 48 original jazz tunes in different styles, with fun melodies ideal for jamming. The pieces are in a variety of keys and are presented in standard notation and tablature. Inclu...

Practicing scales is essential to building and maintaining strength, technique, tone, and agility on the viola, but it is easy to slip into the habit of playing scales automatically, without paying at...

Technical exercises applicable to intermediate literature. Sets the foundation for more difficult daily study routines. Practice of these scale exercises helps one acquire agility and evenness in play...

24 compositions by the legendary Irish harpist, Turlough O'Carolan scored for classic guitar solo. The solos are intermediate in difficulty and convey the beautiful, lyrical quality of the original ha...

Eric Thompson's strong, melodic picking has set a benchmark for taste and tone for nearly four decades. Eric teaches 16 of his favorite old-time fiddle tunes, which are the bedrock upon which acoustic...