Intermediate Sheet Music from Mel Bay Publications

The arts flourished in the Baroque period. Music from that time is still performed worldwide by symphonies, opera companies, choirs, chamber ensembles and soloists on many instruments. The period was...

Potes Suite is a set of four contemporary pieces for flute and guitar composed by the flute and guitar duo 'Nuclear Okra'. The pieces are inspired by the rich tapestry of diverse cultures living in th...

Beautiful Music for Clarinet presents a baker’s dozen of unique pieces with piano accompaniment, gleaned from the symphonic, opera, piano, or folk literature of the Classical to early Modern eras. Fro...

Unknown until their discovery was announced in 1971 by Péter Várnai in an article in Die Musikforschung, this set of six suites for solo violin, published in 1696, is in all likelihood a second editio...

This volume includes music from Mozart's Viennese Sonatas as well as other incidental works. Titles include: German Dance, Andante, Glockenspiel, Menuetto and Trio, and Rondo. All of the pieces are pl...

Popular Guitar Styles: Samba and Bossa Nova reflects recent popular Brazilian styles as played with classical or fingerstyle technique. This collection of original pieces will delight both listeners a...

This collection of Latin-influenced pieces is ideal for the classical or fingerstyle guitarist seeking challenging new material that spans a number of genres and is melodically, harmonically, and rhyt...

The presentation of this album marks a special event in classic guitar publishing! This anthology contains 11 truly representative examples of the folklore of Latin America, all highly revered folk so...

The Complete Book of Shred Guitar focuses on the technical aspects of playing the electric guitar in the shred style. As the guitar plays such an important role in metal, neoclassical and hard rock, m...

Based primarily on the scale practice routine of Jascha Heifetz, this compilation of two previous Mel Bay violin scale books includes all forms of major and minor scales and arpeggios in every key inc...

Tommy Emmanuel is one of the hottest fingerpicking guitar stars today. This complete transcription offers not only a look at his music, but insight to his style and techniques. The performance notes h...

The incomparable Australian guitarist Tommy Emmanuel presents four fingerstyle exercises plus an arrangement of the classic tune Freight Train and two signature compositions- Mister Guitar and Dixie M...

Mel Bay Publications presents a collection of arrangements and original compositions from Australian guitarist Tommy Emmanuel's 2005 CD, Endless Road. Not for the faint of heart, this outstanding coll...

British journalist and writer Robert Tilling lovingly compiled this touching tribute to the great American guitar genius Reverend Gary Davis. His enthusiasm for the Reverend's powerful music started a...

Mentored by three legendary guitarists, Michael O'Dorn is the living repository of not only the Merle Travis thumbstyle technique, but also the fingerstyle legacies of Chet Atkins and French guitarist...

Rob MacKillop presents 24 superb solo guitar works by Belgian composer Gilbert Isbin, one of the most interesting, dynamic and poetic composers writing for the guitar today. All 24 pieces have been re...

The Hawaiian word for slack key guitar, k h alu, means to 'loosen the key' or retune some of the strings to create a harmonious sound with an open or alternate tuning. Slack key is a fingerpicking sty...

This book is written -with the guitar at hand- to help you as a fingerstyle guitarist, improvise in a contemporary way on the guitar. Every musician can learn to improvise. You just need to study and...

El McMeen has authored many guitar books for Mel Bay Publications, but this book holds a special place in his heart. This cutting-edge collection includes melodic, challenging, and exuberant band marc...

This book presents a practical step-by-step approach to fingerstyle guitar arranging technique.Two paths are methodically introduced:1.) A description of the technical resources used in solo arranging...

This is Mel Bay's 'landmark' system for playing guitar solos in chord style using popular sheet music. This method is accessible to the intermediate level student and is applicable for pick or fingers...

This first volume in Master Anthology Of Fingerstyle Guitar Solos includes both new pieces and outstanding previously published fingerstyle tunes. Veteran performers and talented young upstarts are gi...

Achieving Guitar Artistry - Concert Solos is a collection of 56 solos reflecting a wide array of colors, textures and moods. These were originally written for plectrum or flatpick guitar but may be pl...