Mel Bay Fingerstyle Curriculum: Best Thumbpicking Solos

The Best Thumbpicking Solos is designed to provide intermediate to advanced fingerstyle guitarists with a wide variety of attractive solo repertoire pieces. These solos can also be used for educational purposes and enjoyed by students and teachers alike. The Best Thumbpicking edition is a collection of original works and arrangements in the thumbpicking style by such fine guitarists as Chet Atkins, Paul Yandell and Marcel Dadi . Both standard classic Guitar notation and tablature are provided throughout for the convenience of those who are more comfortable reading in one style or the other.

MBGU Fingerstyle Curriculum: Best Celtic Solos

A collection of tunes in the Celtic style arranged by some of today's best-known Fingerstyle guitarists. Several of O'Carolan's pieces are included, along with a number of traditional favorites. Both standard guitar notation and tablature are provided throughout for the convenience of those who are more comfortable reading in one style or the other.

Mel Bay Fingerstyle Curriculum: Best Contemporary Solos

Mel Bay Fingerstyle Curriculum: Best Contemporary Solos has been designed to provide intermediate to advanced fingerstyle guitarists with a wide variety of attractive solo repertoire pieces. The material contained in these volumes is ideal for performance at professional engagements- whether concerts, cocktail parties or club dates. These solos can also be used for educational purposes and enjoyed by students and teachers alike. The Best Contemporary edition provides a collection of original pieces by some of today's leading fingerstyle guitarists as well as attractive arrangements of popular standards like My Melancholy Baby and Nola . Both standard classic Guitar notation and tablature are provided throughout for the convenience of those who are more comfortable reading in one style or the other. The accompanying CD includes 22 of the 24 pieces from the book.

Mel Bay Fingerstyle Curriculum: Best Traditional/Folk Solos

Mel Bay Fingerstyle Curriculum: Best Traditional/Folk Solos is designed to provide intermediate to advanced fingerstyle guitarists with a wide variety of attractive solo pieces to add to their repertoires. The material contained in these volumes is ideal for performance at professional engagements - whether concerts, cocktail parties or club dates. These solos can also be used for educational purposes and enjoyed by students and teachers alike. Mel Bay Fingerstyle Curriculum: Best Traditional/Folk Solos is a collection of beautiful arrangements of traditional folk tunes as well as a few contemporary pieces composed in the folk style. Both standard classical Guitar notation and tablature are provided throughout for the convenience of those who are more comfortable reading in one style or the other. All tunes in the book are included on the CD.

Best of Carulli

A popular series of transcriptions and adaptions for the student. Books feature large notes, carefully edited fingering and a wealth of historical and performance notes.

Best of Bach

A popular series of transcriptions and adaptions for the student. Books feature large notes, carefully edited fingering and a wealth of historical and performance notes.

Best of Tarrega

A popular series of transcriptions and adaptions for the student. Books feature large notes, carefully edited fingering and a wealth of historical and performance notes.

Best of Blues Guitar

A must for any contemporary blues guitarists. Contains 12 great "down home" blues solos, each inspired by an original blues guitar giant like Blind Lemon Jefferson on Robert Johnson. Each solo contain comments about the styles and trademark lick of the blues legends. In notation and tablature. Audio available online.

Best Of Vintage Dance

The Best Musicians' Jokes

Contains more than 400 hilarious jokes about all musicians? and their respective genres; foreword written by the famous drummer Pete York.

Best Of Rock Guitar

The Best of Jack Hatfield

This book is an anthology of Jack Hatfield's most successful teaching arrangements, jam session favorites, show tunes and original compositions. Although it is not a teaching method per se, there are many arranging concepts and general tips included in the performance notes. There are also a few drills. Sections One and Two are intended to be a supplement for beginner and intermediate students, especially those who have used Mel Bay?s First Lessons Banjo. Additional solos are presented for many of the songs in that book. Section Three is basically a lick and repertoire building resource for more advanced players. This entire section with the exception of two arrangements is previously unpublished material. Hallmarks of Jack's teaching style include melody-oriented arrangements, the use of well-known songs for the beginner, teaching tunes essential to the bluegrass banjo player's repertoire, the use of bold-faced melody notes, and an extremely graduated approach which builds on previously learned techniques and licks. The arrangements in this book adhere to these principles. 112 pages, complete with two audio CDs.

The Best of Jack Hatfield

This book is an anthology of Jack Hatfield's most successful teaching arrangements, jam session favorites, show tunes and original compositions. Although it is not a teaching method per se, there are many arranging concepts and general tips included in the performance notes. There are also a few drills. Sections One and Two are intended to be a supplement for beginner and intermediate students, especially those who have used Mel Bay's First Lessons Banjo. Additional solos are presented for many of the songs in that book. Section Three is basically a lick and repertoire building resource for more advanced players. This entire section with the exception of two arrangements ispreviously unpublished material. Hallmarks of Jack's teaching style include melody-oriented arrangements, the use of well-known songs for the beginner, teaching tunes essential to the bluegrass banjo player's repertoire, the use of bold-faced melody notes, and an extremely graduated approach which builds on previously learned techniques and licks. The arrangements in this book adhere to these principles. 112 pages, complete with audio available online.

Mel Bay's Best Manuscript Book

Mel Bay's top manuscript book. 140 pages with 12 staves per page. This product features square back binding, which allows the book to lay flat on a music stand.

My Very Best Christmas, Cello Edition

The seventeen Christmas songs in this volume, arranged in comfortable keys, can be used for players at different levels and for all kinds of occasions. All three editions (Violin, Viola, and Cello) include two parts for either solo or duet performance and piano accompaniment. The three books are all compatible so that ensembles may mix and match parts as desired. Suzuki groups may particularly enjoy these arrangements. The CD provides the piano accompaniments alone. It can be used for back-up, improvisatory play-along, or for pleasant listening by itself.

Mel Bay's Best Student Manuscript Book

This product represents Mel Bay's top-of-the-line offering for student manuscript. Featuring Saddlestitch binding, the book will lay flat and stay open on a music stand. Perforated pages allow individual sheets to be torn out. Each of the 24 pages has 10 large, easy-to-read systems per page.

Mel Bay's Best Guitar Tab Book

This is Mel Bay's top-of-the-line guitar tablature manuscript product. The book is 96 pages filled with guitar tab systems (four per page) printed below standard notation, and includes instructions on how to read tablature. Bound in "Saddle-stitch", this product will stay open, laying flat on your music stand. Perforations allow pages to be torn out as well.

My Very Best Christmas, Viola Edition

The seventeen Christmas songs in this volume, arranged in comfortable keys, can be used for players at different levels and for all kinds of occasions. All three editions (Violin, Viola, and Cello) include two parts for either solo or duet performance and piano accompaniment. The three books are all compatible so that ensembles may mix and match parts as desired. Suzuki groups may particularly enjoy these arrangements. The CD provides the piano accompaniments alone. It can be used for back-up, improvisatory play-along, or for pleasant listening by itself.

Wes Montgomery: Best Of Boss Guitar

In his brief career, Wes Montgomery completely revolutionized jazz Guitar. On the Riverside recording Boss Guitar Wes demonstrates why he is still considered Wes ' incredible solos, his melodic, rhythmic and harmonic approaches will prove beneficial to any guitarist with interest in jazz. It is no wonder that he has influenced so many of today's great artists, and continues to inspire the future jazz guitarists. This note-for-note guitar transcription of Wes Montgomery 's legendary recording Boss Guitar , contains not only the melody lines and solos, but also Wes ' chord choices during Organ solos. This gives you authentic transcriptions of six of the finest tunes on this record. Every single note played by Wes Montgomery is transcribed in both standard and tablature notation.

Mel Bay's Best Drumset Manuscript Book

Mel Bay's top drum set manuscript book with tear out pages. 64 pages, including a drum set notation page, with 12 staves per page.

Mel Bay's Best Manuscript Book (12 Stave)

Mel Bay's top offering for manuscript with tear out pages. 96 pages, binding that keeps the book open on a music stand (Saddlestitch binding), 12 staves per page.

My Very Best Christmas, Trombone & Bassoon Edt.

The seventeen Christmas songs in this volume are arranged in comfortable keys for players at all levels and for all occasions. It includes two parts for either solo or duet performance and piano accompaniment. The books for flute, trombone, trumpet and alto sax are compatible so that ensembles may mix and match parts as desired. Suzuki groups may particularly enjoy these arrangements. The CD provides the piano accompaniments alone to be used for back-up, improvisatory play-along, or for pleasant listening by itself.

My Very Best Christmas, Flute and Oboe Edt.

The seventeen Christmas songs in this volume are arranged in comfortable keys for players at all levels and for all occasions. It includes two parts for either solo or duet performance and piano accompaniment. The books for flute, trombone, trumpet and alto sax are compatible so that ensembles may mix and match parts as desired. Suzuki groups may particularly enjoy these arrangements. The CD provides the piano accompaniments alone to be used for back-up, improvisatory play-along, or for pleasant listening by itself.

My Very Best Christmas, Trumpet, Clarinet, Soprano Sax

The seventeen Christmas songs in this volume are arranged in comfortable keys for players at all levels and for all occasions. It includes two parts for either solo or duet performance and piano accompaniment. The books for flute, trombone, trumpet and alto sax are compatible so that ensembles may mix and match parts as desired. Suzuki groups may particularly enjoy these arrangements. The CD provides the piano accompaniments alone to be used for back-up, improvisatory play-along, or for pleasant listening by itself. 88 total pages.

Tom Hanway: Easy Irish And Celtic Melodies For 5-String Banjo - Best-Loved Airs And Session Tunes (Book/Online Audio)

This album for 5-string Banjo contains 32 traditional airs and melodies from the British Isles, including the folk favourites Danny Boy, The Water is Wide (O Waly, Waly), Whiskey in the Jar and The Skye Boat Song . Easy Irish And Celtic Melodies For 5-String Banjo demonstrates contemporary Celtic fingerstyle Banjo in G tuning using modern techniques. The tunes are perfect for beginning-intermediate players and practice tempo suggestions are included. The ever-popular pieces in this collection are presented in standard notation and tablature, with chord symbols included. The accompanying online audio features both play-along and up-to-speed tracks. This is the companion work to Mel Bay's Easy Irish and Celtic Tunes for 5-String Banjo: Best-Loved Jigs and Reels (2012), with 68 tunes, combining for a total of 100 Celtic melodies. The pieces can be played individually or combined for session playing.