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Mel Bay First Lessons Violin Book/CD Set

15 reviews
Craig Duncan

Mel Bay Publications, Inc., 2002

Good for adults!
I'm 32 years old, and decided to learn the violin as my son has been playing a few months now. I've been working through this book for almost three weeks without a teacher and I'm in the middle of lesson 8 right now. As other reviewers have mentioned, there is no instruction on how to read music or how to tune the violin. I played a string instrument (bass violin) many years ago and did ...

Parking Lot Picker's Songbook: Mandolin

4 reviews
Dix Bruce

Mel Bay Publications, Inc., 2007

Parking Lot Picker's Song Book by Dixon Bruce
This is one of the best mandolin music books in existence with a wonderful selection of songs with music, chords, and tablature. It is arranged so that you can avoid the problem of turning pages, and the format easily stays open on a music stand. The CD only goes through a single verse of everything so it is not a play along, but it helps you know how things sound. There's also valuable ...

Mel Bay Childrens's Guitar Chord Book

1 review
William Bay

Mel Bay Publications, Inc., 2000

Good basic reference
This book turned out to be just what my daughter needed. She is 10 and just starting to learn some chords. This book is simple and easy to understand without alot of extra information. She can take it with her. I recommend this book for a child or teenager just getting started.

Mel Bay's Ukulele Chords

3 reviews
Mel Bay

Mel Bay Publications, Inc., 1971

RETIRED AIRLINE PILOT LIVING ON MOLOKAI HI
I BOUGHT TEN OF THESE BOOK TO DONATE TO A SMALL SCHOOL IN MAUNALOA HAWAII. A WONDER SCHOOL TEACHER WHO TEACHES UKE AFTER SCHOOL SAYS THE BOOK IS GREAT. SHE HAS BEEN PLAY THE UKE FOR 70 YEARS. JOHN PARROTT

Mel Bay Modern Guitar Method Grade 1, Expanded Edition (Book/CD/DVD Set)

4 reviews

Mel Bay Publications, Inc., 2005

I like the book.
I like the book. The DVD and audio CD are difinitely a good addition to the original. I'm glad I spent the extra money and got the expanded edition.

Mel Bay Jazz Guitar Standards Chord Melody Solos (Book & CD)

9 reviews
Various

Mel Bay Publications, Inc./Warner Bros., 2004

Standards made easy.
This book clearly gives a starting point for jazz standards that are needed in any player's repertoire. Of course knowledge of music helps, but the material is easy to understand. It covers the chords, melody, and with the 2 cds it provides ideas for improv. A virtual mountain of information any guitarist can benefit from. Just what the doctor ordered.

Mel Bay Presents: Aaron Shearer: Learning the Classic Guitar, Part 2

4 reviews
Aaron Shearer

Mel Bay Publications, Inc., 1990

Loving the Classic Guitar
A well thought-out method of considerable value for the analytically-minded guitar student, or even for experienced guitarists. There are three books in the method: Parts 1, 2, and 3. Part 1 (shouldn't that be "Part One"?) is all about the mechanical aspects of guitar playing: How to hold the guitar, the best ways to place your hands and move your fingers, etc. (Many use the word ...

Mel Bay Learn To Play Fingerstyle Solos for Ukulele

4 reviews
Mark Kailana Nelson

Mel Bay Publications, Inc., 2006

Excellent book and excellent customer service from provider
I bought this book for my son-in-law who married my daughter, a Hawaiian native. He loves it and has already begun to work through its pages. This, and the other books on Ukelele theory and practice are working out great for him. I am very glad I read his Amazon wish list and purchased this and other books for him by this author.

The Clarke Tin Whistle: Deluxe Edition (Book & CD)

8 reviews
Bill Ochs

Mel Bay Publications, Inc., 2001

Wanna learn the tinwhistle...
If you want to learn how to play the tinwhistle, then this is the book. Starts you out with the very basics and works you up to the more advanced. Bill Ochs is by far one of the best whistle players out there. Make sure you buy the book with the cd; hearing how the tunes are played will help you to learn a lot better then the book alone. This is the best instruction book I have every seen. Clear, ...

Mel Bay Basic C6th Nonpedal Lap Steel Method

2 reviews
Dewitt Scott

Mel Bay Publications, Inc., 1996

It's What You Need
Wanna play country licks on the 6-string lap steel? You have a problem. There are few basic works to begin with; Mel Bay's main title uses an E7th tuning and insists that you learn to sight-read music; Cindy Cashdollar's DVDs are expensive and are designed around the 8-string guitar; everything else focuses on Hawaiian music. Scott's book is for 6-string guitars, uses the country-friendly C6th ...

Mel Bay's Basic Harp for Beginners

7 reviews
Laurie Riley

Mel Bay Publications, Inc., 1994

Should Have Bought This First
I started out with the Nancy Calthorpe book but later bought this one because I was left with too many unanswered questions. I would choose this as a first purchase if you are interested in teaching yourself to play the harp. There are some good tunes in this book as well.

Mel Bay Brazilian Jazz Guitar (Book & CD)

1 review

Mel Bay Publications, Inc., 2004

THANKS FOR THE GIRL FROM IPANEMA, BUT SHE JUST DOESN'T SEE . . .
don't believe what others say, this is really a great book. go to the roots of the chords and build form there with your pinky finger. try different strums and plucks. You'll get it. After forty years I can finally play a really COOL tune, instead of only channeling Jimi Hendrix. Trying to do the opposite, with a REALLY laid back, melancholy (well, that's the same), almost shy virtuoso approach ...

Mel Bay's You Can Teach Yourself Piano Chords (Book & DVD)

1 review
Per Danielsson

Mel Bay Publications, Inc., 2005

Learn piano chords like guitar players learn chords
I am enjoying using this book to learn piano chords. It shows the chords using keyboard diagrams along with the notes on the treble and bass cleff (shows fingering). This book includes chords such as Major,Minor, Dominant 7th, Major 7th, Minor 7th, Diminished 7th, Augmented, Suspended, adding the 9th. You will find various chord progessions then Exercise Progressions for practicing. If you are ...

Mel Bay's Deluxe Encyclopedia of Guitar Chords

3 reviews
William Bay

Mel Bay Publications, Inc., 1971

A new guitar players savior...
An educational book that's been in print since 1971 has gotta be good. This book basically taught me how to play guitar. I learned all of my chords and such from it. It's laid out very clearly with both diagrams and photos to show you how to make each chord. Definitely get this one.

Mel Bay's Complete Irish Fiddle Player

10 reviews
Peter Cooper

Mel Bay Publications, Inc., 1998

The standard by which to judge music self-instruction books
This book is marvelous on so many levels; it's hard to know where to begin. In the first place, it's just a great collection of Irish fiddle music. Some 60 tunes are included here making this something of a treasury, and while that isn't the end of the Irish fiddle repertoire, it certainly makes a good beginning. As to the teaching, Cooper expects you to know the basics of fiddle playing (I got ...

Mel Bay Bossa Nova and Samba for Guitar

2 reviews
Mike Christiansen

Mel Bay Publications, Inc., 2005

A Rosetta Stone for Brazilian guitar
For about the last 5 years, I've been wanting to move from the music that I *can* play to the music that I *want* to play and sing - bossa nova and samba. I had several books on the subject but, after watching performances, I realized that the books - and I -were missing something. This Christmas I thought I'd try again with some different books, one of which was Mike Christiansen's. With his, ...

Mel Bay Basic Blues Harmonica Method Book/CD Set

2 reviews
David Barrett

Mel Bay Publications, Inc., 2000

Methods of blues
This book rocks! Building basic riffs using 1 hole! making it sound incredible. You are given the tools to start building your style of the blues riffs you like, illustrating how to attack the notes. Very well done.

Mel Bay's You Can Teach Yourself Accordion

3 reviews
Neil Griffin

Mel Bay Publications, Inc., 1999

What I was looking for
I haven't played the accordion in fifty years and I was looking for something as a refresher. This book was just what I was looking for, it reviewed what I had forgotten and I even learned things that I had never learned in the first place. Nice selection of songs too, not a bunch of corny tunes that you never heard of. It comes with a CD and you can hear what you are expected to sound like ...

Mel Bay Guitar Arpeggio Studies on Jazz Standards

9 reviews
Mimi Fox

Mel Bay Publications, Inc., 2004

A Practical Approach to Improvisation
Mimi Fox created a unique yet practical approach to the basics of improvisation. She provides lots of examples that in and of themselves are nice lines to play. Using arrpeggios is a solid basis for lines that have a nice quality. She even goes as far as to provide examples of superimposed arrpeggios which offer a whole new approach to the development of a solid technique as well as a strong ...

Mel Bay Guitar Chords

4 reviews
Mel Bay

Mel Bay Publications, Inc., 2005

Living Proof!
I am a full time, working musician. 5 years ago, i was not. I wanted to learn to play guitar and had ZERO experience (never even held one). I bought this book. After 3 months -THREE MONTHS- i was playing my own SOLO shows and i've never looked back. Since then (and a few more Mel Bay books) i've quit my "day" job and now have a band, a steady flow of gigs and i've independently sold over 8,000 ...

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