Guitar category: 1577 books

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 and accompanying online audio are a great introduction to the world of classical guitar. The user friendly method is ideal for self instruction or for use with a teacher. The book contains many great sounding pieces playable by the beginning student. This method will get you playing fun music right from the start. Includes access to online audio.

Unlike any other collection on the market, this book presents 71 of Mel Bay's acclaimed duet series in order of difficulty. The duets range from easy to advanced. Used by guitarists worldwide this collection provides ideal material for recitals, concerts and festivals. The duets are fun-to-play and...

This collection of original, contemporary, concert-style compositions for plectrum or flatpicked guitar includes 15 preludes, 4 sonatas with multiple movements, and 12 nocturnes. The solos present a colorful spectrum of tonality, harmony, rhythms and moods ideal for concert or recital performance....

A popular and creative method for teaching guitar to young children. From the beginning, this method integrates chord playing with note reading. The student begins with simplified single-finger chord forms and strums as accompaniment to numerous well-known songs. Note reading is then methodically...

Mel Bay's latest series, Guitar Journals, is the ultimate reference guide of exercises and solos in different genres. This comprehensive collection of studies and solos presents a diverse and eclectic array of music. In addition to great sounding warm-ups and picking studies, solos are presented in...

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...

Learn the language of music and be creative with the perfect guide to over 300 scales and arpeggios. This handy reference book will put you on course to improve your songwriting and improvisational skills by giving you the tools you need to take your music in new and dynamic directions. Presented...

Contains studies, chord melody solos, chord studies, quartal harmony etudes, triad studies, and duets in the keys of B, G#m, Db, Bbm, Gb, and Ebm. Presents a comprehensive listing of chords found in each key. For each key, etudes are presented in four different positions. The...

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. Includes access to online audio.

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 fingerstyle performance. In notation and tablature.

Grade 7 concludes Mel Bay's Modern Guitar Method begins with a summary of the natural and artificial harmonics that can be achieved on each string. Addresses theory and notation of major and minor sixth chords plus ninth, eleventh (with alterations), nine-six (9/6), and thirteenth chords- all explored...

Complete in three volumes, this widely used method series 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 this volume, the student will be introduced...