Tutor Books by Instrument

The Complete Mandolinist is the most comprehensive American mandolin method to be published in nearly a century. Written by Marilynn Mair, internationally acclaimed mandolinist, recording artist and teacher for over two decades, this book presents a logical approach to mandolin technique that builds on the pioneering efforts of America’s mandolin teachers of the early 20th century.

Expand your banjo knowledge with the Lesson Goldmine series! Featuring 100 individual modules covering a giant array of topics, each lesson in this volume includes detailed instruction with playing examples presented in banjo tablature. You'll also get extremely useful tips, chord and neck diagrams, photos and much more to reinforce your learning experience plus access to over 500 audio tracks with performance demos of all the examples in the book! A huge variety of styles, techniques and concepts are covered, including: clawhammer style, Scruggs-style licks, playing backup, playing in different keys, tunings, using capos, constructing solos, creating harmony parts, achieving good tone, and much more.

This fantastic book is an absolute must for the Gibson banjo fanatic! Of the 130 or so Original Flathead Five-String Mastertones known to exist, 19 of the absolute best are featured here. The Scruggs, Reno, Jenkins, Crowe, Osborne, Huber and Mills banjos are shown in all of their glory, with details of their known histories and provenances, as well as never-before-seen photos, bills of sale, factory shipping ledgers, and other ephemera relating to these rare and highly desirable instruments. See below for more details.

The definitive step-by-step guide to playing 5-string bluegrass banjo.

Follow the brilliant but ill-fated career of the legendary hero of fifties country music in this superb songbook. Contains 26 classic songs in easy-to-intermediate arrangements for fingerpicking and flatpicking guitar, including 'Lovesick Blues', 'Move It On Over', 'You Win Again' & more.

This is the follow-up volume to Bodhran: The Basics and is designed for those who want to improve their technique and expand their rhythmic repertoire. It contains exercises and solos in 4/4, 6/8, 3/4, and 9/8 time. The 568 one-measure exercises are designed to improve a player's technical skill and demonstrate how to use the basic building blocks of rests, accents, rolls, and syncopation to create interesting and varied rhythmic patterns. The 64 short solos show how to combine the one-measure rhythmic patterns into longer compositions.

A lively collection of songs for strumming, plus easy G-tuning solos for fingerpicking 5-string banjo.

This book covers all of the major scales in depth as applied to the 5-string banjo, answering potential questions concerning the use of major scales for any level of player, beginning through advanced.

Teaches you the fundamentals of banjo playing through familiar tunes. The book is designed to provide a clear and simple introduction to the 5 string banjo.

This book offers 27 arrangements from around the world written in standard notation and tablature playable on any ‘ukulele.

Killer Technique: Fiddle presents exercises designed to develop fluid left hand and bow technique. The exercises reinforce fundamental playing movements and stretch the reader's command of the instrument.

Ukulele From The Beginning is a great collection of favourite songs specially chosen for primary school-age children starting to learn the instrument! Book with CD.

Made famous by the legendary Jerry Byrd, the C6 tuning [CEGACE] for the non-pedal lap steel guitar has many advantages due to its versatility. Includes Audio Download link.

This is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in Irish mandolin playing. As well as being a complete guide for the absolute beginner, this book also contains a mine of information, useful tips and ideas for the experienced player.All the tunes and key exercises in the book are included on the accompanying 63 track audio download available online.

Presents tuning, proper positioning, basic chords (C tuning) and folk songs for strumming and singing. Very easy to comprehend, even for the absolute beginner.

The most comprehensive guitar chord resource ever, now available for the left-hand. Photos and diagrams for over 2,600 guitar chords.

This fine method for soprano (descant) recorder is a 'rote to note' approach which incorporates teaching concepts similar to those found in Suzuki and Kodaly approaches. Especially good for young children.

“How can I read sheet music and play tenor banjo melody chord solos?” Mel Bay’s own step-by-step method for melody chord performance will show you precisely how it’s done. Also suitable for tenor mandola.

The Autoharp Owner's Manual covers autoharp maintenance, conversions, tuning and string schedules (both diatonic and chromatic), building your own instrument, playing techniques, evaluating instruments, chord bar setups, amplification, history, and much more.

Finally! A chord book written for the young beginner (or even beginners of any age) showing a creative and simple way to learn and play ukulele chords. Chords are taught beginning with the most essential to more advanced. Chords are presented with exercises that build upon each other and eventually lead the student to playing logical and common chord progressions. These progressions include I-iii-vi-ii-V-I and twelve bar blues in many different keys. Chords are shown in chord diagram form with photographs showing finger positions in relationship to the fretboard. Examples and exercises are presented in strum bar notation.

Evoke the traditional sounds of the Celtic lands with these instrumental arrangements of songs for solo Celtic harp. These 25 tunes are Manx, Welsh, Irish, Scottish, Cornish, Hebridean, and Bretton, including pieces by Turlough O'Carolan and Robert Burns.

A complete survey of traditional banjo styles complete with tunings, playing tips, and the author's deft drawings. Progresses from easy tunes for the beginner to more difficult pieces. The styles include up-picking or Pete Seeger's basic strum; two-finger picking; three-finger picking; and what had variously been called frailing, clawhammer, knocking, rapping, overhand, fram-style, flayin' hand, and other Appalachian names, here called down-picking. Audio download available online.

C,G,D,A Tuning ...The finest tenor banjo method available, this text represents Mel Bay's own approach to fundamental musicianship for those desiring to play tenor banjo. This book is the standard by which others are judged.

Step by step pictures take you from first day exercises to playing along with a backing track. Absolute Beginners has been designed to tell you everything you need to know from the very first time you pick up your guitar. With online audio.