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| Mel Bay's Music Theory for the Rock Guitarists By Ben Bolt includes Compact Disc Price for Book and Disc $9.95 These concepts will help you understand how to create your own music | Tablature | "Macedonia" (Rock Solo by Ben Bolt | Blues Scale in A (1st Position) | Blues Scale in A (2ond Position) | Finding the octave on the same string | Bending Notes | Playing two notes simultaneously | The A Pentonic Scale | Excercise | Passing Notes | Blues Scale (In 5th position) | Lead excercise (Key Of A) | The "Trill" | Chromatic Scale | Diatonic Scale | Modes using the G Major Scale | Relative Minor Key | Using the Modes | How to create Minor Scale | Chords | Making chords from Diatonic Scale | Major,Minor, and diminished chords using the Major scale | Arpeggios | Chord Inversions | Intervals | Intervals used in making Major,Minor,Diminished Chord Patterns | Chord Inversions | Intervals | Table Of Intervals | Intervals used in making Major,Minor,Diminished and Augmented Chord Patterns | Power Chords | Inversion of Intervals | Incomplete Chords | Circle of Fifths | | |
| Mel Bay's Classic Blues Licks for Electric Guitar By Fred Sokolow Price (Book and Cd) $9.95 All the blues licks in this book are played on the accompaning compact disc because timing is easier to hear than to read. | How to read Tablature | First position key-of-E licks | The E Blues Scale and Scalar Licks | Turnarounds | Double Note and Chord based Licks | Up-the-Neck Licks | Scales versus Chords | The First Blues Box | Finding the First blues box | Blues Box Licks | Hammer-on and Pull-off Licks | Double Note (Chuck Berry Style) Licks | Chord based Licks | Turnarounds | Playing "with the changes) | Mixing Chord based Licks with Blues Box Licks | The Second Blues Box | A Theoretical Digression | Finding The Second Blues Box | Connecting the Two Blues Boxes | Scalar Licks | IV and V Chord Licks | The Third Blues Box | Finding the Third Blues Box | Scalar Licks | Bend and Overbends | The Fourth Blues Box | Finding the Fourth Blues Box | Scalar Licks | Chord-based Licks | Chord/Rhythm Licks | Bass/Boogie Figures | Double Note Key-of-E Figures | Making them Movable | Single-Note Key of- E Figures | Making Them Movable | Practice Suggestions | | |
| Mel Bay Presents Slide Guitar Licks in open E Tuning (Also known as Bottleneck and Knife Guitar) By Larry McCabe Includes Compact Disc Written in English and Spanish Price $17.95 This Book/Cd set teaches 101 authentic slide guitar fill-ins in open E tuning. Sit-in with a real blues band and learn a variety of licks to 8 entire songs. The Licks may be applied to songs of your choice. | Lyrics and music to 8 songs | Sportin' Life Blues | House of The Rising Sun | I Can't Get Along Without You | Peaches and Cream | St Louis Blues | The New "Joe Turner Blues" | Midnight Special | Good Gal Gone | Tips | Open E Tuning | The E Minor Pentatonic Scale | Tones in the Basic Blues Chords | Guide to Symbols | | |