Article: The Mel Bay story: how one man showed 6 million how to master the guitar. (Mel Bay Publications)

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Guitar players are an extraordinarily diverse lot, running the gamut from nylon-string classical players to head-banging heavy-metal thrashers. Despite the amazing variety of playing styles, most of the world's guitarists have at least one thing in common: they learned the instrument using Mel Bay's Modem Guitar Method. Over the past 40 years, Mel Bay's method book has emerged as the most widely accepted teaching aid for the guitar, with six million copies sold. In over 100 countries around the world, vast numbers of guitarists will tell you they got started the "Mel Bay Way." Founded in 1946, Mel Bay Publications remains at the forefront of fretted instrument ...

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