Improv Lessons and Tips for the Contemporary Player. Par WOOD MARK / GILLESPIE ROBERT. Here is the chance to enter the new world of playing today's music while learning to express your own music through improvisation. Don't be afraid! Rockin' Strings is going to teach you how to create your own melodies one step at a time. Play along with the accompanying audio tracks. They will make you sound like a star as you begin to progress through the book, exploring additional keys and rhythms while improvising - all in the style of popular music. Play by yourself, with your teacher, your friends, and your school orchestra. The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, amulti-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right. Here is the chance to enter the new world of playing today's music while learning to express your own music through improvisation. Don't be afraid! Rockin' Strings is going to teach you how to create your own melodies one step at a time. Play along with the accompanying audio tracks. They will make you sound like a star as you begin to progress through the book, exploring additional keys and rhythms while improvising and ndash - all in the style of popular music. Play by yourself, with your teacher, your friends, and your school orchestra. The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audiofiles include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right. / Pédagogie / Etude / Contrebasse

An easy-to-teach straight forward string method from three renowned pedagogues. A unique letter-note style of music notation is utilized which ensures a smooth transition from rote to note reading. Students are quickly introduced to ensemble playing and play a wide variety of fun-to-play melodies keys and modes. Strictly Strings features a carefully prepared lesson sequence which develops all players' abilities equally.

New Direction for Strings est le fruit d'une collaboration entre quatre pedagoues différentes l'une de l'autre les instruments à cordes, avec un total de plus de 100 ans d'expérience en enseignement. Ensemble, ils ont créé une méthode d'intégration égal de tous les instruments, une fonctionnalité très utile pour orchestres à cordes et l'enseignement de groupe. / Contrebasse

Because a fine orchestra depends on fine players, Solo Time for Strings emphasizes individual accomplishment, progress, and achievement while preparing young students for participation in a school orchestra. The series teaches reading in conjunction with note learning, enabling students to start playing melodies as soon as possible, and is appropriate for class or individual instruction. The solos assist in a progressive technical development from 'twinkle, twinkle' in Book 1 to music by Vivaldi in Book 5. / Contrebasse

This collection of 23 holiday favorites will not only motivate beginning string students in the classroom, but will also encourage home chamber music sessions. The flexible format allows the book to be used with any combination of instruments, from a solo player with piano accompaniment to a full string ensemble. Correlated with specific pages in the Strictly Strings method. / Contrebasse

The Tricks To Tunes series is designed for teaching mixed string instruments in groups. It is a systematic program developed over many years from many years experience teaching strings in schools. The tutors are aimed at the primary and lower secondary school age group but are also suitable for older beginners.The children learn ???tricks??? for their fingers or bows which are fun when done in a group. Reading skills are developed at the same time.Each page represents a small step in musical and technical development based on reading music from the very first lessons. Theory homework is included at the end of most sections providing the complete theoryrequired as children progress.The tutors for each instrument are identical in content except where differences are required to accommodate the different instruments.Books 1 and 2 of the series are each intended to cover one year of group tuition based on a school year of 40 weeks. Book 3 provides material for two years. Progress will vary according to the age of the children the size of the group and the extent of their previous musical experience.Additional repertoire at the end of the books provides: extension work for pupils who reach the end of the book before the rest of the group additional work for those who want it and end of year concert pieces. These brilliant tutors make playing music fun as it should be!

Written by Janice Tucker Rhoda, author of the popular ABCs of Strings method, the Complete Technique For Double Bass series is designed for advanced beginners to upper level students wishing to learn or improve their left hand and right arm bow skills.Starting in first position, and proceeding carefully through the higher positions, these method books use short studies to demonstrate specific technical ideas.The book starts with solidifying the combination of note reading, rhythm, and bow distribution, then quickly progresses to a variety of bowing techniques and use of positions 1 - 7, half and thumb position, explaining the physicality of the left and right hands, arms, elbows, and shoulders. Using a mixture of more melodic studies with purely technical exercises, this book quickly gives players information and confidence to improve their playing.Complete Technique For Double Bass - Book 1 covers and includes:Positions 1 through 7Half PositionBass, tenor and treble clefsTwo octave C Major Scale to thumb positionAdvanced chromatic scaleBasic thumb positionWorksheets for note-readingScales, arpeggios, broken thirdsImprovisational melodiesDouble-Stops, chords, octavesHarmonicsArm Swing left-hand and bow-arm techniqueBow balancing exercisesBallet of Shifting exercisesQuick Finger exercisesFinger Substitution exercisesLeft-hand pizzicato exercisesTeaching points throughout / Contrebasse

Amusez-vous avec le Double Bass est une nouvelle publication unique qui ajoute la joie et la diversité de l'apprentissage de l'instrument. Ce second volume développe les connaissances et l'apprentissage afin de développer la lecture et de l'expérience de l'élève. Les exercices courts peuvent être accompagnés par l'enseignant sur le piano. / Contrebasse

Un point de repère en pédagogie de groupe enseignement développé par les enseignants de la très acclamés Paul Rolland et Sheila Johnson. Les fondements de la chaîne de jouer pour le groupe et enseignement individuel, pour la première années d'apprentissage. Chaînes de jeunes en Action est un cours de deux volumes dans les principes fondamentaux du jeu de la chaîne. Conçu spécifiquement pour les classes de l'instrument hétérogènes, il s'est avérée très fructueuse dans les programmes de la chaîne l'école publique. Il est également destiné à l'enseignement privé ainsi que soi. Ses deux volumes, couvrant les deux premières années de l'enseignement, constituent un manuel complet de nouvelles idées et de techniques éprouvées, permettant aux enseignants de présenter en termes clairs et concis les compétences musicales et techniques fondamentales nécessaires pour jouer un violon, alto, violoncelle ou basse. L'approche bien testé à jouer de la chaîne offre à tous les étudiants une occasion unique de progresser rapidement, tout en même temps renforcement et les principes de base de raffinage. L'étudiant joue plus que simplement de chaîne dans... / Contrebasse