Play 50 of your favorite pop tunes on your instrument of choice! This collection features arrangements written in accessible keys and ranges with lyrics and chord symbols. Songs include: All My Loving · Blowin' in the Wind · Clocks · Don't Stop Believin' · Every Breath You Take · Fireflies · Hey, Soul Sister · In My Life · Love Story · My Girl · Nights in White Satin · Sweet Caroline · Unchained Melody · Viva La Vida · What a Wonderful World · You've Got a Friend · and more. / Contrebasse

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

Essential Elements for Strings ? Book 2 with EEi
Violin
Series: Essential Elements Format: Softcover Media Online Authors: Robert Gillespie, Pamela Tellejohn Hayes, Michael Allen
Essential Elements for Strings offers beginning students sound pedagogy and engaging music, all carefully paced to successfully start young players on their musical journey. EE features both familiar songs and specially designed exercises, created and arranged for the classroom in a unison-learning environment, as well as instrument-specific exercises to focus each student on the unique characteristics of their own instrument. EE provides both teachers and students with a wealth of materials to develop total musicianship, even at the beginning stages.
Essential Elements now includes Essential Elements Interactive (EEi), the ultimate online music education resource. EEi introduces the first-ever, easy set of technology tools for online teaching, learning, assessment, and communication... ideal for teaching today\'s beginning band and string students, both in the classroom and at home. For more information, visit Hal Leonard Online - Essential Elements Interactive. / Méthodes et pédagogie / Cordes / Contrebasse / HAL LEONARD

For Violone-Very little is known about the two sonatas which appear here in their original keys. They were placed in the library of the Music School in Oxford at the end of the seventeenth century in a form convenient for playing (i.e. unbound). The library was catalogued by Hake between 1850 and 1855 and the sonatas were eventually bound in 1855 with other instrumental and vocal manuscripts of the same period some of which are dated 1698.The sonatas are both inscribed on the title page Sonata Violone Solo. Col Basso per l'Organo o Cembalo. A third sonata bears the words Sonata Violino e Violoncino … di Giovannino del Violone. Giovannino (=Little or Young John) musthave been a performer and although the third sonata has been copied by a different hand it is conceivable that Giovannino is a connecting link between the three. He cannot however be assumed to be their author.The Violone was a six-stringed instrument with frets and there is evidence to suggest that the Contrabasso of the same period was similar but probably a little larger; the Violoncino (=Little Violone or Violoncello) must have been smaller. The word 'Violone' was also used as a collective term embracing all members of the Viol family which means that the sonatas might well have been written for a tenor or a bass Viol and not necessarily a Violone as such. Indeed when they are played on a Violone or Double Bass the continuo bass line must be played at a lower pitch than the solo instrument to prevent inversion of the intended harmony. (The use of a Violone/Double Bass continuo or 16' organ tone would overcome this problem.)The editor has added no ornaments or embellishments to the solo part as it appears in the original manuscript. It is open to debate whether a Violone player owing to the very nature of his instrument would have used any but the simplest melodic decorations. Nevertheless the performer should acquaint himself thoroughly with those seventeenth century traditions that are known today (see Dart

'Well written'. The Strad. 'Undemanding'. MusicTeacher. Melodic easily approachable work with chamber orchestra (or piano) in a light tonal style. Duration c.11'. Opus 64.Grade: 8

Par ZANCHI ATTILIO. Teoria, tecniche e stili del contrabbasso moderno. Ho iniziato a scrivere questo metodo diversi anni fa, praticamente quando ho deciso di cominciare a suonare questo strumento così affascinante ma arduo da padroneggiare. Procedendo nello studio cercavo d'apprendere le nozioni teoriche ed assimilare i vari passaggi tecnici che dovevo affrontare scrivendo degli esercizi specifici. Così facendo mi sono ritrovato a riempire decine di pagine di musica che sono divenute successivamente la parte principale di questo libro. I primi metodi che ho studiato sono stati gli ottimi libri classici 'Billè” e 'Simandl” che procedono in modo progressivo esplorando la tastiera nelle varie posizioni - in ogni capitolo si trovano esercizi basati sulle varie scale. Ho trovato molto utile questo sistema ed ho deciso di procedere gradualmente con lo stesso procedimento scrivendo però dei brani in stili più moderni quali Jazz, Blues e Latin. Gli esercizi utili a sviluppare la tecnica del pizzicato e l'agilità delle dita della mano destra sono ispirati agli studi che ho fatto con il grande contrabbassista e didatta Dave Holland e che poi ho elaborato in modo personale. Dopo una prima stesura ho iniziato a far studiare gli esercizi ai miei allievi ed ho avuto modo di revisionarli ed adattarli alle esigenze didattiche specifiche. Nel metodo sono contenuti 66 brani in vari stili costruiti con le diverse scale maggiori, minori naturali, minori melodiche ed armoniche in tutte le tonalità. Il libro contiene inoltre studi tecnici dettagliati relativi alla tecnica del pizzicato ed a quella con l'arco. Nel manuale si possono trovare inoltre diverse spiegazioni teoriche utili a completare la propria preparazione nel campo della musica moderna./ Méthode / Contrebasse

John McCabe's Pueblo for solo Double Bass. Duration: approx. 7 minutes. Pueblo is an off-shoot of a series of compositions inspired by desert country and it was commissioned by Leon Bosch with the aid of funds provided by North West Arts. The piece is continous falling into several sections and is largeley based on the high circling motif heard at the start and referred to again in the harmonics at the close. It is prefaced by the following quotation from Scenes in American Deserta by Reyner Banham published by Thames and Hudson: 'Clouds high and flat were now building up in thesky the wind was settling to silent calm the weather was very cold and the stream through the center of the pueblo was almost frozen across the Indians chipping out ice to melt down for water.' The aim in writing the piece was to express in musical terms a response to the vivid picture of a scene relating to life in the American desert conveyed by Reyner Banham's text. Although not numbered among other Desert works this belongs to this family of compositions along with another Banham setting written for the King's Singers Scenes In America Deserta. - John McCabe

A good arrangement of a beautiful operatic melody; useful as an introduction to advanced playing particularly in legato.Grade: 8

Ce pack permet instrumentistes jouent avec un big band de 10 battantes classiques / Basse

A collection of over 200 great Bluegrass Old Time Country and Gospel standards. Learn to play songs written and recorded by the giants of traditional American music: Bill Monroe The Stanley Brothers Flatt & Scruggs Ralph Stanley The Osborne Brothers Jimmy Martin Doc Watson and many more! Melodies are presented with a bass line lyrics and chords. Includes access to online audio that includes recordings of every song in the book! Also included: Valuable information on how to play bass plus step-by- step instruction on how to transpose any song to any key! We now have versions of The Parking Lot Picker's Songbook for every instrument in a typicalbluegrass band --- guitar mandolin banjo fiddle dobro and bass --- so every member no matter what instrument they play can work from the same collection of songs!      

A collection of 47 easy-to-play big-note level-one solos on folk favorites for young students of the upright Bass. Designed to build technique range and endurance while maintaining student interest. Fun to play andserves ideally as a supplement to any method. All of the solos in this text may be played together in ensemble with the Fun with Violin; Fun with Cello; and Fun with Bass books. Includes many favorite tunes: Hail! Hail!The Gang's All Here; I've Been Workin' On The Railroad and many more.