L.A. based composer and violinist Soon Hee Newbold offers this exciting new piece based on a jazz-rock beat. An excellent way to teach a more commercial style of playing Rockin' Jammin' Swingin' is the perfect change of pace for your next concert.

Roberts new blues shuffle is a fun jazz ensemble-style tune that lets your string orchestra perform something a little different. Easy swing rhythms in a comfortable key and tempo make it accessible for most groups. With a littlecreativity youmight want to open up a section for a young soloist to stretch out a bit.

Simple straight-ahead jazz is just the ticket for younger groups that want to learn the basics of swing and experience the blues style. Larry's new version will serve as a great teaching tool and model to introduce the concepts to string players.

Here's a new string version of the evergreen Beatles toe-tapper that is certain to bring a smile to all. Simple swing/shuffle rhythms that will easily fall into place with your young performers.

Easy Pop Specials For Strings-From the Broadway show Sweet Charity comes this new version of the show's most memorable production number. From the famous opening 6-note riff this sassy swing number is a crowd pleaser all the way. Dur: 2:55

David Shaffer cleverly combines swing and straight playing in this novel arrangement of Joshua Fit de Battle of Jericho. Players immediately get into the groove by snapping their fingers on the offbeats. A pizzicato treatment of the melody progressively builds until the whole ensemble is using a full bow. Everyone gets melodic material and the audience is sure to chuckle with the sudden pizzicato ending.

This book which includes 308 tune transcriptions is organized around individual Fiddlers who typically combine Appalachian-style Fiddling with rags pop standards Midwest-style Fiddling and sometimes a touch of Western swingto create a style often identifiable as Ozarks.Thirty Ozarks fiddlers and their lives are highlighted with biographical sketches photographs and tune histories. Another 50 great Ozarks fiddlers are presented in a similarmanner but with less detail.The book and accompanying audio (with 37 tunes many recorded in the field) emphasize the older fiddling traditions connected to the square dances and community events more than those connectedto bluegrass music and modern contest Fiddling. Some of the tunes in the collection are old standbys such as 'Bile Them Cabbage' while others such as 'Finley Creek Blues' are unique to the region. 

From veteran music educator and composer Carold Nunez comes this outstanding teaching piece for ensemble playing. It features solid beginning keys of D and G and gives all players interesting melodic parts along with a few rhythmic “teaching moments.”

All players are given a sample solo along with a solo sheet on the back of their parts teaching them the basics of improvisation. In this case the entire basis of the solo is a G Major scale making for a positive experience for virtually any performer. Outstanding writing by a jazz violinist!

Colin Evans. Four pieces in popular style for violin and cello using open strings with parts for optional viola and classroom instruments with piano accompaniment. The first two pieces ‘Nice ‘N’ Easy’ and ‘October Rain’ have open strings pizzicato. ‘Waltz in Jazz-Min Time’ uses open strings pizzicato and arco whilst ‘Caribbean Dance’ uses open strings and first finger pizzicato and arco.