Instrumental Play-Along-Solo arrangements of a dozen jazz blues tunes are featured in this collection for beginning to intermediate instrumentalists.It features online access to audio demonstration tracks for download or streaming to help you hear how the song should sound and so you can sound great while playing along with the backing tracks!Songs include Basin Street Blues C-Jam Blues Freddie Freeloader Night Train One for Daddy-O The Swingin' Shepherd Blues Tenor Madness and more.The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK a multi-functional audio player thatallows you to slow down audio without changing pitch set loop points change keys and pan left or right.

15 easy cello pieces for the second year-More Cello Fun the sequel to Cello Fun is meant for second year cello pupils. As before a real orchestra plays along with you on the accompanying CD. Many of the titles show that several musical instruments may join you for example an oboe or a flute amongst others. You can easily tell by looking at the titles and the beautiful illustrations which instruments to expect.

For more than three decades the ?Sassmannshaus Tradition? has been the household name for excellence in beginner string methods in German-speaking countries.More than half a million students have successfully learned to play string instruments using this publication. The publication of the four Violin books in 2008 in a fully adapted English version has been a big success.On the back of this success story Bärenreiter has now published the four books for cello in a newly adapted version for today?s English speaking children.What makes this Cello method so unique?- The leading German Cello method now available in English.- Large print notes andtexts as well as many colourful illustrations are ideal for pre-school as well as school children.- Note reading is emphasised from the first lesson encouraging ensemble playing from the very beginning.- Songs and scales in different positions are easily mastered within the first year of playing to ensure that children are not confined to first position playing.- Advanced Cello techniques such as varied bow strokes and shifting are introduced in a basic form.

For more than three decades the ?Sassmannshaus Tradition? has been the household name for excellence in beginner string methods in German-speaking countries.More than half a million students have successfully learned to play string instruments using this publication. The publication of the four Violin books in 2008 in a fully adapted English version has been a big success.On the back of this success story Bärenreiter has now published the four books for Cello in a newly adapted version for today?s English speaking children.What makes this Cello method so unique?The leading German Cello method now available in English.- Large print notes andtexts as well as many colourful illustrations are ideal for pre-school as well as school children.- Note reading is emphasised from the first lesson encouraging ensemble playing from the very beginning.- Songs and scales in different positions are easily mastered within the first year of playing to ensure that children are not confined to first position playing.- Advanced Cello techniques such as varied bow strokes and shifting are introduced in a basic form.

Instrumental Solos for Strings-Play 50 top hits from movies and musical theater on the Cello. This collection features pieces from Glee The Lord Of The Rings Porgy

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!

Ysaÿe’s Cello Sonata unlike its companion piece for Violin solo has remained relatively unknown. All the same it merits special attention as it was written at the same time as the Violin Sonatas andhas the same superior qualities of musicianship. Our edition draws on a previously disregarded autograph manuscript from a private collection that provides interesting insights not found in the original print. To accompany thepublication of Ysaÿe’s violin sonatas which Henle has also issued in 2004 we are now offering the Cello Sonata in an urtext edition prepared by Christian Bellisario with detailed editorial comments. Abrilliant addition to the repertoire for unaccompanied String instruments.

Easy Instrumental Play-Along Book with Online Audio Tracks-This volume in the Easy Instrumental Play-Along series contains 10 Christmas Carols carefully selected and arranged for first-year Cello players.Audio demonstration tracks featuring real instruments are available to download helping you to hear how the song should sound. Once you've mastered the notes download the backing tracks to play along with the band.This songbook includes the favourites Angels We Have Heard on High Christ Was Born on Christmas Day Jingle Bells Jolly Old St. Nicholas On Christmas Night Up on the Housetop and more.

from Kaléidoscope-Perhaps the best known of Cui's works this instrumental 'song' originally for Violin and Piano has been transcribed for countless instruments over the years. This version is for Cello and Piano.

Jean-Baptiste Bréval (1753 1823) was a member of the orchestra at the Paris Opéra and also a prolific composer. His works include concertos for cello string quartets comic operas and a violoncello tutor.However he is best-known for the Sonata in C major which has become a standard work for teaching purposes even in arrangements for other instruments. The two movements (Allegro and Rondo Grazioso) can also be performed independently from one another. This sonata belongs to the basic repertoire of every young cellist.Ideal for the first ?proper? recitalOf moderate technical difficulty but with brilliant impactDuration: approx. 8 minutes

Easy Instrumental Play-Along-10 songs carefully selected and arranged for first-year instrumentalists. Even novices will sound great! Audio demonstration tracks featuring real instruments are available via download to help you hear how the song should sound. Once you've mastered the notes download the backing tracks to play along with the band! Songs include: Achy Breaky Heart (Don't Tell My Heart) I'm a Believer Imagine Jailhouse Rock La Bamba Louie Louie Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da Splish Splash Stand by Me Yellow Submarine.

from Children's Corner-The famous Golliwogg's Cakewalk is the final part of Debussy's Children's Corner series consisting of 6 miniatures for Piano which he wrote for his daughter in 1906-1908.The Ragtime style refers to the dance which came into fashion around the turn of the century. In the middle part the composer parodies the beginning of the opera Tristan and Isolde by Richard Wagner several times to which Debussy had a rather ambiguous relationship.The present arrangement allows to play the popular set in a version for melody instruments with accompaniment.

Dipolo is an exploration of opposites applying the duality of positive and negative charges to extremes of such aspects as dynamics and register in music. The effect is a work exploring the dramatic potential of both instruments.

Instrumental Play-Along-Learn to play 15 favourites from the Great White Way with this exciting new collection of Broadway Hits for Cello from the Hal Leonard Instrumental Play-along series.Features solo Cello arrangements of songs such as: Backwoods Barbie ? Breathe ? Expressing Yourself ? Find Your Grail ? Follow Your Heart ? Ireland ? Mama Who Bore Me ? and more! Includes CD accompaniment with backing tracks.