50 Favorite Hits with Lyrics and Chords-Play 50 of your favourite tunes on the Bass with this varied collection of popular songs. Easy Pop Melodies For Bass features arrangements written in accessible keys with lyrics and chord symbols. This songbook includes the hits Clocks Don't Stop Believin' Fireflies Viva La Vida You've Got A Friend and more.

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.

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

18 Lektionen / 18 Lessons-The long awaited Sassmannshaus method Early Start on the Double Bass is now here. At last students of the largest instrument in the string family can make use of this tried and tested method for beginners developed by Egon Sassmannshaus for the other string instruments and applied here to the double bass by Holger Sassmannshaus and J. Peter Close. This method will meet the needs of the growing number of young bass students. “Early Start on the Double Bass” encompasses everything that one would expect from a Sassmannshaus method: an easy start progression at a suitable rate many cross-references to the other string instruments songsand scales in different positions from early on as well as many duets. Lively and colourful illustrations by Charlotte Panowsky complete the edition. For more than three decades “The Sassmannshaus Tradition” has been the household name for excellence in beginner string methods in German-speaking countries. The English editions for violin viola and violoncello which were introduced to the international market in 2008 have proven to be very successful particularly in the United States. Kids to the Bass!While children learning other string instruments can start as early as the age of four the appropriate age to begin the double bass is approximately eight (possibly even six); this allows for a faster progression than on the other string instruments and the method consists of only three volumes. The first volume will be published separately in an English and a German edition; the following two volumes will have German and English text in each book. Original compositions by Boguslaw Furtok enrich the volumes. Based on the tried-and-tested Sassmannshaus methods for violin viola and cello Volume 1: Separate editions in German and English Volumes 2 and 3: Bilingual German/English editions Moderate increase in difficulty Position playing duets Includes new original compositions by B. Furtok Volume 3 with piano accompaniments to 7 pieces The authorsHolger Sassmannshaus is a double bass player with the Niederrheinische Sinfoniker in

Note-for-note transcriptions of 18 classic performances-A tribute to Ray Brown including 18 transcriptions performance notes photos and a foreword by Christian McBride.Songs include: Autumn in New York • Custard Puff • Days of Wine and Roses • Easy Does It • Gravy Waltz • Have You Met Miss Jones? • How High the Moon • I'm an Old Cowhand (From the Rio Grande) • I'm Glad There Is You (In This World of Ordinary People) • Killer Joe • Love Is Here to Stay • Mack the Knife • Minor Mystery • Moten Swing • Night Train • Sometimes I'm Happy • The Surrey with the Fringe on Top • Tune Up.

Giovanni Bottesini ranks as one of the most famous Double Bass virtuosi ever to have lived. His Metodo Completo Per Contrabbasso or Method For Double Bass appeared in print between 1860 and 1970 in French Italian and English. The value of Bottesini's method lies in the gradual progression from simple exercises and rhythms in easy keys to virtuoso studies that use advance bowing techniques and require a thorough knowledge of the instrument. Grade: 8

Double bass and cello. A light-hearted 18th century virtuoso duo. Ideal companion for Rossini's Duetto. Easy cello part. 'Charming for an advanced player who has command of the upper register' Director and Teacher USA.Grade: 8

One of Recital Music's best sellers! Three great pizzicato pieces which are useful as both educational or concert repertoire. Jazz Sonatine is a small three movement suite dedicated to three American jazz-greats - Paul Chambers Charles Mingus Scott LaFaro. Di-Ba-Dum is rhythmically exciting and inventive contrasting jazz idioms with easy contemporary styles and is dedicated to Richard Davis. Pizzicato Waltz combines classical and jazz styles with some treble clef work and was written for David Heyes and Bass-Fest.

to the intermediate Student-This best-selling instruction book along with CD is the perfect start for an Absolute Beginner to Intermediate student of any age on the Bass. The many melodies plus short warm-up exercises and study pieces advance students technically in an easy and enjoyable way. Simple duets scales a note-reading worksheet glossary and practice chart are also included along with many graphs to show left-hand finger placement. The included CD consists of three components: 49 performance pieces of bass with piano accompaniments piano accompaniment tracks by themselves for play-along and a printable PDF file of the Piano accompaniments. This book covers first second third and half positions.

Chuck Sher / Oscar Stagnaro The only comprehensive book ever published on how to play bass in authentic Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, Caribbean, Latin Jazz and South American styles. Written in the language of the working jazz musician, this book is easy to read and user-friendly. Over 250 pages of transcriptions of Oscar Stagnaro playing each exercise. Includes 3 Play-Along CDs to accompany each exercise, featuring world-class rhythm sections. Featuring Oscar Stagnaro (bass), Rebeca Mauleón (piano), Orestes Vilato (percussion), Dario Eskenazi (piano), Mark Walker (drums).

13 pieces for the beginner double bass player-Thirteen pieces for the beginner double bass player that will provide playing fun based on sound principles for this grand instrument. It contains short pieces by both classical and more contemporary composers.