Grade By Grade - Double Bass Grade 1 Book/Ola
Grade By Grade - Double Bass Grade 1 Book/Ola
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Type: Double Bass
Brand: Boosey & Hawkes
Category: Learn to Play (All Ages)
Genre: Educational / Music Teaching
Grade By Grade - Double Bass Grade 1 Book and Online Audio
The Grade By Grade series draws on the rich and varied Boosey & Hawkes catalogue of classical, contemporary and educational repertoire, highlighting composers including Serge Prokofieff, Dmitri Shostakovich, Karl Jenkins, Carol Barratt and Christopher Norton, alongside arrangements of traditional music from around the world by Peter Wastall, Edward Huws Jones and others.
Carefully selected by Cathy Elliott, this practical anthology provides the complete repertoire resource for the aspiring Grade 1 double bassist and creates the perfect package for teaching, exam preparation and performance.
Each Volume Contains:
• a selection of pieces & short studies, each complemented by a useful practice and performance tip
• grade-appropriate scales and arpeggios linked to the repertoire through bespoke text and exercises
• brand new sight-reading and improvisation activities
• newly-commissioned aural awareness tasks
• a piano accompaniment booklet
Full performance demonstrations, piano accompaniment tracks and grade-appropriate aural awareness resources available online. 69 pages.
Contents Includes:
- Edward Huws Jones: Back scratcher
- Hywel Davies: On the river
- Michel Pignolet de Montéclair: Musette
- Mama Paquita (Traditional Brazilian melody)
- Christopher Norton. A cool day
- Christopher Norton: Snake bite
- Colin Kirkpatrick: Dark carousel
- Nicolas Chédeville, Fanfare (duet)
- Cathy Elliott, Carnival waltz
- Ailbhe McDonagh: Chillin’
- Gopak (Traditional Ukrainian melody)
- Leopold Mozart: Minuet
- Peter Wastall: Corumbá (duet)
- Shaker melody (Traditional American melody)
- Edward Huws Jones: Toodle-Pip
- Cathy Elliott: Insect wedding dance
- Il est né, le divin enfant (Traditional French melody)
- Michael Christie: Little waltz
- Henry VIII: Hélas Madame
- Hajdu Milhály: Hungarian children’s song
- Scale Spot:
- G Major
- D Major
- A Major
- C Major
- D Minor
- Sight-Reading
- Improvise!
- Aural Awareness
Cathy Elliott is a freelance double bass player. For twenty years she toured extensively and recorded with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Since the early 1990s she has had a flourishing teaching practice with beginner to advanced students from the ages of 6 to 18 for whom she continually writes, arranges and publishes repertoire. She is a consultant for various examination boards, and in 2009 the International Society of Bassists recognised her as a Young Bassists Ambassador.
Other Books in the Grade by Grade Double Bass Series:
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