Grade By Grade Double Bass Grade 2 Book/Ola

Grade By Grade - Double Bass Grade 2 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 2 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:

Ninety-nine – Ailbhe McDonagh
Carefree – Katherine & Hugh College
Go for it! – Karen Street
Tortues (from The Carnival of the Animals) – Camille Saint-Saëns
Song of the French Revolution – Traditional French melody
Edelweiss (from The Sound of Music) – Rodgers & Hammerstein
Schwaben Tanz (duet) – Leopold Mozart
Ecossaise – Ludwig van Beethoven
Granite – Keith Ramon Cole
Drummer’s March – Sheila Nelson
Popular Song – Christopher Norton
Hush Little Baby – Christopher Norton
Waltz (duet) – Dmitri Shostakovich
Strollin’ Down Bass Boulevard – Rona Porter
Sisi Watoto Tu Wakenya (duet) – Traditional Kenyan melody
The Little Red Lark – Percival Hodgson
Friday’s Child – Milly Stanfield & Sybil Barlow
Dancing Ghoul – Ailbhe McDonagh

Scale Spot:
F Major
B♭ Major & G Minor
G Major & E Minor
D Major
F Major & C Major Broken Chords
A Minor

Additional Sections:
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:

• Grade By Grade - Double Bass Grade 1 
• Grade By Grade - Double Bass Grade 2
• Grade By Grade - Double Bass Grade 3
• Grade By Grade - Double Bass Grade 4
• Grade By Grade - Double Bass Grade 5