Volume 1 begins with open strings and basic notation, rhythms, and bowing skills. New notes, notation, and bowing skills are added in logical progression, reinforcing both right- and left-hand techniq...
This volume continues the development of playing skills found in Book 1 and progresses to more complex rhythms, left-hand finger patterns and techniques, bowing techniques, and preparation for shiftin...
Important Avenues for Today's Jazz Drummer by Sperie Karas deals with the bossa nova, the samba, the 4/4 Afro-Cuban Rhythm, as well as the hi-hat, ride rhythm exercises, the shuffle, 5/4 rhythm, and b...
Fortitude by Ronald C. Knoener is as much a processional march as it is a fanfare. The theme is of a bold, fanfare nature but it is followed by a secondary theme of a melodic style that will please th...
Chicken Cha Cha for string orchestra delightfully expresses a day in the life of a chicken, including the creative musical description of running in the coop via dissonant eighth notes. All instrument...
Cello Methods, Studies from Schroeder, Dotzauer, Kummer, Werner, Popper, Lee; accompanies and complements 10300121 and 10300208.
A collection of etudes that complement the terrific Frances Grant series for cello. It includes works from Schroeder, Dotzauer, Kummer, Werner, Duport, Nolck, Grant, and Lee. Accompanies 10300102.
The spoken word is an excellent tool for teaching rhythm. Combined with an easily mastered musical vocabulary, it can lead a group to an excellent performance now and in the future. Alligator Stomp by...
This arrangement of the Hawaiian folk song Kahuli Aku will evoke the imagery and vibrancy of the "singing snails" (kahuli) depicted in the song lyric. Young musicians and their audience will sense a d...
Les Matadors represents an English country dance from Ignatius Sancho's "Minuets Cotillons & Country Dances for the Violin, Mandolin, German Flute, & Harpsichord", published in 1775. Sancho's original...