A comprehensive resource to prepare intermediate and advanced cello students to play fiddle music. Eighteen fiddle tunes with chords in styles found in typical fiddle jam sessions - Celtic, Old Time and Bluegrass. Each tune arranged for two or three cellos and accompanied by short studies teaching idiomatic bass lines and back-up harmony as well as improvisational soloing over the chord changes. Companion CD includes all examples with guitar accompaniment.

The Fiddling Cellist

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Bratt, Renata

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Mel Bay Pubns

Learn melodies and practice soloing on fourteen of the most popular old time and fiddle tunes. Play along with a great string band rhythm section: guitar, mandolin, and string bass. The compact disc has all of the tunes at slow and regular speeds with melodies, and allows you to hear just rhythm, just lead, or both. Great for cello, string bass, bass guitar, or any bass clef instrument. We'll jam all night long!

Mel Bay BackUp Trax: Old Time & Fiddle Tunes for Cello

Bruce, Dix

A comprehensive resource to prepare intermediate and advanced cello students to play fiddle music. Eighteen fiddle tunes with chords in styles found in typical fiddle jam sessions - Celtic, Old Time and Bluegrass. Each tune arranged for two or three cellos and accompanied by short studies teaching idiomatic bass lines and back-up harmony as well as improvisational soloing over the chord changes. Companion audio recording includes all examples with guitar accompaniment. Audio download available online.

Mel Bay Publications,Inc.

A step-by-step method written for beginning cello students of any age, with or without a teacher. The left page gives information about the tune: where the hard spots are, various techniques and some music theory. The right page provides different bowing patterns and a line of music at the bottom showing you all the notes that are used in the tune. Scales and arpeggios are included with most tunes. The companion audio recording teaches all of the tunes, studies, scales and arpeggios in this book by ear. Learn to read notated music in the first position of the cello, playing classical, American, Celtic and blues tunes as well as how to follow a chord chart and accompany other musicians. Audio download available online.

Modern Cello Method Grade 1

A book of traditional Celtic tunes arranged for cellos with rockin' groove and chop-based accompaniments. Includes forty-seven tunes from Ireland, Scotland, the Shetland Isles, and Canada in duet arrangements, all chosen with cellists in mind and in a variety of styles including jigs, slip jigs, reels, strathspeys, planxtys and airs in traditional keys. Performing in the groove is so important for string players that the American String Teachers Association recognizes this skill as a separate category in their Alternative String Style Awards. Playing these idiomatic and often syncopated accompanimental patterns is a great way to learn these styles. Includes access to online audio with all arrangements performed by the author.

Celtic Grooves for Two Cellos: 47 Irish & Scottish Tunes

This book offers 29 well-known and beloved hymns and spirituals. It contains inspirational music arranged at beginning and intermediate levels for cello and piano. The cello part is mostly within first position. The book includes the text as well as music so that it can be used for the musicians’ individual meditation or prayer as well as for congregational and group use. Both the cello part and the piano part are written with ease of performance in mind so that the words of the hymns and gospel tunes can also be a part of the player’s experience. Audio recording contains the arrangers performing all tunes. Includes access to online audio and a downloadable PDF of the piano part.

Hymns & Gospel Tunes for Cello & Piano

Ligon, Bert

This collection of beloved standards from traditional American fiddling literature will introduce young players to an aspect of string playing that is motivational, fun, and pedagogically appropriate. Intended to be used in tandem with other string methods, Fiddle & Song is carefully sequenced in a step-by-step way to accompany beginning instruction. Singing the tune first provides a framework for the instrumental instruction. The left-hand pages of the book are for students. The right-hand pages have information for the teacher, parts for advanced students, and easy ensemble parts. Each tune includes melody, breaks, back-ups, kick-offs, tags, guitar chords, ensemble parts, and creative exploratory activities. Piano accompaniments are available. The series works for like instrumentation or mixed instrumentation. The violin book is generally in the keys of A and D while the viola and cello/bass books are in the keys of D and G, a fifth lower. Innovative ensemble parts allow each instrument to accompany the others in mixed instrumentation, from duos up to string orchestra. Kick-offs can be used to transition to the new key if all strings are playing together.

Fiddle & Song, Bk 1: A Sequenced Guide to American Fiddling (Piano Acc.)

Phillips, Bob

Wiegman, Crystal Plohman

Alfred Music

This collection of beloved standards from traditional American fiddling literature will introduce young players to an aspect of string playing that is motivational, fun, and pedagogically appropriate. Intended to be used in tandem with other string methods, Fiddle &amp; Song is carefully sequenced in a step-by-step way to accompany beginning instruction. Singing the tune first provides a framework for the instrumental instruction. The left-hand pages of the book are for students. The right-hand pages have information for the teacher, parts for advanced students, and easy ensemble parts. Each tune includes melody, breaks, back-ups, kick-offs, tags, guitar chords, ensemble parts, and creative exploratory activities. Piano accompaniments are available. The series works for like instrumentation or mixed instrumentation. The violin book is generally in the keys of A and D while the viola and cello/bass books are in the keys of D and G, a fifth lower. Innovative ensemble parts allow each instrument to accompany the others in mixed instrumentation, from duos up to string orchestra. Kick-offs can be used to transition to the new key if all strings are playing together.

Fiddle & Song, Bk 1: A Sequenced Guide to American Fiddling (Violin), Book & Online Audio/Software (Fiddle & Song, 1)

Fiddle & Song, Bk 1: A Sequenced Guide to American Fiddling (Viola), Book & Online Audio/Software (Fiddle & Song, 1)

Fiddle & Song, Bk 1: A Sequenced Guide to American Fiddling (Cello/Bass), Book & Online Audio/Software

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The Fiddling Cellist

Mel Bay BackUp Trax: Old Time & Fiddle Tunes for Cello

The Fiddling Cellist

Modern Cello Method Grade 1

Celtic Grooves for Two Cellos: 47 Irish & Scottish Tunes

Hymns & Gospel Tunes for Cello & Piano

Fiddle & Song, Bk 1: A Sequenced Guide to American Fiddling (Piano Acc.)

Fiddle & Song, Bk 1: A Sequenced Guide to American Fiddling (Violin), Book & Online Audio/Software (Fiddle & Song, 1)

Fiddle & Song, Bk 1: A Sequenced Guide to American Fiddling (Viola), Book & Online Audio/Software (Fiddle & Song, 1)

Fiddle & Song, Bk 1: A Sequenced Guide to American Fiddling (Cello/Bass), Book & Online Audio/Software