Grade By Grade – Double Bass Grade 1 Book and Online Audio

TheGrade By Gradeseries 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 Montclair: Musette
• Mama Paquita (Traditional Brazilian melody)
• Christopher Norton. A cool day
• Christopher Norton: Snake bite
• Colin Kirkpatrick: Dark carousel
• Nicolas Chdeville, Fanfare (duet)
• Cathy Elliott, Carnival waltz
• Ailbhe McDonagh: Chillin
• Gopak (Traditional Ukrainian melody)
• Leopold Mozart: Minuet
• Peter Wastall: Corumb (duet)
• Shaker melody (Traditional American melody)
• Edward Huws Jones: Toodle-Pip
• Cathy Elliott: Insect wedding dance
• Il est n, le divin enfant (Traditional French melody)
• Michael Christie: Little waltz
• Henry VIII: Hlas Madame
• Hajdu Milhly: Hungarian childrens song
• Scale Spot:
• G Major
• D Major
• A Major
• C Major
• D Minor
• Sight-Reading
• Improvise!
• Aural Awareness

Cathy Elliottis 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