Young Stars Edition Parts for Cello and Doublebass for Children's Songs
11 Children's Songs for Young Stars Orchestra: Cello Stars and Double Bass Stars (11 Children's Songs for String Orchestra with Piano or Harp)
Parts for Cello Stars and Double Bass Stars go together with the publication 11 Children's Songs for String Orchestra with Piano or Harp by Violin Friends.
The parts for 11 Children's Songs for Young Stars Orchestra allow performing the songs with beginner level students. The songs are played on open strings using arco, pizzicato, tremolo, and easy harmonics. The beginner part introduces various rhythmical patterns, rests, repeat assignments, and syncopation. The Double Bass players need to use one left hand finger, in song number 6, Poor Little Teddy.
The Young Stars Edition makes it possible to perform famous children's songs with all levels of string students and to perform the music with piano or harp players.
The parts for beginner level cello and double bass include the following songs:
1. The Small Train
2. Potpourri of Mary Had a Little Lamb, Brother Jacob, Haschen in Der Grube
3. Old MacDonald Had a Farm
4. Ihahaa
5. Frere Jaques
6. Samba lele
7. March of the Elephants
8. Itsy Bitsy Spider
9. Poor Little Teddy
10. Pippi Longstocking
11. Rati riti ralla
You can practice all the music in Violin Friends publications with the help of play-along videos on Youtube and mp3 backing tracks on SoundCloud and www.violinfriends.com.