Mel Bay

Author: Christine Watts
Format: Book with Audio Online
Instrumentation: Cello
Level: Beginning

A wonderful new edition of the Cello Method book which teaches the beginning cello student everything they need to know. The book starts with Seating and Bow Hold, then covers all the details of the Language of Music, reading, writing and playing. Cello Method follows with Extensive Bowing Exercises and Stretch Position with Thorough Instruction and Material all the way through Shifting to 4th Position. Enchanting New Songs and Old Classics follow and are mixed with Detailed Explanations and Many Bowing Exercises to Create a Beautiful Sound with the Bow. Cello Method has three different levels of bow instruction with bowing variations, exclusive to this method book only. Includes access to online audio.

Song List:

• Allegro
• Angels we have Heard on High
• Arkansas Traveler
• Bach Minuet in C
• Bach Musette
• Bean the Basset Hound
• Beautiful Dreamer
• Between the Ox and the Grey Donkey
• Bingo
• Birds in a Tree Looking Down at Me
• Blues In C
• Brahm's Lullaby
• Brahms First Symphony
• Camptown Races
• Chinese Melody
• Chorus from Judas Macabaeus
• Come Dance with Me
• Contra Dance
• Country Dance
• Country Fair Day
• Dancers in the Sun
• Do Your Ears Hang Down?
• Do Your Ears Hang Down?
• Dotted Note Etude
• Dotzaur Adagio
• Dotzaur Duet
• Driedel
• Duet
• Duet I
• Elephants and Mud Song
• Evening Song
• Flemish song
• Freedom Song
• Good King Wenceslas
• Halloween
• Haydn's Surprise
• Hot Cross Buns
• Humpty Dumpty
• Hunters Chorus
• Hush Little Baby
• I'm a Little Tea Pot
• Irish Washerwoman
• Jingle Bells
• Jolly Old St. Nicholas
• Kreutzer Etude
• Ladybugs
• Laughing Song
• Little Flower
• Long Long Ago
• March in D
• March in G
• March of the Toy Soldiers
• Minuet in C
• Monkeys in the Trees
• Morning Mood
• My Pony
• Now We Will Dance
• O Come all Ye Faithful
• Ocean Fog
• Ode to Joy
• Oh Come Little Children
• Oh Susannah
• Old MacDonald
• Pachelbel Canon
• Petite Gavotte
• Polar Bears
• Polka
• Pop Goes the Weasel
• Quadraille
• Running Song
• Seraglio
• Seraglio
• She'll be Coming Around the Mountain
• Simple Gifts
• Sing Little Robbin
• Soldier's March
• Song for Lucky
• Song of the Wind
• Spirits of Halloween
• Swabian Folk Dance
• Teddy has Balloons
• The Blue Bells of Scotland
• The Cuckoo
• The First Noel
• The Little Fiddle
• The Magic Ring
• The Slur
• The tie
• Theme from Rosamunde
• Triplet Etude
• Triplets
• Turkey in the Straw
• Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
• Up and Down
• Up on a Roof Top
• Walking Song
• Waltz of the Cellos
• Wind
• Wish you a Merry Christmas