Full Description
**Finalist in the Outstanding Music Education Print Resource Category for the 2025 Music & Drama Education Awards**
Stringtastic Book 2: Cello teaches through playing in an engaging exploration of musical styles. Part of the fully integrated Stringtastic series in which violin, viola, cello and double bass can all learn and play together in any combination.
Learn as you play through the world of Stringtastic, with 62 imaginative pieces that have been specifically designed to establish a secure playing technique and build confidence one step at a time. Following on from Stringtastic Book 1, this book takes the student from Grade 1 (Early Elementary) to Grade 2 (Elementary) level. Featuring equal-level duets for all instruments, the pieces are ideal for individual and group tuition as well as flexible ensemble and classroom settings.
Every piece is supported by an exciting backing track plus a piano-only track for practice, all available to download. The Stringtastic Book 2: Teacher's Accompaniment book provides the complete piano score which works with any combination of the instrumental parts.
Mark Wilson and Paul Wood have developed an engaging and accessible new series of string-playing method books... The presentation will appeal to young learners, and the careful, well-conceived pedagogy will thrill their teachers! Furthermore, the Stringtastic integrated approach gives proper deference to the social aspect of music-making by allowing violinists, violists, cellists, and bassists to play together from the start. I look forward to sharing this method with my young students and colleagues in early music education.
Dr. Mark Elliot Bergman, Director of Strings and Orchestral Studies, Sheridan College.
Contents
Running Very Late; I Like To Play Every Day; Drums From The Deep; When I Eat Spaghetti; Climbing Cat; I Like To Whisper; Summertime In The Sunshine; We're Syncopated; Happy Birthday; Lots Of Dots; Dancing Solo; Funky Friends; A Wee Whisker Waltz; The Little Things; Waterfall; Secretive Spider; Isabella; New Best Friends; When You're All Grown; Mark's Melody; Mister Magpie; Mind The Gap; A Snail's Tale; Now We're On Our Way; Prelude; Waltz Of The Willows; Sunday Stroll; Help; Sleepyheads; Swimming In The Stars; Andante For Our Furry Friends; Flatmates; Waltz For Emily; Round Dance; A Sad Tail; Dotty's Waltz; Cat-alonian Dance; Go With The Flow; Dancing In The Sunshine; March Of The Cranachan; Feeling Flat; Cantabile; Whole-tone World; Naturally, I'm Minor; Rhapsody In D Minor; We're So Far Apart; Top Of The Melodic To You; All On My Own; Tarantella; You And Me; Waving Goodbye; In The Minority; The Hero; Winter's Night; The Stringdonian National Anthem; Back In The Olden Days; When The Sun Begins To Rise; Once Upon A Time; A Cloudless Sky; Action Movie; Folky Fingers; We're Stringtastic
