The Beginner Collection for double bass & piano

About the Collection

This collection includes five multi-piece works for the beginner double bassist with piano accompaniment. Please see the preview images for the complete table of contents.

1. Christine Donkin: Bass-Time Beginners: 6 Easy Pieces for the Young Bassist for Double Bass & Piano

Bass-Time Beginners is a set of six short easy pieces for the beginner bassist. They offer simple musical and technical challenges, using a limited number of notes, keys and positions to encourage confidence in the early years of study, also introducing simple harmonics and pizzicato effects to create a greater awareness of the possibilities of the double bass.

2. Jan Faulkner: First & Second Bass: 14 pieces for the beginner double bass & piano

First Bass includes six short, colourful and engaging pieces for the beginner bassist. Written in a lively, enjoyable and accessible style, each piece uses a limited number of notes and rhythmic patterns to help develop musical and technical skills from the first lessons. The piano accompaniments are simple and supportive, and the book offers fun and inventive first concert or exam repertoire.

3. Katrina Gordon: Feathered Friends for beginner double bass & piano

Feathered Friends is a set of 12 short enjoyable, characterful and lively pieces for the beginner bassist and was composed in 2009 for Recital Music's BassLines project. Each piece can be played in 1st position, although half position can be introduced in several, and they employ a limited number of notes, keys, note values and rhythms. Teachers should feel confident to teach the pieces in the order best suited to each student.

4. David Heyes: The Adventures of George for Beginner Double Bass

These 12 short pieces are written for a young 10-year old violin student David Heyes began teaching bass in 2019. His violin teacher, Louise Padday, phoned to say she had a very talented young student but, even though he was making excellent progress on the violin, she thought he was really a double bassist. David took him on tentatively as a student, telling his mother that, if he didn't think the double bass was for him, we could end lessons when they wished. The 12 pieces were written each week for George, as he began lessons on a quarter sized bass and through the UK lockdown where lessons were entirely online, and reflect George's personality and his interests.

5. Bass for Beginners: 30 Pieces for Beginner Double Bass & Piano (arr. David Heyes)

Bass for Beginners is a collection of short and enjoyable pieces for the young bassist. It brings together a wealth of popular and lee familiar melodies which are useful for both study and concert repertoire. The piano accompaniments have been written with the bass teacher in mind and are simple and supportive, aimed at the teacher with some pianistic skills rather the virtuoso.