© Copyrighe 1997 Gull School of Music & Drama, Sate sting rights B Hawkee Music Pblshers Limiced arsine Blaney Hoe Dow (pages 7, 12.16 & 21) Is from New Tunes for Stings by SanleyFezcher and Paul Roland, SCopyrighe 7 by Boosey & Hawes ne the essential string method Gerald Howard with ect Catherine Etioet Sheita M. Nelson ‘Adrian Thorne Boosey (5 HAWKES Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Lid ‘www.boosey.comContents ae STAGE! . page 3. Serings. and their names the strings * Tapping the pulse « A ling a song * Happy and sad cellists New Waltz * Chocolate Treats * Marching + Bowing with James the mouse * Bow ‘games + Tap-and-say + Finding a rhythm + Musical copycats ‘Afternoon Blues + Hoe Down + Snowman (colfa) + New Waltz Variations 1, 2 & 3 STAGE3 page 10 Left-hand fingers Singing and writing soh mai tunes + wing elbow * Finding A on ging an octave Half Post Three *A’Mugs Game * Swing as You Play + Low D, High D (symbols) + Hoe Down, verse 2° “STAGE 4 page 13 sentences + First position + Making notes and a stave * Musical questions and answers * Singing and writing A Mugs ¢ + Flag Tunes + Mobile rhythms Two-a-Penny * Low D, High D (music) * - Snowmen (music) * Hoe Down, verse 3 BLUE PAGES “Siexing with your cello + Preparing your lefe hand * Tuning your left hand + Tuning your hand to high D and high G » Getting ready ‘to play + Holding the bow 8 STAGES poge I7 Getting your fingers working Animal sentences * Musical questions and answers * Singing and playing fa, mi, ray, doh cunes * Singing, playing and writing mi, ray, doh + Finding a rhythm Cowboy Chorus + Allin a Row * Hot Cross Buns (American style) * Squirrel = Spacemen * Jackdaw + Tall Red Bus * Hoe Down, verse 4 STAGE 6 poge 22 Moving fingers Name this tune * Hear my rhythm * ‘Ostinato + Composing a song Gircles * Two into One + 4 for a doh + ‘Nearly Asleep + Three Brave Mice * Half Past Three (Round) Notation of solfa songs page 27 Hot Cross Buns * Chocolate Treats * Marching + Raining * Snowman * A Mugs Game * Conboy Chorus » Squieel + Toll Red Bus Happylsad celises + Rhythm names » Soffa names and symbols, ACTIVITIES PAGES : Scale Tunes: Marching Scale * Waltzing Scale ‘Open String Tunes: Merrily We Roll Alo The Grand Old Duke of York + Pudding + Cowboy Chorus * Twinkle, Twinkle * Lavender’s Bue - Get Your Fingers Working: Merrily We Roll Along + The Grand Old Duke of York * Pease Twinkle * Lovender’s BlueStrings and their names Naming the strings Look at the blue pages in the middle of the book to, see how to sit with your cello and name its strings. | Make up sentences to include an Antelope, a Donkey, a Grasshopper or a Cat. & Find the string that goes with each animal, then sing and play your sentences on your cello. Say ‘shh’ or pretend to blow out a candle between the notes you play. & When you play this tune (plucking or bowing), opy i y the way your teacher makes a wide circle with his or her right hand whenever you see this sign: (~_) Not too fast () cD D (hh shh) D> (shh shh) -D D D D G D Don’t forget { ) A A A D (a highlighted title indicates that a piece has an accompaniment, available in a separate book.)Tapping the pulse Like people, music has a pulse. It goes ‘on and on without stopping. ‘Sometimes a musical pulse beats ‘quickly, just as your heart does when ‘you have been running: Sometimes it beats more slowly, as your heart does if you are sitting quietly. Choose a song you know well and, decide whether you are going to sing it quickly or slowly. Tap a regular beat and then start to sing. Keep tapping the beat all through the song. (doh soh) Learn to sing this with your teacher. — Happy and sad cellists! Some are happy because they are sitting well with their cellos and using their ‘Answers on page 28. "Sing Chocolate Treats and put down “one pebble to the next, and sometimes | fvoure songs ‘There are pictures of cellists all the way through this book. bows correctly See if you can say which cellists are toe which are sad and why. Pebbling a song The rhythm of a piece of music is made up of shorter and longer notes, faster and slower notes. You can see this if you try ‘pebbling’.._ First, find lots of pebbles. Counters, buttons or beads will do just as well. pebble for each word or part ofa word that you sing, making a line of pebbles. Now sing the spng again. Point to the pebbles as you sing, You will find that ‘sometinies you g “quite slowly from you go more quickly. “This pattern ig called the rhythm and is. often different from the pulse. You can do-this with any of your Can you find the two sounds Chacolate Treats uses on your Others are sad because they are not siceing well with their cellos or are ‘not holding their bows properly...Learn to sing Marching with your teacher. Play the bars with notes. Sing the bars in between (see page 27). Steady marching pace This is the song of the marching men! D . End A D A.D ‘Over the top and down again. ‘Stepping, striding, marching along. Go back to the start ‘Soon they will be home, © G D G Raining (doh soh) checklist Learn to sing Raining with your teacher, : Can you find the two sounds it uses on v7 When you can your cello? O play New Waltz Q tap the pulse as you sing song sing Chocolate Treats “and play it on your cello Qising and play Marching sing Raining and play it onyourcello v When you have made up and played lots of sentences on your cello G pebbled Chocolate TreatsUsing the bow Bowing with James the mouse Bow games ‘The blue pages remind you how to hold the bow, _ Can you do these things and still hold keeping a space for James the mouse, and how to your bow well? get ready to play. cy playing the rhythm of these sentences on your cello, using the bow: My favourite game is Now go back to the sentences you made up on age 3. Try playing them with your bow, matching the strings to the animals. ~ | As you get used to holding the bow and the cello | you can try bowing the pieces you learnt in Stage I: Turn your bow into lew Waltz, Chocolate Treats, Marching and Raining. a windscreen wiper. | ‘When you can play this piece well, try standing up on the irst rest and sitting down on the second rest. You must. keep in time with the beat as the music won't wait for you! rap the J notes on your knee with the heel of your bow, r make up your own rhythm on the G string. With a lazy swing SSS F (loud) Se‘Not too fast Tap-and-say Make a sét of rhythm cards. Do this with an adult as you will need scissors, an old breakfast cereal box and a felt pen. Cut up the cereal box to make 20 cards, each about 6em x 10cm. Draw J on8 cards. Draw J] on 8 cards. Draw 3 on 4 cards. Ta Ma titi Learn the chorus from memory. You will add more verses later on. Count the beats of the introduction before” you beg “need to: To make your own rhythm you will J Shuffle your cards and lay some out ina line to make a rhythm. Decide on the pulse of the music and tap it steadily. Then, continuing to tap the pulse, say the names of the cards. You should find yourself moving to a new card with each tap. “(if you find this hard at first, someone else'can tap the pulse while you say the names and point ‘to the cards.) 3 Shuffle the cards again and make a new rhythm to tap-and-say. Count the rests (t) in the last. line and swing your bow in the air or make some other action, a mv = SS i ply th big os on age 3 ppl arn Rowe ye nts)Snowman (soh mi) Learn to sing the Snowman song with your teacher. ‘Sometimes sing ‘Snowman to the words and sometimes to the solfa names. Can you make the handsigns too? Finding a rhythm J When you know Snowman by heart, clap the rhythm and ‘pebble’ it. ‘ sas tee 2. The rhythm of Snowman uses two patterns yo lready know: long J and little J] notes. See u can lay out. your rhythm cards to, show the pattern of long and litt notes in Snowman. The beginning should look like this: 3 Tap the pulse and say the rhythm on your cards to check that it really sounds like the song. 4 Play the rhythm of Snowman on your cell open string youlike. More tunes to play —- Find Open String Tunes in the activi pages. See if you can play Merrily We Roll ‘Along, Pease Pudding and Cowboy Chorus:‘These are variations con New Waltz, which you learnt in Stage |. Learn some or all of them now. Don’t forget to keep on playing them right through the book. gO 2 a ee — fee ar ape S Down bows go out and*up bows go in and (Ga ARY more variations 0 play? x ‘ | Checklist v When you can play Stage 1 pieces with the bow O play Afternoon Blues standing and sitting in the rests tap the pulse and say rhythms from your rhythm cards ‘A play Hoe Down, verse 1, with the chorus from memory A'sing Snowman by heart Happy oreo? play Merrily We Roll Along as a duet ] } O play Pease Pudding as a duet ie O play Cowboy Chorus asa duet Musical copycats i e.cy Mews Wal Variation a Listen to the pattern your teacher. |“ When.youhave : Gok ld plays'on the call: played sentences with your bow se ‘played bow games » i ‘Tey copying it. ‘made a set of rhythm cards i Sometimes you should’make upa ~) Clworked out the rhythm of SHawman pattern for them to'copy.You can | Ciplayed Musical copycats _ use any string. 4a Left-hand fingers ‘Write the names of the strings above the notes. Sing the tune (words, note names or solfa). Now play the tune on your cello; D ‘Hungrily DA Half past three. Near- ly time for tea. Car-rot cake or milk shake? can’t wait to see! Singing and writing Snowman Sing the Snowman song by heart (page 8), using the solfa names: Itis made up of two sounds: a higher one (soh) and a lower one (mi). Sing it agin and each time you sing sch draw a note above the line. Each time you sing mi draw a note below the line. The first four notes have been filled in for you. s @ oe m oe 3 A Mugs Game (ooh mi) Remind yourseifhow + | soh and mi sound by singing the begining of Snowman: See if you can sing this new song. First say the rhythm names and then the words.in rhythm. 990 00 Now try singing the song. Ae ear See our mugs on the wall. Some are tall, some are small. Here's my fav~'rite/one of all.<< Can you name all the Swing as You Play | notes in this music? s) a | When you play this tune make sure your S, | Some-of.them are bowing elbow swings down to play the an \ shown to help you. lower notes, and up for the higher notes. (N Sore ~ Easily swinging ADA D Swing as - you play, sing - ing all day. DBGoOD G Find a new — tune each aft - er - noon! GcG ic When you feel low you'll have some-where to —_ go. ADA D Take out your cel - fo and put. on a2 _ show! Finding Aon the D string Turn to the blue pages to discover how to ‘tune your hand’ to A on the D string. Now see if you can play Half Post Three (opposite). all on the D string, using your second finger to make the A sounds. More tunes to play Find Open String Tunes in the acti Twinkle, Twinkle The Grand Old Duke of York Lavender’s Blue jes pages and play: ‘And don't forget the New Waltz Variations on page 9.Low D, High D Learn to sing Low D, High D with your teacher. Touch the ground when you sing low D and stretch up when you sing high D. go aoe low D, high DD, ground -D, sky. ‘Aer-o- planes can fly, stay up inthe — sky. es Down they come to. land in as- hy dis-tant town, but the Sun and the moon and stars are al - ways up on high. Here is verse 2 of Hoe Down (page 7). Play the chorus after each verse. Now play the CHORUS from memory v7 When you have ‘Glmade Snowman on the ‘v "When you con one-line stave read and play Half Past Three 5 played Twit “ls read and sing A Mugs Game duet from the music Ciplayed The Grand Old 0 ‘play Swing as You Play of York as a-duet find A on the D string played velisg os sing LowD. High D by heat duet ° play Hoe Down, verse? played New Waltz Variations © Happy or sad?More left-hand fingers Finding E on the A string Look at the blue pages to see how to ‘tune your hand’ to E on the A string. Then try Hoe Down, verse | (page 7) and verse 2 (page 12), playing the small notes. @_\ Play the lines marked with two plums for now. ( a Your teacher will play the lines marked with a penny. Nottoo fast E E x F Ripe plums, cwo a pen- ny. Ripe plums, buy them here! + ®@ Never seen so ma-ny. @ o k’s a bum-per year! Ripe plums, two a pen- ny. + ®@ Buy them while you're here, folks, | buy them while you're here! ©Lunchtime sentences Make up and sing some sentences about what you like to eat for lunch, using the sounds low D and high D. Look 2t the blue pages to see how to ‘tune o your hand’ to high D. Try playing your lunchtime sentences. For example: Astring 444 Dstring 00 1 like —sou-so-ges . Remember to ‘tune your hand ‘As fast as you can sing the words! low D, high D, ground D, ‘Aer—o-planies can fly, stay up. in the sky. Down they come to land in. any distant cown, but the eS Making notes and a two-line stave Do this with an adult as you will need scissors, a large breakfast cereal box, a felt pen and.a ruler. Cur up the cereal box to make a long, wide strip of cardboard. Cut the rest into as many note heads as you can, 35mm wide and 25mm tall. Using the felt pen and the ruler, draw two parallel lines down the centre of the blank side of the strip of cardboard, 25mm apart. Musical questions and answers Listen to the question your teacher or friend plays on the cello. Now make up an answer. Sometimes you should make up ‘questions for them to answer: | New notes on the A string BA 1B ‘Sun and the moon and stars are ~al-ways up onhigh. Sa etie etsSinging and writing A Mugs Game The notes soh and mi are copycats. If one sits on a line, so will the other. If one sits in.a space, so will the other. Notice that soh is higher than mi. When you wrote out Snowman, you drew the notes in the spaces above and below the line, but soh and mi can also be on two lines. (on. \ Sing A Mugs Game and see if you can finish drawing notes to make ( & J ‘the tune on the two lines below. The first six notes have been drawn for you. m eee (On your own stave you can make a soh mi song of your own. You can place the two notes in the spaces either side of a line, or on ‘two lines next to one another. It doesn’t matter, as long as soh is higher than mi. Sing your tune to everyone at home. Playing Snowman Have a go at playing Snowman. Use all four fingers for the soh 5 sounds and your first finger for the mi sounds. (Play the beginning ») | of Low D, High Dito ‘tune your hand. 4 Flag Tunes ] To perform a Flag Tune sing or play round the numbered squares in order, using the rhythm and sound in each square, 2. Draw a flag and make your own Flag Tune by writing a sound and a rhythm in each square. Now perform your Flag Tune for your Mum, Dad or a friend, Show your flag to your teacher.Mobile rhythms Have a rhythm conversation with a friend. || Tap a regular beat with your friend, making sure you are exactly together. Your friend should keep on tapping while you get ready to say your rhythm message. 2. Say your rhythm, in time to the pulse, and when you have finished start tapping with your friend and say ‘Your turn’. 3 Your friend now answers with a new rhythm and hands over to you with ‘Your turn’. Use a mixture of these patterns: First play this with the bow. Then play it - plucking the strings with your left hand. This time you must play the little notes. Notieo far a Z _Now play the CHORUS fram memory ‘Checklist v When you have gesveieceed played Hoe Down, verses 1 & wv When you can 2, with the small notes Ofind E on the A string made up, sung and played Oplay Iwo-a-Penny - Lunchtime sentences ‘tune your hand’ to high D made notes and a two-line stave ‘play Low D, High D ‘played Musical questions and ‘Gplay Snowman ~ answers. ‘® D play Hoe Down, verse 3, with 1) written down AMugs Game your bow - ‘Q made up and played a Elag D play Hoe Down, verse 3, Tune plucking with your left hand played Mobile rhythmsGetting your fingers working Animal sentences It is time to get your fingers working! — Make up an animal sentence like this. Think of a: (example) colour purple. animal elephant. ee - action playing - place park __ Example: Purple elephants playing in the pork * “Tune your hand’ to high G and play your animal sentence. Start with four fingers on the D string, then lift your fourth finger to play it with three fingers, lift your second and third fingers to play it with your first finger, and finally play it with no fingers. When you are good at starting with four fingers, try starting with no fingers and building up to four. Now you can try this starting on high D as well. (CSRUBISYCHEAE| (Fa ri ray oh) Learn to sing this with your teacher. © You will be able to play this in many. laces on your cello, but for now: fa = 4 fingers ray = | finger mi = 3 fingers doh = 0 fingers fingers Musical questions and answers with Listen to the question your teacher or friend plays on the cello. Now make up an * answer. Use your fingers, ifyoucan. =~ Sometimes you should make up the questions for them to answer.|RILIpEERGW (fa mi ray doh) Sing this piece before you play it. Steadily /New notes on the D string capa fa 3Ft 4G Sev - ral fin- gers in. arrow. 7 Find - ing steps both up and down to EOE Make the tunes we're soon to know. |H@EICroS=|BUAS|(American style) (mi ray doh) Learn to-sing this with your teacher. Hot Cross Buns, (American style) and Chocolate Treats are good together: Find a'friend to play Chocolate Treats (page 4) while you play Hot Cross Buns. You should beth use the same string for doh.8 Squirrel (mi ray doh) Learn to sing Squirrel with your teacher. J See ifyou can write Squirrel on the stave (ay) _ above. Tha irs lng has been done for you. 8) 2. Now ery making it on your 0 mianddoh are copycats (lke soh and this time make mi). Both sit in spaces ~~ With rayon the sewer: or both sit on lines. ®&) Play Squirrel on any string you like on your cello, beginning with your third finger. B ISBAEEHIEH (doh ray) Se jing Spacemen to the words, and to solfa. Now try playing it. 6 am went out to see the moon..SERRE (ri ray doh) play the lines marked with a penny for now, ‘while you play the lines marked with a jackdaw. Write the solfa letters above the top part in the second line. off the: floor. Jack Jack-daw. | Pick some mon=ey | snack. Jack, give it back: 1 could buy a love = ly Finding a rhythm 1 Learn Tall Red Bus aise clapping the rhyehma as you sing it. Lay out your rhythm cards so that they make the rhythm of Tall Red Bus. Tap-and- say your rhythm to see if it sounds right. Copy the rhythm from your cards into” ‘the space provided. (The fast line has been done for you)‘When you have learnt verse 4 of Hoe Down see if you can play every verse followed by the chorus. It will make the longest piece you have ever played. More tunes to play ‘ind the Get Your Fingers Working pieces in the activities pages and play: ‘Merrily We Roll Along The Grand Old Duke of York Pease Pudding. Don't forget the New Waltz Variations ‘on page 9. Happy or sad? Checklist v When you can ‘A play Cowboy Chorus ‘Oplay Allin.a Row O sing and play Hot Cross Buns sing an play Squirrel Gread and play Spacemen Q read and play Jackdaw | ‘sing Tall Red Bus by heart D play Hoe Down, verse 4 ‘play Merrily We Rall Along Gi play The Grand Old Duke of York play Pease Pudding Q play New Waltz Variations v When you have ‘played some animal sentences Otried Musical questions and answers using fingers (written the music for Squirrel written the solfa in Jackdaw i worked out the rhythm for Tall Red BusMoving fingers Name this tune Sing the tune first, then play it on your cello. drm Sing this tune first, using the solfa names. Play each line a little faster than the one before Ht before 48 9 f Turn a-round and. whirl a-round but mind you don’t fall down as well, End Circles make you diz- zy so just whereyou are you can-not tell. mir idir BSF mf (quite loud) ‘When you know the second half, try laying your A string between each note ae ae ‘the key without lifting your fingers. Your bow Grange. Ts ea : » : that doh shifts from the hand will draw lide circles. This part of igote Dane the piece will sound really difficult.‘Two into One “Twova-Penny @®) Sing these tunes until you know them Turn to page 13 and play the ‘penny’ well. part of Two-a-Penny while your teacher G_>\ You can make them into a duet you OF 2 flend plays che top par. s<.), sing or play one of them while your “Jf teacher sings or plays the other. hl js 1J3/ (J it le sl = ss om sms ms os om a]? A |2 is |e Il mremr d dmir mrd ing 4 for a doh to the words and the solfa before playing it. ‘Loud and clear 4 for a doh, 3) for a ti, PO Ee, phy ie to me, 4 for a doh, 30 for a ti, ply it to me now!Hear my rhythm Can you make a secret 4-beat rhythm with your rhythm cards? Now clap or play it and ask someone to say the rhythm back to you. Did they get it right? Now swap places. Gently rocking = mp (quite soft) =— ___pplvery soft | =—__ P(soft) ——— | i Ostinato Melodic ostinato ‘An ostinato is @ short ‘Askcsomeone to sing Snowman, while you] pattern repeated over and sing this ostinato, Now swap round. ee £ over again. You must sing or : clap this pattern and at the Rhythmic ostinato same time listen to how it Now try doing two things at once. Soe Sy eee ee ee Here are two dstinatos for you sing Tall Red Bus. you to try:Compose a song ®, } First, say the rhythm names and then ‘the words in rhythm. SONA oo. eseeseessee 1 fis 4 Help! I'm a-bout to sneeze. solfa FI 4 Could youpass.a tis-sue, please! Use mi, ray and doh in any order to make your tune. @\\ Sing your melody'to see if you like it. ( & ( . ‘Change the sounds round to see if it sounds better. When you have a version you like, write the solfa above the rhythm and then play it. More tunes to play Now that you can use your fingers, you will be able to play all these tunes in the activities pages: Twinkle, Twinkle Lavender’s Blue All Aboard with variations Waltzing Scale and Marching Scole Don't forget the Fingerboard Puzzles the activities pages and the bottom part of Jackdaw on, page 20. Happy or sad? End Go back to the start® (ESIRPASENNBREE (A round in three parts) [Al Hungrily Haif past» ‘three. Near=y time for tea, Car—rot cake or milk shake? 1 can't wait to see! (BI Half past three. (I'm hun-gry!) Near-ly time for — tea. (I'm star-ving!) Cheese on toast or flap - jack? =| can't wait to. see! Half past. three. Near - ly time for tea. Choc’ late cake or pan - cakes? | can’t wait to see! | Checklist play Lavender's Blue v When you have i pemennnaal ‘Q play All Aboard with ‘worked out the name of v When you can vartations, the tune on page 22 1 sing and play Cunies play Waltzing Scale written in the solfa for sing and play Twointo Fay | Gas play Jackdaw (penny? played Hear my rhythm | | Dielow sheen pert of part) Citried the two ostinatos Two: eny read and play Three Brave. Ocomposed your own song play 4 for adoh ‘Mice met some of the challenge: Oplay Nearly Asleep D play alt of Half Past Three set in Fingerboard Puzzles play Twinkle, TwinkleNotation of solfa songs ‘These songs are meant to be taught by rote and should be sung at many different pitches, just as many of them will be played at different pitches. ‘One song is in compound time but this should not present difficulty to pupils since they will only work on the pitch element in this book. | .Hot Cross Buns (mrd) Chocolate Treats (cs) mor 19) Mot om tune fa Clee — ee wens, Choc kena Um plo pum ph m= pa, Oho = te oe Ore ee mp ant dom apn sh =a. march ga ong This Is che song of the march-ig ment ADA Dv ar th cp td down 2 ba 3.Ralning (@-8) ’ 4 oS Rin - img fee and ram gee Ra emer Wyre, Nin he fe dics anda ager omen ah aps 4 Snowman (e-m) sm 0.8) Sow-rman, ean you ste Snw-Skes f= Ing fist and fee? Now the sunomes out tly Soow-—man me away 5.8 Mugs Game (=m) (10) ‘See our mug on the wall, «Some are tl some’ are smal Here's iy fv - Yke one of al _ ao6. Cowboy Chorus (fed) m 4, 7-Squirral (med) Sein in the r= den Harries pe oy door, ‘Tall Red Bus (drm) orm Ta rad ban, Comsing © sop Happy/sad cellists ‘The-following cellists are sad. J crotchet quarter note J2 quavers eighth notes z crotchet rest quarter rest teke-teke~ SJFJ semiquavers sixteenth notes PToo od, minim half note high dohlearn to play your instrument ... learn to make music the essential string method The award-winning Essential String Method offers an exciting advance in the teaching of stringed instruments, One ee cue Ce ene Caen En Making their way through the series, pupils encounter an eee eae nea ewe ‘which to build their repertoire. The material is presented as a logical progression of musical activities involving both Rae Rk ae Cd Pe ace Ren Pee ee ah reese Cn nc eer eeenen Developed by leading string teachers, The Essential String Method provides a proven framework that draws on eee ee ea Re cae eee eer ua The Essential String Method can be used with GSMD graded examinations. Please contact the school for es ee a Sc) eee De ee a ee ea