Several students complained to me that they started learning the cello, because they love the sound of the lower strings, but then once they advance most of the cello music is written mostly for A and D strings!
I promised to write music for the lower strings.
[grading 4 - 7 out of 10]
* Set of The 5 Preludes for the Love of the Lower Strings.
Sheet music (includes also the Old prelude No 1) $8.50
(will be send per email during the next 24 hours)
Prelude No 1 in D minor - "Sea Waves" - Evolving from one note to an arpeggio thunder (grading 4 out of 10)
Prelude No 2 in A minor - The Sound of Monks (grading 4-5 out of 10)
Written in 7 little chapters, the steps of the Aeolian scale - our alphabet from A - G, the base for the names of our notes. Each step is written in the mode based on the note it begins with: Aeolian, Locrian, Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian (and again Aeolian).
Prelude No 3 in C minor - "The Mellow Cello" written for the true love of the lower strings! (grading 5-6 out of 10)
Prelude No 4 in G minor - "Oriental" Haunting oriental melodies in harmonic minor accompanied with an open string drone. (grading 6 out of 10)
Prelude No 5 in C major - "The Harmonics Jester" - Fun with natural Harmonics (grading 7 out of 10)