David Heyes: Bass Clef Unaccompanied Solos Book 2: 21 pieces for unaccompanied double bass
About the Book Bass Clef Unaccompanied Solos Book 2 brings together 21 pieces for unaccompanied double bass, all composed for friends and students of David Heyes in recent years. Each solo is a mini-musical soundscape, in the lower register of the double bass, offering musical and technical challenges in equal measure, which exploit the colours, timbres and playing effects available to the 21st-century bassist. Some pieces are short and succinct, others more extended, but none outstay their welcome and are ideal as study or recital repertoire. Table of Contents A Small Suite "Over the years I have had a number of students with various left hand injuries or weaknesses. After focusing on lots of bow work, these students are desperate to have pieces they can play while gradually increasing their left hand strength…With this suite, students have the ability to work on pieces that don’t tax their left hand too much; they can actually build left hand strength and have fun! This suite is e