Written as a companion to the wildly popular fiddle book, this method opens up the world of fiddling to the beginning/intermediate cellist. Finally fiddlers, violists and cellists can jam together! Unlike many books for violas and cellos which simply transpose the tunes, the authors went to considerable effort arranging the tunes to be both playable and true to the original melody and key. Variations to the tunes are included illustrating how they can serve as a basis for improvisation. Ensemble skills are taught with chords and lyrics, basic music theory, and demonstrations of such skills as backup and lead playing in this playfully- illustrated book. A high quality, multi-instrumental online audio recording for listening and play-along captures the excitement of the music. Like its fiddle counterpart, this method is destined to be a classic. Includes access to online audio.

Angelia Baker Drone Variatoin      
Angelina Baker      
Arran Boat Song      
Boil'em Cabbage Down      
Boil'em Cabbage Down "Chunk" Backup      
Boil'em Cabbage Down Basic Bass Line      
Boil'em Cabbage Down Bass Line and Slap off-beats      
Boil'em Cabbage Down Drone Variation      
Boil'em Cabbage Down Long Bow Backup      
Boil'em Cabbage Down Long Bow Bass Line      
Boil'em Cabbage Down Slide Variation      
Bonaparte's Retreat      
Buffalo Gals      
Cairo      
Camptown Races      
Camptown Races Drone Variation      
Cindy      
Cindy Drone Variation      
Cindy slide Variation      
Country Waltz      
Country Waltz "Chunk" Backup      
Crawdad Song      
Crawdad Song Drone Variatoin      
Cripple Creek      
Cripple Creek Drone Variation      
Cripple Creek Slide Variation      
Girl I Left Behind Me      
Grandfather's Clock      
Old Joe Clark      
Red Haired Boy      
Red Wing      
Shortnin' Bread      
Shortnin' Bread Drone Variation      
Shortnin' Bread Slide Variation      
Slap off-beats      
Soldier's Joy      
Soldier's Joy Drone Variation      
Southwind      
Stinky's Blues      
Turkey in the Straw      
Wise Old Friend