Pizzicato Boogie Latin

Pizzicato Boogie Latin"Pizzicato Boogie" composed by Mekel Rogers is designed to be a first concert piece for beginning strings. As the piece uses no bowings and only open strings, students can perform this work after just a few lessons. The composition is a great way to teach beginners how to read open strings on the staff as well as learn pizzicato technique. The piano part is a simple twelve bar blues progression in traditional boogie woogie style and can be altered to

This fun and mysterious minor waltz portrays a sense of taking a chance on something new or unknown

percussion

Stylistic contrasts also abound in a great work for concert or festival use

or orchestra without electric / advanced part

This all-pizzicato work for young strings imitates an African instrument called the kalimba (also known as an mbira or thumb piano

followed by a series of variations that successively gain intensity

further heightening the intensity of this musical journey

"Far Away There in the Sunshine" is a piece composed by Sarah Siegler and inspired by the well-known Louisa May Alcott quote

the beginner parts on mostly open strings add very interesting rhythmic and harmonic light to the regular part setting

The piece elevates itself throughout

The featured melodies are "Deck the Halls"

The original composer is unknown