The double bass is usually responsible for the harmonic foundation and rhythm in dance. Here dance pieces for fiddle and jazz solos with the bass as a solo instrument are used for the first time. Numerous traditional dance fiddle pieces such as jigs or hornpipes from Scotland, England and the USA as well as three newly composed jazz solos let the bass sound in the foreground.

This booklet is intended to serve as a game and accompanying booklet for double bass lessons. It can also be used for the normal concert program as well as playing in the traditional pub. The range extends up to the seventh position.

There is still hardly any chamber music for the double bass and if there is, it is not suitable for students because of its level of difficulty. An alternative is now offered here.

Most pieces have a chord designation, so that accompaniment with guitar, piano or a band can easily be achieved.

Contents: 1. Bill Bailey, American Jazz Song 2. Yankee Fiddle, American Dance 3. Peacemakers Hornpipe, English Dance 4. The Morpeth Rant, Scottish Fiddle Tune 5. Two Fiddle Tunes: Timour the Tatar, The Devil Among the Tailors 6. B -Tune, Jazz Duet 7. Jacob or Enrico, Southern English Dance (Hornpipe) 8. Two Shanty: The Drummer and the Cook, The Sailor likes his bottle, O! 9. Charlie is my Darling, Scottish folk song 10. Bonny Tyneside, English waltz 11. The Dorchester Hornpipe, southern English dance 12. The Athole Highlanders, Scottish fiddle tune 13. A little Blue, jazz duet 14. The Flower of the Quern, Scottish Slow Air 15. Lieutenant Macguire's Jig, Scottish Dance 16. Galopede (Yarmouth Reel), Fast Dance 17. Two Fiddle Tunes: Speed ​​the Plow, Within a Mile (Cumberland Long Eight) 18. The Dashing White Sergeant, Scottish Dance 19. The Tempest, Jig 20. Captain White, English Jig 21. Crossing the River, Scottish Fiddle Tune 22. Pieces of Bass, Jazz Duet, also playable solo 23. Blow the Man down, based on an English folk song