Lil Darlin'
by Neal Hefti
Set of Parts - Digital Sheet Music

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String Ensemble - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.826725

Composed by Jon Hendricks and Neal Hefti. Arranged by Bud Caputo. Contemporary. Score and parts. 26 pages. Bud Caputo #6196943. Published by Bud Caputo (A0.826725).

This video meets copyright requirements as no original melodic material or lyrics are posted here. teachers who purchase the full arrangement on Sheetmusicplus.com should use this video in the classroom for rehearsal purposes and ask students to practice their parts at home using YouTube.

This 1957 Neal Hefti original was popularized by the Count Basie Orchestra  and has become a jazz standard. It requires string players to learn how to swing the eight notes and hold back on the quarter notes to create the feeling that was so uniquely part of the Basie tradition. All parts remain mostly in first position. The guitar part is optional but will add to the Basie flavor if the player can imitate the Freddie Green style of rhythmic quarter notes that sinks with the drummer’s hi-hat. A Violin 3 part is included to bolster the Viola section and there is a considerable amount of divisi in the Violin I part that is needed to create the same harmonies of the 5 saxes in the Basie Band.


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