The Boosey & Hawkes Easy String Music series by Katherine & Hugh Colledge contains four volumes of repertoire for new and developing string players. Popular with teachers and students alike, each title steadily introduces and consolidates new techniques, fingerings, notes and rhythms to build firm foundations for future learning.

Each title is available in two editions – one with a CD of demonstration and accompaniment audio tracks, and another with a piano accompaniment booklet plus access to downloadable audio resources.

The 21 pieces in Shooting Stars concentrate on 01–2–3–4 and 01–2–34 finger patterns and include the augmented 2nd between the 1st and 2nd fingers. Triplets, basic syncopation and chromaticism are introduced, together with some new bowings and a piece in five time.

The old oak tree
Head-in-the-clouds
Morris dancers
The carol singers
Cakewalk
Alla marcia
The misty isle
Carefree
Thingummyjig!
Five-a-side
Chinatown
Where the heather grows
By candlelight
Coconuts and mangoes
Rustic dance
Far from home
Winter wind
Look lively!
Moto perpetuo
Cossacks
Stiffkey blues