cello

Posts about Cello written by audreywilliamsmusic

Warm-up, strengthen and improve your viola playing with Viola Online's free Viola Etude No. 7 - from Sonata No. 3, by Bach.

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In the beginning, my cello lessons felt more like question and answer sessions because I would arrive at my lessons with a list of questions which would take up the entire lesson. I discovered that I was actually "leading" the lessons because of this! Not to say, that it's a bad idea to come with a list of questions, but to take up the entire lesson doing a question and answer session, lesson after lesson, wasn't very beneficial or efficient for the both of us. I decided that I wasn't going...

Shifting positions on a cello can be very difficult but it necessary for many songs. Moving across the strings in first position to play a certain note is much too slow. It is actually possible to play a song on only one string with...

Cello finger positions

Cello finger positions

I did some research to see if there were other ways to teach or explain this topic. Terminology occasionally varied, so I just went with what I was taught. I...

Download and print in PDF or MIDI free sheet music of 6 Cello Suites, BWV 1007-1012 - Johann Sebastian Bach for 6 Cello Suites, Bwv 1007-1012 by Johann Sebastian Bach arranged by koishikawa for Cello (Solo)

Want to know the proper way to hold your cello bow? Cello bow hold tips: Relax your hand, slightly turn your wrist to the left, and let your fingers drop into place. The tip of the bent thumb touches the frog contact point. Fingers gently curve over the top of the cello bow stick.

Review - Bow Hold This is one of the trickiest elements of cello playing, so have patience!

By Miranda Wilson In the early stages of teaching cello to a beginner, any good teacher is concerned with shaping the student's hands in a rational manner, i.e. fingers curved and not buckled, joints flexible and not locked. Much has been written about playing the cello "naturally