We are excited to release Open String Bow Workouts for Cello, Book Three! Focusing on bow control, this book has...
Cello Bowing Posts
Free Cello Etudes in Closed First Position!
Improve your playing with these free cello etudes in closed first position. These studies are offered here to...
Free Beginning Cello Etudes!
Cello etudes are an essential part of the traditional system of study. Now you can improve your practice using these...
Learning Long Slurs on the B Major Scale for Cello: Free Cello Exercises!
When I was asked about ways to learn and practice the long slur at the bottom of p.38 in The Two Octaves Book for...
Better Bowing Articulation: Free Mini Open-String Workouts for Cello, Book Two!
About a month after I wrote Open String Bow Workouts, Book One, back at the end of 2019, I got the first email asking...
Prepare to play the Saint-Saens Cello Concerto in A minor!
The Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto is a work for cello and orchestra (or piano), written at an advanced level. Studying...
Improve Your Cello Bowing: Free Mini Open String Workouts
This past year Theresa Villani, a wonderful cellist and cello teacher, wrote and asked if I had any exercises for...
Master a Romberg Cello Sonata – Free Preparatory Exercises!
I fell in love with the Romberg Cello Sonatas when I started using them regularly as teaching pieces. It took me...
Devils Dream Lesson: Free Exercises for Cello
Learning fiddle tunes on the cello can be difficult because we only have three fingers typically used in each...
Free Cello Scale Bowing Variations
Today in the blog, we’re going to focus on using a simple C major scale to work on cello bowing.
Free Cello Technique Lesson: Lee Etude No. 2, Op. 31
Etudes can be more melodic than pure technical exercises and this helps you get closer to what you’d actually play in...