The exercises below give you shifting, position, and bowing exercises that help you master this intermediate cello...
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Free Preparatory Exercises for the Squire Tarantella!
The Squire Tarantella for Cello Practice Edition has Preparatory Exercises for each difficult part of the piece. 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...
Learning Three-Octave Cello Arpeggios with Free Preparatory Studies!
Figuring Out How to Teach Cello Arpeggios As long as I have been studying or teaching cello, learning arpeggios...
Learn Cello Scale Spaces – Free Sheet Music!
One of the best ways to map the fingerboard for your mind and fingers is by learning scales. Three-octave scales, in...
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...
Develop Strong, Curved Fingers for Better Cello Tone
Strong, curved left-hand fingers are essential for good cello technique and for developing a beautiful tone. By...
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...