Download or read book Cello Fingerings written by Benjamin Whitcomb and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a concise but thorough treatise and workbook on the many facets of devising fingerings for the cello. Primarily designed for intermediate cellists, the volume systematically discusses all of the many factors and priorities that affect fingerings decisions. Then, readers get to test their knowledge and understanding by trying their hand at numerous short quizzes, each of which is followed by Whitcomb¿s suggested fingerings. This is a one-of-a-kind teaching tool that is sure to significantly improve the student¿s ability to devise excellent fingerings quickly.
Download or read book Cello Playing for Music Lovers written by Vera Mattlin Jiji and published by Cello Playing for Music Love. This book was released on 2007 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can teach yourself to play the cello. This comprehensive, authoritative guide covers basics to Bach. Including 116 selections, it explains reading music, playing-by-ear and theory. Play-along CD.
Download or read book Position Pieces for Cello written by Rick Mooney and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Position Pieces for Cello is designed to give students a logical and fun way to learn their way around the fingerboard. Each hand position is introduced with exercises called "Target Practice," "Geography Quiz," and "Names and Numbers." Following these exercises are tuneful cello duets which have been specifically composed to require students to play in that hand position. In this way, students gain a thorough knowledge of how to find the hand positions and, once there, which notes are possible to play. Using these pieces (with names like "I Was a Teenage Monster," "The Irish Tenor," and "I've Got the Blues, Baby"), position study on the cello has never been so much fun!
Download or read book Cello Fingering Chart written by David Harrison and published by . This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Music Sales America). This chart includes advice on instrument care, notation guide and a photo/diagram of the instrument.
Download or read book Strictly Strings Book 3 written by Jacquelyn Dillon and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strictly Strings Book 3 is an all-in-one technical and musical reference book for the advanced middle school and high school orchestra. It may be used as a follow-up to Book 2 or independently as a quick-reference technique and musicianship manual. Strictly Strings Book 3 features a host of suggested fingerings and bowings, emphasizes "real" music with over forty 2- and 3-part excerpts, and allows students to work on their own.
Download or read book Cello Fingering written by Fritz Wallenberg and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cello Fingerings written by Benjamin Whitcomb and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-12-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cello Fingerings: Improve Your Left-Hand Game is a concise but thorough treatise and workbook on the many facets of devising fingerings for the cello. This book is primarily designed for intermediate cellists, which usually means ages fourteen to twenty, but which could be any age from six to eighty. The purpose of this book is to provide you with much of the basic information that you need in order to become good at practicing the cello. This is the book for you if you know how to shift but you do not currently devise your own fingerings; you can devise fingerings, but you are frequently unhappy with the results; you devise your own fingerings, but you frequently encounter other fingering ideas that you had not previously considered. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Part 1: Preliminaries Chapter 1-Introduction Chapter 2- A System for Marking Fingerings Chapter 2.5-Random-Note Quiz Part 2: The Basics Chapter 3- The Basics: Priorities of Shifting Chapter 4- The Basics, Continued Chapter 5-Rules of Thumb Chapter 6-Know Your Patterns Chapter 7- Stretching the Left Hand Chapter 8-Putting It All Together Part 3: Applications Chapter 9-Baroque Music Chapter 10-General Quiz on Fingerings Chapter 11-Awkward Passages Chapter 12-Increasing Your Options Chapter 13-Chromaticism and Difficult Key Signatures Chapter 14-Test Yourself against Other Intermediate Cellists Chapter 14.5-Random High Note Mini-Quiz Chapter 15-High Registers Part 4: Advanced Topics Chapter 16-Advanced Topics Chapter 17-Some of My Favorite Fingerings Chapter 18-Conclusions
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Cello written by Robin Stowell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-06-28 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a compact, composite and authoritative survey of the history and development of the cello and its repertory since the origins of the instrument. The volume comprises thirteen essays, written by a team of nine distinguished scholars and performers, and is intended to develop the cello's historical perspective in breadth and from every relevant angle, offering as comprehensive a coverage as possible. It focuses in particular on four principal areas: the instrument's structure, development and fundamental acoustical principles; the careers of the most distinguished cellists since the baroque era; the cello repertory (including chapters devoted to the concerto, the sonata, other solo repertory, and ensemble music); and its technique, teaching methods and relevant aspects of historical and performance practice. It is the most comprehensive book ever to be published about the instrument and provides essential information for performers, students and teachers.
Download or read book Sound Innovations for String Orchestra Sound Development Intermediate for Cello written by Bob Phillips and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sound Innovations: Sound Development emphasizes playing with a characteristic beautiful sound. The components of producing this sound are broken into four levels, consistent with the revolutionary Sound Innovations structure: (1) Sound Tone, (2) Sound Bowings, (3) Sound Shifting, and (4) Sound Scales, Arpeggios, Chorales, and Rhythms. The levels can be used in the order that is best for your students, as individual warm-ups or as structured units. Your students will learn the proper use of the bow with the variables of tone, the next group of bowings needed for intermediate repertoire, and how to shift and play with vibrato. These skills will be reinforced with comprehensive scales, arpeggios, sight-reading materials, rhythm exercises, and warm-up chorales.
Download or read book Cello working methods improve faster in less time written by Philippe Massol and published by SmartAlbinos. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is like no other. It won't teach you how to play the cello: there are dozens of effective methods for that. It will teach you how to practice the cello efficiently so that you can improve your cello as quickly as possible in the shortest time possible. You will be able to play harder and faster scores. ADVICES FOR MOTIVATION TO PLAY CELLO Dissociate working the cello and playing the cello Law of Least Effort To watch your fingers or not to watch your fingers? Select the scores How often to play the cello per week and for how long? Warming up and working the sound of cello Vary musical style Is it necessary to learn to read music to play cello? CELLO WORKING TECHNIQUES Imitate great cello players Shift the beginning of the piece at each session When you fail Accidentals Scribbling How to practice a difficult section in a piece ? Avoid degradation of a piece over time The work of musical nuances Boost your progression: face new challenges How to learn by heart? TRAINING TO PLAY IN FRONT OF AN AUDIENCE Marathon workout Discomfort zone techniques THE WORK OF CELLO VIRTUOSITY Virtuosity is mastery Fingerings and positions on the cello The metronome's work of mastery and stability Working on sections where the notes are very fast Back-nibbling technique: for the ultra-difficult Regularity workouts for difficult sections Working on a difficult section: x3 x5 x8 repetition Use the metronome to learn difficult and long sections that include various rhytms CELLO-SPECIFIC TIPS Relaxation Separate hand work and open strings Left hand right hand coordination Play with the bow upside down Reverse all the bowings Structure of a working session
Download or read book Compendium of Chords for the Cello written by Benjamin Whitcomb and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many resources for practicing scales and arpeggios on the cello, but extremely few for practicing chords. Understanding chords on the cello can be a very useful skill for cellists for a variety of reasons, the most obvious of which is that chords appear a significant number of times in the cello repertoire. In addition, understanding chords: helps you to think harmonically, helps you to better analyze music, improves your ability to sight read and to play arpeggios and double stops, helps the fingers of your left hand to work better together as a team, and facilitates composition and improvisation.
Download or read book Violoncello Technique Music Instruction written by Mark Yampolsky and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1985-07-01 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Instructional). This classic book offers studies of scales and arpeggios in all of their various bowed, fingered and rhythmic combinations, with excellent exercises progressing in difficulty and encompassing four octaves. A great resource for teachers of students at all levels!
Download or read book Cello Practice written by Philippe Malgrat and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide is intented for adult music loverswho want to learn to play an instrument avoiding as much as possible theoretical academic lessons. It is mostly a collection of useful information, adapted to the present time, to learn cello playing by your own after a few preliminary lessons. Then, after one or two years of practice, you will reach a sufficient level to approach the baroque German, French and Italian repertoire as well as pieces of variety, what I did. You can even play at home with a virtual accompaniment that will adapt to your rhythm, fruit of the latest research of IRCAM (French Research Institute of Music). This guide includes practical considerations, often unknown, such as the transport of your instrument by plane, the free and legal downloading of scores, the sites where to find a teacher who will come to your home. For a total monthly budget of less than $ 100 for the first three months, including the first lessons, all this is accessible to you !
Download or read book Cello Chords written by Bryan Wilson (violoncelliste.) and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cello Chords is the perfect reference for the modern cellist. With 11 different chord types in all 12 keys, this is the only book on the market to focus solely on the cello's massive chordal potential. If you need a fresh way to play an A Minor 7th, you'll find 28 unique variations on that one chord. With intuitive categorization and suggested fingerings for every chord, finding new harmonic possibilities on the cello is easy. This book is suitable for cellists interested in all genres of music from rock, pop, and classical, to jazz and improvisation. Composers looking to expand the cello repertoire will also find this a handy reference. If you're interested in harmony on the cello, look no further.
Download or read book Sound Innovations for String Orchestra Sound Development Advanced for Cello written by Bob Phillips and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2013-05-09 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sound Innovations: Sound Development for Advanced String Orchestra continues the emphasis on playing with a characteristic, beautiful sound, but also focuses on 3-octave scales, particularly scales that students will need for regional auditions and all-states. Advanced technical skills are presented in four levels, consistent with the revolutionary Sound Innovations structure: (1) Sound Tone, (2) Sound Bowing, (3) Sound Shifting, and (4) Sound Scales and Arpeggios. The levels can be used in the order that is best for your students, as individual warm-ups, or as structured units. The perfect book to follow Sound Development for Intermediate String Orchestra, or for any advanced string ensemble or individual learner, your students will further refine the proper use of the bow, bow strokes, shifting, and 3-octave scales.
Download or read book String Note Speller written by Edward Janowsky and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This systemized set of work sheets for supplementing any elementary class or private method is designed to help the student gain a better understanding of the problems of fingering and reading music, while saving valuable lesson time. Available for violin, viola, cello, string bass, clarinet, cornet, trombone, saxophone, flute, oboe, bassoon, French horn, baritone, and tuba.
Download or read book The Art of Cello Playing written by Louis Potter and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 1980 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author's stated purpose in writing The Art of Cello Playing is 'to present a progressive sequence of commentary and material as a basis for acquiring a sound technical foundation and basic playing competence to prepare the player for exploring the rich solo, orchestral, and chamber music literature of the instrument.' To that end he has produced a comprehensive textbook and reference manual on beginning to advanced cello technique with emphasis on the vital beginning foundation. Louis Potter Jr., is particularly well qualified to make this contribution from his wide experience in teaching both classes and individuals at Michigan State University and at National Music Camp, Interlochen, Michigan.
