Thumb Position Studies for the Cello, Book Four


Book Description

Thumb Position Studies for the Cello, Book Four provides the advanced cellist with a fourth set of essential daily studies in thumb position. Each short exercise moves through six keys so the spaces can be learned in a variety of positions. Thumb Position Studies for the Cello, Book Four covers more extensive shifting in thumb position.




Thumb Position for Cello, Book 1


Book Description

This book from Rick Mooney features easy classical music as well as folk songs, fiddle tunes and Mooney originals composed to address specific technical points. A second cello part throughout promotes a student's ability to hear and play accurately.




Thumb position for cello


Book Description

As with the other books in his ...for Cello series, Rick Mooney has made the learning of a specific technique easier and more enjoyable than ever before. Book 2 continues where Book 1 left off and includes classical music, folk tunes, and original pieces by Rick Mooney such as Around the Gypsy Campfire, Harry the Hirsute Housefly, Petite Partita and much more. As in Book 1, all of the pieces have been arranged as duets, with a second cello part for the teacher (or other students in a group class) to play.




Position Pieces for Cello


Book Description

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!




Thumb Position Studies for the Cello, Book Three


Book Description

This book provides the cellist with further essential daily studies in thumb position. Each short exercise moves through six keys so the spaces can be learned in a variety of positions. Thumb Position Studies for the Cello, Book Three covers shifting in thumb position. This book could be followed by Thumb Position Studies for the Cello, Book Four.




Tenor Clef for the Cello


Book Description

This book presents a systematic study of tenor clef for the intermediate cellist. The exercises teach one or two notes at a time, while corresponding pieces utilize the notes that were just learned. Much of the book focuses on the transition from bass to tenor clef on the cello, as well as the relationship between the two clefs. Teachers can use this book as a method for teaching the clef to their students, preparing them for tenor clef found in many intermediate and advanced cello pieces, including Saint-Saens' Allegro Appassionato and The Swan, and Vivaldi's Cello Concerto in E Minor.




170 Foundation Studies for Violoncello


Book Description

Compiled by Alwin Schroeder, a former cellist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and an experienced teacher, this collection of 80 exercises constitutes the first book of a three-volume set. Schroeder drew upon his extensive experience to create original études for instructing students, and in this work he combines them with several others by his distinguished nineteenth-century European colleagues: Karl Schröder. Ferdinand Büchler, Friedrich Dotzauer, Auguste Franchomme, Friedrich Grützmacher, and Sebastian Lee. The carefully selected studies are arranged in order of increasing complexity, and Schroeder provides suggestions for fingering, bowing, and dynamics. Cello students and teachers will find these exercises a splendid resource for the improvement of technique and performance.




Thumb Position Review for the Cello, Book One


Book Description

This book uses 30 exercises to review basic finger patterns in thumb position on the cello. With a note chart at the beginning and minimal use of finger numbers, the exercises encourage note recognition. The books begins with studies in scale-like patterns of notes that are next to each other and progresses to studies in patterns of skipped notes in various intervals. With four distinct sections ("High 2nd Finger", "Low 2nd Finger", "High 3rd Finger", and "Low 1st Finger"), Thumb Position Review is an excellent supplement to Thumb Position for the Cello; Book One, Book Two, and Book Three.




The First Hour


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A Cellist's Daily Technical Regimen




Basic Thumb Position Studies for the Young Cellist


Book Description

These exercises have been written for the specific purpose of introducing cello students to the thumb position at the earliest practicable stage in their development. The material in this introductory volume retains the thumb on the octave harmonic. The supplementary material in Part II provides examples of musical value which may be interspersed with the materials of Part I.