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Open String Bow Workouts for Violin, Book OneOne great thing to add to the beginning of your violin practice (at any level of playing!) is a short study on open strings.Open-string studies on the violin can help you focus on your bow and how it interacts with the string. Good bow technique is essential for creating beautiful sound. This book of new and exciting bowing workouts for the violin gives you 97 exercises to train your bow on open strings before you begin the rest of your practice.Since there are no left-hand notes, you can focus entirely on improving the dexterity and control of the right (bow) hand.Useful also for students who are struggling with reading notes, this book gives violinists a tremendous resource for creating better tone.The exercises work on bow distribution, rests and retaking bows, slurs, triplets, dotted rhythms, double stops, string crossing and more.Note: The main focus of this book is achieving a steady, even, smooth tone. Dynamics, staccato, spiccato, and other articulated bowings are covered in Book Two.

You Can Have Faster FingersFinger Exercises for the Cello, Book One gives you notes to play that will make your fingers more agile.The double stop exercises included help correct collapsed fingersand and encourage good hand alignment. By playing this book at the beginning of a practice session, you will ensure that the rest of your practice is more in tune.Teachers: this book is a useful warm-up that ensures that the rest of the lesson will go more smoothly.

Learn how to read treble clef on the cello! This book teaches you how to read and play notes in treble clef on the cello, one note at a time. The exercises help you see how bass clef and tenor clef connect to treble clef. Carefully crafted studies help you recognize and remember each note as you learn it. Short pieces are included to use the notes that were just learned so that you can practice playing in treble clef. If you are an intermediate or advanced cellist and you know bass and tenor clef (if not, see Tenor Clef for the Cello by Cassia Harvey), this book will help teach you the final clef! Advanced cello solo, chamber, and orchestral music regularly uses bass, tenor, and treble clef. One skill that is not typically taught in cello playing is reading treble clef an octave lower. Some cello music has parts written in this "false" treble clef that you are expected to be able to read and play. This book can help! At the end of the book, after the regular study of the clef, there is a section on reading treble clef one octave lower, followed by study pages that teach the treble clef sections of the cello part to an excerpt from Beethoven's String Quartet Op. 18, No. 4 and all of the treble clef sections in the cello part to Dvorak's American String Quartet Op. 96, No. 12!This book could be studied after Tenor Clef for the Cello (CHP109) and along with Learning Three-Octave Scales on the Cello (CHP356) and Thumb Position School for the Cello (CHP361.)

The Saint-Saens Cello Concerto No. 1 Study Book, Volume Two helps you learn and perfect every measure of the third "movement" of this major cello concerto.The Concerto is broken down into short sections and taught through carefully graded exercises.Skills that would otherwise be difficult, such as shifts, fast scale patterns, double stop octaves, and artificial harmonics can now be mastered.You can be free to concentrate on artistic expression by solidifying your cello technique. The Saint-Saens Cello Concerto No. 1 Study Book, Volume Two gives you essential tools to be a better cellist.The entire cello part to the third "movement" of the Concerto is presented at the end of the book (the piano accompaniment is not included).This book could be studied along with The Saint-Saens Cello Concerto No. 1 Study Book, Volume One and The Popper High School Study Book for Cello, Volume One.

Compiling and organizing some of the most effective etudes written for cello, this series of foundation studies gives you a comprehensive step-by-step method for perfecting your cello playing!The Cello Etude System presents both rare and classic etudes interspersed with newly written material, in order of difficulty, providing cello teachers and students with a library of essential resources for teaching and learning cello. Recognizing that students learn at different speeds, The Cello Etude System books allow cellists to learn at either a relaxed pace or an accelerated pace.With works by Schroeder, Nolck, Werner, Davidov, Dotzauer, Romberg, and more, this book has a huge array of rare studies for early-intermediate cello. Where duet parts were not already written, Myanna Harvey has composed cello accompaniment parts so that a teacher can play along with the student on every etude. This is especially helpful in working on rhythm and other chamber music skills!This book, Part 1A, presents cello etudes in closed first position. The etudes cover techniques such as string crossing, embellishments, hooked bowing, and dynamics. The duet part in this book is intended for an instructor and includes more advanced techniques, including positions. This book could be followed by The Cello Etude System, Part 2A, which teaches extended first position and half position.

Compiling and organizing some of the most effective etudes written for cello, this series of foundation studies gives you a comprehensive step-by-step method for perfecting your cello playing!The Cello Etude System presents both rare and classic etudes interspersed with newly written material, in order of difficulty, providing cello teachers and students with a library of essential resources for teaching and learning cello. Recognizing that students learn at different speeds, The Cello Etude System books allow cellists to learn at either a relaxed pace or an accelerated pace.With works by Schroeder, Nolck, Werner, Davidov, Romberg, and more, this book has a huge array of rare studies for early-intermediate cello. There is a separate duet accompaniment volume for this book: The Cello Etude System, Part 1A; First Position Studies, Duet Book (CHP413.)This book, Part 1A, presents cello etudes in closed first position. The etudes cover techniques such as string crossing, embellishments, hooked bowing, and dynamics. This book could be followed by The Cello Etude System, Part 2A, which teaches extended first position and half position.