Sample the Book

Audio Sample from included play-along CD:
         
         Cellist: Erik Friedlander (click to pause).

Cello Playing for Music Lovers is divided into four parts:

• Part One begins before you start playing. It helps you acquire a cello, a musical vocabulary and other essentials.
• Parts Two and Three explain how to read music and how to play songs you like by ear.
• Part Four introduces more theory and higher cello positions. It details the essentials for success when exploring chamber music with other amateurs.

The 212 page book progresses step by step, dealing with notes, fingerings and bowings, scales and chords and songs. It teaches you how to read music, and also explains how to locate songs on the cello by ear.

It provides over sixty lovely familiar melodies to play (some excerpted) including folk songs, like "On Top of Old Smoky," hymns, like "Amazing Grace," Broadway songs like "Some Enchanted Evening," and classical standards, like a Bach Prelude and Sarabande.

The accompanying  CD  played by Erik Friedlander demonstrates the 116 musical figures in the book. The book is arranged so that, depending on your previous experience and background, you can skip around in it, focusing just on the chapters that are of interest to you.

SELECTED PAGES
(Click thumbnails to see full-sized images of book pages.)

Table of Contents:

                   

List of Included Songs:

      

Part 1: Basics

   From Ch. 3: Naming Cello Parts   

   From Ch. 6: Using the Bow   

Part 2: Playing Songs You Love

   From Ch. 8: The Left Hand, Building Scales ... Notes and Rhythms   

   From Ch. 9: Playing More Scale-Based Songs
                                       
                                Click arrow to play Figure 9.6 audio: "Amazing Grace"

Part 3: Intermediate

  From Ch. 13: Chord Elements   

  From Ch. 13: Arpeggios 
                           
                             Click arrow to play Figure 13.4 audio: Arpeggios

  From Ch. 13: Broken Chords   

  From Ch. 13: ...[elements] as used in Schumann's "Traumerei"   
                                 
                               Click arrow to play Figure 13.13 audio: "Traumerei" 

Part 4: Advanced - Chapter 20: Improvising

  From Ch. 16: Fourth Position

   From Ch. 20: Improvising 

  From Ch. 20: Improvising 
 

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