Music Lessons: Learn the Cello

Learn cello online. Form a healthy, natural way to play the cello from day one. Enjoy the benefits of playing in tune and producing beautiful sounds even while learning the art of left-hand finger use and bowing.

Julius Klengel

Sonatinas are great little pieces to teach students the greater form of sonata. Julius Klengel wrote three Three Movement sonatinas. Each one can be played in First Position. I have recorded No. 2 in A Minor. Come discover this beauty.

Edvard Grieg: Peer Gynt

Grieg’s music to “PeerGynt” is great. Anitra’s Dance is one of them.

Nocturnes by Georg Goltermann

Download some Goltermann music. Take a look at his Tone Pictures and Nocturnes. Add some of these to your repertoire. Enjoy a wide variety of composers.

Thumb Position: the entire Fingerboard

A definitive thumb position never made sense to me. That is, if I think of it as I assumed it should be thought of, a definite position. Just as you are taught First, Second, Third, positions, etc. right on up the fingerboard—usually dispensing with a specific numbered position at about 7th—so I thought of thumb …