Category: Free Cello Sheet Music

Free Beginning Cello Etudes!

10/3/2021

I am in love with cello etudes.

There are very few things in life that make me more excited than finding new cello etudes. I've been searching for etudes since I was in junior high, working on the Werner cello method by myself (my teacher at the time didn't assign etudes or exercises) and found myself puzzled over the rests at the beginning of some of the studies. Was there (gasp) a piano accompaniment? This was before widespread internet access but I searched library catalogs, obsessively looked at the back covers of cello music looking for any mention of a piano part, and asked everyone I came across. Nobody had any idea...

A few years later, we had our first computer (good old dial-up internet access) and I found Ebay. I searched for old cello music late into the night, every night.

One night, I found a large collection of cello music on Ebay and in it, there was a copy of the Werner Cello Method Piano Accompaniment - all volumes. I was so excited to find out that yes, Werner had written a piano part; the book actually did exist! Now all I had to do was win the auction.

I put in a low bid and waited while the bids rose that week. I waited until a few hours before the auction closed and then I sat, staring at the page, refreshing it every few seconds.

Dial-up internet was slow and unreliable and I was shaking as I waited for the minutes to tick by. One minute before the auction ended, I started bidding again. I bid higher (hands shaking,) bid higher, oh no - I'm outbid, bid higher, move faster Cassia! And then it was over. I couldn't believe it but I had won. The Werner was going to be mine!

There have been numerous moments of great etude-finding joy since: The store in Italy that actually answered my email about a huge number of rare etude books they'd gotten from an old estate and sent the package with Zacchini, Moja, and so much more. The library in Switzerland that didn't answer the first five emails I sent but answered the sixth; with the file of the Nolck book I was looking for actually attached! The used book stores and internet sites and WorldCat continue to have treasures and yes, there's still Ebay.

But through it all, the greatest joy has been playing and teaching with these amazing etudes. I knew there had to be a way to make them available in a practical way. It has taken a long time but we finally have a practical, graded system of rare and classic cello etudes that works for my students.

There will be a number of volumes in The Cello Etude System:
Part 0: Beginning Level
Parts 1A and 1B: First Position, Closed
Parts 2A and 2B: First Position, Extended, and Half Position
Part 3A: First and Fourth Position
and many more!

The First Volume of Cello Etudes is Released!

This is the solo book. The student etude part is written on its own, without accompaniment. This can help with note-reading and making it easier to find and work on skills.

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Etudes are the bridge between technical exercises and repertoire. The best etudes teach one or more specific cello skills, often combined with opportunities to develop musicality.

Etudes are an essential part of any cello curriculum and now, finally, there is a book that gives beginning cellists a system of etudes they can play from the very start of their cello journey!

Duet accompaniments provide another layer of teaching. With the duet accompaniments in this book, there is a focus on rhythm that will prepare the student for later chamber and orchestral music-making!

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There were too many beginning etudes to fit in The Cello Etude System, Part 0 so we decided to offer some of the extra beginning cello etudes for free in this blog!
Happy Etude Playing!

-Cassia

Free Beginning Cello Etude No. 1

Free Beginning Cello Etude No. 2

Free Beginning Cello Etude No. 3

No. 3, cont.

Free Beginning Cello Etude No. 4

Free Beginning Cello Etude No. 5

Free Beginning Cello Etude No. 6

Free Beginning Cello Etude No. 7

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Better Bowing Articulation: Free Mini Open-String Workouts for Cello, Book Two!

1/12/2021

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About a month after I wrote Open String Bow Workouts, Book One, back at the end of 2019, I got the first email asking for Book Two. As more and more people started asking for Book Two, I realized that I'd like a Book Two as well and I started mapping out what a second volume would look like.

It's taken a little bit longer than I'd planned (apologies to everyone who got a January 2020 estimated release date!) but Open String Workouts for the Cello, Book Two is finally here!

To celebrate, here is a second volume of free Mini Open String Bowing Workouts for Cello! The mini cello bowing workouts below are all-new and aren't included in the book.

Free Mini Cello Bowing Workout No. 1

Better Bowing Articulation: Free Mini Open-String Workouts for Cello, Book Two!

Free Mini Cello Bowing Workout No. 2

Because Open String Bow Workouts for Cello, Book Two focuses on articulation and bow control, these free studies work on some of the same skills that the book does: staccato, dynamics, double stop staccato, and spiccato.

Free Mini Cello Bowing Workout No. 3

Free Mini Cello Bowing Workout No. 4

Double stop staccato is a great way to get the strings ringing right away - which leads to better tone overall!

Free Mini Cello Bowing Workout No. 5

Free Mini Cello Bowing Workout No. 6

Free Mini Cello Bowing Workout No. 7

Free Mini Cello Bowing Workout No. 8

And finally, here are a couple of open string cello exercises on spiccato:

Free Mini Cello Bowing Workout No. 9

Free Mini Cello Bowing Workout No. 10

Did you miss the blog post with mini free exercises to celebrate Book One?

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Forked Deer: Free Mini Fiddle Tune Booklet for Violin, Viola, Cello, and String Bass!

10/4/2020

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All of the music was ready. The snacks, the chairs, the stands; we were ready for anything. Myanna and I had spent hours arranging music, making chamber groups out of names (level often unknown), answering emails, cleaning, and so much more. Summer string camp was about to begin!

Harvey String Teaching Summer Chamber Camp

The doorbell rang and the first student came in, always looking a little uncertain. It's hard to be first! But then the deluge would happen and soon our front porch would be covered with violin, viola, cello, and bass cases and no matter how prepared we had planned to be, chaos would reign for that entire first session.

We have always had students at a range of ages and levels sign up for Summer Chamber Camp, from first year players to high schoolers in advanced string quartets. But by far, the most challenging issue has been finding music for our "Blackberry Blossom" groups: first and second year students in larger groups who want to play with their friends (even if levels aren't compatible) and have fun playing!

The level range inside of these groups has been astonishing. Some students only know a few notes while others can play fluently in first position (but aren't quite ready for the early-intermediate trios and quartets at the next level.)

Problem-solving is pretty much our favorite thing. So Myanna wrote some easy, flexible tune arrangements for these groups.

First, there's a Regular Exercise and a Basic Exercise that can both be played together at the same time (and with all the instruments.)

Then, for each tune, there's an Advanced Melody, a Stress-Free Melody, a Basic Harmony, and a Teacher Harmony (plus, a piano accompaniment and full score, available separately.)

Here's a concert photo of one of our Summer Fiddle groups playing a tune from the Blackberry Blossom Fiddle Books!

We weren't able to have a summer camp this year due to Covid. But now, we're using these books both with in-person and remote string classes and lessons. And we're excited about how flexible the books are, both with level and instrumentation.

And now for the free booklets!

To give you an idea of how the books work, Myanna and I have put together a free set of exercises and tune arrangement of Forked Deer in exactly the same format as the Blackberry Blossom Fiddle Books.

This is an all-new tune that isn't in the books! Feel free to copy and hand out to students or fellow musicians.

Forked Deer: A Free Fiddle Tune Booklet for Violin

Forked Deer: A Free Fiddle Tune Booklet for Viola

Forked Deer: A Free Fiddle Tune Booklet for Cello

Forked Deer: A Free Fiddle Tune Booklet for String Bass

Forked Deer: A Free Fiddle Tune Booklet for String Class

Here are Free Play-Along Tracks for Forked Deer:

C. Harvey Publications · Forked Deer First Exercise

C. Harvey Publications · Forked Deer Second Exercise

C. Harvey Publications · Forked Deer Tune

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Free Sousa Duet for Strings to Celebrate the Release of Fiddles on the Bandstand, Book One!

7/2/2020

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Free Liberty Bell March for Violins, Violas, Cellos but Sousa

So we're a little over halfway through 2020 and it's been quite a year! We hope that all of you are healthy and safe and able to still make music.

About a month ago, just as the weather was turning warmer, Myanna realized we all could all use some light-hearted, earnest, outdoor-belonging, inspiring, beautiful, rhythmic, toe-tapping, nostalgic, FUN music!

As usual, Myanna told me nothing about what she was writing, but as I walked out of the studio to my car one day, I passed Myanna and our mother playing some Sousa on two violins and I just had to stop and listen.

They kept playing through the book and somehow I couldn't leave. And that's how the Fiddles on the Bandstand books were born!

Fiddles on the Bandstand Duets: Fully Compatible Between Instruments

Fiddles on the Bandstand: Fun Duets for Two Violins

Fiddles on the Bandstand: Fun Duets for Two Violas

Fiddles on the Bandstand: Fun Duets for Two Cellos

Here's What's In the Books:

Fiddles on the Bandstand: Fun Duets for Strings

These are the tunes people hum, the tunes we remember from "somewhere", the tunes we might even want to share with our neighbors in an impromptu outdoor concert!

Some years ago, Myanna and I ran a youth orchestra and when they were asked to play outside after a parade, we quickly realized that there is an entire genre of lighthearted music that is perfect for that situation. Some of the tunes that inspired us back then have made an appearance in this book.

In the past week, as the books have arrived from the printer, I have started to play the duets in outdoor lessons with my students. And I can say that there's nothing quite like the beauty of these cello duets gently floating out in the breeze.

To Celebrate the New Books,
Here's a Brand New Arrangement of
Sousa's Liberty Bell March!

John Philip Sousa

Did you know that Sousa began his career playing violin?

Sample Pages from the Free March:
(Full March Available Through the Contact Form Below.)

The violin duet is mainly in first position with a small amount of third position.
The viola duet is in first and third positions.
The cello part is in first through fourth positions and is all in bass clef.
The duets are compatible between instruments.

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Learning Three-Octave Arpeggios - Free Preparatory Studies!

11/1/2019

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Figuring Out How to Teach Cello Arpeggios

As long as I have been studying or teaching cello, learning arpeggios consisted of seeing an arpeggio and trying to play it. This was fine; even workable, but as I came to discover, not the best way to learn or teach cello arpeggios that would be consistently in tune.

Three-Octave Arpeggios on the Cello: Preparatory Studies

Some students struggled mightily with the larger spaces. Other students didn't understand the concepts behind the fingerings. All in all, even the most talented and advanced students only played a perfect arpeggio about 1/3 of the time, which wasn't great for auditions!

I became acutely aware of the lack of an actual cello method for teaching arpeggios when Theresa Villani (a wonderful cellist and teacher) reached out to ask if I had one. Since I had no idea where to start, I did quite a bit of brain-storming... and wrote a scale method instead!

After Learning Three-Octave Scales on the Cello was published at the end of August 2019, I still didn't quite know which arpeggio fingerings to pick for the book but at least I had a blueprint for how to teach notes and spaces.

I finally settled on three distinct fingerings for Learning Three-Octave Arpeggios on the Cello. The first fingering, used in the Galamian Scale System for Cello (among other books) is a little like a staircase; you go up the C string, then over to the G, then up the G, then over to the D, then up the D, then over to the A.

The second fingering is very straightforward: you go across to the A string and shift up the A string.

The third fingering, used in Klengel Technical Studies for Cello, Volume One, shifts up to the thumb on the D string and then has you play the top octave of the arpeggio in thumb position.

Each of these three fingerings has something to teach cellists. A study of all three fingerings will give you a comprehensive knowledge of fingerboard geography and larger shifts on the cello.

Free Cello Arpeggio Preparatory Studies!

To celebrate the release of this new book, we are offering free preparatory studies for Three Octave Arpeggios on the Cello. Click on each picture to see the image enlarged. If you would like the file as a free PDF, fill out the form below and your download will be on the next page.

Cello Arpeggios
Shifting Study

Cello Arpeggios
Fifth Position Study

Cello Arpeggios
Spacing Across Strings

Three-Octave Arpeggios on the Cello: Preparatory StudiesPicture

Fingering No. 1
Putting the Arpeggio Together

Cello Arpeggios
Note Spaces
for Fingering No. 2

Cello Arpeggios
Playing Across Strings
for Fingering No. 2

Cello Arpeggios
Putting the Notes Together for Fingering No. 2

Cello Arpeggios
Shifting to the Thumb for Fingering No. 3

Cello Arpeggios
Learning More Thumb Position Notes for Fingering No. 3

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Learn Cello Scale Spaces - Free Sheet Music!

9/2/2019

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One of the best ways to map the fingerboard for your mind and fingers is by learning scales. Three-octave scales, in particular, can be used to teach nearly all of the notes on the cello.

Learn Cello Scale Spaces - Free Sheet Music!

As I watched over the years while some of my students struggled with knowing how far to shift in three-octave scales, I knew that there had to be a solution.

Surprisingly, the answer came while I was writing a scale book for the violin!

Because violinists typically play with four fingers in each position (1-2-3-4), instead of three (1-2-4 or 1-3-4), I was able to write exercises that used notes they already knew to teach notes in the next position.

When I saw how well the exercises worked, I just knew that I had to find a way to use that same concept to teach cello scales.

I started writing studies for a three-octave G major cello scale and tried them with several students who had never played a three-octave scale before.

I wasn't surprised when they figured out the exercises; it was a pretty easy concept. But I was absolutely shocked when, at the end of playing the 4 pages of G scale exercises, those same students were able to play the scale straight through, without stopping, and in tune!

New Release!

Before this, I had wheedled and cajoled and talked my students through their initial 3-octave scales. And, after they finally learned the scales, some of them played scales in tune but some just didn't.

This book was a game-changer for me and my students, cutting out months and years of frustration, and helping them master entire three-octave scales in all of the major and minor keys.

If we take time to think about the steps in scales and teach them to our fingers, it is possible to truly learn scales, play more in tune, and play in tune more consistently.

To celebrate the release of Learning Three-Octave Scales on the Cello, this post gives you the major scales written out with all of the whole and half steps so you can think about and remember each space.

And if this whets your appetite for scale mastery, check out the new cello scale book!

Tips for Playing Cello Three-Octave Scale Steps

Play these exercises slowly.
Think about each space as you play it.
As your mind sees the words "half step" or "whole step", try to remember how that space feels in your fingers.
Roman numerals refer to strings, not positions.

I = A string
II = D string
III = G string
IV = C string

If you have trouble playing scales in tune, or just want to improve your scale intonation, study the scale exercises in Learning Three-Octave Scales on the Cello.

C Major
Cello Scale Spaces

D-flat Major
Cello Scale Spaces

D Major
Cello Scale Spaces

E-flat Major
Cello Scale Spaces

E Major
Cello Scale Spaces

F Major
Cello Scale Spaces

F-sharp Major
Cello Scale Spaces

G Major
Cello Scale Spaces

A-flat Major
Cello Scale Spaces

A Major
Cello Scale Spaces

B-flat Major
Cello Scale Spaces

B Major
Cello Scale Spaces

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Cello Positions: Free Cello Note Charts and Shifting Exercises

2/28/2019

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Starting to play in positions on the cello can be daunting!

However, after you have played in first position for awhile, the other notes on the cello are begging to be learned! So many great cello repertoire pieces use positions and learning shifting can help you reach more notes, make playing across strings easier, and even avoid open strings if you want to.

1. Learn Cello Fourth Position

This method was written for adult learners and includes pictures and diagrams that help explain where fourth position is. Exercises and short pieces on each page work together to teach a skill. This book is available as a PDF ebook on www.learnstrings.com and as a print book on www.amazon.com.

2. Learn Cello Positions in Depth

A great way to learn cello positions is by studying each position. Here are a few position method books:

Are your shifting books too hard?

Try the Preparatory Study Books

(great for fearful shifters)

These books have very easy studies that can make shifting an easier, more gradual process. Each study focuses on a single shift and the exercises progress slowly to allow you to get comfortable with shifting.

3. Free Preparatory Exercises for Pattern Shifting and Serial Shifting for the Cello

Half and Whole Steps

Free Note Chart:
Cello Positions
on the A String

Free Cello Position Exercises
on the
A String

Free Note Chart:
Cello Positions
on the D String

Free Cello Position Exercises
on the
D String

Free Note Chart:
Cello Positions
on the G String

Free Cello Position Exercises
on the
G String

Free Note Chart:
Cello Positions
on the C String

Free Cello Position Exercises
on the
C String

Free Cello Position Exercise
for Muscle Memory

Free Cello Position Exercise: Cello Positions Across Strings

4. Study the Position Exercise Books

Ever-so-slightly easier than Serial Shifting, Pattern Shifting for Cello has exercises in rows and patterns. The exercises progress more slowly than those in Serial Shifting and this book could be studied along with other position methods.

The first half of the book has studies in 1st through 4th positions while the second half of the book has studies in 1st through 8th positions.

All of the exercises are in C major to allow you to fully learn the basic cello positions and spacing.

Pattern Shifting for the Cello is available as a PDF ebook on www.learnstrings.com.

A little bit more difficult than Pattern Shifting, Serial Shifting for the Cello has similar exercises in rows and patterns. The exercises progress more quickly than those in Pattern Shifting and having a prior knowledge of positions is advised.

The first half of the book has studies in 1st through 4th positions while the second half of the book has studies in 1st through 8th positions.

All of the exercises are in C major to allow you to fully learn the basic cello positions and spacing.

Serial Shifting for the Cello is available as a print book here on www.charveypublications.com and on Amazon.com and Sheet Music Plus.

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Prepare to play the Saint-Saens Cello Concerto in A minor!

2/20/2019

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Preparing for Saint-Saens

The Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor is a work for cello and orchestra (or piano), written at an advanced level. Studying this Concerto often takes a year or more; it's a major work!

While there are no clearly marked or numbered movements, the Concerto does have three fairly distinct sections that might correlate with our idea of typical concerto movements.

Some techniques used in the first two movements are octave shifts, fast shifting (sometimes called "runs") into the high positions, double stop fifths and sixths, spiccato, and thumb position.

Free Saint-Saens Preparatory Exercises

These free preparatory exercises can help you get ready to start studying the Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto. They work on some of the basic techniques needed to play the first few pages of the Concerto: bowing, octave shifts, chromatic scales, and more.

Free Preparatory Cello Exercise: Bowing I

Saint-Saens Cello Concerto Preparatory Study

Free Preparatory Cello Exercise: Bowing II

Free Preparatory Cello Exercise: Scale Shifting Exercise

Free Preparatory Cello Exercise: Rhythm & Staccato

Note: These free exercises are not a substitute for a full study of the Concerto like the one in The Saint-Saens Cello Concerto No. 1 Study Book. Instead, they help prepare you for the study book and show exercises can make learning more efficient.

Free Preparatory Cello Exercise: Rhythm I

Free Preparatory Cello Exercise: Rhythm II

Free Preparatory Cello Exercise: Octave Shifts I

Free Preparatory Cello Exercise: Octave Shifts II

Free Preparatory Cello Exercise: Chromatic Scale

Free Preparatory Cello Exercise: Shifting and Bowing Study

Books to study in preparation

The Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto is much easier to learn if you have acquired a solid grasp intermediate and advanced cello technique. You should be able to read bass, tenor, and treble clef and play in thumb position. You should have learned three-octave scales and it would be helpful if you have also studied octave shifts, double stop sixths, and double stop octaves.

Three-Octave Scales for the Cello, Book One: The Basics

Like these exercises? Now, you can learn the rest of the Saint-Saens Cello Concerto using a Study Book!

We are very excited to present this new release:
The Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto No. 1 Study Book for Cello, Volume One!

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Improve Your Cello Bowing: Free Mini Open String Workouts

2/14/2019

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This past year Theresa Villani, a wonderful cellist and cello teacher, wrote and asked if I had any exercises for bowing on open strings for one of her students. I had a few pages of an incomplete book, which I was happy to share. She wrote right back and said "Please make a book out of these!" (Incidentally, that's how a lot of books get started; share your ideas on this page.)

Over the next few months, in between writing The Romberg Sonata in C Major Study Book and The Saint-Saens Concerto No. 1 Study Book for Cello, I got to work on the open string book.

After I had written about half of the book, I sat down play through it, rather reluctantly. It seemed almost a waste of time to sit and play through so many pages of just plain open strings.

But then I made some discoveries and found myself really excited about open strings!

1. Playing open strings really well is hard! They look easy (at least at the beginning of the book) but this is deceptive. Because the sound is so exposed, I found myself getting super picky with the sound I was producing. This in turn led me to work on fluidity in bow changes, relaxed wrist and fingers, and getting the string vibrating with the least possible motion from my hand.

Free Mini Cello Bowing Workout No. 1

Free Mini Cello Bowing Workout No. 2

2. Playing open string bow studies is a great way to isolate the bow, especially when you are struggling with note-reading. I have a student who started lessons a few months ago and was unable to adapt to note-reading. We started playing Open-String Bow Workouts and just a month later, he was reading all of his music much more easily.

Free Mini Cello Bowing Workout No. 3

Free Mini Cello Bowing Workout No. 4

3. Playing open string bow studies can help cellists at every level. I've used this book with a student who had just started playing a few months earlier and also with some of my intermediate and very advanced students. It helped them all, in different ways.

The beginning students used the book to discover what the bow can do. The intermediate students used it to listen more and improve their tone. And the advanced students played the slow exercises very slow and the fast exercises very fast to expand the range of their bow technique.

Free Mini Cello Bowing Workout No. 5

Free Mini Cello Bowing Workout No. 6

4. Playing so many open string studies gave me an incredibly smooth bow motion! I mean, wow. I was surprised and rather rueful; it was humbling to realize how much my bow can still use work.

Free Mini Cello Bowing Workout No. 7

Free Mini Cello Bowing Workout No. 8

Free Mini Cello Bowing Workout No. 9

Free Mini Cello Bowing Workout No. 10

To celebrate the release of the new book of Open String Bow Workouts, we are offering the above mini set of (all-new) cello open string studies for free!

When you play these, focus on correct form and how you're holding the bow. Keep the bow arm shoulder, wrist, and fingers as loose and relaxed as possible. The thumb should be gently balanced on the bow; never squeezing.

Listen for the smoothest, most even sound during each note and keep the bow moving at the same speed while you change bows so there is no variation in sound.

If you want even more help for your bow, check out the book that started it all!

Interested in Developing Better Tone?

Live outside the US? All of our books are on Amazon around the world and many of our books are available as PDF downloads on Learnstrings:

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Developing Strong, Curved Fingers for Better Cello Tone

1/30/2019

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Strong, curved left-hand fingers are essential for good cello technique and for developing a beautiful tone.

By curving your fingers and playing on the very tips of the fingers, you can stop the string completely, which in turn allows the string to vibrate fully when you play it.

Some of the cello exercises in Finger Exercises for the Cello, Book One were written specifically to help cellists develop well-curved fingers through double stops.

Exercise No. 14 is the first study in the book that works on developing curved fingers. Here's an excerpt:

Finger Exercises for the Cello, Book One Page 14 Excerpt

Although my cello students have almost universally decried these studies as "evil", the Finger Exercises have done SO much to help them play clearly and in tune!

Here is an excerpt from Exercise No. 20:

Finger Exercises for the Cello, Book One Page 20 Excerpt

I have also found that some students benefit from preparatory studies that allow them to focus on the fingers with easier notes.

Check out these free preparatory finger exercises that help you curve your fingers, stop the string completely, and get ready to play the essential cello double stop studies in Finger Exercises for the Cello, Book One.

Free Cello Finger Exercise No. 1

Free Cello Finger Exercise No. 2

Free Cello Finger Exercise No. 3

Free Cello Finger Exercise No. 4

Free Cello Finger Exercise No. 5

Free Cello Finger Exercise No. 6

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I am in love with cello etudes.

The First Volume of Cello Etudes is Released!

Free Beginning Cello Etude No. 1

Free Beginning Cello Etude No. 2

Free Beginning Cello Etude No. 3

No. 3, cont.

Free Beginning Cello Etude No. 4

Free Beginning Cello Etude No. 5

Free Beginning Cello Etude No. 6

Free Beginning Cello Etude No. 7

Sign Up to Get Your PDF copy ofFree Beginning Cello Etudes!

Free Mini Cello Bowing Workout No. 1

Free Mini Cello Bowing Workout No. 2

Free Mini Cello Bowing Workout No. 3

Free Mini Cello Bowing Workout No. 4

Free Mini Cello Bowing Workout No. 5

Free Mini Cello Bowing Workout No. 6

Free Mini Cello Bowing Workout No. 7

Free Mini Cello Bowing Workout No. 8

Free Mini Cello Bowing Workout No. 9

Free Mini Cello Bowing Workout No. 10

Sign Up to Get Free PDFs of these Mini Open String Bow Workouts for Cello!

Here's a concert photo of one of our Summer Fiddle groups playing a tune from the Blackberry Blossom Fiddle Books!

And now for the free booklets!

Here are Free Play-Along Tracks for Forked Deer:

Sign Up to Get Free PDFs of the Forked Deer Fiddle Booklets!

Fiddles on the Bandstand Duets: Fully Compatible Between Instruments

Here's What's In the Books:

To Celebrate the New Books,Here's a Brand New Arrangement of​Sousa's Liberty Bell March!

Sign Up Here to Receive Your Free PDFs of the​Sousa Liberty Bell duet!

Figuring Out How to Teach Cello Arpeggios

Free Cello Arpeggio Preparatory Studies!

Cello ArpeggiosShifting Study

Cello ArpeggiosFifth Position Study

Cello ArpeggiosSpacing Across Strings

Fingering No. 1Putting the Arpeggio Together

Cello ArpeggiosNote Spaces​for Fingering No. 2

Cello ArpeggiosPlaying Across Strings​for Fingering No. 2

Cello ArpeggiosPutting the Notes Together for Fingering No. 2

Cello ArpeggiosShifting to the Thumb for Fingering No. 3

Cello ArpeggiosLearning More Thumb Position Notes for Fingering No. 3

Would you like a free PDF of these studies?

​​Tips for Playing Cello Three-Octave Scale Steps

C Major ​Cello Scale Spaces

D-flat Major Cello Scale Spaces

D Major ​Cello Scale Spaces

E-flat Major ​Cello Scale Spaces

E Major ​Cello Scale Spaces

F Major ​Cello Scale Spaces

F-sharp Major ​Cello Scale Spaces

G Major ​Cello Scale Spaces

A-flat Major ​Cello Scale Spaces

A Major ​Cello Scale Spaces

B-flat Major​Cello Scale Spaces

B Major ​Cello Scale Spaces

Would you like a free PDF booklet of these pages?

Starting to play in positions on the cello can be daunting!

1. Learn Cello Fourth Position

2. Learn Cello Positions in Depth

Are your shifting books too hard?​Try the Preparatory Study Books​(great for fearful shifters)​

3. Free Preparatory Exercises for Pattern Shifting and Serial Shifting for the Cello

Half and Whole Steps

Free Note Chart:​Cello Positions​on the A String

Free Cello Position Exercises​on the​A String

Free Note Chart: ​Cello Positions​on the D String

Free Cello Position Exercises​on the​D String

Free Note Chart: ​Cello Positions​on the G String

Free Cello Position Exercises​on the​G String

Free Note Chart: ​Cello Positions​on the C String

Free Cello Position Exercises​on the​C String

Free Cello Position Exercisefor Muscle Memory

Free Cello Position Exercisefor Muscle Memory

Free Cello Position Exercise: Cello Positions Across Strings

4. Study the Position Exercise Books

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Preparing for Saint-Saens

Free Saint-Saens Preparatory Exercises

Free Preparatory Cello Exercise: Bowing I

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Cello Arpeggios
Shifting Study

Cello Arpeggios
Fifth Position Study

Cello Arpeggios
Spacing Across Strings

Fingering No. 1
Putting the Arpeggio Together

Cello Arpeggios
Note Spaces
for Fingering No. 2

Cello Arpeggios
Playing Across Strings
for Fingering No. 2

Cello Arpeggios
Putting the Notes Together for Fingering No. 2

Cello Arpeggios
Shifting to the Thumb for Fingering No. 3

Cello Arpeggios
Learning More Thumb Position Notes for Fingering No. 3

Tips for Playing Cello Three-Octave Scale Steps

C Major
Cello Scale Spaces

D-flat Major
Cello Scale Spaces

D Major
Cello Scale Spaces

E-flat Major
Cello Scale Spaces

E Major
Cello Scale Spaces

F Major
Cello Scale Spaces

F-sharp Major
Cello Scale Spaces

G Major
Cello Scale Spaces

A-flat Major
Cello Scale Spaces

A Major
Cello Scale Spaces

B-flat Major
Cello Scale Spaces

B Major
Cello Scale Spaces

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Free Note Chart:
Cello Positions
on the A String

Free Cello Position Exercises
on the
A String

Free Note Chart:
Cello Positions
on the D String

Free Cello Position Exercises
on the
D String

Free Note Chart:
Cello Positions
on the G String

Free Cello Position Exercises
on the
G String

Free Note Chart:
Cello Positions
on the C String

Free Cello Position Exercises
on the
C String

Free Cello Position Exercise
for Muscle Memory

Free Cello Position Exercise
for Muscle Memory

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