Cello Playing for Music Lovers: A Self-Teaching Method

by Vera Mattlin Jiji

Cello Playing for Music Lovers provides beginners and intermediate cellists with an authoritative, step-by-step guide to learning how to read music and play it on your cello. On the accompanying CD, master cellist Erik Friedlander plays the book’s 116 varied selections chosen from folk tunes to a Bach Sarabande. The CD gives the reader aural feedback on how well he is doing. The book’s many photos show correct playing positions from first through fourth. Working with a good teacher certainly makes the complex process easier. However, this book puts the process in writing, making reviewing easier. It also covers more terrain than most books, which provide only exercises. Here you will find information on learning positions one through four, on music theory and playing with others, for example. Getting all your questions answered becomes more likely. A typical buyer said, “5 out of 5 stars – A Fantastic Journey for me and my Cello . . . . I live in a part of East Texas with no in

Genres: Music

234 pages

First published July 8, 2007

Reviews

[Edgar · Rating 5 out of 5]

A definitive guide to teaching yourself how to play Cello. There is probably no better book for learning cello on your own time as your own teacher. It comes with a CD so you can hear yourself in comparison or play along to tuning, lessons, and songs.