Cello Basics
  • home
  • cellisthenics
  • library
  • methods
  • author

CELLO STARTERS


Related:
THE CELLO AND BOW
STRETCHES / WARM-UPS
NOTES ON THE CELLO

CELLO TECHNIQUE
RIGHT HAND
LEFT HAND / THUMB POSITION
SCALES / THIRDS / ARPEGGIOS / DOUBLE STOPS / HARMONICS

STARTERS
  • Music (melody, rhythm, harmony)
  • Basic music notation (staff, clef, measure, bar line, measure numbers, end barline)
  • Structure of music: Repeat / 1st and 2nd ending / D.C., Coda, Segno
  • Meter (time signatures)
  • Note values (whole to 16ths), counting
  • Rest values (whole to 16ths), counting
  • Rhythmic dot / Fermata / Cesura
  • Irregular divisions of the beat: triplets / quintuplets / sextuplets / duplets / quadruplets
  • Intervals (perfect, major, minor, diminished, augmented)
  • Interval Inversions
  • Compound Intervals
  • Tetrachords (major, minor, harmonic, upper minor)
  • Building Scales with Tetrachords
  • Keys/Tonality / Key Signatures / Relative / Enharmonic
  • Circle of 5ths / Circle of 4ths
  • Arpeggios (major, minor, diminished, augmented, dominant 7th)
  • Degrees to the Scale (Tonic, Dominant, etc.)  
  • Triads (major, minor, diminished, augmented)
  • 4-Note Chords (7th)
  • Chord Inversions
  • Working with metronome (BPM)
  • Rhythm claps call-response
  • Coordination and Independence
  • Conducting patterns
  • Dynamics
  • Articulation (staccato, legato, tenuto)
  • Ornaments (embellishments): Grace note / Trill / Mordent
  • Common Baroque Dances (Minutet, Gavotte, Bourrée, Sarabande, Gigue, Musette, Rigadoon)

Copyright © 2020 by CelloBasics.com