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Double Stop Beginnings for the Cello, Book One teaches you to play two notes at once and get them in tune.
Playing double stops strengthens your fingers, helps you build…
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This book trains the cello student with basic exercises shifting from first position to fourth position. Shifting studies with both separate and slurred bowing are included. This book is intended…
Cello Stretching: Extended First Position teaches you how to reach beyond first position to play flats and sharps.
Starting with extending to 1st finger flats and finishing with extending forward…
This book combines fun songs and easy exercises to help the beginning bass student play as much as possible. Bass Book One is an excellent companion to Knowing the Notes…
This book works on basic violin bowing and rhythm skills using only open strings. From quarter and eighth notes to the first slurs, this book can help students read music…
The Open-String Book, written specifically for beginning violists, teaches basic bowing and rhythm skills using only open strings. While first helpful for the absolute beginner, the book is also useful…
Octave Scale Studies for the Violin, Book One presents exercises on the A-major scale in double stop octaves for the early-advanced violinist. The book covers first through eighth positions. Starting…
The Triplet Book for Violin, Part One presents studies and short pieces that train the violinist’s left and right hands in playing groups of three notes. Working on addressing rhythmic…
The Triplet Book for Viola, Part One presents studies and short pieces that train the violist’s left and right hands in playing groups of three notes. Working on addressing rhythmic…
Learning the Bass, Book One is an introductory bass method for the absolute beginner. Starting with open string letters and songs with simple finger numbers, the book progresses to short…
Early Exercises for the Violin is written specifically for beginning violinists. Using three exercises each week, the book teaches finger strength, rhythm, and very basic bowing. Early Exercises covers only…
This book presents a systematic study of tenor clef for the intermediate cellist. The exercises teach one or two notes at a time, while corresponding pieces utilize the notes that…
Trill Studies for the Cello, Book One: Preparatory Studies teaches your fingers to be efficient and move faster.
Focusing on short bursts of fast notes, the book uses common principles…
This book teaches the fourth position on the cello through original technique and carefully chosen study material. Shifting, playing across strings, harmonics, and extended fourth position are covered extensively. Fourth…
The D Major Scale Book for Cello teaches a three-octave D major scale, with variations that focus on shifting, bowing, and rhythm. This book can follow The C Major Scale…
Finger Exercises for the Cello, Book Four trains the intermediate or advanced cellist’s hand in strength and agility using first through eighth positions and basic thumb position. The book includes…
Variations galore!
The Hot Cross Buns Book for Cello uses fifty variations on the famous song to teach basic finger patterns and rhythms on the cello.
The book is especially…
Arpeggio Studies in Two Octaves for the Cello helps teach first though seventh positions through major arpeggios in all keys.
Each two-page study presents the arpeggios in a different rhythm…
Scale Studies for the Third Octave, Book One presents shifting exercises for the notes in the third octave of the D, E-flat, E, F, F-sharp, and G major scales on…
Improve your beginning cello technique!
Early Exercises for the Cello helps beginning cello students build a stronger technique.
The book helps you develop finger control and dexterity, while also teaching…
Serial Shifting for the Violin presents shifting exercises in rows and patterns. The first part of the book consists of studies in first through third positions, while the second part…
Serial Shifting for the Viola presents shifting exercises in rows and patterns. The first part of the book consists of studies in first through third positions, while the second part…
This book provides the cellist with further essential daily studies in thumb position. Each short exercise moves through six keys so the spaces can be learned in a variety of…
This book explores a variety of shifting styles with short, intense studies. Once the positions have been learned, cellists can use this book as daily shifting practice that can improve…
Bowing Studies on Arpeggios is a series of exercises primarily for the intermediate or advanced cellist’s right hand, with an emphasis on string crossing. The book is written so that…
This book presents a systematic study of treble clef for the intermediate violist. The exercises teach one or two notes at a time, while corresponding pieces utilize the notes that…
Do you struggle to remember sharps and flats while you are playing? Do you wish you had better muscle memory for finger positions? This book can help!
By focusing on…
This book presents basic shifting studies to second, third, and fourth positions in G major for the intermediate violinist. With an emphasis on spacing in each position, the exercises use…
This book presents basic shifting studies to second, third, and fourth positions in C major for the intermediate violist. With an emphasis on spacing in each position, the exercises use…
Octave Scale Studies for the Viola, Book One presents exercises on the D-major scale in double stop octaves for the early-advanced violist. The book covers first through eighth positions. Starting…
Learn more viola!
Learning the Viola, Book Two teaches a new set of skills on the viola and helps you become more fluent in first position.
The book reviews note-reading…
This book combines fun songs and easy exercises to help the beginning viola student play as much as possible. Viola Book One is an excellent companion to Knowing the Notes…
Timid About Starting Cello Third Position?
Third Position Preparatory Studies for the Cello gives you easy studies and corresponding short position pieces that introduce you to very basic third position…
Three-Octave Scales for the Cello, Book Two presents a set of cello scale variations for daily practice. From slur patterns to spiccato, bowings and rhythms are explored in hundreds of…
Written to follow Learning the Violin, this book combines fun songs and easy exercises to help the beginning violin student play as much as possible. Playing the Violin is an…
Written to follow Learning the Viola, this book combines fun songs and easy exercises to help the beginning viola student play as much as possible. Playing the Viola is an…
Written to follow Learning the Cello, Book One, this book combines catchy, enjoyable songs with easy exercises to help the beginning cello student play as much as possible. With exercises…
Written to follow Learning the Bass, Book One, this book combines catchy, enjoyable songs with easy exercises to help the beginning bass student play as much as possible. With exercises…
This book is an introduction to shifting into fourth position on the cello! Ideal for teaching basic shifting to younger students, the book presents easy exercises and short position pieces…
Thumb Position School for the Cello is a method for learning the notes in thumb position. Focusing on the main position of thumb on mid-string harmonic , the book includes…
Shifting in Keys for Violin, Book One presents studies that move through the positions, focusing on the half and whole steps in each key. This book helps the violinist solidify…
Do you want to improve your left-hand speed and agility? This book trains the cello student with finger exercises that are entirely in fourth position. The exercises will help you…
Improve your cello bowing technique! This book teaches string-crossing technique on the cello with open-string studies that allow you to focus on the right hand.
Through the use of staccato…
Octave Shifts Book Three gives advanced cellists further opportunity to study and perfect the technique of distance shifting. While large shifts regularly appear in solo literature, it is unusual to…
The study of tenths continues with studies in shifting from an octave into a tenth, and then through the positions. The book uses strength and placement exercises to train the…
Thumb Position Studies for the Cello, Book Four provides the advanced cellist with a fourth set of essential daily studies in thumb position. Each short exercise moves through six keys…
Shifting in Keys for Cello, Book One presents studies that move through the positions, focusing on the half and whole steps in each key. This book helps the cellist solidify…
Scale Studies (One String) for the Cello, Book Two presents the advanced cellist with another exciting array of scale studies and variations up a single string. The books in this…
