Welcome
Playing the cello, on any level, will give anyone who loves music enormous satisfaction. If you always wished you could do it "in your next life," do it now.
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Cellist: Erik Friedlander
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Like many people who took music lessons during childhood, I feared that my musical knowledge had been completely lost. I can tell you from personal experience that your childhood musical training is tucked away in the back of your brain, just as my cello was hidden in the back of my closet.
People who never studied music in childhood won’t even try in adulthood – they feel so overwhelmed by the prospect. They believe that, unless you studied music as a child, it is impossible to learn later on. That is simply not true. Playing music is one of life’s most glorious experiences. Nobody should be deprived of it, especially through an unwarranted fear of music’s difficulties.
If you want to learn how to play the cello this comprehensive, clearly written 212 page book provides all essential instructions from basics to Bach, from selecting an instrument to playing in chamber music groups. It contains over 100 musical illustrations, including over 60 lovely melodies from popular to gospel to show tunes to classical classics.
For less than the cost of a single private lesson, it teaches you to:
- Control your cello and bow
- Read music notes and rhythms
- Play many beautiful melodies both by reading and by ear
- Understand major and minor scales
- Appreciate musical structures: chords, arpeggios, modulations and improvisations
- Use cello positions one through four
- Enjoy playing with others.
The included CD, performed by popular cello virtuoso Erik Friedlander, enables you to hear and play along with virtually every musical selection in the book.
