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Author: Vera Mattlin Jiji
ISBN : 1412095603
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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 instructor available so I bought a level 1 book at the local music store. After about a week, I had more questions and no answers. I spent a few hours on the Internet and learned of Vera Jiji’s wonderful book. . . . I immediately found the book answering my questions. The book is easy to understand and follow…Have no doubts, if you are learning the Cello, you will love this book!” – Michael L., Jefferson, TX.

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• Paperback: 234 pages
• Publisher: Vera Mattlin Jiji; 1st,Updated edition (July 9, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1412095603
• ISBN-13: 978-1412095600
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds

{PRETITLE} Cello Playing for Music Lovers: A Self-Teaching Method {POSTTITLE}

CPML is an attempt to bring the complex and daunting task of learning to play the cello down to earth and approachable for adult beginners. Unlike the typical beginning cello book, CPML contain easy-to-read explanatory text matched with simple, short, playable examples that illustrate the point of the text. The target audience for the book is a typical adult non-musician who might feel intimidated by technical-looking cello methods and etude books, but who, through life experience, is already familiar with many of the melodies and fragments of classics that make up the book. The learner can relate the point in the text to the already-familiar example; and then perform the example.

I don't know of another book like this one for cellists with this mix of adult-beginner orientation, conversational style, widely-known examples from popular culture, a demonstration CD, and introductory discussions of concepts such as relaxation, dynamics, factors in choice of bowings and fingerings, modulations, and modes. The closest would be Louis Potter's Art of Cello Playing which has many more exercises and scales, a little explanatory text, just a few commonly-known tunes, and no audio CD. CPML frequently relates the discussion to specific pages in both Art of Cello Playing and Alvin Schroeder's 170 Foundation Studies for Violoncello, suggesting a student would do well to work from all three books.

The book addresses the primary issues for cello beginners: parts of the cello, posture, bow hold, hand position, rudiments of scales, notation, positions, etc, assuming no prior knowledge on the part of the student. It contains several fingering charts, progressively covering more of the fingerboard, from 1st position to 4th position, including position.