Position Pieces for Cello

Description

Position Pieces for Cello is designed to give students a logical and fun way to learn their way around the fingerboard. Each hand position is introduced with exercises called “Target Practice”, “Geography Quiz”, and “Names and Numbers”. Following these exercises are tuneful cello duets which have been specifically composed to require students to play in that hand position. In this way, students gain a thorough knowledge of how th find the hand positions, and once there, which notes are possible to play. While using these pieces (with names like “I Was a Teenage Monster”, “The Irish Tenor”, and “I've Got the Blues, Baby”), position study on the cello has never been so much fun!



Contents:
• A Note to Students
• “UPPER” SECOND POSITION
• Target Practice and Geography Quiz
• Names and Numbers
• Fanfare
• Skating
• The Elephant's Waltz
• The Tired Tortoise
• The Whale's Song
• March
• Sitting in the Shade
• Bugle Call
• Toy Soldiers
• Lament
• The Invisible Target
• Pachyderm Parade
• EXTENDED SECOND POSITION
• Target Practice and Geography Quiz
• Names and Numbers
• Ballad
• C Song
• Somersaults and Cartwheels
• Tango
• Erik's Minuet
• “LOWER” THIRD POSITION
• Target Practice and Geography Quiz
• Names and Numbers
• Japanese Garden
• I'm So Sleepy
• March of the Dinosaurs
• The Haunted House
• I Was a Teenage Monster
• “LOWER” SECOND POSITION
• Target Practice and Geography Quiz
• Names and Numbers
• I've Got Homework
• Valse Triste
• Sicilienne
• Etude
• FOURTH POSITION
• Target Practice and Geography Quiz
• Names and Numbers
• Church Bells
• A Minor Melody
• The Big Kangaroo
• A Cloudy Day
• Busy Bees
• In a Hurry
• “UPPER” THIRD POSITION
• Target Practice and Geography Quiz
• Names and Numbers
• The Troubadour
• Hoedown
• A Waltz
• The Hippopotamus' Dance
• The Heavy Highlander
• Barcarole
• EXTENDED THIRD POSITION
• Target Practice and Geography Quiz
• Names and Numbers
• Dreamland
• Marching Martians
• Bugle Call
• The Tiny Ballerina
• Jig
• HALF POSITION
• Target Practice and Geography Quiz
• Names and Numbers
• Half Position Serenade
• The Shark
• Running
• Going Baroque
• Spanish Dance
• VARIOUS POSITIONS
• At the Ball
• Sad Song
• Walking Home
• Ländler
• Feeling Fine
• The Irish Tenor
• Melancholy
• Jack Spratt Dances with His Wife
• Playing in the Park
• I Got the Blues, Baby