Adding Stickers to the Cello

For this lesson you will need to get some small finger sized stickers to place on the fingerboard as a way to gauge where the fingers are supposed to go.  This will help your hand and fingers shape to the proper intonation from the beginning, developing that all...

Monorail and Stretch

The Monorail.  Left hand or cello hand. Take your middle finger and place in-between the D and the G string, have the fingernail facing the bridge and the finger tall.  Now pull the finger back to first position and place the thumb directly underneath the second...

Posture of the Left Arm

The Monorail. Left hand or cello hand. Take your middle finger and place in-between the D and the G string, have the fingernail facing the bridge and the finger tall. Now pull the finger back to first position and place the thumb directly underneath the second finger...