Product Overview
Cello Fingerings: Improve Your Left-Hand Game is a concise but thorough treatise and workbook on the many facets of devising fingerings for the cello. This book is primarily designed for intermediate cellists, which usually means ages fourteen to twenty, but which could be any age from six to eighty. The purpose of this book is to provide you with much of the basic information that you need in order to become good at practicing the cello. This is the book for you if
you know how to shift but you do not currently devise your own fingerings; you can devise fingerings, but you are frequently unhappy with the results; you devise your own fingerings, but you frequently encounter other fingering ideas that you had not previously considered. Table Of Contents: Part 1: Preliminaries Chapter 1-Introduction Chapter 2- A System for Marking Fingerings Chapter 2.5-Random-Note Quiz Part 2: The Basics Chapter 3- The Basics: Priorities of Shifting Chapter 4- The Basics, Continued Chapter 5-Rules of Thumb Chapter 6-Know Your Patterns Chapter 7- Stretching the Left Hand Chapter 8-Putting It All Together Part 3: Applications Chapter 9-Baroque Music Chapter 10-General Quiz on Fingerings Chapter 11-Awkward Passages Chapter 12-Increasing Your Options Chapter 13-Chromaticism and Difficult Key Signatures Chapter 14-Test Yourself against Other Intermediate Cellists Chapter 14.5-Random High Note Mini-Quiz Chapter 15-High Registers Part 4: Advanced Topics Chapter 16-Advanced Topics Chapter 17-Some of My Favorite Fingerings Chapter 18-Conclusions
