Are you a late-intermediate or an early-advanced cellist who wants to get better at shifting? Do you want an exciting new way to warm up in lessons or practice sessions? This book can help!

Each exercise duet is followed by a repertoire duet in the same key. Cello positions one through eight, bass and tenor clef, and the keys of C, G, D, A, and E major are used in the duets.

Improve your shifting while playing these energetic exercisesand enjoyable baroque and classical pieces today!

by Cassia Harvey

41 pages

Level: Early advanced with a focus on first through eighth positions.

Are you an intermediate or early-advanced cellist who wants to take their technique to the next level?

These intensive cello double stop shifting exercises will help improve your intonation and help build your left-hand strength. At the same time, they will raise the intensity level of your practice, making the time you spend on exercises as efficient as possible.

Moving through the first seven cello positions, these exercises use double stop sixths, thirds, and occasionally fifths and fourths to build your cello technique.

Who this book can help: Cellists who can shift between the first seven positions and want to improve their shifting and finger strength.

How to use this book: Work on one exercise each day, after warming up with finger exercises, scales, and shifting exercises.

by Cassia Harvey

29 pages

Level: Late-Intermediate or Early-Advanced. Uses first through seventh positions on the cello.

Are you an intermediate cellist looking for more interesting ways to warm up? This book can help!

With agility and shifting exercises, lively Baroque pieces, and fiddle tunes, this book helps you work on cello positions and shifting technique as part of your daily practice.

Useful for cellists who have a grasp of the first four positions and want to improve their playing, this book has studies and pieces in the keys of C, G, D, and F major.

by Cassia Harvey

Level: Late-Intemediate

This book is an arrangement for violin and cello of the popular book, "The Violinist Meets the Fiddler," for two violins. It is designed to introduce students to traditional fiddle tunes, combined with familiar classical melodies in fun, easily accessible arrangements. In the twelve duets included in this book, the violin part is designed for the more advanced student, on the level of Suzuki Violin School, Books 3-5. Third position, rapid passage work involving string crossings and chromaticism are utilized. The cello part ranges in level from Books 1-3 and remains in first position, with some extensions. The cello part has been edited by Robin Bloomberg. Double stops can be found in both parts. In the cello part, double stops usually involve open strings. Classical pieces include works of Bach, Beethoven, Dvorak, Handel, Mozart, Offenbach, Pachelbel, Schubert, Rossini, Vivaldi and Johann Strauss. Fiddle Tunes include "Turkey in the Straw," "Arkansas Traveler," "Liberty," "Cripple Creek," "Boil 'em Cabbage Down" and "Sally Ann Johnson."

ISBN 9781619119987.

Eclectic cellist, Renata Bratt, has written the ultimate book for the fiddling cellist, this time from the perspective of an accompanist. Herein, youll find the theoretical and technical foundation for everything you need to creatively back up the lead players in a fiddle jam session, not to mention playing the lead yourself. This progressive method includes detailed fingerings and bowings for traditional fiddle tunes like: Salt Creek, Jenny Dang the Weaver, The Water Is Wide, The Girl I left Behind Me, The Road to California, Masons Apron, and Green Grows the Laurel plus three jigs and a slip-jig. Accompaniment elements include single chord-tone backup, bluegrass bass style, 2 and 3-note chords and arpeggios in the common fiddling keys, one and two-measure rhythmic bowing patterns, the Charleston rhythm, the traveling beat, and many variations of the ever-popular chop bowing technique. With the knowledge and experience conveyed by this book, a cellist can become a valuable asset to any musical group no matter the style! Includes access to 100 online audio tracks expertly played by the author.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA0-Tg4tul8andfeature=youtu.be

?At Last? was composed by Mack Gordon and Harry Warren for the musical ?Sun Valley Serenade? in 1941. It was recorded by Glenn Miller and his orchestra, becoming a chart hit in 1942, and in 1960 by Etta James, who was subsequently inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. The song is a frequent wedding favourite for quartets.

If you would like to watch a video of a professional quartet playing my arrangement on Youtube, look up my channel by typing Skinny Black Dogs-Capriccio Quartet-At Last.

This version of the song is for a professional/advanced quartet, as the opening is tricky for the first violin. However, most of the double stopping includes open strings for at least one of the notes. I have spread the melody across each member of the quartet so that everyone has their place in the sun! As a cellist myself, I know that my part can sometimes be a bit dull, so the cellist gets a lot of the tune! In the solos I have sometimes tried to approximate the feel of jazz by precisely notating the rhythms, but realistically I think it is better for each player to listen to different versions of the song and to play it,to some extent, by ear in order to feel the syncopation. It needs to have a ?rubato? melody, but with the accompaniment as a rock solid 12/8 beat, albeit with an emphasis on the ?off beat? which I have notated with an accent. I also recommend grace notes and glissandi to enhance the bluesy mood.I think Capriccio Quartet does this beautifully!

As well as this version for Quartet, I also have another arrangement of the song in the same key for String Quartet and Female Singer. You can find it uploaded to Sheet Music Press, and is recorded by Capriccio Quartet with my daughter singing.The accompanying parts are almost identical, but each player has more double stopping in the Quartet version. It is in the same key. Have fun and post me any recordings. I can be found on Facebook very easily.