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Bach’s Suite Gift
Bach’s Suite Gift: A Musical Journey Through J. S. Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007
There are sections on editions, the suite, musical ingredients, trills and ornaments, approach, Bach’s life, and the cello in Bach’s time. Each movement has a description, the music with bass line, and the Anna Magdalena MS. The sources are listed. The music is without bowings, includes fingerings, and has Anna Magdalena MS bowings in a cue line above the music. Video support available. 44 pages.
$19.95
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Purchase Bach's Suite GiftCello Playing is Easy Part 1: Warm-ups
Cello Playing Is Easy—Warm-ups is a comprehensive guide to technique for cello from establishing the beginning stages to maintenance for the mature player. Contents:
Body: concepts; routines for energy and freedom of movement; and Dr. Alice Brandfonbrener’s Warm-Up/ Cool-Down Exercises.
Sound: concepts; basic bow strokes; tone development; preparation for spiccato; spiccato; advanced bowing techniques; and pizzicato.
Pitch: concepts, shifting, trills, thumb position, double stops, vibrato, intonation, and double joints.
Guides for the Teacher: technique guides; group lesson guide; lesson manager; and comprehensive musicianship guides on 8 levels of advancement.
Guides for the Cellist: planners, Technique Check List, and biographies of contributors.
174 pages. 190 full color pictures. Companion videos available on this website with order.
Also available in Spanish: Tocar Chelo es Fácil — Primera Parte: Calentamiento
$34.95
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Purchase Cello Playing is Easy: Warm-upsVideo Access to a single “Cello Playing is Easy Part 1: Warm-Ups” book without book purchase.
(access code will be sent after you order)
$25
Purchase Video Access Only to Cello Playing is Easy: Warm-upsLaminated Spiccato and Octave Wizard Sheet
This two-sided laminate5 sheet provides a stand alone tool for two of the most used pages in the Warm-ups book.
$8.00 as a stand alone purchase.
Purchase Cello Playing is Easy Laminated Spiccato and Octave Wizard SheetCello Playing is Easy Warm-ups with Laminated Spiccato and Octave Wizard Sheet
$42.95
Purchase Cello Playing is Easy: Warm-ups with Laminated Spiccato and Octave Wizard SheetCello Playing is Easy Part 2: Scales and Arpeggios
Cello Playing Is Easy—Scales and Arpeggios
This book guides cellists through Eight Steps from Foundation through Artist, encompassing Ten Repertoire/Technique Levels, which develop the vocabulary of Western Music. It is intended for teachers who want to know how and when to present scales and arpeggios, for cellists who are interested in mastering the Ivan Galamian Scale System for Violoncello, and for practice partners who want to understand the process. Includes: Group Activities, Checklists for each Step, Theory Facts, 14 Organizational Plans, Cello Positions Game, Cello Positions Chart, and a Comprehensive Curriculum for Cello. 128 pages, spiral bound. Video support on line at celloplayingiseasy.com.
$34.95
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Purchase Scales and ArpeggiosCello Playing is Easy Part 3: Etudes
Cello Playing Is Easy—Etudes: A Comprehensive Guide is designed as an overview of etude study for the teacher with ideas about how to guide a student to integrate analysis, fundamental theory concepts, sight-reading, and technique. Mature cellists will find this book useful to compare their etude analyses. There are also companion videos on the celloplayingiseasy.com website to demonstrate ideas in the text.
$24.95
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Purchase Etudes - A Comprehensive GuideReady To Read for Violin, Viola, Cello, and String Bass
Ready to Read for Violin, Viola, Cello, and String Bass has
100 Games to prepare the reading process presented in the Sight Reading is Easy series.
Topics include: pitch; rhythm; musical terms & symbols; notation; and improvisation.
Game materials are included with the book in a clear poly envelope.
138 Pages.
$34.95
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Purchase Ready To ReadSight Reading is Easy series
Sight Reading is Easy is a set of four graded reading books designed to develop in string players the process of sight reading. Students can expect to come away with a solid approach to reading music at sight – a skill that is tested in most auditions. For this reason, the books are written in elementary positions and can be used as a standalone reading method, or alongside other etudes or pieces where the methods developed in the series can be applied.
The series works equally well for individual lessons or in a mixed strings class format as the parts are written in unison keys. In addition to sight reading skills of recognizing key signatures, rhythms, and meter, emphasis is on identifying patterns in melody (intervals), rhythm, and fingering. Other musicianship skills developed throughout the series include scales, bowing articulations, terms, reading roadmaps, and tips to sightread beyond notes and rhythms into musical interpretation.
Included with the Reading books is a Guide to help teachers and home practice, as well as an Encyclopedia of Musical Information for convenient reference and review. See the Sight Reading is Easy—At a Glance document for a more detailed explanation of the organization of the series.
Sight Reading is Easy for Cello
This package contains:
Book 1—Let’s Go (#1-66)
Book 2—Moving Forward (#67-128)
Book 3—Sixteenth Notes and Other Things (#129-213)
Book 4—Music in Threes and Finishing Things (#214-268)
with a Guide and Encyclopedia of Musical Information with a Rhythm Dictionary.
$34.95
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Purchase Sight Reading is Easy for CelloSight Reading is Easy for Violin
This package contains:
Book 1—Let’s Go (#1-66)
Book 2—Moving Forward (#67-128)
Book 3—Sixteenth Notes and Other Things (#129-213)
Book 4—Music in Threes and Finishing Things (#214-268)
with a Guide and Encyclopedia of Musical Information with a Rhythm Dictionary.
$34.95
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Purchase Sight Reading is Easy for ViolinSight Reading is Easy for Viola
This package contains:
Book 1—Let’s Go (#1-66)
Book 2—Moving Forward (#67-128)
Book 3—Sixteenth Notes and Other Things (#129-213)
Book 4—Music in Threes and Finishing Things (#214-268)
with a Guide and Encyclopedia of Musical Information with a Rhythm Dictionary.
$34.95
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Purchase Sight Reading is Easy for ViolaSight Reading is Easy for String Bass
This package contains:
Preparation for Book 1 (#P1-P43)
Book 1—Let’s Go (#1-66)
Book 2—Moving Forward (#67-128)
Book 3—Sixteenth Notes and Other Things (#129-213)
Book 4—Music in Threes and Finishing Things (#214-268)
with a Guide and Encyclopedia of Musical Information with a Rhythm Dictionary.
$34.95
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Purchase Sight Reading is Easy for String BassAdvanced Applications
Advanced Applications is a series of essays and interviews designed to help a cellist prepare orchestra and chamber music; improvise; compose; and study theory.
Contributors include:
Chicago Symphony members Tom Hall and David Sanders; Cincinnati Orchestra Principal, Eric Kim; Pittsburgh Symphony cellist, Michael DeBruyn; Pacific Quartet cellist, Brandon Vamos; Artist/Educator Renata Bratt; Composer Carl van Wyk; and Tanya Carey.
$12.95
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Purchase Advanced ApplicationsCello Playing is Easy Parts 5&6: Repertoire Review and Building
Cello Playing Is Easy—Repertoire Review and Building empowers cellists with an approach to learning literature and performance review on three levels: beginning, intermediate, and advanced.
Practice Partner Guide
The Practice Partner Guide is the first book in the Repertoire Building and Review part of the Cello Playing is Easy series. It builds practice and musical/technical skills for cellists in the first steps of learning (Pre-Twinkle) through the first four books of the Suzuki™ Cello School with the guidance of their practice partner and teacher.
Also available in Spanish: Tocar el cello es fácil: Guia del compañero de práctica
$34.95
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Purchase Repertoire Review and Building: The Practice Partner GuideIntermediate Independence Guide — Coming Soon.
The Advanced Cellist
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The Advanced Cellist focuses on the process to prepare, polish, and perform concert music for concerto level cellists. After exploring motivation, assessing playing, and determining long and short-term goals through strategic planning, the discussion turns to facing the challenges of time use, mental attitude, organization, choosing learning strategies, memorization, refinement, presentation, and maintenance.
$29.95