Cello Method

Christine Watts

Jul 2016 · Mel Bay Publications

About this ebook

A wonderful new edition of our Cello Method book which teaches the beginning cello student everything they need to know. The book starts with Seating and Bow Hold, then covers all the details of the Language of Music, reading, writing and playing. Cello Method follows with Extensive Bowing Exercises and Stretch Position with Thorough Instruction and Material all the way through Shifting to 4th Position. Enchanting New Songs and Old Classics follow and are mixed with Detailed Explanations and Many Bowing Exercises to Create a Beautiful Sound with the Bow. Cello Method has three different levels of bow instruction with bowing variations, exclusive to this method book only. Includes access to online audio.

About the author

Christine Watts is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. As a young competition winner, she twice performed as a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Ms. Watts first began teaching at the New School of Music in Philadelphia with the Curtis String Quartet at the New School of Music in 1975. She currently teaches and plays in the faculty orchestra at the Kimberton Waldorf School in Phoenixville, and in the Wayne Art Center chamber group in Wayne Pennsylvania.