I started learning 7 years ago. 4 years ago my parents bought me a student cello. I’ve taken lessons for 4 years. Cello is just hard enough that I have never sustained interest in it. My inclination is to describe myself as a beginning cellist but the very beginning books and pieces are so boring and so I think I am an advanced beginner. On a scale of 1 to 100, with 1 as a person who got a cello today and doesn’t like it and 100 a master concert cellist, I am a 12.
I have a plan, though. I am going to play cello every single day. Not sure how long to play. But every session I am going to go through tuning (can’t tune), warm ups, and learn one of the pieces from my books I never learned. Once I have mastered my beginning cellist books I am going to join orchestra. Also, every 21 sequential days that I play I get to buy a popular or interesting cello book. I am thinking of the HP and LOTR soundtracks for my first 42 days.
