learn to play cello

mi dad told me i could never do this that i should better try guitar and he bought me guitar hero III XD win win jaja AVALANCHAAAA!

I used to learn how to play cello but I really hate to say this but I’m getting busy and stopped taking the class but I love the sound of cello and I want to go back to the lesson!

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.

If i get to be half as good as Eikka (from apocalyptica) is, ill be waaaaaay to happy to put it in words… i know its not easy, but ill try…! =)

I ordered it for $300 on eBay. It isn’t bad, but I need to get it set up. I also found a guy on Craigslist who teaches cello lessons starting at $25 per session. Doable!!

i think just finding right teacher and renting a cello itself is veeery hard to do in the city i live.

Playing cello is challenging. It takes alot of time, practicing – and I didn’t find practicing to be the most relaxing activity. Also, buying a cello is quite expensive. If I had the money to buy one, I might keep playing.

so.. i put the sticker on the “fretboard” (shouldn’t I be learning the names of the parts of the instrument too? oh well)
to do so i had to loosen the strings – now i can’t get the stupid thing in tune.
but i have been playing violin a bit lately. :)

I play piano, guitar, and clarinet, and am currently trying to record an album. I have always wanted to play a stringed instrument and there’s something really sexy about the cello. So for my birthday I splurged and bought one!
I have absolutely no idea how to play it – I was able to successfully string it and tune it (what a bitch that was!), and even figured out how to rosin the bow… but I have no clue as to techniques, etc. anyone have any suggestions? I have purchased some books that will be coming soon, but until then I enjoy holding it and attempting to keep it from squeaking. As long as the strings stay in tune, it actually sounds quite beautiful!

Not many years ago I began to play the ‘cello. Most people would say that what I am doing is ``learning to play’’ the ‘cello. But these words carry into our minds the strange idea that there exist two very different processes: 1) learning to play the ‘cello; and 2) playing the ‘cello. They imply that I will do the first until I have completed it, at which point I will stop the first process and begin the second; in short, that I will go on ``learning to play’’ until I have ``learned to play’’ and that then I will begin to play. Of course, this is nonsense. There are not two processes, but one. We learn to do something by doing it. There is no other way.

John Holt

Some Thoughts on Teaching—from John Miller, CMU – www.agsm.edu.au/...