Janice Tucker Rhoda: The ABC's Of Violin: Anthology Edition: Violin:

Janice Tucker Rhoda's phenomenally successful series The ABCS Of Cello owes much of its success to the wonderful original material and to the sensitive arrangements of classical folk fiddle and other popular melodies.After many years of teaching children and adults the author has developed a simple and enjoyable approach for studying the Cello. The ABCs of Cello for the Absolute Beginner (Book 1) contains 29 Melodies Finger Graphs Warm-ups Scales Easy Duets a worksheet for note-recognition a glossary of music terms and symbols (page 41) and practice chart.The special CD insert consists of threecomponents: 29 performance pieces of Cello with Piano accompaniments Piano accompaniment tracks by themselves for play-along and a printable pdf file of the Piano accompaniments. Rob Bethel is a critically acclaimed classical and improvisational cellist who plays The ABCs of Cello Book 1 CD with passion sensitivity and gusto.

417 Exercises include 63 Musical Studies in Positions 1 through 5-From the author of the popular ABCs of Strings method Janice Tucker Rhoda's Complete Technique for Cello Book 1 suits the advanced beginner to upper level student wishing to learn or improve left hand and right bow-arm skills.Starting in first position and proceeding carefully through the higher positions this method book uses studies and exercises to demonstrate specific technical ideas. 417 Exercises include 63 Musical Studies in Positions 1 through 5.Technique Highlights:Positions 1 through 5Extended positionsHalf PositionBass tenor and treble clefs3 octave CMajor Scale to IV and VII positionAdvanced chromatic scale to IV V and VII positionBasic thumb positionWorksheets for note-readingScales arpeggios broken thirdsImprovisational melodiesDouble-Stops chords octavesHarmonicsArm Swing left-hand and bow-arm techniqueBow balancing exercisesBallet of Shifting exercisesQuick Finger exercisesFinger Substitution exercisesLeft-hand pizzicato exercisesTeaching points throughout