Cello Level 2

  • 73 Lessons
  • 2.1 hours

Learn the basics of playing the cello from our engaging and expert instructors. You'll learn how to hold, pic, bow, and perform your first songs on the cello in this course.

Course Overview

Requirements
  • Requirement one
  • Requirement two
  • Requirement three

What You'll Learn

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Course curriculum

  • Here's Where to Start.
  • Tuning 1
  • Open string exercise - Bow Speed
  • Play Along! Bow Speed Exercise 8-1 at 85 BPM
  • Play Along! Bow Speed Exercise 8-1 at 65 BPM
  • Introduction to Baroque Period-Bach, minuet in G
  • Pizzicato
  • Bow In the Air
  • Put it all Together
  • Subdivision of 16th Notes
  • Clap Rhythms with Four Sixteenth Notes
  • Bow Placement for Sixteenth Notes
  • Song: Twinkle Little Star with Sixteenth Notes
  • Song One-Old French Song
  • Song Two-Simple Gifts
  • Song Three-Sweet Dreams
  • Forward Extension
  • Extended Hot Cross Buns
  • Song-Bach's Musette in C Major
  • D Major Scale in Two Octaves
  • Rhythm and Bowing Patterns
  • Ukrainian Folk Song
  • Slavic Folk Song
  • Frère Jacques
  • Understanding Dotted Rhythm
  • Largo from Dvorak's Symphony
  • Brahms Lullaby
  • Subdividing Sixteenth Notes
  • Twinkle Little Star Variation with Dotted Rhythms
  • Learning the Scale
  • A Major with Rhythms and Slurs
  • Introducing Bb and Backward Extension
  • New Notes in Backward Extensions
  • Moon Over the Ruined Castle
  • Sakura
  • Here Comes the Bride Exercise
  • Shifting Builder Exercises on the D String
  • Shifting Song Number 1
  • Play Along! Shifting Builder Exercises on G
  • Play Along! Shifting Builder Exercises on C
  • Shifting Song Number 2
  • Twinkle Little Star with Third Position Shift
  • Sakura in 3rd Position
  • Two Happy Geese
  • What is a Harmonic? Left Hand Technique
  • Reading Harmonics
  • Shifting to Harmonics
  • Harmonics Shifting Song
  • Counting in 6/8
  • Rhythm Exercises in 6/8
  • Playing Rhythms in 6/8
  • Twinkle Little Star in 6/8
  • Scarborough Fair in 6/8
  • Shifting Technique
  • Notes in Fourth Position on the D, G, and C Strings
  • Shifting Exercises on the D String
  • Sakura in Fourth Position
  • E, F, F#, G
  • Sakura in E Minor
  • Dvorak Largo in Fourth Position
  • Learning the Two Octaves
  • Scale with Rhythms and Bowings
  • "Cleaning the Cello"
  • Long Tones Song
  • Vibrato Song
  • Tremolo
  • Trills and Mordents
  • Accents
  • Tenuto
  • Reading and Range of the Tenor Clef
  • Fifth Position and Tenor Clef
  • Cello Performance Video 1
  • Cello Performance Video 2

Diana Yusupov

Diana Yusupov began studying cello at the age of eight whilst living in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Her family migrated to Australia in 2003, where she continued studying cello with her father Renat Yusupov and later a renowned cellist and teacher Markus Stocker. Diana graduated with a Bachelors of Music and Advanced Performance degree from Queensland Conservatorium of Music, before pursuing a further degree in law and education. Diana relocated to Tucson Arizona in 2016 to begin her Masters of Music studies at University of Arizona in the studio of Dr Theodore Buchholz. Upon graduating with her Masters, Diana stayed on to complete her Doctorate of Musical Arts specializing in cello performance and minoring in ethnomusicology. Diana’s research focused on the Russian and Uzbek music influences found in the cello repertoire of Muhammad Otajonov. Currently Diana is teaching a strings orchestra program at BASIS Chandler and enjoys playing chamber music with her piano trio – the Oracle.

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Learn the basics of playing the cello from our engaging and expert instructors. You'll learn how to hold, pic, bow, and perform your first songs on the cello in this course.

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