Position Pieces for Cello, Book 1

The pieces in this book have been specially designed to help you find certain important notes (I call them 'targets') on the cello fingerboard. The notes that I think of as targets have the same names as the open strings. That way, I can always be sure I have hit the 'bull's eye' by testing the fingered notes with an open string. These pieces will also help you to learn how certain other notes are easy to play once you have hit the target.

CONTENIDO:

A note to students

"Upper second position"
-Target practice and geography quiz
-Names and numbers
-Fanfare
-Skating
-The Elephant's Waltz
-The Tired Tortoise
-The Whale's Song
-March
-Sitting in the Shade
-Bugle Call
-Toy Soldiers
-Lament
-The Invisible Target
-Pachyderm Parade

Extended second position
-Target practice and geography quiz
-Names and numbers
-Ballad
-C Song
-Somersaults and Cartwheels
-Tango
-Erik's Minuet

"Lower" Third Position
-Target practice and geography quiz
-Names and numbers
-Japanese Garden
-I'm So Sleepy
-March of the Dinosaurs
-The Haunted House
-I Was a Teenage Monster

"Lower" second position
-Target practice and geography quiz
-Names and numbers
-I've Got Homework
-Valse triste
-Sicilienne
-Etude

Fourth position
-Target practice and geography quiz
-Names and numbers
-Church Bells
-A Minor Melody
-The Big Kangaroo
-A Cloudy Day
-Busy Bees
-In a Hurry

"Upper" third position
-Target practice and geography quiz
-Names and numbers
-The Troubadour
-Hoedown
-A Waltz
-The Hippopotamus' Dance
-The Heavy Highlander
-Barcarole

Extended third position
-Target practice and geography quiz
-Names and numbers
-Dreamland
-Marching Martians
-Bugle Call
-The Tiny Ballerina
-Jig

Half position
-Target practice and geography quiz
-Names and numbers
-Half Position Serenade
-The Shark
-Running
-Going Baroque
-Spanish Dance

Various positions
-At The Ball
-Sad Song
-Walking Home
-Ländler
-Feeling Fine
-The Irish Tenor
-Melancholy
-Jack Spratt Dances with His Wife
-Playing in the Park
-I Got the Blues, Baby