Playing double stops strengthens your fingers, helps you build a good left hand position, and improves your tone.
Exercises and short fiddle tunes are used to teach double stop techniques, such as switching fingers across strings.
Teachers can use this book as a supplement to other methods and study books.
Useful for cellists of all ages and abilities, Open String Bow Workouts for the Cello by Cassia Harvey is especially helpful for adult learners who have limited time to practice but want to sound the best they can.
CELLO SIGHT-READING BOOK 2 DOREAN SMITH NEW EDITION
Graded cello sightreading exercises, including tips on improving sightreading technique. Book 2 includes 60 short melodies and covers grades 6 to 8.
Improve your cello bowing technique! This book teaches string-crossing technique on the cello with open-string studies that allow you to focus on the right hand.
Through the use of staccato bowing to encourage precisely-timed string crossing, these cello studies can help you develop bow control, smooth and even string crossing, and a more beautiful tone.
This book could be followed by String Crossing for the Cello, Book Two, which uses double stops to work on balance between two strings as a fundamental principle behind string crossing.
