1. PITCH - moving from tone to tone.

There are many different tones we can play on the cello, but there are no more than 12 different note names...

In this video I mention sharps and flats, the Circle of Fifths, and I play every single note in the 1st position (+ a few bonus notes in the fourth.) I also explain what ‘parallel keys’ are…

Here you can download a sheet with all the notes in the 1st position.

And here you can download my colorful version of the Circle of Fifths.

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2. RHYTHM - the note values in music notation.