Blog Archive 2012 February 20 Lesson Notes Feb 22 2012 Minuet No. 3 Practice Feb 19 2012 Cello Videos Feb 15 2012 Competition Preparation Feb 15 2012 February 13 Lesson Notes Feb 13 2012 Bow Shopping Feb 13 2012 February 6 Lesson Notes Feb 07 2012 What Mahler Symphony Did You Hear? Feb 03 2012 January 30 Lesson Notes Jan 31 2012 Nothing To Say Jan 30 2012 What is Music? Jan 27 2012 January 23 Lesson Notes Jan 23 2012 Countess of Stainlein Goes to Good Home Jan 23 2012 What a Cellist can learn at a Piano Masterclass Jan 23 2012 Nokia ringtone during concert Jan 22 2012 Yo-Yo Ma Jan 22 2012 Mahler, Interrupted, Explained Jan 17 2012 Yo-Yo Ma Tickets Jan 17 2012 Sight Reading Success Jan 15 2012 Selling a 300-Year-Old Cello Jan 14 2012 String Fling 2012 Jan 13 2012 Mahler, Interrupted Jan 12 2012 Humoresque Student Video Jan 09 2012 January 7 Lesson Notes Jan 07 2012 New Look and New Framework Jan 07 2012 Elgar Sospiri op. 70 Jan 07 2012 2011 Minuet No. 3 Nov 26 2011 Two Years Nov 09 2011 Bow Woes Oct 26 2011 Popper Polonaise Oct 10 2011 Ensemble Epiphany Oct 02 2011 Scales, Études, and Repertoire Aug 19 2011 Scales and more scales Jul 06 2011 The Cello Song Jul 01 2011 Summer 2011 Cello Goals Jun 30 2011 Let It Be Jun 23 2011 Things I Learned in Cello Camp Jun 09 2011 Playing Cello, Not Solving Puzzles May 16 2011 Review Week May 12 2011 Soliloquy Apr 12 2011 Paganini Caprice 24 Apr 12 2011 Cello Camp Apr 08 2011 Knowledge versus Experience Mar 08 2011 Gulp Mar 06 2011 Recital Review Feb 22 2011 Adding Color to Your Music Feb 19 2011 Lesson Notes and Recital Prep Feb 15 2011 Key Signatures Feb 13 2011 When Technologies Collide Feb 10 2011 Boccherini Minuet Jan 30 2011 Music Theory Jan 19 2011 Minuet by L. Boccherini Jan 10 2011 Where Do You Store a Cello? Jan 06 2011 Lesson Notes from January 3, 2011 Jan 04 2011 2011 Cello Goals Jan 01 2011 2010 Fingerboard Bingo Dec 01 2010 Lee No. 8 a-moll Nov 20 2010 A Year Nov 09 2010 Fun With Tetrachords Nov 07 2010 Like Shaking a Can of Coke Oct 27 2010 Practice Log September 30 Sep 30 2010 Practice Log September 29 Sep 29 2010 Practicing with Color Pencils Sep 23 2010 Catalog Living Sep 19 2010 All Thumbs Sep 18 2010 The Metronome is My Friend, The Metronome is My Friend Aug 24 2010 Melted Rosin Aug 13 2010 Bowing Fence Aug 12 2010 Chester Aug 07 2010 40 leichte Etüden für Violoncello Jul 31 2010 Music is… Jul 17 2010 The Cello, Slightly Bigger with a Spike at the Bottom That Kills You Jul 05 2010 New Strings Jul 01 2010 Lesson Notes from June 24, 2010 Jun 26 2010 Back in the Groove Jun 13 2010 Visualization May 30 2010 got minuet? May 19 2010 Delving the Mysteries of Six Eight Time May 17 2010 Second Position May 13 2010 First Recital May 11 2010 Six Months May 10 2010 Joshua Roman Popper Project May 03 2010 Playing Thumbless May 01 2010 The Wolf at Our Heels Apr 22 2010 The Point of Practicing Apr 22 2010 Practice Focus Apr 20 2010 Watching Yourself Play Apr 17 2010 One Buttock Playing Apr 16 2010 Three Weeks Worth of Practice Apr 14 2010 A Modern Cellist’s Manual Apr 14 2010 Hooked Bowing Apr 12 2010 Touch Typing Apr 07 2010 Measure by Measure Apr 02 2010 Minuet in C Mar 29 2010 Lesson Notes for March 26, 2010 Mar 26 2010 Scale Exercise Mar 24 2010 Practice Cycle Mar 23 2010 Practice Log March 21, 2010 Mar 22 2010 I Got Rhythm Mar 14 2010 Kihon, Waza, and Kata Mar 11 2010 Rhythm Work Mar 10 2010 Half Speed Mar 10 2010 Intonation Triangulation Mar 09 2010 Pachelbel Rant Mar 08 2010 Practice Log March 6, 2010 Mar 07 2010 New Rosin and Snipe Hunts Mar 06 2010 Rhythm Practice Mar 04 2010 Note Reading Mar 01 2010 Mushin and the Art of Hooked Bowing Feb 24 2010 After Two Weeks Away Feb 23 2010 Slurs and Hooked Bowing Feb 05 2010 Falling Off A Bicycle Feb 02 2010 Back After These Messages Jan 21 2010 String Fling 2010 Jan 17 2010 Left Thumb Pain Jan 15 2010 2009 Injury Free Dec 30 2009 Practice Makes Permanent Dec 27 2009 The Cello Suites Dec 26 2009 Windows, Push Ups, and Double Strokes Dec 18 2009 Listening is the Best Way to Learn Dec 16 2009 Calluses Dec 14 2009 Long Bow, Please Dec 13 2009 Repertoire Thus Far Dec 08 2009 Musical Kata Dec 06 2009 Rosin, Bow Weight, and Variations Dec 04 2009 Videos Nov 30 2009 Twinkle Twinkle Variations Nov 30 2009 Let Us Chase the Squirrel Nov 30 2009 Canon in D / Jolly Old Saint Nicholas Duet Nov 30 2009 Lesson Notes for November 24 Nov 24 2009 First Lessons Nov 23 2009 Finding a Teacher Nov 23 2009 Daffy-nition Nov 23 2009