Suzuki Cello Books

Merci Beaucoup! After ages of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star it is such a joy to play the elegant, lyric French Folk Song. No more stopped bows or repetitive variations. You finally get to seep deep into the instrument and pull your best singing tone out of the cello. If you have already learned the D […]

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star with Piano! Don’t play alone! Find a friend. These piano accompaniments are VERY simple and your musical journey is far more likely to arrive at your desired destination if you can find a friend to enjoy it with. The pianist in this video has accompanied me on all the Beethoven Sonatas,

Twinkle Marathon – Theme And Variations! CONGRATULATIONS! On making it this far. Now it is time to perform. What you can do in your practice room is only the start. You have spent weeks if not months learning to play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star now its time strut your stuff. This version puts it all

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star – THEME! You should have already mastered the Twinkle fingering from previous lessons and by now you have played all the variations. If you have worked through the previous 7 videos then this main theme is usually more of a celebration than a test. It does require some longer bow strokes for

You Can Play! But Can You Rest? After years of teaching, I learned that Variation B is actually the most difficult of all the Twinkle Twinkle Little Star variations for young cellists to learn. The combination of respecting the rest, and changing bows mid-pattern is asks a lot of an inexperienced player. Depending on how

BONUS Variation! This is the variation that many teachers WISH Suzuki had included in the original. Not all teachers teach it, but enough that I thought it was worth including here. Triplet eighth notes are simply placing 3 eighth notes in the time one would normally play 2. The bow stroke takes place at the

Twinkle Variation C – DOWN little, UP little Alternating bowings are very common in string repertoire. The trick is to do the same motion in two different parts of the bow. At the start, everything in us wants to do the same motion in the same spot. Learning to alternate the location of the sixteenth

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star Variation D Why learn Twinkle Variation D next? The straight sixteenth note rhythm is more straightforward than the mixed rhythms found in Variations B & C. The order is less important than acquiring all the skills, I just want my students to be as successful as they can be from the

Putting It All Together – Twinkle Variation A Now we are finally putting it all together! You should already have isolated the right hand to get the proper rhythm and motion. Hopefully, you have all the fingerings worked out from this lesson. Now it is time to put it all together in Variation A. Practice along

Isolating The Bow For Twinkle Success! You have hopefully already learned the left hand fingerings for Twinkle Twinkle Little Star in the first lesson. Now it is time to isolate the right hand and start learning the variation bowings independent of the left hand. Learning to really use the bow is far more complicated than