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This year's postings

2020

Sep 29 » Can't Play B-flat with a Crooked Finger
Sep 28 » Cello During COVID
Jan 29 » Romberg Sonata for Cello and Piano II: Andante Grazioso
Jan 19 » Romberg Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 38 No. 1 E minor
Jan 18 » Behind the Haystack
Jan 17 » Music Subdomain
Jan 13 » ⇪Romberg Sonata In E Minor Op 38 No 1
Jan 13 » ⇪Vivaldi Allegro

2019

Nov 26 » Practice Log
Nov 26 » Metronome Practice
Nov 25 » Focused Practicing
Sep 11 » ⇪The Swan
Sep 11 » Languishing
Mar 09 » Playing by Ear
Mar 05 » Cripple Creek
Mar 03 » FFcP
Mar 03 » I Bought a Mandolin

2017

Aug 22 » NS Design NXT5 Electric Cello

2016

Jul 13 » Rebuilding My Technique
Jan 25 » Finishing A Piece

2015

Jul 31 » Cellospeak - Friday
Jul 30 » Cellospeak - Thursday
Jul 29 » Cellospeak - Wednesday
Jul 28 » Cellospeak - Tuesday
Jul 27 » Cellospeak - Monday
Jul 26 » Cellospeak Sunday
Jul 25 » Cellospeak Travel
Jul 20 » Cellospeak
Jun 01 » Right Hand Focus
Feb 23 » Learning to Breathe
Feb 18 » Help Me Rondo, Help Help Me Rondo
Feb 12 » Anchor Notes

2013

Aug 26 » Courting the Courante
Aug 23 » Lesson Notes for 22 August 2013
Jul 15 » 2013 Orchestra Repertoire
Jun 19 » Cello Camp
May 18 » Chanson Triste performance
May 17 » 2013 Spring Recital
Mar 29 » ⇪Chord Progressions in Popular Music
Mar 27 » Lesson Notes for 26 March 2013
Mar 11 » Lesson Notes for 11 March 2013
Feb 02 » practice notes 2.2.2013
Feb 01 » practice notes 2.1.2013
Jan 31 » practice notes 1.31.2013
Jan 30 » practice notes 1.30.2013
Jan 29 » practice notes 1.29.2013
Jan 29 » January 28 Weekly Goals
Jan 28 » practice notes 1.28.2013
Jan 27 » practice notes 1.27.2013
Jan 27 » Practice Goal Setting
Jan 26 » practice notes 1.26.2013
Jan 25 » practice notes 1.25.2013
Jan 24 » practice notes 1.24.2013
Jan 23 » practice notes 1.23.2013
Jan 22 » Practice Notes 1 Dot 22 Dot 2013
Jan 21 » practice notes 1.21.2013
Jan 21 » Lesson Notes for 21 January 2013
Jan 20 » practice notes 1.20.2013
Jan 20 » String Fling 2013
Jan 19 » practice notes 1.19.2013
Jan 18 » practice notes 1.18.2013
Jan 17 » practice notes 1.17.2013
Jan 16 » practice notes 1.16.2013
Jan 15 » Lesson Notes for 15 January 2013
Jan 15 » practice notes 1.15.2013
Jan 14 » practice notes 1.14.2013
Jan 13 » practice notes 1.13.2013
Jan 12 » practice notes 1.12.2013
Jan 11 » practice notes 1.11.2013
Jan 10 » practice notes 1.10.2013
Jan 09 » Mendelssohn: Works for Cello and Piano
Jan 09 » practice notes 1.9.2013
Jan 08 » practice notes 1.8.2013
Jan 07 » practice notes 1.7.2013
Jan 06 » practice notes 1.6.2013
Jan 05 » Weekly Recital Practice
Jan 05 » practice notes 1.5.2013
Jan 04 » practice notes 1.4.2013
Jan 03 » practice notes 1.3.2013
Jan 02 » practice notes 1.2.2013
Jan 01 » practice notes 1.1.2013
Jan 01 » Year Four of Cello

2012

Nov 14 » November 13 Lesson Notes
Nov 06 » Cello Repair
Nov 06 » Cello Owie
Oct 31 » October 29 Lesson Notes
Oct 29 » Rock Springs 2012
Oct 22 » October 20 Orchestra Notes
Oct 09 » October 8 Lesson Notes
Oct 09 » October 6 Orchestra Notes
Oct 01 » September 29 Rehearsal Notes
Sep 25 » ⇪Desiderio Quintet - What makes you beautiful
Sep 25 » September 24 Lesson Notes
Sep 17 » September 15 Orchestra Notes
Sep 10 » September 8 Orchestra Rehearsal Notes
Sep 07 » Bobelock 2000XL Cello Case Review
Sep 04 » September 3 Lesson Notes
Sep 02 » ⇪The Pirates of the Caribbean with 15 Cellos
Aug 31 » Bam Classic 1001SW Cello Case Review
Aug 28 » August 27 Lesson Notes
Aug 27 » The Need for Speed
Aug 24 » Twas the Night Before Orchestra
Aug 23 » New Bow and New Case
Aug 07 » Practicing not Playing
Aug 03 » Updated Definitions
Aug 01 » July 31 Lesson Notes
Jul 20 » ⇪What Makes You Beautiful
Jul 19 » ⇪Rostropovish: The Genius of the Cello
Jul 17 » ⇪The Audition
Jul 12 » Music Camp 2012
Jul 05 » July 3 Lesson Notes
Jul 05 » ⇪Escape Artist [HD] - live
Jul 05 » ⇪Lost [HD] - live
Jun 27 » June 25 Lesson Notes
Jun 27 » Music Camp
Jun 21 » Cello Camp 2012
Jun 13 » June 12 Lesson Notes
Jun 08 » Cello Practice
Jun 06 » ⇪Rockelbel's Canon
May 31 » Working with a metronome
May 31 » ⇪The Open Goldberg Variations
May 25 » ⇪Flying with a cello
May 22 » May 21 Lesson Notes
May 21 » Book Three Graduation
May 17 » Audition Success
May 15 » Audition Completed
May 15 » Audition Practice Videos
May 14 » May 12 Lesson Notes
May 08 » May 7 Lesson Notes
May 02 » April 30 Lesson Notes
Apr 26 » Cello Technique Videos
Apr 24 » April 23 Lesson Notes
Apr 17 » April 16 Lesson Notes
Apr 11 » April 9 Lesson Notes
Apr 02 » April 2 Lesson Notes
Apr 02 » ⇪So Happy Together
Mar 20 » Schröder 27 Insight
Mar 19 » Practice Contest
Mar 13 » March 12 Lesson Notes
Mar 08 » ⇪Instruments from the Inside
Mar 06 » ⇪The Violin Maker
Mar 06 » March 5 Lesson Notes
Mar 06 » String Competition
Feb 28 » Cello Master Class with Dr. Karen Becker
Feb 28 » February 27 Lesson Notes
Feb 22 » February 20 Lesson Notes
Feb 19 » Minuet No. 3 Practice
Feb 15 » Cello Videos
Feb 15 » Competition Preparation
Feb 13 » February 13 Lesson Notes
Feb 13 » Bow Shopping
Feb 07 » February 6 Lesson Notes
Feb 03 » ⇪What Mahler Symphony Did You Hear?
Jan 31 » January 30 Lesson Notes
Jan 30 » Nothing To Say
Jan 27 » ⇪What is Music?
Jan 23 » January 23 Lesson Notes
Jan 23 » ⇪Countess of Stainlein Goes to Good Home
Jan 23 » What a Cellist can learn at a Piano Masterclass
Jan 22 » ⇪Nokia ringtone during concert
Jan 22 » Yo-Yo Ma
Jan 17 » Mahler, Interrupted, Explained
Jan 17 » Yo-Yo Ma Tickets
Jan 15 » Sight Reading Success
Jan 14 » ⇪Selling a 300-Year-Old Cello
Jan 13 » String Fling 2012
Jan 12 » ⇪Mahler, Interrupted
Jan 09 » ⇪Humoresque Student Video
Jan 07 » January 7 Lesson Notes
Jan 07 » New Look and New Framework
Jan 07 » ⇪Elgar Sospiri op. 70

2011

Nov 26 » Minuet No. 3
Nov 09 » Two Years
Oct 26 » Bow Woes
Oct 10 » ⇪Popper Polonaise
Oct 02 » Ensemble Epiphany
Aug 19 » Scales, Études, and Repertoire
Jul 06 » Scales and more scales
Jul 01 » ⇪The Cello Song
Jun 30 » Summer 2011 Cello Goals
Jun 23 » ⇪Let It Be
Jun 09 » Things I Learned in Cello Camp
May 16 » Playing Cello, Not Solving Puzzles
May 12 » Review Week
Apr 12 » ⇪Soliloquy
Apr 12 » ⇪Paganini Caprice 24
Apr 08 » Cello Camp
Mar 08 » Knowledge versus Experience
Mar 06 » Gulp
Feb 22 » Recital Review
Feb 19 » Adding Color to Your Music
Feb 15 » Lesson Notes and Recital Prep
Feb 13 » Key Signatures
Feb 10 » When Technologies Collide
Jan 30 » Boccherini Minuet
Jan 19 » Music Theory
Jan 10 » Minuet by L. Boccherini
Jan 06 » Where Do You Store a Cello?
Jan 04 » Lesson Notes from January 3, 2011
Jan 01 » 2011 Cello Goals

2010

Dec 01 » Fingerboard Bingo
Nov 20 » Lee No. 8 a-moll
Nov 09 » A Year
Nov 07 » Fun With Tetrachords
Oct 27 » Like Shaking a Can of Coke
Sep 30 » Practice Log September 30
Sep 29 » Practice Log September 29
Sep 23 » Practicing with Color Pencils
Sep 19 » ⇪Catalog Living
Sep 18 » All Thumbs
Aug 24 » The Metronome is My Friend, The Metronome is My Friend
Aug 13 » Melted Rosin
Aug 12 » Bowing Fence
Aug 07 » Chester
Jul 31 » 40 leichte Etüden für Violoncello
Jul 17 » Music is...
Jul 05 » ⇪The Cello, Slightly Bigger with a Spike at the Bottom That Kills You
Jul 01 » New Strings
Jun 26 » Lesson Notes from June 24, 2010
Jun 13 » Back in the Groove
May 30 » Visualization
May 19 » got minuet?
May 17 » Delving the Mysteries of Six Eight Time
May 13 » Second Position
May 11 » First Recital
May 10 » Six Months
May 03 » ⇪Joshua Roman Popper Project
May 01 » Playing Thumbless
Apr 22 » ⇪The Wolf at Our Heels
Apr 22 » ⇪The Point of Practicing
Apr 20 » Practice Focus
Apr 17 » Watching Yourself Play
Apr 16 » One Buttock Playing
Apr 14 » Three Weeks Worth of Practice
Apr 14 » A Modern Cellist's Manual
Apr 12 » Hooked Bowing
Apr 07 » Touch Typing
Apr 02 » Measure by Measure
Mar 29 » Minuet in C
Mar 26 » Lesson Notes for March 26, 2010
Mar 24 » Scale Exercise
Mar 23 » Practice Cycle
Mar 22 » Practice Log March 21, 2010
Mar 14 » I Got Rhythm
Mar 11 » Kihon, Waza, and Kata
Mar 10 » Rhythm Work
Mar 10 » Half Speed
Mar 09 » Intonation Triangulation
Mar 08 » ⇪Pachelbel Rant
Mar 07 » Practice Log March 6, 2010
Mar 06 » New Rosin and Snipe Hunts
Mar 04 » Rhythm Practice
Mar 01 » Note Reading
Feb 24 » Mushin and the Art of Hooked Bowing
Feb 23 » After Two Weeks Away
Feb 05 » Slurs and Hooked Bowing
Feb 02 » Falling Off A Bicycle
Jan 21 » Back After These Messages
Jan 17 » String Fling 2010
Jan 15 » Left Thumb Pain

2009

Dec 30 » Injury Free
Dec 27 » Practice Makes Permanent
Dec 26 » The Cello Suites
Dec 18 » Windows, Push Ups, and Double Strokes
Dec 16 » Listening is the Best Way to Learn
Dec 14 » Calluses
Dec 13 » Long Bow, Please
Dec 08 » Repertoire Thus Far
Dec 06 » Musical Kata
Dec 04 » Rosin, Bow Weight, and Variations
Nov 30 » Videos
Nov 30 » Twinkle Twinkle Variations
Nov 30 » Let Us Chase the Squirrel
Nov 30 » Canon in D / Jolly Old Saint Nicholas Duet
Nov 24 » Lesson Notes for November 24
Nov 23 » First Lessons
Nov 23 » Finding a Teacher
Nov 23 » Daffy-nition