Category Archives: Cello practice

More practising notes

I’m still sticking to my practice schedule:

20 minutes of a scale, though now I’m playing with a metronome, which is really helping a lot with my rhythm, even when I’m playing other stuff without the metronome (many thanks to my teacher for that advice!).  How To Practise has posted a great list of reasons to [...]

Learning to practise

This post is a bit off-topic and non-Baroque, and is doubtless old hat for experienced muscians, but might be interesting for fellow adult learners of the cello, especially anyone who’s found themselves stuck after a year or so.

I’ve been learning the cello for 16 months now, and had recently reached one of those irritating blocking [...]