Cello Time Scales
by Kathy Blackwell and David Blackwell
- Instrumentation
- Cello
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (ISBN 978-0-19-338139-1), 32 pp. Subtitle: Pieces, puzzles, scales, and arpeggios
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About this piece
Kathy and David Blackwell's scale book for the Cello Time series. It covers the finger patterns used in Cello Time Joggers and Cello Time Runners and includes all the scales and arpeggios set for ABRSM Grades 1 and 2. Each key has a fingering chart for the student to fill in with note names, a 'helpline' for memorising the arpeggio fingering like a telephone number, and short pieces, puzzles and composing games in that key. Practice ideas at the front include a dice rhythm game for scales and arpeggios and playing them as rounds with a friend.
Technical overview
First-position keys including flat keys that need the low (backward-extended) first finger, such as B-flat major, and minor keys such as C melodic minor reaching down to the C string. Scales are practised with separate bows and with two-note slurs, with a long tonic note, and in dice-chosen rhythms. The pieces use quarter, eighth and dotted rhythms, dynamics from p to f with hairpins, rounds for two players, and fill-in-the-notes and write-an-ending exercises.
Technical focus
- 2 Note Slurs
- A String Notes
- Accidentals
- C String Notes
- D String Notes
- Dotted Rhythms
- Dynamics
- Ensemble Skills
- Extensions
- G String Notes
- Hairpin Dynamics
- Rhythm
- Theory