Cello Fingerings: Improve Your Left-Hand Game is a concise but thorough treatise and workbook on the many facets of devising fingerings for the cello. This book is primarily designed for intermediate cellists, which usually means ages fourteen to twenty, but which could be any age from six to eighty. The purpose of this book is to provide you with much of the basic information that you need in order to become good at practicing the cello. This is the book for you if
you know how to shift but you do not currently devise your own fingerings;
you can devise fingerings, but you are frequently unhappy with the results;
you devise your own fingerings, but you frequently encounter other fingering ideas that you had not previously considered.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Part 1: Preliminaries
Chapter 1-Introduction
Chapter 2-A System for Marking Fingerings
Chapter 2.5-Random-Note Quiz
Part 2: The Basics
Chapter 3-The Basics: Priorities of Shifting
Chapter 4-The Basics, Continued
Chapter 5-Rules of Thumb
Chapter 6-Know Your Patterns
Chapter 7-Stretching the Left Hand
Chapter 8-Putting It All Together
Part 3: Applications
Chapter 9-Baroque Music
Chapter 10-General Quiz on Fingerings
Chapter 11-Awkward Passages
Chapter 12-Increasing Your Options
Chapter 13-Chromaticism and Difficult Key Signatures
Chapter 14-Test Yourself against Other Intermediate Cellists
