Cello exercises

Learning scales on any instrument is an essential but tedious task. Scales build your technique in a universal way, forcing you to work through runs of notes that will inevitably appear in the pieces you play, while covering a consistently wider area of your technique than the pieces themselves. They are essential to developing consistent fluency across the instrument, and for every piece you play you should be fluent at every relevant scale contained within. The problem with scales is that they tend to all follow the same general template; you climb the scale one note at a time, then climb [...]