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Practice chart
[download] Keep track of how much you're practicing. Add up how much you do each week, and try and break your record.
Staff paper
[download] Large spacing between lines (9 staves per page)
[download] Medium spacing between lines (10 staves per page)
[download] Small spacing between lines (12 staves per page)
[download] Piano grand staff (5 grand staves per page)
Scales and arpeggios for the cello
[download] Beginning scales and arpeggios
- First position only
- No key signatures
- C, G, D, F, a natural minor
[download] Intermediate scales and arpeggios
- Up to fourth position
- No key signatures
- Provided fingerings use open strings when convenient
- major: C, G, D, A, F, Bb minors (natural, melodic, harmonic): a, d, g, c, e
[download] Advanced scales and arpeggios
- Two to three octaves
- Key signatures
- Tenor and treble clefs
- Systematic fingerings (pretty much the same fingering for all scales!)
- All major and minor, chromatic, whole tone, octatonic
Extra-advanced players should use the advanced fingerings learned above, and add more octaves with 1-2-1-2-1-2-3 (scales) and 1-2-3 (arpeggios).
Circle of fifths
[download] Use this is a tool to help visualize key relationships, memorize the order of sharps/flats, or hang up as a dart board to pick scales to work on.
Keyboard bookmarks
Print out your own bookmarks with a keyboard on them. They come in useful when working on music theory when you don't have a piano handy. We've got three sizes to pick from:
[download] Three octaves, four to a sheet.
[download] Two octaves, four to a sheet.
[download] One octave and a third (key widths should match a real piano), four to a sheet.