Useful stuff

Scale and arpeggio boxes

• Cut-out scale boxes - major and harmonic minor
• Cut-out arpeggio boxes - major and minor, root position
• Cut-out arpeggio boxes - major and minor, first inversion
• Cut-out melodic minor scale and Dom 7th arpeggio boxes
• Cut-out Dim 7th arpeggio boxes

Cello Teaching and Study Material

• Summer Practice 1
• Summer Practice 2
• Summer Practice 3

• Scales for AB Grade 3
• Arpeggios for AB Grade 3
• Scales for AB Grade 4
• Arpeggios for AB Grade 4
• Scales for AB Grade 5
• Arpeggios for AB Grade 5
• Chromatic Scales, Dominant 7th Arpeggios and Dimished 7th Arpeggio for AB Grade 5

Aural training

• Sol-fa chart showing the seven church modes in PDF format
  The semitones are bracketed
• Kodaly Music Education Institute of Australia
  A clear and succinct exposition. Go to ‘Downloadable Resources’ for classroom charts of rhythm syllables, chromatic alterations and Curwen hand signs, as well as lesson plans etc.
• Tone rows for atonal dictation in PDF format
• The Matrix
  A very useful tone row generator and converter by Dan Cavanagh

• Charts showing the chords possible in the Grade 8 chord recognition tests

Miscellaneous

• Music Paper An excellent source of free score templates, from big staves for children to full orchestral scores
• Very large stave paper. Useful for small children in PDF format
• Try this online metronome metronomeonline.com — or this more advanced one advanced.bestmetronome.com

Fingerings

• Schubert — Fingering for variation 3 from the Trout Quintet
• J S Bach — Coda from Prelude in C Minor BWV 847, from The Well-tempered Clavier, Book I
• Liszt — Fingering for scales in Spanish Rhapsody Either Liszt’s original fingering, or by editor, Emil Sauer. Brilliant fingering that really works for scales at high speed
• Shotakovich — fingering for rapid hands together scales in last movt of the Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op 40

Translations

• Bartok — Translations of the songs in his 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs for piano solo