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
• Download the Sibelius score of the above tone rows for self dictation here, if you have the Sibelius software. The speed is set to 10 notes per minute, but you can change this yourself
• 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