The Cello Fun Book: for Young Students

I have played violin for many years. I know string basics, but no idea how to teach it only play. My 3 year old son has been obsessed with cellos for months now and we finally decided to buy him a 1/10 cello. Lessons for a 3 year old who will only sit still for 5 minutes at a time isn’t worth it to me. We decided to take on the task of teaching him ourselves. This book is way more than I expected. It give you a outline of how to start to basics. It starts off with different rythmns in the D and A open strings. Then it goes to using one finger, then the 3rd finger then the 4th finger slowly. I REALLY like this, especially because everyone was suggesting Suzuki but Suzuki jumps right into using all 4 fingers from the beginning. I do not like this concept. Suzuki teachers might introduce it slowly, however that make’s children extremely board playing the same song slowly learning little bits for months or even a year at a time. This book does so much more than that, giving different rythmns and variations to easy to understand concepts, building foundational techniques. 100% recommend this book. I am surprised I’ve never heard of this book/method until I ran upon it on Amazon. This should be way more popular than Suzuki in my humble opinion.

Excellent beginner books for the violin or viola player in their first or second year. Larry Newman has an entire series of music books for violin, viola and cello that are all excellent for players in their first few years. I would not consider these lesson books, but books to supplement beginner players to learn more popular songs. For my young boys, I have the Don't Fret colored finger guide on their 1/4 and 1/2 violins. Then to help them find the correct notes, I will sometimes use a blue, yellow, pink and green or orange highlighter to color the notes on sheet music. I know it's a learning crutch, but it makes finding and playing the correct note faster and easier....the more positive feedback they get in playing a correct note, the longer they stay with learning music and different musical instruments (I hope). I also like the books because the songs are also easy enough for the beginner player to start memorizing songs too. Between the cello, violin and viola, I think we own all of them.

must be written by a violinist. some pages have "2 finger songs" but it is the wrong fingering for the cello. My daughter enjoys the book but her teacher is always crossing it out and revising it.

Easy and fun to learn the basics of Cello and a way to learn how to read music sheets! Awesome

It is a good book for students.