The number one challenge creative cellists face day in day out is figuring out what to practice. And there’s a good reason why this is particularly overwhelming for multi-style cellists when it comes to practicing most of us have some good principles and our reasonably comfortable improving a shift or speeding up a fast passage all the things you need to polish up a piece of repertoire and get ready for a recital when it comes to going beyond our classical Conservatory training.

Most of us cellists are completely flying blind in our practice with no real principles and are completely confused as to where to start. What about time Groove feel extended techniques like chopping or baselines practicing and trying to absorb new harmonic ideas and scales. What about transcribing and language practice vocabulary, like learning tunes and links and eventually absorbing and synthesizing all of it. So we develop our own unique sound now figuring out where to start on that list every day much less having solid principles to organize and practice those things effectively can be incredibly overwhelming.

I got tired just listening now ideally if you were mind to become a world-class improvisor or really Elite in anything. You won’t fly blind and try to go It Alone. Ideally you’d be working with a world-class coach that had Rock Solid principles and experience and had taken hundreds of other people to the top of the same Mountain unfortunately up to this point in creative string teaching that kind of expertise just hasn’t been available to us. And that’s why today I’m so excited to announce a brand new course from the improvisers guide to the cello called Complete Musicianship For The Evolving Cellist.