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- Take a two-minute journey around the circle of fifths with resonant acoustic cello drones.
- Play familiar classical excerpts and a lyrical Irish tune with drones.
- Download a free pdf of “Samba for Mooli” and check out other sheet music for cello ensemble and chamber music for cello with other instruments.
- View the five-minute film “Samba for Mooli” by Dan Nadaner featuring music by the same name for cello, guitar, and percussion.
Cello Drones for Tuning and Improvisation
- For string players, wind players, vocalists, and instrumentalists
- Develop your ear and improve your intonation
- Tune intervals, scales, chords, arpeggios, and musical passages
- Drones on all 12 chromatic pitches to accompany major, minor, and modal scales
- Tune your instrument
- Great practice and teaching tool
- Helps build technique musically
- Background soundscape and harmonic base for improvisation
- Warm resonant sound of acoustic cello
Now Available! 28 Great Melodies to Play with Drones
- Classical excerpts and folk songs
- Each selection written in 12 keys
- Develop your ear and improve your intonation playing with a sustained reference pitch
- Recognize the interval patterns of a melody independent of key
- Explore less familiar keys
- Play in free rhythm and in different tempos
- Each selection a melodic take-off for improvisation with a drone
- Treble, alto, and bass clef editions for all instruments
- Great practice and teaching tool
- Music-making for all skill levels
Sheet Music
- Samba for Mooli — a beautiful melody for any instrument! Free downloadable lead sheet available in treble and bass clef.
- Sevensong — for Cello Ensemble or Cello Quartet
- Thunder Shower — for Flute, Violin, Viola, & Cello
- Stories of Joy and the Trickster — Musical Vignettes on 5 Paintings of Marc Chagall for Clarinet, Cello, & Piano
Cello Drones for Meditation and Relaxation
As one acoustic cello tone fades into the next, your mind settles into a state ideal for meditation, creative activity, and relaxation.
So not Jazz
SO not JAZZ — songs for guitar, cello, piano, and voice; vocals and instrumentals, entrancing improvisations.
Skyward
Songs and instrumental works for cello with vocals, guitar, accordion, clarinet, piano, and percussion; including “Stories of Joy and the Trickster: Musical Vignettes on 5 Paintings of Marc Chagall” for cello, clarinet, and piano.
When Light is Your Garden
Danceable love songs with a latin tinge, acoustic Americana with cello, vocals, guitar, piano, and percussion.
I Remember You
Cello interludes surrounding five funny and poignant short stories written and read by Todd Walton.