Now that you have purchased your cello and found a good cello teacher, you would have made your first appointment with your cello teacher for your beginner cello lessons. This article will outline what you can expect from your first cello lesson.
If you engaged a cello teacher who is based in a music school in Singapore, you can expect that the music school or cello school have a rental cello which you can rent in case you do not know for sure if you have time in future for consistent cello lessons. A music school in Singapore would also have one or two cello on hand for students to play on during their cello lessons. This would save you the trouble of having to transport your cello to and from home for your cello lesson in Singapore.
For your beginner cello lesson, your cello teacher will teach you how to care for your cello and cello bow. This would include showing you how to rosin you cello bow so that it will play on your cello, and using a cleaning cloth to clean off the rosin dust from you cello after practice. Your teacher will also highlight to you on how to tighten and loosen the horse hair on your cello bow, and not to touch the horse hair on your cello bow with your hands.
Next, your cello teacher in Singapore will teach you the proper sitting technique when learning how to play the cello. You will need to know the proper posture and how to hold the cello bow and the cello, so that you can play the cello comfortably. First you will need to pull the tail pin from the bottom of the cello out. The cello will rest on this tail pin and lean against you. Some students find that the tail pin is quite slippery and the cello will slip off the floor when playing, so I recommend you get a cello stopper for this purpose.
Learning how to hold the cello bow takes some getting used to but after you master it, you will feel that it is a natural extension of your hands.
Before you play on your cello, your teacher will help you to tune the cello since you have no experience doing so. Seasoned cello teachers tune without the need of a chromatic tuner, as their sense of hearing is superb. For beginner cello students, you will need to learn to use a chromatic tuner to tune your cello.
Since this is a beginner cello lesson, you will need some guidance as to where to apply your fingers on the fingerboard of the cello to produce the correct tone in order to play a song on the cello. Your teacher will mark the correct places on your cello