Think of these skills like air for bicycle tires and playing the cello like riding the bicycle. Sure, you can ride a bicycle with no air in the tires – you’ll just go way slower and you’ll feel every single bump much more painfully. A crack in the sidewalk or a bad bump may even knock you off your bike! You’re working just as hard with your legs, air in the tires or not. The difference in your distance and speed isn’t the effort you’re putting in, it’s how inflated your tires are. For a smoother and faster bicycle ride, you pump up your tires. For smoother and faster cello playing growth, you learn ear training, rhythm training, and basic music theory. That’s the air for our tires, and if we pump them up, we travel much farther with the same amount of effort. Meaning, with the same amount of work, you get better at cello a lot faster.

• Classes significantly bring the cost down of learning these skills
• Hands-on learning with peers gives a sense of camaraderie and boosts motivation, making it way more fun
• Lesson time is best spent working on the difficulties of mastering the cello while these other skills grow and develop outside of lessons. One-on-one sessions with a specialist should be used to work on specialist skills, whereas the more general skills can be more efficiently learned in a general setting. It would be costly, time-consuming, and ultimately slow down the development of your playing to learn ear training during your cello lessons.

Lessons = whenever convenient (Once a week is conventional.)
Class meetings = once a month.

We find class times that fit your schedule. Seriously. Once a class fills up, we find times that work for everyone, guaranteed (even if we have to split the class up.)

Nope. Classes are between 6 and 12 sessions. Each certificate only requires 1 or 2 classes. See our class list below for more specifics.