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The Cello Fingerboard

A note-by-note map of the cello fingerboard in first position, with finger positions, scales that stay in first position, and how to shift up the neck.

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What's inside

  • The fingerboard mapped note-by-note in first position, strings tuned in fifths (C G D A)
  • A table of every note reachable by each finger, across all four strings
  • How the four positions are named and where the hand sits for each
  • Scales that stay in first position with no shifting needed
  • Notes on the backward extension and shifting up the neck
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