Cello Power is a series of books designed to be used to expand the cello student’s facility
and knowledge of the instrument. The books are structured to focus on the advanced
materials that appear in our cello literature. Most important are the exercises and my
further recommendations on how to work on them. The process is first to digest the
fundamental of each and thereby to enable one to build a solid technique in preparation
for the difficult passagework ahead. An example are the double-stop excerpts, which are
broken down into two-string bow patterns to aid in intonation and to clarify the spacing
for the left hand.
Books 1 and 2 are planned to fill the gap left vacant by lack of materials covering, in
a progressive order, the transition from the introduction of the thumb position into a
student’s studies and the work on the much more difficult application of this information
into studies by Popper, Grützmacher and Piatti. Of course, then there are the ensuing
repertoire demands of the concertos of Dvořák and Saint-Saëns and such like.
Book 3 is aimed at developing a sure and secure technique and facility in the lower area
of the cello. This includes material to help make the fifth, sixth and seventh positions less
awkward for the student. The goal is to aid in the ability of the student to become more
able to apply this technical comfort to the attainment of a more nuanced and emotionally
fulfilling musical performance on the cello.

Preface, Acknowledgements, About Marion Feldman, exercises for Warm-Ups by Libby Freidman, Finger Patters, Broken Thirds, Intermediate Position Groupings, Monochord, Broken Chords, Thirds in the Lower Cello, Sixths in the Lower Cello, Long Shifts, Sixths in Crossing string Patterns, Shifting "Overhand"