The Bow
This part of the bow is held by your hand.
What is the Frog?
This is the order of strings from lowest to highest.
What is C G D A
This is the number of eighth notes that are inside of a dotted quarter note.
What is 3 eighth notes?
This song can be played with 6 different bowing patterns and rhythms.
What is Twinkle?
This man created the Suzuki books and wrote many of the songs in Suzuki Book 1.
Who is Dr. Shinichi Suzuki?
Bow hair comes from this animal and body part.
What is the horse's tail?
If you put your fingers on your D string, they're making a tunnel over this other string.
What is the A string?
This note is played by 4th finger on your D String
What is G?
This song is one of the only songs that does not start on a down bow.
What is O' Come Little Children.
This famous cellist played for President Kennedy when he was 7 years old.
Who is Yo-Yo Ma?
Usually when you have two Down Bows in a row, you do this in between them, in order to get back to the beginning of the bow
What is a Circle Bow?
This open string is the last note of most of the songs in the beginning of Suzuki Book 1
What is the D String?
This Note is played by 3rd finger on the your A String
What is C#?
This song can be used to play along with Twinkle Little Star as a duet.
What is May Song?
Before the endpin was invented, this is how cello players held the cello.
What is Between their legs?
This bow stroke is short and sticky
What is Staccato?
In Perpetual Motion, you play each section two times. At the end of the first time you play this open string twice. At the end of the second, you play this other open string twice.
What is A the first time then D the second time?
If in a time signature, the top number is 3 and the bottom number is 2, this is what it tells you about what is in each measure.
What is 3 beats in a measure, and the half note gets the beat?
This song in Suzuki Book 1 starts off fast and features a big slow down followed by a pause known as a fermata.
What is Allegro?
Some cellos are made out of wood that comes from this type of tree.
What is a maple tree?
This type of note always begins on an V (Up) Bow.
What is a pick-up note
If you had another open string higher than the A String, it would be this string.
What is the E String.
This is the number of different D's that you can play in first position and where they are.
What is 1 on the C String, Open D, and 4 on the A String.
What is 1. Twinkle. 2. French Folk song. 3. Lightly Row. 4. Song of the the Wind. 5. Go Tell Aunt Rhody. 6. O' Come Little Children. 7. May Song. 8. Allegro. 9. Perpetual Motion.
These Italian cellos are the most expensive and prized cellos in the world. The most of expensive of which is valued at $20,000,000
What is a Stradivarius