About
When I was first learning to play the cello, I would place my first and second fingers too close together in first position. After placing them I could shift them over if the intonation was not on, but I wanted to be able to place them correctly at the start. In my other life I write computer programs, so I developed an exercise on my computer to help in placing those 2 fingers.
As I developed as a cellist, I discovered more fingering and intonation problems, and developed more exercises to help me. After a while I thought that if these help me, perhaps they will help other aspiring cellists. So I converted the programs, and developed this website, so that others could use them.
Vilis O. Nams
Future
Let me know if you want specific exercises – I will add the most frequent exercises requested by users. However, you can now create your own.
What’s New
2024.02.09 – Fixed bugs:
-display bug in scales exercises – some of the elements were overlapping.
-pressing Start twice would start notes twice, but pressing Stop wouldn’t stop both.
-changing the times sliders wouldn’t work after the notes started playing.
2024.02.01 – Added 4th position exercises for fingers 1&4.
2024.02.01 – Changed wording for 2nd, 3rd, 4th positions (normal), and added notes to explanation.
2024.01.26 – Added 2nd position and 3rd position (normal) exercises.
2025.01.28 – To help beginners learn notes, added 1st position on each of the strings. 2025.01.28 – To make it easier to keep track of what is going on, when Play button is pressed, it is then greyed out. After Stop button is pressed, it is greyed out and the Play button is now active.2025.02.17 – Added the ability to create your own exercise. I use this to work on high notes. It’s not worth creating fixed exercises for this because I keep changing them as I progress. So I added the ability for the user to create their own exercises.