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• Take a two-minute journey around the circle of fifths with resonant acoustic cello drones.
• Download a free pdf of “Samba for Mooli” and check out other sheet music for cello ensemble and chamber music for cello with other instruments.
• View the five-minute film “Samba for Mooli” by Dan Nadaner featuring music by the same name for cello, guitar, and percussion.

Cello Drones for Tuning and Improvisation

• For string players, wind players, vocalists, and instrumentalists
• Develop your ear and improve your intonation
• Tune intervals, scales, chords, arpeggios, and musical passages
• Drones on all 12 chromatic pitches to accompany major, minor, and modal scales
• Tune your instrument
• Great practice and teaching tool
• Helps build technique musically
• Background soundscape and harmonic base for improvisation
• Warm resonant sound of acoustic cello

Coming soon! 28 Great Melodies to Play with Drones

• Classical excerpts and folk songs
• Each selection written in 12 keys
• Develop your ear and improve your intonation playing with a sustained reference pitch
• Recognize the interval patterns of a melody independent of key
• Explore unfamiliar keys
• Play freely and in different tempos
• Each selection a melodic take-off for improvisation with a drone
• Treble, alto, and bass clef editions for all instruments
• Great practice and teaching tool
• Music-making for all skill levels

Sheet Music: free downloadable pdf files

• Samba for Mooli — a beautiful and lyrical melody for any instrument! Lead sheet (melody and chords) available in both treble and bass clef versions.
• Sevensong — for Cello Ensemble or Cello Quartet
• Thunder Shower — for Flute, Violin, Viola, & Cello
• Stories of Joy and the Trickster — Musical Vignettes on 5 Paintings of Marc Chagall for Clarinet, Cello, & Piano

Cello Drones for Meditation and Relaxation

As one acoustic cello tone fades into the next, your mind settles into a state ideal for meditation, creative activity, and relaxation.

So not Jazz

SO not JAZZ — songs for guitar, cello, piano, and voice; vocals and instrumentals, entrancing improvisations.

Skyward

Songs and instrumental works for cello with vocals, guitar, accordion, clarinet, piano, and percussion; including “Stories of Joy and the Trickster: Musical Vignettes on 5 Paintings of Marc Chagall” for cello, clarinet, and piano.

When Light is Your Garden

Danceable love songs with a latin tinge, acoustic Americana with cello, vocals, guitar, piano, and percussion.

I Remember You

Cello interludes surrounding five funny and poignant short stories written and read by Todd Walton.