Okay, in this age of everyone doing YouTube watching and streaming, I do not. I find it hard to concentrate and need the larger TV screen. I watch some YouTubes, but they are just short little videos. They are helpful.

I am, and have been for months, searching for CD’s and DVD’s. What I am looking for are solo instruments, not orchestra performances. I want to hear the cello, violin and viola. I want to hear how they should be sounding, not how I am playing it. It really helped on this Minuet I just started on my cello. 

I am not interested in 2 Cellos. They are good, but an electric cello that does not sound like an acoustic cello is not helpful. Plus, they can get wild, which I do not like. I want to hear the cello. I don’t particular want that really fast classical that makes me crazy. I cannot make any sense of it at all. That is an issue with the middle section of the minuet I am working on. It just seems like a lot of notes just thrown in the air and they drop in the staff paper and are divided into measures. 

I do not mind if it is cello and violin and viola, or any combination of the three. No piano because the samples I listened to have the piano taking over.

With the DVD’s I am looking for closeups of the fingering, bowing, or distance that is close enough to see the entire instrument clearing. I don’t particularly need audience span shots. I am interested in how that musician is playing that instrument.

I listened to YoYo Ma (sp) and th ones I listened to were too busy. I would like not 15 minute long songs. I am looking for a lot of shorter pieces. They can be classical that is not too busy that it sounds like jazz to me or what I described above about notes falling down , folk music, fiddle. Not busy, not jazz, not so much dynamics that the softer sounds are not heard unless I turn my volume way up and the the louder hurts the ears and shakes the house. I stopped listening to my classical CD’s because of that. I do mot have a system that allows me to do anything about that. 

I hope I was clear enough.

I found a YouTube by Cellopedia of a slow version of the Minuet I just started. I was watching his shifting and string to string movement of his left hand and bowing of bis right. Very helpful. I also was able to hear the rhythm. Extremely helpful. I also listened to a normal speed by someone else. I was able to get the right speed. I actually found it easier to play at normal speed. Pretty poory, but it was easier than my slow speed.

What I would like to do is pop in he CD’s when I am on my eliptical, sewing, riding in the car, etc. just keep listening. I would also like to pop them into my DVD player and watch them being played. All of this will really help, I think.

Thank you in advance.