Try Cellopedia. He does slower renditions. His Chanson Triste is lovely. It is meant to have almost all vibrato. 

The thing with Cellopedia is that with his videos, it is just him with dark clothes and dark background. You are drawn to watch his cello playing, his fingering and bowing. I think he does all the Suzuki books. Google him. I think I have him listed in a thread I started in Learning Cello where I created an index with links to books, videos, etc that would be of help. Pretty sure Cellopedia is listed in my index.

I don’t do much with diaries, etc. I am not into writing down much in the way of thoughts, etc, in a structured way, so I would not be able to help with that part of your system of learning. I don’t do a lot of analyzing what I am doing.

I am working on Bourrée II at the moment. We changed the fingering from what is in the book we are using, Bärenreiter Bach Six Suites for violoncello solo. BWV 1007-1012. It is a tall blue covered book with yellowish pages. It is very easy to use. Plenty of room for notes and the yellowish pages are very easy to read. I will try to jot down my thoughts on Bourrée II if I get a chance. 

We worked on ChansonTriste a while back to get some particular technique from it before we continued on with Vocalise.  Both are lovely cello pieces. My instructor is working his way to a particular piece he wants me to do. Haven’t reached that point yet.

I should look at Chanson Triste and Vocalise again but I am wrapped up with the Bourrée II and some scales. Also trying to smooth out my fingers. Main problem? My finger joints are very stiff and not as flexible as they were in my younger years. I have good span for the cello finger board, but my joints do not like it. They don’t like speed, either. We are working on that. 

But, do Google Cellopedia, or look for my index I started in the Learning Cello section. 

I think I did that one in the late Fall or early Winter. I know it was a Breval Sonata for cello, and that sounds familiar. Yes, there are tricky parts.

My fight is getting my old fingers to move as fast as my eyes. Pretty much everything is a ballad, 🤪😂🤪😂🤪😂🤪😂🤪😂🤪

Right now I am not working on a piece for lessons. We are working really hard on my fingering and bowing, so we are doing scales, bowing drills and fingering drills.

As I am doing that, I am getting out my old pieces and using what I achieve in these exercises and drills to improve on those old songs. I have been sorting through them and trying them out. When I find one I really like and want to work on, and that is about to the point where my improvements stop, I will work on that one to enhance what I have been able to improve on as we advance forward with my issues in my lessons.

I also get out the books 1-3 of Suzuki and play the pieces that I like from those, and a Schroeder Foundation Studies book I have. This  gives me the opportunity pay attention to bowing and fingering to improve on straight bowing to get rid of the scratchy and my intonation and fingering because I know the songs. There are some nice pieces in the Schroeder book that I have noticed are becoming easier since we stopped doing pieces and are concentrating on fixing my fingering issues and bowing issue in my lessons. 

This system in my lessons being technique right now is actually giving me more confidence because I am improving songs I already know that I had issues with before, instead of getting new songs that keep getting blocked because I have old finger joint issues. I don’t have to be thinking about what fingering is needed or how to do it, or where to shift up to, etc as I do when we do the new advanced pieces, I can pay more attention to technique. I can’t do both at one time.

This is really making my cello playing so much more enjoyable and satisfying.

You are not intruding.

I don’t memorize before because when we were doing pieces for lessons, I would not see a new piece until that day. I try to memorize but the old memory ain't the same either! I need to remove some memories to clear some space, or get an external storage device 😂.

As I am learning the fingering, I try to memorize it. It takes a long time for me to get the entire thing memorized. The parts that have been memorized are easier to play, but a far cry from being good or smooth. By about the time we are going to move on ... The  it is memorized! I go back to them in my own later, time permitting. It takes a while for things to click, patterns, etc. Some people can do it quickly, but not me.

It would be so much easier to actually work on the fingering and bowing if I could memorize them faster. 

Humming does not make me able to play it, by the way. Maybe for some people, but not me.

I have done a lot of those. I try to look ahead, but then I have issues with what is in front of me. I have been working on that with my instructor. He will be bald soon from pulling his hair out. That is why I wish I could memorize the pieces mor quickly. You should be able to be anticipating a few measures ahead, be able to turn the page before you finish the current page, etc. I have issues. It will come.

I watch videos of some and watch the bowing and get the feel. But, it is mostly my own ability that I have to deal with and this is just for me, not for playing in front of or with anyone.

Thank you. That was a very easy song, not one of my complicated lesson ones. I also recorded that, must have been at least 10 times, if I remember correctly. 

I was testing a bow when I decided to record it. I wanted to hear how it sounded. I ended out purchasing a different bow and am very happy with it,