For every cellist who makes progress
Cellopedia Practice Room
Pick a piece from the library, or paste any YouTube link.
- Scores play at practice tempo, with the cursor moving through the music
- The piano comes in where it should
- Loop any passage - in the score, or in any YouTube recording
- Slow it down without changing the pitch
- Record yourself and listen back
Free account, no credit card to sign up. The practice tools stay free forever, no account needed. Premium comes with a 14-day free trial when you want the full library.
How it works
Pick a piece
Open the library and choose a scale, an etude, or something with piano. The score opens ready to play along.
Work the passage
Loop the bar that isn't right, slow it down, count yourself in, and play it until it settles.
Listen back
Record a take and compare it with the last one. Your practice is remembered so you can see what you've been working on.
The library, in numbers
61 pieces, 68 recordings, all recorded for Cellopedia. 4 are free to try without subscribing.
Scales and Arpeggios
Dotzauer: 113 Etudes, Book 1
Repertoire
Bach: Cello Suites
Popper: 15 Easy Etudes, Op. 76a
Play with the piano, at your tempo
The piano accompaniment plays at whatever tempo you set, so you can work a movement at 60 and hear the piano exactly where it belongs. Speed it up as the passage gets easier. Nobody has to sit at the piano for an hour while you repeat four bars.
Repeat one passage, in the score itself
Mark the first and last measures, and those bars repeat with a count of how many times you have played them. No dragging a slider to find the spot again. The cursor stays in the passage, so your eyes stay on the page.
Recordings made for practicing, not for performance
Every recording in the library was made for this purpose: steady tempos, clear articulation, and a second, slower take where a piece calls for one. They are not concert performances with rubato you cannot follow. They are what a teacher plays when a student needs to hear it.
Practice along with any video
Found a performance you love on YouTube? Paste the link. Loop a passage, slow it down without the pitch dropping, and work with the recording you actually want to imitate.
The library keeps growing
The newest additions: Popper: 15 Easy Etudes, Op. 76a · Etude No. 1, Repertoire · Minuet, BWV Anh. 114 (Petzold) and Chanson Triste (Kalinnikov).
What is free
The metronome, tuner, drone and slow-downer stay free, with no account. The drone is recorded from Cellopedia’s own cello - a real note for every pitch it offers, not a synthesized tone. 4 pieces are free to play as well. A subscription opens the rest of the library.
Free practice tools
Free forever, no account neededBuilt on thirty years of cello teaching
The Practice Room is part of Cellopedia, the same pedagogy behind the YouTube lessons and courses trusted by tens of thousands of adult cellists. The method here is simple and stubborn: specificity beats encouragement, and the cure for a plateau is naming the obstacle.
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