Everything I’d put on your music stand

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
Sight-reading exercises, freshly made for your level
Add your own music: scan a PDF of your cello part (Beta)

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.

The Bach Menuet playing in the Practice Room. The red cursor moves along the first line of the score while the play, loop and tempo controls sit above it.

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

64 pieces, 71 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.

The Breval Sonata shown as a full score at bars 4 to 6, the cello melody above the piano's chords and moving bass line. Above the score, the tempo slider is set to 110 beats per minute and Piano accompaniment is selected.

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.

A scale playing in the Practice Room with measures 2 to 3 looped. The looped bars are shaded, the red cursor moves through them, and the rep count in the corner goes up after each cycle.

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.

The first line of the Breval Sonata in the Practice Room, with two recordings to choose from above it: 60 beats per minute and 92 beats per minute.

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.

A Cellopedia video in the Practice Room, looping 0:11 to 0:15 at 0.75 speed

Add your own music

Scan a PDF of your cello part, and the Practice Room turns it into a score you can play along with, loop and slow down. Lines that look wrong are checked by AI.

Part of Premium, in Beta. How to scan a page

A printed page of a cello part. — Your printed part

The same page as a score in the Practice Room, with the playback controls above it. — In the Practice Room

Record yourself and listen back

Press Record while you play, then play it back and compare it with your last take. Recordings stay on your device: nothing is uploaded, and you download the ones you want to keep.

The recorder in the Practice Room with two takes of the same passage listed below it, each with Download, Compare and Play buttons. The note above says takes stay on this device only.

Sight-reading, a new exercise every time

Choose your level, clef, key and meter, and the Practice Room writes a new exercise for you. Read it first, then press Play to hear it with the moving cursor. Five levels, from first position to thumb position. Levels 1 and 2 are free.

Try a sight-reading exercise

A Level 3 sight-reading exercise in bass clef in the Practice Room. Above the score, the settings panel shows Level 3, Bass clef, 4/4 and 8 bars with the New exercise button; below, the red cursor moves through the first line of the exercise.

The library keeps growing

The newest additions: Repertoire · Arioso, from Cantata BWV 156 (Bach), Nocturne, Op. 92 No. 1 (Goltermann) and Arietta (Frescobaldi).

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 needed

Metronome →

Sample-accurate clicks, subdivisions, tap tempo.

Cello Tuner →

Chromatic, with string presets and a low-C-friendly engine.

Drone →

Warm sustained pitches for real intonation work.

Slow-Downer →

Slow audio or YouTube without changing pitch. Loop the hard bit.

Sight-Reading →

A fresh exercise at your level, played by the score player. Levels 1 and 2 free.

Built 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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