Cello Its Me

Do you remember as a kid getting that first bicycle for your birthday or Christmas?  Off you went with your helmet, knee and elbow pads, and training wheels.  You probably rode with those things for months to even years.  Then all of a sudden Mom or Dad says, “Alright, time for your first ride without those training wheels!”  Well that’s what I’ve done with my cello!  Except it has never required a helmet, knee, and elbow pads.  I have taken the tape off of my finger board, the training wheels for the cello.  I was using the tape as some sort of gage for where the notes are.  The cello doesn’t have any kind of frets so most, if not all, beginners use tape on their finger boards.  Without that tape, my cello looks nice and all grown-up. Now it’s all up to my memory’s mechanics of positions on the cello and my ears for tuning.  Yay!