Re: What are the hardest cello pieces to play?

Hey sean in order to do the flight of the bumble bees dont you have to do treble notes like really high notes o yeah where do you live dont give me specifics

High notes, yes, but it`s more of a matter of speed when it comes to difficulty. It`s beat 144 for the quarter note which makes it very fast and almost the entire song is in 16th notes. The "FLIGHT OF THE BUMBLE-BEE" on this website (a remake) is different from the one that I have, the one on this website is much easier. Mine has 22 lines, 8 treble clefs, 17 alto clefs (viola clef) and 11 cello celfs (bass clef). In order of lines,
treble clef= &
cello clef= C
alto= |B

& |B, |B, |B, |B, |B C, C, C, C |B, |B, |B, |B C, C & |B, |B, |B, |B, |B &, &, & C, C &, & |B, |B C, C |B & C

That was the order of lines of clefs. I guess you notice how some line might change from one clef to another clef. I am from GA, Atlanta. :-)

The last line changes from cello to alto to treble back to cello clef. The highest note in the song "A" is an inch and a half (1.5) off the finger board, almost halfway between the end of the fingerboard and the bridge. THATS JUST TOO HIGH FOR THE CELLO!!!! Cool huh :-)

why alto clef? I usually Either stay in bass or go to tenor clef


I`ve heard no one say the Saint-Saens A minor. Thats a hard one..to master at least

The Alto clef is just another cleff that we play on the Cello, other than the Bass clef and Treble clef. I`ve seen more Cello pieces on the Alto clef than the Treble clef. I`ve never really realized it, but we all can actualy play violin, viola, and Bass sheet music on the cello. Other than "The fight of the Bumble-bee", I have a piece of music called, "HUNGARIAN RHAPSODY, opus 68" that is also in the Bass, Alto and Treble cleff. Part of it is even faster than bumble-bee song, like with the triple bar line, 24th notes in Andante maestoso; then 16th notes in Presto "about twice as fast as the bumble-bee song."

i find the happy farmer is hard, cause like u think, ah this is easy and play it, and it was easy;
but then some little 6 yr old comes out, who has been practicing the song for like a whole year, and plays it better than you did,

but yes not the hardest to play, but the hardest to not get upstaged by a 6 year old on.

what about eminem`s lose urself......that could be considered quite difficult.....oooooooooh, or say a little prayer.......oooohhhhhh or kylies` locomotion

tru doing that synethiser effect(common with many 80`s songs) on a cello can be quite hard, cause u need plug ins to a computer n stuff, plus like 4 hands to operate it all

What the hell are you 2 talking about?

whoever back there said that paganini`s 24th caprice is the hardest to play on any instrument is very ignorant . I can play it on guitar without any problem, with or without a pick, and besides despite there being hundreds of harder songs period, most of paganini`s other capricci are more difficult in my opinion

aNYTHING WRITEN BY pAGANINI

:O The guitar is very different from the Cello. No bow, no curved bridge, doesn`t stands upright, has more strings.

Though I don`t play the cello, I have MANY friends that do. Considering how they seem to be a handful of the best in the state, what they`re currently playing are

The Rococo Variations by Tchaikovsky
Shostokovich`s Cello Concerto
Schumann`s Cello Concerto
Anything by Paganini

Those would be the solo works that they are currently playing.

SEAN. Perhaps you mean tenor clef. I have seen exactly ZERO peices written for cello in alto clef.

Well whatever it is, it looks like this:

|B (the viola clef)