Hello everyone,
I play cello for 10 years and I'm facing this problem for the first time:
My teacher told me to study the LALO Concerto in D minor which I did.Then 2 weeks later he told me to study exercise 14 from Grutzmacher Opus 38 Vol2.When I started studying I realized that I can't play anything from this excercise. I don't know what to do cause I has been 1 month and I can't play it. Certainly it is psychological but I don't know how to begin learning it.
Please can you advise me what to do?

P.S.LALO is beautiful!!

Well, I thing that i could learn it without listening to the melody. Actually I don't have a cd with crutzmacher exercises and when I asked my teacher to play it to me he refused....I tried some methods myself, I played every note separately, very slow, I repeated many times the position changes e.t.c. and the result is that now I can play only the first line but not with the bows that are written in the book.Learning the rest seems like it will take...forever...And its true that when I open the book i have the feeling thats it is very diffucult to play and there is no reason to search for which part is easier...