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)