This widget is an online virtual cello that you can plays right in your web browser. The online virtual cello is an instrument that you play using a mouse or a finger. The online virtual cello is also an instrument that you play using a computer keyboard.
To bow the strings of the online virtual cello, click down on the fretboard and drag the mouse or your finger up or down the fretboard. The vertical bow will follow the motion of the mouse or your finger from left to right, and the bowing up or down the fretboard will cause the bow to cross each of the strings that the bow pass over. Each of the strings will start to make sound when the bow reaches that string, and the sound will stop when you release the string.
How to Play the Online Virtual Cello
If you drag the mouse or your finger horizontal along a single string, the virtual finger will slide to a neighboring pitch on that string. Each of the four horizontal string is labeled with the following note names: A, D, G, and C. These strings are arranged so that the highest pitch notes are located at the top of the fretboard, and the lowest pitch notes are at the bottom of the fretboard. To bow a string, click down on any part of the fretboard and drag the mouse or your finger up or down the fretboard.
The vertical bow will follow your mouse or finger from left to right, and bowing up or down will cause the bow to cross each of the strings that the bow move over. Each string will emit a sound whenever the bow reaches the string, but the sound will cease when you release the string. Dragging the mouse or your finger horizontally along a string will move the virtual finger to the next note on that string.
To set a finger position on the string without bowing the string, simply click on one of the small dot that are positioned along each string. Clicking on these dots will “stage” the pitch of the string so that when the bow crosses that string, the sound will begin play. You can change the fingered note of each of the four strings independently of the other three strings.
Thus, before bowing the string with the mouse or your finger, you can place the virtual finger on each of the four strings to prepare a chord that will be played when you drag the bow across the strings. The computer keyboard can also be used to play the online virtual cello. Pressing the A, D, G, or C keys will bow each of the corresponding strings at the pitch of the fingered note on each of those strings.
Pressing the Space bar will play the phrase titled Lyric Line, and pressing the Enter key will play the phrase titled Cadence. The left and right arrow keys cycle through the available root note, and the square bracket keys shift the register of the instrument up or down. Pressing the Z key change the articulation between bowed and pizzicato strings, and the keys 1-4 will load the four different lead voicings of the online virtual cello.
Before using the online virtual cello with the keyboard, you must first click once inside the widget to allow the online virtual cello to recieve keyboard inputs. The Scale and Root dropdown menus control which musical notes show up on the fretboard as finger positions. The available scales are Major, Natural Minor, Dorian, Harmonic Minor, Minor Pentatonic, and Chromatic.
The root note change the key of the online virtual cello. The Tone dropdown menu offers four different tone settings for the online virtual cello: Warm, Sweet, Dark, and Concert. Each of these tone settings alters the timbre of the sounds that the online virtual cello makes.
There are three sliders that control different parameters of the online virtual cello. The bow pressure control allow you to change the bite and volume of the bowed note, as well as the sound of that note. The vibrato control adds a shimmering quality to each of the notes that you play with the bow, and allows the notes to feel alive while they are played.
The sympathetic resonance control allows you to change how much the other three strings of the online virtual cello will ring when the bowed string resonates. This control contributes to the woody sound quality of the online virtual cello. The four buttons titled Lead Voicings allow you to quickly load four different pres-sets of the online virtual cello.
Each of these pres-sets contain a specific scale, root note, tone, and type of articulation. Each of the Lead Voicing buttons will load the preset directly when you click on the button. The Phrase Starters buttons will play short melodic figure using the active scale, root, and articulation.
Because these figures use the same scale and root as the online virtual cello, the figures will stay in the correct key of the online virtual cello, even if you change its root or scale settings. To begin playing the online virtual cello with your mouse or finger, simply click anywhere on the fretboard, and begin to drag your mouse or finger up or down the fretboard. You can load one of the voicings with the Lead Voicing buttons, and then begin to play by sliding your fingers to different notes on the strings, and slowly drawing your mouse or your finger across all four strings at the same time.
You should of used more than one finger to make it sound better. Its going to sound alot better once you practice. This is a moddern instrument.
It isnt as difficult as it looks. You’ll find that the sounds is very beautifull.