How do you build confidence in your cello playing? How do you go about the world being confident in your skills as a performer?

In all my years of teaching how to play the cello, one crucial factor has always come up with beginning students, or even sometimes advanced ones: playing the cello in a relaxed manner by eliminating unnecessary tension.

It is beneficial for the cello teacher to write the beginning student's lessons by hand in a manuscript notebook. There are lovely method books for beginning cello students; teachers should use these resources. However, for young students who are just starting and need to gain experience recognizing notes, sometimes writing their weekly lessons in a notebook has proved much more beneficial in my teaching.