In her pedagogical bachelor’s thesis the author examined beneficial possibilities of a popular- and soundtrack music in cello teaching and the string ensemble work. Motivating a cello student, developing his/her musical creativity and encouraging the new students into a string instrument study were the main goals of the work. The author aimed to develop a student’s musical skills and creativity among others by the help of arranging, music notating, composing and improvising. In a thesis there were generally demonstrated the music study motivation linked factors in the basis of a literature, such as a social environment and metakognitive skills importance and reasons for giving up the music hobby. There were also took a stance on a current music institute studying situation in a thesis with a reference to Anttila`s research. To the selection of a thesis subject were largely influenced the author`s artistic production, which she organized in the Kuopio Music Centre on spring 2007. The author got a lot of positive and useful experiences and skills from the production, which she planned to benefit in her future cello teaching. Individual teaching, study motivation, group learning and comprehensive learning were the central pedagogical concepts in the work.