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Every cellist should at least have basic fingerings for three-octave major scales. Here they are.
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Practice this passage from the Strauss Sonata using the technique of position practicing.
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Here's how to use the knowledge of position to gain confidence and accuracy moving between them.
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Many cello-related questions have come in lately, so I'll answer a selection of them - to the best of my ability - here in a single video.
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The eighth is the last of the numbered positions I will talk about. It is the most essential and easily-found thumb position, and can be used as a point of departure for extensions and shifts to higher positions.
David Finckel Cello Talks
David Finckel here, cellist of the Emerson String Quartet, duo partner of Wu Han, Artistic Director, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Music@Menlo. I'm going to post a whole series of mini-cello lessons here that are going to be concise and hopefully really useful. Keep checking back as I upload more of them, from wherever I happen to be.
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Hi David
As an older man, 68, I am having to change from a wind instrument, and it is great to have your real quality input. So many thought provoking ideas and attention to details I have not thought of. -
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Hi David,
Thank you for making these wonderful videos. If you are still adding to the collection, I`d like to make a request for one on synthetic harmonics.
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