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🦋 Tin-can Cello: my first lesson
I had my first cello lesson today. Teacher was intrigued in the cello and interested in helping me with technique. Said it would be a challenge as a lot of his teaching techniques are specific to cello geometry, which differs in key ways from that of the tin-can cello.
Advice for left hand is learning first position, with scales and Suzuki tunes. Thumb position is key, the thumb should be in back of the neck or even on the outside of the neck. Right hand, my fingers should cradle the frog. The angle of bow hair to string is different than when playing violin, the bow hair is facing the floor, so angled away from you. (These two bits of advice are by themselves worth the cost of the lesson.) We tried playing Humorèsque together. Vibrato was mentioned.
posted evening of Monday, October 29th, 2018
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right-hand position:
posted evening of November 7th, 2018 by Jeremy Osner
Lesson #2 this evening -- more scales and Suzuki tunes, and an exercise with double stops for intonation.
posted evening of December third, 2018 by Jeremy Osner
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