I really appreciate your intention to explain a concept that is so weird to attempt without help. This video inspires me to try vibrato right away, despite my novice status as a cello player.Thanks.
I never considered using a tennis ball to help train the arm angle, thanks for this suggestion, my vibrato is a work in progress, some good questions too, I also find that I can improvise and practice with vibrato, but often it disappears once I start playing a piece. I also keep wanting to use the wrist instead of the whole arm, and also have a tendency to grip too strong. Thanks for the video Billy.
Thank you for your time and effort. But, I think I need feedback to questions during instructions. It's too easy to get lost with the details of explanation. What looks like one thing, and it sounds like another goes to the point of something different totally.
Dear CelloBello-Team, and of course, dear Billy, Thank you very much for your kind Information Teaching Trailer, it was suuuuuch marvolous ‼️‼️‼️ even I am in my 2nd Instrument: how I personally call it,"String Departement ":because I was 13 years until Corona came, an Opera-Tenor in diverse Opera Houses in 🇪🇺🇩🇪, and actually wanted to become a Violist, a '3rd Violinist", just as a bad silly Joke 🙃🫠😉😋, But, I studied Voix au second Instrument, but my Voice Teacher au Conservatoire Supérieur, told me to become a "Tenor", and not a "Violist", cause she did the same path like me, studied first Major , this time "the big string Star: à la 🇪🇺🇩🇪 Violon Star: Anne Sophie Mutter= the Violin", and 2nd Instrument Voix, but her Voice Teacher said she should become a Soprano lyrique. So then I quit with "Viola", and was "just being focussed in Singing " and made my path on Opwra Stage Singing. When the Corona pandemie begun, I was freelance and after Lockdown 1 was over, only the "employed Singers of the Opera-House", were allowed to perform/sing, I was a freelance Singer so no chances. So after 17 years, I started "again" Viola, and doing it with joy, got a teacher, Carl Stamitz, William Walton, Bela Bartòk, Paul Hindemith, Dmitri Shostakovich Viola Sonata, are working, not yet the great unplayable Pièce for Viola: Alfred Schnittke Viola Concerto 🎻= Viola‼️🥵 = damit difficult better say hard‼️‼️ it is fascinating how , unfortounatly the forgotten of the Bullshit War and is an open Putin-Fan🤢🤢🤢" : Yuri Bashmet played the Premiere, and righr afterwards my beloved honoured "Nobuko Imai", who was Prof for Viola, the other great Violist, besides Bashmet , Tabea Zimmermann, and by you guys (in Boston New England Conservatoire🇺🇸),the also great Violist,Kim Kashkashian, at my Time "Hochschule für Musik Detmold 🇪🇺🇩🇪 ",until 2006, where Mrs Imai taught. That Recording of her , Schnittke, with the "Malmö Symphony Orchestra/🇪🇺🇸🇪 under Conductor: Lev Markiz,from 1989, who sadly passed last year, but he was I think 90, so a fullfill life, is magnificent Recording 🎻=🎉, ‼️‼️certainly Bashmet as well‼️, besides the ....🤢🤷♂️. So I'm thinking of doing à la: "Viola for Adults", NO COMMON VIOLA JOKES PLEASE 🙃🫠😉😋, SERIOUSLY‼️‼️, even most of the people ,who want to play a "Violon-Posture-Holding Instrument " like the "Violon", and unfortounatly/sadly the "Viola" 😢🤷♂️ and we Violists have the "less Reportoire ‼️"🤷♂️ of the String Family, even the Double Bass in "Classique Reportoire " has even more, huge ammount of Vanhal and Dittersdorf, besides in Jazz, which I adore the Bass, I am a huge "Ron Carter-Fan "‼️🎻= à la Double Bas❤️, but the Bass has more than the Viola,we the two "outsiders of the String Family" , besides the "two Stars= Violon, and Violoncelle", it is a matter of fact 🤷♂️ The Violon and Cello are the great Stars🎉🤷♂️= good for them‼️ and huge Reportoire ‼️‼️ So I think about it, even for International, my English 🇬🇧 is pretty bad, but I try. Thank you again very much and all the best to you🍀🍀🍀🎶🎻 = à la Cello for your Broadcast,and "a happy before Christmas Time", unfortounatly I do not know, how you English Native Speakers say for that, or even in the US Christmas Culture, hope you understand me 😬🙏,🕯🌟. Kind regards from 🇪🇺 🇩🇪 Black Forest Region,Three Country Zone-Area 🇪🇺🇩🇪🇫🇷🇨🇭, to the US 🇺🇸, Yours, Josha 🙋 PS: with the Tennis Ball unfortunatly does not work, on the "Violon-Viola-Posture", it is way too Mini on the "Fingerboard of the Violon-Viola", and also that the Violon-Viola does not fall down, even you've got a good Violon-Viola-Schoulderrest 😬🙏🤷♂️
This was so helpful. Thank you for sharing your struggles and knowledge with us all.
Thank you!! Super helpful, I really appreciate the free learning resource.
Hi Billy, thank you for the sincere effort and detailed explanations and demonstrations on this Important subject of adult cello learning journey.
I really appreciate your intention to explain a concept that is so weird to attempt without help. This video inspires me to try vibrato right away, despite my novice status as a cello player.Thanks.
I never considered using a tennis ball to help train the arm angle, thanks for this suggestion, my vibrato is a work in progress, some good questions too, I also find that I can improvise and practice with vibrato, but often it disappears once I start playing a piece. I also keep wanting to use the wrist instead of the whole arm, and also have a tendency to grip too strong. Thanks for the video Billy.
As always, thanks for such a useful video! I do wish that there was a way to filter out all the nonsense in the chat replies . . . so distracting!
Thank you for your time and effort. But, I think I need feedback to questions during instructions. It's too easy to get lost with the details of explanation. What looks like one thing, and it sounds like another goes to the point of something different totally.
Dear CelloBello-Team, and of course, dear Billy,
Thank you very much for your kind Information Teaching Trailer, it was suuuuuch marvolous ‼️‼️‼️ even I am in my 2nd Instrument: how I personally call it,"String Departement ":because I was 13 years until Corona came, an Opera-Tenor in diverse Opera Houses in 🇪🇺🇩🇪, and actually wanted to become a Violist, a '3rd Violinist", just as a bad silly Joke 🙃🫠😉😋, But, I studied Voix au second Instrument, but my Voice Teacher au Conservatoire Supérieur, told me to become a "Tenor", and not a "Violist", cause she did the same path like me, studied first Major , this time "the big string Star: à la 🇪🇺🇩🇪 Violon Star: Anne Sophie Mutter= the Violin", and 2nd Instrument Voix, but her Voice Teacher said she should become a Soprano lyrique.
So then I quit with "Viola", and was "just being focussed in Singing " and made my path on Opwra Stage Singing.
When the Corona pandemie begun, I was freelance and after Lockdown 1 was over, only the "employed Singers of the Opera-House", were allowed to perform/sing, I was a freelance Singer so no chances.
So after 17 years, I started "again" Viola, and doing it with joy, got a teacher, Carl Stamitz, William Walton, Bela Bartòk, Paul Hindemith, Dmitri Shostakovich Viola Sonata, are working, not yet the great unplayable Pièce for Viola: Alfred Schnittke Viola Concerto 🎻= Viola‼️🥵 = damit difficult better say hard‼️‼️ it is fascinating how , unfortounatly the forgotten of the Bullshit War and is an open Putin-Fan🤢🤢🤢" : Yuri Bashmet played the Premiere, and righr afterwards my beloved honoured "Nobuko Imai", who was Prof for Viola, the other great Violist, besides Bashmet , Tabea Zimmermann, and by you guys (in Boston New England Conservatoire🇺🇸),the also great Violist,Kim Kashkashian, at my Time "Hochschule für Musik Detmold 🇪🇺🇩🇪 ",until 2006, where Mrs Imai taught.
That Recording of her , Schnittke, with the "Malmö Symphony Orchestra/🇪🇺🇸🇪 under Conductor: Lev Markiz,from 1989, who sadly passed last year, but he was I think 90, so a fullfill life, is magnificent Recording 🎻=🎉, ‼️‼️certainly Bashmet as well‼️, besides the ....🤢🤷♂️.
So I'm thinking of doing à la: "Viola for Adults", NO COMMON VIOLA JOKES PLEASE 🙃🫠😉😋, SERIOUSLY‼️‼️, even most of the people ,who want to play a "Violon-Posture-Holding Instrument " like the "Violon", and unfortounatly/sadly the "Viola" 😢🤷♂️ and we Violists have the "less Reportoire ‼️"🤷♂️ of the String Family, even the Double Bass in "Classique Reportoire " has even more, huge ammount of Vanhal and Dittersdorf, besides in Jazz, which I adore the Bass, I am a huge "Ron Carter-Fan "‼️🎻= à la Double Bas❤️, but the Bass has more than the Viola,we the two "outsiders of the String Family" , besides the "two Stars= Violon, and Violoncelle", it is a matter of fact 🤷♂️ The Violon and Cello are the great Stars🎉🤷♂️= good for them‼️ and huge Reportoire ‼️‼️
So I think about it, even for International, my English 🇬🇧 is pretty bad, but I try.
Thank you again very much and all the best to you🍀🍀🍀🎶🎻 = à la Cello for your Broadcast,and "a happy before Christmas Time", unfortounatly I do not know, how you English Native Speakers say for that, or even in the US Christmas Culture, hope you understand me 😬🙏,🕯🌟.
Kind regards from 🇪🇺 🇩🇪 Black Forest Region,Three Country Zone-Area 🇪🇺🇩🇪🇫🇷🇨🇭, to the US 🇺🇸,
Yours,
Josha 🙋
PS: with the Tennis Ball unfortunatly does not work, on the "Violon-Viola-Posture", it is way too Mini on the "Fingerboard of the Violon-Viola", and also that the Violon-Viola does not fall down, even you've got a good Violon-Viola-Schoulderrest 😬🙏🤷♂️