Cello Lesson: Improve Your Shifting with Finger Replacements

Practice with Houston Symphony cellist Maki! Here's a useful technique to instantly help you shift more accurately and consistently. It's a concept introduced to me by a professor at Juilliard, and will save you many hours of practice time!
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[@SpringLakeNJ]

Golden advice. Thank you!

[@kitkatkittykat114]

Thank you very much, his helped me a lot!

[@gasparocelloman9852]

Very helpful! Many thanks.

[@graemewebster1214]

I call it "finger substitution", and I also found E major scale to be a great place to get started with it. Actually, you can apply this technique all through the four octave scales, every day.
What I can't understand is why it is not even mentioned in the large number of cello books that I have.

[@DoublestopMusic]

Glad to hear this! I wonder if it's not mentioned in books from fear of relying too much on substitutions and not learning where the pitches belong on the fingerboard.

[@graemewebster1214]

@@DoublestopMusic Substituting fingers is no substitute for using ears: they work together, just as one hand washes the other.

[@nguyenmsg]

Is it just me or does he kinda look like Chubbyemu?

[@marleneorein9484]

Is he Japanese? Korean?

[@nguyenmsg]

@@marleneorein9484 I'm pretty sure he is Japanese