play & practice: Scales & Fingerings

[@narek_avagyan]

Lieber Herr Braun , vielen Dank für das interessante und inhaltlich reiche Video !

[@improvisation-for-strings]

Merci!

[@ardieson4542]

you're a genius

[@mfd1512]

Bravo - beautiful & very inspiring video !!!

[@improvisation-for-strings]

Merci, Manuel!

[@ajilagbenga959]

🤭this is so amazing and so so helpful and encouraging. Thank you for sharing this. Looking forward to starting the exercise and for the next video.🌻

[@improvisation-for-strings]

Thank you, Gbenga!

[@adriaanvosdewael770]

Thank you Stephan. Brilliant video.

[@improvisation-for-strings]

Merci!

[@theladyfuria]

So handy! This way students will not be scared of playing in different tonalities. Thanks, Stephan! I'm a big fan

[@improvisation-for-strings]

yeah, thank you Karolyni

[@t.horsch5777]

I love how well structured this exercise is! It's helping me a lot to get more fluent in scales. Thank you so much for making these Videos! Can't wait for the next one. :)

[@improvisation-for-strings]

Thanks a lot!

[@MohannadNasser]

Amazing 😊 I am going to share it with friends 🎶🎶🎶

[@improvisation-for-strings]

Merci, Mohannad ;)

[@LoicAbdelfettah]

Congratulations Stephan ! What a wonderful series of advices and exercises ! Thanks !!

[@improvisation-for-strings]

Merci, Loïc!

[@Wolfcellist]

Very inspiring! Will start today!

[@improvisation-for-strings]

Thanks!

[@osmartapia8864]

Thank you so much, please upload second part practice with the Minor scales.

[@meathecreativecellist]

Love this pattern so much. It will really help my students how are learning to improvise. Do you, by chance, have a PDF resource where you include the fingering that you use?

[@improvisation-for-strings]

Thank you, Mea! The fingerings will be slightly different belonging to the context of improvisation and the shape of your hand...

[@meathecreativecellist]

@@improvisation-for-strings Cool! So your recommendation is for people to experiment with different fingerings that work for them?

[@improvisation-for-strings]

@@meathecreativecellist yes ;)

[@adamgarnecki6903]

Great help! We all needed that!

[@improvisation-for-strings]

Thank you, Adam!

[@emir_cello]

FINALLY!!! Vielen dank Stephan!!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@improvisation-for-strings]

Merci.

[@energievioloncelle1738]

Merci beaucoup pour ce partage

[@cellofan528]

Thank you for sharing!so useful:)

[@improvisation-for-strings]

Thank you!

[@ijjjjja]

It's so useful! Thank you again :)

[@improvisation-for-strings]

Merci!

[@bricemadden5717]

Thank you, this is an excellent excercise. It seems like you utilize the double extension stretch hand position...am I correct?? so whole step between one and two, and whole step between three and four ?

[@improvisation-for-strings]

Thanks! Yes, when I play Dbmajor on the C-string I would use this fingerings: Db-1 Eb-2 F-3 Gb4. Another opportunity could be: Db-1 Eb-2 F-4 Gb-4.

[@bricemadden5717]

@@improvisation-for-strings interesting....ive never tried that fingering much but see how useful it can be....i imagine it takes a little while to adjust if brand new to that double stretch

[@bricemadden5717]

@@improvisation-for-strings for flat major on the d string do you use 1Eb - 2 F - 3Gb - 4 Ab ?? and similar on a string?

[@improvisation-for-strings]

@@bricemadden5717 Your personal fingerings belong to the size of your hand. I would train flexibility, using the double stretch and also small shiftings, on D-string: Eb-1 F-3 Gb-4 Ab-4 or Eb-1 F-1 Gb-2 Ab-4.

[@bricemadden5717]

thank you for your wisdom, your time is appreciated!
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[@MichaelSchuerig]

The demonstration at the beginning is much too quick for me, even when slowed down to 0.25x. Notation would have helped a lot. I do see that you're playing four notes per string, but from the video I can't figure out the details of the sliding. When is it the first finger, when the fourth? Is it different up and down?

[@improvisation-for-strings]

Thanks Michael. Please don't take my fingerings in the video as "must" - I'm playing it slighly different from time to time. Everybody has different abilities, so please look for your own fingerings for: first position in comination with small shiftings.

[@MichaelSchuerig]

​@@improvisation-for-strings The fingering I've tried in the past for a two-octave major scale is 1-1,3,4;1-1,3,4;1-1,2,4;1-1,2 (four notes per string). This scheme can be easily adapted for other modes of the major scale, all without extensions. I haven't tried slides with the fourth finger and I'm wondering whether that could be an improvement.
I'm not at all an advanced cello player. I only started 4,5 years ago and at least 40 years too late. I've never encountered fingerings like these in my lessons or seen them in technique/scales books. I've come up with my scheme when I was trying to figure out how to play scales on an electric bass guitar tuned in fifths.

[@improvisation-for-strings]

@@MichaelSchuerig The fingerings in the video support improvisation through all keys in first position. The musical fingerings in classical cello teaching are complete different ;)

[@tioliak]

Why did you tune A=442 Hz?

[@improvisation-for-strings]

More or less the tuning in Europe is 443, in the US 440, I tune my instrument always to 442 ;)