1. Warm up - scales (~ 10minutes, focus on good sound, maybe in the keys of the pieces you're playing) and studies/technique 2. Make a list of goals for day of practice 3. Use a timer (to keep track of how long you practice) 4. Schedule Breaks (and time them) 5. Stretch after practice
I do 10 min of scales, 10 min of Klengel speed exercises, about 30 minutes of Dotzauer Etudes. The rest of the time on the most difficult passages of repertoire. I practice 1 to 1 1/2 hrs per day--I'm not a professional, not even close. Other than church, I have no place to play where I live. I had been thinking about a list like yours. That's a great idea. The timer is a wonderful idea. Muchas gracias por tus ideas & recomendaciones!
Excellent ideas Jorge. The Timer for me works like this. If I schedule 10 minutes on vibrato, I expect to get $10 worth of value out of the time spent; 15 min on arpeggios, $15 R.I.O. For me, I personally hate Etudes because they are not especially musical and too predictable pattern-wise. Instead I take chamber music cello part excerpts and work on those challenging passages picked at random: Mendelssohn & Beethoven especially problematical. But Mozart too but for entirely different reasons. And for sure, I also time those sessions: 10-15 minutes for each composer. Bonus benefit: when you actually come to play the Trios, Quartets & Quintets with others you've already fingered your part!
This is great- I’m a professional horn player I practice 4- 7 hours hours a day. I do scales, transposition, studies, excerpts and pieces daily break it up into 1-2 hour chunks with breaks
I always made my students a customized practice “diet.” That way they saw it as something that was a way of life and necessary to not get out of shape. Plus diets change over the years. What’s good for you when you’re young doesn’t work when you are younger. Sometimes you get out of shape and need more cardio. Sometimes you’re injured and need to work on something else for a while and eat differently. Music is no different. Also, having a customized plan that slowly involves the student more in the choices allows the student to have a framework to take over that task for themselves one day.
Hola Pablo Soy un entusiasta sexagenario que acaba de descubrir lo hermoso de tratar de aprender este instrumento. Los consejos de un maestro son muy útiles. Da gusto la sencillez con la que enseñas. Mil gracias y éxito te deseo desde México.
Nice Look Inside your Practice habits. I love doing Scales. It gives me a good orientation and mapping of my cello. I also do some Trill-Exercise, Double Stops, Vibrato Training, some Bow-Technique: Whole/ half bow ,Tip/frog, lifting some Fingers (1+2;2+3, 3+4 ,1+4 lifted) for Warm-Up. Not everything everyday. I choose two or three things of my Warm-Ups.
Gracias Pablo!. Que lindo! 😚Definitivamente el estiramiento al final era la pieza faltante jajaja siempre termino algo contraida porq no estiro al culminar... cronometrar el tiempo que realmente estudio es algo que definitivamente voy a empezar a poner en práctica! muchos abrazos para ti🤗
Me está encantando tu canal!! Yo soy violinista ya profesional pero siempre quiero seguir avanzando todo lo posible porque para mí lo mejor de ser músico es la libertad de expresarte en tu instrumento a tu real antojo y aún en este nivel siento que puede ser más. Pues tus tutoriales son muy útiles para ese propósito!!! Muchas gracias Pablo! Espero acompañarte prontamente en Leipzig.
I’m 15 yrs old and I practice 3 to 5 hrs a day. I usually do 1 hour of scales and bow/right hand exercises, 1 hour of etudes and caprices and then 2 hrs for my concerto and Sonata (I play Saint-Saens concerto and Brahms sonata so i need more time to focus on them)
Bravo for all your work.. I have seen there is not a tutorial about how to use the back muscles in production of sound and not to stress the trapezius. I think your esperience and precious clarity about this could really help many cellist that use too much pression. And very strange is that many big teacher don’t clarify this important passage. Thanks for your answer
When I studied in the conservatoire back in the Philippines. 5 minutes of open strings with long bowns with 58 bpm, and then scales for maybe 15 minutes then review Suzuki pieces and some etudes.
What? Why? I always practice like he stated. Eight notes, quarter notes, half notes, then whole notes. When I do the whole notes I practice my virbrato. I really wonder why your teacher prohibited it.
It depends on what you want to work on that moment. When you want to work in you intonation you shouldn't do it with vibrato because you're not hearing the pure sound of the note. After practicing "normal scales", then you can add another session of scales with vibrato to work specifically on it.
Muchas gracias por tus prácticos e interesantes consejos. Voy a probar esa manera de colocar el pulgar que he visto en un tutorial a ver como me va ; )
Hola! Te hago una pregunta... La tablet que usas para las partituras cuál es ? Sé que es conveniente por el tema de que no tenes que llevar todos los libros a todos lados pero no te hace mal tantas horas de estudio en frente de la pantalla? Toda la información me sirve muchísimo ya que estoy pensando en comprarme una.. gracias!!
Que grande, muy interrsante el video. Pues no es muy diferente de mi rutina jajaj. Yo lo que hago es ponerme timer, es decir, estudio una hora y me pongo una alarma que pite en una hora, asi me obligo a optimizar el tiempo y trabajar, porque si no al final acabas mirando el movil o por la ventana o me tocan a la puerta o lo que sea me distraigo y no me concentro en estudiar . Luego descanso 10 min y otra hora. Asi 4/5 al dia. Y me ayuda mucho a optimizar el trabajo. Un saludo 😊.
I used to do that, especially in chamber music but then I realised that is better to "mark" everything into my head. Everything will be more clear and natural.
Yes is very funny I have practice eight hour every day, You can study the hours you want, while you can and stretch and take breaks, I tell you from experience, I hurt myself and I could not touch for two weeks😅
1. Warm up - scales (~ 10minutes, focus on good sound, maybe in the keys of the pieces you're playing) and studies/technique
2. Make a list of goals for day of practice
3. Use a timer (to keep track of how long you practice)
4. Schedule Breaks (and time them)
5. Stretch after practice
SUUUUUUUUPER TUTORIAL!!!!!
I do 10 min of scales, 10 min of Klengel speed exercises, about 30 minutes of Dotzauer Etudes. The rest of the time on the most difficult passages of repertoire. I practice 1 to 1 1/2 hrs per day--I'm not a professional, not even close. Other than church, I have no place to play where I live. I had been thinking about a list like yours. That's a great idea. The timer is a wonderful idea. Muchas gracias por tus ideas & recomendaciones!
Tienes en PDF esos libros?
Tienes en PDF los ejercicios de Klengel?
¡Estudias una hora y media al día y no eres profesional!
Excellent ideas Jorge. The Timer for me works like this. If I schedule 10 minutes on vibrato, I expect to get $10 worth of value out of the time spent; 15 min on arpeggios, $15 R.I.O. For me, I personally hate Etudes because they are not especially musical and too predictable pattern-wise. Instead I take chamber music cello part excerpts and work on those challenging passages picked at random: Mendelssohn & Beethoven especially problematical. But Mozart too but for entirely different reasons. And for sure, I also time those sessions: 10-15 minutes for each composer. Bonus benefit: when you actually come to play the Trios, Quartets & Quintets with others you've already fingered your part!
This is great- I’m a professional horn player I practice 4- 7 hours hours a day. I do scales, transposition, studies, excerpts and pieces daily break it up into 1-2 hour chunks with breaks
I always made my students a customized practice “diet.” That way they saw it as something that was a way of life and necessary to not get out of shape. Plus diets change over the years. What’s good for you when you’re young doesn’t work when you are younger. Sometimes you get out of shape and need more cardio. Sometimes you’re injured and need to work on something else for a while and eat differently. Music is no different. Also, having a customized plan that slowly involves the student more in the choices allows the student to have a framework to take over that task for themselves one day.
Hola Pablo
Soy un entusiasta sexagenario que acaba de descubrir lo hermoso de tratar de aprender este instrumento. Los consejos de un maestro son muy útiles. Da gusto la sencillez con la que enseñas. Mil gracias y éxito te deseo desde México.
Very interesting share Pablo! Happy practicing!
Nice Look Inside your Practice habits. I love doing Scales. It gives me a good orientation and mapping of my cello. I also do some Trill-Exercise, Double Stops, Vibrato Training, some Bow-Technique: Whole/ half bow ,Tip/frog, lifting some Fingers (1+2;2+3, 3+4 ,1+4 lifted) for Warm-Up. Not everything everyday. I choose two or three things of my Warm-Ups.
Gracias Pablo!. Que lindo! 😚Definitivamente el estiramiento al final era la pieza faltante jajaja siempre termino algo contraida porq no estiro al culminar... cronometrar el tiempo que realmente estudio es algo que definitivamente voy a empezar a poner en práctica! muchos abrazos para ti🤗
Me está encantando tu canal!! Yo soy violinista ya profesional pero siempre quiero seguir avanzando todo lo posible porque para mí lo mejor de ser músico es la libertad de expresarte en tu instrumento a tu real antojo y aún en este nivel siento que puede ser más. Pues tus tutoriales son muy útiles para ese propósito!!!
Muchas gracias Pablo! Espero acompañarte prontamente en Leipzig.
Gracias Pablo, es muy motivante ver referentes de forma tan cercana, en serio, los hnos. Ferrández estáis haciendo mucho más que música 💃👏
I’m 15 yrs old and I practice 3 to 5 hrs a day. I usually do 1 hour of scales and bow/right hand exercises, 1 hour of etudes and caprices and then 2 hrs for my concerto and Sonata (I play Saint-Saens concerto and Brahms sonata so i need more time to focus on them)
Bravo for all your work.. I have seen there is not a tutorial about how to use the back muscles in production of sound and not to stress the trapezius. I think your esperience and precious clarity about this could really help many cellist that use too much pression.
And very strange is that many big teacher don’t clarify this important passage. Thanks for your answer
As a violinist I want to learn more about that too!
Thank pablo make this useful video.
I’m hoping u can make video such as practice method or which book/etude useful for technique purpose
Fantastic tutorial！ After the daily practise the strech is necessary and important，especially shoulders
Pablo! Gracias por tus videos! Me resultaron realmente muy útiles!! Podrías hacer alguno sobre como estudiar arpegios? Abrazo desde Argentina!
I love your playing Pablo! BRAVO!!
When I studied in the conservatoire back in the Philippines. 5 minutes of open strings with long bowns with 58 bpm, and then scales for maybe 15 minutes then review Suzuki pieces and some etudes.
Thank you! Great advice, everything!
Very good advice super
Okay, but, do you practice your scales with vibrato?? My teacher always prohibits me that.
What? Why? I always practice like he stated. Eight notes, quarter notes, half notes, then whole notes. When I do the whole notes I practice my virbrato. I really wonder why your teacher prohibited it.
It depends on what you want to work on that moment. When you want to work in you intonation you shouldn't do it with vibrato because you're not hearing the pure sound of the note. After practicing "normal scales", then you can add another session of scales with vibrato to work specifically on it.
PABLO PABLO PABLO!!
fantástico! en hora buena! muy buen video espero que sigas con esto. saludos
An excellent video, thanks for sharing.
Great Video
Amooooo cello! 🎼🎶❤💟💓🇧🇷👏👏👏
Gracias querido Pablo por los consejos. Te esperamos por Argentina!! Abrazo
Muchas gracias por tus prácticos e interesantes consejos. Voy a probar esa manera de colocar el pulgar que he visto en un tutorial a ver como me va ; )
Gracias 😁
Woo
Muchas Gracias Pablo por el video, de verdad que es de gran ayuda! 👌
Very useful!love u !!!
Gracias por el tutorial!
Hola! Te hago una pregunta... La tablet que usas para las partituras cuál es ? Sé que es conveniente por el tema de que no tenes que llevar todos los libros a todos lados pero no te hace mal tantas horas de estudio en frente de la pantalla? Toda la información me sirve muchísimo ya que estoy pensando en comprarme una.. gracias!!
Muchas gracias Pablo!!!!! Bendiciones!!!!
Que grande, muy interrsante el video. Pues no es muy diferente de mi rutina jajaj. Yo lo que hago es ponerme timer, es decir, estudio una hora y me pongo una alarma que pite en una hora, asi me obligo a optimizar el tiempo y trabajar, porque si no al final acabas mirando el movil o por la ventana o me tocan a la puerta o lo que sea me distraigo y no me concentro en estudiar . Luego descanso 10 min y otra hora. Asi 4/5 al dia. Y me ayuda mucho a optimizar el trabajo. Un saludo 😊.
8 hours a day!!?
Thank you!! Is that the Guarneri?
Me encantaaaaaaaaaaa
I'm definitely added a similar routine to my #LingLing tIme
Muchas gracias, hace mucho lo esperaba :)
Damn, I'd love to be able to practice 4 hours a day
Muchas gracias 🙂
Gracias Pablo!
Gracias amigo !
Que fortuna poder contar con los consejos de un gran cellista !
Muy agradecido estoy ..
Exitos y bendiciones !
thanks a lot
Gracias por los consejos!
Muchas Gracias Pablo!! 👌
Gracias 👍👍
Super!!
Great video! What’s the name of the app in the iPad?
forscore
Gracias Pablo por los subtitulos!
🙄
Great channel
Un grande
Tks!!!
Does anyone have experience with using color to mark sheet music? Do you find it helpful or unnecessary?
I used to do that, especially in chamber music but then I realised that is better to "mark" everything into my head. Everything will be more clear and natural.
Gracias por la información ,Deberías hablar en español. Saludos cordiales
co to za aplikacja z nutami?
what is the application with notes??
I wish i had a cello teacher this hot 🔥
Don't, you'll lose focus
Y los subtítulos pablooo!
Activa los subtítulos en RUclips!
Jesus ! You studied 8 hours a day when you were 13 ?
Yes is very funny I have practice eight hour every day, You can study the hours you want, while you can and stretch and take breaks, I tell you from experience, I hurt myself and I could not touch for two weeks😅
@@ahazu4897 i couldn't touch for two weeks hahahahah
Tommy Balboa mate🤣💀
When you can devote yourself to one thing a day, other people work
In Russia, many practice 12 hours.
I know Russian violinists who are used with 12 hours daily.
Ése acento ibérico.
Piensa como yo maestro
You mind will go blank on stage one time for each week without posting a new tutorial, it's your curse! 🙌😈
jaja cuando vi la mini pensé que era Omar Chaparro v: