How to Sound More Musical TODAY | Beginner Practice Challenge
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- Опубликовано: 25 май 2022
- Let's talk about how to sound more musical TODAY by exploring how to change up bow speed/weight and how to take care of the starts and ends of notes. This isn't meant to be a comprehensive guide to phrasing, bow distribution and other aspects of musicality. But many beginners (myself included when I was starting out) struggle with having a decent tone but feeling like their playing sounds 'lifeless.' So, let's try to inject some life into "French Folk Song!"
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Billy Tobenkin is a Los Angeles-based cellist who specializes in teaching adult learners. As a professional cellist who started playing the cello from scratch at 25, he is in a unique position to help others, like him, who found the cello later in life. He has developed strategies from his own musical journey to accelerate the learning process, and he is here to share them with you.
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How about starting cello at age 70??? Played flute in orchestra since high school. Now I can’t play flute any more due to lung issues. Always admired cello and for my 70th birthday my daughter rented a cello for me and found an outstanding professional cellist to teach me! It’s hard, very hard, but wonderfully beautiful at the same time. Thanks for your inspiration!!!
Hey, Billy, I just finished practicing for today, and I wanted to give you some feedback. So, previously, I always played with that "ka- ka- ka" sound. I just thought that's the way it sounds. Well, I followed that petting-a-sleeping-dog analogy. It worked! It is exciting to hear the notes without that "ka- ka- ka-" sound. Thanks!
First time commenter but watched your videos for nearly a year now. Thank you so much for what you do Billy. Week after week you produce excellent lessons, and I take something from each of your videos to develop my playing further. I’ve just started my own channel and so appreciate that creating a resource like this takes a tremendous amount of time, energy, and resilience. This week’s lesson is important in developing a musical sound. I think adults are more sensitive to the sound they create than children (who seem to have a higher threshold for perseverance!), and can easily become discouraged, resulting in giving up the instrument. I’m adding this video to the resources I’ve collected and know that I will return to it several times. I’ve also signed up to your after school cello club! Thanks again Billy. 😊
This is exactly what I needed today because I now know I was playing with a dead bow sound yesterday and was so frustrated! Thank you for this great exercise!
Negotiations with the string. Very interesting.
This is crazy cuz French Folk Song is my next practice piece 😮 and it’s my first week practicing with the bow
Thank you. Excellent exercise for warm-ups. I look forward to each new post. I've been following you since you began this channel. For many older adult cellists, cello is our mental therapy.
A very important aspect to focus upon! Great exercises! One way I’ve also approached this is to try playing a phrase while tapping into different emotions. So, play it with the feeling of joy, the frivolity, then with deep sadness, and then with humor. It obliges you to utilize the points you’ve made! Thank you, Billy!
Good one. This was very helpful for me , adult beginner.
You are hilarious!! “ a heart monitor”😆
So glad I just found this! I'm just starting my cello journey at 44. As I was practicing today I said, that doesn't sound right! Dead bow 😢 I'm going to try this tomorrow 😁
Excellent! Thanks!
I'm very beginner, and watch several of your videos. I'm going to try this today. It's hard for me to relax, trying to focus on so many things at once.
When you were playing the piece, you added vibrato. I'm not good at that yet. I wish you had played all the notes straight (is that the right word?)
My instructor wants me to play a few notes on the same bow length. She said it helps it sound more musical, not just bland back and forth. I was thinking that this would be part of this lesson, too.
Can you do this for a future video if not done already? It's challenging.
Great lesson, Billy - I enjoy all your postings! And apply them to fiddle too.
So helpful thank you! ❤
Will definitely work on this exercise once I get my cello back from repair.. great tips and advice as always.. thank you Billy! ^^
10:04 "ya... ya... ma..." kind of sound. Yo-Yo Ma? Will try to think of that when I play, maybe it will work! :)
Your vids are awesome and really helpful, thanks a lot!
Thank you for your videos, they are very helpful and simple enough to follow while playing along.
Now when I'm playing French Folk Song, it will have more zing to it!
thank you Billy! this is very helpful,. a comment I got constantly from my teacher is that I gave a "dead" sound...and my cello is not "singing". Im going to try these methods and hopefully I can wow him next time! hahaha
Billy, I call it a "flat" sound, but "dead" sound works too. I heard it the most on the 1st position G note on the D string, it was so discouraging. I apparently would go over into A#/Bflat🤷♀️ because it sounded SO flat...and then I noticed the way I'd bow; just too light. So I sat up straight, dug in with my bow and was careful of finger position, and wouldn't you know it...it sounded
so much better! So how do you know the problem I'm having and then make a video about it?!😉
"So how do you know the problem I'm having and then make a video about it?!"
I'm with you on this @theBereangirl! Sometimes I come out of my lesson and watch Billy's latest video only to find that it's covering the same topic. I think he must know my teacher 🤣[spoiler alert: unlikely as I'm in the UK]. 😊
Great exercise as always! I have a big problem to give any emotions in the sound 😁. I play like a machine 😂.