Just discovered your channel. You have made impressive progress in a short amount of time! Your channel description says that you practice 2-3 hours daily. If you wouldn't mind, could you describe your typical practice day? How do you fill up 3 hours of practice? I imagine there must lots of scales and arpeggios in addition to etudes and other pieces. I started taking cello lessons 2 years ago at age 69 and have just recently built up to be able to practice 2+ hours a day, mostly because I joined an orchestra and I need that time to learn all the music, much of which is quite challenging for me. I look forward to following your journey.
Thank you! I have a list of 2 octave scales in both major and minor, which I play through as a warmup- it usually takes half an hour. Then I go directly to a piece I’m learning, because it is etudes I’m studying and thats where I gain my technique. (If I was learning a classical piece I would probably spend more time on exercises etc.) If it’s a very new piece - I play it through until I’m comfortable/ getting a flow in just sight reading it with now hiccups more or less (takes a couple of hours depending on the piece). Then the real work begins and that’s how my practice usually looks like: I identify problem areas and only focus on them. I can use an hour on only one bar for instance. If I feel that there is shaky intonation, I use tuner app on my phone to correct it. The same goes for rhythm where I use metronome from the same app. It could also be problems with uneven left hand fingers in fast passages, where I apply different rhythms to correct it. Bowing can also be uneven - I’m trying different angles, different bowing positions to extract better sound etc. Most importantly is to film yourself, as it is easier to see and hear what I’m doing wrong. The easy etudes I was working on usually takes 2-3 days to finish to my satisfaction, while the more advanced etudes I’m working on now can take up to a few weeks. I work on 1-2 pieces at a time. That is very cool. I hope I will get an opportunity to play in a small orchestra too 🤞
@@Cello_Journey Thank you for the detailed reply! I should filming myself too. I know it will help a lot but I am lazy about it. I'm sure you will find an orchestra to play with when you are ready. I was not really ready technically to join an orchestra, but I'm not getting any younger and all the comments I've read about it said that you never feel ready and should just go for it. Unfortunately for me, I have to simplify things sometimes to be able to play them at tempo and I get frustrated with that.
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Just discovered your channel. You have made impressive progress in a short amount of time! Your channel description says that you practice 2-3 hours daily. If you wouldn't mind, could you describe your typical practice day? How do you fill up 3 hours of practice? I imagine there must lots of scales and arpeggios in addition to etudes and other pieces. I started taking cello lessons 2 years ago at age 69 and have just recently built up to be able to practice 2+ hours a day, mostly because I joined an orchestra and I need that time to learn all the music, much of which is quite challenging for me. I look forward to following your journey.
Thank you!
I have a list of 2 octave scales in both major and minor, which I play through as a warmup- it usually takes half an hour. Then I go directly to a piece I’m learning, because it is etudes I’m studying and thats where I gain my technique. (If I was learning a classical piece I would probably spend more time on exercises etc.)
If it’s a very new piece - I play it through until I’m comfortable/ getting a flow in just sight reading it with now hiccups more or less (takes a couple of hours depending on the piece). Then the real work begins and that’s how my practice usually looks like: I identify problem areas and only focus on them. I can use an hour on only one bar for instance. If I feel that there is shaky intonation, I use tuner app on my phone to correct it. The same goes for rhythm where I use metronome from the same app. It could also be problems with uneven left hand fingers in fast passages, where I apply different rhythms to correct it. Bowing can also be uneven - I’m trying different angles, different bowing positions to extract better sound etc. Most importantly is to film yourself, as it is easier to see and hear what I’m doing wrong.
The easy etudes I was working on usually takes 2-3 days to finish to my satisfaction, while the more advanced etudes I’m working on now can take up to a few weeks. I work on 1-2 pieces at a time.
That is very cool. I hope I will get an opportunity to play in a small orchestra too 🤞
@@Cello_Journey Thank you for the detailed reply! I should filming myself too. I know it will help a lot but I am lazy about it. I'm sure you will find an orchestra to play with when you are ready. I was not really ready technically to join an orchestra, but I'm not getting any younger and all the comments I've read about it said that you never feel ready and should just go for it. Unfortunately for me, I have to simplify things sometimes to be able to play them at tempo and I get frustrated with that.