Our intermediate adult cello class is studying Just Intonation and Pythagorean Tuning.... Your exercises are great and I'm wondering how you incorporate intonation training into those various double-stop exercises?
Whichever side of the improvisation question you come down on, there’s plenty of musicological evidence to support you. The musical conviction Matt Haimovitz brings to the last phrase of the D minor Prelude is actually the most persuasive argument in favor of eliminating improvisation over the chorale structure-as it also is for its stylistically-informed embellishment. A widely-held impulse to settle on “the definitively correct” approach, like the Urtext movement itself, is of course anachronistic to all this music, but the human conviction of the performer, on the other hand, will never be-because it’s the source of all beauty. A superlative artist like Matt Haimovitz could just as convincingly have persuaded the listener of the opposite point of view.
I’ve played the cello since 2016, and I can safely say, you taught me something new today! I always push my thumb into the back of the cello and that causes me to slide, and this will definitely help!
Maybe the most practical cello teacher teacher alive, I've never met him but I wish I had the chance to take a lesson with him when I was younger. Removing the mysteries behind playing an instrument and making music is the greatest thing a teacher can do for a student.
