@@IliaLaporevcellist greetings!!! I do hope many are really paying attention to your videos. You have very valuable knowledge to share which will help cellists improve their playing much more quickly.
Many thanks for this! My teacher has been asking me whether I can get all my fingers down at once in A major and I just can't, my hands are way too small. I was getting pain in my hands and a string shop even suggested going down to a 3/4's size cello I was so tense. I can do extensions the way you demonstrate. Many thanks.
Thank you so much dear Ramina! That’s why I am here and investing my time in making these videos! To help others and I also learn from it :) So it is actually a win-win situation 😁
Thank you! I have been looking for a video that showed the movement of the thumb in slow motion for a forward extension. Perfect! I am currently struggling a bit with something in a Lee etude (Op. 70 No. 20) which is a C minor arpeggio (bar 11). First finger on Eb second string and second finger on C first string. They have to be held, or so it seems, like a double stop. That stretch is a little difficult for me. Any suggestions? I could use 1 and 3 instead of 1 and 2, but that would be a shift and not what Lee (or the editor) indicate.
Hmmm. To my opinion, it’s not such a good idea. Maybe for a beginner it is good to do, to know where the fingers have to be. But in the longer term you will have a tensed hand by always holding it..Every teacher has its own methodology, but I would suggest: try mine out and see how it works for you 😉
