I love how well structured this exercise is! It's helping me a lot to get more fluent in scales. Thank you so much for making these Videos! Can't wait for the next one. :)
Love this pattern so much. It will really help my students how are learning to improvise. Do you, by chance, have a PDF resource where you include the fingering that you use?
The demonstration at the beginning is much too quick for me, even when slowed down to 0.25x. Notation would have helped a lot. I do see that you're playing four notes per string, but from the video I can't figure out the details of the sliding. When is it the first finger, when the fourth? Is it different up and down?
Thanks Michael. Please don't take my fingerings in the video as "must" - I'm playing it slighly different from time to time. Everybody has different abilities, so please look for your own fingerings for: first position in comination with small shiftings.
@@improvisation-for-strings The fingering I've tried in the past for a two-octave major scale is 1-1,3,4;1-1,3,4;1-1,2,4;1-1,2 (four notes per string). This scheme can be easily adapted for other modes of the major scale, all without extensions. I haven't tried slides with the fourth finger and I'm wondering whether that could be an improvement. I'm not at all an advanced cello player. I only started 4,5 years ago and at least 40 years too late. I've never encountered fingerings like these in my lessons or seen them in technique/scales books. I've come up with my scheme when I was trying to figure out how to play scales on an electric bass guitar tuned in fifths.
@@MichaelSchuerig The fingerings in the video support improvisation through all keys in first position. The musical fingerings in classical cello teaching are complete different ;)
Thank you, this is an excellent excercise. It seems like you utilize the double extension stretch hand position...am I correct?? so whole step between one and two, and whole step between three and four ?
@@improvisation-for-strings interesting....ive never tried that fingering much but see how useful it can be....i imagine it takes a little while to adjust if brand new to that double stretch
@@bricemadden5717 Your personal fingerings belong to the size of your hand. I would train flexibility, using the double stretch and also small shiftings, on D-string: Eb-1 F-3 Gb-4 Ab-4 or Eb-1 F-1 Gb-2 Ab-4.
