Shifting: In and Out of Thumb Position 

Leading with the elbow!! I can't believe these videos are free. Thank you

It is really hard! I had a trouble like that when I play the Haydn cello concerto in c major. So, thank you for your post. I'll try and keep practice.

Formerly a contra-bassist, I am now a first year cellist. Thank you for this very helpful video.

Great technique for remembering to bring the thumb up fluidly! Definitely incorporating this.

Thank you so much for your kind comments!

This was super useful, answered several confusion on shifting and elbow position. Thank you.

Es genial sentir el legado de Pau Casals a través de las enseñanzas de Paul pasando por Bernard Greenhouse... Estarán felices de semejante labor pedagógica que estás llevando a cabo... Gracias Paul y Cellobello por las traducciones al idioma del Maestro. Te queremos!!!!👌🎯☀️ Aquí

very good ideas in such a short burst

Thank you Maestro.

오 한글자막!!!오!!! 굳!! 감사해요!! Thank you!

thank you mr.Katz always had problem with thumb position and had been so annoyed by tensions on back

Brilliant ending!

Cellobello, thank you so much!

Great video!!!!

Thank you so much for this lessons

And when I move my hand in the higher positions, will I always use my thumb to immediately play a note with the thumb, or can I also just „move my thumb over the cello-edge“ to make it possible that only the other fingers play?

Thanks! I'll give it a try!

Thanks

Romberg Cello concerto no.2 in d major 1st mvt I hear!

Genial! 🙆

I call it the "hump" too. The shift to first finger A and then adding the thumb is correct.

These videos are truly inspiring! I would like to know the name of the piece played at the beginning of the video.

Thank you so much for this instructional video, it helped a lot. What is the name of the piece the she is playing at minute 3:09? Thanks

I'm confused because my instructors recommend keeping my elbow up in most playing situations. I'm an adult student of two and a half years.

I find a lot of instruction on reaching up to thumb position, (and actually a bit about playing so high its off the fingerboard), but i'm now playing pieces that require 12th and 15th positions (if they even have names-the ones over the 2/3 and 3/4 harmonic length of string) and there's no instruction on these at all which is annoying for me as i can't find a reference point on the cello to use other than the harmonic-which i can't use whilst playing a piece.

What, by the way, is the name of the student?

grazie

Total falsch! Total, complete wrong! Абсолютно не правильное движение, изначально предопределяющее ограниченность технического постижения возможностей виолончели. Конечно, Баха, или даже ваш любимый концерт Гайдна(всё равно какой), ну и в оркестре вы так играть сможете. Но серьёзной свободы передвижения, должной техники соединения нот вы не достигните. Может потому и сам профессор, показывая с его точки зрения правильное движение руки, первый раз переход с "g" на "a" играет фальшиво. 11.05.2020. Вена. Проф. Виктор Милосердов.

why vibrating on scales? :))) that's what amateurs do ;)