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When you don't feel like practicing 😡!....... Practice grumpily!
Put the music on the stand grumpily
and play grumpy open strings
and then start on your first piece carrying on playing grumpily! Express yourself!
It will wear off..😉.. It feels good not to push away how you feel, to let you feelings flow. They won't stay the same! 😊
Quick hint for shifting:
Typically we need to shift from the starting note, a 'safe place' to a less familiar one, the end note. In practice turn it around. Make yourself really comfortable in the less familiar position. This is now your new base. Then quickly visit the original starting note and go straight back to the end note.
Kia ora, Cellists!
This is about how to get into improvising and about a fun way to use improvising for practicing skills and tricky passages.
Listen to it with your cello so that you can start right after - or even while it's still running!
Kia ora, Cellists!
It can be daunting to look at a new piece of music with lots of sharps, flats, dotted rhythms, awkward shifts... Here I want to show you how, with some forethought, it can boil down to become quite manageable!
Let's take a famous example: the beginning of the second movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony...
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