This is the best explanation and demonstration I have found on the internet for extensions! As an 87 yr. old trying to learn without a face to face teacher, this is brilliant help. I remember the day I realized: extensions just stretch across some notes I had already learned in order to reach the flat or sharp, much like piano keyboard. Thank you for your patient thorough details of explanation!

Thank you so much; it confirmed, but expanded on, what my teacher taught me yesterday. Zoom lessons can miss things!

Thanks for this video! Please make more videos about cello technique! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Very helpful! I feel much more confident going about these extensions. Thanks! 🙌

Really well explained, especially about how the forward extension starts with the thumb movement. Thank you!

Thank you for explaining it so clearly. I have struggled with left hand positions for a while. Your videos help a lot.

Helpful information, thanks! You are an excellent cellist and I appreciate your recordings of the Suzuki 5 book.

So helpful ❤️🙏🌠

that was very helpful thanku!

Thank you! This is such a great help! 😊

Thanks very much. It is very clear!

I am a violinist/violist learning the cello. I find that I cannot even do a forward extension without the thumb moving with appropriate fingers, at least I cannot do it without tension and strain. However, I find that when I am about to begin a scale involving the stretch of a Major 3rd, like the A Major scale, I have to start with my hand positioned with the second finger on B and backwards extend to the A. That way, my hand can be fully extended so as to span the whole Major 3rd. Am I doing this right? And all of this I can only do properly in the "German" left hand position (as opposed to the French, with the fingers facing the bridge)..