How best to start vibrato, movement, exercises, posture and more.
This video has first been published as part of my online cello course on patreon corresponding to My CELLO METHOD (details below).
Content of this video:
0.17 when to start with vibrato
0.45 what is the movement
1.56 single finger play
3.10 the use of the thumb
4.20 "under doing" the effort
5.26 best practice for vibrato - NOT seamless
6.24 seamless (continuous) vibrato
6.48 introducing vibrato in pieces
7.23 arm position
7.52 how to change the speed of vibrato
Wrong ideas:
8.19 lifting the arm
9.40 speed change by stretching fingers apart or keeping together (ballerina)?
p.s.
* To Vibrato in Baroque Music:
The Baroque composer Geminiani wrote in 1752: "Use vibrato wherever you can, it sweetens the sound".
Mozart's father Leopold distinguished already between slow and fast vibrato, increasing and decreasing the speed of vibrato (published 1750).
Interestingly enough the Romantic period was the one where hardly any vibrato was used.
Brahms' violin concerto was premiered by Joachim with virtually no vibrato!
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Georg is a cello teacher / performer and composer in the Blue Mountains / Australia