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prop, let's see what you get, this is stale bread , because? Do cellists play sweet number one in every movie? You mean? I think movement represents the infinity of what we have in the natural world. Then you think about the flow of water, the sunlight shining on the leaves of the trees on a fall day. We can all imagine something that is at the same time. Constant and ever-changing, this music really helps in movies to set the tone of what that movie is trying to say.

Music can help people reach a certain state of mind. At Ashley Emmerich, should cellists take a course on how to express emotions through their eyebrows? What magically happens when you lift the bow? How about you have to take a course to show movement when you are happy to see your friend? I rest my case, hard car 420, why are

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s so hard? Cellos are difficult. to tune if you use the large tuners, but there are fine tuners that are much more subtle. I hate tuning on stage, when someone comes on stage you can tune it off stage, there's not much to adjust, I play out of tune anyway so if I tune and if it's in tune it actually gives me even less of an excuse to light up how the hell cellists differentiate the frets guess what there are no frets i can play a slide cello if i had friends it would ring for 60 years i've been moving between this space and that space and i'm still trying to get it right because my fingers have to figure out where i need to be to be able to make the correct sounds in inikolu, what does vibrato mean?

So here is a note without vibrato, this is with vibrato, you can hear the vibrations, it's like a sine wave, it can extend as much as you want, the idea is to warm up the sound by moving, but hopefully not always using exactly the same amplitude , which is kind of like focusing a beam of light like a laser so that when you go higher you can use a narrower beam and when you go down you can use a wider amplitude and all of these variations allow you to choose what kind of emotion, what kind of expression you want sometimes. that's an expressive thing, sometimes it's just a

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nical thing, so it gives you a lot of things to play with on the packaging.

Why do all cellos move their heads all over the place? Is it possible to touch it and just stand still as if there were many of them? other musicians, the idea of ​​being a musician is that you are there to transcend

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nique to be able to express the worst thing you can do is play, you don't move your head and no expression comes out, that is the worst of all possible options, but if you have to move to get it out sound, so playing requires a lot of energy to get something out, hooray for people who don't need it, but remember it's only cool if you're being the most expressive movement!

In terms of communicating energy, too much movement, you become less efficient at producing the sound you are making, but there is a physical aspect that must be considered along with the amount of expression you want to give in 287's, why Arcelo's? the most beautiful instrument which of course is your opinion. I try to tell the cellists and especially the young cellists between you and me so you know that jelly is the best instrument. I love the cello. It is an instrument that has a lot of versatility. I can play the bass. lines I can play melodic things I can I can play fast I can play slow I can play melodically I can play bass lines I can play rhythms I can imitate vocal sounds that's why I love it because I can make many different types of music and I can explore many different music with him at my feet God, why are cellos so expensive?

A good maker can make maybe one or two cellos a year, so how do you bend the wood, shape it, and glue it together under pressure? It's that kind of pressure that actually allows the air molecules inside the instrument to become excited, creating more energy and creating the great sound that an acoustic cello can produce compared to what an acoustic guitar can produce, where the table is flat. and the curve bends. carefully over the heat you do it so it doesn't break and it takes a long time and it requires strength, it takes time and obviously experience the type of wood that many modern manufacturers use is old wood, it's usually maple and the flame goes out this way and spruce goes this way because because maple is a harder wood, the air molecules go to the back of the wood, the harder the wood it bounces the same way as if you bounce a basketball on a board, it bounces harder the easier wood it will bounce very expensive yes it takes a long time if you can get it with a machine it is less expensive at sunrise ship what are cello strings made of nowadays the higher strings are thinner the lower ones are made of steel The strings are wound on steel, possibly nylon strings, they used to be made with gut.

The gut is actually quite loud and produces a very warm sound. The gut, as you can imagine, is made of animal material. It stretches, so you have to constantly tune these gut trees. and steel is actually stronger and more stable, so it tends to, if you break a new rope, it's easier to break than a gut rope, which can take a week to keep its length stable, tend to be the people who use gut strings. to be the historically minded people who play like historical instruments and I think the best strings are made in Scandinavia or Northern Europe at Eileen Bejan.

Can Celeste have cello elbow? So I guess it's like tennis elbow. Yes, people really do suffer from tendonitis. of the elbow the hands fingers part of what we do is very athletic for all of you tell us that you are in danger of contracting cello elbow I only have one piece of advice stretch and you can stretch by doing so stretch your muscles this way Go to a wall and you can see that this really hurts and if you stand up and turn your foot, if you go in a circle, you are stretching everything from here to there, when you are young, you are the first of all. immortal do you think you live forever knowing yourself knowing your body is perhaps the first role of being a musician being in touch with how you feel how you think how your body moves head heart and hands make them work together and you will be fine in Levante Carson, you could do a collaboration with a rap artist, who would it be when you were working in Chicago?

A guy who did a lot for the community and for education was common and, in fact, I have a friend who played in the civic orchestra and who was a violist. and she worked with Kamen and loved it so first of all I would love to be able to thank him for what he has done for the community and second of all I would love to be able to do something with him in SD Monroe, the string players attend a picking session? In class, I once asked my parents, both professional musicians who had a flag look, why it's harder to pluck instruments that have a curvature compared to a guitar where you actually have a flat, it's a bit harder to tap and tap at the same speed. that you can play on a guitar, there are people who do it incredibly well.

I would go to one of those people. The Berkeley Music School is a great place where you can find people who will teach you violin playing and picking techniques. He is friendly. of a subspecialty that is certainly worth pursuing and if you can do it, hey, that's a great thing about Sydney Christie. Is it difficult to learn the cello? The cello itself is not difficult to learn. The most important thing is to pull and push a bow. making sure you find the right place on the strings if it gives you pleasure, if learning gives you pleasure and you can enjoy the physical sound and the vibrations that you are in, you can progress if you say that it is really difficult to learn and it is difficult and you are very tense and you try to make this happen, then it's going to be difficult, so it really depends partly on your attitude and also how resilient you are to figure out what you need to do to create a sound that's enjoyable. that's all in wayne marx stumps how to be jealous play the six cello suite without crying for joy i love that question because it's explosive and it just goes and goes and goes and it never ends and it gets more explosive it gets more festive and the heavens open up and you're right, it's incredibly joyful, you can't play that music without being in the same state of mind, maybe that's why we love music, because it actually puts you in different states of mind that make me feel like I'm floating.

Somewhere up in the sky from the clouds you're flying above the tree line you see sights it takes you places music is a means of transportation that takes us from a reality to an imagined the reason I'm not crying Joy is because I hope to cry with joy through the sounds that come from the children. I just want to thank you all for your

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, but I think for me the best questions are the ones that make us ask. More questions and I think that brings out the best in us, so thank you very much.