hello cellists welcome now i've done my third day of the bruckner um piece that we're doing for orchestra in june and i really do feel like now i'm understanding the the um the swells the swells and the calm bits and i i still think it's quite easy for us there are about four piece four sections pretty much one in each part i suppose where we have to be a bit nippier so really you know i think we should do it every day right through but then add to that working on these little nippy bits and the hardest thing for me is working out the fingering and the positioning because there are an awful lot of ways to play as you know on the cello so that's going to be quite tricky for me and i think i need to now that i'm getting to know it separate each thing off

and um we won't do it this week but next week we'll start and what what i think we'll probably do is um maybe work for two days on each part um so that by the end of the week or you know a little bit over whatever we've actually got um you know we've mastered these tricky bits and then we can go back to playing the whole thing the thing is we you you have to do the tricky bits um you have to learn them really really well i'm i've noticed today that i started playing by ear and i don't want to do that you know i i started to just think well that sounds right i'll go there and i want to read the music so i'm going to insist i do that to myself um so i

hope you're still doing it i hope you're playing it right through i had a tattoo done today and i'm absolutely exhausted i came home and i thought oh god i haven't done the brookner and um i made myself do it i actually made myself do it i thought no i have to do this you know i've committed and i love doing that i think it's really really great to commit to something and a challenge and and do it but i ache all over and i didn't have time to set up my um you know my my small my laptop and the headphones and everything which i was meaning to do but i do feel that once that happens i'm going to be even better at it because i actually can't hear the cello parts at all um i can kind of vaguely hear the bass occasionally the other thing i keep finding with it on the tv i'm starting to predict on most pages what comes next but not on all of them and the cello is maybe the second lineup for some of the sheets and then and then

suddenly not at all if we're not on there and i'm like oh uh oh so i don't want to rely on this youtube version too much so i'm going to use my um my ipad and i'm going to annotate them and i'm going to put i'll take a photograph and i'll put those up because those are in the public domain the score is in the public domain so i can do whatever i want with that what i can't do is actually play the music unfortunately so we're just sort of relying on on you to sort of do it yourself and and hope that's okay but i'll be able to go over section by section and i will i'm very particular when once i start something so baba bar i'll be talking about how i play it how i how i'm going to um place my fingers what position what string etc um because as i say the i mean sometimes the when you're playing in an orchestra the um the first position sounds a little bit meatier um and a little bit um kind of hungrier almost so the you sort of alter it

according to the you know the mood also with a lot of the tremolos i find i'm because of my neighbours because i don't want to you know hack anyone off with overnight because i'm doing this every single day and i've got it quite loud on my tv and i just think god they must be going insane so i'm doing the tremolo's in a really breathy um way where i'm you know not really touching uh not digging in the string at all it's very very breathy and again that's something that might change on the day i'm sure you know we'll find out on in june um how your orchestra wants to do it and it's also dependent on how many cellists there are because if...