Upper 2nd Position Rick Mooney Cello Fanfare Deep Practice Study Free Music Lesson with Sarnia

hi guys let's have a look at the fanfare from mick rooney's book um this is upper second uh position this is um our uh grasp of second position it's going to really help it gel and understand the cello map so we've got an open g and then the g that we would we're so used to playing with our um pinky we're going to play with our second

okay

and now we're going just nice close position nothing fancy where they lie

okay easy peasy nothing to worry about what you've got to make sure as you get that first g that is your key that's your key to success that g okay so for second position upper second position you need because uh you could put the first there couldn't you but this is up as we're putting our second this plane of notes the adjacent notes are a c next to it a d oh sorry a d one side a c the other and an f the other and if you try and um keep that as part of your map imagine it's the london underground that's going to put you in good stead for today we're going to learn just this um this g g with our second finger okay now let's um when you get to that g look ahead you've got to move up back to first position so lift your finger now your hand now shift

so that you're ready okay so

okay and you're going to bring your bow a little comma there bring the bow back up to the base now you're on this b

the d with the with the fourth that we're so used to you're going to now use your second it's that easy okay from the b to the second on the d and then the open now you've got a string crossing darlings look in the mirror

it's easy peasy but look in the mirror so string crossing fourth down okay string crossing now we're coming back up to first and back down to second so we've got some acrobatics but it's okay it's okay so okay easy peasy so we're down on this uh second open string crossing uh keep the they're quavers so keep the uh don't spend too much bow on them

open back up so when you've played this g lift up your left hand so you're all ready to go into that first position

okay

easy peasy when you know the map it's easy when you know the map now when you're coming down this this position this normal i call it normal you know what i mean fourth position when you come down to play these other notes your hand shape the distance between each note has to say the same it feels like they're closer together but they're not and the reason it feels like they're closer together is because you're coming at it from a different angle or actually they might feel i shouldn't say that for me it feels like they're closer together it might be that for you they feel further apart but you need to them to be exactly the same distance apart there's no difference until we get further down to the harmonic when everything shrinks by a half okay i think that was okay it was okay for me and um i'm very lazy with the second position and it's it's made life difficult for me so i really really enjoy um you know going back and really focusing so um i do hope that was help helpful and please do it and you know once you've done these you can now start on the uh the actual piece okay so um i think i've already done some podcasts about the actual piece but we can we can do more you know we can go back over over old ground there's no such thing really as old ground when you're a musician music is music it doesn't really get old for us does it