Popper Etude #1

[hunny0park]

Other thn the low notes being a lil too staccato, I'm impressed! :)

[cellistmourlam]

Needs to level out the tempo a bit, but very good :D

[Jasaxos]

I can barely play it half as fast Mayer even less...

[Thumbuddy04]

mind fuck.

[aznbacon321]

great sound and intonation, but maybe needs some more thoughtful phrasing. the bottom line's coming out but it's a little mechanical.

[andrewBsoweird]

dam i wish i were you :/ i have absolutely no musical tallent

[YouveStolenMyEyes]

your cello sounds nice, well played

[Beatlesfanforever100]

beast

[hannahmariahoffman]

you rock.

[hezixiao]

Super good bow job!

[MrVreDnay]

ох, как же приятно смотреть.людииииии,не умирает классика, не умирают труды композиторов и основателей всех струнных школ!!!

[itsMOCA]

Nice! I little bit too much of a staccato sound, I would have loved it if you could have dung into the string a little bit more.

But overall, this was well played! I will use this to practice for my lessons!!

[thegreenjaguar]

Good, but too fast in my opinon. It is marked Allegro ma non troppo, and you have to hesitate at the speed you are at for large string crossings and shifts. Take it down a notch and it would be great!

[Groovedoove]

lol I like that white switch or what is this little thing left of you?

Btw, you play really well, of course!! :-)

[xylenz]

nice relaxed bow arm.  Well played!

[flutest12]

wow you are awsome you will be going places

[JackTheFossilMan]

It might just be the angle of the camera, but it seems to me that Your bow is tilted down. Either untilt the camera or the bow, or both. Plees Ekcus My Grammur

[atkinsonja]

I've watched a few of your videos already and I just noticed your channel name.....haha

[funnygrudge]

Very nice.... Just try to add some vibrato into the piece- a bit narrower than normal. I like your left hand articulating each note, but keep that consisten throughout the piece, or don't do it at all. Last of all, you have to make the whole piece flow. The extensive articulations, or "bites," on the right hand don't help with that. Good job though, and masterful intonation. Not a lot of people can play the piece as well as you.

[funnygrudge]

That was ironic :D...

Anyway, the piece was very nice.... Just try to add some vibrato into the piece- a bit narrower than normal. I like your left hand articulating each note, but keep that consisten throughout the piece, or don't do it at all. Last of all, you have to make the whole piece flow. The extensive articulations, or "bites," on the right hand don't help with that. Good job though, and masterful intonation. Not a lot of people can play the piece as well as you.

[h1larryus]

your response is hilariously ironic...

[cellolover94]

Your left hand is doing great, but try some colle in the right. Thats what this etude is all about.

[nathan87]

agreed, that elbow needs to be moving a lot more, and the bow needs to be moving laterally a lot more, not so bouncy on the strings. other than that - good job!

[aznguyiscool]

BEAST!!!! TOTAL BEAST!!!!!

[tipotheus]

@aznguyiscool nice comment:D

yeah i like ur right hand really much!!good job.

[pessshred]

nice bow arm

[aznguyiscool]

dude. ur awesome.

[cellolove7]

thanks! i'm playing this right now, so it's great to have someone to listen to.

[thesageness]

Excellent job, don't listen to anything else anybody says here. I didn't read their comments but they won't be as good as mine I can assure you. Just make sure you keep your fingers closer to the strings. They're flying away and you're getting this kind of spindley-spider thing going on. Nice work otherwise.

[adrineoev01]

Hey yo voy por esa lección¡¡ Buen trabajo, a mi opinión un poquito desfasado en el tienpo (mínimo) A lo mejor lo haces a propósito, pero buen trabajo. Nice work¡

[AleksofCanada]

Maybe you were just trying to do your best, but to slow down the music for the shifts would be all right. The silver lining is that you can do the rest really good to me :) Congrats! :) Sometimes just for fun, when I play for fun I speed things up too. For a concert it would be different but playing at that speed is really good. I would only practise it slower if there was an audience other than youtube. I wouldn't get carried away though. Nice job! :)

[pbyshelley]

Your speed is good, but every time you have to make a big shift or jump a couple of strings, you make a big pause. In my opinion, it would sound more impressive if you slowed it all down just a little bit and worked on those big shifts to keep your timing, and keep the pace even and relentless.

[cellodude2014]

impressive. wish i could play it like that :P

[CelloApocalypse]

it's very hesitant though. one problem.

[zcelloplaya]

dude ur left hand has big balls

[8violin8]

ive always loved the 1st

[jonathantosio]

Btw, dude, your right hand kicks butt...

[jonathantosio]

Great intonation!! =)=)

[xx13blackrose]

I think you need to take it a tad slower, so when you play those jumps then it wont sound like you're pausing to get to the other string. Maybe Im wrong? I've only been playing the cello for half a year... Iv been playing the piano for 3 1/2 though, soo, yeah... Nice job!

[fiddlinmatt]

remember, though, that relatively small harshness translates into perfect articulation in a hall of reasonable sound, (I know, you probably wouldn't perform this, even as an encore; but then again, I'm a violinist and maybe you would...)

Great job, and as you can tell, I actually liked the articulation, it was also very in tune and had excellent rhythm throughout. Pretty much a model study/etude.

[MasterN123]

nice job on intonation, felt there was a little too much space between notes in the beginning? very nice though xD

I have to learn how to play this xP

[doryzsu]

have you seen the "With very loose wrist, at the nut, lightly staccato" as a beginning instruction?

I'm afraid it was more then a LIGHTLY staccato :) anyway, good job :P

[ELECTROCOCHITO]

tocas para solo pasar el primer año de cello... no te estanques¡ we.

[joskaprdulja]

sory good but little bit too fast..

nice work

[CelloFiend]

I have to say that I humbly disagree. The etude says right in the beginning "Allegro molto moderato" meaning moderately very fast.

[jjyym2]

Good job, but too fast. Like when you cross from A string to C string, you slow down a lot. Keep a steady tempo. VERY in tune =)

[LMDraaijer]

well played

[caroline81119]

slow down!

[TheTradge]

fucking hell, that's the way you play popper! This was my first ever Popper Study, and I found it very hard (still do lol) I doubt I could ever play it that fast/accurately! great job, really great!

[discis]

dang!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Crisisdarkness]

You touch very well, get out of a jam yourself to the maximum with the cello, which mas can say, do not you like it(him,her,you) apocalyptica?.

They touch 4 cellos, though your etudes are very difficult, not valdria a sorrow(sentence) to touch other songs.

[HailasB]

well done. My teacher would tell you to slow down on the big shifts...he said I remind him of his pet frog grabbing a fly, and now I see what he means! :)

[silentnocturne]

ah! i've been working on this piece too.. can't seem to get the last quarter of the 1st page right.. the one that extends to Bb and beyond. >.<

[AMSbindi]

Very clean and well articulated. I'm impressed.

[bubbles9816]

fantastic ! keep it up.intonation and bow are wonderful.

[t3xspider]

the staccato at the beginning is very percussive get a bit more horizontal action, other then that the interpretation was veri nice, im ahving trouble with hsifts right now

[mandobongo]

Man, you are very accurate with your left, and right hands. Superb Performance, and 5 stars from me :]