How to Play the Cello : How to Hold a Cello Bow

than kou

This is when u tube can mess you up with a guy who can't even hold the bow showing how to. Thank you for messing the viewers up so they can go to teachers like us to fix it.
Like my teacher at Juilliard use to say, you always get what you pay for.

I am far from a good cello player. But I can tell you that flipping of the wrist thing and the thumb is the frog is VERY uncomfortable. Don't copy.

I agree with many comments here. I would not like my students to follow this advice. The thumb positioned like this cannot give maximum control and you can hear just from his open string playing that the burst of speed from the wrist flicks is losing him tone quality. There are great cellists that use a lot of wrist (e.g. du pre and even maisky to a lesser extent) but they use it at the moment of change rather than before.

So wrong..........

omfg how do u really hold it????

do not listen to this guy he is holding the bow terribly wrong!!!!

please please PLEASE do not hold the bow like this, and do not flip your wrist around back and forth

this will kill your sound and can lead to long term injury to your wrist

BAD

yep...that kind och flipping with the wrist kills the legato switch....

Beginners DO NOT listen to this guy. You do not put your thumb in the frog. You put it on the tip of the frog. :o