Cello Lessons : First Finger Position

The first finger position on the cello has each finger spaced a half step apart. Position your arm and fingers properly for the first finger position with help from a professional cellist in this free video on how to play the cello.

Expert: Marty Sproul
Bio: Marty Sproul brings several years of public school teaching experience and many years of private instruction experience to the Summerhays Pro String area.
Filmmaker: Michael Burton

Series Description: When learning to play the cello, you should learn the parts of the cello, scales, finger positions and bowing techniques. Play the cello with help from a professional cellist in this free video series on how to play the cello.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• cello cleaning
• how to hold a cello
• how to hold a bow
• cello finger positions
• c major scale
• d major scale
• open scales
• legato bowing
• vibrato technique
• cello tuning
• cello vibrato

[Tempyegef]

@Vientomusica  Bro, you gay?

[Vientomusica]

That's not "eHowMusic", that's "How2FailCello"...

[Pricher1991]

This is exactly how NOT to play the cello.

[kiratim]

Most funny is that all what she said is wrong :) It is how to NOT play in first position :)

[redrideriii]

actually your third finger is closer to your fourth finger just above it

[Fwuzeem]

@DerLamer That's alright, because to get the tuning right fingers should not be evenly spaced anyway. If it's equal temperament then yes, but if it's tuned to a certain key, then the second finger should really be closer to the first in order to get a perfect fourth from the string bellow it. The third finger also should be almost next to the fourth to get a good leading note that needs to be resolved.

[DerLamer]

your fingers are not equally spaced... you even said to watch out for this yourself

[jukeydude]

Haha. You teach me band