How to Play the Cello : Cello Bowing Techniques

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Uploaded by on Feb 2, 2008

Watch an expert musician demonstrate proper bowing position on the cello and learn about bowing techniques in this free music lesson video.

Expert: Frances Joseph Santori
Bio: As an Austin multi-instrumentalist musician, Francis Joseph Santori was one of the featured artists in the 2007 Jazz on the Boulevard festival in Dallas.
Filmmaker: Todd Sapio

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  • "julian121"

    OK, hold a pencil, squeeze it. Do you feel it in your arm or your hand? Now tighten your hand muscles but keep your arm relaxed. Impossible isn't it? Think about it. If there is any tension it will be in your arm. So why does he mention only the the hand ignoring the arm completely?

    Again think about it....

    Oh and by the way, He ISN'T a 'cellist....

  • Silly man! He said the "weight of the bow". A 'cello bow weighs between 80 to 85 grams. That's NOT heavy enough to make any difference at all!

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  • @OjosAzul22 It's an Indian instrument called a sarod. Pretty cool, you should check it out.

  • What is the silver instrument to his far left?

    

  • this best part about this are the comments complaining

  • @breakersrich I think it's people who can't even play that are leaving negative comments. If they are such great players, than why are they watching a beginner's tutorial. Silly people.

  • Thanks so much for tkaing time to share. Wonderful person.

  • @breakersrich STAY POSITIVE PPL - STAAAAAAAAY POSITIVE!!! 

  • @breakersrich hey thats no true i dont evan have a cello (and love matalica) but they are right i would know i can play almost all the instruments in a band

  • ALL THE NEGATIVE COMMENTS ON THIS PAGE ARE PRECISELY THE REASON WHY PPL CONSIDER CLASSICAL ENTHUSIASTS "SNOBS"!! IT'S A BASIC TUTORIAL FOR BEGINNERS - NOT JULLIARD!!!

  • @toddfree97

    You seem to have lost the point, it is what he is doing with his ARM that counts, much less so than with his hand.

    It also remains that he is trying to teach an instrument he cannot play himself.

  • He may not be a cellist, but if you watch his bow hand after the "continuous sound" remark, he does "bow circles" as my teachers calls them where he changes his hands momentum before he changes the bows direction.. so he IS a string player.

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