Jebus I was scratching my head downloading and reading through Dotzauer Vol.3 and Suzuki Vol. 4 books to understand correlation between the tenor clef & the fingers placements. This video simplified everything! Thanks a bunch
Thank you Keith, its the best - simple, clear, short - explanation and demonstration of Tenor clef reading and playing I’ve seen (and I think I watched most…)
Keith, love your down to earth style. This is helpfully structured. I founded the Apprentice Cellists Club on Facebook, and we’d love to see you there sometime. I’ve posted this in the group and I’m sure it will be a good aid for us. Very timely for me as I literally began this last week... Raymond Alexander
That's unfortunate. It's one of the essential life-hacks I picked up when I'd just started cello and began plucking away as a total newb in a community orchestra ;)
Very nice introduced, the C clef is always confused me, I am a Pianist and always only have able to read G clef and F clef, C clef is too difficult for a Pianist and violinist.
Hi Keith, I am a adult learner.... I am returning to your videos, as I left a post a couple of months ago. I am still struggling with tenor clef, but, I wondered if you could do another video but for the G string and C string. I love your tutorial videos! Thank you
Glad if it helped! By the way, one tip that might help you with sight reading is to highlight the open strings in whichever clef is giving you difficulties. There are books intended specifically to improve sight-reading. You might check out the series by Doreen Smith, "Cello Sight-reading." From around Grade 6 onward, you start mixing clefs. If that's really difficult then, as mentioned, you might highlight the open strings after each clef change, for a measure or two, just to reset the brain!
ugh thanks my cello ensemble randomly just threw a piece at us that has tenor clef in it and my teacher hasn’t taught me that yet so I was really confused lmao
Glad if it helped! In orchestra, there are all manner of strips of paper taped or clipped to the notes... to get around clef changes. People write out the section they need!
No, although I can see why you might think so, and that is a quick hack if you need it! Please notice that we do play tenor clef in *all* of the positions- all the way from half position through thumb. And, at some point, everybody encounters tenor clef for rather low notes on the D string, and it can be irritating! But that's usually done just to avoid lots of inconvenient clef changes.
Haha yup! And once you get the logic, you can easily transpose things up or down a fifth, which is super handy for not annoying the neighbors when practicing really high passages ;)
Strange that an instrument has 3 clefs!! The easiest way to learn the notes of all 3 clefs is to take the piano grand staff and learn the notes from noting middle c is where both meet. Then noting the F clef meets the tenor c a fifth apart.
Jebus I was scratching my head downloading and reading through Dotzauer Vol.3 and Suzuki Vol. 4 books to understand correlation between the tenor clef & the fingers placements. This video simplified everything! Thanks a bunch
Glad if it was helpful!
Wow thank you so much for explaining this so simplified but still efficient, all the other people are so confusing.
Thank you Keith, its the best - simple, clear, short - explanation and demonstration of Tenor clef reading and playing I’ve seen (and I think I watched most…)
Glad it was helpful!
The question I ask every day is in fact, “Why do we have that clef”. Thank you for the video, it helped me a ton!
Wow!! A simple and clear explanation. So logical! Thank you
Thank you. I used to get tenor clef panic if I was sight reading. But you explain switching from bass to treble clef very clearly.
Glad it was helpful!
Yay thanks for explaining this properly! It’s been so hard to find some good information and this is so helpful!
Glad if it was helpful!
You are a very good teacher
🤗
Keith, love your down to earth style. This is helpfully structured. I founded the Apprentice Cellists Club on Facebook, and we’d love to see you there sometime. I’ve posted this in the group and I’m sure it will be a good aid for us. Very timely for me as I literally began this last week... Raymond Alexander
Thank you, good sir, 🙏
Now I can pass my honor orchestra audition
Good luck! Glad if this was any help.
Thanks
Thankyou so much! Only person I could find to simplify it like this hahaha.
That's unfortunate. It's one of the essential life-hacks I picked up when I'd just started cello and began plucking away as a total newb in a community orchestra ;)
Very nice introduced, the C clef is always confused me, I am a Pianist and always only have able to read G clef and F clef, C clef is too difficult for a Pianist and violinist.
Glad if it is helpful!
Hi Keith,
I am a adult learner.... I am returning to your videos, as I left a post a couple of months ago. I am still struggling with tenor clef, but, I wondered if you could do another video but for the G string and C string.
I love your tutorial videos! Thank you
tysm
Thanks, Keith. Very useful
Trying to learn Merry Christmas Mr.Lawrence this helped a lot :D my sight reading is so bad
Glad if it helped! By the way, one tip that might help you with sight reading is to highlight the open strings in whichever clef is giving you difficulties.
There are books intended specifically to improve sight-reading. You might check out the series by Doreen Smith, "Cello Sight-reading." From around Grade 6 onward, you start mixing clefs. If that's really difficult then, as mentioned, you might highlight the open strings after each clef change, for a measure or two, just to reset the brain!
Omg yes thank I was so confused on how to play the tenor clef
ugh thanks my cello ensemble randomly just threw a piece at us that has tenor clef in it and my teacher hasn’t taught me that yet so I was really confused lmao
Glad if it helped!
In orchestra, there are all manner of strips of paper taped or clipped to the notes... to get around clef changes. People write out the section they need!
Thank you
You are most welcome!
Thank you so much Keith, found it down to simple explanation.... the other people make it sound complicated( no offence to them!).
Thanks!
What program/app did you use to demonstrate the clefs?
Musescore.
Omg thank you soooooo much I was so confused
:)
What about the C string?
Tenor clef is rarely used to indicate notes that low, because it'd be awkward to read. We typically use bass clef for the G and C strings.
so your saying tenor clef is 4th position?
No, although I can see why you might think so, and that is a quick hack if you need it!
Please notice that we do play tenor clef in *all* of the positions- all the way from half position through thumb. And, at some point, everybody encounters tenor clef for rather low notes on the D string, and it can be irritating! But that's usually done just to avoid lots of inconvenient clef changes.
Omg its that easy
Haha yup!
And once you get the logic, you can easily transpose things up or down a fifth, which is super handy for not annoying the neighbors when practicing really high passages ;)
Strange that an instrument has 3 clefs!! The easiest way to learn the notes of all 3 clefs is to take the piano grand staff and learn the notes from noting middle c is where both meet. Then noting the F clef meets the tenor c a fifth apart.
just wait til you play the patriot on the cello