I'm so happy to read this.. I bought a cello for my husband three years ago.. he never touched it I'm 69 and learning to play.. There's HOPE and it's wonderful to have these lessons on line
Thankyou ladies , I too am the more mature student I am 59 and way out of my comfort zone , deciding to learn a musical instrument I picked the cello and it’s the beginning of a very good friendship. Helga is so helpful and my first go to. You are all insping me to cont8nue on.
Yay, I am 60 and taking up the cello recently. So lucky to come across this video. I am so grateful and also very happy to see so many appreciative adult cello learners.
Dear Helga, I started the cello at 30 and appreciate your filling in the gaps of all my questions , especially about not gripping the bow! I have been working on relaxing my hand and letting go of the bow or what I call “riding the bow” Your video helped reinforce all my practice concepts to relax my whole right arm! I played with a community symphony in the Boston area and have loved playing the cello most of my adult life! I am also an artist and did ballet for 17 years! You are so right about the muscles that used to play this instrument! It’s demanding, especially as we age! I am 81 years young and still practice the cello for an hour or two three times a week or more! I swim for exercise! I sleep for my body to restore itself! I can only thank you so very much for your carefully designed lesson for my cello playing! My husband loved my cello playing and he had Alzheimer’s but he knew the difference between good tones and others! He loved hearing the music for five years and reached 90 years young! I am so glad that I could give such pleasure during that very hard time of his life! It kept harmony in our lives! Music is everything! Thank you again ,Helga, from the bottom of my heart!!
Great for me, when I started playing the cello 15 months ago, after playing the trombone for 20 years. Even better now, when I know, what cello playing is about.
As an adult (50+) learning on my own, this video is priceless -- a visual of all the mechanics that one simply cannot "get" by looking at photos in a book, no matter how clearly they are explained in type. This presentation makes them all come alive and be easily understood. Thank you muchly! Pretty sure I will be coming back to this video, again and again, as I progress through my study and practice. Now, if only someone would find a way to write music for dyslexic people, my cello world would be perfect. A universal color system would help immensely. A line is a line. A letter is a letter. All of them are interchangeable. But, red is red, and blue is blue - no getting that confused. Dear sheet music industry, here's your hint... please. 99% of my frustration is notation.
Thank you so very much Helga! I have played the cello since I was 30! Played for 5years with a wonderful community symphony out of Boston! Your guidance and explanations of tge arm shoulder, elbow, wrist, fingers is so important throughout life as our bodies change as we age! Keeping strong in my back with swimming weekly and gentles weight strenthening(1-2 pounds)is very helpful! My cello is my friend and practicing is such an important part of my days in retirement! I am also an artist and so I split my time! I live in Maine in New England! Thank you for going over bowing specifics that we can easily forget!
Helga, thank you so much. Every cellist from professional player to those who have been playing for a short time. So much information beautifully presented.
All this time I thought I held my bow wrong, or my positioning was wrong because every single cellist says something different from the knees to the thumb. And I would cry because I would feel so uncomfortable and still not get anything right. This has helped immensely. I adore you and this video, thank you so much. 🧡
I’m so very glad that I found your video. I love your snippets of humour but most of all thank you for sharing your comprehensive knowledge in a hands on and instructional manner. I am a mere beginner, however I dare to dream big! Thank you.😋
Helga, thank you so much i play cello several years now, but your video makes so much sense and answers lots of questions where i got stuck, thank you so much for this work, greetz from the netherlands 🇳🇱
Thank you Helga, this video is extremely valuable. I continue to come back to this video and re-watch it whenever I need to remind myself of the fundamentals!
I begin learning cello today! played piano for years, but trying to get serious about music again. Incredibly helpful video! I don't feel like I'm going in completely blind.
Dear Helga! Thank you so much for this video. I started playing 7 months ago and I’m 45 years old. I still had pain and tired right shoulder when i played on the D and A String. Your video helped me understand the complete movement of my right arm , since then i dont have pain. I can play each day and I’m more relax!! Thank you so much, its very interesting! Marguerite from Québec
Thank you for this comprehensive video, Dr Winold. It is extremely helpful to understand the mechanics of playing the cello. Your explanation is very clear. I love it and feel so lucky to be able to watch this video.
I’d also like to have heard more about establishing the left hand fingers with the appropriate weight on the strings. I’m aware of what that is personally but teaching it has always been a struggle. Some kids get it and their thumb is relaxed, others don’t.
Dr. Winold, thank you so much for this! This is Joong-In Rhee your former student. You have been such an influence in my life - as a cellist and a human being. I am sorry I didn't send you the music you lent me three decades ago - I mis-placed it (Agh) I will find it yet and get it to your hands.
It’s fabulous overall. I’m wondering why no discussion about the orientation of the first finger in thumb position and in various situations. I’ve heard (and seen) all different things. For instance at some parts she seems to be pushing the side of the string with the first finger in upper position work. But anyone who’s watched Rostropovich (and he’s not the only one) knows that great cello playing can be done with a mostly opposite direction (collapsed) articulation of the first finger last joint in upper positions. This has always been confusing to me.
2:56 😅 this is very interresting……. I am from germany and i am a cello player but i never heard the word „ Kniegeige“ for a cello. A „ Kniegeige“ is a baroque instrument. A viola da gamba. You play this instrument only between your knees because it has no endpin. 😊
lost her when she came up with that skeleton which " isn't vaccinated so still has to wear a mask". Come on. Not funny. That nonsense even in a music lesson??
@@macsch2622 Get a good teacher. You won't learn anything by watching TH-cam videos of impostors. Don't you see the lady plays totally out of tune? What can she teach?
@@MrAkifusion Helga Winold has been teaching Cello at USF since 2013. Prior to coming to Florida she was named a Professor Emeritus from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where she taught private Cello, Cello Literature, Cello Pedagogy and Chamber Music. In 2008 she was honored at Indiana University with the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching. She maintains a busy schedule of private teaching, master classes, solo recitals, and chamber music recitals. Many of Winold’s students have gone on to important performing positions in professional orchestras such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Other former students have gone on to significant teaching positions such as the University of Pennsylvania and the Freiburg Hochschule für Musik. Winold has played solo and chamber music recitals in many of the leading music centers of the United States, Europe, and Asia, including appearances as soloist with the Munich Philharmonic and other orchestras, presentations of the complete Beethoven cycle of works for cello and piano in Vienna and other cities, and performances of contemporary works for cello. As a researcher and writer, Helga Winold has made important contributions in several areas, including research on movement in string playing with Professor Esther Thelen under a grant from the National Institute for Health, numerous articles in the American String Teacher, Strad Magazine and other publications, and lectures and seminars at universities in the United States and abroad. And… you are ?
@@LorenzoDeLeon it's not about who's who and who's protfolio is more impressive. It's about this person who plays out of tune, with a very bad technique, who calls herself a "teacher". So, get a pair of good ears, study a bit and come back the next year, ok? ;)
Brilliant!!! And so very helpful to me, being a former physiotherapist who have just started playing cello at 66 years of age. Thank you!!!
I'm so happy to read this.. I bought a cello for my husband three years ago.. he never touched it I'm 69 and learning to play.. There's HOPE and it's wonderful to have these lessons on line
Thankyou ladies , I too am the more mature student I am 59 and way out of my comfort zone , deciding to learn a musical instrument I picked the cello and it’s the beginning of a very good friendship. Helga is so helpful and my first go to. You are all insping me to cont8nue on.
Bravo! You’re in good company. I just started at 64. Rock on! 🎻🤘🏽
Yay, I am 60 and taking up the cello recently. So lucky to come across this video. I am so grateful and also very happy to see so many appreciative adult cello learners.
Dear Helga,
I started the cello at 30 and appreciate your filling in the gaps of all my questions , especially about not gripping the bow!
I have been working on relaxing my hand and letting go of the bow or what I call “riding the bow”
Your video helped reinforce all my practice concepts to relax my whole right arm!
I played with a community symphony in the Boston area and have loved playing the cello most of my adult life!
I am also an artist and did ballet for 17 years!
You are so right about the muscles that used to play this instrument! It’s demanding, especially as we age! I am 81 years young and still practice the cello for an hour or two three times a week or more! I swim for exercise! I sleep for my body to restore itself! I can only thank you so very much for your carefully designed lesson for my cello playing! My husband loved my cello playing and he had Alzheimer’s but he knew the difference between good tones and others! He loved hearing the music for five years and reached 90 years young!
I am so glad that I could give such pleasure during that very hard time of his life! It kept harmony in our lives! Music is everything!
Thank you again ,Helga, from the bottom of my heart!!
Great for me, when I started playing the cello 15 months ago, after playing the trombone for 20 years. Even better now, when I know, what cello playing is about.
As an adult (50+) learning on my own, this video is priceless -- a visual of all the mechanics that one simply cannot "get" by looking at photos in a book, no matter how clearly they are explained in type. This presentation makes them all come alive and be easily understood. Thank you muchly! Pretty sure I will be coming back to this video, again and again, as I progress through my study and practice. Now, if only someone would find a way to write music for dyslexic people, my cello world would be perfect. A universal color system would help immensely. A line is a line. A letter is a letter. All of them are interchangeable. But, red is red, and blue is blue - no getting that confused. Dear sheet music industry, here's your hint... please. 99% of my frustration is notation.
Thank you so very much Helga! I have played the cello since I was 30! Played for 5years with a wonderful community symphony out of Boston!
Your guidance and explanations of tge arm shoulder, elbow, wrist, fingers is so important throughout life as our bodies change as we age!
Keeping strong in my back with swimming weekly and gentles weight strenthening(1-2 pounds)is very helpful!
My cello is my friend and practicing is such an important part of my days in retirement!
I am also an artist and so I split my time!
I live in Maine in New England!
Thank you for going over bowing specifics that we can easily forget!
I SOUND GREAT!! Thank you Ms. Helga!
Very good lesson! Thanks! Yesterday I went to an International Fair with Violine and Cello Makers in Germany. Highly interesting it was.
Bravo Helga, please more videos
Helga, thank you so much. Every cellist from professional player to those who have been playing for a short time. So much information beautifully presented.
All this time I thought I held my bow wrong, or my positioning was wrong because every single cellist says something different from the knees to the thumb.
And I would cry because I would feel so uncomfortable and still not get anything right.
This has helped immensely. I adore you and this video, thank you so much. 🧡
What a great teacher. I love her.
What a great gift this is to students and teachers! Thank you so much for freely sharing your life’s work in such a brilliant way!
I’m so very glad that I found your video. I love your snippets of humour but most of all thank you for sharing your comprehensive knowledge in a hands on and instructional manner. I am a mere beginner, however I dare to dream big! Thank you.😋
Wow this is just a treasure chest of information! Thank you Helga! 🙏👏 🤩
great class - very informative! Thank you Helga
Helga, thank you so much i play cello several years now, but your video makes so much sense and answers lots of questions where i got stuck, thank you so much for this work, greetz from the netherlands 🇳🇱
Older adult and lifetime musician..and now teaching myself cello. Your teachings are incredible...so glad I found ur channel. Thank you.
Thank you Helga for this wonderful resource, so generously and kindly presented.
Dear Mrs. Winold, thank you very much for this wonderful video!
Such a treasure trove of instruction! Thank you so very much.
Thank you Helga, this video is extremely valuable. I continue to come back to this video and re-watch it whenever I need to remind myself of the fundamentals!
Thank you very much for this amazing video, Mrs. Winold. I miss you very much!
So happy to see your videos. ❤
I begin learning cello today! played piano for years, but trying to get serious about music again. Incredibly helpful video! I don't feel like I'm going in completely blind.
Dear Helga!
Thank you so much for this video. I started playing 7 months ago and I’m 45 years old. I still had pain and tired right shoulder when i played on the D and A String. Your video helped me understand the complete movement of my right arm , since then i dont have pain. I can play each day and I’m more relax!! Thank you so much, its very interesting!
Marguerite from Québec
So much information, incredibly helpful also for professionals and especially students! Tausend Dank dafür!
Thank you for this comprehensive video, Dr Winold. It is extremely helpful to understand the mechanics of playing the cello. Your explanation is very clear. I love it and feel so lucky to be able to watch this video.
Helga!! So lovely to see your picture! I'm so sorry I will miss this. I hope it's available afterwards 💕
Thank you dear Helga for sharing with the world this wonderful resource.
Thank you so much for this wonderful cello video! ❤️
A wonderful teacher and cellist
Thank you so much!
Dr. Winold, it's such a pleasure to watch this and remember (and better understand!) the things you taught me. Thank you for this great video!
I loved this and bookmarked. I shared with my teacher! Please post more!
How was this free? Unbelievable information a masterclass!! thank you to all involved in bringing this for all to learn and experience.
This is the best cello instruction video I’ve ever seen!!!
Such a wonderful lesson. Thank you for your sharing your wisdom and knowledge
Thank you so much for this lesson! 💖
You're a wonderful teacher and educator!
Very thorough and impressive. Thank you.
A gifted teacher!!!
A body-based physically informed teacher!
Muchas gracias maestra por compartir sus conocimientos Violonchelisticos, saludos desde Oaxaca México 🇲🇽 🎶 🎶 🎶 🎻 ♥️ 👏 👏
정말 감사합니다.
초심으로 돌아가 기초를 잡는데 무척 도움이 됩니다.
하루에 한번씩 보면 실력이 완전히 달라질 것 같습니다. 다시 한 번 감사드립니다.
Dear Prefessor Winold, thank you very much! So helpful, so wonderful!!!! Thanks!!!!!
Thank you so much for sharing wonderful lessons!!😊
Love your humor. Thanks for the lessons.
❤❤❤ Thank you for your wonderful and well detailed explanation, it’s being so helpful for my 10 year old son in his cello’s practice. ❤❤❤
Thank you for your teaching Dear Helga.. ❤ it is a summary
thank you so much Helga for sharing your experience!
Thank you so much for this valuable lesson.
Great tutorial to overview cello playing. Thank you!
Love it... Thank you :)
Muito obrigado pela excelente aula!
I need a teacher like her 👍🏻.
fantastic video! very helpfull!! so many thanks! i hope you make more videos!!
I’d also like to have heard more about establishing the left hand fingers with the appropriate weight on the strings. I’m aware of what that is personally but teaching it has always been a struggle. Some kids get it and their thumb is relaxed, others don’t.
¡Gracias! Interesante clase magistral para enviarla a mis estudiantes 🎶❤️🇨🇱
Dr. Winold, thank you so much for this! This is Joong-In Rhee your former student. You have been such an influence in my life - as a cellist and a human being. I am sorry I didn't send you the music you lent me three decades ago - I mis-placed it (Agh) I will find it yet and get it to your hands.
Great video. Very helpful. Many thanks.
Thank you so much. You really make cello exciting 💗
Thank you❤Very informative 😊
Brilliant! 🥰🎶
Wow!!! Thank you!!
Ganz Herzlichen Dank fur Ihre Hilfe!!!
Wow!
It’s fabulous overall. I’m wondering why no discussion about the orientation of the first finger in thumb position and in various situations. I’ve heard (and seen) all different things. For instance at some parts she seems to be pushing the side of the string with the first finger in upper position work. But anyone who’s watched Rostropovich (and he’s not the only one) knows that great cello playing can be done with a mostly opposite direction (collapsed) articulation of the first finger last joint in upper positions. This has always been confusing to me.
You are wonderful
Please make more videos.
Great Madam
Dear Helga: Scott just sent me this link-looking forward to catching up with you and sending much love, M.
Is this a Gagliano cello? Interesting video!! Greetings from Germany
2:56 😅 this is very interresting……. I am from germany and i am a cello player but i never heard the word „ Kniegeige“ for a cello. A „ Kniegeige“ is a baroque instrument. A viola da gamba. You play this instrument only between your knees because it has no endpin. 😊
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I’m 40+ years old so it’s not too late to start learning cello after all.
lost her when she came up with that skeleton which " isn't vaccinated so still has to wear a mask". Come on. Not funny. That nonsense even in a music lesson??
Totally wrong.
May I know where are those wrong parts? I am learning now …
@@macsch2622 Get a good teacher. You won't learn anything by watching TH-cam videos of impostors. Don't you see the lady plays totally out of tune? What can she teach?
@@MrAkifusion
Helga Winold has been teaching Cello at USF since 2013. Prior to coming to Florida she was named a Professor Emeritus from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where she taught private Cello, Cello Literature, Cello Pedagogy and Chamber Music. In 2008 she was honored at Indiana University with the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching. She maintains a busy schedule of private teaching, master classes, solo recitals, and chamber music recitals.
Many of Winold’s students have gone on to important performing positions in professional orchestras such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Other former students have gone on to significant teaching positions such as the University of Pennsylvania and the Freiburg Hochschule für Musik.
Winold has played solo and chamber music recitals in many of the leading music centers of the United States, Europe, and Asia, including appearances as soloist with the Munich Philharmonic and other orchestras, presentations of the complete Beethoven cycle of works for cello and piano in Vienna and other cities, and performances of contemporary works for cello. As a researcher and writer, Helga Winold has made important contributions in several areas, including research on movement in string playing with Professor Esther Thelen under a grant from the National Institute for Health, numerous articles in the American String Teacher, Strad Magazine and other publications, and lectures and seminars at universities in the United States and abroad.
And… you are ?
@@LorenzoDeLeon it's not about who's who and who's protfolio is more impressive. It's about this person who plays out of tune, with a very bad technique, who calls herself a "teacher". So, get a pair of good ears, study a bit and come back the next year, ok? ;)
@@MrAkifusion Have it your way my friend. And thanks for your great advice, enlighting my day
Your students don't know how lucky they are to have you 🥹.
Thank you so much ❤