How to Play Pizzicato Beautifully | Cello Teacher Tips | Beginner Cello Exercises

Today we will learn how to play pizzicato on cello. There is a lot of beauty in the sound of pizzicato. This cello lesson tutorial is for beginners, intermediate and advanced level students who want to learn how to improve the way they play pizzicato. After working on different pizzicato cello exercises you will learn to choose the best technique to sound like a pro. You will need pages 38-39 in Piatti Cello Method. This video is the lesson 19 in Cellopedia course of Piatti Cello Method. You can find all previous lessons in Piatti Cello Method playlist. Download sheet music here https://imslp.org/wiki/Violoncello-Sc...) We can use the index finger to pluck a string. What would happen if we would use a different finger? Let's try it! T When you use a middle finger, the sound gets deeper. We can go one step ahead of it and play using a thumb. It is quite hard to use a thumb, especially when you have to play faster notes. But then you can hear that the sound quality is different too. What would happen if we use one of the same fingers, but if we change a spot we would be using? Which way should we do it? I will play pizzicato in many different ways and try to answer these and some other questions. After that we will play together etudes by Sebastian Lee and F.A. Kummer. You will also get a chance to learn how to play A minor melodic scale and arpeggio. 0:00 How to play pizzicato. Piatti cello method, lesson 19 2:57 Pizzicato exercise 3:38 Using different fingers to play pizzicato 7:59 How to play chords pizzicato 12:39 How to quickly switch between bow (arco) and pizzicato 15:33 Sebastian Lee etude no. 4 18:28 A minor melodic scale 19:49 A minor arpeggio 21:30 F.A. Kummer etude no. 5 Subscribe to Cellopedia Newsletter and get a free PDF of J.S.Bach's G Major Prelude - easy and advanced versions (Cellopedia Edition) https://mailchi.mp/91e8bc01e671/cello... ▶ MY CELLO TEACHER The complete program. A pedagogy-first cello course for adult beginners: structured lessons, technique fundamentals, personalized practice support, and real-time feedback. 👉 https://www.cellopedia.org/my-cello-t... 🎻 LIVE WEBINARS Monday sessions at 1:00 PM ET. No pressure, no performing. You can see and hear me, but nobody can hear you. Play along, try things, make mistakes. It stays between you and your cello. Sheet music, live Q&A, and practical guidance throughout. Can't make it live? You get the full replay. 👉 https://www.cellopedia.org/webinars 🎻 PRIVATE LESSONS One-on-one Zoom instruction for young and adult students, from complete beginners to upper intermediate. Customized pace, optional lesson recording, instruction in English. 👉 https://calendly.com/cello4you/cello-... 🎼 THE PRACTICE ROOM Practice with the music in front of you. The score plays along at practice tempo, so you can loop any passage, slow it down without changing the pitch, and record yourself to compare takes. Metronome, tuner, drone and slow-downer are free, no account needed. 👉 https://practice.cellopedia.org