play & practice: Scales & Fingerings

In this video I'm talking about a way to learn and practice all major scales in one little exercise. It will help a lot to orientate on your fingerboard and to improvise over chord progressions. You can copy this exercise to all music modes like dorian, phrygian, lydian, mixolydian, aolian and locrian.
Enjoy practicing scales!
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Thanks for your support!

[@narek_avagyan]

Lieber Herr Braun , vielen Dank für das interessante und inhaltlich reiche Video !

[@improvisation-for-strings]

Merci!

[@energievioloncelle1738]

Merci beaucoup pour ce partage

[@LoicAbdelfettah]

Congratulations Stephan ! What a wonderful series of advices and exercises ! Thanks !!

[@improvisation-for-strings]

Merci, Loïc!

[@Wolfcellist]

Very inspiring! Will start today!

[@improvisation-for-strings]

Thanks!

[@ajilagbenga959]

🤭this is so amazing and so so helpful and encouraging. Thank you for sharing this. Looking forward to starting the exercise and for the next video.🌻

[@improvisation-for-strings]

Thank you, Gbenga!

[@adriaanvosdewael770]

Thank you Stephan. Brilliant video.

[@improvisation-for-strings]

Merci!

[@adamgarnecki6903]

Great help! We all needed that!

[@improvisation-for-strings]

Thank you, Adam!

[@osmartapia8864]

Thank you so much, please upload second part practice with the Minor scales.

[@t.horsch5777]

I love how well structured this exercise is! It's helping me a lot to get more fluent in scales. Thank you so much for making these Videos! Can't wait for the next one. :)

[@improvisation-for-strings]

Thanks a lot!

[@mfd1512]

Bravo - beautiful & very inspiring video !!!

[@improvisation-for-strings]

Merci, Manuel!

[@MohannadNasser]

Amazing 😊 I am going to share it with friends 🎶🎶🎶

[@improvisation-for-strings]

Merci, Mohannad ;)

[@emir_cello]

FINALLY!!! Vielen dank Stephan!!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@improvisation-for-strings]

Merci.

[@cellofan528]

Thank you for sharing!so useful:)

[@improvisation-for-strings]

Thank you!

[@ardieson4542]

you're a genius

[@theladyfuria]

So handy! This way students will not be scared of playing in different tonalities. Thanks, Stephan! I'm a big fan

[@improvisation-for-strings]

yeah, thank you Karolyni

[@ijjjjja]

It's so useful! Thank you again :)

[@improvisation-for-strings]

Merci!

[@meathecreativecellist]

Love this pattern so much. It will really help my students how are learning to improvise. Do you, by chance, have a PDF resource where you include the fingering that you use?

[@improvisation-for-strings]

Thank you, Mea! The fingerings will be slightly different belonging to the context of improvisation and the shape of your hand...

[@meathecreativecellist]

@@improvisation-for-strings Cool! So your recommendation is for people to experiment with different fingerings that work for them?

[@improvisation-for-strings]

@@meathecreativecellist yes ;)

[@bricemadden5717]

Thank you, this is an excellent excercise. It seems like you utilize the double extension stretch hand position...am I correct?? so whole step between one and two, and whole step between three and four ?

[@improvisation-for-strings]

Thanks! Yes, when I play Dbmajor on the C-string I would use this fingerings: Db-1 Eb-2 F-3 Gb4. Another opportunity could be: Db-1 Eb-2 F-4 Gb-4.

[@bricemadden5717]

@@improvisation-for-strings interesting....ive never tried that fingering much but see how useful it can be....i imagine it takes a little while to adjust if brand new to that double stretch

[@bricemadden5717]

@@improvisation-for-strings for flat major on the d string do you use 1Eb - 2 F - 3Gb - 4 Ab ?? and similar on a string?

[@improvisation-for-strings]

@@bricemadden5717 Your personal fingerings belong to the size of your hand. I would train flexibility, using the double stretch and also small shiftings, on D-string: Eb-1 F-3 Gb-4 Ab-4 or Eb-1 F-1 Gb-2 Ab-4.

[@bricemadden5717]

thank you for your wisdom, your time is appreciated!
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[@tioliak]

Why did you tune A=442 Hz?

[@improvisation-for-strings]

More or less the tuning in Europe is 443, in the US 440, I tune my instrument always to 442 ;)

[@MichaelSchuerig]

The demonstration at the beginning is much too quick for me, even when slowed down to 0.25x. Notation would have helped a lot. I do see that you're playing four notes per string, but from the video I can't figure out the details of the sliding. When is it the first finger, when the fourth? Is it different up and down?

[@improvisation-for-strings]

Thanks Michael. Please don't take my fingerings in the video as "must" - I'm playing it slighly different from time to time. Everybody has different abilities, so please look for your own fingerings for: first position in comination with small shiftings.

[@MichaelSchuerig]

​@@improvisation-for-strings The fingering I've tried in the past for a two-octave major scale is 1-1,3,4;1-1,3,4;1-1,2,4;1-1,2 (four notes per string). This scheme can be easily adapted for other modes of the major scale, all without extensions. I haven't tried slides with the fourth finger and I'm wondering whether that could be an improvement.
I'm not at all an advanced cello player. I only started 4,5 years ago and at least 40 years too late. I've never encountered fingerings like these in my lessons or seen them in technique/scales books. I've come up with my scheme when I was trying to figure out how to play scales on an electric bass guitar tuned in fifths.

[@improvisation-for-strings]

@@MichaelSchuerig The fingerings in the video support improvisation through all keys in first position. The musical fingerings in classical cello teaching are complete different ;)