hi i feel like someone's personal idea of how skilled they are is really dependent on like. where they grew up how they were taught etc. or maybe i didn't pay attention to things LOL. but anyways what sorta things do u consider hard? cello wise?
definitely, so my idea is hard is very different from someone else's so I will take this question very seriously and talk about what areas of the cello I find hard and then pieces lol.
pieces: I'm grade eight at the moment so my idea of hard pieces are uh very hard. I'm not a prodigy though I've just been playing since I was five years old and kept it up. (practice outweighs talent seriously). I also have had a very good patient teacher. anyway!
at the moment I'm finding these two pieces of mine hard:
so tzig-tzig is has these whistle notes which I hate they're like harmonics but worse. um when you're playing them you have to not only move up and down the cello with these horrible notes with another finger down as a stop you have to change the distance between the stopping and finger and the other one. anyway that probably makes no sense but it's hell.
my other piece I find difficult right now is julie-o even though it's great fun. personally I'm better at tuning than rhythm so anything with weird counting throws me off.
so in general I find tempo and rhythm hard bc I don't have an internal metronome like lots of people lol I'm bad at counting whilst playing. in very general terms like everyone playing the cello I think shifting "cleanly" (without it slurring). especially when you're shifting with a tricky key signature because it means not only are you moving but you're remembering to sharpen or flatten a note.
um yeah! hope this is sort of what you were expecting out of answer lol I'm always up for talking about the cello though if you or anyone else has any questions <3
