Playing intimately, but for the last row of the audience.
Projecting Pianissimo
- How to project soft sounds
- How to throw sound out to the audience
- How to make a soft sound with a core
- How to make a soft sound away from the fingerboard
- Upper arm weight should feel lifted and suspended
- A light friction or resistance from the cello is desirable
- The intention to project is an important psychological component
- Both core and resonance must be created by contact point and bow speed
- Maximize resonance and glow in the sound from bow speed and contact point
- Fuzzy sounds do not project
Cellowisdom
“Fortissimo is dropping all arm weight into the cello, pianissimo is lifting all arm weight off of the cello… and then there is everything in-between!”
— Gregor Piatigorsky
