hello fellow #musicians #cellists um welcome to uh the music podcasts i've been so incredibly busy this week what's happened is i suddenly decided that now that we're out of lockdown it's time to start performing again playing what have you and i'm not really going to have so much time to to podcast actually um i mean this is the thing isn't it when you're when you've got an active life you tend to push yourself as a musician you tend to sort of get yourself out there and it's really really important of course the looks like the pandemic is over touch wood
touchwood darlings touchwood and we're all starting to readjust now and think right okay as a musician what's the most important thing and for me it's certainly getting um getting the opportunity to play with other musicians that's really a massive part of who i am and for a cellist that would quite often mean being part of an orchestra and so i've decided to join up with a couple of orchestras so i'm over the weekend i'm joining up with the #Benedetti

foundation workshops now what they do i'm gonna give them a plug because it's not too late to join up you can sign up um online it's all online it's all done via zoom and this one is for the this one this weekend that i'm doing is for adults you need to be i think intermediate to advanced around about grade eight which is you know standard because the thing is when you're in an orchestra you need to sort of leap about a bit and you it's all about the positions darlings the position that you need to get in to do these quick um robust changes are usually further um you know the higher position so fourth position um for example and that that's

really where the uh the difficulty i suppose lies you need to be fluent in these higher positions um having said that you also need to be for the one i'm doing you need to be really good at second and third position too and that's what makes them advanced you can do quite a bit in an orchestra if you're um you know less advanced but the arrangement has to be changed for you so the person the director of music has to do an arrangement whereby your music your part suits your skill and that's not too difficult either because quite often you can you can just do a simple ostinato you know a basic notes and you keep the rhythm so it's not too difficult but it's very time consuming to have to do lots of um separate parts of course some people
can improvise and this is where improvising comes in really as a wonderful skill because what it means is you can just listen and you could write your own using some very basic um ostinato type uh you know a consistent baseline sometimes you can even follow actually the um the base the double bass that that's also i often look at their music i think they've got really easy music why can't that be mine anyway um so i'm doing the bendetti benedetti foundation tomorrow and the p and sunday and what what happens is you all go on zoom i don't have no idea how many people there'll be probably a hundred or so maybe more and um you have your headphones i've purchased actually i've i've got some very very wonderful headphones that my mother bought for christmas and they're um you know the posh ones what are called posh ones and they're full ear so they cup your ear with a seal and this is by far and away the best
advice when you're you know when you work in digital production as i do when you're writing electronica music um those are the sort of headphones that are going to benefit because you really hear everything really clearly because and it's a lush sound and then noise cancelling and you know the posh if if you're a digital musician you need the best earphones you can possibly manage um i don't know if earpods posh earpods are as good but i did do quite a lot of research and then i watched a program actually on tv about a professor of um i think she was science not music a science professor physics i believe and she...