The tutorials are wonderful because there’s so much explained: how to avoid tension, the physical phenomena. You can bring your own questions and get super-specific advice. It’s a safe place.
I started playing cello 3 months after my 50th anniversary. Every instrument has its own topics, problems you have to solve, things you have to work on. There’s nothing simple, never, nowhere. I get a lot of inspiration watching interviews, watching cellists playing, observing how they move. And tonebase, the tutorials are wonderful because there’s so much explained: the movements, how to avoid tension, how to avoid injuries, which movements are necessary to produce the tone, which physical phenomena are happening. You can learn so much from wonderful tutorials. The science of physical things, bowing, bow division, which strokes there are. There’s so much impact on scales or the benefit of scales, how to build an inner landscape of the fingerboard. One aspect is the forum. I love that, because this is the point where you can bring in your own issues, your own questions and topics. And besides the forum, there’s the possibility to interact with the LIVE sessions because you always have an Ask button, and your questions will be answered. And in the forum, you can post your films, you can show your progress, and it’s a safe place. You can show your problems there and everyone will help you. You get super specific advice. You can look up videos, you can have tutorials, you can look up LIVE streams, you can interact, you can ask your questions — everybody will help you — and you can download workbooks to really work on the topic and other offerings. And you can interact with the “tonebuddies” via forums, so you will get answers, and you can experience how others deal with the same issues. We all have the same issues. We all try to play legato, but we have to learn. It’s not easy…you won’t get that for free. You have to do something! tonebase will not substitute a teacher, but this is all special knowledge, and you have to search a lot on the internet or somewhere else to find all the information. And it’s growing — new features every month, it’s always something to discover. So why not try it out to have a new input for the special interest [of] cello playing?
"I don't regret for a minute having spent the money on the membership. There's something for every musician on tonebase – I recommend you give it a try."
