Learning to play the cello shouldn't be any harder than playing the guitar, right? It has to be all with learning how to use the bow. Only thing I'm wondering is how people know where to place their fingers when there's no frets.
Can any string players vouch for the difficulty, or lack thereof, of learning the cello?
>Learning to play the cello shouldn't be any harder than playing the guitar, right?
How did you come to this conclusion?
I never held a cello in my life but the ones I've seen IRL were probably as large as or larger than me, granted I'm tiny as shit but I imagine just getting used to playing an upright instrument would be very hard, let alone such a huge one.
Because they both have strings and you press your fingers on the board.
based mongoloid.
are you a midget? cellos are four feet tall
enjoy sounding like a strangled cat for 6 years before achieving a passable tone ;)
On that note, should I play the violin or the cello? Are the skills applicable to each other?
play the one you like better you dumbass. and no skillset is very different. violin sounds like shit too.
Ignore faggots who try to play gatekeeper. It's as difficult as you make it. Just play it if it inspires you.
>gatekeeper
Reddit, he's right on saying that it's not a pick up and play type of instrument like the guitar or piano. There's a barrier to entry and people don't learn these on their own usually.
You know where to place your fingers by muscle memory, you'll just have to practice a bunch until you get a feel for it. You could also use little pieces of tape or string, but those are training wheels and will get you laughed at.
Honestly I would find a teacher and take some lessons, it's almost impossible to learn a bow instrument by yourself because you won't notice your own bad habits.
It's much harder
>Only thing I'm wondering is how people know where to place their fingers when there's no frets.
Oh you poor sweet child
He's probably picturing a double bass instead of an actual cello
Every instrument is you buy it, you practice it, and tell people like you to jam yours up your ass.
No, with guitar and piano you can already play a few things in the first week or two. Try playing a decent lead on a sax in that time let alone getting a good tone out of it. Same for cello and violin. There is an additional barrier that goes beyond translating what you hear in your head onto the instrument because producing the sound is in itself difficult.
Playing a few things, and putting your mind through the instrument are two very different levels of playing. Of course synergizing your thoughts with your chops on violin takes longer than playing a G chord on the guitar.
It's much harder, if you're tone deaf or have a hard time understanding pitch you'll have a super hard time with intonation on it. If you started at a younger age, it would be much easier to learn. Stick to guitar if you don't have a shit ton of discipline or time to sink into it.
you're thinking of an upright bass unless of course you are literally a dwarf
>shit ton of time
How much time are we talking about here? Not OP btw
Guitarfag turned cellofag
The finger-placement takes a week to fall into muscle memory since it's so uniform
Good sawing is all in the posture, make sure you
1. learn to sit right
2. pluck scales again and again when you're watching tv or other mundane activities
3. Bow all over the place including deliberately making it sound shit and horrible. Learning where it sounds awful is the easiest way to hone your saw.
Have fun OP
P.S. I started with violin but always felt scrunched up, cello is way nicer for my hands and if you already play guitar you'll already have decent finger span
Choose the one YOU wanna play though
25hrs/day
Out of curiosity, at what age did you start playing guitar/cello respectively?
Also, you took lessons for cello, right? (I'm asking because I've never heard of any self-taught violinists/cellists, but I'm still curious)
In orchestra at school, you could easily tell who was practicing at home. Like any other instrument, its about the amount of time you put in. Any non-fretted string instrument will require a lot of work. It might take a full year before you sound decent to somebody who doesn't play. But even then you probably won't sound good most people.
guitar 19
cello 23
self taught guitar and self taught cello
I would have taken lessons if I could afford them though. Recommend cello lessons at least for the tips/posture/practice schedule advice. It was tough as shit for me and I had to unlearn alotta dumb shit I used to do.
>self taught cello
That's interesting, I've never heard of that before. How did you learn techniques, posture etc.? With a book or with online tutorials, or did you just find something that suited you? How did you figure out that the things you learned were wrong?
Beginner youtube tutorials and diagrams and such
then met classically trained folk viola gf who set it all straight,
definitely get lessons if you can OP
Huh, I'm curious about the folk viola part. Have heard violins in folk music but not that many violas. Any recs? Or recs from your gf
Cello will sound nicer (or less shitty) in sooner time, but violin is more versatile when finding genres to play (that doesnt mean you cant play them with cello but the violin has more protagonism)
you gonna learn an instrument or not.
>Learning to play the cello shouldn't be any harder than playing the guitar, right?
It is
> Only thing I'm wondering is how people know where to place their fingers when there's no frets.
Thats easy to learn, but not to get right, especially when changing positions
>Can any string players vouch for the difficulty, or lack thereof, of learning the cello?
Less than you would thing with other bowed strings, not at all with guitar
Still, I suggest you give it a try, I would learn Cello if I had the money/time.
>Learning to play the cello shouldn't be any harder than playing the guitar, right?
It is
> Only thing I'm wondering is how people know where to place their fingers when there's no frets.
Thats easy to learn, but not to get right, especially when changing positions
>Can any string players vouch for the difficulty, or lack thereof, of learning the cello?
Less than you would think with other bowed strings, not at all with guitar
Still, I suggest you give it a try, I would learn Cello if I had the money/time.
Cello strings are tuned tuned differently than guitar is. Cello is tuned in fifths and guitar is mostly in fourths so there will definitely be a learning curve. Plus, it’s fretless so you’ll need more control and precision. It’s not impossible to teach yourself, but it will definitely be a longer process than learning guitar.
yeah, it's very easy.
no technique required for it at all.
and to all the fags saying
>just buy and play it u'll learn quick lmao
it doesn't work like that, 97% of people don't have the drive or time to properly learn by themselves to get to a minimally decent sound