Can You Pick A Violin Like A Guitar?

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  • Опубліковано 9 лют 2023

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  • @culcharmediaproductions3201
    @culcharmediaproductions3201 Рік тому +4263

    I first thought the question was referring to choosing a violin 💀

    • @michaelidung9848
      @michaelidung9848 Рік тому +14

      Same 😭

    • @xamislimelight8965
      @xamislimelight8965 Рік тому +10

      Don't quote the Abbott and Costello bit, don't quote the Abbott and Costello bit, don't quote...

    • @WBR44
      @WBR44 Рік тому +5

      I had to come to this comment to find out that it wasn't. I was just sitting here thinking that he went really off topic...

    • @morningsidedriverock
      @morningsidedriverock Рік тому +2

      I’m a musician and I thought the same

    • @kiyu3229
      @kiyu3229 Рік тому +2

      ​@@xamislimelight8965do it.

  • @lisaayres-zp5jj
    @lisaayres-zp5jj 10 місяців тому +1748

    Now try slapping the violin

    • @wafflesaucey
      @wafflesaucey 4 місяці тому +49

      Sometimes this is used (typically in lower level orchestras) to mimic percussion when there is none.
      Edit: it's mostly the cellos that get stuck doing this.

    • @yurinoworry
      @yurinoworry 4 місяці тому +61

      Okay Davie504

    • @IanBPPK
      @IanBPPK 4 місяці тому +5

      Pretty sure Dave Matthews Band has done that.

    • @Ruid-YT
      @Ruid-YT 4 місяці тому +6

      Left hand pizzicato has entered chat:

    • @AndreAbreo
      @AndreAbreo 4 місяці тому +3

      he did... in this video...

  • @AJayTwo001
    @AJayTwo001 11 місяців тому +1423

    Dude woke up and chose violins

    • @pebbble
      @pebbble 5 місяців тому +32

      UNDERRATED

    • @dallen3000
      @dallen3000 4 місяці тому +33

      Don't let my laughter fool you, I'm irrationally furious about this

    • @RickPeters-vk1mm
      @RickPeters-vk1mm 4 місяці тому +21

      Picked* violins

    • @Quis_Ut_Deus_Sullivan
      @Quis_Ut_Deus_Sullivan 4 місяці тому +5

      If you came up with this on your own, you should be proud.

    • @UmWhat862
      @UmWhat862 4 місяці тому +6

      @@dallen3000don’t fret

  • @codascheuer8426
    @codascheuer8426 Рік тому +1403

    For anyone who is curious, the names of all these techniques (in order) are:
    Detaché
    Spiccato
    Pizzicato
    Col Legno
    w/Pick
    Chop

    • @caryn9953
      @caryn9953 Рік тому +50

      I'd say the second one is more of a richochet than spiccato, spiccato is usually closer to the string and uses the fingers of the bow hand instead of the whole hand/arm! 😊

    • @Saggimyze
      @Saggimyze Рік тому +6

      I thought the second one was staccato😅

    • @irltraded
      @irltraded Рік тому +1

      ​@@caryn9953 heh looks like double bass spiccato being used on the violin

    • @llv7412
      @llv7412 Рік тому +16

      @@caryn9953ricochet is much more uncontrolled and relies on the repeated bounces but he’s singularly playing a very controlled bounce which is just spiccatto

    • @dareelpeeps290
      @dareelpeeps290 Рік тому +5

      @@caryn9953 it’s not ricochet.

  • @eamonburns9597
    @eamonburns9597 Рік тому +1752

    "there are rules against these things"
    *Uses an electric violin

    • @peytongraham8661
      @peytongraham8661 Рік тому +57

      I don't think that was an electric violin. I think it was just plugged into an amplifier

    • @robertspeedwagon982
      @robertspeedwagon982 11 місяців тому +31

      Half of his store is just electric violins 😭

    • @soldier1913
      @soldier1913 11 місяців тому +68

      @@peytongraham8661yeah its an acoustic electric meaning i will sound good not plugged in but better plugged it

    • @imauz1127
      @imauz1127 7 місяців тому +2

      that’s not an electric

    • @rileyyyyh
      @rileyyyyh 6 місяців тому

      did you miss the part where he said he was just kidding or are you r*tarded

  • @theonescratchwonder6484
    @theonescratchwonder6484 Рік тому +135

    LMAO you had me in the first part. You can do whatever you want is the hardest part of music, but also the most valuable lesson to learn.

    • @nicreven
      @nicreven 3 місяці тому +2

      Also applies to pretty much every art form

  • @linguiniinabowl8966
    @linguiniinabowl8966 Рік тому +267

    Your vibe is that of a middle school band director and I adore it. Much love ❤

    • @ElectricViolinShop
      @ElectricViolinShop  Рік тому +101

      They would fire me in a heartbeat.

    • @phantomasuras
      @phantomasuras Рік тому +27

      ​@@ElectricViolinShopYou would have left an impression in your students tho, I'm sure.

  • @dogol284
    @dogol284 Рік тому +137

    "Burn the Witch" by Radiohead is notable for having an entire orchestra using exclusively picks. Ofc there's still legato sections but an entire orchestra using guitar picks for the perfect panick-ey sound!

    • @ethanskywalker
      @ethanskywalker Рік тому +4

      Great song

    • @Leatherface123.
      @Leatherface123. 6 місяців тому +1

      Huh for a second I read that as “Don’t Burn The Witch” by venom

    • @everrtf
      @everrtf 4 місяці тому

      @@Leatherface123. same

    • @Xiassen
      @Xiassen 3 місяці тому +1

      Picked clarinet

    • @347Jimmy
      @347Jimmy 3 місяці тому

      ​@@Xiassen yeah, I can't see picks working well on the timpani either

  • @uriahedwards
    @uriahedwards Рік тому +12

    If you want to play a violin-like instrument but picking like a guitar, choose a mandolin. Same tuning as a violin but with double strings and you use a plectrum.

    • @kawaiigoomy3487
      @kawaiigoomy3487 5 місяців тому +1

      I have a mandolin and violin, it is really nice that they have the same tuning since I’m learning both. ☺️

  • @bonelord42069
    @bonelord42069 Рік тому +13

    I’ve played with Tracy Silverman in concert before. That final technique is his bread and butter!

  • @N3TSLVM
    @N3TSLVM Рік тому +12

    This isn't your average everyday pizzicato...
    This is...
    Advanced pizzicato

  • @squarepris1m203
    @squarepris1m203 7 місяців тому +10

    you reminded me of my dad, hes a guitarist and over quarantine I got really good at bass guitar and he would want me to play certain bluegrass songs, my response was "i dont know how to play upright" but he would always tell me "music is music" and i am nlw a firm believer that if you try hard enough anything can be played on almost anything if its fun for you

  • @LuciensMusic
    @LuciensMusic 7 місяців тому +25

    Andrew Bird is amazing at playing it like a guitar : )

  • @TheOtherJackBlack
    @TheOtherJackBlack 8 місяців тому +15

    Somehow bouncing the bow sounds more like guitar than plucking the strings or using a pick does. That last technique you showed convinced me I need to look find a violin asap

    • @wafflesaucey
      @wafflesaucey 4 місяці тому +3

      The cello cult is here to recruit you.

    • @TheOtherJackBlack
      @TheOtherJackBlack 3 місяці тому

      ​@@wafflesauceyidk how I missed this comment but maybe that's the next move..

  • @paul77966
    @paul77966 11 місяців тому +5

    Last one is awesome 👌

  • @leithmascari5053
    @leithmascari5053 Рік тому +9

    I once played a piece by Anna Clyne that called for bowing the tailpiece and making it vibrate. it made this weird buzzing sound and it felt like my violin was gonna fall apart lol

  • @MarynaraSauc3_
    @MarynaraSauc3_ Рік тому +30

    Family friend played violin and guitar professionally. Sometimes he would strum chords on his violin and it sounded awesome

  • @colbynelson4675
    @colbynelson4675 7 місяців тому +2

    I tried violin before guitar.
    I'm good at guitar but could not get the violin. Could never get the bow to work so I'd say props Mr. Violin man

  • @FOXGEAR92
    @FOXGEAR92 4 місяці тому +1

    Andrew Bird was the man who opened up so many possibilities to me with violin and made me want one
    Still haven't gotten a proper one that I can actually play but dang I want one still

  • @doctorsmiles4530
    @doctorsmiles4530 4 місяці тому +1

    "there are rules against-"
    One second, let me get my Bird named Andrew

  • @boscorner
    @boscorner 9 місяців тому +3

    "Bowed banjo is the future of rock and roll"

  • @slumpku
    @slumpku 3 місяці тому +1

    That last technique was so smooth

  • @vibratingstring
    @vibratingstring Рік тому +5

    The last one is the chop!

  • @darkvulpes4826
    @darkvulpes4826 Рік тому +9

    Today I found out there's very sick way to make country beats using violin. Next step: get a violin.

  • @Airlo-rk8wj
    @Airlo-rk8wj Рік тому +4

    This hurts

  • @guillegilcriado6879
    @guillegilcriado6879 Рік тому +3

    Your videos are amazing. So educational and just fun!

  • @eoghainlebioda1396
    @eoghainlebioda1396 3 місяці тому

    oh my god that percussion-sounding technique at the end was so sick!

  • @WilDBeestMF
    @WilDBeestMF 3 місяці тому

    The guitar, violin and bass all shredding the same thing would sound IMMENSE.

  • @NUCLEARxREDACTED
    @NUCLEARxREDACTED 5 місяців тому +1

    Wow that's really cool. Its actually crazy how good a violin sounds played with a pick.

  • @danklassen
    @danklassen Рік тому +2

    Great demo

  • @V77710
    @V77710 9 місяців тому +1

    That last bit is like a palm mute with the fiddle thing

  • @elgroudondemissa1292
    @elgroudondemissa1292 Рік тому +145

    S A C R I L E G I O U S

    • @caezairoajones3839
      @caezairoajones3839 Рік тому +9

      Are you a twosetter

    • @minlanuelmiranda
      @minlanuelmiranda Рік тому

      yay i was 69th like lol

    • @bradleypeters_dj
      @bradleypeters_dj Рік тому +2

      ​@@caezairoajones3839I definitely came to the same conclusion too 😂😂

    • @CalebMilesMusic
      @CalebMilesMusic 11 місяців тому +8

      Some people are narrow minded. Others are innovators. Only one of them moves the world forward, so chose carefully who you listen to.

    • @madEsiak
      @madEsiak 3 місяці тому

      @@CalebMilesMusic innovation is also about tradition.

  • @chrisdudedurian1305
    @chrisdudedurian1305 3 місяці тому

    "This is sacrilegious."
    "Nvm he's an electric violin player."

  • @cmboerger
    @cmboerger Рік тому +21

    Rules! We've got some rules around here.

  • @robertcorley5225
    @robertcorley5225 4 місяці тому

    This felt kind of like a rundown on the differences in playing a valve vs slide trombone

  • @themallorygallery9455
    @themallorygallery9455 Рік тому +10

    Ohh I looove that occasional crunch in a song

  • @The_schboinger
    @The_schboinger 4 місяці тому +1

    Hitting it with the bow sounded awesome

  • @Visy23TheElf
    @Visy23TheElf 4 місяці тому

    I love the attitude of this video!
    Learning basics is essentially just a way to then break the “rules”

  • @Mothloverforever
    @Mothloverforever 3 місяці тому +1

    Your violins are so cool

  • @Hannuh_mf
    @Hannuh_mf 7 місяців тому +2

    If you want to see someone use a violin to its full potential, look up Andrew Bird

  • @growsomeplace9987
    @growsomeplace9987 3 місяці тому

    You make violin cool!
    My Aunt, Alice Clemens picked strings a lot. She was relatively well known in New York :)

  • @nisselarson3227
    @nisselarson3227 3 місяці тому

    I like the major-scale "tune" you wrote there. :)

  • @trevdoesweirdthings
    @trevdoesweirdthings 3 місяці тому +1

    Bro just made a Mandolin

  • @somerandookay6999
    @somerandookay6999 4 місяці тому

    This is why Bards are so popular in DnD. No way music being so powerful and important IRL doesn't translate into fantasy.

  • @demoneon9527
    @demoneon9527 4 місяці тому

    Oh I need more of that last bit

  • @inflaminator
    @inflaminator 4 місяці тому +1

    The Zac brown band violin player does this on stage and it’s so cool

  • @cooperknutson8757
    @cooperknutson8757 11 місяців тому

    That first sequence just feels so good! Recommend with headphones.

  • @BillFirecox
    @BillFirecox 5 місяців тому

    He dragged the bow across the string, but it didn't make an evil hiss

  • @7ThShade
    @7ThShade 4 місяці тому

    The term for plucking with fingers is pizzicato and i only know that because I played a bard in dnd who embodied the spirit of "never let them know your next move" and mainly played their violin this way to mess with people. When they eventually replaced their violin with a magic lute after tuning it carefully in camp... they pulled out the bow for their violin and used it on the lute

  • @nick_sapsford
    @nick_sapsford 5 місяців тому

    Owen Pallett was fun to watch do these like 20 years ago. Saw him in some little bar in CIncinnati

  • @scotttyson7970
    @scotttyson7970 10 місяців тому

    That thing makes music.

  • @nrg6245
    @nrg6245 4 місяці тому

    The stick one was beautiful

  • @lunar_moth777
    @lunar_moth777 Рік тому +1

    My favourite is the last one or the one where you just smack the bow into it backwards

  • @Samcomply
    @Samcomply Рік тому +1

    Pizzicato with a pick. It would be so cool to see sweeping with a pick on violin.

  • @justxull9278
    @justxull9278 Рік тому +1

    Never thought id hear funky violin

  • @wafflesaucey
    @wafflesaucey 4 місяці тому

    On a cello you can strum that thang like it's a harp. So satisfying to play a perfect cadence that way.

  • @tattoodan4277
    @tattoodan4277 3 місяці тому +1

    My grandfather wrote a song in the 60’s called “La Match” it was written after a foreman hid his bow at a lumber mill and he used a wooden match for what ended up becoming the chorus of the song it’s Acadian fiddle music “Fiddlin Dan” was his stage name his son /my uncle Johnny Comeau plays it exceptionally well he was Cayouche’s fiddle player and played mandolin shack out anything from the album “Last Call” it’s all French. But any fiddle player would appreciate it

  • @RandomUser7777777
    @RandomUser7777777 Рік тому +1

    I hear picking and plucking when done too hard/too much can lessen the life of the strings, it’s definitely true in some degree but I don’t know if it’s negligible or significant so keep that in mind

  • @jayhagedorn7277
    @jayhagedorn7277 7 місяців тому

    wow that sounded great

  • @margaretschultz6209
    @margaretschultz6209 3 місяці тому

    Compromise when dad tells you to practice your violin but you want to play baseball

  • @347Jimmy
    @347Jimmy 3 місяці тому

    Definitely livelier than pizzicato with fingers
    But tricky to hold the bow ad pick at the same time 🤔

  • @Mivan0
    @Mivan0 4 місяці тому +1

    I use a pick for doing pizzicato

  • @MirA12334
    @MirA12334 3 місяці тому

    When you plug it with your fingers it makes a very similar noise to my lyre harp! Not 100% the same but extremely close. I like it!

  • @youdontknowmestopasking1173
    @youdontknowmestopasking1173 3 місяці тому

    When he plucked it, I was thinking of the scene in Spiderman 2 where that Asian lady is playing the violin

  • @music-oh5py
    @music-oh5py Рік тому

    I once played a song for all city called ear-egami where we used paper as bows and to pluck and in a part of the song we even played it in a banjo style

  • @Mindanomalia
    @Mindanomalia 11 місяців тому

    I love the knowledge and enthusiasm 😊😊😊

  • @isolationgeneration3962
    @isolationgeneration3962 5 місяців тому

    When I silently practice during my orchestra practice I flip the bow upside down so no one knows what I’m playing except me

  • @LD1345
    @LD1345 Рік тому +1

    The intro to Flobots “Handlebars” is a Viola being plucked just like that!

  • @jakeivy7231
    @jakeivy7231 4 місяці тому

    Not gonna lie using the back of the bow sounds unique and good

  • @MisterRorschach90
    @MisterRorschach90 4 місяці тому

    I have a dream of putting together a massive band with the standard guitar, bass, drums, keys, but also violin, cello, viola, harp, brass, and wood winds. But all electric versions of hybrid acoustic electric versions set up for midi control. The sound does not come from the instrument or the amp. But instead every single band member has their own massive modular synth specifically designed to sound like and work perfectly with their instrument. So it’s like a real orchestra, but electronic music.

  • @nugboy420
    @nugboy420 8 місяців тому

    I like THIS technique

  • @JeremyWhalen.
    @JeremyWhalen. 4 місяці тому

    You can drag the stick on the string and it still makes noise.
    Also i have never listened to the differences between a regular violin and an electric but this sounds so different 😮

  • @ilikewater1575
    @ilikewater1575 4 місяці тому

    Alright now pick the violin like a guitar and play me Master of Puppets.

  • @someone7554
    @someone7554 6 місяців тому

    Jerry Goodman does this in a few of the live Mahavishnu Orchestra performances

  • @stevenn1940
    @stevenn1940 Рік тому +2

    I misread the title, and thought it said play a guitar like a violin
    Now I'm morbidly curious

    • @commitfelonyfeline
      @commitfelonyfeline 5 місяців тому

      the original comment says they've seen people play guitars with bows and they were curious about vice versa so yea

  • @MrArcher0
    @MrArcher0 11 місяців тому

    Come on now...don’t go leaving us hanging after just giving us a taste... Let that freaky shit fly brother!

  • @pablolovesmc2429
    @pablolovesmc2429 4 місяці тому

    I need an entire song played with the oast tequnique

  • @stephenknotts6466
    @stephenknotts6466 Рік тому +1

    Nice bow control

  • @nic2097
    @nic2097 4 місяці тому

    A violin is basically just a weird ukelele where you use a tool tust constantly plucks the strings

  • @SamlSchulze1104
    @SamlSchulze1104 5 місяців тому

    I've made my own "frog-tail" pick.

  • @Euromarly
    @Euromarly 6 місяців тому

    Good play you are doing boss

  • @asdfghyter
    @asdfghyter Рік тому

    the last technique reminds me of the band/cello quartet Apocalyptica

  • @cogsworth2634
    @cogsworth2634 4 місяці тому

    Australian band the dirty three has a lead violinist who does dull on pick strumming like a power chord on the violin.

  • @mekosmowski
    @mekosmowski 11 місяців тому

    That look on your face, well done man.

  • @ElMexican101
    @ElMexican101 3 місяці тому

    The 4th reminded me of Mars by Gustav Holst

  • @ldlbricks6413
    @ldlbricks6413 4 місяці тому

    the plucking sounds like a wes Anderson film

  • @chaton5457
    @chaton5457 3 місяці тому

    Bro really did bowstyle on that violin💀

  • @hannanathan564
    @hannanathan564 3 місяці тому

    The end be like…. “Come on vámonos, everybody let’s go”

  • @ButterKing-28
    @ButterKing-28 4 місяці тому +1

    I love pizzicato

  • @TheShotSeeker
    @TheShotSeeker 4 місяці тому

    AINT GOTTA FLEX ON US LIKE THAT VIVALDI😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

  • @bingus2550
    @bingus2550 8 місяців тому

    i just came from you playing that scale

  • @nugboy420
    @nugboy420 8 місяців тому

    Lmfao I knew you weren’t serious in the beginning but the look on ur face made me so uneasy hahaha

  • @debuda6988
    @debuda6988 3 місяці тому

    I wish Pagganini were alive to teach us these tricks

  • @nelsondrums5135
    @nelsondrums5135 5 місяців тому

    It’s generally not good to strike with the back of the bow, it could damage the bow especially if you do it frequently. A pencil or wooden dowel is a good substitute.

  • @connorsanko8617
    @connorsanko8617 3 місяці тому

    Two step dave matthews band….. strums the violin like guitar

  • @terrysbookandbiblereviews
    @terrysbookandbiblereviews 9 місяців тому

    Cool video! I play guitar and bass guitar I always wondered what a pick would sound like on a violin.

  • @primus6677
    @primus6677 6 місяців тому

    I knew you could, I've always seen violins and guitars as similar instruments

  • @MalharTurag
    @MalharTurag 7 місяців тому

    I've never seen something like this!

  • @joaoruiz2577
    @joaoruiz2577 4 місяці тому

    dudes making the violin beatbox

  • @half_chub
    @half_chub 4 місяці тому

    i was imagining kaori from the final episode of your lie in april when they said pluck the violin