I feel like I need to clarify something here since this blew up without me noticing: I originally meant this account/video to exist for archival purposes. I'm in no way affiliated with Albert, Ray, or Lily. I do sincerely want you all to check them out though, as they're all incredible individuals. Ray's UA-cam channel: ua-cam.com/channels/-oPgEuX6iwJucvVGEmQL7Q.html Albert's UA-cam channel: ua-cam.com/users/sleightlymusical Lily's UA-cam channel: ua-cam.com/users/LilyPichu Albert and Lily released a cover yesterday which you definitely should check out as well: ua-cam.com/video/6NMu-I184yk/v-deo.html
Pinned this again since I noticed it started drifting down, and added the timestamps to the description. I hope everything is clear for everyone now QQ
It matters not, I have seen the face of a fellow musician introduced to improv. It is one of the rarest scenes you ever get to see, and I'm happy it's been archived for history to see.
it's a common thing with classically trained musicians. It's not that they can't, but they're formal education doesn't encourage it. In many cases, it is discouraged and frowned on. In contrast, Jazz musicians are encouraged to explore self expression and do wild stuff. there are classical musicians that can improvise, but the majority will say "I don't" when asked to improvise.
@@AngelxVillian when you wrote your first music at age 5 that is talented right there. With 5 years of training since birth, can any level of practicing make you compose and play music?
It's so nice to see a musician of Ray's level just playing like a kid, not taking himself too seriously and being so friendly with everybody. I think he'll make a very positive impact in keeping interest on classical music, attracting a younger public to the style. Fantastic, Ray! By the way, I've seen you playing in Brussels, at the Queen Elisabeth Competition. It's time again for the QEC.
Also i got the impression that this was like a new perspective on playing music for him too! not casually but 'playfully'... anyways he seemed to have had a lot of fun
Hey guys, here's a list with (almost) all songs played in the video: 0:47 - Improvisation 2:57 - Super Smash Brothers Ultimate Main Theme (Lifelight) 5:47 - Lily plays Twinkle Twinkle Little Star 7:30 - Pirates of the Caribbean Theme on Otamatone 8:28 - Jack Sparrow's Theme 9:52 - Kana-Boon - Silhouette 10:35 - Sadness and Sorrow (Naruto) 13:23 - Perfect Pitch Test 14:45 - IU - Through the Night 《밤편지》 16:24 - I'll Make A Man Out Of You (Mulan) [real start at 16:58] 20:45 Albert realises he was using the wrong mic, so no more peaking from here 21:24 - Sadness and Sorrow (Naruto) 23:26 - Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso 26:40 - Ray plays some parts he played for Awaken - League of Legends (ft. Valerie Broussard & Ray Chen) 28:36 - Panic! at the Disco - I Write Sins Not Tragedies 29:24 - The Song of the Dragonborn (Skyrim) 30:39 - A Whole New World (Aladdin) 32:39 - Speedround! 32:51 - Caprice no.24 - Paganini 33:19 - Czardas - Vittorio Monti 33:39 - Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto 33:57 - You've Got A Friend In Me (Toy Story) 34:11 - Hedwig's Theme (Harry Potter) 34:36 - Bruch Violin Concerto Something like that ;)
Now, Let's not forget how much skill it is needed to play the piano too. Lily was underscoring 2 amazing violinists. She is none less than a prodigy herself. The word Genius is an insult honestly.
ok, but their casual playing is so beautiful. its not professional or severely practiced or staged or anything, its so casual and pretty and i can relax and jam to this. i love it.
@@LePetitBat it's simply that improvising in a classical style requires much more technicality than improvising in some other styles, so when a classical musician is asked to 'improvise', they will think in terms of their classical background. since classical musicians nowadays are mostly just performers, they are not necessarily trained to compose in that style. even so, there was a time when improvising in that style was regular, like in the Baroque and Classical periods. Bach's "Fantasias" are based on improvisations, if not direct copies of them with slight alterations. e.g. ua-cam.com/video/tgDE3klkmtQ/v-deo.html there are still modern classical musicians who have maintained the art of classical composition, though, e.g. ua-cam.com/video/uU1-jTLWCe4/v-deo.html
only if those player can play, and they can obvious, but i didnt feel any magic when i played with my sister and another violinist, since we didnt have such a good harmony together as person. As individual we are all good, but sometimes there is still no magic
@@lizzy8147 well yeah that's why I don't do duets very often, at least not melodically. Sometimes it's just fun to mess around with another musician though. I'm a percussionist so the only melodic instrument I can play are the mallets, and piano by extension, but still. Honestly, videos like this make me wonder how good I would be now if I didn't quit Orchestra in 6th grade lol.
Ive never heard of lily and albert until recently and it just makes me cry listening to how beautiful they sound together and knowing that their relationship ended so horribly.
Its a bittersweet thing, but people need to stop dwelling on it when both sides have more than moved on. Looking forward to what the two put out in the future.
@@revaamritkar7281 yep its great seeing that both of them have moved on and its nice seeing albert come back to streaming and they both found their happiness
Violinists if his caliber often play violins on loan during the concert ... but google says he once was loaned a violin worth $10 mil. I don’t know what he is playing in this video.
Ray plays stradivarius when he performs as a soloist. That violin costs 10 million dollars. But in this video I'm not sure whether he's using it or not. From the way he place it compare to what he do on the TSV video, it convinces me that it's not a strad. But his legs and chin rest is brown hmmm.. . Idk
two set violin: ray chen is a god 2011 winner 2012 winner 2013 winner 14 15 16 17 18 winner albert: this is another adult student that shouldve picked up violin when he was a child
It was in the description but since so many people don't, here ya go. 0:47 - Improvisation 2:57 - Super Smash Brothers Ultimate Main Theme (Lifelight) 5:47 - Lily plays Twinkle Twinkle Little Star 7:30 - Pirates of the Caribbean Theme on Otamatone 8:28 - Jack Sparrow's Theme 9:52 - Kana-Boon - Silhouette 10:35 - Sadness and Sorrow (Naruto) 13:23 - Perfect Pitch Test 14:45 - IU - Through the Night 《밤편지》 16:24 - I'll Make A Man Out Of You (Mulan) [real start at 16:58] 20:45 Albert realises he was using the wrong mic, so no more peaking from here 21:24 - Sadness and Sorrow (Naruto) 23:26 - Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso 26:40 - Ray plays some parts he played for Awaken - League of Legends (ft. Valerie Broussard & Ray Chen) 28:36 - Panic! at the Disco - I Write Sins Not Tragedies 29:24 - The Song of the Dragonborn (Skyrim) 30:39 - A Whole New World (Aladdin) 32:39 - Speedround! 32:51 - Caprice no.24 - Paganini 33:19 - Czardas - Vittorio Monti 33:39 - Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto 33:57 - You've Got A Friend In Me (Toy Story) 34:11 - Hedwig's Theme (Harry Potter) 34:36 - Bruch Violin Concerto
Really enjoyable session. it does sound incredible that a touring classical violinist with years of training says he cannot improvise. I haven't dealt a lot with that level of musicians, but I've had someone who's taken lessons, sight reads music and plays piano really well tell me, "I can't improvise or play by ear, because to me, when I read the music I think of it as a key I press, not a musical note". My jaw sort of dropped because at that time I only played by ear and could just figure out chords and melodies of songs. I couldn't understand how a guy could play Beethoven and Chopin and not figure out stuff by ear. On the other hand, I think Ray can but perhaps because of exclusively classical training 1) he has almost never been asked to improvise and never practiced it and 2) being used to playing the most excellent music ever composed perfectly he thinks whatever he improvises is comparatively so crappy that he says he can't. Anyway, it's an interesting phenomenon.
Actually improvisation is a classical music lost art sadly, most baroque to late classical composers and performers knew how to improvise and some were really good at it. Of course in a different lenguage than what modern jazz and popular music improvisation works but they did nonetheless, the principles are the same, use the music vocabulary you already have to instinctively build a new composition that works, like a conversation. In the romantic period music became more composition focused than ever, but soloists were often asked to improvise, Cadenzas in concertos for instance are meant to be improvised with the material already displayed during the first movement, but even that eventually changed and as is nowdays, great players wrote down cadenza parts and those became famous and the standards, like Jascha Heifetz, Tchaikovsky's concerto cadenza, and no one improvises anymore RIP but as we can see im the video, you can't be deeply familiar with a musical vocabulary and be completely unable to improvise.
0:47 - Improvisation 2:57 - Super Smash Brothers Ultimate Main Theme (Lifelight) 5:47 - Lily plays Twinkle Twinkle Little Star 7:30 - Pirates of the Caribbean Theme on Otamatone 8:28 - Jack Sparrow's Theme 9:52 - Kana-Boon - Silhouette 10:35 - Sadness and Sorrow (Naruto) 13:23 - Perfect Pitch Test 14:45 - IU - Through the Night 《밤편지》 16:24 - I'll Make A Man Out Of You (Mulan) [real start at 16:58] 20:45 Albert realises he was using the wrong mic, so no more peaking from here 21:24 - Sadness and Sorrow (Naruto) 23:26 - Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso 26:40 - Ray plays some parts he played for Awaken - League of Legends (ft. Valerie Broussard & Ray Chen) 28:36 - Panic! at the Disco - I Write Sins Not Tragedies 29:24 - The Song of the Dragonborn (Skyrim) 30:39 - A Whole New World (Aladdin) 32:39 - Speedround! 32:51 - Caprice no.24 - Paganini 33:19 - Czardas - Vittorio Monti 33:39 - Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto 33:57 - You've Got A Friend In Me (Toy Story) 34:11 - Hedwig's Theme (Harry Potter) 34:36 - Bruch Violin Concerto
Is that so? Classical musicians are not very good at improvising? That explains a lot. My friends are so good at improvising and just having fun with their instruments that I always feel left out like I'm an inferior player, like my musical sense is not very good...but I always somehow win violin competitions over them. This maybe explains it, my friends do like to play anime themes and whatnot very much while I am a full on classical musician. The only reason I'm even watching this video is because I saw Ray Chen's name.
As a general rule, it goes that classical musicians can't improvise worth shit and jazz musician's can, or at least that's said. But frankly, most of what you hear from what sounds like "good improvisation" is not improvised. It's just someone memorizing modes and arpeggios and which chords to put them over, then regurgitating the same overused licks that have been used for the past 50 years. Of course, some people are legitimately improvising, but this is genuinely a very rare thing to do well.
Old master composers like Mozart sure could improvise. Thats what theme and variations style was for. For old concertos, soloists are supposed to improvise the cadenza.
The weird thing about classical music is that all those big composers and piano players improvised a lot like mozart, bach and beethoven etc, but for some reason improvisation aren't really a big thing in classical music today.
@@pathaleyguitar9763 I am obliged to disagree. You can't say that using your knowledge and piecing it together to make something new isn't improv just because it was already used or is widely known. It's like saying you're not a real cook cuz you used an already prepared spice bundle to put in your food. You did create something with your own spin on it and that's what improvisation is
I came here from two set introducing me to Ray Chen and then two months later I did my offline TV drama and now rewatching this from a new perspective.
a lot of classical musicians dont know how to improvise because of the way they are taught and trained but the main reason is they think improvising is hard and challenging but its not as u can see Ray felt the music very quick and adapted to that very quickly so yeah its easier than u think dont make it hard guys! Love you all
In the beginning, Ray is reminding me of a strings student coming back after summer break after not practicing and is like remembering in the middle of a song.
I saw this video for the first time. Amazing. Its amazing how they can harmonize their play. And they are enjoying it. Its just stunishing. Sometimes I forget my passwords, but these guys can memorize hundreds of melodies...
It’s been 5 months since I pulled out my violin, since I was forced to move somewhere where there isn’t orchestra (I hate that they don’t...) so I’ve been pretty sad and haven’t had the time to play since they only have band over here. But after watching this I suddenly got the urge to play and kind of have that spark back when I first started orchestra and my hands would literally shake because I was so excited to play but extremely nervous at the same time. Thanks guys.
For those who wants to know the notes for the improvising , it is: C G Am F for the last note do a c chord on second scale for guitar it is on the 12th string 👍
also i find it absolutely stunning that theyre learning from eachother. ray has his own entire style while the other two have their own as well, and they both get to show off their strengths and weaknesses with music. ray isnt comfortable with improvising, and the others arent as comfortable with the heavy/fast classical. i love everything about this
its so relaxing listening to you guys. i just let it play while doing something else and i love it. much better than whats being played in the radios nowadays.
Ray was probably very much genuine about not knowing how to improvise but when you're so naturally talented as a musician, it comes extremely naturally. More so than they usually expect. Ik so many classically trained pianists and violinist afraid of improvising but after a little bit of trying, they're jamming out like Albert Lily and ray
aight thx i was looking for lilypichu+friends music streams because these are honestly so calming and i got to use this video FINALLY as background music for studying :0
Even though half the time Ray is just fooling around and being clueless when he plays it sounds so BEAUTIFUL. Wow. I can only dream of being that good.
Albert is actually a really good player for how cocky he is. The way he instantly switched gears to harmonizing the melody at 10:56 is an extraordinarily difficult skill to have
I love it when professional classical musicians play something not classical; I love seeing that skill and technique turned to something more casual. I'd love to see some more classical musicians join in on Irish traditional sessions.
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I feel like I need to clarify something here since this blew up without me noticing: I originally meant this account/video to exist for archival purposes. I'm in no way affiliated with Albert, Ray, or Lily. I do sincerely want you all to check them out though, as they're all incredible individuals.
Ray's UA-cam channel: ua-cam.com/channels/-oPgEuX6iwJucvVGEmQL7Q.html
Albert's UA-cam channel: ua-cam.com/users/sleightlymusical
Lily's UA-cam channel: ua-cam.com/users/LilyPichu
Albert and Lily released a cover yesterday which you definitely should check out as well: ua-cam.com/video/6NMu-I184yk/v-deo.html
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Pinned this again since I noticed it started drifting down, and added the timestamps to the description. I hope everything is clear for everyone now QQ
It matters not, I have seen the face of a fellow musician introduced to improv. It is one of the rarest scenes you ever get to see, and I'm happy it's been archived for history to see.
Where was this streamed from tho
This was streamed at Albert's Twitch channel, twitch.tv/sleightlymusical
Ray Chan: "I can't improvise"
*Improvises beautifully anyway*
Ivo Wilson I think improvising classically requires high musicality.
It's because he did the Lingling workout😂
his expectations is really high. so when he plays what people think is beautifull he thinks it sucks and always tries to improve
*Ray Chen
it's a common thing with classically trained musicians. It's not that they can't, but they're formal education doesn't encourage it. In many cases, it is discouraged and frowned on. In contrast, Jazz musicians are encouraged to explore self expression and do wild stuff. there are classical musicians that can improvise, but the majority will say "I don't" when asked to improvise.
You can see that Ray is traumatized by the word of "improvise"
JUST IMPROVISE MY STUDENT.
Yeah that would make u not want to do it later.
Which is absurd as soloist in the classical period all they did was improvise
Should send that clip to Brett and Eddy😂
Welcome to classical music
@@sleepykunderkat8660 litterally xd
Ray plays a piece to perfection
Ray: "something like that"
Lily and Albert: :0
He actually made a mistake there so he was in that face lol
Just got your post to 666 likes... Looks like we're about to summon Paganini...
Hahahaaha
so true
I got so distracted I'm watching this instead of practicing. Ling ling will be disappointed.......
Lmao
I see you are a man of culture as well
That is 72 hours a day now. Ling ling practices 96 hours a day
Ling Ling can not see the unworthy
Ling ling sent me to remind you that you have to stop practicing for only 40 hours a day and now 72 hours
i think it goes something like... uhm..
*proceeds to play the song perfectly*
DrunkHealer when is this?
@@mk-km4qt 26:40
uhm ahem ~
PIECE
(i joke btw i mean no harm)
Song
@@Dabiggestmobster Piece
Extremely talented musicians packed into a room for 35 minutes
@@AngelxVillian Talent does exist, but will only get u so far...
@@AngelxVillian when you wrote your first music at age 5 that is talented right there. With 5 years of training since birth, can any level of practicing make you compose and play music?
Albert and Lily are no where near as talented as Ray.
@@AngelxVillian Bro geniuses are born, not created
musician*
Lily and Albert: just improvise
Ray: I can’t improvise
*improvise beautifully*
Ray: wow! Ur such a great teacher!
Lily and Albert: your trolling
Ok
It's so nice to see a musician of Ray's level just playing like a kid, not taking himself too seriously and being so friendly with everybody. I think he'll make a very positive impact in keeping interest on classical music, attracting a younger public to the style. Fantastic, Ray!
By the way, I've seen you playing in Brussels, at the Queen Elisabeth Competition. It's time again for the QEC.
Also i got the impression that this was like a new perspective on playing music for him too! not casually but 'playfully'... anyways he seemed to have had a lot of fun
Ha ha ray's "level", i like yo funny words maic man
I dont think he's up to rays level lmaoo
a classicaly informed/trained musician tries playing and improvising modern music...
what a great job.
wow man you’re so cool! so dramatic! the full stop makes you so cool and dramatic! you’re so cool
@@gimbapco1313 fuk off
@@gimbapco1313 you’re the dramatic one here, if anything.
Daniel Deiparine Brett (from TwoSetViolin for those who don’t know) is quaking right now
@@gimbapco1313 just shut the fuck up pussy
Hey guys, here's a list with (almost) all songs played in the video:
0:47 - Improvisation
2:57 - Super Smash Brothers Ultimate Main Theme (Lifelight)
5:47 - Lily plays Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
7:30 - Pirates of the Caribbean Theme on Otamatone
8:28 - Jack Sparrow's Theme
9:52 - Kana-Boon - Silhouette
10:35 - Sadness and Sorrow (Naruto)
13:23 - Perfect Pitch Test
14:45 - IU - Through the Night 《밤편지》
16:24 - I'll Make A Man Out Of You (Mulan) [real start at 16:58]
20:45 Albert realises he was using the wrong mic, so no more peaking from here
21:24 - Sadness and Sorrow (Naruto)
23:26 - Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
26:40 - Ray plays some parts he played for Awaken - League of Legends (ft. Valerie Broussard & Ray Chen)
28:36 - Panic! at the Disco - I Write Sins Not Tragedies
29:24 - The Song of the Dragonborn (Skyrim)
30:39 - A Whole New World (Aladdin)
32:39 - Speedround!
32:51 - Caprice no.24 - Paganini
33:19 - Czardas - Vittorio Monti
33:39 - Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
33:57 - You've Got A Friend In Me (Toy Story)
34:11 - Hedwig's Theme (Harry Potter)
34:36 - Bruch Violin Concerto
Something like that ;)
lul thanks xD
🌸the last song,the violin concerto i believe its called baroque it’s a style of music from the 17 and 18 centuries🌸
@@miak5510 Im pretty sure its polonaise de concero no 1 in d minor by wieniawski
Cameron Khanpour I think your right thank you!!!!
plus: 34:55 - wieniawski- Polonaise in D major, op.4
15:57 Albert is freaking looking at Ray's fingerboard to find out what chord he should be playing to harmonize. What is this man.
what? he has perfect pitch he doesn’t need to lol
Ben Koh could be watching his hands to see if he’s setting up for a transition so he can keep pace with him
Yuukiko Chan works for me lol
the man is a cheater
Maybe if he practiced 40 hours he wouldnt need to look
Ray: *picks up otomatone*
Lily and Albert: *visible confusion*
Also Lily and Albert: *improv?*
Also Ray: *extreme visible confusion*
“Improvise”
Ray: look of pure terror
Now, Let's not forget how much skill it is needed to play the piano too. Lily was underscoring 2 amazing violinists. She is none less than a prodigy herself. The word Genius is an insult honestly.
Ikr i really dont get how she plays it with feeling only and improvising it on the spot
- said by a classically trained musician
Agreed
ok, but their casual playing is so beautiful. its not professional or severely practiced or staged or anything, its so casual and pretty and i can relax and jam to this. i love it.
I have only recently started listening to lily and albert play together so that's unfortunate timing.
Bro same. I was just jumping on the otv boat and Albert was the man. So unfortunate the choices he made.
It made her lost her trust in "true love"...
@@Agent_Alpha she moved on.
@@Agent_Alpha well she finally fell for a smol tazer psycho filipino boi
@@tunasandwich8049 don't forget the crackhead part
Poor Ray looked like he was about to just...BOOM.
when all of them started playing at the same time like 40 seconds in it sounded like it was the end of an anime fight and everyone is happy again
Ray Chen speaking for all classical musicians about improvisations 😂
Well, he's actually quite right
I always thought it was just me having bad musical sense but I guess it’s not just me
@@LePetitBat it's simply that improvising in a classical style requires much more technicality than improvising in some other styles, so when a classical musician is asked to 'improvise', they will think in terms of their classical background. since classical musicians nowadays are mostly just performers, they are not necessarily trained to compose in that style. even so, there was a time when improvising in that style was regular, like in the Baroque and Classical periods. Bach's "Fantasias" are based on improvisations, if not direct copies of them with slight alterations. e.g. ua-cam.com/video/tgDE3klkmtQ/v-deo.html
there are still modern classical musicians who have maintained the art of classical composition, though, e.g. ua-cam.com/video/uU1-jTLWCe4/v-deo.html
When you hear two violins and a piano playing together, you start feeling some type of way, I love it.
only if those player can play, and they can obvious, but i didnt feel any magic when i played with my sister and another violinist, since we didnt have such a good harmony together as person. As individual we are all good, but sometimes there is still no magic
@@lizzy8147 well yeah that's why I don't do duets very often, at least not melodically. Sometimes it's just fun to mess around with another musician though. I'm a percussionist so the only melodic instrument I can play are the mallets, and piano by extension, but still. Honestly, videos like this make me wonder how good I would be now if I didn't quit Orchestra in 6th grade lol.
Ive never heard of lily and albert until recently and it just makes me cry listening to how beautiful they sound together and knowing that their relationship ended so horribly.
how did it end?
@@Dmichoacan a second girl on the side
He cheated on her
Its a bittersweet thing, but people need to stop dwelling on it when both sides have more than moved on. Looking forward to what the two put out in the future.
@@revaamritkar7281 yep its great seeing that both of them have moved on and its nice seeing albert come back to streaming and they both found their happiness
ray chen is such a virtuosic musician.
ray chen is too skilled for those people lol
@@bob-uj4vn "those people" fack off
Kenny Xie they are skilled in different ways
jhin intensifies
Ray: I must improvise an entire concerto
Everyone else: just play something lol
I know who could help with those chord clusters... EDDYY..
Sh-t, that improv was good! Maybe classically trained should do more sessions like this.
Peter XYZ shit*
@@rafims8259 lmao good one
That sadness and sorrow cover really made me feel a type of way
Grace Duong I felt dat too
When you realize ray chen’s violin is worth more than the entire offline tv networth
10 mill violin
How much is it?
Violinists if his caliber often play violins on loan during the concert ... but google says he once was loaned a violin worth $10 mil. I don’t know what he is playing in this video.
clee89 he’s playing a modern violin made by Kurt Widenhouse
Ray plays stradivarius when he performs as a soloist. That violin costs 10 million dollars. But in this video I'm not sure whether he's using it or not. From the way he place it compare to what he do on the TSV video, it convinces me that it's not a strad. But his legs and chin rest is brown hmmm.. . Idk
two set violin: ray chen is a god 2011 winner 2012 winner 2013 winner 14 15 16 17 18 winner
albert: this is another adult student that shouldve picked up violin when he was a child
this so impossible to not rewatch by the sadness and sorrow not scuffed version starts at 21:36
That one asian guy can I ask what song is it, please?
@@vuanna2307 it's called sadness and sorrow
rip good times
get yourself someone who looks at lily and albert the way ray does.
i never thought that a bunch of musicians messing around in a live stream would be so entertaining
It was in the description but since so many people don't, here ya go.
0:47 - Improvisation
2:57 - Super Smash Brothers Ultimate Main Theme (Lifelight)
5:47 - Lily plays Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
7:30 - Pirates of the Caribbean Theme on Otamatone
8:28 - Jack Sparrow's Theme
9:52 - Kana-Boon - Silhouette
10:35 - Sadness and Sorrow (Naruto)
13:23 - Perfect Pitch Test
14:45 - IU - Through the Night 《밤편지》
16:24 - I'll Make A Man Out Of You (Mulan) [real start at 16:58]
20:45 Albert realises he was using the wrong mic, so no more peaking from here
21:24 - Sadness and Sorrow (Naruto)
23:26 - Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
26:40 - Ray plays some parts he played for Awaken - League of Legends (ft. Valerie Broussard & Ray Chen)
28:36 - Panic! at the Disco - I Write Sins Not Tragedies
29:24 - The Song of the Dragonborn (Skyrim)
30:39 - A Whole New World (Aladdin)
32:39 - Speedround!
32:51 - Caprice no.24 - Paganini
33:19 - Czardas - Vittorio Monti
33:39 - Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
33:57 - You've Got A Friend In Me (Toy Story)
34:11 - Hedwig's Theme (Harry Potter)
34:36 - Bruch Violin Concerto
Really enjoyable session.
it does sound incredible that a touring classical violinist with years of training says he cannot improvise. I haven't dealt a lot with that level of musicians, but I've had someone who's taken lessons, sight reads music and plays piano really well tell me, "I can't improvise or play by ear, because to me, when I read the music I think of it as a key I press, not a musical note". My jaw sort of dropped because at that time I only played by ear and could just figure out chords and melodies of songs. I couldn't understand how a guy could play Beethoven and Chopin and not figure out stuff by ear.
On the other hand, I think Ray can but perhaps because of exclusively classical training 1) he has almost never been asked to improvise and never practiced it and 2) being used to playing the most excellent music ever composed perfectly he thinks whatever he improvises is comparatively so crappy that he says he can't. Anyway, it's an interesting phenomenon.
I love how Lily is just in the back doing her own little thing half the time
*has perfect pitch
Everyone: WE MUST TEST HIM
That's where practising 40 hours a day will get you!
Actually improvisation is a classical music lost art sadly, most baroque to late classical composers and performers knew how to improvise and some were really good at it.
Of course in a different lenguage than what modern jazz and popular music improvisation works but they did nonetheless, the principles are the same, use the music vocabulary you already have to instinctively build a new composition that works, like a conversation.
In the romantic period music became more composition focused than ever, but soloists were often asked to improvise, Cadenzas in concertos for instance are meant to be improvised with the material already displayed during the first movement, but even that eventually changed and as is nowdays, great players wrote down cadenza parts and those became famous and the standards, like Jascha Heifetz, Tchaikovsky's concerto cadenza, and no one improvises anymore RIP
but as we can see im the video, you can't be deeply familiar with a musical vocabulary and be completely unable to improvise.
Exactly. That's how how lot of these pieces were able to stay around. By people knowing how they sounded because they could improve
UMMMMMMMM you just threw modern composers out of the window thanks
I can’t improvise for shit
Ray Chen sounds so fucking good when hes playing Rondo Capriccioso and the other classical music. That's his shit
OMG he never heard the Ysaye's Chopin Ballade Arrangement before? This is an absolute masterpiece of a transcription!!!
This is exactly the kind of fun everyone should experience in school as a music major.
0:47 - Improvisation
2:57 - Super Smash Brothers Ultimate Main Theme (Lifelight)
5:47 - Lily plays Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
7:30 - Pirates of the Caribbean Theme on Otamatone
8:28 - Jack Sparrow's Theme
9:52 - Kana-Boon - Silhouette
10:35 - Sadness and Sorrow (Naruto)
13:23 - Perfect Pitch Test
14:45 - IU - Through the Night 《밤편지》
16:24 - I'll Make A Man Out Of You (Mulan) [real start at 16:58]
20:45 Albert realises he was using the wrong mic, so no more peaking from here
21:24 - Sadness and Sorrow (Naruto)
23:26 - Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
26:40 - Ray plays some parts he played for Awaken - League of Legends (ft. Valerie Broussard & Ray Chen)
28:36 - Panic! at the Disco - I Write Sins Not Tragedies
29:24 - The Song of the Dragonborn (Skyrim)
30:39 - A Whole New World (Aladdin)
32:39 - Speedround!
32:51 - Caprice no.24 - Paganini
33:19 - Czardas - Vittorio Monti
33:39 - Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
33:57 - You've Got A Friend In Me (Toy Story)
34:11 - Hedwig's Theme (Harry Potter)
34:36 - Bruch Violin Concerto
I keep coming back to this video it's too precious
this is like the 5th time I rewatch it this year
Same !!
Love this:
Ray: can't improvise.
SECONDS LATER
*Pulls out a breautiful movie-grade comp*
Ray: See I told you, can't do it
Watched it years ago so many times over. Now it popped up in my feed again. Here we go again
When classical musicians use the word "improvise", they are thinking complex stuff. Who knew it was so easy to improvise "easy" music ;)
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That girl is representing for the violin beginners give her an around of a applause
I luv her cute squeaky high voice!! She's so cute!!❤️❤️❤️
25:47 can we just appreciate Lily releasing her inner jellyfish? It’s fricking adorable!!!
albert having the balls to play in front of ray has me shook hello imagine playing for a world class violinist
@Seancarl Jayme_2240233 i don’t forgive albert for what he did but dragging it on isn’t helping anybody it’s in the past let it stay there
Is that so? Classical musicians are not very good at improvising?
That explains a lot. My friends are so good at improvising and just having fun with their instruments that I always feel left out like I'm an inferior player, like my musical sense is not very good...but I always somehow win violin competitions over them.
This maybe explains it, my friends do like to play anime themes and whatnot very much while I am a full on classical musician.
The only reason I'm even watching this video is because I saw Ray Chen's name.
Noelic naturally because classical musicians practice faithfully with music sheets so its very technical and exact.
As a general rule, it goes that classical musicians can't improvise worth shit and jazz musician's can, or at least that's said. But frankly, most of what you hear from what sounds like "good improvisation" is not improvised. It's just someone memorizing modes and arpeggios and which chords to put them over, then regurgitating the same overused licks that have been used for the past 50 years. Of course, some people are legitimately improvising, but this is genuinely a very rare thing to do well.
Old master composers like Mozart sure could improvise. Thats what theme and variations style was for. For old concertos, soloists are supposed to improvise the cadenza.
The weird thing about classical music is that all those big composers and piano players improvised a lot like mozart, bach and beethoven etc, but for some reason improvisation aren't really a big thing in classical music today.
@@pathaleyguitar9763 I am obliged to disagree. You can't say that using your knowledge and piecing it together to make something new isn't improv just because it was already used or is widely known. It's like saying you're not a real cook cuz you used an already prepared spice bundle to put in your food. You did create something with your own spin on it and that's what improvisation is
Can we stop and mention how ADORABLE LILY VOICE IS OMG THAT THREW ME OFF IN THE BEGINNING OF THE VIDEO
Adorable??==
I came here from two set introducing me to Ray Chen and then two months later I did my offline TV drama and now rewatching this from a new perspective.
This is such a pleasant watch. So chill, and with great tunes!
a lot of classical musicians dont know how to improvise because of the way they are taught and trained but the main reason is they think improvising is hard and challenging but its not as u can see Ray felt the music very quick and adapted to that very quickly so yeah its easier than u think dont make it hard guys! Love you all
In the beginning, Ray is reminding me of a strings student coming back after summer break after not practicing and is like remembering in the middle of a song.
22:58 oh my god when Ray does his little wholesome smile at that final chord omfg i cant get enough of it
I saw this video for the first time.
Amazing. Its amazing how they can harmonize their play. And they are enjoying it. Its just stunishing.
Sometimes I forget my passwords, but these guys can memorize hundreds of melodies...
The beginning was so beautiful wtf?
HOW DID I NOT KNOW OF THIS VIDEO?! This is amazing
It’s been 5 months since I pulled out my violin, since I was forced to move somewhere where there isn’t orchestra (I hate that they don’t...) so I’ve been pretty sad and haven’t had the time to play since they only have band over here. But after watching this I suddenly got the urge to play and kind of have that spark back when I first started orchestra and my hands would literally shake because I was so excited to play but extremely nervous at the same time. Thanks guys.
So many emotions when they played sadness and sorrow.
For those who wants to know the notes for the improvising , it is:
C G Am F for the last note do a c chord on second scale for guitar it is on the 12th string 👍
When Ray started harmonizing on sadness and sorrow. Wtf that tone selection. incredible
When ray started playing in the start of the video, that double violin music just touched my heart ❤
NOOOO WE GOT SO CLOSE TO RAY IMPROVISING BREATH OF THE WILD
the harmonics in the chords 1:22-1:24 brought a tear to my eye, soooo beautiful
Damn they should make a soundtrack or something it sounds amazing 😮
I think I've watched this about 7 times, it's so good
Ray Chen was so happy when he played A Whole New World
0:47 my soul needs a full song of this
That IU cover was beautiful, I could listen to that for days
also i find it absolutely stunning that theyre learning from eachother. ray has his own entire style while the other two have their own as well, and they both get to show off their strengths and weaknesses with music. ray isnt comfortable with improvising, and the others arent as comfortable with the heavy/fast classical. i love everything about this
also sorry i blanked on their names. albert and lily
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Ray when he heard albert improvise *AMAZING*
as a classical musician, it's so hard to improvise cuz nothing we come up with can ever compare to the masterpieces the og composers did >.
17:16 look at the joy on Ray's face
its so relaxing listening to you guys. i just let it play while doing something else and i love it. much better than whats being played in the radios nowadays.
dudeeee the Awaken part ! WTF he's so goood
We will miss all this jam session, hope we could see more :D
Ray: I don’t improvise
Me: AND I OOP-
Ray Chens face when he plays, the smile, just wonderfull..
oh my gosh cover of through the night-IU was amazing
What a cool thing to see a musician of Ray's lever improvise for the first time!
"I can sight read“ thanks for clarifying.
i love how Ray react to the improvisation.
Ray was probably very much genuine about not knowing how to improvise but when you're so naturally talented as a musician, it comes extremely naturally. More so than they usually expect. Ik so many classically trained pianists and violinist afraid of improvising but after a little bit of trying, they're jamming out like Albert Lily and ray
Such a treat 🥳😭😭😭 quarantine has never been better
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I'm so torn bc Ray and Lily but on the other hand....
We need ray to come back and play with lily and Michael “boat horn” reeves
@@superiorcalico3587 *BOAT NOISE*
I can imagine michael just straight up firing his tazer in the air while they play
@@tunasandwich8049 I'm imagining a really good sounding piano violin and saxophone xD
aight thx i was looking for lilypichu+friends music streams because these are honestly so calming and i got to use this video FINALLY as background music for studying :0
Even though half the time Ray is just fooling around and being clueless when he plays it sounds so BEAUTIFUL. Wow. I can only dream of being that good.
Albert is actually a really good player for how cocky he is. The way he instantly switched gears to harmonizing the melody at 10:56 is an extraordinarily difficult skill to have
So this is where the good asians went with their music!!! giving my old og youtube vibes. thank you twitch.
While watching this I broke out into a smile without realizing I was so many times.
Jesus this is a skilled room
Any room with Ray is skilled
I love it when professional classical musicians play something not classical; I love seeing that skill and technique turned to something more casual. I'd love to see some more classical musicians join in on Irish traditional sessions.
Ray Chen is coming to give a masterclass at YASP this summer
Damn, inspiring everyone to learn instruments now. It’s contagious...