@@OneEyedB4stard it would sound like shit without another instrument or two playing the chords. You just can’t simultaneously bow three strings at the same time. Triple stops exist, but you sorta play individual notes ascending strings hastily. Or pluck, but that also would sound like shit probsbly
Fun fact, the fine tuners on a violin are what inspired the fine tuners on the floyd rose system, thanks to EVH, that in many ways improved the double locking trem system.
i dont think you do, friction creates heat and that allows the rosin to get on the bow! so you don't even need to scratch it, simply rubbing it on the bow enough should work unless if i've also been lied to for the past 7 years 💀
Any tips for beginners? It took me a while to even hold the bow right. I have to break a lot of old habits from "learning" as a kid. I'm not a complete beginner, I remember stuff from then and can (albeit terribly) play some very simple songs. I have enough of an ear to place my fingers in the right place, plus I'm sure with practice I'll do it automatically. Two major issues seem to be that A. It just sounds bad. Like I can clearly hear the notes but the sound quality is wrong and screechy and B. The tuning pegs slip when I try to tune it even just to get to the right note. (And, coming from piano where there is no tuning involved... omg. So much tuning.)
@@emilyfogerty6438 A) If things are sounding wrong and screechy, try checking your bowing. Try moving you arm faster or slower and try applying more or less pressure. Bowing has a HUGE impact on sound, so try different pressures or speeds. B) If your tuning pegs are slipping a lot, try pushing them in a bit more. If they continue to slip, they make stuff to help with that, I would search it up. Extra Tips: * Violin lessons make a TREMENDOUS difference, even if it's just with a neighbor who can help instead of a professional * If your violin is still producing a bad sound, maybe try out different violin. Some violin shops will let you rent violins for a while
@@emilyfogerty6438ok so A. It is almost always a bow thing. What you need to do is to get a consistent bow stroke that doesn’t swerve across the strings. If you look at professionals their bow barely swerves and when it does it is on purpose. Once you get the consistency down you can start controlling how far the bow is from the bridge. Usually you want the bow to be closer to the bridge on really aggressive or high notes and farther away for a more muted sound. Also note that the weight distribution of the bow is not uniform so when you do full bows you want to slightly speed up near the tip so that you keep a consistent volume. B. When you turn the pegs you want to be constantly applying pressure on them so they don’t get too loose. Kind of like twisting a cork back into a wine bottle.
@@ayeshaanuruddha apply constant pressure to the pegs while tuning. Whenever you adjust the pegs it constantly loosens so you must respond with constant pressure while you tune. Think of it like shoving a cork back into a wine bottle.
Fun fact: Pine Rosin is used in news paper ink, and is the reason that my art class in college had to replace all the newspaper in the print room because I would have an allergic reaction everytime I entered the room. People never believed that my mum and I where allergic to news papers till I passed out.
Bass is harder than cello, hard would probably be too. I think woodwinds and brass are more difficult since you also have to be able to not withstand breathing properly. Although with strings it’s the same thing if you are advanced
This hurts me a lot yet is so relatable. I've played violin for a few years and when I first started it I was in a class and it was exactly like that. Expect it took a month before we could even use our bow. Instead we spent the month plucking the strings. I also struggled to remember the finger placement for notes because too high or too low and it'll sound like you're killing a cat
Once you learn one instrument, it’s super easy to learn a lot more. I started with guitar and then moved to mariachi then played the tuba violin, trumpet and trombone
As someone who bought his 1st violin not long ago, I can approve that this is 100% correct. Also I'm sorry for all the people that can actually play this instrument
It definitely takes practice. The violin is kind of just naturally scratchy because the E string is hard to get in tune. As a viola player, hang in there!
You do NOT need to rub the rosin against sand paper, just rub the bow on it, the friction is enough. If its a new bow... rub more. Some violinists will have little shaker with powdered rosin in it to use on brand new bows... though this is really not needed. Usually if you're buying a new bow you're at a luthier (violin maker) who will help you.
as a violinist this video is both a masterpiece and something that hurts also don’t hold your violin like a waiter handing out plates (I mean the left hand) it’s bad for ur wrist in the long run, just your fingers is enough
I play bass(in orchestra)but I still know that you need all 4 fingers to play, sometimes your thumb. The "tiny tuners" are fine tuners. That "fret board" is called and finger board
as a violinist this hurts
The same
lol same, I was dying watching this video😂
We all were here at one point tho
He put the shoulder rest on upside down 😭😭😭
@@lowqualitystopmotions oh no, I didn’t even see that 😭😭🤣🤣
rosin is the forbidden candy that all orchestra members must abstain from snacking on
A few people in my orchestra class have licked rosin, all in the same day-
unfortunately it just tastes like chalk
One of my friends said it tasted like the green apple jolly rancher
@@HarpADoodleyour friend is trying to pull a funny prank on you.
@@benjaminlewis5057 probably true
As a violinist, I can see why my teacher made a face whenever I played a wrong note. 💀
Alternative title: When a Guitarist Buys a Violin
I'm a starting guitarist, but I started on fiddle, and guitar is harder
That is me
YES!!! FINALLY!!! He finally joined the Violin Gang. This is by far the most relatable video you’ve made. Especially the Rosin part 😂
Hahaha thanks man!
@davidpazmino_ you should watch twoset violin for the guitar player buys a violin
Im going to get a Dif Instrument lol Guess what it is@@davidpazmino_
Welcome to violin h e l l
I thought you're supposed to hammer the rosin😭
as an actual violin player I find this funny
Highly doubt it
I play violín, and I’m cringing through the whole thing
as a violin enthusiast i was dying from thew cringe glad you've more patience than i
Same
@@jasperbutler2326its for comedic purposes don't be sensitive
My anxiety as the violin kept slipping 📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈
As a cello player, the rosin instantly killed me and the “loose strings” buried the coffin
As a viola player, the cello is an oversized viola
@@SuperMango23 very necessary comment lol
The rosin build up kills me
I WAS WAITING FOR THIS COMMENT
That’s what I saidddd
I have more on mine sometimes ☠️
@@MDEMCosmoViolin 😭 I’m too much of a neat freak. Even if there’s dandruff on my fingerboard I get upset
He got a four string mini acoustic guitar that he can put on his shoulder.
Pretty much
Play wonderwall on it
THATS WHAT IM SAYING
A 4 STRING HOLLOWBODY BASS GUITAR!😭
@@Glizyglazer fr
@@OneEyedB4stard it would sound like shit without another instrument or two playing the chords. You just can’t simultaneously bow three strings at the same time. Triple stops exist, but you sorta play individual notes ascending strings hastily. Or pluck, but that also would sound like shit probsbly
The sheer amount of rosin on the violin 😭😭
I don't know how but this is sooo accurate and the twinkle twinkle little star is the cherry on top.
no way he called it a fretboard
💀
Fretless board or whatever the hell you call it
@@OneEyedB4stardIt's a fingerboard
@@ruslans2006 that's dumb. Just call it a neck
@@OneEyedB4stard It's called what it's called, ok. Deal with it.
Fun fact, the fine tuners on a violin are what inspired the fine tuners on the floyd rose system, thanks to EVH, that in many ways improved the double locking trem system.
As someone who owns a guitar with a floyd rose, floyd roses SUCK.
@@Rayven_420good way to announce you don’t know how to set up and take care of them
@@Rayven_420As someone who owns a Floyd rose guitar: it’s my favorite guitars, and I have no problems with it.
@@vexedpixels But I do, they're just tedious and outdated bridges. Not fun to work with at all.
@@k0slizard389 Good for you 👍
"Fretboard"💀💀As a violinist I can't- Help.
lol same
Not gonna lie as a southerner if I learned how to play I feel like I would have to play Devil went down to Georgia.
In my 7 years of playing violin I never realised you needed sandpaper
I’m 10 years playing viola and never knew💀
You don't have to,i checked on google
i dont think you do, friction creates heat and that allows the rosin to get on the bow! so you don't even need to scratch it, simply rubbing it on the bow enough should work
unless if i've also been lied to for the past 7 years 💀
Fr 💀
I just use the end of the bow to scratch the rosin so my bow can pick it up more easily
Only video he failed to Wonderwall us
He will in "When a guitarist plays violin"
Relatable. I was a Violin student for years, and all things said in this video are absolutely relatable
The amount of rosin on the the violin 😭
as someone who plays double bass, this hurt me SO badly, especially the hairs that came off of the bow
Sameee 😭
As another fellow double bass player I kept screaming “WIPE THE ROSIN OFF PLEASE!!!”
As another one of the fellow double bass players, the sound it made hurts my soul
As a viola player this also hurt me
"hardest instrument in the world" gave me psychic damage as a dbl bassist
You put the shoulder rest on upside down 😭💀
It's so far away from his collarbone too
As a violinist, I get asked a lot what rosin is... So If your wondering what rosin is, its hardened tree sap
I want one specifically to learn final duet
as a beginner fiddler, i felt this on a new level😭
Beginner fiddler💀
@@latedawnsandearlysunsets09 yea😭💀
As an eight year violinist, the beginning is always rough, but keep going you GOT this 💪
Any tips for beginners? It took me a while to even hold the bow right. I have to break a lot of old habits from "learning" as a kid. I'm not a complete beginner, I remember stuff from then and can (albeit terribly) play some very simple songs. I have enough of an ear to place my fingers in the right place, plus I'm sure with practice I'll do it automatically. Two major issues seem to be that A. It just sounds bad. Like I can clearly hear the notes but the sound quality is wrong and screechy and B. The tuning pegs slip when I try to tune it even just to get to the right note. (And, coming from piano where there is no tuning involved... omg. So much tuning.)
@@emilyfogerty6438 A) If things are sounding wrong and screechy, try checking your bowing. Try moving you arm faster or slower and try applying more or less pressure. Bowing has a HUGE impact on sound, so try different pressures or speeds.
B) If your tuning pegs are slipping a lot, try pushing them in a bit more. If they continue to slip, they make stuff to help with that, I would search it up.
Extra Tips:
* Violin lessons make a TREMENDOUS difference, even if it's just with a neighbor who can help instead of a professional
* If your violin is still producing a bad sound, maybe try out different violin. Some violin shops will let you rent violins for a while
@@emilyfogerty6438ok so
A. It is almost always a bow thing. What you need to do is to get a consistent bow stroke that doesn’t swerve across the strings. If you look at professionals their bow barely swerves and when it does it is on purpose. Once you get the consistency down you can start controlling how far the bow is from the bridge. Usually you want the bow to be closer to the bridge on really aggressive or high notes and farther away for a more muted sound. Also note that the weight distribution of the bow is not uniform so when you do full bows you want to slightly speed up near the tip so that you keep a consistent volume.
B. When you turn the pegs you want to be constantly applying pressure on them so they don’t get too loose. Kind of like twisting a cork back into a wine bottle.
Please help, I bought a new violin. Whenever I try to tune by pegs, even after setting the right tune the pegs keep slipping back when playing...
@@ayeshaanuruddha apply constant pressure to the pegs while tuning. Whenever you adjust the pegs it constantly loosens so you must respond with constant pressure while you tune. Think of it like shoving a cork back into a wine bottle.
I used to play Violin, and ugh this brought back memories 😂 not good ones, but it brought back memories
And this is why im a Cellist. Love them cellos!
dude summoned the twoset fandom frl
bros bank account is crying right now
Wait... really... sandpaper!!!
That's been my enemy for YEARS!!!
WHA?!?!?!
He put the shoulder rest the wrong way😭 as a violinist who played for 6 years, this hurts
Should have had TwoSetViolin as his mentors
then it would be InTerEsTinG!!
As a violist this hurts
The dust all over the bridge area too😢
Frrr viola gang
As another violist that made me so uncomfortable lol. Wipe it offf
As a violinist it always hurts
David:’plays happy birthday to you’
My asian brain:’QU NIN ZHAI LIAN QUAI LE’
The shoulder rest should be a little closer to you. Just slide it so that is isn’t almost in the middle of the violin.
Love,
A violinist
As a violinist the way he held it and his posture hurt my soul
As a cellist I've never wanted to cry more than I did watching this
I bought a violin once but I didn't know how to tune it and the string broke😂
Here before it blows up
My pain when the bow hairs were hanging 📈
Fun fact: Pine Rosin is used in news paper ink, and is the reason that my art class in college had to replace all the newspaper in the print room because I would have an allergic reaction everytime I entered the room. People never believed that my mum and I where allergic to news papers till I passed out.
Getting a violin on Christmas sounds familiar...
I WAS SEARCHING FOR SOMEONE WHO WOULD MAKE A REFERENCE
NOOOOOO
Let’s hope he doesn’t have an older sister who plays the piano😭
Wonderlin
As a violinist this is HoRrIbLe😢🥲
The not making any noise is very very relatable. Took me so long to find out why
“Violin is the hardest instrument”
Pianists:🤨
debatable
i play both, while both are difficult, violin is definitely much harder 😭
Pianists what? Violin is still harder although both have infinite skill caps
Nah their both hardest instruments. Especially if the violinist pushes the pianist down the stairs
I play piano, personally easy, but I've never tried violin so I can't compare it seems hard though, I could never 😂
As a french hornist, I still think french horn is the hardest instrument
🤡
Actually the hardest instrument to learn would in fact be the cello.
Bass is harder than cello, hard would probably be too. I think woodwinds and brass are more difficult since you also have to be able to not withstand breathing properly. Although with strings it’s the same thing if you are advanced
this flipped from relatable to terrifying so many times omfg
This video is f*cking relatable. From start to the end. Especially the Alison Sparrow's tutorial video. I'm dead. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The way your holding the bow is having me in tears😢
Congratulations! You summoned an *omori fan*
This hurts me so much that I now have motivation to get up and practice my Viola.
I’m a clarinetist and I’ve never even touched a violin or other stringed instrument but I FELT this
after I got my new violin, this is so relatable
Miss Alison's voice lol, I also learned from her. As a self thought beginner I felt this in a spiritual level 😂
Even without the rosin buildup, look at how, in the start, he plays on the fingerboard. Sacrilegious
7 years of playing violin... I I'm so moved by that violin playing it was astonishing, it was magnificent, it was... MAGICAL
Ikr I have also played a long time and it’s beautiful to the ears
As a violinists I faced these struggles when first learning.
I swear this guy just has every instrument on earth
This hurts me a lot yet is so relatable. I've played violin for a few years and when I first started it I was in a class and it was exactly like that. Expect it took a month before we could even use our bow. Instead we spent the month plucking the strings. I also struggled to remember the finger placement for notes because too high or too low and it'll sound like you're killing a cat
Can relate as a violin player
Watching alison as a beginner is so real
I love how In the first second you just get down for absolutely no reason
Don’t even get me started on freaking 5th position bro. Had me in tears.
The beginner tutorials are so real lol.
Once you learn one instrument, it’s super easy to learn a lot more. I started with guitar and then moved to mariachi then played the tuba violin, trumpet and trombone
I feel this. I set down my violin for 2 years because I got too busy to practice. Now I'm having the fun bad note phase again.
As a violinist I understand that it's hard but ur still learning faster then other so good job and good luck 👍
The rosin all over the violin is so real though 😂 this really makes me frustrated as a violin player lol
Man I’m a violinist hitting my head against a wall rn💀💀
As a violinist myself this hurt my soul
As a violinist this hurts so much😭
As a drummer this hurts
As someone who bought his 1st violin not long ago, I can approve that this is 100% correct.
Also I'm sorry for all the people that can actually play this instrument
It definitely takes practice. The violin is kind of just naturally scratchy because the E string is hard to get in tune. As a viola player, hang in there!
You do NOT need to rub the rosin against sand paper, just rub the bow on it, the friction is enough. If its a new bow... rub more. Some violinists will have little shaker with powdered rosin in it to use on brand new bows... though this is really not needed. Usually if you're buying a new bow you're at a luthier (violin maker) who will help you.
I love the dead staring whenever the tutorial segments happen lol
i read the title as “pov you bully your first violin” 😭 tbh that fits too
Nobody told me about the sandpaper thing either, that would have been helpful to know in Starter Strings
I remember in 5th grade when i started learning how to play i put a lot of rosin in bow that i lasted for 5 months and still sounded perfect 😭
There is now a bigger chance I will play smthing on violin again after this vid, ty
I am a violinist, and I remember being in a beginner class and this was exactly what it was. And it hurts 🥲
that rendition of twinkle twinkle made me feel better it was the only song i could play properly, back in my first school violin club
Sunny never figured out that you have to put rosin on it and got so frustrated he threw it down the stairs
I got a violin, still waiting on my lessons, this actually taught my more then what I knew
Twoset is gonna have a field day with this one
As a cello player THIS IS KILLING ME
I don’t play violins but this just feels relatable
As a violinist for at least 2-3 years now, this video is just pure pain.
as a violinist it’s hurts so much 😭
This almost made me cry. I'm a violist and the bow strings oart made me want to combust into flames
I used to play violin when I was in elementary school and the rosin always looked very good 🤤
as a violinist this video is both a masterpiece and something that hurts
also don’t hold your violin like a waiter handing out plates (I mean the left hand)
it’s bad for ur wrist in the long run, just your fingers is enough
Only played violin for 3 years when I was a kid this made me cry
I play bass(in orchestra)but I still know that you need all 4 fingers to play, sometimes your thumb. The "tiny tuners" are fine tuners. That "fret board" is called and finger board
As someone who's played the violin since I was 5, WIPE THE FUCKING ROSIN OFF THE GOD DAMN VIOLIN.
AS A VIOLINIST THIS IS SO MUCH FREAKING PAIN!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHGGG!!!
I swear I’ll cry because of this.