6 Musicians Argue Why Their Instrument is the Best
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Emma Di Marco, saxophone / emmaldm
Phoebe Russell, double bass / phoeberussell_bass
Tijana Kozarcic, harp / shiny_harpist_td
Alex Raineri, piano / alexplaysthepiano
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“Harpists spend 90% of the time tuning and other 10% playing out of tune.”
As a harpist, I can 100% confirm this.
Yep
I always thought the quote was 99% and 1%, but either way, it's one of my favorite musical quotes! :)
accurate stats. i like it
Harpsichord gang understands your pain 😂
Every classical guitar player know that it's an fact for us too...
*everyone tries to explain why their instrument is the best*
Chad pianist: *doesnt say anything cause everyone knows his instrument is the best*
The piano Gang! 🥰
The virgin other instruments vs the chad piano
You don’t need to debate if you have objective truth on your side
@@matttondr9282 we love our instruments. That's all. You don't have to comment if you're just gonna speak up your mind. Can you just let this comment be for the Piano Gang and delete your comment? Please respect!
@@meowpluff6035 I'm not sure what you're even talking about, I just made a sarcastic joke. All instruments have their strengths and weaknesses and many unique quirks so there really isn't one instrument objectively better than others.
Not a bassist here, but a bonus point in favour of bass is that it is so resonant it has enabled many deaf people to still enjoy music viscerally, not by hearing but by feeling the vibrations.
that is an interesting point. I also found it interesting to see she feels the need to use an amplifier for the concerto, commissioned for double bass. It's as if the high energy frequencies of the rest of the symphony deconstruct the resonant frequencies of the bass itself, making it hard to stand out.
As a bassist who did not know that, I felt very happy reading that
as another bassist, i do too feel happy about this comment.
this makes me want to hear a double bass in person. must have felt nice.
As a bassist and bari sax player, I often sit/stand next to the tuba, and yes the the vibrations are really something over in the low end section
Vocalists obviously win on portability. They literally can't forget their instrument.
The fact that viola doesn't even have a chance to defend itself lol.
they don't have violist friends left :')
@@n4r052 Maybe it's the opposite way. Violists don't have friends 🧐
@@YourPhysicsSimulator classical guitarists don't have friends too
Violists are too cool to bother
@@n4r052 what about jason tho?
the girl who plays double bass has a very fun personality
Bruh cellos are the freaking best. I don't even really play cello, I play piano but i still think cello is awesome
@@jamisonkoyle3702 i agree with you
@@bee320 what do you play
@@jamisonkoyle3702 i play piano as well
@@bee320 noice
Best thing about the bass, every orchestra director either forgets about you, absolutely loves you, or both
Not a bass player but I agree… during rehearsals the conductor either spends at least half the class working with the bass(s) or completely ignores them the entire rehearsal
As a bass player, you get forgotten about for days on end except when you do something wrong, but you're also somehow the directors favorite instrument.
I think the same can be said about a percussion section in a concert band
Toscanini want to say hello
yeah, in the rehearsal I mostly just enjoy people playing (conductor guiding the violins or something) while I'm just there leaning on the bass waiting for the tutti
one thing about piano is that it makes learning music theory so much easier. if you need to remember a scale or what the 7th is in a B7 chord for example you can just go to your mental piano and have everything you need laid out in front of you.
True I started the violin before piano it helped so much
I played piano for 8 years before I started learning the devil's horn, and it helps when transposing so much
very true! i don't play music anymore, but whenever i want to/need to track notes in my head, i always picture a piano
*Piano guy* stands quietly in the corner while *everyone else* argues over *second place.* 😎 😛
LMAOOO
My thoughts exactly. Piano gang knows.
Piano gang 😎
Yes. 😂
Piano gang superiority B)
The best instrument is obviously the TRIANGLE.
Not lingling or langlang, but DINGDING.
EDIT: how did this get more than 1k likes? Tysm!
OMG LMAOOO
Ding ding 😭
BAHAHAHA
Damn you Sir, or Madame. Damn you.
Bro😂
One thing no-one seems to mention, and was something completely unexpected to me, was the pianist's description of how he loves finding out how to make each different piano sing. Its heart and voice. I had no idea they could be so individual, and it's something that was completely different from the other instruments.
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Many instruments are like that, I think. It usually comes down to quality of make(r) (and tuner, if applicable), home climate, age of instrument and quality of maintenance. Piano is my first love (I was a concert pianist decades ago) and Alex is right - you need to get to know each one. Now, I also dabble in flute, guitar, ukulele, handpan... I have at least two of each (my first/trial/practice/travel version and my concert/recording/serious version) and there is a HUGE difference between them, in quality, quirks, dynamics and playability. They are all like members of my family, with unique personalities and tones :-)
@@jesuslovesyou2616 Please find a bible bashing channel and bother them instead with your nonsense spam. This is about MUSIC.
As a piano player, I always loved that I practiced for months for a recital on our cheap upright at home, then I got to perform the piece on a gorgeous grand piano. It was like getting a shot of steroids right before playing. It just make my performances come alive. Piano players can get a feel for an instrument quickly though key weight might throw someone off if it's quite different.
@@7ennifer That sounds wonderful! And yes, I can imagine variations in key weight making a difference. Piano players are a special type of musician indeed.
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She has a really good point there. I played cello in an orchestra as a kid and the screeching of the violins in the early orchestras were just awful
@@itsakii. I played a bit with harmonicas before playing the tin whistle, I played a bit with a recorder afterwards and it's crazy how learning to not blow hard like an idiot makes the sound of the recorder so much nicer.
Sometimes I wonder how come it sounded so bad back then, how hard is it to not blow too hard?
I mean the cellos have a habit of rushing and being to loud but I agree with you
Violin has alot of screech if there beginners
Cello has less screech for beginners
And double bass when I was beginner it sounded lovely
How do you get into an orchestra as a kid?
I am currently in a middle school orchestra, and I can confirm we (the violins) have improved a lot since the screechy first days
The Pianist knows it's not even a competition. So he just stayed quiet the whole time to not make the others feel bad.
With his arms crossed and a smile
Doesn’t have any arguments why it would be. It’s so basic and like the easiest to learn. You press a key, cool.
@@ape2533 But is that music. No
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We all know the bass guitar is the best. Davie504 settled this. CHECKMATE
Alex didn't even need to say anything because he already knows piano is the best instrument
Indeed!
Pianos nation here guys
It is known as the king among all the other instruments in the classical era. Even now(for me).
I'm so proud to be a pianist!
only problem is portability
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The thing about the piano not being portable is so true. Like, whenever I go on holiday I end up missing so many weeks of practice, just because I have no access to my instrument, and it completely throws me of my practice streaks. I don't mind playing other peoples pianos though, it's like meeting someone new and it's fun to figure out the individual quirks of each piano.
Tip: Portable electric keyboards!!!
@@icxun1035that will have to do when travelling but even keyboards with weighted keys dont feel like the keys have hammers and are striking strings which you'd be surprised how big that can throw you off a bit. It does for me sometimes.
@@Lisztomaniac1022 Yeah dont worry it does for me too. Its really annoying but yeah D:
One of the worst experiences as a pianist imo is when you're asked to play on an instrument that is absolute dogshit -- horribly out of tune, sticky or broken or missing keys, missing dampers, busted or missing pedal, etc. I don't have to worry about that if I take my electric piano with me or if I choose my violin (though I'm nowhere near competent enough to perform violin yet). Assuming the piano has no obvious issues, then it can be pretty fun to become acquainted, but there are a lot that leave me feeling violated for having touched them.
As much as I love Phoebe would have been cool to hear some more about the versatility of bass in genres jazz/bluegrass/mariachi/samba etc. Not too many instruments have that kind of crossover appeal
Can honestly be said for all but harp. They're all used in those other forms of music; however, the thing is, they just don't care about those forms of music (playing and/or repertoire wise) since they're classically trained, except maybe Emma.
Sax has massive versatility. Much more than string instruments imo
@@DefenestrateYourself Nah that's brass dillusions, name one genre that sax plays that bass doesn't lmao
Oh yeah. Ðe only oðer instruments ðat have ðat are like piano and voice and what are you gonna be a vocalist
The sax can say the same. Totally found it's niche in jazz and early rock.
"Question 1: Which has the best reportoire?"
Me, a pianist: Oh boy. It's already settled.
Yeah lol, who do we have
Renaissance: Byrd, Gibbons, Bull, Sweenlick
Baroque: Bach, Handel, Scarlatti, Telemann, Couperin, Rameau and co.
Classical: Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, Bach’s kids, Hummel….etc.
Romantic: Chopin, Liszt, The Mendelssohn siblings, Robert and Clara Schumann…..Brahms, Reger, Sibelius, Schubert, Albeniz, Fauré….Tchaikovsky, Rachmainoff, Scriabin, Strauss…..probably more that I don’t remember…
Modern: Debussy, Ravel, Schoenberg, Bartok, Krenek, Hindemith, Webern, Kabalevsky (your etudes hurt) John Cage, Gershwin,Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Stravinsky (credit Tudor G) more that I don’t remember
That’s only classical, folks.
We got ragtime (Joplin, Lamb) Jazz (Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson, Duke Ellington…)
And we got millions of arrangements of every single pop song in existence.
Improvising as well (which has trillions of possibilities)
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And learn to play all of them! (Well..not Rach 3)
Or just get a good teacher.
for sure
hahaha I also was like: theres a piano right there, is this a trick question??
“Who has the best repertoire?”
Piano: “I have most of my repertoire go past the 1950’s.”
@Isthat C I know
She: "We have a Debussy concerto for saxophone"
*Before writing it, Debussy abandoned the commission for months because he didn't consider the saxophone an instrument*
Lmao
Oh shiiittt!
Chopin why are you arguing you only play piano-you are impartial right?
Btw, your pieces are too hard. And compose some more, thank you.
@@glenngouldschair390 too hard for a novice like yourself OHHHHHH
@@MildSatire I am a novice….
Chopin is laughing now, whoops.
Opened the video, didn't see the flute, and I knew they were all fighting for second.
real
my vote is piano despite any and all of its drawbacks. the other instruments are beautiful no doubt, but the piano has the most beautiful sound and the broadest potential. what an incredible instrument
As well as the man relatively portrays the features of a prevalent pianist.
I feel it's also the most accesible instrument for someone that just started learning music. I know a keyboard is not the same as a piano and there are many things you cannot do with it, but a second hand keyboard is quite affordable and you can learn the basics and play some nice tunes on your own, and even plug in headphones so you don't disturb your neighbours. Meanwhile all the other instruments are expensive even second hand, require some some knowledge to tune and are way harder to learn to play on your own, not to mention how loud they can get.
Its just a matter of opinion I play the piano and violin, I prefer the sound of the violin so it really is a matter of opinion
piano has everything in its repertoire, it is the repertoire
Sax: We’re called the devil’s survivor
Violin: We literally have the devil as a composer
Good one.
Correct me if I'm wrong
Paganini?
@@picklelover2939 Yep the devil came to him in his sleep and played him the devil’s trill sonata and he tried to write it down in vain - he could never perfectly transcribe it so the version we hear is probably nowhere near as epic as the way he heard it (even tho it’s epic af). And then there’s the devil’s violinist that comes along years later to invent and extend techniques and be the New Testament of violin to Bach’s Old Testament.
@@archer_3837 yup... well im pretty sure
What about the fiddle song, the devil came down to Georgia
Harpist : literally intentionally tries to make it sound terrible and still end up sounding beautiful
Violinist : *cries*
Oh my, it's actually soooo true, when I first time played violin, it is sounds so bad, like I was cutting woodpiece or something like that🥲
@@haiyuecheng just use the natural force of gravity on the bow and it will start to sound nice. Don’t press down hard.
The real answer: if you’re a bassist you’re never hurting for a gig, so it’s the best. (Assuming you have a couple genres under your fingers.)
They are correct a newbie on a Violin is a special kind of torture
Eddy: "Everybody's trying to take violin repertoire"
Tijana (Harp girl): "Or make it better"
That dialogue was sick... and true
Timestap: 2:54
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@@lityum. Thaanks! It's really hard to make those vids so I really appreciate those words😅
you are welcome! you’ve got a fan now, lol.
Tijana is savage 🔥🔥
Saxophone Player: "The inventor of this instrument almost died 5 times in his life before making this."
Bass Player: "That's God's way of saying it shouldn't have been invented."
and despite that, it has been in the fore front of music for the last century. jazz, classical, rock n roll, pop; it's in everything.
Never heard it in enka....basically traditional japanese music that sounds like the blues.....
@@LilyUnicorn that’s literally opposite of what the above comment said. You are saying traditional but they were referring to modern.
@@scopilio13 I think you mean guitar.
@@rjlchristie I think you mean the drum set.
I like the harp. It lends itself to both Sacred and secular music. It has a beautiful and soothing tone. Overall, I think it is even better than the piano... which is the instrument I started learning when I was a teenager.
I think that the timbre of every instrument is unique and beautiful, including the vocal range of each individual person.
vocal range is a completely different thing than timbre
I think it’s clear they meant vocal timbre and tone.
I feel like sax and bass missed the opportunity to highlight the awesomeness of their instruments for other genres like jazz and bluegrass.
This! The saxophone was pretty much really catapulted to fame because of jazz.
Agree, the bass and saxophone missed their opportunities to speak on other genres which highlight their instruments
That’s probably cause they’re all classically musicians and bringing up jazz would get them roasted
Note: I have nothing against jazz, I actually quite like it but I often see Eddy, Brett and other classical musicians jokingly take digs at jazz.
Another reason might be cause they’re classical musicians and don’t know enough about jazz.
the sax player in another video said that she didn't do jazz
@@Lucaz99 Jazz is cool, its pop that people hate on
Eddy: Violin is easy to travel with, no risk of broken instruments 😌
Phoebe (bass): 🥲
Alex (piano): **UNO REVERSE CARD** I don't have to worry about leaving my instrument behind
Eddy: 🥲
The irony 😂😂😂
Naaah.. my brother couldn’t practise piano for 1-2 months. I just brought my violin with me on the plane :D
@@emmalily3816 I think he means you won’t ever forgot leaving it behind
Well stage piano is a thing...😅
Portable pianos are possible
Except that’s where their wrong. Bc u do have to worry abt using both hands at the same time playing different tunes. Testing my patience and coordination
Hot take: harp and violin have the best repertoires because they're old, and if you look OUTSIDE the classical vibe they have some super cool folk bangers
'we don't have a lot written for harp' PLEASE there's a TONNE
Also accompanists have one of the hardest roles - they have to be seriously musically minded and adapt and shape to whatever the main person is doing
I do think though - one of the things harp has against it is that it's one of the most stupidly difficult instruments to transport. If you play piano or organ or whatever you can do that wherever there's a venue, but you have to CARRY a harp or a double bass or an accordion (those MFs are HEAVY) everywhere and with amps etc it SUCKS
( I speak from experience. My dad's a harp player in a folk band and man. His shit is heavy)
exactly omg the folk celtic and latin american.. but the bass and saxophone didnt bring up jazz or bluegrass either. Maybe it was a strictly classical discussion idk, or just because theyre all orchestra
Saxophone: telling everyone about how crazy the story of a certain saxophone player is.
Piano player: Let me introduce you to Mozart
This is the closest thing to a political debate we'll get in this channel
… and I, for one, am grateful.
Phoebe has the mannerisms and posture of a bass player, which leads me to another great aspect of the instrument, the fun spinning, leaning on you and you leaning on it. You can see in the video the way it moves with her. Having played bass in school that was part of the fun! Also getting to enjoy the rest of the orchestra in pieces that require less concentration or have looooooong sections of rest
As someone that's a violinist, I'd say one of the things I like a lot about it is, 1, the weird amount of articulation we can do though I don't know how to do all of them and, 2, it does apply to other instruments but when I play on the lower strings I can sometimes feel it vibrating in my chest which is a nice feeling. And on the higher octaves it being grating on the ears isn't really a problem a good portion of the time because you know how to play it in tune if you've done it enough and then it'll sound pleasant
The pianist just stands there in dominance
Or, six parents argue why their kid is the best lol Same vibe lol
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I feel that harp and piano are the best, no bias whatsoever.
From a pianist and harpist :)
I've always wanted to know: do some things transfer from the piano to the harp and vice versa? I mean, they seem to be... alike instruments.
Word from a fellow pianist. ^^
@@ArnaudSibille as a pianist and harpist I can say that there are very similar aspects in terms of how music is read and played. Both repertoire has a treble and bass clef for the right and left hand. Accidentals are the main difference because the pedals of a harp are used to change keys. Hope this helped :)
@@chloechung4666 You just confirmed my quite recent investigation on the matter, as I recently met a harpist. Thank you for leaving your kind message here. 🥰
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as a flute player, I honestly think the flute is the best instrument. It sounds beautiful, it's not that difficult to get a decent sound out of it, there are many flute concerts (so wide repertory), it usually plays the melody, AND it's portable, it fits in a backpack. So... there you go XD
no, but it's fun that there is a variety of instruments and it's fascinating that people feel drown to different instruments
Yeah but can anyone hear you
Kidding just a joke that every band makes, I make that joke to my friends who play flute because I sit two rows behind them and can’t hear them.
flute is so risky bc blending in with the orchestra is so hard and if u end up messing up it basically pierces through the orchestra. the same can be said for violin (im a violinist these r my experiences so take it with a grain of salt)
I love the flute too. C# tuning is generally a problem though and also getting useful volume from the bottom few notes.
"But do you guys have friends?" I'm laughing so hard right now. (No. The harpist really is almost always by themselves in an orchestra.)
So are pianists.
@@GabsARV True
@@StephanieClaussen
Why is the lady playing the Bass is so good at roasting people? Like I’d been observing her since Two Set Violin learned the Double Bass for an hour.
That’s so true! She’s hilarious, and pianists/harpists are lonely :’)
@@takayanagi-senseissurprise2104 You're required to be hilarious to play the bass. If you hear one of the stories about someone getting fired from an orchestra for a joke - they played the bass.
The best instrument is clearly the software the created Brett’s Lo-Fi
Oh no.
Flashbacks to creepy choir singing
as well as his new horror movie score XD
This, not even joking. Ultimately portable, endless repertoire, easy to learn, don't need to worry about intonation and rhythm, can literally make any sound imaginable. Software is the best instrument.
Lmao pretty sure it was Garage Band
Honestly piano works everywhere .
It is easy to learn hard to master.
Can be alone, and with friends. So many great things
One downside is it's way to expensive...
You could always buy an electric keyboard
Yeah but an electric keyboard is a lot cheaper ðan ðe real most expensive instruments ðere, ðe bass (which starts at ðe VERY lowest ebay stuff £400) and ðe harp (which i also imagine is quite expensive)
I have an electric piano. Way cheaper than my violin. Also I don't have to constantly buy new strings or rehair it. Although if you lose your job you can make more money busking on the street corner with violin. Violin is way more painful to play. Screw it. I'm not gonna pick one. I'll just appreciate both.
I have a digital piano, and it was like super expensive. The piano was like $700 or so. But it's like, I became serious about being a composer in 2018. And I was and still am a night owl, so I would often get these musical ideas like at night. But with the upright piano I had, I was in a condo and I had to follow a strict 9 to 9 rule. I couldn't play piano before 9 AM or after 9 PM. So if I had a musical idea at night, I would just have to write it down like immediately or else I'd forget. And well, that meant either being right by my computer and just like immediately putting it into MuseScore, or having my staff paper and handwriting it.
And as a composer, I generally like to improvise something on the piano and then write it down. Or like, I might have already written down an idea and then I like improvise some like counterpoint against that idea or whatever and then use that as the basis for another theme(that's what I did actually for the string quartet I'm currently writing). Anyway, I needed something where I could plug in headphones, but also, I wanted it to feel as close to an upright piano as possible, so like having weighted keys, the 3 pedals, full piano range, etc.
My mom found me a digital piano like that and I paid part of it with my Christmas and birthday money, I paid like $200 of the $700 or so that it was. And that became my primary piano and the piano that got moved to the new house, the upright was sold after me and my family moved. It had issues anyway, like pianissimo just wasn't possible in the range of A0 to B3, not without the soft pedal. And the soft pedal itself was like super squeaky. I don't have either of those issues with the digital piano I have.
@@caterscarrots3407you want to get serious into piano though I'd say go for an upright and than if you know you will love it for another like decade or 2 and have the money get a good 5'10-6'7 fter grand. You can get some pretty good used grands for a decent price I got a used In very good condition Steinway Model 0 about 8 years ago for 15,000. It was I'd say worth the decades of saving and probably would be for other pianists as well.
Edit: If it's one thing I dont like about the steinway along with Bechsteins and Bosendorfers and Faziolis is the maintenance. Yamaha's are I'd say 10x easier to maintain and fix, etc.
That was an interesting collection of instruments. As a 45 year sax player, never once did I get to play in orchestra. I am also a percussionist so I have had many great experiences playing various percussion instruments in orchestra, band, jazz band. Something people don't think about for the difficulty of playing a sax is that your fingers are basically in one spot. If you learn a riff in one key, you have to learn different fingering for any other key. With a string instrument or even piano, there is a lot of opportunity to just move your hand and play the same fingering.
I would say ðat applies more to harp ðan piano but yeah
Piano is a fantastic solo instrument, great in ensembles, knowing how to play it is basically a prerequisite for being a musician, it's versatile, very big range, has the most expansive repertoire ... Literally the only flaw is the portability and that's just pretending that keyboards don't exist.
Non-isomorphic layout standard which retards microtonal tuning.
@@StrategicGamesEtc yeah as if microtonal music is something any sizeable portion of people care about
@@kookoo275 I know. ;( I've been listening to now and xen podcasts, and they only have 300 or so views each. :( So many people in the world, and so few willing to question 12edo. :(
Plus, you can't play in groups, in an orchestra or so ... I mean there are all the piano concertos but it is always seperate from the orchestra, so you can't play with a big group of people unless you are a soloist and thats really something I envy people for, because if you play together with people as a pianist, you are either in the back doing the accompanying part for a single musician or you are the solo front player which is hella scary :'D I would love to be able to play in a huge group and melt together with it like e.g. violins do sometimes ... :/
What’s a keyboard
Not gonna lie… the Tchaikovsky on saxophone kinda slaps…
But I like the violin version better coz the chords feel more powerful
@@karthikharish1564 I can see that. Personally, I wouldn’t say either is necessarily better, just different and beautiful in their own way.
Do you know where I can find the saxophone orchestra video ? I want to ear it so badlyyyy
@@morganecherriere1571 You could probably just search it up, and it’ll be one of the first things.
I play the violin concerts with the clarinet and It's just not the same. Wind instruments are not polyphonic and playing is torture physically and mentally in a soloist setting, since performance anxiety makes your mouth dry and breathing becomes hard.
I love this conversation so much! It was really fascinating, honest, and fun. Would love to see you keep setting up these types of conversations between various artists of different instruments and backgrounds every now and again 🙂
Great video! I loved hearing each musician’s perspective on her/his instrument. The idiosyncrasies of each instrument are precisely what make them special-just like people! An ensemble-orchestra, chorus, chamber group-is a microcosm of life, and each musician brings his/her individual character and quality to have an impact on the whole. All of you play the best instrument!
I respect all musicians equally for dedicating their time to their instrument, just as much as the others have.
You're going too far right now... You're literally on every video... Not normal xd
I respect all musicians who dont play the Kazoo.
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You need to grow a moustache one day.
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Look how everybody is just hugging their instrument. Cute
Except alex lol 🎹
@@lidiahight yeah....He can't the piano besides touching it
Some great saxophone repertoire comes from a pianistic genius called Kapustin. Aside from his undisputedly juicy piano compositions, he wrote an alto saxophone concerto and quite a few chamber pieces involving saxophone.
As a bassist who’s played in both jazz and symphonic ensembles, having an amplifier is such a big help in projecting walking bass lines and phrasing alongside the tubas and other low brass.
There was a similar thing that happened to a cellist in my youth orchestra that happened to Phoebe's bass. The girl (cannot recall her name because this was in 2007) had a $100,000 cello that her grandmother in China had gifted her for her birthday. Our youth orchestra was traveling to New York to perform at Carnegie Hall.
When we arrived in NY she opened her cello case to find the neck of her very expensive cello was broken due to mishandling by the airline. Her parents were understandably livid, and though the cello was insured, they were threatening to sue the airline for the instrument having been broken in the first place (again, understandable).
To make matters worse, her grandma had recently passed and so of course her cello was likely the most significant gift she received from her grandmother before she passed.
Her parents were able to acquire another cello (not a fine one, of course, but good enough) in time for our dress rehearsal and she was able to perform with us at Carnegie Hall.
I'm glad she was able to perform with us, but even though it wasn't my instrument (and even though many of us didn't know the girl very well at all because she didn't go to any of our schools), we all felt deeply hurt for her that something so awful happened to her and many of us were crying with her in the airport when it happened, myself included.
I have a deep love for instruments and regard them with such reverence that to this day when I think about her cello I get heartbroken all over again.
That's so tragic. As a musician I cannot help but hold a special contempt for baggage handlers, despite my general respect for humanity. I've repeatedly heard of people buying extra tickets for their instruments so they can keep an eye on them.
The sight of a broken instrument just hurts on a spiritual level
That sucks so damn much, not a classical player myself, and I say more a guitarist and drummer if I were to label a "real" instrument, but precious instruments being broken is always heart wrenching. When it's something precious and personally so? Damn bruh
Jesus Christ died for your ssinsssssssss
i’m tearing up reading this 😭
Honestly i feel like its impossible to lose this as a pianist
They based all their arguments on the fact that you can Cary the violin with you
But they don't know that 90 percent of players aren't musicians they're just music inhusiasts who play at home
@@adonaielohim4147 *Fear of house burn intensifies* because that is where the piano sits...
PIANO GANG RISE!
In terms of solo (including transcriptions and arrangements) instrumental repertoire, absolutely agreed. Not necessarily so in terms of ensemble repertoire, its sonic character, portability and a number of other points.
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So wonderful to hear musicians talk solely about their instruments in a light and meaningful way. Thank you so much.
I'm a harmonica player, diatonic and mainly blues jazz, it's frustrating sometimes when people say all you do is blow it when, tone, percussion, chords, pure notes and invention are all part of making a sound that raises the hair on heads. Thank you so much for this joyful video
All you guys show us how much love with their own instrument!!! Nice work, I learned a lot!!!
I like that the piano guy doesn’t say much, but when he does, everybody agrees with it. Also where is the brass gang??? We must be represented (preferably trombone, but I’m biased)
TROMBONE FOR THE WIN
French horn and trombone!
They can’t choose between having a brass or woodwind so they took the middle ground
forgotten euphonium gang :(
Percussion :( but as a percussionist I can kinda say that these questions dints really apply so idk
As a percussionist, our instruments are the best cause *we like to hit stuff*
*HITS THE FLOOR*
(floor gang)
lol
If only you would stop on late night band bus trips :p
What a banger
Lmaooo
I am a piano player and every time I play a new piano, it's like taming a new beast to get it to do what you want. I like that experience.
I love this group. I wish you guys would bring them in for more stuff
It would have been nice if there was a piece that all the instrumentalists can play together to show the different layers of music/sound, or, if each instrumentalist could have sampled a piece to show off their instrument. Thus proving theirs is the best instrument.
Now that would have been a dope ending! :)
Young person’s guide to orchestra
TSV please do this! One piece played by many different instruments.
As a harpist, my answer goes without saying. Not to mention the harp has survived literally thousands of years, the earliest versions dating back to ancient Mesopotamia. Such rich culture, history, and mythos surrounds it. That being said though, every instrument has its own appeal and I enjoy them all.
Well put 😊
As a pianist here, outside of portability, I think the piano is an obvious win. It can be expressive, it projects well even when the full orchestra is playing(looking at you Rachmaninoff), it can have that orchestral sound in a solo context(Beethoven, Liszt), it's easier to start on than a lot of other instruments(only guitar and recorder and maybe some percussion instruments, I'd say are easier to start on than piano), and there are arrangements of almost anything for piano. Lieder, symphonies, string quartets, just about anything you can think of has either a piano solo or piano duet arrangement. It's a good tuning reference for other instruments, I always tune my other instruments to the piano and listen for subtle beating to tell if it's out of tune or not. Flute, violin, guitar, doesn't matter, I'll play the open pitch/pitches and the same pitch on piano and listen for pitch difference. And my perfect pitch helps with this.
And as a pianist, I can play different composers differently and not sound wrong. Like if I'm playing Bach, I hardly use dynamics outside of repeated short passages, whereas with Beethoven, I go crazy with the dynamics. If you compare my Mozart dynamics to my Beethoven dynamics by intensity, you essentially get this(Beethoven on the left, Mozart on the right):
p=pp
mp=p
mf=f
f=ff
For Mozart, I only use the wrists and fingers for most dynamics(for the occasional fortissimo, I'll use some arm weight), so my forte is softer, my piano is louder. For Beethoven, I use the full body force for fortissimo, so it's very loud. And if I see pianissimo in Beethoven, sometimes I'll press the una corda pedal aka the soft pedal to make it even softer. So yeah, I use a wider dynamic range for Beethoven than Mozart is basically what I'm saying there.
Each instrument has its uniqueness and great quality. Ranking the instrument has to be on the sounds. Practicality like the ease of transportation and mastering the instrument come second. If you like heavenly sound then harp is the best. Uplifting sound is the violin. Powerful sound is saxophone. Calming and deepened sound is the bass and popular single man band is the piano. Thanks for making this clip. Love it.
I love how the pianist is just arguing in pianissimo
This room is just so CLASSY!! The carpet, the curtain, and the presence of the double bass, harp and piano just makes it more, CLASSY lol
I believe that's Brett's living room.
To be true to ourselves. we all love our very own instruments the best. Because we put all of our love in our soul into our instrument. So if you really think about it, the instrument is really you, because you have the choices to ether make the instrument sound good, or bad, or if you take care of it properly.
As a violinist trying a double bass for the first time, it was extremely hard to produce a good quality tone. The strings are so much bigger and require so much more pressure, then bowing you need to really pull into it with so much more force just to get it going.
Piano:
.largest note range
.Probably largest dynamic range
.Most expansive repertoire
.Easy to learn at the beginning but rewarding in the advanced stages
.can literally transcribe pretty much anything for it and it'll still sound good
.Best composers mainly played piano (Chopin, Liszt, Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, etc)
.Probably the most relevant and universal instrument as of today
.intuitive design
There's probably more, but thats all I could think of
Finally someone said it!
@@CreativeStarlet it's not as if you were violas. You're literally the most played instrument
Definitely not the largest dynamic range, that would be either trumpet or saxophone
@@zmanrockz6358 believe it or not, its around the same (but clearly they're gonna be a bit louder), if you smacc it hard enough, you can pop around 80 decibels. However, I aint sure a trumpet or saxophone can go as quiet as a piano, which is the biggie
@@zmanrockz6358 the trumpet might get as loud as the sax but it just can't be as soft.
Also, saxophone players know how to play softly.
Piano and portability: Vladimir Horowitz took his Steinway with him when he toured, but he was in a class by himself. Heard him play once and it was magnificent (I'm old but there are perks).
Tori Amos almost always takes her Bösendorfer on tour with her. Not classical obviously but still.
@@jeeither She is lucky to be able to afford it. More power to her! The logistics of moving it without damage and needing it to be tuned at each location, and avoiding big changes in temperature and humidity, would be a nightmare . She must have a very good piano wrangler.
@@helenbirch9877 yeah it pains me to think of much it costs (money/work) to cart it around, but I'm glad she does it because she feels more at home on her piano and it comes through in her performance. She also brings different organs and electric keyboards with her, depending on what she's planning to perform.
oh how jealous I am.
Horowitz was such an amazing pianist.
I actually was thinking what word should I use to describe him for more than 3 minutes maybe, but decided to use 'amazing'.
@@oktakrisaditya5981 My mother, who would be 103 today if she was still alive, was also lucky. She saw Rachmaninoff when she was young.
The saxophone is the best. The jazzy tune just makes you want to dance on the chance floor every time you hear it.
As a Saxophone player, I can confirm this.
U still need a piano to make the jazzy chords
I agree with Pheobe! The Bass is so underappreciated! Bass playing is enchanting, (almost haunting in a way), like that of the Harp. However, the Harp, as well as the Violin and Piano, have a very conventional sort of beauty. It's like they said, when you hear the Harp you know you've made it into heaven. The Harp, Violin and Piano are all kind of conventional This doesn't make them any less impressive though. I promise i'm not bias because I play Recorder and Viola. I would probably put Saxaphone second because of it's unique sound, rich history and because there's so many different notes and octaves you can play. Thanks for listening to my opinion! All of your instruments are wonderful!!
I think one of the hardest things about harp is that very, VERY few composers can write for harp correctly. I've been friends with an excellent harp player for a couple years now and she helps me correct all my harp writing in my pieces. She tells me all the time that most of her lessons for higher level students are just teaching them how to "re-write" music to actually be playable, and this goes for modern AND classic composers. I feel like harp is the only instrument that has this problem.
That's crazy! Would mind explaining more? This is really interesting! I barely know anything about the harp and I find it cool to learn about different instruments.
@@linneastoddard2962 so I'm not a professional harpist, super duper beginner, but I can kind of input on this. I play piano, and I have trouble trying to play piano pieces on the harp even though my brain is like, "But can't I just play the same stuff on both??" the answer is sometimes yes, but when you can't, you REALLY can't.
1. Harp uses eight fingers, not ten. And you don't really hop around the strings, you have to place your whole hand in correct locations before certain phrases because if you don't anticipate phrases that way, it can get really crazy and messy for fast pieces. Sometimes the way that pieces are written, that jumping or phrase anticipation needs to be accounted for and things need to be marked up way ahead of time.
2. Especially for lever harps, you have to pen in places where you need accidentals... So pedal harps have the ability to shift semitones and it's not as hard, but lever harps have switches on each and every string. If you need a single accidental or an accidental in succession going back to its original note, it's a physical feat to reach up, flick the lever, and come back down to play the strings in time.
That's what I can think of as immediate barriers when needing to rewrite harp music!
@@CreativeImpulse My Goodness! That is tricky. I actually play piano as well and was surprised to find out that harps have pedals and/or levers. It sounds kind of like going from piano to organ. Thanks for the information :) !
@@CreativeImpulse as a harpist with slightly more experience, I can tell you that the five finger thing doesn't always have to be a problem. There are tricks :)
@@CreativeImpulse I play Lever Harp (albeit not very well) among other instruments, and I HATE how hard it is to try and play what seems like it should be such an easy piece, but it's nearly impossible with how many lever shifts I'd have to make! And to play anything with flats means that I have to tune the harp differently. So annoying! So many folk songs have the verses and choruses in different keys, (off the top of my head, The Ash Grove switches between D and G) and I just *wish* I could figure out how to play it easily on lever harp!
A deeper look at some of the more obscure instruments in an orchestra would be interesting.
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I have played the clarinet for 3 years and when I tried learning sax it was really easy. I understand its hard to master, but going from clarinet to sax it was easy for me.
I want to hear if your high and low register are in tune... oh I see.
As a percussionist, I'd like to nominate percussion in general as the best instrument(s). they're a fecking nightmare to move, take ages to tune, get no recognition for the most part, percussionists have to be there before and after every one else in an orchestra to set up, but they're really fun to use. As a percussionist you get so much variety in what you do from vibraphones to timpani to gongs to drum kit to hand drums like bongos, to the triangle. (I'm counting all of them as one because in a concert one musician might play all of them)
What I like about bass:
You are the most powerful musician in any band. You are the one who shakes the house. You are the heart-beat of the orchestra, -the groove of the song. You set the function of the harmony (figured bass). You're playing out of tune/wrong note makes everybody else clash with your harmonics, so you must play right. You can change the function of a chord by changing the root. You are the bridge between the rhythm and the harmony. And yet, despite having all of this power, your ultimate job is to be humble and play a supporting role. Your job is to make the band sound good without being noticed. A good bass player's goal is to be the unsung hero.
I agree, even with guitar bass, you don’t notice it but if it wasn’t there the song would be hollow
Other instruments: **exist**
Twoset: *Ok, but the violin*
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Would have been interesting having a viola in this..
I think every bassist here can agree, we were a l l tricked, bribed, and confused when we choose this.
I thought I was going to teach my dad to play the bass guitar and then quit....I am now in college and have decided it will be my career.....why?
As a bassist, yes 🥲
Actually....
You're not wrong. My bro told me to get a bass because the world needs more women bassists (I play electric bass). I said ok because he convinced me it'd be the best choice for me
@@needtoread_2382 who knows maybe they'll actually let you in a band or an orchestra by saying that.
@Angelina He but it is tho
6:29 finally a sincere pianist, sure pro level piano is hard, but as an instrument it's as easy as it gets, you have almost zero concern for tone generation, it really is an instrument of the industrial age, you press keys it makes sounds, zero hussle, it's even more intuitive than singing.
It is the easiest to learn, but hardest to master. I have alot of respect for string players. The learning curve is very hard in the beginning and smooths out while you go.
It's not of the "industrial age", Bartolomeo Cristofori invented it as the evolution of harpsichord around the year 1700. But I understand what you mean, I agree.
So many things wrong with this post lol. Sure it’s easy to press a key but that is nowhere close to actually sounding musical. And piano scores add tons of notes to make up for the fact that you can play more. Acting like piano is easy is just ridiculous, you can obviously take the piano to extreme heights.
Also, whatever point you’re trying to make about the “Industrial Age” is a complete fallacy. Are drums Industrial Age instruments too? Because you hit them and they produce a sound. Simple. Guess the harpsichord is too, despite massively predating the Industrial Age.
I’m not sure why you’d even care about the differences in what makes an instrument difficult because they can all be taken much further than anyone ever has.
@@HieronymousLex Somebody sounds offended! sorry that you feel like my comment somehow belittles your pet instrument. I recommend you read my comment again as I adressed your points already, also the industrial thing was simply a figurative comment to ilustrate part of the spirit of the instrument, as I elaborated further down in another comment it is not just figuratively an industrial instrument (instant,louder, faster, more notes!) But it also is literally, in it's history and making.
Alas I challenge you to make and hold a single note on a trumpet, without help or instruction, on the same time one can learn an entire melody on piano. Heck give me a day and I'll take an easy piece like Bach's minuet on piano while most begginers won't be able to play a scale on violin or trumpet in 2 week of learning.
@@ivyssauro123 You're right about the intuitivity of piano; though, as Hieronymous Lex said, it's far from giving an accurate picture of that instrument because you just spend years trying to master the keys before you really begin to play musically. I believe a child not very gifted on a piano is as painful as a young violinist, on that matter!
I feel like the downside of not having to care about the tone makes the process of learning how to play musically more difficult because... you're not really aware of it during your first years. At least I wasn't.
The other problem with the piano as well as regards understanding music is that the scores are always so full of different notes and rythms that you don't even grasp the basics (like: you can reduce it all to the simple basic chords you can play on a guitar or a uke; so, when I picked up the uke because after ten years of adult work I still could not buy a piano, I understood a lot of things that never occurred to me on the piano).
Which leads me to the absolute downside of the piano: it's very high price, and the space it needs in a room (which adds to how expensive the instrument is).
As a pianist myself, I have to concede that harp probably has the prettiest sound of any instrument
It's great hearing all the musicians talking about their instruments but it would be really nice to hear them play a short piece too. All the way through I was hoping we'd get to hear them play something. Highly enjoyable video nonetheless.
Twoset In 2018 : Every instrument is unique and has its own importance. Respect all instruments
Twoset in 2021 : Wars with each and every instrument that has ever existed.
Edit: Thanks for the likes though☺😊
Peace was never an option.
What Brett said about the piano is sooo true. I think the thing I hate most about being a pianist, is always having to play someone else's instrument. And every piano has a different feel to it, so it never feels like something I'm used to. Which always throws me off a bit.
Finally, someone agrees! My dad (doesnt play any musical instruments, its rlly hard for him to understand things that is agains what he thinks) always tells me that “their all pianos, just play them” whenever i tell him that the piano at his place feels weird (not in a bad way) and different than the piano at my mom’s. Annoying af. My brother says the same thing for the piano at dad’s place and the piano at his teacher’s place, my dad says that he needs to play louder and my brother says its because of the piano difference. I tested both pianos and agreed that they definitely have a different feel to them.
I don’t have a piano at home, so I have to play at one of the piano shops or whatever nearby. When I get used to one there, sometimes I just have to shuffle over to the next room and basically relearn the piano. Annoying, but understandable really.
So true. I'm an organist, and every time I change instruments there is a huge learning curve of memorizing the little intracacies of each instrument's registration (all the little buttons). Every organ is basically a different instrument, and a huge part of playing organ is being able to register the instrument properly so it sounds good.
Yeah so true.
I think the best instrument to play is the one you love playing. It really doesn't matter which one it is, as long as you enjoy it.
I like how they are dissing the violas yet there is literally a viola concerto playing the background
Singers: I am literally the best instrument and arguing otherwise is a personal attack.
Well, we have not heard you sing. What if it’s not your…er….gift? Lol.
But you win for portability!
Me, a pianist and a singer: i may have lost in portability with piano, but my voice won in that subject
@@willb3698 Haha, that would still constitute a personal attack, no matter if it's true or not! :D
Lets be honest, chiors argue the best because it is literally their job to talk loudly.
I play piano and violin. I also sing. Guess I win.
Alex is me when my one friend whom I'm close to bumps into their new friends and they keep chatting and I stand there awkwardly haha
Yeah, the crossed arms say "I don't want to be here."
This feels like I'm back at my days in the music conservatory .... with all the students chatting as they wait to enter the ( somewhat tedious 😬) 3 hour solfeggio lesson.
Requesting for part 2!
Lmfao the bassist was the best. Shes such a presence
I really think violin has the best repertoires, but piano is truly a jack of all trades, it can do all. So, not even because I was a piano gang, legit objectively, piano is the best.
Except jam in a backyard or at a campfire
Backyard campfire with piano performance major playing like crazy. Our whole block can hear it.
how is that objective. if anything is a jack of all trades, guitar is because it can do anything a piano can and way more and its portable, with projection being the only issue
@@arthurmaul3284 play five notes at once
@@jakefitz7942 that's what cords are for, and while it's not technically at once, it's way better sounding (similar to harp, altho harmonics and harp harmonics are a whole other technique
Wasting all this time arguing just for flute to be the best
Wish the Bass got more love but thats the nature of the instrument. Feeling the vibrations is definitely a major plus, I know that sounds weird but its one of the reasons I love live music so much, you feel it in your chest, I don't even play double bass and I can feel it. When I'm playing my Bass Guitar the body resonates and I'm able to feel it in my chest! I absolutely love the feeling. I personally feel like Bass gives a heartbeat to the music and while many people may not actively notice or recognize the rhythm section of a song they 100% feel it. Drums and Bass get people moving.
This is the most quiet, peaceful argument I’ve ever witnessed.
“The saxophone is like the king of stealing repertoire.”
*enter viola*
Violin rep: transpose fifth down
Cello rep: transpose octave up
Double bass rep: not worth stealing ;)
(Almost) everything else: as written
No kidding though: I tried Halvorsen's violin concerto on the viola the other day. There's far too much e string in that one and it sounded so much better one 5th down. Some repertoire is totally worth stealing.
@@kaistinakemperdahl9667 Exactly. Viola gang is secretly the most versatile, even if it doesn’t have a whole lot of its own repertoire. I sometimes purposely will learn violin pieces that someone I know is playing and perform the improved viola version. Viola is way better. The violinists just don’t want to admit they’ve been wrong for hundreds of years 😎
I have to say, that was a clever twist of an argument on the subject of repertoire!
The double base player sounds like a really fun person to hang out with lol
Harmonica gang here to remind you that actually we're the best!
It's extremely portable, even pocketable, so you can practice and play anytime and any where.
The instrument can do both melodies and chords, and although it can't do both at once, you can quickly switch between them for a very convincing effect.
There's also a wide variety of genres and they have a unique sound that can cut through an orchestra and range of effects you don't see on a lot of other instruments. Super cool aesthetic and history as well.
What I've learnt today: Bass players were tricked into playing the bass and eventually grew to love it. Story of my life (and apparently many other bass players)
I know one bass guitar player who ended up being bassist cos he didn't play anything when they formed the band, so they gave him the bass to play. He's still playing bass (and also doing vocals) over 20 years later. :)
True story! I always wanted to play the flute but because I liked the teacher who taught me on the recorder I did not want to go to another teacher and he only taught brass intstruments + recorder. So I start playing the trumpet and now is it my favourite instrument....
@@molekyyli that's similar to the story of Paul McCartney (except for the part that he didn't play anything else ofc) And he's been playing over 60 years later :)
@@espvp I think Paul started on a guitar and then switched to bass cos they needed a bassist. And I recall seeing him on some photos with a guitar.
I told this to my friends who play low instruments (bass clarinet and tuba) and they said it was 100% accurate
As a piano lover, for me the answer is already set, but apart from that, every instrument has its own charming points . And I think most instruments are more attractive when they are harmonised than when they exist individually.