Which instrument is better? [DEBATE] Flute vs Violin

Sdílet
Vložit
  • čas přidán 17. 06. 2024
  • Want to stay motivated while you practice music while reducing performance anxiety? Download Tonic: downloadtonic.com/today and join the practice community for free!
    So who do you think won between Jasmine Choi and Ray Chen? We may have to continue the battle in another video on ‪@JasmineChoi‬'s channel!
    Thank you ‪@RayChenViolinist‬ for dropping in as our guest!
    0:00 - Intro
    0:34 - Round 1 "Price"
    1:11 - Round 2 "Range"

Komentáře • 572

  • @tonicapp
    @tonicapp  Před 3 měsíci +45

    Best way to improve and stay inspired in your music practice is to join a community: downloadtonic.com/today 🙌🏼

    • @ncard00
      @ncard00 Před 3 měsíci +2

      Neither instrument, the organ has both sound in one instrument, and many others as well.

    • @joycelew5622
      @joycelew5622 Před 3 měsíci

      0:11 0:11 😊😊

    • @StevoskyMusic
      @StevoskyMusic Před 2 měsíci

      Thank you, I just got it

  • @ViktoriousFlutes
    @ViktoriousFlutes Před 3 měsíci +271

    Team flute! 🪈 🎵 I tried the violin and I agree with Jasmine that the flute was easier to learn. I still have my poor violin tucked in a closet for years 🎻 😢

    • @sonja4186
      @sonja4186 Před 3 měsíci +6

      I agree with you that flute is easier to learn at least in the beginning. But some music you can only make on the violin, so for me I can't decide which instrument😊

    • @Riceking422
      @Riceking422 Před 3 měsíci +3

      I play flute that’s why I’m on this side

    • @payforgun3d537
      @payforgun3d537 Před 3 měsíci +3

      Don’t waste it, practice bro

    • @raspberry9313
      @raspberry9313 Před 3 měsíci +3

      As an oboist, I will lose to violin 100% no one writes for me ;v;…My range is only like 2 and a half octaves 😂 at most and it isn’t accessible either it was so hard to find the model I wanted XD (Oh and since I am the only oboist ofc I’m supporting my flute besties on this side)

    • @LoveMore-vi1vy
      @LoveMore-vi1vy Před 3 měsíci +8

      That’s sad. Violin is ridiculously hard but I think it helps to develop a deeper love for the instrument. The flute is beautiful, and bach badinerie is like my fave song, but I love my violin and wish more people could experience playing it. ❤️

  • @A_440Hz
    @A_440Hz Před 3 měsíci +238

    As someone who plays both instruments it's hard to pick one side! It's so cool that my favourite flautist and my favourite violinist are such good friends!

    • @Jwellsuhhuh
      @Jwellsuhhuh Před 3 měsíci +4

      i bet they have the same video editor and they definitely have been in touch with each other for a while

    • @AmandaViolinGirl
      @AmandaViolinGirl Před 3 měsíci +6

      I have also got both so won't pick a side either.

    • @bobatealover14
      @bobatealover14 Před 3 měsíci +6

      yay flute and violin team!!!!!

    • @Jwellsuhhuh
      @Jwellsuhhuh Před 3 měsíci +1

      @@bobatealover14 yay english horn and vibraphone team!!!!!

    • @gokceaydin3324
      @gokceaydin3324 Před 3 měsíci

      As someone who cannot play any of them, it is still hard to pick one side :)

  • @RayChenViolinist
    @RayChenViolinist Před 3 měsíci +206

    Who’s with me on violin gang? 🎻

  • @kollegin.schnuerschuh
    @kollegin.schnuerschuh Před 3 měsíci +234

    Team Flute! 🪈 ❤

  • @momot3488
    @momot3488 Před 3 měsíci +205

    @Ray and @Jasmine, please make a video about Ray learning the flute in one hour or Ray teaching Jasmine because she has played before. Would be very interesting to see what both of you find challenging about the other instrument. 🤔

  • @Die.Trying
    @Die.Trying Před 3 měsíci +60

    I think if you look beyond the type of flute that Jasmine plays and go into drone flutes and bamboo flutes and the many other types of flutes I believe the recognizability and repertoire increase exponentially.

  • @TheBabyInYellow-xo6fp
    @TheBabyInYellow-xo6fp Před 3 měsíci +13

    Trust me, beginner flutes sound waayyy worse than Jasmine made it sound lol.

    • @selamabraham7117
      @selamabraham7117 Před 3 měsíci +3

      Lol I know right especially with the higher notes

  • @chia_s_ee_d
    @chia_s_ee_d Před 3 měsíci +371

    Im on violin gang!!!❤

  • @pradagio_
    @pradagio_ Před 3 měsíci +10

    What a great convo between two wonderful individuals!

  • @Love-Is-Kind
    @Love-Is-Kind Před 3 měsíci +2

    Really cool episode! 😎😎
    Thank you both, Jasmine & Ray! 🤩🤩 This was fun & informative too. 👍🏽👍🏽 Please stay healthy and take care. 🫂💕💯

  • @heitron81
    @heitron81 Před 3 měsíci +2

    What an amazing video! Thank you! I’d totally love to hear you duetting to showing the strengths of the two instruments (that kind of represent the (bowed) string instruments and the wind instruments) ❤

  • @YLIU
    @YLIU Před 3 měsíci +1

    thanks so much, love both of you who make playing instruments with so much fun~ look forward to next episode about virtuosity~

  • @azharfox
    @azharfox Před 3 měsíci +4

    Really nice collaboration~ Thank you for this video, it’s so useful!
    And I’d love to hear Ray Chen playing “Chant de Linos”😅, I’m very interested how it will sound))

  • @doctorfashion2734
    @doctorfashion2734 Před 3 měsíci +2

    What an amazing video thank you so much!!!😅

  • @ShivamGPlays
    @ShivamGPlays Před 2 měsíci +1

    I will be waiting for the another video❤

  • @RudieVissenberg
    @RudieVissenberg Před 3 měsíci +2

    So much fun watching this video of two very gifted, hard working and beautiful people.

  • @zman2577
    @zman2577 Před 3 měsíci +9

    I play both! I lean towards violin though. So glad someone made a comparison video!

  • @Black-Sesame-
    @Black-Sesame- Před 2 měsíci

    I was a music major. And this was soooo fun to watch!!! Great episode!! Can we see more videos with different instruments?

  • @DBogie
    @DBogie Před 3 měsíci +9

    Casually dropping a video for the first time in over a year and I’m here for it 🎻

  • @auntiesusansdolls5624
    @auntiesusansdolls5624 Před 3 měsíci +5

    I play both flute and violin in our community orchestra, and love them both!

  • @cesarfarfan3213
    @cesarfarfan3213 Před 3 měsíci +56

    Flute gang for ever 🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @reipfvn
    @reipfvn Před 3 měsíci +4

    I like this idea of comparing instruments! I want to hear the comparison of Prokofiev D Major sonata and Franck Sonata by both instruments.

  • @HenningMogensen-fx3mw

    You are so good together. It is very entertaining and I was suprised to learn that dobbelstops are a thing on the flute too. I hope I can find out which ones are doable.

  • @PearlgraceandCoMusic
    @PearlgraceandCoMusic Před 3 měsíci +4

    I love this!!! Great content and video-we play both!!! Educational and entertaining!!

    • @PearlgraceandCoMusic
      @PearlgraceandCoMusic Před 3 měsíci +1

      And I love the section about group playing and lessons-we offer that to our students too and find it so valiant!

    • @PearlgraceandCoMusic
      @PearlgraceandCoMusic Před 3 měsíci +1

      (I meant to say valuable, not valiant! 😊 but maybe that too)

  • @sabrinai
    @sabrinai Před 3 měsíci +31

    Regarding career opportunities, I definitely think it's more difficult for flutists. Even my flute teacher told me NOT to study flute and choose flute as a career and she ended up losing her job as a flute teacher because there were too little students. She studied in Paris and spend her whole life playing the flute, so it's really sad she struggled.

    • @redbullrobert
      @redbullrobert Před 22 dny +1

      sad, but i kind of agree, regarding flute and career opportunities. Not to also mention the saxophonists and Clarinetists also doubling flutes in jazz scene, taking job security away from flautists.
      I play both, but will choose violin.

  • @blessakim
    @blessakim Před 3 měsíci +16

    Beatbox flute and violin is sendingggggg me
    Also Jasmine looks so beautiful here as per usual!! 언니 오늘도 너무 아름다우시네요~~❤

  • @CrankyBeach
    @CrankyBeach Před 3 měsíci +2

    You two are a riot. :) I am a classically-trained reasonably competent amateur flutist (I never played a flaut in my life, thankyouverymuch). My grandfather, my uncle, my cousin and my sister all played violin, and I took it up in the 4th grade (for about 5 minutes). I wasn't interested in continuing. I had always wanted to try flute because I liked that it came in a small case. My sister's violin teacher actually sent a flute home with me once; I might have been 7 or 8 years old. I figured out how to put it together, blew on it like it was a bottle, and discovered that the only keys I could use to change the note were the trill keys. Fast forward to when I was 12. My grandmother offered to pay for lessons and of course I picked the flute. High school and college concert bands followed. In college I decided I was not going to pursue a professional career. So I just play here and there for fun.

  • @limbuddhini
    @limbuddhini Před 3 měsíci

    Waiting for the challenge 👍👍👍

  • @itsaaronliu
    @itsaaronliu Před 3 měsíci +13

    Would love to hear Ray play Voliere or the last movement of Liebermann Concerto 😎

  • @sonja4186
    @sonja4186 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Fun video. I play both and can't decide which instrument I like better😊

  • @AngelTing
    @AngelTing Před 3 měsíci +3

    This one is tough! Ray motivated me to play violin again after 13 years (apparently with his Tonic app) but now I want to learn the flute because of Jasmine!😂

  • @nithyasri9472
    @nithyasri9472 Před 3 měsíci +1

    I am learning both....I like both....Each are uniquely beautiful

  • @jacks5kids
    @jacks5kids Před 3 měsíci +13

    Compare also:
    Ergonomics: Flute wins. Violinists shove the thing into their necks, often scarring their chins and necks. On a violin, most of the skill and hard work is on the left (poorer) hand,. Violinists strain their left wrists and finger joints, and can cut their skin with the nasty e-string. The violin is the second most uncomfortable instrument. Violas are of course the very worst.
    Discomfort of listeners hearing a typical player: Flute wins. A flautist who plays for an hour per day can be in a respectable orchestra after a year. A typical violinist after 3 years of 2 hours per day still causes real pain to the listener
    Adaptability to instruments in the same family: A flautist can pick up a piccolo and start playing. A violinist is a total beginner on a 'cello. Flute wins.
    Natural connection to the body: Flautists use breath rather like a singer. That makes way for a much more natural ability to express phrasing and feelings. Again flute wins.
    So, 4 more points for the flute. Having said that, there is no doubt that the violin is the most musical of all instruments.

    • @noshititskrae
      @noshititskrae Před 3 měsíci

      I experience more pain playing the flute than the violin to be honest... But maybe that's just my body.

  • @sampsonaborah1190
    @sampsonaborah1190 Před 3 měsíci

    Really great meeting you all. Such a lovely experience sharing. But I think one the tone color or quality of sound flute would be more recognizable than violin. Violin most the time sound like many other instruments when played as a single instrument, yh. My opinion tho

  • @amandacollecutt2491
    @amandacollecutt2491 Před 3 měsíci

    lololol some of the graphics are so funny! thanks for the video

  • @JasmineChoi
    @JasmineChoi Před 3 měsíci +7

    💜💜💜

  • @AldeasophiaGalvez-hp1uu
    @AldeasophiaGalvez-hp1uu Před 3 měsíci +1

    Waiting here🎉🎻❤

  • @peterschaffter826
    @peterschaffter826 Před 3 měsíci +9

    How about Jasmine and Ray doing side-by-side comparisons of something flashy from The Four Seasons (Moe Koffman did a wicked jazz flute recording of the sonatas back in the 80s), then side-by-sides of Debussy's Syrinx, originally written for solo flute.

  • @JanetSalter65
    @JanetSalter65 Před 3 měsíci

    Both instruments sound great and beautifully complement each other!🎻🪈❤

  • @eriks2962
    @eriks2962 Před 3 měsíci +2

    First time I hear from Jasmine Choi. She sounds like such a great person!

  • @rochelleromano3551
    @rochelleromano3551 Před 3 měsíci +6

    I would love to hear Ray play great train race on violin

  • @shannonmoro401
    @shannonmoro401 Před 3 měsíci

    I really enjoyed this viedo. Played both instruments.

  • @priscillakumar6527
    @priscillakumar6527 Před 2 měsíci

    I just love both it's really good to hear both violin and flute so I in both ❤

  • @nbgrooms
    @nbgrooms Před 3 měsíci

    Fun contest between two superb musicians

  • @daviddiamond2415
    @daviddiamond2415 Před 2 měsíci

    *_I would like to see a video devoted to playing one instrument in the style of a different instrument._* That was done a couple of times in this video, and it was wonderful.
    I can play, for example, a handpan, or a kinnor, or a shakuhachi, or a 5-strng banjo. Then when I get back to my concert flute, I have a plethora of fresh ideas.
    I find that the best way to develop flute expression is to listen to tenor saxophonists. I do not have the experience to say what it would take to make a classical violinist into a really good fiddler.

  • @AmandaViolinGirl
    @AmandaViolinGirl Před 3 měsíci +27

    Violin can sound like a flute with harmonics.

    • @whocares_bear
      @whocares_bear Před 3 měsíci +3

      Yep. Also, a flute can't play more than two notes at once. A violin can do double, triple and quadruple stops

    • @tscole12
      @tscole12 Před 3 měsíci

      @@whocares_bearflute and other instruments can it’s just the notes are super flat so it’s not common.

    • @Rip_Bluefd
      @Rip_Bluefd Před 3 měsíci

      ​@@whocares_bear multiphonics are a thing? Lol

    • @zgart
      @zgart Před 3 měsíci +1

      @@whocares_bearflute can play more than two notes at once

    • @whocares_bear
      @whocares_bear Před 3 měsíci

      @@zgart Yeah, and they sound like 💩 when they do that. Can't compare that to the triple stop at the beginning of Eine Kleine Nachtmusik

  • @StevoskyMusic
    @StevoskyMusic Před 2 měsíci +1

    I just downloaded the app, thanks for putting this out :)

  • @J3rs3y_G1rl
    @J3rs3y_G1rl Před 9 dny +1

    I love them both! My band teacher in 6th grade made mention that flute and violin can read the same sheet music. So i always saw them as besties. 😅

  • @Idiomatick
    @Idiomatick Před 3 měsíci +3

    Violins get more colour changes and can reasonably play 2 notes at once which is nice. Easy to start, portable, affordable though are really big categories.

  • @The_Eccentric_Piper
    @The_Eccentric_Piper Před 3 měsíci +3

    When I was in highschool a decade ago we had exactly 0 violins. Flutes however, we had two full rows of them, probably 20-26 flutists. Still to this day I don't think I've even seen a violin in person and I enjoy visiting music shops

  • @JaronTadiosa
    @JaronTadiosa Před 7 dny

    Sorry I'm a bass guitar beginner but I try trumpet next and I'm excited 😊

  • @graceful1537
    @graceful1537 Před 3 měsíci

    would love to hear Ray try a flute piece on the violin! maybe Dance of the Blessed Spirits by Gluck?

  • @user-ci9bl8ri7l
    @user-ci9bl8ri7l Před 3 měsíci +2

    This video was pretty funny to me since I play the flute and my sibling plays violin!😁

  • @asthasubba792
    @asthasubba792 Před měsícem

    I loveeeeer violin. Hoping one day I will learn to play it😌🤞💗🫀

  • @tracy-eire
    @tracy-eire Před 2 měsíci

    Let's do the battle!!!

  • @piano.is.a.language
    @piano.is.a.language Před 3 měsíci

    This is always an interesting debate :D

  • @eloisenguyendinhmusic3351
    @eloisenguyendinhmusic3351 Před 3 měsíci

    Like. The sound of flute 🪈 is more beautiful like a fairy tale here. I'd love too ❤. Greetings from Paris 🎉

  • @joshharris3282
    @joshharris3282 Před 3 měsíci

    This was fun 😄

  • @elliotarundella7581
    @elliotarundella7581 Před 3 měsíci

    Help i play both and LOVE THEM EQUALLY

  • @Apoz
    @Apoz Před 3 měsíci

    I started playing violin and flute because my music preferences progressed so much that I could only enjoy jazz & bossa nova and more progressive music, which I couldn't play like I wanted to on the Piano.
    So I was so glad to play violin and flute where we only have to play one note at a time xD and let others do the hard work xD.
    Learning the proper techniques was actually fun & challenging a bit. But I felt that was more motorics rather than difficulty in a knowledge sense.
    Piano is definitely more difficult (for me).

  • @user-xi5do1bf4o
    @user-xi5do1bf4o Před 3 měsíci

    이렇게 훌륭하신 연주자분들을 만나뵐수 있어 영광입니다~^^😍

  • @tocandoconenma3556
    @tocandoconenma3556 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Jajaja para esto es que pago internet! Quiero agregar que este tipo de videos aunque son muy divertidos, lo cierto es que cada instrumento tiene su luz propia, su belleza, su singularidad, empezando por las diferencias sonoras. Sin embargo gracias por este tipo de contenido🎉 es muy divertido.

  • @tradfluteman
    @tradfluteman Před 3 měsíci +2

    Flute technique is easy to begin with but really, really hard to master. If you want perfect tone you need to practice hundreds of hours. The low notes are easier, but the highest notes are impossible, and to maintain perfect tone fluidly throughout the registers is like learning to play the instrument while walking blindfolded on a tightrope. You see even this highly trained womam doesn't sound good at D4. But it can actually sound beautiful and sweet. And there's also breath-control, which overlaps with tone as you play.

  • @mid9moth
    @mid9moth Před 3 měsíci

    flute 🩷🪷 & Jasmine 💅🏻
    I wanna hear Ray trying to play The Great Train Race by Ian Clarke (the piece she was playing while demonstrating multiphonics as a chord alternative)

  • @agmaiocplayer3
    @agmaiocplayer3 Před 3 měsíci

    Wow Tonic finally uploaded

  • @J.a.k.o.b.
    @J.a.k.o.b. Před 3 měsíci +6

    Violinist and flutis arguing about portability
    Cellists meanwhile: 😭

  • @ocd3262
    @ocd3262 Před 3 měsíci

    LOL I‘m playing both 😊 love them!

  • @helenmoran6689
    @helenmoran6689 Před 2 měsíci

    i’m a fluteist and now i’m learning violin!!

  • @_fabiolaborges
    @_fabiolaborges Před 8 dny +1

    I want to learn one of these instruments but I have to choose the one that makes the least ulnar deviation movement on the fist 🤔
    I played songs with acoustic guitar for some time and I wanted to take classical guitar lessons but I have a problem with my hand that is not compatible with me continuing to playing guitar. so now I will choose the instrument that doesn't make my problem worse

  • @willistaylor4077
    @willistaylor4077 Před 3 měsíci +1

    I'm learning Flute.
    Though, I do have my sister's old Violin.

  • @Wanttolearnsomethingnewgo
    @Wanttolearnsomethingnewgo Před 3 měsíci

    In my opinion these two are the most versatile musical instruments ever which can be used for awesome melody, and as heartmelting tune and as terrific theme music and as horror music

  • @AmandaViolinGirl
    @AmandaViolinGirl Před 3 měsíci +3

    I'm neither. I have got both. When I was at my first lesson on the flute my teacher asked me how many years have you played it and I replied "what do you mean? I only got given it last week." She asked me how did you get a sound out of it? I replied if you can get a sound out of a narrow neck bottle you can get a sound out of a flute. I would experiment with bottles and pitches by putting water in the bottles.

  • @ashleyrose3812
    @ashleyrose3812 Před 3 měsíci

    I play both flute(since 11 years old) and violin (9 years old) love this video!

  • @Eun_jeanz.95
    @Eun_jeanz.95 Před měsícem

    Im a flutist and a violinist and its really hard to debate which one is better because i love both my instruments.

  • @kylekim1004
    @kylekim1004 Před 3 měsíci

    I LOVE YOU BOTH~!

  • @loveearth262
    @loveearth262 Před měsícem

    Amazing flute sure instantly change the atmosfer😮😮

  • @RandomAlex999
    @RandomAlex999 Před dnem

    I like both flute and violin, I've only played flute for 2 years but I'm also hoping to learn vilolin

  • @NelielSugiura
    @NelielSugiura Před 3 měsíci

    Oh yay, both my favourite instruments.

  • @_bbie
    @_bbie Před 3 měsíci

    I love both.

  • @matei_woold_wewu
    @matei_woold_wewu Před 3 měsíci

    Impossible to choose but I choose both

  • @LeviPranoto
    @LeviPranoto Před měsícem

    Im really impressed on the beat box flute tho ❤

  • @UlissesFerreiraBarte
    @UlissesFerreiraBarte Před měsícem +1

    Como clarinetista, devo dizer que o melhor instrumento é o piano

  • @aravindsai538
    @aravindsai538 Před 3 měsíci +2

    wn ray chen said : Only u win this one 😆 😆

  • @thyelaine
    @thyelaine Před 3 měsíci +6

    I play the flute coz I find strings instrument difficult but I prefer to listen to violin music. Which team should I be on? 😅

    • @BethanyBenson-mm8eg
      @BethanyBenson-mm8eg Před 3 měsíci +2

      Strings instruments r tricky but u play Flute. Real tricky question you got. Whichever instrument is ur favorite u choose do pros and cons of the flute and violin that's how I decide

  • @dante_only_one
    @dante_only_one Před 3 měsíci

    Daaamn shi soo beautiful..... 😍😍

  • @tonyarussell8419
    @tonyarussell8419 Před 2 měsíci

    Jasmine is amazing on the flute; as to which instrument is better it is totally subjective , it depends whose hands they’re in. Ray made the violin sound amazing too!

  • @adriannefontaine1918
    @adriannefontaine1918 Před měsícem

    I played violin for a few years and it was much harder to start then flute. I'm still sticking with my flute ❤

  • @Mystic_Alien
    @Mystic_Alien Před 3 měsíci

    Hey there btw in versatility the Chinese version of flute is dizi

  • @fyokota
    @fyokota Před 2 měsíci

    Between the two I choose the Bagpipes.

  • @erinmurray6957
    @erinmurray6957 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Storytime: in the 3rd grade, my best friend and I were both signed up to play an instrument by our families. I got stuck playing the flute and she got stuck with the violin. I hated playing the flute and she hated playing the violin. Fast forward to 7th grade, we had both dropped playing our respective instruments at this point. I brought up how I always wanted to play violin and she laughed and said "I wanted to play the flute!" Somehow the communication between my grandma who raised me and her mom got fumbled because we ended up playing each other's instruments!

  • @miacrysler1311
    @miacrysler1311 Před 3 měsíci

    I would like to see you both try each other's instrument. Like, the flutist tries playing a violin and the violonist tries playing the flute... (Also, sorry if I don't know your names... I just found this channel. This is the first video from this channel, that I've watched so far.)

  • @Msmcarlos
    @Msmcarlos Před 3 měsíci +4

    for the flute gang: Jethro Tull a rock blues/jazz fusion band

  • @BroReactions.
    @BroReactions. Před 2 měsíci

    My 2 favorites i cant pick

  • @cv03333
    @cv03333 Před měsícem

    i play both

  • @IgnitedFlamesArt
    @IgnitedFlamesArt Před 3 měsíci

    What about bansuri on the app? Is it exclusive to western classical flutes?

  • @nicrady
    @nicrady Před 3 měsíci +2

    These are the two best instruments.

  • @SleepingTurtle1
    @SleepingTurtle1 Před 2 měsíci

    do the Prokofiev flute/violin sonata

  • @Practicealbumnowout
    @Practicealbumnowout Před 3 měsíci

    Both

  • @Flinabin
    @Flinabin Před měsícem

    I play both, so I wouldn't know which one to choose.