SomethingALaMode I originally downloaded their cover track, A Little Bit of Feel Good (video below), from the great music site, Aurgasm. I had actually forgotten about them until just last night when putting together a play list on Itunes and rediscovered them by accident. SomethingALaMode consists of Thomas Roussel (violin) and Yannick Grandjean (cello). Both [...]
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Once more, proof that you don’t necessarily need to play classical music to rock the violin! I discovered this video while stumbling and knew that many of you would love it! These three girls do a fantastic job, I’d like to see more from them! Does anyone else have any related videos to share? Taken [...]
Incredible! This was shared with me by one of my friends who happens to be studying guitar performance. I actually prefer some of his theme variations over than of Jascha Heifetz! I noticed his left hand pizzicato (2:54) especially was a very different take than what I had heard before, and apparently Wikipedia agrees: “Markov [...]
This video has been a hit floating around the internet for a while now, but I know even the most popular videos haven’t always been seen by everyone so I wanted to share it with you! This is yet another group demonstrating that the violin doesn’t have to be restricted to the classical realm. However, [...]
Violin Phase Performed at Concert 13 of Music08 June 21, 2008 by Matthew Albert, Nick Naegele, Yei-in Jin, and Chi-Fan Tai. (Info Via Youtube) Not for the average easy going listener, Violin Phase is a piece full and open to interpretation. Many of my friends would hear this and ask me to turn it off, [...]
“A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour, it was calculated that thousands of people went through the station, most of them on their [...]
Caption for the video: “Caught this guy on the electric violin breaking all possible rules written down for the instrument… ” Hair Metal has transcribed to violin? That’s right! No matter how cheesy this guy may be with the black outfit, long hair, and wailing violin… the point is that he is wailing on the [...]
This video has been floating around for a while, but I thought it would be fun to share it for those of you who aren’t as addicted to searching for videos as I can be sometimes Great tone and fantastic arrangements of these classic songs!
“We invite musicians from around the world to audition for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra. Your video entries will be combined into the first ever collaborative virtual performance, and the world will select the best of you to perform at New York City’s Carnegie Hall in April 2009.” – Youtube.com Somewhat similar to last year’s Foo [...]