this Sunday will be my 2nd lesson....holding the bow is hard. hope that my pinky will cooporate

guys, i have a sarasate violin which i buy for rm1000+.

so im planning on getting a pickup to connect to my guitar amplifier.

the pickup my cikgu say is rm500 from fishman,
would u guys recommended me to buy a pickup or might as well buy an electric violin???

would the sound quality be the same with electric?

And im puting it like this
VIOLIN>>>>>METAL ZONE( distortion rock sound)>>>>>>AMPLIFIER

^^ I guess there arent any much viola player out there T.T

Nowadays people prefer to be the soloist rather than be a supporting musician.


But the MPO program book shows that there are some Viola Concertos coming up

MPO... wow, they really are good. well, I think a supporting music is the most important thing in a concert. if we din play anything the soloist will sound like crap too =D

Yup true.

Anyway is the viola parts normally in unison with the 2nd violins or what? Just curious

nope viola is mostly just accompaniment, with some part solo. not much unison with violin 2.

Goo Goo Dolls' Iris, there is a viola part on it.

Well, I have to say that being a background musician are good too.

This post has been edited by Cello: Nov 30 2007, 12:15 AM

Correct me if im wrong, Paganini's caprices are truly violin solos without any accompaniment.

Violinist Eric Silberger Performs Paganini Caprice no. 24

hmm No accompaniment.. Nothing seems to be 'carrying' the music...

Paganini's Caprice #24 is also played by cellist Yoyo-Ma.

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Added on December 7, 2007, 12:31 amI wonder, where has LYN's violinist gone???? hello.....
i used a small condenser to pickup my violin sound to my computer to record. sound ok too.
now im looking for Piezo Film....can anyone get this??Im trying to make a Piezo pickup

This post has been edited by crabjim: Dec 7 2007, 12:31 AM

whoa caprice no24 >.< that was some performance.

anyway, how come there are so lil string players in lyn =( this thread seems dead.

hi im back!!!!!
on thurs i will be performing come along ya check out my signy below!

I just watched Schinittke's Viola Concerto performed by Giovanni Pasini in MPO last Saturday


Really some crazy performance, he was playing so fast that a bunch of hair from the bow was dangling

aww i wanna watch =( any dvd on sale? =D

anyway, i just changed my viola string to dominant strings, cost me around 200+ for whole set. i was using china string which sounded like crap for 1 yr plus now.

dominant has a nice warm touch....but there are diff version of this in the market..i like the soft version ; gives easier feedback.im now using Pirastro...most ppl says its better then dominant but i beg to differ..diff instrument responds differently... and this is a good link for violinist to check out on other brand of strings...


http://www.violinist.com/wiki/violin-strings/

pirastro is really really expensive rite? >.<

hi all...

i learned violin for almost 3 months but seems no improvement.. i dun even can hold the bow correctly and quite hard for me to get correct note with my left hand... feel sad...

i hv to change violin teacher due to i'm not able to catch my class on time... already register another music school but yet still no teacher for me...

How can got DVD... MPO don't allow any form of recordings

But overall it was a great performance.. Can really feel the mellowness, sadness, melancholy.
That other songs that night was one of Glinka's energetic overture and Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony..

After the viola concerto was the 5th Symphony....

The songs list mood is from Energetic > Sad > Terrifying