You can play WHAT on the violin?!?

Ray Chen's arrangement of Waltzing Matilda is still one of the coolest things I've ever heard.

I saw Ray Chen, I clicked.

Now I have a video to point out whenever someone tells me that violins only sound "sad" hahaha thank you very much for the educational video olaf ❣️🤗

Greetings from the Philippines

Thank you for this video! I see too many people only seeing music as a discipline, practicing scales and preparing auditions. Of course music takes discipline, but that is only to serve a higher purpose: having fun!!!
Have fun with your instruments guys, explore new horizons with them!
Great job Olaf!

Hi Olaf! I'm persian and I got so happy when you introduced persian violin playing which is so popular in my country! Thank you so much for noticing this beautiful style of violin playing 🌹🙏🌹🌹

We need a 10 hour loop of Olaf dancing.

A progressive metal band, Ne Obliviscaris, inspired me to pick up violin. I highly recommend the song Plague flowers the Kaleidoscope, it's studied at the Sydney Conservatory of music for it's compositional awesomeness.

Edit: after watching more of your videos, it seems Tim Charles is your client!!? That's awesome!

Ver a un luthier tomarse el tiempo para explicar temas abiertos que la mayoría ignora es un privilegio

Ah yes, the soprano viola, almost as good as the original ;)

Wonderful to have this compilation you have put together to present the diversity of styles! It really is a lot more versatile than expected. And great advice to play the music we love. Thank you Olaf!

Always interesting to see other type of music that violin could do!

Heifetz playing Tchaikowsky is not old fashioned, it's timeless!
Nothing reminds me of the days I only lived for the violin like your videos. Thank you so very much! I can smell the "VIOL" seeing your videos.

Great video, Olaf! 👍
I will point out however that sometimes the parents (or grandparents in my case) can be the problem: I wasn't allowed to play anything that was written by a composer that hadn't been dead for at least 100 years. AC/DC on the violin? Heresy!
So parents out there (or grandparents), allow your child the freedom to choose what they want to play!

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Me, Mexican: grito mexicano
Mariachi Chavez did a great rendition of "El Cascabel" and those people playing were just high school students. I love your videos, Olaf! Cheers

Violin, like so many musical instruments, is only limited by the imagination of the player. Some of my violin/fiddle faves include Bach, Beethoven, Charlie Daniels, Nightwish. The footage of Ray Chen...….PRICELESS!!!!!!!! I'm glad that I'm old enough that in my 20's PAGERS were the thing to have and small phones with cameras were still in the distant future!

At 4:00 min., the fiddle player is Long John. Some said he was the best fiddler they ever heard.

This video shows how diverse the violin can do 👑 a really expressive instrument

Most instruments, certainly all acoustic instruments are very old or have roots going way back. Nobody calls the guitar old fashioned, yet it's history can be traced back along similar lines, after all, they are all ultimately member of the lute family that diverge in different directions, hence the term luthier for makers and repairers of both instruments, even just looking at them they share so many similarities, just with one optimized for mostly picking and strumming on the lap and the other for bowing on the shoulder. You can play whatever music it is that moves you on whatever instrument you have and the violin is such a beautiful and expressive instrument. It's popular in jazz, folk, blues, bluegrass and, of course, baroque, classical and romantic music. But really there is absolutely no reason you couldn't play rock, pop or any other type of music on the violin! Music is about expressing yourself and the violin is a wonderful instrument to do it!

thanks Olaf. finding the music I want to play is a wonderful journey. I am just enjoying playing beginner stuff right now and as I grown my violin and I will settle into what we like to play, what compliments his sound and what compliments my playing. right now we are just trying to get to know each other more and more.

My friend plays violin and flute in the prog rock band Glacier in the UK.