Transcripts
1. Introudaction: Hello and welcome
to another episode of what to do with
those violins. And today we will be talking
about choosing your violin. We've got electric
and acoustic violin. And what's actually
the main difference between these two instruments? Because both you play
using the same technique. And sometimes very often people
say, why are you playing? It's not violin.
Yes, it is violin, but it's just not
the acoustic one. All the rest there. How you use fingerboard,
how you tune it, how you use the fine tuners, how you hold it, everything
else is the same. So what are the differences? Electric violin, I think the best thing about
this instrument, not this particular one, although I love this one. But the best part of playing electric violin is that they are quiet,
they're silent. Silent, they quiet. Let me bring my belt. Actually.
2. Advantages And Disadvantages Of Electric Violin: Play them without being
plugged into any power. They use them. It's, the sound is very dull because there's no
body to the instrument. There's nothing for
the sound to be. There's no sound
chamber as such. But the good thing
about it is that you can practice almost anywhere. So if you live in an apartment
or your family doesn't like your play or I don't
know any circumstances. So you have to practice
late at night. That's a great option
and I actually recommend that to anyone who's got like anxiety connected
with practicing, like I've had massive anxiety. I would not practice. I will not pantry violin
for good year and a half. The break is like, I just, I just couldn't I
was so afraid that someone might say
something or people might not like it because of
my few experiences in life. And then I got the electric
violin and I've discovered, Wow, I can just
lay my heart out. I can have my headphones on
and no one else is actually, here's what I can here because
I put backing track on. Or if you want to practice, even symphony experts, like you just put the
symphony on, headphones on. And there you go. Hit myself in the teeth. There you go. It's a really, really
good rate, fun. The other thing, if you are an event violinist
or you're planning to, or you'd like to
perform in front of people or you would
like to go masking, which is by the way, the best way to overcome
your performance anxiety. You can just plug it in, plug it to a speaker. And depending on the
power of your speaker, many people can hear
you or PA system, whatever you just
being heard, playing. Electric myelin allows you to
experiment with the sound. So if you plug yourself
into a software, you can suddenly play
their instruments. You can create different sounds. It's much easier than
on acoustic violin. And probably you can, if you plug your violin, if you plug your
acoustic violin to sort off any pick-up
sound that will trans, transmit the sound
to the laptop. You might be able to
do exactly the same. But good news for the learners. I think the biggest difference is that on electric violin, it's much easier to create a good sound because
you can just press, put a little bit of pressure. And the sounds pretty good
because the sound is electric. It's not produced as much by the scale of the weight
of your shoulder and arm. And this is a very
delicate manner. Hey, how you deal with operate your bot
to create a good sound. On electric violin, it's much easier to just have a good sound because normally
the beginners have a problem with sounds, etc. Violin pressure. The sound actually
responds and you can hear it in your headphones
on the speaker out loud, however you have it set up. The minus of that is, if you swap to
acoustic violin back, you kind of losing that
ability to create good sound. It's much harder to Blake, acoustic violin then electric. And I've experienced
that recently. You inspired me to
actually pick up my acoustic myelin
and I was playing some exercises on the violin, and I was exhausted. I can play 3.53 hours on
this violin. No problem. If I had to play the same
songs on my acoustic violin, that would have been a struggle. The best things I would say is, oh yeah, and you
don't need expensive. Both are these really? Because again, it doesn't impact the quality
of the sound as much. That's good, That's good. Whatever is good,
what else is good? What's good? Or what's, maybe the
cons is that you have to have either wireless
systems to transmitter and receiver that she will plug into your speaker or using the lead. And if there's no power,
there's power cut. And then we've got a problem. Or if your speaker dies, if your transmitter dyes like
mine died on my last event, and I had to quickly plugins. We just little bit stressful, but do keep your poker face on. And I managed to just get
through that problem. And there's a whole
interesting side of electric violin as well, which I probably don't know. But playing with the software, it's all kind of little
bit geeky, which I like. I love my electric violin.
4. Learning the Basic Technique: Hello and welcome
to another episode of what to do with
those violins. And today we will be talking
about choosing your violin. We've got electric
and acoustic violin. And what's actually
the main difference between these two instruments? Because both you play
using the same technique. And sometimes very often people
say, why are you playing? It's not violin.
Yes, it is violin, but it's just not a caustic one. All the rest there. How you use fingerboard,
how you tune it, how you use the fine tuners, how you hold it, everything
else is the same. So what are the differences? Electric violin, I think the best thing about
this instrument, not this particular one, although I loved this one. But the best part of playing electric violin is that they are quiet,
they're silent. Silent, they quiet. Let me draw my bell actually. Hello and welcome
to another episode of what to do with
those violins. And today we will be talking
about choosing your violin. We've got electric
and acoustic violin. And what's actually
the main difference between these two instruments? Because both you play
using the same technique. And sometimes very often people
say, why are you playing? It's not violin.
Yes, it is violin, but it's just not
the acoustic one. All the rest there. How you use fingerboard,
how you tune it, how you use the fine tuners, how you hold it, everything
else is the same. So what are the differences? Electric violin, I think the best thing about
this instrument, not this particular one, although I love this one. But the best part of playing electric violin is that they are quiet,
they're silent. Silent, they quiet.
Not bad actually. I'm the acoustic violin, which is the classical violin. The violin that people normally, usually learn how
to play violin. And this is my instrument. I was very lucky because I
got it as a child and I was waiting actually waiting for few years because
that's the full size. To actually get to this particular
instrument is being with me since I was 67. Yes. And, um, it's, my acoustic violin is slightly
harder to play because the sound is created
by you and by your pressure on the instrument of the bow, on the strings. And the beauty of the acoustic
violin is that you've got the whole spectrum
of sound, of colors. He likes musical
colors that you can paint with the whole palette, which you don't have with
the electric violin. Like electric violin,
you have to create it in a recording app or something. But playing acoustic
violin allows you to have those very
subtle sounds which I love. And professional,
professional army like top elite musicians,
use the whole palette. I knew they just got it on
the tip of the little finger. I'm not that great. Although I had my policy though, Tchaikovsky violin concerto box. So now this party
does all that stuff. So I know a little bit
amounted quite a lot. It's harder to get
the good sound on it on the acoustic violin. But once you get it, you get, you've got,
you've got the sound. So it's just the full it is there. If you want to mute it, I
don't actually have it. You can put like
little mute here, little novice or not
the sort of thing or move the tiny one that you're just
using the orchestra. But for practice from samples, they lack a big metal one, but it does damage
to the bridge. So obviously they have run
the ones as well. I think. Yeah, but they're
most effective. When you practice
in a hotel room. This is where you
use the metal ones are the abs, mutual violin. Almost completely. No one can hear it, but
they do damage the bridge. In my case, anyone did. The other thing with
acoustic violin. I feel that although I was lucky and I got
very good instrument, it is tricky to get a good quality instrument
because everything I will, the instrument is made made
off what type of wood, the quality of wood. That's why you've got
all those sorts of amazing Stradivarius,
granaries, etcetera, etcetera. Depends on luthier that made it. So you've got modern
acoustic violins that are beautiful,
amazing, wonderful quality. But they are expensive. Because it's the hand-made,
hand-made instruments. Everything handmade is
expensive in general, the saying goes with the bot. Choosing both for electric
myelin is not a big deal, but choosing right bot
for your acoustic violin. I mean, probably I'm talking from the perspective
of professional. But if you are anything
above a school level, you probably not
watching a video. But just wanted to let you know. When the Bose is
like a little bit like ones with Harry Potter, you pick up the bar, you play it on the
instrument and it chooses you and
let you know that the boat that you need and it's good for your
hand isn't right? Wait, right. There's different wood woods
as well and there's a whole, again, the whole
spectrum that I'm not really familiar with. But it's quite interesting. And we'll be actually nice
to have a little chat with Alicia about it as well. You need to clean
your electric violin because there's dust
on patching it. And you have to maintain
your clean your violin. Special, special products
that you actually use to not to
destroy the varnish. Plus is very important. That's why you see whatever
I handle my violin. You can see it from the years of this violin is a bit old. It probably it myself and
someone touched it here. So it's kind of the coloration the same on the
other side in here. Can you see that's why
you've got the neck. The neck doesn't have
any varnish on it. You just hold it by the neck and if you need to
support a supportive from the bottom to don't touch
the body is the worst thing. And if you do these, myelin needs actually
cleaning a bit. Maintain it, keep maintenance of your myelin to look
after it, care for it. I can't really speak for
the manufactured violence. Although they say they do need maintenance because
if there's a buildup of rosin here or
in general gunk, then your instrument
just won't sound. Well.
5. Acoustic Violin Features To Learn: I am the acoustic myelin, which is the classical violin. The violin that people normally, usually learn how
to play a violin. And this is my instrument. I was very lucky
because I got it as a child and I was waiting actually waiting for few
years because that's the full size to actually get to play this particular
instrument that's been with me since I was 67. Yes. And it's my violin is
slightly harder to play because the sound is
created by you and by your pressure on the instrument of the
bow, on the strings. And the beauty of the acoustic
violin is that you've got the whole spectrum
of sound of colors. He likes musical colors that you can paint with the
whole palette, which you don't have with
the electric violin. Like electric violin,
you have to create it in a recording app or something. But playing acoustic
violin allows you to have those very
subtle sounds which I love. And professional,
professional, I mean, like top elite musicians, use the whole pallet and
then they just got it on the tip of the finger. I'm not that great. Although I had my Tchaikovsky
violin concerto box. So now this party does
all that stuff is, I know a little bit
amounted quite a lot. It's harder to get
the good sound on it on the acoustic violin. But once you get it, you get, you've got,
you've got the sound. So it's just the full it is there. If you want to mute it, I
don't actually have it. You can put like little
mute here, little longer. So not the sort of
thing off more of the tiny one that you're
just using the orchestra. But for practice, for example, is there like a big metal one? But it does damage the bridge. So actually they have run
the ones as well, I think. Yeah, but they're
most effective. When you practice
in a hotel room. This is where you
use the metal ones if they add new to your violin, almost completely,
no one can hear it, but they do damage the bridge. In my case, anyone did. The other thing with
acoustic violin? I feel that although I was lucky and I bought
very good instrument, it is tricky to get a good quality instrument
because everything I will, the instrument is made made
off what type of wood, the quality of wood. That's why you've
got all those sorts of amazing Stradivarius, Gua There is etc, etc. Depends on luthier that made it. So you've got modern
acoustic violins that are beautiful,
amazing, wonderful quality. But they are expensive. Because it's hand-made,
hand-made instruments and everything handmade is
expensive in general, the saying goes with the bot. Choosing both for electric
myelin is not a big deal, but choosing the right bot
for your acoustic violin. I mean, probably I'm talking from the perspective
of professional. But if you are anything
above a school level, you probably not
watching a video. But just wanted to let you know. When the Bose is
like a little bit like ones with Harry Potter, you pick up the bar, you play it on the
instrument and it chooses you, you know, that the boat that you need and it's good for your
hand isn't right? Wait, right. This is different
woods would as well. And there's a whole, again, the whole spectrum that I'm
not really familiar with. But it's quite interesting. And we'll be actually nice
to have a little chat with Alicia about it as well. You need to clean
your electric violin because there's dust
on touching it. You have to maintain
your clean your violin. Special, special products
that you actually use to not to
destroy the varnish. That's very important. That's why you see whatever
I handle my myelin. You can see it from the years of this violin is a bit old. It probably it myself and
someone touched it here. So it's kind of the coloration the same on the
other side in here. Can you see that's why
you've got the neck. The neck doesn't have
any varnish on it. You just hold it by the neck and if you need to support
this afforded from the bottom to don't touch
the body is the worst thing. And if you do these, myelin needs actually
cleaning a bit. Maintain it to keep
maintenance of your myelin, to look after it, care for it. I cannot speak for the
manufactured violence. Although they say they do need maintenance because
if there's a buildup of Rozin here or
in general gunk, then your instrument
just won't sound. Well.
6. Conclusion Which Violin Is Best For You: So that's the thing. If you, if you insist on
playing acoustic violin, either set himself a budget and they tried to go
around different shops. Maybe. Sometimes I'm surprisingly
antique shops have violence. And if they have to look
for things like if they have no cracks here or
at the body in general, like they're in good condition because you
don't want to spend thousands or hundreds on
refurbishing the instrument. I'll just go to a luthier, do violin shop and ask
if asked for advice. So I hope you enjoyed it. If you have any questions, please leave in the
comments section and see you next time. Take care.
Adean Prvanova, Musician
