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  • it seems that all my tuners, and piano have become a shoddy semitone flat whilst watching this video.....oh wait...........

  • It sounds like some notes with bad quality and vibration. Gb, Ab, Bb, Cb(B), Db, Eb, F,Gb then repeat with a higher octave. Hello Auntie! Please tune it first. If you hae terrible vibrato, please do not try to use it since it will only embrass yourself.

    Yours sincerely,

    Someone 25 years old younger than you and 50kg lighter than you.

  • wow...

  • XD Nice vibrato there!

  • That wasn't a G scale. XD

  • Worst vibrato ever- I don't even think that IS a vibrato.

  • stop playing and make me a sandwich

  • hahahahahah

  • Really? An expert? I don't think so! So did she tour the US on "how not to play the violin?"

  • Sorry, but she is plain terrible.

  • Now I can play my scales much better than I have before all thanks to expertvillage!

    These comments are quite harsh. Musicians mean serious business.

  • Absolutely horrible.

  • schreklich

    

  • Vorgettitt!

  • this woman was of no help to me- i only learned 1 thing: don't listen to her. i had no idea there was a c# in the g major scale. also, this woman's screeching violin blew out my eardrums.

  • lade your mackup is runing

  • Everything is out of tune including her strings, i do not want to be rude but you don't know how to play the violin.... and your vibrato (no comments)... did you ever had any lessons and a professional do not have marks for fingers on positions... :S

  • is this a joke. she can't even play the violin properply

  • Is that trash supposed to be a vibrato?

  • SHE DOESNT EVEN HOLD THE VIOLEN CORRECTLY

  • 0:02 really relaly extra closer look SHE USE A TAPE ON HER FRETBOARD..WTF IS THIS??SHE GOT A TAPE,BUT STILL FAIL

  • How did she get into the Granite Youth Symphony???

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  • That was not a scale, that was just really disturbing

  • @TonicMike is it so very horrible that it sounds ok to me?! are my ears "that" untrained after 5 months of practice!

    

  • @maryam0psy well, I don't know what to tell you. Almost every note of her scale was out of tune and her open strings aren't in tune either. She added a C#, which isn't even part of the scale. I'm not intending to be cruel or overly critical, I'm just being honest. It wouldn't bother me if she wasn't trying to pass herself off as a teacher. It's the fact that this was posted as an instructional video that irritates me. Beginners shouldn't be posing as teachers.

  • @TonicMike well yeah you're right. beginners like myself really cant discriminate between good and bad videos and we rely on the feedback of the more trained viewers. im frustrated with myself however for still not being able to rely on my ears :-L violin turned out to be harder than i thought. do u know a specific youtuber with good videos on the scales for me to limit myself to?

  • she claims she has been playing for 21 years but yet she sounds like she has been playing for more like 21 minutes. so bad!!!

  • @bene951 that fat bitch is plump

  • your vibrato is horrible. and when you play scales you normally should not do vibrato, unless your practicing your vibrato, because you want to make sure youre playing a pure note that is perfectly in tune. and she played a C#. and all of it was very off.

  • Lol. First of all the violin itself is not in tune, which ruins the whole scale. Second, she can't vibrato, and shouldn't even try because it makes it sound pitiful!!! And lastly, she can't play a G Major scale, which is why the damned video shouldn't exist. Does anybody know how much experience she has? Because if she has more experience than me (high school student) then it's a shame.

  • thanks for the vid!

  • I just feel sorry for the violin.

  • @NukleheadMcSpazatron Don't worry, it has been heavily sedated.

  • wait... are you kidding ?? I study In a conservatory of music and you are freaking bad!! you didnt take good the bow !! and your sound is HORRIBLE!!! sorry but you need a teacher or ... stop playing violin, you couldnt make violin classes If dont know how to play it good!!! people is stupid

  • I love these comedy clips - I got here straight from Laurel & Hardy :)

  • It is frightening to listen to her play that violin especially in the beginning of the video. I am a beginner but I have been listening to violins for a long time and even I know the sound and the way she plays it is horrible! I don't get why it's called expert village. Maybe because they are experts at showing you WHAT NOT TO DO!

  • Wow! There are so many things wrong with this. Her violin is out of tune, her scale is out of tune, her vibrato is horrendous, and her positioning is terrible. I took 8 years of classical violin lessons. Violin is hard enough to learn with a teacher standing by your side. There is no way you can learn to play violin from an unqualified beginning violinist on Youtube. Please don't take these videos seriously. She has no idea what she is talking about!!!

  • all her notes are fucking flat.

  • way to mess up people's scales, moron. There might be people who actually tried to learn a G Major scale from this. Shame on you!

  • Poor girl, she was probably just having an off day.

  • Wow...some of you here have nothing to say but hateful words about this clip. She is doing her best at her performance level; it may not be the best out there but I know I CAN'T play a violin and after watching HER videos I learned something new. Can anyone of the hateful people in this comment list do that? Put up or Shut up!

  • @setsunarose You don't actually specify what it is that you are asking about the capability of the "hateful people". It could mean: can they teach you something? Or it could mean: are they capable of learning something from this clip? In answer to the first option, probably yes as the bar is clearly so low. The second question would be a more remarkable feat. I however, like you, did learn something from this clip. That this lady can NOT play the violin, and can most definitely NOT TEACH it. 

  • @mrwasbesonders Well then you post a video to teach ME how to play a violin. And as a musician of 12yrs I expect quality from you. I know how a violin can sound in the hands of a beginner vs. the hands of an expert. I am not ignorant that her performance isn't perfect but she is doing her best. What’s hateful are the insults towards the musician that’s what I mean. How hard is it to be polite or kind now days? From what I see on these posts it’s very difficult. That Is What I Mean. Clear?

  • @setsunarose I'm sorry that you were too dim to understand my previous points. Anyone who would defend this shit is deeply deluded and bully for you on your 12 years of musical experience, I have 35 so beat that. And there is no need for me to post a video just cos hers are shit. There are plenty of more than adequate videos on youtube that I would admit to being better than what I might achieve. Though some, like these, are piteous. Now go piss off and get back to your philanthropy.

  • @mrwasbesonders

    feel sorry for your violin...played 35 years by such a person as you.

    btw: pointing out her mistakes is one thing. Insulting is another.

  • @hardtogetausername You are an arrogant and presumptuous fool. How you know what sort of person mrwasbesonders is without meeting him is incredible. Secondly he did not state that he had played the same violin for 35 years, he said he had 35 years of musical experience. He's actually a very nice guy and a good friend of mine, an amazing teacher and player who feels passionately that people should have the opportunity to learn correctly from the beginning. They won't by watching these videos!!!!!

  • Horrible-pitched notes... Horrible...

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  • "I'm gonna show you EXACTLY how to play the G Major scale"

    BAAAHAHAHAHHAHA! I fell on the floor laughing. This cow needs to get laid! :>>

  • Are you sure you know how to play? I sound better than you, and I can't even read it on a piece of paper, what does that say about you? I'm in orch, I can play, I've had concerts where I write in G2 under notes, so

  • wow, she is onto something. What exactly, I do not know, but definitely something:-)

  • ...There is no way that this lady's been playing the violin since 1990.

  • @ComradeDeath hahahaha

  • oh my fucking god....

  • I think there is something wrong with 1:14 or is it just my ear?

  • @ncarmz

    She says: "but remember, the G-major scale has only one sharp. The F sharp. "

    And then at 1.14 she plays a C sharp. DAMN this is hilarious! It has to be a joke...

  • @Ghazghkull66 My 8 year old son spotted this too. He should be teaching her. The frightening thing is these videos are not spoofs. I am staggered. I would laugh if I did not feel so depressed that this shit can find itself on youtube, video after video.

  • maybe she should've practiced before she shot the video. i haven't picked up a violin in about 5 years and even i could tell the scale was a bit off key.

  • .....something tells me she was forced to do this... see the look on her face?

  • @mystirboy yea, maybe at gunpoint or maybe w. her family hostage.

  • If you are seeing this video and you want to be violinist, forget, you will not be...

  • totally unhelpful...thank you for confusing me even more... please get a real violinist expert village... this lady is obnoxious and condescending...beginners need more thorough explanation

  • Quel violino è una cocuzza

  • this is awesome! I love this! Classic youtube!

  • this was out of tune this lady needs to practise

  • people

    at least she teaching something new for me

    and i would like her to keep going

    i'm beginner and now i know almost where is every note ...

    keep going alright??!!

  • that actually gave me a headache.

  • looks like shes having a hand spasm...

  • fuck....

  • This video should be called: How to torture your violin, while trying to play a G Major scale.

    I sure hope this is sarcasm...

  • that was eeeemm... weak

  • better luck next time!!!

  • test

  • i like cookies

  • @Riceball512

    LOL

  • wtf? is this a joke?

  • I didn't know a G major scale had a C# on the way down. Thank you for showing me exactly how to play it.

  • @Whyemkay you learn something everyday!!!!

  • i don't play violin nut im sure she out of tune and needs more pratices

  • SHIT

  • she hit a #11

    wtf

  • worst vibrato i`ve ever seen... intonation is pretty bad

  • what the fuck.

  • this woman has a great personality for being a teacher, but she does not have the violin chops to teach violin. Her intonation is a little sharp, notice how every time she plays an open string it's really jolting how flat it sounds (granted this is a little better when she plays the scale un-interrupted); she tries to do vibrato on the notes but it's really really tights and doesn't help the sound at all, then she doesn't play the right notes in the descent of the highest octave. Is this a joke?

  • there was some mastackes but she was pretty good

  • I think who her violin isn't tunned...

  • Unbelieveable. EXACTLY how to play a scale eh ... I was definitely intrigued...

    I'm really impressed that she decided to show her nervous twitch attempt at vibrato on every note - it really adds something - and must help her play those notes with such colourful intonation. Way to go an keeping the fingers down ... Great bow control too. Ahahahahahahahaha

    ....Seriously though this is an abomination as a teaching resource, full of bad habits and less than mediocre technique

  • well, I'm just saying this, This is a bad example of teaching the violin...........even my worse teachers were better I'm afraid.

  • She's no expert!

  • THIS HURTS MY SOUL.

  • is she tone deaf???

  • seems like it.

  • Why post the video if you missed a note? Re-record instead embarrassing yourself.

  • @rtrue28 This was take 999 of 1000. Take 1000 was no better so they uploaded this.

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  • theres no hope for any of us D:

  • uhm... you played a C# instead of a C....

    it hurt my ears-.-

  • @1:14. You just killed me, lady.

  • FAAAIIILLL. :D

  • Thanks so much, I try to play violin by myself and this does help me a lot.

  • YOU're a fucker. learn to play music, actually don't. save us all and our ears. and lose some weight for christ's sake

  • My GOD you call your self a violin player and u cant even play this scale right. OH I GET IT. Those that can do,those that cant teach

  • that just sounded... horrible.

  • that is very funny ! she said there is one F sharp only , but when she play fast , she add C SHARP , haha this kind of violin teacher ............ I hope she make this video is for fun or not for really! I mean she is bad I MEAN REALLY BAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHHAHA!!!!

  • Expert in sucking, yeah...

  • I guess the Granite Youth Symphony has lowered their standards a bit XD

  • Great!! How much do you charge for summer masterclass?

    OMG...

  • omg is this for real?!?!?! she sounds TERRIBLE!!! DX she is WAY out of tune! this has to be a joke! haha

  • I love the C# on the way down and "vibrato" on her notes.

  • She has the most annoying voice i ever heard

  • At first I thought this was funny but then I read the info... Playing since 1990!!! Now its hilarious!  (I love how she turned it into a mode lesson at the end)

  • ooo, she made it a descending lydian scale at the end there...how classy

  • As a professional musician, and teacher of violin & viola, I am personally offended by this video. I have beginners who can play better than this woman! Her intonation, "vibrato", bow hold, sound, posture, all HIDEOUS! If she were my student, I would tell her to quit violin and learn to play something else...like bridge. Maybe by "Beginner Violin Instruction" they mean instruction BY beginners? If you are trying to learn to play the violin, do NOT watch this video!

  • @dustyrex4895 I agree... I don't play violin, but am a musician, and I can pick out many things in this that just... aren't right!

  • @dustyrex4895 I completely agree. These "expert village" videos are a joke. Hilarious that this woman is demonstrating a scale and she seems to have missed the most basic reason to play scales in the first place: intonation. Not to mention the way she's not keeping her fingers down, the bowing, the "vibrato"...everything you mentioned basically. I'm glad I'm not the only violinist who's appalled that this severe sounding and untrained person is trying to pass for a teacher.

  • oh ya she is a hottie for sure

  • The worrying thing is that she speaks with such conviction! She could almost con you into thinking she could play..if one was deaf and blind..

  • hahaha "i'm going to show you exactly how to play a G major scale.." hahahahahahahahahahahahhahahah­ahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

    officially funnest video on the youtube.. hahahahahahahahahahahahahaahha­ahahhaa

  • Not 'traditional' teachers, Dr. Tarot - QUALIFIED teachers. This is one of the easiest and most basic scales on the violin, and she plays it out of tune and with wrong notes (C# on the way down?! Seriously??) Is this acceptable for an 'instructional video?' I think not.

  • yeah. let's post an instructional video where the teacher hits wrong strings.

  • 1,13:1,16 - Come on!! How can you possibly be pleased with that?? Expertvillage you say... well, why don´t you get expert teachers then?

  • absolutely terrible

  • expertvillage should use a better teacher. Horrible pitch and sound!

  • oh man!! this is extremely faltso!!! go and learn, and then you can teach somebody else!!!

    skatohodri!!

  • jajaja la gordita esta tocando C# de regreso, la escala de sol mayor no lleva do sostenido!!! aparte de que toda la esta alta

  • Spanish speakers are hilarious....I miss Miami!

  • the whole scale was a little flat. For someone on expert village they should us an pro violinist. Has she really played for 19 years?

  • What are links to GOOD LESSONS? Instead of criticizing this, why not point toward some proper lessons.

    I think they are a wonderful supplement to beginner lessons in that it's simple enough to see what she is doing. The criticism is also helpful in that it lets us know that "traditional" teachers do things bit differently.

  • i never knew "movable do" was applicable to violin playing.

    this is certainly news to me.

  • yea !! best instructor online stfu you freaking haters i have learnt perfectly 2 scales taught by her C and G! and they are correct if you guys so good playing violin why the hell you guys watching a video on how to play a violin so get outa here no life faggots!

  • because it's so fuckin funny!!!!!

  • Esta super desafinada!!!!!

  • y supongo que tu lo haces mejor?? ja si es asi para que diablos ves este video sobre como tocar un violin si ya sabes como duh pero me encanta ver gente retrasada como tu poniendo comentarios idiotas

  • 1- Pues si se hacer lo mejor

    2- No es un comentario idiota, porque SI esta muy desafinada (por lo visto usted no lo noto)

    3- Veo este video para ver como se supone que deberia estar una escala perfectamente afinada...

    Osea por favor si van a poner a alguien a dar clases on-line deberia ser bueno...no? no una estupida que apenas sabe como agarrarlo

    4- Y No soy ninguna retrasada, que por lo visto usted si para no oir tremenda desafinacion

  • pues si y no pero con tal de que ayude a otros a aprender algo esta haciendo su trabajo perfectamente bien creo que has hecho tu punto lo siento

  • Ya me aburri de leer sus estupidas respuestas...a ud que le interesa lo que yo pienso de ella...osea por favor porq la defiende si ni siquiera la conoce??? osea....

    Pero si en algo la ayudo a ud...me imagino lo mala que debe ser tocando para acudir a una estupida "profesora" on-line

    Y ya ni se moleste en responder xq no lo voy a leer

  • no solo pense que serias como todos los demas aqui diciendo que el video es una basura y pense en defenderla por que a mi me parecio bueno por que es el unico video donde te enseña nota por nota como sacar la escala y pues nadamas eso aa y tomalo con calma solo fue un comentario lol

  • This person, as well as the public, is not helped by encouragement. The public is my biggest concern, though. NO ONE should attempt to learn from this individual.

    She has not taken the time to learn to play properly, nor to teach. That is unfortunate.

    Also, the presentation, especially for violin, should be CALM, not frantic and hurried.

    She is free to do as she pleases. But, for the sake of the public (and violin instruction), she should take her videos down.

  • i think this video is fab as she has shown me what i need to know xxxxxx

  • lol come on, she is just trying to help, at least she can play better than me......... i should teach too hahhahahha

  • wow

    you suck

  • wow your pretty bad

  • MY FUCKING EARS HURT

    you just ruined my life.

    nice minor modulation by the way, fuckrag.

  • uh when ur putting down fingers arent u supposed to keep all of them down? not lifting it after u played the note?

  • look, i'm not going to sit here and tell you you suck at playing...there's enough people doing that already...I'm going to tell you could be better, and that you may still be learning yourself, and not listen to some of idiots down here telling you to shove off and just stop teaching...despite what they think, the don't know everything about the violin, no one does, or can...there's always something new to be learned. I am am going to request, you learn a little more before teaching.

  • flat, put of tune, vibrato sucks,bow not straight, played wrong note, look I know you are getting paid for this but dont give us advice. Pisses me off when people like you think they can teach other students The WRONG WRONG WRONG VERY WRONG WAY to play violin.

  • You played C# while going down! And you didn't even correct yourself! AWFUL get off this site.

  • Your off pitch.............not very expert!

  • that's the scale of F sharp Major

  • wow...that's all I've got for this vid lol (and note the sarcasm...)

  • !!!!! Ok, to be fair, you are really brave...

    Speaks clearly but needs to get a better violin... or improve your tone and technique..

    Maybe... its the violin? lolz...

  • I've watched afew of your videos and heard you say you are an 'advanced player'. You are not even close to being an 'advanced player' and its annoying having people replying to comments saying 'you are good' and 'shes helping me learn' NO SHE IS NOT shes teaching you how to become a very, very bad Violinist. Go out and find a good Violin teacher!

  • ...good in theory but I think this is the first time you´ve touched a violin!

  • Just a lil tip "expert village", what most people do when they first start playing (as you clearly are under false pretences thinking you are an expert) is put a lil bit of coloured tape under the strings so you can see where to put your fingers, and where all the notes are.

    I did it when I started out and its not too late it will improve your technique markedly within a few weeks.

  • vibrato and intonation are horrible - thats not a teacher - thats a nightmare for all beginners out there -

  • i don´t understand why people always have to post "expert tutorials" if they can´t play themselves.

    p.s.: perhaps she wanted a baroque tuning? :-)

  • Hahaha she plays the #11 at 1:14!!!

  • this doesn't help at all. all these videos suck

  • How about putting a capo on the neck so that you can be in tune!

  • what's wrong with it..it help me a lot...u can say what ever u wanna say but i really like the wat she do it..not like the other so fast...she only showing u where to put ur finggers...

  • eh it's all a matter of opinion

    i did think it helps somewhat

    but she is slightly out of tune

    or i am...

    that would suck 0.o

  • Oh my gosh...please remove this. You are clearly not good enough to teach even a beginner. You are hurting those who wish to play, rather than helping.

  • she messed up haha she sucks

  • she can't vibrato

  • horrible.

  • can't understand

  • hey all of you great violinists whos saying that shes trying hard, I ask you all to pose your violin tutorial too, this tutorial is helpfull for beginners than paying some teachers.

  • DAMN!!! YOU SUCK!!!!!!

  • omg the g scale

    i coulg play it better than u

    i cant take a random guy of the street and teach him or her to play the scale better than you, in tune with in an hour

    1:13-1:15 C* not C#

  • hahaha you´re so cruel hahahahaha joking you´re right!

  • wow, these expertvillage recordings sound like the people in the videos are just learning how to play violin.

  • Your violin is out of tune.

  • everyone whos bitching is a real jackass. cuz you know if she was "hot" no one would be saying such things.

    as for someone who is just picking up a violin for the first time, i actually found this a little helpful.

  • excactly if she was hot and especially dumb guys would say "id do her" or "oh thank you sooo much your beautiful". ugh im so tired of it. basically internet bullies have no lives but to sit here just to jugde

  • Remake this video...If you're an "advanced violinist" as you said in another video, you should probably know that C# is not part of the G major scale...EVER. It would take 2 seconds to re-tape the video. Do you think we "beginner violinists" won't notice mistakes?! UGh so annoying

  • um...no offense, but you're instrument is a little off tune. it's too flat.

  • i love how your g string was out of tune.  nice job trying to teach though