Baba O'Riley Violin Solo

[jacobsteingart]

Nice job! I'm playing this for a class. However, I have sheet music, so props to you for learning it by ear.

[QualityTimeChannel]

And yes, good attempt, but your timing needs work. I'm a violinist myself. Just keep listening to the song, and practicing. Eventually you'll nail it.

[QualityTimeChannel]

Guest violinist Dave Arbus from the band East of Eden, played VIOLIN, not viola, on Baba O'Riley. Look him up on wikipedia if you want. Keith Moon, drummer for The Who, was friends with Dave Arbus, and ended up producing Arbus' solo into the final recording.

[rubberplantsandwich]

luv it

[GrimShadow00]

Very nice want to play this so bad

[yooperwholigan13]

dude! i just got the music for this and i'm pulling my violin out right now! maybe if i'm really lucky my teacher will let me play this for the spring concert on monday

[Mawwwrtin]

Great take on the baba, but a little work needs to be done on your timing I think. Otherwise it's killer though.

[Schmunken1]

I didn't knew that Pete Townshend could play the violin! OMG

[hardgenitalia]

impressive

[10Neuville]

OMG, very good, really

[TheOneRaf]

sthing you can't play?

[Bugalu67]

Awesome

[bandit687]

dude you look like pete

[randomxfirerecording]

Ho. Ly. SHIT!

That was great.

[gudgyboi]

some one has no girl friend

[LilBabeSoCrazy]

AWESOMEEE

[goi1]

you know you kinda look like pete townshend :0

[motos]

freakin sick!

[LedZepplin3853]

he looks kinda constipated

[aznpowa1]

I love this!! But I suggest that you should lift your elbow more so you wont feel strained. I still think this is KICK ASS

[danielinthebeatles]

genial!



[DarkWarrior103]

well played, but i did not notice the song... exept maybe the solo :D

[rockaholic2395]

Your hands and that violin combine so well together.Great job!

[kutip1027]

play a little faster and i would creme my pants

[MusiclyInsane44]

This is definitely one of my favorite parts of the song lol Great job!

[Dorkaswals]

Can you please send me the music to this, for years I have wanted to play this with my orchestra class and my teacher said if I brought the sheet music that we could play it. I already have most of music for bass etc.. but I cant get the violin part.

[iandonkey1987]

play a real instrument u fuck head

[TheWhoLive73]

go to the Who 2000 put that in put 103.3 its a concert.If you want to hear a violin by nigel kenndy even roger was jammen to the violin solo.

[TheWhoLive73]

great job but .28-.31 he misses  key,

[88houghjay]

i could do better SIKE THAT WAS AMAZING

[Mikespyke]

YO PEOPLEE!!! all of you checking out this video obviouslky have great taste in muysic sooo i need some feedback and comments on this drum compliation video I made...its a mesh of songs in Rock n Roll with kickass drumming. I put like 60 songs into this drum series....uhhh if you guys could check it out id appreciate

also did i mention, this violin solo is FUCKEN INCREDIBLE

[SaturnProds]

WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mrdavy74]

damn!!!! dude great job on that i mean it man. u got it on the money man. fuckin a FUCKIN AAAAAAAAAAA!! great outstanding performance keep it up dude. kick ass!!!!!!!!!!!

[Kadster09]

:) So sweet

[billallman]

Nice work! My own band is just working this one up and our fiddle player was WAY impressed with you!!!!

[REDHEADEDPRINCESS7]

Hey you did pretty good! 5stars ~.~ i play the violin too and every time i hear this song im dieing to play it! could you tell me where i can get my hands on a copy of sheet music? did you listen to the song and disifer it or did u find it? could u help me out? *waits*... peas????

[csrtitus]

Sounds like a herd of gobbling turkeys.....lol

[ClassicTVMan81]

At the very end it did. Gobble, gobble, gobble...

[elrais2]

Pete!

[peterGnash]

he looks like pete!

[tuffinboots]

BRAVO!!

[bonesfan77]

very cool!!!

[radioclown85]

big nose pete :)

[VirginViolin]

He DOES look like Pete Townshend! Great video! You are awesome!!! Keep playing violin!! 5 stars

[hammeredbro95]

that was great man! you actually do look like Pete Townshend haha

[NYCadet273]

yes! please do make a video on how to play it! being a huge who fan and violinist, I really would like to learn this solo!

[zx7gp]

NICE JOB DUDE!

[hippies1982]

hey bassmangarrett151 im a longtime violin player to! and guess what? i think that your just looking for someone to bash and say your better then. i think it was fine to post it on youtube, becuase he did a nice job.

hey good job man. i think your tone was good and you really played it pretty cleanly. kudos!!! :)

[marcoxar]

you are awesome, simple as that

[gagandeep89]

effin sweet

[bassmangarrett151]

ummm, coming from a long time violin player, work on the tone, get a better violin, and stand up straighter. trust me, everything else will just fall in line. good job having the balls to post this on youtube!!

[YJMproductions]

wow is that pete!!! lol nice work dude. and by the way you look like pete townshend. lol

[alyash1]

EXACTLY WHAT I THOUGHT!

[TheWholigans]

Talented man.....talented.

[tybittz]

cool ^_^

[Kooldude3014]

Nice job dude

[RingoDude66]

Really nice!

And you're really look like Pete Townshend!

5 Stars

[kkatarn327]

now do it on harmonica!!! haha jk that's fucking awesome dude!!

[geezzerboy]

Great, fantastic, awesome. You are a real musician. You can easily prove it anytime. Congratulations

[SuperJBTwilight]

Holy Jamalama. Dear sweet baby jesus!

You MUST post the video on how to play that soon! I'm begging you! This is my favorite song of all time, and I am just DYING to learn how to play it for violin!

[ZAEzZanza]

BEAST. Simple as that.

[1230leica]

This is amazing!!!! Just perfect!

[abbbage]

that was awesome! you should make a tutorial.. great job!

[shaanp100]

can this be played on cello too

because we were thinking of doing this and we have a really good cello player

[1337director]

Yeah, it can be. It'll be about 1% harder to play because the cellist will have to shift up for that high F, but cellists are used to shifting for everything anyways ;-)

[knoxville363]

5/5 nice work

[mexman000]

that's very good. keep practicing and you could speed it up. I agree with the other comment about feeling it and playing it that way. very good though.

[Ronf465]

Zero point zero

[Ravioli74020]

Man your too uptight about it, you gotta feel it, not just play it, and you skipped some beats in-between

[DirkDiggler15]

that was pretty good. although what no one mentions is that the solo was actually a Viola... not a violin.

[1337director]

No, it was a violin. I play viola- that's definitely a violin on the recording. I think there are some interviews somewhere that say it's a violin too...regardless, it could be played on a viola too, but it's easier on a violin...

[hippiechickie18]

@1337director I think it would only be marginally easier on a violin, the only difference on the viola would be the high F would be played in third position on the A string.

You should relax your left hand when you're playing, and bend the wrist more. It'll be easier to use vibrato and your sound quality will improve. Nice job :)

[Psam091]

@DirkDiggler15 it did sound a lot like a viola but im pretty sure its a violin. atill i can play it on my viola

[minityman]

Nice!

[elementking95]

and you look a bit like pete

[elementking95]

awesome!

[deluxe007mx]

I would learn violin just to play this solo and then quit it.

[hg3300]

cool dude

[hg3300]

cool dude

[supcrackz]

pleasepleasepleaseeee show how to do this! It would be amazing

[InvisibleMango]

Wooo!! Awesome! High five to that! Great job, Baba O'Riley almost makes me want to take up violin in addition to guitar.

[elementking95]

awesome!

[SaturnProds]

wow dude. awesome!

[Wenindoubtukisscraig]

awesome... btw you look a bit like Pete Townshend (AWESOME!!)

[blackuzco]

yups.. he got his look.. long lost son perhaps? lol.. jk

[Sonicsea]

Yeah... he does!

[koolhauses]

lol you look like him

[MongoManProductions]

Great Job.

[GaMeRuInEr]

he kinda looks like a young Pete Townshend

[rorrante]

Wow, that was awesome. Thanks.

[wngrocks1222]

omg, can you give me the sheet music? i also play the violin and i have been wanting to play this part for the longest time! :P

[1337director]

Hey, thanks for the comments everyone. I don't have sheets, and I was planning on doing a video of how to play this, but I recently cut my hand, so that's not going to happen for a bit, but I promise I'll eventually post something on it.

[theannoucha]

that was so AWESOME

[PollockQT]

Great, but you need to feel the music rather than just playing it. Nice job though

[QUADRO406]

Hey There I( was just wonderin' if you could pass on some music sheets or tell me a website that would have the music sheet for it! I really need your help!

[xXkeithXmoonXx]

friggin awesome dude!!

u look like Pete!

[FixinToBeAlotBetter]

that was really good, you should make a video on how to play it ;)

[Benjigecko3]

Your facial expressions are rather distracting.

No, good job mike.

See, my comments aren't useless and mean like yours!

[Risti28]

Very cool.....

[RGomez94]

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[BakaNekoChanSan]

wow!!! awesome!!

[fratellis180]

i love it!

[Risti28]

That was good stuff,, yeah you do resemble a young Pete

[fooshin]

lol that was awesome, you totally do look a bit like Pete.

[Steebod]

dude you kick ass!

[Sonicsea]

Amazing. And you look like Pete too.

[PunkNirvana78]

thats lik my favorite part of the whole song!

[Tranchera]

It's a bit slow.

And you kinda look like Pete Townshend! That's not a bad thing, though!

[joekap93]

thats the only reason i would ever learn violin :P

[zephyrsurfskate1]

badass

[joshcuk]

Wow. Spot on.

[seamonkeyguitars]

its a harmonica solo

[1337director]

In concert it generally was, yes. On the recording (from Who's Next) it was a violin.

[EmmaEarthquake]

yeah, in concert roger daltrey did a harmonica solo and on the recording its a violin, nice job! :]

[krwcarolina]

really thoiught that shit was some kind of horn

[Jitters10]

nope, its whatever rodger felt like playing that day..

[deick777]

shit!!!!

amazing!!!

[edgarallanpoelover]

Very nice! :D

[SamberSamkor]

Is it an alto violin ?

[1337director]

Nope, it's a regular violin in standard tuning (EADG).

[TheSanityInspector]

Has an arabian feel to it, in this performance. Thanks for posting.

[3312wat]

not my type

[yienr]

hey make a vid on how to do that?

[1337director]

Since I've gotten a few requests, I will be making a how-to video sometime soon.

[me24546]

you've got Pete Townshend's nose

[maimere]

hell yeah.. he looks like townshend's grandson or so

[guitar5454]

i beleive its done a bit faster but great job anyways

[BiologicStronger]

Please¡¡ Can you say me where did you take tablature (partitura) of this song¡¡

[fisharefriends9]

Where do you get the sheet music for this?

[blondie357785]

I wanna learn that..it doesn't sound too hard..

[majegaiden]

good

[mweems]

Wow, you're very good! Sounds great. I've never seen someone do this on a violin before (which is of course what was on the original recording), so...neat!