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Pretty Heavy for 1967 and this influenced Jimmy Page so much as to copy it and try to take credit for it. Townsend claimed "I can see for miles" was heavy (which influenced McCartney to write Helter Skelter) which was recorded in 1967 as well.. I think this is heavier. I say Jake Holmes had a ...

Pete Townsend and Paul McCartney invented Heavy Metal -- Learn something new every day, lol!

Midori has everyone beat on this tune that I've heard so far.

Bravo! *claps hands*! The first video I saw of Maya was about 10 minutes ago and it was her playing twinkle little star from book 1. I could tell she was going to be good and was wondering how she progressed so I looked for more videos and found this current one. I was just blown away by it :)...

Midori, as you can tell sounds just like him. She had to of heard this recording of Sarasate when she was under 6--since she played it at 6 for people. I believe this recording was put originally on 78 in Japan if I recall.

I just came across a 1904 recording of Sarasate himself playing Zapateado! Youtube the following "sarasate plays sarasate zapateado"

I can't believe I'm listening to Pablo de Sarasate! The man who composed Zapateado! He was born in 1845.

Joseph Joachim has recordings too from around 1902. He taught Leopold Auer (who also has a couple recordings).

AMAZING for 8 years old!

Sounds great, but I haven't heard anyone better than Midori at 14 in Carnegie Hall, yet :)

less vibrato because that's how he was taught by a long line of instructional ancestry since baroque times.. his student, leopard auer said in his "violin as i teach it" book that vibrato should only be used for long duration notes. There are many other ways to express yourself other than vibrat...

last comment: If you wiki Joseph Bohm and trace back the instructional ancestry, it goes back into the 1600's with ties to all of the composers since Baroque. :)

Tommy Jackson influenced Byron Berline, as he's told me, and a lot of the way he fiddles this the way Tommy Jackson plays it. :)

Primrose was older here, so quit griping about intonation, lol. You lose your hearing a bit when you get older. If you think he never had good intonation, listen to him play Paganini's caprice 24 on viola here on youtube.

Lol at Mark O'Connor being #1.. for Jazz it's STUFF SMITH then Joe Holley. (Joe tried to imitate Stuff Smith but has his own unique awesome style). Stuff smith has the FEELING behind Jazz music. He was black and grew up when Jazz was in it's infancy.. Joe Venuto and Grapelli don't have the fee...

so beautiful, but he needs to work on his pizzicato.. william primrose (a violist) does the pizz the best, then heifetz :)

Wow, I thought I'd never get to hear Auer.. Didn't know any recordings existed.. He was taught by the best and is indirectly the teacher of all today's virtuosos

I haven't heard anyone do pizzicato better than primrose :) That's better than Heifetz :)

The guy that "threw" this together is the grandfather teacher of all violin virtuosos of the 20th and 21st centuries lol.

Sounds wonderful! Have you ever watched Jascha Heifetz play this on youtube? He was a student of Leopald Auer, the person who arranged what you are playing :) Leopald Auer taught so many virtuoso violinists, which in turn taught other virtuoso violinists, and so forth. All the instructors tra...

Would love to see you play viola da gamba :)

2:51 to 2:55 sound better than both heifitz and primrose and wow I did like the accelerating tempo of the pizz, starting out with his cool slow robotic gestures :)

Imagine him with a top grade instrument. I think that instrument is limiting him. Looks like he is fighting it.. He's better than that violin.

Why is there swearing here and insults? This is a TEN YEAR OLD child here.

One one clip you can see how the shoulder rest does not conform to his body the way he holds the viola. I have the same problem and find that I have to shift my chin over to the center over the tailpiece. This doesn't feel natural to me.. I rather hold my viola like he is. But I think we both ...

Have you seen William Primrose perform Paganini Caprice #24 on Viola? Would be awesome to see your brother play that :)

my original jokes:

Why do certain violinists despise violists so much? Because they are the great grandchildren of the violin section used in J.S. Bach's Cantata No. 18.

Why do violinists make so many jokes about violists? Because they are ignorant of the fact that J.S. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven,...

Why do certain violinists despise violists so much? Because they are the great grandchildren of the violin section used in J.S. Bach's Cantata No. 18.

Why do violinists make so many jokes about violists? Because they are ignorant of the fact that J.S. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Paganini and othe...

Anyways, thought you'd get a kick out of these.. violists do BITE back, forewarned, giggle!

The best one I've read, which I didn't create, is:

What is the difference between a violin and a viola?

There is no difference, the violinist is just big headed.

LOL