Viva La Vida - Coldplay - 3 Violin Cover

Played by Alex Tielker (left), Brendan Loftus (middle), and Howard Lee (me, right).

I first got the idea of performing this when I watched ew1282's violin cover. I loved his arrangement of this song and decided to write out the three parts by hand with a few tweaks here and there.

Brendan goes into his own version of the 3rd part at the start of the second verse to "spice it up" a little, and we try to add a few flourishes here and there but the main structure of the song comes from ew1282's version, so thanks to him for a great and inspirational vid!

All three of us play(ed) for the Spokane Youth Orchestra of Spokane, Washington. Brendan is going off to college this year.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Viva La Vida
• Coldplay
• Violin Cover

[Morijince]

Thanks for the kind words everyone. I know I don't sound the best in this vid, I've learned to utilize my bow a lot better since.

I'm afraid I can't give out the sheet music right now due to it being written out by hand and I don't have access to any kind of scanner. I'll try to find one for you guys though.

[ATielker]

@imasianawesome what are you talking about? racist? and learn how to spell "white" lol plus the middle guy has the same notes over and over

[ATielker]

wow thanks for all the view everyone.. I hope to be putting up some pretty sweet violin covers soon on my channel so i hope you guys will check it out soon!

[ashybrew21]

Wow Tielk you got like 3,000 views on this...making me proud :)

[ATielker]

@techhoe its a D and C# and i might be tuned slightly higher.

[techhoe]

can u answer my question, for 2nd violin when i play D and C in the beginning it doesnt sound the same. D: sorry i dont know some key signatures

[alancwwong]

need cello and double bass.

[samiyo11]

dude man, love it! would you be kind enough to share the sheet music? Even if you can take pictures of the sheet music that would be great! Please let me know! Thanks man~!

[imasianawesome]

i think thats kinda racist cuz theres 1 wite guy and 2 asians and also, the 2 asians hav music stands and the wite guy doesnt lol

[heidicda]

Great job!