Street Violinist Taking A 4 Year Old's Request

[Hoofbite]

Pretty good.

[kapolani]

Good stuff.

Till this day I wish that I would have learned how to play a musical instrument. Was always too busy with sports.

[Sam I Am]

The Violin and Piano were the two instruments I wish I would have learned to play. My buddy that I grew up playing guitar with ended up getting a Violin for Christmas about 4 years ago.

These days I never have time for anything time consuming. I play my guitar because I can pick it up and put it down at any time. (already knowing how to play it)

[Hostile]

Either that 4 year old knew a song I have never heard of, or the request was prompted.

Either way quite enjoyable.

[Faerluna]

Originally Posted by Sam I Am

The Violin and Piano were the two instruments I wish I would have learned to play.

Violin is one of the hardest instruments to learn to play, outside of the double reed instruments (oboe and bassoon). I played violin all through high school and was a good technical, orchestral player, but never had the panache of the gifted ones like this guy.

I played piano pretty well and I was also a percussionist in band for several years before giving it up for vocal music.

I'm hoping our daughter chooses a musical hobby at some point, naturally.

[ethiostar]

Cool!!

[DMOB]

Way cool!

[bounce]

Originally Posted by Hostile

Either that 4 year old knew a song I have never heard of, or the request was prompted.

Either way quite enjoyable.

Probably both. Black and Yellow is a pretty popular song among Steelers fans, and was pretty big when they were in the SB a couple years ago.

But, it seems prompted, too. Because he had the beat ready pretty quickly.

[Future]

Originally Posted by Sam I Am

The Violin and Piano were the two instruments I wish I would have learned to play. My buddy that I grew up playing guitar with ended up getting a Violin for Christmas about 4 years ago.

These days I never have time for anything time consuming. I play my guitar because I can pick it up and put it down at any time. (already knowing how to play it)

I agree totally. I've played guitar for like 10 years - though don't claim to be anywhere even near "good"

I always wished I had learned to play piano or violin though...I love the way they can fit into other genres like Hip hop in the video.

Originally Posted by Hostile

Either that 4 year old knew a song I have never heard of, or the request was prompted.

Either way quite enjoyable.

Black and Yellow was/is a major hit from Wiz Khalifa. That song was all over the place for a while, and that album, Rolling Papers, was a big time seller if I'm not mistaken.

It could have been prompted, but I would assume that the guy just knew the song...at least enough to improv on it.

[Balotelli]

I can do that...

[Hostile]

Thanks guys. I have never heard of that artist either.

[VietCowboy]

world-class violinist doing a social experiment:

here's the whole story

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...040401721.html