This beautiful Asian chick and her G-string

[Blue Light]

You won't believe what she does with the G-string.

(Safe for work? SURE.)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOVwokQnV4M

[dets1]

did i miss somethin'? i didn't see her hit the G string once.

[thewhit]

Outstanding..she plays with a lot of emotion.

[Blue Light]

Originally Posted by Bones

That's an American chick, she was born in Philadelphia.

**clunk** the sound of Blue Light getting busted.


I was thinking of a Korean girl I used to know who always told me that she preferred to be called Asian.
Din't stop to think that Sarah was born in Philly.

She started out as a child prodigy and recorded when she was a mere tot. At the time I thought it was just gimmickry. But she really blossomed and now plays with great feeling. (Not bad to look at either.) Also, she has that thing that Wes Montgomery had, she always seems on the verge of a happy smile.

[GuitarsFromMars]

serious violin chops.

[gixxerrock]

Beautiful emotional performance.

[stevieboy]

Nice! I don't think to listen to violin, but when I do stop and listen to a good player, I usually enjoy it. It has it's own expressive potential (obviously realized by the player of course) that can be very moving.

"Asian" isn't a nationality btw.

[Blue Light]

For those of us who listen to long guitar pieces, getting into a violin concerto is a natural thing. I periodically get obsessed with violin music.

[Julia343]

I heard her for the first time when she was 12. Child prodigy. leaps and bounds ahead of us all.

[Jon Silberman]

How does a violinist know (or learn or feel) when to switch directions with his/her bow (serious question - they make it look so natural but there must be some rules or at least conventions)?

[JimmyR]

I imagine that it's a bit like a singer knowing when to drawer breath.

[GovernorSilver]

Originally Posted by Jon Silberman

How does a violinist know (or learn or feel) when to switch directions with his/her bow (serious question - they make it look so natural but there must be some rules or at least conventions)?

In classical music, the bowing direction is usually indicated with the same up/down symbols used for pick direction for guitarists. If multiple notes are to be played with the same bow stroke, the same curved line used to indicate legato for guitarists is used.

In the community orchestras I've played with, it was up to the music director or section leader to determine the bow direction, because they wanted all the string players' bows to be moving in the same direction at the same time.

For folk music such as Scottish fiddling, and many non-classical styles including jazz and rock, anything goes - when to change direction is determined by how the player wants to phrase something. It's the same as a flatpicking guitarist deciding when to economy pick, use legato, hybrid pick, etc. during a solo.

My viola teacher assigned several bowing etudes to fix some of my bow control issues, most of them out of "Foundation Studies for Viola" by Franz Wohlfarht.

[Lance]

Oh, I always wondered what her name was. Thanks for posting that. Geez, probably 7 or 8 years ago I was surfing past PBS, and I saw her with about a 20 piece orchestra behind here, and she was wearing this gorgeous blue silk gown. Then she proceeded to just destroy everybody with a raging Paganini piece! Always wondered who she was. Phenominal player!

[Blue Light]

You might have seen Sarah Chang do Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto. I happened to tape it and then I showed it to my little girls when they were aged around 6-10. They were sorta enraptured by the sight of her passion and skill. I mean, they watched the whole damned thing, no scootin' around.

Sarah doing Mendelssohn