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Buckwabit wrote:

DUCKAHOLIC wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhWRkiGtHVo

This is not on the same lines but its awesome.......Metallica fade to black...on a violin by a hot chick

That's pretty cool. I took 4 Violin lesson before I decided the world would be better off without me learning that art. Very hard to learn how to play a violin.

From everything I have read, the violin is one of the few instruments that requires a human being to begin practicing very early in life in order to even get close to virtuoso status- hell to even have noticeable skill. Which is almost certainly the case with any instrument, but I have seen people pick up a guitar and other stringed instruments and in a matter of 3 or 4 years they master it, to a certain extent. Not so with the violin.

You might not like her style of music but Allison Krauss can sure make a Fiddle talk....

Buckwabit wrote:You might not like her style of music but Allison Krauss can sure make a Fiddle talk....

Shoot, I love LOVE me some string music. Alison Krauss is tough, she's played with a little of everybody too.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdMp5Hl_RB4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeVdLnkK ... re=related

Here is one of her and Union Station givin' it hell!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR_8EgQj3tg

DUCKAHOLIC wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhWRkiGtHVo

This is not on the same lines but its awesome.......Metallica fade to black...on a violin by a hot chick

Another hot chick and violin. One of my fave soundtrack tunes too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVbu8bh7 ... re=related

mfalkner wrote:Youtube Jake Shimabukuro playing "while my guitar gently weeps" on a uke and then form an opinion...

I've heard it before and prefer that song on an electric 6 string.

greenheadgrimreaper wrote: From everything I have read, the violin is one of the few instruments that requires a human being to begin practicing very early in life in order to even get close to virtuoso status- hell to even have noticeable skill. Which is almost certainly the case with any instrument, but I have seen people pick up a guitar and other stringed instruments and in a matter of 3 or 4 years they master it, to a certain extent. Not so with the violin.

There's probably something to that.

Of course, there are a lot more people that attempt to learn guitar, a lot more guitars out there, and guitar based music is a lot more popular than violins. I know a handful of people that have tried violin but couldn't begin to count those that have tried to play guitar.

No doubt the older you get the less likely you are to pick up an instrument and become proficient enough that folks want to hear you play.