@@thenewfiddler9588 I have played guitar previously, never professionally though, I passed a grade 3 guitar exam, started playing violin 15th January 2019 as an adult adult. I'm loving the sound of the violin.
Guitar's are cool and very versatile and everyone plays the guitar. Not many can play the violin but when they can, it's the most beautiful sound there is.
Agree there. Guitars are easy to learn and are cheaper to buy than a good quality violin. Violins have a more beautiful sound and more difficult to learn.
@@alanwayne369 You're talking the type of music you're playing and not the guitar and that I agree. If you're talking just playing a classical guitar, then no. It's still just a guitar.
I'm trying to decide what to learn first, and here are a few of my reasons for each instrument. I would like to be able to play guitar because a lot of songs I like have guitar, so I could sit in my room with a guitar singing along to my favourites. However, I feel like violin sounds better as a solo instrument, it can be full of so much emotion without a word. I'd like to know both though
While learning the violin it’s important to realize the deeply rich and emotive playing you are hearing is decades along your journey learning the instrument most likely- if you want to enjoy making good sounds faster, you might start with guitar if that’s what you are looking for.
@@vetzrah4437 I plan to actually do both, but for now I'm working on guitar. Violin will take a long time but I'm definitely willing to out that time in
@@Flowering_AzaleaI totally agree I recently got a new guitar and hope to find that right website to take lessons easily. Then I plan on start learning to play a violin for I took some lessons as a kid and loved it but I only took it for a short time before we moved off. Now I am 65 and on disability so its a slow process for me financially to get my violin and to start my lessons. You probably young so I pray you start learning them both and do well. ☝🎻
When typical people think of guitars: strumming and solo, that’s it 😏 When guitarists look at guitar: how can I play a Piano pieces with bass line, harmony and melody at once? How can I express my feeling with some slides, slur, tap, harmonic, a bit of percussion, bend, ghost notes...? I can’t judge you, cause Guitar is magic. 🙂
Guitar is popular so it gets a bad rap. Nobody cares about my abilites on the guitar but if someone played a basic melody on a chello or violin.. i fucking hate the cliches of guitar i hate playing something that 0.01% can play and nobody giving a shit whilst a chello player playing a basic ass riff gets labeled as a god.
The guitar is the backup thing? ... Have you played jazz, blues, fusion, rock, folk, funk, pop, country music, reggae, rap, metal with a guitar or electric guitar, classical guitar, etc.? In many pieces and songs of this genre, the guitar is the main instrument. The guitar is more versatile; the guitar is not only a backup instrument. You can sing with a guitar, play other instruments while playing the guitar, for example, a foot drum, a harmonica, etc. There are more pieces and songs written on a guitar. You can do more things with a guitar, like Tommy Emmanuel, Tim Henson, classical guitarists, etc., and other non-backup guitarists. Guitar playing is not limited to four-chord songs. The guitar sounds more neutral; it can be the backup and the lead. But I must admit, violin is harder to learn. That's why the guitar is so popular; you can play easy pieces and very hard pieces. Some guitarists can even play rhythm and melody with a guitar while singing. In the end, play what you want; both are great instruments. I love the sound of the violin and the guitar.
The problem is that you are comparing cowboy-style guitar with 4 chords and classical instrument like violin. But if we take a classical guitar or modern fingerstyle, which is even more diffucult and containing all classical stuff + percussion with steel strings? This is why violin seems anytime harder than guitar. People associate guitars with cowboy style in first place. But lets take all playing styles, which instrument allows you to do... Guitar allows you to be a band on one instrument, without any limits. I dont't say that violin is easy/hard/bad/good. Just wanted to bring up this very important point what people always forget to know about guitar. If they chose to play only 4 chords - its not the problem of an instrument.
I really like the sound of the violin. Although I really like the guitar, but the sound; I don’t really like it as much as the violin. Which should I get?
I play both the guitar and fiddle. I think the Fiddle is much harder to learn. It is so technique forward. So much to learn at the beginning. I enjoy playing both, but the Fiddle is my favorite. I find the more instruments you play, the easier it is to play. I can't articulate why. Great video
I play both to a fairly good level and I will agree that yes guitar is much easier to learn from a beginner level but each have their own unique difficulties at a later stage. For example on a violin a tremolo technique is pretty simple whereas on guitar it's really difficult to get right. And the whole world of jazz guitar is a mind fuck lol! But I would 100 percent agree with you as a beginner violin is Soo much harder to learn... Where are the bloody frets haha!!! I just hope people don't get a wrong idea a think guitar is easy :)
@@billobejero6290 I think just getting to know your instrument is a good start. How to hold it, maintain it, getting a good posture when playing. I think it's important to work on these seemingly simple techniques while a begginer and 100percent if you can, then find a good teacher. They may identify bad habits you may pick up and it's always harder to un-learn bad habits the longer you become set in your ways haha
Great video and good points, thank you! I’m an adult fiddle beginner, 2.5 years in and I think I always wanted to learn the violin but was deterred as a kid as it was supposed to be so hard. But I’ve never had a hobby I enjoy so much. So there’s another point, if you really feel that you want to learn the fiddle, go for it. :) But, as you said, it’s not the best social instrument. And at one point I felt I wanted something I could play as backup when with friends etc, so I opted for the mandolin as you get some understanding for free as it’s tuned as a fiddle, although maybe not as flexible as a guitarr. But it has worked out great for me. And I will probably pick up gitarr some time. :)
What If I love both? I love the sound of the violin but I am a songwriter so I want to learn the guitar. Is it possible to learn two instruments at the same? Which instrument should I learn first?
Don't forget about the Mandolin. Its tuned just like the Violin/Fiddle. If you learn to play the Fiddle, one could easily "pick" out the same tune on the Mandolin. Another interesting thing about the Violin/Fiddle and Mandolin is the strings GDAE are the lowest 4 strings on the guitar flipped (EADG-BE)
I have been trying to play the guitar for years and have finally come to the realization that I just don't have the finger dexterity to play all the notes. I have seen a lot of people here on TH-cam saying it's easy to learn to play the guitar, anyone can, I'm afraid I have to disagree, for some that might be true, but not for everyone. Now I have given up trying to learn completely and put my time towards things I can do or am capable of learning.
I'd say try again. I'm sure you've heard this before but you just have to really want it. If you can hang in there for 4 months and practice consistently every day for only 5 to 30 minutes a day I almost can guarantee you would learn it. I really feel if I can learn anybody can. I started learning at 43 and it took me 4 months to play my first song using open/ Cowboy chords. I learned my first song in 4 months which was Silver Wings played in the key of D broken down to three chords. D chord, E minor chord, and A7.
Because I want a portable piano, I went with guitar. I see artists like Ichika, Marcin, and others who play pieces like Bach Two Part inventions, Turkish March, etc... on the guitar. That is they play all the voices on one instrument with advanced techniques like two hand finger tapping, so they don't need accompaniment. And I see artists like Tommy Emmanuel who play the guitar with percussive elements, melody and bass without the need for any other accompaniment. And I saw videos of Ted Greene improvise a real-time in the style of Bach! He just makes up melody and bass line on the fly! They make it seem so easy. How much guitar practice does it take to reach their level?
I've been playing guitar for about two and a half years now. I'm just curious for those of you that have learned guitar and then learned fiddle/violin as a second instrument did it also help you progress as a guitar player?
Someone, please help me here, I want to learn the violin desperately. But I am a singer, I need to have an instrument like a guitar so I can sing along to it. What should I do? I desperately want a violin but I also want to keep singing. I can't have both, my budget allows me to have one instrument. It will be my first instrument
Buy thr guitar ... if your a singer there isn't an instrument better fot you than thr guitar.... ull see fantastic results in 5 to 6 months...on the other hand violin is a fab instrument but it'll take you 2 years two get descent and maybe 4 years to be able to perform comfortably.... while guitar would take only a year... in the end it's still your choice!!! See which sound attracts you more !! Hope u can choose now ❤❤
I would say that difficulty-wise, the guitar does start simpler, but the skill-cap for the guitar is absurdly high. Once you know the basics and you want to get really good, there's an almost infinite amount of techniques and styles that you can try to master. Playing the blues? Easy. Playing Eric Johnson with shredding 16ths triplets all across the neck with perfect pick motion? Monstrously difficult. Want to play metal? At some point you may want to master fast and regular downpicking, muting and releasing, perfect-pitch bending on one or multiple strings, being able to switch from fast-chugging to shredding a melody line in phrygian dominant#7, and back to chugging, all in 7/8 polyrythm and alternate tuning. All while adding tapping, harmonics, pinch harmonics, and managing your pedal effects. So yes, violin is a difficult instrument, but you can absolutely make the guitar a monster of difficulty if you want to.
Though learning guitar is easier to learn but in case of violin u just get lost in the music and that kind of connection with the instrument i dont think guitar can achieve it .
Not really at all. Maybe tonally thats debatable but electric guitar is generally quite alot more difficult than classical. The use of a pick introduces a whole set of challenges. For instance try playing serrana.
Learn violin first till intermediate level... You'll get addicted and motivated... Then use the snowball effect and you'll learn the guitar quite easy. I play violin and I'm learning guitar
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I prefer violin than guitar.
I play guitar better, but I like violin better.
@@thenewfiddler9588 I have played guitar previously, never professionally though, I passed a grade 3 guitar exam, started playing violin 15th January 2019 as an adult adult. I'm loving the sound of the violin.
@@ceciliaevans that depends on the individual. I myself don't believe that is true. I was getting a nice sound from my violin.
The Guitar is better, if you know how to play it like Tommy Emmanuel, or if you know how to convert Paganini music to guitar.
@@Q8Ubermensch ya for me too
Guitar's are cool and very versatile and everyone plays the guitar. Not many can play the violin but when they can, it's the most beautiful sound there is.
Agree there. Guitars are easy to learn and are cheaper to buy than a good quality violin. Violins have a more beautiful sound and more difficult to learn.
Playing songs like asturias and fur elise make long for Classic guitar it's not easy.
@@alanwayne369 You're talking the type of music you're playing and not the guitar and that I agree. If you're talking just playing a classical guitar, then no. It's still just a guitar.
@@AmandaViolinGirl You speak as though you've mastered the guitar
Alrightly then play serrana on guitar.
I'm trying to decide what to learn first, and here are a few of my reasons for each instrument.
I would like to be able to play guitar because a lot of songs I like have guitar, so I could sit in my room with a guitar singing along to my favourites.
However, I feel like violin sounds better as a solo instrument, it can be full of so much emotion without a word.
I'd like to know both though
Well said..me too both!
While learning the violin it’s important to realize the deeply rich and emotive playing you are hearing is decades along your journey learning the instrument most likely- if you want to enjoy making good sounds faster, you might start with guitar if that’s what you are looking for.
@@vetzrah4437 I plan to actually do both, but for now I'm working on guitar. Violin will take a long time but I'm definitely willing to out that time in
@@Flowering_AzaleaI totally agree I recently got a new guitar and hope to find that right website to take lessons easily. Then I plan on start learning to play a violin for I took some lessons as a kid and loved it but I only took it for a short time before we moved off. Now I am 65 and on disability so its a slow process for me financially to get my violin and to start my lessons. You probably young so I pray you start learning them both and do well. ☝🎻
When typical people think of guitars: strumming and solo, that’s it 😏
When guitarists look at guitar: how can I play a Piano pieces with bass line, harmony and melody at once? How can I express my feeling with some slides, slur, tap, harmonic, a bit of percussion, bend, ghost notes...?
I can’t judge you, cause Guitar is magic. 🙂
True bro
Guitar is popular so it gets a bad rap. Nobody cares about my abilites on the guitar but if someone played a basic melody on a chello or violin.. i fucking hate the cliches of guitar i hate playing something that 0.01% can play and nobody giving a shit whilst a chello player playing a basic ass riff gets labeled as a god.
The guitar is the backup thing? ... Have you played jazz, blues, fusion, rock, folk, funk, pop, country music, reggae, rap, metal with a guitar or electric guitar, classical guitar, etc.? In many pieces and songs of this genre, the guitar is the main instrument. The guitar is more versatile; the guitar is not only a backup instrument. You can sing with a guitar, play other instruments while playing the guitar, for example, a foot drum, a harmonica, etc. There are more pieces and songs written on a guitar. You can do more things with a guitar, like Tommy Emmanuel, Tim Henson, classical guitarists, etc., and other non-backup guitarists. Guitar playing is not limited to four-chord songs. The guitar sounds more neutral; it can be the backup and the lead. But I must admit, violin is harder to learn. That's why the guitar is so popular; you can play easy pieces and very hard pieces. Some guitarists can even play rhythm and melody with a guitar while singing. In the end, play what you want; both are great instruments. I love the sound of the violin and the guitar.
True violin takes longer to get a decent sound
The problem is that you are comparing cowboy-style guitar with 4 chords and classical instrument like violin. But if we take a classical guitar or modern fingerstyle, which is even more diffucult and containing all classical stuff + percussion with steel strings?
This is why violin seems anytime harder than guitar. People associate guitars with cowboy style in first place. But lets take all playing styles, which instrument allows you to do... Guitar allows you to be a band on one instrument, without any limits. I dont't say that violin is easy/hard/bad/good. Just wanted to bring up this very important point what people always forget to know about guitar. If they chose to play only 4 chords - its not the problem of an instrument.
I really like the sound of the violin. Although I really like the guitar, but the sound; I don’t really like it as much as the violin. Which should I get?
I play both the guitar and fiddle. I think the Fiddle is much harder to learn. It is so technique forward. So much to learn at the beginning. I enjoy playing both, but the Fiddle is my favorite. I find the more instruments you play, the easier it is to play. I can't articulate why. Great video
I play both to a fairly good level and I will agree that yes guitar is much easier to learn from a beginner level but each have their own unique difficulties at a later stage. For example on a violin a tremolo technique is pretty simple whereas on guitar it's really difficult to get right. And the whole world of jazz guitar is a mind fuck lol!
But I would 100 percent agree with you as a beginner violin is Soo much harder to learn... Where are the bloody frets haha!!!
I just hope people don't get a wrong idea a think guitar is easy :)
Any tips for a begginer violinist?
@@billobejero6290 I think just getting to know your instrument is a good start. How to hold it, maintain it, getting a good posture when playing. I think it's important to work on these seemingly simple techniques while a begginer and 100percent if you can, then find a good teacher. They may identify bad habits you may pick up and it's always harder to un-learn bad habits the longer you become set in your ways haha
Great video and good points, thank you! I’m an adult fiddle beginner, 2.5 years in and I think I always wanted to learn the violin but was deterred as a kid as it was supposed to be so hard. But I’ve never had a hobby I enjoy so much. So there’s another point, if you really feel that you want to learn the fiddle, go for it. :)
But, as you said, it’s not the best social instrument. And at one point I felt I wanted something I could play as backup when with friends etc, so I opted for the mandolin as you get some understanding for free as it’s tuned as a fiddle, although maybe not as flexible as a guitarr. But it has worked out great for me. And I will probably pick up gitarr some time. :)
What If I love both? I love the sound of the violin but I am a songwriter so I want to learn the guitar. Is it possible to learn two instruments at the same? Which instrument should I learn first?
Don't forget about the Mandolin. Its tuned just like the Violin/Fiddle. If you learn to play the Fiddle, one could easily "pick" out the same tune on the Mandolin. Another interesting thing about the Violin/Fiddle and Mandolin is the strings GDAE are the lowest 4 strings on the guitar flipped (EADG-BE)
Oh yes 👍
Every aspect explained so comprehensively ..👏👏
I have been trying to play the guitar for years and have finally come to the realization that I just don't have the finger dexterity to play all the notes. I have seen a lot of people here on TH-cam saying it's easy to learn to play the guitar, anyone can, I'm afraid I have to disagree, for some that might be true, but not for everyone. Now I have given up trying to learn completely and put my time towards things I can do or am capable of learning.
I'd say try again. I'm sure you've heard this before but you just have to really want it. If you can hang in there for 4 months and practice consistently every day for only 5 to 30 minutes a day I almost can guarantee you would learn it. I really feel if I can learn anybody can. I started learning at 43 and it took me 4 months to play my first song using open/ Cowboy chords. I learned my first song in 4 months which was Silver Wings played in the key of D broken down to three chords. D chord, E minor chord, and A7.
I feel that if the guitar and violin were compared to a person, the guitar would be the player and the violin would be the singer
What a clear contrast. I now have an understanding of where to start from.
Thanks.
Because I want a portable piano, I went with guitar.
I see artists like Ichika, Marcin, and others who play pieces like Bach Two Part inventions, Turkish March, etc... on the guitar. That is they play all the voices on one instrument with advanced techniques like two hand finger tapping, so they don't need accompaniment. And I see artists like Tommy Emmanuel who play the guitar with percussive elements, melody and bass without the need for any other accompaniment.
And I saw videos of Ted Greene improvise a real-time in the style of Bach! He just makes up melody and bass line on the fly!
They make it seem so easy. How much guitar practice does it take to reach their level?
you are so right,!! thank you very much! I have been playing the violin for 5 years and everything coincides. greetings from Spain Lol.
I've been playing guitar for about two and a half years now. I'm just curious for those of you that have learned guitar and then learned fiddle/violin as a second instrument did it also help you progress as a guitar player?
Any musical experience helps, so yeah, it helps :)
@@Kalymnah thank you.
Better add time stamps of every topic, makes it easier to navigate the video😁 or choose the part I wish to watch
classical and flamenco guitars are front and center at what they do
This is very sweet, you deserve more subscribers!
Someone, please help me here,
I want to learn the violin desperately. But I am a singer, I need to have an instrument like a guitar so I can sing along to it. What should I do? I desperately want a violin but I also want to keep singing. I can't have both, my budget allows me to have one instrument. It will be my first instrument
Buy thr guitar ... if your a singer there isn't an instrument better fot you than thr guitar.... ull see fantastic results in 5 to 6 months...on the other hand violin is a fab instrument but it'll take you 2 years two get descent and maybe 4 years to be able to perform comfortably.... while guitar would take only a year... in the end it's still your choice!!! See which sound attracts you more !! Hope u can choose now ❤❤
I would say that difficulty-wise, the guitar does start simpler, but the skill-cap for the guitar is absurdly high. Once you know the basics and you want to get really good, there's an almost infinite amount of techniques and styles that you can try to master. Playing the blues? Easy. Playing Eric Johnson with shredding 16ths triplets all across the neck with perfect pick motion? Monstrously difficult. Want to play metal? At some point you may want to master fast and regular downpicking, muting and releasing, perfect-pitch bending on one or multiple strings, being able to switch from fast-chugging to shredding a melody line in phrygian dominant#7, and back to chugging, all in 7/8 polyrythm and alternate tuning. All while adding tapping, harmonics, pinch harmonics, and managing your pedal effects. So yes, violin is a difficult instrument, but you can absolutely make the guitar a monster of difficulty if you want to.
Thanks for this video
Let me get this straight. Shredding on violin is easier than on guitar?
You should have compared neoclassic electric guitar Malmsteen's style vs violin.
This guy is pretty average in his abilities so he probaly hasnt even considered yngwie malmsteen.
Dude compared rhythm guitar to violin . Electric lead guitar is a whole different game .
Though learning guitar is easier to learn but in case of violin u just get lost in the music and that kind of connection with the instrument i dont think guitar can achieve it .
In the end, both guitar and violin have their pros and cons
And the piano is easier than the guitar and violin.
Awesome !!!!!
Most rock bands use lead guitarists tho. XD
i am a guitar player and a recorder amma say when i try the violin it is kinda hard
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Bro compared violin( a classical instrumen) to a non classical guitar. Clasical guitar is much much harder
Not really at all. Maybe tonally thats debatable but electric guitar is generally quite alot more difficult than classical. The use of a pick introduces a whole set of challenges. For instance try playing serrana.
@@sirspongadoodleElectric guitar it's almost a different instrument compared to the classical one. Probably closer to the violin.
So basically: guitar first, violin later?
This man sounds more confused than beginner me😂
Guitarists can’t understand the perfectionism
Learn violin first till intermediate level... You'll get addicted and motivated... Then use the snowball effect and you'll learn the guitar quite easy. I play violin and I'm learning guitar
Depends on what you are doing on guitar. Playing generic chords? Or playing tricky arpeggio runs at 200bpm.
I think it’s apples and oranges. I think you can spend your entire life studying a single instrument.
Pick one, go deep.
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