Ranking PAGANINI 24 Caprices 🎻 [Difficulty Tier List] 

Now that you know which caprices to practice, go join the others on Tonic: tonicmusic.app/join-in 🎵

Remember, kids: 1 week for a soloist = 6 months (being very optimist) for mortals who got there finally!

putting no. 1 in a tier is, to say the least, very bold 😭

Ray: it’s not difficult at all and very friendly Me: “practicing for a year and still bad at it”

I practiced No 16 for months and it still turned out terrible with stage fright hahaha. These caprices (even the easiest ones) are super difficult. Who would've guessed?!?

Does Ray not realize he opened a can of worms with this as now we want to hear him play all 24 of them.

The picture of Paganini in the background is fire 🔥🔥

I’m so impressed with the editing, it’s so good. Editor San, you have competition

Hello Ray. I'm 65 years old, I live in Portugal and I really like your music and I hope you give a concert in this country again. I wish you a lot of happiness. Keep making your videos. Congratulations on your success. You are a great talent! A hug and a kiss. (this is the affectionate way the Portuguese have of ending messages. Goodbye.

My fingers hurt form just watching this

I’d love to see a Bach Sonata & Partita tier list!!

Here’s my 2 cents: S-Tier: 1, 4 A-Tier: 2, 3, 7, 8, 17, 23 B-Tier: 6, 11, 12, 21, 24 C-Tier: 10, 15, 18, 19, 22 D-Tier: 5, 9, 13, 14, 16, 20 - just as a violin-player trying to get them up to performance level :)

I've been struggling with no. 11 for a while. Ray: "pretty simple"

Love the editing!!

I really enjoy the editing of your videos. It is entertaining and fun, yet tasteful and not too distracting. ❤

I have always been wondering this, and now there's a video to answer this question, and with explanations too!

Thank you for taking your time to make the video, very helpful and inspiring....

Can't wait to find out which caprice I'll try out (and quickly be humbled by) first, tbh with probably way too little experience / technique. But nothing a lot of (smart) practice can't fix 😄

You did fantastic at the concert in LA and San diego. Thank you for remembering me from Feb. Thank you for signing my violin and liking my jacket.

cool video! Ill be getting back on tonic when I get a new phone! Im really checking your technique now. You are one of my favourite players!

Ray chen, thank you so much! because of you, I could take part in the solo because of your summer lesson. Thank you so much!!!!!

Fantastic Ray and everybody else.

Thank you! Interesting!

Great video!! Thank you so much! I've been wanting to start learning these but haven't quite known which to start with. Could you do a video on ranking Bach's Partitas and Sonatas?? That would be great!!

YT has recently suggested some videos to me with titles like 'classical music is dying'... But I say: It depends where you look! 😁

Love the coffee setup, including the Niche grinder! Oh - and nice violin work too.

Nice, never watch such a detail explanation for Paganini’s pieces.Btw, loves the panini bun popping up 😆

So in essence, for normies, the unit of measure for how fast one could learn it would be in years instead of weeks. LOL

"I suck at arpeggios". That's how to recognize an expert: they will never claim to know it all

Sweet coffee setup! The niche grinder, the fellow kettle, and the water spritz bottle. I see you're a guy who enjoys coffee 👀

Mr. Chan, you are a fantastic violinist, no limits for your mastering of the violin technic, please tell us how to practice them and what to do!

The editing is great

This is amazing

RayChen Sir my favourite violin music start from 4th till to end it will be super I have seen this in your RU-vid channel it will be very nice to hear & see 😳 thanks Sir🙋🏻( I don't have any knowledge about violin & have not learn only I can listen the music feel it ☺️)

Fantastic ❤

Ooooh can’t wait for this!!!!❤❤

Excelente,Ray Chen 🎻🎵🎶

Great 🎼🎶🎻👍🎉 Greetings from 🇪🇺 🇩🇪 , JB 🙋‍♂️

The list can be suggested by twoset’s😂

Amazing ❤

Wow great skills 😮😮😮

Mr Chen - Thank you for taking time to spend with Karolina Protsenko, I just came across her and you a few days ago from the street performance, your both down to earth. I like all types of music and a Show that I loved was the Carolina Christmas Opry Myrtle Beach back in Nov 2001 and then again Dec 2004. Spirit of the Dance also there at the Palace Theater. I love to see where a classical concert musician just playing somewhere where they people have no idea who they are. Do you play other insturments?

I love the passion for the music, even though I can not play the violin, a little bit keyboard.😊

It's so awesome that it hurts to say👍🏻👍🏻✨🥇👑

Now as a French horn player I shall transpose my faves and practice

Love the floating cowboy hat! ❤

Cannot wait for release

20 + 21 = 22 *✨r a y m a t h✨*

Wasn't expecting the Dark Soul and Mob Psycho references! Nice video as always.

Ray you are litteraly my idol i hope to go to curtis someday

Ray's such a humble human being that sometimes I forget just how ridiculously good he is until he says stuff like, paganini caprice 1, hmm... maybe can get it ready in a week?

After the TwoSet prank, I was expecting this to be another April Fools video, but it wasn't. Or maybe it is, because I'll never be able to play any of these =(

Great video as always. I love that blue paganini image, does someone knows where I can get it?

Could you please make a video about "A Day in the Life of the World's Famous Violinist - RAY CHEN"....I mean a normal day VLOG for what you do throughout the day (just curious about your daily routine)

maybe replace the word "week" with "year" or "decade" but other than that W tierlist

Hâm mộ anh quá ❤

My mouth was open the whole time... these are all so complicated.....😮

When I was a wee lad in my first year of highschool, I almost completely learned 23 (the first one I ever tried), which was probably way too high above my skill level and teachers would always doubt me, but I almost could play at least the octaves and could do the mid section if slowed down a bit. I can't really play it now anymore nearly 6 years later (although maybe I could if I got back into playing again, but I'm really rusty atm), but I'm surprised at how high my skill level was at the time and kinda miss it. I also tried to learn 4, 14, 17, 19, 20, and 24. Keep in mind, I was almost entirely self-taught. It goes without saying though, these caprices are extremely challenging (as is almost anything written by Paganini). I can't really rank all of these pieces as I haven't tried them all, but the ones I have tried are probably around where I'd put them. Great video

Sublime👏👏👏👏👏

editor is goated

Now I know where my pitchfork was when I needed it! 🤣

Paganini is the original shredder, you can't change my mind!

MORE...MORE...MORE!!! C. Thomas

You should do this with the Bach Sonatas and Partitas. I think that would help a lot of people.

Wanna enjoy the full version from u Ray!

Can I please ask you what do you whisper when you play violin? I notice some musicians do that, are you counting? Just curious 👀

Having played them all for my teacher at decent but not concert quality i can say this is for sure a weird list. Bro put the no 1 where u need good technique just to play the first chord xd side with no 9. My take is that even at the highest level the main goal is to be in tune with the spirit of the caprice and not hit every single note. I even believe that in many occasions few notes slightly out of tune can produce more interesting intervals and reinforce the diabolical vibe that paganini intended to create. The tier list is depended on he type of performance one has in mind. Maybe for a Markov type performance 12 will be on A tier and 15 on the SSS and for a Midori/Hilary accuracy 15 or even 17 can be on A tier while 12 is SSS. Of course my list is based on me playing them at 90% accuracy..not great not terrible. ??? 1,2,3,4, sss 5,7,8,11,12 ss 6,15,17,18,21 s 16,19,22,23,24 a 9,10,13,14,20

I am totally distracted by the S-tier (or, ???-tier in this case 😂) coffee and tea setup. I’d be down with your making something on it as a video ☕️ 🫖

Sitting in UK eating an ice cream (ok, 3, since the others will melt before they reach my freezer) & just enjoying listening in my car! ❤

Hello, oh I'm not late for Tonic, I wanted a violin but congratulations to the winners

Ray chennn came to Brazilllll, especilly Curitiba - Párana because the center of music of the country is in a near by state, so its close to them came e then i can watch you also because i live in curitiba ahahhahah

he should have name the highest tier "lingling"

Next tierlist should be how nice the melodies are

I can’t believe that ray said caprice 5 is “fun”

Rachmaninoff of course used this variation in his "Paganini Rhapsody" and in the course of it he turns the theme backwards to create that lush romantic section. Lloyd Webber also used it in the musical "Song and Dance."

When hearing no. 9 my brain just immediately goes to twoset: dundundun dundundun and everyone at the con playing it.

I want Two Set to react to this and get their opinion cause they always mention Paganini lol

you used to not have upbow staccato, you got it now. how about you make us a little tutorial how you develop it ? :)

Can you review Roman Kim for a video?

This is completely off topic from the video but what keyboard do you have there? It looks custom

All the A tier ones are basically the next step up after you're done with Carl Flesch scales before you start any of the other Pag Caprices.

Caprice No. 1 in a week? Have you only just played the first 3 lines? It’s definitely on the SS side especially those stretches and getting every single note clear as crystals!

omgggg i love niccolo paganini

nice tier list. as a not-violin-pro, i can't relate or easily understand the ranking of these caprices.

Господи!!!! Он разговаривает так же быстро, как играет!!! 😂😘😘 Но играет просто бесподобно!!!! Обожаю профессионалов и талантливых, провяленных людей!!!! Удачи!!!!! 🙏🙏🙏

To Ray Chen or anyone who can answer my question: How do you get the Tonic sticker? ( I am asking as a tonic member)

please make a website for Tonic, I love the app but can't use it on my phone

This gives me a headache but in a good way

I want you to know i bought a violin because of you

There's a cool story about the 9th caprice that I read up somewhere, where the young Ernst went to Paganini to have his technical abilities evaluated. However, Ernst misinterpreted the marking 'flautando' at the start, and played the whole piece in double harmonics to Paganini! After Ernst stopped playing, Paganini said 'It's a little devil!' (which essentially means 'hey boss what's up')

Ray, can you make a video of yourself learning and playing The Devil Went Down To Georgia by the Charlie Daniel’s Band??!!

"After this, you can finger any octaves" that comment killed me

So number 6 is easier than devil's trill sonata and can be used as a preparatory?

Very personal ranking, could be totally different for someone else!

As a viewer from Germany I'd avoid naming a Tier SS 🌝

Hi Ray! Please react to Changan Li’s ‘Crazy Czardas’ 🙏

I'm havin a good time blinking 😳😢🤐 lol 😂🤣

"Friendly" he says. 😆😆❤️

Some are appealing to listen to than others, but all are nteresting.

Man Paganini Caprice 24 hits different when it's played by Ray Chen as an encore!