@@edibleandsentientautomobil5396 the violin is harder to play for someone who doesn’t play the violin. What you are talking about is comparing equally skilled musicians playing the same solo on two different instruments. Both are difficult to play on both instruments
This whole channel is just a dad posting videos of his kid playing music. Looking at the progression over the years is so impressive. Most recent vid is her doing her own recital. Such a good dad. Smiling rn
Fun fact: Considering how when Free Bird plays you are legally able to do anything, they could have easily used pyrotechnics and special effects during this show however, the fact they didn't shows that they have some serious restraint and I respect that.
The fact that the audience started clapping, the drummer killing it, the electric violin going absolutely nuts... These kids are damn good musicians. I've seen concerts get less excitement from the audience.
As a musician, the audience clapping always messed me up because like in the video, nobody is perfectly in sync in the audience. I need to be able to hear the rest of the band well and the clapping gets in the way sometimes
@@TapeEater03 100% agree, the audience clapping is infuriating, even when its not me playing. you come to hear live music and instead you get the off beat, out of time cacophonous slapping of dozens of hands interfering
Honestly I’m very impressed with the young drummer, too. He’s not playing out, understands dynamics and keeps the tempo. Dynamics and grasping the essentials of why you’re the orchestra’s back bone is so important and much harder to do for a beginning percussionist than any sort of etude! Little homie understood the assignment fully.
But isn’t that the wonderful beauty of music? For a few short minutes her strings wove a world and carried us on an adventure. Everyone in that room fell under the spell chanted by each note. A song can be carried across time like this and be shared and spread to take people on the same journey over and over again. It’s the human talent of finding beauty in the abstract condensed to its purest form. We like certain sounds strung together and if you string sounds together well enough an entire crowd can be synchronized with the sound. Man what a life we all lead. Being alive is awesome.
I can't describe how important playing modern music is for aspiring musicians. My hats off to the music teacher who selected this piece. THIS is how you encourage a new generation of musicians. Show them how fun it can be to perform to an audience when its music they like.
Exactly. I hated my high school music class cause virtually none of it was music I liked. I wanted to play my favorite songs; I wanted to learn music theory. It just wasn't possible in that class.
@@bigstupiduglyogre7205 welcome to the internet, where most knowledge is stored within inanimate or non-sapient/sentient objects! we're basically the SCP foundation!
Im not a musical guy, but... even with the ammount of praise given by this comment section and the audience, this is still absolutely underrated work. HOW DID SHE DO THAT???
When you have that ONE student... Can't imagine the orchestra leader who was like, "OK, we're going to do something a little different, you okay with that, Rebecca?"
Its really hard to keep the one student interested in music when they are so advanced props to the director for figuring something out cause this girl shouldve been playing in grade levels 4 years older than her
@@Aztronomical695 Dude, she played the Freebird solo on violin, that's something that'd be extremely challenging for even graduated musicians, much more for what looks to be a high school class.
@@Aztronomical695 Are you? Because anyone with even a basic level of music knowledge knows how difficult the Freebird solo is, even on the instrument it was written for. Are you the guy that comments on TwoSet videos defending the people playing Flight Of The Bumblebee?
As someone who was in band themselves in high school, I would've killed for this to be played at least once. I also knew a Rebecca in band that was in my graduating class. She was a bass drum player and now she's my wife
I love how she does her best to stay composed (no pun intended) the entire performance, but she can’t help but crack a grin in the last minute or so when she realizes that she’s absolutely knocked it out of the park.
Just the intensity of playing that (and with the pressure of all eyes on her, no less) had to take up every fiber of her being. Past, present and future. But she was able to crack that smile towards the end because she knew she CRUSHED it.
My violin teacher tried to impress upon me the importance of a dynamic performance, and to really feel the music while performing it. Trust that her "breaking composure" is very much part of the performance and why it is so good.
honestly traditional strings instruments csn do a lot, its just that most of what gets played is sadly just the same kind of traditional orchestral music (not to say that its bad, but theres definitely some missed potential when its restricted to only that kind of music)
I don't ever watch violin videos. I don't even know how I ended up here. But this was incredible. As a HUGE Lynyrd Skynyrd fan, I have that solo memorized, and she nailed every note !!!! Allen Collins is looking down proud as ever !!!! Absolutely amazing !!!!!
Hat tip to this school’s music teacher too, who must have sat down at some point and thought “yeah I know what I’ll get the orchestra to do at the next concert!” Or at least got behind someone else’s brainwave. Side question: how come there’s no conductor? Are they all taking their lead from the drummer? Great job by that individual too if so.
@@ryanhernandez8324 yeah. The orchestra director was pretty cool. We played lots of the stuff you'd expect an orchestra to play, but also freebird, crazy train, devil went down to Georgia, and some others.
4:40 The divine instant Free Bird solo arrives is forsooth bliss to mine ears. Such a pristine violin solo it is. Thou shall spread this to the orb. Forsooth, forsooth a golden experience. Composed in heaven this is. One feels like walking to heaven's door.
Even 10 years later, still a gem. This had me rocking, and a violin no less, I guess rock can shine through no matter what instrument you play if done right. Bravo
@@mr.nazareth4501 nah it was just dudes that liked country music on acoustic guitar and were just like fuck it I’m going play country shit on electric guitar
@@notitia8149 it was not country dudes lol It was a black dude that first made the genre, and he sure as hell wasn’t in the country. Know your music history
I’ve been in a really shitty place mentally for a while but watching her play her heart out on that solo just made me smile the most genuine smile I’ve had in a while. Thank you. This was beautiful. I had to turn it up to 11 Got me inspired to pick up my guitar again
As a violist in my high school's orchestra who almost fainted during my latest solo in Eastern NC's Regional Orchestra (but managed to pull through, albeit with a few errors), I can hardly imagine how nerve-wracking this was. If you're still reading these comments a decade later, I just need to remind you that you did an outstanding job :D
Rebecca, wherever you are now, if you know this video exists, please know this is one of the coolest and most amazing things I've ever seen. Please be proud of this for all your days. This is epic.
They say you’re exempt from speeding tickets if you’re driving to the original song. But I’d have to imagine you’d be exempt from horse-drawn trailer tickets if you’re bumping this
Wow and wow, I’m a 50 year old man and have been listening to Skynyrd since I was 8, and this has absolutely has to be the best tribute to Freebird that I have ever heard…literally brought tears to my eyes.
This is by far my favorite song ever. And it really lifts my spirit to see young-uns getting exposed to old tunes. She killed it on that violin. Simply amazing
the fact the crowd started clapping in beat shows that having your students play/learn a GOOD song is better than just going for the classicals that everybody has heard before
this group of kids literally just played the most beautiful rendition of this song ive ever heard, and that solo was spot on, my jaw is on the fucking floor
That's what I was thinking. I was so dialed in, after it was over, I remembered I was just watching some high school performance her dad recorded on his phone ten years ago and not some like, professional concert. Absolutely phenomenal.
Thumbs up to the teacher who understood that playing twinkle twinkle little star and other “classical” pieces isn’t going to make anybody love music with all their heart and soul. And, for the record, I have no doubt the boys in Skynyrd were possibly even prouder and enjoyed hearing this even more than this girl’s rightfully-proud parents.
Have you even played in an orchestra before? Also playing those classical pieces gives people a greater affinity for music, a trained ear, rhythm all that that you wouldn’t get if you didn’t play an instrument or spend some time really getting into music. I mean just playing in general does that but it’s not going to be forced out of you if you play free bird or what have you. I actually fell in love with classical music from playing in orchestra but I’m also massive fan of rock. It’s my favorite type of music. But playing a rock piece adapted for an orchestra isn’t going to make people passionate for playing. They have to find it within themselves to learn to love it. Some of the best players in my grade hated playing and not even Bohemian Rhapsody could get them to crack a smile during class. They’re fun to play but I’ve played plenty of pieces that were about as enjoyable because of their complexity and overall composition. Teachers select pieces as part of a curriculum and to entertain the parents to some extent. But again, the pieces aren’t going to make them passionate for the music. It just comes naturally from person to person.
8:04 That smile makes it all the better, knowing all the time and effort put into this amazing song is paying off when you hear the crowds reactions.. shout out to everyone else in the performance as well, making her look good.
You have made an old woman very happy. I ran across this video, now more than 10 years old, quite by accident tonight on my birthday. The orchestra eventually gets into a groove, and then the solo! What an awesome teacher to choose such a piece, a piece that indisputably is the finest jam of any rock band in musical history. 🙏💕. I'm sure the guys from Lynyrd Skynyrd are smiling down upon your performance. 💜
love how everyone else is still stone cold serious and she cant even contain it any longer. i can only imagine she felt like the happiest or proudest person on earth in that moment.
everyone deserves to feel the rush of killing it up on stage like that, i wish more orchestras would do songs the students like!! my last concert was insane, i felt like the coolest guy in the world, i hope more people get to feel that!! every music kid should get their rebecca freebird moment fr
This is incredibly impressive, I could never imagine having the balls to do something this difficult on stage in front of a ton of people. She definitely knows her shit, and she deserves all of the praise she’s getting in this comment section.
Ronnie, Allen, Leon, Billy, Steve and Cassie must be giving a standing ovation thinking wow...who would've ever thought that Freebird would be played by a school string orchestra. BRAVO to these young musicians and especially the girl doing Allen's solo. I love this!!
The fact that 11 years ago this was probably a video recorded by Rebecca’s parents and put on RU-vid as a way for Rebecca’s grandparents to see and nothing more. Nowadays the video is coming up on people’s RU-vid recommendations as the piece has found a whole new meaning, especially the solo. Hats off though this is mad as fuck
My only complaint is that I just found this today! The whole group was fantastic but the solo was off the charts! Saw a dual piano rendition yesterday that was unreal. Can’t wait to see what version of Freebird I see tomorrow!
I can truly say that Allen Collins would be so proud to see his music represented so well by a group of youngins like this. She really did go note for note with the studio version. Very impressive and very respectful to such a perfect song.
I just typed out a long winded comment.... Rethought....deleted....and replaced with.... Fucking awesome rendition....I thoroughly enjoyed it!!! (Former skynyrd touring crew)
DANG!!! The whole band was really super good, but, this young lady had me up on my feet!! She'd make Allen Collins proud!! I was waiting for her violin to catch on fire. LOVED IT!
That was incredible! Been Listening to Freebird for 45 years, and that is the Best version I have heard since Skynyrd last played it in Fall of 1977...
When conductors do this it changes a kids life; letting them feel what its like to just really jam on stage. Spot on to the chick, the conductor, the drummer, and everyone involved. Hell yeah, brother.
Your child is seriously talented! If I were to ever have a child that ungodly good at violin, I'd die of not only jealousy but both excitement and pure joy. I know this video was posted eleven years ago, but I would love to see Rebecca keep up her master work. I kind of want to see where she is today now that I think about it. Respects need to be paid to her.
With the explosion of Free Bird memes - because that solo is amazing - I genuinely hope this video explodes in popularity. Thanks RU-vid, the algorithm finally gave me something unexpected
That was amazing. What an enormous amount of work she must have put in to learning the music, and then having the entire auditorium's eyes on her while she played - outstanding.
