Using a Violin Bow on a Guitar Sounds Incredible 

With el pepe

Using a capo as pick

Try using some rising on the bow.....it is needed to create a note

A plastic bottle

Using a pencil as pick

I know the way he was holding it made me wanna die

tbh I'm not as triggered as I thought I was gonna be. Edit: nvm this triggered me a lot. Especially the part when he started putting the rosin on hi bow smhhh. Lol video's still cool tho.

@@bromommalama9636 and the fact he didn't tighten the bow's wick rrrrr (not sure how to say it in english)

@Sagittarius A Frog

Frog and tighten the bow

ROTFLMFAO

Nah, this is a held cello, get it right.

@@jamescooper2618 too much

Page didn't....I was there in Seattle (Led Zeppelin concert 1972) and watched him do it. ;-)

😈😜🤘

*THX opening sound*

Finger tip attachments, with mini bows for hybrid finger picking and bowing.

Reminds me of the drones that Godspeed you Black Emperor uses in their songs

I suggest you listen to a band called malice mizer they use sounds kinda like this in some of their songs

Sounds like Sigur Ros

As a guitarist I can agree AHAHHAHA

@@keihlnikko as a both i say "ehuehuehu"

What causes me the most physical pain is the way he's the holding the bow, becuase you're supposed to do a bunch of specific finger posture stuff, but what does it matter?

Not just violinists, as a cello player I'm scared of what he's doing with that bow hold- HELP-

@@anaceweirdo1579 sooo me too! I'm like what's happening right now....

Kevin791 ikr

same, and I've never even played anything with a bow

My 3rd thought was "Scratch up the Rosin with a key before trying to use it on your bow". I'm not even a string player and this video hurt to watch.

Fabulous Killjoy twoset fan boi I see

@@poiiiiiiiiiii3049 yep

You're dang right, then you can wear down that rosin until it's bare nothing 🤣

In 4th grade I played violin because our school made us play band, but I forgot to loosen the bow after I was done practicing one night, and it was completely broken when I opened it up the next day, like the horse hair got cut or pulled out the end or something, Moral of the story: dont play violin

@@professored7169 Did they just have a mixed music class? A young violinist would be either privately trained or in an orchestra class, and the Violin isn't too bad if you have a thing for music and a challenge. I personally didn't like having all the noises right in my ear, and preferred the larger variety of notes on the Cello. Plus, how tight did you have that poor bow?! A bow at the tightness it should be when played shouldn't be able to tighten to the point of breaking over night. I'm pretty sure though that the band teacher didn't explain that to you. Have you ever heard a group of new violinist trying to play a new sheet of music? I swear to God that it sounds like a swarm of bees! 😂

@@ezrathing ya we had one teacher teaching a class of kids and told us to practice at home so ya the bow was probably to tight, I didnt like it either so in 5th grade I chose cello and it was cool, no broken bows, but chose trumpet for 6th and hated it, I play guitar now tho but rob scallon makes the cello look fun he plays it so unconventional

Hahaha I've also noticed that you don't have to scratch your rosin to get it to stick, if you have to scratch it you should get a different cake

ru-vid.com

I am both the violinist and the guitarist 😔💀💀

I was gonna say this cos I used to play violin but I saw this and I'm happy someone agrees

I was at first I was like oh hey he's doing violin bow. Then I was like hey where's the rosin? XD

Gaming Princess Luna i dont play any instrument at all lmao so what is Rosin? Edit: nvm figured it out

The best way to produce music is by expanding your curiosity to the far reaches of the universe, follow your instincts and don't follow the crowd.

You too? Whew, I’m glad I’m not the only one that gets RU-vid rrhoids, from time to time. 😉

Sitting through 😂🤣

Is THAT what hemorrhoids sound like? God damn

We all sat through those hemorrhoids at some point in our lives, it's relatable

lol

Sigur Ros?

Yeah check out Jónsi in Sigur Rós

Vancouver Sleep Clinic. Discovered them when they opened for Aurora and the guitarist used the bow+guitar. First time I'd ever seen it.

A guitar plus a bow.. Hmm, I guess you can call them cellos. Add a mike and pedals and you have the same thing.

Alejandro Lobos Kunstmann Even with a mic* it wouldn’t be the same, an acoustic within a mic isn’t the same as an electric

Pink floyd, wish you were here, the picture of your yt account

@@borisnachev1358 yup

Myles S. check out dazed and confused live at Madison square garden where jimmy page does this and it is a horror movie

@@jbojoify Yeah I saw that, that was great

I was thinking the same :P some sections sound like Bagpipes too

then you listen to neoclassical metal, symphonic metal and prog hah

@@lil_weasel219 gross

@@TheZacharyMartinShow you are indeed

Classical is Metal before electricity

Blu Blu i agree man...

i'm a cello player and i didn't know that thanks for the tip!!!

Thanks for the tip good sir :D

thanks for clarifying that it must be a copper coin as it differs from currency to currency

Thank you for the tip!! I've had a problem with that so this will really help!

Phoenix8492 I'm a 1 month cello player

Mikerphone Why am I the only one who has liked this, this comment is helpful and informative, thanks mate.

@@felicitymiller5049 Np, if that helped i also saw someone else mentioning tightness of the bow, and this was the advice i offered them: You'll snap the hairs if the bow is too tight. The bow should still have a bit of a curve to it. My rule of thumb or pinky rather, is that you take the tip of your pinky and it should slot into the bottom 1/3 section of the bow just fine. Too little not tight enough, too much space and its over tight. Tightness is not what creates sound rosin is. The bow should be taut so that there is no slack in the hairs, but not tightened to the point where the hairs are being stretched. That creates weak fibers over time. When over tightened the friction from the strings will act like a knife cutting a stretched rope vs a slacked one. Always losen your bow to lightly slacked to protect your hairs and its shape after playing. And rosin rosin rosin, it helps with sound and protects the hair from snapping on strings. Which is natural. It will happen from time to time, but protective measures will lessen those occurrences. So remeber, taut but not stretched. Have a good one and stay safe!

Thanks for the info. I'm gonna try that

@Timothy McCaskey Yes and yes. Synthetic bows are 💩

Is it like chalk on a pool cue? No such thing as too much :)

I though the same thing when he pulled the bow out of the box lol

Somebody should play that on the guitar with a bow lol

Yesss my thoughts exactly! The more you know!!

"Cos Hells' broke loose in Georgia and the Devil deals it hard. And if you win, you get this shiny fiddle made of gold, *BUT IF YOU LOSE, THE DEVIL GETS YOUR SOUL!* "

Right?

Got a video playing that? Been pondering the idea myself

👍 Brilliant! 😃 I think that success though depends not on your creation, but on whether a suitable bow hold and stroke is possible with it! - as a violin maker I guess you already know that. Maybe get two people to play it? 😁

You deserve a medal. I don't know what kind of medal, but you deserve it. Now that I think about, what kind of medal would you deserve? It would have to be a specific type of medal, not just a 1st place. What kind of medal do you want? Are you allergic to the metal that the medal is made of? In other words, the metal medal made of metal. Are you able to receive said medal? Do we have to deliver it to you? Do you have legs? Will your neck fit around the medal? There's just so many variables. Do you even want a medal? What if you don't want a medal? Oh no. Oh God. You won't want the medal. Oh God. What is my purpose in life if I can't give this stranger on the internet a medal? Oh God. Nooooooo!

The real MVP right here boys

Ty

@YMC-DAB420 bruh. What an interesting word. Its meaning is so....convuluted. blahh blah blah balh haha long comment me funny

Soren Farley THANK YOU

Me who has never played an instrument: That's pretty neat!

Something very very wrong

I just got my very own violin but am not really "new" to violin?? And I've had my guitar for quite a few years, so I feel you.

I think he's starting to feel like a guitar god.

My heart is being ripped apart I-

I'm impressed with the work he did as a guitarist but the fact that he didn't even bother to get rosin makes me really want to see a second video.

@@RCHobbyist463 He did use it later on in this video.

Violinists would probably go Sacriligious

@@boenwang6133 Ayyyy we got a twoset fan

The bow was only seventy dollars?!? CRAP! Mine is 750 dollars 😐

Well...whatever you do dont touch the hair! 🤣

@@catcraftawesome5646 PogO WHO ... ?

I was thinking a base bow would work better with the way he's holding it too

I was thinking the same thing LOL

What's a Rosin

Johnny Wiebe if you actually watched the video, you would know

@@MRJ52 it's a block of resin that musicians with bowed instruments use to rub against the hair of their bow so their instrument can produce sound.

@@longschlongsilver7628 Thank you!

Okay you got to like from me not many people actually know that reference

Devil went down to Georgia reference?

Alastair Archibald solid reference. Especially for rosin on the bow. Kind of like “Rosin the Bow”/“Old Rosin the Beau” (an old folk song)

This is the perfect response lol

Yaaaaaaaaas

Jamsville jimmy page licks

just a sigurros video

"Licks you think are hard (beacouse they are played with a bow)"

Xavi Lion 😂 licks that are actually hard because they’re played with a violin bow

Smurk who’s that?

send it to their reddit

It so scratchy;-;

Sacrilegious

Ling Ling would criticize this man but he's too busy practicing 40 hours a day

@@fartcake Just sent the link to reddit and now we wait

Two set violin will teach you all you need to know

Lol same

haha triggered!

Did you already try it though?

@@Sid37612 that is the question!

Had the very same reaction

I understand violinists being mad about this, but the sound of this improvise at 4:39 is awesome

Such conflicting emotions

Not to mention he touched the hair...

Rosin is used at 3:00

Hell as someone who dropped out of orchestra I’m crying

Not a violinist. Why is it bad to touch the hair on the bow?

@@ethanthomas9852 Former violin student turned guitarist here, the oil from your skin can build up on the hair along with dirt and other stuff.

My neighbor has a violin, made in Italy around 1880. She got it as a gift from her father years ago. She said he paid $12,000

Are you a violinist?

Exactly my thought. My former cello teacher's bow was worth as much as my cello AND bow together. :D And that is not even the most expensive one.

@@korhad I have a middle-range, utility, but nice cello bow and it's $2000. To get a really nice... I'd call mine mid-range... but a $70 bow to bow a guitar is probably a good idea...

Lol, everything in the string family is very expensive

100% agree. I could definitely see this fitting with shoegaze. with super heavy distortion & effects lol

Listen to svefn-g-englar for possibly the greatest use ever in a song.

Goosebumps!

Is that how Radiohead does it?

I agree, especially at 2:33

Lol

Just hopped down here to say the exact same thing :D

This is a quality comment

Nice reference

That was the first thing I thought as well.

First year Cellist. AND I KNOW! IT MADE ME CRINGEEE LMAO

I know, I was like NOOO when he touched it.

Literally never picked up a violin here, Please elaborate why the bow hairs must not be touched

@@peas1171 the oil on your skin gets the bow hairs dirty and greasy, which makes the strings start to screech whenever the bow is played across the violin

I'm not a violinist nor a musician but for some reason I know how you feel

John Denver also mentioned it in "Thank God I'm a Country Boy"

I never knew what it meant either before this video. Now I know.

This is the best comment on this video (Rocky)

Shit, you're right!

Johnny Rosen up your bow and play that fiddle hard, cause the devil broke loose in Georgia..

Exactly what I thought XD.

I watch 2 set 2!

Amaziiing!

This guy definitely not ling ling

YOU SHOULDNT BE MAKING THIS COMMENT YOU SHOULD BE *PRACTICING*

I always used a key to scratch up my rosin. Anything works really.

100% And I can confirm it's a lot of fun to jam guitar with a bow. It just changes things up, it's like playing on a different instrument, it puts you in a slightly different head-space.

when in elementary school we always get some education that guitar played with pick while violin or viola use bow and now this is a thing

or use the pin on the end of the frog.

HOW COME MY ORCHESTRA TEACHERS DIDN'T TEACH ME THIS?! 👁👄👁

your

Question mark??

@@6666shashank bruh you noticed the your but not the violen

because its not a violin its a watermelon

I want to see that 😂😂

No kidding. Medium price range for a bow is $400-1000.

Right

@@jimtrouten7529 don’t remind me

@jim trouten You could buy a PRS for that much!

@@jimtrouten7529 you jackasses pay that much for wood and horse hair? Imagine how many people would get into violin and other classical instruments if they weren’t needlessly expensive. Btw if you’re going to try to justify that price point, don’t bother, nothing could justify it. Even with the most exotic wood and hair from the finest purebred stallions that is still ridiculous. Frankly they just mark up the price because people who get into classical instruments more often than not come from money.

Get a cloth and wipe off the rosin. That usually works.

link please

Rubbing alcohol on something like a paper towel or cloth will take it right off. (That's how I get cello strings clean).

@@ChiefHerzensCoach .. Yo right, alcohol is a dumb idea to clean steel strings with -

@@ChiefHerzensCoach .. I wasn't being rude to you I simply agreed using a fine dry cloth does the trick of cleaning guitar strings, maybe how I worded my comment may have seemed like I was being a bit of an asshole but I assure you I wasn't, I'm a musician too and totally agree with you -

Yeah because compression and gain have to do with guitar and he’s a guitar player. Rosin isn’t something he’d normally use for guitar so it’s not that interesting, funny, unique or surprising

Literally never heard that bows needed something called “rosin” before you could play them

@@evanr5871 They don't "need" rosin per se, but it makes the bow tacky enough to catch the string and vibrate it (as opposed to just gliding across it). You only need to rosin every once in a while, but then again I was the lazy cellist.

It's almost like he doesnt play violin.

@@jackuvall8061 faxs

It should be "Things Guitarists Have Known for Decades"

Week 2 of a lot

"...and fire flew from his fingertips, as he rosined-up his bow..." Name that tune!

@@grigryphon rip Charley Daniels 😓😓

And "tighten the bow"

Same and I’m not even a violinist

@@grigryphon The devil went down to georgia lookin for a soul to steal...

Laughs in Pink Floyd

Led zeppelin..jimmy page

Sigúr Rós, check them out.

Doesn't Tyler bates do it too

Listen to Sigur Rós, their singer and guitarist does it often in extremely atmospheric ways.

James Bond exactly the same

Lol😆

As a drummer and a guitarist I wanna die

"Yo, lube your sticks or I won't make dum dum"

Yes, that's because you haven't yet introduced a bow into your drumming, duh.

Did you die ? Sadly yes, but i lived

I cringed when he touched the hair at 3:04

Bass violin

someone summon lingling to show us how this could actually be good

"Cello player and twoset fan" (Can absolutely identify with.) 🙋🏻‍♀️

YESSS

Lol. This was done by Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page years ago. Check out the song Dazed and Confused. See how it's done in the Song Remains the Same video. Whole Lotta Love will show how a theremin is used in rock and roll as well. Not new sounds, rehashes at best.

frank_f he didn’t say this was new he said doing this type of thing is how we get new sounds in music. Do you even read?

"we" hahaha you mean you

It would've been wiser to spend that 70 bucks on violin lesson books than the bow itself. Now he just has a back scratcher.

@Jesse Montgomery ya need Jayzus

xD As a guitarist who pretends to play the violin sometimes, and who has bowed his guitar, I do concur, good sir!

...using the bow without first applying any rosin, ROSUM? WHATS THAT! lol

@@leemaples1806 correct me if I'm wrong, but it looked like he never tightened it either

Violist here. I agree 👍

Vivaldi is a guitarist? Good to know. Lol

Glad im not the only one. First thought rosin the bow!!!

Agreed- I physically cringed when he touched the hair....

As a grammar junky I am disgusted

D i s c u s t e d

I play cello and guitar And I couldn’t stop cringing with my orchestra buddys about this

I kept hoping he would find the tension knob on the bow, especially after he discovered rosin, but alas no.

*make that two viola players

I don’t play either, but I like the viola sound a lot more than the violin.

*Make that three

Go cry to your viola king...

Make that 4

Lol

I'm a bit worried to what quality harmonicas you listen to.... 🤭

Lol ya

What harmonica do u listen to?? Wut lol

I would like your comment but don’t wanna mess up the 420😂

I can picture this exact scenario in my mind. A metal head ascends through some clouds as a guitar descends into his/her hands. The guitar pick gravitates towards them before being tightly gripped between the metal head’s fingers. Then, outta nowhere, they just start jammin’ like a god/goddess.

@@CD-77 reminds me of the opening to GH3

Hell yh may the metal plate in the stars