Guitar playerd with violins?

[rayc]

I went from Bass to Cello with the belief that what I'd learned on 1 would translate to the other.
WELL,
Mostly it didn't/doesn't. the strings & tuning are different for a start. The frets - well as I'm STILL learning 4 years later I use dot stickers. That helps HEAPS - it's harder still for violin due to he line of sight etc.
BOWING is REALLY difficult.
As I said I'm still learning BUT I've recorded with it, enjoy it HEAPS & it gets the BRAIN working really well.
You can buy a very cheap violin very cheaply - or lease/rent one. Have a go, persist after it makes you want to cry - TAKE LESSONS - It really is worth it too.
DO IT DO IT DO IT.
If you enjoy it you'll have another string to your bow (yeah, really BAD pun)

 

[YeshuasFan]

Other "rock violinists":
Papa John Creech with Hot Tuna (blues/rock trio w/ Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady of Jefferson Airplane)
Rick Grech in Family and Blind Faith (the ill-fated "supergroup" w/ Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, and Ginger Baker)

 

[cephus]

A violin is tuned in 5ths instead of fourths, right?

I always thought a violin was cool because the reach is so easy. You can almost hold the lowest note and the highest note at the same time. Is their lowest note, an octave above the guitar's lowest?

Violin would be cool, but it seemed to me it was something that really should have been taken up while I was young and you could still make me do shit I didn't want to do.

 

[andydeedpoll]

I went from Bass to Cello with the belief that what I'd learned on 1 would translate to the other.

seen 'school of rock'? hehe
"What was that instrument you were playing?"
"A Cello"
"a cello eh? well, just turn it on it's side and 'Cello!' you've got a bass!"



Andy

 

[Codmate]

Warren Ellis (now playing with Nick Cave) does incredible things with a violin. He does Blixa's guitar parts with it when playing live with Mr Cave and it is *stunning*.

He also makes mandolin sounds with it and occasionaly plays it as a violin!