Ray Chen
Reviewing Play with Ray applicants [SYDNEY 2023]
updated
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0:00 - Intro
0:39 - My friend David
1:08 - Showing David "Your Lie in April"
8:36 - Dubbing Challenge
TonicCon Los Angeles at the Colburn School will be an exciting 2 Day Music Festival on Oct 10 & 11 where there will be a chance to meet me in person, hang out, attend masterclasses, and more! Gold & Diamond tickets also include access to daytime events as well as the concert!
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Violin: Ray Chen
Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Cristian Măcelaru
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0:00 - Intro
0:35 - Tyler aka. Violin Torture
1:26 - The Extension
3:18 - Headless Violin
4:29 - Pringles Violin
6:39 - Back to Front
7:36 - Upside Down
8:34 - The Bee Violin
0:00 - Intro
0:26 - Power Scaling
0:51 - Chords
1:27 - 3rds runs
1:49 - Arpeggios
3:10 - Artificial harmonics
3:48 - Detache
4:41 - Double harmonics
5:10 - Double stop glissandos
6:09 - Double stops
6:40 - Downbow staccato
7:36 - Fingered octaves
8:01 - Left hand pizzicato
8:24 - Martele
9:35 - Octaves
10:09 - Ponti cello
10:44 - Right hand pizzicato
11:52 - Ricochet
12:53 - Sautille
13:20 - Semiquavers
13:29 - Spiccato
14:19 - Sul G
15:30 - Sul tasto
16:10 - Tenths
16:59 - Trills
17:36 - Upbow staccato
18:45 - Vibrato
19:36 - Playing while left hand pizz
Big thanks to Pierre Guillaume for making this possible 🎻 🙌🏼
The track Serenade was written by my friend Eunike Tanzil and just released today as part of my new album "Player 1". Stream it today: raychen.lnk.to/Serenade
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Sadness & Sorrow (From Naruto) Arr. Benjamin Rimmer
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6 chosen musicians for the evening concerts will be flown out to Los Angeles and their flights & accommodation sponsored. Open to ALL instruments (if you’re a pianist and chosen, you’ll perform solo and will still receive coaching/guidance by Julio Elizalde 🎹)
TonicCon will be held on October 10 & 11, 2024
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0:00 - Intro
0:17 - Item 1
1:33 - Item 2
1:51 - Item 3
2:22 - Item 4
2:48 - Item 5
3:28 - Item 6
3:56 - Item 7
4:12 - Item 8
4:39 - Item 9
5:02 - Item 10
0:00 - Intro
0:27 - Round 1: Baroque
2:02 - Round 2: Classical
3:58 - Round 3: Romantic
7:11 - Round 4: Contemporary
8:29 - Round 5: Film Score
10:27 - Final Round
0:00 - Intro
00:35 - Power scaling
00:53 - Beethoven: Auer / Heifetz vs Kreisler
03:18 - Mozart No. 3: Sam Franko vs Auer vs Ray Chen
07:12 - Mendelssohn 1st movement
07:55 - Mozart No. 4: Joachim vs Chen vs Sauret
09:15 - Bruch 1st movement
09:40 - Mozart No. 5: Joachim
10:20 - Brahms VC: Joachim vs Kreisler
12:09 - Dvorak 1st movement
12:40 - Hadyn in C: David / Alard
13:19 - Paganini No. 1: Sauret vs Wilhelmj
14:35 - Shostakovich No. 1 3rd mvt
14:48 - Sibelius 1st movement
15:08 - Tchaikovsky 1st movement
15:28 - Vieuxtemps Concerto 4 & 5
15:45 - Viotti Concerto No. 22: David & Alard vs Joachim
16:40 - Results & outro
Ps. I used to take part in the AMEB auditions when I was younger in Australia.
0:00 - Intro
0:35 - Grade 1 "Y Delyn Newydd"
1:02 - Grade 2 "Hol haltal az ejjel cinegemadar?"
1:50 - Grade 3 "Singing in the Rain"
2:27 - Grade 3 "Theme from Berceuse"
3:24 - Grade 4 "Portsmouth'
4:49 - Grade 4 "Where is love?"
5:05 - Grade 5 "Vivaldi Violin Concerto in G Major"
6:43 - Grade 6 "El Chocle"
7:39 - Grade 7 "Mozart Violin Sonata K305"
8:24 - Grade 8 "Veracini Concert Sonata"
10:46 - Diploma ABRSM "Bach Concerto"
11:38 - Diploma ABRSM "Lalo Symphonie Espagnole"
12:30 - Diploma LRSM "Bach Sonata no. 2 in A minor"
14:04 - Diploma LRSM "Shostakovich Violin Concerto"
14:35 - FRSM Fellowship of the Royal Schools of Music
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0:00 - Intro
0:32 - Concert Soloist
1:27 - Chamber Musician
2:17 - Orchestral Musician
4:04 - Call Musician
4:45 - Session Musician
6:02 - Teachers
7:03 - Recordings
7:22 - Cover Artist
8:01 - Content Creator
9:24 - Sponsored content
10:19 - Merch
Let me know what you thought of the performance and if there are other pieces you’d like me to try playing!
“A Dramatic Irony”: Music by HoYo Mix, sheet music by Linden: https://tonicmusic.app/Kafka
0:00 - Intro
2:20 - Inspired by Vivaldi Winter
5:16 - Inspired by Vivaldi Summer
7:16 - Performance
Let me know in the comments below what other types of videos you'd like me to review or pieces you want me to play!
0:00 - Intro
0:23 - Bow fail
1:45 - Viola fail
2:58 - Piano fail
5:58 - String fail
7:58 - Bach fail
8:21 - Sibelius fail
12:17 - Vivaldi fail
Who has the best Beethoven Violin Concerto? I personally love Henryk Szeryng’s GOLDEN tone.
In this video I go through what makes the Beethoven Violin Concerto so epic and review 4 soloists and their musical choices they make to best bring forth Beethoven’s S-Tier Concerto 🎵
Let me know if I didn’t cover YOUR favorite performer 🎻 Drop a comment of others who you want me to review!
0:00 - Intro
0:38 - Henryk Szeryng
4:47 - Itzhak Perlman
10:19 - Clara Jumi-Kang
12:38 - Hilary Hahn
So are you Team Ray or Team Jasmine? 🎵 Let us know in the comments!
Do you know which Paganini Caprices are the most difficult/which one you’ll need to spend the most hours on? Watch this video to find out!
0:00 - Intro
00:47 - Power scaling
01:34 - No. 1
01:57 - No. 2
02:26 - No. 3
03:20 - No. 4
04:08 - No. 5
04:50 - No. 6
05:16 - No. 7
05:59 - No. 8
06:25 - No. 9
06:51 - No. 10
07:17 - No. 11
07:59 - No. 12
08:30 - No. 13
09:43 - No. 14
10:15 - No. 15
11:14 - No. 16
12:07 - No. 17
13:17 - No. 18
13:48 - No. 19
14:56 - No. 20
15:46 - No. 21
16:43 - No. 22
17:42 - No. 23
18:30 - No. 24
Hope this video was helpful :) Click here for the performance version: youtu.be/XvGxb1-YpQE?si=Wvvngej1TXHEvNO2
Big thanks to @KennedyViolins for making this possible and for letting us prepare those violins in such "interesting" ways 🎻 Also huge thanks to @ColburnSchoolLosAngeles for supporting the event 🙌🏼
How important is an expensive instrument? You might think other people who play the SAME instrument can tell, but could a professional musician who plays a a DIFFERENT instrument tell apart a $1,000 and $50,000 instrument? 🎵
In this video I challenge flutist @JasmineChoi to see if she can tell the difference between my violins and if I can tell the difference between her flutes. Also check out the video we did on her channel where we battled out Flute VS Violin on Flight of the Bumblebee 🐝 youtu.be/6H4jmP74cWA?si=-PvmDffY9jboNRM_
0:00 - Intro
0:37 - Introducing our instruments
2:06 - Round 1 Flute
4:14 - Round 2 Flute
8:26 - Round 1 Violin
10:38 - Round 2 Violin
Who has the best Brahms Violin Concerto? Janine Jansen? What about David Oistrakh?
In this video I go through what makes the Brahms Violin Concerto so epic and review 4 soloists and their musical choices they make to best bring forth Brahms’ music 🎵
Let me know who is YOUR favorite performer of the Brahms Violin Concerto 🎻 Drop a comment if you have others who you want me to review!
0:00 - Intro
0:36 - David Oistrakh
3:54 - Hilary Hahn
7:04 - Augustin Hadelich
10:10 - Janine Jansen
Have fun practicing! I've used this piece for encores all over the world and now I'd like to share it with you, so more people can hear this beautiful Australian melody 🦘
0:00 - Intro
0:40 - The Introduction
1:52 - "Once a jolly swagman" - First theme
3:54 - "Rivers of Australia" - Variation 1
5:33 - "Waltzing Matilda!" - Chorus
6:43 - "Kangaroos & sheep" - Variation 2
8:54 - "Hey my sheep!" - Minor key 1
10:05 - "Not-so-jolly" - Minor key 2
12:55 - The ghost
Let me know who is your favorite performer of the Bruch Violin Concerto 🎻
0:00 - Intro
0:56 - Yehudi Menuhin
4:24 - Maxim Vengerov
9:59 - Itzhak Perlman
12:41 - Janine Jansen
Ok this one was tougher than I thought. Might need to practice more.
Let me know if there are other excerpts you think I should try!
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0:00 - Intro
0:45 - Listening & analyzing
2:46 - Fingerings & markings
4:11 - Practicing
6:25 - Performance
8:45 - Outro
Reuploaded for HD version (and perhaps crediting the “Spring” Sonata to the wrong guy XD)
Recorded with pianist Julio Elizalde (instagram.com/juliothepianist) at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music
"Presto" from Antonio Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" Summer (3rd movement)
Rockport Music | Shalin Liu Performance Center
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Big thanks to @shawnwasabi for giving a classical musician a taste for EDM - I mean, Electronic Music 🤣
0:00 - Intro
0:53 - Shawn's instrument: Midi Fighter 64
2:45 - Collab concept
4:15 - Rehearsal / learning the piece
6:49 - Performance
Big thanks to @IsabellaEgawa for providing the sheet music arrangement. Download the Tonic app and search for the ‘Ray Music Arrangements’ Group, and have fun practicing it with the community!
Let’s see if I can learn Rush E in 30 minutes and play it.
0:00 - Intro: What is Rush E?
0:51 - Reacting to original version
2:39 - Free sheet music
8:36 - Performance
I can’t believe I hadn’t seen this before. Fun to watch but Jubilee really does their folks dirty with their content. TwoSet reacted to this but I thought I'd add in a bit more from a professional musician's perspective on why I believe they gave themselves those rankings.
0:00 - Intro
0:23 - What is talent?
3:17 - Ray ranking the musicians
3:52 - Musicians ranking themselves
10:17 - Results: Average ranking
10:34 - Results: Public IG ranking
12:10 - Comparison: IG vs Musicians vs Ray
13:00 - Conclusion
Can you guess who the mystery musician is based on the thumbnail?
I already know we’re going to need a Round 2 for this so just go ahead and list out and vote for the people you want me to include in the next round of Tchaikovsky SHOWDOWN
0:00 - Intro
0:31 - David Oistrakh
3:14 - Itzhak Perlman
5:52 - Alena Baeva
8:00 - Mystery musician
Work on perfecting your vibrato with these 4 easy exercises!
0:00 - Intro
0:23 - Step 1
1:06 - Step 2
2:24 - Step 3
3:47 - Step 4
4:36 - Additional tips
Do you think Brett & Eddy have improved? I rank them to see how well their technique, musicianship, and confidence have changed over the years.
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0:00 - Intro & skill ranking explanation
1:04 - Early days (2016 - 2018)
5:46 - Years of improvement (2019 - 2021)
11:57 - The last few years (2022 - present day)
This was a fun one to practice! It's a lot harder than it looks :)
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Sarah Chang or Hilary Hahn - who's style do you prefer when it comes to the Sibelius Violin Concerto? What about Joshua Bell? Or do you prefer Maxim Vengerov’s smooth legato lines?
Let me know if there are other performance versions of Sibelius you love in the comments below.
0:00 - Intro
0:25 - Joshua Bell
2:03 - Negative comments
3:49 - Sarah Chang
7:00 - Hilary Hahn
10:55 - Maxim Vengerov
0:00 - Intro
0:20 - Item 1
1:19 - Item 2
3:40 - Item 3
4:15 - Item 4
5:22 - Item 5
6:04 - Item 6
6:45 - Item 7
7:27 - Item 8
8:05 - Item 9
8:37 - Item 10
9:09 - Item 11
9:58 - Item 12
Perfect for any holiday gathering. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas is a wonderful addition to the festive spirit. Let me know in the comments below what other pieces you’d like me to teach! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays 🎄
0:00 - Intro
0:25 - Tutorial
12:58 - Performance
How real or fake are some of these TikToks? Some were good. Others were sus.
Ps. This was the original video that caused me to fly to Paris to CALL OUT a TikTok musician for his video.
0:00 - Intro
0:28 - String
0:56 - Water
1:29 - 1 to 17 years
2:51 - 5 vs 15 years
4:22 - Raising money for lessons
5:24 - Conductor 1
6:50 - Classical music is boring
7:38 - Shots fired
7:55 - Falling asleep in concert
8:41 - Conductor gets pranked
9:17 - Conduct us
10:29 - Mozart Lacrimosa
11:45 - Interstellar
12:53 - CALLING OUT TIKTOKER
Maxim Vengerov vs Hilary Hahn - who's style do you prefer when it comes to Mendelssohn? What about Janine Jansen? Or do you prefer old-school Jascha Heifetz?
Let me know if there are other performance versions of Mendelssohn you love in the comments below.
0:00 - Intro
0:23 - Jascha Heifetz
2:31 - Maxim Vengerov
7:13 - Janine Jansen
10:10 - Hilary Hahn
Use this sheet music to practice on Tonic: https://tonicmusic.app/goat
Backing track: youtu.be/CmrVUkURY9Q?si=2w68Gk5MzfV6pM-8
PS. If you don't know @Polyphia or @TimHensonW6RST, go check them out! Also, huge thanks to @ColburnSchoolLosAngeles for letting me perform sacrilege in the renown Heifetz Studio 🙏🏼
Brahms vs Paganini - which one's more difficult? Is Lalo Symphonie Espagnole easier to play than Mozart Violin Concerto?
Let me guide you through my thought process for which violin concertos you'll get the most bang out of your buck for your practice time!
0:00 - Intro
03:29 - Tchaikovsky
07:17 - Brahms
09:17 - Prokofiev
10:45 - Barber
12:40 - Beethoven
15:53 - Conclusion
Time to test our listening skills to see if we can play these famous passages after only hearing them once.
0:00 - Intro
0:23 - Rather Be (Clean Bandit)
1:12 - Binks' Sake (One Piece)
2:55 - Golden Wind (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
3:51 - Fantastic (Henry Lau)
4:52 - Shut Down (BLACKPINK)
5:58 - Black Angels (George Crumb)
7:44 - Succession (Nicholas Britell)
9:05 - Married Life (Up)
10:25 - Tears of the Kingdom (Zelda)
11:24 - Jhin the Virtuoso (League of Legends)
12:15 - BONUS track
Changing strings doesn't have to be a painful experience. Learn how Ray does it and never snap a string again!
0:00 - Intro
0:39 - Removing old string
1:59 - Preparing the new string
2:21 - Applying new string
3:51 - Tuning the string
5:09 - Changing the E string
5:40 - Removing the ball end
7:41 - Q&A String Changing
0:00 - Intro
0:21 - Getting started
1:27 - Musicality
2:44 - Composers
3:43 - Communication
6:25 - Motivation
7:41 - Conclusion
Backing track to the "Evolution of Anime Music" (Can't wait to hear you practice this): https://tonicmusic.app/anime
Big thanks to @RobLandes for surprising everyone. Check out the other video we did: youtu.be/_UszrVji7y0
Let me know your favorite animes in the description below and which ones you think I should play!