Chords for YANNI: Master Class with Samvel Yervinyan on violin

Hi everyone, I am just sitting here with just the best violinist in the whole world
From Armenia, Mr.
Sam Yelvinian, a very close friend of mine
And [F] we're just before a concert and I thought maybe he could just give us a few little tricks with his violin
It's like [Ab] when I met him
_ _ [D] Ten years ago.
He didn't speak English at all, but he has perfect pitch and so we spoke music
So I would just say play _ _ _
_ _ [Gb] And he would just play it and he has some magical little things that he does
You want to like show us a few things Sam?
_ _ _ [G] until the last moment
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_ _ He's not warmed up by the way, I just surprised him I said come on let's do this
Can you play this one part this slower you playing all these quarter tones
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_ _ _ _ _ [Db] _ so [N] easy it's so easy he plays quarter tones which are really major and minor we don't use them in the Western scales and
_ He's just he's magic and he he's grown up in Armenia
And he's [C] he understands Greek music Armenian music
Bulgarian styles everything Middle Eastern Persian you just you just [A] go ahead and he mixes them all
All together and that's his style.
That's his sound.
That's what makes him just phenomenal.
He's a
I don't know.
He puts his own heart [F] into it and it becomes sample.
I call him Sam now
So it's good.
Show us a little more _ _ _ _
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example, if I take out this note it's gonna be like this _ _
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now
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_ _ _ _ Yeah, he makes it look easy, doesn't it?
And I don't know what else I remember I can tell you stories about Sam
He's he's a good place.
He is the best in the world.
He's untouchable and his intonation is perfect
[B] Does it every night every night he's
[G] _ Anybody who comes out and sees [Eb] him live in concert.
[N] They understand I don't have to say anything _
So that's a little more what else you have, you know, they want to know that you hold for a long time
You showed me something about your fingers.
What do you do on the bow?
And we show them that trick thing
Actually, we cannot _ _ _
I'll do it for you.
Okay, it is look at what he does
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [E] that is [D] until the [Em] last [E] moment _ that this [B] symbolizes and
[D] _ _ [E] Representation of the song the meaning of [Eb] the song and also the meaning [N] of life
Until the last moment is so precious
He does that every night and it's like you could hear the _ drop
Just the ending every last breath counts and he is able to express
Until the last moment the way I wrote it for the piano for the orchestra
in his Armenian way his soul with
using different scales in his own blend with his own heart and he's able to do it and
We feel his version of the song in the middle of the song and it now has become
Part of the whole piece and it works beautifully and we do it every night and I probably will be doing it with Sam
As long as we're alive and we're capable of doing it.
We're gonna keep on doing it
_ _ _ Just a little mistake we are together for 14 years _ _ _ _ _
_ Yeah, 14 years awesome awesome we'll see you soon guys take care you do yeah
[Ab] That's the guy that's the guy the other violin right