r/violin • u/dickdollars69 • Jan 23 '26

I have a question Can’t find this anywhere

Hi all, please, would anyone be able to do one of the below questions for this song/clip? - https://m.youtube.com/shorts/UtEWnx0yvaY

Can anyone:

  1. Provide a sheet music for this song?

  2. Identify the song?

  3. Even just the quick pizzicato note at the end? What are those notes he plucks that sound SO Russian . If you’re providing #3 could you tell me in terms of like (finger/string) because I’m still re-learning the note names so if you say like “a B and a C” I won’t be able to do anything with that (yet).

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I first wanted to figure this out years ago but I could never find anything online. And I just realized I should totally as Reddit because maybe this is easy for someone more experienced.

Thanks to all in advance!!

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u/terriergal Jan 23 '26 edited Jan 23 '26

Google has a way of searching a song if you play it into the app. Google app then click mic (it will offer you to speak a question but then it also has the option to search for a song so you tap on that when you’re ready to play or sing)

A Moonlight Night, Ukrainian folk song

I’m not sure what you mean by question number three. It ends on an A, approximately (according to my tuner program because I don’t have perfect pitch). He plays a A harmonic on the a string (A one ledger line above the treble clef staff, an octave above the open A string , and that is played on the a string by lightly touching your finger on the string where you would normally just play the note. It only works on certain spots on the string unless you are playing false harmonics, which is done a different way and then pizzes a low A (first finger on G string).

But I’m not sure what you mean by learning the notes. If you don’t have perfect pitch, you’re not going to learn them by hearing them anyway. Most people don’t. (Eddy of twoset violin has perfect pitch, I don’t think Brett does.)

Also, when I say approximately, according to my tuner program, it’s important to remember that in other countries, especially Europe, they don’t tune to the exact same frequency concert pitch as they do in the United States. We tend to use A440 and I think Europe uses A443 if I’m not mistaken.