WEBVTT - #144 - Lindsey Stirling (Electronic Violinist, Dancer and YouTuber) 0:00:03.279 --> 0:00:05.840 All right, welcome to Episode one four of the Bobby 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:10.440 Cast with Lindsay Sterling. And before we start, for more 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:14.840 than three years, by the way, high Lindsay a commercial 0:00:14.880 --> 0:00:17.759 real quick. For more than three years, a software vulnerability 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:20.520 in the Google Plus social media network gave third party 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:24.360 people access to users private profile information. So about half 0:00:24.360 --> 0:00:26.760 a million users who shared private data with a friend 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:29.080 could have had their data access. So what happens is 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:32.479 with your personal info out there, criminals can open accounts, 0:00:32.479 --> 0:00:35.040 file tax returns by property. 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I do well. 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:46.600 I remember going on your show first right that morning, yeah, 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:48.640 the morning, good morning of and then it was like 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:50.640 we did a interview. I played a little literally on 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:54.200 the violin, and then that night right we went and 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:57.440 presented together, and I do remember you went off script 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:00.480 because I was super nervous to read the tell a prompter. 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:03.480 I don't like, I have dyslexia and so I don't 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:05.960 read super well. So I was so nervous. And then 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:08.600 you went off script, and I'm like, when do I 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:11.160 come in window? Oh, No. I got in trouble for 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:13.480 that too, because you're really, when you're doing live television 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:16.200 not supposed to go off script. Absolutely not. Yeah, but 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:18.880 I wrote a joke right before we went out that 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:21.120 I thought was so funny that America did not tell me. 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:24.480 I didn't, but I didn't really know you either, And 0:02:24.520 --> 0:02:26.240 if I told you, I thought maybe you would tell 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:29.040 on me to one of the producers, like run Side Station, 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:31.560 just to tell a joke, maybe because you've been like, hey, 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:35.480 Bobby's doing something, I'm not quite comfortable, and so then 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:38.600 they would have cut. It was just a strategic Okay, 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:40.960 I gave it to you. That was fine. We we 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:43.680 handled it beautifully. No one would Ann. I don't remember 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:49.120 the joke. I don't remember anything about the actual anything. 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:52.280 I remember talking to you afterward and going out. She's 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:53.639 really nice, and she was really because you played the 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:55.560 show that morning and then you were just kind of 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:58.800 gone for a while. Then you disappeared pixied away. But 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:01.720 we had talked a little bit online. But then when 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:04.200 Dancing with the Stars came up, I was like, hey, lindsay, 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:06.640 what do you think about this show? And you said, 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:10.960 I said, a hundred percent, it's the most amazing experience. 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:14.359 But I also told you it's not easy, and like, 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:17.919 why it wasn't easy? And so did I help prepare 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:19.720 you at all for how hard it is? I don't 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:22.320 know if I could have been prepared. Really, yeah, but 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:26.720 everything about you was I don't believe everything Lindsay says, 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:28.400 not because you don't tell the truth. Because you worked 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:30.960 so hard and you were doing five different things because 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:34.160 you were touring, you were making music, you were doing 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:36.680 Dancing with the Stars. So they were going, well, you 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:39.800 don't do as much as Lindsay. That is not true, 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:42.160 but they didn't know at the time when they were 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:43.560 so they were like, but so don't listen, it's not 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:45.240 that hard. So they were telling me this was the 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:47.720 Dancing with the Stars team. I'll see they always like 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:51.200 talk it down, and I was like, don't. Yeah, if 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:54.120 don't listen, you better clear your schedule if you're going 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:58.000 to do that show, because it is so they told me, 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:00.200 if you have four days and you can do four 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:03.240 hours for four days a week, you'll be fine. And 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:05.520 I'm thinking to myself, Oh, I can do that's a lot. 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:07.160 I'm thinking myself, Wow, that's a lot, but I can 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:09.320 do that, but now I can hear I have. I've 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:11.720 done seven days a week for six weeks, probably six 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:14.000 hours a day, at least six hours. Yeah, well they 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:16.560 don't tell you. They tell you about the dance rehearsals, 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:18.200 but then they don't tell you about all the camera 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:20.520 interviews you have to do, which takes like two hours, 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:25.599 and the costume fittings, and then the extra group numbers 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:27.800 that you have to like it adds up to at 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:30.200 least six hours a day. Well, then you ended up 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:32.200 dancing in our trio group because when they said you 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:34.120 have treo, I was like, oh, I have tovite Lindsay, 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:36.800 because one, you're really good. You finished. Second you should 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:38.840 have won, but you don't have to respond to that. 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:41.920 I thought you should have won. And then you came 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:43.320 and dance with us, and that was really nice of 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:44.880 you because that you have to get yourself into a 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:46.600 whole different mind frame and you're about to be on 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:49.279 National TV. Two. You know what's funny is when you 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:50.760 asked me to do it, I was like, oh, sure, 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:53.880 that'll be fun. I didn't realize, like I almost forgot 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:56.120 how intense the show was. It was only a year ago, 0:04:56.520 --> 0:04:59.560 but like being put back into the ballroom, getting back 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:02.440 in my els, and just remembering the highs and the 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:04.520 lows of it. Like I don't think I've ever had 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:06.839 any experience in my life other than that show where 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:11.160 I've felt so like joyous and happy and terrified at 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:13.160 the same time. And that's the best way I can 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:17.120 describe and exhausted like so because I'm so happy to 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:21.640 do it. Yeah, I'm so just scared. My guts jump 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:25.640 every show. You, I mean, the part that gets you. 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:28.400 The people at home don't hear. But when we stand 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:31.279 on that dance floor, you see like this little video 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:33.720 play of your week and kind of the first time 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:35.960 you see it, and then all of a sudden, when 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:38.400 it ends, you just hear this click click click, and 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:42.000 your mind goes blank. It's like you forget everything and 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:45.159 you just have to rely on adrenaline and muscle memory 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:47.680 because the click track. Again, you don't hear it at home, 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:49.280 but for us what it is, and we're us in 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:51.680 a music some too, because we'll hear it in our 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:54.400 ears and it will keep us on beat. Like the 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:58.080 audience won't hear it on a stage show, but they 0:05:58.080 --> 0:06:00.359 played in the dance room because in case you have 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:02.400 to be on the first note or know the first note. Yeah, 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:05.360 it allows you to be right on It's like it 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:10.480 that's the purpose of it. But I don't think I 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:14.400 would have done Dancing with the Stars without you and 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:17.520 your advice, because I'd have been like, oh, I don't know, 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:19.360 I'm not really a dancer. Would be fun, but I 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:21.320 don't know if I can dedicate this much time to it. 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:23.000 But I think I said that in the package to 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:24.200 the thing they run. I was like, I I don't think 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:26.200 I would have done without Lindsay telling me to do it. 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:28.520 So thanks for all of this. Like, I actually have 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:30.200 kind of calves now for the first time in my life, 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:33.040 for the first time ever, I noticed. It's like when 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:34.719 I was twelve, I started doing push ups and I 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:37.680 started to notice like bulges in my arms. Now I'm 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:39.599 not twelve, but I'm starting to see bulges in my 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:41.920 calves and have a really bad bird legs. It's kind 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:43.919 of a breakthrough for me. So you just have to 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:47.719 do more jiving and waltzing in your life. Was that 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:49.440 what you feel like? That's the hardest one yet for 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:53.680 my calves. Really, they're all terrible. None of them have 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:55.880 happened where I go. Yeah, that was a good one. 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:59.240 Really well, you're killing it, making me proud. I hope 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:01.760 you're not cursed me for suggesting that you do. No, No, 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:03.440 not at all. It's one of the craziest experiences of 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:05.640 my life, good and bad. That was just not why 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:07.600 I actually brought you here. You have a Christmas record 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:09.760 that we're gonna talk about, but it will do one 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:11.320 song first year and play some of this. This is 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:14.400 Carol the Bells from your Christmas record, which is called 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:16.680 what's the record called? It's called Warmer in the Winter. 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:34.280 All right, here we go, so on this that do 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:37.480 do do? Is that your fingers plucking the strings? Yeah? Okay, 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:41.000 tell me talk me through this. You're plugging the string. 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:44.160 You play a violin like a kind of a guitar. Yeah, 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:46.480 you still hold it like a violin. Um, but they 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:49.800 called pizzicato in the classical world, and you're basically plucking 0:07:49.800 --> 0:08:04.160 the strings as if similar to a guitar. Come on, 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:06.760 could you play all this right now? If you could, 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:08.320 you pull up your violin and play right now. If 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:10.240 I had it in the studio, I could play. I'm 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:11.520 not saying would you play it right now? But you 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:13.800 could do. You know, do you know every song on 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:16.960 your Christmas record? Absolutely, you could play it, yeah, because 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:19.520 you're going you do a whole Christmas show. We do. 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:23.840 We're actually in rehearsals right now for it, and it's 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:26.480 it's so much fun. Like this was actually my favorite 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:28.640 album I've probably ever done. I had so much fun 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:30.600 just like getting in the Christmas spirit and putting my 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:34.160 spin on Christmas. And then for me, writing music is 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:37.840 so much about the experience of it, and that is 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:40.480 the live show, Like that's kind of where the end 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:43.120 game of where I'm writing the music for. And so 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:45.120 when I'm putting together the show, it's like this is 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:47.320 how the music was always meant to be heard, is 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:51.360 in a visual storytelling way. And so like I'm in 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:53.200 the you know, I'm in the studio right now with 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:56.280 the dancers learning all the choreography, and it just makes 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:58.640 me so excited to take this show on the road. 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:01.240 We did it last year and now we're totally switching 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:03.200 the show up and and doing it again this year. 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:07.080 So you start playing the violin win when I was 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:09.079 six years old. By the way, I'm gonna ask a 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:10.600 lot of questions. I already know the answer too, because 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:14.400 I read your book. So just even though you know, 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:18.400 I know, all right, so you start playing it. Win 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:24.640 six years old? Your parents play violin guitar, No, but 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:28.400 they love classical music. And so when I was really little, 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:32.040 they would play these old classical records, like on this 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:35.280 scratchy record player, and then they used to take me 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:39.280 and my sisters to classical concerts like Orchestras in the park, 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:42.640 you know, and um. And I noticed that the violinists 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:46.520 always got the solos, they always got the fast, melodic 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:49.920 like exciting parts. And I was like, oh, that's a star, 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:52.160 Like that's the one that gets all the attention. I 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:54.520 want to play that wooden thing. And I started begging 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:57.040 for violin lessons as like you know, when my when 0:09:57.040 --> 0:09:59.040 I was like five, and by the time I was six, 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:02.719 they finally were like, A think she's serious. So you're 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:05.880 six years old, you want violin lessons. That's a I mean, 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:08.920 that's a mature instrument for a six year old. I 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:11.760 think when I was six, I wanted a trash can lid, 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:14.200 a stick, you know, I was wanted to beat something 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:16.719 to time. But you want to violin, and do they 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:18.880 give you they buy you a real violin because they're 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:22.120 expensive at six years old. Um, we rented one. We 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:24.920 rented this little and they're a lot less expensive when 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:27.120 they're only like, you know, six inches long. They make 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:30.520 kid violins like, yeah, they're they're adorable. They're like little 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:33.160 tiny they look like toys, but it's because there's no 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:35.640 way a child can play, like your arm won't even 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:37.800 fit to reach the where your fingers are supposed to 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:39.840 go on the board. Um. So yeah, I had a 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:43.040 little tiny violin that we rented, and I rented um 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:45.400 until I got to a full size violin. So what 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:47.199 was the part about, I'm gonna go to the book 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:49.960 where you had a cardboard violin for a while. Oh 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:53.959 so that is just before they give a tiny six 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:56.880 year old, like, you know, an expensive instrument for what 0:10:56.920 --> 0:10:59.720 it is. Um. They first gave me a serial box 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:03.200 with could like a paper towel roll as the board 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:06.800 where the fingerboard, and so that would teach me how 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:09.319 to hold it. And once I proved that I could 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:12.960 hold the cereal box and the paper towel roll, well, um, 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:15.800 they upgraded me to a real violin. Was there a 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:19.640 time where you said I'm kind of down with Violin definitely. Actually, yeah, 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:21.880 there was a couple of times I almost quit. Um. 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:23.880 One main time was when I was a teenager and 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:26.600 I um told my mom I wanted to quit, and 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:28.400 she kind of sat me down and she's like, I've 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:30.800 paid for lessons for you since you were a kid, 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:32.600 and that was not you know, that was a huge 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:35.520 sacrifice for my parents. And she's like, just play until 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:37.199 the end of the year. Just do that for me, 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:39.640 and if you still want to quit, you know, in 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:41.079 four months, you know, in the end of the year 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:43.079 rolled around, she's like, you can quit. And you know, 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:44.920 because we all go through like ups and downs and 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:47.120 slumps and lows and things. And by the time the 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:49.440 new year rolled around, I had kind of gotten through 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:52.640 this this slump and I didn't want to quit anymore. 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:54.760 When you were in high school, you were the what kid, 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:59.320 the blank kid? I was. UM. I was kind of 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:01.960 a kid that did every thing like I did sports, 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:04.760 I was on I was in a video editing class, 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:07.280 and I like was super nerdy about video production and 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:13.160 editing videos. Um, I did orchestra, I did banned. I mean, 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:15.960 I was little bits of everything is what I would call. 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:19.160 Were you a good athlete. I was actually pretty decent, 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:21.640 Like at soccer and cross country. It wasn't the I 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:23.439 was never the best, but I was, you know, I could. 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:25.520 I was on all the varsity teams. And were you 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:30.680 the best musician in your band? Um? Yes, I was. 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:34.800 At what age did you start to separate from people 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:36.920 your peers? At what age did you start to go 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:40.360 and not in any way of like I'm so good, 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:43.760 but you've noticed a difference of Wow, I'm actually performing 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:47.920 at a higher level than my peers that are pretty good, right. Um, well, 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:49.959 I think since I started when I was six, most 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:53.000 most people don't start the violin with private lessons when 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:56.079 they're six, and so as soon as I went into school, 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:58.320 I was always way ahead of the other kids in 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:02.360 the orchestra. Um. However, that was like being the big 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:04.920 fish in a small pond, you know, with your public 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:09.040 school orchestra. I also did like these extracurricular orchestras where 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:11.800 all the kids that started when they were six were 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:14.079 in those orchestras, And that was the place where I 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:16.360 was like, oh gosh, you know, my humility check of 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:20.760 I'm actually very middle of the road here, And I 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:23.000 think that is one of the reasons. I was about 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:25.160 to go to college to to study music, and I 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:29.320 even I was offered a scholarship, and I realized one 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:31.520 that I didn't really love the violin anymore, and that 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:33.840 was the second time I almost quit. But also I 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:36.520 kind of got to the realization of I'm just going 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:38.640 to be, you know, playing in the back of some 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:40.719 orchestra for the rest of my life. And I kind 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:43.240 of had to think about it of what can I 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:45.720 do that's different so that I can do this in 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:47.160 a way that at won that I love it and 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:49.920 can rEFInd my passion, but also so that I can 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:52.480 have a voice in this and I'm not just begging 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:54.880 to be accepted as the back chair player for a 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:58.040 public orchestra. UM. And that's when I started to write 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:00.959 my own music and be creative with it. UM. And 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:04.280 you know, it's I'm so glad that I wasn't just 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:06.360 a little bit better, because if I've been just a 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:08.680 little bit better, I would have been getting the solos 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:10.760 and I would have been the first chairs of like 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:14.200 the really good orchestras, and that's where I would still be. 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:17.320 But thank heavens, I was just not quite good enough. 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:19.160 So I had to think outside the box, and I 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:21.720 had to get really creative with it. So you're thinking, Okay, 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:24.840 I'll do something different, But what do you do? You 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:26.800 know you want to dance, to play violin, or maybe 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:29.360 you want to juggle. How did you kind of end 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:32.080 up in doing what you do now, which you play 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:34.800 electric violin and dance at the same time, which is 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:37.160 pretty crazy. That is that accurate? You play electric violin? 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:41.040 I do I play the What would your title if 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:43.000 you had to give yourself a job title? I mean, 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:46.000 I usually just say I'm an electronic violinist, you know, 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:48.720 but you don't play the normal non electronic violin. That's 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:50.640 the thing I do, but I don't know what to 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:54.520 call myself. So when that usually quickly paints a picture 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:56.480 for people of like, oh, she does the violin in 0:14:56.480 --> 0:14:59.960 a different way, because I do still play like leaku 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:03.680 stick violent. All my recordings are done with an acoustic violin, um, 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:05.600 but a lot of my shows are with electric violence, 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:07.600 just because I can make them sparkle and they look 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:09.520 really cool. How many violences do you have at your house? 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:13.080 I probably have about seven violins in my house. Well 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:15.040 that's how I thought you'd have, Like I know, everyone's 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:19.200 always surprised. I'm like, I'm a moderation kind of a person, 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:22.360 you know, I don't I have like really nice violins 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:24.360 like and also violence. If you get to like really 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:28.000 nice violins, they're very expensive. And so like I have 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:30.520 my one really nice violin, and then I have some 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:33.400 you know, fully like I have two violins that are 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:38.560 fully Swolvorskiki crystal hy even say Swolvorski crystal. So you know, 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:40.400 I can't have a million of them if I want 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:43.000 them all to be really special. Do they have violins 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:46.600 from back in the like Beethoven days? Are they still around? It? 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:49.960 All there? And that's why violins, a good one is 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:52.760 so expensive, is because the wood gets better with age 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:56.280 and sweetens, and so the best violins you can get 0:15:56.320 --> 0:16:00.960 are ones that are, you know, a hundred plus years old. Really, yeah, 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:03.080 have you ever played a hundred plus year old violin? 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:04.960 Do you have one? That's what my mind is about 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:08.360 a hundred years old. And you know that's why I'm 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:11.600 like so careful with that thing, because you can't replace it, 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:14.680 Like no violence sounds the same, and also it's it 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:16.280 was it's a hundred years old. It had to wait 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:18.160 till it was a hundred to be what it's worth. 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:21.280 And that's why they're so valuable. Do you ever go 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:23.520 in to a music store and you just go and 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:25.720 you're just like looking around and you grab a violin 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:27.600 and you kind of want to show off a little 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:29.280 bit and you want to make people like look, Because 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:30.440 that's what I would do if I had like some 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:32.680 extreme talent, I would go into like if I was 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:34.600 a great singer, I would go into a karaoke place 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:38.080 and just wail and have no one know it was me, 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:40.760 the great singer, but just be amazed that someone singing 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:43.160 great was on the karaoke stage. Do you ever go 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:45.840 into like that? Do they have a guitar They have 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:47.960 a guitar Violence of car center they have those. They 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:51.080 don't you ever going to violent center just grab a 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:53.880 violin and not tell them that you're like super proficient 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:58.360 at violin. You know, violin shops are very they're very different. 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:01.840 They're not like a guitar center. They're like old houses 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:05.560 where there's just violins lining the walls and they're all 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:09.040 super old and like really cool and so but there's 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:10.720 all I had to say. It was a little bit 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:13.040 of a snobby community, so like I would think it 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:16.240 was a snobby it's snobby community. So like walking into 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:19.240 that kind of shop, you don't get mediocre players that 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:21.280 walk into a shop like that. You know what I'm saying. 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:23.479 Could I walk into one of those shops You're like, hey, 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:25.680 I'm really interested. Can I see the one year all violin? 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:27.840 Probably not. I wouldn't let me hold it. I mean 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:30.560 probably not. No, if you've never played, you know, they'd 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:32.720 be like, heck no, when I hear violin, I think 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:36.359 are really rich people, because like to me, that's a 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:41.280 did you grow up rich? No? Absolutely not. It was 0:17:41.320 --> 0:17:44.520 actually Hue. That's why it took my parents so long. 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:45.959 You know, I begged when I was five years old 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:47.760 for lessons, and it wasn't until I was six that 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:50.480 they were like, I think, okay, you know most parents 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:52.240 are like, our child wants to play the violin, like 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:54.679 get him something, get him a violin. Um. But it 0:17:54.720 --> 0:17:58.119 was such a sacrifice, Like my parents really were struggling 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:00.960 so much financially to make ends me. Like my mom 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:03.000 talks about how we couldn't afford sour cream, you know, 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:05.720 like every penny was accounted for and so it was 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:09.520 a huge sacrifice to rent this violin and pay for lessons. 0:18:09.560 --> 0:18:12.040 And you know, my mom found a student, a college 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:14.120 student that was willing to teach me every other week 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:16.600 for only fifteen minutes, because that's all she could afford. 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:19.320 But I think because of that, I knew it was 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:21.959 a sacrifice. And I knew as a child that if 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:24.720 I did not practice, the lessons were going to go away. 0:18:24.760 --> 0:18:26.960 They weren't. You know, it wasn't a casual thing, and 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:29.840 my parents told me that, and um, so I think 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:32.000 that's part of the reason that I was diligent with 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:34.680 it as a child. When we were doing Dancing with 0:18:34.720 --> 0:18:36.400 the Stars and we just had a week, not even 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:40.200 a week, four days, we were working together. We would 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:41.720 train and this is all going to come back, but 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:43.600 we were trained together. And then I would have to 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:46.720 go to work. But people working on the set would 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:49.199 text me and go, hey, Lindsey still here practicing, and 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:51.719