Now that you know which caprices to practice, go join the others on Tonic: tonicmusic.app/join-in 🎵

Remember, kids: 1 week for a soloist = 6 months (being very optimist) for mortals who got there finally!

putting no. 1 in a tier is, to say the least, very bold 😭

I practiced No 16 for months and it still turned out terrible with stage fright hahaha. These caprices (even the easiest ones) are super difficult. Who would've guessed?!?

Ray: it’s not difficult at all and very friendly Me: “practicing for a year and still bad at it”

The picture of Paganini in the background is fire 🔥🔥

Does Ray not realize he opened a can of worms with this as now we want to hear him play all 24 of them.

I’m so impressed with the editing, it’s so good. Editor San, you have competition

Hello Ray. I'm 65 years old, I live in Portugal and I really like your music and I hope you give a concert in this country again. I wish you a lot of happiness. Keep making your videos. Congratulations on your success. You are a great talent! A hug and a kiss. (this is the affectionate way the Portuguese have of ending messages. Goodbye.

I’d love to see a Bach Sonata & Partita tier list!!

Love the editing!!

I have always been wondering this, and now there's a video to answer this question, and with explanations too!

I really enjoy the editing of your videos. It is entertaining and fun, yet tasteful and not too distracting. ❤

Here’s my 2 cents: S-Tier: 1, 4 A-Tier: 2, 3, 7, 8, 17, 23 B-Tier: 6, 11, 12, 21, 24 C-Tier: 10, 15, 18, 19, 22 D-Tier: 5, 9, 13, 14, 16, 20 - just as a violin-player trying to get them up to performance level :)

Thank you for taking your time to make the video, very helpful and inspiring....

cool video! Ill be getting back on tonic when I get a new phone! Im really checking your technique now. You are one of my favourite players!

My fingers hurt form just watching this

Fantastic Ray and everybody else.

I've been struggling with no. 11 for a while. Ray: "pretty simple"

Can't wait to find out which caprice I'll try out (and quickly be humbled by) first, tbh with probably way too little experience / technique. But nothing a lot of (smart) practice can't fix 😄

Love the coffee setup, including the Niche grinder! Oh - and nice violin work too.

Ray chen, thank you so much! because of you, I could take part in the solo because of your summer lesson. Thank you so much!!!!!

You did fantastic at the concert in LA and San diego. Thank you for remembering me from Feb. Thank you for signing my violin and liking my jacket.

Nice, never watch such a detail explanation for Paganini’s pieces.Btw, loves the panini bun popping up 😆

This is amazing

Great video!! Thank you so much! I've been wanting to start learning these but haven't quite known which to start with. Could you do a video on ranking Bach's Partitas and Sonatas?? That would be great!!

Ooooh can’t wait for this!!!!❤❤

Thank you! Interesting!

The editing is great

Sweet coffee setup! The niche grinder, the fellow kettle, and the water spritz bottle. I see you're a guy who enjoys coffee 👀

Amazing ❤

YT has recently suggested some videos to me with titles like 'classical music is dying'... But I say: It depends where you look! 😁

"I suck at arpeggios". That's how to recognize an expert: they will never claim to know it all

Fantastic ❤

RayChen Sir my favourite violin music start from 4th till to end it will be super I have seen this in your KZfaq channel it will be very nice to hear & see 😳 thanks Sir🙋🏻( I don't have any knowledge about violin & have not learn only I can listen the music feel it ☺️)

Cannot wait for release

It's so awesome that it hurts to say👍🏻👍🏻✨🥇👑

Now as a French horn player I shall transpose my faves and practice

Mr. Chan, you are a fantastic violinist, no limits for your mastering of the violin technic, please tell us how to practice them and what to do!

So in essence, for normies, the unit of measure for how fast one could learn it would be in years instead of weeks. LOL

Excelente,Ray Chen 🎻🎵🎶

Wasn't expecting the Dark Soul and Mob Psycho references! Nice video as always.

Wow great skills 😮😮😮

Love the floating cowboy hat! ❤

I love the passion for the music, even though I can not play the violin, a little bit keyboard.😊

Ray's such a humble human being that sometimes I forget just how ridiculously good he is until he says stuff like, paganini caprice 1, hmm... maybe can get it ready in a week?

After the TwoSet prank, I was expecting this to be another April Fools video, but it wasn't. Or maybe it is, because I'll never be able to play any of these =(

Great 🎼🎶🎻👍🎉 Greetings from 🇪🇺 🇩🇪 , JB 🙋‍♂️

maybe replace the word "week" with "year" or "decade" but other than that W tierlist

Could you please make a video about "A Day in the Life of the World's Famous Violinist - RAY CHEN"....I mean a normal day VLOG for what you do throughout the day (just curious about your daily routine)

Paganini is the original shredder, you can't change my mind!

Hâm mộ anh quá ❤

When I was a wee lad in my first year of highschool, I almost completely learned 23 (the first one I ever tried), which was probably way too high above my skill level and teachers would always doubt me, but I almost could play at least the octaves and could do the mid section if slowed down a bit. I can't really play it now anymore nearly 6 years later (although maybe I could if I got back into playing again, but I'm really rusty atm), but I'm surprised at how high my skill level was at the time and kinda miss it. I also tried to learn 4, 14, 17, 19, 20, and 24. Keep in mind, I was almost entirely self-taught. It goes without saying though, these caprices are extremely challenging (as is almost anything written by Paganini). I can't really rank all of these pieces as I haven't tried them all, but the ones I have tried are probably around where I'd put them. Great video

20 + 21 = 22 *✨r a y m a t h✨*

Mr Chen - Thank you for taking time to spend with Karolina Protsenko, I just came across her and you a few days ago from the street performance, your both down to earth. I like all types of music and a Show that I loved was the Carolina Christmas Opry Myrtle Beach back in Nov 2001 and then again Dec 2004. Spirit of the Dance also there at the Palace Theater. I love to see where a classical concert musician just playing somewhere where they people have no idea who they are. Do you play other insturments?

Sublime👏👏👏👏👏

Having played them all for my teacher at decent but not concert quality i can say this is for sure a weird list. Bro put the no 1 where u need good technique just to play the first chord xd side with no 9. My take is that even at the highest level the main goal is to be in tune with the spirit of the caprice and not hit every single note. I even believe that in many occasions few notes slightly out of tune can produce more interesting intervals and reinforce the diabolical vibe that paganini intended to create. The tier list is depended on he type of performance one has in mind. Maybe for a Markov type performance 12 will be on A tier and 15 on the SSS and for a Midori/Hilary accuracy 15 or even 17 can be on A tier while 12 is SSS. Of course my list is based on me playing them at 90% accuracy..not great not terrible. ??? 1,2,3,4, sss 5,7,8,11,12 ss 6,15,17,18,21 s 16,19,22,23,24 a 9,10,13,14,20

As a viewer from Germany I'd avoid naming a Tier SS 🌝

Great video as always. I love that blue paganini image, does someone knows where I can get it?

Ray you are litteraly my idol i hope to go to curtis someday

The list can be suggested by twoset’s😂

editor is goated

Now I know where my pitchfork was when I needed it! 🤣

You should do this with the Bach Sonatas and Partitas. I think that would help a lot of people.

Sitting in UK eating an ice cream (ok, 3, since the others will melt before they reach my freezer) & just enjoying listening in my car! ❤

MORE...MORE...MORE!!! C. Thomas

There's a cool story about the 9th caprice that I read up somewhere, where the young Ernst went to Paganini to have his technical abilities evaluated. However, Ernst misinterpreted the marking 'flautando' at the start, and played the whole piece in double harmonics to Paganini! After Ernst stopped playing, Paganini said 'It's a little devil!' (which essentially means 'hey boss what's up')

I am totally distracted by the S-tier (or, ???-tier in this case 😂) coffee and tea setup. I’d be down with your making something on it as a video ☕️ 🫖

My mouth was open the whole time... these are all so complicated.....😮

I want Two Set to react to this and get their opinion cause they always mention Paganini lol

When hearing no. 9 my brain just immediately goes to twoset: dundundun dundundun and everyone at the con playing it.

you used to not have upbow staccato, you got it now. how about you make us a little tutorial how you develop it ? :)

I can’t believe that ray said caprice 5 is “fun”

Hello, oh I'm not late for Tonic, I wanted a violin but congratulations to the winners

Wanna enjoy the full version from u Ray!

"After this, you can finger any octaves" that comment killed me

Caprice No. 1 in a week? Have you only just played the first 3 lines? It’s definitely on the SS side especially those stretches and getting every single note clear as crystals!

Ray chennn came to Brazilllll, especilly Curitiba - Párana because the center of music of the country is in a near by state, so its close to them came e then i can watch you also because i live in curitiba ahahhahah

All the A tier ones are basically the next step up after you're done with Carl Flesch scales before you start any of the other Pag Caprices.

Rachmaninoff of course used this variation in his "Paganini Rhapsody" and in the course of it he turns the theme backwards to create that lush romantic section. Lloyd Webber also used it in the musical "Song and Dance."

Next tierlist should be how nice the melodies are

Paganini: this is my gratest music Lizst: *our music*

Some Pa pieces are like : *Cool and calm in the beginning* And afeter 20 sec :*W E N E E D C H A O S*

Can you review Roman Kim for a video?

omgggg i love niccolo paganini

Man Paganini Caprice 24 hits different when it's played by Ray Chen as an encore!

he should have name the highest tier "lingling"

To Ray Chen or anyone who can answer my question: How do you get the Tonic sticker? ( I am asking as a tonic member)

Can I please ask you what do you whisper when you play violin? I notice some musicians do that, are you counting? Just curious 👀

Some are appealing to listen to than others, but all are nteresting.

"Friendly" he says. 😆😆❤️

It’s funny how Ray says some of the caprices sound like great exercises, when Paganini used the caprices as his exercises😂

I'm havin a good time blinking 😳😢🤐 lol 😂🤣

nice tier list. as a not-violin-pro, i can't relate or easily understand the ranking of these caprices.

I love how he desperately struggles to find a Caprice that is really difficult for him but fails every time.

I would place nr 9, 10, 13, 14, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23 on the botom level but for nr 1. It is maybe because I played them all. I tried to play also nr 7, 15 (I wanted to improve my staccato) and nr 18, 6, that were quite deficult. My favorite was nr 2 and 11. I never planned playing nr 3, 4, :) they frightened me :) I think nr 22 nor 23 are easy, an much easier than 10, or 1.

This gives me a headache but in a good way

So number 6 is easier than devil's trill sonata and can be used as a preparatory?

You know Ray’s good when he says A tier takes one week to learn

Господи!!!! Он разговаривает так же быстро, как играет!!! 😂😘😘 Но играет просто бесподобно!!!! Обожаю профессионалов и талантливых, провяленных людей!!!! Удачи!!!!! 🙏🙏🙏