Welcome to Ling Ling 40 Hours!
That’s really funny.
That's true, the pedal just makes everything...
It's like—
You know like,
when you have, like...
I can't think, I can’t talk!
- You know how you turn the reverb up in the recording, - Yeahh!
- so everything sounds kinda nice? - Edit it so it's like...
You don't hear the mistakes!
You don't know what you're hearing. That's so true.
Oh, by the way, guys!
We have instrument tags now, can you see?
- WHOO!! - It shows what instrument everyone plays!
Thank you to our new mods!
Yes. And thank you for being patient, guys!
We try our best to catch up with all the demands.
Lots of work.
I wonder what the composers would think of this.
"What is this hashtag thing?!"
It's called a sharp!
When you post a photo on Instagram,
"sharp" twosetviolin, "sharp" practice.
The world is changing, guys.
- I feel old! - I know.
Millennials...
Was it even millennials?
- Young kids. - What's the next gen?
The ones that use TikTok.
Oh, by the way, we got a new TikTok!
’Cause we wanna keep up with the young,
hashtag trendy...
...kids.
Get it?
A mandolin!!
Wow, you guys have top A grade humor.
The IQ level 1000.
Oh hey, there’s sharps and flats!
- W...wow! - Wow, the mods!
Oh, the background’s also changed!
Ling Ling 40 Hours has upgraded—
How many followers are we on now?
- 60,000— WHOA! - WOW!
Practicing 60 hours a day now.
There’s a group called
“Pretentious Classical Music Elitists.”
Hey...
- Everyone has their community. - Yeah.
- OHH... - A moment of silence to appreciate that...
musical...
That mix of, just that nerdiness...
- Mm. ...Yeah. - And that cringe.
Eddy: Oh, okay.
That’s a big post.
Ah.
Thank you for relying on us.
Whoa.
Well, first of all, thank you for caring about us.
Okay I think first of all,
I don’t think we’re going to burn out soon.
But we appreciate your concern,
- and we will definitely keep that in mind. - Mhm.
It’s interesting that we come across as burning out.
That's not something I realized.
It is tricky, maybe you guys will know this.
Over the last five years that we’ve been making content,
thousands of videos that we’ve made,
it’s never been so much that
it’s hard to come up with content ideas.
But it’s more that as we’ve gathered more fans,
we have different fans.
- As it becomes hard to kind of please - Yeahh.
everyone.
For the old school TwoSet supporters,
back before the Kickstarter days,
we kind of started with...
(both) Skits.
- A lot of skits. We made SOO many skits! - The Lindsey Stirling...
They spoke more to the,
I guess, hardcore classical music group.
Yeah, it's very classical music orientated.
The Bumblebee video brought in
a huge amount of new viewers.
That’s about the time when we started seeing
- Well... Yeah. So we had classical musicians as fans, - non-classical music fans.
then we have non-classical musicians
that are interested in classical music are fans, so...
We are going to try our best to make content
that can appeal to all of our fans.
Which means, some videos,
we try to make for our old school.
And then we're gonna try new stuff,
and also wanna do things that we want to do.
- Yeah. Also, yeah. - Like, have fun.
Have fun with the YouTube stuff.
In terms of ideas,
I don’t think we’re ever out of ideas, uh...
I think we posted a story once, as a half a joke.
- Ahh, yeah. - And I think maybe that
came across as we were running out of ideas.
- That’s a funny meme. YouTubers, we don't have ideas. - Yeah.
I think people became genuinely concerned.
People are genuinely concerned.
I think there’s plenty of ideas,
it’s actually what goes behind the ideas,
- that take the majority of the time. - Yeah.
And, like Eddy said, we have such a diversified audience,
we are trying to cater to everyone.
Yeah, ’cause they say, like,
“the simply hilarious videos that got us hooked
on your channel in the first place.”
So I’m assuming who wrote this
probably has been our fan for quite a while.
- I mean, yeah. - We'll try our best.
Try our best. And,
yeah, thank you for sticking with us for this long.
And we appreciate the feedback.
Yep!
Thank you.
But don't worry! We're not going to burn out.
We went through four years in uni, of -
- All that practice - Yeah yeah. - And I don't want to reveal how much practice we did,
- but like - A lot of hours of practice. - All the practice we did in uni... for a lifetime
...were great training for us,
- so this is nothing compared to - Yep. - Yeah. No, actually!
You wanna see burnout?
Look at a music university.
- I had a burnout in violin. - Yeah, I think so, because...
Violin playing, we learn discipline.
And... the
trauma and hardship that comes with this discipline -
We're not making a good case for
- learning violin right now. - I know.
- We've been through it, so... - Yeah.
- And I'm sure people have been through harder stuff. - But thank you.
What are the comments saying?
Yeah, okay.
I'll admit, we've been doing a bit—
Pobably too much roasting.
I think people loved it,
- which made us wanna give more. - Yeah.
But...
- We will probably tone down on that. - Yeah. We're,
- We're aware that it may come across as that we're... - We will. We're aware.
- We can't— Yeah. - We're "running out of ideas."
We got so many emails of people requesting us to -
- That's true. I mean... Yeah, yeah. - Everyone's like, "review this video."
We actually compiled a list of like,
- 30 shows and movies that people requested us to review. - It was SO many! So -
We were listening, basically, to requests.
But now, we are hearing this request,
- so we understand. - So... We understand.
And we'll ease up on it.
Which is good, too,
because I know I said it as a joke,
in that video, like, we're not a roasting channel.
Wait, we're not a roasting channel, we're
...And then proceeded to like,
- post five ro— But! - Yeah, yeah yeah!
At the end of the day, that's true.
- We're not about roasting. - Yeah, I mean look at—
If you look at all our videos,
- compared to the... thousand videos we've made, - Yeah, like a thousand.
on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube.
- Yeah. - So.
- Thank youu... thank you. - Thank you.
Wow, thank you so much for understanding!
- That's actually... It's a very good, insightful, - That's a very insightful comment.
thoughtful comment.
Holy moly, is this person like,
- a professional marketing consultant? - Yeah.
'Cause they sound like a genius.
I think we enjoy what we do.
- Like, actually - - For sure.
- Like... It's like, - We are so lucky.
- how, how you guys - - There's not a single day
- that I'm like - - I'm always working.
Practicing and doing all this stuff for you guys.
- We're passionate about it - - And not just for them, for us.
- We enjoy it. - For us— Yeah, exactly.
And then we're passionate about it.
We're lucky we found our passion,
so it makes it easier—
Easy for us to keep going in "work."
I think at end of the day, we're—
We are just gonna keep doing what we do.
Man, this is so interesting, to hear you guys' input.
That's actually been one of the coolest things about this subreddit,
that it's like,
a community where everyone can...
- ...speak... - Yep.
...their mind.
Well.
- Well, I like - - Thank you for having...
- Yeah. I like to think I'm not... - ...confidence in our intelligence.
THAT dumb.
All right.
- What else? - Yeah, that's enough of that.
You want to keep your girl?
- Better play in tune. - Mhmm.
Don't mess it up!
- Bing! - Don't mess it up!
Our old core fans will remember the percussion video
- that we made about this! - Yep.
Eddy: Uh-oh.
Hit like if you're a core fan!
Wow, like that.
It's that balloon thing, right? They,
How would you follow that?
Brett: I think— I don't think you do.
Eddy: I can't understand his conducting.
Eddy: Oh, man, I hate this!
I don't think you do. You follow...
- The concertmaster. - Just... Yeah.
Yeah!
But tenths is hard on the piano, no?
- It's quite a... - It is.
Especially if you have small hands.
Play F for respect for all the pianists with small hands.
Alright, I think that's a lot of meme,
I know we spend a lot of—
Oh.
Oh, oh.
Isn't that a show?
Ed, Edd n Eddy?
I think it's funny by itself!
- Ahhahaha! - Ed, Edd n Eddy! Yeah yeah yeah yeah!
It's a, it's a—
It's a cartoon.
Ah, that's— That's even funnier now.
- Ohh... - Oh, my god.
That's so weird.
Okay last one.
Wow, you guys got the right memes on board.
Ling Ling 40 hours.
What a great way to end today's episode.
You TwoSetters, you guys are the best.
Thank you so much for the love.
- We love you guys! - Heart to heart.
- Heart to heart conversation. - Yep.
Thank you [for] your support,
it actually has been a crazy journey.
I mean, you never know what's gonna happen next year.
We might see you guys there.
Check out the merch!
It's so like,
happy, and then...
Bach is so... sad.
It is.