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Welcome back to another episode of TwoSet Violin.
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We all know that the YouTube comments section is
one of the most I N T E R E S T I N G places.
Today we decided, we're gonna get our friend
to compile a bunch of comments,
from different classical music pieces,
and we're going to try and guess what piece,
purely by reading the comment.
First one.
Okay, the first thing that comes to my head is like...
- I don't know why, but like, fancy rich... - Fancy rich people...
I thought um...
Okay.
And also, I also thought um...
...Blue Danube as well, maybe.
I definitely feel like it's something light, elegant.
- What people will perceive as... - Oh, a hundred...yeah.
...biscuits instead of cookies.
- And there's definitely like, tea and biscuit... - Yeah...
Little finger up.
Can you imagine that? Like you're making ramen,
and you play this track, and you become a world-class chef.
This is how you cook.
- Would it just be Eine Kleine, or is that too basic? - I thought that, but it's a bit...
Nah, I'm gonna go Boccherini, just intuition.
I'm just gonna go with a different one, to up the chances.
Blue Danube.
(both) Okay.
Let's go, let's find out.
3, 2, 1!
- Ohh!!! - Ohhh!!! Let's go!
I was right!
"I said biscuits, not cookies."
Oh, that's...that's like you,
when you got up out of nowhere, and just start like...
- Yeah, I was in a wheelchair, and I did get up one day. - And then you just...yeah, you did get up one day.
- Something really chaotic. - Actually, uh...
First thing I thought of is Shostakovich String Quartet.
'Cause it's something like, epic, or like, menacing.
But then like cockroach flying also implies like chaotic.
Something that evokes fire, chaos.
Something that evokes fear.
I think I'm with you on Shostakovich.
Okay.
Really?!
Okay, I can see the America,
that is very like, "America!"
But I don't see the cockroach,
it's almost too...elegant, for the...
Yeah...
It's like what, the cockroach is like, some like...
- It's like...and the cockroach just gets on like, - ...kingly royal cockroach.
its two legs, it's like...
Alright, number 3.
- Okay, okay, so it's definitely... - "A single motif, drag 15 minutes." Wow!
A motivic composer.
- I'm already thinking German, traditional...mmm. - I was thinking Bach or something.
- Bach, Brahms, Beethoven... - Yeah.
But the second one...
- Alright, I know what it is. - (Brett) Yeah.
That comment gives it away for me.
- Really? - Yeah.
- Yeah, okay. - (Brett) What is it?
I think it's um...
...Ravel Bolero.
Oh.
- Yeah, okay, okay. - Yeah.
The snare drum starts with one motif,
and it goes through the entire 15-minute piece.
It's a very genius piece though, but uh,
Ravel himself didn't like it.
- But it's one of his most famous pieces. - So good.
I can imagine why he didn't like it though, it's...
...playing it in orchestra is so s***,
because it's just the same thing.
But, it does sound glorious.
Alright, next.
- Alright, so it's either something really easy on piano, - Yeah.
- or something really hard. - I mean, yeah.
- That was like a sarcastic comment. - Yeah.
- Yeah, hard. Okay, hard. - Okay.
Chopin or Liszt, is my immediate guess.
I'm gonna guess Liszt, La Campanella.
A lot of Chopin's pretty messed up as well.
- It could be any Chopin. - Yeah.
Or maybe it's something else...nah, it has to be Chopin or Liszt.
I mean, Rachmaninoff, maybe?
- But I feel like [for] Rachmaninoff, - Yeah.
- the comments would be more about how beautiful...yeah. - Beautiful, how epic it was.
- Can I just like, any Nocturne, just...cast my net wide. - Yeah, alright.
Let's see.
- Oh!!!! - Oh...!!!
- You actually got...! - What a fluke!
Bro!
Dude, you're killing it!
- Dude, three out of four! I'm on fire. - Dude!
Is this a French piece?
Okay, I think I know what it is.
I'm just thinking of a French piece with a lot of triangle,
and that sounds chaotic.
I mean, to be honest I can only think of one piece
with a pretty famous, prominent triangle part.
I don't know, anything that uses triangles...seizures.
Seizure-like...
I can't, I don't know anything that's uh...
I reckon it's Can Can.
Maybe.
- Yeah! Let's go! - Ohh!! Okay.
- Yeah, it's the only part and it's like... - Yeah.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
And then, as it goes to the end, right?
- It is more...okay. - It's like...
- Okay, okay, that makes sense. - "Oh, crap!"
"Last page of the exam", yeah.
Okay, so I feel like...
...the first comment is...
- It's sarcastic, right? - Yeah, very sarcastic.
It's definitely not chill beats to study to, because...
Complex tuplets, and time...
- Irregular time signatures... - Is it like Stravinsky?
- That's what I'm... - Like Rite of Spring?
- ...thinking, yeah...yeah. - It is complex.
And the fact that there was a war at the premiere,
- just screams Rite of Spring. - Yeah, uh-huh.
- Yeah, "Peace was never an option." - Yeah.
- I reckon Rite of Spring. - Yeah.
- Yeah, okay, yeah... - Yeah, that's right, nice, nice.
- Played it, I know it, it's hectic. - Yeah.
Okay, next one!
- Oh right, I...I hate that, - Ohh, yeah...!
- it's like you mum goes...yeah! - Yeah, you're like, "Oh, come on!"
"Come back!"
"Anxiety as a soundtrack."
Brett's lo-fi.
What makes you...what sounds like anxiety?
Do you think people would think like,
- I don't know this one, I'm not getting anything. - Winter, from Four Seasons?
- I wouldn't, I think like... - (Brett) Yeah.
...John Wick.
I'm gonna lock it in, that's my guess.
- Winter? - Yeah.
Dude, I just feel like [it's] Brett's lo-fi.
- Like...like what? Nothing tops that? - (Eddy) Yeah!
- I'm just gonna guess Shostakovich...quartet, again. - Okay.
Okay.
- Oh yeah, yeah. - Yeah, okay.
I can kind of see like the "everything has gone wrong".
"No!"
Especially the part at the end, right?
Yeah, it's like...
- Yeah, okay. Yeah, I guess...okay. - Yeah, nah, that's...yeah, that makes sense.
Damn, I forgot about...
- ...Grieg. - Yeah, same!
Same!
I'm gonna have to admit, Grieg was not...
- On my mind. - ...yeah, on my mind.
- Okay. - Ooh, singing.
Queen of the Night.
- Yeah, Queen of the Night, yeah. - I think Queen of the Night.
- Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah. - Yeah, nice.
- "Don't be dramatic. Mum..." - Yeah.
(Brett) Yeah...!
That's a really good one, it's like,
"Mum, calm down!"
"Furthermore, consequently..."
Okay.
Hello gentlemen.
Gentlemen!
- Gentlemen. - How can you do that?
Something classy.
Mozart.
Something when you're eating, like...
I feel like Mozart or Bach.
- I don't know... - Mozart Symphony no. 40, maybe.
For some reason I'm getting...
- ...Bach "Air on the G String" in my head. - Brandenburg...
but it doesn't really match.
But that's just the first thing that popped up.
It does.
- Gentlemen. Should we discuss now? - (Eddy) Yeah.
Yeah I'm going to lock it in.
Alright, Mozart 40.
- Oh. Yeah, yeah. - Okay, okay, okay, fair enough.
- Got us. - Yeah.
But that one, I think that one's...
- ...a lot of classical music could've... - Yeah, could have been that.
- I think I know it. - Okay, yeah.
- Für Elise, yeah. - Beethoven, Für Elise.
Yeah, that's so obvious, come on.
- Yeah! - Nice, nice.
Flight of the Bumblebee?
Oh, so true!
Something very fast, oh.
- Oh. - Ah, that's um, William Tell Overture.
Okay, yeah...
- Nah, I think it's that, it has to be. - Yeah.
- Yeah. - Yeah, Rossini.
Vampire song?
Whoa!
I think I know.
- Based off the cathedral. - Bach.
Yeah!
(both) Toccata and Fugue.
(both) Toccata and Fugue, yeah.
- Yeah, okay, yeah. - Yeah, D minor. Nice.
- Okay. - Oh.
- Russian, uh, Prokofiev, probably. - Yeah.
- I think Prokovief, [Montagues] and...yeah. - Romeo and Juliet, okay.
Yeah, Romeo and Juliet.
- 'Cause the Darth Vader theme sounds similar. - Ah okay, so...yeah.
Yeah, okay.
What?
Is it called "Dance of the Knights"?
- Yeah, well, that's the one I was thinking. - That's the one.
But I thought it was called something else.
- But fair enough, we got the right piece! Yeah yeah yeah yeah... - Yes, yeah...
- What's that? - I don't know.
Super loud.
Tchaikovsky?
- Yeah. - Yeah, okay.
A Howitzer is probably a cannon then.
- 1812 Overture, Tchaikovsky. - Yeah, Overture, yeah.
Can you imagine they actually had a cannon,
but then they...accidentally loaded it?
- And just shot a cannon into the audience... - (Brett) In the audience?
- And it's like a bloodbath... - I don't know why I'm laughing, I shouldn't laugh.
- 'Cause that's so terrible. - It's like...
- "Oh, crap!" - (Brett) "Oh, no!"
No, it'll be like...
- ...and the ceiling just collapses. - Yeah...!
Okay, some loud thing.
Multi-movement...
So there's an orchestral arrangement.
So, probably originally a piano or quartet piece,
has multi-movements...
"Use this song for my alarm" though.
- Is that a good thing or a bad thing? - Yeah, that's...
Yeah, I thought it was a bad thing, the first thing,
but then I'm thinking it could also be good.
- That it is a nice way to...wake up. - Yeah, wake up.
Maybe Jim...just couldn't play it.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. - Right?
So it's definitely...I think it's more.
That's a trick one, the second one,
- it's a tricky statement. - Ahh.
I'm feeling Ravel, 'cause Ravel had a lot of his pieces
- arranged for orchestra later. - Okay.
But I don't know which Ravel.
I'm guessing Le Couperin...Le Tombeau de Coup—what was that,
you know that piece?
Oh! Maybe it's Clair de Lune!
Tombeau de Couperin, yeah, but the second movement, it's not...
- Yeah, there's no second movement. - Sad, it's the third movement.
I don't know, I actually don't know for this one.
I reckon Le Tombeau de Couperin,
- or Ma mère l'Oye, from Ravel. - Okay.
Pranked.
Wow.
- We went full analytical on this one as well. - Yeah, but...
...that actually makes so much sense.
That's why they didn't...match!
- I was like, these kind of don't match each other! - It's up to your interpretation!
- That...that's beautiful. - Oh...okay.
- Mwah, beautiful comments, I love that. - Okay. Is that the last one?
- Yeah, that's the last one. - Okay, that's it, guys! Did you play along?
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