How's it going?
Welcome back from another episode "TwoSet Violin."
You know, Heifetz once had a student
and the student was like really nervous about playing tune.
So, he spent a really long time making sure
his violin's tuned perfectly and then Heifetz goes up
and he goes, takes his violin and slightly untunes it.
During a performance, your violin's gonna go out of tune.
You gotta be able to play in tune anyway.
So, today, we decided to challenge by untuning our violin
and seeing if we can still play
in tune. (graphics smacking)
Done. Let's tune
each other's instruments. Okay. Okay.
We don't know how we're gonna tune it,
but just don't snap any strings.
All four, right? Yeah, all four.
Actually, for the G string,
you can't go up 'cause all is open G.
Okay. Right.
Fair point. Fair point. So, G has to go down.
(violins twanging)
(both chuckling)
This is messed up. Oh, God.
I heard something crack.
Hope the bridge doesn't move.
Okay. Oh, here you go.
What's your play?
(Brett imitates owl hooting)
Oh, how's it kind of similar?
No way.
Oh, you tuned the A string up though.
I tuned the A string down. Oh, so close.
I feel I can play tune like this. No worries.
Round one, to start off easy.
(graphics dings) "Happy Farmer."
Okay. All right.
Can I just...
That went down, this went up, this went down.
This went down.
This is hard.
(goofy violin music)
Why is there a trill?
(goofy violin music)
That not bad, not bad. Oh, my God. That's hard.
Can't wait to try.
This feels so cursed.
It's like my violin caught, like, COVID or something.
Yeah. Yeah. (chuckles)
When your violin catches COVID on stage.
(bright violin music)
Nice. That feels good start.
Oh, my brain hurts. (graphics smacking)
Round two "Meditation."
"Meditation's" good.
Down, down. Okay.
(gentle violin music)
Nice. Oh.
Ooh. (Eddy laughing)
Weird. Let's go higher.
(gentle violin music)
(Eddy speaking indistinctly)
(gentle violin music)
There you go. It's all right. Pretty good.
I like "Happy Farmer," was harder. (chuckles)
Because of string crossing. Yeah, string crossing.
Okay, next one, Kabalevsky.
Ooh. (bright music)
Keys up, the rest is down.
(audio warbling) (Eddy laughing)
(bright violin music)
No, I can't do it.
That's hard. Ooh.
Reminds like, you know when you're playing
on a really out of tune piano.
And your ears just...
Yeah, I can't do it. Ears is off.
Okay. No, that's hard.
Okay, fair enough. What the hell.
By the way, I just realized.
Should probably do a disclaimer
before every like kid watching this starts
to untuning their violin.
Yeah, please do not untune your violins, everyone.
You have to be careful though
or the bridge or the sound person might drop.
So, yeah. Yes. Okay.
(bright violin music)
(lively violin music)
(Brett chuckles)
(lively violin music)
(Brett chuckles)
(lively violin music)
Oh.
You went over it. (Eddy speaking indistinctly)
Oh, whatever.
Oh, that's so weird, my ears.
My perfect pitch, it hurts.
Oh, yeah. How does it feel?
(gentle violin music) Aah.
Excellent. Then Tchaikovsky.
Okay, Tchaikovsky.
I think it's (indistinct).
(gentle violin music)
(chuckles) Pretty good. It sounds like a nightmare.
This is a thing that happened in the old stage,
your advisor is out of tune, you just gotta keep going
and you're just struggling-
Yeah. To find out what's going on.
Right. Good luck. Down, up, down, down.
(gentle violin music)
Wait. Down, down, down.
Yeah. Okay.
(gentle violin music)
Ooh.
(gentle violin music)
Oh, my God, that's so hard.
Yeah, I had the funniest image.
I closed my eyes.
I try to imagine myself sitting
in university workshop. (alarm rings)
(Brett laughing)
There's someone on stage,
I was like... (inhales deeply)
(both laughing)
Intonation's not easy.
Not easy. It's not easy.
I think for the last round we will do Paganini.
All right? Okay, that's Paganini, 24.
First variation.
Oh. Oh.
You go first.
This is pure muscle memory.
I'm gonna get screwed.
(bright violin music)
Mm. (bright violin music)
Is all right?
I'm lost. I don't know.
So, your pitch center is lost-
What does it say? It's a flat.
Yeah. Yeah. (bright violin music)
Yeah. (bright violin music)
Yeah.
I'm just gonna play. (lively violin music)
(laughs) That's muscle memory.
Yeah. Prime example of muscle memory.
(Brett laughing)
(bright violin music)
Oh. (bright violin music)
Oh, my God. (graphics smacking)
(gentle violin music)
Nice. (bright violin music)
(violin clattering)
(Brett laughing)
(bright violin music)
No way. Oh.
Dude, I love how you got the D,
'cause you can't do open D, right?
Yeah. (bright violin music)
Hey, there.
(chuckles) My fingers like it's meant
to be like this, it's like that.
Whoa.
You guys want the muscle memory rendition again?
(lively violin music)
Okay everyone, that's it for today's challenge.
Kids, please don't do this.
This is all just for fun, just so you know though.
And remember, your bridge and (indistinct) might collapse
if you untune it too much.
Yes. So, be careful.
But at the same time also means practice your intonation.
Until then, go buy Twoset apparel.
Please, please. Muscle memory,
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(bright violin music)