Hey! How is it going?
Welcome back
to another episode of TwoSet Violin.
Recently, we asked you to submit your photos
of yourself holding an instrument,
and we have to try and guess
if you can actually play
or you're a very good faker.
On TwoSet Violin we've been educating
for the last few years
what bad, fake violin playing looks like.
I'm curious to see.
I hope I don't embarrass myself.
Yeah.
Fabulous musician number one.
That's pretty convincing.
Yeah!
I...
I feel like his thumb is a little bit...
Eddy: It's okay though. I know what you mean.
It's a bit like that.
Why is he holding it like that with no shoulder rest?
No shoulder rest.
- Brett: Yeah. - Eddy: That is sus.
I mean, the bow hold looks alright.
- It looks okay, but it's slightly bothering me. - It looks like...
It looks like someone put it in place for him
while he kept that position.
The bow is too tight.
Brett: Oh no, it's a baroque bow.
- Is it? - Brett: It's a baroque bow.
- Oh! - Brett: It's a baroque bow.
Maybe he's a baroque violinist.
Yeah, that makes sense.
Yeah.
That's why he's not playing with a shoulder rest.
Ah! Oh, dude that's so hard.
This is number one.
Eddy: Is that actually a baroque bow?
I think it looks like... Look at the...
It's a bit curved at the end, right?
I do feel personally...
- And this is like, it's not wrong. - Yeah.
But...
- ...something about this is a bit, like, close. - I don't know.
I think it's...
Someone tried—
I feel like
it should be a bit more like that, right?
- Eddy: Rather than... - Brett: Leverage there. Rather than that, yeah.
But I mean...
- Ah! I don't know. - This is so hard, right?
Ah! I don't know.
I want to say a really good fake.
- That's what— - But it could be real.
That's what I wanna say. I'm going fake.
But it could very well be real.
It could be real as well.
Ah... I think it's real.
- Oh it's real! - It's real, it's real.
Oh okay, I get it.
- Oh, you're right. It's a baroque violinist. - It's a baroque thing.
That's what fooled us.
- Alright, he's got the baroque bow hold so it's higher. - Yes, that looks legit now.
It looks more legit when he's playing.
Damn, I thought too much.
- Alright, okay, I see how it is. - Nice one.
- I don't know. - I have no idea man.
Brett: I mean, the lips are there, right? That's the...
- That looks like a brass player. - I can't tell.
- Yeah, the lips look convincing. - You can't fake that, right? It's really...
That would be hard to fake.
But I wouldn't know.
I'm gonna say it's real.
I'll just do fake. Just to...
- Okay, just to 50/50 it up. - Just because... Yeah.
Damn!
It looked very convincing.
It's like, plot twist.
- It was fake. - Yeah.
- Nice. - That was awesome. Nice one.
- Got us. - It tricked Brett.
No it didn't get me. I got it right.
High IQ.
More like a 50/50 guess.
Number three.
Nah, that's fake.
I think it's fake.
Too... Wait.
- Eddy: The left hand looks sus. - Brett: Yeah, the leg...
You know... And his thumb is more like...
I think it's more the left that bothers me.
The right hand looks okay to me.
As a violinist, it looks okay.
I think fake.
- I think it's fake. - Yeah, you know more about cello though.
Fake?
- I think it's fake. - Alright, I'll go with it as well.
Oh, it's real!
We suck at this game.
Then why... Why would you do that
at the higher position?!
- That was such a deliberately awkward pose. - Dude! But...
You guys are so evil.
Nah, he can play!
Alright, nah.
What was that left hand bit?
Dude, he posed awkwardly with the left hand on purpose
- to troll us. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay that's real, he's just trolling.
I mean, I failed the last three times.
I don't even know.
- I'm gonna guess— - Yeah, nah, he's clearly trolling.
- So... - I think he's trolling.
But he could...
- Yeah, no, I'm gonna say real. I'm gonna say real. - See, this is not even about real or fa—
- Yeah. I'm gonna say real. - I wanna say real. Just 'cause... Yeah.
Yeah okay... Yeah yeah, I got one right.
Yeah.
Alright, here's the problem: the people that can play
are posing like they can't.
- I've seen enough cello players to know - Yeah, yeah.
the left hand in high thumb position
- shouldn't look so awful. - So we know what you guys are getting at now.
- Yeah. - They're trying to definitely fool us.
Sirong, I'm going to guess... wrong.
Brett: I knew you were gonna say that.
Eddy: Alright, we played the erhu before, right?
Yeah, we've had those lessons.
It's a bit further out. I can't...
I don't remember... It was quite in.
Or maybe they do draw it out, right? They push it out.
Yeah, it looks a bit too much to the left, right?
It is meant to be on the left leg.
But I gotta say though,
I feel like the curtains suit someone
that would play the erhu.
Eddy: Do you remember what the left hand is meant to look like?
Eddy: It looks...
Eddy: legit to me but I can't remember.
I'm gonna guess real.
I'm gonna guess real too.
Alright.
Erhu for the first time.
Dude we suck at this game.
I guess we were Si-wrong!
We're getting trolled by our fans.
- It means they're so educated, - Yeah.
they know how to fool us.
That's just how bad those Chinese movies are
compared to you guys.
You guys can nail stock photos.
Yeah.
Here's a certificate for graduation
from the TwoSet Stock Photo Academy.
Here you go.
You guys all graduated.
Fake.
Lips.
That was quick. I'm going fake too.
- You need to do this right? - Yeah...
I think it's... Yeah.
He's not doing it.
Yeah yeah! Nah, that's fake.
He's putting it over, right?
And I feel like...
The right hand looks a bit sus.
The hand positioning on the buttons aren't right.
He does... Oh he doesn't, okay.
But I could be wrong.
Yeah.
I was getting ready for him to like,
- bust out some sax concerto. - I was so getting ready. Yeah it's like...
- I love your suit though dude. - Yeah.
- You dressed the part. - Yeah.
I wanna say it's fake,
but it's done really well.
Could go either way.
She could be like,
pro at the violin
and deliberately posing a bit...
You know?
The posture looks good to me, yeah.
- It's alright. - It looks too perfect.
It looks too perf... But the one thing that's weird to me is:
why is she looking intensely at the left hand?
Because if she is good
she wouldn't... She wouldn't go...
Eddy: Yeah.
Looking really focused.
I know what you mean.
It looks a bit textbook.
Yes. It's like, "This is how you hold the..."
- It's like... - Yeah, like...
(both) The Suzuki books!
- Yeah, the Suzuki books! Yes. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what I was thinking.
The bow hold,
although it looks really nice,
It doesn't seem like, to me, the weight's in the bow.
Right now, she looks a bit like...
Kinda like that, right?
I think what you're saying is like,
the weight should look more like...
Oh it's hard to say.
But it's just a pose.
- It's hard to... It's just a pose. - She's not playing.
She's not playing so it's very different.
Maybe she does play actually.
I'm changing my mind now.
If I was to just pose as well...
- That kinda looks awkward AF as well, right? - Can I try? Can I try?
- If I was just to pose... - It's not playing, it's posing.
Yeah, I'll be pretty light.
Alright so, we can only judge by posture,
and by posture she's good.
- So I'm going to say yes. - Oh I think she's... Yes. Yeah, me too.
I'm ready to get trolled though.
Yeah, okay.
I saw by the moment her...
She moved that. I was like, it's fake.
Damn it, we were right.
- She's just good at posing. - We were right.
We thought too much about it again.
No but...
That is more a testament to how good her posing is.
Yeah, exactly.
She's that good, yeah.
She did a good job.
I'm gonna say yes.
Wait wait wait wait.
Actually, I say yes as well because the... This...
- Yeah, maybe, yeah. - They've got that...
The angle, right?
This thing.
Yeah.
Looking.
Kind of. And I...
But I would also say the bow angle's right too.
- Yeah, and it looks like they're playing. - Yeah.
Like, emotion, doesn't look static.
Yes.
Yes to Dexter.
Yeah, okay, yeah.
Nice!
- Oh, fake. - Fake.
No, no, no, he's trolling.
That's too fake.
Yeah, it's real.
Surely he's trolling, right?
He's trolling.
No he's faking, he's faking. Come on!
He's faking.
Alright, so do you think he can play or not?
No, he's faking.
He can't.
- He's faking it. - Alright, he can't play.
He can't, he's faking it.
I told you bro!
He was trolling!
He can play!
No 'cause his lips...
- I... I was like, his lips look like he can play. - Okay, and if you're gonna fake so hard on the hand...
Yeah.
- Yeah, at least— - His lips should be worse.
He couldn't help it, but it's like...
I think this game sucks.
This game sucks, yeah.
We suck at this game.
I don't know the first thing about the sitar.
I'd say it's real.
I'd say it's real because...
Who has a sitar?
Yeah! That's what I'm thinking.
- If you have a sitar, you can play. - Yeah.
You can play, yeah.
People don't just have a sitar lying around the house.
Yeah yeah, let's go.
That looks like a sick instrument.
Real.
Nice.
Okay.
Violin's fake.
Flute might... I think flute is real.
Wait, maybe they swapped instruments.
That's what I'm thinking.
- I think... - I think it's fake.
The mom plays flute, and the daughter plays violin.
Yeah, I think it's fake.
- Yeah, instrument swapped. - It's swapped.
- We're getting better now, guys! - Nice!
But...
Can I say...
That's hilarious.
- Oh, oh. They're gonna swap, they're gonna swap. - Oh, okay. Here we go.
That's sick.
I feel like, the flute, we couldn't really tell.
But the violin...
- Yeah, we could tell. - So, yeah.
Tijana gave us lessons on the harp, right?
- The middle finger... Looks, looks legit. - She said something about the middle finger pointing out.
- Yeah. - But that's not the middle finger, that's the ring finger.
Yeah thats...
What does the... What's the ring finger point to?
No, I remember she said to flip off.
(Remember, you want to be flipping people off.)
(Okay.)
I don't remember if the right hand is higher or lower.
- It was right. - No, it was higher.
The position, it seems okay.
- In terms of where on the string. - Yeah.
I'm gonna guess fake.
But I could be completely wrong.
I'm gonna go real, just to...
- Just 'cause... You never know now. - Yes.
Yeah.
I'm sorry.
Brett: Ohhhhh, hO Ho hO Ho!
Legit!
I'm so sorry.
REAL!
It's so beautiful, too.
Like... It's like the most beautiful playing.
And I'm just like, "FAKE."
That's real. Nice!
Real.
I think it's real.
- Yeah. - Yes. Has to be real.
Too many, like, beginner stickers.
Yeah, it's too real.
Okay.
Wait.
It's so squeaky.
Is that real or fake? I don't know.
Can't tell anymore.
Fake.
- Oh. - Yeah, I was gonna say...
I was like, "Oh yeah, it's real."
"Just a beginner violinist. Sounds the same."
Hey, come on.
To be fair, a four-year-old beginner violinist sounds like that.
Okay, yeah. Okay.
- Does not play an instrument. - Actually, it kinda looked... Legit.
- Yeah. - Even while she was faking, she was like...
Bow straight.
She wasn't like...
Brett: I think, maybe, she needs to learn the instrument.
- Yeah, I think so. - There's talent right there.
Dude, this four-year-old fakes better than the actors.
Yeah, just do it.
- Ling Ling wannabes on the rise. - So proud of you guys.
- Dude, how do you tell voice... - Number 14.
Okay, you have to look at the abdomen support,
and the facial muscles.
And her head has to be up like this.
Uhhh, real.
- I don't know, it's all about having a loose jaw, right? - Is it a bit wide?
Dude, I don't know man.
- Real. - I'm gonna guess...
- 50/50. - Ffff.....ffff...
I wanna say real, but because you said real,
I'm gonna say fake.
Okay, okay. Let's go.
Come on, it's gotta be real.
It's funny because for the first two seconds
I thought it was real singing.
And then I was like, "Hold on a minute."
"This sounds a little bit... Unrefined."
Brett: Yeah.
Yes! Got one right!
That looks real.
That pinky is very close to the ring finger.
- But again, that could just be a personal choice. - Brett: The bow? I mean...
- Brett: Yeah, it could... - And her...
This is a bit higher up than what I would do,
but again, that could be a personal choice.
Her left hand wrist is nice, though.
- It's not like that... Or like that. So that's good. - Brett: Mhm, mhm.
- My intuition says real. - I'm going real.
- Yeah, real real real. - My intuition says real.
Yeaaaaah.
Real!
And Bach as well.
Yeah.
Brett: Nice.
That's epic.
Aw, man.
This is really hard.
See, I remember playing piano,
but I forgot all the... Technical things.
Fake!
First thing that's striking me, though...
Is his left wrist is quite high.
Yeah, it's fake. I think it's fake.
Why is he just playing a D Major chord?
Oh yeah?
I think it's a D, D... It looks like a D, A, D.
I think fake as well.
Yup.
Oh, GG.
Both: AHHHaha!
He got you on the first note!
- Nice. - Yeah, nice.
Yeah, it was like the first one was set up.
I can't tell with this angle man...
I can't see anything.
I can't see her lips that well.
I can't really see her hands.
Or, maybe, is the hand a bit too clamped in?
Yeah, like this, right?
Yeah.
Brett: I'm gonna say fake, just 'cause I don't know.
Brett: Just to vary it up.
I think real. But, I don't know.
- It's not an angle where you have a lot of information. - That's true.
Alright, 50/50.
Could be anything right now.
Yeah...
You fooled me.
But, she's making sounds.
So, she's like, a beginner trumpeter.
So that's, kinda real, right?
Yeah, yeah. Now we're just like blurring the answers now?
- I mean, she's making notes. - Yeah, yeah.
- I don't think I could do what she's doing, right? - Yeah.
Oh.
- Alright, you're trolling. So, he must be real. - Yeah, he's real, he's real.
I think he's real.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Have you noticed it's always the sax players?
Yeah, the saxes... you!
The saxes are always trying to pretend they can't.
Yeah!
Right hand looks a bit sus, no?
Uh, you've played the bassoon.
I've never played the bassoon.
- I don't know what it's meant to be. - Woah, I don't know...
I was struggling with the bassoon.
He's got the lip thing there.
Yeah.
His lips do look legit.
But his... I do know what you mean. The...
- The... hand looks a bit stiff to me. - I'm gonna go fake.
Yeah.
But, I don't know what a bassoon hand's
- meant to look like. - Exactly, right?
So...
I think it's, I think it's fake.
I'll go real.
Yeah...
Yeah, that sounds like...
Sounds like what happens when you start.
Wow, I'm so confused.
Is this left-handed mirror,
or is the camera, like, taken left...
You know, like reversed mirror?
Yeah...
Well, I mean which side's the chin rest on, right?
The chin rest's on the other side,
so I think it's mirrored.
And... the E string is on that side, right?
Brett: Yeah, the E string...
- Wait, the E string is on that side. - No. No, that's wrong!
- That means he's putting it on this side. - Yeah. He's left-handed.
But, why is the chin rest here?
I'm so confused.
Maybe, 'cause of his bow hold.
- The hand, the hand... - It's probably a... Maybe it's a custom-made violin.
Probably. I think it's real.
His right hand,
which is the one that's now
- Brett: The left... Oh, oh. Yeah. - on the fingerboard...
Looks good.
And obviously, I can't really speak for the bow.
Except for the fact that...
The bow is tilted the correct way.
The bow tilt angle.
The bow contact angle looks good.
And there's quite a lot of rosin,
- which means someone that practices. - Brett: Yes, someone...
Brett: Someone that practices.
So... Real!
Come on, has to be real.
Wow...
WOW!
I mean, very impressed.
I'm very impressed.
- Yeah, yeah. - Very nice sound.
- Damn... - Nice.
Inspirational.
Inspiration.
What a good way to end this video!
Real or fake? Did you play along?
Yay!
That's a fake!
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