There once was a great legend
of a legendary violinist
having practiced Paganini in the womb
40 hours in the...
...the motherly chamber that defied time itself...
Mm, mm.
...was said that...
Mm.
...the spirits of Mozart, Beethoven, and Paganini
reincarnated into this
mythical prodigy baby called Ling Ling.
Mm.
And Ling Ling left behind a subreddit.
And in the subreddit was birthed
the most beautiful and talented memes and artworks.
Yeah, and today we're gonna go through it.
(The most talented subreddit ever!)
(Ling Ling 40 Hours, unite!)
(Ling Ling wannabes!)
(Practice, practice!)
(Did you practice today?)
(LING LING 40 HOURS!!)
Oh dude, it's on 222k.
We need to hit 400k Ling Ling wannabes.
Didn't r/wallstreetbets like, go from 1 million
to like 10 million in like a month?
Eddy: Yeah, they-
If they can hit 9 million members then...
Come on, Ling Ling wannabes.
Yeah, look, Ling Ling is just like, taking his time.
But you guys need to speed it up
'cause Ling Ling is just...
...just falling asleep, chilling out.
And there's 569 people that aren't practicing.
But I assume they're all kind of cultured.
Yeah.
- Well, I don't know, I assume- - Cultured like uh...
...like yogurt.
- Mm... - Yeah, probiotics.
You can digest all the intellectual music
- in your body right now. - Yeah.
The more bacterial culture, the better the...
...digestive symphony.
Yeah, your toilet will thank you for it.
And you don't want to flush it again.
Don't flush it actually.
Yeah, don't flush it.
It's almost been a year!
Not a year, two more months until it's like
3 years of Ling Ling 40 Hours.
When Ling Ling was 3 years old,
Ling Ling was already playing...
...all concertos in one go.
Reversed, double speed, everything you can think of.
Dude, but we should do something for 3 year anniversary...
- We should. - ...of Ling Ling 40 Hours.
Comment below what you guys suggest.
Maybe or maybe not, we'll do something.
All right, let's get into this...
prodigy content that you guys came up with.
Beethoven's just like...
"Will you please order?"
Yeah, the customer's like...
"I actually ordered 10 times. You just can't hear me."
Beethoven is like...
"Can you please order-"
Oh, yup.
Ah!
Don't you hate it when you're trying to find that tu-
I really wish they had a way to Google search music.
But for this person,
why don't you just ask your friend from uni?
If you're intelligent like all Ling Ling wannabes,
what you do is...
- you use your perfect pitch to hear the key of your excerpt. - Mhm...!
And then you do a process of deduction and go...
- which key signatures are these concertos written in- - Mm...
- Oh, you can figure out the movements! - Yeah!
And which part of the piece-
If it's slow, is it gonna be a 2nd movement?
- Yeah, exactly. - And it will be...
- subdominant, dominant, or relative major, minor? - Yes!
Mm...
That's clever.
- Pfft! Talking about 1st, 2nd, 3rd movements. - HA!
Ay, actually...
Yesterday- This morning,
just listening to Ravel Piano Concerto No. 2.
Not No. 2, the Ravel Piano Concerto, the 2nd movement.
And that's the famous movement.
Ah, okay, so...
- I found the exception to your meme. - Yes.
I'm so annoying.
I'm that guy that always finds the counterexample.
That's true.
Oh, I hate that!
You're there trying to practice,
you're sight reading.
Can't really see the notes.
They are looking like little ants,
- and the freaking stand just "woo-paw!" - *sighs*
It's pretty annoying actually.
- And your music just falls. - It's so-
- Yup. - And if you have sheet music,
- it just falls all over the place. - Or when it goes like...
Oh...
And your pencil drops,
- if you even have a pencil. You probably should. - Ohh...
And then like, you just don't want to practice anymore.
Yeah.
- Oh yeah! That's so true! - Yeah, yeah.
Dude yeah, the E string, right?
I think the D and G string, A string is okay.
But when it's E string you're always like...
KHRRH!
And you're worried that...
just a little bit too much, it'll go
"PAH!!"
You know, I knew someone in high school.
She was changing an E string and it snapped.
And the...
- The E string is really sharp because it's thin, and it... - Oh, it's so sharp.
It can snap the easiest.
So that under tension, it snapped,
and she got a scar just under her eye.
And then if you're unlucky...
- I'm sure some people have been un- - I always cover it when I do it.
Oh, I move my...
Yeah, I always hold my left hand down on the string.
Yeah... Like that.
Pro tip.
- What do you think your first bubble tea would be actually? - Dude, that guy has like blood all over this shirt.
- Brett: Yeah, he's like, "Yeah." - Eddy: He's like "Yeah."
I don't remember the first time I had bubble tea.
Me neither. But I can imagine it was like a...
one of those local stores in Taiwan.
Yeah...?
Actually no, maybe it was in Australia.
I will say though.
People always ask:
"What flavour-"
"Do you get taro-"
Nah! Nah! Nah!
- Okay, let's just- - Original.
- Let's just sort this sh** out. - O r i g i n a l .
Yeah, just get the original.
None of this like, voodoo colour,
...green ball, white bread-flavoured, pops...
Okay, there's-
The standard.
There's choice between like milk powder,
and then fresh milk...
which some people like to call...
"latte."
- Whatever. - Yeah, okay.
And then there are a few...
- Exceptions. - acceptable exceptions such as...
cheese.
- Brown sugar is like a popular one. - Yeah.
I'd say cheese is like more recent.
- It's a recent- It's an evolution. - Yeah.
It's like music.
But it's still nice, you know, it's like...
It's like Beethoven to Brahms.
- Yeah. - You know, like...
- It's still- - The cheese is a bit more like Brahms.
- It's a bit heavy. - It's a bit heavy.
You sometimes just always want the Beethoven or like...
- Just classic. - ...the classic.
And then,
- the topping is generally just the bubble, right? - Yeah.
If you're really feeling ambitious,
- there's like the smaller bubbles. - Yeah.
That's also quite-
Pudding!
Or like pudding, or like grass jelly.
Ohhh!
- But- But like- - I haven't had grass jelly for so long!
- Actually, I wouldn't mind grass jelly actually. - Oh!
In case you don't know what grass jelly is,
it's the- you know, the cows in the fields when you-
in like- you go to New Zealand.
- Bunch of cows grazing grass. - Yeah.
That's what they're eating.
And the jelly is just fermented from when they poop it out.
And you mix it in.
Yeah, and the bubble pearls are actually like...
- frog eyes that fermented. - Yeah, eyeballs. Yeah.
Premature frog eyes.
- And the pudding is actually uh... - It's like-
It's like a slushed...
slushed pork intestines.
I think we're going too far.
No, but actually, grass jelly-
I think it's like a herbal jelly or something.
Yeah, the herbal thing.
- It's really nice. Yeah. - And it is not grass pooped out.
So it is- back to this point,
it is some serious gourmet s***.
- I love how we went on like a 5-minute explanation on... - I know. Oops! Yeah,
But you're getting cultured, so here you go.
Yes, it's a bubble tea culture.
Oh what?! Are you guys serious?!
I thought it was-
- A HA HA HA! - OHH!
Are you serious!?
Really? How?
OHH!
I guess if you look at that, you might think It's a scroll.
Everyone has their own pace.
Yes, it's all about the education.
It's all about the progress and practicing.
All the practicing you'll be doing.
As long as you realise now 2 years later,
Welcome to the Ling Ling 40 Hours.
I mean we all started somewhere.
I mean I'm sure there was a day when I was like...
2 years old when I couldn't tell difference
between a violin and a viola.
Oh, 100%.
- Yeah, so you know... We all start somewhere. - Yeah, so there you go.
Oh... it's so good!
A ha ha ha ha ha!
Eddy: You're just like... "GG."
Brett: Look at Chloe. Ha ha ha!
Chloe is so fun to film with.
Yeah, she's good sports, good prodigy.
She's a really good violinist.
You guys should hear it live whenever you get the chance.
- Oh yeah. - Because I feel like the camera and the audio...
- It doesn't do it justice. - Even though it's like good gear,
- but it still doesn't do it justice. - Yeah.
- And you just got to be in the presence of... - Yeah.
...the Ling Ling aura.
- I think she does a lot of concerts. - Yeah.
I mean, obviously now this- oh sorry.
I was gonna say the fragments of Ling Ling aura.
The "fragrance!"
Yeah, the fragrance.
The fragments of the...
The fragments of the fragrance of Ling Ling aura.
TwoSet Apparel Ling Ling fragrance!
Would you guys seriously buy it?
'Cause we'll make one.
...from this sweat of Ling Ling.
The top notes of wood from the Ling Ling's tree of birth.
The middle in the woods-
Where would we find that?
We have to travel to like all the best concert halls.
- Oh! - Go to Paganini's grave.
That's what we should do!
OHH...!
Okay, guys! Comment below.
If this hits 40,000 likes,
we'll do our very best to try and make it happen.
I don't know how we're gonna make it happen
because I can already think of a lot of problems.
But Ling Ling doesn't really think of problems, and he goes...
"Problems are just an obstacle"
"to make you better than who you were yesterday."
That is true.
I totally made that up,
I need better eyesight for this meme.
Yeah, "he's..."
You guys think we have such good eyesight?
Brett: Oh, "he's dead."
Tsk.
Wow.
That's a pretty dark joke.
Too soon.
It's only been like, what, 300 years?
Give it another thousand.
- What is- A decade is called 10 years. - Mhm.
A century is 100. What is a thousand? Millenium?
- Millennium. - Millennium.
- Yeah. - Then what's 10,000?
Dec-illennium?
Dec-illellium? Trillenium?
- Anyway. - Anyway.
- Whoa! - I'm actually impressed at the fingerings.
I don't know how an Otamatone works, but like...
I love how you just stopped. Yeah, "Optama-"
- Otamatone. I don't know. But like... - Yeah.
Dude, is that the same fingering systems as violin?
'Cause he was just...
- He was getting the notes. - Yeah, I don't know. I can't tell.
- And I was hearing violin playing in the back as well. - Yeah.
Sus.
I still- I think I remember that scene.
- It was in like a room with everyone. - Yeah, where he became-
- He came here and he's like... - Yeah...
"Maybe I am the chosen one" or something, right?
Ooh!
It's so formal.
Congratulations!
- You're one step closer! - Yo...!
Look, you know why you got [into] Berklee?
Because you're on the subreddit.
That's right.
- I mean, best of luck with your career. - Yeah.
How's it going now though? Is there still online lessons?
'Cause that would be so...
Imagine getting into Berklee just to have to do everything on Zoom.
That would be pretty sad.
How would you even have violin lessons?
I mean, I don't know.
- These times will change. - Yeah.
Yeah.
- But still, congrats! That's massive. - Well, yeah.
- That's epic. - Yes.
So if you're watching this, you've entered the TwoSet University.
I wish I got into Berklee.
I wish I got into any university.
I think that's enough for today.
Before we get depressed, we need to go practice.
You guys need to go practice, all right?
By watching this video, you are very cultured.
And our goal is to get 400,000 Ling Ling wannabes.
Then maybe Ling Ling will come.
So please accent the like button.
Legato that subscribe button.
Well, that's pretty cool!
Oh look!
I'm an Otamatone.
*mimics Otamatone sound*
See you guys next time.
*mimics Otamatone sound*