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Welcome to another episode of TwoSet Violin!
It's been a while.
We're gonna review the most talented subreddit
in the TwoSet-verse,
Ling Ling 40 Hours.
Eddy: Mm! Let's go!
I gotta say, I was gonna go...
to our usual top,
but then I just saw this.
- And like, we gotta comment on this. - Oh, that's cool. Oh yeah.
That would be the dream cafe.
- Oh wow... - Look at that.
I actually really like the design too!
It's like, you walk in...
There's a mattress there, and like, 40 hours there.
"Practise treats."
- I like that. - And the seating is really nice.
The wooden tables.
And I love the ceiling too.
That is cool.
B²TSM just casually at the back.
And a lot of tea- bubble tea.
Yes!
- Look at all the bubble tea. All the... - Wait, where's the bubble tea?
- Oh! That's a bubble tea shop! I thought it was a cafe! - The tea... Yeah.
- That would be sick as a bubble tea shop! - Yeah, the menu...
You're at the counter,
I'm bringing the drinks to everyone.
Nice!
So how much does it cost to open a bubble tea franchise?
Well...
If everyone just donates one dollar...
- We should Google that. "How much does it cost-" - Nah, nah, alright, you ready?
If this video gets...
No, are we serious?
If this video gets 40,000 likes...
How much would it actually cost to open a bubble tea store?
You rent a space in the city.
That's gonna cost like, how much rent per year?
- A billion dollars. That's a million dollars there. - Yeah. Yeah...
And then you gotta source the tea from the Mountain Alps.
And then you gotta get some people to work there.
- You gotta build up the whole thing. - Maybe we could work there.
- Save on some staff... - Okay, we can do that. We'll do that.
We need to pay-
I can't build it, you know.
- I can design, maybe. Design, but I can't build it. - We'll film it while we're there.
"Welcome to TwoSet Video-"
- "Oh! Half sugar no ice, oh yeah, also..." - Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Alright, 50,000 likes,
- Yeah, **** that. Let's do it. - we'll- Yeah.
50,000 likes, we'll open a TwoSet bubble tea cafe shop.
I think they need to work harder for it.
- 50,000 is too easy. - 60,000 likes! Come on, guys.
It's gonna cost us an arm and a leg.
Actually, it's gonna cost us two arms, two legs each.
What about 80?
- 'Cause 40 hours each. - Oh yeah! Okay.
If this video hits 80,000 likes,
- we'll open a TwoSet cafe bubble tea shop. - Nice.
Special cameo!
Yo!
Duh Duh Duh Dum!
Dude, that was a pretty sick beat.
Shaun: Yeah, nah, people loved it.
I think the favourite bit I saw was
your singing and the rapping bit of you guys.
One take, not even edited.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Yeah, yeah, there's no autotune, right?
- Did you autotune anything? - I swear with my heart, no autotune. No autotune.
- There was one take, right? - Shaun: Yeah.
- Yeah, it was perfect. - Shaun: It was perfect.
Shaun: Brett came in, did the tape, just dropped the mic,
like, walked out, and that's it.
Shaun: So easy, so easy.
Shaun: See ya.
Alright!
Oh, this person went to the concert then.
That was such a freaking crazy week.
That was a memorable event. I'll never forget it.
Do you want to tell them the story?
- Oh! - Like a short version.
- 'Cause it was pretty crazy. - Let me try and condense it in one minute.
It was supposed to be a holiday trip to Sydney
just to watch Hilary play.
- And also, to watch Ray the next week, right? - Yeah.
Literally a day before the concert,
Hilary sent a message, like,
"Hi, boys!"
"I had a really good idea!"
Sorry, Hilary, doing this type of voice.
"Why don't you join the encore with me!"
- Hell broke loose. We lost it, and I was like, "Oh my god." - We lost out s***.
- So we had to do it. - Yeah.
We found the string trio-
which was so hard to find!
The music you could not find anywhere.
We took like at least 2 hours, and could not find anything.
We searched for hours!
And then we found something called
Gavotte for Two Violins and Viola.
- But it was Gavotte for Three Violins arranged by Dvořák. - Yeah.
- The music wasn't even online. - Yeah.
There's no music to be found.
- Luckily, I knew one of the directors at Bärenreiter. - Yeah.
And I panic e-mailed him.
"Hi, we noticed you have the score..."
- "Like a Dvořák book, with a bit of Dvořák pieces." - Yeah.
"Can you please give me scanned copies?"
He's like, "No worries, just get this, buy, and we'll figure it out."
And I was like...
The person was in the UK,
but he had to get the team in Czech to scan the copies to us.
After we bought it- Oh, that was chaotic!
And we had like 24 hours left.
- Then we had a quick rehearsal on stage... - Yeah.
- Just to hear the sound out. - Yeah.
The acoustics and...
Voila! We're on stage.
Yeah, that was crazy.
- We literally rehearsed like, on the day. - Yeah.
I forgot what it was like to walk on stage.
- But I just remember when we were backstage... - Yeah.
- Oh yeah. - And then we're both like...
It's like the forbidden word.
- You don't do it. - You don't say it,
but then I just couldn't help myself. I was like...
"Bro, I'm so nervous!"
And Brett goes...
"ARGHHH!! WHY DID YOU SAY THAT?!!"
Actually, I think the coolest part was walking on stage...
and then everyone was just like...
I don't know. I heard someone be like...
BRETT AND EDD...!!!
Yeah, I know.
- It's kind of nice to know there were some fans out there. - Yeah.
I wasn't so nervous about the playing- I was.
But I was more nervous about walking on stage,
and everyone going...
"Who..."
"Who are they?"
- Yeah! - "What are they doing here in Hilary's concert?"
Yeah.
- I was so nervous about that, anyway. - Yeah.
Nice.
Fair enough.
- Where is your bubble tea to accompany? - Yeah, you need a bubble tea.
Nice! Congratulations,
I don't know where that is.
But nice!
It looks like a musical building.
- It does. That's a practise room. - Yeah.
- That's definitely a practise room. - Yeah, up there, right?
- Oh! Ha ha ha ha ha! - Ha ha ha ha!
- I forgot that happened! - That's sick!
- The cup as well. - That cup is like the perfect one.
- That day was really intense though. - Yeah.
See, we were training for that day.
For our new...
- We're training that day for our bubble tea cafe - Bubble tea.
- that's about to open, right? - Yeah.
IF it hits 80,000 likes.
Bro.
Pfft!
See, classical musicians will revive.
"Piece, piece, piece..."
No, they're pretending to be dead.
Oh, yeah yeah yeah!
- And then, and then... - They couldn't help themselves.
They couldn't help themselves,
Also, "piece" has like double meaning.
Like "piece, peace."
No more war.
And then it goes like...
- That's messed up. - Yeah, it's pretty messed up though.
Peace.
You only deserve a pea. One singular pea.
You know my mum did that to me when I was a kid?
Not like that, but more like...
"You can only play computer games if you practise."
Yeah, same.
But for me it's dinner.
Literally, I had a timer on my piano, I remember.
- And I remember I was just staring at the timer. - Oh, that's next level.
And then...
I would just make sounds sometimes 'cause I was like...
"You know I'm tired."
I didn't really feel like practicing some days,
so I'd just make sounds to sound like I'm practicing.
- You know what I'd do? - No.
I was so lazy, I couldn't even take my shoulder rest out.
I'd just take the violin out,
put it on my knee like this, and just...
- Ha ha ha! I think I... - My elbow...
My elbow on my knee, and I'm like...
- Eddy: Yeah, yeah. - Just made sound.
This... What is this meme?
This frog.
I mean it sounds kinda relatable.
Actually, when we walked on stage for the encore,
that Gavotte felt like Paganini.
Yeah.
It wasn't that hard.
We memorised it before like-
The practicing before, like, we memorised it, but...
Dude, I practised that so hard.
- Yeah! - It was like, overkill.
Like... Hilary? Boom! 5 hours!
- It was a piece normally you can just sightread. - Yeah.
Bro, I've never practised so hard. I was like...
total overkill.
- And knew all the parts. - Yeah.
Yeah.
Get it?
If you don't get it, then it's okay...
I guess.
- Then you need to practise- - Yeah, for some reason, people think you were crying on the day.
Oh, I couldn't even hold my face together!
Were you crying?
No! But I was just like...
I don't even know!
Maybe I was crying. I don't remember.
I was just like...
Well, I forgot what it was like to walk on stage.
- It's been too long, right? - Yeah.
And I forgot what face to make
'cause of COVID, two years.
- I always had a mask on. - Yeah.
So you just forget what to do with your face.
We need to get back on stage soon, yeah?
- Yup! Mm...! - Yeah.
- Let's get back on stage soon! - Dude, I watched a video of me walking on stage,
I didn't realise I was doing this, but I had like this...
And my friends all commented like...
"Eddy, what's with the swagger?"
I don't know. I was feeling it.
I was really nervous, but I was also feeling it.
- Yeah. - It was a good vibe.
Oh!
Oh, someone posted it!
Wow...
I'm curious how we sound.
She took more time.
E flat.
Oh, so good!
Hilary's part is so good.
- She plays so well. - She's so good.
- Yo... - Oh, I was so nervous.
Opera House is a hard hall to project in...
- for three people and chamber music. - Yeah.
- I'm actually quite impressed that... - Yes.
- from this person's phone, it still picked up well. - Yeah, that's like...
It's hard because also it was a full house, too.
- So a lot of bodies to soak up the sound. - Yes, that's true.
I'm actually happy with it!
- I think it sounded alright. - Yeah!
- I mean, I couldn't tell when I was playing on stage. - Yeah.
It felt like I couldn't really hear anything.
I couldn't see anything.
The thing is also Hilary, she's like...
She's quite musical.
And she even said on the rehearsal,
"I'm gonna be spontaneous and go with my feelings."
"And I'll signal it."
- "Don't worry. I'll signal very clearly." - I know.
But I remember I was looking,
and it felt like I suddenly had like...
8,000 degree short-sightedness or something.
I couldn't see.
- It was just like a blur. - Dude, yeah, same!
I just see this like, figure moving, like...
"I can't read! I don't know what's going on!"
"My score is too low-"
even though we memorised it.
"My score is too low!"
Sight, hearing, body function...
everything just stopped working.
And then Hilary is so musical.
She learnt that very fast.
- She sightread it like, when we were practicing. - Yeah.
She just looked at it, and she knew exactly what to do.
She's like, "Dvořák's like this, this, this, this, this."
And I was like, "Whoa..."
As she was sightreading, she goes...
"Brett, this bit, those middle notes, you should bring out."
- Yeah! - "Eddy, this bit..." I'm like,
"How do you know our parts while you're sightreading?"
Yeah...!
It's almost like, one run through, she's like...
- She knows exactly what she wants. - Yeah.
- So good. - Crazy.
So good.
Anyway, thanks to everyone that was at that concert.
I mean, you didn't know we were gonna be there, but...
- Yeah... - Thanks for cheering
- 'cause I was very scared no one's gonna know. - Yeah.
Whoa.
Ha ha ha!
Dude.
That's such a Ling Ling workout for organ.
Dude, that's sick!
You can like...
- check your text message. - Yeah!
"What are you doing right now?"
- "I'm practicing." - Yeah!
- (Did you know this?) - (Brett: No!)
I think I know where this is going.
*laughter*
Bro.
It's a psychological trap, everyone.
I don't know why. I just...
Scissors, paper- I always do scissors.
I'm just an open...
I'm open.
I'm always a peaceful person.
- Embracing the- - Scissors, paper, peace!
Ha ha ha!
Wow!
- Wow, didn't have to- - Oh, that is-
- Didn't have to attack all musicians. - Instagram story worthwhile, Yeah.
Yeah! Ling Ling is proud!
Wow, that was in 2017.
Mm.
5 years later.
I wonder where we would be in another 5 years.
In the TwoSet cafe-
Whoa...
You look like Levi Ackerman.
Whoa... dude...
'Cause you're short-
Just kidding!
Dude, I want Levi's skills.
- Upbow staccato. - Yeah.
That is sick.
Dude!
Whoa...
Violins can be weapons of mass destruction.
Weapons. That's really good to know, I guess.
No, it's the tool we use to protect ourselves
- from the evils of the world! - Oh yeah, of course!
- That's right! - Yeah.
Alright, our laptop is running out of battery.
And Shaun is in the next room waiting for us.
Yeah, so we- Alas! We must go, everyone.
We must go do something...
Can't say what, but...
Have a great day!
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And we will see you guys-
Why are you making that face?
- That sounds so sus, bro! - You're making it look sus now!
It wasn't sus at all!
- It's like something that you can't say. - No!
- Shaun's... - 80,000 likes, and we will do the bubble tea cafe store.
Bye-bye, everyone!