Alright guys,
welcome to another episode of TwoSet Violin!
Oh my god, okay.
We're very...we're on...
We're very on low sleep.
We're on very low sleep.
Mm-hmm.
Um...been a crazy week,
how many hours did we sleep? Like...
Negative 16,
because we needed to practice 40 hours a day.
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What the f***...
Alright!
Today's video is...
You flinch,
you lose.
We're going to be watching some...
...music-related clips, and...
...you guys can play along.
Uh, whoever flinches last...
Has to buy bubble tea.
No, wins.
Oh yeah, wins.
- Whoever flinches first has to buy bubble tea. - Yeah, good one.
Okay.
Cool. Let's go!
I'm going to slowly release the weight of my head,
until the violin actually drops to the floor.
- Wait, is he for real? - What does it say?
Dude, is he actually gonna drop it?
Bro, is this for like educational purposes or something?
Oh, I don't like this.
- I don't know, but... - Dude, I already flinched...
...just by reading it!
- Alright, bubble tea! - Yeah...!
Agh!!!!
What the f***?!
Oh...!
Oh...!!!
He did not expect that.
If...if you're a string player...
Look! If you're a musician that cherish your instrument,
you would've...you would have flinched.
The fear of dropping the violin,
is the number one cause of excess tension...
...in the neck, head, and shoulders.
No, it's not!
What does that mean? What did he say?
He's saying the reason you have tight neck,
is because you're s...
Fear of dropping the violin.
No! You have...
A,
questionable technique,
- Posture. - B, questionable set-up,
C, questionable posture, or D,
in some unfortunate circumstances,
maybe your body physique is just
less suited to violin playing, and...
...there are always ways,
with a proper teacher,
- You can always adjust— - or physiotherapy,
- to adjust and find the most optimal way. - Yeah.
It's not because you're scared...
Dude, this...
Dude, I've had neck tension for ages...
- But it wasn't from because you're scared... - it wasn't because I'm scared of dropping the violin.
No, I'm...
Oh, there's a lot of more things to be scared about,
- Yeah...and look, - when you're performing and stuff.
a violin, a $50 violin to any person
that doesn't care about the violin...
...you know, someone that doesn't have any fear of
hurting the violin, they're just like "I don't care."
- Yeah. - They're still gonna be tense,
- and they're still probably gonna get neck pain, - Yeah!
- if you told them to practice 40 hours a day! - Yeah...it's 'cause they...they don't know how to hold it.
- Yeah! It's technique! - And then like, the violin,
you can also adjust the...
- With a good teacher, you can adjust it. - Bro, oh...
I didn't expect to get triggered,
but like, all my energy had just come back.
Havas recommended that a student who is
extremely afraid of dropping the violin,
could take their violin over to their bedroom,
and very gently practice dropping it
on a very soft surface like a—
No, no, no, but he says,
- "drop it on a soft surface"! - That's not...
- He's not dropping it on a soft surface! - I know.
Like, do it with your sofa at the back there,
- at least. - Do it, yeah, on a bed!
And he said "gently"!
Just don't do it at all.
And this is like,
okay, I get it,
- if you have like some...full paranoia, - Crazy.
and you need to get over that.
But I've never met someone like this.
I've never met someone,
out of the thousands of musicians I've met...
- Yeah, we've met like thousands of violinists. - But I think that's the last thing to think about.
Alright, let's watch it again and not flinch.
- You ready? - Yeah, okay. Let's do it.
I'm good. I'm ready.
Ugh...
You can hear the...
...the sound.
Ka-pow!
Alright.
Next one.
- We've already lost, but hey. - I think we lost like three times.
Ooh!!!!!
Ohh...!
Bro...!
- Dude, that was like... - I thought it couldn't get worse...!
It was like...
Ko-pow! Ho-duh!
- The triple! - And then...and then...
- Dude, that was a... - Bam! I was like...
That was a triple attack!
Okay, let's pause to see...
...analyze what happened.
Ohh...!
She pushed it out!
It hit the stand, hit her hand...
And she tried to catch it, but oh, that's so unlucky!
Dude, you know what's the worst bit?
Oh!!!
- Look at her, she's like... - I know!
But that's exactly how most people—
everyone would feel.
She's a legit musician.
- Yes, she is a legit...bro... - 'Cause that is painful to watch!
Eddy, your mouth...
- Only my mouth flinched, it was like, "Oof..." - He was like...
Ohh...
- Dude, his...his like... - Ohh...!
- Ohh!!! - That...
- He did the biggest flinch though. - Yeah.
I always had like, wondered those strings, you know,
they snap like...whip your face.
- They can, I heard someone's... - That's horrible!
Someone's putting on an E string,
and it snapped while they're tying it in,
- and then like, slashed their face. - It hits their eyes...
Oh my god.
Like, just missed the eyes.
Yeah, when you do it, you always feel like it...
- Yeah, I always tune my... - Agh!!
When i'm tuning my E string,
- I always put my left hand over the string, - I pull away...
Yeah, good idea.
- so...it'll hit my hand instead of my face. - Yeah.
Next one.
Dude, someone didn't practice.
Violin's like, "I'm out!"
- Man, imagine that happening in a concert, on stage. - It's in a concert.
I'll...I could not.
I'll just be like...
I'll just walk off stage.
"I quit violin."
Just kidding.
Start the viola!
I mean, props to her,
trying to fix it on the spot.
Man, that's like hectic stuff.
You know, when you—
Actually when you do a concert in an orchestra,
when the string snaps, when the violin falls off,
I don't know what you should do,
but when a string snaps,
depends who it is, right?
You can just pass the instrument on.
Yeah. Oh...!
Have we told them about...
...Ashkenazy Anne-Sophie Mutter story?
Ohh...!
Okay, we should tell them the whole story.
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Insider goss time!
So um, apparently...
- "Apparently", yeah. - I'm just gonna "apparent"—put the "apparently" there.
- There is a great conductor, Ashkenazy, - Yeah,
he's also a great pianist and stuff.
And violinist, of course,
Anne-Sophie Mutter.
Legend.
Legend violinist, I love her.
What happened apparently, was, I think...
No one was really sure what happened,
somehow, the violin...
...flew off Anne-Sophie Mutter.
And I think Anne-Sophie Mutter doesn't
play with her shoulder rest, right?
- Mm-hmm. - So it kind of...
She was playing dress in the rehearsal,
- the Opera House concert hall, - Mm-hmm.
And...apparently Ashkenazy's hands, accidentally...
While conducting...
Hit the Strad...
And then so the violin s...
...got knocked out.
Okay, this is like a 10 million dollar Stradivarius.
Like a very good Stradivarius...
...knocked out, and then that Strad just...
The story says, from the musicians there...
I won't say who, but it's like...
It's just like...so fast,
but so slow,
you just see this instrument slide...
...across the stage.
'Cause it's like...
Ohh!!!
And everyone kind of just, apparently they just froze,
and everyone was silent.
- How is their reactions, do you know? - I think they had...
Yeah, they just froze.
- Can you imagine an orchestra goes silent... - What about, um...
... Ashkenazy?
Oh, apparently Anne-Sophie Mutter just...
...didn't react, and just picked the violin up.
Very stoic.
Very stoic, yeah, very calm.
- Like Mutter would be on stage, right? - Yeah...
She's probably,
"Ja."
Anyway, let's keep going.
He's so red!
- His face is so red! - Yeah...!
- "You had one job, bro." - Yeah...
- "You had one job..." - And look at this guy, he's like...
"Ohh!!!"
The guy...and this guy, this guy is like,
"Whoa...!!!!!"
That guy, he's looking down, he's like,
"Whoa!!!"
Can I also just say,
- it's such a random sounding excerpt of music. - I know...
"Doo ah doo ah doo-ah-doo-ah-doo-ah-doo-ah..."
Okay, I hope that guy is okay...
...but man.
I'm so sorry.
I really hope that guy's okay, but man,
holy crap.
It's fine,
because that's something I would do.
Because—oh yeah, it is pretty close!
Yeah.
- It's risky! - Turning around to like, acknowledge the band...
And you're backing off...
- Yeah. - And I guess because you've done the whole...
...you...you like conducted a whole piece,
you kind of forget your surroundings a bit.
Yeah.
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