Welcome to another episode—
Hi.
For those of you who don't know us,
here's a...
...violin being roasted.
That's right. And this time, we're roasting
The Violin Player.
No, not the violin player,
a movie called "The Violin Player."
It's the most ridiculous movie.
So, we decided we didn't want to spoil the ending of the movie.
But!
That's okay, because we'll just be reviewing
the opening orchestra scene.
And there's plenty
to review just in that.
Hooray.
And what a name.
- "The Violin Player." - It's called "The Violin Player."
THE Violin Player. Nothing else, I mean -
I'm sure they will get a real violin player for The Violin Player, right?
Okay, wait, wait. What is happening?
Okay, so I think this is a...
They're about to have an orchestra film session,
like filming for a soundtrack.
But this guy that's tuning...
It's not matched to the audio.
And then also that setup.
You don't sit musicians like that.
Have you ever done a film recording?
I've done multiple film recordings, you don't sit five in a row.
You actually have an actual orchestral setting.
So the conductor can do their usual...
beating.
- That's not - - This is not legit.
- Well, from what I've done, - Ah...
multiple recordings with professional orchestras,
just to back my case,
we've never sat like that.
It's always in a orchestral format.
It's first violins, second violins,
viola, cello, or
- cello, viola. - And then there needs to be an arc, right?
- Not like, just... - Yes.
Well maybe they do it differenly in India.
- Yeah, maybe. We don't know. - Maybe, maybe.
But!
Eddy: What the hell is up with that bow, first of all?
Eddy: It looks like there's two frogs.
- Ohh! - You know what I mean?
So like, it looks like he's doing— playing the wrong way.
Don't do that.
- Just don't do that at home, guys. - Yeah, just don't do that.
He lifted his bow off the string to tune
and the sound was still going.
Whoever did the dubbing
obviously wasn't looking at the visuals very well.
It's been like, five seconds and we've already roasted for like, a minute.
Don't judge!
Okay, so this guy is tuning now.
- But he changed— But he changed strings as well. - Did he just... Yeah.
His posture's messed up, too.
Ah, it's fine.
It should be like this, not...
At this point in time, I don't know who they're recording right now.
Yeah, you hear one violin.
- Yeah, exactly. Yeah! - But there's two violins playing now.
- Dude, there's not even playing now. - Yeah. Yeah, they're not even playing.
Wrong string!
He's playing the D string, but you hear the A.
Oh, we're so picky. But we just can't help it!
It's a double stop, he's playing one D string.
But the sound is A and E, like...
He's... He's bowing the D.
Oh no that's— This is dangerous!
Wait.
- The audio is... - Yeah.
That's a G.
- But he's touching the... - But the guy's holding the...
- The A peg. - A peg.
Let's show the pegs, guys.
Education!
The fine-tuner is to fine-tune.
The peg is to tune it when there's a
more of a to— interval,
to kind of reach the actual note.
- It's like, big tuner versus small tuner. - Yeah.
This is the A.
This is the E.
This is the D.
This is a G.
And in the video, he was obviously tuning...
- A. - The A.
So you guys probably see it this way.
Over here.
But you hear the G string being tuned,
- which is this one. - Yeah. Wow.
That was, uh...
Amazing!
Who tunes like that?
If there's a fine tuner, which...
- As a professional you shouldn't have four anyway, but... - Yeah.
You do it this way. You don't do...
Oh, dude!
That's so risky.
- Brett: The violin might fall off your shoulders. - Eddy: Yeah.
Oh, he's actually playing the D and A.
(DNA by BTS)
And he's bowing.
Oh man, that guy's
(both) bow hold.
It's like, that.
But that music looks kind of...
- It looks legit, yeah yeah. - ...legit, yeah.
Whoa, whoa whoa whoa!
Don't serve water on their instruments!
It's tea.
I mean, but is it bubble tea?
Not in the recording studio.
It's actually very dangerous.
There's usually a lot of wires
tied to every microphone.
Instruments, especially.
- Yeah. - No no no spilling.
Imagine that guy dropped the tea on like, a $1 million Stradivarius.
In fact, most recording studios don't allow you to bring
liquid in, unless it's just bottled water.
But hey, maybe it's tradition!
- Yeah, maybe maybe, right? - I don't know!
When you put up the violin, it's usually...
...this motion.
(both) Not...
- A vertical... - This motion.
- It's a... - Yeah!
- They tried, they tried. - Yeah, I mean at least they tried.
Eddy: Why is the conductor's score the same as the violin part?
Where's the other instruments?
Yeah. What??
Maybe it's just a piece written for violin, but—
I mean, I'm gonna have to say this, but...
Too many violins without any bass
doesn't really have a good result.
- It's too trebly. - Dude, there's so many of them too.
It's like, it's like an army of violins.
Wow.
So much. Is happening.
I don't know where to begin.
This guy's wrist!
Bro! It's like...
All of them have their thumb over their fingerboards in this shot.
Unless your hand is super big,
generally you don't have your thumb like...
Well actually no, that's just -
- That's clearly— That's completely off. - That's just completely wrong. They're touching
- the G string! - I was trying to be nice, but...
When you do filming, does someone count you in?
They don't count you in, there's a...
track, there's a beat.
In your ears.
That's what I was thinking, 'cause...
- The conductor's there to bring the orchestra in. - Yes.
If we have some guy doing their counting,
then why do you need a conductor?
That's true, that's true.
But hey.
Maybe that's just our limited professional experience,
we've never played in India before.
Some guy came in early.
He played a wrong note.
That's not the tuning...
- That's not a tu— That's not a tuning issue. - It's a wrong note.
Out of tune is like,
- Yeah. - But he went,
It's just completely off.
But it is frustrating though, when someone does a mistake.
And everyone's just like,
- "Aughh, gotta do it again!" - Yep.
I'm actually surprised they're doing the right fingering,
despite how unorthodox their left hand...
- ...technique is. - Yeah.
You know, I also think some of them don't have shoulder rests.
A shoulder rest basically, for most people actually, helps.
And acts as like, a resting position, where it'd be—
It's more comfortable to play the violin like this.
- Yeah. - Without the shoulder rest,
it's quite difficult to play, unless you've been trained.
- A lot of old school soloists do play without soloists. - Yes.
- Ah, without shoulder rests. - Yes, but the—
Usually it's more on the shoulder here like this.
Not...
- Here. - Yeah.
As you can see, it's very, very awkward, guys!
I can see why their thumb's like that now.
That's true!
'Cause there's no support,
- There's no support, yeah. - coming from here.
I get the feeling this guy's the main character,
- just 'cause his left hand is all wrong. - Yeah!
He had the bow moving, but the left hand just froze.
Aw man! Dude, the bow!
The more I replay, the more problems I'm seeing.
This guy next to him, his bow is just like,
wow!
The third finger's like,
It's just having a little bit of a squiggle.
Aw, they tried so hard to do a vibrato!
It's just like,
Actually, vibrato's pretty hard to do when you first start.
This motion, most people don't quite get it.
Squiggle— Aww!
Yeah. Shoulder rest!
I can see why they didn't have shoulder rests.
Just keeps dropping.
- Yeah! - Too much of a problem.
- Ooh! - He ran out of bow.
Okay. Um,
his bow is on the string. He's going,
It's spicatto. It's off the string.
I don't think his left hand is also right.
At least he's not doing this.
Brett: Yeah.
- He's got that general motion going. - Yeah.
Actually, the main guy is in the right part of the bow.
But the guy behind him is way too high.
Yeah. Also, I'm guessing from this,
it is an orchestral piece. Not just violins.
A lot of like, pop music,
they record the instruments individually.
They kinda layer, layer it up.
- Yeah. - But I—
That doesn't happen in an orchestra setting.
- No, you don't... Yeah. - You have to record the whole orchestra together.
He's going 1-2-3!
The basic technique of violin faking,
1-2-3 1-2-3 1-2-3.
What do you think their tempo is?
Like, 90?
- Eddy: 80. - Brett: 80?
Or 78?
Random test, guys!
- Yeah. Whoa, so close! - Ooh, 88.
I said 90 first!
- Eddy: Yeah, 88. Oh, nice! - Brett: Whoa!
Was close.
That's right.
Is it a double?
- Brett: Ohh! - Eddy: But!
OH! He played open string!
It's a,
Dude, he almost had it!
HE WAS SO CLOSE!
- Yeah. - So basically, you heard,
A glissando in the sound.
But obviously the actor or the violinist here
didn't play the glissando.
That's,
But played an open string.
You need to be able to hear
- if it's open string, or not open string. - Yeah.
- Okay. - It's...
If you're gonna get a double, just,
just, get it right!
How do you mess up WITH a double?
I think it's focused on us.
Okay, just checking!
"The mic is stealing the stage!"
Not anymore.
It's staying down here.
Yeah. Get down!
♪ All around me are famil - ♪
Can I say the music is actually kinda cool?
- Yeah, I like it. - It's kinda upbeat.
Well there you go!
The epic intro to The Violin Player.
Two-minute intro, we are yet to see
a real violin player, unfortunately.
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