Hello, guys!
Welcome to another episode of TwoSet Violin.
Eddy: We have Davie with us.
You can't see him 'cause he's very tall.
You probably have seen the video where
Davie forced us to play...
...the bass.
I'm not forcing them at all.
...Mmm-mm.
Can we play that—
- WHAACHACHACHAAA! - YAAAAAH!
Brett: Davie's gotta practice now.
40 hours.
We need to, um, move the setup, because...
...uh, we're too short.
Aw, nice!
- Nice! - Bro...
...that's epic.
It's actually really epic.
Kill me, please.
So, Davie...
...do you like the violin?
Yes.
What do you think of the viola?
Terrible instrument.
- Ah. Nice. - Good.
He's a good student!
- Brett: Yeah, very good student! - Eddy: I like this, I like this.
- We're gonna teach Davie how to play... - ...Paganini 24.
That's right. Davie, you'll be learning this:
Sounds easy. I need something harder.
- Hmm. - Hmm...
- I know. - Yeah.
"Twinkle Twinkle Little Star."
Please, no!
Please.
We're very good teachers. You're in safe hands.
The spirit of Ling Ling will show you the way.
I am very excited, as you can see from my face.
Eddy: ...yeah. Yeah, that's right.
The very first step is,
just put your violin on your shoulder like this.
Yes. See? Your shoulder rest is there, too.
That's all right, I can see through this... your... your...
I can see your thumb position is in a very good position.
Actually, you don't need these fingers,
so you can lift these fingers off.
No fingers...
...sweet!
Use your natural head weight,
and it should be your jaw
that kinda just holds it.
That's right.
- Yeah, wow! - Eddy: Nice!
Ling Ling blessing!
How does that feel?
Not good.
Yeah, that's cause...
violin's harder to play than bass.
Wait until you play "Twinkle Twinkle."
And now we need the bow.
You have to imagine
you're being a rabbit, or a fox,
like this.
Brett: Y-yeah...
I mean, that rabbit looks a bit funny, but...
Brett: ...just like that. And then,
you put the thumb in between the leather patch
and the frog here,
like this,
and wrap it around.
Eddy: Yeah, nice.
And wrap those two around,
and then first finger goes down,
pinky on top of the wood.
- Eddy: Nice. - Nice! That's it.
- Ohh! - Beautiful, ohh!
Violin is easy. I knew it.
With this... do you know which one the A string is?
It's like bass, this one.
Hahahahahaha!
- Close enough! - Close enough.
The strings on a violin are:
G,
D,
A is that one,
and then E.
Put your bow— the hair on the A string.
And just... pull.
- Hey, not bad, actually! - Not bad!
That's right, just two A's!
Yes!
- Eddy: Whoa, whoa, okay, okay. - Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
All right, calm down, calm down...
- Don't get ahead. - Yeah.
So we have two A's...
...then you move to the next string, E...
Next.
- I'm actually genuinely kinda impressed. - Yeah.
Usually beginners sound like:
Yeah, they're like:
Guys, you don't remember last time I played the violin,
100% real.
- Brett: Oh yeah, that. - Davie: You forget.
- Eddy: Yeah, oh yeah. - Brett: That was so real, yeah.
It's as real as the bubble tea I had in Germany.
All right, that's good! A, E,
next one is F sharp,
so one finger on the E string.
And then let go.
Whoa!
Checkmate.
We're so good at teaching we don't need to say...
We didn't say anything, every student gets it.
Welcome to the Ling Ling Academy.
The second half,
I'm gonna teach telepathically...
*F-TF-TF-TF...*
Thank you.
Which fingers should I use here?
- Because, I was just sliding like this... - Eddy: Ah.
Okay, yeah, so,
in violin it's 1, 2, 3, 4, alright?
So, 3...
Yep. And then, C sharp with the 2...
And then...
Nice!
And then...
Let go, let go of your fingers. Yeah.
Yeah, and then...
That's right!
Little tip: when you play the A string,
these two fingers are close to each other.
Brett: That's the pattern. Tone, and semitone.
- Brett: Yes. - Eddy: Nice!
With the bow,
try to keep the contact straight,
so you don't slide, like:
...like that.
Eddy: Yeah.
Nice.
3, A string, yeah...
Yes...
- That's it! - Eddy: Yeah!
- Whoa! - Whoaaa!
...three, four.
3!
E string!
Now 3...
Same thing...
Now the beginning again, A...
If you keep up the 40-hour practice,
then you can play the Paganini soon.
How do you feel about the violin now?
The violin is just too loud for me.
I thought, if you can play it loudly, you can play it quietly.
But you lied to me.
So, of course, after a hard practice session,
we have to go get bubble tea to finish off the practice ritual.
Mhm.
But first, click here.
Go to my channel.
Do it now.
- Brett: I guess... - Let's go get bubble tea.
Yes, let's go!
- Bubble tea! - Eddy: Yaay!
Bubble tea.
So good.
Best thing in the world.
Epic.
Mm, epic.
Cheers!
Ah, that was fun.
It's always great to finish a violin practice session off
- drinking bubble tea, right? - Yeah.
Makes the day better, actually, so...
I feel like we've forgot something, though.
Like we're...
You know that feeling when you like,
- you're meant to do something, - Yeah.
- but you can't remember what you're meant to do? - Uh huh.
Eddy: Like, I get that all the time, like just forgetting stuff,
- Eddy: you know? - Yep...