Hey, guys.
Welcome back to another episode of TwoSet Violin.
My name is Brett.
- Very nice t - - My name is Eddy.
Very nice to meet you.
Today we have a very special episode
where we're going to be playing...
A very new game.
Never to be seen on Youtube.
Starts with a C.
- But it goes... - It's called...
Cha-rah-des.
Char-rah-des.
Cha-ra-de-su.
And today's topic will be...
Music theory
Time to test how much theory we know.
It's not e -
It's not good enough just to know your theory,
we have to know it so well that
we can communicate it with only the violin.
Scissors, paper, rock.
That's supposed to be a scissor.
I won.
I'll go first. I'll go first.
How long do we have?
5 minutes each or 7... Actually 7, cause it will be hard.
Oh, actually I don't know.
I don't know.
- Do you feel confident with theory, Eddy? - Nah, 5 minutes each.
Okay...
Brett doesn't feel confident - Oh, Brett feels confident.
Wait, me?
- I don't know. Eddy feels confident. - How do you know I feel confident?
I don't know.
Let's just do it.
Oh, it's in here.
By the way...
If you're into chemistry...
Here we go.
Oh...
Okay.
Major scale.
Sixth.
Oh.
Tonic, Supertonic...
Uh!! Urgh!!!
- Submediant! - Yeah!
Yeah! I still remember!
I was like oh no...
Oh no...
Here we go, here we go.
Chord.
Tonic chord.
Accent.
Beethoven Kreutzer.
Study.
Mediant?
Third chor - Thirds?
Oh okay, so -
Oh!
Second subject.
Nah.
Oh! Um...
If it's not second subject...
Exposition?
Recapitulation.
- That's a recap though! - I know, I know, damn it, damn it, damn it.
Sonata.
Sonatas. They are all sonatas.
Mhm.
Prokofiev. Debussy.
- Sonata form. - Yes!
Ohh!!
Oh wow...
- Wow... That was - - Okay. Here we go.
- That was so hard. - That was unnecessarily hard. Okay, one more.
Harmonic minor.
Yeah. Minor scale.
Oh, minor scale.
Oh, this is funny.
Major?
Half a major?
Tetrachord?
- Oh, subdominant. - Yes.
Oh, dur.
Thinking too much now.
Oh, what is this?
Oh, um...
Oh...
Uh...Oh, oh, oh.
Appoggiatura.
- No... - Acciaccatura.
So... So... Okay. So
- Ready? - Yeah.
- Passing note. - Yes!
Oh, here we go.
Um...
Blackpink!
Mm...
- Arpeggios! - No.
Broken chords.
Obbligato.
Uh... Sostenuto.
No, no, no.
Subdivision.
Uh...
Common time. Cut common.
2/4. Meter.
- Argh! - It's cut common. 2/2.
You're beating in twos. Pulsing.
Subdivision. 4/4. Common time.
Oh, wait, wait, wait.
Uh...Nah!
1, 2, 3, 4.
Oh!
Uh... Compound time!
Yes!
Sorry my bad.
Was that compound time before?
- I don't think it was compound time before. - I don't think it was.
But I played part of it, now you get it.
It was all an elaborate plan.
Oh, what is this?
Nice work, Eddy.
Oh my god!
Nice work, Eddy. Good job.
- Alright, come on, Brett. - Good job.
Time for Brett to step up the game.
3, 2, 1...
Go.
Dude, these are so hard to pick up.
Oh.
Easy.
Double stops!
Oh, pentatonic.
Fifths!
Oh, what's this?
Perfect Cadence.
Oh.
- Parallel octaves. Parallel fifths. - Yeah.
Parallel - Parallel fifth.
- The cardinal sin of four-part harmony. - Yeah.
You cannot put that in...
- Too many times in a row. - Okay.
Okay, um...
Harmonics?
Uh, oh! Artificial harmonics. Uh, no.
Uh, overtones.
Uh...
Same thing, different name.
It's close enough.
Harmonic series.
- Oh. - It's the same thing.
- Harmonic series... - Okay.
Um...
Minor.
Major chord.
Major.
Oh.
The... Parallel fifths.
Minor chord.
Relative...
Rela - Relative...
Oh.
Harmonic minor?
Yeah, but what's the word you said before?
- Relative minor. - Yeah.
You can just cut out what I said and then you can cut -
- Make it sound like he got it. - Yeah, relative minor, it was so obvious.
- Harmonic series. - Okay, um...
- Relative minor. - Yeah.
- Uh, okay. Um... - Relative minor.
Diminished, diminished.
Diminished chord.
- Domin - - Yeah, diminished chord.
Oh!
Didn't shuffle this.
Dominant!
Oh, wait, wait. I fu**ed it.
Chord.
D?
Diminished?
Diminished seventh?
No, no, no.
- Neapolitan sixth. - No, no, no, no, no.
Dominant seventh?
A.
Major... C#.
*Brett humming*
Oh.
Interrupted.
Major chord.
Interrupted chord.
Interrupted -
Seventh, sixth.
Diminished seventh.
What chord is that?
Diminished Sixth.
Augmented!
- Ah, augmented. - Augmented chord.
Okay.
*Brett humming*
And then...
Oh, Neapolitan sixth.
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
Overtone... Uh... Ov - uh...
Pentatonic scale. Whatever -
Whole-tone scales.
Yeah.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - Whole-tone scale.
Tone, tone, tone, tone, tone.
- Tone, tone, tone, tone, tone, tone, tone. - Oh, okay.
Major scale.
Cadence.
- Tonic? - Yeah.
- Oh, okay. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, nice.
Oooh, okay.
Oh, come on.
Tierce de Picardie.
Yeah.
- Tierce pica pica. - Well...
- Picardy third. Close enough. - Yeah! Woohoo!
Woohoo!
Okay.
- Uh...Uh...Uh... - Uh, oh.
Major.
E, E, E.
- Supertonic! - Yeah.
Oh... Dude, we killed it.
Wow, that really tested your memory.
Yeah.
Some of them you just know,
but you just don't know the word anymore.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - So it's like...
- Yeah. - Theory days.
Guys, make sure to study musical theory.
It's a useful skill to know.
- It is. - Let you appreciate how music is structured.
Mm!
Please subscribe.
And see you guys next time.
What's this?
Bonus?
Ohh!!!
10 minutes!
- Let's go! - Started 3 minutes.
Boom!
Ooh!
Walked into the wall.
- Appoggiatura. - Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Nice. - Nice.
I don't know why I am sounding German. Ya, ya.
Appog - Cause music is all - Mostly from Germany.
Oh, dude, what the -
*sighs* Okay.
Harmonic?
Oh!
Double flat?
Double sharp?
Tone replacement. Note replacement.
Same note. Different key. Harmonic.
*hums* F#.
*hums*
Enigma.
Violin enigma.
Tone.
Which country is that?
English.
English...
Harmonic...
English... No.
English tone.
English pitch.
English...
English cadence. English chord.
English sixth.
- English Five. English forth. - Enharmonic.
Oh, far out...
Yeah, wasn't gonna get that one, hey.
- Yeah. - Okay.
Enharmonic.
Chaconne.
Chords.
Minor chord.
Yeah.
I'm forgetting which charades we are playing now.
Minor chord...
- Uh. What the hell is this? - Which charades are we playing?
I don't know.
Okay. Um...
Mendelssohn...
Nah, skip.
Simple time.
Oh, simple time.
Like compound, simple.
No time.
Oh, okay.
Perfect Cadence!
Yeah. Cadence.
- Oh, alright. - Count that.
Oh! Okay.
Fifths!
Fifths.
Well.
We hope you can learn some music theory from this.
- Mhm. - Being educational.
Thank you so much for watching.
And we will see you guys next time.