Ling Ling 40 Hours!
This is the most talented subreddit in history.
Let's see who's not practicing today!
Oh, right, he has a Superman cape.
- Very punny, I like, like. - Ha-ha-ha-ha!
How did they figure out the first violin string?
I mean, they don't do it anymore,
but back in the day it was, like... gut?
- Yeah, actually, how did—? - Literal animal gut.
How did they figure that out? I've always wondered.
Yeah, did they just, like,
look at a dead animal and just—
"Oh, it's pretty sturdy! Look—*twang*"
Yeah, yeah, and then,
just going to, like, rub this horse hair
over this dead animal gut,
and produce the most beautiful sound.
That's actually really interesting.
How did they figure that out?!
Oof.
Whoa, that sounds like a...
very strong justification to make your claim right!
They're always like,
"Oh, it's condensation!"
The condensation is formed from the moisture
- that came from your lungs anyway. - Eughh, it's disgusting! Yeah!
- So it's kinda still, like, breath turned into water. - It's just a—
Yeah, it's a different form.
1500s...
- I don't really know many 1500s pieces. - Yeah, I think, it's more like
1700s onwards,
1800s, 1900s.
Funny, too, 'cause it doesn't look like
his fingers has changed at all,
so he's probably literally just
- holding one long note. - Yeah...
And then the flautist next to him just had a break.
I mean, double reed instruments are notoriously difficult.
Very.
The mother looks proud of it.
It's a joke, but... it's true.
A is, like, expected.
Like, if you're not getting an A,
what are you even doing?
- That's kinda the attitude. - And then there's parents, like,
"Why are we wasting tuition fees on you?"
Yeah, yeah yeah!
- Oh my god! - Ohhh my god!
Ohhh my god!
That is something else!
My eyes are so big.
Edwina dyed her hair.
- Sacreligious. - Brett: Yes.
The mouth...
- Damn, that helicopter actually looks like... - Looks like a face.
- It looks like a fish. - It's a fish!
Look at the kid smiling!
Got no one to blame BUT YOURSELF!
Whoa!
Nice!
Congrats, u/Delicious_Guava929!
He's like, "Damn, the perfect pitch method worked!"
Now that you guys have said this,
I have no choice but to flex.
All right, what note is this?
♪ Ahh ♪
- G. F sharp. G. - Whaaa?!
It is an F sharp!
- Really? - Yeah.
HAH HAH!
Brett can do the perfect pitch flexing from now on.
I am the sensei, I'm officially retired.
He's like, "It's time, I can retire."
It's always the easy part.
Actually, that's true.
Any musician out there,
it's always the easy parts that get you.
What's hard on the page
is what's hard in the practice room,
and what's hard on stage...
- Oh, completely different. Yeah. - ...it's different. Yeah.
Look, see?
We're so talented, even when you get COVID,
you start being creative.
"Dwayne Baroque Johnson."
Ah, that's beautiful.
That is so true, though.
That's why you just don't flip the page.
Yes, just...
That's the secret.
Just be in denial.
- Always just the play the easy parts, - Yes.
- the first three lines. - Yeah.
Then you're good.
Wow, not the viola.
Yee-haw!
Wait...
But it's a GUITAR!
Yeah, I just realized! I was like,
- "Hold on a minute!" - Aaaah! What the hell?!
Whoa...
'Kay, what would you actually do?
Imagine you're stuck in there.
73 days, you have no food, no water,
you need to get out, right?
Do you start using your instruments
and make them into, like, protective weapons?
Clearly, what you do is you rehearse,
and the first person to play a note out of tune
- gets sacrificed to the wolves. - ...feed them to the wolves!
Then you can walk through to safety!
Also, simultaneously, get rid of
the out-of-tune people in the orchestra.
I was thinking along the lines, like,
use them as firewood
and just burn all the forests down.
- Wait, use... ah, the instruments! - Instrument, yeah.
*Krk-krk, BOOM*
and just throw it out!
- The instruments are innocent. - Yeah.
Never harm the instruments.
Well, doesn't matter, 'cause you can just...
pump the gain on the recording...
I mean, yeah, there's a lot of tricks
you can do these days, you know.
Isn't it crazy, though? Like...
even with all this editing technology out there,
you then still meet Hilary Hahn
and she just sounds perfect,
- one take, in a practice room? - Yeah.
Like, she's more in tune than, like,
an auto-tuned pop song.
Her intonation is harmonically also right,
auto-tuned pop songs, just, just...
- Yeah! Actually, that's— - ...you know?
So little class time for people that don't know:
There's "equal temperament,"
which is like the piano tuning,
and it's also what pop music uses.
But, there's actually something called "pure intonation,"
or "just intonation," which is when
notes actually ring perfectly
and that type of intonation requires constant adjusting
- depending on the key and the chord. - Yes.
- Yeah, well— - It's not just that auto-tune where
A is always 440.
Exactly. For example, a major chord, right?
The third...
- ...has to go down a bit. - a little bit lower,
and it sounds nicer to the ears.
Can't do that with auto-tune.
I mean, it's not like people really care these days. It's...
- Oh, that's pretty good! - Oh my god...
I don't think I've seen that.
Yeah, me neither.
Who is this kid?
He's literally a baby.
Why's he wearing glasses
when he was born a month ago?
Dude, he can't even sit on this, um, chair.
- Yeah, like, is his foot even touching the pedal? - Piano stool.
And he's playing Chopin.
I'm just hating, 'cause my selfesteemgon.
I know, my selfesteemgon.
Wow, you actually made that? That's amazing.
That's sick!
Ooh, there's more!
How do you make it, though? Damn!
I'm yet to make a snowman.
We never had a chance to,
even in, like, Norway or Canada.
- Yeah, jeez! - Brett: Yeah.
iPhone!
So obvious!
- Respect the piano gang. - I know!
Oh my god, they got our glasses!
That's sick.
That's pretty cool!
Isn't it obvious? Of course!
There's no shortcuts in life.
Even if there was,
you don't want to live a life like that.
You gotta enjoy the joy of practicing.
You just gotta enjoy the pain.
Playing out of tune again.
Yes, I feel so useless, YES.
Aw, so relatable.
Yeah, it's so relatable.
What the...?!
Oh my god!
Some things just...
- should never have been invented. - Yeah, wow!
- Oh, nice! - That's a drawing?
- No way! - Really?
I— that— no way that's a drawing!
- That looks too good to be a drawing. - Really?
Is that really a drawing?
Damn.
Damn!
That's actually pretty good.
Damn!!
Wow, nice one, u/princessmononoke!
Oh yeah, your fl—
Yeah, okay.
I've been reading comments saying,
"Legends say to this day,
Brett's flashlight is still on!"
Just got really excited for that video!
I mean, first of all,
so sorry about what's happening right now.
I hope you and all your family and friends are safe.
- All right, let's check 'em out. - Ooh!
That's it for today, everyone!
Remember, practice takes hard work
and takes a lot of dedication.
But there's no secret to getting better,
so you have to go practice!
Buh-bye!