Hello!
Hello everyone!
Welcome to another episode of TwoSet Violin!
For those of you that haven't seen [it] yet,
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- See the two butterflies? They're lovers. - (Brett) Mmm.
Beautiful violin concerto,
the one that our parents always make us play,
- in our family gatherings. - Yes.
So if you want to make your parents proud,
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Now we're gonna get started in Ling Ling 40 hours!
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Wow, 260,000 Ling Ling wannabes.
- That was like the biggest comment! - Ohhhh, I know!
Everyone was like posting all over their socials,
and then everyone was commenting,
"But why [are] Brett and Eddy not practicing?"
- Yeah, I know...! - "Why are they not practice..."
Guys.
Look at us, sacrificing our precious practice time,
to make good content for you.
And there was like, a story where we're on our phones,
- they're like, "Look, you're not practicing!" - (Eddy) Yeah.
Okay, to be fair though, we're like 12 hour jet lagged.
That was like, the next day after we arrived.
And we did...remember during lunch break?
- We practiced [for] 30 minutes. - Oh, we did practice, yes.
- We fit in a practice session in there. - Yeah, even in the film schedule,
- I know. - that's how serious we are.
- We actually...we actually practiced. - We actually practiced!
You can ask them.
And within that 30 minutes, we packed in 39 hours...
- Effective practice! - (Brett) ...practice, yes.
It was really fun to work with everyone.
When you do YouTube videos,
a lot of times it feels like you're just in front of a camera,
- so it's cool to kind of meet other YouTubers, - Yeah.
- and meet them in real life. Anyway! - Mm-hmm.
This guy is like,
"I'm gonna be the next Yo-Yo Ma!"
- Cello costs a lot more than a PlayStation/Xbox. - Mmm.
Actually, do you guys know when I was uh,
in high school and primary school,
I just told Brett this, like last week, he didn't know.
My mom set a limit, to how much PlayStation I could play.
On weekdays, school days, I'm not allowed to play at all.
She eventually like, got more lenient,
but when I was like Grade 8,
no PlayStation, no computer games.
On Saturday and Sunday, I was allowed to do one hour,
- but only if I practiced, for at least an hour. - Mmm.
My parents were more lenient.
I traded my practice hours for gameplay.
- I mean, that's a pretty good incentive. - It's very good!
If I practiced one hour, I could play one hour,
so I was like, "I'm practicing one hour!"
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- I think I saw this meme before. - That's really good.
One of the greatest things that came out of this...
- ...otherwise Oscar thing that nobody was paying attention to... - Yeah.
What was the Oscars again?
Yeah...!
It was just the fact that there was
- so many great memes that came out of it. - Yeah.
Internet, you do your thing.
I like this one.
Keep!
My!
Intonation!
Out!
Of!
Your!
Ears!
That's so good!
- Davie! - Wow!
- Do you approve of this? - Yeah, Davie, you approve?
I'm just trying to picture,
some great classical music icon,
in like an awards ceremony.
Imagine, you know, Ray,
when he was winning Queen Elizabeth,
just slapped another contestant in the face.
- Do you think they would still give him the award? - No?
- Right? - No, you shouldn't!
Immature!
- Anyway. - Immature!
We're a...classical music channel, but!
- We do believe in treating others with respect. - 100 percent.
You can only slap the bass, not other people.
Yes.
Correct.
Wow, thank you!
That's an awesome cake.
- Damn. - It looks really delicious too.
But the real question is, who ate your cake?
I want some!
I want some of the cake!
Whoa, glass art, that's sick!
- Yo! Oh, dude, I love that! - Yeah, that's cool.
That's really cool.
Nice!
Oh, what's this?
What is that?
What?
What is this?
I need to know!
What did you guys do?
Well, I don't know what this game or thing is,
but I can kind of get a gist of it.
My guess is some community thing where people get to...
- Yeah, yeah. - ...put their pixels on.
- And you guys tried to get TwoSet on there. - Wow, that's awesome!
- Thank you so much. - Thank you so much from everyone around the world!
Hey, we're in sync!
- You're not copying me are you today? - Nah.
Yeah, what's up!
Oh, I actually...my nose is actually...
It's actually legit.
It's legit this time.
I don't know why I'm putting on an accent.
- So true! - (Brett) Yep!
- Or realising like the dynamic's wrong. - (Eddy) Yeah.
- Done that so many times. - Yeah.
All the Will memes.
"Go practice!"
- Okay, in that context it's okay, yeah. - Yeah.
I...that's okay.
It's like, "You, practice!"
Tiger mom.
- "Kung Pao your...!" - "40 hours a day!"
Come on, isn't that obvious?
You have to spend your time practicing,
there's no shortcuts!
- Problem is like, we spent like...20 years, - 20 years...plus.
- I still feel like I'm not that good. - Yeah.
I will say one thing though,
I think people think that you can only get better
- when you're like, 10 years old or something, - Mmm.
- but um, even at our age, we're getting better at the violin. - Oh yeah!
- Every day. - Yeah.
Some musicians, sadly enough, stop practicing as much
when they get older.
I get it, adult life is busy, but um,
I still enjoy practicing every day, I'm getting better,
I'm learning new repertoire.
- So are you, you got the Mendelssohn coming up. - Mm-hmm.
Ohhhh, yeah, keep an eye out for that,
something epic is coming.
And I think um, we're sounding probably the best we ever have.
- 100 percent, I think so. - So...
You just gotta practice!
Practice!
- It's like, well you do have a one in twelve chance. - I mean, yeah.
I did not know I looked like that, when I tried the drums.
- That was a fun video. - Pretty fun, yeah.
If you guys haven't seen it, we got to play in an orchestra,
it's a game show, three different challenges.
The drum one, I was happy, because it was like,
the only thing I could get perfect.
- Yeah, it's not fair, the drum's so much easier. - I was like, "Oh, that's fine!"
- Yeah! - And the guy told me where the notes are,
- so the pitch...that I could hit it in the right way. - Yeah.
I think it'd be a lot harder if you had to like,
- pedal the timpani. - Oh, that wouldn't...yeah, it would've been really hard.
That's why I had so much fun!
- Oh dude, look at this guy! - He's like...
"Louder!!!"
"Expecto...pianissimo!"
I gotta say, like, some conductors actually are just very good...
- ...nice to look at, like... - Yeah, I mean they're very like,
- How functional? I don't know. - very elegant.
- But it really like, it's like a dance with the music. - Yeah.
But then there are other conductors that don't look good,
- but they're just very clear. - Yeah.
- That's good as well. - It's also very good.
Wow!
- Wait, actually? - That's amazing!
You didn't cut that?
Who did this?
Wow, great name.
- Damn. - That's really cool!
Holy...
- Wow! - Oh, it's modelled after Hilary Hahn!
No way!
I feel like that's something Hilary would really enjoy as well.
- Yeah. - She loves like, crafty things.
That's really cool! Impressive!
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I can't get over how crazy that is.
Yeah, one [piece of] paper right?
- That's some skills, yeah. - Even the violin...hands, bro!
- Wow. - Sugoi! (Amazing!)
Dude, I looked so bad, my cello posture.
You're just like, going to...
The shoulders are tense.
Damn, he's not just a physics genius,
but he has perfect pitch!
He knew the frequencies, he's like, "Mmm..."
Or maybe it's the other way around.
When you have perfect pitch,
you also become a physics genius.
OHHH!!!
That's so true.
That literally happened to you once in a masterclass,
- Mmm. - where...do you remember?
- The Tchaikovsky? Yeah, I remember that. - Tchaikovsky, yeah.
- He's like, "Play it slowly." And then...yeah, - I couldn't do it, I was like,
"I do not know the notes."
Tsk, tsk, tsk.
Not relatable.
I can't sightread that well.
- For a lesson, solo piece? That's pretty hard. - Yeah, yeah.
That's pretty hard.
For like orchestra, I can, but you know,
- teachers always find something wrong. - Yeah, they will, 100 percent.
Ohh!
- I remember this, this was um... - It's a funny story.
This was after we had...
- Dinner! Yes. - Dinner!
- We had Japanese food near...Carnegie Hall, - Carnegie Hall.
- so we got recognized like, - Yep.
five times in that one restaurant.
But then it's funny, because as we're walking,
these fans recognized us.
- But they didn't recognize Ray. - And then...yeah, they're like, "Oh, it's TwoSet!"
- And they're like, "Can we get a photo?" - Yeah.
I was like, "Sure!" And then...
And then you know, we had our masks on,
and then they looked at Ray and they go,
"Are you Editor-san?"
And Ray was just like,
- "Yeah, yeah, I'm the editor." I'm like, "Bro, no." - Yeah.
So funny!
I'm like, "No, that's Ray." And they're like...
- Ray was like... - "Oh my god, can we get a photo with you too?!"
- He was like, "Yeah." - That was so funny.
Alright guys, that's it for today,
check out the apparel, uh,
the Butterfly Lovers, it's an amazing piece,
and we'll see you guys, next time.