Whoa!
Welcome to another episode of TwoSet Violin!
We're conducting!
This is how modern people conduct.
You ready?
So today we are going to be reviewing
some funny conducting clips, that show why...
...conducting is the most difficult job,
in the world.
You think they just stand up there,
and wave a stick around,
and get paid the most in orchestra?
No, no, no!
They get paid the most,
because they have the most difficult job!
How difficult?
You'll find out why.
His face...!
Dude, he's just talking to the performers!
Ohhhhh...
- Wow...! - He's angry.
Some context, if a conductor's like, doing this,
and this—
- You messed up. - Yeah you really messed up.
Oh, wow.
To be honest, I couldn't really hear what messed up.
I think...
...the orchestra and the singer weren't in time.
Oh!
- They came in before the downbeat, right? - They came in early! Yeah...!
- Yeah, yeah, yeah...! - Early!
Oh, that is...
- Oh, that's like, way off. - Way off.
*chuckles* He's just like,
- "Come on, guys." - "Come on, man."
- He added that in so well. - Yeah, it's just like...
- Alright, just as a cue, to like the people. - Yeah.
- "You guys are gonna... - Yeah.
- ...get owned, after this performance." - Yeah.
He's so pro, he knows when to do that.
- Yeah...! *laughs*
Watch the conductor, guys!
- In this situation, the conductor's looking at the singer. - Yeah.
- And directing the orchestra. - Yeah.
'Cause the singer can't see the orchestral musicians,
and musician can't see the singer, so...
That's how important the conductor is.
- It's the point of communication. - Yes.
Holds everything together.
Feedback.
So they're very, very delicate people,
who are human beings.
- Please send them some love. - Yes.
It'll be pretty stressful, actually.
- It will be. - Being a conductor.
- Yes. - Especially if those musicians, they don't practice,
- and they're not playing together. - Yeah.
- And... - Actually, the whole concert's on you.
- Yeah. - The whole symphony's on you.
Next conductor.
Viola!
Viola!!!
Wow!!!
I forgot how intense it was, like,
- that is the biggest frown you've seen. - Yeah.
"So what do you think of the viola?"
*groans*
*chuckles*
It's always the viola section.
"Viola!!!"
"Viola!!!!!"
And you can just hear the violas trying to like...
- ...belt that melody out. - Yeah...! *chuckles*
- "Come on!" - Like, "Come on, violas!!!"
Next time, you're a conductor,
when the viola section's not playing well, just...
" V I O L A ! ! ! "
Mind you, these are all like great conductors too.
If they're pissed, it's like,
- "Ohhh...you messed up." - Yeah.
I mean these guys were like the biggest players.
- It's like, imagine the Federer of tennis. - Yeah.
Going to be like,
"Come on!"
- "Come on." Yeah. - "Serve!"
- Yeah!!! - "Get it in!!!"
Dude...!
...it's like, dude!
- Is this a live performance with live people? - Yeah, this is a live performance.
- Yeah! - It is!
- Everyone's in concert gear... - Yeah!
Dude, that stare Yuja gave to him, like...
It's like, "Shut up."
"Wha...what are you doing?"
Yeah, like, "Are you deaf?" Like...
- "Do you realise how loud you're singing?" - *laughs*
Guys, conductor, the hardest job.
You gotta be able to sing as well.
Like, he's good at multitasking.
But what do you think happened?
Did he just forget?
That he's in a concerto?
No, I thought it was like an open,
but during like, in the...in the concerto!
- Oh, yeah, It's within the concerto, like during the... - Yeah!!! Within the...
- ...like, the piece...yeah! - Like a tutti section.
I feel like it's a youth orchestra,
and the conductor's like, you know,
"They need a bit more musicality."
and he probably just thought they're in a rehearsal,
'cause he's pretty old, he looks like...
*snickers* ...he forgot!
- Yeah, he probably forgot, he's probably like, - He's not in rehearsal!
"Come on, guys! More, more!"
"Here, let me show you."
At least I can enjoy myself!
*laughs*
Diminuendo.
What did he say?
"Diminuendo."
He said "Diminuendo"!
He's like, "Diminuendo!"
He didn't even gesture it.
Dude, I think he just gave up.
Oh wow, that is...
That is brutal.
1, 2, 3, 4!
Yeah, I don't know about this one, hey.
- Yeah, nah. - Nah...
How can you f*** up so bad...?!
Wait for the cellos!
One bar rest, guys!
- Dude, that conductor panicked. - He's like...
"The f***?!"
- The conductor saw no way out. - Yeah, he was like...
He's like, "You know what?"
Since it's the beginning, let's start again."
His first reaction was like, "Go softer!"
- "I don't know what's wrong, but everyone quiet!" - "Shut up!!!"
For those of you who don't know,
if a conductor does a gesture that big,
- it's pretty serious. - Yeah.
- It depends on how much they involve their body in, - "Guys!!!"
if there's a whole body and two hands going down,
- I think it really means... - It's like red alert!
Red alert!
Stop, stop, stop, stop!
- High key anxiety, man. - Yeah.
Nah, that's fake.
Nah, that's fake. 'Cause that...
- They wouldn't have a camera out there already, yeah. - Yeah.
(both) Nah, fake!
Welcome to TwoSet,
- where we call out fake staged things. - Yeah, that was too fake.
- Yeah, someone just...yeah. - ...just happened to be out there.
"Oh, someone's angry?"
Yeah, nah.
So we have two triangles.
Now, let me hear "da-ga-da-dum" from two triangles.
One.
No. it has to be "da-ga-da-dum"!
- Alright guys, it's started. - Yeah.
You know when the conductor goes,
"Let's do it!"
"No, you're like..."
They're screwed!
Yeah, screwed, yeah!
As an orchestral musician,
when you sit there, and he starts that.
You're like,
"Thank god it's not me,
- I hope he doesn't do our section next." - Yeah, it'll be so screwed!
Like I already know they're screwed,
- so much...like so much experience. - Anxiety...
So like, "Just you guys."
- "No, one more time." - Yeah.
And you know they're not gonna get a second time.
Same rhythm that they've been playing,
everybody plays so well. "Da-ga-da-dum!"
Okay.
One.
It's better, it's a little better.
It should really be 15 triangles going "da-ga-da-dum",
but we can't do that. We're lucky to have two.
Oh my god.
Australian internet!
Can you make it somehow more rhythmic,
so it's not just a clink?
So it's "Di-gi-di-dum"!
I don't know where, but play higher on the triangle .
"Ti-gi-ti-dum"!
And...I'm not a triangle specialist, but...
One.
No, it sounds like a doorbell!
Ohh!!!
- Oh! Roast time! - The roast!
- The OG! - What a roast!
- Yeah, the OG. - He's the OG roaster!
When you work with great musicians,
be it conductor...
...or instrumentalists, they...
You can work so many hours on just these details,
- it makes a lot of difference. - just to get it right, get it perfect.
Could be anything, they're "aghhh",
"Da-ga-da-dum!"
- He's getting angry! - He's getting angry! He's like...
- "Da-ga-da-dum!" - "Alright, jokes aside."
Yeah...!
"Da-ga-da-dum!!!!"
I don't know how to tell you to do it, but do it!
One.
Yeah, it's worse.
It's worse.
Well, congratulations.
Uh, okay, where do we—
(both) He just gave up.
Wow.
As a triangle player,
- you're probably not used to having - Yeah.
- such high expectations placed on your part. - Yeah, exactly.
And there's two of them.
So one of them probably has never done
a lot of orchestral gigs.
- Yeah. - They must have been called extra.
- Or maybe someone switched instruments as well. - Yeah.
Hope you guys...
- ...enjoyed watching conductors with us. - Yeah.
Maybe to inspire you to be a conductor one day.
We gotta conduct the outro of this.
- Thank you so much for watching guys! - Please subscribe!
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