Ring ring! Ring ring! What are you doing here?!
Is that Elliot "ElliotExplicit" Gough? Hello?
Oh my God! Eddie "Eddache" Bowley Is that you Thomas "TomSka" Ridgewell?
That's right! It is me! Wow!
Wow, we're back! The boys are back in town the boys are back in town
Hey you! My name is Thomas "TomSka" Ridgewell
I'm Elliot Gough And I'm Eddie Bowley
And welcome to TryHards This is the show where I'm going to make my
friends try hard I thought it would be fun to challenge us
to try something new and no doubt fail miserably
It's not like Try Guys! Nope!
Unrelated. That's a different show!
What challenge are we gonna try do us guys gonna try do challenge this week?
Shut the heck up Elliot! We've got exactly one week to each make a
30-second music video. Exactly 30 seconds. I'm talking music. I'm talking video.
That's all I'm talking about. But what if we go over Tom?
I'll hecking kill you! Oh!
Is there a twist to this challenge Tom? Shut up Eddie! That's right! I want you to
hide a meme somewhere in the song. It can be a TikTok, it can be a vine, it can
just be a one-second sample, but you've got to hide it somewhere in that song, and ooo baby! Meme.
When a week is up we're all gonna come back
together and we're gonna listen to our music videos and we're gonna figure out who did
the best one and the best one is the winner. That is how competitions work.
Except unlike competitions, there won’t be a prize.
The prize is friendship. The challenge for me personally is can I beat
Elliot like that's the- I gotta make something that slaps better than Elliot
Even saying this- Even saying this is part of my process to try and psyche him out. Put
the pressure on him too much so he can't perform. Oh my God, you just gave him permission to
make a meme song and that's his whole thing! I'm in my element!
That's why I've gotta Try Hard... Wha- A- Transition! Ouch!
My new glasses make my eyes purple. That's great. I'm glad I got this reflective coating.
So despite having- burp. So despite having the idea for this challenge I haven't planned
ahead at all so I think the best call is gonna be for me to lay down a sick beat and maybe
the rest of the song will come to me. Yeah, that's probably gonna work.
Alright. Oh no. No! Noooo!
This is gonna go well I think.
So for me, my mission is clear, I need to beat Elliot. Y'know he's handsome and he's
got a good aesthetic. I can't do anything about the first one, but I can try and do
the second one. The problem is I don't compose music I sample. I made songs in the past where
I just take out parts of different songs, chop them up and reorder them and make songs
out of them. So I need a type of song I can do in that style. So what I'm thinking is
Daft Punk.
Baby? Name a meme. Name any meme? Name a meme with a good sound. What meme has a good sound?
Bonk? Bonk?! Hey, puppy. Bonk! This is the bonk. It's not very inspiring I'll be honest.
I feel like I'm just gonna have to jump in and just play around for a bit and see how
I feel. Unfruitful today. Just unfruitful. Sometimes inspiration just doesn't hit.
I guess we will just have to see what happens another day.
So I got a melody stuck in my head that is like (does melody) and I just want to punch
that out on a big synthy bass but I just gotta find the right bass for it I guess?
Yeah, something like that.
So I spent hours working on this track and it sounds like shit. So I started playing
around with the instruments and I've just successfully made I guess an RPG tavern background song.
Great! Hecking useless!
Well, the first thing is I need to find some samples, but I guess YouTube friendly? I'm
gonna use the YouTube own audio library. There's a bunch of songs royalty-free on there so
let’s see if we can find the funk.
Oh yeah! Alright!
Urgh! This is not funk! See. It's what it's actually called. This Is Not Funk. Hehe.
Alright so now I've synced up every song to one another and this is what it sounds like.
It's good!
So essentially after the failed Friday I just decided to stop and give myself the weekend
to think because I just started really overthinking it. Sometimes you just need to be bored and
just have ideas. All that boredom and all that letting my mind wandering kinda led to
what I have now, which is 5 song ideas.
So I've got 5- 5 song- 5- I've got 5 song ideas there you go you can read them there.
I've got a cute dog and she likes to say. Dog noise. Instead of me actually making that
sound I want to try and pick up some sounds from Gizmo.
You gonna say something for me?
That'll do!
What better way to come up with a theme than within the actual episodes themselves y'know?
Okay so I'm thinking maybe since my skills aren't massively in composition I should try
rely on some loops maybe. It's Squidge's birthday today so maybe do a little song about my dog?
Look at that dog look at that boy he's so chonky he brings my joy. Look at how he rolls
about. It makes me happy and want to shout. Y'know? That's good right?
I hecking love this video! Brilliant!
Oh heck yeah dude!
I've spliced up this rubadubs intro. You've got this punchy like where it kinda just kicks
in so I've looped that initial part so you get this. And then I let it roll in with this
other tune kicking in so. I've now added in a few drum loops and also this part here so
like this is cash machine whatever so the song goes like this. And I wanted it to go.
So I erm cut this middle note here and put it at the end so that's how I managed to get
it. So now when I throw that into the mix that actually works really nicely.
The first song I'm going to make is the dog song. I might start with the bass so.
Let's try do the Try Hards one I guess.
I think the stupidest thing I've done with this song is I've written in lyrics like beef
liver pork and chicken and now I have to actually make those a thing and then I guess I have
to eat those meats as well at some point. Why? I could have written anything else. This
is a thing I do a lot with sketches where I will come up with a stupid line and then
move heaven and earth to make it a reality even if it's not that good of a line because
I wrote it and now it just has to happen. That's probably narcissism. I don't know. Stubbornness? eh.
Look at that dog look at that boy he's a big baby and he brings me joy. But don't for a
second call my little dog names or your home and everyone you love is going up in flames.
Ah! Why did I- Why did I do it like that?
I found a website that does voice changer for you. I have no idea if it's any good.
Buy it. Fuse it. Grate it. Slape it. Then rub it on your face and grab it by the big
old boobies stuckle the bum and the willy.
Oh no.
Let's try to record some vocals. Look at it go! TRY! It's gonna be hard!
We're gonna try. But it's gonna be hard. But we're gonna try. Because we're the tryhards. TRYHARDS!
I've got a cute dog and she likes to say. I've got a cute doggy dog. I've got a cute dog.
Why does my voice do that? I've got a cute dog and she likes to say.
Out of the two of them I genuinely think the tryhards theme is my favourite. I love the
dog song, but I just- vocally I just don't think I can bring it the way I want to.
This camera really does just give me a lovely blue-purple eye shadow doesn't it? Well now
I've got my meats though! It's time to make a music video! I want to use a green screen
and do loads of fancy stuff but I just don't want to do that. I think I'm just gonna film
Squidge around the house which is gonna be a travesty because my house is very very messy.
I'll try and frame it out a bit but y'know what? I'm a year into lockdown haven't really
had people over. So I’m like a pig wallowing in his own filth. Don't judge challenge.
Alright so I got my storyboard. It's time to shoot a little squidge music video. Do
you want liver? He licks his lips every time dude! Do you want beef? I can't. Pork and
chicken. Awww! Go on then have a little bit. No I'll have all actually thank you.
Thank you. I think we've finished. What do you think? It's Dada! Dada! Do you think this
mask is improved by the presence of a bicycle? Right there. Yeah, it's right there. Oh it's
the robot boy! Yay! Robot boy!
Lets set this up. Okay. Hi. I have squeezed myself into a suit so I look a little bit not shit.
It's the boy! Hello! The final boy! Look at this angle! Alright look. There we go. We've
got the boys they're all here. How do I look? Less depressed? Before I start shooting I'm
gonna look at some stock footage to see what fun shots I can get so I can seamlessly integrate
myself into some fun situations. I have figured out some shots that I'm gonna do and It's
gonna be weird and I don't know how it's gonna go, but I guess that's just part of it isn't
it? Oh boy! My poor knees! Alright it's Eddie Beebees turn. Wow! Look at all the fishies!
Look at me paint Dad! Dad! Look at me paint! And yeah, I won't bore you with the rest of
the details but now I just need to greenscreen everybody out and it's pretty much done.
I forgot to do the bonk.
It's gonna be pretty obvious I feel. They're gonna spot it straight away, but I promised
to bonk and I feel like I've gone through with that promise to bonk. When a man promises to bonk he bonks.
Well boys! We are back again. We've done it. Have we done it? Has everyone done it?
We have done it. I have done the thing. It has been definitely one whole week. Shut up.
Seven days! We got 7 days to work on this! Not a day longer. So, I'm gonna show you my song now.
Hey! I love it. I liked it that's great! That was very good I like that. Thank you. So the
pancake scene went very wrong. He snatched one of the pancakes off of the plate which
was surprisingly uncharacteristic for him. He like swallowed half of one like a duck
and I pulled the rest out of his mouth. Then whilst I was like tidying up he just leaped
through the air and just stole a pancake out of my hand. A whole pancake just like ooft
gone. Just to cover my bases. Squidge is actually an extremely healthy weight. He's like the
perfect weight for like his size. Yeah, pugs are just like loaves of bread they're just
built like rectangles.
So I made a really cool song. I was really happy with this and then I had to hecking
ruin it with lyrics. Oh! Wow! I'm sorry I made you do that. You're gonna be sorry.
Eddie. Yes! It is me the robot boy! Eddie! Jesus Christ. It was me all along! I was Daft Punk!
No way! I made a cum themed Daft Punk parody called Daft Spunk. I think that song
just forced me through every stage of grief over Daft Punk breaking up. I was very happy
with the caulk and balls starting off as the sun and then it becomes caulk and balls I
was very happy with that. I too have a strong emotion. I wouldn't say it's happiness.
Did you find the meme? I did not cop the audio meme. So the audio meme I put in is the Wonchop Boom.
There's one point when I was making the video where I'm trying to coordinate like playing
the music, putting the helmet on and also holding a guitar and I fully smack myself in the bollocks.
It's good to see you in pain. I guess behind the curtain a little bit, I started by making
5 songs, which is apparently not the thing what everybody else did. Yeah, I barely- I
could barely struggle to make one! One that was very close and it did reach the finals
was one that was actually very similar to yours Tom, which is called cute dog song.
It was a song about my dog. It was great and lovely and it was very interentty kinda like
yours it was actually gonna be very similarly shot to yours with just shots of the dog around
the house and everything so I'm glad I'm glad I didn't end up picking it otherwise it would
be exactly the same.
I've got a cute dog and she likes to say. Very rude.
And she likes to say. That's your butt. And she likes to say. That was a weird noise.
Yours would have at least been graded. Mine is just like this is some footage. But that's
the kinda internetty I like of just kinda like lofi stuff.
You made us a theme song! I did a theme song! That was the meta one I decided to go with.
That's beautiful. I feel like it can't be the theme song to this episode. It can't can
it. But it will going forward! And my can be the climax. Oh must it? We did it. We tried hard.
For this one the audience I guess needs to decide. Audience vote comments. Vote comments.
Vote comments.
That was some trying. We tried hard. We tried so hard. And I think ultimately we achieved.
We did the music. I don't think there were any failures this time. I mean Eddie's failed
like morally. We've got a Patreon! We do indeed have a Patreon now we've got a little Patreon-only
Discord server we've got additional content including stuff that would have been cut from
this very video we've got a little podcast-type thing that we're still very much trying to
figure out. We've got stuff! Stuff and things!
Alright bye! Bye! Bye!