Hello guys, welcome to another episode of TwoSet Violin.
- Another year of TwoSet Violin. - That's right.
We hope everyone had Happy New Years.
And of course...
HUTCHA!!
Because Lunar New Year is coming up very soon,
we have a very special limited edition...
New Year shirt.
- Brett: Yeah. - Eddy: And check this out.
Eddy: It's Year of Tiger.
- Eddy: It's Tiger Mom! - Brett: Tiger Mom with chopsticks.
HEY!
Why you no practice still this year?!
2022, it is Year of Tiger Mom!
Still no playing in tune this year?!
I mapo your tofu!
Hurry up and get the limited T-shirt!
Once gone never to be come back again.
Hurry up!
(Cantonese) Hurry up!
(Mandarin) Hurry up!
"Yamaha."
- I always thought that. - Yeah, it was always weird, hey.
Just some dude that loves motorcycles
and pianos at the same time.
- I mean, respect. - Yeah.
If you can make good pianos and motorbikes, why not?
- Yeah, why not, right? - So random though.
Oh my god.
Wow!
- That is very accurate music theory knowledge. - Mm! Top notch theory. Yep.
You will definitely get into Juilliard with such...
mathematical intellect.
Play your waltzes at 75% capacity.
- Yes, that's what it means exactly. - Yeah.
Oh wow! Literally!
- Dude, the water sounds... - Yeah.
What happened? I'm so confused!
- I love that he's making the most out of it. - Props...Yeah, props that he's just like...
"You know what? I'm gonna play this."
- It's so tragic. - Yeah.
*sings River Flows in You*
- "I didn't have house insurance." - Yeah. Water...
*keeps singing*
I hope you get recovered soon.
Mm...!
Yeah, dude, Davie is-
Yeah, he's...
I feel like bass players are so insecure
that they need to add extra height in them.
So they feel more superior than other people.
He's a real-life double bass.
Okay.
Nice.
- That's interesting. - I didn't even know that this job existed.
Yeah, neith- like...
Well, thank you to all the waterers out there if this is legit.
So we really appreciate...
you helping all the accompanists...
playing with the violins.
I mean, it makes sense, right? Like...
- Some violins have humidifiers where they add water. - Yup.
It makes sense that a piano would need that.
- Yup. - Nice!
- I think this was during Christmas. - "12 days ago."
- Yeah, that's pretty funny. Ha ha ha! - Yeah.
Dude!
Thor's hammer right there.
Right on it! Boom!
Mahler 6, I believe, is the famous hammer hit.
Yeah, it's just like... Mahler's like...
- "I'm just gonna add a hammer." - ...extra instrument to it.
And then Tchaikovsky's like...
- "Oh, no, no, no. I got a cannon." - Yeah!
Where we come from, we call that practice!
- That's right. - See, if you practice, you get muscle memory!
Muscle memory does save you in times of crisis, too!
But don't practice the wrong notes, and practice the wrong thing.
Tsk, tsk, tsk.
- I feel like we've seen this before? - Yes, but I feel like Hahn solo is also very good.
I like Hahn's solo.
Every instrumentalist can agree.
Is there any instruments that doesn't use the pinkie?
No, I think they all do.
Yeah. Dammit, evolution!
- Why didn't we evolve with five thumbs? - Brett: I think they all do.
[It'd be] so much better!
Everyone would have big fat juicy tone!
- Yeah. - Yeah.
How many of you had to play for your family?
Oh, everyone, comment below.
What did you play, too?
Oh, I love this!
Yeah.
Yeah. You know the funniest thing is um...
I showed the two paintings to my mum
without telling her which one I drew.
And then she thought I drew Brett's.
Eddy: When I told her I drew the nice one,
she didn't believe me.
Ha ha ha ha!
She's like, "As if!"
Oh, that's cool!
Is that intentional?
From the chairs.
Chairs and the window frames.
- But that's so cool. - Yeah.
Beautiful!
Oh right!
- Yeah, that video! Ha ha! - Dude, that video is so bad!
- I forgot about the teaching. - Yeah, yeah.
- We did the real way. - You actually have to play music.
Still haven't learnt, these dramas.
I haven't heard that actually, but fair enough.
- I also haven't heard that before. - Neither.
Neither.
Wow.
Kinda...
bad.
- Now I know how you guys feel when we make bad puns. - Yeah.
- And this has got graphics with it, too! It's edited. - Yeah, dude, that beautiful graphics.
Mwah!
Hilary and Ray would be proud.
I mean...
Yeah...
But at the same time,
Mozart wrote 5 violin concertos and 0 viola concertos.
OHHHH!!!
- He did write a Sinfonia Concertante for Violin AND Viola. - Yes.
- But that was kind of more of a charity type of composition... - Yeah.
...according to history.
Nah, I'm making it up.
But it is warm and alluring tone.
- It's pleasurable. - It's very pleasurable.
Not worthy of concerto.
Pfft!
Oh, good luck.
That's like close to impossible.
Yeah, see, in reality, there's some like fff dim to like ff.
- That would be more like what it is. - Yeah.
True.
Ha ha!
- Probably true! - Probably true!
For those of you that came to our show,
we had a lot of fun coming up with these plot lines.
Most of these were actual historical events.
As to the Mozart one...
It's in character.
- Let's just put it that way. - Yeah.
Wow!
Oh! Yo!
Yeah! Woo...!
How is Janine? What did she play then?
- I'm guessing it's uh... - Dude, look, her bow arm is like...
- faster than the camera. It's like... - Yeah.
I feel like it's Tchaikovsky.
- If it's Tchaikovsky, it's the "duh, duh, duh, duh" bit. - Yeah.
- What was she playing? Oh, Bruch! - Bruch!
Yeah, damn!
Look at her hair as well.
Dude, look how close she's playing to the bridge!
- See, when you're a soloist, you got to project. - Yeah.
Wait, so you guys just play music out
in the classrooms during an exam?
It's a bit random.
I mean, that's so sick.
But that's random.
- Definitely like Shostakovich Symphony, just distract everyone. - Yeah, yeah.
And everyone's stressed out. They'll start like...
"Ahh..."
"Whoa!"
Yeah!
- It's like a CD. - Oh!
- Can you actually- - No, it's a CD.
No, no, but he can actually play through it though.
Yeah, with the hole, yeah.
LOL.
Yay!
Thank you, everyone!
Hope you all have a happy new year.
- I'll gladly take the rest. - Brett: Yes.
I don't know. Sometimes it feels a bit like...
this is just the 3rd sequel of 2020.
3rd season of 2020 has just begun.
Did you know?
This is from various jazz sources that are trustworthy.
- Apparently, the best jazz musicians all listen to and respect Bach. - Mm!
- Maybe he is the father of jazz. - Eddy: Mm!
He's the father of 20 kids, too.
Yeah.
That's pretty funny.
- That looks messed up. - Wow, look at my face.
- Whoa! - Is that actually art?
- That's incredible. - Whoa!
I thought that was a photo for a second.
Yeah, I thought it was a photo. That's how good it was.
I love the lighting.
Yes, that. And it's showing the top.
Yeah.
And the lines.
- It's really good. - It's actually amazing.
See, from where I'm from,
we believe everyone deserves an equal opportunity at love.
That was also one of my favourite lines, too.
That one and...
the Beethoven one, where he's like...
- "What are you doing in the past then?" - Yeah. "What are you doing in the past?" Yeah.
We tried to have different messages throughout the show.
- Yeah. - It's cool to see what you guys liked and didn't like, and-
We're really grateful to have you guys watch it too, so...
2021 was awesome because of the virtual tour.
That's some selective reading. He he!
That was my favourite part of the concert, not gonna lie.
I get to just be a lamp.
All right guys, that's it for today.
Starting 2022 with a practice fashion.
Again, don't forget to check out the Year of the Tiger.
Celebrate Lunar Year.
We can't wait to share this crazy year with all of you.
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Can't say much.
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