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Just composes...what- what is that?
Why would you do "Für Elise",
of all his great works that he composed?
I guess it's more relatable.
Was "Für Elise" even when he was deaf?
- 1814, was completely deaf. - (Brett) Okay, so...
- Okay, so, yeah. He was moderately deaf. - Okay, I guess...
I think he wrote the "Moonlight" when he was like,
pretty deaf as well.
That's just... crazy.
Imagine like, being Ibo,
but somehow still writing Symphony No. 9.
That's how great that is!
- Oh, what's this? - Oh, I think I've seen these before.
Oh wow...
- It's like DDR, but on the piano. - Yeah!
Oh s***!
It looks real, but the fact that they have not stepped on
one wrong note makes it so sus!
- Are there actually the Ling Lings of Piano DDR, or what? - Oh my God!
This is insane!
- Woah, oh! - Ohhhh!
- Oh yeah, nah. I heard like, one wrong note. It's real! - Okay...
That's impressive! That's a lot of rehearsals!
It's enough to like, do that on just hands, right?
- Impressive! Very impressive! - Nice!
Oh, oh! How have we not seen this?
We've been challenged!
"Rush E (for Two Vi"- ahh!
Look, it's probably gonna be some like,
- impossible MIDI file that's like, can't be played. - Yeah, yeah!
Do we look like Ling Ling to you?
We're just your average violin player on the Internet, everyone.
Actually, now I want to listen to that.
What the f- holy s***!
- 1st violin part is definitely... harder. - Yeah, it's tricky.
Shotnot.
I feel like it's pointed at me, since I'm sitting on-
- Yeah, you're sitting on that si- hahahaha! - I'm sitting on this side!
That's why I was like, "I don't have a choice!"
A fun fact:
One of the guys from Sheet Music Boss went to uni with us!
- Both! - Both!
- Yeah! - Really?
- They were both in my theory class, did you know that? - Oh, true!
They were always sitting in the front of the aural class
and nailing everything,
- and I was in the back just... trying to survive. - (Eddy) Yeah.
If this video gets uhh... E thousand likes, we'll do it.
- Yes! - It's so good!
"How do you make a good sound?"
- "Ah, you just gotta feel the music!" - "Just feel the music!"
It's like, "Uhh..."
"You just gotta smile!"
Basically, for those of you who don't know,
a lot of Russian musicians are getting their performances cancelled,
but this is actually the first time of me hearing Russian composers
are getting cancelled, so...
Wooooah!
Now, obviously, something like this has sparked a lot of controversy.
We can kind of see points from both sides.
For me, I feel like...
For example: Shostakovich.
- Even Tchaikovsky suffered a lot from the government, right? - He did, yeah.
- Like, for his homosexuality, right? 'Cause... - He did, yeah.
- Like, for his homosexuality, right? 'Cause... - Yeah, he was living in fear, actually!
So, just because these people are Russian
doesn't mean they're like, pro-Rrussian government and pro-war.
- And there's also the fact that they're already dead. - Yeah.
Like, I don't think any of these composers necessarily would have
supported this Ukraine war, right?
From that perspective, it's like,
I don't know if cancelling their program really contributes
to the cause.
But on the other hand, I can also see the sentiment,
which is people are upset at what Russia's doing,
and so they're trying to do anything within their power
to kinda take a stance against Russia.
True.
- We have friends in Russia, and they are suffering as well, from this. - Yep.
- They don't want to be... they won't want to be... - And they don't want the war! They don't support the war at all!
Exactly.
Oh!
- I didn't know that! - Yeah, that's interesting!
I think that's really well put.
- Yeah, that's... - I think as long as the composer or musicians
are for human rights and freedom and don't support war,
that's more important than whether they were born in Russia.
Like, for example, we have like, Maxim Vengerov, right?
And he recently made an Instagram post saying, like...
Basically, "No war! We need peace and music!"
But then, you have Gergiev, who got cancelled, because
based off what I read,
when asked about his stance on the Ukraine war,
he refused to say anything on it.
So people are more upset that possibly, he supports the war.
But then, you have Russian, young students
that practiced their whole lives,
and now they're not allowed to compete at music competitions.
They're like, "Just based off the fact that you're Russian,
- you can't play anymore." - Yeah, I think that's too much.
I think so as well.
- They can't influence a government decision, to go into war! - Yeah.
Yeah, it's like, you see these TikToks that are like,
"Vlady-daddy, just stop!"
I think it's funny, because it's kind of like, our way to cope
with the fact that we feel so powerless against these crazy,
like, governmental people.
- It's usually the normal civilians, like us, you guys watching, - (Eddy) Mmm.
- [that] get caught in it. - (Eddy) Yeah.
I don't think it's fair that these people in Ukraine,
- the Russians, citizens- they have to cop it, so... - Yeah.
We have a friend who's a musician.
His family is in Ukraine, and it's not good.
Yeah! And I... just feel- I feel helpless.
- Oh, that's interesting. - Woooah, that's such...
Who wrote this?
That's a really good way to put it.
It's taking away everything that we all have
and we all cherish.
I think it is interesting that you mentioned it is well-intentioned.
Like, I don't think people taking off the Tchaikovsky,
they have some agenda.
- Yeah, I think... - It's a good intention people have.
- I just hope it ends. - F***ed up, bro.
It just needs to stop. Everyone, just-
I can say all I want, but all I know is like...
It's not like Puty-daddy is going to listen to me.
- "Puty-daddy!" - Yeah.
- Duuuuuuuude! - "A photographer took pictures of composers
before and [after] she called their music 'beautiful'"!
- Wait, who's this? - Is it Chopin or Liszt?
I mean, like, A, that's really funny Photoshop,
- but why is this guy not smiling? - Yeah hahaha!
Why does he not wanna have his music [be] called "beautiful"?
- I think it is Chopin! - Yeah, Chopin. Yeah, he's "such a chad"!
Okay, I guess the music's all...
- pretty sad, yeah... "*cries"! "What piece is that?" - All sad, just "*cries", yeah!
- Ah, okay. So basically it's just saying Chopin's a Chad, - Yes.
which, did you know?
My favorite composer, Debussy, I was reading about him.
He thinks Chopin is the god of piano.
Not the god of piano in the sense of performing,
but like, he thinks Chopin's piano music is like...
- the pinnacle. - Uh huh.
I can see that.
That's coming from Debussy,
- who wrote some pretty good piano stuff, bro. - Pinnacle stuff.
Kung Fu Panda!
Hehehe...
- Funny! Funny! - Hehehe, joke's on us, hahaha!
- Bro, what the... - Wow, that's like the typewriter for composing music!
- Actually? - Really?
- Oh wow! - Oh woooah!
- Dude, that's sick! - 1953...!
- I wouldn't mind having one, just for the sake I own one. - Yeah!
Jordon, from now on, I demand you never use Sibelius
and compose everything using this!
Oh wait...
DuckLingLing is such a prodigy!
- DuckLingLing, *quack quack quack quack* - Even before DuckLing-
- playing PagaLingLing... - DuckLing...
- Bruuuuh! - That's so true.
When you see 5 sharps, you're just like,
"I guess you want that color, but man, really?"
Oh, I mean- I'm gonna be doing that today!
I'll let you know if the E string explodes in my face and
- cuts my eye out. - I actually did that two days ago,
- and it feels like that. - You know, I actually do this with my hand,
- because my E string has snapped once, and it like, hit me - Oh my God...
- on my face. - Oh my God...
So ever since then, I was like, "Just in case, right?"
It's like, imagine you have like, oil that's really hot,
and you're about to fry something,
- and you're just scared the oil's gonna *ssss* spit back out. - Yeah.
It kinda feels like that.
You wanna hear a really dumb story?
When I was like, 12,
I tried changing my strings for the first time.
- Like, 'cause usually when you're young, the teacher does it, right? - Teacher does it, yeah.
I needed to change all four strings, so I was like,
"I just need to take all four strings off
and then put all four stings on."
Stupid past Eddy didn't think that without the strings,
your bridge and sound post is gonna fall down!
Yeah, they're gonna... just collapse!
So yeah, after taking three strings off, my bridge just fell...
and I was like, "Ahh, crap."
Fun fact: Apparently, it's better to do the outside strings first,
then inside strings. That's what Sophie Rowell said.
- I have heard that as well. - (Brett) Yeah, like, don't know why, but keep that in mind.
- Probably a balance thing. - Yeah.
Woah!
Nice!
What's "o"- "oml"?
- "Oh my lord". - "Oh my lord", okay. Oh my Ling Ling.
- Oh my Ling Ling! - Oh my Ling Ling!
- O.M.L.L! - O.M.L.L., that's a new-
- O.M.L.L! Oh my Ling Ling! That's a really cool cake! - (Eddy) Oh my Ling Ling!
That's it for today, everyone!
Oh my Ling Ling, you gotta go practice,
'cause we're gonna go practice more too.
Remember, no shortcuts in life,
and if there was, you don't want it anyway.