Hey, how's it going?
Welcome back another episode of TwoSet Violin.
As you all know, the Olympics is happening right now,
so we decided to get into the spirit of the Olympics,
by making our own Violin Olympics.
That's right.
We're gonna be doing 6 different categories
of completely arbitrary and difficult technical challenges.
- We're officially sportsmen now! - (Eddy) So...
- Yeah! - Sports! Woo!!!
- The Longest Bow, - Mm-hmm.
the Strongest Sound.
Ohh-hoo-hoo!
The Intonation High Jump,
Violin Ping-Pong,
Tempo Test,
but last but not least, the Sacrilegious Sprint.
Ohhh!
If we tie, then I guess we'll do a...
...we'll come up with a tie-breaker.
Throw the Violin Shot Put.
Nah, I'm just joking.
Can you imagine?
"Huh!"
No.
Whoever loses, they will be punished,
and they have to do a one minute wall squat while playing...
Pachelbel's Canon.
- And that will be on our Instagram story too. - (Eddy) That's really torturous.
Oh.
Okay, first one!
We gotta time each other,
see how long you can sustain one down bow.
You get disqualified if there's more than
one second of a gap in sound.
- You need to make a semi-decent sound at least. - Yep.
And having said that, I think I need some rosin for this.
Yeah, me too!
Rosin is like,
- (Brett) when the gymnasts, they climb on… - (Eddy) Gymnastics…
(Brett) Alright.
This is it, rosin.
I need to warm up.
Just doing some strokes.
Which string? Any string?
A or D.
D string.
- D, of course. - Yeah, maybe D.
- The longest D. - Yeah.
- Contestant number one! Are you ready? - Oh, down bow?
- Down bow, right? - Yeah, down bow.
3, 2, 1...go!
No way!
Ohh!
Dude...!
- 48 seconds. - Ohh-ho-ho-ho...!
I can't do that!
Holy moly!
Kind of halfway I was like...
"Whoa...!"
- Nah, it's 'cause you have a better bow. - I didn't know...
Nah...!
No, you're putting more rosin on!
- Yeah, I need more rosin... - (Brett) No, I...!
Ready?
No, I can't do this!
3, 2, 1, go!
Ohh-ho-ho-ho...!
Ohh!!!
43 seconds!
My sound was also not as consistent,
it cracked a lot.
Alright, whatever.
- Second place. - (Brett) I win!
Ah!
Alright, alright, so the next one,
we can play anything, but then we're gonna check back,
and see who reached the higher decibel count.
But you have like 10 seconds of playing.
- Okay, here we go, guys. - Ohh...
I wish I got my other bow, it's louder.
Alternate.
3, 2, 1, start.
Time's up...
I thought you're going to play something...!
I just want to make a sound!
I was like, I thought you're gonna play a piece.
Dude, I forgot how to play!
- I forgot to count, I went overtime, but whatever. - Oh, really?
I need to uh, put all my weight.
It's like uh, powerlifting.
Hwuhhhhh!!!
Oh, my back's sore, ohh.
- 3, 2, 1, go! - Yeah.
Stop!
Now we gotta check, and see.
- Nah, yours is bigger. - Yeah.
- Whoa!!!! - Whoa! Eddy won!
It's the violin, I swear to God.
Mm.
Mmm!!!
This one's hard.
- We're going to be playing the infamous Sibelius B flat to B flat. - Yeah.
- Triple octave... - Triple octave, 3 octaves!
...shift!
When you get to the B flat, you can't adjust.
- If there's audible adjusting, you're disqualified immediately. - Yes.
Can you vibrato?
- No vibrato? Okay. - No vibrato.
We're gonna check on our tuner,
how far off we are to being in tune.
- We only got one shot, right? - Yeah, one shot.
Ohh-ho-ho!
- You can go first. - Nah...!!!
We're rotating, you go first...!
Tuner is 441, right?
442.
442?
(Eddy) Alright.
Oh, f***. I'm nervous.
- Ready? - (Eddy) Mm-hmm.
Dude, wait, this tuner is moving around.
My hand's like shaking.
- I'm screenshotting but it's changing so much. - But my pitch is not changing, no?
Well, on the tuner it's changing.
Alright, wait...there's a technical difficulty, people.
So, we have to just average it, because the tuner wavers.
so we're gonna take 3 screenshots, and then do an average.
Uh, you got f***ed...
I think you're better the first time.
- Noooooo!!! Noooo...!!! - Bro, technical difficulty, eee!!
Okay, 3, 2, alright, whenever.
I was way off, I can tell.
But I can't move my finger, or I'll be disqualified!
- You're sharp! - I'm way sharp.
You're flat, sharp...
Oh, really?
- It kind of adjusted, and then it shot back up again. - Oh, okay.
- No it's not too bad, not too bad. - I need...
But I think averaging out...
- We're going to count that dot, right? - Yeah.
(Both) Plus 4.
- Minus 2, minus 2. - Minus...2.
- 5.5. - Let's say ​it's 6.
- 8 over 3, I'm not gonna do the fractions, yeah... - Yeah...!
Dude, I got f...
7, second one is 8,
third one's 15!
You have +10 on average!
Dude, I was so much better on the first one!
I got lucky, I fluked it!
Actually, what was the first one?
- Plus 1, plus 9 plus 9. - (Eddy) Plus 1.
So it's 20.
We play 2 notes, and whatever the second note [is],
the next person has to start with that note,
and then pick a second note to play,
and slowly we get faster and faster until someone messes up.
- And the note can't be played out of tune. - (Eddy) Yeah.
Alright.
Oh no!!!!
Holy crap, that's so hard!
- I remember you gave me a hard one, - Yeah.
and I fluked it.
- You're like, "What the f***?" I was like, - Yeah, your high note!
"Oh, s***!"
Dude, and the fakes...
The "Oh, G string, nah!"
You know, as musicians we gotta have a good sense
of internal time, like a conductor.
You gotta do a two octave G major scale,
to 60 beats a minute crotchet.
Two...beats, yeah? And then...
...two beats, so,
- 16 up, 16 down. - One...yeah.
It should end on exactly 32 seconds.
- You know you didn't hold 2 beats? - Oh.
But, it's actually good, because you were slow,
- so it like, helps you. - Oh.
- So you got 35...seconds, 31[milliseconds]. - Ohhh-ho-ho-ho...I would've been so slow!
Alright, ready
Mm-hmm.
I was too fast, hey.
- I think... - 36.58.
- Oh, I was too slow? I thought I was too fast! - Yeah...!
- You're the same as me...! - That's so weird!
I thought I went too fast!
I think there's some time distortion stuff going on here.
- Bro... - It feels like you're on time, right?
You know there's a theory:
the older you get, your time perception gets slower.
Yeah, maybe this is coming in effect.
Ugh...
This leaves the final, final test,
and it's called the Sacrilegious Sprint.
So in true sacrilegious spirit,
we decided to finally give it a proper attempt,
- at The Flight of the Bumblebee. - (Brett) Yes.
We spent 30 minutes today practicing it,
we've never actually learnt it before, never practiced it before,
and we have to play up to the pizzicato bit,
and see who can play it faster.
If you blatantly mess up,
you gotta start from the beginning of that bar again.
Dude, I'm actually really nervous.
Okay, ready? 3...
- Oh, you just start, actually, I'll just... - Okay.
(Brett) Oh wait, sorry sorry sorry, I pressed start, wait a second.
You can't do that! That's psychological...!
I choked so hard!
But at the end you had it!
- 43 seconds. - That sucks.
When I was practicing I got 35.
Psyched me out.
You're like, "Start!"
And then "Jokes, bro."
Can I just say that [that] 30 minutes was so painful?
Your fingers [are] not working with your brain...
- And it's just the most like... - Tedious, like...
Unenjoyable piece of music.
- Dude, it's worse than a study. - (Eddy) Yeah.
(Eddy) Oh, wait, wait, sorry, sorry...
Bro!!!!!
(Eddy) I started wrong, man, I just...
Okay, okay.
Dude!
I cheated, I'm sorry.
- I screwed up his page turn on purpose. - Dude...!
Nah, but, even with that mess up you hit 45 seconds.
- Oh nice! - I think you would've won.
- I was just pissed. - Yeah...!!!
Alright guys, double it, one on TikTok and one on Instagram!
3, 2, 1.
(Brett) Wow.
(Brett) Shame.
(Brett) Why didn't you practice?
(Brett) You didn't practice enough!
(Brett) This is what happens.
(Brett) This is your favourite piece.
(Brett) Favourite piece!
(Brett) The song that everyone loves!
(Brett) Thank you for watching our video!
(Brett) Please like and subscribe,
(Brett) and...support this hardworking musician.
(Brett) It's not easy.
(Brett) Practice, 40 hours...every day.
- (Brett) Done! - Ooh! Ohh...!
(video recording) Shame.
(Brett) Shame, you can sit...
- Please subscribe, and practice. - (Brett) Yep, goodbye guys!