I can smell— Ohh, the fire alarms are setting off. It's gonna be a big, big roast today. This is, uh, some of the worst we have seen yet. And we've seen some pretty bad stuff. But... Oh my goodness!! WHY!! This is a... show called The violin playing was just so bad that - I decided I will never watch this.
- Yeah! - I don't even want to know.
- Yeah. But it has something to do with this girl attending an elite music school. Something generic. Let's look at the first scene when she appears, and it's not even violin playing. - Just... Just watch this one.
- Just watch it. I don't know. I didn't hear any wrong notes in that recording just then. - Yeah.
- But even if there was, this is just the most ridiculous thing. I don't think any teacher would do that. No one would want to learn from you. Sometimes you want to perform, even before you've fully learned the piece. - Yeah. Just to...
- This is just gonna deter students - from ever performing, 'cause they're like -
- Congratulations! Yeah. Nice work, teacher! - WOOHOO!
- Like, just - Dude, there... There's nothing wrong. There was no, like... Constructive advice. - I know. It -
- He didn't say how to play it better. - He was just like -
- He's like, "You're sh*t." Dude! The piano's facing the wrong way! The "teacher" can't even see what the pianist is doing with the hands. But not just the teacher, the audience! I know! - The lid is facing—
- It's all— I know. What's up with this idea of playing a single wrong note? Music is not about... There's a certain level of proficiency you need, right. But beyond that, there's musicality. It's not about playing a right or wrong note. If you wanna— Just, right notes, just edit your music. Just get a freaking MIDI file then. - Yeah! Just compose and play it.
- Like... They make it sound like they're doing maths or something, man. Like... Way to kill the joy in music. - Just...
- I know. It's called the arts for a reason, guys. Yeah! Exactly. Yeah, just pick one of the hardest pieces. I can't speak on behalf, but I'm pretty sure even the best violin soloists... You can't just pick any random piece, and then they play it note to note perfect. You don't just constantly have - 20,000 pieces of repertoire,
- A repertoire. Yeah! ready to perform! Any professional or world class music(ian) would be like, "Bro, I need warm-up." You can't expect a sportsman to just do their best rep without no warm-up. Go tell, like... - It's almost like...
- Yeah. People can't understand beauty and complexity. But! If we just dumb it down to "play the right note"... It's good, man. Those fingers are just pressing random notes. There's nothing— It's like really fast semiquavers, she just, And piano is the easiest instrument to fake. I know! Alright, getting distracted there? You don't play and then go, "Wow..." Dude, they need to calm down on this whole idea. - They're really pushing it!
- Yeah. It's always about one wrong note. I guess it's easier for pianist to think that way, because it's literally just pressing... "Keys." But for violin, there's like an infinite amount of space - that you can press, right?
- Yeahh! Is it just a tastefully interpretive vibrato? Actually, guys... If you check our Hilary Hahn video with the mukbang, at the very end, - when she played the Tchaikovsky, she's like,
- Yeah. "If I want the B flat to create more tension," she puts it intentionally lower. Is that a wrong note? Yeah. How do you tell - if emotions are right or wrong?
- Yeah. That's the wrong feeling! Bro. Bro, no one does that. When he walked past, it was way before nine measures. - Yeah.
- It doesn't take nine measures to walk that far, like— Nine measures go by in like, ten seconds! Brett: Dude, that was like... For those of you that... don't understand the Chinese, 'cause the... I don't think the translation there did it justice. He basically said she played one wrong note, but there's harmonic minor scales and melodic minor scales... And she played that wrong note according to melodic minor, unlike the pop music today, which uses harmonic minor. Don't you think melodic minor fits Liszt's era more? That is wrong on SO many levels. - I can talk—
- Dude. I can't even, like— Yeah, so okay. There's two scales: There's major and minor. - Let's get that sorted first.
- Yeah. Alright so, major: - A major.
- Yeah. Minor. - Let's do the natural minor first, so—
- Yeah yeah, natural minor. - There you go.
- Natural. But, because it sounds kind of funny, people have adapted two ways to go around it, one is harmonic, where you raise the sevenths. Four, five, six... seven! So, Eddy played the seventh note. Now, if it's melodic... - And they flatten.
- Yeah. So, what happened there was the sixth and seventh note were raised. - But coming down...
- Going up. Yeah. It's— They call it "back to normal." Natural. It's not like... Liszt wrote it all in melodic and then modern-day pianists have been playing harmonic. - Yeah. You don't just betray his writing.
- That's not how it works. Yeah. Even if that logic was true, she should have played a lot of wrong notes, - 'cause there's more than one...
- Yeah. - one harmonic minor scale
- Harmonic— Yeah! - ...in the entire piece! Yeah.
- There were multiple scales going on! Dude, we haven't even got to the, - the violin playing.
- I know. This is gonna be a long video. The first thing that's wrong with the scene already is there was a clarinet before, right? Was it a clarinet? Wait! OHHH! - THEY GOT THE WRONG INSTRUMENT!
- They effed... They effed that one up so bad!! Mate! It wasn't even visuals, our ears picked that up. Okay, even then. You don't audition - different instruments at the same time.
- You don't. - You had a flute audition where all the flautists play.
- Yes. And then generally, you have a lot of people that play the same instrument on that panel. Yes. You don't just have one person judging all the instruments. Just before it starts, like... This wrist is too low. This wrist is too low. (both) She needs a shoulder rest. - WHAT WAS THAT?!
- I need to get my violin. It's long legato! Literally full bow. And she's playing like, Flight of the Bumblebee short strokes. Oh you forgot to put oil on your hair, so you can't do it. At least she has one fine tuner. But judging by her skill level, maybe she needs four. Shouldn't play the violin. Yeah. 4 3 2 1, 4 3 2 1! She's like, WHAT THE HELL?! You don't repeat. Beethoven didn't write that. Not... twice. But not just that. Like, the phrase ended. - Yeah.
- But she was still going, (both) You don't clap in auditions. Because that's showing your opinion. You keep your opinions to yourself in auditions. Eddy: Yes. Not to mention! This is an audition for an orchestra. - You're meant to play orchestral music, not -
- Yeah, not sonatas. The piece you heard was uh... Beethoven's Spring Sonata, which is obviously a solo piece with violin and piano. For an audition, you should play excerpts of orchestral music. You should be able to phrase in a way that shows you understand - how your part fits into the orchestra.
- Yeah! And it shows that you also understand the other parts. - Dude, you need rehearsal!
- Oh my god...! Just pick someone to play a duet to show your ensemble playing skills. You need rehearsals. You need to have markings. You need to know where the bow strokes are. You need timing. Agreement on interpretation. - This is why we put so many hours in rehearsing.
- Yeah. Jazz and, like, that kind of - freestyle jamming is very different
- Yeah. than classical ensemble playing. So much of the beauty of classical music is rehearsing it so... - And shaping the music.
- ...you are one unit. (both) Yeah. Exactly. Like, you can't just randomly pull out a duet for violin and trombone. - Noo!
- Now you can't pass your orchestral audition because you can't... - spontaneously pick someone.
- You don't! I really hope people don't just watch this and think is how the classical music world works. Wait, what are they playing? I guess we'll find out! Oh, it's the same piece. - She should be standing -
- On the left, like in front of the pianist there. Just par— Almost parallel— Parallel to the guy's keys. - Yeah.
- Facing the same way, - so that both their sound project to the audience.
- Yeah. Dude! Why is she playing the rest? But okay, look. That track they picked is nice. Whoever's the violinist and pianist is really good. I love how you have to like, try to think of one positive - thing to say.
- Yeah, just sprinkling some, uh... - Giving you guys some... positivity.
- Some positivity. Oh, man. She's just, like... - Is it, like...?
- Laaa~ Just change any string! Dude! - The piano...
- WHOA! The pianist's just playing semiquavers, it was like, Oh, man. This— The syncing's all off. It's like, literally... Two what? Minims? - ♪ Da, mi. ♪
- Yeah. (both) He's like, Her left hand was like this. WHOA! - Whoa, she came off of the right time.
- wHOAAA!! With the right stroke! WHOA! Congratulations!! Once in a blue moon. Wait! What's with the triangle guy sitting there in the front? When there's no triangle in the music. That string player in the front... Violin's like, all the way here. But yeah, the arrangement's all wrong. Why is the cellist behind the percussionist? - Three of them are sharing one stand!
- Why— Yeah, yeah! Why are they sharing one stand?! For string players, two to one stand. For wind players, usually (both) One to one stand. That conducting was just like, (both) Yeah, yeah. Looks like he's... throwing a diss track, - Yeah yeah yeah.
- or something, man. All you hear is like, one cello and a violin. Why is there a whole string ensemble playing?! Oh my god that's so true! Wait, let me listen. I hear piano, cello... Violin. It's a trio! It's a frickin', like - I mean, I might be missing some instruments, - but there's no wind and no triangle.
- No French horn, no triangle. And then... That's definitely not that many strings. And that's definitely not a solo piece, why is she standing in the front? Yeah! If you wanna hear a real trio, just Google Beethoven trio, Mendelssohn trio. - A Ravel's trio.
- Yeah. They're very nice. YouTube, plenty of recordings. Have a look! Now they're in Taipei. Maybe they couldn't find a rehearsal space, - so they're rehearsing in this guy's house.
- Okay. Tchaikovsky...! - Oh, my god...
- Dude!! How do you fit? That's actually impressive. How do you squee— Look at that bowing space for the cellos! Dude, there's a whole orchestra playing in the background as well, in the music. Yeah, the music is a full... - Full orchestra.
- ...symphony orchestra. That's orchestral tutti! - The solo violin should not be playing there!
- I know, I know. - It's at rest.
- I know. And then, the solo was just about to come in and then... They literally stopped. That's... Recording was pretty good. - Yeah, it was a good recording.
- Yeah. Just 'cause you worked on a street outside a hall, doesn't mean you now have - Eddy: ...freaking classical music education.
- Brett: I know. I mean, that's kind of ra— funny, but it's like... How do you even measure that, bro? You're not meant to memorize the score as an orchestral musician! Wooow... There's no trombone in the orchestration anyway, so he should've have been playing. So technically, he did memorize it. Cuz he didn't memorize no notes! What does "a high-functioning calculator" have to do with a... - Conducting skills.
- Conductor. I mean, they both start with C. Wow. - Yeah, but the emotions
- Yeah. is not through... - Your... Character of— It's...
- Memorizing. The emotion's just through the music that you elicit from the musicians. It's like he's trying to find reasons to sound intelligent. Yeah. But none of them make sense at all. I think the translation is wrong. He said (Mandarin) "负面情绪." The... "negative emotions." Oh yeah, I can definitely feel the negative emotions. OH my... ...god. - "Open your heart!"
- "Open your" - Dude, that has nothing to do— I don't think he even knows what it means to open your heart in a musical context! You know? No, he doesn't. - Oh guys, there you have it!
- Wow! This is the secret! Write five points in the comments below, what do you like about TwoSet Violin, guys? I wanna knoooow! Why is the triangle lifting his triangle?? When you li— The conductor lifts the baton, the instruments that are going to play lift their instruments. WHY IS SHE PLAYING?! The solo hasn't even started yet! Dude, that's a new technique. - Why is there added piano part in?
- There's no— - They went through the effort!
- There's no piano. There's no piano. Don't disrespect Tchaikovsky like this. There's no piano! She's not meant to be playing there! God... Oh, my god. - The... I can see they're trying to build intensity, but...
- It's so wrong. - All of it's ruined,
- Don't play. 'cause she's not meant to be playing THERE!! That's the violin! Ohhh... She's literally doing that. - She was doing shifts, when it's meant to be,
- Duuude! - Dude!
- But she's going like, They missed the last note! Oh, that's funny. They did... almost everything wrong. They almost intentionally made it bad. That does not deserve a standing ovation. So guys, what do you guys think? We obviously gave our... opinion about how bad the, uh... Not just the acting, but just... - That...
- It was definitely... Probably the worst I've seen. I think so as well. And they— There's so many things they could have improved on. But! I think... We should, uh, all write in the comments - five positive things about this movie
- Yes! and every other friend we have - and everything.
- Woohoo! Five positivity statements down below, guys! - Thank you -
- Open your hearts! Yeah, open your heart! - Eddy: Practice!
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