Professional Violinists Guess the Age of Violin Prodigies
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S N A P C H A T: Brettybang | Eddy.Chen - เพลง
Brett: She doesn't look 10, she looks five.
She has no time to grow up. She practices too much.
😂
Lol true
Lmfao
this makes me smile (=ↀωↀ=)
Sad but kinda true if she does I'll say, and to all the forced child prodigies out there
I'm not a violinist and even my self esteem is getting lower.
I am a violinist but honestly, why do I even bother
Same. And I play piano.
so am i
oml i play the piano and my self esteem has dropped drastically 😓
I was thinking of starting to play violin but...i already gave up after this video 😵
“I’m picturing an 8 year old kid.”
*”I’m picturing a fetus.”*
Fetus ling ling 😌
Three comments?
Om Rane now four ✌️
@@huynhdiep7597 f⃨i⃨v⃨e⃨ n⃨o⃨w⃨. 👉🏻👈🏻
Srry but u spelled foetus wrong ;)))))))))
8:23 "AYIA EVEN YOUNGER" with the full Chinese accent lmaooo
Im not Asian but I heard it too 😭
I replayed it a lot too, i can't get over it 🤣
I though my grandmother came home ngl
- How old is Ling Ling?
- 40.
- Years?!
- Hours.
- Only 40 hours?
- Always has been.
🧑🚀🔫🧑🚀
People say ling ling learned the violin in only 40 hours, but they're wrong. Ling ling *invented* music itself.
@FBI. Are you Ling ling’s actual FBI
Haha!
Nicholas Ardi Tirta ya he/she is. The fbi uses secret government alien technology to watch ling ling
“Why do i even try? Should’ve been a doctor” honestly that is such an asian thing to point out!
Atleast there aren't any medical prodigies (not that i know of)
Shinigami 806 youngest surgeon in the world is 7 yo so how about that 😂
Yeah, because even if you graduate at the bottom of the class from a 3rd world country's medical school, you're still a doctor.
Ibtihel Te Wait WUT
th-cam.com/video/sP9jLqzIGYQ/w-d-xo.html
HI
alternative title: *eddy and brett rethink their life decisions for 15 minutes straight*
Hi, do you like moomin??
THIS IS THE BEST COMMENT IVE SEEN
No one:
Me: watches this
Self esteem: *Dearly beloved. We gather here today*
This kills me as a violinist
This kills me as a pianist and in life in general
LOL l am fucking dead
@@nadiamokhtar-lee9027 Lol
K-Chan ! Same
Brett: cries over prodigies playing extraordinarily difficult pieces
Also Brett: sight-reads the extraordinarily difficult piece
Anna S 😤
Did a pretty good job too :O
But he has practiced for years and the progidies are so young.
Tony Dedmond I have a feeling you don’t understand what “sight read” means...
@@ajchandra7735 I think what Tony means is that two set has practiced their violins for years. It took them a a long time to build up their skill so they could sight read something like that. But there are little kids out there playing these incredibly difficult pieces. Its difficult to practice an instrument for years and then see these little kids play stuff that took you years of practice to be able to have the skill to play it. I mean the prodigies had to practice a lot as well, but they have the skills at a much younger age than twoset did.
*Brett and Eddy + 2.5 million people’s self-esteem* : ight, imma head out
Making videos isn't practicing
Watching isn’t either
@@tsxkiibq true
So true
100 likes
Edit: 500 likes
One thing about prodigies, 90% of them.burn out when they hit their teens and the few that remain often struggle. Those little kids have been pushed by teachers,they skip fundamental steps to be playing what they do,and when they hit their teens they lose that instinctive playing and often can't adjust. Some do but they have to relearn to play the right way. Janos Starker the cellist was a prodigy,,after WWII he heard Yehudi Nenuhin play,realized how bad he sounded&realized he could be next,retaught himself to play completely.
I saw a ton of these prodigies over the years,the parents and teachers pushed them,they were performing on tv and the like, and literally none of them ended.up with much of a career. Sarah Chang was one of them,had brilliant debuts w major orchestras when young, and quite frankly her career as an adult has not achieved the heights when she was a kid. Hillary Hahn never did the prodigy crap,she was taught the right way,entered Curtis at 12 and was trained by an old guard teacher.
There have been books written about this. Some of it is the kids rebel when they hit their teens bc their parents,despite the bs about the kid wanting this, pushed them into being a circus act,and boom.Others end up emotionally wrecked, one of the problems w the prodigy route is the kids end up not emotionally developing correctly, &music relies on emotions.
Don't believe me? Take some of the kids touted as prodigies, and track them over the years and see what happens to them, they either disappear or they end up as teachers saying they were a prodigy and they can make other kids into prodigies too. Some of course do make careers at various levels,but they are the exceptions.
One of the most famous ',prodigies' was Perlman, w his famous debut on the old Sullivan show, he had been promoted as a prodigy. What he will tell you ( and I have heard him in person saying this) is that he was no prodigy,that his success was bc after that show he went to work with Delay at Juilliard and she totally helped him learn to play properly, he didn't perform professionally while there and learned the fundamentals,in a sense what Starker did on his own. Menuhin was a true prodigy who crashed in his 20s and while he was rightfully a very popular performer, his playing was l over the place,he never regained what he lost fully.
So don't feel jealous or morose,keep working at it and odds are if you are any good you will meet them.on their way down.
This is the most sensible comment I've found here, and I will add a couple of questions.
The main one being, why? Are we so short of people who can play these pieces that we need little children to do this? What is the real point of this? From the reactions even in this video, it's basically a circus act. A novelty for the reaction it gets. Shouldn't we be growing well-rounded human beings rather than the inevitably stilted life of a "prodigy" put on the stage to act up. Really, it's the adults who do this, prodigies are created by adults and the environment they put their children into.
I wonder how many pieces these little children know? Are real, thoughtful and happy musicians being created or two dimensional "wonders" who have lost their childhood to a pointless circus act for a competition? If you're watching these kids play and thinking, "wow", "amazing", "incredible" ... then what do you consider the cultural merit of it all? Why is it less amazing to hear a 25 or 30 year old playing these pieces, or is musical artistry just "Flight of the bumblebee" played at 300bpm? aMAzinG!!!
Sadly, I think that every one of these little kids is the sign of an abused childhood.
@@andrewwigglesworth3030 You are correct in your assessment of prodigies, it is a circus trick, pure and simple. Prodigies by their very nature are doing something they shouldn't be able to do, they can play music adults often can't play.
It isn't about the kids, it is about parents seeing the road to fame and unscrupulous teachers seeing a short cut to fame, that this will rocket them to being the next Delay or whatnot. You get a kid with a bit of potential, and they see the road to riches or whatnot. The parents will tell you, all so seriously, that it is all about the kid, the kid wants to do that, and in 99.9% of cases it is bullshit. They have the kid on talk shows, tv programs, they do performances billing themselves as a prodigy, and what is worse ochestras and serious venues book this act, because they know it will fill seats
I think people are attracted to it because it is a spectacle, and half of it is the awe a kid can do this and half of it is a freak spectacle, like a sideshow....it is one of the reasons prodigies rarely make the transition to adult performers, they are remembered as that 9 year old girl playing paganini, the adult who might even be playing paganini perfectly isn't so interesting when compared to the prodigy self.
The reason prodigies can do what they do is instinct, the reason I called it a shortcut is because rather than teach them how to build up the fundamentals and play music that way, they show the kid the piece and let the rip (in some ways, similar to the way fiddlers learn their music, though with fiddling they don't abuse kids like this, if a kid plays well he is a fiddler, not a prodigy). I suspect personally it has to do with kids inate ability to learn languages, kids learn them on their own, the problem being that when a kid hits a certain age, usually 13-late teens, they lose the ability to play, the way you lose facility with learning new languages. It actually is interesting because after 13, to learn a language you have to do it in steps, there is a way to learn it, you don't absorb it the way a kid does.
I can tell you that when the little prodigy gets to a good teacher, the first thing they do is stop the prodigy nonsense. I saw this up close , my kid attended Juilliard's pre college on violin, where prodigies are rampant, and when these 9, 10 year olds came in, the teacher told the parents no more tv, no more outside performances, no playing the beethoven concerto or the like, that they learn it right. The parents weren't happy about it and many of them constantly try to bully the teacher into having the kid play crazy stuff like Last Rose of Summer, but it doesn't work.
I saw how this comes to be directly. When my kid was young, they were playing violin and doing well but wanted to also learn piano. We took them to a local music school, when they found out they played violin the school administrator wanted to hear them, and after hearing them we got they were one in a million, that they had the perfect teacher who "went to Juilliard", they would start with the competitions and such, you name it...and we said thanks but no thanks (and found a retired music professor who lived locally who ended up teaching our kid music theory, which they gobbled up, they were like 6, the teacher loved them having enthusiasm for it).
As far as warping their childhood, there is nuance to that, because to be honest these days, especially on solo instruments where you see prodigies, kids seriously pursuing it can't have a fully normal existence. On things like violin and piano the level of playing is so high now and the competition is so fierce that you can't do what used to be the norm. My kid had a teacher who is still a principal in a well known orchestra, they grew up playing violin in school, did okay, then 'got serious' in high school, got into one of the better conservatories, and right out of there got into the orchestra they are still in.As a result they were kind of shockingly ignorant of the reality of playing these days.
So kids end up committing when they are really young, they are practicing multiple hours a day even at 8,9 or so, it is a real committment and there really isn't any way around it (it depends on the instrument, piano and violin students can start at 4 or 5, winds and brass come later). Lot of music kids end up homeschooling because they can't attend school, do the several hours of homework, then practice x hours. One girl my kid was friends with started pracicing violin for long stretches before she was 9, like 6-8 hours a day back in Korea.
In terms of level, many of the kids entering the top conservatories are playing at the level graduates used to have.
That doesn't mean a kid can't have normalcy in their life and we made sure our kid did, they played sports when younger, enjoyed other things, games, doing things with us. The problem with the prodigy is they are sacrificing the short term for the long term, and it ends up hurting them. My kid saw a lot of those hotshots, the prodiies, etc, and by now (our kid in is their mid 20's, on the first rung of a pro career as an ensemble player) most of those types are long gone, either out of music, or have become teachers telling parents their kid is a prodigy. Personally I think music has sacrificed a lot to the god of high level, perfect playing, lot of the kids never learn to be musicians, they are more like accomplished players.
What used to get me angry was seeing some 9 year old girl in a cute dress playing the Habenera or Ziguneweisen (my spelling sucks) or Waxman's Carmen Fantasy, trying to play music about a seductive gypsy woman, and not having one clue what it is about or expressing it, because a chid cant. Charlie Parker, the Jazz great, said you can't put it through the horn if you haven't lived it, and it applies.
The real loss is to music, the kids that are pushed to be prodigies might have ended up being great musicians, with real soul and chops, but they are denied that by the early attention and whatnot. It is much like the teachers enraptured by the sterling technique that mega practicing and rote learning of pieces can give, yet they totally ignore the los of expression and feeling for the music.
I will add this isn't new, obviously. Mozart was touted as a prodigy (though as a composer, what he wrote before he was like 17 was not genius or even close to it, was pretty bland and derivative), Beethoven hated prodigies and a couple of times got really angry when he saw advertised prodigies playing his pieces.
It's the perfect plan tho, once they hit their teens and lose the violin magic, you push them to become doctor.
*Kousei from Your Lie in April Intensifies*
Even if they don't burn out, without further developing their skills to higher and higher levels, they just eventually become skilled adults.
"see this 30 year old violinist play [difficult piece]" isn't going to attract very much attention.
And this is why I play oboe
Cause there's like 1 prodigy
😂
@@wait_whatt that's the only one
林奀哪 ur not a prodigy tho
how come is goboy in Russian and oboe in English
Vallire i have no idea
Every child prodigy shaking after realising that other Asian kid was younger than he is
There's always another younger asian kid who's better than you 😔
Divyansh Singh why? Lol
@Divyansh Singh True af
Valentina Pérez Hola Twin
@Divyansh Singh you sound like a real Asian talking
“What’s worse than a prodigy?”
“What? A child?”
“No, a *child prodigy* “
@Swetha Kira give it some time lol, it's only been a couple hours
Aren’t prodigies by definition children?
Brandon Rogers?
BEST VINE EVER
@@loganm2924 shhhhh....just go with it
@8:27
That is the oldest 13-year-old I have ever seen in my life.
Periodt
Yeah, looks like 22.
To anyone doubting their ability after seeing these prodigies just remember, do you play your instrument to be ‘the best’? Or do you you play because you enjoy it. Don’t worry, you’re right where you’re meant to be ;)
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Now go practice.
:)
i fucking needed that. thank you babe
@@rhea6927 anytime anytime 💖
@Vines and Chili Show 😂😂😂 fair enough
Both lol
Quote of the year: “those harmonics are brighter than my future; those double stops are more supportive than my teachers”
-eddy chen 2020
Am gonna save it for later....
He said double stops not octaves
Yeah...
He said this when yu zihe did the pagalingling challenge
th-cam.com/video/sP9jLqzIGYQ/w-d-xo.html
idk why it's funny but it is
I like how the youngest one was 7 and she knew exactly what she was doing... When I was 7 I didn't even know if I was holding my mom's hand in the supermarket. Bruh.
She probably still holds her mom's hand in the supermarket. Actually it kills self esteem more to see video of these kids in their natural habitat. They are very much children. Just prodigies too.
When I was 7 I grabbed a stranger's hand thinking he was my father and we both freaked out.
@@edanc6799 wow. That's scary and awkward .
@@edanc6799 me too i hugged a girl because i thought she was my mom hahah
@@edanc6799 I grabbed a stranger's arm while I was on holiday in another country..... I ran to my parents after that
me: laughs in visual artist
mom: Picasso did not sit around drawing his anime waifus you know
cries in visual artist
Picasso sat around drawing and painting his many mistresses so that’s the same thing
@@cecilyerker CHECKMATE MOM
Mista is best waifu
Picasso was a human
Visual art is fking hard you should be proud of yourself
“Should have been a doctor.”
Prodigy doctor comes in...
There's a lot of them too 😭
Hell yeah!!!! There’re so many prodigies in med school!!!!!!
All jokes aside I hope all these kids actually enjoy playing their instruments
Yeah me too, I hope it's not because they are forced by their parents or something
Currently remembering Family Guy Peter’s fingers bleeding whilst playing Canon in D on the violin
Yeah really sad to see some people get really good at their instrument and then hating it.
Yeah I always wonder if you put a brand new piece in front of them would they play it well or is this part virtuosity part just parents forcing them to do nothing but practise (no other pieces or other activities), even if they dislike violin.
I think after a certain point, it's not possible for forced-and-not-enjoyed practicing to "squeeze out" any more "talent / musicality".
No please officer I promise her violin playing sounded 18, i didn’t know she was 10.
ROFL
Omfg underrated
Lmao
PG13
6:18 BRO (it's a joke)
8:23 Eddy is seeing so many prodigies he’s beginning to act like an Asian mother
*Breakdown starring Eddy Chen*
10:03 _Puts triangle on his head_
10:08 Dude, those harmonics are brighter than my future
10:10 Those double stops were more supportive than my teachers
11:07 _FLINCHES HARD_
11:12 _CRASHES INTO HIS PRECIOUS HOUSE_
11:14 _PAINFUL COMEBACK_
11:46 Speach of Loss & Surrender ft. Fidgeting with Ding Ding
At this point he's _apparently_ back to normal then *12:24* cuts the convo-- “WELL I THINK YOU LOST THOUGH” right before THE 12:26
12:30 Final diagnosis
lmfaooo
謝謝🙏
“Fidgeting with Ding Ding” got me 😂😂
🤣🤣the painful comeback face had me rooollling
How do you do that with the text
- There's only one thing worst than a prodigy, boom!
- A child
- No!
I understood that reference!
vine gang rise up
jadesmind It’s originally from this video: Neighborhood patrol ep2 th-cam.com/video/L0a5iwzG7aw/w-d-xo.html but Vine just made it more popular :D
Underrated XD
Yes lol
Roses are red
Violets are blue
There's always a child prodigy
Better than you
My self esteem 😞
Roses are red,
Violets are blue
There’s forever an Asian
That’s better than you
And the casuality is asian Again :v
Ahhh they always make me smile🤗🤗🤣
Unless you're Maxim Vengerov or Yuja Wang
@@Cryseris I AM apparently not one lol
This is why i like being a singer, the prodigies are at least college age 😅
Fr lol, your vocal cords are just not done growing when you’re a child and it saves everyone’s self esteem
Check out Tnt Boys.
Loool
@@camarinasashleekirstin6549 let them grow up and we will see the real note they actually can reach, I've seen them, and yeah they are amazing, but have you seen how troye sivan sings when he really young? After maturing he didn't even sound the same, let their vocal matured with age, so we can know how they will sound for the rest of their lives.
Guido is the first Brazilian violinist to win first place in the Kreisler Competition 2022 at just 17 years old. He won the competition by performing Brahms's Violin Concerto No 1. A great pride for our country. Boys... if you can, react quickly to his interpretation. 🙂
That boy will be a star!
Alternate title: Violinists lower their self-esteems by guessing the age gaps of them and kids
I- I'm done. My self esteem is now nonexistent
They're not ordinary kids, they're prodigies!
_ acsaha _ because saying that makes it better 😂
As of height, I have none
@@bubbles000 lol
*sigh* At this point it doesn’t even hurt anymore. I’m just laughing at Brett and eddy’s reactions
Still hurts for me
I couldn't stop laughing either!😂
Pasquim I’m now just one salty man
9:48, 9:57, 7:33, 8:24, 11:12 😂😂
I'm just laughing at my whole freaking life
It’s ok if older people is much talented than you. But having someone younger and better is so much pain.
These little Asian kids memorizing like 8-page pieces, while I can barely remember the name of my piece😭
Something concerto I think 😃
And I wish the memorizing was the hard part
@@ordor3272 Same 😭 😭
"Aiya, even younger!!" *asian sounds*
Mom don't judge plss
Lel
mom: Y U WATCHING DA TH-cam WHEN U SHOULD BE PRACTISING
8:23 too much trauma caused uncontrolled language dysfunction. 忽然间开始说中文了可还行
I felt that so hard
th-cam.com/video/sP9jLqzIGYQ/w-d-xo.html
idk why it's funny but it is
Can we talk about how Brett looks good with this green jacket
it's from uniqlo
Yeahhhhhh
GOD YES
he’s an absolute king i lov him 🥺
No we can't.
(Jk lol)
“Those harmonics are brighter than my future.” 😂
I love how Eddie and Bret can laugh at themselves .
“AYIA EVEN YOUNGER” *full on Chinese scream* I cracked
Also Eddys slow descent into madness featuring the triangle was exactly why I’m a diehard twosetter
i love how Brett's hair gets more and more disheveled as the video progresses
lol i just went to rewatch the video after reading your comment
Mannn you're too meann
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But I do agree with u.
Bartok pizz the like button
who is better?
LING LING or LING LING teacher?
answer: Is the same person !!!!
i chose Ling Ling because i don't like tEaChErS
Ling LIng is self-taught
Ling ling is ling ling’s teacher, is ling ling
It would be LING LING's child Prodigy :v
Joshua Muthiah LINGLING is born this way not taught 😏
As a Brazilian, I'm so proud to see a Brazilian musician not related to funk! YAAAAAAAAAS! Thank you Guido Sant'Anna!!!!
I know right??? We do have prodigies!!! And i'm so proud of having seen he playing in person... you know that place that appears on the video?? I study there!
Então ele é brasileiro mesmo? Suspeitei pelo nome, mas se for verdade fico muito feliz!
Caracaaa nunca tinha visto brasileiros no Twoset antes, fala galera. Vocês tocam o que? Sou do piano
@@mariaclaramendoncacarleto5486 Eu toco bateria e violino. Muito bom ver os huehue BR aqui 😍😍😍😍
@@eloisebarbosa2649 May I inquire as to where you study? I couldn't help but notice the stain-glass window in the background.....it looks like the SDA logo; is it?
I mean the fact that Brett was able to sight read and play that well, just shows how good these two really are.
Welcome to another episode of crying because we’re not good enough.
you should practice 25 hours per day. stop finding excuses for yourself. just try to do like lingling
😗✌️mhm...
Toddler: has played violin for 3 years and sounds like a professional. Me: has played for 8 years and still sound like sh*t
Lol same here, I’ve played cello for 8 years and surprise surpsise, sound like a shit
SAME, FOUR YEARS PLAYING FLUTE AND I CAN'T DO ANYTHING
I've played for 6 years but I play like sh@t in our school people who played for 9 years play worse than 5 yrolds in this video
Oh guys it's not that bad, I m sure most of us are at least not shit in the eyes(ear) of others
looking at these child prodigies just makes me feel bad that i've been playing (piano) for like 14 years already and i still kinda suck
TwoSet's face during the entire vid:
😮😲😵🤩😮😲😵🤩😮😲😵🤩
Me watching this with no knowledge of how hard a piece is on violin: mhmm yes very good *amazing*
Thank you Editor-San
Because there aren’t many people who thank you 😄👍
❤️ thank you ❤️
Thank you editor-san
Thank you
Alwayss~ thankfull
Thank you thank you thank you !!!
Eddy: “Dude, those harmonics are more brighter than my future. Those double stops are more supportive than my teacher”
Me: *Ling Ling has left the chat*
Chialeen Arinal he was never there in the chat. He was too busy practicing
Spideyboi IsTrulygreg lol
Wonder if his teachers saw this...
Anna and her typewriter oof
Guido Sant'Anna was one of the runners up (6th place) and won the internet prize the year Chloe won the Menuhin competition.
Brett: I put 17 just to cope
Me: I put 57 just so it doesn't make me quit violin
We love Editor san giving us those little jokes about becoming a doctor and showing us that video . Thank youuuu
I liked the rose petals flowing down on the screen
You guys should mix in professional soloists to see if you can tell the difference
@@heyytheree yes ahahahhaa that would be funny
That would be fun
It sounds fun! But I think it would be pretty obvious, like recording quality + violin quality XD
@@omowako yes, while Guido Sant-Anna's recording sounded good, and the violin too, you can still get the difference between his violin and top soloists.
@@heyytheree You're just evil aren't you? Ha ha ha ha.
"I can't play the violin."
Brett Yang, 2020
10:01 You know something's not right when Eddy puts the triangle on his head.
plot twist: the prodigies are made out of cake
severely underrated comment👏
“Very in tune octaves” is something no one will ever say to me.
😂😂😂
@Yanjun Sun I think my teacher is lying to me when he says it.😔
Very in tune octaves
Karis Wong :O thank you
lol let's practiceeee
7:10 this is the most epic part of the video, this kid actually blew my mind with his beautiful playing and expression !!
the phrasing up to the top double stop killed me physically, spiritually, emotionally, and financially
2:54 this part will forever destroy me that was so perfect it hurts
Me: suffering all the time watching prodigies
Twoset: post a video
Me:
Ah shit, here we go again.
Brett: I can't play the violin
Me: 👀
bro I never even touch a violin......
@@argav_redv
Same :|
imagine heading to the school talent show and just hearing that
and then of course the judges pick someone else bc even school talent shows hate on classical music
School talent shows never pick the one with real talent 😒 it's what made me happy with the talent show my middle school had. Then didn't make it a competition. Everyone got to proform as long as it was appropriate and their was no winners or loosers
Yep true
The one time I was actually happy seeing a violin prodigy play 718961981 times better then me was during our school’s talent show, some dude played a rap song on the piano and you could tell he was gunna win, but then a 6th grade girl came up and absolutely demolished a piece on violin so hard they *had* to pick her. I wasn’t even sad I was just smiling and staring at the shocked teaches and students as she destroyed octave 16th notes.
They always pick the singer or the guitarist
In mine 3 years ago there was a pianist, a rapper, a really good ballet dancer, loads of singers and me who did poi (circus manipulation) and who did they pick the guy who played the guitar and sang because they liked the song choice and he was popular
I played a classical piece at my school talent show. Luckily they liked it but they liked every performance
11:44 Eddy wondering if musicians are born, not made
*"A I I Y A A A"*
me : can i get that "aiya" in a 10h long video ?
Imagine at least one of these prodigies are fans of two set...
If only they had time to watch youtube, I imagine they have to breathe violin to be that good at that age
Benny watched them 🎻
The key to guess a prodigy’s age is to guess 5 years younger than you think.
More than that
These prodigies may impress us, but TSV inspires us every day.
I walked away from my music degree over twenty years ago and put my flute on a shelf to gather dust.
I started classical guitar lessons almost two years ago and have been struggling horribly because of a lack of practice and clinical depression.
Since becoming addicted to Two Set, my depression has lessened. These two goofballs make me laugh every day and laughter heals the soul.
My practice time has went from almost non existent to almost nonstop. As a working adult it's hard to find time but I have now figured out how to work 60-80 hours a week and practice 20-30 hours a week.
My guitar playing is finally improving and I'm experimenting with new works on my flute. Twoset has brought music back into my world.
I especially love the sight reading challenges and other challenges, as I try to read along and see how the pros do it. I was in awe when they performed the 2M concert livestream. Whenever I get discouraged, I rewatch Eddy's video where he learns, explains and performs the impossible Paganini variations. Going from being shocked at the difficulty of the piece to performing it respectably in two months was one of the most inspiring things I have ever seen.
So prodigies are prodigies, but prodigies have not inspired the world like our beloved Brett and Eddy. They bring music, laughter, inspiration and an occasional dose of needed reality. Love these boys. Now I gotta go practice.
14:43 The 'stock image' of Brett holding the violin the wrong way around broke my brain.
No one:
A random mechanical voice dubbed over twosets mistake: _five_
Alternate title:
"TWO VIOLINISTS DESTROYING THEIR SELF ESTEEM"
And mine
And the people watching this
L O L
And ours as well. Lol
OMG 300 HAHAAH
Im sorry Eddy's reaction at 11:10 is priceless 😂😂
01:00 Jinan Woo Wieniawski Etude-Caprice No. 5
02:43 Leia Zhu Ernst variations on “The Last Rose of Summer”
04:58 Himari Yoshimura Paganini Caprice No. 13
06:44 Guido Sant’Anna Ysaÿe Sonata No. 3 ‘Ballade’
09:20 Fiona Khuong-Huu Hubay Carmen Fantasy
Thank you man. Really helpful.
We dont need this
@@itzanoojdharthirukonda2691 no its not
@@itzanoojdharthirukonda2691 Dude, there's on-screen text, are ya blind?
@@futuramabender2078It’s good to have a list written out, why so bitter?
*AIYA, EVEN YOUNGER*
with asian accent,
me: *SCREAMING THE HELL OUT*
btw, timestamp, 8:23
Wtf is an Asian accent? That’s like saying “a European accent”
Aiya is literally two Chinese words which translates roughly to something like 'oh my'.
@@l.s.8793 As in, he literally pronounced it with the inflections that you'd use when speaking Chinese as opposed to reading the Pinyin like English.
Each One no, I think they’re Taiwanese so it isn’t pinyin. China uses pinyin
Alternate title: try not to cry challenge EXTREME DIFFICULTY
I don't even know if I'm crying because of the flex or the fact that they prodigies just played so beautifully.
And I only play really bad piano, can't even call myself a piano player (forget about pianist lololol) like my sub-par choir singing is probably better than my piano what am I doing with my life fndnddnfnffndndns *ensue meltdown*
I had just finished Your Lie In April before watching this video... rip my tear ducts
LOL😂
I just love how this channel is so immersive with it's viewers that it feels like there are three hosts. Twosetviolin's editor is the best editor on youtube.
I like how during Carmen’s Fantasy you can see that when Eddy appreciates music he puts his head back and closes his eyes, but Brett just goes off into his own little world and barley moves
Piano prodigies equally wreck my self-esteem. I saw a 10 (maybe 11yo) play through the entire set of Op. 10 Chopin Etudes once. I still haven’t recovered.
I know the feeling...
It’s Erik!!
Plz make more Zelda piano videos
I feel you men... Prodigies are amazing to look at and at the same time really hurts to look at.
I've been playing for almost 20 years, still I haven't mastered Chopin's Nocturne. Fantasie Impromptu is even impossible for me :D
Ling Ling which Chopin etudes are harder than la Campanella?
@@heyytheree La Campanella is like entry level for Prodigy Flexing unfortunately ;)
Who tf has their notifications on just to dislike there’s a dislike after 20 seconds
Most probably Davie504
god damn bass gang :p
the viola gang ... or the fans of david504.
Ikr smh
Davie504 S L A P P
Twoset's been on YT long enough for some kids to want to become prodigies just to get on one of these videos
Just some kind of random things, and I’m definitely not a prodigy when I was a kid, but I somehow finished all grades for piano when I was in Year3 (when I was 9) and went to a lot of competitions. I was being pushed A LOT by my mom and teacher, and I hated piano so much that I would actually cry when I play... I gave up piano in Year 5 and until Year 6 I restarted everything all over again (as my fundamentals are shits) but as a hobby now. I also redo all theories and stuff when I usually slept at professor’s class (You can’t expect a 9 yo kid actually listen to the course with a bunch of uni students) (Yes I learned my music with unis when I was kid...I somehow got accepted)
But it’s like my hobby now. I developed a fear of playing in front of others because I always got scared of screwing stuffs up. When I was 10 at one Japanese international concert I screwed it up, and I was trying to make things easier for myself for telling my parents I just have a bad day, but they didn’t listen to me at all and scolded me for a whole week. I was so upset that I failed my math test the first time ever in my life.
So yeah, I’m really proud of all child prodigies as long as they are happy. But if they’re not, people have no rights of forcing them to.
Edit: I may was a prodigy… I found a recording of me doing fcking Winter Wind
I know this is an old comment, but I just wanted to say I am touched by your story. It was unfair for your teacher, but especially your parents, to squash your little kid spirit like that. I can’t imagine scolding someone because they messed up. It’s not like someone messes up on purpose. I hope you’re enjoying piano nowadays after your break and that it makes you smile to play just for pure enjoyment. Wishing you well!
@@harmonyrose7344 Thank you for your reply, my guy! I really like piano now, altough I'm still scared of my lessons (Which literally everyone does XD)
As a violist- I’m used to the disappointment.
Lol
Prickly the Pear yeah me as well as a BAD pianist
Even as a pianist and accompanist, my self esteem pretty much just went down the toilet.
Saaame 😭😭
Ikr. I feel like giving up but then I remembered why I began.
Yanjun Sun woah, that is wonderful! And how old r u and how is ur rn? The proggress and all. I just discovered 2set few months ago and thinking to take a violin lesson too.
Yanjun Sun thanks for replying! And thank you so much for the explanation, such generous thing from you! That is great things to hear, I hope everything keeps going well for you! :)
"TwoSet purification"
* proceed to crush their souls, pride, dreams, self esteem and everything else they had *
I like how Brett acted all depressed when he was more in tune than the ten year old prodigy.. Brett don’t give up just yet, you must practice to overcome the prodigies.
while sight reading the piece...
*“She can’t tune her instrument but plays it better”*
•kid proceeds to play prodigiously•
Eddy: 👁👄👁
I still like listening to Brett. He has a sophisticated, elegant sound. 💜
1:02 it was at this moment, they knew, they f*cked up
When eddy is laughing, he's just crying inside
The only thing for sure:
they’re at least 40 hours old.
No. 69 hours old.
You can't destroy my self esteem if I don't have any in the first place
*taps forehead*
I've never heard the last rose of summer, tbh I've never heard a lot of the music on twoset, but that's why I'm here... anyways, I definitely cried during this.
Alternate reality:
"Twosetstethoscopes"
Arth Trivedy Dr Mike is trembling
"Twosetbones"
“We should have been violinists”
i laughed a little too hard at this
Brett: you can tell that they’re starting to get real when they start moving
Also Brett: *starts moving when playing harder pieces*
Don’t forget that Brett is a talented violinist too
Maybelle Lee also Brett: sounding good sight reading the hard piece
They look like they play so effortlessly, but the amount of effort they had to put into practicing for it to sound so good. They must’ve practiced 80 hours a day.
2 years and I still cannot accept the fact Ernst's Last Rose sounds absolutely nothing like the Irish folk song
But brett's sightreading and already sounding like that 😭 I wanna hear twoset seriously play full, practiced pieces...
saku_ryan Yeah who’s destroying our self-esteem now...
Oistrakh, one of the best violinists ever, was not a child prodigy. While he was good, he was not playing Ernst at 12, or Paganini at 7. Keep your heads up y'all!
Gentlemen, I know I'm late but I want to ease your pain a little: for me, watching you two play is like how you're responding to the tiny prodigies. It's almost impossible to believe a human can be so good. The prodigies are absolutely mind-blowing but in a way it's less of a shock because - well, they're prodigies, and I'm not! But you're both ordinary humans (mostly) who have worked and practiced and brought yourselves to an incredible level. In theory, us other ordinary humans could do that too - but without the skill and the practice, it's like trying to reach out and grab the moon. And so your talent and dedication is even more amazing, because you've spent longer than the prodigies' lifetimes devoting yourselves to your art. Bravo.
Good point.
Guido is a Brazilian teen and a really good violinist
Brett&Eddy: thinks their not prodigies
*Brett proceeds to sightread Hubay and play it better than me practicing it for a month*
THIS IS VIOLINCE!
They are extremely humble and that’s why we love them
They are definitely more gifted in music than many people, but just there are people who born with even greater talent, like these prodigies, Hilary, Ray and so on. We stan humble musicians! And honestly they have great talents on making influence on social media to spread the love of classical music and violin
Yee0.0 I’m pretty sure those great soloist must have thought of music as a career from the very start, and 2set think of music as having fun.
Heidrun Schwartz no what I meant is they enjoy what they are doing
Damn, there's a dislike already. Who's this hater who got the notifications on? 🤣
Davie504
maybe is davie504
🅱️ass gang
legacy davie504 is subbed and has been a fan since more than 3 months
@Kimi_07 No its not.
the other ones are stolen
I lost it at 13:06 omg the glasses 😂
Fun fact Leia Zhu played Mendelssohn d minor(a abrsm 8) when she was 11. Now a year later she’s playing Ernst.
Leia's progress is astonishing - she's one of my favourite violinists because she plays amazing both technically and musically