I am sure not only the pieces are challenging, but Eddy and Brett make them look effortless. Like Eddy said, "Wow, what a bargain (for me)." I just watched a mini concert from them on YT. Thanks!
It’s hard to achieve good sounding vibrato, but in a lot of these pieces the notes and key signatures are not difficult :) you would easily be able to play these songs with 3 years of experience. It just won’t sound the best
The techniques you'd need to play these pieces: 0:23 Vivaldi - Violin Concerto in G minor 'Summer', III. Presto 0:23 Tremolo - fast repeated up and down bows 0:35 String crossings 1:13 Shifting 1:17 Chords Why it's relatively easy: Tremolo is basically playing the same note over and over, the rhythm is very straightforward, there's not a lot of shifting up and down, the passages are essential scales. Why it looks impressive: Fast notes, high notes and loud dynamics (sounds dramatic) 1:33 Monti - Csardas 1:32 Acciaccatura - grace note 1:35 Sul G - playing everything on the G string, i.e. shifting 1:35 Vibrato 2:11 Natural harmonics 2:19 Slurs 2:33 Upbow spiccato 2:35 Sautille - half-bouncing bow (the stick bounces but the bow hair stays on string) Why it's relatively easy: If you can produce a good tone with a nice vibrato, you're halfway there. When you play quickly, your bow will naturally start to bounce (sautille) and the left hand finger pattern for that section is repetitive. Why it looks impressive: This piece has that romantic flair and contrast between emotional vibrato section and fast sautille section. 2:56 Rimsky-Korsakov - Flight of the Bumblebee 2:56 Fast bowing 2:56 Shifting Why it's really easy: Self-explanatory. Moving on. No, but in all seriousness, the whole thing is essentially a fast chromatic passage. Why it sounds impressive: It's fast. 3:25 Brahms - Hungarian Dance No. 5 3:25 Shifting 3:29 Double stops 3:33 Chords 3:36 Fast bowing Why it's relatively easy: Well, those double stop thirds aren't that easy. But once you get the hang of it, the rest of the finger pattern including chords is not hard. Why it sounds impressive: Those double stops and chords, the speed and it has that dark, dramatic feel. 4:13 W. Kroll - Banjo and Fiddle 4:13 Pizzicato 4:19 Sautille 4:25 Natural harmonics 4:38 Shifting Why it's relatively easy: Right hand pizzicato is the first technique you ever learn on a violin and the rest of it isn't bad at all. Why it sounds impressive: Fast and high notes. Also, pizzicato sounds hard. And to produce a light, bouncy feel is not the hardest thing to achieve, but is definitely not an absolute beginner feat. 5:05 De Falla - Danse Espagnole (from 'La Vida Breve') 5:05 Pizzicato 5:05 Upbow spiccato 5:09 Shifting 5:14 Slurs 5:40 Chords 5:41 Double stops 5:49 Natural harmonics Why it's relatively easy: There's nothing particularly tricky about the rhythm or finger pattern for this snippet of the piece. (EDIT: The rest of the piece is quite challenging with left hand pizzicato, fourths and harmonics.) Why it sounds impressive: It sounds dramatic with the contrasting pizzicato and chords/double stops. None of these pieces are absolutely easy and you wouldn't be able to pick them up straightaway if you started violin from scratch (although Flight of the Bumblebee might not be too far off for you), but they do sound harder than they are. I'd say Csardas and Hungarian Dance No. 5 are probably the hardest on the list. What do you think? (EDIT: Apparently, the full De Falla piece is in another league - the hardest by far. Thanks for making me aware of this in the comments!) EDIT: Thanks for all your encouraging comments! For some reason, I can't seem to reply to any of you. Glad this is helpful :)
Disclaimer: this pieces are not easy at all, but if you compare them with others, you can learn them with 6 or 7 years of violin playing. Most of paganini pieces cant be played with less than 15 years of playing. Conclusion: for lots of non musicians, faster = difficult (;´༎ຶٹ༎ຶ`) Edit: guys the time you get a piece is variable. Probably you can play them in the first 4 years if you practice a lot but what type of teacher gives you Vivaldi summer in 3rd grade? •-•. Some people need a few years more and some people less. I talk from my point of view! T^T sorry for misunderstandings
I agree, but you definitely don't need to play for 15 years to play Paganini. Most music students go into university after playing for about 10 years and by then most of us have played at least one of the caprices. Saying this as a violinist.
This are intermediate pieces, with good teachers and good practice an average student with good musical inclination could play them decently within 3-4 years, Czardas may be the easiest on the list, next Summer
Nah, most of these you could play after like 3 years, maybe 2 for Summer. They all fall pretty well under the fingers it’s just a matter of getting it up to speed
Nobody says the pieces are “easy” though! The title is “6 pieces that sound harder than they actually are” not “6 pieces that are easy”. Meaning these pieces work well as crowd pleasers but are not that difficult to practice (or “good value ratio” as Brett and Eddy put it lol
Some notes on what makes these pieces easier than they sound despite their flashy speed: There are notes which can be played fast more easily and notes that are really hard to play fast. The pieces on the list here tend to have repetitions of the same few notes or even just the same note (see Summer at 0:23). This is actually not that hard to play quickly because you only have to move the bow fast which in itself is not much of a challenge. It's how much the left hand has to move at the same time in order to hit the right notes that determines how difficult it is. Just look at Csardas at 2:38, the hand on the fingerboard stays in the same place for that whole run. In the really difficult pieces, their left hand position would need to change A LOT more than here, where their hand can just rest in the same position for several bars (see also Summer at 0:43 and 1:18). Another thing is that if the fast notes do change but just consist of scales (*cough flight of the bumblebee), they're not that much of a challenge either because musicians already practiced scales so much that's is pretty much just routine. It's when the fast notes don't have a clear pattern or are more unusual that a piece gets really hard.
It differs for each piece, but for things like Flight of the Bumblebee, it is just chromatic scales, and Summer, the opening in particular is a lot of repeated single notes, in the beginning they are even open strings and doesn't require any complex bowing techniques.
Not a violinist either, but I'll try guessing - repetitive structure, passages similar to common practice patterns, relatively few technically difficult parts. And easy start learning it - you've heard it many times even before you started playing, you know it already. The high percieved difficulty comes mostly from relatively high speed, but that's just a matter of repetition, repetition, repetition - if getting it right is not very difficult, getting it relatively fast is not that hard, on any instrument. Efficient use of practice time. Of course that's true for a certain value of "easy". If you're still struggling to reliably get the sound you want, there's absolutely nothing easy about this, there's still a long way to that level.
To add to what others have said, these pieces are all very intuitive and easy to internalize. Both harmonically and rhythmically there's no real mental gymnastics involved in making sense of the music. You just grind through practicing and build the muscle memory and you get there. I guess easy here doesn't mean beginner friendly, more like "reasonably accessible to most people with some work"
@Adam Kozakiewicz u don’t play? i’ve been playing for 10 years and i couldn’t come up with a response even close to as flawless as that one. that is exactly why they’re easy! great job
So you need to know your scales and arpeggios across the whole register of the violin, be able to do strings crossings fluently, be able to do tremolo, and be comfortable with playing in high positions before you could find these "easy" I guess XD
These pieces may be easy to play, but it’s definitely not easy to play them as well as these guys do. It’s one thing to play the right notes in the right order in tempo, it’s another thing to play expressively, with thoughtful phrasing and great tone production. Kudos guys.
Idk I play guitar, started violin 4 days ago; based solely on my experience w/ guitar, once you have the notes and rhythm down it’s just a matter of cleaning it up, and adding expression like you said. But I don’t think it’s necessarily hard as much as it’s just tedious, more of a time investment then an effort investment, but it could be different for violin
Wow, you’re playing the whole thing, not just tiny excerpts. Live it! Edit: oops, I got overexcited and spoke too soon. But still delighted they are playing such large chunks.
@@euomu HAHA yes, but it's definitely a lot more than those other videos where they just play like 3 seconds of the piece..HAHA (like in charades or the 100 pcs in 10min challenge)...haha. It's so enjoyable to hear them play more like this...
yeah, I got excited too and checked the time remaining when the first piece didn't stop after a few bars. I'll just be happy with almost a minute per piece.
Next video: Pieces that look a lot easier than they are 1. Bach Fugue 2. Bach Largo 3. Bach Allemande 4. Bach Courante 5. Bach Sarabande 6. Bach Gigue 7. ... well, you know how it goes on 😅
@@anonymousperson2948 true lol Although I think that the hardest part in Mozart's music is exactly that making sound easy and elegant when it's actually not
this is kinda unrelated to the video, but watching this made me realise twoset handles the youtube algorithm really well compared to other channels. they post very often, making use of shorter videos like this one, but although these videos may take lesser time to produce, they still bring almost the same amount of quality content to the table and that's really amazing to me
I will say out of all of the overplayed ones here the one I get tired of hearing the least, despite playing it myself on piano, is hungarian dance 5, that piece is so swingy and with such a fun energy
@@MatoVidovic_ absolutely! Will never get tired of the insane drop at the start of Winter too, I've listened to a lot of metal and really they invented nothing Vivaldi did it hundreds of years ago aha
I think I've said this before but, i sometimes forget how damn good they actually are at violin then they make videos like this. "Easy" pieces or not, they're wonderful.
i feel like everyone keeps forgetting the "value" part of thid vid lol they're not saying these pieces are "easy," they're saying that relative to how impressive they sound it's easiER than other pieces easy doesn't mean "anyone can play this no problem" or "this is something that even beginnerd can play right off the bat " obviously you still need to practice somewhat anyway great vid! it's always super cool seeing twoset play sincerely
From my experience here's the piano version: Canon in D Summer by Joe Hisaishi The pirates of the carribean soundtrack And just about any pop song with basic LH accompaniment (1-5 block chords, 1-5-1 arpeggio etc)
i don't know about you but i simply adore looking at them doing the thing they love the most, it's so refreshing and heart warming how much passion they have, i can't get enough of them, really
Okay so I've played violin for only two years, and when I saw this video: Oh yaaay maybe I can play some of these! Also me when watching the video: *Emotional, damage, emotional, damage!* I love you twosetviolin!❤
I used to learn steep my first 6-8months and then I plateaud for 7 months. My teacher moved and I quit. My violin is buried in my room somewhere underneath the hoard 🤦♀️🤷♀️
after 8 months, I can finally play twinkle twinkle little star without my dog howling! I feel so proud of myself! I am not giving up! I do have rheumatoid arthritis and my hands look like tree branches but is okay, my doctor says is a great exercise for them. I am not giving up. Don't you either! You will play these, just keep practicing! just remember to practice smart not hard!!!
Been meaning to ask this for a year, but can you two react to the "classical" music from Brigerton? If you haven't seen it, it's a period piece on Netflix, and while i'm not a fan of the show itself, they do a number of classical renditions of modern day pop songs that sound amazing.
Yeah they aren't... They might perhaps sound more impressive than their actual difficulty, but it would certainly take a long time for most people to learn them
Brett and Eddy should do more of those masterclass-videoes where they teach us how to play or conduct like different musicians. Love the previous ones, very funny
'Good Value pieces if you PRACTICE" to be more precise. XD Because seeing how Brett plays Csardas and Eddy's Summer, with those clean and precise notes and with such musicality ain't just something you get right away lol. Still sometimes, even if you don't want to perform for other, practicing these high values pieces are in itself, quite rewarding! Meanwhile I'm happy since this is another vid with more violin playing.
Well in Summer you have a lot of repetition of the same note and even a lot of open strings, which means you don't really have to coordinate both hands, since all you do is move the bow. Also there aren't many shifts, which also makes it easier
In summer, most of the runs and and arpeggios are in the same position and its also in a friendly key. Basically if you know your scales its not to difficult
I played Banjo and Fiddle last year I never thought Twoset actually knew about it. Great pice I recommend you try and play it. Its fun and a light piece doesn’t need much practice.
Remember, it's not that the pieces are easy; it's that they aren't as difficult as they sound. It's the opposite of the pieces that sound easy, but are somehow harder than the ones played here, usually slow music.
This pieces may be achievable avg to be played within 3-4 years of intense (serious) classical music training; intermediate level but with that wow factor. They sound cool and not insanely hard to play decently.
True, even I with 10 years of non serious and even almost dropping at some point did play some of them so if i can do it with that poor experience most should be able to x)
you guys should react to Apashe where he combines classical music and edm professionally, it's a worthy reacting video especially from a channel like you guys
I feel like it depends on the instrument. I'm not trying to refute your statement or anything, but when I played trombone, it was the opposite for me. It was easier to play things that were a slow tempo compared to a fast tempo. I'm not sure if you're just talking about violins/string instruments, but in my experience, it's the opposite.
@@humanbeing2360 the thing is slow songs/pieces require more musicality. If you play summer super fast you don’t have to worry as much about tone quality of each note or vibrato or phrasing. But if you’re playing a slow piece If you don’t focus on phrasing, vibrato, and tone it just sounds dead
My brother played Vivaldi's Summer in his school festival and got standing ovation. According to his classmates, he then went backstage and said "easy peasy", after which he was whacked by the music teacher. Fast forward 9 years later, I played Moonlight Sonata, 3rd movement, to the same audience since my siblings and I all went to the same high school, and the young music teacher actually went on the stage to tell me that "that is not Moonlight Sonata". The old music teacher, which was also the teacher who whacked my brother, just stared at him in pure disbelief, before announcing loudly that what I played was also Moonlight Sonata, and proceeded to explain the different movements that exist in classical music, and if a damn music teacher doesn't understand that, he ought to repeat his schooling.
I actually beleive that it takes real genius to make a piece (or even a song in modern era) that sounds soo impressive and majestic and yet it is nothing fancy or over complicated
Playlist for this video is up on TwoSet Playlists channel with as much sheet music as I could find. If the pieces are harder than they sound, we should be able to play along, right? /jk these pieces are not really easy. Good luck!
The only piece that my friends consider to be difficult is Summer istg. But at least when I play it, they look at me as though I am a professional 😌 (also, I’m finally early to a twoset vid, yay!)
YASSS THE ONLY SUNDAY FLEX WE WANTTTTT 😍😍😍 ALSO: Okay, Brett, tell me where the fountain of youth is. I demand you explain to us why you are aging backwards 😤😤😤
people are always so impressed by fast parts but usually it's the slow parts that wreck me 😭 most quick parts are just some variation of scales i've done a million times before BUT THE COUNTING ON SLOW PARTS-
Alternate title: America's Got Talent 6 Pieces To Play And "WOW" Judges.
Needs more stripping or you get the yawn anyway
@@israellai yeah, and a sad backstory for dramatic effect
Don't forget that it had to turn in to a pop song as well!
They've roasted America's Got Talent so many times that they're probably worried about getting sued for using their name in a title
😂
Now we need a "pieces that sound easier than they actually are"!
Edit: Yes, they did it!!
Yeah dude
did you mean: most classical music
bach
@@renu0091 WOAH
@@bruno-ic1kt yup literally all Bach
There are two possibilities:
Either this is actually difficult and they just make it look easy, or it’s actually easy.
I'm pretty sure it's the first one.
The first possibility is the reality
Yep its number one also can you make another “_ stands for” vid cuz the one with S was hilarious
First one definitely
Waiting for the 7 year old who doesnt even play violin to enter chat and say “its easy”
I am sure not only the pieces are challenging, but Eddy and Brett make them look effortless. Like Eddy said, "Wow, what a bargain (for me)." I just watched a mini concert from them on YT. Thanks!
@Tetrahedral Soul I am no where near Ling Ling. I will take your words for it. Cheers. :)
I agree, those are all look hard for me \(>^
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It’s hard to achieve good sounding vibrato, but in a lot of these pieces the notes and key signatures are not difficult :) you would easily be able to play these songs with 3 years of experience. It just won’t sound the best
@@persivy Me who has 6 years of violin experience and still can’t play any of these pieces: *emotional damage*
The techniques you'd need to play these pieces:
0:23 Vivaldi - Violin Concerto in G minor 'Summer', III. Presto
0:23 Tremolo - fast repeated up and down bows
0:35 String crossings
1:13 Shifting
1:17 Chords
Why it's relatively easy: Tremolo is basically playing the same note over and over, the rhythm is very straightforward, there's not a lot of shifting up and down, the passages are essential scales.
Why it looks impressive: Fast notes, high notes and loud dynamics (sounds dramatic)
1:33 Monti - Csardas
1:32 Acciaccatura - grace note
1:35 Sul G - playing everything on the G string, i.e. shifting
1:35 Vibrato
2:11 Natural harmonics
2:19 Slurs
2:33 Upbow spiccato
2:35 Sautille - half-bouncing bow (the stick bounces but the bow hair stays on string)
Why it's relatively easy: If you can produce a good tone with a nice vibrato, you're halfway there. When you play quickly, your bow will naturally start to bounce (sautille) and the left hand finger pattern for that section is repetitive.
Why it looks impressive: This piece has that romantic flair and contrast between emotional vibrato section and fast sautille section.
2:56 Rimsky-Korsakov - Flight of the Bumblebee
2:56 Fast bowing
2:56 Shifting
Why it's really easy: Self-explanatory. Moving on. No, but in all seriousness, the whole thing is essentially a fast chromatic passage.
Why it sounds impressive: It's fast.
3:25 Brahms - Hungarian Dance No. 5
3:25 Shifting
3:29 Double stops
3:33 Chords
3:36 Fast bowing
Why it's relatively easy: Well, those double stop thirds aren't that easy. But once you get the hang of it, the rest of the finger pattern including chords is not hard.
Why it sounds impressive: Those double stops and chords, the speed and it has that dark, dramatic feel.
4:13 W. Kroll - Banjo and Fiddle
4:13 Pizzicato
4:19 Sautille
4:25 Natural harmonics
4:38 Shifting
Why it's relatively easy: Right hand pizzicato is the first technique you ever learn on a violin and the rest of it isn't bad at all.
Why it sounds impressive: Fast and high notes. Also, pizzicato sounds hard. And to produce a light, bouncy feel is not the hardest thing to achieve, but is definitely not an absolute beginner feat.
5:05 De Falla - Danse Espagnole (from 'La Vida Breve')
5:05 Pizzicato
5:05 Upbow spiccato
5:09 Shifting
5:14 Slurs
5:40 Chords
5:41 Double stops
5:49 Natural harmonics
Why it's relatively easy: There's nothing particularly tricky about the rhythm or finger pattern for this snippet of the piece. (EDIT: The rest of the piece is quite challenging with left hand pizzicato, fourths and harmonics.)
Why it sounds impressive: It sounds dramatic with the contrasting pizzicato and chords/double stops.
None of these pieces are absolutely easy and you wouldn't be able to pick them up straightaway if you started violin from scratch (although Flight of the Bumblebee might not be too far off for you), but they do sound harder than they are. I'd say Csardas and Hungarian Dance No. 5 are probably the hardest on the list. What do you think? (EDIT: Apparently, the full De Falla piece is in another league - the hardest by far. Thanks for making me aware of this in the comments!)
EDIT: Thanks for all your encouraging comments! For some reason, I can't seem to reply to any of you. Glad this is helpful :)
Thank you!
Thank you!
The most useful YT comment of all times ! Thank you Annie
Annie, are you Ok, Annie ?
This needs to be pinned for non classical musicians like me
This is incredibly helpful, especially for non musicians! Thankyou!
This is probably the only time they have played Bumblebee and Hungarian Dances in a not-funny context lmao.
And we could hear *every* note!! Loved it!
And that is why you practice your scales and arpeggios.
Songs based on scale sound so hard, but they are really just an extension of normal warm ups and drills so they aren't nearly as hard for me 🙃
Now I'm hearing The Aristocats in my head, thanks (kidding)
@@bluelagoon1980 I have done my job.
@@bluelagoon1980 I had the exact same movie run through my head.
But it's true!
@@ericaashby7310they aren’t as hard for anyone if they practice their scales 😂. Practice your scales people.
I can very clearly picture the look on Eddy’s face when he lost the scissors, paper, rock to play Bumblebee 😅
WHY DID HE PLAY IT SO SLOW?!
@@pyRoy6 Hahaha!
Disclaimer: this pieces are not easy at all, but if you compare them with others, you can learn them with 6 or 7 years of violin playing. Most of paganini pieces cant be played with less than 15 years of playing.
Conclusion: for lots of non musicians, faster = difficult (;´༎ຶٹ༎ຶ`)
Edit: guys the time you get a piece is variable. Probably you can play them in the first 4 years if you practice a lot but what type of teacher gives you Vivaldi summer in 3rd grade? •-•. Some people need a few years more and some people less. I talk from my point of view! T^T sorry for misunderstandings
I agree, but you definitely don't need to play for 15 years to play Paganini. Most music students go into university after playing for about 10 years and by then most of us have played at least one of the caprices. Saying this as a violinist.
those timelines will vary. not everyone would take this many years
This are intermediate pieces, with good teachers and good practice an average student with good musical inclination could play them decently within 3-4 years, Czardas may be the easiest on the list, next Summer
Nah, most of these you could play after like 3 years, maybe 2 for Summer. They all fall pretty well under the fingers it’s just a matter of getting it up to speed
Nobody says the pieces are “easy” though! The title is “6 pieces that sound harder than they actually are” not “6 pieces that are easy”. Meaning these pieces work well as crowd pleasers but are not that difficult to practice (or “good value ratio” as Brett and Eddy put it lol
I know it's overplayed but I really do like the third movement of Vivaldi's Summer. Great music
The OG rock music
I love it too. Summer & Winter are very easy on the ears!
It's a bop for sure
It's not Vivaldi's fault if is overplayed. Not fair to punish the composer just because people abuse their music.
Summer is a great piece, no matter how much it is overplayed
Some notes on what makes these pieces easier than they sound despite their flashy speed:
There are notes which can be played fast more easily and notes that are really hard to play fast. The pieces on the list here tend to have repetitions of the same few notes or even just the same note (see Summer at 0:23).
This is actually not that hard to play quickly because you only have to move the bow fast which in itself is not much of a challenge. It's how much the left hand has to move at the same time in order to hit the right notes that determines how difficult it is. Just look at Csardas at 2:38, the hand on the fingerboard stays in the same place for that whole run.
In the really difficult pieces, their left hand position would need to change A LOT more than here, where their hand can just rest in the same position for several bars (see also Summer at 0:43 and 1:18).
Another thing is that if the fast notes do change but just consist of scales (*cough flight of the bumblebee), they're not that much of a challenge either because musicians already practiced scales so much that's is pretty much just routine. It's when the fast notes don't have a clear pattern or are more unusual that a piece gets really hard.
You really explained it well!! Like most ppl in the comments i didnt get at all why they were easy but your explanation made everything much clearer!
Yeah they should have added more explanations to the video itself. Now everybody's doing the work in the comments 😅
As a non-violinist, I would have liked if you explained what makes these pieces "easy" 😆 (like maybe something about the notes or technique used)
It differs for each piece, but for things like Flight of the Bumblebee, it is just chromatic scales, and Summer, the opening in particular is a lot of repeated single notes, in the beginning they are even open strings and doesn't require any complex bowing techniques.
Not a violinist either, but I'll try guessing - repetitive structure, passages similar to common practice patterns, relatively few technically difficult parts. And easy start learning it - you've heard it many times even before you started playing, you know it already. The high percieved difficulty comes mostly from relatively high speed, but that's just a matter of repetition, repetition, repetition - if getting it right is not very difficult, getting it relatively fast is not that hard, on any instrument. Efficient use of practice time.
Of course that's true for a certain value of "easy". If you're still struggling to reliably get the sound you want, there's absolutely nothing easy about this, there's still a long way to that level.
What do you play? There's probably comparable pieces on your instrument.
To add to what others have said, these pieces are all very intuitive and easy to internalize. Both harmonically and rhythmically there's no real mental gymnastics involved in making sense of the music. You just grind through practicing and build the muscle memory and you get there. I guess easy here doesn't mean beginner friendly, more like "reasonably accessible to most people with some work"
@Adam Kozakiewicz u don’t play? i’ve been playing for 10 years and i couldn’t come up with a response even close to as flawless as that one. that is exactly why they’re easy! great job
I love Brett’s Hungarian Dance 5 and Eddy’s Danse espagnole. They are too good.
Saaaame
Yesss been listening to danse espagnole a lot since this vid
Now you should do pieces that are harder than they actually sound
That number is really high..
Literally every other piece 💀
@@NewFelixTwo so basically every other piece that isn't mentioned in this video? damn
those pieces make us learn instruments
So you need to know your scales and arpeggios across the whole register of the violin, be able to do strings crossings fluently, be able to do tremolo, and be comfortable with playing in high positions before you could find these "easy" I guess XD
Truer
They didn't say "easy" tbf, they said "easier than they look" xD also, you forgot that you need good vibrato
@@shaetane true
These pieces may be easy to play, but it’s definitely not easy to play them as well as these guys do. It’s one thing to play the right notes in the right order in tempo, it’s another thing to play expressively, with thoughtful phrasing and great tone production. Kudos guys.
Excellent response.
May I add, their facial expressions add the "idea" that they're really straining to remember the next few notes. 😁
Idk I play guitar, started violin 4 days ago; based solely on my experience w/ guitar, once you have the notes and rhythm down it’s just a matter of cleaning it up, and adding expression like you said. But I don’t think it’s necessarily hard as much as it’s just tedious, more of a time investment then an effort investment, but it could be different for violin
Imagine if they actually went on Got talents TV shows and started playing these
I bet the judges would go AMAAAAZING again
true
Not without the stripping part
I mean, Eddie literally played Flight of the Bumblebee here.
@@xandraxandra1437 trueee
Very true....but in end they'd lose to a 4 yr old who tap dances while standing on her head...or whatever....
0:23 2:56 so... did Eddy lose scissors paper rock for him to be the one to play Summer and Flight of the Bumblebee? 😆
probably yeah
I heard the first four a million times(including sacriligious ones), but you guys somehow made it awesome again:D
Wow, you’re playing the whole thing, not just tiny excerpts. Live it!
Edit: oops, I got overexcited and spoke too soon. But still delighted they are playing such large chunks.
No, these are still excerpts.
@@euomu HAHA yes, but it's definitely a lot more than those other videos where they just play like 3 seconds of the piece..HAHA (like in charades or the 100 pcs in 10min challenge)...haha. It's so enjoyable to hear them play more like this...
yeah, I got excited too and checked the time remaining when the first piece didn't stop after a few bars. I'll just be happy with almost a minute per piece.
Eddy's bored/irritated/yet fully concentrated look at 3:15 is my favorite
Playing is easy, but playing it easily is difficult.
Wise words
the auto generated captains wrote 'no' when eddy played flight of the bummble bee and i think that's beautiful
"There are no accidents"
Mine says laughs
[Music]
No
[Music]
Laughs
[Music]
Uh
[Music]
It's like a conversation 😂
they aren’t auto generated, subtitler-san works very hard!
Brett's double stops are GORGEOUS
Timestamps:
0. Intro: 0:00
1. Vivaldi - Violin Concerto in G minor ‘Summer’, III. Presto: 0:23
2. Monti - Csárdás: 1:34
3. Rimsky-Korsakov - Flight of the Bumblebee: 2:56
4. Brahms - Hungarian Dance No.5: 3:25
5. W.Kroll - Banjo and Fiddle: 4:14
6. De Falla - Danse Espagnole (from ‘La Vida Breve’): 5:05
7. Outro: 5:54
What's the outro piece name ?
@@AlexDestaK I think that's Dance Espagnole (the last piece Eddy play) but I can't find a correct quality recording on youtube...
@@floriandufrenois6072 im looking for that too, it sounds so different than dance espagnole that im not sure
the last two pieces are the only ones they don't play often (maybe first time on the channel even?)
@@AlexDestaK I wanted to know the same thing it sounded amazing
Didn't expect a free concert, but thank you, that was beautiful
okay... as a non instrument player, EVERYTHING IS DIFFICULT FOR ME..
Well as a violin player.....
EVERYTHING IS DIFFICULT FOR ME TOO....
(*cries*)
As guitarist player, i dont know what make this piece hard becouse i dont play violin 😂
@@ChristineEliz oh no i feel bad for ya
TwoSet: pieces that sound hard but is not that hard
Me: I BET SUMMER IS GONNA BE ON THE FIRST ONE
Gurl...you are psychic😂👏🏻
You're so clever...
This and flight of the bumblebee were the first thing that came into my mind... I was not wrong
@@megumin4564 sammeeeeeee!!! But I thought they would play bumblebee sacrilegiously
@@soranehina they should've lol
Next video: Pieces that look a lot easier than they are
1. Bach Fugue
2. Bach Largo
3. Bach Allemande
4. Bach Courante
5. Bach Sarabande
6. Bach Gigue
7. ... well, you know how it goes on 😅
Also, any Mozart concerto
@@anonymousperson2948 true lol
Although I think that the hardest part in Mozart's music is exactly that making sound easy and elegant when it's actually not
true, I m currently learning the Bach Gigiue and the hard part interpreting it and maing it sound good
Does anyone look at a Bach Fugue and go, "Oh, that sounds easy"?
@@Aaron-xq6hv it looks super hard but when you try to play it you realize it's not just super hard but insanely hard 😅
this is kinda unrelated to the video, but watching this made me realise twoset handles the youtube algorithm really well compared to other channels. they post very often, making use of shorter videos like this one, but although these videos may take lesser time to produce, they still bring almost the same amount of quality content to the table and that's really amazing to me
I will say out of all of the overplayed ones here the one I get tired of hearing the least, despite playing it myself on piano, is hungarian dance 5, that piece is so swingy and with such a fun energy
Same for me!
I agree! What a fun melody!
If they're overplayed, its indeed bcs they're good anyway ! So ye, lets keep loving summer presto !
@@MatoVidovic_ absolutely! Will never get tired of the insane drop at the start of Winter too, I've listened to a lot of metal and really they invented nothing Vivaldi did it hundreds of years ago aha
@@shaetane wasn't Vivaldi a virtuoso violinist? which of his pieces are the most virtuosic?
I think I've said this before but, i sometimes forget how damn good they actually are at violin then they make videos like this. "Easy" pieces or not, they're wonderful.
Hearing Flight of the bumblebee played at a normal speed feels very weird after everything we've heard
That Csardas never fails to get me, THE SOUND IS SO THICCCCC
I love when they remind us that they are not just memers, but educated, high level musicians.
Ok now that's a term I wish I thought of before. "Low-effort, high-value".
these are the pieces you play for your family on new years when you need to let them know youre not out of talent yet
I totally agree! I’ve been teaching myself violin and chose Czardas because I had an intuition that it was doable even though it sounds hard.
I already know Flight of the Bumblebee is gonna be here
And Vivaldi summer
Loved this content! Actually, love it whenever TwoSet plays like virtuosos! 😉
They "are" virtuosos, lol.
i feel like everyone keeps forgetting the "value" part of thid vid lol they're not saying these pieces are "easy," they're saying that relative to how impressive they sound it's easiER than other pieces
easy doesn't mean "anyone can play this no problem" or "this is something that even beginnerd can play right off the bat " obviously you still need to practice somewhat
anyway great vid! it's always super cool seeing twoset play sincerely
From my experience here's the piano version:
Canon in D
Summer by Joe Hisaishi
The pirates of the carribean soundtrack
And just about any pop song with basic LH accompaniment (1-5 block chords, 1-5-1 arpeggio etc)
brett's new haircut is so cute!!
Typical Asian schoolkid hairstyle
Always love watching these two perform. It's nice to hear more of each piece as well, ty
Thanks for this video, now I can impress my family for new year🤣
i don't know about you but i simply adore looking at them doing the thing they love the most, it's so refreshing and heart warming how much passion they have, i can't get enough of them, really
Okay so I've played violin for only two years, and when I saw this video:
Oh yaaay maybe I can play some of these!
Also me when watching the video: *Emotional, damage, emotional, damage!*
I love you twosetviolin!❤
Same. I've been learning for one year and all 6 pieces are not accessible to me 🤣
I used to learn steep my first 6-8months and then I plateaud for 7 months. My teacher moved and I quit. My violin is buried in my room somewhere underneath the hoard 🤦♀️🤷♀️
after 8 months, I can finally play twinkle twinkle little star without my dog howling! I feel so proud of myself! I am not giving up! I do have rheumatoid arthritis and my hands look like tree branches but is okay, my doctor says is a great exercise for them. I am not giving up. Don't you either! You will play these, just keep practicing! just remember to practice smart not hard!!!
@@ealston0826 Thank you! 😊
@@MsTemperTantrum739 💗💗💗
Brett's haircut really puts the "bang" in brettybang ✨
I know these pieces are easy. But interestingly they get across the feelings very well too.
"easy"
“Oh, you play violin? Can you play Summer by Vivaldi? that’s like the hardest piece ever”
**emotional damage** Sure
Something that I totally play in front of my relatives over our Spring Festival family gathering to make my parents proud lol Thanks!
Paganini and Liszt would be like : 6 pieces that sound really easy but are insanely hard to play.
Yas
They do sound difficult tho…. Haha
It was beautiful seeing your movements and expressions during these ‘value’ pieces. Great job guys!
Let’s just appreciate them for uploading very frequently this start of year
What if ur crush is musically knowlagable
Sometimes I forget they are actually professional musicians
*well... as a person who doesn't play any instruments but watches twosetviolin, i'm pretty sure that all of these are EXTREMELY HARD.* 😭😭😭
Been meaning to ask this for a year, but can you two react to the "classical" music from Brigerton? If you haven't seen it, it's a period piece on Netflix, and while i'm not a fan of the show itself, they do a number of classical renditions of modern day pop songs that sound amazing.
Thank you for playing for us, we love hearing you play!
I love it when they stop talking and simply let rip on their violins. Just great! More of this please. 👍🏻🇬🇧
These pieces ain’t easy at all
They ment easy for violinist
Yeah they aren't... They might perhaps sound more impressive than their actual difficulty, but it would certainly take a long time for most people to learn them
He never said easy, they aren’t as hard as they sound
Adding on to the "WOW" list effect: Raise the eye brows and make full on facial expressions for better results
This is very accurate. Theyre tough for me (played for about 11 years) but theyre learnable and showy. People like to listen to them!
*TwoSet playing bumblebee really nicely*
Me: Finally, the time has came
yes the time has came
Ngl I love hearing Brett playing Hungarian Dance. It sounds so nice. But all pieces sounded amazing. Reminds me that these guys have talent.
Brett and Eddy should do more of those masterclass-videoes where they teach us how to play or conduct like different musicians. Love the previous ones, very funny
Definitely got that WOW factor you two. Keep up the beautiful playing 🎻💜
Me : shreds a piece
People around me who don't know classical music : WOooAHHHhHHHhhhH
Love these pieces because you can relax and enjoy the performance more and the audience is still amazed. Win-win scenario.
'Good Value pieces if you PRACTICE" to be more precise. XD
Because seeing how Brett plays Csardas and Eddy's Summer, with those clean and precise notes and with such musicality ain't just something you get right away lol. Still sometimes, even if you don't want to perform for other, practicing these high values pieces are in itself, quite rewarding!
Meanwhile I'm happy since this is another vid with more violin playing.
I wish they talked about what makes these pieces sound harder than they are. I thought the arpeggios in Summer would make it hard but I guess not? 🤔
Well in Summer you have a lot of repetition of the same note and even a lot of open strings, which means you don't really have to coordinate both hands, since all you do is move the bow.
Also there aren't many shifts, which also makes it easier
Virtuosity is often easier than complexity. Anybody who has played both rock and jazz (with jazz being harder) can tell you about it.
In summer, most of the runs and and arpeggios are in the same position and its also in a friendly key. Basically if you know your scales its not to difficult
I played Banjo and Fiddle last year I never thought Twoset actually knew about it. Great pice I recommend you try and play it. Its fun and a light piece doesn’t need much practice.
Love this type of content that is more about learning something about classic music without giggling and overreacting i humbly ask for more!
Remember, it's not that the pieces are easy; it's that they aren't as difficult as they sound. It's the opposite of the pieces that sound easy, but are somehow harder than the ones played here, usually slow music.
Your definition “easy” does not match my definition of easy.😂
Eddy and Brett played so well🥺 Really enjoyed listening to them!
they're just destroying my self esteem saying the pieces i find difficult to play are actually easy
This pieces may be achievable avg to be played within 3-4 years of intense (serious) classical music training; intermediate level but with that wow factor.
They sound cool and not insanely hard to play decently.
True, even I with 10 years of non serious and even almost dropping at some point did play some of them so if i can do it with that poor experience most should be able to x)
you guys should react to Apashe where he combines classical music and edm professionally, it's a worthy reacting video especially from a channel like you guys
Accept also made a classical/rock album
Yay thanks for another violin playing video! I also like the addition of a fun short intro :)
Alternate title: pieces to play when your parents ask you to play for your guests
prerequisite: be able to play clean double stops
Alternate title: America's Got Talent Starter Set
Me (click on video): finally some pieces for me!
Me (after watching): nah, not for me... goes back to Suzuki 4
Playing slow is often more difficult than fast!
If you can play it quickly, you can play it slowly
I feel like it depends on the instrument. I'm not trying to refute your statement or anything, but when I played trombone, it was the opposite for me. It was easier to play things that were a slow tempo compared to a fast tempo. I'm not sure if you're just talking about violins/string instruments, but in my experience, it's the opposite.
@@humanbeing2360 the thing is slow songs/pieces require more musicality. If you play summer super fast you don’t have to worry as much about tone quality of each note or vibrato or phrasing. But if you’re playing a slow piece If you don’t focus on phrasing, vibrato, and tone it just sounds dead
@@lik7953 Exactly. Because in fast pieces you can cover all your mistakes easily and you won't have to worry about cleaning the voices much.
I love TwoSet playing longer pieces. I always hear snippet of these pieces in a bunch of videos
My brother played Vivaldi's Summer in his school festival and got standing ovation. According to his classmates, he then went backstage and said "easy peasy", after which he was whacked by the music teacher.
Fast forward 9 years later, I played Moonlight Sonata, 3rd movement, to the same audience since my siblings and I all went to the same high school, and the young music teacher actually went on the stage to tell me that "that is not Moonlight Sonata". The old music teacher, which was also the teacher who whacked my brother, just stared at him in pure disbelief, before announcing loudly that what I played was also Moonlight Sonata, and proceeded to explain the different movements that exist in classical music, and if a damn music teacher doesn't understand that, he ought to repeat his schooling.
I actually beleive that it takes real genius to make a piece (or even a song in modern era) that sounds soo impressive and majestic and yet it is nothing fancy or over complicated
Playlist for this video is up on TwoSet Playlists channel with as much sheet music as I could find. If the pieces are harder than they sound, we should be able to play along, right? /jk these pieces are not really easy. Good luck!
The only piece that my friends consider to be difficult is Summer istg. But at least when I play it, they look at me as though I am a professional 😌 (also, I’m finally early to a twoset vid, yay!)
YASSS THE ONLY SUNDAY FLEX WE WANTTTTT 😍😍😍
ALSO: Okay, Brett, tell me where the fountain of youth is. I demand you explain to us why you are aging backwards 😤😤😤
people are always so impressed by fast parts but usually it's the slow parts that wreck me 😭 most quick parts are just some variation of scales i've done a million times before BUT THE COUNTING ON SLOW PARTS-
"do u wanna impress ur crush?"
when ur crush is a better violinst than you are: no thanks :)
I read the title and immediately knew summer was going to be here lol
1 piece that sounds easy and it actually is (4'33'' by John Cage)
suits for all kinds of instrument (not only musical instruments) {lol}
"Do I want to impress my crush but don't have time to practice???"
The only crushes I want to impress are you two
それぞれけっこう長く弾いていてくれて嬉しい！
Khatchaturian's Toccata (piano) also sounds way harder than it is. Lays super well on the fingers.
Summer looks like a god level piece to me, a non musician
I can assure you it's not even close.
Summer is probably the easiest one in this list
same
- a musician but non-violinist
@@indokid5311 As a percussionist myself, I can confirm that.
@@BeeRider500 I think so too... Or maybe bumblebee
1:35 Lady Gaga-Alejandro anyone
Alejandro by Lady Gaga samples this at the funeral in the music video intro
The violin in the intro is playing it