Ex-Orchestral Violinists Answer Most Googled Questions About Orchestra

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  • @remus5263
    @remus5263 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2941

    "Why do orchestras need sheet music?"
    So that they can print it out on a shirt and wear it....

    • @litybae
      @litybae 3 ปีที่แล้ว +190

      *Sponsored by Twoset Apparel*

    • @Sonali-bn8xd
      @Sonali-bn8xd 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      Underrated comment.

    • @pierfrancescopeperoni
      @pierfrancescopeperoni 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@Sonali-bn8xd Underrated reply to underrated comment.

    • @hipickle1151
      @hipickle1151 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      And now kiddies. this is called sponsoring

    • @brassholio
      @brassholio 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      And to be perfectly honest, professional musicians don't get a lot of rehearsal. Certainly not enough to memorise a whole symphony. I used to gig on cruise ships and I would literally get my music for the sound check and do the first show an hour later.

  • @ctthes
    @ctthes 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5284

    Twoset: answers commonly googled questions
    Also twoset: googles to obtain answers to commonly googled questions

  • @user-et2mn1tc3x
    @user-et2mn1tc3x 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4539

    Love how the title specifies “ex-orchestral violinists” instead of “ex-orchestral musicians” because this video is peak violinist energy 😂

    • @whoami6601
      @whoami6601 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Really? They don't play in an orchestra anymore?

    • @nicolelee3441
      @nicolelee3441 3 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      @@whoami6601 im pretty sure they’re soloists now or play in quartets, but im not sure

    • @l.s.8793
      @l.s.8793 3 ปีที่แล้ว +128

      @@whoami6601 they’re not in any orchestras anymore as they’re you tubers now. Where would they find the time to play whole symphonies when making videos so often?

    • @user-et2mn1tc3x
      @user-et2mn1tc3x 3 ปีที่แล้ว +86

      @@whoami6601 yea they quit their orchestra jobs in I think 2016? to become full time youtubers and do their own tours

    • @whoami6601
      @whoami6601 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@user-et2mn1tc3x Ah, I didn't know! Stumbled upon their channel just recently. Thanx for the info!

  • @tomforsythe7024
    @tomforsythe7024 3 ปีที่แล้ว +860

    Conductors are only there to keep the violinists and violists from fighting. That's why he has a stick.

    • @august1837
      @august1837 3 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      And also throwing the stick at anyone that messes up

    • @Megan4434
      @Megan4434 3 ปีที่แล้ว +107

      The stick is also used for executing the worst punishment ever...
      *singling you out*

    • @tomforsythe7024
      @tomforsythe7024 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@Megan4434 You win the Internet.

    • @RhapsodyOfJoy
      @RhapsodyOfJoy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      🤣

    • @Shirkyu
      @Shirkyu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      😂😂😂😂

  • @josiecunningham3362
    @josiecunningham3362 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3494

    Steps to TwoSet answering questions:
    1) Sarcastic answer
    2) Joke at any instrument not violin
    3) Nah, but seriously the answer is... *Gives comprehensive and interesting answer*

    • @shainakalesh
      @shainakalesh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      True😂😂

    • @lulcy789
      @lulcy789 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      300th like pog

    • @ekuaosei337
      @ekuaosei337 3 ปีที่แล้ว +102

      You forgot step 2.5: Go off-topic for a bit 😂

    • @tahasarviha5235
      @tahasarviha5235 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hahahahah yes 😂😂

    • @newyorkyankees81
      @newyorkyankees81 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😃😃😃😃😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚

  • @abigail40
    @abigail40 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3453

    “Because when there’s music there’s electricity and when there’s electricity you have to conduct it”
    *a truer word has not been spoken*

    • @jorgefraile218
      @jorgefraile218 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      LMAO

    • @abdullahchaus2500
      @abdullahchaus2500 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      Eddy chen master of words 😌

    • @musicisamazing8349
      @musicisamazing8349 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Hahaha, I understand now. Should make that my new bio

    • @judemaus2356
      @judemaus2356 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Two-Set PLEASE do a merch for that, I'd he the first one to buy it.

    • @IceOfPhoenix88
      @IceOfPhoenix88 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It actually is a good analogy

  • @katieflute
    @katieflute 3 ปีที่แล้ว +562

    "the more attractive instruments are in the front"
    me a flute player: 😤
    "flutes have a stand so you can see them more than the violas"
    me: 😃

    • @RHTQ1
      @RHTQ1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      As a violist this makes me sad XD

    • @itdoesntmatteriknowthatyou3161
      @itdoesntmatteriknowthatyou3161 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Hey there Katie, love you and your vids

    • @blueprintsymphonic
      @blueprintsymphonic 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Flute gang 😍

    • @mercy5056
      @mercy5056 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      the fact you wanted to be a viola and chose flute instead makes this funnier to me 🤣

    • @montealegreluis5983
      @montealegreluis5983 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Flutes are the most atractives 😍😍

  • @huh6583
    @huh6583 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4003

    Let’s appreciate that editor-San has to edit everyday 40 hours 🙌

    • @samhan8016
      @samhan8016 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      RESPECT *1000*

    • @huh6583
      @huh6583 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@samhan8016 YES

    • @stjacquesremi
      @stjacquesremi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Respecc editor-san!

    • @emanuelebabici
      @emanuelebabici 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      I feel bad for Editor-San because few weeks ago I commented about how she loves putting Prokofiev's 1st Symphony at the end, and ever since then she's changed music in each video... RESPECT for editor-san, expecially when she had to do the "O fortuna" with toys, or the 5th symphony...

    • @elifgokcen2560
      @elifgokcen2560 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      A correcting, it should be editor-san "has" to edit everyday but yeah mad respect

  • @megumin4564
    @megumin4564 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1785

    This is a mix between twoset being serious and sarcastic at the same time

    • @emilyrosenfeldt1641
      @emilyrosenfeldt1641 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      I’m terrible at sarcasm too, so I was stressed every time they started joking around! Hahaha 🤣

    • @chillpill2016
      @chillpill2016 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Ikr it’s perfect.

    • @dan-us6nk
      @dan-us6nk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Editor-san saved them every time though.

    • @RolandHutchinson
      @RolandHutchinson 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      So, pretty much like every other Twoset video, then?

    • @blue_leader_5756
      @blue_leader_5756 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Is it ever not?

  • @arnolemay2175
    @arnolemay2175 3 ปีที่แล้ว +840

    Someone: hey i have a question about orchestra
    Twoset: go ahead
    Someone: Why does-
    Twoset: VIOLIN SUPERIOR

    • @susanbryant6516
      @susanbryant6516 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      At least they are consistent in their response.

    • @ILikeBirds
      @ILikeBirds 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@susanbryant6516 LoL true

    • @carolhayes7750
      @carolhayes7750 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      EPIC! LOL.

    • @elisekim1217
      @elisekim1217 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      1

    • @charlietian4023
      @charlietian4023 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      which makes them almost unqualified to answer non violinist questions esp the conductor ones

  • @kiranbernard7214
    @kiranbernard7214 3 ปีที่แล้ว +929

    Eddy:"Violinists have a lot of notes to remember".
    Me, a pianist: *laughs quietly*

  • @dharinir1660
    @dharinir1660 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1516

    Question _liszt_
    0:13 : Why do orchestras need conductors?
    3:26 : Why do orchestras tune to oboe?
    4:06 : Why do orchestras tune to a440?
    5:16 : Why do orchestras need sheet music?
    6:26 :Do orchestral musicians get paid?
    8:03 :Why are orchestras arranged the way they are?
    9:57 : Why do orchestra conductors use batons?
    11:24 :Why is the concertmaster -an- a violinist?
    13:15 :Why does the conductor walk in and out so many times in a symphony concert?
    Best answers out there😎❤️

    • @laurenspring1628
      @laurenspring1628 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Thank you!

    • @adanmartinezpiano
      @adanmartinezpiano 3 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      Liszt...

    • @politikilter6446
      @politikilter6446 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      I've been trying to question Liszt for quite some time.... 😎

    • @sapphireblue4031
      @sapphireblue4031 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@politikilter6446 I thought there were no more necromancers left after the Purge

    • @WillRose3
      @WillRose3 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      2:41 Eddy looks twice as big as Brett, looking like he could crush Brett like an ogre.

  • @YuliaFok
    @YuliaFok 3 ปีที่แล้ว +592

    Gergiev uses a toothpick because he lost a bet. He was so sure that he was right, that he said that if he's wrong he will conduct with a toothpick for the rest of his life. He lost. He once conducted with the back of a plastic spoon because he couldn't find a toothpick.
    My sister is at the mariinsky and apparently gergiev's hand movements are quite easy to understand when you're in the orchestra.

    • @MsLm97
      @MsLm97 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      Ohmygod really?!?
      Now I need to know what the bet was about

    • @YuliaFok
      @YuliaFok 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      @@MsLm97 I believe there's a written interview somewhere where he talked about it, but I don't know if he actually revealed what the bet was

    • @crystallizedsyrup7594
      @crystallizedsyrup7594 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      isn't it because he lost his grip oftenly and accidentally threw the baton when using it?

    • @floof_croissant
      @floof_croissant 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      I can’t believe he respects the bet so much that he used a spoon

    • @natekite7795
      @natekite7795 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Can you offer a source? The only explanation I'd ever heard is that he prefers to conduct with his hands, but people criticized that he didn't use a baton, so he started using a toothpick instead.

  • @garfieldsays211
    @garfieldsays211 3 ปีที่แล้ว +743

    pretty sure the orchestra without a conductor would devolve into loud, angry wasp sounds within at least 30 seconds lol

    • @eduardoalcantarasantos6484
      @eduardoalcantarasantos6484 3 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      Le dissonance

    • @TheProstum
      @TheProstum 3 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      Sounds a lot like flight of the bumblebee speedruns

    • @emanuelebabici
      @emanuelebabici 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      I dance flamenco (and play castanets while dancing), and this is what happens whenever we don't have thw music/our teacher clapping the tempo😂😂

    • @mogmason6920
      @mogmason6920 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      So pretty much anything Iannis Xenakis has written then! 😂

    • @no.one.two.
      @no.one.two. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I'm still in my old school's chamber music orchestra and we had to do this once at a school festival because our conductor was busy conducting the brass orchestra on the other side of the school😂 but surprisingly it went pretty well.

  • @kavyamohta2590
    @kavyamohta2590 3 ปีที่แล้ว +455

    “Because when there’s music there’s electricity and when there’s electricity you need to conduct it”
    *you can really tell he got an A+ in high school physics*

    • @Zz59295
      @Zz59295 3 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      I can imagine him getting A+ for literature instead, so metaphorical. 😂

    • @e.6841
      @e.6841 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      what is my school broken we learned this in 5th grade 😭😭😭

    • @Dabiggestmobster
      @Dabiggestmobster 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      If you can generate energy slowly, you can generate energy quickly

  • @croissant1949
    @croissant1949 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1015

    Eddy’s hairstyle is very confusing
    He looks 12, and yet I know he’s in his late 20s

  • @Ivalina21
    @Ivalina21 3 ปีที่แล้ว +536

    New Ling Ling Challenge: Randomly mix the orchestra so that the instruments are not devided by sections anymore and try to play together beautifully!

    • @sleekpiano
      @sleekpiano 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      We actually did that in choir both high school and college level (so prob common practice for voice?). It was really a unique way to manipulate the sound... with an entire orchestra??... epic?? 😉☺️👍

    • @yna1nna
      @yna1nna 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      oh we did that in my junior high and m an, talk about chaos at its finest

    • @ekaterinapodolskaya9278
      @ekaterinapodolskaya9278 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I think it's a great idea

    • @pranaygupta6688
      @pranaygupta6688 3 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      To make it even harder, get rid of the conductor and make the person who happens to land in the concert master's seat the concert master

    • @Marguerite-Rouge
      @Marguerite-Rouge 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      We actually tried that as an exercise to really concentrate on the parts of other sections. It was really instructive !

  • @ctthes
    @ctthes 3 ปีที่แล้ว +456

    Eddy’s haircut plus his intelligence giving me that school senior you have a major crush on vibes 🥲

    • @rsignradio2464
      @rsignradio2464 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Eye glasses too ☺️

    • @subratanandy2142
      @subratanandy2142 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      And that pen

    • @tamaraventer4207
      @tamaraventer4207 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Omg yes I’m now going to cry about the fact that I will never be able to have him brb

    • @dan-us6nk
      @dan-us6nk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I know a girl that used to have a crush on my brother when he was senior year indeed...
      Seeing it from the outside is very
      *INTRESTING*
      especially for 3rd, 4th grade me at the time.
      But one thing I'll never get is how thirsty this community is for the two
      I mean
      I see nothing relationshipable about them
      But
      I won't start asking questions around so
      I'll never know.

    • @gloriasalvador4381
      @gloriasalvador4381 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I meeeeeeean.... you aren't lying

  • @CaoimheViola
    @CaoimheViola 3 ปีที่แล้ว +386

    I remember once when our oboist was sick and I had to tune the orchestra as a flute. That was the loudest I’ve played in my entire life.

    • @abigail40
      @abigail40 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Wao
      How was it XD

    • @CaoimheViola
      @CaoimheViola 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      @@abigail40 it was kinda fun, but I was very glad when the oboe was back

    • @abigail40
      @abigail40 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@CaoimheViola XD
      Wao must hv been quite an experience ;v; I’ll never experience that I’m a violinist

    • @CaoimheViola
      @CaoimheViola 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@abigail40 lucky! I always have to sit by myself ㅜ.ㅜ

    • @abigail40
      @abigail40 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@CaoimheViola ooof the pain felt ;v;
      Tho I don’t mind ever learning flute in my life o>O

  • @GrandNoteGallery
    @GrandNoteGallery 3 ปีที่แล้ว +481

    clicked faster than eddy could flex his perfect pitch

    • @emilydeangelis5382
      @emilydeangelis5382 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Wow, but Brett never flex his perfect pizz, why?😅

    • @GrandNoteGallery
      @GrandNoteGallery 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@emilydeangelis5382 he does but eddy does more 😂

    • @emilydeangelis5382
      @emilydeangelis5382 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@GrandNoteGallery Yes, at least once a month🤣

    • @GrandNoteGallery
      @GrandNoteGallery 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@emilydeangelis5382 yeaa

    • @mintchocolate7583
      @mintchocolate7583 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      That click was an F#

  • @paulshadow5727
    @paulshadow5727 3 ปีที่แล้ว +332

    Any other person would have looked up the answers to the questions beforehand and presented it as one's own knowledge. But they admitted to not knowing the answers and looked it up on spot. Respect increased for that honesty.

    • @user-gu9yq5sj7c
      @user-gu9yq5sj7c ปีที่แล้ว

      What's wrong with looking it up beforehand? I'd rather people do that than try to make up something and that's nonsensical rather than admitting they don't know or to just look it up.

  • @cara1716
    @cara1716 3 ปีที่แล้ว +208

    Brett looks SO FINE in that shirt!

  • @Sykkulogy
    @Sykkulogy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +547

    please do most asked questions about Brett and Eddy next !

    • @lacrimis_solis
      @lacrimis_solis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Yeah

    • @Kim-vc3mv
      @Kim-vc3mv 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Yes qna pls :)

    • @ep3798
      @ep3798 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Yeah like Wired Autocomplete

    • @abigail40
      @abigail40 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Yes spill the tea 👀

    • @bertieedfy616
      @bertieedfy616 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Oh yeah that would be so cool

  • @antonvlaskin8496
    @antonvlaskin8496 3 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    I like how they explain why conductor is needed but at the same time absolutely confident that everyone is familiar with the concept of concertmaster.

  • @juanarreguin1
    @juanarreguin1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +182

    10:00 In the Baroque period, the predecessor of the baton was a long conducting staff that would be struck on the floor on every beat to keep time for the orchestra. It all changed when composer Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687) accidentally pierced the staff through his foot and later died from refusing to treat it.

    • @sandraryang
      @sandraryang 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      arghhhhhhhhhhh nice

    • @shela404
      @shela404 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      ah. classic jean-baptiste

    • @monicazheng529
      @monicazheng529 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I was hoping that they'd mention this so I'm glad I'm seeing it in the comments! I think he was in the Baroque era though.

    • @juanarreguin1
      @juanarreguin1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@monicazheng529 oh you’re totally right, my bad, I’ll fix it

    • @tudorpop8959
      @tudorpop8959 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Also, modern drum majors (sort of military conductors) use a mace or a staff when conducting. Same with the baroque-era staff they are inspired from the mehtaran (Ottoman military band), which traditionally uses such a staff for conducting.

  • @firstnamelastname4019
    @firstnamelastname4019 3 ปีที่แล้ว +254

    A percussionist in a professional, well-known orchestra said in an interview that "the percussionists yield so much energy that if they came at the wrong time, they would blow up the entire performance. They could screw up their colleagues' hard work in a matter of time". Kind of imagine if the hammer blow in the Mahler 6 was late, man, the whole performance would suck.

    • @sarahroch5565
      @sarahroch5565 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      What orchestra?

    • @tamasjuhasz6331
      @tamasjuhasz6331 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I would really like to like your comment but it has 69 likes, and I just can't ruin that.

  • @confidentialcat
    @confidentialcat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +373

    Please do a "twosetviolin answers the most googled questions about twosetviolin"!!

  • @kurniasetyaa5162
    @kurniasetyaa5162 3 ปีที่แล้ว +245

    Violinist : "we have a lot of Notes, we need shee- "
    Pianist who play a whole piano concerto : "oh."

    • @lynnnalee9866
      @lynnnalee9866 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      I mean violinists that play violin concertos also memorise their music...
      And likewise, rarely you see collaborative pianist play without sheet music

    • @sebbisdee2177
      @sebbisdee2177 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Yeah but solo pianists got to memorise double the notes than any other soloist

    • @lynnnalee9866
      @lynnnalee9866 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      @@sebbisdee2177 as a pianist I can tell you.. we don’t memorise “all the notes” (or at least people without perfect pitch like me lol) we have our muscle memories do the thing if anything xD

    • @Nico-ds3uo
      @Nico-ds3uo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@lynnnalee9866 MUSCLE MEMORY HAS SAVED ME AND FAILED ME A LOT

    • @mMonazzzLindozz
      @mMonazzzLindozz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Actually, memorizing a whole concerto is easier because you are always playing the main melody.

  • @bluelagoon1980
    @bluelagoon1980 3 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    I always assumed that conductors use batons to secretly feel like wizards who magically make music, so it's nice to feel validated.

    • @RolandHutchinson
      @RolandHutchinson 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It's not supposed to be a secret. Their publicists want everybody to think they actually are wizards. (And indeed a few are.)

  • @mashuzerosu
    @mashuzerosu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +120

    me: yeah i'll go to sleep, im sleepy
    twoset: **posts**
    me: maybe im not sleepy anymore

  • @MsHarderbetterfaster
    @MsHarderbetterfaster 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    "is this even english?"
    I spit out my tea before Brett even opended his mouth hahaha
    Man, every video I keep falling more in love with Editor-san

  • @kavyamohta2590
    @kavyamohta2590 3 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    I love professors Chen and Yang, I adore them. This non-musician plebian appreciates your explanations

  • @gre6608
    @gre6608 3 ปีที่แล้ว +150

    not me thinking dads wouldn't drop a video tonight

    • @crumbsonthefloor195
      @crumbsonthefloor195 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same

    • @e.6841
      @e.6841 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      it’s currently the morning in America

    • @ziziyao1051
      @ziziyao1051 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      omg lol same.

    • @justanotherlinglingwannabe546
      @justanotherlinglingwannabe546 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ikr!

    • @newyorkyankees81
      @newyorkyankees81 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚

  • @Naokirii_77
    @Naokirii_77 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Brett smiling more just brights up my day

  • @adoragrayskull6466
    @adoragrayskull6466 3 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    “Because when there’s music there’s electricity and when there’s electricity you have to conduct it.”
    Uh huh. Uh huh. *takes notes*

  • @classiteam3643
    @classiteam3643 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    I've never left twosetviolin so fast to watch a new twoset video

  • @andrewhcit
    @andrewhcit 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    "Why are orchestras arranged the way they are?"
    To add a little to the answer, it actually didn't become standardized until the 20th century! Historical seating charts before 1900 are all over the place. For example, Brahms preferred to have the 1st and 2nd violins opposite each other, the violas in the center, and the cellos up on the risers next to the woodwinds.
    Even now, there are two common arrangements: 1st-2nd-viola-cello is still referred to in some parts of Europe as "American" seating because it originated in the US, and 1st and 2nd violins opposite one another is commonly called "Vienna" seating because it is used by the Vienna Philharmonic.
    The reason some orchestras prefer Vienna seating is that many composers like to pass melodic material back and forth between the 1st and 2nd violins, and putting them opposite each other creates an antiphonal effect where the audience hears the melody from the left, then from the right, then from the left, and so on.

    • @leytrance3233
      @leytrance3233 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      yeah. i was actually anticipating them to answer this. I read something about this before in our history class

  • @bookaholic1431
    @bookaholic1431 3 ปีที่แล้ว +243

    This channel attracts me like magnets. Where my piano gang at?👀

  • @COOL_GEEK_
    @COOL_GEEK_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +110

    I really like TwoSet because they roast fake classical performances and bad classical music depiction in mainstream media and give valuable information about classical music, while also being funny and entertaining at the same time.......Hope you guys have a long and successful career as TH-camrs.......👍

    • @j.carter6449
      @j.carter6449 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      They also roast us violas😔 (just kidding of course, I know it's all in good fun)

  • @iamwynnosaur6633
    @iamwynnosaur6633 3 ปีที่แล้ว +80

    My crush on eddy was just started to calm but then he had a haircut and this video came out. I'm gonna die single.

    • @meilisaamalia9660
      @meilisaamalia9660 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Trueeee

    • @eliskatesarova3104
      @eliskatesarova3104 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I'm not even straight and I have a crush on Eddy now that he has a new haircut

    • @vanivashisht7305
      @vanivashisht7305 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I've been crushing on him for months, and I don't think I'm getting over it anytime soon.😔

    • @tteee7241
      @tteee7241 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Y’all need to chill.

  • @chemmusic7173
    @chemmusic7173 3 ปีที่แล้ว +90

    I love how twoset never run out of contents.

  • @federicoandre5717
    @federicoandre5717 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Sorry guys, but the reason the Oboe is used to tune is not because of the penetrating sound, but because it has the most stable pitch of all instruments in the orchestra (supposedly). It's true that the volume also helps when an entire section is tuning, but if you wanted a penetrating sound, you would use a trumpet, or a flute; however, because of the overtones (harmonics)/color, it's harder for musicians to match their instruments to the correct pitch, because of the way the ear perceives it (kind of fluctuating between higher and lower). And yet, some wind ensembles will use the clarinet instead of the oboe to provide the reference pitch, but this could be because winds in general tune to a Bb, or F (because most of them are transposing instruments)

  • @maggiepie8810
    @maggiepie8810 3 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    As someone who's been singing a lot in choirs, I love the conductor question. Now I'll have nightmares about conductor-free concerts.

    • @catw4729
      @catw4729 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      But don’t you find on the day of the concert the conductor forgets your existence?

    • @gwennygrausamt
      @gwennygrausamt 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The choir getting slower and slower because everyone waited for the moment to progress in the piece and it just gets relayed more and more. No conductor in sight to scream at them that they should stop falling asleep…

    • @debrawhited3035
      @debrawhited3035 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Or...even with a Conductor...the people who won't take their eyes off their music - even though they have been singing it for decades, and know it backwards and forwards - and never watch the Conductor, so no one ends at the same time.

  • @vivianl7875
    @vivianl7875 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Edu-ma-cate...
    A new word I learned today

  • @redfoxakame
    @redfoxakame 3 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    Eddy and Brett have been uploading a lot lately. Thank you very much! I love you two! 😘❤

  • @sihplak
    @sihplak 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    9:15 I think it's for a few reasons. At the back, the back resonating walls help amplify the percussion section so that quiet notes will still have effect. Along with this, try to imagine setting up percussion anywhere else in the orchestra (or in a wind ensemble) and it working. Marimba, xylophone, snare drum, crash cymbals, bass drum, tam-tam, etc; percussion needs a LOT of horizontal space to move between instruments, especially for contemporary music.

  • @Exayevie
    @Exayevie ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Violinists: "Let's look at this as cents per note"
    Pianists: OKAY!

  • @pingpongwonton6239
    @pingpongwonton6239 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    My 2 favorite music teachers

  • @nandinipancholi8194
    @nandinipancholi8194 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    i finally talked with my mom for getting the merch!!!!! and guess what! she said yes!!!!!!!! it'll be the best birthday gift of my life!!!!!!! nooooooooo!!!!!!!! i'm screaming, jumping, dancing!!!!!! imagine my reaction when it'll be in my hands!!!!!!!!
    my heartbeat is popping off!!!!!
    yayyyyyyyy

    • @annapoornap5664
      @annapoornap5664 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I'm so happy for you! I really want their merch,but my parents say that twoset apparel is too expensive,and that there's a site called redbubble where I can get their merch...........I'm in India,and I don't know about the authenticity of redbubble. Do you know anything about it,by any chance?

    • @nandinipancholi8194
      @nandinipancholi8194 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@annapoornap5664 i mean yeah, there are some stuffs on redbubble, but its not their official merch, if u want it, u can go for it, but just that its not official twoset merch. twoset apparel is the only site of official merch. im from india too and its my bday in july, so they cant say no to me haha, even they said its expensive, but they also know how much i love twoset, so they'll buy me :)
      i hope u get yours too someday :)
      keep asking haha :) they'll agree :)
      ps: try it on your bday

    • @Janina8134
      @Janina8134 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I think I have seen you post on Reddit as well! Your excitement is infectious, very happy for you

    • @nandinipancholi8194
      @nandinipancholi8194 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Janina8134 ohh yess! hello lingling wannabe :)

    • @nandinipancholi8194
      @nandinipancholi8194 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@katieramirez1778 i hope u get yours too really soon :) even my brother said that i should put that money in my music theory books, but i said no! XD i can buy the books anytime and im definitely going to get them in the future, but i can't replace merch for anything!!!!

  • @cr7fanatic164
    @cr7fanatic164 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Wired: Doesn't invite twoset
    Twoset: Fine, we'll do it ourselves

  • @sabrinai
    @sabrinai 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Brett's math ability: not being able to read numbers anymore XD

  • @abrahamjacob6919
    @abrahamjacob6919 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Thank you twoset for Edu-ma-cating us ❤️

  • @samtarver8446
    @samtarver8446 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    "who looks at the percussion?" Excuse me?! Percussion is by far the most fun to watch!

  • @davidnoranavascues4489
    @davidnoranavascues4489 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    Alternative title: Eddy violently bullying percussion players, but based.

  • @simpbelius
    @simpbelius 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    i learned more on this 15 min video than the 10 month long study of music in my zoom class

  • @hannahfarr7758
    @hannahfarr7758 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I’m from Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. We have one of the very few youth symphonies that are completely free for all students, you just have to audition to get in. We’re able to join for free through donations and such, and it’s so cool. I really hope this kind of program can spread to other places as not everyone has that luxury.

  • @raythelwyn
    @raythelwyn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    _Getting educated with professor Brett and Eddy_

  • @AmazingJuliann
    @AmazingJuliann 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Alternate title Twoset talking about how great the violin is for 15 minutes straight.

  • @mrk131324
    @mrk131324 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    The conductor going on and off stage during applause is called a „curtain“ in lieu of a real curtain as there would be in the theater. Counting the curtains used to be an important measurement for the success of a performance. Like „Shostakovich‘s 4 th received 56 curtains“ (such numbers did happen!). So doing this is still relevant to give the applause phase of the concert a certain structure. It is the stages masters job (if there is one) to decide if to continue curtains.

  • @laureese4288
    @laureese4288 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Can you do a most asked questions about twosetviolin next 😳

  • @tomaszmazurek64
    @tomaszmazurek64 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I have a nagging suspicion that because conductors need to stand up all the time and they are often a bit older people, they've introduced this tradition of walking out just so they can sit down for a second.

  • @OnboardG1
    @OnboardG1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    NGL every concert I’ve been to the Cellists are the most beautiful people. Like a bunch of glamorous secret agents all under cover.

  • @almondmilk4915
    @almondmilk4915 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    5:39 captions
    "you're playing _pasta_ not the melody."
    we have a new instrument to rival the mayonnaise

  • @mailysmichiels8872
    @mailysmichiels8872 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I love how Editor san puts Minuet every time twoset explains something.

  • @elisenguyen9861
    @elisenguyen9861 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    TwoSet honestly makes great podcast content

  • @almondmilk4915
    @almondmilk4915 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    12:46 "and the violence is the best most important instrument"
    subtitle - san leaving cryptic codes

  • @steamedbryce
    @steamedbryce 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    4:02 Brass gang, we've been attacked. But he's not wrong

  • @ayane8050
    @ayane8050 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I knew a pianist in my high school who memorized the sheet music for a musical. All the entrances. I had so much respect for her. (Esp after taking her place after she graduated; I tried playing for memory just for fun but it was impossible.)

    • @anna_in_aotearoa3166
      @anna_in_aotearoa3166 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I memorized basically the whole of my part in Handel's Messiah (as a soprano in a large community choir), but it wasn't exactly by choice! 😅 I had super-bad RSI/OOS in both arms at the time, so couldnt hold up the music book, and there simply wasn't enough space to wedge a music stand into that crowd of packed chairs... Would've been way harder to manage as an alto, tho! Thankfully, sopranos generally carry the melody line.
      This was also the era in which I typed out several uni papers on an electric typewriter using pencils held between my toes...🙄 The voice-to-speech software of that era was really crappy, so I kinda ran out of options!
      Let me highly recommend doing lots of stretches, & avoiding repetitive + heavy-lifting jobs if you possibly can!! 🤦🏻‍♀️

  • @madonbarma2531
    @madonbarma2531 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    This actually feels like a Master class by Eddy And Brett.....

  • @marichristian1072
    @marichristian1072 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Really good answers. Conductors have to be able to read every orchestral part, rehearse with the orchestra, interpret the piece of music. They deserve every penny. Also, the oboe is usually the best paid member of the orchestra. My roommate at university was an oboist and it's an incredibly difficult instrument to learn. I'm a cellist and she would remark that I made funny faces when I practiced. I didn't tell her that she sometimes sounded like a duck when she practiced.

  • @ChristianRivera22
    @ChristianRivera22 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Answering to "Why orchestra conductors use a baton?", the most common reason is because the baton imitates the bow of the string players (mostly violins) and the motion they do resembles the bowing so everyone is "synced", it's also more noticeable when there's a big orchestra. That's also the reason why choir conductors don't use one :)

    • @ydgames4291
      @ydgames4291 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And also said by another commenter: in the Baroque period the "conductor" used a staff and would strike it on the floor on beat but it ended when "Jean Baptiste Lully"
      Pierced his foot and later died due to him refusing to treat it.

    • @ydgames4291
      @ydgames4291 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      And if I remember correctly Lully was one of the first to increase the size of an orchestra and was known for his "Vin quatre violons du roi" which translates to "24 king's violin"

  • @fluffernutter9420
    @fluffernutter9420 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    4:12 The "WHAT" KILLED ME LMFAO

  • @GeekTeach
    @GeekTeach 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Interesting answer related to A440 - a concert pitch was actually in the Treaty of Versailles. Yes, WWI was fought primarily to bring forth the tuning of 440. Actually, the Treaty of Versailles states 435. But it was the first attempt at establishing the concert pitch. In 1936, the American Standards association selected A440 - Americans..... (Act of defiance against the Treaty of Versailles?) Prior to this point, tuning was established by the largest organ in town - because of all of the instruments in the orchestra, the hardest one to tune is an organ.

  • @jasmine_lkl8717
    @jasmine_lkl8717 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    The coming in n out thing happens on ballets as well. The curtains will raise and dancers will come back out to bow as long as the audiences are still clapping. This happens for as long as the people are clapping. Kinda like “these people won’t leave so let’s bow again to tell them we wanna go home”
    jk it’s to thank the audiences’ love and support. But it do get awkward coz when u bow audiences will start clapping again so its like an infinite loop

  • @AspiringToFailure
    @AspiringToFailure 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Alternative title: The violin is great guys
    I'm here for Brett and Eddy educating us though.
    Plus Brett looking sharp in that shirt and Eddy with his new haircut.

    • @susanbryant6516
      @susanbryant6516 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And Eddy in the Venus shirt too!

    • @AspiringToFailure
      @AspiringToFailure 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@susanbryant6516 controversial opinion: I'm not a big fan of the Venus shirt 😅 but yes Eddy does look good in it.

  • @Dinis_Brito
    @Dinis_Brito 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I especially loved Eddy's description of conducting

  • @yihanwu1126
    @yihanwu1126 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Orchestra tune to oboe because oboe can't manually adjust their intonation with a slider or button. So it's better for the rest of the orchestra to adjust for them.

    • @nonosquare1066
      @nonosquare1066 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      yes!!!!! i was looking through the comments to see if someone wrote that

    • @swankeepers
      @swankeepers 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thank goodness - this is also what I was always taught to understand -- you tune to the oboe because it is so difficult for an oboe to tune itself. "Everybody match the oboe..."

  • @RHTQ1
    @RHTQ1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The music note cover button down is just wonderful

  • @purplecat2630
    @purplecat2630 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I strongly believe that the official reason for using a baton is feeling like a wizard which is cooool
    Also be careful with this freaking thing last concert I had it slipped the conductor's hand and it landed on the violas during the concert😂

  • @chrisoconnor9521
    @chrisoconnor9521 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Recorder Gang appreciates the use of Bach Brandenburg 4 in the background. Holla Recorder Gang!

  • @abigail40
    @abigail40 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Yessss we stan the mix between serious and educational and funny content

  • @cheezy3687
    @cheezy3687 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I’ve already learned enough from twoset skits from like 2018 or 2019

  • @evajulijabelic9717
    @evajulijabelic9717 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Not me watching Twoset every day and then feeling bad for not practicing but still not practicing

  • @michaelmedlinger6399
    @michaelmedlinger6399 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I don't know what frequency they use, but the Vienna Philharmonic is notorious for tuning very high. Plus, the concertmaster and not the oboist plays the tuning note for the orchestra. I know a couple of TH-camrs who will be delighted to hear that!
    And there has been a lot of change over the centuries. A friend of mine had been listening to a lot of baroque music recordings, then went to hear a concert where the group (not using historical instruments) played a piece in A major. It nearly drove him crazy because it sounded to him like B-flat major.

  • @hemanthsingh5996
    @hemanthsingh5996 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Twoset: Answering most googled questions
    Also Twoset: Googling answers to the most googled question

  • @sammk6783
    @sammk6783 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Let us please appreciate Brett's shirt

  • @tidela4714
    @tidela4714 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Oboe here! I’ve been told by my teachers that it’s actually kind of a gift from the orchestra because it’s difficult for us to tune 🤔 Its easier if everyone else matches to us.
    I think I like your Googled explanation more though.

  • @entprince3241
    @entprince3241 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    absolutely love the slightly longer videos

  • @yenyen9699
    @yenyen9699 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    After watching today's video,
    Violinist be like: 😊
    Percussionist be like: 🥲
    Violist be like: 😐

  • @cuckooby
    @cuckooby 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I know it’s been quite a while but every time I pop in twoset new vids I be like:
    DAMN EDDY’S HAIRCUT🔥

  • @anakacicbarisic54
    @anakacicbarisic54 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Can't believe they put Croatian Baroque Ensemble as an example😍 #gocroatia 🇭🇷🇭🇷

    • @josipamatic6085
      @josipamatic6085 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      We have to be proud of our musicians!

  • @ce-le-ste
    @ce-le-ste 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    thank you Editor-San for this gold content, amazing

  • @ediblerosin1247
    @ediblerosin1247 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    my favourite internet detectives

  • @Natsumi-bt5bz
    @Natsumi-bt5bz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Another thing about oboe is that it has to be tuned every few years (according to one of my oboist friend), so it will be almost always tuned as well. So yeah, it's pretty reliable to tune with an oboe !

  • @lidwinayossi6859
    @lidwinayossi6859 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Once i had the experience when the conductor “lost” the tempo and the concertmaster immediately saved the whole orchestra and the choir. I was the singer and even the choir struggle to sing in tempo.

  • @eunicejose9182
    @eunicejose9182 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So thankful for these two here. Love you guys

  • @marycole3879
    @marycole3879 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    ironically as an oboist i’ve always wondered why orchestras tune to the oboe

  • @paavni8642
    @paavni8642 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Petition fr 2set to do most asked questions abt them and a sibling ling ling workout pleass😊

    • @elissahunt
      @elissahunt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I don't think Brett's brother plays anymore. As far as answering most googled questions about themselves, they tend to avoid personal questions and a LOT of things folks google about them are incredibly personal. (Are they a couple? Is Brett married? Does Eddy have a girlfriend/boyfriend?) I just don't see either of these things happening, sorry.

    • @paavni8642
      @paavni8642 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@elissahunt Well I agree with a few things there and Brett's brother does play the cello I think it was in their video where they reviewed their old videos

    • @elissahunt
      @elissahunt 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@paavni8642 Yes, he did play the cello, but I don't think he's played in many years. He's a dentist now.

  • @wegejb
    @wegejb 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The A440 was a part of the Versailles Peace treaty.

  • @elliottblanchardcomposing
    @elliottblanchardcomposing 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    apparently Mahler was called back to the podium like 12 times after the premiere of his third symphony (my fav symphony btw) and there was a 15 minute standing ovation.