It does help. Imagine you have to read a letter with very very very tiny words. You may be able to read most of the stuff from a normal distance, but when the speech becomes more difficult you probably want to go closer to see the words and letters more clearly. Same by sheet music. If the sheets turn more difficult you will go closer to get all the details and hints to play it right
For the new twosetters! They don't actually hate/dislike violas! It's all a meme in our community. None of us hate the Viola seriously! They have played Viola before, and Brett made his lofi track with a Viola. They have proffesional Viola players as friends. Don't take it seriously when they roast Violas! ノ(・ω・)ノ
@@onlyalf. I've been a fan for about 2-3 years (can't remember...) and I never knew if they were serious or not. I feel like a dork for not knowing since it's been a while but thanks for a clear answer! Jokes usually don't get to me but I'm still very proud to be a violist nonetheless! ❤️
When there's more ledger lines than lines in the staff you're in for a good time especially when they're spaced differently than the lines in the staff
Eddy: "....a lovely weekend of 'not practicing'?" Brett: "uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhh.........." Eddy "Heh, yeah me too, who even practices before? String players right!?" Brett and Eddy: "Hahaahahahahahahaha" Conductors shirt: NEED TO PRACTICE NEED TO PRACTICE NEED TO PRACTICE NEED TO PRACTICE
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@@clcomposer7965 as you could probably tell by previous comments, people don't like it when you advertise about your channel on other channels. I recommend advertising in a different way, so that you don't get comments like that. It's okay if you don't want to, though, it's up to you. Have a good day/night.
They’ve done videos/live-streams of them sightreading They’re really good and the performances are good But there are pieces way too hard for them to even sightread
In the opposite, you needed to be a divine sight-reader to manage these notes. It is impossible. The point of the video ist that you can not master these pieces by sight-reading, no matter how good you are. No doubt both players are professional musicians with very well developed skills and they did the best in sight-reading they could (Ok they didn´t take it too seriously). Even they can not do it by sight reading. You need to practice it to master it. Remember the shirts they wear? It just contradicts the thing they pretend to do. I´m totally convinced they´d practice their piece for days and weeks prior to the first rehearsals.
French horn sight reading nightmares: -Bass clef -Octave jumps -58303 measures of rest -32 straight measures of only f (based on a true story) -To understand the metronome you must become the metronome
Imagine if you had to play a piece that had fast passages, old handwritten notes, ledger lines, bow distribution, difficult key signatures, key signature changes, accidentals, difficult time signatures, dynamics and repeats. Oh wait, a lot of pieces have all 10 😂😂!
Not A Unicorn to be fair, I use a pencil most if the time when I conduct so that I don’t wreck my baton by constantly tapping the beat on the stand during rehearsal 😂
Actually the HIP see it so much that they probably know how to fake looking like they know what they’re doing, so they probably still have a difficulty understanding the notes lol
@@thetov1896 well I can tell you that after years of looking at it I much prefer it to modern engraving :) or either prefer handwritten or good quality 17th-18th engraving
I agree, it's one of the worst 😂 Well to be honest personally the thing I hate the most in sight reading are keys changing... like three different keys 😢 my brain usually blows up during five or six seconds before I remember the actual good note x)
The amount of times I've thought an E was a G or something XD Also, for flutists: Not realizing how long a note or passage was going to be and running out of air!
@@Un1234l Honestly, I have no idea, but it might have something to do with the fact that flute plays in that octave all the time. Either that, or the composers think it's funny to see us suffer, lol.
@@anchihall8852 mahler did completed his tenth (edit: or technically his 11th) in a form of a continuous draft, but only have clearly orchestrated the first mvt. there's also orchestrations of the full thing by some people tho, and it sounds very dark. here twoset plays excerpts from the first movement.
I sat down entirely ready to laugh at this video. Then the first thing the conductor said was “Death of Tybalt” and I just LOST IT because I had a similar experience with that passage. It looked fine on the page. To prepare, I listened to a recording while I read my music and I remember just the sheer panic when it hit that part. When they started the ledger lines part I couldn’t breathe anymore. Their videos are always accurate, but my god, this one hit too close to home. I haven’t laughed this hard in ages.
Orchestra performance horror story: I had a solo, that I had spent the last month practicing. 20 minutes before the performance my accompanimant changed and I had to get used to it. Then while I was playing, my eyes decided to stop working and I got shaky bow. Luckily I had it memorized, so I managed to pull it off.
2:00 21 seconds is the period we urinate (animals too). for example if someone goes to the toilet and he comes back and he hears the same beat. Beat? I don't know
Yeah just write 8va instead of 10 billion ledger lines. Like Chopin winter wind, at the beginning, there are some editions where there are just ledger lines at the beginning. Thank god it got the 8va version, but even that has ledger lines. Screw you chopin
BRETT:ITS OVER VIOLA I HAVE THE COMUNITTYGROUND!!! *some seconds* Violas:I HATE YOOUUUU Brett:you was to me as content i love you you should destroy haters not join them!
bonus points if the director gets mad because "I DON'T CARE IF YOU MAKE MISTAKES JUST PLAY WITH CONFIDENCE" but then gets mad when you sound like a dump truck
Have you not played Erik Satie yet? He didn’t have much respect for bar lines either. I haven’t been playing piano long, but since I’m a violinist, my teacher figured I already know “all that stuff” … uhmmm???
@@silleenevoldsen9210 Oh, no I don't play anymore. I played for 12 years, though. I left college in '09. You are right, though, it does get easier. I always wanted to play low notes. I think they are more beautiful. I went to a very small school, so orchestra wasn't an option. If I hadn't I think I'd have liked trying cello.
My teacher: ok, Wow, how the hell can you memorise this thing so quickly, its ok, you can have Your sheet music onstage! Me with pain and suffering in my eyes knowing i did it only because *im a dumbass* and can't read notes faster than one (1) note per minute so i won't be able to use sheet music anyway: hahah idk
@@pippaschroeder9660 yeah but when you've got some 6th year complicated shit to read with multiple sharps or flats it gets complicated I can read rythm just fine but melodies can be very hard
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Fuck off mate, this is one of the rare videos they still do that has actual content rather than the same 3 jokes regurgitated over and over. Don't ruin it.
@@MissTwoSetEncyclopedia "don't like it, don't look at it" is a terrible way of dealing with criticism. In fact, it's not dealing with it at all. Very easy. Very useless.
lol i just realized something if you play violin and you have to hold a really long note, you get shaky bow and run out of bow(i got educated by twoset!) which is bad because then you can’t continue the note if you play a wind instrument(like me) and you have to hold a really long note, you get bad tone quality, you also can’t finish ur note because you’ve already passed out
@@bethanyhu1881 if you do it with a piano, the note fades away. The only thing that works is an organ... And let's be honest a really really long note starts to rapidly be less beautiful
As someone whose tried my whole life to learn violin and failed miserably the whole time. I really respect these guys. They act silly on their Channel and make us laugh. But they’re not silly when it comes to their craft. They’ve dedicated their lives to something. And work at it ceaselessly. They play badly on purpose better than most play well. You guys are awesome. Thanks for everything you do!!
3:37 was me trying to count in French, slowly moving into Chinese, Slowly into German, then Korean, then Japanese. XD Never learn to count in more than 3 languages in the same month.
