Sightreading Devillish Time Signatures 

And why did he knows every piece ? Because he practiced all of them :)

Yeah, he practices 40 hours a day

Ling ling practices so much, he mastered every piece before they were even invented Me: what is 0/0 ling ling: what happens when I play a piece incorrectly

Ling Ling knows the pieces that doesn't even exist, 'cause he memorized ever possible melody in entire universe

Ling ling composes pieces that he practices on, bc he has practiced all pieces that have been ever created

Why did I spend like 10 minutes trying to work this out to 3dp?? I think you could but you'd need to be a better musician and a better mathematician than me

Me: *plays first three beats then stops* Teacher: Why'd you stop? Me: I'm trying to figure out how much of this next beat goes in the first bar, but nothing I come up with seems rational.

This Daniel Thrasher meme seems unappreciated here. 1, 2, 3.14

Okay so Ive done it to 2 dp I think... If you think how 3.5/4 is the same as 7/8, you realise that you need to times 3.14 by X To get a whole number The smallest X could be is 50 3.14×50 is 157 157 is prime so X can not be lower than 50 therefore Pi/4 is the same as 157/200 So a quintuplet is a 20th note so I think that that must mean a 50-tuplet is a 200th note So in the time signature pi/4 (to 2 dp) you'd play 3 groups of 50-tuplets and 1 group where you play the first 7 beats of a 50-tuplet However, you wouldn't have to play all 50 notes inside the 50-tuplet, you'd only play like 20 notes and then you could come up with some really cool rhythms Please can you like my comment because this took a lot of brain power

@@tom_4615 This is beautiful. Of course you get different numbers based on how many significant figures you use. If we use 3.141 we would play 3 sets of 200 tuplets and the first 185 notes of a 200 tuplet.

I would see it when I look at my grade 6 math exam

i'm pretty sure that was on my ACT test

They should try playing Xenakis - that’s what I call doing maths equations in music

effective resistance?

When you add all the numerators but leave the denominators it becomes 24/16 but when you also add all the denominators it becomes 24/64

Ligeti was his own thing

Xenakis says hello.

Me: *Yesn't*

F*cking Ligeti. Every f*cking time!

@EinSofVirtuoso Twoset should try sight-reading mikka and mikka “S”, two of the weirdest and funniest violin pieces in my opinion!

My first thought

its an ipad pro lol

I noticed too

annie cheng So?

All music stands are like that, I've never seen one stand properly and that's their only job

oof the irony

brett being a hazard +1

stubs well those are middle school students; eddy and Brett have built up a resistance to bow smacking over thebyears

Haha haha literally loled when that happened

I was reading through the comments and just as I read this I got to that part

I read this just as it happened. 😆

There are two types of people

So accurate! Ps. It's spelt Eddy ;)

Screw autocorrect it’s Eddy

there like a married couple lol

It sounded like something out of a 70s horror movie.

@@draykeblack doesn't surprise me, because Ligeti is also the author of obelisk theme from "Space Odyssey" :)

Anton Nidhoggr he wrote a lot of music featured in that movie

Mom: You rewrite that in 3/4 right now or I will kung pao your chicken!

@@ashbu_guitar Or 12/8

And 7/16

I was looking forward to some irrational stuff but was sorely disappointed. 3/32 is just 3/4 but written silly!

@@dylanchope8992 Then the time signature on the last one..

@@kohwenxu that last one was just alternating 5/16 and 7/16, not difficult in the slightest just written weirdly (to save ink)

Wouldn’t it save more ink to just write “5/16 7/16”?

The "drought" during the preparation of the tchai-drop is over :D

Worth it!! 🎶

Ling Ling is not proud of you. He can watch two set violin while mentally practicing at the same time

Didn’t Brett say that?

Brett said it and this video was made before the Tchaikovsky live stream. (Eddy says he changed the strings yesterday and in the live stream he said he changed it a week ago.)

evandarkfire 😂😂😂

tara k yeah it is, you’re solving for your depression

When i clicked on the timestamp i got an add for simply piano ... help me

Just chill, okay? It's nothing more than an alternation between long and short beats - made of two or three units (in this case, two or three 16th-notes), it's not that complicated. Compared to something like Ferneyhough's Fanfare for Klaus Huber or Ades's Traced Overhead, it's actually manageable - one just has to know how to count to 2 and 3, alternately :)

ArielMagno91 lol u need to chill. It’s a joke and besides don’t even bring ferneyhough into this because he literally said ur not supposed to be exact

Pohchinki Caleb thanks

Wow

Some heroes don't wear capes. Thank you for this!

What was the opening piece he was playing when the vid started?

JN Zeppeli i think it’s tchaikovsky violin concerto in d major(the very beginning)

Omllll TRUTH. I'm not a percussionist but in my high school wind ensemble I play clarinet and sometimes times signatures are so ridiculous and it's like???? You could have just. Made it simpler like it would have been the damn same what are you dooooing.

I mean, that's /exactly/ the purpose of the 3/32 time signature. The movements of Telemann's Gulliver Suite is based off of the four nations in Gulliver's Travels: The Lilliputian Chaconne is in 3/32 but is exactly like 3/4, and the Brobdingnagian Gigue is in 24/1 but is exactly like 12/8. (The Laputa Reverie is even more annoying, being in 3²⁄₂/4 aka 4/4)

I love to play soundtrack music. Ganon's theme (zelda) is all over the place with rhythm, as is L's theme (Death Note) if you are looking for a rythmic challenge for any insturment I would highly reccomend both.

Bach did that too with his Prelude & Fugue in G major

I feel slightly sorry for having written euclidian rhythm in music before... Technically two different rhythms for two instruments (a 5 beat one and a 7 beat one with quantization level at 1/16 notes) and the percussion is a sum of both so a bit harder in that regards.

Seriously is 5/8 that hard. John petrucci changes time signature 118 times in 7 minutes and he doesn’t have sheet music, not to mention he literally sweep picks half the time. Like that bartok piece is not the S-tier difficulty piece they were making it out to be

Simon Balbus-Holmquist it’s easier to change time signatures when you play by memory than sight reading Even petrucci would have hard times sightreading music at his same level

Victor Ibelles Mx that actually makes a fuck ton of sense. The level of effort it would take to learn let alone write dance of eternity is probably more than any sight reading ever. I guess the process of learning and writing in rock music is equivalent to sight reading in classical!

Simon Balbus-Holmquist learning music is the same, because your muscle memory is doing the job, when Petrucci plays his odd time signatures he’s not thinking and counting , his muscle memory is doing everything, if a classical musician learns music even if it is trough sheet music he is developing muscle memory too... so it’s the same The problem with sight reading is that you don’t have any muscle memory for what you are about to play, so you have to think and count and prepare yourself for the next measure at the same time your playing something Now for sight reading vs writing... I would say it’s harder to write actually

Simon Balbus-Holmquist Pd: playing by memory odd time signatures like dance of eternity isn’t that hard because your brain and hand learns it as 1 .... but writing a song with 118 time changes.... damn ... that’s pretty sick

This is the best worst joke i have ever heard and i absolutely love it

no, it became shampoo opera :>

Yes

I hate this

i dunno how this is related to the video and its not even good why am i laughing

Is there musical notation for drumming?, not hating just curious!

Yep, as far as I know, they also notate their music on a 5-line staff.

@@MarcelSimader yep and depends on the type of drum, there are 3 and 2lined staffs too

Martiddy - Sama Yes, there is also a “percussion clef” although instruments will usually be denoted with text since most pieces notate their drums with different “legends” if you will.

paeffill Most of the drum parts I personally play use percussion clef, but as you say, it really depends on the composer.

2/4 and 6/8: Are we a joke to you?

//casually playing 5/4//

*cries in 9/8 and 12/8*

Anthony Rafael yes

*cries in 3/8*

And the answer is 20/16 :)

@@alexkashanchi4122 no its 24/16

@@asloii_1749 ah mb

That could’ve been 6 4

That's why in Carnatic music you have to be a mathmetician.

It's basically just 24/16. What the creators of this music mean by having a mathematical addition problem as the numerator is that they want you to play the time signature as number of notes in a specific way. Like 3+2/4, it's 5/4 but they (the creator of the music), want you to play the time signature like 3 quarter notes then 2 quarter notes instead of 5 at once. Real easy to understand. And in this case 3+2/16+3+2+2/16+3+2/16+3+2+2//16 as 3 16th notes then 2 16 notes than 3 16th notes then 2 16 notes then 2 16th notes, etc. I hope this all makes sense but I am still a good so.

It had been a long time since he hadn't done it. To be honest, I kinda missed it... 😄

Have my 90th like ma- person....

Coz he sets the camera everytime 😂

Khatrina Does Art I see what you did there. I see you are a person of culture as well

Extra premium cute

Just Some Guy without a Mustache How the heck are u everywhere?!

Hanna Jagiela omg I was also boutta say that. He’s always high up in the comments of so many vids!

Lingling can sight read with eyes closed

me and just some guy must have the same exact fucking interests LOL

New lingling sight-reading challenge. Add 3 lines to every note value, then play.

Why i like this comment so much

you da man! haha

lmfao

welp he's just being humble, he said he left it there on purpose

two fine tuners aren't a big deal. some pros also have two of them

Csharp - anime music i mean to be fair they’ve probably been playing longer than you

@@thatsalittlebassist True, but I'm also not new by any means (at least good enough to be a violin tutor), and watching them just makes me feel like a beginner lol

Min Yeo but not a baby LOL

Yeah I noticed too

Babe am I a music stand? Because I’m falling for you

That is perfect timing. 😅

Brett’s got his pre-Tchaik drop energy back! 😂❤️

Same, I missed it, it's so nice to have our silly Brett back ! 😄

YAAAY

*after hearing*: Yup. This is not even muskc, It's plain boring

Loooool so true

I was genuinely concerned for Brett at that moment. Like dude, you still alive?

You're telling me these pieces are the equivalent of juggling eggs and chainsaws at the same time? No reason to but they can so why not. (｀・∀・´)

Ligeti is a G

Violins aren’t the only instruments getting crazy music what are you saying...

@@Dance_Party *coughs in piano*

@@Dance_Party coughcoughBerioSequenzascoughcough

But it's actually music :)

@maurmi Haha, just had the same comment myself :)

@@musicphilex2124 That's precisely the thing - contemporary composers want to express "their ideas", while classic composers such as Beethoven, Bach or Schubert express ideas which are universal, sublime, transpersonal, divine, larger than that of ordinary human experience - the Music of God. Which is why it continues to touch our souls, centuries after it was composed - and will continue to do so for many more centuries to come

@@musicphilex2124 I will check it out, I ll keep my mind open

Plus when we could finally do what our teachers tell us all the time! LISTEN TO CLASSICAL MUSIC!!

Me too

I would have guessed this video was filmed before the tchai-drop. Because Eddy would have changed strings twice in February? He did it a week before the livestream and one day before this video.

Blaues Pony when you practice 40 hours a week you go through strings faster? 😂🤣

@@bindak That must be it :D

Blaues Pony I thought about that too. This must be a pre-Tchak video.

Blaues Pony, you Are a Sherlock Holmes Level deductive detective! Of course! I was wondering how much playing was required to change the strings so frequently! So this confirms my belief that they make a few videos in a block, then release them over the week...that’s my explanation for the sometimes crazy state their hair is in. I picture them pulling tee shirts and jumpers off and on over their heads as they try and make each video look like it’s filmed on a different day.

It's based off of Gulliver's Travels, it's actually a funny comedy joke if you get the reference

3/32?!

kyaaa yes I do.

YES 🌞

Most adorable videos honestly

Nah, It's Just noise, boring noise even

Vinícius de A Batista I disagree but I listen to free jazz so, I don’t have Bach’s harmonic and rhythmic sensibilities. I eat minor 9ths, tritones, and semi-tones for breakfast, so ligeti just sounded like Technical death metal, or European free jazz but classical. I like both those genres so I like ligeti!

Love Ligeti's late music. His violin concerto is great

It’s beautiful noise that’s what it is

What about deemo :(

Click the circles!

Them playing any rhythm game may not translate well at all

That would be interesting to see definitely

Dancing line

As a beginner I didn't care about the time signatures, I just played 😂

That would make a nice shirt-a positive life philosophy!

Sometimes I don't get why composers do the things they do. Like that 3/32 one. Why?! You can just do the same thing with 3/8 lol

@@karenliu529 Some composers have an idea that this gives a different "feel" to the music. I believe it's just to mess with people, because there's literally no difference but it being harder to read

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@@JC2023HD Well I meant develop

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That's so they can hear the music better!

No time signature? How does that even work?

Oliver Melo no that’s not how it works with Messiaen. There are measures and time signatures but he just chooses to not write down the time signature changes because they are so frequent. The amount of beats in a measure is often fluid, but in the case of le Merle noir and Messiaens other pieces, the length of the beat is always the same. This way Messiaen can take advantage of some techniques that he uses from Hindu music involving “added” values which if he had to apply a time signature, it would be unnecessarily confusing for the performer

and also mists by xenakis

Good luck dude 😭😭😭 the few messiaen pieces I've heard are so so strange lol

Lukas Lynch I love listening to Handel’s messiah but I can’t imagine performing it

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