The Cringiest Valentine's Musician Fails Ever 

Yeah, I'd absolutely hate to be the one having to answer the question.

That or they've watched one too many 90s or 2000s romantic movies and failed to realize that it is an absolute fiction. 🙃

I am certain that this is a staged confrontation. They just wasted everyone's time. That is in my city.

@@JagannadhGosala Yeah I know, just commenting on public proposals overall

I put a pause on my hubby's public proposal, but then shortly convinced him to ask in a private, personal location.

Yes, a true musician 👌

Yes! This was the only clip that wasn't complete cringe. Things go wrong. Musicians who are prepared can deal with it.

wait which clip is that

@@visib_uncomfy about 6:00

@@elissahunt thanks!

This is great advice, except you would have to pay the musicians for the rehearsal, too, and many people won't do that.

tbh that's not a pro tip, that's common sense.. idk what's wrong with all these people who seem to expect that everything just goes smoothly without putting any effort to make sure 🤪

Elissa Hunt people that won’t pay musicians for a rehearsal also won’t pay for actual professional musicians in the first place.

@@stephenbeck7222 Not in my experience. They pay for the musicians to show up at the event and play. It doesn't matter if it's a wedding, dance, party, whatever. Gig musicians almost never get paid to rehearse, but they are professionals, and they do get paid for the job. Eddy and Brett have talked more than once about their first wedding gig and not knowing how it was supposed to go. Do you honestly think they weren't paid?

@@elissahunt Agreed. Musicians don't usually do the wedding rehearsals, but it's nice to have a point of contact to either cue you, or at least an order of procession on paper to reference. I would never do an unpaid rehearsal, that's for sure.

pfft yyeahhh

and people proposing on shopping malls

imagine playing wedding music on RU-vid and halfway on the aisle, there's an ad.

@@knighthunter1791 omg that would be horrible 😭😭😭

I personally have a really hard time attracting women. I have to use money to do it.

I don't play trumpet, but I had the thought that maybe he was trying to play more quietly, and that messed him up? Could that be a contributor?

I thought that it sounded like when ive played for too long in one day and my lip muscles were just too sore and tired to play the higher notes, i felt like that may be what happened?

Also played for years. It definitely seems like he might know how to play a little but never played this, and definitely was roped in at the last minute. “Oh Dave can play trumpet, right Dave?” So listened to it a couple times, then completely blanked on it in the moment.

Yeah, I felt like he was a relative, too. I don't think he was very experienced, and I'm sure he's never played a wedding before. To be honest, when the camera showed him, I was surprised to see he wasn't a little kid.

@@FebbieG it surely could. Whenever someone asked me “can you play this high note with piano dynamic?” I wanted to shoot looks at them. It’s hard enough to come in on a high note correctly without “cracking” as it is but doing it quietly takes a lot of control.

It shouldn't! Clearly there is a big need for good organists and your competitors dont seem to be that good ;)

I was an organist for a church for a while! Even though I was an organ novice (although I'd played piano for years), the congregation was so nice and always complimentary while I was getting the hang of it. It's super fun; I'd highly recommend it!

I'm in the last year of compulsory school in Sweden (year 9, 15 yo) and I need to select my major for further studies. I have a choice between moving to a larger city (where there is actually a music programme) or staying in my small town and studying science/becoming a doctor. I want to follow my passion of playing classical music but I'm terrified that I'll end up without a job by the end of all of it. most of all I want to be a concert pianist, but organist seems like a safer choice because my father is one and I basically know the church community around my small town and would probably get a decently well paying job there. The safe choice would be staying here and becoming a doctor or a scientist working for the mine (I live in a mining community). I want to follow my passion, but I'm terrified to do so. It will take 7 years for me to become a fully educated organist, as well as moving 3 times. I'm 15 years old and I'm not sure I'm ready to live alone in a city I've been to once when I was like 5, and staying there for 3 years before moving again. I've made bad choices before and I don't want to do it again. The TwoSet community is the best one I know of. I'm genuinely completely unsure of what I want to do with my life and I would highly appreciate an opinion from an outside perspective. So, what do you all think I should do? This won't completely dictate my decision but it would be nice to get some perspective on it. Thanks //Vilgot

Don't worry, it's very simple. Don't be tone deaf, and practice. lol If you make the song almost second nature you won't be able to mess up that badly lol Part of that comes to listening to the songs on your down time like you would the radio so that the feel of the song and song structure are second nature. This is how I helped my singer get used to new songs every time we changed our set list.

@@vilgotwesterlundvappling One thing I can say is don't be terrified of moving to the point you don't do it. People are people everywhere you go. Doesn't matter the country or language. Moving is a big step at the start, but once you've done it you realize it's all about learning the area. You're scared of leaving what you know, but gaining knowledge of a new place doesn't take that long if you make that your focus. Also, travel light. Which shouldn't be too hard since you're still young and probably have almost everything you own in your room lol All of this is from my personal experience having taken a trip to Costa Rica for 6 months at 20yrs old and moving 3 times in the last 6 years on my own. The 1st move was from southern Ontario to Vancouver Island, Canada with everything I owned in my car (travel light ;) but the 2nd one was the more scary one despite being in the same city cuz I had to settle for such a small place. But it worked out. Don't isolate yourself, learn the area, and do the basic things to keep yourself safe until you know you can trust a person. Stay aware, not anxious. Just like music, if you're prepared you'll be fine. I've tried to limit myself in the past for "practical" reasons, but I've since realized that it really wasn't helping me. Expand your comfort zone, you'll be a much better and happier person because of it. However you choose to use this advice always make that last point your goal. Hope this helps :)

Poor your mom! I found myself in similar situations, but forunately I was strong enough to always turn them down! But, yeah, in my case, they were not "friends" 😕

It's horrible when people basically force someone to do something beyond their skill set, and then blame the person who didn't want to do it in the first place. That "friend" should have apologized to your mom for putting her in that situation. Just as well there was a falling out. No one needs friends like that.

I hate when people pressure you into a situation like that or are like “you’ll be fine, it’s no biggie” and you end up embarrassing yourself. One time my teacher did this to me when I was a little kid and forgot my music for a performance and I hadn’t ever played it through from memory. Had so many memory lapses it was a miracle I made it to the end somehow, a very distressing and scary experience. She did a similar thing with another student who was a singer and at the last minute got her to sing an already high piece in a different and higher key. Her voice range meant she was struggling to hit the top notes and she held it together till the end but was in tears afterwards.

Tbh good riddance to those so called "friends". The best outcome is to fall out, don't have to deal with their future bollocks anymore.

That's ridiculous! The organ is a whole different animal from a piano. Your poor mum.

Lol when he said that I was like “huh??”

Sorry but any pianist would do better. There's a difference between not knowing how to operate an organ and pressing the wrong keys.

My guess is they tried to hire a musician for 50 bucks.

Any pianist would be able to atleast play the melody as if it was a piano. They might not be able to do all the cool organ harmonies and such, but it would not be out of key

​@@DeinBestrFreund "I took piano in middle school so I'm a pianist! I'll play at your wedding for free!" Day of the wedding: "Wait what are all these little hashtags and b's on the music?"

@@ofsinope where're the numbers?

yeah, this was very manipulative...trying to pressure the woman into saying yes to avoid embarrassment. he got what he deserved. but the ukelele player didn't...

@@CeciliaTan ok. That makes complete sense. It clearly doesn't looks like something possible. It just hurts

I heard it was an ad for the train, which makes sense

@@cranberryrosebud yes surely that was an add , but I found the message hilariously appropriate for the situation.

@@risingunity6446 a truly masterful creation.

I guess it was all staged. I don't really know anybody who'd become physically violent while rejecting a wedding proposal. Nor have I heard any stories.

@@Pranav_Bhamidipati Do any wedding proposals actually happen like this in the south? We are generally very reserved people.

That's indeed quite neat, except for the fact that Dark Soul boss fighting BMG happens in wedding ceremonies lol.

Guy had a divorce ceremony booked right afterwards and got the gigs mixed up.

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Enemies to lovers slow burn

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That’s how I feel about clarinet, I hate how at one quicklyi have to change my fingering from one note to the other, like there’s these two notes that are high and I have to change from holding down two keys to holding down all the holes and one key, but I love the way it sounds though

You should watch the channel Good Mythical Morning. The hosts are in their late 40s and they’ve been friends since childhood

I waited 7 years for mine, and now I am the happiest woman alive. Keep waiting and praying, they are out there.

@@lucheng1945 My husband watches them. I had no idea they knew each other for that long!

@@lucheng1945 Rhett and link :)

2Set is the music community’s GMM

We didn't audition our musicians in person, but they sent us a tape they made, so we knew how well they played. Great group, and they let my husband play with them during the reception (he's a pro). That's right, he sat in with the band during the reception instead of dancing. 😄

Or hire musicians you know they can play. I got a quartet for my wedding. They did just fine. They were professionals.

There's no need to audition. People have demo's and videos to show potential clients. If gigging musicians had to audition for every job we'd never get any gigs done. If you're a decent band you'll establish a good reputation and have no need to seek out gigs. If someone asked me or one of my bands to audition for their wedding I'd turn them down cold.

@@brassholio Yeah, with sites like RU-vid and Facebook, people should have no problem finding musicians who can play. And communication goes a long way toward making sure you get the music you want. I feel like a lot of the fails in this video were because the organizers didn't want to pay too much and they didn't bother to check that the musicians/DJs were competent.

No, the true lessons from this is do your wedding within your means, if you want something grandeur you need to pay for it. If you try to save money by having your friend or relative playing the music or find some cheap event organizer this is what you’ll get

hope you recover soon!

Lol I’m kinda in the same boat, I just had abdominal surgery and I have to keep telling my family to not make me laugh. Hope you feel better!

@@addymatthews2065 Oh, that sounds way worse than my back. I'll probably be okey in a couple of days, I'm kind of used to this. Hope you'll have a quick recovery!

Now I'm laughing 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

Hope you both feel better soon, KataM and Addy! ^^ And Happy Valentine's Day, thanks a ton!

...and in some cases it might even be some very eager friend or a family member insisting that they will play in the wedding, it will be the wedding gift. Or enthusiastic parent putting their kid who has been taking lessons to play (I've heard some quite dodgy performances like that, though not on the actual ceremonial parts...)

@@freregregoire2685 I can see that happening, but it's up to the people planning the wedding to hold firm. They can (maybe) offer to let the pushy relative perform something (one piece only!) at the reception if it will save hurt feelings.

@@elissahunt Yeah, those are the types of performances I've heard and that's something that's even a bit charming, when in the reception the niece of the groom does some piece, even if objectively it is evident it still needed lots of practice...

Ya

@@elissahunt That's generally the way to go in my experience. It's one thing picking a song for a member of the family to perform before hand. It's another thing for drunk uncle Frank to stagger up to the band during the 3rd set and want to sing Sweet Caroline 😆

Absolutely agree. The amount of times the event organiser or coordinator screws up is unimaginable. Quite ironic since it's literally their job to make things run smoothly. Though I'll admit some times it is the bride/groom or parents meddling and making last minute changes too.

IMHO, if ppl want a perfect experience, hire professionals, including an Event Leader, with perfect experience: *perfect* practice makes perfect (fast practice makes a mess)

I feel your pain. I got so nervous paying at a cousin's wedding that the bow shook and skipped through most of Cannon in D. Never played at a wedding again and cringe even thinking about it.

Things will get better!

you did well !! :D

You got this, you will do great!

I hope you get better :( My day is shitty rn because have to go to school and everyone is celebrating Valentine’s Day lol

Hope you're ok. Take some time for yourself and recharge for the next day. You'll be great!

the love for your instrument is better than the love for another human

You are not single, you are taken by your instrument

@@Shiver197 exactly!

@@Shiver197 One sided love is better than a mutual give and take? 🤔 I guess that guy in the video who proposed and got whacked for it can learn to love alone.

It’s a chocolate comercial, the brand is on the train passing by.

I COULDN'T WATCH

When that train went by and interrupted him I thought "this can't get any worse..."

@@forrestpalmer That guy was so clueless. Three months and he proposes? If he just paid attention to the woman's expression and body language, he would have seen it wasn't going to work and maybe salvaged something. The train was symbolic of the train wreck he was creating.

@@elissahunt I also liked the subtle message the train had as it passed through... "not so sweet". He had plenty of warning signs in front of him, and still kept going. The girl even tried stopping him and yet he said "I need to, I need to"... It was embarrassing. If I was the girl, I would've done the same thing.

@@elissahunt i liked that the train was like unintentionally helpin the girl about LOL it’s like… a warning

😂😂😂

I repeat...always hire Professional Musicians...even if you have to go down the aisle in your housecoat and serve your guests pizza, you'll be glad you had Professional Musicians.

PS I'm using my husband's phone

@@scottmiller8649 Thing is, I myself am a trained singer and pianist. My husband sings and plays 3 instruments. We would totally provide live music for our own wedding if that was at all practical. We did a live performance for people, but couldn’t do the music for obvious reasons haha. We prioritised food over music, as getting a family member to put together a Spotify playlist was a less obvious cut back than feeding guests cheap food. I appreciate and love live music, but it wasn’t one of the big ticket items for us, since at weddings, music is background/atmospheric thing, while food, the dress etc are at the forefront.

I KNOWW RIGHT LOL

You're not wrong. This video was staged for a Cadbury ad, hence the Cadbury train with the slogan "NOT SO SWEET" to promote their chocolate bars.

THEY ARE NOT ALL THE SAME! Speaking from PTSD... This is a bit of a long story, so bear with me - I took a few organ lessons in college for fun. My primary is actually guitar, and I'm only a barely passable keyboardist to begin with. However, I had enthusiasm and a decent foundation... Anyway, fast forward to graduate school (MA Music Composition 2016) I get the idea "I want to take organ for credit, so the financial aid will pay for it!" I have a trial lesson on a piano with the teacher, it goes decently well and he agrees to teach me. Now, my teachers in college were kind, patient, and likely used to teaching amateurs. This guy...drove me absolutely bonkers, despite me working my butt off for him! Anyway, after a grueling semester, jury time rolls around. Now, I had been practicing on the school's small choir room pipe organ, and it was fine. I knew my way around it well. We had a couple pieces ready to go. Well, we were going to have the jury at my teacher's church...with a significantly larger organ that I had never touched before. Not a problem. My teacher explained to me that him and I will get there early and I'll have a good 15-20 minutes to warm up and familiarize myself with the instrument. Jury day comes. I'm sitting in front of the church with the head of the music department and the head of the piano faculty looking at our watches and they turn to me and say "Where's your teacher?" He was late. I did not have the 15 minutes I was promised to familiarize myself with the instrument. We got in, I sat at the console - everything on it was in French! Now, I know French organ terms to some extent, but when you are nervous as hell, French might as well be Klingon! So, my teacher pulled some stops, and said have at it. Well, I start playing the first part of a little two part invention thing on one manual, but the second I start playing the other hand's part on the other manual, I can't hear that hand! Turns out the pipes for this instrument were split...more or less evenly, between a case right behind the console on the altar, and a case ALL the way at the back of the church. I later learned from my teacher this was due to compromises that were made to fit the instrument in the building, as the church got it second-hand. Gee, thanks for the heads up, teach! lol Predictably, my playing falls apart. Now, without really knowing physically the layout of the console, and everything being in French my teacher had to come back up and help me out. He did, begrudgingly. I tried to play through the rest of my pieces...it probably wasn't a complete disaster, but it felt like it at the time. I was a wreck! Everyone was unhappy. Afterwards, they pulled me aside and told me not to take lessons for credit, but gave me a B for my effort...but that was probably one of the most traumatic experiences of my musical career. (Granted, I'd do it all over again, because I'm a better keyboardist for it!) TLDR: Organ is NOT the same as piano. Organs are all vastly different. Organ is possibly the least forgiving instrument. Whatever practice time you think you need on piano, double it for organ!

@@ryano.5149 I'm with you all the way. That's a nightmare jury for sure. I've been playing piano since the mid '70s, synths and electric organs in the '80s, but didn't learn pipe organ until the '90s. These days I just gig around with a keyboard/DAW rig and work as an audio engineer. You are absolutely right that they aren't all the same. Organ is a different creature than piano and I dare say no two pipe organs are truly the same. In fact, part of playing pipe organ is working out the registrations on the instrument you intend to play before you play it. If you went before a jury capable of judging your performance on pip organ, they should have known that you would need to work out your registrations first and practice with them so you could transition effectively. You were done wrong.

no that's wrong. no one is ever nothing, especially when they are in love. never fall for that line, it's so toxic.

@@marieindia8116 It was something called a joke, but yeah don't fall for these.

They aren't engaged to their violins, they're married to them. 😆

@@elissahunt Haha 😂

And to each other!

Tanmay's video?

@@harsh_21 😆😆😆

@@harsh_21 I think Tanmay was involved in the writing part of the campaign

With the kind of things that shock @twoset, I wonder what their reaction would be to AIBs skits, i want to see them react to Man's best friend by AIB , since it also has a "musical" component.

At least you know how it sounds

You’ve got this!

Show up as early as you're allowed access to the venue. Weddings are chaos and something (on everyone else's end) is likely to go wrong. Good luck!

@@amazoniam3695 for sure! I have it in my contract that I arrive 45- 60 minutes early in order to set up and tune :)

Perhaps you can make arrangements to practice on the venue organ a day or two before the wedding. That way you can figure out its quirks beforehand.

@@elissahunt I actually play harp so thankfully I bring my own instrument!

Worried more about the violin 😂

@@AMir-ln8uu lmao yess, cus violin is their true love!!

I didn't care about the guy, that pain was way less than what he was inflicting on her and everybody else in that mall. The instrument has more of my sympathy for sure. I'd be asking the guy to pay for the repair/replacement, since ultimately it was his fault.

It’s actually a staged video it’s a campaign for Cadbury ad

@@TiggerIsMyCat Well yes actually, not everyone would be comfortable being proposed in public where they got the attention from a lot of strangers. The guy was wrong bcus he didn't make sure that the girl would be fine with that proposal, and the girl was totally a problematic lmao bcus i mean why the hell did she use violence here 😭 But yeah I agree, the guy had an obligation to pay for the instrument cus that proposal was his responsibility

Ystävänpaivä!

Still sounds like a commercialist scam.

That part when eddy was singing what the cellist was playing... sounded like the final fantasy sephiroth theme haha

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I was like what????

@@helenwong4230 😂😂😂

Why would you fake that? As a performance art piece, who would enjoy watching that? I mean, I guess you might want to go viral with the video, but god damn

@@TiggerIsMyCat To go viral and profit

@@marcellocoimbra4540 Supposedly, I heard from someone else, it was a marketing campaign for Cadbury's dark chocolate, which given Cadbury's history of ads that have nothing to do with chocolate, I'm inclined to believe.

@@TiggerIsMyCat The hit totally not faked... right

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@@lingling8964 WOW SOMEBODY ACTUALLY COMMENTED HELLO TYSM FOR COMMENTING WOOOO

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@@lingling8964 MY NEW FRIEND AHAHAHHAH

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That’s why a toy train had gone saying Cadbury not so sweet It was a campaign for Cadbury not so sweet chocolate or something

Trust me, I've been in a similar, if less extreme thank god, situation, and even then I was absolutely panicking and not thinking clearly. You go into survival mode, grab the first thing to hand. Come to think of it, my situation also involved a ukelele, hm, go figure. I absolutely would've broken that uke if there hadn't coincidentally been a mattress right there to catch it. Plus, totally the guy's fault, not hers. Don't put people in situations where they have to go into panic survival mode. He's the one who should be on the hook for that uke

Dude, she did self defense. Uke is the first thing that she can grab. I think that if the first thing that she can grab is a knife she would grab it. No smart people in this whole damn world want to break an instrument. I know you’re “a real musician” and get so fucking tricker over this, but trust me you would do that if you were the same stage as her. Edit: and yeah, this is the musician fault. He should grab an uke’s neck more tightly so she can find something else to hit that douche’s head. I know you may want to blame the musician, but from what I’ve read as non-native speaker I think you put a blame solely on her, which is unfair in this case.

Also side note to all musicians, if you offer someone a lesson on a stringed instrument, them having trouble getting the fingering correct IS NOT CONSENT to do the whole "wrap arms around them to put your hands on theirs to move their fingers for them" thing. Never, ever do that thing unless you've obtained explicit consent, especially not if you've not even implied that you're going to do it so that the person is caught completely off guard.

Poor ukulele-san. :(

@@andafasaisai Couldn’t she just say no instead of hitting his head?

This genuinely made me laugh out loud 😂

LMAO... Got my BAE too. Remember to whisper 'Saranghae' into her F hole today!

eyy exams week for you too?

@@liyuan492 yepp, good luck to you for yours

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@@BobbyJCFHvLichtenstein .....

thanks my daily reminder

@@lingling8964 hey lingling

@@woobiemoobie8884 hii

i know it has been a while but anyway: many people just dont know anything about music, so they hire anyone and think the "musician" will be able to play anything perfectly. also if you dont have the money, you dont really have a choice and will accept anything if it is cheap.

Same

It's not even a holiday so I couldn't care less more LOL

3 hours?! Wow! But wait... Isn't it supposed to be 40???

Me too.... in July!

You made me feel so much better 🥲

And your fellow Ling Ling wannabes

That was a nice and funny video, but I don't think they'll do one more. In the video with answers from twosetters, they clearly didn't enjoy the insinuated question. I think they have gotten tired of the Breddy shipping thing.

Hey old friend, this is "blue", we meet again. :)

@@mentallyunstablernplssendhelp Hello! Wow your new name is long lol