The WORST Musician Fails (Try Not To Cringe) 

Brett and Eddy when someone drops a baby: damn yikes well it's probably fine, they bounce right? Brett and Eddy when a violin slips even the tiniest bit: *pure terror*

Eddy: I cringed for the harp NOT for the girl. Brett: INVEST IN YOUR CHAIRS.

The thing about memory lapses? The second you realize you can't remember the next note in the middle of a performance, the stress hormone cortisol starts pumping through your system and actually *blocks* memory. Unless you've practiced ways of getting unstuck (like Brett mentioned), it's almost biologically impossible to remember. Also, my guitar strap snapped during a concert and my instrument went bouncing along the floor. Felt like an eternity and the sound was horrifying. Miraculously, it remained intact -- which is more than I can say for my nerves!

I spent a lot of years in community college concert band. One semester a 14-year-old flute student joined us and was seated right in front of me. During the concert she went to turn her page and her music flew right off her stand. I was about to jump up and grab it for her, but she snatched it right out of midair, slapped it back on her stand and continued playing without missing a beat. Where did she get such poise at age 14? I figured she'd go far if she wanted to.

the day that eddy doesn't flex his perfect pitch i'm going to be genuinely worried

We can’t have a twoset video without eddy flexing his perfect pitch

My piano teachers used to make us have "jumping points" throughout a piece. We would memorize the whole song, certainly, but we also practice jumping to the jumping points so if we had a memory lapse, we can just start elsewhere in the piece.

1:55 Soprano 1 here. Never do that. That's a good way to kill the vocal range you *do* have. You are contributing. Just don't sing the note, go for a harmony. The audience won't miss it if they aren't critics, and if they are they'll praise the recovery if they're any good.

Since they’re bringing back their OG series again, *Petition for them to bring charades back too*

"Cats are durable. Like babies." -Eddy Chen 2021

I feel for the dude at 7:33. I was in a band in high school and one of our first (and only) performances ended awkwardly mid song because someone messed up. But the audience immediately clapped. I am forever thankful for the person who initiated the applause.

TBH that lady running offstage who fell over the harp looked like she was in terrible distress. She was holding her flute, and was running for the exit right in the middle of the performance. She was either drunk or feeling very suddenly sick, give her a break. Actually my heart went out to her.

so the guy at 5:28 was Polish and he said "the piano rode away, it happened for the first time in my life haha" and then he said "well, it was kinda riding away like that from the beggining haha... it's okay" and then "unfortunately, there is no lock" "let's start again" It's pretty impressive how he handled the situation, im proud hah

For anyone who maybe wants to know what this guy with moving piano said. He said: “ The piano moved. It was first time happened… it was moving like that from the beginning. Unfortunately there is no lock in here, but it’s ok.” Then he said something but boys drown out it. And later: “ Let’s do this one more time”

The snapping cello string triggered a memory of something I haven't thought about in decades. I was trying to choose between two cellos. My teacher was playing one while I had the other (I think). He rested it on the chair to go get something. All of a sudden it exploded into pieces and scared me out of my mind! I guess tension was too great somewhere and it crumbled to the floor. I'd never seen anything like that before!

Oh man the piano piece at 8:06 - what an awful feeling! I've been there. I feel like it's the musical equivalent to getting "the twisties" in gymnastics where something you've practiced and done perfectly a million times, your brain just randomly loses it for no good reason. Except at least in music it won't physically kill you lol

The guy whose cello string snapped was performing on the BBC Young Musician of the Year. He changed the string, started again... and won.

The poor pianist who forgot his piece I so identify with. I was at a music contest in middle school and I started my piece (I think that year it was the first movement of the Moonlight Sonata) over three times before turning to the judges and asking them to have my mother leave the auditorium. I heard a door open and shut, thought she had left and had no problem from then on. Ah, such good times lol.

4:20 He might have set up a camera to show that there was no damage during loading. So he won't be liable if something breaks. We do it sometimes when loading particularly expensive loads

1:48 this is the triumph scene from Verdi’s Aida. That lady took a note an octave higher up (Eb6), which is a move that basically only Maria Callas has pulled off successfully - in 1951!

8:35 is a clip of my professor, Guy Johnston! He says this memory is one of his favourites as it was so surreal. He's got that A string that snapped pinned on the wall in his studio!

I feel for the guy who forgot how to play his piece mid way through on the piano. I used to be like that when I was a kid. If I made a mistake I had to stop and fix it before I could move on. That held me back SO much as a musician. I always tell kids the most important thing they can do when learning piano is to just go ham and play any and all notes and get over the "there is only one right way to play" mentality. If you can get over the fear of playing wrong, then all of a sudden mistakes don't feel so bad and it becomes easier to recover and just keep playing.

I actually had a piano roll away from me once during a service at my college’s chapel, which was built with an incline going down to the altar. Thankfully there was a fence which stopped it from going wheeling down the entire aisle lol (I panicked that the heavy grand would break through the small wooden fence but luckily not), but I did have to finish that hymn with my arms waaaaay outstretched, pause awkwardly before the next hymn, and then move my bench forward with a loud reverberating CLUNK before starting the next hymn lol.

I feel for the flutist. She's stumbling even before the tumble. First concert with my new choir I had the coughing fit from hell while on the choir risers behind a full orchestra. I snuck through the choir and down the steps onto the stage while surpressing my cough. On the way from the risers to the stage entrance door I started to lose my vision. I'm pretty sure that door slammed shut behind me and I almost fainted down the steps backstage. They were doing some renovation work so they moved the access ramp with handrails into this area to be able to move the marimba etc. The next thing I remember is gasping for air while hanging onto the opposite side handrails for dear life. I wasn't in a floor length skirt and I'm 100% sure that saved me. That and the random hand rails that weren't supposed to be there.

No one: "Babies are designed to be dropped." ~That one TwoSet Friend, 2021 probably.

That boy who couldn’t remember on the piano is relatable because I was doing a piano piece once when I was beginning and I was accompanying my sister who played the cello with me and I couldn’t remember so I stopped. My teacher told me to start again and I messed up again. I quit piano and couldn’t perform violin for years. It was so bad I badly messed up an audition where I was playing a slow piece. I am finally getting over it though and will soon be back to performing. Overall a traumatic experience.

5:00 Not to be rude, but I have a door with more talent.

When I was a kid and had to play piano in front of people/parents, our teacher really tried to practice "stop and go", i.e. she said "stop" somewhere in the piece and we had fixed positions in the piece to immediately restart from. And that really helped a lot when dropping out for whatever reason. So ~ 7:40 could not really happen, simply we trained so much restarting at fixed positions.

I've been watching the harp fall on the flutist. It looked to me like the flute player may have been having a medical emergency and needed to get off the stage. She seems to be staggering and putting her hand on various chairs to balance herself so she could get off the stage. She nears the harp and begins to go down, trips on the pedal and everything comes down on her. I feel for the harp but I hope the flutist was OK. It looks to me like a bad situation got much worse. 🤕

For real though that was very professional of that kid with the broken chair. Something went wrong and they didn't freak out, they stayed calm. Everything you should do in a performance setting when Something goes wrong.

6:50. "sit on the edge of your chair with perfect posture!!! except on concert night, we got no space."

7:52 - happened to me once. I just couldn’t continue even though I tried a couple of times to go back a couple of bars and go ahead. In the end I just stood up, shrugged my shoulders and said:”Well, that’s all from me, folks!”, took a bow and smiled. the audience laughed so much at my authenticity 🤣🤣🤓🤷🏻‍♀️

The piece the pianist is playing at 5:29 is Beethoven’s “Cuckoo” Sonata (No. 25,) and he’s about a minute and a half through the piece (in the development section.) At 6:14, after the piano slides and he begins again, he starts back at the beginning. So to answer Brett’s question at 6:34 (how far did he go back?), he went all the way back to the beginning.

The cellist at 8:36 is Guy Johnson. Here he was performing at the final of the 2000 BBC Young Musician of the Year competition in Brigdewater Hall in Manchester, UK. Despite his unfortunate string breakage, Johnson was permitted to change his string, return to the stage and restart and complete his performance, which earned him the title!

7:30 This is exactly the reason why camera flashes are banned at piano recitals and really any classical concert/recital. People don't understand just how distracting it can be, and it can completely throw you off.

I used to play saxophone. The most annoying thing was accidentally knocking the mouthpiece and destroying the reed. It happened so much in a chaotic school band setting. And if you didn’t have a replacement reed (which was always me) you then had a basically unplayable instrument.

oof that piano memory slip and descent into despair was so relatable the cringe almost turned into tears for me 😭

2:44 Death by a harp would be a really unique thing to put on a gravestone.

3:25 as a harpist, first, it’s really bad because it’s such a delicate instrument, only a single light punch can brake the soundboard. Also, a grand harp is about $20,000 and more.

I love you guys! You are so cute AND hilarious. My favorite channel now. I grew up in a non-musical house. I have no idea what scales, notes etc are, but now I’m interested in learning.

I’ve got to say, as a guitarist, that sibling scene is a little bit too relatable. I whack people’s eyes (and my own) a wee bit too much.

Brett is evolving into his prefect pitch form

You two are delightful. Thoroughly enjoyed this.

3:30 as a harpist of 13 years myself, I can confirm that did in fact cause physical pain to watch

Ok, as a parent of 3 yes, babies/toddlers are designed to be supper durable. To me the cry was very unhurt (at least physically) sounding. That alto sax was horrid cringe.

I know this going to sound cheesy, but I'm thankful for TwoSet. Ever since I discovered them last week, I always have a reason to smile. I had a long day today. Got embarrassed and humiliated in a postgraduate class (which resulted to me having an anxiety attack), and, to top it off, had to deal with my astraphobia for two hours. TwoSet's content (YT videos, Twitter & IG posts, etc.) never fail to cheer me up. It eases my social anxiety disorder and my depression by a lot, so yeah. Sorry for the cheesy message. 🥺 Edit: Thank you so much for the kind words, everyone. This community is so kind, and I'm glad to be a part of it. I'm excited for their virtual tour on December (got everything apart from the M&G)! 😊

Eddy is partially right about babies. They do tend to be more adaptable and less breakable than you may think. They will be fine if they fall from reasonable heights or knock into things. In saying so, please do not attempt to drop your baby on purpose 😅 That toddler in the video didn’t sound like he was badly hurt. As someone who’s primary job experience comes from taking care of large summer camps for kids, kids will cry in very particular ways when they are really hurt. That baby sounded more like he just wanted Dad to get the drum off him and then get him off the floor 😁

6:40 when I was 4, I was performing at a recital and I messed up a note, and then I turned to the crowd and asked if I could start over from the beginning. The crowd laughed

Harpist here - ideally no one would ever touch a harp without getting permission first, but especially no one should use it to steady themselves. If you're not a harpist you don't know where you can lean safely. I'm devastated for that harpist and her harp, but I also hope the lady who tripped is okay. That harp definitely fell on top of her. (The average pedal harp weighs 80 lbs.)

XD I think the thing Eddy said about babies is compared to us, when we know we're in danger we tense up which causes you to become more injured on impact. While babies on the other hand are still developing this so they don't tense up, they stay very loose and flaccid, so if they fall or are dropped, while they are fragile, they won't sustain serious injuries... (? I'm not a professional in anything medical or anything baby related just raised in a house with a mother whose in the medical field.)

4:11 as a piano player I almost burst into tears TvT

props to both the band and the flautist for continuing like nothing was wrong when his chair broke 😂

Eddy's views on babies are ✨INTERESTING ✨

In the saxophone clip, I'm pretty sure the problem was with his octave key. Something similar happened to me during a performance duet at my school. My friend ran off and I cried in shame :D

I think the poor boy on the piano was the most relatable...I went to music conservatory for a while and one year we did a concert focused on Schumann music. All the kids were gathered on stage and performed 3-4 pieces each. The grand piano we were using was brand new, at some point during the concert the right pedal started to squeak very loudly...I was one of the last people to play and my piece required a lot of pedal, so I was in panic mode even before starting lol Then finally my turn came, the first two pieces were fine, but during the third one the pedal started squeaking so loud that my brain glitched and went blank in the middle of a phrase...I just stopped for I think the longest 10 seconds of my life 😂 then I managed to resume somehow and finish, but my God, I was so scared to use the pedal for a very long time after that haha

This was great! I needed it today! Wondering if that very first chorus performance was suppose to be comedic? Hilarious!

The cello string busting--it happens. Jacqueline Du Pre had it happen to her as she started the third movement of the Dvorak. She just went backstage, replaced it, tuned up and the third movement restarted. It does happen!

10:21 so THATS how he got his perfect pitch

Story time: I had a concert and midway through, my music stand collapsed and my music went everywhere (there was 4 or 5 pages). Thankfully, my section (I play euphonium) was resting at the time and me and the guy next to me were able to get everything put back the way if was before our entry, but it was still embarrassing

Lmfao, as soon as the Shostakovich came on, I said "is his string about to break or is his bow about to break." First time I performed that piece, my bow exploded at that exact measure hahaha.

Nobody: Brett right at the beginning of the video: *Water seal intensifies*

brett: c "aaaaaah" eddy: * shakes his head * brett: aaaaa📈📈📈 eddy: mm

4:25 I am guessing the camera is to show no damage if everything goes well. Insurance purposes if things go badly.

I think the saxophone one is a testament to how much more to it there is than just.. pressing the keys. Because he might have been actually pressing the right ones.

In case someone didn't recognize it, the vocal piece (with piano accompaniment) was the last few dozen bars of the second act of Verdi's opera, Aida. In the fully orchestrated version, the composer CHANGED THE FRIGGING KEY as the chorus (and soloists) hit their final note, at which point the horns blare in to wrap up the act. It's a brilliantly dramatic moment in the opera -- not that you would know that from THIS performance. Verdi is insanely hard on singers in his most dramatic parts, which is why it's not really for amateurs.

JUST 18 SECONDS AND EDDY IS ALREADY FLEXING HIS PERFECT PITCH.

As a musician myself, this vid gave me some real belly laughs!! Thank you for making and posting it! Made my day brighter, guys :)

Eddy and Brett, I love these type of videos and would be happy to see more!

5:26 I remember once, it was two days if I remember correctly, two days before the performance day, it was jazz orchestra so, we came for the rehearsal and we were very surprised to see our classical orchestra conductor was there too. (At the time, me and my sister were playing in both jazz and classical) Shortly afterwards, we learned that the supposedly jazz conductor for the performance that had been conducting us for the past few weeks of practice somehow just... disappear(?) So, they had the classical conductor to fill in the spot and it was one of the most awkward jazz practice ever, like... the conductor be very detail about our intonation and stuff. And he conducted us as if he was conducting the classical, except we're playing jazz music. It was so awkward cuz tbh, as classical orchestra player, we joined jazz in secret so none of the other classical player (except those who joined in secretly just like us) and the classical conductor know about it until that day. We felt so exposed, we just feel like ditching the whole rehearsal and performance itself, but we did it anyway. When we came for the next classical practice, it was sooo awkward to see the same conductor that caught us red handed but we just pretend like nothing happen. I wonder what the conductor felt and thought, though.😅😅😂😂

"it's jazz, there's no wrong notes" *repetition legitimizes*

This is awesome. Love you guys.

you guys now keep me alive because its 11pm and tomorow i have two big tests coming up but no braincells to keep normaly working so im just making flashcards and watching your videos for like a past hour... i love ur content:))) (so calming😀)

Ling Ling Wannabes really have been legatoing the subscribe button - every time I look at Twoset's subscribers, the number has always changed!! CMON YALL EVERY SUBSCRIBER IS A STEP CLOSER TO 4 MILL!! 😆😆😆

Can we just take a moment to appreciate the editing I mean it probably takes a lot of efforts and also adding the humour is just 😳👏👏

Ahhh I really felt the guy with the runaway piano- I was doing an important performance and my D string just popped and went completely out of tune… Shortly after that, my E string died as well I had to take the violin down and tune it again It was so scary😅 Respect to all you musicians who have run into issues❤️❤️❤️ And to the rest of you cultured not-musicians too!

I love this video

I love these types of videos where they joke themselves scoring at first but then actually would never really pass the challenge. WE ALREADY KNOW THAT IN THE BEGINNING. Love you.

im crying for that harp 2:58... god rip

Oh my, you guys are a great pair. Glad I found your react channel!

Twoset! I would like to see your reaction to these videos: 1) the saxophonist who performed the “Give Thanks” Christian song 2) the drum expert in Expertvillage giving a drum lesson 3) Annointing Fall on Me by Voices of Hope Those videos cracked me, and I was wondering your take on any of them lmao

8:47 The guy is so good looking that the cello string could not handle his handsomeness.

I love them when they joke around ,so I subscribed especially the ‘that baby’s dead’

I sing tenor in a few chorus groups. During a song where we did some comical acts I had to hit a really high solo note. When you do enough concerts something is bound to go wrong eventually. My voice cracked sort of like hers and then I started coughing. The good part is that my friends and everyone in the audience thought it was part of the act and laughed.

WE NEED MORE OF THISSSSS

the three hearts never matter lol they always lose more than 3 hearts

*"Babies are designed to be drop"* -Eddy What a true.

5:41 Polish guy

I had 2 back to back string breaks on my octave mandolin in my latest show. I kept playing as much as I could and from glancing the audience it didn't seem they could tell. My back up strings had the wrong ends on them (my fault in ordering the wrong ones, correct ones are on the way) so I had to hack them a bit when replacing them between sets. Pretty darn stressful but I was able to get back out and finish the rest of the show. Your point in the video is spot on about being able to improv your way through forgotten parts of the song. Never stop. If you keep going and make an improv that works with the piece the audience may never know.

Twoset as parents: Kid, literally in the floor, probably dead: … Twoset: well that escalated

Brett is developing perfect pitch 👀

3:39 The musician who tangled with the harp did not appear to feel well. She looked like she was trying to get off-stage before emptying the contents of her stomach and lurched into the harp.

In my experience, the A-string on cello is the one that snaps more often, I heard that depending on your practise it might be monthly. Mine only snapped during tuning, and so far that was it, been doing it for a year.

Just love how editor san found the exact music to match the cries' melody at 9:36 xD

Not even 30s into the video, we heard the word "perfect pitch" again 😂 Now this will be a word we will hear in every one of their videos no matter how far the topic is from "perfect pitch". AND I LOVE IT!

Most excellent vid. I laughed so hard and if I were playing with you guys I would have epically LOST. Thank you.

You guys are so funny .. you really make my mood away better.

I already knew the jazz roast was coming at 4:50 lmaooo

Props to dude @ 7:00!

1:01 When I was less than a year old, I slipped through the bars of the balcony of my house and fell, we were on the first floor and I didn't break anything. It may be that babies are made so as not to break.

2:57 OMG THE HARP ok every time I watch ur try not to flinch or cringe or laugh videos I am super calm like I react with a neutral face on the outside but this time I literally screamed I don’t play the harp but my friend does and when she sees this her face is like yours, SACRILEGIOUS