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  • Sound the alarm!

  • Classical musicians, we must unite!

  • We're under attack!

  • No...!

  • Here's a quick recap.

  • This bass YouTuber named Davie504

  • dared to insult the violin.

  • So we made a video

  • exposing the difference between bass and violin.

  • E p i c a l l y o w n e d .

  • He had the audacity to come back

  • with a video that made no sense.

  • Not only that.

  • He challenged us. (I challenge you.)

  • With the perfect pitch gang...

  • We were able to complete the challenge easily

  • within 2 seconds.

  • We also challenged him back (challenge you back)

  • to play Paganini on the violin.

  • And now,

  • he has just come back

  • disrespecting all violinists and classical music,

  • and disrespecting Paganini!

  • - We must defend! - That's right.

  • The integrity of classical music!

  • - This is gonna be traumatic. - This is it. This is it.

  • This sounded pretty good, right?

  • WRONG!

  • That's an epic fail.

  • Where is slapp?

  • He didn't slapp the violin.

  • Instead, he used the bow again.

  • N O T E P I C .

  • Oh, sorry.

  • Why don't you let me demonstrate right now.

  • Instrument violence!

  • In the classical community,

  • we respect musical instruments.

  • And plus, when you play,

  • the bow has kinda slapping the string anyway, right?

  • So it's advanced slapping!

  • Intellectual slapping!

  • This version sounds way better

  • just because there is my bass.

  • Checkmate!

  • I guess that's what basses are good for, right?

  • Making the melody instruments sound better!

  • OHH...!!

  • Thanks for the support.

  • We thought maybe we could challenge

  • with the theme of Paganini 24.

  • and we challenge you back.

  • We will be playing it on the bass,

  • and you have to learn it on the violin.

  • W H A T ? !

  • I see him smiling.

  • Ah, he can't keep the face!

  • He's like...

  • - Dude, he's struggling. He's struggling so hard! - He's... Yeah.

  • His smile is getting bigger.

  • We see you struggling.

  • Dude, he's trying so...

  • He's like "you laugh, you lose."

  • "I must not laugh!"

  • That's right.

  • It was actually a You Laugh, You Lose!

  • Bang! Got you there!

  • Paganini 24 is one of the

  • HARDEST

  • classical songs ever.

  • He called it a S O N G .

  • That is very

  • S A C R I L E G I O U S .

  • All we ever wanted was

  • But we can't have peace

  • if people call it song.

  • So we must once again engage in battle.

  • In order to...

  • Protect the piece!

  • And he played it on bass.

  • O M G !

  • I must say,

  • he did a pretty good job for a beginner.

  • I'm joking of course.

  • Not approved!

  • And what's even worse

  • is that they didn't have my permission to play bass.

  • And by the way,

  • playing bass with your thumb like that is a sin.

  • Almost as bad as playing it with a pick.

  • Anyway, they challenged me to play this SONG on violin.

  • O M G !

  • Let's do this.

  • You never hold a violin like that.

  • Imagine you held a baby like this by the neck.

  • That is sacrilegious!

  • Poor violin-chan is being held hostage!

  • *Sigh*

  • - Ugh! Where do we start? - Alright. The oven.

  • If you have watched TwoSet Violin,

  • you already know what we're going to say.

  • We have busted countless TV shows,

  • and fake idols doing fake performances.

  • Before we give our professional critique,

  • - let's have a look at the comment section, shall we? - Mm!

  • Whoa! Going for the right hand. Oh!

  • - I'm so proud of this community. - I know.

  • - I'm so proud of you! - We trained them so well!

  • We trained you well!

  • That's right.

  • You can't get away from all the Ling Ling wannabes.

  • Well, mate.

  • Check your editing!

  • OHH...!!

  • For those of you that maybe are new

  • to TwoSet Violin channel,

  • we will give you a quick overview.

  • Now, let's look.

  • - Okay, I mean, look at that bow hold. - That's- Oh my god.

  • - That bow- - Dude, that's a claw.

  • The bow hold should look like this.

  • Very gentle, right?

  • Yeah.

  • ...to enable maximum flexibility.

  • But his is like...

  • every actor in the TV show.

  • And here's a difference.

  • He said before.

  • You used your thumb, and that's not how you play the bass.

  • Playing bass with your thumb like that is a sin.

  • Okay, maybe that's not proper technique.

  • But you can still make a sound.

  • But you actually can't make a sound on the violin

  • - playing like that. - You can't make a good sound.

  • It would sound like this.

  • Which is probably what he sounded like.

  • Need more proof?

  • - The bow contact point is all over the place. - The bow stroke was like...

  • - It didn't look like he was even touching the string properly. - Yeah, it was like...

  • I gotta say that I'm impressed he learnt

  • - the fingerings for this faking. - Yeah, not bad!

  • Not bad. Put some effort in.

  • That was wrong!

  • - That was the wrong fingerings. - That was wrong.

  • And the thumb-

  • Oh, that thumb is touching the G string!

  • OH!

  • You never play like this.

  • S A C R I L E G I O U S .

  • He went 3-4-2-1.

  • It should be an open E right now.

  • You even hear it's open string.

  • Here's an E string.

  • You can here that sparse clarity in the E.

  • That was a G string!

  • He stopped on A string.

  • G string is here.

  • But he went...

  • To be fair,

  • as we all know,

  • - it is possible to learn the bass very quickly. - Mhm.

  • But violin is just too hard.

  • - We gotta- - So he had to resort to mainstream television tactics.

  • Oh no.

  • I at least respect you tried to learn the fingerings.

  • Yeah!

  • - At least you tried. - Not bad.

  • - Not bad. - Not bad.

  • I know this was not the cleanest violin playing ever.

  • It was not the cleanest faking ever!

  • OHH...!!

  • This was the first time ever I played violin.

  • I didn't even practice before this video.

  • If I practiced 40 hours like them,

  • I would've played better than Paganini himself.

  • - Dude, even Franz Liszt didn't dare insult Paganini. - Yeah, even the piano gang is like

  • "No, no, no..."

  • You don't go there!

  • Well, given that fake performance,

  • I think we can easily show how to do

  • the Paganini on the bass as well.

  • E A S Y .

  • S L A P P T H E B A S S !

  • I N T E R E S T I N G !

  • I wanna bring this challenge to the next level.

  • I'm gonna play this SONG

  • but this time I'm gonna use the violin

  • as a pick to play the bass.

  • L e t ' s d o t h i s .

  • Poor violin-chan.

  • We knew something was happening.

  • Dude, look at the way he's holding violin-chan's neck!

  • AHH...!

  • That was the most...

  • disrespectful...

  • disgusting thing I have ever seen!

  • The equivalent would be if we use the bass as a bow.

  • 'Cause he used the violin as a pick.

  • Here we go.

  • No!

  • We can't disrespect our violins with the bass.

  • We can do something to match your level of

  • s a c r i l e g i o u s n e s s .

  • What are we gonna do?

  • Wait, I don't think we should use that bow.

  • - Think we should use the viola bow. - Oh yeah.

  • Of course.

  • Wow!

  • Wow!

  • aMAzInG!

  • No respect for the bass until you respect violin-chan.

  • Anyway,

  • he challenged us to play something.

  • Let's see his challenge.

  • I'm gonna beat them at their own instruments.

  • I composed a piece on violin

  • that I bet they cannot play on violin.

  • Check this out.

  • Ah!

  • Oh no...!!

  • No...!!

  • And the tune- the string wasn't even right!

  • - Dude, you could hear the nails. - Yeah.

  • Gah! No! Violin abuse!

  • There's gonna be scratches on that thing.

  • TwoSet Violin,

  • I challenge you to play this on your violin.

  • And since this is your instrument,

  • you only have 40 hours to do it.

  • Guys, I'm pretty s-

  • 40 hours?

  • I didn't see this in time.

  • - I know. - I think it's already been like...

  • - Oopsie! - 40 hours.

  • We were too busy practicing 40 hours!

  • So...

  • He tuned his G string down to an E.

  • He tuned his A down to a G.

  • Oh...

  • Dude, it's cheating. You are not meant to change the tuning.

  • - You can't tune- - That's easier. It's all open strings.

  • Nah. I'm not- I'm...

  • - I'll hold like a... - Something that can make that sound.

  • It wasn't perfect timing...

  • but at least it was real.

  • OHH!!

  • Gotta say though,

  • very creative.

  • - But it just hurts. - It hurts!

  • At least no nails.

  • Yeah, that was too much!

  • Yeah, the... like, okay, like this...

  • But he'd be like...

  • OH! No, no, no...

  • - Aiya! - No, no, no.

  • Not even the varnish can protect that.

  • Well, I think it's about time we got serious,

  • and really just show

  • what the violin is capable of.

  • So we're gonna challenge you to play

  • one of the most EPIC

  • PIECES of classical music.

  • Both using our instruments of choice.

  • Us on the violin, you on the bass.

  • The third movement of Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto.

  • 40 hours of practice.

  • Every day!

  • That's right. We will give you...

  • 69 hours for the challenge.

  • Free violin-chan!

  • I'll see you on the battlefield.

  • I think it's been 32 hours so...

  • editor-san, you have...

  • 5 hours to make this video.

Sound the alarm!

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