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  • Hello, welcome to another I N T E R E S T I N G episode

  • of TwoSet Violin.

  • Today, we're gonna play the game you all know how to play.

  • It's not charades. It's not-

  • Ling Ling 40 Hours.

  • - It's- - It is...

  • *drumroll*

  • - Wow... - The musician version!

  • - Tada! Check out the merch! - Wow!

  • So for those of you that don't know,

  • Never Have I Ever is a classic drinking game

  • where you get to know each other...

  • except it's PG.

  • So instead of alcohol, we'll be drinking...

  • BUBBLE TEA!!

  • Yeah!

  • Whoa...

  • - We have a bunch of musical version questions... - I just wanna drink it.

  • for Never Have I Ever.

  • And you're only meant to drink when you have done something.

  • Guys, this is how you drink bubble tea.

  • The sharp end, I've seen people do the wrong end.

  • Like you do this, very rookie error.

  • Sharp end goes in.

  • And you block the top as well if you wanna help it.

  • Whoa!

  • - No, actually- hahaha! - Hahahaha!!

  • - I felt the urge. I was like... - Felt the urge, you go...

  • Oh, the popping sensation!

  • Okay, never have I ever. Here we go!

  • - Alright, let's go. - We haven't seen these questions. Tada!

  • Question No.1,

  • "played the viola."

  • Mm...

  • Mm!

  • That was the longest sip!

  • Mm!

  • Mm!

  • When was the first time you played viola?

  • I want another sip.

  • First time I played the viola was in my orientation week

  • at the conservatory.

  • Mozart string quartet.

  • Mine was quartet, too.

  • My first time was when I was...

  • ...playing together, how old were we?

  • I was probably 15?

  • 15! Yeah! It was 15.

  • Yeah, Brett was playing first, and I was playing viola.

  • Hahaha!

  • Sad days...

  • It's always like that.

  • That's how you transition a violinist to viola.

  • - Put them in a quartet. - Yeah.

  • "clapped between movements."

  • - I like to think so. - Not that I remember.

  • You just wanted to drink.

  • No, but I do remember I clapped

  • because everyone clapped anyway, so I joined in.

  • I'm always hesitant. I wait till everyone claps first.

  • No, I never started it though, like I don't go...

  • Yeah, tsk, tsk, tsk.

  • Next question!

  • "used the excuse:"

  • "but stayed at home and done nothing!"

  • HahAHA!

  • Mm!

  • Mmmm!

  • Oh, bubble tea is so good!

  • Oh!

  • Oh my god!

  • This is the best Never Have I Ever.

  • I hope I've done every one of those.

  • Um. Yeah.

  • Can't go cos I have to practice.

  • Mhm.

  • Well, that was the intention, but I just forget.

  • No, I was gonna say it.

  • Sometimes-

  • Yeah, okay, sometimes it is an excuse

  • cos I just don't wanna go out.

  • But more often than not,

  • it's more like I genuinely wanted to practice.

  • So I stayed at home, be like "I can't go out."

  • - But then, you just get distracted at home, or like... - Yeah.

  • "Just one more TwoSet Violin YouTube video."

  • - "Just one more!" - Yeah. "Just one more vid-"

  • - Oh no... - "Oh, oh, it's 10pm! It's too late to pr-"

  • - "I guess I'll practice tomorrow." - Yeah, the neighbours will be annoyed.

  • "I'm a good person, I don't bother neighbours."

  • No, but I'm definitely guilty for that one.

  • "charmed a girl by playing the violin."

  • I just want to...

  • Now you gotta tell us when, cos you sipped it.

  • Oh.

  • I only remember it happened once.

  • I played Happy Birthday for a girl.

  • Oh really? Hahahahaaaaa!

  • But really though.

  • We pick up the violin just to practice, do a concert.

  • Yeah, I don't play violin to charm girls.

  • Yes.

  • I play it so I can become closer to Ling Ling.

  • Exactly.

  • Violin is an art form, not a tool to seduce people with.

  • I'm a pure musician.

  • I think people always think like...

  • violinists do that,

  • like that's the image of violinists.

  • - Yeah, like all romantic. - But really it's just like-

  • - But really it's just like... practice. It's so sad. - We're just like practic-

  • It's like ArGghhhhHHhh!!

  • Yeah, I don't know. I don't see violinists that...

  • - Me neither. Yeah, I just... I don't see that one. - Yeah, I just don't see that one.

  • Yeah.

  • "been late to rehearsal."

  • - Hahahaha! - Dude, I should sip all this for that one!

  • Can we have more, please?

  • I'll top that, I haven't just been late to a rehearsal,

  • I was late to a concert.

  • You've been late to a lecture.

  • Oh!

  • I'm late to everything.

  • I still remember.

  • I was late to an orchestral rehearsal in conservatory.

  • I was 30 minutes late cos I slept in.

  • Oh, reall-

  • I went through the back door, thinking-

  • I don't know why I went through the back door,

  • - just quicker I guess. - Yeah.

  • So I went through the back entrance.

  • Opened the door.

  • The conductor saw me,

  • and stopped the whole orchestra.

  • And I was like uh...

  • He's like "Guys, see."

  • "This is what happens when someone is late."

  • "Everyone has to stop."

  • No, he didn't...

  • I was like "Oh my god, really? This is..."

  • "Why are you doing that?"

  • "Like... You're not helping anyone by doing that."

  • It's not my fault- I mean it is my fault for being late,

  • but you don't have to stop the whole orchestra

  • to caught me on the spot.

  • There have been many times where it was very close call.

  • Like we'd have a concert with a professional orchestra.

  • - And it'd be like 5 minutes to the concert. - Yeah.

  • I'd be driving around looking for a park.

  • I remember once I panicked,

  • I just parked somewhere like... I wasn't meant to park.

  • I was just like...

  • "I gotta go to a concert. I hope I don't get towed."

  • And I made it like... 2 minutes before.

  • Did your car get towed?

  • Nah.

  • - Oh, luckily. - I was lucky.

  • In high school, we had a concert once.

  • - My high school orchestra was kind of very blasé. - Yeah.

  • And so they had a concert,

  • and I was back desk second.

  • They just forgot to put a stand and a desk for me.

  • And so I went there, and everyone was already on stage.

  • And I was like "I don't have a chair."

  • And the conductor just goes...

  • and starts tuning the orchestra.

  • I'm like "Wut?"

  • And so I had to like, grab my own stand,

  • and set myself up while they started playing the piece.

  • Haha! Can you imagine the conductor...

  • The conductor go "I can't deal with you right now,"

  • - "We gotta- the concert's gonna start." It's just- - Yeah, yeah, yeah.

  • "cancelled a violin lesson"

  • "because I was too embarrassed for not practicing."

  • Hahahaha!

  • - Really? - Haven't you?

  • I don't think I have...

  • I mean I don't know if I was too embarrassed.

  • But I've definitely...

  • not often, but I have cancelled a lesson

  • just cos I didn't feel like going.

  • Maybe I just didn't get enough time to practice,

  • - so I was like... I'd probably just gonna get destroyed. - Yeah.

  • There's no point.

  • ...type of thing.

  • I can't remember. I don't think I have.

  • I tried to go to every lesson.

  • It's much more likely that I skip school class to go to a lesson.

  • Yeah, yeah.

  • I'm a very spontaneous person.

  • Whatever feels right.

  • No rules.

  • Alright, next one.

  • "gotten shaky bow on stage."

  • Oh my god.

  • Mm...

  • That one, I should be drinking like 10 liters.

  • Always. I still get shaky bow sometimes.

  • Not even on stage.

  • Sometimes I get shaky bow playing in front of this camera...

  • - for you guys. - Yeah!

  • Like shaky bow is always gonna be there..

  • - Yeah. - But in uni days, it was the worst.

  • Mm!

  • - Cos all the peers are musicians, and they all know. - Yeah.

  • Everyone's just looking at you. It's like...

  • Yeah.

  • You change your technique in concert

  • - because of shaky bow. - Yeah.

  • "cheated on a music theory exam."

  • Hahaha!

  • I haven't cheated, but I've helped someone cheat.

  • Does that count?

  • - That's not cheating. - Yeah.

  • I helped someone cheat using the perfect pitch method

  • that we did in a video.

  • If you guys haven't seen it. It was Nathaniel.

  • We were sitting next to each other

  • for theory exam at the con.

  • That's funny!

  • And we had a code,

  • and then he was like "Tap, tap, tap."

  • I was like

  • *humming*

  • - Cos he has perfect pitch as well. - Yeah, yeah.

  • I remember there was a smart kid in my grade.

  • I was like "Hey man, can you help me out?"

  • He's like "Yeah, yeah, I'll sit next to you in the exam."

  • So everyone goes in, you choose your seats.

  • Yeah.

  • And when he was writting, he does this.

  • He puts the answer, and he goes...

  • If I'm on his left side, he goes...

  • Hahahahaha!

  • and moves it. I was like "Yeah! Thank youuu!!"

  • "Thank you!"

  • - We don't promote such behaviour, but - Yeah.

  • sometimes you just gotta-

  • I was just doing too much practice.

  • Yeah.

  • - There's too much... - Priorities.

  • To many different other priorities of my life right now.

  • "had a memory slip during a performance."

  • - Oh, come on! Like every time. - Of course.

  • Not every time, but-

  • Remember our first concert as TwoSet.

  • And you didn't have a memory slip,

  • but you came in in the wrong key for the Bach.

  • *laughs*

  • Cos we changed it.

  • We did a cut, and so you came in in the wrong key.

  • - Oh, that was so bad! - And it was like...

  • It sounded like Stravinsky.

  • But I don't think anyone knew.

  • And that was the best bit

  • - cos I knew, and you knew that. - And I still remember so clear, I was like...

  • Something sounds really off!

  • But I don't think my fingers are in the wrong place.

  • - Yeah. - Those were the right notes I was supposed to play.

  • And I realised everything.

  • I was like "Oh my god..."

  • Do you still remember...

  • when you and Sophie played Happy Birthday?

  • I played- I told her-

  • And then he told... he-

  • Cos it was my birthday, so apparently you told Sophie

  • "Play Happy Birthday at the end for Eddy in A major."

  • But...

  • - Brett was just thinking starting on A means A major. - Started on... A string!

  • But it's actually D major.

  • *sings Happy Birthday*

  • Sophie was just like "WUT?!"

  • - Yeah. - What...

  • Sorry, Sophie.

  • "had a crush on a violist."

  • Nah.

  • "peed my pants during a long symphony performance."

  • Nah, I'm just kidding.

  • I'm kidding! I'm kidding! I'm kidding!

  • I...

  • know someone that had to leave

  • just to pee halfway through a symphony.

  • That's pretty funny!

  • - And I know someone that... - Oh, that's pretty funny.

  • pooed his pants during a performance.

  • - But I personally have never done either of them. - Yeah, never done that.

  • Guys, go to the toilet beforehand.

  • Mhm.

  • "sight read the music during a performance."

  • This is so bad!

  • No, sometimes it's just like...

  • It would be like some film music performance

  • where you just played Harry Potter,

  • and Superman...

  • - Fair enough, fair enough. It's like... - And-

  • If it's so like... some other easy stuff,

  • you're just like there's no point of practicing. You-

  • For those of you that don't know, film music is just-

  • For string players, usually it's just... long semibreves.

  • 1... 2... 3... 4...

  • Assume you can already play an instrument,

  • - and that's very very easy, so... - Yeah.

  • - I mean, unless it's like Harry Potter where it's like prrrr. - Yeah, that's- that's difficult.

  • But then, no one really practice that either

  • - cos it's like too hard. - You can't hear it. It's...

  • It's not- It's meant for an effect, not playing it.

  • It's not like...

  • examination of accuracy.

  • Do you realise how bad this sounds right now?

  • - We're just like... - I know. We're-

  • It's either too easy to practice,

  • - or it's too hard so there's no point of practicing. - Yeah, I know!

  • But I've done that in an actual concert, sight reading.

  • - Yeah. - That was the con one.

  • I've said this story before, but I was late.

  • Oh, yeah!

  • And I was sight reading at actual...

  • like a chamber orchestra concert.

  • And that wasn't easy.

  • I've done all the gigs sight reading.

  • Oh yeah, that as well.

  • "made a lie to skip rehearsal."

  • I mean I never lie, but-

  • I can't remember when I last did it.

  • But I'm sure I did it once to save my *ss from something.

  • "I'm sIcK."

  • "broken a string during a performance."

  • I've actually never broken a string during a performance.

  • No, I actually haven't!

  • Cos we're not soloists.

  • I know a string has unraveled...

  • - Oh yeah. - while performing.

  • Actually no, I have snapped a string before,

  • - but not in a performance. - I'm sure I've broken a string during a performance.

  • Either it could be a busking one as well,

  • but I just don't remember it.

  • "had a crush on someone in orchestra."

  • - There's no evidence. - Tee-hee!

  • Next one.

  • Just move on!

  • Quickly like...

  • "wanted to abandon music career."

  • Hahahahaha!

  • Like every day I'm like "am I good enough?"

  • It depends what this mean, like, wanted, like-

  • - More- - If it's more like a self-deprec-

  • Yeah, that's true.

  • No, I've never thought about like... abandon

  • as in like I don't like it.

  • - Yeah. - But I've thought about it in a sense of like-

  • Abandoning is just-

  • maybe I'm not good enough.

  • Yeah, yeah.

  • Just so not like we want to abandon the careers.

  • It's like the thought did occur that

  • "am I good enough for this career?"

  • Yeah, that's what I meant.

  • Yeah.

  • Nah, yeah, no.

  • That makes sense. I didn't want to abandon music.

  • Yeah.

  • "Never have I ever forgotten my violin!"

  • Oh, I'm the same.

  • It's like "haha- oh, crap."

  • Oh no!

  • It's the worst feeling!

  • I remember yours was recording.

  • I remember that one as well.

  • I think that's the biggest one that hit me.

  • I was like "Oh."

  • "I don't have a violin."

  • "What am I here for recording? Idiot."

  • Up to that day, Brett used to like-

  • You used to pay me out all the time

  • for when I used to forget my violin.

  • And then that day happened, I was like...

  • "YES!"

  • "Got you!"

  • I've forgotten mine...

  • three times though.

  • Oh, that's crazy.

  • Once for an airport,

  • - Once- - Twice for an airport.

  • on the train.

  • - Oh, train, yeah. - And once at the train station.

  • I was a young soul. I don't do that anymore.

  • Yeah, we're responsible now.

  • Last one.

  • "changed the bowings or fingerings during a performance."

  • Oh, all the time.

  • Mm.

  • Because you panic.

  • Yup.

  • You just panic, and sometimes you run out of bow,

  • sometimes you just have a-

  • - Yeah, just run out of bow. - like you're running out of bow, you're like

  • "Oh my god!" And then,

  • Sometimes one running-out-of-bow

  • changes the whole sequence of bowing.

  • - Mhm. - And you kinda start doing 2 ups

  • to compensate really quicky.

  • Or like do more slurs in case you missed out.

  • Sometimes like...

  • in the concert, I like...

  • chicken out, doing like a shift,

  • so I just string cross instead.

  • You know, like...

  • I did it once that I had a mind blank of...

  • what note I was supposed to play first

  • - at the piano competition once. - Oh... okay.

  • So I walked on stage. I was just like...

  • I forgot which octave the piece was, for some reason.

  • I had a massive mind blank.

  • - No... - I was like,

  • "Holy crap. Is it supposed to be this C or this C?"

  • I think I froze there for like a good one minute.

  • Oh no...

  • It was pretty bad.

  • Everyone was just waiting.

  • Oh no...

  • - It was so much pressure. - Is this like in Eisteddfod?

  • Yeah, it was...

  • It's so much pressure!

  • Well, that's it, guys.

  • Comment on your Never Have I Ever's down below.

  • And play along with this game.

  • Play with your friends.

  • Yeah, drink bubble tea with us.

  • Oh, that was the best excuse to drink bubble tea.

  • Mm...

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  • Thank you so much for watching.

  • And then we'll see you guys next time.

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