The pianist with the memory slip was more of a win than a fail, the fact that he was able to recover and finish the piece without giving up or freezing is really great. Kid's gonna go far in life.
Exactly! I remember my first piano concert, I was so nervous that I forgot where middle C even was for a good solid two minutes. I had been playing flute for years at this point and was just mortified. That kid deserves props
They're not kidding about it happening to everybody ... I was doing the Faure Requiem once, the organist held a note too long ... whole choir noticed and delayed entry, then just carried on!
I couldn't help but notice that the moment before he slipped, someone took a flash photo. I've been playing for 40 years now and I still can get disoriented when some halfwit in the audience shoots a flash photo.
Props to the pianist on the first one. He just improvised on the spot, and tried not to make it any more awkward for the poor girl. I could tell he practiced. Edit: Wow! Thanks for the 3k likes guys!
Confession time: I was on keys for a band, responsible for opening the introduction for a song. For unknown reasons during stage performance, I started in the wrong key (1 semitone up) and didn't realize until a few bars after the singer had started singing. The rest of the band was going to come in after Verse1. I had to make a split decision to decide if I should keep going or change back down, but I was sitting at an angle where I couldn't look at my bandmates to check if they noticed. I decided to sacrifice the singer so that we wouldn't hit a massive disaster. Switched down a semi-tone at the end of a bar. Singer was thrown off, did a warbly note trying to find her footing. The rest of the performance was saved. Singer is STILL MAD AT ME to this day. Entirely my fault.
A singer here. I think it was the right call. The singer can much more easily sing a semitone down than any instrument can play a semitone up. I understand that they were thrown off, but being mad? Come on, mistakes happen. You said it's your fault and that's it. I'm wondering though how you could be a semitone up on keys without noticing! Being a 5th or 4th off, I would understand - the fingering doesn't change too much, but playing something a semitone up on keys would totally throw me off!
@@williamsporing1500 JAJAJAJAJA I play the violin in an orchestra and sing for fun whatever catches my interest, so I know how it feels to forget a song that you think know so well xD (Sometimes my mind does a mix when singing and forgetting the other part of the song, then remembering another song that had the same range
Same, incredible that he could manage that. Maybe used to it because of constantly sitting there. If that was me, I would be looking behind me to see what is doing it every few minutes or so.
For the boy at 5:30, it was probably the camera's flash that set him off. When you're performing and really nervous, even the tiniest of things can distract you. That's why most concert venues ban flash photography.
I’m a photographer, I was asked to photograph a performance but that particular day I forgot to turn off the flash, I was asked to leave after just one picture. I was mortified when the flash went off. Luckily my husband was also photographing the same performance. Lesson learned, always check your equipment. I act also and know it is very distracting.
The boy is in good company: I attended a concert by guitarist Andres Segovia back at San Francisco's Masonic Auditorium in the 1960s, and at one point during the performance someone in the audience stood up and took a flash photo of Segovia playing. Segovia just stopped, stood and said "please... impossible!" -- then sat down again, took a moment to regain his composure, then went back to playing.
Fun story: I recently went to Hilary Hahn's concert in Spain. They were playing Sibelius. Towards the end of the first movement, when the orchestra was playing a very powerful part, the conductor BROKE his baton! And he had a spare baton too, which he grabbed immediately, while like the whole theatre burst into laughing
Reminds me of the few instances my former HS instructor-turned-college professor would accidentally fling his baton during rehearsal. As a farewell gift, one of the people in my class/grade actually gave him a baton with a Wii remote strap attached to it.
For the little boy, I would argue that his recovery ability (because I probably would have given up and left in tears) is an indication of talent! Resiliency is important too
As a musician in a rock band, we believe in the adage, “The show must go on!”. It doesn’t matter how bad you screw up, you’ve got to keep going! If you’re playing rock music in a bar, you can mess up bad and as long as you don’t stop, and keep going, the majority of patrons won’t even notice. This young man didn’t panic, he thought hard and picked up where he left off, I think he’ll do just fine in the real world.
5:44 I’m pretty sure a big part of the memory slip was the camera flash, which had to have been very distracting. The slip came almost immediately after the flash (maybe 2 seconds at most). Which is why people should never take photos with flash at recitals or concerts unless the performers are prepared for it and explicitly OK with it.
This and people opening candy for their kids so they don't scream and kids running around were my personal nightmare at recitals when I was a kid :( And of course the coughs, sneezes, "whispering" that are always present. I got used to it after about 4 years but a camera person circling me around the grand piano I still couldn't get used to @-@
You are right! I didn't even notice until I saw your comment and played back into the video He was all okay until the flash, like the flash interrupted the performance
She should've just kept playing without it like she attempted at first. Key rule of performing. Instead she made everyone just sit there while doing the equivalent of putting her socks on.
I, too, rocked out too hard on the cello practicing the Shostakovich and snapped my bow in half once. That concerto needs to come with a warning label.
Memory slip story: I'm a vocalist and I was asked to do a number at my churches Christmas program this past year. Long story short, I memorized the piece fully 2 days before the performance (as one does). I had sung/spoken the lyrics all day and had it absolutely down. Come that evening, I sing the song. First verse, wonderful, perfection. Second verse, pretty decent. Third verse, it was gone. I got to the verse and I just blanked. So, I literally made 75% of the verse up until the final line (when I finally remembered what I was supposed to sing). I think I told all of 5 people I made it up. But no one otherwise questioned it. Moral of the story: be confident when making a mistake. The majority of people won't notice/question it. Act like you're enjoying yourself even though you're pretty much dying inside your head. You got this
Add to this, One acting class in school, on stage, performing, forgot my line for like 10 full seconds, while holding the arms of my partner, my eyes darting, breathes quickened, mouth wide open, rocking both of us back and forth. Finally brain came back as I inner-cringed the rest of my way through the show, big applause, and got high grades. why? cus during that 10 seconds everyone was convinced I was purposefully “being lost of words” and trust me, it looked real af.
I forgot the words so many times man. I forgot during an audition once! It was a piece I didn't really feel like I owned and I'd really been struggling with the lyrics for whatever reason, I got to the third verse and the words of the second verse started to come out (even writing this now I can't remember the first line of the final verse lol). I got to the money note just fine which was good, and when I talked to my voice teacher afterwards she waved it off and was like 'None of the judges were sopranos, they won't know the difference.' And hey, I made it through so I guess she was right lol.
Moral of the story: be confident when making a mistake. The majority of people won't notice/question it. Act like you're enjoying yourself even though you're pretty much dying inside your head. You got this AND THIS IS HOW I BECAME A JAZZ MUSICIAN
Happens in lots of types of performances, the performers who have practised the thing before notice that this is not really going the way it should, but as long as you are not dropping stuff or falling down, and manage to keep your cool, there's a good chance that most of the audience won't notice.
I’m a flute player and the night before the biggest audition of my life my cork popped out of the head joint. If your a flute player you will probably be just as shocked as I was because I never have even herd of this and nobody could fix it in time 😭
3:35 I mean...dude...he dropped the baton, kept conducting without it, reached down to get the spare while conducting with his LEFT hand, then resumed conducting with the spare AND NEVER LOST THE BEAT OR STOPPED CONDUCTING ONCE. There is no point, as a musician, where I'd not have something to keep me in time. What a talent Leonard Bernstein was.
That's the first time I see a conductor with a SPARE BATON ready to go. Like, how many times has he yeeted it during rehearsals for him to think "You know what, better have a second one for the concert just in case." 😅
@@MissTwoSetEncyclopedia It’s like an old cartoon - I want to say it was Tom and Jerry? - where a character is trying to stop the other one from conducting something cuz it’s noisy so he breaks his baton, but he just has an infinite number of other batons up his sleeve.
Yes! Especially cause a lot of people want to start learning instruments but are scared of performing and/of public humiliation. I think it’s nice to see these mishaps and accidents framed in such a sympathetic light!
I would be surprised if a musician hadn't experienced a similar thing, everyone knows how it feels and you've got to support each other and laugh through the pain
When I was taking conducting in college, one of my professors favorite lines was, "You're not Bernstein so you are not allowed to look like you are flying away." He played under Bernstein several times and apparently the man would often wave wildly in certain sections, so I would not be surprised if he had 5 or 6 extra batons in his podium.
The kid on the piano who messed up broke my heart, poor kid! But I'm glad he finally got back into it. As a pianist who sometimes performs in front of people, it hurts seeing people mess up, get flustered and sometimes they never get back into the music because they feel embarrassed. :(
@@avidagamegerl1081 They said it was him who uploaded it, so I would guess it´s a half joking title he gave the video. Still wrong though, to me that sounded totally fine for that age.
I stopped playing an eternity ago, but wasn't the boy's posture all messed up? His elbows were almost touching, and hands were literally drooping. I'd be inclined to somewhat agree with the title. The memory issue aside, he's just not a good pianist.
@@miloradowicz 1. I suspect his hands are low because he is sitting on a bench that is too low for his height. If it's a recital, that may not have been fixable. 2. I can't really see where his elbows are because of his sleeves, but they don't look like they are touching or close to touching, to me. 3. What you have mentioned are techniques, they have nothing to do with talent. The most talented person in the world could have bad technique if they are taught incorrectly. 4. Is it really worth your time to criticize a little boy on the internet for something that you don't even do yourself anymore?
I was the only percussionist at the concert, so playing Leroy Anderson's "Sleigh ride" required me to play what is normally played by three or more percussionists. The very last few measures required sleigh bells, temple blocks, and slapstick at the same time. I managed to painfully pinch a finger in the slapstick. When I came back with ice on my finger, I got an applause.
As a trombonist, that was an alto trombone. He most likely plays tenor a lot, and so thought 7th was a but further than it really was. I can confirm though, trombonists are centimeters from disaster. Always. Edit: I wish to share a small anecdote. I was playing bass trombone in the collegiate band and had to go for a low C in 7th position with the thumb trigger (my second trigger broke DURING THE CONCERT). As I went for the low C, my slide came clean off and launched across the stage, ending about 2 rows up from me. The bassoonist in front of me grabbed it, handed it back to me, and I finished the concert. Worst performance of my life. 🤦♂️
In high school marching band, a trombone lost their slide when we were playing in the stands. It fell through the bleachers. A parent standing below caught it and brought it back up.
@@calculusfan1 A couple of years back there was video of one of the British army Guards bands on the march, trombone player in the front rank lost their slide, but being a military band they stop for nothing and no one. One can only imagine what happened to it and how many bands, horses, and regiments were behind them...
Kudos to both TwoSet men for their compassion. Everyone, no matter what they do in life, makes mistakes sometimes, and what's needed is to get back on the horse. Having others commiserate and be gentle is the best balm for embarrassment and shock.
The conductor who accidentally launched his baton sent me back to high school. My band director was so emphatic during our Halloween concert that he launched his baton weight-first right at one of the second clarinets. It hit him during a rest, right between the eyes, with an audible THOCK. It took everything we all had to not lose it and keep going with the song. (And of course, he apologized later!)
At a halftime show back in HS (long time ago, far, far away, lol) we had sleeves over our slides with the schools letters. As I was going for a ( really sweet) glissando, it slipped out of my fingers. Of course, being winter in the snow belt, there was a nice headwind. That sucker glided from the 10 yard line past the 40 on the opposite end. 50 yards. At the end of the season, the football team gave me an award for longest pass of the season
At 7:08, the guy is actually playing an alto trombone, so the slide is shorter and positions closer, it's way easier to go too far than with a regular trombone. Though you guys are right, when playing the farthest positions, trombone players ARE only a few centimeters form a disaster haha.
Once my E string started loosening so I had to play higher and higher just on that 1 string... another time I was playing in an orchestra and a marching band were rehearsing behind the stage - half the orchestra followed their beat and half followed the conductor. And then there was the time I turned up to play and opened my case to find I'd forgotten my violin 🤦♀
I felt the one with the little boy so hard. I struggled with severe performance anxiety when it comes to piano for a long time because I had that exact thing happen to me. I forgot my piece that I always knew so well completely and couldn't find a way back into it. So I just stood up, bowed and walked back to my seat crying 😥 The worst part was that it had been my first concert in years and after that for a very long time I wasn't able to play in front of everyone and was very self conscious. I'm still not super comfortable with playing in front of people but I did find my joy in playing piano again, improved immensely and practice a lot more regularly than in the past and try to push myself to play in front of people whenever I see a piano somewhere. It seriously helped. So for anyone struggling with a performance trauma: just keep pushing, find supportive teachers and built up your self esteem again. I believe in you ❤️
Keep at it. I had terrible stage fright as a child and now while I still have it beforehand, while on stage i can move through it. Or even sometimes start to enjoy myself and it morphs into more like energy. Have you ever heard of the thing where you purposely make a mistake right away so then there’s no possibility to do it perfectly? Takes the pressure off
He was doing fine and all right until that camera flash which would have reflected off the piano. It probably broke his otherwise great concentration. The camera click alone was annoying but add the flash for more audience rudeness.
Looks like that trombone around 7:00 minutes in was an alto trombone- much smaller slide. Very easy to accidentally go too far and pull the slide off. During a particularly sloppy and sacrilegious rehearsal in university orchestra one day, where the string section was out of tune and had many wrong notes, the violins still ended the piece with a big bow flourish which kind of pissed me off as my section has worked hard to sound really good for that day. I then finished a trombone section of the piece by mockingly removing my Alto trombone slide in the same flourish. Made a few strong enemies that day, but the rest of the Orchestra got a good chuckle out of it
I genuinely think the audience claps as a message to the performer that its alright dont worry. its the only way they can communicate apart from coughing. remember most of us our biggest form of anxiety [ musicians or otherwise] is to mess up on a stage so the audience clap during a mess up is to put the performer at ease. like its okay bro you got this dont worry about it.
@@MrWizardjr9 oh my god this made me cackle just thinking about it. musician: *fumbles something* audience: GEUGHEUGHEUGHEUGH. HCKKKKKACKACKACK. CKKKAGFGFGFGF.
That classical guitar oops brought back a memory. When I was in college (music composition major) I took classical guitar as my performance class, and during the end of semester recital the stool I was sitting on snapped. I heard it, I felt it, and the seat became very unstable, but it didn't collapse. If you thought playing in front of an audience that was only there to judge you and assign you a grade for the entire semester was stressful, try doing it while fully expecting to fall at any given moment.
@@amandas.6500 Not when it happened, but they all had reactions when I finished the piece and carefully stood up. I tried to move the stool to tell them that something broke and the whole thing fell apart.
As a kid I was forced to sing in the school choir. He were singing at the opening of the new trainstation. It was our first appearance outside of school and some local politicians and other somewhat important people were there. The issue was that we only prepared the first verse and the refrain of the song and never got the text of the second verse as we thought we would only be singing that. But the other musicians who accompanied us with instruments thought we would be doing the entire song. It is worth mentioning that we prepared by our selves and those other musicians did as well as their schedule and our schedule from our school clashed and again, we were school kids who had their first real appearance. So when we finished singing what we had prepared and they kept on playing most of us awkwardly froze up, while some looked like they were about to run away and only very few kind of recovered by at least singing the refrain again. It likely was the worst appearance of a choir ever and we never had an appearance after that again.
The worst experience I had, was once during a piano recital I was playing a long piece and when I was turning the page all my sheets fell off the piano and I had to get down to collect them, but they got disarranged so I spent 5 minutes trying to find the last pages and get them in order so I could finish the piece while the audience sat in complete silence.
Yes! I remember when I performed in a concert at school and I messed up this piece really badly (memory slips and jumbling random parts up), and so I just stopped in the middle and asked if I could try again! The audience was so supportive and it made me so much more confident the second time!
This reminds me of the time our orchestra was preparing for a performance, and my friend walked up to me, cello in one hand and *holding his fingerboard in his other hand.* It had actually just popped off of the cello. He was first cello, and had a solo during the piece. Our director managed to get him a backup cello (don't ask me from where-- I just blame it on the magic of directors) and he was able to perform, but I heard from him later that the pegs were loose and he kept having to adjust his fingering throughout his performance to account for the cello progressively becoming more and more out of tune. Yikes.
7:21 that's also an alto trombone, which is a lot smaller than a tenor trombone, so it's super easy for those new to alto to have their muscle memory throw the slide completely off
One of my band's first gigs: I regularly bring 3 guitars (usually two Super Strats and a Les Paul for various songs) and the second song of our set was I Love Rock & Roll (Joan Jett). First song went perfectly, then on the first riff of the song, I snapped my low E string on a blues bend. Restart the song with my backup Strat. Snap the A string on the first chord. Start with my Les Paul. A string snaps again. I ran out and drove to Guitar Center to buy more strings while the band played without me for the rest of our first set. The rest of the night went smoothly now that I had fresh strings :B
I feel so bad for the kid at 5:30. I had the same thing happen to me when I was 12ish? At a recital where my piano teacher was trying to showcase her best students. I couldn't remember past the first two lines, sat there in silence for a few moments, then said "I don't remember" and walked back to my seat. It was so awkward and I was crying as I sat down.
I would have just frozen and stayed frozen until the audience gradually got up and filtered out of the room, like Michael Scott when he can't tell the Office team that he messed up a promised special event
I honestly thought I was the only person who's had a slide fall off a trombone during a concert! I was about 10 years old, and it was an outdoor concert. My slide fell off and clanked around on the pavement, ending up underneath the chair in front of me! It was traumatizing. I gave up playing trombone after that. But I think that happened for a reason, because later I discovered that guitar and piano are the instruments I love the most. Fifty years later I still enjoy practicing 40 hours a day on each of them.
I've never been critical when somebody has some issue. The only people who never have a problem are the ones who never do anything. Be fearless. Do something. If a problem happens, fix it and move on.
I can relate to the boy forgetting his music. This happened to me even when I practiced the song, I even practiced it that morning. My mind just went blank and I made up some of the song. I acted as if I hadn't made a mistake. Moral of the story, act natural when making mistakes.
On the first clip with the shoulder rest debacle... that accompanist deserves wholesale respect! He didn't just fill, he started improvising, but when the time came, wrapped it up all snug when she was ready to start playing. So clean!
I don't like flash photography at young kid's concerts. It's really easy to throw them off, no one practices with a ton of flash going off behind them. Watch right before he forgets someone hits a really bright flash.
3:15 people in restaurants applaud when the waiter drops a tray full of dishes. you can't let opportunities like that pass unappreciated; that would be rude. applause is only good protocol.
My very last concert as a clarinetist was a hella cringe moment. It was one of those “pass a solo around” kind of pieces where each solo was like a measure long. We’d gone on tour around our state doing concerts for other colleges, and our last concert was at our college. Up until this moment, I’d nailed every single one of my mini solos… but this last one on my home stage… I messed it up so unbelievably badly that I basically sat down and didn’t play the rest of the piece. It was at that moment that I knew it was time to retire. After 10 years on the clarinet, that was it. I was done. But hey, there’s a happy ending: I had choir, and I loved that so much more than I ever loved band. Every now and then, though, I find myself fingering along to songs I listen to on the radio or on RUclips. Maybe one day I’ll pick up a clarinet again… maybe…
Agree! He really saved her. Thankfully the audience had a laugh about it which made it a little less awkward. it would’ve been more awkward if it was all silent througout…
I love how Eddy blinks repeatedly at 5:38 when the kid gets a bit delayed in his playing. It's fun to see how people have different kinds of unconscious physical reactions to things like that. I know I tend to frown and tilt my head.
The conductor picking up a new baton I empathize with so much. I play drum set and we have to have a pocket of extras sticks next to us because of how much we chuck them or drop them or get too fancy with stick tricks.
Every friday I rush home after work and lock myself in the bathroom so I can watch the new video without screaming kids and husband. Best ending of the day when a new video is uploaded. Thanks TwoSet!
4:38 I'm pretty sure the conductor knocked it off her shoulder (They are standing very close). Her left hand was actually trying to catch it after he knocked it. If you slow the video down to x 0.25 speed, you can actually see she also hits the conductor a couple of times in the arm with her bow.
For the guitarist, the leg rest collapsed. It's a little foldable stool to put your left leg on, as you have to keep the guitar at an angle, not horizontally like in a pop song.
More often termed a footstool or even a footrest. I've noticed a definite drop in the quality and reliability of many of the commonly sold types over the past 35 years so this sort of mishap doesn't surprise.
The boy who had the "memory slip", I felt that. I learned how to play piano but not in a music school but had one on one lessons with a piano teacher. At the end of every semester there would be a concert where everyone who had those lessons would play a piece. I never liked public performances but once, the moment I sat down in front of the piano my head went blank and I forgot the whole piece even though I just rehearsed it. I started playing from muscle memory but it only took me to one point and I couldn't go any further so I stood up and went back to my seat. I was so embarrassed and mad at myself.
8:31 yeah as a cellist that generally happens to me at least once a week, where I just don't tighten the screw on the endpin nearly as much as I need to and then my cello starts sliding downward awkwardly in the middle of me playing it. Luckily, it never happens very fast and is very easy to fix, but it is still incredibly annoying.
I'm not sure if cringe apply, what I know is that I felt bad for all of them (With the exception of Bernstein being a boss, lol). 100% agree with Brett, accidents and memory slips happens even to the best musicians and to be able to recover from that moment is what truly matters. (I hope the instruments that needed it were able to be repaired). P.S: from my experience I would say that the guitar is ok, if anything the support was the only affected and can be easily replaced if needed.
5:40 this unlocked a forgotten memory from about 8-9 years back. this exactly happened to me but I managed to play it whole. My parents were very disappointed. I feel him.
4:38 - my friend's violin dropped on straight concrete when we were outside performing in middle school, and it was completely fine. I swear she's dropped it like 3 times now and nothings happened to that dang violin.
8:20 i think one of his strings snapped, from experience it doesn't really hurt the guitar but if it snaps back and hits you finger it hurts like nobody's business
4:57 That happened to me in middle school during music class!! We were practicing and then all of a sudden my bow just fell apart. My music teacher just had a look of pain on his face. Being new to violin and using school instruments, I didn't exactly know just HOW expensive bows were and looking back now, I can understand the pain on his face and I can't help but cringe at the memory now
5:40 I've had this happen to me during adjudications - I was playing the first of two pieces, and right dead in the middle of the first piece I completely blanked and couldn't recover. One of the adjudicators came over with the music and I instantly knew where I was after the barest glance, but I was so angry with myself for forgetting that I refused to look at the music for the rest of my time. One of the worst feelings I've ever had when it comes to playing.
5:45 As a pianist who just done a concert after 5 years from quitting piano just recently I swear I was doing so good THEN one of my damn nerve kicked in and made me nervous
at 3:22 it reminded me of a situation in school. so we have this cafeteria with stairs down the middle and tables around it, so sometimes you wanted to pull a chair back to sit on it but pull it back at an angle and it would fall down the stairs. everyone would start clapping. also when you get lunch and drop the tray. it became kind of a ritual(?) to clap whenever something falls. always very embarassing.
i was rosining my bow the other day and then suddenly when I got to the tip, the bow wood literally snapped.. It was traumatizing and now I can’t practice until I get to a luthier.. I’ve never seen situations like this and am sending help D:
9:35 since i went down a bit of a twoset rabbit hole today, I can actually say with confidence that Brett did, in fact, drop his bow once on camera. (How Violin Techniques Were Invented. in the bloopers) and Eddy should know this because he was the one who shoved him xD
Yea but remember that even on the best horns we're constantly using our ears to adjust the intonation on certain notes while playing. Like throwing the slides out for 1 and 3 and 1,2 and 3. And I think it's worse for french horn players although I haven't played it much, but I'm pretty sure intonation on french horn is a huge challenge all of the time. Every instrument has it's own peculiar obstacles to overcome. But you're right. All we have to do is hold the damn thing lol.
You know when you haven't watched someone in 5 months but 1 second after seeing their faces a smile blossoms on your face! Keep up the great content and work!
I remember I was reciting a 21 stanza poem I'd written for a reunion, and I completely blanked for what felt like minutes (but was probably about 20 seconds), sweating and thinking "No, no no! How can I not remember my *own work*?" I'm pausing after the pianist to congratulate his firm will for not giving up and finally finding success. Well done, bravo!
5:32 Ah yes this reminds me of my first piano recital, first piece went fine but the second piece was a lot longer so I had a bit of trouble. Completely forgot what came next so I just repeated the entire thing from the top hoping that muscle memory would fix the lapse. Thankfully it worked out :)
The second trombone clip probably happened because he was on an alto trombone and went for a tenor trombone position. It’s always surprising how short an alto is compared to a tenor, and an alto is usually a doubling instrument and not someones primary. That has happened to me just messing around at home, but never in a performance.
I had a memory slip during a college audition. I had the first verse down, the chorus was great, and then nothing for the second verse. Kept going on "la" for the melody until the pianist through up a lyric and I got back on track. Still got in and graduated from there two weeks ago.
00:22 I feel for that first girl. I used a sponge and elastic band, it was such a pain in the neck! 😂😂 Have any of you heard of the skit "Weird Al Gets Whiplashed"? It's such a close vibe to this skits on this channel.
Thank you so much Brett, Eddy, and Editor-San, you inspired me to learn some more classical piano pieces. I used to learn classical piano from a very... traditional teacher, and she taught me for 10 or so years and eventually put me off classical piano. I kept playing, I just didn't have a teacher and learned more modern songs such as Elton John. Then I got into Jazz and practised everyday for at least 40 hours most of the time (still striving to be Ling-Ling). I was introduced to your channel a couple weeks ago by the youtube algorithm and have watched most of your videos, because of this I am now beginning to learn more classical songs like Claire De Lune, and I remember how much I enjoy playing piano. Especially Debussy ;). All jokes aside thank you so much for inspiring me to learn classical piano again. :)
5:43 it's that camera flash that makes the boy get more nervous and uncomfortable which makes him get a memory slip Edit: ALSO PLS AMONG US CLASSICAL MUSIC EDITION AGAIN ITS SO COOL
6:00 That happened for the pianist at my graduation. In front of 1500 people, he kept messing up the play, and instead of either playing it off or abandoning it, he would restart the page every time he slipped up. A 2 minute song took him 7 minutes to play because of all the restarts.
your shoulder rest dropping not one, not two, but THREE TIMES in performance really gives you the moment of dying inside
if it was me, my soul would be half out of my body already... I'm nervous watching that shoulder rest dropped thrice
i would've forgotten the whole piece that second time, after having the shoulder rest id be like oh shit what was it again? out of anxiety loool
Ikr
When that happens, you are done😅
Good job on her for coming back in with confidence, I would have had such shaky hands
The pianist with the memory slip was more of a win than a fail, the fact that he was able to recover and finish the piece without giving up or freezing is really great. Kid's gonna go far in life.
Exactly. I also cant get behind the person who titled the video. Like the kid got it at the end.
Exactly! I remember my first piano concert, I was so nervous that I forgot where middle C even was for a good solid two minutes. I had been playing flute for years at this point and was just mortified. That kid deserves props
They're not kidding about it happening to everybody ... I was doing the Faure Requiem once, the organist held a note too long ... whole choir noticed and delayed entry, then just carried on!
I'm pretty sure if I was his age I would have just started crying lol
I couldn't help but notice that the moment before he slipped, someone took a flash photo. I've been playing for 40 years now and I still can get disoriented when some halfwit in the audience shoots a flash photo.
Props to the pianist on the first one. He just improvised on the spot, and tried not to make it any more awkward for the poor girl. I could tell he practiced.
Edit: Wow! Thanks for the 3k likes guys!
Indeed, 40 hours a day
Ling Ling is very proud
so this is what 2 weeks of simply piano could do...
yea thats a real musician there
yes
Confession time:
I was on keys for a band, responsible for opening the introduction for a song.
For unknown reasons during stage performance, I started in the wrong key (1 semitone up) and didn't realize until a few bars after the singer had started singing.
The rest of the band was going to come in after Verse1.
I had to make a split decision to decide if I should keep going or change back down, but I was sitting at an angle where I couldn't look at my bandmates to check if they noticed.
I decided to sacrifice the singer so that we wouldn't hit a massive disaster.
Switched down a semi-tone at the end of a bar.
Singer was thrown off, did a warbly note trying to find her footing.
The rest of the performance was saved.
Singer is STILL MAD AT ME to this day.
Entirely my fault.
A singer here.
I think it was the right call. The singer can much more easily sing a semitone down than any instrument can play a semitone up.
I understand that they were thrown off, but being mad? Come on, mistakes happen. You said it's your fault and that's it.
I'm wondering though how you could be a semitone up on keys without noticing! Being a 5th or 4th off, I would understand - the fingering doesn't change too much, but playing something a semitone up on keys would totally throw me off!
If it's synthesizer they could've accidentally left it transposed from another performance
We all make mistakes.
I once forgot how to play a song…….that I wrote!
My father is a drummer and he played in this band with a pianist, a double bassist and a singer and the pianist did the same thing you did 😭
@@williamsporing1500 JAJAJAJAJA I play the violin in an orchestra and sing for fun whatever catches my interest, so I know how it feels to forget a song that you think know so well xD (Sometimes my mind does a mix when singing and forgetting the other part of the song, then remembering another song that had the same range
I’m impressed with how Eddie can just sit there peacefully with the leaf in his ear…! 🍃 🌱 🪴🤣🤣🤣
I was already thinking this last video, it would drive me insane 😆
And he claims to be so ticklish…
Just watching him it make me nervous.
Maybe it’s part of his training to endure and become leas ticklish? 😂 level up tickle-endurance power.
Same, incredible that he could manage that. Maybe used to it because of constantly sitting there.
If that was me, I would be looking behind me to see what is doing it every few minutes or so.
For the boy at 5:30, it was probably the camera's flash that set him off. When you're performing and really nervous, even the tiniest of things can distract you. That's why most concert venues ban flash photography.
I’m a photographer, I was asked to photograph a performance but that particular day I forgot to turn off the flash, I was asked to leave after just one picture. I was mortified when the flash went off. Luckily my husband was also photographing the same performance. Lesson learned, always check your equipment. I act also and know it is very distracting.
The boy is in good company: I attended a concert by guitarist Andres Segovia back at San Francisco's Masonic Auditorium in the 1960s, and at one point during the performance someone in the audience stood up and took a flash photo of Segovia playing. Segovia just stopped, stood and said "please... impossible!" -- then sat down again, took a moment to regain his composure, then went back to playing.
My teacher always told the audience NEVER to use flash as “it bring you back”…
Nah. That's Kosei Arima not hearing the notes mid song.
Fun story: I recently went to Hilary Hahn's concert in Spain. They were playing Sibelius. Towards the end of the first movement, when the orchestra was playing a very powerful part, the conductor BROKE his baton! And he had a spare baton too, which he grabbed immediately, while like the whole theatre burst into laughing
Reminds me of the few instances my former HS instructor-turned-college professor would accidentally fling his baton during rehearsal. As a farewell gift, one of the people in my class/grade actually gave him a baton with a Wii remote strap attached to it.
@@ryanpham3308 That's great
Oh my!! I went to that concert too!! But I think we went in different days. The conductor shared that tidbit on his Ig stories if I am not mistaken.
😂aww that is sad and hilarious
@@ryanpham3308 pfft my orchestra teacher (high school) has sometimes accidentally thrown his baton too
For the little boy, I would argue that his recovery ability (because I probably would have given up and left in tears) is an indication of talent! Resiliency is important too
As a musician in a rock band, we believe in the adage, “The show must go on!”. It doesn’t matter how bad you screw up, you’ve got to keep going! If you’re playing rock music in a bar, you can mess up bad and as long as you don’t stop, and keep going, the majority of patrons won’t even notice. This young man didn’t panic, he thought hard and picked up where he left off, I think he’ll do just fine in the real world.
Eddy used to lean against the wall. But now he's trying to lean against a palm tree, huh?
I've been wondering if that's precisely why the plant is there--to train Eddy to stop leaning back.
old habits die hard i guess
It’s pretty funny when he doesn’t stop leaning back even when a leaf in practically in his face
@@graybubblegummer2676 it's because he loves to lean back so much, so he just couldn't stop himself from leaning against something
@@elissahunt still ......he still leaned on that palm tree
5:44 I’m pretty sure a big part of the memory slip was the camera flash, which had to have been very distracting. The slip came almost immediately after the flash (maybe 2 seconds at most). Which is why people should never take photos with flash at recitals or concerts unless the performers are prepared for it and explicitly OK with it.
True that boy must be shocked
This and people opening candy for their kids so they don't scream and kids running around were my personal nightmare at recitals when I was a kid :( And of course the coughs, sneezes, "whispering" that are always present. I got used to it after about 4 years but a camera person circling me around the grand piano I still couldn't get used to @-@
My thoughts exactly! It was definitely the flash.
You are right! I didn't even notice until I saw your comment and played back into the video
He was all okay until the flash, like the flash interrupted the performance
I agree. It happened exactly in a later video in this same channel and they called it.
The first pianist really said _the show must go on_ and then gave her a cue to come back in
Which she missed. But never mind.
He gave her a few! 🤣
She should've just kept playing without it like she attempted at first. Key rule of performing. Instead she made everyone just sit there while doing the equivalent of putting her socks on.
I, too, rocked out too hard on the cello practicing the Shostakovich and snapped my bow in half once. That concerto needs to come with a warning label.
Warning: Shostakovich was a violin maniac bow and or violin may be damaged while playing one of his pieces play with caution.
Memory slip story:
I'm a vocalist and I was asked to do a number at my churches Christmas program this past year. Long story short, I memorized the piece fully 2 days before the performance (as one does). I had sung/spoken the lyrics all day and had it absolutely down. Come that evening, I sing the song. First verse, wonderful, perfection. Second verse, pretty decent. Third verse, it was gone. I got to the verse and I just blanked. So, I literally made 75% of the verse up until the final line (when I finally remembered what I was supposed to sing). I think I told all of 5 people I made it up. But no one otherwise questioned it.
Moral of the story: be confident when making a mistake. The majority of people won't notice/question it. Act like you're enjoying yourself even though you're pretty much dying inside your head. You got this
i can’t be bothered to read that but noice
Add to this,
One acting class in school, on stage, performing, forgot my line for like 10 full seconds, while holding the arms of my partner, my eyes darting, breathes quickened, mouth wide open, rocking both of us back and forth.
Finally brain came back as I inner-cringed the rest of my way through the show, big applause, and got high grades.
why?
cus during that 10 seconds everyone was convinced I was purposefully “being lost of words”
and trust me, it looked real af.
I forgot the words so many times man. I forgot during an audition once! It was a piece I didn't really feel like I owned and I'd really been struggling with the lyrics for whatever reason, I got to the third verse and the words of the second verse started to come out (even writing this now I can't remember the first line of the final verse lol). I got to the money note just fine which was good, and when I talked to my voice teacher afterwards she waved it off and was like 'None of the judges were sopranos, they won't know the difference.' And hey, I made it through so I guess she was right lol.
Moral of the story: be confident when making a mistake. The majority of people won't notice/question it. Act like you're enjoying yourself even though you're pretty much dying inside your head. You got this
AND THIS IS HOW I BECAME A JAZZ MUSICIAN
Happens in lots of types of performances, the performers who have practised the thing before notice that this is not really going the way it should, but as long as you are not dropping stuff or falling down, and manage to keep your cool, there's a good chance that most of the audience won't notice.
I’m a flute player and the night before the biggest audition of my life my cork popped out of the head joint. If your a flute player you will probably be just as shocked as I was because I never have even herd of this and nobody could fix it in time 😭
Oh no that’s bad. The cork needs to be placed properly too. I burped into the flute mid performance once. The flute amplified it
@@sarahstyles6859 did it still sound like a burp or did it make a weird flute noise?
@@alexanderlane6115 amplified burp lol. It happened between notes
Weird! I have never had that happen. I've had springs pop loose.
3:35 I mean...dude...he dropped the baton, kept conducting without it, reached down to get the spare while conducting with his LEFT hand, then resumed conducting with the spare AND NEVER LOST THE BEAT OR STOPPED CONDUCTING ONCE. There is no point, as a musician, where I'd not have something to keep me in time. What a talent Leonard Bernstein was.
That's the first time I see a conductor with a SPARE BATON ready to go. Like, how many times has he yeeted it during rehearsals for him to think "You know what, better have a second one for the concert just in case." 😅
@@MissTwoSetEncyclopedia Knowing Leonard Bernstein and how into it he got, I wouldn’t be surprised.
@@MissTwoSetEncyclopedia It’s like an old cartoon - I want to say it was Tom and Jerry? - where a character is trying to stop the other one from conducting something cuz it’s noisy so he breaks his baton, but he just has an infinite number of other batons up his sleeve.
@@SuperJNG18 This video definitely feels like a cartoon coming to life... 😄
Ikr he did it soo smoothly
7:32 I just love how Eddy is constantly being attacked by a plant, but still continues talking like nothing happened
Lolol
I didn't even notice the first time
Always love how empathetic they are--offering encouragement & explanations as they go.
yes it is so sweet!
Yes! Especially cause a lot of people want to start learning instruments but are scared of performing and/of public humiliation. I think it’s nice to see these mishaps and accidents framed in such a sympathetic light!
I would be surprised if a musician hadn't experienced a similar thing, everyone knows how it feels and you've got to support each other and laugh through the pain
... until they found out it was a viola lol
Except encouragement to the violist at the end
When I was taking conducting in college, one of my professors favorite lines was, "You're not Bernstein so you are not allowed to look like you are flying away." He played under Bernstein several times and apparently the man would often wave wildly in certain sections, so I would not be surprised if he had 5 or 6 extra batons in his podium.
The kid on the piano who messed up broke my heart, poor kid! But I'm glad he finally got back into it. As a pianist who sometimes performs in front of people, it hurts seeing people mess up, get flustered and sometimes they never get back into the music because they feel embarrassed. :(
Whoever named the video “most untalented boy in the world” doesn’t practice 40 hours a day
@@avidagamegerl1081 They said it was him who uploaded it, so I would guess it´s a half joking title he gave the video. Still wrong though, to me that sounded totally fine for that age.
@@Freshd1995
Oh wow 💀
I stopped playing an eternity ago, but wasn't the boy's posture all messed up? His elbows were almost touching, and hands were literally drooping. I'd be inclined to somewhat agree with the title. The memory issue aside, he's just not a good pianist.
@@miloradowicz 1. I suspect his hands are low because he is sitting on a bench that is too low for his height. If it's a recital, that may not have been fixable. 2. I can't really see where his elbows are because of his sleeves, but they don't look like they are touching or close to touching, to me. 3. What you have mentioned are techniques, they have nothing to do with talent. The most talented person in the world could have bad technique if they are taught incorrectly. 4. Is it really worth your time to criticize a little boy on the internet for something that you don't even do yourself anymore?
6:12 that title actually annoys the hell outta me, everyone slips up like that but this dude managed to recover from forgetting a part of the music
The first one... She took like a champ. And the accompanist was very kind. Imagine if it was a complete silence, it would be soooo awkward
😉
But she recovered and did well.
I was the only percussionist at the concert, so playing Leroy Anderson's "Sleigh ride" required me to play what is normally played by three or more percussionists. The very last few measures required sleigh bells, temple blocks, and slapstick at the same time. I managed to painfully pinch a finger in the slapstick.
When I came back with ice on my finger, I got an applause.
That is a crazy piece for only one percussionist.
As a trombonist, that was an alto trombone. He most likely plays tenor a lot, and so thought 7th was a but further than it really was. I can confirm though, trombonists are centimeters from disaster. Always.
Edit: I wish to share a small anecdote. I was playing bass trombone in the collegiate band and had to go for a low C in 7th position with the thumb trigger (my second trigger broke DURING THE CONCERT). As I went for the low C, my slide came clean off and launched across the stage, ending about 2 rows up from me. The bassoonist in front of me grabbed it, handed it back to me, and I finished the concert. Worst performance of my life. 🤦♂️
That hurt me inside oh my lord
omg them handing it back to you is adorable tho TEAMWORK!!
In high school marching band, a trombone lost their slide when we were playing in the stands. It fell through the bleachers. A parent standing below caught it and brought it back up.
I don't know which is worse, dropping a violin or a trombone slide. The slide is definitely LOUDER and harder to hide 🤣
@@calculusfan1 A couple of years back there was video of one of the British army Guards bands on the march, trombone player in the front rank lost their slide, but being a military band they stop for nothing and no one. One can only imagine what happened to it and how many bands, horses, and regiments were behind them...
Kudos to both TwoSet men for their compassion. Everyone, no matter what they do in life, makes mistakes sometimes, and what's needed is to get back on the horse. Having others commiserate and be gentle is the best balm for embarrassment and shock.
The conductor who accidentally launched his baton sent me back to high school. My band director was so emphatic during our Halloween concert that he launched his baton weight-first right at one of the second clarinets. It hit him during a rest, right between the eyes, with an audible THOCK. It took everything we all had to not lose it and keep going with the song.
(And of course, he apologized later!)
lmao, I have a super aggressive conductor. Once he slammed his baton on the stand really angrily, and it flew right towards our violins.
I spit on my computer laughing out loud reading this twice in a row.
@@SpecialBlanket goddamn is the computer okay??
and is everyone else okay too??
At a halftime show back in HS (long time ago, far, far away, lol) we had sleeves over our slides with the schools letters. As I was going for a ( really sweet) glissando, it slipped out of my fingers. Of course, being winter in the snow belt, there was a nice headwind. That sucker glided from the 10 yard line past the 40 on the opposite end. 50 yards.
At the end of the season, the football team gave me an award for longest pass of the season
Now I know why my band didn't do trombones
💀💀 the award
At 7:08, the guy is actually playing an alto trombone, so the slide is shorter and positions closer, it's way easier to go too far than with a regular trombone. Though you guys are right, when playing the farthest positions, trombone players ARE only a few centimeters form a disaster haha.
Once my E string started loosening so I had to play higher and higher just on that 1 string... another time I was playing in an orchestra and a marching band were rehearsing behind the stage - half the orchestra followed their beat and half followed the conductor. And then there was the time I turned up to play and opened my case to find I'd forgotten my violin 🤦♀
Yeah that happened to me with my concert grand. Left it in the subway I think. 😂
I felt the one with the little boy so hard. I struggled with severe performance anxiety when it comes to piano for a long time because I had that exact thing happen to me. I forgot my piece that I always knew so well completely and couldn't find a way back into it. So I just stood up, bowed and walked back to my seat crying 😥 The worst part was that it had been my first concert in years and after that for a very long time I wasn't able to play in front of everyone and was very self conscious. I'm still not super comfortable with playing in front of people but I did find my joy in playing piano again, improved immensely and practice a lot more regularly than in the past and try to push myself to play in front of people whenever I see a piano somewhere. It seriously helped. So for anyone struggling with a performance trauma: just keep pushing, find supportive teachers and built up your self esteem again. I believe in you ❤️
Keep at it. I had terrible stage fright as a child and now while I still have it beforehand, while on stage i can move through it. Or even sometimes start to enjoy myself and it morphs into more like energy.
Have you ever heard of the thing where you purposely make a mistake right away so then there’s no possibility to do it perfectly? Takes the pressure off
♡
He was doing fine and all right until that camera flash which would have reflected off the piano. It probably broke his otherwise great concentration. The camera click alone was annoying but add the flash for more audience rudeness.
TBH I think the camera flash was what threw him off and made him mess up
Awesome, so glad for you 💖💖
Looks like that trombone around 7:00 minutes in was an alto trombone- much smaller slide. Very easy to accidentally go too far and pull the slide off.
During a particularly sloppy and sacrilegious rehearsal in university orchestra one day, where the string section was out of tune and had many wrong notes, the violins still ended the piece with a big bow flourish which kind of pissed me off as my section has worked hard to sound really good for that day. I then finished a trombone section of the piece by mockingly removing my Alto trombone slide in the same flourish. Made a few strong enemies that day, but the rest of the Orchestra got a good chuckle out of it
I genuinely think the audience claps as a message to the performer that its alright dont worry. its the only way they can communicate apart from coughing. remember most of us our biggest form of anxiety [ musicians or otherwise] is to mess up on a stage so the audience clap during a mess up is to put the performer at ease. like its okay bro you got this dont worry about it.
oh god i just imagine one of those moments happening and then entire audience just goes into a fit of coughing
@@MrWizardjr9 I think as the person on stage I'd leave
The disrespect of coughing tho
@@MrWizardjr9 oh my god this made me cackle just thinking about it. musician: *fumbles something* audience: GEUGHEUGHEUGHEUGH. HCKKKKKACKACKACK. CKKKAGFGFGFGF.
8:20 it sounded like a string snapped.. worst feeling ever as a guitarist 😰 it scares you too
Looks to me like his footstool broke
That classical guitar oops brought back a memory.
When I was in college (music composition major) I took classical guitar as my performance class, and during the end of semester recital the stool I was sitting on snapped. I heard it, I felt it, and the seat became very unstable, but it didn't collapse. If you thought playing in front of an audience that was only there to judge you and assign you a grade for the entire semester was stressful, try doing it while fully expecting to fall at any given moment.
Did your teacher notice?
@@amandas.6500 Not when it happened, but they all had reactions when I finished the piece and carefully stood up. I tried to move the stool to tell them that something broke and the whole thing fell apart.
@@tacothunderking4558 impressive!
As a kid I was forced to sing in the school choir. He were singing at the opening of the new trainstation. It was our first appearance outside of school and some local politicians and other somewhat important people were there. The issue was that we only prepared the first verse and the refrain of the song and never got the text of the second verse as we thought we would only be singing that. But the other musicians who accompanied us with instruments thought we would be doing the entire song. It is worth mentioning that we prepared by our selves and those other musicians did as well as their schedule and our schedule from our school clashed and again, we were school kids who had their first real appearance. So when we finished singing what we had prepared and they kept on playing most of us awkwardly froze up, while some looked like they were about to run away and only very few kind of recovered by at least singing the refrain again. It likely was the worst appearance of a choir ever and we never had an appearance after that again.
Thanks for that laugh lmao
“Trombones are just 2 centimeters away from disaster” is a quote i now live by.
boomba boomba BOOM😂
Many things in life are ...
The worst experience I had, was once during a piano recital I was playing a long piece and when I was turning the page all my sheets fell off the piano and I had to get down to collect them, but they got disarranged so I spent 5 minutes trying to find the last pages and get them in order so I could finish the piece while the audience sat in complete silence.
I just love how the audience were chill with it in the first one:) musicians do love a good audience
Yes! I remember when I performed in a concert at school and I messed up this piece really badly (memory slips and jumbling random parts up), and so I just stopped in the middle and asked if I could try again! The audience was so supportive and it made me so much more confident the second time!
This reminds me of the time our orchestra was preparing for a performance, and my friend walked up to me, cello in one hand and *holding his fingerboard in his other hand.* It had actually just popped off of the cello. He was first cello, and had a solo during the piece. Our director managed to get him a backup cello (don't ask me from where-- I just blame it on the magic of directors) and he was able to perform, but I heard from him later that the pegs were loose and he kept having to adjust his fingering throughout his performance to account for the cello progressively becoming more and more out of tune. Yikes.
7:21 that's also an alto trombone, which is a lot smaller than a tenor trombone, so it's super easy for those new to alto to have their muscle memory throw the slide completely off
4:57 I couldn't tell sat first, if the bow hair broke, or her hair got stuck in the bow, as they were the same color.
can I just say I’ve been watching twoset for years and it still excites me when they bring back the old series!! :)
same here!! 🥹
their "try not to laugh/cringe/flinch " series are classic
@@timmyc9915 whenever I see a try not to laugh challenge I immediately think of the viola jokes--
One of my band's first gigs: I regularly bring 3 guitars (usually two Super Strats and a Les Paul for various songs) and the second song of our set was I Love Rock & Roll (Joan Jett). First song went perfectly, then on the first riff of the song, I snapped my low E string on a blues bend. Restart the song with my backup Strat. Snap the A string on the first chord. Start with my Les Paul. A string snaps again. I ran out and drove to Guitar Center to buy more strings while the band played without me for the rest of our first set. The rest of the night went smoothly now that I had fresh strings :B
I feel so bad for the kid at 5:30. I had the same thing happen to me when I was 12ish? At a recital where my piano teacher was trying to showcase her best students. I couldn't remember past the first two lines, sat there in silence for a few moments, then said "I don't remember" and walked back to my seat. It was so awkward and I was crying as I sat down.
Main reason why people shouldn’t use flashes/other sounds while theyre playing…
I would have just frozen and stayed frozen until the audience gradually got up and filtered out of the room, like Michael Scott when he can't tell the Office team that he messed up a promised special event
@@jap7575 Yeah, I noticed a flash reflecting off the piano right before the kid got lost. That would be really distracting for me, too.
Same for me, except I started learning piano as adult, so way more cringier. Never played in public since than
that why i always use sheet music
8:25 That was his foot stool folding flat or breaking. His guitar is fine.
I honestly thought I was the only person who's had a slide fall off a trombone during a concert! I was about 10 years old, and it was an outdoor concert. My slide fell off and clanked around on the pavement, ending up underneath the chair in front of me! It was traumatizing. I gave up playing trombone after that. But I think that happened for a reason, because later I discovered that guitar and piano are the instruments I love the most. Fifty years later I still enjoy practicing 40 hours a day on each of them.
40 hrs per day??
40 hours a day on each instrument?! LOL!
I've never been critical when somebody has some issue. The only people who never have a problem are the ones who never do anything. Be fearless. Do something. If a problem happens, fix it and move on.
I can relate to the boy forgetting his music. This happened to me even when I practiced the song, I even practiced it that morning. My mind just went blank and I made up some of the song. I acted as if I hadn't made a mistake. Moral of the story, act natural when making mistakes.
The guy with camera flash, guess it was the one to blame. That’s a terrible distraction.
Making up some of the song is actually a skill both musical and emotional many people don’t have, so good for you!
That’s the secret. I made it funny and people laughed.
3:12 That’s my band director! The girl who dropped her slide is now the band director of our middle school
I’m a clarinetist and my stand partner dropped their clarinet in a concert and it fell in pieces.
Oop
HOW. i played clarinet in high school and it’s not easy to do that. must have greased it so much
as a clarinet player, this hurt to read
F IN THE CHAT BOIS-
jesus how😮i played the clarinet omg
9:35 Brett explains he always caught his bow. But that reminds me of the blooper section of their video of How Violin Techniques Were Invented... 😅😆
Respect to the musicians who continue to perform…
I’d probably run off stage and cry 🥲
On the first clip with the shoulder rest debacle... that accompanist deserves wholesale respect! He didn't just fill, he started improvising, but when the time came, wrapped it up all snug when she was ready to start playing. So clean!
I don't like flash photography at young kid's concerts. It's really easy to throw them off, no one practices with a ton of flash going off behind them. Watch right before he forgets someone hits a really bright flash.
3:15 people in restaurants applaud when the waiter drops a tray full of dishes. you can't let opportunities like that pass unappreciated; that would be rude. applause is only good protocol.
6:00 I think it was the idiot taking pictures with flash that messed him up.
My very last concert as a clarinetist was a hella cringe moment.
It was one of those “pass a solo around” kind of pieces where each solo was like a measure long. We’d gone on tour around our state doing concerts for other colleges, and our last concert was at our college. Up until this moment, I’d nailed every single one of my mini solos… but this last one on my home stage… I messed it up so unbelievably badly that I basically sat down and didn’t play the rest of the piece.
It was at that moment that I knew it was time to retire. After 10 years on the clarinet, that was it. I was done. But hey, there’s a happy ending: I had choir, and I loved that so much more than I ever loved band.
Every now and then, though, I find myself fingering along to songs I listen to on the radio or on RUclips. Maybe one day I’ll pick up a clarinet again… maybe…
The accompanist for the first one deserves a medal!
Agree! He really saved her. Thankfully the audience had a laugh about it which made it a little less awkward. it would’ve been more awkward if it was all silent througout…
I love how Eddy blinks repeatedly at 5:38 when the kid gets a bit delayed in his playing. It's fun to see how people have different kinds of unconscious physical reactions to things like that. I know I tend to frown and tilt my head.
"it happens to everyone. and then, you went through it. that's exactly what we should do. it makes you a better musician~"
Thank you Brett
The conductor picking up a new baton I empathize with so much. I play drum set and we have to have a pocket of extras sticks next to us because of how much we chuck them or drop them or get too fancy with stick tricks.
Every friday I rush home after work and lock myself in the bathroom so I can watch the new video without screaming kids and husband. Best ending of the day when a new video is uploaded. Thanks TwoSet!
7:38 the plant 🌱! 🤣
Hello, great to see any amazing series back again
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4:38 I'm pretty sure the conductor knocked it off her shoulder (They are standing very close). Her left hand was actually trying to catch it after he knocked it. If you slow the video down to x 0.25 speed, you can actually see she also hits the conductor a couple of times in the arm with her bow.
For the guitarist, the leg rest collapsed. It's a little foldable stool to put your left leg on, as you have to keep the guitar at an angle, not horizontally like in a pop song.
Yea I had one of those before and hated that one. Always broke of like in the video
Had me worried hearing it. I had my strut come unglued in my acoustic while tuning once and it sounded a lot like that.
More often termed a footstool or even a footrest. I've noticed a definite drop in the quality and reliability of many of the commonly sold types over the past 35 years so this sort of mishap doesn't surprise.
The boy who had the "memory slip", I felt that. I learned how to play piano but not in a music school but had one on one lessons with a piano teacher. At the end of every semester there would be a concert where everyone who had those lessons would play a piece. I never liked public performances but once, the moment I sat down in front of the piano my head went blank and I forgot the whole piece even though I just rehearsed it. I started playing from muscle memory but it only took me to one point and I couldn't go any further so I stood up and went back to my seat. I was so embarrassed and mad at myself.
8:31 yeah as a cellist that generally happens to me at least once a week, where I just don't tighten the screw on the endpin nearly as much as I need to and then my cello starts sliding downward awkwardly in the middle of me playing it. Luckily, it never happens very fast and is very easy to fix, but it is still incredibly annoying.
Memory slips. If the audience don't know how the piece goes and you continue playing improvising, nobody would be the wiser.
I'm not sure if cringe apply, what I know is that I felt bad for all of them (With the exception of Bernstein being a boss, lol). 100% agree with Brett, accidents and memory slips happens even to the best musicians and to be able to recover from that moment is what truly matters. (I hope the instruments that needed it were able to be repaired). P.S: from my experience I would say that the guitar is ok, if anything the support was the only affected and can be easily replaced if needed.
5:40 this unlocked a forgotten memory from about 8-9 years back. this exactly happened to me but I managed to play it whole. My parents were very disappointed. I feel him.
4:38 - my friend's violin dropped on straight concrete when we were outside performing in middle school, and it was completely fine. I swear she's dropped it like 3 times now and nothings happened to that dang violin.
8:20 i think one of his strings snapped, from experience it doesn't really hurt the guitar but if it snaps back and hits you finger it hurts like nobody's business
4:57 That happened to me in middle school during music class!! We were practicing and then all of a sudden my bow just fell apart. My music teacher just had a look of pain on his face. Being new to violin and using school instruments, I didn't exactly know just HOW expensive bows were and looking back now, I can understand the pain on his face and I can't help but cringe at the memory now
SAME I put my bow down for a second so I could do something and then I look down and it looks like someone was cutting strips of paper
5:40 I've had this happen to me during adjudications - I was playing the first of two pieces, and right dead in the middle of the first piece I completely blanked and couldn't recover. One of the adjudicators came over with the music and I instantly knew where I was after the barest glance, but I was so angry with myself for forgetting that I refused to look at the music for the rest of my time. One of the worst feelings I've ever had when it comes to playing.
Bernstein is such a pro he knows to have an extra baton on hand for just such an instance ☺
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As a pianist who just done a concert after 5 years from quitting piano just recently
I swear I was doing so good THEN one of my damn nerve kicked in and made me nervous
3:40 CLEARLY not the first time that happened to him if he had another baton
at 3:22 it reminded me of a situation in school. so we have this cafeteria with stairs down the middle and tables around it, so sometimes you wanted to pull a chair back to sit on it but pull it back at an angle and it would fall down the stairs. everyone would start clapping. also when you get lunch and drop the tray. it became kind of a ritual(?) to clap whenever something falls. always very embarassing.
i was rosining my bow the other day and then suddenly when I got to the tip, the bow wood literally snapped.. It was traumatizing and now I can’t practice until I get to a luthier.. I’ve never seen situations like this and am sending help D:
8:52 bow drop!! The violinists version of a mic drop!!
That accompanist is an absolute champ. I hope he gets all the good gigs.
9:35 since i went down a bit of a twoset rabbit hole today, I can actually say with confidence that Brett did, in fact, drop his bow once on camera. (How Violin Techniques Were Invented. in the bloopers) and Eddy should know this because he was the one who shoved him xD
Man, I love that trumpet doesn't need a shoulder rest, and tuning takes us three seconds because we just move a slide.
Yea but remember that even on the best horns we're constantly using our ears to adjust the intonation on certain notes while playing. Like throwing the slides out for 1 and 3 and 1,2 and 3. And I think it's worse for french horn players although I haven't played it much, but I'm pretty sure intonation on french horn is a huge challenge all of the time. Every instrument has it's own peculiar obstacles to overcome. But you're right. All we have to do is hold the damn thing lol.
Very few accidents seem to happen to trumpers and cornets
@@TheRichNewnes dude that’s the same as strings and I played the violin and the trombone and the violin is a bazillion times harder
You know when you haven't watched someone in 5 months but 1 second after seeing their faces a smile blossoms on your face! Keep up the great content and work!
another throwback to old challenges!! lovin it like always
I remember I was reciting a 21 stanza poem I'd written for a reunion, and I completely blanked for what felt like minutes (but was probably about 20 seconds), sweating and thinking "No, no no! How can I not remember my *own work*?" I'm pausing after the pianist to congratulate his firm will for not giving up and finally finding success. Well done, bravo!
5:32 Ah yes this reminds me of my first piano recital, first piece went fine but the second piece was a lot longer so I had a bit of trouble. Completely forgot what came next so I just repeated the entire thing from the top hoping that muscle memory would fix the lapse. Thankfully it worked out :)
after months of not being here.. im back. im a drummer, i have nothing to do with violins or classical music but.. im back to binge your videos again
The second trombone clip probably happened because he was on an alto trombone and went for a tenor trombone position. It’s always surprising how short an alto is compared to a tenor, and an alto is usually a doubling instrument and not someones primary. That has happened to me just messing around at home, but never in a performance.
I really felt that one with the piano boy who had the memory slip… brings back some childhood recital memories 🥲
I had a memory slip during a college audition. I had the first verse down, the chorus was great, and then nothing for the second verse. Kept going on "la" for the melody until the pianist through up a lyric and I got back on track.
Still got in and graduated from there two weeks ago.
00:22 I feel for that first girl. I used a sponge and elastic band, it was such a pain in the neck! 😂😂
Have any of you heard of the skit "Weird Al Gets Whiplashed"? It's such a close vibe to this skits on this channel.
Thank you for featuring me on your channel!!!🙂🙂🙂 It was really scary when all my bow hair fell out as I had a concert later on that day.
Thank you so much Brett, Eddy, and Editor-San, you inspired me to learn some more classical piano pieces. I used to learn classical piano from a very... traditional teacher, and she taught me for 10 or so years and eventually put me off classical piano. I kept playing, I just didn't have a teacher and learned more modern songs such as Elton John. Then I got into Jazz and practised everyday for at least 40 hours most of the time (still striving to be Ling-Ling). I was introduced to your channel a couple weeks ago by the youtube algorithm and have watched most of your videos, because of this I am now beginning to learn more classical songs like Claire De Lune, and I remember how much I enjoy playing piano. Especially Debussy ;). All jokes aside thank you so much for inspiring me to learn classical piano again. :)
5:43 it's that camera flash that makes the boy get more nervous and uncomfortable which makes him get a memory slip
Edit: ALSO PLS AMONG US CLASSICAL MUSIC EDITION AGAIN ITS SO COOL
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That happened for the pianist at my graduation.
In front of 1500 people, he kept messing up the play, and instead of either playing it off or abandoning it, he would restart the page every time he slipped up.
A 2 minute song took him 7 minutes to play because of all the restarts.
Pray for him thats mortifying
7:24 yea…. As someone who played trombone at 18=cm.. that line between 7 and pull off can get blurred, I feel for the guy.
I like how you two are positive / humble and normalize mistakes or just encourage other musicians and potential musicians in your videos
4:19 love the moment of silence for the violin 🎻 😪😵
This video was made 1 year ago today. Happy birthday