Wow, really? Your attention span is really so low that you had to scroll down into the comments before the video has even ended?? Woooooow, man. Truly impressive. Now get back up there and finish the video before coming back down here. EDIT: For all of y'all coming here during the ads... get back up there anyways!! You're gonna get spoilers for this video if you come down here early, and I need this video to be the *maximum funny.* If you really can't handle 15 seconds might I suggest checking your texts or organizing the desk around you while you wait. 🤓
as a ballet dancer i can totally see this as a spoof ballet. like, all dainty and dramatic female swans like in the real ballet but then theres the hunters and suddenly its just chaos
100% felt the same. I haven't been in ballet for years and I was still thinking "how do I stage this?" between gasping for air and howling with laughter.
The bass clarinetist hidden in the back row: You only rested for 37 bars? I don't even have a part to play here, I get to write my own based on another instrument's piece. Edit: are there a bunch of bass clarinetists that have been summoned or are there just a bunch of you guys who are given songs that don't have parts to play?
EEEUUUUWWWWW 🤢 Brass players put up with the grossest stuff! 🤓 (My beloved eldest sister has played french horn for, hmmm, about 70 years I think? I go to her community band concerts & still almost gag if I'm nearby when she does that)
High school choir director here! Just played this for my students after our music history final and we had a grand time. "I wanna see this in concert!" - one of them.
I would now love to see a performance of this by an orchestra all dressed as swans and the percussionist(s) dressed as hunters, and whenever they bang on their big drums another member of the orchestra slumps dramatically to the floor and stops playing lmaooo
@@kaileyadams2712 tell them good luck playing Fortissississississississississississississississississississississississississississississississississississimo 2:30
The swanless lake. The lake of no current notable waterfowl presence. The lake _sans_ swan. The [pregnant pause] lake. The lake that used to have swans, _Kenneth_. That lake?
@@Laura-jo2hz Would you like me to translate your comment for everyone else here? No? K then! According to completely unscientific research and unsophisticated terminology, I've concluded that you have said an equivalent of: *"Didn't ask."*
DUDE AT THE EXACT MOMENT THAT IT SAID 'the trombones are no longer with us' A FREAKIN AMBULANCE DROVE BY MY WINDOW SIREN BLARING THAT WAS THE SECOND MOST PERFECT TIMING I'VE EVER EXPERIENCED
I've rewatched this video so many times because it makes me cry with laughter every single time. But this is my first time actually seeing the chapter titles and yo OP you are BRILLIANT it's even funnier now
This is my first time I showed my boyfriend to music sht posting with this video. He could not stop laughing after watching this video and you made his day. Thanks man Edit: he was particularly loved how you wrote in a freaking gunshot
That's my goal! :) And the gunshot was quite literally just a bunch of Timpanis getting hit at once. I actually had to turn it down quite a bit in my editing program because of how loud it was lol
@@pansirawit I'm not exactly sure what you mean by that, but if you look in the description I have a couple links to where you can download the MuseScore file yourself, or listen to it on MuseScore. It gets particularly loud on MuseScore's website since it uses the basic sounds and not the soundfonts that I used: musescore.com/user/29331269/scores/11124973
1:30 as a violinist, we’re either perfectly in tune or all out of tune in that same key together. It’s always what happens. Also, yes, I can’t count triplets to save my soul. I try. It doesn’t work. The metronome somehow makes it worse. Sorry.
This randomly came across my front page and I’m not upset. I haven't laughed this hard in a while. Swan Lake is a masterpiece and this has only made it even greater.
Reminds me of showing my friends in high school how to use a General MIDI sequencer and how we all, independently of each other, used those huge slams on the "gunshot" instrument in our songs.
*1:03* *[Serious spoilers for the 10th episode of this phenomenal musical series]* The moment when the hunters kill Jerry the Swan with their gun absolutely heartbreaking and genuinely made me cry like no other piece of media ever has. Man this series has such godlike writing! Jerry the Swan was an absolutely amazing character and beloved by many including me, and his death scene is equally brutal, horrifying and heartbreaking at the same time. He didn't have to die 😭
My classic-filled cultured childhood was destroyed... You officially murdered me together with the swans. This is 1000x more fuking dramatic & tragic than the entire fuking Netflix.
I did not realize musical shitposting was a thing but now I need more. 10/10, would refresh knowledge of music theory from 20 years ago to further appreciate.
Swan lake has been my favorite story since elementary school and you have me laughing until I cry over here. Seriously. Noooo! Jerry the swan!!!!!!!!!!
Dude, the fact that the spit valves were flooded brought back hilariously aweful memories of my trumpet days in middle school. I got winded from laughing, also the trumpet but moreso the laughter from this video. Thank you. ❤
I never would've thought that someone transcribed all of my band practices from when i was 10 and turn it into a music channel, Thank you for the nostalgia... now where did I put my clarinet
Was just bawling my eyes out about some shit that happened with a friend today. Find this while searching for something to distract me, and my god, those tears turned into tears of joy real quick. I haven’t laughed this hard at a RUclips video in ages, even though a few minutes ago I was not in a laughing mood at all. Thank you for this, you’ve helped me feel much better with this otherwise nightmare of a musical creation.
I watched till the end and got hit on the head, but it doesn't matter because I was already head from laughter. THIS is the way to introduce people to classical music (they will never return) Thank you! It's almost midnight here and I just woke everyone up with my squeals.
I swear, it couldve ended at "now its just lake" and that wouldve been enough. But nooooooooo, you had to push it a little further and make me wheeze in laughter!! 😂😂😂
actually tried listening on the music score itself, my speakers were literally screaming ten times louder that the video itself and i screamed. well done cant wait for your next work XD
I am dying laughing....this is like someone had a breakdown during a composition class assignment and had to let all the frustration out somehow. Seriously this had better get an A+ it's so much better than half that other stuff.
There's a piece by Rautavaara that actually uses birdsong (including migrating geese lol) for anyone who's interested! It's called Cantus Arcticus and it's really beautiful :)
Wow, really? Your attention span is really so low that you had to scroll down into the comments before the video has even ended?? Woooooow, man. Truly impressive. Now get back up there and finish the video before coming back down here.
EDIT: For all of y'all coming here during the ads... get back up there anyways!! You're gonna get spoilers for this video if you come down here early, and I need this video to be the *maximum funny.* If you really can't handle 15 seconds might I suggest checking your texts or organizing the desk around you while you wait. 🤓
UHHH, C-COULDNT BE ME!
You caught me
nice
nuh uh
I wasn't in fullscreen so I saw the comment without scrolling down ._.
as a ballet dancer i can totally see this as a spoof ballet. like, all dainty and dramatic female swans like in the real ballet but then theres the hunters and suddenly its just chaos
It starts out as a normal performance of Swan Lake, then when the first shot goes off one of the dancers drops on the spot XD
100% felt the same. I haven't been in ballet for years and I was still thinking "how do I stage this?" between gasping for air and howling with laughter.
@@acelibrarian PRECISELY
"Massacre at Swan Lake"
"Swan Lake: No Survivors"
"Swan Lake: Rothbart's Revenge"
@@emilyrln HAHAAA YES
Tchaikovsky would be proud to see someone managed to incorporate artillery as a musical instrument in his work
Well was the 1812 overture created before or after this one? That's got actual canons in it.
@@jamiefrontiera1671 Swan Lake was between 1875-76, 1812 Overture was 1880. According to the all-knowing Wikipedia.
CANNONS ARE INSTRUMENTS
@@MinhChauDo-jf5nc TCHAIKOVSKY YES! TCHAIKOVSKY ALWAYS YES!
Wish we could make composers of old times listen to their song, of how they're like some centuries later.
"the trumpets rested for 37 bars and forgot to breath" as a trumpet player i felt that
The bass clarinetist hidden in the back row: You only rested for 37 bars? I don't even have a part to play here, I get to write my own based on another instrument's piece.
Edit: are there a bunch of bass clarinetists that have been summoned or are there just a bunch of you guys who are given songs that don't have parts to play?
@@catherineevans9852 a bass clarinetist sits behind me in my band arrangement, and I swear they play their own piece of music just bcuz. fr tho
After 10 bars of silence I would lose count and forget where to come in.
@@catherineevans9852 fr tho i feel you
@@darylfaulkner4882 ive also done that before as well
A beautiful performance of Juan Lake.
I don’t know if that was a typo or intentional but either way it was hilarious
Or the Allied invasion of Sicily.
You will never suspect the Sicilian.
The [JUAN] piece is real!
@@MagicMason1000 he mispelled it.
I like to imagine the trombone’s spit valve drowned another random swan somewhere, instead of it dying by a gunshot
I love this joke so much, would you mind if I replaced the chapter title joke at 2:15 with this instead because I absolutely love it
@@MagicMason1000 do it hell yeah
EEEUUUUWWWWW 🤢
Brass players put up with the grossest stuff! 🤓 (My beloved eldest sister has played french horn for, hmmm, about 70 years I think? I go to her community band concerts & still almost gag if I'm nearby when she does that)
As a trombone player I confirm
@@MagicMason1000 I thought that the “Just Lake” in the thumbnail meant the Just Dance version of Swan Lake
This is like the classical music equivalent of a Monty Python sketch and i love it
PYTHON?! Wh-wh-where?
Contesana Paduana?
he’s not dead, he’s just resting
That's like the best way to explain this
Not only did the hunters kill all the swans (and the band for that matter), they did it with an artillery piece
They were supposed to show up for 1812 Overture but ended up at the wrong concert by accident
4 bore rifle?
ah, yes. the ks-23, otherwise known as the world's first shoulder-fired anti aircraft gun
@@ausmck56 Look up Kentucky ballistics and you will probably find what I actually mean. Its some 200lbs of felt recoil.
I like to think they showed up with a punt gun
1:46 Why the fuck does that absolute fir tree of a note actually sound strangely beautiful. Like a "you got healed" sound effect for a PS1 game.
ikr?! It's gorgeous! Probably the instrument it's being played on. Mash that on a keyboard and I bet it wouldn't be so chill.
"absolute fir tree of a note" is somehow even funnier to me than the entire video
Had to go back and check 😂
LOL 😂
I like how the hunters are hunting swans with tank cannons.
That's Tchaikovsky's piece, all right. *flashback of 1812 overture
Well, Tchaikovsky said the cannon was a musical instrument. See the 1812 Overture.
Those are Punt boats.
They had it coming.
Punt guns.
High school choir director here! Just played this for my students after our music history final and we had a grand time. "I wanna see this in concert!" - one of them.
I always enjoy hearing stories of my videos getting played in classes haha
Hope I provided a good end to the year :)
the trumpet emptying the spit valve is so real
maybe that's because you are the one who recorded it 🤔
@@MagicMason1000 *vine boom*
@@MagicMason1000 perhaps 🤭
@@MagicMason1000plot twist
Trumpets have spit valves?
I would now love to see a performance of this by an orchestra all dressed as swans and the percussionist(s) dressed as hunters, and whenever they bang on their big drums another member of the orchestra slumps dramatically to the floor and stops playing lmaooo
@@thewolfofthestars1847 WAIT THAT’S GENIUS
I never thought Swan Lake could be turned into a comedy but I've clearly been proven wrong! 🤣🤣🤣
By the way good job, you made me choke on my saliva again from laughter. 😂😂😂
As a dancer. It’s always a comedy. I’m now making notes to have my kids do this instead this year 😂
@@kaileyadams2712 tell them good luck playing Fortissississississississississississississississississississississississississississississississississississimo
2:30
@@kaileyadams2712I agree I'm a dancer and now I see Swan Lake different in a funny way 😅🌹🩰
This song has always been a comedy for me ever since I was a child 😂 this was a song I parodied with lyrics to annoy my mom. Lol
the fact that the subtitles like “no, jerry the swan” fit the syllables perfectly where it sounds like it could be lyrics
I really love how big you can make a single note, for literally no reason. Going that high is pointless
The bars can stretch. they can stretch really high
@@mikubrot imagine how big that piano would have to be
@@mikubrot Let's take a hairpin and stretch it to the next page.
Oh look, hairpin's busted.
@@scaryshit24sibelius crashed
@@scaryshit24 Cheese melts in the microwave, *the music melts in Sibellius.*
1:17
Now it's just the lake
the lake
the lake
The lake without swan
The swanless lake. The lake of no current notable waterfowl presence. The lake _sans_ swan. The [pregnant pause] lake. The lake that used to have swans, _Kenneth_. That lake?
the swasn't lake
I fucking love the amount of anguish you can hear after the hunter's first strike. Fucking perfection, as always.
Yes the oboe carrying as the ducks and guns go off in the back
Ok anyways
*”NOOOOOOOOOOOO NOT JERRY THE SWAAAANNNNNNNN YOU KILLED HIM HOW COULD YOUUUUUUU”*
-Trumpet
I felt _that_ amount of anguish😭
@@Laura-jo2hz
Would you like me to translate your comment for everyone else here? No? K then!
According to completely unscientific research and unsophisticated terminology, I've concluded that you have said an equivalent of:
*"Didn't ask."*
YES
"The french horns are too, 𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒖𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒓 they stopped playing"
1:01 you can tell this guy's actually really skilled with music, emulating a gunshot by using a wall of notes on a midi timpani is so creative oml
I also noticed that the note that shows what note(s) is/are playing gets shot offscreen when the gunshot noise plays
bro it was just a recording of a real gun shot. He got annoyed by the swan in his backyard, that's all.
@@ysf-d9iIn the last Gunshot, you can actually hear the musical notes in the gunshot
DUDE AT THE EXACT MOMENT THAT IT SAID 'the trombones are no longer with us' A FREAKIN AMBULANCE DROVE BY MY WINDOW SIREN BLARING THAT WAS THE SECOND MOST PERFECT TIMING I'VE EVER EXPERIENCED
…what was the first?
That's not a key change. That's the sound of beethoven's aneurysm.
😂😂😂👏👏👏👏
this is tchaikovsky not beethoven
@@CaptainJonesBones It still caused Beethoven an aneurysm
Tchaikovsky's aneurysm... which actually caused Beethoven's aneurysm...
Too bad Beethoven can’t hear his own aneurism.
I’m sorry. I’ll see myself out.
I've rewatched this video so many times because it makes me cry with laughter every single time. But this is my first time actually seeing the chapter titles and yo OP you are BRILLIANT it's even funnier now
2:30 Tchaikovsky's been real quiet since this one dropped 🥶🥶🥶🥶
I was waiting for a comment like this one :)
This just sounds like someone raging on some game like cod
@@MagicMason1000will you do a 1812 overture joke?
The hunters got him too 😔
Yes. He's not composing any more he's de...
Sorry I'll get my coat.
0:44 those enharmonics are diabolical
"Guys I think the director is dead." 🤣This entire thing was hilarious.
“Who else is still alive?”
@@fluffybirb4455 "the trombones are no longer with us"
1:53 The "I give up" for the violins is very accurate
What if this is the revenge of "TRUMPETS WANT THE MELODY HERE AND NOW, WE'RE THE BEST BECAUSE WE ARE LOUD"?
ah yes, my favorite part of "this is horrible"
Ah Yes the oboe carrying as the trumpets, ducks and guns go off in the back
"Holy shit our eardrums are blown, now we can't hear the vibraphone" :)
@@purplebean7 I read that to the tune of the Enderman Rap Xylophone part.
Lmao
i love how the music itself casually broke the fourth wall
its like the 1812 overture if the cannons were shelling the theatre instead of firing blanks
Ah, an idea for the next one!
ah "Inglorious Basterds" then
man idk what i was expecting but the key signature changes at 1:30 hurt my whole soul that was horrible 💀 (it was great thank you)
rest in piece(s) to the director and all who have fallen tonight, including jerry the swan. jerry, you were a special one.
Naming the swan, just made it more devastating. JERRY. No Jerry, No. 😭
*depression as I name my pets either Jerry, Jimothy, or bob*
REST IN PIECES 🤣🤣🤣 Omg that's hilarious 😂
And 90% of the band
Jerry came, too.
christ, i still can’t watch one of these without my face hurting. you make masterpieces here.
“Wait I missed one” LMAO THAT GOT ME
*g u n ‘ t*
*g u n ' t*
Me too
Perfect spot for that gliss on 2:20
This is my first time I showed my boyfriend to music sht posting with this video. He could not stop laughing after watching this video and you made his day. Thanks man
Edit: he was particularly loved how you wrote in a freaking gunshot
That's my goal! :)
And the gunshot was quite literally just a bunch of Timpanis getting hit at once. I actually had to turn it down quite a bit in my editing program because of how loud it was lol
Can we have the unedited version
Gunshot hits so loud, it bounced the note-tracker line right off the page...
Yes the oboe carrying as the ducks and guns go off in the back
@@pansirawit I'm not exactly sure what you mean by that, but if you look in the description I have a couple links to where you can download the MuseScore file yourself, or listen to it on MuseScore. It gets particularly loud on MuseScore's website since it uses the basic sounds and not the soundfonts that I used: musescore.com/user/29331269/scores/11124973
1:30 as a violinist, we’re either perfectly in tune or all out of tune in that same key together. It’s always what happens. Also, yes, I can’t count triplets to save my soul. I try. It doesn’t work. The metronome somehow makes it worse. Sorry.
I can drum for you to help keep time
the band is the swans and the band director is the hunter, how realistic!
Such a lovely interpretation 🥰
(Now I can’t thinking of my band directors with a gun 💀)
Isn't this a full orchestra?😭
Didn’t the director get shot tho?
@@frostyvoid827 Friendly fire
This randomly came across my front page and I’m not upset. I haven't laughed this hard in a while. Swan Lake is a masterpiece and this has only made it even greater.
✨️now it's just "lake" 😭✨️
^ the best part of the video
2:59 why did this suddenly turn into an apocalyptic dystopia 😭
Reminds me of showing my friends in high school how to use a General MIDI sequencer and how we all, independently of each other, used those huge slams on the "gunshot" instrument in our songs.
truly me
1:02 i love the loud part (ignoring all the parts where the swan got killed) this sounds fricking amazing 😢
Putting trumpet in F is the most devious part of this score
F for the trumpet player...
and the trumpet died with him
I like how you put duck sound in horn section 😂😂😂😂
Honestly the instruments that contributed most was the Stock photo subscription, the hunters, and the new lake made by that one trumpet.
When you mix up the scores for Swan Lake and 1812 Overture:
the jerry the swan part genuinely made me laugh out loud, well done lmao
>:0
"He's creating a whole new lake" SENT ME INTO ORBIT 🤣
2:36 swan-less lake on the Somme
1:02 NOT THE SCROLL BAR OR WHATEVER IT'S CALLED!
@@DWithDiagonalStroke NOOOO😭😭🙁🙁
it's been a while since something has made me genuinely sob from laughter - thanks for this, a true masterpiece
Omg I have to remember not to watch this in bed I'm seriously shaking trying not to laugh. Well done, fantastic edit!
2:06 can confirm this is what emptying a spit valve is like
Ew-
One more reason I play the flute
@@emmagillis4669at least we have 3 buttons and not like 5 buttons on our instruments
I can agree with this conformation
This feels like a spiritual return of Parker Meek and y'know I am 110% down with this
Edit: 1:58 YES THOSE YOU KNOW WHAT IM TALKIGN ABOUT
The unbelievably overblown/over compressed audio is perfection
0:31 I’m dead 🤣.
@@PCrailfan3790 so are the swans
@@oskarrimbe2039 and the whole concert hall
@@oskarrimbe2039 lmao
When it said “the audience is crying,” I really was
Crying with laughter 😂
2:53 As a horn player I can confirm I died listening
And they say there's no new masterpieces being created in this era
‘The audience WAS crying’ that brought tears to my eyes!
This was too gruesome for me. I will have nightmares tonight 🫣
Very well done 👍
My earbuds died in sync with the final shot at 2:44 😂
😂
*1:03* *[Serious spoilers for the 10th episode of this phenomenal musical series]* The moment when the hunters kill Jerry the Swan with their gun absolutely heartbreaking and genuinely made me cry like no other piece of media ever has. Man this series has such godlike writing! Jerry the Swan was an absolutely amazing character and beloved by many including me, and his death scene is equally brutal, horrifying and heartbreaking at the same time. He didn't have to die 😭
Uh, yeah. He really had to die. All those bullet wounds you know...
EPIC STORYTELLING ASKDFJAKSDFJASDF
the placement of "the french horns are too, **mf**" got me
My classic-filled cultured childhood was destroyed... You officially murdered me together with the swans.
This is 1000x more fuking dramatic & tragic than the entire fuking Netflix.
I did not realize musical shitposting was a thing but now I need more. 10/10, would refresh knowledge of music theory from 20 years ago to further appreciate.
I swear this has no right being as hilarious as it is 🤣
Swan lake has been my favorite story since elementary school and you have me laughing until I cry over here. Seriously. Noooo! Jerry the swan!!!!!!!!!!
This describes well the moments of russian history during which the swan lake was broadcast on tv.
1:03 thanks for letting me know how to play this on horn
This has to be the best one yet, the spit valve part was just immaculate
Dude, the fact that the spit valves were flooded brought back hilariously aweful memories of my trumpet days in middle school. I got winded from laughing, also the trumpet but moreso the laughter from this video. Thank you. ❤
I should ask my band teacher if we could play this at our next concert
@@xyczech Did you ask your band teacher? Sorry this is late.
@@PhuongTran-yj7wz THANK YOU FOR THE REMINDER NO I DIDNT 💀💀
@@xyczech alright then. It's fine
0:37 That visual gag with C#, Db, and Bx though!!
Finally someone noticed 😂
@@MagicMason1000 If I see that in my score, I'd ask myself if the composer hates me
I never would've thought that someone transcribed all of my band practices from when i was 10 and turn it into a music channel,
Thank you for the nostalgia... now where did I put my clarinet
why was this so intense?
I was really emotionaly invested
The chaos was off the charts in this one. Well done!
0:34 Me getting killed by 7273737 ducks in dark deception
NOOO LOL
@@UmaHoward Haha yeah
o o f
@@Diego91940 💀
0:32
I love the chapter titles oh my god 😂 and the gunshots! And the story! It's amazing
This was hilarious! I admire your twisted sense of humor and will forever duck when i hear the opening strains of "Swan Lake" just in case!😂😂
Was just bawling my eyes out about some shit that happened with a friend today.
Find this while searching for something to distract me, and my god, those tears turned into tears of joy real quick.
I haven’t laughed this hard at a RUclips video in ages, even though a few minutes ago I was not in a laughing mood at all.
Thank you for this, you’ve helped me feel much better with this otherwise nightmare of a musical creation.
The "coudl" triggers me so much-
I laughed my butt off tho- mostly with the waterfall
The sound of the emptying spit valve is amazing.
As a trumpet player, I can confirm that happens every time I try to empty my spit valve.
I watched till the end and got hit on the head, but it doesn't matter because I was already head from laughter. THIS is the way to introduce people to classical music (they will never return) Thank you! It's almost midnight here and I just woke everyone up with my squeals.
The best part of any sheetmusic gone wrong is the literal note-keysmash. Just put enough on there to overload the sound system
NOOOOOO 😂 I'll never hear this the same way ever again.
Thanks for the laughs! You've got amazing imagination, friend, that was fun to watch
I swear, it couldve ended at "now its just lake" and that wouldve been enough. But nooooooooo, you had to push it a little further and make me wheeze in laughter!! 😂😂😂
I have been listening this lying on my back and now I have tears in my ears
Please please please keep doing the chapter titles, i love them every time! Keep up the incredible work!
Came for Swan Lake, stayed for the reimagining of the 1812 Overture!
actually tried listening on the music score itself, my speakers were literally screaming ten times louder that the video itself and i screamed. well done cant wait for your next work XD
0:21 anyone else laugh at that for 45 minutes?
@@stallingrhino7564 at that and at 1:00 with “the hunters have a fucking gun” 😂
I did.
This is the most random thing to wake up too
Would love to see this played live ❤
I wouldn't because of the spit valve
@@Ambipie splash zone upfront
not including the manslaughter, right?
@@MS-qx9uw well we have to try it with and without to see which ones better
Yes, me too! 🤓
(As long as the "spit zone" is clearly marked beforehand, & earplugs are available for audience members with tender stomachs 😏)
I am dying laughing....this is like someone had a breakdown during a composition class assignment and had to let all the frustration out somehow. Seriously this had better get an A+ it's so much better than half that other stuff.
There's a piece by Rautavaara that actually uses birdsong (including migrating geese lol) for anyone who's interested! It's called Cantus Arcticus and it's really beautiful :)
Cool, thanks for this!
If anyone's interested, this version is the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Max Pommer:
ruclips.net/video/TO3YRZWLvQo/видео.html
The amount of pure hilarious fun and dedication to heavily written musical jokes is amazing.