TwoSet Violin

Hello everyone and welcome one again on the musical journey!

Today is going to be a slightly different blog entry (though related to music nonetheless), about a youtube channel I’m subscribed to, that is called: TwoSet Violin.

As you can easily assume, it’s a musical duo that professionally plays the violin. Eddy Chen and Brett Yang come from Australia and they created their youtube channel in 2014. Right from the beginning their goal was to make classical music relevant to the modern generation through fun, humour andsimplicity. 

That’s exactly what made me watch them in the first place. Their content on youtube is really witty, funny and at the same time very insightful and informative. If you think that classical music may not be your cup of tea, that’s alright, because it’s not the genre that counts in here, it’s the music in its pure form and definition and passion for learning how to play musical instruments. Besides, Eddy and Brett are very creative and easy-going guys, their videos are neither condescending, preaching nor overbearing. Quite the opposite, actually. Very often, they, create humourous content, do challenges, play charades, share their opinions on the authenticity of playing violin in movies with music themes, etc. I really like the way they promote classical music, pretty clever isn’t?

One of my favourite parts about their channel is that they are genuinely showing how much work one needs to put to be able to play at a very advanced/concertmaster/professional level. If you have a talent (at no matter what), of course it might be easier for you to do something, but without dedication, hard-work and practise you’ll never fully succeed, not in the long term anyway. For there to be any good outcome, there has to be made an effort first, and that’s something many people forget about. We’re in a constant progress of self-improvement.

Interesting fact :

One of the main and very present jokes in the TwoSet Violin community is the Ling Ling joke. Brett and Eddy came up with this fictional character called Ling Ling, a prodigy, who kind of defies logic by being the best at everything. For example : Ling Ling practices for 40 hours a day; you will never achieve what he has at 5 years old.