@Mat Stan I don't know what u r talking about. Who's "that person" and why would I copy his/her comment? Accusing ppl of copying other's comment isn't funny either.
There is a certain delicacy and precision in Brett's play one will find nowhere else. While respecting the bounds of the composition, he is not imprisoned by it. He finds new expressions everywhere, there seems to be no limit to his expansive interpretive skills. The instrument is incidental, the power of the music is everything.
@@JCelam a literature teacher. Practice 😂 no, really. Read a lot and in your free time and practice articulating your intuitions in an organised manner. I remember after my MA I found a folder with my yr 1 essays at undergrad and it was a cringefest. Practice, practice, practice 😂😅
The concentration on the professional to keep his composure and for Brett to be completely emotionless and straight faced was incredible. Also Brett is playing better than how a true music beginner would. They wouldn’t even know how to read the music in front of them. But that’s no fun for a video 😛
In case you wanted to listen to Hyung play: 0:00 Dvorak Cello Concerto in B Minor Op. 104 1st Movement 1:18 Popper Tatantella Op. 33 2:15 Elgar Cello Concerto in E Minor Op. 85 1st Movement 3:31 Hadyn Cello Concerto No. 1 in C Major 4:25 Saint-Saens - The Swan
I really enjoyed Brett's playing. In any live or one-take performance, there is always suspense - is the player going to make a mistake? When Brett plays we have the inverse tension - is Brett going to hit a good note? He clearly has the right idea and is trying to execute correctly The instincts of a pro are clearly audible through the forest of... of.... innovative interpretations! Good try, Brett. I am sure you would be a fine cellist with a lot less practice than most of us would need. It is videos like this that make me glad to be alive, glad to be hearing new things, overjoyed by inspiration and ecstatic that I am not a violist.
Nerevar I play viola and the violins really want to play the viola now,,, when we played the the viola, they thought it was so beautiful and they would really wanted to play and................ Don't👏be👏a👏fake👏🍑👏violin👏👏😘✌✌✌✌✌
Omg I'm dying I just love how Brett is just like "bruh" throughout all the times the pro cellist is playing and then when Brett's playing the prof is trying so hard to maintain a straight face and he's like nodding and being like "uh huh...."
Brett, I do appreciate your humble to try playing cello as it is not your specialty. I am a housewife, almost 50 years old. I was touched by you n Eddy for playing violin with full of enthusiasm (sometimes behaviour naughty). I have picked up my cello last year to complete my childhood dream. Keep going 💪🏻
The sounds coming out of the professionals playing are amazing The sounds coming out of the beginners playing sounds at times like a sustained fart, and other times like a drunk bee. O_O I.. I belive this is a new record, I've never gotten this many likes before. Holy mackerel.
I read there's a similar thing with the violin. It sounds like farts and board scratching at the start, and it takes quite a long time to learn the pressure to sound good.
The wonderful cellist trying desperately to be polite and not laugh is the best part of this whole video. I'm sure Brett does much better than most newbies considering he has an adjacent but still different skill set.
Instead of a professional who knows a piece by heart versus a beginner who doesn't, I would like to see a professional playing a piece for the very first time in his/her life vs a beginner who was able to practice the same piece for at least 2hrs.
Not discrediting what you said as an idea. Just pointing out that part of being a pro is playing these pieces by the sheet music, I doubt hyung (the cellist) knows them by heart :) Or at least, it probably wouldn't make much difference either way
@@ldkmelon He definitely knows these by heart. This is very standard cello repertoire, so even if he doesn't know the concertos by heart in their entirety, he definitely knows the iconic excerpts that were played in this video. And you're right, it wouldn't make a difference, because even if a professional cellist somehow didn't know these excerpts by heart, they're easy enough to just sightread. A much more interesting comparison would be one between an amateur cellist with 10+ years of experience and a professional in which both play a piece that's completely unfamiliar to the professional, but pretty well-studied by the amateur. 2 hours of music practice is basically nothing. Brett did relatively well because he's a violinist. It takes a normal beginner at least a year of consistent practice to get proper posture and bow hold down (not that Brett had these down, but at least he was able to read the music and sort of locate the notes on the fingerboard)
in the practice room vs. in front of the teacher playing Edit: Holy omg how? almost 6k likes I thank your support in my comment on the truth of me (and those who relate) im shaking omg thank you!! have a good day!
because of this video and how the professional's crazy beautiful playing of it, the elgar cello concerto is like one of my top 5 classical pieces....that low note at the end gives me so much goosebumps
My friends, music appreciation must all be Subjective and although the strange man on the left of screen is called despairingly "a beginner" , I felt his interpretation, albeit clipped, of these Master Works, was profound. The melody stripped bare, sans tutti, brought on a shivering angst to my very core, and, friends, I did cry involuntarily, I do admit. As for the normal looking man on the right, "the Professional" , well, he can count his money as much as he likes. His playing was just what I expected, note perfect and slavish to the long dead composers dated ideas. No shudders did he bring, no melancholy starts. Such is the current trend of classical music in this New Century.
This is the level of pretentious of every comment written by a rejected juliard applicant on a child's recital video 😂 I love it, keep up the good work
And then there is me who had hands above the size of the average German adult male at 10 years of age. Needless to say that I had a very hard time trying to learn the violin but did just fine after switching to cello.
U can literally see the professional cellist trying so hard not to laugh
Right?
Ikr
As someone who’s been playing cello for awhile I was trying not to laugh as well
yeah but I feel like hes cringing
And love the little nod of "approval" (during Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85)
Professional cellist: The swan
Brett: Dying swan
XD
A swan only sings when it’s dying
Consider editing
Fun fact: Anna Pavlova, a famous ballerina, danced a solo to the Swan that was called the Dying Swan so this isn't actually inaccurate
yeah isnt the piece actually dying swan
AxentiumZ “the goose”
The professional is my expectations but Brett is my reality
So true!
Yap
creative
SAAAMMMMMMMEEEEEEEE
Brett attempting to do a vibrato is exactly how I attempt to do a vibrato on a violin.
Clara Yang SAME
XD I can vibrato on a cello but not a violin
@@ackerm4n123 Me too! I can do vibrato on cello and double bass but never on violin 😂
I can do a vibrato on the violin
Juliana Stanpike exactly like whenever I try to do it it looks like I’m having a seizure
Still waiting for beginner and professional *Violin*
He’s already a violinist tho lol
So ling ling and brett
oof
how about the... VIOLA
@@budrum9803 That's the joke...
Professional: The Swan
Brett: The Strangled Swan
The goose
@@carluy7351 Strangled Swan = Goose
Strangled Goose = ?
@@victorycoffee92 that would be Canadian goose. theyre next level chaotic
@Mat Stan I don't know what u r talking about. Who's "that person" and why would I copy his/her comment? Accusing ppl of copying other's comment isn't funny either.
Beginner cellist: plays Pachelbel's Canon in D at school
Professional cellist: plays Pachelbel's Canon in D at weddings
Kristy Kwan sad react
When i cry about pachelbel as a violinist ,my cello friend wants to hit me 😂
Kristy Kwan 😂😂 soo true
oooooooooooo
Kristy Kwan nooo
it's alright, Brett's a professional at keeping a straight face
unless he hears a viola joke
There is a certain delicacy and precision in Brett's play one will find nowhere else. While respecting the bounds of the composition, he is not imprisoned by it. He finds new expressions everywhere, there seems to be no limit to his expansive interpretive skills. The instrument is incidental, the power of the music is everything.
Me trying to squeeze out interpretations in Literature class lol
@@JCel lmaoooo
@@JCel LMAO
😂
@@JCelam a literature teacher. Practice 😂 no, really. Read a lot and in your free time and practice articulating your intuitions in an organised manner. I remember after my MA I found a folder with my yr 1 essays at undergrad and it was a cringefest. Practice, practice, practice 😂😅
Watching professional hold in his laughter is the best part
His eyebrow raises :)
The concentration on the professional to keep his composure and for Brett to be completely emotionless and straight faced was incredible.
Also Brett is playing better than how a true music beginner would. They wouldn’t even know how to read the music in front of them. But that’s no fun for a video 😛
He already plays a string instrument so he can read the music and kinda tell where the fingers are supposed to go
He also knew how to read the music that is written in treble clef! He probably should have sightread the tenor and alto clefs too!
Beginner cellist, not beginner musician
Flynn Lesko you don't need to be a musician to just read sheet music though...
I mean, he does play the viola...
In case you wanted to listen to Hyung play:
0:00 Dvorak Cello Concerto in B Minor Op. 104 1st Movement
1:18 Popper Tatantella Op. 33
2:15 Elgar Cello Concerto in E Minor Op. 85 1st Movement
3:31 Hadyn Cello Concerto No. 1 in C Major
4:25 Saint-Saens - The Swan
I love how the professional cellists face gradually grins more and more as Bret attempts playing the Cello 😂😂😂
Me being a cellist:
Pro plays: wow
Beginner plays: Hey, That sounds like me!
I
Reuben The Cat i dont get this so r/wooosh
Mr Manga they need to add a face palm emoji.
Mr Manga r/ihavereddit
@@kwadens9309 🤦♀️
I really enjoyed Brett's playing. In any live or one-take performance, there is always suspense - is the player going to make a mistake? When Brett plays we have the inverse tension - is Brett going to hit a good note? He clearly has the right idea and is trying to execute correctly The instincts of a pro are clearly audible through the forest of... of.... innovative interpretations!
Good try, Brett. I am sure you would be a fine cellist with a lot less practice than most of us would need. It is videos like this that make me glad to be alive, glad to be hearing new things, overjoyed by inspiration and ecstatic that I am not a violist.
hahahhahahha not a violist part had me
You really got us there lol
@@MP-el4hc Poor violists, they just can't catch a break.
Loved this video. Brett, your second career should be comedian. Loved all of it.
Not a violist = Not a viola player
Give a man a violin, and he can't play it
Give a man a cello, and he still can't play it
unless if it's Ling Ling
did you just
a s s u m e
Ling Ling’s gender
Give a man a Viola and.... wait, don't ever do that.
Ling Ling can play both at once
Savage
Nerevar I play viola and the violins really want to play the viola now,,, when we played the the viola, they thought it was so beautiful and they would really wanted to play and................ Don't👏be👏a👏fake👏🍑👏violin👏👏😘✌✌✌✌✌
Okay I love the English captions so much. Props to the author.
Thanks for this, just checked :D
2:12 "Ling Ling remembers he has only practised 38 hours today" WHY IS THAT SO FUNNY TO ME ISRUDGBDRUGB
@Claire Rong Ah, yes yes. Hard to pick a favourite within the captions
Thank you!
Your comment deserves more likes :) I've never laughed more in my life
Ok but i NEED a video of the pro cellist playing the full Elgar concerto please
Same!!!!
ua-cam.com/video/G5J4eTWj0a0/v-deo.html
Literally!!
This. Of all the pieces played here, that one jumped out at me.
Omg I'm dying I just love how Brett is just like "bruh" throughout all the times the pro cellist is playing and then when Brett's playing the prof is trying so hard to maintain a straight face and he's like nodding and being like "uh huh...."
Nature Silhouette my conductor when I ask him to listen and then ask if it sounds good
Turn on the captions and thank me later
Brett looks so depressed. He’s like “Dear god where is my violin...”
Professional: The Swan
Brett: The Dying Chicken
no
dear lord the edgar cello concerto played by the professional dude was absolutely beautiful
Pokiey yeah it touched my heart
....elgar.
Sir Edward William Elgar@@helloworld-tq7nm
@@crisvioloncello dude, the original comment was mis-spelled. chill out
@@helloworld-tq7nm no problem, I just wanted to comment something xD.
BRETT’S HOLDING THE CELLO BOW LIKE A VIOLIN BOW IM DYING
If someone was actually deaf and just understanding the vid by the subtitles alone... they sure as hell being thrown for a damn loop! Lmao
Also this video has no words
Those subtitles give me so much life 😂😂😂
"Brett is thinking about chicken nuggets"
That had me in stitches 😂😂😂😂😂
Reychael Paday ikr
THX FOR GIVING ME MY LIFE!!
Reychael Paday fuckin normies
I just ate chicken nuggets lol
2:26
I've taken cello for 3 years and I still sound like Brett.
Same but add one more year 👌
I've played eight and still sound that way
literally same
This is my fourth year, and I could play like half of one of those songs before forgetting where the sharps or flats are in third or fourth position.
literally same here
No one:
Literally no one:
Subtitles: *Brett is scared*
**brett is thinking of chicken nuggets**
Or KFC@@anticloxkwised
Brett, I do appreciate your humble to try playing cello as it is not your specialty.
I am a housewife, almost 50 years old. I was touched by you n Eddy for playing violin with full of enthusiasm (sometimes behaviour naughty).
I have picked up my cello last year to complete my childhood dream.
Keep going 💪🏻
Lulu Lau nice 👍
they inspired you and now it's you, doing the same to me , for some reason this comment filled me with determination thank you ^^
Good luck!
Everytime Brett plays the professional's face just said "don't laugh he's trying his best"
Edit: thanks for 1.3k likes y'all😳💕
1000th like!
I think he's impressed and understands that he can't be perfect the first time.
My cello teacher's face always looks like his face in this video...
Nah I honestly think Brett wasn’t trying lol for comedic purposes
@@lizzycrawford3286 Yeah, as usual.
2:58 the professional almost looked impressed.
I think he is, it's pretty hilarious. He looks shocked that Brett got that chord.
The expression was "wow what he got it ..... Wait nvm"
it isn’t a hard chord to get though, just first finger in first position
My cello boy over here tryna not to cry from the beauty of Brett’s playing
"Try Hard Not to Laugh: Beginner Vs Pro Cellist Challenge"
The Gliss in Elgar is one of the most satisfying things one could ever play
The sounds coming out of the professionals playing are amazing
The sounds coming out of the beginners playing sounds at times like a sustained fart, and other times like a drunk bee.
O_O I.. I belive this is a new record, I've never gotten this many likes before. Holy mackerel.
Isak Viklund Now that you say that, I can't stop thinking about it as I watch it.😂😂😂
"A drunk bee" oml 😂
I read there's a similar thing with the violin. It sounds like farts and board scratching at the start, and it takes quite a long time to learn the pressure to sound good.
I doubt the "farts" sound as " *deep* " though.
Yes, I'm sure that's true. This one did sound a lot like deep farts.
Ling ling be high key judging.
Anna Walker Lowkey since the cello's low
Ling ling play violin and cello at the same time
Anna Walker why did u call the dude ling ling tho😂
I love how the Cellist first tries a deadpan face but slowly loses to Brett's playing.
Brett looked so impossibly depressed!!😭😂😭😂😭😂
Pro cellist finally lost his control and laughed at the end.
ofc, he was literally gliding up and down to find the note HAHAHA
@@snickydoodle4744 Reminds me of the thing he did when twoset had the sightreading quartet episode (ikyk?
Where are my cellists at?
Right here sis
Simone Brown yasss
HERE 😂
me me AYE
Right hereee
0:41 every violinist I’ve ever seen holds a bow like this when they try to play the cello
The swan sounds more like the cow 🤣
kenjifujima not even a cow...more like a cat in distress.
OMG I can't 🤣🤣🤣
Between swan and cow an ocean of focused practice guided by excellent teachers.
He sounded like my mother in law got a hold of that swan; and is having Peking swan for dinner...
The donkey
That professional guy trying soo hard not to 😂 😂 😂
The wonderful cellist trying desperately to be polite and not laugh is the best part of this whole video. I'm sure Brett does much better than most newbies considering he has an adjacent but still different skill set.
The captions are the real piece of art
Thank you for that. I had to go back and rewatch with captions, and I fell out of my chair! 🤣
I think it’s fan made. For videos, the viewers can work together to make subtitles
@@c-a-t-entertinment7075 you're right it's credited at end
Ling Ling was never a beginner...
Books And Ballet yea they just gave baby ling ling a 1/2 size violin and then played all paganini caprices in his sleep
Foxtrot Felix they didn’t even have to give him a 1/2 size, they gave him 4/4 right away
Brett’s Ling Ling
Books And Ballet truth
Books And Ballet Nah ling ling was born with a violin
I love the subtitles
*brett is scared*
*ling-ling is scared of brett*
For a beginner he has a remarkably good sense of positioning... Looking on the bright side here :)
He's adept at viola
well his instrument, viola, and cello have the same notes just different clef 🙂
Well he plays violin/viola
@@Ray-zc9ln However, the cello has completely different fingering.
You can also notice him using his fourth much less as a violin versus how often a cello player does.
He looked shocked at 2:58😂😂
And then 2 seconds later, the disappointment set back in LMAO
Brayden K. Lmao well A for effort
He was like, "huh that's actually pretty close!" and then on the next chord he was like "ok nevermind"
Instead of a professional who knows a piece by heart versus a beginner who doesn't, I would like to see a professional playing a piece for the very first time in his/her life vs a beginner who was able to practice the same piece for at least 2hrs.
That would actually be really awesome
Not discrediting what you said as an idea. Just pointing out that part of being a pro is playing these pieces by the sheet music, I doubt hyung (the cellist) knows them by heart :) Or at least, it probably wouldn't make much difference either way
@@ldkmelon He definitely knows these by heart. This is very standard cello repertoire, so even if he doesn't know the concertos by heart in their entirety, he definitely knows the iconic excerpts that were played in this video. And you're right, it wouldn't make a difference, because even if a professional cellist somehow didn't know these excerpts by heart, they're easy enough to just sightread. A much more interesting comparison would be one between an amateur cellist with 10+ years of experience and a professional in which both play a piece that's completely unfamiliar to the professional, but pretty well-studied by the amateur. 2 hours of music practice is basically nothing. Brett did relatively well because he's a violinist. It takes a normal beginner at least a year of consistent practice to get proper posture and bow hold down (not that Brett had these down, but at least he was able to read the music and sort of locate the notes on the fingerboard)
if you can play cello as a beginner, you can play it as a professional!
Wrong way around
Rishy Peela 😂😂
If you can play slowly,you can play quickly
And thats on ling ling insurance
in the practice room vs. in front of the teacher playing
Edit: Holy omg how? almost 6k likes I thank your support in my comment on the truth of me (and those who relate) im shaking omg thank you!! have a good day!
Oml I felt this. Honestly
@@kero.shroom1503 Thats me
This is so true😂
Bruh!!! Why does this describe me perfectly?!
Me
somebody: "cello and violin have the same exact technique"
brett: "oh well lemme show u something"
Was Brett's swan being tortured or something?
When you’re worse than the beginner cello
am saying
Story of my lessons
I've only been playing cello for half a year and somehow im still better than brett. These are confusing and irrational times.
400th like
@@thriveoffthecha0s844 Brett is trolling
The fact that Brett holds the bow like a violinist makes me laugh even harder
3:52 Brett be like, what am i doing here in the first place
He has that expression on the entire video whatchu talkin bout xD
His fingers lean diagonally bc he’s used to the violin and viola lol
naerial I legit just realized that (facepalm)
2:16 was so well done... Hyung played it like a virtuoso in a concerto.
Why not? He's asst. principal cellist of the QSO
Just stick with the viola 😂😂
Shalom Tse LIT
VIOLA GANG VIOLA GANG VIOLA GANG VIOLA GANG VIOLA GANG VIOLA GANG VIOLA GANG VIOLA GANG
elyesha
SPENT TEN RACKS ON A C STRING
VIOLA GANG
PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFTT
2:59 You can see the genuine shock in the pros eyes when he plays the double stop correctly
4:08 The professional cellist is curious about how the beginner plays it and actually impressed that he plays it SOMEHOW
this is the first time i actually feel good about my cello skills
Lol
How did the pro cellist control his laughter
It’s ok, u weren’t that bad, I try to do the cello thing on my viola and it sounds like a dying goat xD
Well of course it's gonna sound bad, it's a viola. What did you expect?
Obvi its a cello thing
@@lred1383 xd
a dying goat sounds like a scene from a horror movie where there's so much screaming It's all you hear.
@@naomiii8586 The viola is always out of tune and sounds crap. Best thing to do is chuck them on to a big fire to warm up the orchestra.
Bretts poker face is extremely underrated, it looks like he’s dead inside, which is HILARIOUS
This pro cellist looks like he's in pain every time Brett plays
More like 72 hours a day vs 40 hours a day amirite
That's the best Elgar I have ever heard. Gave me chills to my soul, thankyou.
Still better than the cellos in our regular school orchestra
Pro: You laugh you lose
Brett: You win you lose
The elger piece is one of the most soul wrenching work in the entire universe….even Brett’s version
So the levels in life are:
Easy
Medium
Hard
Asian - 1
Asian - 2
Asian - advanced
Asian - Ling Ling
Super Asian
Super Asian 2
Super Asian 3
Super Asian Blue
Level Bumblebee is below Easy
Super Asian LingLing platinum
Thats pretty racist
@@beimirgibtsnixzugucken4675 If you're asian you're allowed to say this kind of stuff, if you're not and you say it, it's racist
because of this video and how the professional's crazy beautiful playing of it, the elgar cello concerto is like one of my top 5 classical pieces....that low note at the end gives me so much goosebumps
Turn the subtitles on.
Thank you
Cello? you mean Bigger Bigger Violin?
I think you mean viola.
The biggest of boys, the cello
Big guitar 🌚
And the double bass is?
The double bass is the bigger bigger bigger bigger violin, a bigger bigger bigger viola or a bigger bigger cello.
The contrast of Brett looking dead on the inside & the cellist trying to stay alive while Brett was playing is just too funny. 😂🤣😂
It's really hard to be a big violinist
Foxtrot Felix I like your profile picture
Actually the cello is a big out of tune violin.
big violist*
Andrea DragonTamer Thank you
Well it's a cello not a violin
Try not to Laugh Challange Lv. Professional Cellist
Captions: Brett is scared
Brett: *just stares into space awkwardly*
My friends, music appreciation must all be Subjective and although the strange man on the left of screen is called despairingly "a beginner" , I felt his interpretation, albeit clipped, of these Master Works, was profound. The melody stripped bare, sans tutti, brought on a shivering angst to my very core, and, friends, I did cry involuntarily, I do admit. As for the normal looking man on the right, "the Professional" , well, he can count his money as much as he likes. His playing was just what I expected, note perfect and slavish to the long dead composers dated ideas. No shudders did he bring, no melancholy starts. Such is the current trend of classical music in this New Century.
geniusrepairman1 LMAO
Top comment right here
This is the level of pretentious of every comment written by a rejected juliard applicant on a child's recital video 😂 I love it, keep up the good work
shut dafuq up
oml
*when you have small hands as a cello player*
Me :v
I was playing cello for four years, now I play the violin. My cello teacher always said "you have violinist hands". He was right haha.
Even though I've only been playing for 4 years, having to shift fast is the bane of my existence lmao
Imagine small hands playing bass
And then there is me who had hands above the size of the average German adult male at 10 years of age. Needless to say that I had a very hard time trying to learn the violin but did just fine after switching to cello.
This is technically incorrect at least for me
Beginner cello’s at my school don’t shift
Gacha Peppermint or do vibrato lol
An advice for beginner cellist, try canon in d cellist part, it's easy and hard(cus u bored as hell)
Yao Teck Ng D A B F# G D G A
Franchesca Carr
Ah yes, the gr8 canon in D for cellist. Totally worth it to be a cellist after diploma
4:58 where he feels sorry for him but wants to say good job anyway
hyung be like ''how do you even make a cello make that sound?''
Hyung still can't get the answer till today... 😆😆😆
The sheer concentration of the professional trying not to laugh is hilarious 😂
But remember at one point the professional was in the other chair:) just saying!
I hope no teacher makes a beginner student play these pieces.
Who come back to this after watching twoset learning the cello for 1 hour? Just come to give some respect and appreciation to hyung
Poor cellist who has to sit there and try not to laugh... 😂😂😂
3:23 "well that's ...a note."
I love these videos bc the professional is always just scarred from what they just saw Brett do
I couldn’t stop staring at the cellist’s face when Brett was playing lmaoo
Bret's playing cello sounds like, screeching door, screams coming from the underworld, and farts. 😂😂😂
Hyung actually looked suprise at 2:59 like wow damn.
been playing for 4 years and i still sound like the guy on the left
Love that you guys did Cello finally! I play cello and was hoping you would play Cello! I’ve been playing for about a year and a quarter
3:37 the look on his faces says “kill me please” 😂
try not to laugh challange for pro cellist
HIS FINGERS ARE S T R O N K 3:42 I ASPIRE
The professional has so much dexterity that quick changes look almost robotic.
Of course, no “beginner “ would be playing those pieces. How about Hot Cross Buns? Good job, Brett.
The nodding of encouragement tho at 3:10