unpopular opinion: Flight of the Bumblebee is easy | flute practice vlog
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#flute #flightofthebumblebee #flutemusic
I have an Idea! How bout we flood 2sets videos with comments about collaborating with Katie
Ling Ling I would love it 😭
YEahyeah
Tag this video to TwoSet!
@@aenean. yes!
Why is Ling Ling commenting on UA-cam? You should be practicing! 40 hours a day!! Go practice!
“Trying”, “not to play like the fastest violin guy” , bless she’s so scared of Eddy and Brett coming for her
Gabriela Rose LOL 🤣🤣🤣
Lmao
Ling Ling going to come into the chat
jan jan lol
XDDD
“If you practiced your scales like your teacher told you to...”
Ah... so that’s where I went wrong
You stole that joke my dude
You are like how about coming back to playing on flute then I see this.. - I give up 😂
Total mood
me sitting here sratching my head... how do you connect this bunch of notes in a line with g major ???... :-T
OoF
“That was not perfect by any means”
*that was pretty damn good for 90 minutes if you ask me*
I’m glad I’m not the only person who goes “AHHH” when my fingers won’t work
60darklord
Same, otherwise I just move my fingers around a lot after I mess up, but yeah
Yup. Like an alarm going "UGHRT".
Same
I just wanna throw my flute but then I'm like "wait I cant do that" then I go "AAGHAH" lmfao
@@ameliajohnson8428 I used to move my fingers around so much after I messed up that my old flute had some of its keys slightly bent, when I went to repare it people were like "bro wtf?!"
I do that
If you can play it slowly, you can play it quickly...
Very sacrilegious
Interesting!
Two set!
If you can play it faster, you can play it fast.
Amaaazing
I wouldn’t even be able to read the notes that fast I.....
At some point it switched from reading to muscle memory. It's a bit of both. And you can remember how the song goes and what pitches sound like in tune.
its more like reading the shape and the pattern
oof... AGREED.. but dude it takes so much muscle memory its insane.... I kind want to try this piece heh
It's just a chromatic scale. Your whole song is a chromatic scale.
bruh, I suck at sight reading honestly-
Finally...
You’ve joined the sacrilegious music gang
Where my twosetters at?
Hannie W 🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️
Ayeee!!👋👋
Ling Ling
Hannie W AYEEEEE 👋 👋 👋
🙋🏽♀️
"it's easy if you play your scales like your teacher told you to" ....
well that right there's the problem
😂😂😭😭😭😭
It's so trueeeee!
*learned piano from an app* Scales? what is dis sorcery?
Cookie Crusher "Simply Piano"?
@@lilli1465 yup, not the best but taught me a little.
She goes “oh I’m just going to cite read it” and plays the whole thing, what the hell, I am blown away. YOU ARE FANTASTIC
Cailey Morley sight* :)
But why? She just told you why there isn't much of a reason to be overly impressed
It takes year to get to that level, I’m sure some of y’all are flautist but this takes long amounts of muscle memory to do this.
lmao “cite read”
Sight reading with an instrument isn't really that difficult as long as you know how to read music and play the instrument. Don't get me wrong, playing flight of the bumblebee, albeit at this slower speed, is still impressive. I couldn't play it at that speed. But if you're going to play a classical piece to impress people, take the time to practice the piece and play flight of the bumblebee At its natural 600 beats per minute.
"The goal is NOT sound like that worlds fastest violinist from that Twoset video" literally dying 😂😂😂
😂😂😂 “if you can play it slowly you can play it quickly”
*Flight of the Bumblebee*
Musicians: ''Okay, Chromatic scales, but faster''
Non Musicians: ''NNAAAAAANNNIIIIIIIII WTF IS THIS, SOOOOO DIFICULT''
Thiago Lopes
Heh yeah
Thiago Lopes I’m a musician, and I have to say if you have to practice the piece more than 2 times it’s not easy.
It also depends on the instrument. Different instruments will have different difficulty levels for the same song. Like with piano, you have to be able to play the main part 15 notes per second as well as the left hand, whereas with other instruments you only need to master the one part. I think they are difficult, but its more than just chromatic scales but faster
Unless your a musician who doesn't even know there basic scales..
@@controversy4987 There is no hard or easy music, just music you have already practiced and music you haven't practiced yet.
“Flight of the Bumblebee is easy”
*cries in cello*
I feel bad for basses
Zach Lasagna you should we have a struggle
My sister is a cellist, I’ve *heard* your pain
*cries in bass*
*SCREAMS IN BASS*
YOU GUYS okay so I know I played the last three measures incorrectly. I'm human and make mistakes. I spent more time focusing on the difficult passages and made a silly mistake. That's why you should spend more than 90 minutes learning a piece ;)
U’ve failed, ur gonna have to do it all over again
Dredence XD 😂😂😂
katieflute TwoSet is coming for you now lol
Miguel Pabón Lolol 🤣
Miguel Pabón honestly it would be an honor to be roasted by them lmao
That's nice, but can you play Hot Cross Buns?
toxic quesadilla boom roasted
Your stupid if she can play this than she can play hot cross buns it’s easy
r/whoosh
Katie Alford don’t say that
Katie Alford no
Katie: Flight of the bumblebee is easy
*Trombones have entered chat*
Me, a trombone:
*HAH-*
ah hell nah
Ah as a trombone that has tried to learn it I can confirm I almost dies
*aggressive slide movements
honestly its just a joke on flute/clarinette/sax compared to brass instrument. Thos just arent built for the same speeds.
I think the reason why People think flight of the bumblebee is hard is how fast it is and how fast your fingers have to move
Laura's Art World For me i avoid it because of all the accidentals
ChaoticNinja same
I learned it on piano and it wasn’t hard at all
It’s basically 16th note chromatics
I also feel like part of the difficulty on flute is breath capacity. Maybe it’s just me as a severe asthmatic, but the speed and finding time to breath is hard.
But can she do it 15 notes a second on a 24-karat flute piccolo hybrid thing
only ling ling can do that
Ling ling could play that on the flute with his nose...
Don't forget the electrolytes
Custombuilt by NASA
Only Ling Ling
Does Flight of the Bumblebee give anyone else legit feelings of anxiety or is it just me?
Me too
@Lovro Rukljic bruh the sheet music
I think it’s supposed to lol bc since bees wings flap super fast. Also maybe to show how it flies around u and u don’t know whether it’s gonna sting u or not so maybe that was the composer’s intention. To show that through the music.
Are you Shpongled?
Me at the beginning of the video: SIGHT READING GODDESS
*Katie flaunts her Juilliard mug*
Me: MAKES SENSE
Dahlia Lizbeth IM SCREAMINGGG 🤣🤣
Exactly my reaction lolll
It was a solid flex
*Realizing that my band teacher used this song to impress everyone in school and convinced me to pay to learn to play the flute when all he was doing was practicing scales:* I was bamboozled!
But a bamboozle for good!
@@hopeahooper I hope you can study!
Plays flight of the bumble bee
Lungs- am I a joke to you
underrated comment
Tuba Player starts playing
Lungs: I'm a joke to you ?
Circular breathing
Me because I’m a double reed 🤦🏾♀️
Yes it is a joke
Ling Ling can play Flight of the Bumblebee without an instrument
He can play it without playing it
Ling ling has entered the chat
2 set
Ling ling: “very um...... sacrilegious
ling ling is the instrument all at once
•I play classical guitar
•it’s 4 am
•I’m hiding from my mom under a blanket
•if you can play it slowly, you can play it quickly.
Send help
Paulina Petrauskaitė Ling Ling!!!!
don’t worry, ling ling insurance will help!
Aye, another guitarist! but i also play flute
I just enter in this video to see the comments about two set violin
InTeReStInG
Same
Lingling
Shouldn't you be practicing??
@@marywaters9821 Yeah probably, but it's not like I have a free 40 hours to do it🤣😅 I know... I'm pathetic but hey, not everyone can be Ling Ling
Sameeeee
When she played “doololololoooo”
I felt that 🥺👊🏻
All jokes aside this was amazing ❤️❤️
I think all of it was "doololololoooo”
I was reading the comment when that part happened
Calvin Hines lol same that is such a coincidence 😂😂😂
Sara Cathcart isn’t that the joke?
@@JustADerpySheep Yeah it is. They're just stupid.
i’m a vocalist and this is sending me into anaphylactic shock
I'm just imagning a choir going AOEOEOIEOEHAOUEO
@@nolifeorname5731 LMAO
Im not a vocalist, im a generalist, i look at people’s body and how they feel. (X factor tings)
Doobedoobedoobedoobe (repeat)
badabadabadabadabadabadabadabadabadabadabadabadabadabadabadabadabadabadabadabadabadabadabadabadabadabadabadabadabadabadabadabadabadabadabadabadabadabadabadabada
If you know the chromatic scale, flight of the bumblebee should be relatively easy.
If you can play it slowly, then you can play it quickly
@@violintegral well yes and no
@@virtualgyaru sorry, but yes...
Harrison Loeffler 😂
Maybe in the flute but in the piano u still have the left hand and its not easy to play both
and this students is why you hover your fingers and don’t have them 3 inches above the keys
I feel attacked by this comment
oops same😭😂
kaitlyn knight that hit me came for my whole life
I feel @ed
Yeah, but if you watch, she would raise her fingers not immediately going to be used around 1 1/2 to 2 inches above, rather than almost on top. Sure, when she would constantly use a finger (such as right ring finger on F#, Eb, D, etc.), she was almost on top of it the whole time, but I did notice her raising it when not in use.
"So if you practice your scales, like your teacher told you to-"
**nervously looks away**
LOOOOL nah same
Flight of the bumblebee is a good bang for your buck type piece. I think at 14 I only did 2 things. Play chromatic scales and this. My parents were impressed so mission accomplished
Natasha Estrada okay so this is how I should impress my parents then when I get a trumpet! Great😯
That two set reference **chefs kiss**
I love how it shows parts of her messing up because it proves that you can’t expect someone to be able to play something just straight all the way through in order to be an AMAZING player
16:38 She actually plays the whole song. Your welcome. PS AMAZING JOB WOW I COULD NEVER DO THAT
Practice then
Maybe you should practice 40 hours 😂
Thxs
@@lana_rupnik a *day* 😂
Fukai Kurayami 深い暗闇 yeah i forgot to write it😂
How to learn flight of the bumblebee :
1 . go to a corner
2 . then sob as long as you can
I sobbed so long at the end I cried in musicial
@@Mitskienthusiast lol
More like learn the chromatic scale, play it faster then become sacriligeous
@@josefbaldisimo5333 XD LOL
Anim MusicTM you lost everyone with “XD”
i dont even play instruments,
but it was nice meeting the flute community :))
RoyalWeasley on behalf of the flute community, It was nice to meet you too :)
Thanks for visiting! Don’t forget to visit the other magical lands of band :)
I dont play flute either but my mom and sister do. I play the oboe lol
Ok
@@katherinekramer2651 ok
The flight of the bumblebee is a unique showpiece in that it's playable on nearly every instrument with the exception of the alto triangle.
Challenge accepted!
@@Tubluer lol are you going to use the alto triangle to play flight of the bumblebee
@@hanbigim Yes, I will be using a lot of harmonics.
@@Tubluer *applause*
@@Tubluer Will you post it? xd
I w̶a̶s̶t̶e̶d̶ spent 90 minutes of my life learning my most highly requested piece of music BECAUSE I LOVE YOU GUYS 💖p.s. thank u Flute Center of NY for sponsoring this video! Use my code "KTFL" when shopping there for free shipping, an extended 10 day trial, and an extended 18 month warranty AND 10% off all sheet music www.flutes4sale.com
*EDIT* okay so I know I played the last three measures incorrectly. I'm human and make mistakes. I spent more time focusing on the difficult passages and made a silly mistake. That's why you should spend more than 90 minutes learning a piece ;)
Love you soooooo much!
Sari Jones 😘😊💖
How is the "most highly requested piece of music" not Africa? ::genuine confusion::
Franky Mikey Because people have been requesting Flight of the Bumblebee since the 1800’s on ye olde UA-cam
Natasha Estrada HAHA I JUST LOLED
"If you practice your chromatic scales you can play "Flight of the Bumblebee""
Me: *looks at Piano*
Piano: "Don't even think about it, bro"
Honestly.. looks like good practice... might try it on the guitar
Tuba:
You can probably play the piece easily. The notes aren't difficult at all, the only difficulty is the speed, so technically you can still play it, just not at the intended speed.
Brett and Eddy have GOT to react to this!! Where my fellow TwoSet fans at?
Mary Waters Hey, here I am!
Same here I come
Right here
Meeeeee! 🤚
Here
Ling ling can play it on every wind instrument at the same time while singing the star spangled banner ( because he has perfect pitch )
Who's ling ling?
Perfect pitch unlike Brett lol
I would LOVE Twoset to watch and review this, maybe even a collab! Like if you agree we could make this happen!
That would be so great.
It you can play it slowly you can play it quickly
-twoset violin
No that was ben lee
if you can lEaRn it slowly you can LeArN it quickly
lol
*Ben Lee
Ben Lee
If u can play it quickly u can play it Ling Ling
I admit I prefer it at around 164 vs 184. When it gets too fast, it just sounds like a blur of notes!
Cindy B. Ever head of Ben Lee
Cundy B I agree with you! 🎶
I told my 6th grade friend as a joke that he should learn to play flight of the Bumblebee on flute because he was so good.... he can play part of it already in 6th grade beginning band!
Just don't forget the coffee breaks!!! XD
Wish you guys the best of luck growing and learning from each other.
Especially if you’re a woodwind, your really skilled if u can do it on trombone
Dredence XD eXACTLY
I’m scared of you if you can play this on trombone
Toss and catch to the extreme
I can play this on flute and piano so try me
I want to play it on my trombone but my arm hurts with one set of sixteenth notes
what am i doing here i play the piano
its 2 am someone send help
I play clarinet lol
Its 4am and i have work tomorow
and btw i play piano too
This is my life. I sing.... It is 3am here...
What am I doing here I just sing and play the ukulele
I play bass guitar haha
You accomplished more in 9 minutes than I did in my whole life.
She finished playing a whole damn line before I could even finish just looking at all the notes😂😂😭
Let me save you some time from reading the comments section: Ling Ling, sacreligious bois, slowly/quickly, any other twoset memes
Percificus *Intresting*
@@kquizi *I n t e r e s t i n g*
i have english captions on and when she was playing the flute it was literally.....
*applause*
*laughter*
I was about to comment about how you read through it in 8 minutes and then you immediately drank from your Juilliard mug and I was like oh...never mind 👏👏👏👏
I can do the same and Im in highschool
harem god I’m sure 👌
@@ineedanap8300 Im deadass like either u must be some slaw if u cant do this out of highschool
she kind of looks and acts like a blonde cristine (simply nailogical) especially at the very start
Tori Elizabeth but were da HOLO
Tori Elizabeth oh my god I’m so glad someone else noticed 😂
Tori Elizabeth i was about to say that
Oh my god she does!!!
Omg yes
me: *never played flute or any other instrument and never heard of "Flight of the Bumblebee"*
youtube: hey, you might like this video!
I actually really enjoyed the video! :)
🤣 same! But I'm hooked now.
Same
I'm seriously surprised that the comments section is full of twoset violin inside jokes.
Yoonji The Explorer You must be new on this side of youtube
@@meganterina8461 well yelp
Yoonji The Explorer Twoset jokes are in the comments of every instrument based UA-cam video.... all of them.... excessively. It’s just the same jokes over and over again
I love inside jokes. I’d like to be a part of one some day.
we are *everywhere*
like literally.. i was watching a cooking video and i found twosetters in the comment section lol
Flight of the bumblebee is a great showoff piece because you need only moderate level skill to sound professional to an outsider
So true!
Everyone else is like “I play the French horn” “I play the tuba” while I’m just like... I play ukulele lol
Dang girl, you have real command with your flute. I am very impressed with the full tone and volume you get on the low notes.
Katie: plays it slowly, and then quickly.
Twoset: why do we hear boss music
hot take: practicing flight of the bumblebees is the best way to practice your scales
flight of the bumblebee is nothing, i'll be impressed once you play hot cross buns at 60 hmph.
Aji F. LOL stay tuned, my friend
Thank you for following in the footsteps of Twoset Violin
She is a lot easier on the eyes than Brett and Eddy though.
Popular opinion: Flight of the bumblebee is overated
Gaming Potatoe indeed!!! Especially when sacrilegious bois try to break world records on sacrilegious “violins”!!!!
Kat M I don’t know if that’s an insult or a compliment
Are you a LingLing
Correction: it’s not a popular opinion... *its a fact*
every time you said “it’s a bit sloppy” I SCREAMED. if that’s sloppy my playing must be trash
as a classical musician (vocalist) who knows absolutely nothing about the flute, this is incredibly impressive to me despite how easy it may or may not be. just discovered your content and i love it! keep it up 😋❤️
yes i play french horn
yes i am watching this video
somak-chan just watched it in math class, it was amazing lol
Yes I play violin, yes I am watching this
Same lol
Yes I do play violin but here I am watching this
yes i play clarinet
UPDATE: It's up :O
Haha I’m currently learning this on contrabass flute, inspired by Twoset Violin 😂 #IfYouCanPlayItSlowYouCanPlayItFast
徐立瑄 William Hsu LMAO I THOUGHT YOU WERE KIDDING UNTIL I SAW YOUR PROFILE KSKSKS
ill go gay for rosé Haha yes，I'm currently on quarter note = 112。It's so much harder than on regular flute。What did I get myself into... 😃😂😅🙂🙃😢😨😱
I can’t even play it on a normal flute
No one:
Twosetters on any music related video: InTeReStInG
You play the flute so well! Your ability to seamlessly switch from low to high notes, and keeping the tone so clear was impressive. That piece is not for the faint of heart - enjoyed hearing your practice session.
You're amazing. I have sung the choral version in High School.... took 2 weeks to learn it but you slayed it at 90 minutes. Brava. You should be proud of yourself.
thank you so much!! WOW I can't imagine singing it! 😮
it has words or do you just make buzzing noises?
@@michaelprozonic the words is basically..... NEVE, NEVE, NEVE, NEVE, as the main melody.
Not being sarcastic when I say every moment of sarcasm and snark in this video made it awesome...and the only video on UA-cam I watched from beginning to end today.
Jason Ford omg thank u for watching 🙏🏻😭 I’m glad someone understands my sense of humor lol
i’m so glad more classically trained musicians are starting channels on youtube and “reintroducing” the music from that period to the world
Girl you said not to slow it down to see what you missed but when you slow it down its still practically perfect!!!!!
But can you match it memorized backwards at 300 bpm with 32-4 strides?
STAY TUNED
I bet ling ling can do that
Those are 8 yard steps...
THE bLUE DeViLS
Her: Flight of the Bumblebee is easy
Me: She's too dangerous to be kept alive!
As a trombone player I could never even imagine doing this 😂
That arm movement 😂
God my arm hurts thinking about it
Right? XD
Makira Ann Wrage as a violin player urs a right of passage
15 notes a second sacrilegious flute practise!!
Flight of the Bumblebee is sacrilegious
**If you can play it slowly you can play it quickly**
I love that she referenced twoset ♥️♥️♥️💕 I also love that she’s watching videos of prodigies during her practice break #truemusicianlife 😂♥️♥️
as a flautist that is only 3 years into playing, I feel flexed on by veteran flautists with their 3 keyed foot joints
DevanyaRBLx sameeee
katie: "Please don't slow it down on the settings and try to hear all the notes I miss"
me: *literally doesnt care*
I just started watching your channel and I haven’t played “competitively” in many years, but I’m happy to know others flutists just say yeachhhh when they mess up.
was i the only one that noticed her phone was in Spanish or??? Because mine is in Spanish too😂😂
I am trying to learn spanish 😂my boyfriend is from Argentina
katieflute Good for you!!! I’m trying to improve every day. My parents are from Cuba
Lol my phones in Spanish, my family is from mexico so I’m trying to get at least close to fluent
@@katieflute I have a friend from Argentina
I speak Spanish, my cellphone is in English for the same reason
I liked the process of learning the piece that you used. As a saxophonist, I struggle with playing the 3rd octave on the flute cleanly. Seeing you do it slowly at first with the correct breath control before taking the tempo up was great to see. You did a very good job with this piece in such a short time. And you made a fun video to watch. Thanks!
she reminds me of simply nailogical but flute
Yes
Holyshi yeah I see it! They even have similar hand gestures when they talk!
This is so true
Cristine (istg I spelled that wrong) the Flute Queen.
Omg yes!!
Wow twosetviolin fans everywhere. I'm so proud of this community
"If you can play it slowly you can play it quickly'' -lingling trains for 48 hours a day
Gamerknight 999 um it’s actually 40 hours a day
Umm actually ling ling doesn't need to practice. Ling ling already knows it
If you can play a chromatic scale you can play flight of the bumblebee. The question is... can you play it clean?
That is the correct question!
I love how you referenced TwoSetViolin. I like both your channels because I’m an orchestra student and I played alto saxophone for one year in band. You are so amazing at flute and I am definitely inspired by how well you practice.
Omg I can’t imagine how hard this will be if I wanted to learn this on my upright Bass. Your so talented!
well the title suggests she thinks it’s not that hard, so
Now try to play it fast enough so that you can finish it in one breath, no circular breathing required
As a instrument player ( like myself) I feel that the song '' Flight of the Bumblebee'' is one of those pieces that shows that you've mastered your instrument . But its not the hardest. I think that people are really intimidated by the fact that its fast and most of them don't know their scales.
“Ok let me just sight read”
*already better than me on hot cross buns*
Now that you’ve mentioned it... Can you learn circular breathing? THAT is the Holy Grail (like the 9yo does) not the bumble bee. Just kidding, great job and very high quality flute content!
Olivia Kight it does work for flute players
I have only been able to do it on bassoon (I learned by accident!) - I have tried and tried on clarinet, and no luck 😰
Rhonda Seiter HOW?!?! Please let me know
@@okiolivia175 i thought it would be easier on flute- i cant do it at all on the alto sax
A S for me, it was opening something at the back of my throat and practicing and practicing
i'm so happy you mentioned the "world's fastest violinist" lmaoo
am i the only one who literally swings their flute everywhere when they get frustrated when they mess up and end up smacking their own face and then it hits the stand and gets all scratched and then gets sued by their parents
just me? *ok*
I do get angry and end up hitting my teeth
I always got my face with my flute in class. but luckily only my friends pay attention to me lol
Youre not the only one lol
Me too... And our usernames are very similar!!!
I vent frustration by ending a classical piece with a blast of Herbie Mann mixed harmonics.
the amount of accidentals is giving me a stroke
you wanna do better?
@@nonamedgirl2968 do you even know what an accidental is? do you play music??
@@sozie 😂why do I feel like your username is what people at school call you. I play the clarinet in a concert and marching band.
@@sozie I know what a sharp, flat, and natural is lmfao, it was literally about 4 am when I watched this video 😂🤷♀️ #fuckinsomnia ANYWAYS, I must of had read it as accidents*
@@nonamedgirl2968 this was a troll acc from 2 years ago.
She said “I can use this as a chromatic warm-up” so I started practicing flight of the bumblebee and it genuinely helped my chromaticism #highschoolseniorvibes
Good job!
IM SO HAPPY YOU USE FLUTE TUNES!!!!
What a sacrilegious video. It is quite interesting. Some might say amazing. Made Ben Lee proud.