i’m writing a fanfiction, and it’s a musician AU. my question is this—how difficult would it be to switch between two 4-string instruments? like this—a violinist is given a cello. how long would it take to adjust/learn to play it? would it be easy or hard? like learning a whole new instrument, or just applying knowledge from the first instrument?

i know switching from a bowed instrument (violin, cello) to a plucked instrument (bass guitar) would be difficult—but HOW difficult?

i’m a vocalist and the only instrument i can reliably play is a piano, so the world of stringed instruments is a fascinating yet alien topic. thank you in advance for any info!

I’m a violinist of 4-5 years. I’ve dabbled in some Mozart (Eine Klein). want to play some Mozart Concerto, but I don’t know which one I should learn. I can shift 1st through 4th position comfortably, 5-6th position it’s gets kind of funky and I can do vibrato. The hardest pieces I’ve learnt are: the Bach double violin concerto and up to the 8th line of the Sibelius violin concerto (I’m not lingling.

Go practise

largely from memory (including paganini) might digitize later so quality is better. until then, have this the drawing itself is actually pretty small in real life. reddit just fried it a lot more

Is there any arrangement for Bach concerto for 2 violins for piano? And I don't mean accompaniment part. I mean just full on piano. Like is there any arrangement for the piece that is arranged for piano to play both 1st violin and 2nd violin?

If you do find an arrangement, could you please put a link in your comment? Thank you so much and have a nice day!

Belle Chen, Eddy's big sister, had a baby recently. This picture is from her Instagram. We always joke about Brett and Eddy being Dads and Grandpas, but we miss the important part of them being Uncles. Hope Eddy had a chance to see her when he was in Paris because she lives in London.

Also for those who don't know, she was their accompanist for their London show in 2019. She's also a gifted composer with a couple of albums. Her music's on Spotify, and probably other places.

With the new stalking situation, I know it sounds expensive and maybe a bit extreme, but I really recommend that TwoSet consider hiring a bodyguard — at least for shows in big cities or events where personal security might be more of a concern.

A lot of live podcasts and shows have made the mistake of not having proper security, and once a fan or audience member crosses the line, things can escalate very quickly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3ZgDtXDZco

Who are some soloists you think Twoset should react to? I'll go first: Kyung wha chung is a korean violinist and her recordings of bach sonatas and partitas are my favourite!

FYI the definition for "epic Beethoven urinals" is when there are four urinals arranged in the order of V-V-V-iii. This is in Galeria mall in Jogjakarta, and when I came across this, I knew what I have to do.

hi guys, first time seeing twoset and am super excited. i want to get my hands on some merch and was wondering how bad lines will be. how early should i arrive at the venue to line up?

i've only been to a few concerts so i'm not experienced lol. any thoughts would be appreciated, thanks.

this counts as practice, right

i usually draw my characters in a very stylized way and needed to prsctice with real people. so happened to think of tsv while doing it... second pic are initial guidelines after tracing their actual photos composers pictured are Rachmaninov, Mozart and Liszt respectively.

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tried to follow in eddy’s footsteps as a composer 😂😂 perhaps playing music is my calling rather than composing…

I’ve only ever had negative reinforcement in my life. How can I positively reward myself when studying or practicing?

Preferably not chocolates or any sweets. And not something that I should be allowed to do anyway (like watch a movie). What is something that can help?

Thank you very much!!!

I'm getting ready to look up hotels in the DC area for their concert, but am worried about the concert being cancelled due to the visa problems. Have they mentioned if that was figured out?

Hello i just got my violin today and i was hoping for some advice on my form and playing. I tried to play twinkle twinkle little star by ear and i know the intonation is not the best but besides that what can i do to improve? Im trying to practice 40 hours a day

Its in the "Why Being a Conductor is The Hardest Job Ever" video, at around 5:23. Ive been unable to find the piece on shazam, and its been a while.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcvAAZwklY0&t=394s

Found ling ling in my maths stats paper reminding me practice at 3am. funny that i see this as i’ve had two set old videos on in the background to help my studying

Also this would sound so good. Do you think we can get them to do it?

In more seriousness, have you seen a performance like that? I'm so curious how it would sound. Like if the piano and violin would respond to each other with the next line and try to steal the show back

Ps. If you don't have Marfan's syndrome, do you need to make a devil deal to play Paganini?

Just saw a new song from the DPRK on youtube where the violin section was visable in the camera section for a decently long amount of time, it would be interesting if Brett and Eddie analyzed it. It seemed pretty in synch but its a bit hard to tell. Also might be interesting if they compiled a lot of songs to analyze the north korean orchestra, lol

I've been trying to identify the last performance in the "You VIOLA, You Scream" video, but havent had any luck. From what I saw, its a large-ish scale performance with Ithzak Perlman as one of the violinists and John Williams conducting, but every time I tried to look for a performance like that, it always showed results for the Schindler's List soundtrack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxyz0NTm5xM

This is Khataturians handwriting. You can see his famous red pencil marking on the bottom. This is a cantata about Stalin's childhood called: Stalin's Childhood And Youth created by the Georgian composer, Grigol Kiladze, but Khataturian notated it for him. The Tbilisi Conservatory almost threw it away because they didn't value it, but my father bought it on time, and now, it's in my mini-libary.

Frederic Chopin. originally for a death anniversary. i misremembered and thought that he passed in September, so ended up drawing a month early as for the unhinged amount of ?s in the title, it's the character requirement. i don't know how word count = higher quality post, but i have to comply anyway

It's been a while since I've drawn so it isn't my best work but I really wanted to share my art :D Also the flannel is supposed to be the red practice one but I low-key forgot how it looked like and was too lazy to find a reference 😭

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