This is a possibility: they picked the musicians with the best skills to record, and put the musicians with the best looks on stage.

Well, at least they didn’t perform “Flight of the Bumblebee”

HOW DID THEY NOT NOTICE AT 7:38 HE MOVED THE BOW, *YET NO SOUND WAS PRODUCED*

eddy: hates to be a critic also eddy: roasts literally everyone

"Instruments are weapons" I SURE AS HELL CAN DO SOME DAMAGE WITH A GRAND PIANO

Typical Chinese strategy: best players recording behind scenes and best looking persons are on live. It happen already at 2008

I play the erhu. At 8:14 in the video you see two erhu players. I think the girl on the right is legit but the one on the left is fake. So here are some oopsies: #1) The key of the piece they're playing (Horse Racing) is meant to be F major. The girl on the right has her hand shifted down slightly from the position of that white strip (which is string used to tie the two strings together). That's the right positioning (in fact Brett and Eddy went to China and learnt this piece with a professional erhuist -- you can compare what was done in this performance with that here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y9ygh5mozLuzYpc.html). The girl on the left, however, has her hand near the white string and her fingers are more rigid and together (meaning she wouldn't be able to reach the right notes). #2) Not strictly an oopsie but when they do the horse neighing, the girl on the right actually shifts her left hand up to vary the notes. The girl on the left keeps her fingers pretty much completely still. You can still make a neighing sound but that is a signal of the broader problem of the left girl -- her fingering is a lot less fluid and natural-looking than the one of the right. Generally she's too tense. #3) *BIGGEST OOPSIE*: THE GIRL ON THE LEFT HAS HER BOW REVERSED. If you look closely, the wood of her bow is in between the strings whilst the horse hair is outside of them. Obviously, you cannot make a sound with that. That's how they faked it! You can compare it with the girl on the right who has her bow properly stationed in between the strings with the horse hair in the middle and the wood outside of the strings.

"Instruments are weapons." *laughs in Mo Dao Zu Shi*

The people that disliked this video were violinists that could do vibrato on an open string.

I am chinese, it’s common that “live” is fake, even tho sometimes ppl can actually sing or play the instrument, the performers will comprise for “better performance” Bc of technology limitation. It’s so stupid.

The context is basically where they had chinese celebrities on a variety show (快乐大本营 or Happy Camp in english).It's like a variety show where they do challenges and then stick in a few performances in between because they're all celebrities (it's entertainment and the fans like to see them do stuff, it's also kind of like an intermission? I guess). The first girl playing the violin is Ju Jingyi. She's a chinese actress and part of the chinese girl group SNH48 (so singing and dancing). I'm pretty sure the majority of these people in the video are not professionals and some of them might have just learnt the instrument for the purpose of the show. They might have also had them pretend to play and play a recording in the background. It's not a super serious show and most of the celebrities are just there to promote their newest work (songs, upcoming movies and tv shows, etc.) *Just added in some extra information and reworded some of it because I don't think my original comment was worded very well. **Editing again, I'm coming back with some more context now. Everyone playing is at least proficient in their instrument. Zhou Jieqiong does actually play the pipa, I'm pretty sure that Ju Jingyi played violin when she was younger, etc. This leads me to believe that they were probably performing this without much preparation, hence the fake playing. I'd just like to emphasize though, the purpose of this performance wasn't to actually show off their musical talents, but rather to have all the participants of that episode collaborate in a fun performance to entertain the fans while they promotw other projects of theirs.

It was just a pre-recorded performance. The live audience there get to hear music live for like 3 or 4 times and the broadcast people take the best sound and edit it that way so there are no mistakes during broadcast in television. It's just a common practice in mainstream television and it is a public secret. Almost everyone knows (especially in Asia) that most of the time what you hear live is just a pre-recorded one.

At least the pipa player is real, she’s a pro.

Nobody: Brett and Eddy: *I'm gonna end these people's whole career*

This is why we practice. To not end up on mainstream television

Hearing them call out small imperfections makes you realise how professional they are

who else doesn't play an instrument but still watched?

I love how Brett pulls his hoodie when it’s an OOPSIE

I love how all Brett and Eddy care about is the vibrato and the sound, they didn’t even notice at the time where she forgot vibrato she literally stopped early.

I literally clicked this thinking that the girl in the thumbnail looks like Zhou Jieqiong/Kyulkyung/Pinky who's an ex-I.O.I & Pristin member.. damn, I was right

When you see no microphones being worn, you know it’s a big whoopsie.

i love how much they freak out about the OOOOPPPSSSSIIIEEESSS!!!!!!

The performance was probably pre recorded but Kyulkyung can actually play the pipa. Even during the time that she was in IOI I’m pretty sure she played it in a variety show to show off her talent.

Me sees kyulkyung who I know knows how to play pipa: clicks ME sees twoset: double click ME sees roasting: triple click

me, recognising an oopsie right before brett and eddy points it out: LiNg liNg LiVes INsIdE mE

"You have to look after ur instrument and CLEAN it!" Me: Looks down at violin Oopsie

this is even funnier when they can play their instruments for real, the violinist (ju jingyi) attended secondary school of sichuan conservatory of music and the pipa lady zhou jieqiong attended secondary school of shanghai conservatory of music, also theyre currently singers actresses but used to be idols, one in china and the other in korea lol

I love how they just know when someone is faking lol I mean if I heard someone try to fake play my instrument it would be easy to tell but man they have good ears for this

2:06 Brett: Instruments are weapons Tchaikovsky: *Oh.* **1812 Overture intensifies** + Oh gosh why did this get so many likes??

7:30 onwards on pipa (that pear-shape Chinese instrument). I’ve been playing that thing for two decades and I can ensure you that this is fake. Most likely she played it but wasn’t recorded at the same time. You noticed when she changed notes, her index finger pressed at the wrong key for two separate occasions, while the sound was still ongoing at the correct tone. OOPSIES edit: i'm not saying she cant play the instrument ppl. geez. the amount of ppl who cant take thumbs down. the point of this whole video is to point out a pre-recorded performance trying to pretend that it was done live. nobody appreciates shitty pre-recording. at least lining up the performance to the sound would be nice. knowing how to play an instrument doesn't mean you cant fake it when recording such things.

I just can't admire the fact that they put He's a Pirate and the Mission Impossible theme together

7:39 I just wanted to let people notice that the man's violin didn't make a sound when he played...

Vibrato during an open string is *extra talent*

I have also found another oopsie at the beginning: her pinky isn’t curved

9:33 That aggressive hood removal tho. Brett are you okay?💀💀💀

7:38 Twoset violin. I found an oopsie! If you look at the man, when he finished playing, he played a note with no violin sound.

This is what happens when you do not practice speaking “hey guys” for a long time edit: Since this comment has a lot of likes, I want to use this top-comment-space to tell my opinion for tremolo thing. I think it is a sound of Erhu, the instrument in 8:15, not a violin.

you look like mad and crazy scientists discussing a very important new math theoreme

4:41 "It's beginning to look a little bit suspicious" *Colour desaturates*

Violin might be fake but the guzheng and pipa are truly performed, especially the guzheng player, she got certification at level 10, highest level for professional guzheng players 😶

my thought is they were actually playing on stage, but a pre-recorded track was added afterwards as part of the editing process. seems like the easiest explanation...

Hi, I am a chinese fan of one of the lady in the video (Zhou Jieqiong aka Kyulkyung, the red one playing the pipa). I just want to explain. This performance was broadcasted on TV live and the viewers who attended the show at the time heard the real performance of the musicians. But the audio of the performance broadcasted on TV was indeed a recorded one from a previous rehearsal done the day before. During rehearsal, stations do allow some people/fans to watch, so it's not a secret, the musicians recorded over 5 times that day, and that's where the audio they used for dubbing comes from. On TV the image was live, while the audio was a recorded one. I'm not saying this is true for every show, but chinese show tend to do this to prevent any live broadcast incident. The musicians do know how to play the instruments and have to play themselves though. At least I know the one playing the pipa has played live several time already and she plays really well. PS: I also wanted to add that the 4 of them are not professional musicians, but celebrities in China (actors, singers, dancers...) who happened to be skilled in playing an instrument, they where put together for this special show.

Aside from all the craziness of this vid, I'm really happy when I find their channel. I'm from the Philippines and not all people in my province knows everything about classical music. Some of them can't even differentiate violin between a cello. After discovering them, I realized that there are people who knows and classical music. THANKS FOR EXISTING BRETT AND EDDY!! 😊

POV: You're watching this again because TwoSet learned the Pipa in 1 hour

I know that at the 2008 Olympics in China where they had a little girl "sing" while the real singer was deemed "to ugly" too be the face of the event (should I edit this comment to say thanks or should i leave it alone cause thats annoying and ruins the comment)

the first girl is Zhou Jieqiong/Kyulkyung and she actually knows how to play the pipa-

Right before the tremolo, the guy bowed yet no sound was made.

Ok, ok. I've worked on television and radio, so I have to clarify a couple of things. Most 'live' performances, especially on shows like that which are not specifically about academic music and are not recorded in a proper environment like a concert hall, are either pre-recorded or performed by backstage musicians, and that has ONE simply reason: such shows usually have multiple different acts, and it is a PAIN in Mozart's favourite body part to replug new musicians every time and fine-tune the mixer. That's not even to mention that when actually playing live at a venue not designed for acoustic projection, they'd have to mic all the instruments, and getting proper sound out of that requires quite a bit of production tinkery, often not possible/too much hassle to do for a 'live' performance (especially if it's being broadcast live). So, the show per se is, indeed, fake, but that is the industry standard. For good TV performance, look for recordings made in acoustically designed halls, not at TV studios. Those usually have one or two mics on or in front of the stage to capture the sound as it is projected onto the listener.

The girl playing the pipa, Jieqiong (the one chilling in the air) actually majored in pipa in Shanghai Conservatory of Music's secondary before she became an idol/actress. She also performs a lot in stages with her pipa so I think even if it was prerecorded or live she's definitely playing it herself.

Ling ling doesn't have to fake. Recordings and speakers have to fake for ling ling.

"I always thought the Guzheng was the coolest instrument" - Eddy, 2019 Yes! Victory! I play the Guzheng! Yes! ;)

what i've learned from watching chinese dramas is that there is a huge amount of dubbing in chinese tv, so my guess is that the people on stage where actually playing, but the sound we're hearing is recorded and dubbed over

Ling Ling can play Vibrato even on the open string. UPD: thx for your likes

This is *s a c r e l i g i o u s*

ngl i've been binging this channel's video for the past couple hours, and i just clicked on this cause the thumbnail was kyulkyung. she can actually play and is very talented!!

Anyone else think that the " musicians" were attractive and then right when they started making mistakes their attractiveness went right down the drain

How a non musician spots an oopsie: the “musicians” look more like they are focusing on looking good than on their music.

Sometimes the actual artists are not appealing to the public eyes, therefore they hire actors/actresses to perform the visual job. (In China)

Adoro seus vídeos, especialmente quando tem legenda em português, amo muito o canal de vocês.❤️🎻

0:04 WHAT!!!!!...... AW *YOU SWEARING*

Brett: "You have to look at your instrument and clean it!" Me looking at my violin: Oh no

When China held the Olympic games in 2008, there already was a case where the little girl on stage sang a song which was actually sang by a "less cute" little girl behind the scene with a better voice. Soo .....

EDITOR SAN IS AMAZING SHE DIDNT DELETE THE FIRST PART LMAOOOOLO

TwoSet: "Yes guys. Instruments are weapons." Me: **Laughs in Woozi from Seventeen**

This is why I want to be a professional in an instrument just to shout oOpSiE at every single mistake I see

They are definitely playing to a backing track... The giveaway: none of the instruments have microphones / pickups.

when i watch your videos ads pop up and they are the same violin ad that pops up EVERY SINGLE TIME i watch you guys-

the first violinist (ju jingyi) in this video actually studied the violin in university or something like that so I was very surprised that her bow hold was so... well....

The girl playing the pipa knows how to play it REALLY WELL. She's kyulkyung from pristin, she's played it a couple times in others show. You can search it up of you want😌

I must be a professional trianglist because I have no fine tuners.

Thank you guys for putting portuguese captions. I'm Brazilian and I just want to say thank you for inspiring me for practicing the piano. I love music and I'm learning so much with you. Congratilations.

Imagine being brave enough to perform on an instrument in front of mase amounts of people without actually knowing how to w play it

Pro violinists: we only need one fine tuner Pro cellists: ha, we still get to use all 4 Beginner bassists: suckers, we do don’t need any

i swear i learn more on this channel than in school

Brett starts to show off his skills at 9:08

Just love how Brett pulls up his hoodie when an oopsie occurs!😂

You know, celebrities are now gonna develop phobias over performing instruments live out of fear of being roasted by these two

This is what happens in China, because they don't want any mistakes in the piece, so they just put the backtrack on(btw, violins in this case were just for show, just to let people know that its possible to combine traditional instruments with western instruments). I live in China and have seen sooooooo many people do this, well, the band is playing whatever they play, but there is a backtrack that is playing throughout the whole concert and btw 90% of the audience don't even know about that much about the performed instruments, sooooooo yeah!!! There are still real performances in China but most are fake backtracks unless their solo's.

The editor makes their videos so funny. Respect to the editor !

Every time Brett says "Oopsie" and tightens his hoodie, it kills me!🤣

nobody : eddy and brett : oOOOOOOPSIEEEEEEEE

Jieqiong (girl in the thumbnail) actually can play tho. You can look it up, there's lots of videos

I don't know anything about music, but their enthusiasm is contagious. Just subscribed and totally binging their channel!

TwoSet is very tolerant from a detective POV. It's first time I learn the term "rosin-caked" !

I've played one gig where "fake playing," or whatever it's called, was an actual requirement to even get the gig. It stinks, but sometimes becomes a balance of publicity vs. "real live playing..." It was many years ago when I was in a band at the time, but I didn't know that fake playing was an agreement they had made for the finale festival performance until the day of the gig. They basically don't plug you into the sound system, and blast a pre-recorded track really loudly. I definitely was playing along and all, but you could barely hear what I was actually playing over the recorded track. The whole thing is annoying and makes you feel like a prop instead of a musician lol... Sometimes the musicians can control whether or not they fake-play in a performance, but there are many times (especially high-profile-like stuff like this) where the decision is out of their control unless they turn the gig down. I've heard violinists sometimes fake it by wiping the rosin off their bow. Playing with no rosin would drive me absolutely nuts, but it might explain their really different bow techniques in the video.

Is nobody going to mention the COMPLETELY STRAIGHT PINKIES

This is very common, most performances like these on TV shows are pre recorded, even if they look live. However this is also the case for shows all over the world, like American idol etc..

I Love your videos !

The “performers” are just TV stars,and the “audience” are fake. I knew this cause I am a Chinese and I know that TV star ://////

Me before watching : what the hell is this? Me after : i love this two man

This whole video SCREAMS, SHOUTS and YELLS chaotic energy

It's interesting that you pointed out the instrument Guzheng (?) and that you liked it in the movie, the movie's called Kung fu hustle. And for a coincidence, the first clip of the live performance you viewed, was one of the pieces the guys played on the guzheng in the movie ;) It's my No.1 favorite movie by far and i'm stoked you like it too :D

Oh I didn’t know pros only had one fine tuner! Two set violin is educational! 👌

Now I really want them to judge like Henry’s violin skills

That first Oopsie is actually a double Oopsie too, because you hear that she's playing one tone up. But what you See is her playing the fourth Finger on the d-string and then an empty a-string. So technically she's playing the same Note.

I love u guys, u re awesome 😎❤️ I love Brett's laugh😂😂 And the editions❤️😂 #always

FACT AND STORYTIME!!! one can fake violin concerts if the violin has a new and fully unrosined bow. That will make very quiet sounds but not enough for the audience to even hear it. Also, a little story. I was in a runway show for aventi and we had people do the same. this included saxophones, trumpets, and violins. Me being a violinist, it was absolutely embarrassing to me that I was in a show with fake violinists, THEY DIDNT EVEN TEACH THEM THE FINGERS. Basically they were new violin with new bows without rosin and they fingered the music they would be faking over and over. But the thing I hated the most was: if they wanted to play a high note off the scale of just the basic 4 fingers on the e string, THEY WOULD ONLY FINGER FOUR FINGERS ON THE BASIC SCALE, ON TOP OF THAT, THEIR FINGERS WOULD BE TOO SHARP OR FLAT. Since I was doing a walk on stage, I had to try not to look at these fake violinists and cringe while walking. At least you guys don't need to experience the nightmare up close.

Moments of Brett making weird noises 3:24 3:47 3:55 3:59 4:18 5:48 5:52 6:21 7:02 Im bored af

No matter where you go, opportunity always comes first to people who willing to pay for the whole show.

What happened here was they did multiple performances and then the audio and the video were added in, but from different performances. At least I think that's what this is.