Level 1: Guessing Level 8: Guessing with some skill

Level 1: Not counting ... Level 8: Not counting

Level -2, Opera singer: don't count and just come in whenever you feel cause the orchestra has to follow you anyways

In high school, we did homework during 40 bar rests. Those were the days. Thanks for the laughter!

“The conductor said he’ll give a cue...” Aka the biggest lie in history

When two musicians sitting next to each other are both thinking that they can follow their desky 😂

Level 9: memorising the entire piece so you know when you should come in after other instruments. Just a tip from an oboe player

Level 12 - Become a horn player. I once had 101 bars of rest. I've totally forgotten the piece of music, but I remember that 101 bars of rest

Eddy: “The orchestra is not a child’s playground. IT’S A BATTLE FIELD.” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Level 17: It doesn’t matter. Nobody’s counting at the same pace. The cellos are hitting each other. The flute is on a solo. The clarinet is crying. The conductor is napping. Chaos reigns

1. Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2 Mvt 2 I think? 2+3: Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 Mvt 3 4: Mahler Symphony No. 1 Mvt 3 5+6: Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 Mvt 3 7. Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2 Mvt 3 8. Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2 Mvt 2

Level 9: Knowing how the whole piece goes, and being familiar with how the music sounds leading up to each entry, so you can start back up without a cue, independent of any mistakes from other sections, independent of the conductor forgetting a cue, just based on knowledge of the overall piece relative to your own part.

Being a percussionist was basically "enjoy some music, and every 10 mins or so hit a drum really loud"

Level 9: Composing your own music and messing up the entrance anyways

0:52 why is no one talking about how cleanly they played that, it’s in Db which is literally one of the worst keys on violin

Me, as a singer in a non-classical band. "Okay, I start singing again after the lead guitar does that tiloulouliloulou thingie". Next rehearsal, lead guitar doesn't play the same way. Me : Pikachu face. Guess I'll have to count ^^'

Sacrilegious level: if you can count slowly, you can count quickly.

"The conductor said he'll give a cue" a.k.a. the biggest lie in history

I remember middle school and high school band as a percussionist, when we all developed unspoken courtesies and habits like counting with our fingers so our section mates could see and listening for bars six and seven, because those were the easiest to hear when the wind players in front of us counted out loud. I miss grade school percussion.

As a horn player, I laughed at the "waiting for other players of the same instrument" thing 😂 if only we could do that. That would be so nice 😭

me internally: *knows that i have to start playing after the trumpets do that doodidooty thing*

"The orchestra is not a child's playground, it's a battlefield." This should be a merch design

I did a mix of just actually counting, using my expirence, and listening for instrument cues. 99% of the time I never came in the wrong time, and 100% of the time I did, I'd fix myself with one measure, because I actually listened to the music and can tell when I'm off. Just counting and listening is probably the best things you can do to stay in your spot. Also, NEVER trust your conducter for cues, they'll either do it or won't, and it can fluctuate in the same day. Some of my band mates learned that the hard way

Eddy's evil grin like "Some musicians just wanna watch the world burn..."

What’s the level for “You’ve heard this shit so often that you just know based on the music” Cause after constant 3 hr practices, you just know what it sounds like

level 8: it's like when you fall asleep on the bus, but somehow wake up right before your stop.

Professional orchestra musicians apparently actually sometimes make notes such as "bathroom break" or "fast cup of coffee". This obviously mainly goes for the brass section, not those string instruments that constantly have to play

3:05 **drops shoulder rest**

Cool bro

“The orchestra is not a child’s playground. It’s a battle field” Me, a beginning orchestra cello player: aight imma head out.

Level 4 is so accurate.🤣🤣🤣 When I count, I always have a feeling that something ain’t right, so I start to think with Kira level of intelligence to see if I counted right😂 But most of the time I wait for the music cue to come in, it’s far more reliable😂 Sincerely, a violinist

Me, a violist, can confirm that we are not as evil as you think we are. We are just a bunch of introverts who secretly play in the background to enhance the music.

When everybody is hoping that the director is counting but he's actually waiting for the violas to cue him.

When you thought there wouldn’t be a viola joke. TwoSet: *BOOM!*

4:07 It's even easier when you've heard the piece at least once before and just remember when your instrument's parts come in relative to the other instruments. Then, you don't even need to count when to "come in." :P

level 0: people like me who can't even count with a metronome.

You forgot LingLing level: when the music waits for you to come in

“Orchestra is not a children’s playground, it’s a battlefield.” -Eddy

Level children's choir: knowing the entire piece by heart anyway because you had to practice it for 200 hours until the kids could remember how it works.

“The orchestra is not a child’s playground, it’s a battlefield” oof😂

As a viola I find this very insulting. You way underestimated how much we mess up.

Percussionist: *laughs in 40 measure wait*

I’m a combination of 4 and 8. Usually I start counting in my head, then lose count, get distracted or indeed realize I started counting wrong/at the end of a note in the middle of a bar, instead of at the beginning of the first full bar of a rest. Then I just count on my intuition and hearing the rest of the orchestra to know when I need to start again. Bass Clarinet gang. ✌🏼

The orchestra I was in only had me as the percussionist. I couldn't wait for other players to start playing. Some pieces would have something like 128 measures of rest for me. Depending on the piece, I've used several of these techniques. Whether it was the conductor giving me a cue, or waiting for a violin solo to end, I employed many different ways to remember when to come in.

One of my favourite junior orchestra moments: We were all struggling with the timing of a particular section of the music. Finally, the conductor stops us and says, "Alright, as you play it this time, EVERYONE is going to count out loud." It started soft, with people just quietly counting, "One, two, three, four." And then us cellists decided to count a little louder, to drown out the violists. Who counted a little louder in retaliation. Which inspired the first and second violinists to count even louder. By the end of the piece, you couldn't hear the music over the sounds of 45 kids screaming, "ONE TWO THREE FOUR!" We got the timing exactly right, the conductor declared the cellists the winner in our unofficial competition, and I excused myself because I had been yelling so loud that I had killed my throat.

level 9: memorizing everyone else's part so you creepily know precisely *when* it's your time to shine.

The counting mentally one is a big mood and is why I get lost so frequently. "Wait, did I start counting when I stopped playing or when the actual first measure of rest started? Do I need to adjust my counting? Where tf am I?"

Then there’s the level where you can walk out during tacet, get a sandwich, play a couple games of smash bros, take a nap, call your distant relative, laugh at viola jokes and binge watch TwoSetViolin and come back exactly when you’re supposed to come in As a percussionist in concert band I can tell you the back of the percussion section 60% of the time of the time are reading or on their phones, 30% of the time are napping and the other 10 percent of the time actually playing or counting But hey we practice after school so we always know when to come in

then there’s like knowing the piece so well because you’ve played this show a million times and you can walk out and have a sandwich and come back in the right spot.

Level Percussion: Rest all you want, if you miss that one single note you have, no one will notice or care.

Having played trumpet in a symphonic orchestra years ago... I remeber that one piano concerto (I think it was Beethoven) and we had like 400 (four hundred) bars rest. The conductor (who also was our trumpet teacher) was like "no you don't need to count those, I will give you the cue" Save to say it never came (at least in rehearsals) even though he said he wrote it down, highlighted it and drew exclamation marks into the score. He finally managed on the day of the concert.

Lol i was in band in highschool and was playing a rather interesting part as the clatinet part i was playing in the piece was actually keeping tempo for the entire piece...the band directors and I however had a falling out during marching season because i can not march per doctor's orders -ever- unless i want to shatter my ankle...well because of the falling out i wound up not being in for the marching competitions and the entire band fell apart...although i had known because of the others telling me, the band directors had no idea, that the entire band was listening for my part while they were playing/waiting to play so they knew when to come in and when to stop, as wether we were in concert or on the field i was more or less in a centralized location, and with the octave of my part i wound up being easy for everyone to hear...when i had left i did suggest for another clarinet player to be set to practice the part and take my place, but apparently the band directors did not listen to my suggestion...the band lost the competition because of no one being able to be on time...it was a cacophony of noise by the end of the performance. 😂

As a percussionist, I can confirm that waiting for X instrument to come in is the only way of doing it without going completely insane

As a trumpet player, _laughs in literally 100 measures of rest_

Oh, this takes me back. I really like that you used a different piece for every level! An old bebop guy once told me that the most important part of music is listening: to the other players (all of them), but especially to the silences between the notes. If you're together, you KNOW you're together... if you don't, don't panic, you might be close enough. But if you hadn't been chatting with your friend, maybe you WOULD know...

Level accordion: nobody cares if you don't play because you have to play the same as the piano

Bass Clarinet: **Laughs in 120 consecutive measures of rest**

Eddy's smirking, hoodie-wearing violist doppelganger simply MUST be a recurring character from now on!!!

The real problem is when you are a soloist

This is the video that made me what to follow your journey! I love to check in every now and then. And realize how far you have become! Proud of you all!

Pitfall of level 4: when you count 40 bars of rest, only for the conductor to cut off right before you play

I don’t like the fact that this is all me.

The way I, and my entire class(it was a school orchestra) was taught was to listen. The teacher, instead of conducting normally, taught us by having us listen to him playing piano and learning when to pick up with him. We all learned to not count, but listen for the correct time. I guess its a combination of the listening for musical queues and experience since it required both, we weren't going based on one of those alone.

I’m a flute player and I FEEL level four. That intense math while counting, it feels so good to come in perfectly on time after screwing up

Twoset: music is not a competition Also twoset: the orchestra is a BATTLE FIELD Lol

1:10 We all know Brett wasn't tapping his foot to keep rhythm. He was really getting hyper from drinking too much bubble tea after daydreaming about it in rehearsal.

Brett: Taps foot loudly My family: Hey look you are included in there

Once I sang in a choir with a professional orchestra in a movie concert, and I had to count 50-100 measures of rest but I was stuck behind the bass drum and couldn't see the conductor, so I had no idea if I was counting in cut time or 4-4. Living on the edge with those entrances

Music featured: 1. Schubert unfinished symphony 2nd mvt 2. Tchaikovsky piano concerto 3rd mvt 3. Mahler symphony 1, 3rd mvt 4. Rachmaninov symphony 2, 2nd and 3rd mvts

Level 9: listen a few times before the concert and you know when to get in

As a pianist, I’m not used to having those long measures of rests… So the first time I played a real keyboard part in a musical, I started rehearsals always completely lost 😅 But by the end, of course I knew everything so well and how my part fit in with everyone else’s that I didn’t need to count anymore

4:25 they way they even adjust their violins in sync 💀💀💀💀💀😭😭😭

eddy found the chance to make use of the viola he bought for brett 🤣🤣

When you've had the music long enough you just know when to come in

i think ive been almost all of those at least once over the years and i love it

Loved it!

I usually memorize everyone else’s parts, so I know when to come in after them. It’s my own weird way of doing it

Level 8: when you've played/listened to the song so many times you already intuitively know when to come in without even counting *cough* *cough* Canon in D

everything of this is so relative which makes it 100x funnier

The foot thumping is especially great on stage where the sound is amplified by the hollow space beneath lol

Level 9: Become an eternal zen master of time by becoming a percussionist.

I always count professionally because i’m a percussionist

Level 4 - you are hilarious!!

Haha just really thank you for making these videos... ^^

4:36 when you thought they couldn’t possibly make a viola joke and end up making one

Eddy’s expressions are gold in this vid Imao I laughed at those the most

I love being able to just tell when it’s our part from the vibe of the song

I've actually stopped playing in an orchestra since 4 years (double bass). And I just got back right in the middle of it, with bigger feelings than when we were playing Tchaikovsky opening 1812... Especially as double bass players, counting is... All of our orchestra life. Thanks for having me back into it.

from a violist - "i may have missed my entry, bUT I'LL TAKE YOU FIRST VIOLINISTS DOWN WITH ME" I WHEEZED THAT'S SO ACCURATE FJIDOIOSDJFFOUHJDHUENJD

How about the one who counts by bobbing his/her head?

Simply piano: Gives piano ad to a harpist

Level 1:wing it ... Level 8: 10,000+ hours of winging it

"The orchestra is not a child's playground, its a BATTLEFIELD!" -Eddy 2019

Viola player here. Can confirm we will always endeavour to trip up the rest of the orchestra as payback for all of the jokes at our expense!

(2:10) Would it be easier to just count from 0 then? Like a computer :)

as an alto in a choir, I'm guilty of waiting for my director's cue or listen to other sections so I would just remember if the alto comes after what voice 😂

"How violins count" We percussionists are on a whole different scale

level: high trust waiting for the first chair to put up their instrument while they wait for the conductor to cue them in

I love how violas are shown as evil... they are completely correct

The level 4 inner monologue is such a mood