It’s Friday night! Party time!! Tonight I’m going to be watching a YouTube video, 21 Excuses for Not Practicing, by the YouTubers TwoSetViolin. Their names are Eddy and Brett and they play violin (duh). They do a lot of different videos from reacting to how television portrays violinists and musicians in general to sightreading really hard pieces of music. For those of you who don’t know what sightreading is, it’s when a musician plays a piece of music for the first time with out even seeing it before.
Basically what happens is that there is rapid fire of different excuses that people use to excuse not practicing. “My best friend’s brother’s girlfriend’s cat died.” I think this is funny because a lot of the time people do use these excuses to get out of practicing and they don’t realize that they are so unbelievable. I also like how fast it was, it gave you time to laugh but it also didn’t drag on for too long, which I think is important because you could lose your audience if you drag a joke on forever.
I think that almost everybody would find this funny. Especially my band director because I’m sure he’s heard these so many times. I think that people who don’t necisarally know music or have some understanding would like this. I mean it’s basically like 21 reasons not to do your homework but for music students.
Wanna check out the vid? Here’s the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqC4qJJdjQc
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