I BREAK the “World’s Fastest Violinist” 🐝🔥

[@RayChenViolinist]

Hey, want to feel motivated and supported? Go practice on Tonic: tonicmusic.app/practice-now With over 70,000 practicers, it's the largest live practice community in the world 🌏

[@paulmcg8237]

Hi, Tonic is great idea, but found it to be very laggy. Just sayin'.

[@hamwhacker]

I think it was just a bit of fun on the electric violin! It’s different to an acoustic instrument. We should instead give credit for Ben from Fuse violin for getting on TV and blinging it large. I don’t think he takes himself too seriously and but rather performs to an audience for entertainment purposes. Whereas classical players are often boring. Not fair to take the piss out of him too much methinks! Electric violin is a thing and not many people succeed at crossover. I think the Fuse violin group was an exciting idea, hopefully still going. Not everyone’s cup of tea. Since then we have had Lindsey Stirling, and despite not being a top classical violinist I think she is a great entertainer and an amazing person has inspired more children to take up the violin. She isn’t Nicola Benedetti but both them are role models in a different way. Still enjoyed your video haha tho 😂

[@Crispy_nuggets]

Hiii you should review the Vov Dylan too

[@randylazer2894]

Ray...regarding the crazy goal setting....and your reference of breaking a leg and then trying to rehab by climbing Everest, well, I had to share. Although I had run 4 marathons, 21 years ago I had a massive heart attack, was dead for 2 minutes, brought back, and had double bypass surgery, where my sternum was broken. My marathon running buds visited me in the hospital, and I decided I wanted to run the marathon I was scheduled for, which was 3 months and 3 days after open heart surgery. When I got home, I couldn't make it up the stairs to my bedroom, even though I had climbed the highest mountains in the continental US. I had to let the grafts heal, and couldn't start running until 7 weeks before the marathon, but ran 26.2 miles with a broken sternum, which likely constitutes a perverse world record for running a marathon in the least amount of time from having a heart attack and open heart surgery. That crazy/insane goal literally saved my life, as it strengthened my heart. So I kind of get where Mr. Speedy is, but at least regarding the violin, maybe he should play a bit more accurately.

[@alessioandreoli2145]

Don't waste your talent on these guys! It is so much better when we can take the example from your playing ! It would be nice if you did tutorials for intermediate players ( I am only a beginner 😢). Thanks Ray, you are a violin's magician

[@kawaiidays2528]

From what I've seen on his Instagram ( I found it somehow XD) he has now moved on from the "fastest violinist" phase and is now a producer who writes music for video games and stuff. He also joked about the embarrassing past and has the "if you can play it slowly you can play it quickly" merch. I swear this dude has one best redemption arcs E V E R

[@johnny_eth]

I think back then he was in a relationship where the girl was encouraging him or pushing him to do all those stupid challenges and participating in their band. Whether that relationship was healthy or not, I can't tell.

[@ineedfood11]

Character development

[@dragomon2]

Always nice to see people have redemption arcs, also really nice to see him use the embarrassing moment as a way to turn around and help improve his career (assuming he has from your comment). Thanks for the info!

[@keengaaaaaaaa]

plssss what's his ig name? if you want to share ofc

[@L3_cHat]

That’s the best character development ever

[@HarryTOHMagik]

Two set: roasting, insulting, mad with no hesitation Ray: trying to be polite, not trying to start any drama

[@frédéricchopinFan.9479]

True 😂

[@celli_ec._.]

Ray is basically the third member of Twoset. He HAS to be. And he has even picked up some of Twosets savageness towards Ben Lee.

[@windswar]

Well, considering the good amount of videos they have made together, in a way, he already is (ok, excluding the girls of course :)

[@OnDasherOnDancer]

Therefore: Brett, Eddy and Ray = Threeset Violin!

[@jacobtapianieto9655]

Plus Hilary Hahn - FourSet Violin.

[@Tapiocamelon]

@@jacobtapianieto9655 It'd be an awesome string quartet

[@NickNCC-kr8ug]

3 set

[@johnny_eth]

Ben Lee's interpretation should be called Flight of the Mosquito, because his electric violin massacring the piece sounds exactly like a mosquito that wants to bite you when you are trying to fall asleep.

[@sreenidhibanda]

This cracked me up 😂

[@AndySaenz]

Lmao 🤣

[@ynot5478]

You definitely play it faster and more precisely but in such a way as to show us that speed isn’t everything (which we knew but it is good to have confirmation). Thanks for articulating the frustration we all feel over the original video.

[@Dajlec]

"Speed is nothing without control." ~ Bruce Lee

[@nathanaelcheong9870]

unlike the other lee

[@sabrinai]

I'm two minutes in and I can already tell that this is the unnicest Ray has been so far.

[@katyb2793]

I know right? 😢 Please bring back Angel Ray 😇

[@TonyKimtheamusementparkfan]

I know but for a reason he’s a world class violinist who’s played for 30 years and has every right to criticize where he feels it’s necessary.

[@jameskhan8573]

The "there 's no limit to stupidity" had me laughing so hard. Ray was nice to everyone else, but Ben Lee was the one who pushed him. 🤣🤣🤣

[@chrisma3256]

Obviously. Surprise surprise, he's a human being after all.

[@sparklingmagnolia]

Ben’s version: a bumblebee trying to run a race while being confused and having a seizure Ray’s version: the bumblebee has been training for years, is in perfect health and has a map😂

[@Geoplanetjane]

Running away from the systemic nicotinoids

[@sabrinai]

Wow, Ray has never said "terrible" before. At least, Ben Lee broke one record.

[@reneaevans5358]

Underrated comment

[@MartaPedersen4749]

When Ray's playing this piece in Ben Lee's style it sounds more like a drunk bumblebee. But respect, he can play it slowly and quickly

[@jaschenski]

... and with plenty of Wow!s along the way

[@user-ur4nl6dq2x]

If Ray doesn't use the word "Sacrilegious" multiple times in this video...then he will have brought great shame upon Brett and Eddie 😂

[@SentientDoorknob]

Great shame is calling him Eddie 😂

[@TwoSetViolinEdits]

@@SentientDoorknobFr

[@kitchen-knife-1]

Oooooh I think I saw an interview at some point where an interviewer commented on Ben Lee and asked how David felt having his record broken. His response was something along the lines of "It's okay, because I know I played every note". LOL

[@OviaThamilmani]

BAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA THATS HILARIOUS

[@lukesspeedruns]

I just found Ray's channel and am I the only one who thinks it's kinda crazy that a literal world-class violinist is making a video with memes in it and doesn't ever show how ridiculously good he is

[@hojowojo]

no i agree with you too

[@chrisma3256]

Ray is versatile. I actually unfollowed for a bit when content got too ridiculous for my liking and these days he posted lots of great stuff, too. Karolina Protsenko shared her master class with him, you'd probably enjoy that a lot. The memes are still fun. I love how Ray is playful and nice and emotional. Like he said this is likely the harshest video he shared so far. If you start on this you might not get the right impression. I found Ray via TwoSet violin but unfollowed them long ago as a matter of personal preference. Tons of people seem to like that sort of content.

[@jeremyh9033]

To his credit, he did successfully make it sound like an actual flight of a bumblebee...

[@gimbulr.7624]

More like dying bumble bee 😅

[@maxlee5714]

Ray's editor is just insanely good and funny, had to say it at some point. Great work! :D

[@kc83948]

Burst out laughing when emotional damage pops up🤣🤣🤣

[@Mr_Lyric]

Its amazing how nice ray is, twoset were literally seething over this

[@hamzerpanzer]

Their thing is more entertainment than really analysing the video

[@Mr_Lyric]

@@hamzerpanzerTrue

[@cheukheiauyeung2975]

Finally have a look Ray Chen’s reaction of sacrilegious boy😝 hope Ray Chen can react Roman Kim’s Eine Klein Paganini version😂

[@aarokajas]

Ok, idk why Ray doesn't have like a million subscribers or more just like twoset, bc THIS IS A MASTER PIECE.

[@kd3684]

People like imperfection, they can relate to. Ray's (excellent) videos remind you that you are a 'failure' - far away from him. TSV ('we are the failures') videos encourage you, that you still can reach your dream. (As they did.)

[@TwoSetViolinEdits]

Twoset is actually more relatable and funny-Hence why they’re more popular, even to non-musicians.

[@anonymousl5150]

@@e2pii213 Ray has been posting like a youtuber for a while. I don't think he is doing this for fun, he's definitely considering some kind of career change or a significant side job. Too bad almost all his videos are cringe.

[@PAVELKOULIKOV]

@@anonymousl5150I don’t think he is considering a career change or anything. He is a successful world class violinist respected by everybody. Has traveled all over the world, played with the best orchestras, made lots of money, has many fans, etc etc What can KZbin give him that he has not achieved yet? He does this for fun. People like him do this because they want to, not because they need it.

[@anonymousl5150]

@@PAVELKOULIKOV many concert artists don't like the touring life, they want something easier with less travelling.

[@SwegMastah]

Ray does an incredible job at attempting to speedrun bumblebee, it even sounds relatively good!

[@flexprog3374]

The final result is ridiculous in the best way. If the talent show guy does some sort of uneasy dying mosquito noise, the slurred version from Chen is so perfect that it actually sounds like a real insect flying, and it is also BEAUTIFUL.

[@salmongaming6753]

As an active Tonic user, I can confirm that Ben would've been so much better if he had Tonic

[@chrisma3256]

Probably. When I think of how many times a practiced publicly it's still lucky if you find someone to give you proper feedback. I did a few times. Anyways, the community is very encouraging and nice. In terms of encouragrment Tonic can't be put into one video with this...

[@chrisma3256]

Seeing Ray like that I thought the making of the app has so much in common with that bumblebee... "if you can produce it in decent quality, you can also just put it there and have users find all the bugs". It's free though, so I really appreciate all the effort and commitment ❤

[@crystalgaming12]

4:26 “it doesn’t sound like a bumblebee flying it sounds like a cicada dying” killed me And “if you can be sacrilegious slowly, you can be sacrilegious quickly”

[@MelodiTina]

I’m ready to watch this with roasted marshmallows and popcorn 🍿

[@estudandoviolaracm762]

hahahaha the diploma "The Fastest Mendelssohn Player" in the world got me hahaha. Ray you are the BEST a very polished and funny guy And of course talented

[@salionshatterstar]

I loved the slurred version! Flight of the Fruitfly.

[@MacheteTalkStudios]

I often forget through watching his youtube videos that Ray Chen is a Legendary Violinist in the 21st century

[@iwatchtoomuchtwoset]

9:29 I love editor-chan 😂🤣

[@neko-chan6145]

The explanation at the end was great about how the piece was destroyed. As a non-musician this was insightful.

[@josephzepeda7608]

The emotional damage cameo was the cherry on top

[@RoyalMusic24K]

The dying Slurs at the end got Me dying,😂😂😂😂😂

[@johnnytiong8947]

The video is PTSD all over again. I think it sounded more like flight of the mosquito.

[@Anime-sy2tw]

If you want an example of great fast violin playing, check out Reinhard Goebel & Musica Antiqua Köln version of the Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, last movement. It is much faster compared to other recordings, but incredibly crisp and musical.

[@universeborn]

Ray looks like he's trying so hard to restrain himself from trashing the guy HAHAHAHHAHA

[@Martina_.]

With all the practising you must have done, I would have never guessed there would be space and time left to develop such a lovely and entertaining personality. You are a jewel, really :)

[@whatever9554]

Interviewer: *struggles to ask respectful questions* Also Interviewer: If I say go, will you go?" Violin guy: "Absolutely!" *Prepares to play* Me, watching: You know 🤔... I think he was actually asking if you'd leave.

[@Doro-m1s]

This comment is sooo underrated😂😂😂

[@sabrinai]

1:44 Ray's "hrhrhrhrhr" is giving me life.

[@oongaboongagang]

Alternative title: Ray being savage for 11 minutes😂 2:47 Love his laugh here omg!!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@jennathomas1354]

i’ve always thought of the bumblebee as a fast paced piece, but speeding it up to that degree kinda kills it. at least ray’s version was recognizable and fully in tune

[@ttesc9253]

ray doing it slurred sounds like me during the 16th note section in orchestra

[@Lookatthisguy0017]

Ray slowly losing his mind and i liking it 😂

[@jnee3873]

TwoSet: moto perpputo, always moving, but u forgo to mv ur lft hand fingers OOOOOOOOOOOAOAOAOOAOAAHAHHHHHH. TwoSet reacts 😂😂😂😂😂

[@selenuntius]

I see why you might've decided to come back and make this video. I think talking about what was being lost by pushing speed (and demonstrating it yourself!) does adds something to the conversation though!

[@mccafferyfamily]

Would be interesting to see how a classical violinist goes learning a Stéphane Grappelli solo off a recording they've not listened to before. I don't think it would be too tough for you, but interesting to hear how well you can replicate the unfamiliar style ...

[@lucaspiano]

I want you to please see a video from Caroline Campbell! She's amazing and plays along Andrea Bocelli. She is really virtuoso and plays really well - of course, Hilary Hahn is all my life favorite but I do enjoy Caroline Campbell as well... hehee and new violinists today like Esther Abrami, Anastasiia Mazurok, Anastasia Petryshak, Chloe Trevor, Mairead Nesbitt (Celtic Woman fiddle), Rusanda Panfili (Hans Zimmer's violinist), etc... they are amazing and tour a lot... I tried to learn some violin - I'm a pianist/keyboardist but violin is hard hhaaha intonation sucks! lol

[@map-reduce]

When you went to 245 your arm looked so incredibly tense, you were definitely right to question if it was healthy!

[@samsoliva]

How ... sacrilegious. Now you need to play Bach's Chaconne on an electric violin, as a treat.

[@GinaArch]

11:00 "there is not limits to stupidity" 👏🏻

[@ArwinvanArum]

Actually with the slurred version, I think if the composer had pushed through on the idea that would have been the best representation of a bumblebee perhaps!

[@Jaiden-m3d]

11:00 CLASSIC STEVEN HE!!! I LOVE IT 😆

[@apoi__7607]

I'm an electric violinist and classical violinist, and for me using my electric to play classical pieces is absolutely sacrilegious

[@vboitchenko]

I'm obsessed with this Ray Roasts everyone Era!

[@Sofiablount]

Twoset also broke the record while reviewing him 😂 the ULTIMATE roast.

[@aaronkarsenti6801]

Bros using one of the best and most expensive violin in the world to destroy an absolute masterpiece that’s wild

[@BakedTomato123]

Please do Roman Kim's compositions as your next challenge, his soloist version of Eine Kleine Nachtmusik for example, or his Air in G transcription, or his Beethoven's 5th Symphony

[@RosyOutlook17]

Yeah man! That guy is amazing and I’d love to see Ray do it!

[@yvonnasun]

"I've never seen such dedication to......... playing so offensively." "Am I proud of myself? Not really" I'm dead lol

[@weitze7]

The most hilarious aspect of Lee’s playing is that he seems to have no idea just how bad it sounds - and the way he talks about it just makes it even worse 🤣😂🤣

[@hozepheena]

As Twoset said back then, this was the violin equivalent of mumble rap.

[@netcodeerror9420]

Anyone else feel like Ray is in his villain arc right now?

[@kimchikin94minmin]

More like on his Based arc.

[@JarofFood]

1:03 EXACTLY its like breaking ur legs and saying “I will exercise by attempting to fly by moving my legs! 😊”

[@kaymill5565]

Your reaction videos are hilarious and endearing at the same time.

[@RaethFennec]

It's a great example of how caught up in things people can get, and it can drive them to the point of absurdity, becoming ridicule-worthy. It's always healthy to take a step back, welcome a little healthy criticism, get an outside perspective and have a laugh at ourselves. Do what makes you happy! But try to not get obsessed with numbers or competition. Bring it all back home and down to Earth now and then. Also, good luck with improving Tonic! I tried it, but it always just lagged, crashed and there were no features. If it just had some stability and quality of life like a built-in instrument tuner, I could justify using it still.

[@dustyroom]

This is how you get famous: play flight of the bumblebee, be a sac religious boy, get roasted on national tv, buy an overly priced 5 string electric violin/viola and smile like you’re watching concrete dry. VIOLA (voila) you are getting reviewed by every single musician and calling you sac religious but it doesn’t matter ‘cause you’re famous. you’re welcome

[@oxmrtz]

Ray killing it as always

[@Dilsli]

I don't like negativity. You're always a positive person with a positive influence. This violinist did something stupid, but he already paid a huge price for it.

[@regentsaquariums5692]

10:25 At that moment I felt like a thousand bees just stung me! 😂🤣😂🤣

[@robiihart7531]

that "there`s no limit to stupidity" coming from a world class performer that roasted your playing, is just a career ending comment

[@Lily-jd2dp]

But I love most your gorgeous interpretation dear Ray!!

[@CeciliaTan]

hahaha when we heard you practicing this piece on TOnic last year I didn't dream this was where it would end up! Far more entertaining that it had any right to be, Ray :D

[@SneakyNinja345]

That bee was not flying... it was getting its wings ripped off while drowning.

[@rikspector]

Ray, The guy has a gimmick, the danger is people who take him seriously. Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing, to quote Shakespeare. You are filled sounds of beauty, signifying everything. I'm still gritting my teeth, I can't help its ,,,the SCREEECHHH factor. Cheers, Rik Spector

[@annescholten9313]

Love this video. You ARE the real deal.❤

[@myyummychannel6866]

Not Ray SHREDDING on the violin compared to “Mr world record Bumblebee man”😂😂😂😭😭😭

[@susannekalejaiye4351]

I keep wondering what bumblebees would respond. Probably something along the lines of that bee is sick, or avoid going wherever that bee went. Good reaction to the original speedster. Fascinating to watch you think through the how's and possible further accelerations.

[@arsenblackwell]

You got up, made yourself a coffee and remembered that guy. And you thought "I don't need that negativity in my life." You took a drink of coffee and recorded this video XD

[@peterbaxter8151]

I played the violin in a band for a while and was used to being asked to play flight of the Bumblebee. My usual response was that I would do them a bigger favour by not playing it at all. This guy is proof of that opinion.

[@perronsam7224]

Keep the editor you have right now, I like the editing of these videos ahaha

[@marcellinoevancheung7145]

"But this one is 10 million"

[@Genshin_addict-e4n]

bro [ben] having so much fun he forgot to smile

[@probag8414]

That fastest Mendelssohn gag was freaking hilarious

[@Genshin_addict-e4n]

Normal people: "I hurt myself, I should rest" Ben: "f*** this s***, I'm doing a world record: The world record: sounds like a broken record

[@surylisaa1631]

"Why are we doing this?!" Yes Ray sir, WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?!?! 🤣🤣😭

[@jacobtapianieto9655]

Petition for Ray to watch the other "Fastest violinist in the world". Even more sacrilegious!

[@matrix14021503]

6:48 "when instead of flight of the bumblebee you play flight of the mosquito nearby your ear" he was just playing different piece

[@schuschuschoell]

6:48 😂 hes added a drum part in the background

[@crystalgaming12]

10:44 the mosquito in my room:

[@CharliexBond]

You're hilarious, Ray lol it's the face expressions for me.

[@volatilefish3908]

"what like a Stradivarius?" 🔥🔥🔥

[@marrowofdoom4733]

The only reason I own an electric violin is to practice quietly late at night without waking up my neighbours.

[@rqlk]

I’m not one to make comments on one’s personality or skills, but imagine a tiny shack with a big tv inside that shows a picture of a mansion, then a ton of diamonds glued to the shack. That’s Ben Lee’s violin. What type of person would want a violin like that? I know who.

[@jamiejohnlui5430]

4:31 you know you killed ray when he lets out the Chinese wa~~~

[@aleisha5445]

"There's no limit to stupidity" So slay

[@Anime-sy2tw]

"The Flight of the Bumblebee" is not by Paganini. He had been dead for 150 years when it was written.

[@DocRen]

10:40 HAHAHA I'm imagining DRUNK BEES HAHAHAHHA

[@thoma_sita]

The world’s fastest violinist really needs an audience.

[@valentinaembers5713]

The pun yes 😂😂 But an audience is really only needed if Ray is the fastest, not Ben

[@AngelTing]

It’s even more interesting to see Ray’s facial expressions as he reacts to the video 😂

[@laurencez6966]

NO WAY BRO IS PROUD OF HIMSELF BY PLAYING IT FAST

[@ouzododeka]

That eye twitch at 1:11 had me rolling