Rising violinist Chloe Chua takes Scott Yoo through her practice routine, and then shows him how to do TwoSet Violin’s Ling Ling workout.
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In Singapore again, I wanted to know about Chloe's practice routine.
So, Chloe, how much do you practice every day, if I may ask that personal question.
It actually depends on that day because if I'm less free, Ill practice less.
But if I'm free for the whole day, Ill practice like 5 to 6 hours.
Okay, so youre a big practicer.
Yeah, sort of.
And so what do you do in a practice session?
Um, I start off with the open string.
Like this.
♪♪ Yeah.
And then after that, the double string.
♪♪ Oh, that's a good idea, because it's hard.
Yeah, it is.
Okay.
After the finger exercise.
♪♪ Oh, okay.
♪♪ Then do the same thing, but it's separated.
♪♪ Nice.
Nice.
Okay, then, scales.
♪♪ I do, like, études or, like, caprices before I get ready.
Like Paganini?
Yeah.
- Okay.
Those are very hard.
- Yeah.
I saw you once on TwoSet Violin.
Tell me about what that was like.
It was so fun, actually, because once they say cut, I'm just there laughing, you know?
That's awesome.
It is.
What did you do for them, like, on their show?
I did the Ling Ling Workout.
So basically, Ling Ling is like a fictional character that plays a violin perfectly with no mistakes at all.
And it's 100% accurate and everything is just there.
Okay, so what kind of what kind of exercises do they make you do?
It's like invert the bow and play like, for example, Bruch, third movement.
♪♪ Let's see if I can do that.
♪♪ Oh, it's really hard.
It feels wrong.
Because the weight is like, at the top.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
And then what else?
And then the crazy one is invert the violin to this hand and the bow on that hand.
So play the play backwards.
Opposite, yeah.
Okay, let's see if we do that.
Okay.
Oh, my God.
This is totally ridiculous.
What do you want to play?
Twinkle?
Twinkle.
Right.
Start on A?
All right.
Ready?
♪♪ Well, that's... That's really, really awful.
Yeah.
Okay, here's a pop quiz for you.
Okay.
- So I know you're working on Mozart three because you're recording it.
Yeah, but you've also recorded Mozart five, right?
Yeah.
Last year.
Okay, so I'm going to be the orchestra for you, but I'm going to be terrible.
Okay?
Because what this is a test of is not whether you can play the Mozart violin concerto its a test of how well you know the orchestra part.
Yeah.
- So let's go.
Just start with Allegro aperto.
♪♪ Well, bravo.
You played nearly flawlessly and I played in the wrong key and I rushed and I dragged.
So you pass.
Thank you.
- Congratulations.
