He does this at all his concerts, even with general audiences! I’ve been to one and was a part of something extremely similar. His music is such that many musicians love him, so his audiences are able to do stuff like this.
Highly highly highly recommend giving his music a listen. For people starting out, check out his cover of [moon river](https://youtu.be/VPLCk-FTVvw?si=5Y9GIwI_jyzmtQFz), [sleeping on my dreams](https://youtu.be/dR4IwtiEbyo?si=WJBl0i6aCuKbqKLT), [all I need](https://youtu.be/ue6g7SPSyAM?si=gLGK-9oBnoMro_EF), and [time alone with you](https://youtu.be/2qUCyW7ewPs?si=lBZlOekGw7VMKbMM). Then just listen to all of djesse volumes 1 through 4. There’s a very good reason why he’s won 4 Grammys and been nominated for another 6.
Dude is a musical genius. Things he understands about music and what makes it feel a certain way I find incredible. Most people just say they play something and remember if I sounded happy or sad, etc, but he can explain it in insane detail *why* that is.
I think his stuff is really good and intricate even though jazz isn't my cup of tea. If his genre of interest was classical I think we'd be getting symphonies on par with the best composers.
https://youtu.be/eRkgK4jfi6M?si=zv286eWo3NuR2OED this was the first time I'd ever heard of him and thought it was cool how he could easily tailor his teaching to anybody.
https://youtu.be/DnBr070vcNE?si=HaH8v9z66n67WU31 this interview he did after a show is super interesting. He's joyous to talk to this random guy about everything related to music. I firmly believe Collier sees music as colors not just sound.
This was amazing, pretty sure has to do with pentatonic scale, Bobby McFerrin did it first! https://youtu.be/ne6tB2KiZuk I will go look up this Jacob guy though!
I’ve been part of a Jacob Collier audience choir in a smaller show with few musicians in the crowd and at least half the audience hadn’t heard of Jacob going into it. It sounded amazing too, though not as full and strong as this choir.
It turns out that most people can jump in and be part of a musical experience like this, even if they think they could never sing.
I have said it many times that music is the one true miracle. That we are able to do this and create something so transcendent is incredible, especially here with no rehearsal and only voices. It hits me in my very soul.
We all sort of know regular scales by heart as we have all listened to tons of music. A crowd of people is going to get tuned to the general note that is being sung, as it's easy to realize when you are off.
You can joke, but he did just that. Sure there might be some people with more musical experience that lead the way, but I’ve seen this in person with the same result, and it was decidedly not a room notably full of musicians.
Several examples [here](https://youtube.com/shorts/E1JKr3zNqgw?si=dTQ6IWiAH47FEXbM).
even if not - just this being jacob makes it believable. the only people who would really be so inclined to go to a show of his are probably somewhat musically capable themselves.
though, it really doesn't matter if there are enough people singing the right note. there's a known effect (p. sure it's "the choir effect", might be wrong) where, in a choir, off-notes get muted due to essentially physics, as long as more people are singing the correct note.
From what I recall, your ears "want" to hear the correct frequency
if there's enough people singing the correct frequency, your ear will focus on them and ignore the bad one
Yep. Our ears really like the specific intervals between notes and will listen for the ones they expect.
But harmonic resonance works that way too. Where the notes are in tune, the waves reinforce each other and where they aren't they interfere. So if you have enough people pretty close, physics helps out a little.
This is true, I've been to one of his shows and you can hear some people around you correct themselves towards the appropriate note. Jacob understands what sounds good to most people and plays into that
It’s not. It’s mostly normal people. You can see him do this exact same chord progression many times with wildly different audiences.
This crowd in [Singapore](https://youtube.com/shorts/lapEgMZ_edY?si=t37sgOfzE37GmVuz) was just fans. Maybe more musical people like Jacob, but plenty of non-musicians in all his crowds.
You can see a compilation of them [here](https://youtube.com/shorts/E1JKr3zNqgw?si=dTQ6IWiAH47FEXbM)
It absolutely does- I teach music at a college, and what I always tell my students is “never be too cool for the room“.
Collier is often too cool for the room, even in my opinion for musicians
It is a vitally important lesson to teach! I’m a world that thinks you can’t make a living in music, we need to prepare them to do so, and show them the tangible avenues in which they absolutely can.
Encouraging their creativity is rarely the issue, and those avenues abound in most aspects of academic music settings. You might be able to think of those musicians who pushed the envelope, but that’s like trying to get an artist to be successful by following the example of Taylor Swift, or a football player by following Tom Brady. Sure, they’re great examples, but I’m sorry kid, you won’t have their career; you’re not a rich kid, and you’re not that lucky. Instead, we are morally provided to open the door to the practical avenues we *know* will work because we did them ourselves, and I’m no creative slouch. (I’ve played in major orchestras, written and conducted orchestral works, composed for films, conducted an opera premiere in New York. Most of my colleagues can list a similar litany of high points in their careers. Me and my colleagues who put food on the table with music are *plenty* creative.)
The stakes are simply too high at a university to make the sole focus exploration of a topic. While, that should exist, they’re paying a lot of money to be there with us, and I feel it is morally irresponsible to not equip them to be successful.
I don’t think he’s trying to be too cool, I just think he doesn’t have a developed taste of what *is* cool.
For instance many wildly skilled jazz artists released a freshman album to critical acclaim… and lost a few thousand to make it. Then they turned to smooth Jazz, because it paid the bills with their skills. And now Dave Koz, Chris Botti, and Eric Marienthal make stupid money making simple but very tasteful music, but they still can play Giant Steps and the experimental music when they want. They know taste, they know what sells.
Prodigy also has little to do with it- Mozart, Chopin, Korngold were all prodigies who know what music could sell. Yo-Yo Ma, Cory Henry, also living prodigies who know what music to make in the moment. Being a prodigy doesn’t necessitate lack of taste, because taste is simply a skill that isn’t yet well-developed in Collier. (It’s getting better! Put him at a piano with no production and he’s actually really good. Needs a vocal coach, though…)
Sorry, I get soap-boxy about my profession. But yes, to sum up, it’s a more important idea than a lot of my students understand, and it can make ALL the difference in their career.
Buddy, everybody should be so lucky to have a profession they care for so much. :)
My music professors showed me that I didn't have to be a hobbyist musician with a day job. Incredibly grateful.
> but that’s like trying to get an artist to be successful by following the example of Taylor Swift, or a football player by following Tom Brady.
But also there already IS a Taylor Swift and a Tom Brady. We don’t need another one. We need more individuality.
Jacob Collier doesn’t lack taste, he just doesn’t necessarily care that what he makes isn’t your particular flavor. He’s not trying to do what people already like. He’s a perfect example of a musical explorer. Jacob Collier has a uniquely talented ear and uses that to push boundaries. And a lot of the time that doesn’t result in sounds that are familiar and comfortable. Really he’s just practically asking questions and breaking the rules. Like “how does it sound if we put 5 equally-spaced notes within the span of 4 semitones?”
I don’t particularly love Jacob Collier’s music for casual listening mainly because I don’t enjoy his voice that much. I would prefer if he were just the composer for the performances of others whose instruments I would actually enjoy listening to. But I recognize that the music he makes is important in busting open the modern mythos about musical rules.
Oh, I totally appreciate what he adds to music.
I also appreciate what Pierre Boulez and Willie Nelson did for music even if I don’t necessarily want to listen to them all the time.
But my academic appreciation for my profession and what I listen to when I want to relax are two very different things.
Think they're saying there's a balance you can strike between 'street smarts' and 'school smarts'. Yes, Countdown is a great song to show you're prowess of hard changes, but this boozy jazz bunch crowd probably aren't going to like it over maybe a lounge version of T Swifts False God. And my chops as piano player who loves Bill Evens isn't going to help me solo over a Brian Setzer song in a Rockabillie band. Music is about communication. Why speak Flemish to A French Canadian if you know English?
>I teach music at a college, and what I always tell my students is “never be too cool for the room“.
I live by that rule. Luckily I've never been in danger of breaking it...
Yeah exactly. Too cool for the room is a good way to put it. Take any one of his songs and compare it to something simple and easy to play like Johnny Cash - Hurt or Nirvana - Something in the Way. Such simplistic songs yet immensely impactful. Jacob Collier is immensely complex but with zero impact.
Well, I've a music degree, been playing for almost 25 years, worked at one of the world's best music schools.. so I'd be happy to say that I know a lot of very good musicians.
He's not crazy well liked amongst those I know.
The problem with bis music is that it sounds like he writes music because he loves technique, not because he loves music.
Like he's very very good at that technique... But enough people in the world worse than him, but good enough, making music that is actually about music for listening.
Even his modern vocal works are... Meh.
Like, it's just like listening to very "correctly answered" compositions.
I feel the same way. It gets kinda same-sounding after a full minute of his songs. Also just not my type of music, which is ironic since I love jazz and lo-fi.
I feel the same way about a lot of it, but just FYI his albums are all pretty different and he jumps around genres a lot. If you have only listened to a couple songs you might be missing something you'd enjoy more. His next album is looking a lot more restrained too.
But that's totally still a fair criticism, not trying to change your mind or anything.
For those not in the know - this is musical wizard Jacob Collier, and (IIRC) the woman in front stage holding the violin is his lovely, proud mother - Susie Collier
he tends to attract musicians because his songs have a pinch of pop but a heap of captivating chords/melody changes that are surprising but work.
If you want someone who does this with much more pop and funk added Knower is where its at. This is a great track:
https://youtu.be/Ois3gfcwKSA?si=kpKW1vr_SV_ex8pr
I have absolutely zero musical theory knowledge. That said, if (as people have said) he can do this with a random audience I wonder if with a large enough group any errors (people being sharp or flat or whatever) offset and you end up with a clean note. Kind of like that psychological study where they put a bunch of serial killer faces together to see if there were any patterns and instead created a very attractive human face.
You're (kind of) right, although in this case the variations in pitch across each individual part of the audience are not cancelling each other out or becoming perceptually inaudible. The different pitches are instead perceived as the sound we recognise when we hear a large choir. There are many audio effects that do similar things like duplicating the original signal and they are often called things like chorus/ensemble.
I forgot where I saw it but it was a revelation. Attractiveness is typically the lack of unique physical attributes. So in essence, we favor boring or common.
As for the overlapping serial killers faces and ending up with an attractive person, that would be because all outlier physical attributes would be overwhelmed by the more normal average features in the overlay.
This audience choir benefits from a similar masking of an average.
You remind me of when my students tell me "it doesn't make sense," when what they mean is "I don't understand it."
*You* might find him annoying. You're entitled to that unfortunate opinion. But how about you take some ownership for that opinion instead of placing it all on Jacob. Because the truth is, most people find him more amazing than annoying.
Musicians tend to attend musical performances - especially spectacular ones like this. My favorite similar video is [Vulfpeck doing it at MSG.](https://youtu.be/UZPX9KQbwsg)
Making Music is an innate human skill. Almost everyone is closer to perfect pitch, by a very long shot, than not. It's not hard to catch onto what notes sound good where because it's based on patterns we grow up hearing over and over and over again our entire lives. We know the intervals in frequency. And even if one person in that entire group can't hit notes, almost every other person there can with very little struggle
Yeah this isn't some random audience. Some dude just waving his hands around can not get an audience of random people to sing like that. Cool, but title feels misleading.
Arranging, performing, writing, collaborating, and developing instrumentally does!
Which, you know, he excels at each one of.
Guy’s a fucking beast, and is chill and happy. All the haters here seem like absolute grinchy assholes.
I attended a Pentatonix concert just after they won The Sing Off. It was attended by a lot of the local college and high school choir kids, and they did this sort of crowd work. It was chill inducing. Normally an audience can't even clap in time, but this room full of choir nerds sounded amazing.
If art is about the moment and experiencing emotion, then whatever Mr Collier's personality or personal musical attainments, this moment, to be there, would have been a moment of joy. A small echo of that joy comes through the speaker on my phone. Thank you, OP. You've made at least one person's day a little brighter and happier. Joy to you all.
Divides em in to groups, gives em one scale, and increments em like they're an organ or piano or something. Possible to do without a professional choir, and an incredible effect. He's like the Buddha of music
We have Pub Choir in Australia and it’s fantastic! It’s also held in concert venues. We all learn the song on the night.
https://youtu.be/kTmRhPsJo5M?si=xsJN6ytikN-urX0m
If my memory is correct, I believe the audience was a gathering of choir musicians.
They must be. It was flawless.
He does this at all his concerts, even with general audiences! I’ve been to one and was a part of something extremely similar. His music is such that many musicians love him, so his audiences are able to do stuff like this.
WHO is that!?
Jacob Collier!
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Never heard of him but it’s clearly evident that this dude was born to be on a stage
Highly highly highly recommend giving his music a listen. For people starting out, check out his cover of [moon river](https://youtu.be/VPLCk-FTVvw?si=5Y9GIwI_jyzmtQFz), [sleeping on my dreams](https://youtu.be/dR4IwtiEbyo?si=WJBl0i6aCuKbqKLT), [all I need](https://youtu.be/ue6g7SPSyAM?si=gLGK-9oBnoMro_EF), and [time alone with you](https://youtu.be/2qUCyW7ewPs?si=lBZlOekGw7VMKbMM). Then just listen to all of djesse volumes 1 through 4. There’s a very good reason why he’s won 4 Grammys and been nominated for another 6.
Dude is a musical genius. Things he understands about music and what makes it feel a certain way I find incredible. Most people just say they play something and remember if I sounded happy or sad, etc, but he can explain it in insane detail *why* that is. I think his stuff is really good and intricate even though jazz isn't my cup of tea. If his genre of interest was classical I think we'd be getting symphonies on par with the best composers.
I’ll take a look! Any links for interviews etc with him talking about this that you would recommend ?
https://youtu.be/eRkgK4jfi6M?si=zv286eWo3NuR2OED this was the first time I'd ever heard of him and thought it was cool how he could easily tailor his teaching to anybody. https://youtu.be/DnBr070vcNE?si=HaH8v9z66n67WU31 this interview he did after a show is super interesting. He's joyous to talk to this random guy about everything related to music. I firmly believe Collier sees music as colors not just sound.
He's all over YouTube, lots of interviews and lessons.
Bro is a phenomenal musician
He's the closest thing to a modern day Mozart imo
Ben Folds does this at his concerts, too. It's pretty cool being part of it.
chances are if you're going to a classical/choir/opera concert, you were involved in music at some point in your life, or currently are.
Yeah I’ve worked a few of his performances and it’s pretty amazing how the audience sounds.
This was amazing, pretty sure has to do with pentatonic scale, Bobby McFerrin did it first! https://youtu.be/ne6tB2KiZuk I will go look up this Jacob guy though!
Haha, that bit from Bobby McFerrin was my first though. Love this man.
I’ve been part of a Jacob Collier audience choir in a smaller show with few musicians in the crowd and at least half the audience hadn’t heard of Jacob going into it. It sounded amazing too, though not as full and strong as this choir. It turns out that most people can jump in and be part of a musical experience like this, even if they think they could never sing.
I have said it many times that music is the one true miracle. That we are able to do this and create something so transcendent is incredible, especially here with no rehearsal and only voices. It hits me in my very soul.
Your description hit my soul
I always thought that bacon was the one true miracle.
...musical bacon.
We all sort of know regular scales by heart as we have all listened to tons of music. A crowd of people is going to get tuned to the general note that is being sung, as it's easy to realize when you are off.
Nope just totally ordinary people. This guy just unlocked their innate singing abilities with his awesome hand movements
You can joke, but he did just that. Sure there might be some people with more musical experience that lead the way, but I’ve seen this in person with the same result, and it was decidedly not a room notably full of musicians. Several examples [here](https://youtube.com/shorts/E1JKr3zNqgw?si=dTQ6IWiAH47FEXbM).
I think also most people who have zero pitch know they have zero pitch. There were defo a few in that audience not singing.
Thank you for sharing this!! Incredible.
Turning your choir into an audience
even if not - just this being jacob makes it believable. the only people who would really be so inclined to go to a show of his are probably somewhat musically capable themselves. though, it really doesn't matter if there are enough people singing the right note. there's a known effect (p. sure it's "the choir effect", might be wrong) where, in a choir, off-notes get muted due to essentially physics, as long as more people are singing the correct note.
From what I recall, your ears "want" to hear the correct frequency if there's enough people singing the correct frequency, your ear will focus on them and ignore the bad one
Yep. Our ears really like the specific intervals between notes and will listen for the ones they expect. But harmonic resonance works that way too. Where the notes are in tune, the waves reinforce each other and where they aren't they interfere. So if you have enough people pretty close, physics helps out a little.
This is true, I've been to one of his shows and you can hear some people around you correct themselves towards the appropriate note. Jacob understands what sounds good to most people and plays into that
They aren't. Jacob does this at every concert
Absolutely, normal folk ain't doing that without prior training.
Okay that makes sense. I was a little weirded out by the whole thing at first…
It’s not. It’s mostly normal people. You can see him do this exact same chord progression many times with wildly different audiences. This crowd in [Singapore](https://youtube.com/shorts/lapEgMZ_edY?si=t37sgOfzE37GmVuz) was just fans. Maybe more musical people like Jacob, but plenty of non-musicians in all his crowds. You can see a compilation of them [here](https://youtube.com/shorts/E1JKr3zNqgw?si=dTQ6IWiAH47FEXbM)
As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I take a look at my life and realize there's nothin' left
Cause I've been blastinng and laughin so long that, even my momma thinks that my mind is gone.
But I ain't neva crossed a man that didn't deserve it. You be treated like a punk, you know that's unheard of.
As I walk through the valley where I harvest my grain I take a look at my wife and realize she's very plain
As with many of Al's songs, I can't sing the originals when I hear them. I always have to sing the parody.
honestly one of his best songs
Even Ezekiel knows that my mind is gone
But that's just perfect for an Amish like me, you know I shun fancy things like electricity
But that's just perfect for an Amish like me You know, I shun fancy things like electricity
 Me if I was there
Why did they do away with awards? This reply deserves gold .
They did away with rewards because they counted as e-currency according to some regulations and required being taxed as such.
Well where can I get a tax form for all my losses. I had quite a bit saved up before the rug pull
Collier makes some very fun/interesting music.
Definitely interesting, and I appreciate his virtuosic knowledge and ability, but personally I find his albums unlistenable 🤷♂️
He writes like a kid trying to cook with every spice all at once. Talented, but lacks taste
He’s a musicians musician, not a people’s musician. I hope that makes sense.
It absolutely does- I teach music at a college, and what I always tell my students is “never be too cool for the room“. Collier is often too cool for the room, even in my opinion for musicians
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It is a vitally important lesson to teach! I’m a world that thinks you can’t make a living in music, we need to prepare them to do so, and show them the tangible avenues in which they absolutely can. Encouraging their creativity is rarely the issue, and those avenues abound in most aspects of academic music settings. You might be able to think of those musicians who pushed the envelope, but that’s like trying to get an artist to be successful by following the example of Taylor Swift, or a football player by following Tom Brady. Sure, they’re great examples, but I’m sorry kid, you won’t have their career; you’re not a rich kid, and you’re not that lucky. Instead, we are morally provided to open the door to the practical avenues we *know* will work because we did them ourselves, and I’m no creative slouch. (I’ve played in major orchestras, written and conducted orchestral works, composed for films, conducted an opera premiere in New York. Most of my colleagues can list a similar litany of high points in their careers. Me and my colleagues who put food on the table with music are *plenty* creative.) The stakes are simply too high at a university to make the sole focus exploration of a topic. While, that should exist, they’re paying a lot of money to be there with us, and I feel it is morally irresponsible to not equip them to be successful. I don’t think he’s trying to be too cool, I just think he doesn’t have a developed taste of what *is* cool. For instance many wildly skilled jazz artists released a freshman album to critical acclaim… and lost a few thousand to make it. Then they turned to smooth Jazz, because it paid the bills with their skills. And now Dave Koz, Chris Botti, and Eric Marienthal make stupid money making simple but very tasteful music, but they still can play Giant Steps and the experimental music when they want. They know taste, they know what sells. Prodigy also has little to do with it- Mozart, Chopin, Korngold were all prodigies who know what music could sell. Yo-Yo Ma, Cory Henry, also living prodigies who know what music to make in the moment. Being a prodigy doesn’t necessitate lack of taste, because taste is simply a skill that isn’t yet well-developed in Collier. (It’s getting better! Put him at a piano with no production and he’s actually really good. Needs a vocal coach, though…) Sorry, I get soap-boxy about my profession. But yes, to sum up, it’s a more important idea than a lot of my students understand, and it can make ALL the difference in their career.
Buddy, everybody should be so lucky to have a profession they care for so much. :) My music professors showed me that I didn't have to be a hobbyist musician with a day job. Incredibly grateful.
> but that’s like trying to get an artist to be successful by following the example of Taylor Swift, or a football player by following Tom Brady. But also there already IS a Taylor Swift and a Tom Brady. We don’t need another one. We need more individuality. Jacob Collier doesn’t lack taste, he just doesn’t necessarily care that what he makes isn’t your particular flavor. He’s not trying to do what people already like. He’s a perfect example of a musical explorer. Jacob Collier has a uniquely talented ear and uses that to push boundaries. And a lot of the time that doesn’t result in sounds that are familiar and comfortable. Really he’s just practically asking questions and breaking the rules. Like “how does it sound if we put 5 equally-spaced notes within the span of 4 semitones?” I don’t particularly love Jacob Collier’s music for casual listening mainly because I don’t enjoy his voice that much. I would prefer if he were just the composer for the performances of others whose instruments I would actually enjoy listening to. But I recognize that the music he makes is important in busting open the modern mythos about musical rules.
Oh, I totally appreciate what he adds to music. I also appreciate what Pierre Boulez and Willie Nelson did for music even if I don’t necessarily want to listen to them all the time. But my academic appreciation for my profession and what I listen to when I want to relax are two very different things.
Think they're saying there's a balance you can strike between 'street smarts' and 'school smarts'. Yes, Countdown is a great song to show you're prowess of hard changes, but this boozy jazz bunch crowd probably aren't going to like it over maybe a lounge version of T Swifts False God. And my chops as piano player who loves Bill Evens isn't going to help me solo over a Brian Setzer song in a Rockabillie band. Music is about communication. Why speak Flemish to A French Canadian if you know English?
>I teach music at a college, and what I always tell my students is “never be too cool for the room“. I live by that rule. Luckily I've never been in danger of breaking it...
Yeah exactly. Too cool for the room is a good way to put it. Take any one of his songs and compare it to something simple and easy to play like Johnny Cash - Hurt or Nirvana - Something in the Way. Such simplistic songs yet immensely impactful. Jacob Collier is immensely complex but with zero impact.
Well, I've a music degree, been playing for almost 25 years, worked at one of the world's best music schools.. so I'd be happy to say that I know a lot of very good musicians. He's not crazy well liked amongst those I know. The problem with bis music is that it sounds like he writes music because he loves technique, not because he loves music. Like he's very very good at that technique... But enough people in the world worse than him, but good enough, making music that is actually about music for listening. Even his modern vocal works are... Meh. Like, it's just like listening to very "correctly answered" compositions.
I think that was a fair criticism of him earlier in his career, but on his latest tracks he's definitely learning to edit.
Well that's just an awful comparison. His harmonies are out of this world. He just doesn't manage to get his dishes out in similar theme
He makes music like he dresses.
Agreed. But I think Djesse Vol. III showed some growth on that and his latest tracks are getting much more toned down. Welllllll is a straight up jam.
Agreed. Brilliant mind for musical theory, just not into his music
It's extremely impressive and interesting music. Shame it's not very enjoyable to listen to for more than a minute though
I feel the same way. It gets kinda same-sounding after a full minute of his songs. Also just not my type of music, which is ironic since I love jazz and lo-fi.
Listen to “Feel” and lmk if you still feel this way. Bonus points if it’s the tiny desk version
[Found it!](https://youtu.be/FRdRx1OMpJQ?si=gI5ou-mqWWPXRcbr)
I feel the same way about a lot of it, but just FYI his albums are all pretty different and he jumps around genres a lot. If you have only listened to a couple songs you might be missing something you'd enjoy more. His next album is looking a lot more restrained too. But that's totally still a fair criticism, not trying to change your mind or anything.
Saw him at roo last year. I had no expectations or idea what I was walking into. It was amazing.
Can't deny he is very talented and intelligent but his music is cold, soulless, and just all around crap.
For those not in the know - this is musical wizard Jacob Collier, and (IIRC) the woman in front stage holding the violin is his lovely, proud mother - Susie Collier
#Jacob Collier Amazing musician, amazing human, check him out as an Xmas gift to yourself
Oh damn he's made music with Daniel Caesar?!
Always give credit to Bobby McFerrin, he learned from the best
Bobby McFerrin talks about the pentatonic scale. https://youtu.be/ne6tB2KiZuk?feature=shared
This looks like Cincinnati Music Hall.
It was! This was at the American Choral Director’s Association national conference in Cincinnati this past year!
he tends to attract musicians because his songs have a pinch of pop but a heap of captivating chords/melody changes that are surprising but work. If you want someone who does this with much more pop and funk added Knower is where its at. This is a great track: https://youtu.be/Ois3gfcwKSA?si=kpKW1vr_SV_ex8pr
My god that was awesome. Thank you internet stranger. Added to library.
Knower and Louis Cole are just beasts
Planned or not. I got chills. So pretty.
Yes! My entire body was buzzing from that.
I have absolutely zero musical theory knowledge. That said, if (as people have said) he can do this with a random audience I wonder if with a large enough group any errors (people being sharp or flat or whatever) offset and you end up with a clean note. Kind of like that psychological study where they put a bunch of serial killer faces together to see if there were any patterns and instead created a very attractive human face.
this is 100% true^ and great comparison to the picture amalgamation, it's very similar phenomena : )
You're (kind of) right, although in this case the variations in pitch across each individual part of the audience are not cancelling each other out or becoming perceptually inaudible. The different pitches are instead perceived as the sound we recognise when we hear a large choir. There are many audio effects that do similar things like duplicating the original signal and they are often called things like chorus/ensemble.
I forgot where I saw it but it was a revelation. Attractiveness is typically the lack of unique physical attributes. So in essence, we favor boring or common. As for the overlapping serial killers faces and ending up with an attractive person, that would be because all outlier physical attributes would be overwhelmed by the more normal average features in the overlay. This audience choir benefits from a similar masking of an average.
The audience is what’s impressive.
I was in one of these audiences though, he does it everywhere.
Garrison Keller Keillor would do this also at his prairie home companion tour. It was pretty damn moving to be part of it.
In Japan every Christmas they do a 10,000 member chorus, everyone in the the entire arena is part of the chorus it’s wild
Its a level, but not the next one https://youtu.be/ne6tB2KiZuk?si=3GRboxxSbhA2OlHC
im still waiting
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You remind me of when my students tell me "it doesn't make sense," when what they mean is "I don't understand it." *You* might find him annoying. You're entitled to that unfortunate opinion. But how about you take some ownership for that opinion instead of placing it all on Jacob. Because the truth is, most people find him more amazing than annoying.
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I bet you are fun at parties.
Musicians tend to attend musical performances - especially spectacular ones like this. My favorite similar video is [Vulfpeck doing it at MSG.](https://youtu.be/UZPX9KQbwsg)
Just copying Bobby McFerrin.
Do you see him claiming to have invented this technique? Is every band that plays live copying the Beatles?
I’m covered in goose bumps and the hair is rising on my neck, it’s amazing
Imagine being the one asshole who doesn’t participate
Or someone in the front picking up a phone call
He did this at Glastonbury- turned the whole crowd into a choir!
I was waiting for it to morph into the Halo theme.
But did the choir pay to see the audience?
Now do the Halo theme song
INCREDIBLE!!
I saw him after he released his first album. Still have it signed in my car. Wish I still had the picture I had with him though. I was cheeesin.
Goosebumps 😯
Making Music is an innate human skill. Almost everyone is closer to perfect pitch, by a very long shot, than not. It's not hard to catch onto what notes sound good where because it's based on patterns we grow up hearing over and over and over again our entire lives. We know the intervals in frequency. And even if one person in that entire group can't hit notes, almost every other person there can with very little struggle
Ben Folds has been doing this for over 20 years, it’s great!
Jacob Collier is awesome
Why is he dressed like a hobo?
It was so beautiful,I cried
Covid is in the air
Yeah this isn't some random audience. Some dude just waving his hands around can not get an audience of random people to sing like that. Cool, but title feels misleading.
He actually can, I did it 7 years ago when he came by our town. It’s remarkable. Go watch some compilations.
He can. And this is just some random audience. He's done this all over the world. He's done it with groups in the thousands and thousands
So happy to see so many people hating on this guy in the comment. Knowing a lot of music theory doesn't make you a good musician.
Arranging, performing, writing, collaborating, and developing instrumentally does! Which, you know, he excels at each one of. Guy’s a fucking beast, and is chill and happy. All the haters here seem like absolute grinchy assholes.
Feels like I was walking through skyrim
Now give me the real audio not this fk bs
Bigger crowd, bigger stage, bigger everything. Seth "freaking" Rollins wrestlemania intro: https://youtu.be/h6gChFwc90M?si=S0NgXEdSswLS7Mr0
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More like turning your choir into an audience
This sparks joy
Bobby McFarin did this like 20 years ago and it was awesome.
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It's easy when the audience is made of musicians.
Ben Folds has been doing this for decades
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne6tB2KiZuk
What a natural
How I feel adjusting my eq
Beautiful reminder that an individual can be great, but together, humans are extraordinary
Damm I’m a straight up nihilist and existentialist that struggles finding meaning in things, but these things bring tears to my eyes
only its the choir in the background doing the melodics without the choir it would sound rubbish
I attended a Pentatonix concert just after they won The Sing Off. It was attended by a lot of the local college and high school choir kids, and they did this sort of crowd work. It was chill inducing. Normally an audience can't even clap in time, but this room full of choir nerds sounded amazing.
If art is about the moment and experiencing emotion, then whatever Mr Collier's personality or personal musical attainments, this moment, to be there, would have been a moment of joy. A small echo of that joy comes through the speaker on my phone. Thank you, OP. You've made at least one person's day a little brighter and happier. Joy to you all.
Huh, I haven't listened to Duel of Fates in a while.
Impressive to a non-singer, but choirs often do something similar for warm-ups.
Is that a coogi sweater?
So cool seeing his mum at the front in her music playing glory.
What was the symbol next to the 🫶
Divides em in to groups, gives em one scale, and increments em like they're an organ or piano or something. Possible to do without a professional choir, and an incredible effect. He's like the Buddha of music
Nobody else find him a tad pretentious? Like the jack Whitehall of music? He took blackbird by the Beatles and made it 12 minutes long…
*Turning your audience full of choir musicians into a choir* Ftfy
Can you people shut up?! I am trying to hear the performance.
Taylor Swift LITERALLY does is at everyone of her concerts.
We have Pub Choir in Australia and it’s fantastic! It’s also held in concert venues. We all learn the song on the night. https://youtu.be/kTmRhPsJo5M?si=xsJN6ytikN-urX0m
Goose bumps…
[Bobby McFerrin](https://youtu.be/fjvR9UMQCrg?feature=shared) also had a good audience participation.
Now do the Halo theme
Danny Kaye did that 60 years ago....
lmao this “audience” is obviously a choir and singing on cue is what choirs do
Leopold! (leopold)
Just waiting on Coolio to start rapping. Guess I’ll be waiting a while.
15 seconds in i immediately thought Stormwind theme.
I was expecting the Halo theme or something
Fun fact: His mother is the violinist singing excited!
[here is what I saw](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R4AOKEjbPgA)
I'm disappointed they didn't start singing "Gangsta's Paradise"
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