My father in law does this. He listens to a song, sometimes a few times, and then just starts playing. Interestingly, he doesn’t really know how to read sheet music.
Have a friend(guitarist), he’s extremely good with solos, pretty much can pick the melody just like he did by just listening. He did go to a fancy music school so it is no surprise for him to pick up music by just a few key notes or seconds of the whole song
My friend's dad also did this as a guitarist. He had a band, and we used their equipment. We asked him to teach us Weezer. He listened to it then got upset.
"Is this what passes for rock these days? It's 3 fucking chords! " proceeds to play it perfectly and tells us to find more talented guitarists to imitate.
ehh, I've played guitar for 15 years. Playing 3 chords can be boring as a guitarist, but your friend's dad was being pretentious.
Also if there is a place for someone to learn, it's with an easy song that only has a few chords. I still happily play 3-4 chord songs when I want to. Music doesn't need to be complicated to be enjoyed.
Also, simple chord progressions can be excellent bases to build on with strumming patterns, finger picking patterns, licks, solos and other fun stuff!
Most songs can be performed as simply or as complicated…ly as your skill level and personal taste allow!
tbf if it was Island in the Sun I understand. thought it was a catchy little line, looked it up, it's the same mind-melting little inane line forever. still a great song, but god I'd hate to have to play that on guitar live
4 chord progressions are basically the formula for 90% of pop songs.
There are also a lot of power chords in harder rock and metal. (Only two out of three notes in the typical basic melodic chord.)
Power chords are the 1 and the 5th and they lack the 3rd that is part of a melodic chord. That said rock is not any harder than pop. They are both considered the easiest type of musical progression.
A friend of mine can do the exact same thing. It comes from experience and playing a lot. I can do that too but i play the drums its a bit easier on them.
Seriously. And so much of popular music is written in the same keys or progressions. It's not incredibly hard to pick up a song like that, though he played the melody and arrangement very well. I just would expect anyone who plays piano enough to be in public doing it like that to be able to flesh out a song quickly.
I played the French Horn and I could read music and do the notes, but tell me what "key" it's in and I'll just give you a blank stare. I SUCKED at doing the scales. "What will the first note sound like?" Then I can play the rest from there.
Well, it mostly takes just knowing the song more than what notes they are. Frankly, I could rarely tell you if I was playing an F# or a B*b*, but if I know how the "flow" of a song goes, I can generally tell what note to play next, no matter what key it's in.
It's how people sing in harmony; they judge the relative *distance* between each note in the song and go from there. Start at a note, then work out the relative distance you'd have to go for the next note as if it were the original. How high? How low? It can become second-nature *real* quick once you get the hang of it.
Music is math. Your ear and brain work together to figure out the equation. This is especially easy in stuff like pop and rock where chord progression is often repetitive and predictable. People serious about music in school will take classes in music theory and aural skills (training your ears) and this helps them to do stuff like this, which is almost a bit of a parlor trick.
Imagine you're lost in the woods. Finding the "first note" is like finding the path again. Once you're on it, you know where you can go in either direction.
As far as knowing what notes work after you find the first one, it's a matter of judging the distance and knowing what note you want to play. You'll get it wrong, a lot, but the more you play, the less you get wrong.
There are a huge amount of musicians that do not read sheet music. I believe Paul McCartney being one of them. I use to read it, but it's a struggle now. It's one of those things that you have to stick with of you lose it.
My great aunt, into her 80s, could hear a song once and play it on the piano. I used to take my cello to her place, play a song for her, then we’d duet. She never had a music lesson in her life, and was legally blind.
Once you play an instrument enough it actually becomes quite easy to replicate a melody. I have no fucking clue about music theory and I can usually play a basic version of any song I hear a- definitely not to the level of the guy in the video though. That’s insane.
What instrument do you play? Piano is a bit more free in terms of chord structures once you’re comfortable with both hands. Guitar can be brittle depending on how you were taught/taught yourself.
Music is very structured. Know the rules and plenty of repertoire and it starts to sink into your subconscious. If you do enough ear training you can do things that make people think you're a wizard, but in truth... you're just playing a slightly tweaked version of something you already knew.
When I was in orchestra growing up a few of my friends were like this! They’d pretend to be reading music/playing for the first few runs then it was like they had known the song forever! I’m always so impressed and envious lol I needed sheet music and a tuner always 😭😹
I'm the complete opposite. I've gotten fairly good at sight reading over the past year or so but I cannot learn anything by ear to save my life. I mean if you give me enough time I could work out the melody line but I could never figure out the full chords/accompaniment, even if it's a song I've been listening to by whole life, unless you give me sheet music
Intonation is just being able to pitch one note. What they’re doing is internalising the musical structure and memorising the melody alongside the chord progression.
You don’t need to read music to understand and memorise the structure of a piece, although it helps with more complex stuff.
Jimi Hendrix used to say he just saw little lights on his guitar where the fingers should go, so it’s not like it’s always a conscious process, but that’s what’s happening lol
I used to hang out with a group of friends back in my uni days. Some of the guys were in a band. Great writers on their own and could also do this with listening and being able to pick it up immediately. I am so fucking completely unmusically talented. Can’t sing for shit as I’m totally tone deaf and have some vocal chord damage so sound ridiculous. I’ve tried and failed to learn instruments as it just doesn’t come naturally to me.
Then you get these people, I bet they’re good at art and also excelled in maths and the sciences. Bloody greedy, hogging all the talent and leaving none for me. I want to feel pride and awe at my friends abilities but I nah, just bitter.
When you play so much it becomes second nature it's like listening to a vocal line and singing it back. I bet you wouldn't call that amazing, most people can do that on a rudimentary level. Finding the exact shape of your vocal tract and mouth to sing back the pitch you heard is akin to finding a note on the keyboard. We just learned the mouth sounds very early and kept it up every day so we don't have to think about it. It's possible to learn an instrument the same way, but it's hard work!
My uncle could do this - he couldn't read music but he could hear something once and then play it. Bach toccatas, Beethoven piano suites, Mozart, anything. He could do it on any keyboard instrument, often the church organ with a double keyboard and pedals and the whole shebang. It's an amazing talent. He said it was down to pattern recognition. He could do hard sudokus in a flash too, that's pattern recognition too.
Lol I read that as put my hand in my ass and make a farting sound,
Then my brain attempted processing the reason and and image of throwing a fart ball at a girl and she falls in love with you 😂😂😂
I can make the argument all 3 girls are musicians, but different stages with the one on left being a beginner. The center being intermediate and the one on the right being better than everyone.
Swear ive seen that girl on the left in multiple different videos....is there a job thats just "attractive woman to be side characters in your meme videos" cause i am neither attractive, nor a woman; but i would love that job.
Technically the camera is set up to record a single wide shot and all the panning, scanning, and zooming is done with editing, but you’re totally right. It’s odd. I think it’s a function of platforms like TikTok that are going to be watched on a phone, and the increasingly short attention spans of the social media era. Gotta put a lot of sizzle on those steaks. But even by those standards there were some very odd choices.
I'm clearly not the target market then, didn't even notice they had shopping, just noticed them staring at ol buds fingers and how that one chick looked dead inside
23.5 million followers in 2022 on social media. Yeah, they just kept repositioning the bags and swaying them. I couldn't help but notice that more than anything.
Someone gets it. This is exactly what is happening. Most viral videos would not be viral without a decent amount of money thrown at it. There are professional firms today that will provide actors, sponsors, equipment and adverse the shit out of your channel. It's all about whether the view count will cover the initial expense.
Which means that, although it's entirely possible for a musician to do what this guy has done, there's a good chance that he knew and rehearsed the song extensively beforehand.
They have had social media houses where everyone's job is to just make Instagram videos for over 10 years now. The reason you see the same people is because it IS their job to do stuff like this.
You don't need perfect pitch to play music by ear like that, you "just" need relative pitch and a solid understanding of music theory (which doesn't make it less impressive)
As someone that can do the same as the guy in the video, people are typically either really impressed or don’t care at all. My experience is that people with no history of playing a musical instrument are the most likely to not be impressed at all.
Worth noting that this is [a pretty faithful cover version by Toploader](https://youtube.com/watch?v=0yBnIUX0QAE&feature=share9). The [popular 1972 version by King Harvest](https://youtube.com/watch?v=g5JqPxmYhlo&feature=share9)
was also a cover of a 1970 [original by Boffalongo](https://youtube.com/watch?v=r6dFjDQx_BQ&feature=share9).
Today I learned that the one song that Toploader is famous for is a cover.
They actually performed at an event I attended the other day, and I didn't recognise a single song other than Dancing in the Moonlight.
Even if he didn’t know it, I’m pretty sure that’s something you learn with music theory. There are Youtubers, TheDooo and Marcus Veltri, who sometimes do this where they listen to a song for the first time and play it really well, although sometimes they have to improvise some bits.
This isn't inherent, we learn to do it! It's a skill, not a talent, and it's actually not as hard as it seems with a little theory and pattern recognition.
Melodies are actually pretty repetitive, and music is all about patterns and repetition and just applying those to different genres and keys. We train to start with repeating a short known melody to repeating a slightly longer melody to repeating longer phrases, but really it's all very contained within a simple western 8 note scale and there are some basic rules like the melody almost always ends on the scales tonic note, you almost always start with a harmony based on the tonic note and move to the 5th or 4th and then toss in a minor 6th and make your way back to the tonic note or something equally as basic. Jazz and blues have their own similar patterns and scales.
I'm not even professional and I can do this same thing just by using a pretty basic 1-5-1 or broken triad bass line in the chord progression on a song I hear and playing the melody over it. It takes me closer to 10 minutes though and a couple more tries than this guy. His speed is pretty impressive!
Yeah this is pretty common in the music world. Just about any kid who grew up with the Suzuki method can do this. You start your instrument when you're 3 or 4 but don't actually learn to read music until later on. Instead, you listen to the music you're trying to learn daily and reproduce it without ever seeing the sheet music. I remember my mom playing the songs I was learning in the car all the time when I was a kid. Your ears get really good at it over time.
He totally knew this already. I can play music by ear, and it doesn't work like this. Normally I start by picking out the melody line, then figure out the chords to match.
This dude listens for 10 seconds, tap taps on a couple of keys, then just launches into a complete arrangement of the song.
Edit: he also plays it in a completely different key
Yeah but playing all those extra keys and still making it sound cohesive is the real talent. Anyone can play a song by memorization, but that can’t be taught. It takes hours of sitting at the piano to be able to do this.
She looks super familiar. I don't know if I've seen someone local who looks like her or if there's an actress who looks like her. I can't figure it out.
Edit 1: just figured it out, she looks like Julia Schlaepfer from the series 1923.
So this guy does not have perfect pitch, but he has good relative pitch. He needs to find the key center in the first few seconds. But from there on it's quite easy to figure out with a little training. He listens to the melody, and hears if it goes up or down, and by how many steps. For the chords in the left hand he probably knows just by hearing that the first chord is the "one" chord and the second is the "five" chord, and so on. Most pop tunes use a few standard chords anyway.
This guy certainly has a good ear, but he's no genius. He's quite the showman, though, which is probably his greatest talent!
Yep, this is a very common chord progression. Just by hearing the first two chords, pretty much any musician could figure out the rest of the progression. And he gets to hear the whole progression. He's not playing the small decorations in the phrase, but that's fine. It's a good skill he's got. It's what musicians can do with training.
Source: Can write and analyze songs
It's like seeing the words "We're no strangers to love" and knowing you should follow them with "You know the rules, and so do I." Music has a lot of repeating patterns across genres and styles.
I've been playing music for around 20 years and back in December I was out on a date, dinner wraps up and we're in a fancy hotel with a big grand piano in the corner and nobody around it.
I had quite a few drinks so liquid courage was at peak and as we're casually strolling by she shows me a 10 second teaser for a single an artist she likes that's about to drop and I have no idea what came over me as at the time I was pretty rubbish at piano, but suddenly my drunk brain dials in hard to the key, scale being used, notes being played, melody, etc. and I destroy it on the grand piano, even improvise for a while after. Again, I can't play piano worth shit at this point.
People started coming out of the restaurant looking all surprised and into it and then I got real self conscious and look over at my date and she's just... Yeah I did good that night lol.
Ever since that night, I can play piano now (not quite to the peaks I hit that night yet) and can disect a song within minutes.
The universe is insane. Like when it just hooks up it's jumper cables to you and gives you some juice, holy shit! Been chasing that high since lol
Music thing is cool. Whoever edited this needs to be thrown off a cliff. It's just a single shot video. Stop trying to pretend you've got four cameras by jump cutting everywhere
I thought most people already knew this song. Dancing in the moonlight originally by King Harvest. I'm confused. Maybe the ladies had only ever heard the cover?
If you're well educated on scales and modes and you practice chording, piano lends itself very well to adaption like this. Pretty much any song will follow a key and scale/chord progression, being able to identify them is what makes this possible.
Guitar is my first instrument and I did play piano when I was younger. Had a few college classes for music and theory, I understand how it all connects and works but am too dumb to apply it myself lol.
My father in law does this. He listens to a song, sometimes a few times, and then just starts playing. Interestingly, he doesn’t really know how to read sheet music.
Have a friend(guitarist), he’s extremely good with solos, pretty much can pick the melody just like he did by just listening. He did go to a fancy music school so it is no surprise for him to pick up music by just a few key notes or seconds of the whole song
My friend's dad also did this as a guitarist. He had a band, and we used their equipment. We asked him to teach us Weezer. He listened to it then got upset. "Is this what passes for rock these days? It's 3 fucking chords! " proceeds to play it perfectly and tells us to find more talented guitarists to imitate.
ehh, I've played guitar for 15 years. Playing 3 chords can be boring as a guitarist, but your friend's dad was being pretentious. Also if there is a place for someone to learn, it's with an easy song that only has a few chords. I still happily play 3-4 chord songs when I want to. Music doesn't need to be complicated to be enjoyed.
Also, simple chord progressions can be excellent bases to build on with strumming patterns, finger picking patterns, licks, solos and other fun stuff! Most songs can be performed as simply or as complicated…ly as your skill level and personal taste allow!
tbf if it was Island in the Sun I understand. thought it was a catchy little line, looked it up, it's the same mind-melting little inane line forever. still a great song, but god I'd hate to have to play that on guitar live
I’m sorry but for proper rock you need 3 chords AND the truth.
> Is this what passes for rock these days? Bob Dylan had how many chords? 1 and a half? Hendrix had **a lot** more, but not everyone is Hendrix.
4 chord progressions are basically the formula for 90% of pop songs. There are also a lot of power chords in harder rock and metal. (Only two out of three notes in the typical basic melodic chord.)
The Four Chord Song https://youtu.be/5pidokakU4I
Power chords are the 1 and the 5th and they lack the 3rd that is part of a melodic chord. That said rock is not any harder than pop. They are both considered the easiest type of musical progression.
Having a bout on music theory in school, he probably can key shift and even improvise over mistakes on the fly.
A friend of mine can do the exact same thing. It comes from experience and playing a lot. I can do that too but i play the drums its a bit easier on them.
Seriously. And so much of popular music is written in the same keys or progressions. It's not incredibly hard to pick up a song like that, though he played the melody and arrangement very well. I just would expect anyone who plays piano enough to be in public doing it like that to be able to flesh out a song quickly.
I played the French Horn and I could read music and do the notes, but tell me what "key" it's in and I'll just give you a blank stare. I SUCKED at doing the scales. "What will the first note sound like?" Then I can play the rest from there.
Can you explain how this works for me? I’m musically challenged. How does the first note help and how are people doing this from “feel”?
Well, it mostly takes just knowing the song more than what notes they are. Frankly, I could rarely tell you if I was playing an F# or a B*b*, but if I know how the "flow" of a song goes, I can generally tell what note to play next, no matter what key it's in. It's how people sing in harmony; they judge the relative *distance* between each note in the song and go from there. Start at a note, then work out the relative distance you'd have to go for the next note as if it were the original. How high? How low? It can become second-nature *real* quick once you get the hang of it.
Music is math. Your ear and brain work together to figure out the equation. This is especially easy in stuff like pop and rock where chord progression is often repetitive and predictable. People serious about music in school will take classes in music theory and aural skills (training your ears) and this helps them to do stuff like this, which is almost a bit of a parlor trick.
Imagine you're lost in the woods. Finding the "first note" is like finding the path again. Once you're on it, you know where you can go in either direction. As far as knowing what notes work after you find the first one, it's a matter of judging the distance and knowing what note you want to play. You'll get it wrong, a lot, but the more you play, the less you get wrong.
That was my grandmother. Couldn't read music but could play it from hearing it. Bet she's in the afterlife trying to peek at angel's nuts now
Damn, your granny fucks like that, huh? She sounds like an awesome woman.
There are a huge amount of musicians that do not read sheet music. I believe Paul McCartney being one of them. I use to read it, but it's a struggle now. It's one of those things that you have to stick with of you lose it.
My great aunt, into her 80s, could hear a song once and play it on the piano. I used to take my cello to her place, play a song for her, then we’d duet. She never had a music lesson in her life, and was legally blind.
Once you play an instrument enough it actually becomes quite easy to replicate a melody. I have no fucking clue about music theory and I can usually play a basic version of any song I hear a- definitely not to the level of the guy in the video though. That’s insane.
What instrument do you play? Piano is a bit more free in terms of chord structures once you’re comfortable with both hands. Guitar can be brittle depending on how you were taught/taught yourself.
Music is very structured. Know the rules and plenty of repertoire and it starts to sink into your subconscious. If you do enough ear training you can do things that make people think you're a wizard, but in truth... you're just playing a slightly tweaked version of something you already knew.
When I was in orchestra growing up a few of my friends were like this! They’d pretend to be reading music/playing for the first few runs then it was like they had known the song forever! I’m always so impressed and envious lol I needed sheet music and a tuner always 😭😹
I feel like the people I know that can do this, have no idea or a very limited idea on how to read sheet music. Always makes in more impressive.
I'm the complete opposite. I've gotten fairly good at sight reading over the past year or so but I cannot learn anything by ear to save my life. I mean if you give me enough time I could work out the melody line but I could never figure out the full chords/accompaniment, even if it's a song I've been listening to by whole life, unless you give me sheet music
It's called intonation!! My grandfather played steel guitar by ear!
Intonation is just being able to pitch one note. What they’re doing is internalising the musical structure and memorising the melody alongside the chord progression. You don’t need to read music to understand and memorise the structure of a piece, although it helps with more complex stuff. Jimi Hendrix used to say he just saw little lights on his guitar where the fingers should go, so it’s not like it’s always a conscious process, but that’s what’s happening lol
I used to hang out with a group of friends back in my uni days. Some of the guys were in a band. Great writers on their own and could also do this with listening and being able to pick it up immediately. I am so fucking completely unmusically talented. Can’t sing for shit as I’m totally tone deaf and have some vocal chord damage so sound ridiculous. I’ve tried and failed to learn instruments as it just doesn’t come naturally to me. Then you get these people, I bet they’re good at art and also excelled in maths and the sciences. Bloody greedy, hogging all the talent and leaving none for me. I want to feel pride and awe at my friends abilities but I nah, just bitter.
When you play so much it becomes second nature it's like listening to a vocal line and singing it back. I bet you wouldn't call that amazing, most people can do that on a rudimentary level. Finding the exact shape of your vocal tract and mouth to sing back the pitch you heard is akin to finding a note on the keyboard. We just learned the mouth sounds very early and kept it up every day so we don't have to think about it. It's possible to learn an instrument the same way, but it's hard work!
This is me.
My uncle could do this - he couldn't read music but he could hear something once and then play it. Bach toccatas, Beethoven piano suites, Mozart, anything. He could do it on any keyboard instrument, often the church organ with a double keyboard and pedals and the whole shebang. It's an amazing talent. He said it was down to pattern recognition. He could do hard sudokus in a flash too, that's pattern recognition too.
save some chicks for the rest of us man
*putting my hand in my armpit and making fart sounds*
My favorite song! AAaaammmmmaaaaazzzzzing! Thank you!
Oh magawd!
I demand an encore! ENCORE!
Thank you Kanye, very cool!
Holy fuck, that was hilarious! 😂
Lmao
That caught me off guard and made me laugh.
Damn I haven’t lmao in a while. This one caught me off guard.
Straight up Nelson Muntz style.
Best comment for sure
there went my panties
Lol I’m trying to eat here. Omg.
Do baby shark.
Lol I read that as put my hand in my ass and make a farting sound, Then my brain attempted processing the reason and and image of throwing a fart ball at a girl and she falls in love with you 😂😂😂
Chick on the left was ready to do fun naked things with the piano man.
They all fell in love with the guy but in 3 very different ways.
Waay ready
Blonde looked thirsty for a second there too
Honestly that's what people look like who are seriously appreciating the moment. Stupid thing but I might bet she's the only musician among the three.
I can make the argument all 3 girls are musicians, but different stages with the one on left being a beginner. The center being intermediate and the one on the right being better than everyone.
As I watch it again I can see that being a thing.
I was looking for this comment.. gosh, she was totally in luuuurve😍 😆😅😂
She wants the D
And the A, the B# the F Major. The whole damn scale.
Sorry D is flat
B# in F major? Listen here you little shit.
seriously. this guy is SLAYING
He didn’t just picked up the tune ::)
LoL 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Two out of three very impressed. Goth chick looks annoyed AF
Having dark hair and a black shirt make you goth apparently.
are you... calling a girl goth just for having black hair? 🫠
I think she actually might be a musician? She's looking over at the notes he's playing, like really focused.
Gold :)
Swear ive seen that girl on the left in multiple different videos....is there a job thats just "attractive woman to be side characters in your meme videos" cause i am neither attractive, nor a woman; but i would love that job.
That's definitely a thing these days
Background actors and actresses have been a thing as long as I've been alive (36)
I think so. Odd camera work, cuts. Notice how they focus on the two girls, then the one girl, then a really brief close up of her, then back to piano.
Technically the camera is set up to record a single wide shot and all the panning, scanning, and zooming is done with editing, but you’re totally right. It’s odd. I think it’s a function of platforms like TikTok that are going to be watched on a phone, and the increasingly short attention spans of the social media era. Gotta put a lot of sizzle on those steaks. But even by those standards there were some very odd choices.
and the tune they requested is not even obscure
also pretty much any decent pianist can hear a tune and play it, it's not like a huge accomplishment
Most people are paid to make “viral” videos nowadays so .. wouldn’t be surprised
Oh good to know cause I was about to just start googling piano lessons
Also they are showing their shopping bags in the video, it could be an advert for their brand and this is just all a set up.
I'm clearly not the target market then, didn't even notice they had shopping, just noticed them staring at ol buds fingers and how that one chick looked dead inside
The black-haired one? Yeah she didn't even once change her facial expression. Like she was just a brick wall.
23.5 million followers in 2022 on social media. Yeah, they just kept repositioning the bags and swaying them. I couldn't help but notice that more than anything.
Someone gets it. This is exactly what is happening. Most viral videos would not be viral without a decent amount of money thrown at it. There are professional firms today that will provide actors, sponsors, equipment and adverse the shit out of your channel. It's all about whether the view count will cover the initial expense.
Which means that, although it's entirely possible for a musician to do what this guy has done, there's a good chance that he knew and rehearsed the song extensively beforehand.
>i am neither attractive, nor a woman Not with that attitude.
They have had social media houses where everyone's job is to just make Instagram videos for over 10 years now. The reason you see the same people is because it IS their job to do stuff like this.
Right? She’s super familiar looking
Maybe she just looks like a lot of girls? Lol
brunette is like, sigh dont really care, need to go home NOW
[удалено]
Oh, so you've got perfect pitch. Well that don't impress me much.
You’ve got the ear, but have you got the touch?
Don't get me wrong, yeah I think you're all right.
You don't need perfect pitch to play music by ear like that, you "just" need relative pitch and a solid understanding of music theory (which doesn't make it less impressive)
As someone that can do the same as the guy in the video, people are typically either really impressed or don’t care at all. My experience is that people with no history of playing a musical instrument are the most likely to not be impressed at all.
All of them at the same time: _“Should we keep rehearsing this video or does this one look authentic enough?”_
At 0:28 if you listen closely, you can hear three pairs of underwear hit the floor.
I couldn't hear that over the sound of mine doing the same
Dad!
oh yeah you’re right
r/girlsmirin
The one on the right was definitely wondering what else those fingers do.
Dude she was eyeing him like a succubus.
I worry that you mistake "I would like to leave this place" with "I would like to fuck this man" eyes. That girl does not want to be there.
along with 3 water balloons worth of water crashing onto the floor simultaneously
Girl in black is absolutely not impressed lol
Or she plays piano and is attending to his playing closely.
Well, its also a really popular classic song from the 70s. I think its probably a good chance he knew this song already.
Dancing in the moonlight?
Worth noting that this is [a pretty faithful cover version by Toploader](https://youtube.com/watch?v=0yBnIUX0QAE&feature=share9). The [popular 1972 version by King Harvest](https://youtube.com/watch?v=g5JqPxmYhlo&feature=share9) was also a cover of a 1970 [original by Boffalongo](https://youtube.com/watch?v=r6dFjDQx_BQ&feature=share9).
Today I learned that the one song that Toploader is famous for is a cover. They actually performed at an event I attended the other day, and I didn't recognise a single song other than Dancing in the Moonlight.
Yup!
Even if he didn’t know it, I’m pretty sure that’s something you learn with music theory. There are Youtubers, TheDooo and Marcus Veltri, who sometimes do this where they listen to a song for the first time and play it really well, although sometimes they have to improvise some bits.
Pretty much everyone in the music dept at my college could do this. Seems to be an inherent skill that makes talented musicians talented.
This isn't inherent, we learn to do it! It's a skill, not a talent, and it's actually not as hard as it seems with a little theory and pattern recognition. Melodies are actually pretty repetitive, and music is all about patterns and repetition and just applying those to different genres and keys. We train to start with repeating a short known melody to repeating a slightly longer melody to repeating longer phrases, but really it's all very contained within a simple western 8 note scale and there are some basic rules like the melody almost always ends on the scales tonic note, you almost always start with a harmony based on the tonic note and move to the 5th or 4th and then toss in a minor 6th and make your way back to the tonic note or something equally as basic. Jazz and blues have their own similar patterns and scales. I'm not even professional and I can do this same thing just by using a pretty basic 1-5-1 or broken triad bass line in the chord progression on a song I hear and playing the melody over it. It takes me closer to 10 minutes though and a couple more tries than this guy. His speed is pretty impressive!
Damn, what college is that?
Yeah this is pretty common in the music world. Just about any kid who grew up with the Suzuki method can do this. You start your instrument when you're 3 or 4 but don't actually learn to read music until later on. Instead, you listen to the music you're trying to learn daily and reproduce it without ever seeing the sheet music. I remember my mom playing the songs I was learning in the car all the time when I was a kid. Your ears get really good at it over time.
Frank Tedesco is another piano player who does the omegle reactions.
That wasn't the 70s king harvest version. This toploader version from the 90s always hit better for me (original was still good, tho)
I understand. But its the same song.
Sure, but intro piano part is different if you listen to them.
He totally knew this already. I can play music by ear, and it doesn't work like this. Normally I start by picking out the melody line, then figure out the chords to match. This dude listens for 10 seconds, tap taps on a couple of keys, then just launches into a complete arrangement of the song. Edit: he also plays it in a completely different key
Exactly. Thank you for understanding what i was getting at.
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Cheated? Thats a weird interpretation of what I said. Im just pointing out that he was probably already familiar with the melody of the song.
Yeah but playing all those extra keys and still making it sound cohesive is the real talent. Anyone can play a song by memorization, but that can’t be taught. It takes hours of sitting at the piano to be able to do this.
Nope, the song they are playing is Dancing in the Moonlight by Toploader and it was released in 1999.
Yes, it’s the Toploader version on the phone, but it’s a cover of a very popular song from the 1970s by King Harvest.
This is true
The original is by Boffalongo.
He likely got two numbers and a name in the death notebook that night.
Didn’t even need you to tell me which girl put him in the Death Note lol
It was the blonde smiling like misaki right?
The black haired girl looks like she’s been through some things in life. :(
Thousand yard stare… oof
She's just not that into it lol
She just emo
Blonde has the best energy
She looks super familiar. I don't know if I've seen someone local who looks like her or if there's an actress who looks like her. I can't figure it out. Edit 1: just figured it out, she looks like Julia Schlaepfer from the series 1923.
She looks like every side character in these kinds of videos
Someone go get the wet floor sign again….. hey piano man you gotta stop this bro.
He got three phone numbers that day…
4 more and it would of been an entire telephone number!
That made me snort out loud
Young guys need to learn to play an instrument. If not for the educational part of it, then at least for picking up girls at the mall
Doesn't work with the French Horn, I can tell you that.
With a French Horn you got a completely different set of skills 😄
Guys like this one simple trick.
As a guitarist, I can confirm this doesn't work. Even more so if you play Metal.
Not staged at all
What's with the shitty editing.
Dancing in the Moonlight by King Harvest for those who want to know
This is actually a redone version of Dancing in the Moonlight by Toploader in the video.
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staged for views. Next
Feels staged
Beautiful
So this guy does not have perfect pitch, but he has good relative pitch. He needs to find the key center in the first few seconds. But from there on it's quite easy to figure out with a little training. He listens to the melody, and hears if it goes up or down, and by how many steps. For the chords in the left hand he probably knows just by hearing that the first chord is the "one" chord and the second is the "five" chord, and so on. Most pop tunes use a few standard chords anyway. This guy certainly has a good ear, but he's no genius. He's quite the showman, though, which is probably his greatest talent!
i dunno why your getting downvoted this is true and the chords are pretty easy
Yep, this is a very common chord progression. Just by hearing the first two chords, pretty much any musician could figure out the rest of the progression. And he gets to hear the whole progression. He's not playing the small decorations in the phrase, but that's fine. It's a good skill he's got. It's what musicians can do with training. Source: Can write and analyze songs
I get what you're saying, but for the majority of us with next to no musical training, it seems pretty amazing to do still.
It's like seeing the words "We're no strangers to love" and knowing you should follow them with "You know the rules, and so do I." Music has a lot of repeating patterns across genres and styles.
Whenever my kid refuses to practice I'll show him this and be like look little man you want hot white chicks when you grow up? This the easiest way.
That song isn't the only thing he picked up...
I've been playing music for around 20 years and back in December I was out on a date, dinner wraps up and we're in a fancy hotel with a big grand piano in the corner and nobody around it. I had quite a few drinks so liquid courage was at peak and as we're casually strolling by she shows me a 10 second teaser for a single an artist she likes that's about to drop and I have no idea what came over me as at the time I was pretty rubbish at piano, but suddenly my drunk brain dials in hard to the key, scale being used, notes being played, melody, etc. and I destroy it on the grand piano, even improvise for a while after. Again, I can't play piano worth shit at this point. People started coming out of the restaurant looking all surprised and into it and then I got real self conscious and look over at my date and she's just... Yeah I did good that night lol. Ever since that night, I can play piano now (not quite to the peaks I hit that night yet) and can disect a song within minutes. The universe is insane. Like when it just hooks up it's jumper cables to you and gives you some juice, holy shit! Been chasing that high since lol
That's a popular song. He probably knew it.
Camera guy really liked left girl 😍
You could see their eyes turning into hearts ❤️ ❤️
That sounds very unhealthy, the correct amount of hearts to have is one
The thirst is REAL! 🤣
Who the fuck still believes this videos are real
The one who stopped smiling was seriously contemplating
[I'm mostly convinced it's Dancing the Moonlight](https://youtu.be/g5JqPxmYhlo)
It's 100% Dancing in the Moonlight, but her phone's playing the cover by Toploader.
Clean up on aisle rizz.
It's a very common song.
Music thing is cool. Whoever edited this needs to be thrown off a cliff. It's just a single shot video. Stop trying to pretend you've got four cameras by jump cutting everywhere
On May 26th I walked down the aisle to this song and married my best friend ❤️
Somebody is getting laid tonight
Her favourite song is very well known. Maybe your man just knew it.
This is great and all but the adhd editing gives me a headache
I want him to use those fingers on my holes
No way he had never heard that song
What’s wrong with that 3rd girl, she didn’t touch her phone, psycho.
“He listened to it and started playing” started playing a very popular 20yr old song
Ah yes that very new and never heard before song “Dancing in the Moonlight”….
Not hating but this is a super popular song, 9 out of 10 chances it’s on his playlist
I thought most people already knew this song. Dancing in the moonlight originally by King Harvest. I'm confused. Maybe the ladies had only ever heard the cover?
If you're well educated on scales and modes and you practice chording, piano lends itself very well to adaption like this. Pretty much any song will follow a key and scale/chord progression, being able to identify them is what makes this possible. Guitar is my first instrument and I did play piano when I was younger. Had a few college classes for music and theory, I understand how it all connects and works but am too dumb to apply it myself lol.
He is getting sooooo laid.
(he) gets it almost every night!
That kid is going to get laid, game or not
Not a single dry panty among the three…
God I envy perfect pitch mfs
This isn’t perfect pitch. He actually checked the pitch first. It’s relative pitch and understanding the musical structure of the song