when your audience are competent musicians (jacob collier)
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to quote the top commenter of original: 'when your audience is made up of competent musicians'
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The entire audience got played. In the best possible way, of course.
Literally 😳
Phrase "Congratulations, you played yourself" gets a whole new meaning
Beautiful
Of course
We played our selves :)
Sounds like a start of a joke.
"A group of musicians walk into a theater"
And pays to perform for the band
The performer says, “how would you feel about some audience participation?” The crowd responds, “Ooooo!”
LOL
@@Luna_Boy rolflmao
And get played.
Jacob is a multi-instrumentalist, the list of things he can play includes;
people
my ex played people too
@@iugin4699 Dayum
@@iugin4699 YIKES
@@iugin4699 your ex probably broke them
@@iugin4699 This comment completely broke me out of my trance and made me laugh so hard.
This man just orchestrated a whole audience who came prepared to listen but instead became the choir. I can't imagine the feeling that will have been inside every person's hearts in this moment.
That’s so rad.
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@@user-p7up8l4k Well mom said otherwise, so I dont believe you or that Allah of yours
Well it's one of the tricks he does in all his concerts, so most would probably be well aware and eager ;)
His style of music is ...... somewhat different. Can't imagine people just walking in randomly to his shows. Some might and they'll be surprised sure, but most will be familiar.
I'd be impressed if his audience was not musicians or singers already. Any high school chorus teacher could do this with that audience.
Jacob to the audience: Congratulations, you played yourself.
Underrated
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Another one!
In the most beautiful way possible.
Best comment
Audience: ooooOoooOOOoooo
Jacob: ♪┌|∵|┘♪
This comment earned my first cackle of the week
@@sammy3212321 I am honoured to be the one to first cackle you this week 😂
xD
He is raising their pitch by half steps on and off. You all are so... generic in your responses, it's like common sense that you idiots find funny these days.
Boom boom!
jacob’s audience is so musically intelligent. when he first points up, he raises them a half step (to the 4th). after returning them to the 3rd, he points down and they instinctively move down a whole step (to the 2nd) because they’ve already set the key in their minds. so cool
I NOTICED THAT TOO! So cool!
Also normal people can do that by default, there was a ted talk about it
Lmao, that’s not musically intelligent. That’s 23 whole and 34 half is literally like all of music. It would be impressive if they went 32 half after 34 half lol
I think that was kinda the point. People have an instinctual understanding of music because they listen to it a lot. Recognizing and using patterns is just something we're good at. It's kind of the "No, you CAN be good at music, you've been preparing for it your whole life!" kind of moment.
Bobby McFerrin demonstrated something similar at the World Science Fair where he assigns two reference notes for the audience to sing based on where he's standing, then he jumps to a new spot without telling the audience the note but they all sung the right note. Its on CZcams if anybody wants to check it out type his name and pentatonic scale
This is one of the most "human" things ever. The fact that with very simple gestures we very deeply understand what noises to make to harmonize effortlessly with one another is hauntingly amazing. So permanently burned into our culture, our genetics, our souls, is this mystical, musical harmony.
Music is the one true universal language, it’s the one way we can all communicate.
yall ever shit in the toaster
Uhhh why does CZcams say you have 3 replies when there's only 2?
@@virginiaviola5097 maths
@@User0000000000000004 I love maths
“What instrument do you play?”
Oh. The audience.
or a conductor
Whoever this kid is he's lucky he gets to enjoy that whole gig by himself, bands fucking huge tho
LOL
LMFAO
💀
@@courtneylawrence172 woosh :^)
@@courtneylawrence172 Run! You can still catch the joke!
I love the term ‘musician’. From a classical violinist to a bass trombonist in a jazz band, or even a Mongolian throat singer-we all speak a common language and can create beautiful things together. Music is amazing.
The phrase "He just played us like a fiddle" has never fit something so well
so this is what an audience filled with musicians sounds like
That what the description says. And the top comment on the original vid
@@cornela1 Yeah I was pointing that out :)
@@peterqueen haha busted!
Here.. czcams.com/video/bsjdIAhlFqs/video.html this is Estonian national song fest.. about 35k singers on stage at once
they should do this at a motorhead concert
It was only a matter of time before Jacob could establish complete control over his audience. I’m telling you, his next album will just be recordings of the audience singing…
And he will pay them for the performance.
@@smarthalayla6397 You mean, and *WE* will pay *HIM* for the performance🤭
@@graywarden8340 I paid to get played one time, but then I got a divorce so now I've got plenty of cash to throw at Jacob!
thatd still be so cool tho
I’m here for it
There's a concept in sociology called "collective effervescence" which I just love it's sort of about that feeling when you're doing something together with other people and everything feels elevated and connected I think that's what a lot of people are describing in their experience of singing in choirs or concerts (for anyone looking for a research rabbit hole to fall down after watching this)
I remember I was so fascinated with this concept when studying sociology! I think it was a sociologist Randall Collins and his theory of interaction ritual chains, for anyone wondering. I always had in mind twenty one pilots concerts and in general musicians that have a loyal fanbase. When you find yourself in that atmosphere it almost feels like it's sacred and you just want to cry happy tears 🥹🥹🥹
I remember one time in music class my small class were jamming out and it was the coolest thing, it almost felt as if we were telepathically communicating. We felt so connected to each other and the music, it felt so good though. Now I know what it's called, thank you!
Most audiences: *cant clap 4/4 on beat*
This audience: *becomes a freaking choir*
You can’t play the audience
Jacob: haha Audience go Fmaj
@@leofender909 ok 🤨
@@leofender909 haha reddit go r/redditmoment
😂
@@leofender909 haha comment goes *brr*
@@leofender909 Emojis in comments are probably that much goofier
Everyone chill 'til he harmonizes the audience in microtones
I like how every comment on this comment was made by you, even this one, bc by fate, you brought me here, although, it's likely I'll never come back to this comment and I'll never meet you in real life, anyway, have a nice day!
@Christopher Mabry I'm so confused
@Christopher Mabry Wtf you smoking cus i need that shit 🗿
@@honario33 no cap
THIS
I attended his masterclass in London about 4 years ago and we did this same exercise. He did more jazzy stuff and crazy chords in our one, though this one feels more like a cohesive "song"
I was there! It was brilliant.
@@emastapleton1702 is there a video? sounds amazing!
@@6884 I don't have one I'm afraid and I just had a quick look for one and didn't find anything. Sorry about that.
I was lucky enough to bump into Jacob after one of his gigs. I asked him if he's ever been in a situation where the audience hasn't been able to sing what he asked, he said that's never ever happened before.
He really does get the best out of people! It's made me completely rethink how unbelievably musical we can be with the right encouragement and guidance =).
Props to the dude holding the first note in one breath 👏
Big lez
@@willgotsch7292 yessir lol
You’ve just been saved by the myth, the legend the fackin deadeye donny.
@@donnythedealer9110 lmao
@@donnythedealer9110
You got any more heroine cookies by any chance mate?
I feel like some people don’t understand just HOW impressive this is. Even if the audience is filled with experienced musicians, he was able to captivate their talent and achieve harmonic singing despite the impromptu performance it was. This is what a true conductor is capable of doing.
It's nice, but I am quite sure you could do this with a crowd of random people
I think you over estimate people
This was a normal crowd I think the title isn't literal
How do we know it was impromptu?
@@nessiejs7492 actually, while you can enjoy Jacob colliers music without being a musician, the large majority of his dedicated fans are other musicians because of how niche his kind of music is. The deciding factor lies in when he told the audience to move up or down to a note he didn’t sing for them and they collectively knew what note to choose. While I can’t confirm or deny the claim made in the title, if I were a betting man, I’d bet the large majority of the people in his audience are musically inclined in one way or another.
I really miss choir, man. There's something spiritual about being that in sync with not only the director but every one of your fellow performers.
I was in high school choir for all 4 years working with the same director and by the end it's like you can literally hear their thoughts with a look or a gesture.
This is insane. It sounds like a proper soundtrack from a professional choir.
i like how jacob just points up and down and the crowd hits a sus4
when the chord is sus
sus amogus
@@rimut230 the crowd is sus too XD
For anyone unaware, "sus" here stands for "suspended", not for "suspicious" like in the "Among Us" memes, or for "sustain", like I previously thought (sorry for misleading any of you). Also, r/woosh to me.
@@ringyring thanks 👍🏼
If i was in the audience, id probably sing a tritone and think im still in tune with the rest
I mean Jacob would make it work he loves tritones lol
@Christopher Mabry I know you're being facetious, but OP could easily be referring to the sharp 11, just as you say that a third is the note that is two notes above the root (of a chord).
Better than the atonal noises I'd probably somehow produce
I don't know what that fish people have to do with this performance
HAHAHA
I love the fact that he doesn't care about societal norms and gets up in front of thousands of people wearing whatever he wants and produces something beautiful and different. I want to be more like that. 🙌
Then be change you want to be.
I know it sounds repeated and corny, but you are the only one that can change, because change will not happen if you wait for others.
@@patrickd9551 well written.. it's not corny , i need to hear that
But he's just wearing a t-shirt and shorts? Who gives a fuck about what he's wearing lol
Adam Sandler
It's been two years since you expressed your desire to relax your insecurities. I'm just checking to see if you were able actualize your wish? If not that's ok. It's ok. Tomorrow is another opportunity to begin your journey of growth.
Singing and harmonizing like this with others is one of the most amazing things you could ever experience. It doesn't matter who you are, there is something about singing that connects all of us, no matter race, religion, or nation. You don't have to have a beautiful voice to make something as beautiful as this. Music is what it means to be human. It is like we are calling out in the vastness of space and saying to the universe "Here we are! We are here and we are alive! Look at the beautiful things we can do! We are so lucky!"
i would cry if i were harmonizing like this with the whole audience
this feels like a freedom dream and belonging at the same time
You mean fever dream?
Feels like what I imagine heaven to be like
Join a choir then
This is exactly what it felt like doing warm ups in a college choir. I miss that:(. Good choirs as an adult are few and far between.
Went to a Sibelius concert once in the Royal Albert Hall in London. The lead violinist did something like this and played on top of the audiences’ harmony. I felt like I lost myself for a moment. It was beautiful
Idk, this just feel like a human experience. A whole audience of people able to make music with just our voices.
888th like :)
Yeah, you should consider joining a choir. I’ve been in some choirs with 300+ people. It’s an incredible experience.
You should read about the singing revolution in stonia
sometimes it just needs a tich of coaxing
Yeah, join a choir and you get to feel like this every week. :P
For anyone curious about this phenomenon check out the "wisdom of the crowds" theories. Crowds can do things that seem completely impossible at times.
Imagine this guy at America's Got Talent, where the audience would also be competent musicians. Just imagine the reaction on the judges
idk if america’s got talent would have as many competent musicians, seeing that the show is more of a reality tv series at this point than a talent competition
@@pisscontrol3755 Always has been.
That will never happen - that type of show only features pre-screened artists that NEED the publicity and audio production to be competitive - thus are (Keyword:) controllable, and will don kneepads on demand.
That’s impressive as hell on his part. It certainly helps that the crowd is mostly musicians, but he managed to make them sound like a choir and blend well. Only found out about this guy 20 minutes ago but I’m already a fan.
Bro im in the same boat as you, I just found him through this video and it's incredible, definitely looking into more stuff lol
Welcome to the Collier family! We’re all here to celebrate music and all it can do, so enjoy!
@@MostLikelyMortal yo my highschool totally has your profile picture as their school emblem/mascot. The t.d. tigers lmao
@@morgankosokowsky812 I’m from detroit so the tigers are kind of engrained in the culture lol
Damn you are late.
There is a reason why a choir sounds majestic... A hundred soul becomes one..
Nope still choir is simple developed amd trained vocals chords in sync to produce linear vibrations at a particular frequency Basic harmonics in physics.Very easy to replicate by AI.Plenty of softwares available.On the other hand,the word soul is a non existent fictional term derived from comic books like bible or quran.
@@thecryptohacker9976 Sure. What I find very interesting though, is that it sounds to me that both of you are right, but on a two diferent levels - and i LOVE both of your explanations! Things can be at once poetic and scientific ; poetry explains how we see the things while physics show the why behind it, the magic behind the scene....
Choirs appears undeniably to us as a sound of unity made from individual elements (that's what harmony means in fact), in this case voices. Our voice is the link between our thoughts and the world, and our thoughts are, according to Descartes, the very first evidence of our existence. Cogito ergo sum. Making sounds - speaking, singing - is what allows us to go from an abstract "cogito" to its materialisation in the eyes (or ears ahah) of the Other. Thus it is right to say that a choir, who merges dozens of voices, merges just as many souls. In a poetic perspective, the question of the actual existence of the concept of soul doesn't matter ; it's what the word implies that is important.
But this is just what we feel when we hear a choir. And this feeling is partly explained but science : there is synchronisation, harmonics, frequency.... You explained it better than me, I'm not a scientist ^^'. And if AI or softwares can replicate these physical properties, they still replicate the feel of "a hundred souls becoming one" - because that's what a choir must feel like. There is just scientific words and stuff put behind it.
Still, both of the approaches are valid to me, because finding the reason behind something can mean a lot of diffrent things. Each person will see something with a single perspective, which doesn't mean that only one out of them is right : on the contrary, truth emerges when a hundred perspectives becomes one.
(I love long comments, I hope it was not boring sorry :( )
@@nomimi8785 i like you
@@thecryptohacker9976 You're no better than a computer, and a weak one at that. The human experience cannot be explained by numbers, consciousness cannot be explained by atoms. If you relegate yourself to the land of ones and zeros you will realize how inept you are. You were not made to process the world as if you were constructed in some intel factory.
@@thecryptohacker9976 found the reddit atheist
A group of musicians walk into a Theatre, and they find no band. They got played.
Goin to a Jacob collier concert really was a whole new experience 🥰 I remember he asked the audience if there are any musicians there and literally every single person in the audience raised their hand 😂😂🙏🏼
People don’t believe it, but interacting in a group like this, in a choir, is the best feeling on earth. Humans can be so incredible if they stick together… i am beyond grateful for my choir that lets me experience this overwhelming feeling :)
When you hold the notes like this you really feel the locked in resonance between your chest and the room around you. I don't use a sus4 often in music, but stuff like that feels so amazing when you sing it, it just falls into place.
Making music with other people in general is one of the best human experiences
man now i wanna go back to choir
I’ve harmonised only a few times in my life and all of them made me go “whoa” it’s really a cool experience.
@@lokiijustwannasleep7865 you gonna? I hope so. at least start singing more. you deserve the self-care & enjoyment. 💞✨💪
This must be honorable to have a whole audience with musical ear. I have never seen another musician does this before
any wrong notes just get lost in the sea of people
Watch out vulfpek live at a Madison Square garden. Crowd literaly gave an A to musicians
@@mishame156 wow! Thank you for this comment I watched the video and also I really fell into it
Check out Bobby McFerrin pentatonic scale performed with the audience, he's been doing these things for 20+ years!
Jacob isn't making anything new, yet it's still impressive.
@@chirripitiflauticoid wow thank you too! I wasn't know any musicians have ever does this until today. I'm very impressed with it
Humans, through constantly being exposed to music, jingles, in TV ads, on CZcams, music streaming services, car radios, mall speakers and home CD players have simply begun, as a species, developping better talents for music overall.
Experiences like this are chilling in the best way. I’ll never forget orchestra camp when all of us sang the entirety of bohemian rhapsody with a guest musician. Feelings you can never describe and might not ever be able to recreate.
I was at this concert live in Toronto, and let me tell you.. not a single person was off key.
(My father and I are both musicians that attended because we love Jacob!)
So cool! Just wondering: were the rest in attendance also musicians? Nobody was off key as far as I could tell.
if i'd been there, my contribution would've been to stuff both sleeves in my mouth and just listen
Hmmm that many people it must be that even if you're out of tune (as long as you're on the right note) it still holds up, and probably just adds to the thickness of the sound when there's that many people. That's super cool!
@@BiggusNickus it makes sense that a audience for jacob collier would be filled with musicians his music I feel like appeals more to actual musicians than non
@@BiggusNickus 2:11 someone was a bit off
This would sound absolutely magical in a cathedral
Damn dude just thinking about how absolutely awesome that would be is making me ugly cry more than I already am
SOMEONE EDIT IT
Now imagine the cathedral collapsing because of the voices power lmao
even when you're not a musician you can infer from the crowd around you and be at the right tone very quickly. it's a very powerful feeling
I'm rewatxhing it and I'm still bewildered, like how do you even do that-the audience participation, making them understand what you're instructing... It's just plain amazing
Chills. This feels so remarkably human and also so remarkably extraordinary.
It is. It really is. I wish it was just ok for people to sing... That we had more opportunities to sing as a group and not with judgement but just for the fun of it. People are afraid to sing and dance but it's so human and so core to who we are and our most early methods of communication and being together
@@DevinJuularValentine even if you aren't religeous church is a wonderfull place to go sing with a bunch of people
@@guesswhatthisisnotmyrealna9510 yeah but the lyrics are creepy asl
@@katfergusonheartsyou Not at the church I go to
feels very monke to me
"The human voice is the most perfect instrument of all."
- Arvo Pärt
Arvo Pärt hasn't heard my friend Julie sing yet
@@Leandro-ik2lx Could be, but has Julie heard my boy Marvin sing?
Deep
Not an instrument unless you have a tube in your throat
@@EpicLemonMusic oh, tell that to arvo
This is amazing. It’s the same feeling as playing in a section (I’m a violist here), and watching everyone - and their bows, in an orchestra’s case - moving together with the piece you’re playing. It’s a beautiful, human feeling.
The audience deserves a standing ovation.
His lyrics really hit you hard
hahahaha
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*ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo*
@@zynrchkll Yo chill. I"m about to cry. That was my favorite part.
Jacob Collier's Audience - Slowed + Reverb
0:36, this here is the craziest moment for me, the first time he tells the audience to infer a tonality instead of explicitly playing it and they nail it on the scale.
I feel like most people are able to figure out what the next lowest note in a chord as simple as this is.
@@Sarcastitonea well, I couldn't do that to save my life.
@@Sarcastitonea you would be surprised haha
Look up Bobby McFerrin demonstrating the pentatonic scale! It's amazing what an audience can infer
@@rolandfrerichs5625 As someone else said, you'd be surprised. Often in songs, you can "guess" the next note if you listen to enough songs to get the gist, and listen closely.
Wow, it's hard not to be absolutely overwhelmed by the feeling this brings out in me. Genuine tears came up and this feeling of bliss that's really unique to a joined effort like this. For a moment I forgot all my worries and sat on this cloud together with these people. Beautiful beyond words.
"You can only enter this event after completing the competent musician quest. Please try again later”
He directed an audience instantly better than most choir directors do over several weeks.
To be fair, the audience was also focusing more acutely than most choirs do in their first few weeks of rehearsal 😇
As a chorale member, this is both accurate and hilarious 😂
RIGHT
@@HandmadeDarcy truth… from a former chorale member.
tbf most choir directors aren't jacob collier
This serves as proof that musicians love Jacob. That was not a layman crowd, by any means.
@OrganicOrganist the whole audience is full of musicians, that's why
And the few that couldn't have done this in a normal crowd probably didn't have that much trouble following the lead and getting the idea, it's so consonant that this might even work with quite a lot of them. Also helps we probably just didn't hear the few people that weren't quite locked in
Words can not describe how moved I was by this. I have never wanted to learn how to sing so badly. Time to book some lessons.
This honestly is beautiful. I would say more, but what this makes me feel is beyond words. Amazing work on their part.
Having an audience that can sing like that and stay in tune? Literally my dream
Most audiences can, especially if you give them a note. I've heard a crowd sing a perfect A, no doubt because at least one person knew they could, and did, loudly enough for the people around them to get the gist.
@@Frewster that’s really cool man, I’d love to experience that
The chord at 2:17 is very special. Jacob trusts the audience's understanding (whether they are aware or not) that we have just visited the dominant chord, so we're expecting to have a nice perfect cadence V-I
Well. He also instructs those singing an E to move up a note and those singing a G to move down a note. He doesn't have to trust they understand the cadence.
Although all westerners have the perfect cadence in their bones, practically
Yep
I was wondering if he would somehow pull off a v7 cuz it wouldve sounded so cool
@@diabl2master I was wondering how he lead random people to sing chords. He probably sing each melody line before everybody sing together.
I cried watching this. This is so beautiful. That much unity in a huge crowd is beyond amazing.
Wow this is so beautiful. The amount of positive energy just raging and soaring through that room and all those people. beautiful.
This gives chills. I’m not a musician but a dancer. And when I dance with a group and we all do the same movement we all breathing the same and the energy of that is something I hope everyone gets to experience at least once in their life. When people come together to make art and be in community is when humanity is at its BEST
@Atman Gotango wise person
I love how every person delving into creative media can relate to the same 'energy', despite experiencing it in a different way. Musicians playing in a band, dancers dancing in a group, artists seeing the details and big picture at once, it is something everyone should experience at least once. As a live sound engineer, all the stress and sleepless nights a performance creates is worth it when you step back for a second and just enjoy watching and hearing all the pieces falling into place.
@@HarmonicaMustang this made me shed a tear. thank you for sharing your perspective :)
@Atman Gotango it's a soul's companion..
Was a dancer till I got sick and had to quit, I hope I get to coach/choreograph one day, when the music hits just right and everyone is together it’s really a transcendent experience
Holy this is impressive. But tf is the audience gonna do after this? Clap for themselves?
Clap for each other
@@jonathandesmedt3562 Awwww
Why not?
Silent applause would be pretty appropriate after an experience like that.
Feel a rush probably and feel excited
This is incredible. Always appreciate the power of many voices together.
We all sound good together. Our voices are beautiful. Just imagine if the whole world sang together. How pleasing that would be.
My choral director literally had my women’s choir and I do a smaller version of this exercise, two days ago at rehearsal on Monday! Split into three sections (SSA) for the exercise - soprano 1s, soprano 2s, and altos - we all started on a major triad (I don’t remember which notes), and our director said that whenever she pointed at a section, she would signal them to go up or down a semitone. It took a lot of focus and paying attention to tuning and intonation, but it was a super cool exercise!! My director said that we’d be practicing the exercise every week until the midwinter concert in January.
EDIT/update: it's December now and our Christmas concert is tomorrow and we haven't done the exercise again since we first did it. Oh well. It's still a cool exercise to say I have done before!
YO
wow! that is awesome! imagine what could come out of you guys outside the choir ^^
Yea I’d go to this music camp in corpus and we’d do this exercise with everyone there wasn’t as much as in this audience but in total it was probably around 300 so it was still pretty cool especially since I had never been in a place where everyone WANTS to be there and is so musical
This shows that music is inherently very intuitive and that “learning” theory is just adding a vocabulary to an already formed understanding of tonality
The audience was a bunch of musicians. Singing half-steps in tune with a crowd is hard for untrained people. Untrained folks will tend to flatten on the drops and sharpen on the rises until you’re suddenly doing whole steps. This is not a great example of it being intuitive… it’s a great example of what you can do with a bunch of musicians in a big, acoustically interesting room.
we have the innate capacity to appreciate tonality which can be tapped into, but the understanding itself isn't formed until the tonality is experienced
I don't think that is quite right. We are inuitive creatures to be sure - and I think our sensitivity to harmony is probably built into both the physics of acoustics and our species' traits. However, music theory isn't a vocabulary. It is a set of diverse analytical tools that are something like a grammar of music - or, in fact, grammars of the many languages / styles of music we have music theory for. Understanding music theory doesn't teach you how to "do music" - any more than a child learning his first language needs a grammar book to learn his first words and sentences. However, music theory is like the linguistics of music. It will help you understand how to speak other languages, to move between them, to understand what is happening within music much more readily, quickly and with great versatility.
I think it's only intuitive because we are subjected to a very strict tonal structure in the west, we have 12 notes that we hear across all types of music but rarely do we hear a note outside of those 12 because they don't fit our theory. Singing a note from a different music system would not be intuitive, quite the opposite.
Beautifully said
I loved this so much it brought tears to my eyes.
I love how you support your brother George.
Your musical skills and genius... transported me away from these troubled times... thanks and keep it up.
Imagine this is your act on Americas Got Talent, they ask what your going to be doing today, be like “it’s a hidden talent”
Them: No Jacob, the audience is not an instrument.
Jacob:
This is a simple choir warm up in tuning, listening to each other, and circular breathing. It was one of my favorites our director did. What beautiful music that audience made
Mine too! It’s so cool to sing with everyone in sync and im harmony like this.
My college choir director used to do this with us sometimes during our warmups. Was super fun to participate in the intricate chord progressions.
This was absolutely beautiful to listen to and to watch. Brought tears to my eyes.
I mean, everyone was crying, right? Because I’d be crying. In a room full of that many people who love and appreciate and can follow music Ike that? This was an absolute joy to watch.
So, this is excellence in more than one area.
First, Jacob is very understanding of the layman's ear and what the expected tones are when people are humming. I'm sure we go up two steps or so, following a simple arpeggio. To know and predict what people will do, based on the note he gives them, he's able to create chords amongst the groups of people. Fantastic.
Then he uses supreme musicianship to create melodies and chords based on the assumptions of the notes people will switch to when he says to go down or up.
Agreed. It's clear that the score he developed was meant to work well with this type of setting. He may make it look seamless, but that's in no small part because he understands how to make it seamless.
@@reverse_engineered Its definitely not a score but just 'improvised', this works so well and so easily because the pentatonic scale seems to be quite universal. Theres this demonstration by Bobby Mcferrin that demonstrates kinda what Collier is doing here: czcams.com/video/ne6tB2KiZuk/video.html its really interesting, hope you enjoy!
@@bart625 It's not improvisation if you know what they're going to do. Most people who aren't musicians will follow a standard Cmaj scale, so when you predict what they will do, you can literally write a piece of music and have them perform it to your spec without them realizing it.
This is amazing. I was lucky to see and hear you live in Romania, but this part is absolutely beautiful.
The closest thing to "world peace" as it will ever get in this current world.
I went to one of his live shows when he did this. It is truly magical making music with hundreds of strangers. Would recommended seeing him live if you have the chance :)
I have seen him once already and have tix to see him his next time he’s in town. I honestly don’t have words to describe the level of genius Jacob achieves on a daily basis… absolutely stunning talent.
This is the most beautiful audience ever
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@@nocturnal7345 Ik😂
You are really amazing, hope to see a concert sooner or later. Such a shame you don't have anything on spotify
wow dude...wow...i love music because the chill that goes through me, you made me feel this
The Bobby McFerrin influence is apparent
Step 1: have audience
Choirs are a thing
@@carsoncityairsoft Choir members tend to know what they're going to sing and don't spontaneously get the singing content.
@@JoonasD6 Improvisational choir. Sounds like the next jazz movement
@@therealandrew185 We *did* have lots of improvisation in my choir (those parts are especially entertaining when you're doing otherwise "normal" concerts), but even then it was just an instruction in some given contemporary piece. :'(
But that whole "free choir" genre idea sounds really, really cool!
with every video i see of him i want to go to a concert of him even more
Do it. It was one of the best musical experiences of my life.
And i want to stop playing music.
@@danperlman230 i dont think You understood what i really meant. I've been studying music for 2 years now. No one in my family has ever done it, so i am the first one. I discovered Jacob 6 months ago, and since them I've been obsessed with his music, but everytime when i see him live, and see what he is able to do, makes me feel like i Will never be good enough.
@@Dan.128 OH OMG I MISREAD THAT AS “I want him to stop playing music”. OMG LOL I’m sorry yes, I agree. I’ll delete my comment.
@@danperlman230 np.
This reminds me a lot of the warm-ups we do in my choir class. I truly love being a choir kid.
And for that brief moment in time, everyone was beautiful. There was no difference, there wan no jealousy, there was no hate. Just beauty.
Stuff like this is what made me buy tickets on pre release for the first time. June 2022 cannot come soon enough
Happy for you! I'm hoping to see him live when I grow older but for now it's awesome knowing you'll get to experience it! >:D
I’m seeing him April 30th I can’t wait!!
2025 for me woohoo
@@tmayne220 you have plenty of time to get prepared hell yeah >:)
I'm seeing him perform in Cambridge in June 2022! Cannot come soon enough
Props to the person on C the whole time
Glorious! MAGNIFICENT!!
This must be what we hear as we're dying and moving into the light.
This is stunning!! Gave me chills 💜
You know you're a genius when your audience are musicians themselves. Quality recognizes quality.
Well before Jacob was born... WELL before, and we'll leave it at that... I was in a state honors chorus. As our very first sounds that we made together, the director gave us six pitches from the piano (S1, S2, A, T, Bar, Bs). He then proceeded to 'play' us verbally, by instructing each section in intervals, i.e. "S1 up a major third", Tenors down a fourth" etc. Given that we were each supposed to be the one best singer from each of our schools, it wasn't TOO surprising that everyone was able to do this, and the experience is one I still haven't forgotten MANY, MANY years later! He ran us through diminished, augmented, minor and major chords, with all the modifications and extended intervals. It was spine-tingling, and set the tone for the whole three days we spent together. I highly recommend it if you ever have the chance to do something like this.
Absolutely beautiful. Left me with an ache in my chest and a feeling of how absolutely human we all are
Damn, what an experience! I was able to experience something similar while at a Blue Man Group concert many years ago. They did something similar, though with percussion as opposed to harmonies. It sure does make you feel connected to all be participating equally in something so beautiful.
I literally have chills and the video is not even over yet. I’d definitely LOVE to attend to one of his concerts. He’s a mastermind when it comes to music and crowd manipulation. This man is on another level of comprehension of music and it’s dynamics.
Same, chills and a little tear even. This is just so cool
@@ZZubZZero yeah i shed a couple too… man this is just amazing! I never thought I’d see something like this and I’m in awe of his skills!
This is such a magical moment. They all came together to enjoy his music and then participated to make beautiful music with him as a community.
Literally tearing up right now haha.
I listen to this and i close my eyes. I imagined a king just being crowned, watch by entire nation, making a new history.
Oh man. This gives me chills. Amazing!
i literally cried. damn, Jacob. kudos to everyone in the audience for this incredibly sounding masterpiece.
i actually cried while watching this too like damn
It's so beautiful
As a choir kid, this is single most amazing thing I’ve ever seen in my entire life.
this brought me to tears. there’s something beautiful about this video. one of the many reasons i love making music with other people
Beautiful experience, thanks for sharing mate👍