I remember when I saw him live, he performed this and said that the audience's response to this was like a bell curve - the people who understood it and found it funny, the people who kinda got it and laughed nervously, and the people at the other end of the spectrum who didn't get it and thought it sounded good.
I belong somewhere between the last two. I feel like it doesn’t sound good simply because I don’t like the tone of his voice and I have no idea what the difference between keys is or what other comments are talking about with overtones, 5ths and all that jazz. It completely flies over my head.
@Niccolo Adami I won't lie and say that I really understood what you explained but I feel like I understood a little bit. Basically, if I don't hit the exact key I am playing the music on, I will sound out of key, but if I hot a vastly different note, it may sound intentional and thus good. Or something like that.
@@ExceedProduction He is singing the wrong note that does not match with the chord. You don’t really need technical musical theory explanations to understand it or to know that the note he is singing, f sharp, is not part of the key of F major. If Elvis, Whitney, Pavarotti, Dean Martin, Dolly Parton, Julie Andrews, Luis Miguel, Billie Joe Armstrong…whomever it is who you DO like, sang it, it would still sound awful. Or it should, and I do think you would still think it sounded awful. Unless you have no tonal awareness at all. I had a girl that was tone deaf who wanted me to teach her to sing. I can t teach singing. I didn’t learn it by studying; I just know I have never not sung even as far back as I can remember, which is age two. It can be a handicap to not know how it is you do something, lol. Other than a few technique tweaks from a Russian maestro who could teach pop singing, when I was an adult. This tone deaf girl loved Mariah Carey, but when she sang, even sang along with a record, she was on an entirely different pitch planet. Not even close to the right key. If people you know who are being honest with you about how you sound say that’s you, then maybe you can’t hear the difference, but pitch is a mystifying thing, and I don’t understand how anyone can enjoy any singer if they can’t even tell if they themselves are pitchy. Pitch is a fascinating topic of study, actually. It also makes for very funny songs, like this one!
@@ExceedProduction in short: a "key" is a set of 8 notes that make up a music "scale", which all sound good together. A song is likely to only use the notes of a specific key, because otherwise they sounds dissonant. An example of a key is C major, which is centred around the C note and the scale contains all the white piano notes, but none of the black ones. The eight notes in a key are set at specific intervals (along the black and white notes). All of the different major keys feature the same intervals between notes, meaning a tune played in different keys will have exactly the same melody, just using different notes to do it. Mixing a song in the key of F, which doesn't include the note F# in the scale, with the note F#, produces dissonance and sounds bad.
How odd - the reaction you’re describing is exactly the reaction that Tim describes the audience having in the DVD of the tour that had this song in it. Hooves, horses, zebras..
It's the cheeky smile he has on that last line... he knows the sound is aggravating and that people are cringing, he's brilliant. What an absolute legend.
Omg no! 😂 I have 5 family members who have perfect pitch. They are the only non musicians in the family. The musicians in the family are all working musicians, but the perfect pitch people are extremely sensitive about pitchy performances. This would make my cousin’s daughter, especially, almost throw up or maybe cry if she had to keep hearing it over and over. And in my head, even though I find the song so catchy that it stays there, every time he hits the F#, if I’m doing something else, a voice in my head says “Ah! That guy is sharp!” 😖And I’m not even one of the five family members I mentioned. I wonder if he wrote this after having to sit through listening to a pitchy singer who leaned sharp. Like also maybe someone with a bit of Dunning-Krueger Syndrome who sang loudly and proudly sharp 😂. Known a few of those in my life. Briefly.
@@99temporal Whoa, it's interesting hearing this several years later. My ears are so much better. Now, my first thought was, "He's not playing 'F Major.' The entire song was in d minor except for the very last note." XD Do you have a piano handy? I'm sitting next to keyboard, and when I checked the last note, it sounded higher than F# but lower than G. Anyway, thx for reminded of this song. I might have to change the lyrics or reharmonize, but it's still a genius concept lol.
Now I'm remembering the video of Tim singing this song several years ago - back when when he had short hair and wore shoes but no makeup on stage and was playing at small pubs and clubs in Perth - and I cry at how far he has come. Good on ya, kid!
The Brown Note is a mythical sound that reverberates through your body, causes your bowels to loosen, and any waste you had built up to immediately be flooded into your pants. Or in layman's terms it makes you crap yourself.
This is actually really interesting-- my girlfriend is what I would call "tone deaf", but when she sings along with the radio, she sings in the correct key, but she always sings a 5th above the notes in the melody. It blows my mind.
Interesting. I wonder if it's some kind of auditory processing issue, like how stutterers hear the sound of their voice too soon or too late and get stuck from it. Maybe she hears her own voice a bit lower than it actually is.
Ah, but notice he cuts just before the orchestra does (common) and the orchestra's F-major is the last thing heard. So granted his voice didn't resolve the chord, but the orchestra did, for the entire piece hence why I think the song works more mainstream.
We used this as a model for our music in band one day. Conductor had half the band transpose our concert piece into F-major and the other half transposed it into F-sharp. It sounded about as painful as you’d think. For a moment, I thought the entire band was going to go tone-deaf listening to the transposed piece.
There is a video here of Africa by Toto where the vocals are out of key and off beat. It's as painful as it sounds. And the wirst thing is, the vocals come early. You want to chime in, but it just doesn't work. It just keeps breaking you. If it were late, you could just scream over it, but no. You keep stumbling.
Tim teaches you something new every day. I watched this for the first time, and discovered that uncontrollable outbursts of laughter are frowned upon in designated study areas. I can't watch this video in public now, people look at me funny when I poorly suppress laughter.
It isn't from nowhere. The key is in D minor. One of the most essential notes in the chord is the minor third (F). He only has to go up one semitone in his head. Easy interval to imagine
I have loved this song and Tim for years. This song has been played way more than it probably should have in one house. I have a very musically gifted son and a few weeks ago husband informed me that said child had told him that Tim was not actually vocalizing an F-sharp. He has since reaffirmed this claim multiple times. I kept saying that Tim wouldn't do that do us!! He told me my whole life was a lie. I cried. Today I just happened to catch the little twerp I birthed long enough for me to play the "F-sharp" note and get his opinion. "It is an F-sharp, I don't know why Dad would think it's not. I've never said that" and opened up an app to double-check himself. The husband and I will start couples counseling on Monday.🤣
He's actually playing in D minor. It's the relative minor of F Major, so to all intents and purposes you're right, it's just which note is played as the root that counts.
@bullsi20 imagine your boss paying you a wage of 00.03 euros this month, it's the same as 3000, right? That they use the same set of notes (and they mostly don't, as d minor uses the A major chord, containing a C#) doesn't make them the same at all. Also, in the song (which is still hilarious), he states he plays in F major and sings in F sharp, while he actually plays AN F natural and sings AN F sharp, both in the key of d. In other words, he plays in d minor and sings in D major. Nonetheless this song is awesome
I've just seen Tim live tonight performing his more serious stuff (though he still threw in a few of his less punchline-y songs from his comedy era) and he was absolutely amazingly brilliant. He performed everything better than any recording I have seen of his work, and he also had the whole audience laughing between every song (while making us feel all different things in between). He finished by playing Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen with all the lights switched off (so he couldn't see what he was doing). It's hard to describe the feeling of hearing his voice and the piano emanating from a dark stage and having the whole audience singing along. His skills also make me (as a pianist) want to burn my piano and push it into a lake. I wish I could have a recording of his whole show so I could re-live it. It's probably the best show I've been to, and I've seen Ben Folds about 7 times. HIGHLY recommend his Unfunny show if he brings it anywhere near you.
Ava Winehouse yeah but like everytime he would’ve played the D major chord and sang a g#, tension would rise without a fantastic resolution arising from the amaj7
I'd be going crazy if I were playing in that orchestra...this was too hilarious!!! and beautifully frustrating, especially to someone with a well trained musical ear..
This man is pure genius ..I dislike that there are artist making millions off stupid music and there is this man breaking the status quo of how music should be played .so funny and unbelievably intellectual man
Just came here to say that I played this to my musically gifted 4 year old, and now she asks for it every morning on the way to school😂 Since before she turned 1, she has been able to match my pitch and “sing” that note back to me, before she could even speak! She’s just got that musical touch from my long history of musicians in my family, and music in particular has always grabbed her attention away from anything she’s doing. I can’t wait to see what she does with this gift, but it’s so amazing to be able to share this with her and have her appreciate it for what it is. He is a brilliant musician and overall performer. Love this❤
The d minor/F major discrepancy here does nothing to ease the pain of my abdominal cramps from laughing so hard I almost cried. I am a music teacher for a living and seriously, it's not about the theory behind it, it's about the laughs. And holy cow, did this crack me up!
Thought I was going mad when I said he could do this. Then ye olde TH-cam algorithm delivered, and I bruised myself congratulating myself. Hey Tim: If your present stalker quits or gets fired, please accept this TH-cam as my job application. (btw thanx Phoebe)...
With all due respect to the theory wars on this video, it's perfectly fine to recognize the discrepancy between the theory and the lyrics. This is a guy who is trying to make an audience laugh, have a fun day at the concert hall, and close the gap within the huge dichotomy we have between popular music and high brow music; I believe he is doing an excellent job meeting this need. Had this been Prokofiev or Ligeti, we might have justification to wag our fingers, but not here.
Tim Minchin, dont grow older please, that way you can continue your amazing works to improve humanity... in its way of understanding your dilemma for what keys you like ;)
The F sharp on my piano is so flat you cant tell it apart from the F natural anyways, so when I play a song In F sharp it always comes out sounding like F natural on the piano, but F sharp in my voice. It really fucks with your mind. Now I always avoid F sharps.
He's really in D minor, which is relative to F major but not technically the same. Also, the type of surprise modulation he does from the minor third to the major third (D minor to D major) can be really effective to make a piece sound more interesting. The only reason it sounded so hilariously bad was because the orchestra stayed in D minor instead of switching with him to D major
I think around 1:20 the orchestra started rushing and Tim had troubles keeping up. looked like he was trying to establish eye contact with the conductor. I may be misinterpreting this. still a brilliant piece.
This guy is brilliant! I love this kind of stuff. Any suggestions of other videos kind of like this? From this guy or others? I'm sure he's very famous but I haven't had the pleasure of seeing this until now!
I remember when I saw him live, he performed this and said that the audience's response to this was like a bell curve - the people who understood it and found it funny, the people who kinda got it and laughed nervously, and the people at the other end of the spectrum who didn't get it and thought it sounded good.
I belong somewhere between the last two. I feel like it doesn’t sound good simply because I don’t like the tone of his voice and I have no idea what the difference between keys is or what other comments are talking about with overtones, 5ths and all that jazz. It completely flies over my head.
@Niccolo Adami I won't lie and say that I really understood what you explained but I feel like I understood a little bit. Basically, if I don't hit the exact key I am playing the music on, I will sound out of key, but if I hot a vastly different note, it may sound intentional and thus good. Or something like that.
@@ExceedProduction He is singing the wrong note that does not match with the chord. You don’t really need technical musical theory explanations to understand it or to know that the note he is singing, f sharp, is not part of the key of F major. If Elvis, Whitney, Pavarotti, Dean Martin, Dolly Parton, Julie Andrews, Luis Miguel, Billie Joe Armstrong…whomever it is who you DO like, sang it, it would still sound awful. Or it should, and I do think you would still think it sounded awful. Unless you have no tonal awareness at all. I had a girl that was tone deaf who wanted me to teach her to sing. I can t teach singing. I didn’t learn it by studying; I just know I have never not sung even as far back as I can remember, which is age two. It can be a handicap to not know how it is you do something, lol. Other than a few technique tweaks from a Russian maestro who could teach pop singing, when I was an adult. This tone deaf girl loved Mariah Carey, but when she sang, even sang along with a record, she was on an entirely different pitch planet. Not even close to the right key. If people you know who are being honest with you about how you sound say that’s you, then maybe you can’t hear the difference, but pitch is a mystifying thing, and I don’t understand how anyone can enjoy any singer if they can’t even tell if they themselves are pitchy. Pitch is a fascinating topic of study, actually. It also makes for very funny songs, like this one!
@@ExceedProduction in short: a "key" is a set of 8 notes that make up a music "scale", which all sound good together. A song is likely to only use the notes of a specific key, because otherwise they sounds dissonant.
An example of a key is C major, which is centred around the C note and the scale contains all the white piano notes, but none of the black ones. The eight notes in a key are set at specific intervals (along the black and white notes). All of the different major keys feature the same intervals between notes, meaning a tune played in different keys will have exactly the same melody, just using different notes to do it.
Mixing a song in the key of F, which doesn't include the note F# in the scale, with the note F#, produces dissonance and sounds bad.
How odd - the reaction you’re describing is exactly the reaction that Tim describes the audience having in the DVD of the tour that had this song in it. Hooves, horses, zebras..
Haha i can't help thinking it may actually be for more difficult to deliberately hit that off note than staying in key. That's pretty awesome.
Incredibly more difficult.
Infinitely more difficult
Way harder, yes.
@@Ms.OliversLife it's really not with any practice at all
It's insanely difficult to do. It's right up there with dissonant harmonies which feel wrong but work lol
It's the cheeky smile he has on that last line... he knows the sound is aggravating and that people are cringing, he's brilliant. What an absolute legend.
When you've listened to this so many times that the off-key F# actually begins to sound good 😂
I hear it as a picardy 3rd over the D minor hah
The last one over F definitely stings, though
The last F# is also too sharp for F#, more like F3/4#
Repetition legitimizes
Omg no! 😂 I have 5 family members who have perfect pitch. They are the only non musicians in the family. The musicians in the family are all working musicians, but the perfect pitch people are extremely sensitive about pitchy performances. This would make my cousin’s daughter, especially, almost throw up or maybe cry if she had to keep hearing it over and over. And in my head, even though I find the song so catchy that it stays there, every time he hits the F#, if I’m doing something else, a voice in my head says “Ah! That guy is sharp!” 😖And I’m not even one of the five family members I mentioned. I wonder if he wrote this after having to sit through listening to a pitchy singer who leaned sharp. Like also maybe someone with a bit of Dunning-Krueger Syndrome who sang loudly and proudly sharp 😂. Known a few of those in my life. Briefly.
it doesnt
I find it funny that his last F# is sharp lol! That being said, it's an awesome song, and I'm totally stealing it :)
his last F# is flat in my ears... sounds more like F half sharp to me
@@99temporal Whoa, it's interesting hearing this several years later. My ears are so much better. Now, my first thought was, "He's not playing 'F Major.' The entire song was in d minor except for the very last note." XD
Do you have a piano handy? I'm sitting next to keyboard, and when I checked the last note, it sounded higher than F# but lower than G.
Anyway, thx for reminded of this song. I might have to change the lyrics or reharmonize, but it's still a genius concept lol.
@@99temporal It is definitely sharp.
@@aarongrooves d minor is parallel to f major , so it is in fact in f major
@@99temporal 3/4 sharp
Everyone tells me I'm a horrible singer. Now I know, I've been singing in F sharp
You've been singing in f.... SHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARP, f.... SHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARP, f.... SHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARP
😂😂😂😭😭😭
F Shahp*
@@JackLe1127 facts
As a musician I find this incredibly painful to listen to but none the less... Pure and utter genius!
Genius. Masterpiece. Like nails on a chalkboard.
You know it's a banger when the most replayed time is 0:01
True lmao
Now I'm remembering the video of Tim singing this song several years ago - back when when he had short hair and wore shoes but no makeup on stage and was playing at small pubs and clubs in Perth - and I cry at how far he has come. Good on ya, kid!
Amazing. What a story.
f shaaaaaaaarp
F SHAAAAAAAARP
F SHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARP
pls STAAAAAAHP
savvas athanasiou **correction**
f shaaaaaap
F SHAAAAAAP
F SHAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPP😁
Haiya
Thank you, I couldn't make out the lyrics.
Ladies and gentlemen, Tim Minchin has discovered the Brown Note.
He made you crap your pants with just the sound of his voice? That's intense.
The Brown Note is a mythical sound that reverberates through your body, causes your bowels to loosen, and any waste you had built up to immediately be flooded into your pants. Or in layman's terms it makes you crap yourself.
+Phoenix White nup it's been proven that it doesn't exist and simply can't exist
+Finnmega26 "Mythical"
Hahaha
This is actually really interesting-- my girlfriend is what I would call "tone deaf", but when she sings along with the radio, she sings in the correct key, but she always sings a 5th above the notes in the melody. It blows my mind.
That's not tone deaf then
Interesting. I wonder if it's some kind of auditory processing issue, like how stutterers hear the sound of their voice too soon or too late and get stuck from it. Maybe she hears her own voice a bit lower than it actually is.
dafuq
Sounds like she's hearing the overtones of the melody notes
@@MrRodgers I love the Overtones, I have all their albums
For a trained musician, it must be very difficult to not resolve that chord at the very end. Tim Minchin rocks!
Ah, but notice he cuts just before the orchestra does (common) and the orchestra's F-major is the last thing heard. So granted his voice didn't resolve the chord, but the orchestra did, for the entire piece hence why I think the song works more mainstream.
We used this as a model for our music in band one day. Conductor had half the band transpose our concert piece into F-major and the other half transposed it into F-sharp. It sounded about as painful as you’d think. For a moment, I thought the entire band was going to go tone-deaf listening to the transposed piece.
There is a video here of Africa by Toto where the vocals are out of key and off beat. It's as painful as it sounds. And the wirst thing is, the vocals come early.
You want to chime in, but it just doesn't work. It just keeps breaking you. If it were late, you could just scream over it, but no. You keep stumbling.
It breaks my heart that a non musician won't understand the beauty of this, perfectly imperfect art
you just gotta have a basic understanding of notes tbh, my mom whose tried piano for a couple weeks and stopped understands this
Anyone with basic school music background with reading any notes like ever can understand how hilarious this is.
I sang it in front of some people from a choir and they looked at me so weirdly when I switched to F sharp. It was hilarious!
I CANT STOP WATCHING WHILE MY EARS ARE BURNING
how can we dance when our Earth is turning
how can you watch while your ears are burning
Same can not stop watching
The watching is okay. It's the listening that hurts lol
It just never get's old. I love this song.
Tim teaches you something new every day. I watched this for the first time, and discovered that uncontrollable outbursts of laughter are frowned upon in designated study areas. I can't watch this video in public now, people look at me funny when I poorly suppress laughter.
AAAAAH It Stings!But seriously, he is so good if he can just pluck out that note from nowhere.
Josh Cohen it’s not from nowhere. It’s from him playing in F ?
Jordan Lombardo more to the point how many times he would have rehearsed it anyways
It isn't from nowhere. The key is in D minor. One of the most essential notes in the chord is the minor third (F). He only has to go up one semitone in his head. Easy interval to imagine
Sebastian-Benedict Flore now you explain it anyone can do it
@@Bart-tk9um ???
This guy is so amazingly talented it’s hard to believe.
I have loved this song and Tim for years. This song has been played way more than it probably should have in one house. I have a very musically gifted son and a few weeks ago husband informed me that said child had told him that Tim was not actually vocalizing an F-sharp. He has since reaffirmed this claim multiple times. I kept saying that Tim wouldn't do that do us!! He told me my whole life was a lie. I cried. Today I just happened to catch the little twerp I birthed long enough for me to play the "F-sharp" note and get his opinion. "It is an F-sharp, I don't know why Dad would think it's not. I've never said that" and opened up an app to double-check himself. The husband and I will start couples counseling on Monday.🤣
When se sings "F sharp" he sings it in "F sharp", but the song itself is neither in F nor in F sharp.
To be fair, his final F sharp is actually a quarter-tone sharp.
Truly brilliant.
So difficult to execute but he nails it. The guy is genius level.
I don't even have words for the genius and talent of Tim Minchin! His ideas, wording, phrasing, musical ability, singing, what even?? He's so amazing
1:06 you can hear he wants to start laughing on the spot xD
hes singing his chorus in the key of F sharp and playing the piano in the key of F. All you ones complaining - hes perfectly on key
He's actually playing in D minor. It's the relative minor of F Major, so to all intents and purposes you're right, it's just which note is played as the root that counts.
@bullsi20 actually, his comment is relevant because of the modal difference between Fmajor and Dminor.
Wow, you've got a real chip on your shoulder.
@bullsi20 imagine your boss paying you a wage of 00.03 euros this month, it's the same as 3000, right? That they use the same set of notes (and they mostly don't, as d minor uses the A major chord, containing a C#) doesn't make them the same at all.
Also, in the song (which is still hilarious), he states he plays in F major and sings in F sharp, while he actually plays AN F natural and sings AN F sharp, both in the key of d. In other words, he plays in d minor and sings in D major. Nonetheless this song is awesome
P O L Y T O N A L I T Y
This song is stuck in my head, and it makes my heart happy. ^_^
Played this song in my band class. Everyone's first words to the chorus "Oh gawd!" It hurts to hear that note but it was so funny.
We showed this to our musicianship professor and she cringed when she heard him sing F#
I was there last night.It was the weirdest but greatest prom I have ever seen!
I love these Comedy Proms! Tim Minchin is an absolute legend.
I love music, it hurts when people sing the wrong note but this is awesome 😂
My orchestra teacher sings this from memory every day. I have no words
Ironically, after hearing it so many times, the F sharp now sounds natural to me 😂 I am told that is how jazz works
I've got perfect pitch and this song fucks me up. I love it so much.
ME TOO CAN WE BE FRIENDS
I can always use more friends!
Oh my goodness let's all have a perfect pitch party! And hmm, I quite like c#m aha
My favorite keys are Db Major, D Major, and Eb Major. My least favorite is G Major, but it's not like I hate it.
This song physically makes me shudder and cringe >.
I've just seen Tim live tonight performing his more serious stuff (though he still threw in a few of his less punchline-y songs from his comedy era) and he was absolutely amazingly brilliant. He performed everything better than any recording I have seen of his work, and he also had the whole audience laughing between every song (while making us feel all different things in between). He finished by playing Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen with all the lights switched off (so he couldn't see what he was doing). It's hard to describe the feeling of hearing his voice and the piano emanating from a dark stage and having the whole audience singing along. His skills also make me (as a pianist) want to burn my piano and push it into a lake. I wish I could have a recording of his whole show so I could re-live it. It's probably the best show I've been to, and I've seen Ben Folds about 7 times. HIGHLY recommend his Unfunny show if he brings it anywhere near you.
What note is off?
*Laughs in Jacob Collier* 😂😅
I just love how passionate his face looks
People don't realize it, bu the fact that he sang pitch-perfect out of tune is extremely impressive
The last F# was not quite an F# though.
@@JohnDoe-zo2ww Correction G1/2b
no
@@neoromanempire no, its sharp
@@Wtahc Sorry, English is my third language, but isn't # sharp and b flat?
You don't get tired of it, you just watch it again and again. You never get bored!
love how the orchestra is so extraaa
listening to this causes me real actual pain. Thanks Tim!
I love this song, but I actually have a similar problem ... I keep playing in A major but singing in G# : (
this is bad. It's better to sing too high rather than wrong.
No that’s called jazz it’s a major 7th it’s nice
jazztom86... Are you aware of the concept of irony?
Ava Winehouse yeah but like everytime he would’ve played the D major chord and sang a g#, tension would rise without a fantastic resolution arising from the amaj7
I love the irony on “I will not be forced to compromise my art” when the orchestra speeds up 🤣
This video was my introduction to the brilliant Tim Minchin! I was instantly hooked❤️
'the rift betwix my fingers and my tenor" 💓
Tim with an orchestra just is so amazing!
He just gets more brillianter every song I watch!
When i listend to this with my family i literally cried
HE PLAYED THE PERFECT THE PERFECT F 3/4TH SHARP
My friend showed this to me, saying "This is going to torture you." He was totally right!
Hilarious, though. But my head and ears.
I sent this to my high school band teacher. My teacher loved it.
they should give tim an entire orchestra more often
The absolute skill that takes is amazing.
I'd be going crazy if I were playing in that orchestra...this was too hilarious!!! and beautifully frustrating, especially to someone with a well trained musical ear..
"beautifully frustrating"
Thank you for this Nelly!
this might be one of the most amazing musical things i've ever heard. haha
This is hilarious - and it kind of reminds me of the song "I Have A Dream" from Tangled lol
F sharp(to say it is f sharp but it isn't) at the end is the most terrifying but also InTEReSTinG thing I've heard in this song
This man is pure genius ..I dislike that there are artist making millions off stupid music and there is this man breaking the status quo of how music should be played .so funny and unbelievably intellectual man
As he says himself "most of my songs are .... stupid and I fear that people think I lack depth" and then proceeds to sing Darkside.
love it love it love it love it love it! You never get bored, just watch it again and again!
EVERY TIME he sings the sharp my ears literally ache!!! :)
The minor second; most beautiful of all intervals.
This is horrible, I love it
Just came here to say that I played this to my musically gifted 4 year old, and now she asks for it every morning on the way to school😂
Since before she turned 1, she has been able to match my pitch and “sing” that note back to me, before she could even speak! She’s just got that musical touch from my long history of musicians in my family, and music in particular has always grabbed her attention away from anything she’s doing. I can’t wait to see what she does with this gift, but it’s so amazing to be able to share this with her and have her appreciate it for what it is. He is a brilliant musician and overall performer. Love this❤
The only time when you can get applause for singing out of key. Brilliant.
god, do you know how difficult it is to do that??? Shows how talented he is!!! Wish i was there, can't believe i didn't know about it!
Amusing, hilarious, as for me as a musician, composer and music teacher 😂💪👍
this physically hurts and i can't stop listening to it
The d minor/F major discrepancy here does nothing to ease the pain of my abdominal cramps from laughing so hard I almost cried. I am a music teacher for a living and seriously, it's not about the theory behind it, it's about the laughs. And holy cow, did this crack me up!
Any music kid appreciates this soooo much😂😂😂
Holy shit this Prom was 10 years ago. In my mind I was sure it was just a couple of years. What have you done to me Time.
I'm pretty sure I burst an eardrum. I love this song never the less
This is like CIA-level torture music.
Hello Mark Towther. Did you mention CIA? Please open the door
Thought I was going mad when I said he could do this. Then ye olde TH-cam algorithm delivered, and I bruised myself congratulating myself. Hey Tim: If your present stalker quits or gets fired, please accept this TH-cam as my job application. (btw thanx Phoebe)...
The man is a genius.
With all due respect to the theory wars on this video, it's perfectly fine to recognize the discrepancy between the theory and the lyrics. This is a guy who is trying to make an audience laugh, have a fun day at the concert hall, and close the gap within the huge dichotomy we have between popular music and high brow music; I believe he is doing an excellent job meeting this need. Had this been Prokofiev or Ligeti, we might have justification to wag our fingers, but not here.
Tim Minchin, dont grow older please, that way you can continue your amazing works to improve humanity... in its way of understanding your dilemma for what keys you like ;)
This is probably my favourite thing ever.
The F sharp on my piano is so flat you cant tell it apart from the F natural anyways, so when I play a song In F sharp it always comes out sounding like F natural on the piano, but F sharp in my voice. It really fucks with your mind. Now I always avoid F sharps.
I am very poor, so I cant afford to get a guy to tune my piano, or a tuning hammer. It's funny how nothing changes in a year.
Never heard of that before, but I will give it a try. Thanks! No need for the app, I play by ear anyway.
1:46 G QUATER FLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT
If you listen to it enough times it starts to sound fine
"I like playing in F major, but I like singing in F... *dramatic pause* SHAARRRRRRPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP#####!!!"
Mesmerising to watch 🤩 🤩 I watched this 10 times over, just the sheer talent and pitch-perfect singing I’m at awed. Bravo 👏🏻
Great touches with the uni cookies and "he rides". F is as sharp as ever, but this one is in D minor. It's time you transpose it cooks
D minor is F major's relative minor. I suppose that counts for something :)
I don't play an instrument But I know how hard it is But It does not amaze me Because Tim Minchin is a brilliant man :)
Haha! This is so clever and irritatingly funny!
Wow this guy is amazing what a great musical joke
it doesnt matter that he is singing in D minor he is just epic :)
Haha. Hey, thank you for showing me this video!
He's really in D minor, which is relative to F major but not technically the same. Also, the type of surprise modulation he does from the minor third to the major third (D minor to D major) can be really effective to make a piece sound more interesting. The only reason it sounded so hilariously bad was because the orchestra stayed in D minor instead of switching with him to D major
Music theory FTW!
Cool story bro
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I think around 1:20 the orchestra started rushing and Tim had troubles keeping up. looked like he was trying to establish eye contact with the conductor. I may be misinterpreting this. still a brilliant piece.
AARGH!!!!! MY EARS!!!!!!!!
i want him in the proms EVERY YEAR!
I have the same problem, but I play in F major, and sing in E#.
I play in F major and sing in D minor
This is why I love Tim Minchin.
and while he's singing an F# during the chorus, it's actually part of a D major triad
This is BEAUTIFUL.
I’m not half the pianist this man is, let alone his vocals and stage presence!
This guy is brilliant! I love this kind of stuff. Any suggestions of other videos kind of like this? From this guy or others? I'm sure he's very famous but I haven't had the pleasure of seeing this until now!
If you're looking for him using false playing on purpose, i would suggest you look up "Inflatable You"
same chord progression as spooky scary skeletons.
It has so much more effect when he does it with his accordion.