how tone deaf people hear music

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  • @bliss4492
    @bliss4492 ปีที่แล้ว +17244

    I deciphered the morse codes! The first one is YOU'RE TONE, the second morse that's mixed with the boing sound is DEAF

    • @mikeiavelli
      @mikeiavelli ปีที่แล้ว +281

      no way!

    • @silverandexact
      @silverandexact ปีที่แล้ว +202

      ✨ algorithmic boost ✨

    • @Caerulean
      @Caerulean ปีที่แล้ว +87

      Wait, for real? 👀

    • @Floodpelt
      @Floodpelt ปีที่แล้ว +104

      ​@@Caerulean Nah, when I wrote it down, I only got the message "YOU'L TONE", so the first guy must've made a mistake somewhere

    • @temmiemew
      @temmiemew ปีที่แล้ว +215

      @@Floodpelt
      R E = •-• •
      L = •-••

  • @EchoLog
    @EchoLog ปีที่แล้ว +11226

    My great grandmother was tone deaf, the rest of both sides of my family have a lot of aural disorders. Her encouragement to my creativity musically only became more meaningful when I learned she had no idea what I was doing.

    • @effmltalks
      @effmltalks ปีที่แล้ว +325

      THIS IS SO SWEET WTH AAAAH

    • @kinzanadeem8654
      @kinzanadeem8654 ปีที่แล้ว +93

      omg 🥰 thats so sweet

    • @SciFiSecrets
      @SciFiSecrets ปีที่แล้ว +94

      Thats not tone deaf, thats just how grandkids music sounds to every older generation.
      (lol)

    • @EchoLog
      @EchoLog ปีที่แล้ว +129

      @@SciFiSecrets You never met my grandmother and don't know what music i was playing. Why are you asserting it's "just the kids music these days" she was experiencing?

    • @SciFiSecrets
      @SciFiSecrets ปีที่แล้ว +58

      @@EchoLog < doesn't understand jokes....

  • @edenli9630
    @edenli9630 ปีที่แล้ว +7857

    love how the phone's ringtone sounds perfectly normal, proof that it is the one sound that transcends all human ailments

    • @liger04
      @liger04 ปีที่แล้ว +112

      Yeah, Fur Elise makes a surprisingly good ringtone.

    • @Shrooblord
      @Shrooblord ปีที่แล้ว

      + x"D

    • @loganshaw4527
      @loganshaw4527 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Well he is still better then someone that does not think they are Tone deaf. BUT THEY ARE.

    • @PeterSitterly
      @PeterSitterly ปีที่แล้ว +13

      The phone's ringtone? It was just static.

    • @rixy_wolfwolfosjr9952
      @rixy_wolfwolfosjr9952 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Haha

  • @kelseyswanepoel7056
    @kelseyswanepoel7056 ปีที่แล้ว +8192

    For anyone wondering Tone Deafness is a real thing (generally caused by chronic ear infections as a child) but it does not mean that you cannot sing. We had a tome deaf boy in our choir who taught himself to sing by feeling how the vibrations changed in his throat. Very good singer

    • @ytcommentssuck4804
      @ytcommentssuck4804 ปีที่แล้ว +309

      That’s impressive

    • @hughcaldwell1034
      @hughcaldwell1034 ปีที่แล้ว +102

      Thanks. I's doing some shower singing the other day, paying super close attention to the sensations in my throat, and so was wondering about this.

    • @CaptainChard
      @CaptainChard ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Very interesting!

    • @EmmaJohnsonShenanigans
      @EmmaJohnsonShenanigans ปีที่แล้ว +83

      when i sing in the choir and can’t hear myself, i have to rely on the way a note feels to sing to tell if i’m off pitch, or even on the right note 😅

    • @aprilbennett4161
      @aprilbennett4161 ปีที่แล้ว +95

      My older sister can sing pretty well, and, as a kid, was generally favored in her music classes. She was even decent at playing the flute. It wasn't until a few years ago, in college, that she found out that she was tone deaf. One of her professors uncovered it by accident. There was some demonstration that involved the use of tones. Naturally, she was totally confused and brought up her inability to tell the difference between the sounds. In a span of minutes, the professor ran an experiment and informed her that she's tone deaf.
      Funnily enough, I had chronic ear infections as a kid (swimmers ear from bad bathing habits), not her, and I'm not tone deaf.

  • @Ichiy0k
    @Ichiy0k ปีที่แล้ว +2525

    "Piano, piano, piano, piano, piano, piano" was truly insperational. The emotion and work that went into the quote was amazing.

    • @ronan-outoftime
      @ronan-outoftime ปีที่แล้ว +31

      harmonica harmonica harmonica

    • @marktloy4740
      @marktloy4740 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      guitar guitar guitar

    • @cynthiasilva7422
      @cynthiasilva7422 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      "Yeah... I'm going to take my horse to the old town road." Lol

    • @marktloy4740
      @marktloy4740 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@cynthiasilva7422 "OLD TOWN ROAD! THATS A GREAT SONG!"

    • @sophiegrey9576
      @sophiegrey9576 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That's not how it went...

  • @HyperChamp
    @HyperChamp ปีที่แล้ว +14033

    As someone who's not tone deaf I can't confirm anything

    • @Gmod2012lo1
      @Gmod2012lo1 ปีที่แล้ว +278

      That is something a confirm-deaf person would say

    • @penguin22penguin22
      @penguin22penguin22 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @@Gmod2012lo1 no it wouldnt be

    • @PebsBeans
      @PebsBeans ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@Gmod2012lo1 LMAO

    • @nunyabusiness2945
      @nunyabusiness2945 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Underrated comment. Well played, sir or madam.

    • @penguin22penguin22
      @penguin22penguin22 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@nunyabusiness2945 um

  • @ProgThoughts
    @ProgThoughts ปีที่แล้ว +3627

    As somebody who is deaf, I can confirm that I heard this video the same way I hear music.

    • @jasonwismer2670
      @jasonwismer2670 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      Ha ha ha! Clever.

    • @ComicPans
      @ComicPans ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Mind-blowing :0

    • @atreq
      @atreq ปีที่แล้ว +28

      I know I probably shouldn't laugh but I lost it so much at your comment XDDDD

    • @Casey-c-m
      @Casey-c-m ปีที่แล้ว +16

      As a fellow deaf person who wears a cochlear implant and hearing aid, I disprove that fact. (I'm joking, I know some people do choose to live without them and that's fine. I really am deaf tho)

    • @baconrap3850
      @baconrap3850 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      😂

  • @ked49
    @ked49 ปีที่แล้ว +2296

    Tone deaf myself I can confidently say this guy gave the most accurate depiction of our condition. I also have tinnitus so all I hear is bell, bell, bell constantly

    • @object-official
      @object-official ปีที่แล้ว +40

      bell, bell, bell, bell

    • @Servant_of_Yeshua96
      @Servant_of_Yeshua96 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      Aw I will pray the Lord heals your ears.

    • @F0rger513
      @F0rger513 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

    • @petethecat3750
      @petethecat3750 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      I got the unlucky whistle whistle whistle type tinnitus. Sometimes it's just an all out squeal that turns my world into a death metal type production. Isn't it just great?

    • @Floccinaucinihilipilificator
      @Floccinaucinihilipilificator ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Bell, bell, bell, bell, bell, bell, bell
      Guitar, guitar, Bell, bell, bell, bell, bell, bell,Guitar, guitar,
      Bell, bell, bell, bell, bell, bell, Drums *Mississippi Queen*

  • @rosamy2017
    @rosamy2017 ปีที่แล้ว +1885

    There was a very sweet woman at my synagogue growing up who was so horrendously tone deaf, standing next to her while singing was like being next to a tree trimmer. She made it difficult to even keep pitch yourself. But she desperately wanted to learn to read Torah, which is a very special and honorable thing to do. She studied for like 6 months with the rabbi, which is probably 5 months longer than average, and she eventually did it! It wasn’t amazing, but somehow she trained herself to sound boring instead of horrendous. We were all very proud of her!

    • @talia1628
      @talia1628 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      that is so wholesome!!

    • @andromedatonks60
      @andromedatonks60 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      I’m truly awful at singing, but the one benefit to chanting Torah is that there isn’t really a specific pitch to match (at least as far as I ever learned). You just have to go higher or lower when you’re supposed to. I could keep to within my pathetically small range too. I’m sure I didn’t sound great at my bat mitzvah, but way better than if I were trying to sing an actual song.

    • @kevinkarthik3329
      @kevinkarthik3329 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Such a motivating person !!

    • @ypsithepanda
      @ypsithepanda ปีที่แล้ว +51

      I know its beautiful story, but sentence "Sound boring instead of horrendous" as a winning situation makes me laugh so hard :-D

    • @SpeedcoreDancecore
      @SpeedcoreDancecore 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Aren't the women not supposed to learn it

  • @jimh4375
    @jimh4375 ปีที่แล้ว +794

    I am tone deaf (among other auditory issues). Since my condition is congenital it is impossible to describe because I've never heard sound any other way. I love music so much even though I can never hear it the way many people do. it is impossible for me to distinguish many similar notes, the higher the frequency the more difficult this becomes. Many music lovers have attempted to "show" me the difference. I know they mean well and just want to share with me what they deeply enjoy, The hardest part for me is I can't sing, it sounds good to me but everyone else suffers like it's a horror movie.

    • @flinfake
      @flinfake ปีที่แล้ว +39

      Not sure if it would be worth it, but there are pitch detector softwares out there. You might be able to trial and error out something through a mixture of tactile and visual feedback. Would probably take a few weeks of practice to get a basic scale down though, and it would do nothing for your hearing, but you might be able to eventually sing off of sheet music.
      It would be like learning how to type without looking at your hands on an unfamiliar keyboard with a strange layout.

    • @WouldntULikeToKnow.
      @WouldntULikeToKnow. ปีที่แล้ว +19

      I wonder if tone deaf people singing to other tone deaf people would sound good to them... 🤔

    • @jimh4375
      @jimh4375 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@WouldntULikeToKnow. It depends upon how far off the person singing is. If they can get close to the note but not quite I will never know. On the other hand if I listen to a recording of me singing it sounds horrible. It will also depend on where they are off since I hear better in lower ranges I would notice a bass singer being off way sooner than a soprano.

    • @jimh4375
      @jimh4375 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@flinfake Tactile feedback can detect sound, but I can't see how it could possibly detect tone. I went through years of speech therapy during elementary school to overcome speech difficulties to say nothing of singing. (Like I said its a complex series of auditory issues)

    • @flinfake
      @flinfake ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@jimh4375: If tactile feedback couldn't detect tone, how do other people's ears work? Ears are merely specialized structures for receiving tactile feedback.
      Can you feel the difference between the vibrations of wood, metal, and stone when you strike it?
      A sound is not a singular averaged value, it is a complex formula with variables for how it grows, interacts with the various component frequencies, and eventually decays, not to mention echoes and how it resonates with its surroundings and the sensor.
      All of this can be felt by the skin of your hand once you know it is there, barring neurological oddities.
      Learning tone is all about deciphering a complex melange of shifting frequencies. I am naturally monotone and took speech classes myself. I was taught to wear earplugs when practicing and focus on the vibrations in my throat.
      If you just want to learn how to use pitch, the rate of vibration IS pitch. A higher note on a guitar vibrates faster than a lower one. Find the right vibrations for the right note and you're done. Tone, of which pitch is merely a part, is harder.

  • @EileenSloane
    @EileenSloane ปีที่แล้ว +34115

    I know I'm supposed to be laughing but I'm actually just terrified to find out that tone deafness is a real thing and not just a harsh insult thrown at kids who never made it into the school choir

    • @TeacupTSauceror
      @TeacupTSauceror ปีที่แล้ว +2846

      can confirm i can't tell which note is higher unless they're an octave apart. i just learn which button on the piano means which dot on the paper

    • @_what._.
      @_what._. ปีที่แล้ว +1054

      I feel so bad for tone deaf people

    • @VenomSERE
      @VenomSERE ปีที่แล้ว +869

      I was been told that I have Perfect Pitch. When someone Sings a Note or two incorrectly I want to leave the room.

    • @woodybob01
      @woodybob01 ปีที่แล้ว +699

      it's 1/20 really, though people often use the word often just to mean someone's "non-musical" where actual tone deafness is not present. As a rule of thumb, if you listen to music on a regular basis and enjoy it, then you're probably not tone deaf

    • @Kriistofor
      @Kriistofor ปีที่แล้ว +195

      you and me both, simply terrified that people have this condition and are having such indescribable problems to fight with on everyday basis.

  • @OkashiiAmerican
    @OkashiiAmerican ปีที่แล้ว +6077

    Just now realizing being tone deaf is like being color blind but for your ears. That's a lot of beauty in the world those people are missing out on. Kinda makes me want to cry cause I love music a lot.

    • @hagelslag9312
      @hagelslag9312 ปีที่แล้ว +345

      Aphantasia is wild if you don't know about it but it's very real. The first time I learned there are people with no inner monologue or who are not able to imagine anything, I was shocked. Meanwhile those with Aphantasia learn the inner monologue in anime series is an actual thing for people and are equally shocked. It's crazy how few people know about something with such a huge impact.

    • @boserboser6870
      @boserboser6870 ปีที่แล้ว +97

      -me with visual snow
      Wait all of you guys dont have flashing lights overlaying your vison. How did you invent pixel screens then?

    • @hagelslag9312
      @hagelslag9312 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@boserboser6870 Rip that sucks. I have it as well but not too intense. It gets worse when I didn't have enough magnesium intake, it works for me to use supplements (also related to my migraines, which are also related to magnesium for me). It might be worth a try.

    • @Lil_Yuri
      @Lil_Yuri ปีที่แล้ว +39

      ​​​@@hagelslag9312 that one's weird because I kinda picture stuff, but when I try to go into detail intentionally it sorta gets all funky (like being super duper stoned). Similarly, I can definitely think without any inner monologue because I know I do it for a good portion of my day (which also makes meditating a bit easier despite having pretty severe ADHD) but I can't simultaneously think about inner monologues and not have one verbalizing my thoughts-- I can only turn it off if I don't try to. Basically, I can think in only vivid pictures, without any verbal thoughts, but only if I don't think about my thought processes too much 😅

    • @kathleendavidson3316
      @kathleendavidson3316 ปีที่แล้ว +97

      @@hagelslag9312 aphantasia is when you can't imagine pictures in your mind. It's totally different from not having an inner voice. I have aphantasia and have had a strong inner voice (which honestly never shuts up). I listen to music inside my head too.

  • @gilagal777
    @gilagal777 ปีที่แล้ว +6725

    I love slowly collecting the obscure, unimportant "lore" of Daniel's characters. Dennis is tone deaf(??)? Good to know lol

    • @james14294
      @james14294 ปีที่แล้ว +219

      we just need matpat to make a wild theory about it all at some point

    • @justanaveragebuzzsaw
      @justanaveragebuzzsaw ปีที่แล้ว +177

      Time to create a Danielverse wiki

    • @emmatotaldrama
      @emmatotaldrama ปีที่แล้ว +32

      @@justanaveragebuzzsaw Yess

    • @dallinorr6929
      @dallinorr6929 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      SIX SEASONS AND A MOVIE!!!!!
      wait... did I do that right?

    • @profex.
      @profex. ปีที่แล้ว +75

      Oh my goodness, this explains why in the housewarming video, he didn't have a keyboard in his house! You wouldn't need one if you were tone deaf!

  • @iDoit4LoLz
    @iDoit4LoLz ปีที่แล้ว +336

    As someone who is tone deaf. Those were some phenomenal pieces. That piano and guitar solo were great.

  • @jana31415
    @jana31415 ปีที่แล้ว +363

    the morse code at 1:20 says
    first section:you're tone
    second: deaf
    took me really long to realize .----. is supposed to be a '

    • @amritas2400
      @amritas2400 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      Thanks a lot for this!
      I'd never have figured out that .____. stood for an apostrophe. Lol.
      I also didn't understand that there was a second section due to the funny noises.

    • @aiex314
      @aiex314 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      ​@@amritas2400Same! I also thought it just said "You're tone"

    • @johjoh9270
      @johjoh9270 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      ​@@amritas2400yeah, went back immediatly to listen to first time after it caught me off guard, heard the "you're tone" and I was like "huh, guess he forgot to add the rest" at first 😂

    • @Yoshistar238
      @Yoshistar238 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@amritas2400 I just use it as a smil lol

  • @RealFanplayer
    @RealFanplayer ปีที่แล้ว +9281

    As a tone deaf person I can confirm this is how i hear music

    • @oivariini7
      @oivariini7 ปีที่แล้ว +197

      But you can still appreciate Daddy Daddy Do 👌

    • @markiyanturyk7626
      @markiyanturyk7626 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @Don't Read My Profile Photo Ok I won’t

    • @NTN_music
      @NTN_music ปีที่แล้ว +50

      @@oivariini7 A man of culture I see

    • @hiddenalien
      @hiddenalien ปีที่แล้ว +29

      @@NTN_music fellow men of culture, good to see you

    • @pmel9912
      @pmel9912 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      💀💀💀💀

  • @JewishMusicToronto
    @JewishMusicToronto ปีที่แล้ว +2351

    I was literally having a conversation with someone, barely two hours ago, about the extreme rarity of true tone deafness, and how most people believed to be tone deaf just need help to train their brains to properly hear music and then produce vocally.
    This was an astoundingly good representation of true tone deafness as described by the person with whom I was speaking (with the added hyperbole at the end, of course).

    • @brianthesnail3815
      @brianthesnail3815 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      I had to laugh " just need help to train their brains to properly hear music and then produce vocally".
      That what my music teacher thought when he decided I was a perfect candidate for a starring role in musical theatre. See my comment above further up thread. Poor man. He had to admit defeat (eventually) and I was trying so hard to please him.

    • @JewishMusicToronto
      @JewishMusicToronto ปีที่แล้ว +49

      @Brian theSnail to be VERY clear, it's a REALLY slow process. Minimum of one year, usually. I've been teaching one student for just over two years this Feb., and he has only just started really being able to stay in key to sections of songs.
      The commitment to practice is a major help, though.

    • @brianthesnail3815
      @brianthesnail3815 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      @@JewishMusicToronto Wow! A minimum of a year? That is dedication.
      To be honest, I wish I wasn't tone deaf because I do like music and singing (very badly). I also was a church bell ringer in England and was in charge of a team of 20 bell ringers and I used to teach people to ring. I would have been much better at it if I had been able to easily distinguish the notes of the different bells although we don't ring tunes only 'changes' which are just permutations.

    • @JewishMusicToronto
      @JewishMusicToronto ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @Brian theSnail it DOES take dedication, for sure. It helps when students have goals. As for my side, teaching tone hearing, production, and control is very rewarding, and that's why I chose it as my specialty with vocal students when I started teaching (though I teach regular vocal lessons too).
      If you enjoy music, it's unlikely you're TRULY tone deaf. (As Daniel presents here, true tone deafness is very different from not easily copying notes.)
      If you want to test something for yourself, I'll give you one exercise you can try that I use to assess and then train students. While using a voice recorder app, use a piano (or piano app) to play notes, and try to sing them back. Then listen back and see if you can tell whether or not you're able to tell where you're on and off.
      You've got nothing to lose.

    • @AS-iu8hr
      @AS-iu8hr ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Morgan Freeman

  • @ntm4
    @ntm4 ปีที่แล้ว +2577

    So I'm not actually tone-deaf, but the "listen to how good my new sound-system is" part is very relatable.
    Like: "Doesn't it sound good?", Well the music comes out with no obvious static or distortion so yes.
    "Can't you hear the difference in quality?", No, no I cannot.

    • @GT-tj1qg
      @GT-tj1qg ปีที่แล้ว +169

      I too am Bose-deaf

    • @ntm4
      @ntm4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      @@GT-tj1qg I'll have to remember that one lol.

    • @unacuentadeyoutube13
      @unacuentadeyoutube13 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      well, it happens to most of people. If you listen to a lot of music and can compare that new speaker to another one, then you may spot it right away (sometimes the difference is too small that only producers hear it tho)

    • @Jessica-sh1js
      @Jessica-sh1js ปีที่แล้ว +40

      same thing happens to me both with audio and visual. back when 4k was new, my friend got one and I didn't notice any different. thought that I was lying about it. Then they were showing me youtibe videos and kept altering the quality and i could barely tell the different;

    • @FaultAndDakranon
      @FaultAndDakranon ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@GT-tj1qg lol.

  • @mikeylol3141
    @mikeylol3141 ปีที่แล้ว +104

    I actually met someone who was tone-deaf once. she worked as a nurse at a hospital I was staying at at the time, and loved listening to my singing. she really wanted to hear me do a specific song, but said that she literally could not sing it back to me to help me figure out which one it was. i thought she was just nervous to sing in front of others, but she told me that she's just always been literally tone deaf. she talked about how she would listen to pop songs in her car and recognize them but have no ability whatsoever to repeat it back correctly. she knew lyrics, but not their melodies.
    crazy stuff man.

    • @catbatrat1760
      @catbatrat1760 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      "she knew lyrics, but not their melodies." On the bright side, that's usually enough to Google it. Though if you didn't catch very many of the lyrics or if, heaven forbid, it's a purely instrumental song, then unfortunately you're SOL.

  • @LaniTayvl
    @LaniTayvl ปีที่แล้ว +89

    Thank you for posting this. As a person who completely understands music and tone that lives with someone who is tone deaf, this has given me a better understanding of what he goes through whenever I try to play music for him.

  • @poogie_
    @poogie_ ปีที่แล้ว +2189

    Man, Tone Deaf guy is super lucky to be able to identify musical instruments. I’ve had times where I’ve heard a song and then later saw it being played and thought “That is not the instrument I thought that was coming from.” (And, yeah, the examples in this video would have been pretty easy to identify…probably. 😛 )

    • @jennywithalion759
      @jennywithalion759 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      Hey I have a question about tone deafness. Can you identify the voice of different people when they speak?

    • @HermanVonPetri
      @HermanVonPetri ปีที่แล้ว +68

      Don't feel bad about that. Many instruments can be really similar and hard to identify out-of-context, especially if they were recorded in unusual ways.
      I once had a recording that I could swear had a mandolin or buzuki in it. Only later did I realize that it was of a piano, but that they recorded it with the microphone right up near the strings. The sound of the strings was really twangy and tinny. But in the end they are all string instruments amplified by a wooden box.
      (I played in high-school band btw and am not tone-deaf.)

    • @poogie_
      @poogie_ ปีที่แล้ว +41

      @@HermanVonPetri - Thank you for that. Mine are pretty embarrassing. The bass guitar is what will often confuse me. I can’t remember if I thought drums were making the noise and it was a bass guitar or vice versa but I had that. And then, of course, the confusion with regular guitar.
      I’m really hoping to get the musical genius gene in my next life. Might try and steal it from Daniel. 😛

    • @NatLaS
      @NatLaS ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Yeah don’t feel bad! Recognizing instruments takes practice! And time!

    • @alexlaws5086
      @alexlaws5086 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Gotta keep you away from Apocalyptica

  • @mawcespelledwithac
    @mawcespelledwithac ปีที่แล้ว +3067

    I have a guy in my cast who’s tone deaf and he really can’t sing or match tones but he’s absolutely hilarious so it isn’t a total loss😂

    • @MyBiPolarBearMax
      @MyBiPolarBearMax ปีที่แล้ว +93

      FYI, 90% of tone deaf cases can be “cured” by practicing them listening with their ears rather than their minds.
      I usually have a pitch played or sung constantly right near their ears and then have them practice singing until their hear the pitch start to match and resonate with the tone being played.
      Once they realize the issue (they are matching a tone in their head that isn’t the tone they’ve actually heard) they can practice listening with their ears and matching tones.
      It sounds crazy but it works. Ears are good at hearing pitches, minds have to be trained how to replicate them.

    • @mawcespelledwithac
      @mawcespelledwithac ปีที่แล้ว

      @lily cartinine Yeah it is true :)

    • @hagelslag9312
      @hagelslag9312 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@MyBiPolarBearMax Fun fact, not all people have an inner monologue and can hear their own voice (aphantasia). This might be a similar issue because it also applies to sound and imagery. If you ask them to imagine something, it stays blank.

    • @nightspicer
      @nightspicer ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@hagelslag9312 yup, amusia, their brains just can't process that information in the same way other people's do

    • @p.9227
      @p.9227 ปีที่แล้ว

      Does this applies to lyric deaf too?

  • @lieutenantpickle8001
    @lieutenantpickle8001 ปีที่แล้ว +764

    As someone that read a guy's comment about being tone deaf, I can confirm that this is how tone-deafness works.

    • @zuhararaamiz5572
      @zuhararaamiz5572 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      lol

    • @monhi64
      @monhi64 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      As someone who’s read a comment about someone reading a comment I can confirm that preempting all comments with a qualification ESPECIALLY a PhD or Career is basically a requirement in 2023. Whether you actually have that qualification no one will ever know lol
      It’s effing annoying like how do people not get fed up (with themselves) saying “actual molecular Scientologist here”

    • @Raev222
      @Raev222 ปีที่แล้ว

      I was gonna like this but want to keep it at 666

    • @mrterry1756
      @mrterry1756 ปีที่แล้ว

      As someone whose main source of information is youtube, I can confirm your comment is accurate.

  • @disguisedcyclops4593
    @disguisedcyclops4593 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    As someone who really enjoys and appreciates music, I can’t imagine not being able to experience that joy.

  • @moadot720
    @moadot720 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    2:43 This BETTER be an exagerration or something, because YOU don't get to start college before ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @ninefivetriesmusic
    @ninefivetriesmusic ปีที่แล้ว +2853

    as someone who has tone deaf friends i can verify this is what it’s like showing them my music
    EDIT: mom i’m famous

    • @_Dwarkin
      @_Dwarkin ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Jazz. Don't ever try to explain the beauty of the jazz to the tone deaf person 🤣

    • @joshuameierhofer8938
      @joshuameierhofer8938 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I didn't know I am Tone death until this video

    • @arponax
      @arponax ปีที่แล้ว +7

      lol i was once making some random chords and streamed it on our discord server XD and one friend came to listen.....dayum she was unable to tell a difference between major and minor.....seriously i thought thats like normal thing everyone can do. Everyone excels at something different tho, i really suck at math XD
      PS. song "the worst day of my life" reminds me of one of my early works melodically :D interesting pieces you got.

    • @Myuunium
      @Myuunium ปีที่แล้ว +28

      _Multiple_ tone deaf friends? Are you starting a collection?

    • @tonethebrutal
      @tonethebrutal ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ​@@MyuuniumLMAO

  • @sharingheart13
    @sharingheart13 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    I heard a tone deaf guy describe kind of the opposite in a way. Because he was tone deaf, all music sounded beautiful to him, which sadly came with the consequence of him believing he had a beautiful singing voice as well until his family kept complaining for him to shut up. He still sings for fun sometimes though.

    • @vaenii5056
      @vaenii5056 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Lmao

    • @catrocastre8215
      @catrocastre8215 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I think that's my case too.

  • @FlatlanderJrFilms
    @FlatlanderJrFilms ปีที่แล้ว +202

    I didn't know tone deaf people had this much trouble. That's good to learn. But the interaction between these characters is so relatable since it can be applied to other interactions between neurotypical people and me.

    • @DeathnoteBB
      @DeathnoteBB ปีที่แล้ว +12

      God for realll. I’m not tone deaf but I do have issues and the amount of people who think I just need a good push are too many. No, hun, I physically cannot do this thing.

  • @uncroppedsoop
    @uncroppedsoop ปีที่แล้ว +73

    a good friend of mine is like this and it _baffles_ me how I can play the same tune for them in Phrygian Dominant and in Major and they'll genuinely hesitate to think before guessing which is which. I'm almost impressed they still enjoy music because I feel like I'd go absolutely INSANE if it was that hard to figure out for me. they've described it as being like the closer two notes are, the less they can tell the difference (and the usually-inherent difference in emotion between similar intervals literally just doesn't register for them because of it. a basic Major and Minor chord sound almost the same to them, they can only tell there _is_ a difference, but not what it is)
    it's also relatively inconsistent for them on the technical level of telling tones apart, but they seem to consistently be unable to tell scales apart, even got to the point of yelling that a clip of ascending notes, one up Phrygian Dominant and one Minor, were absolutely identical

    • @nanismeelasla
      @nanismeelasla ปีที่แล้ว +4

      oh hi description of me

    • @uncroppedsoop
      @uncroppedsoop ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@nanismeelasla Nanis Meelasla

    • @nanismeelasla
      @nanismeelasla ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@uncroppedsoop uncropped soop

    • @anonymousinfinido2540
      @anonymousinfinido2540 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      lmao whats going on here

    • @sarahberkner
      @sarahberkner 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Also, a lot of people who aren't tone deaf don't know much about music but still enjoy it, even if they're not thinking about it in musical terms. A lot of people don't really care if the song they're listening to is actually good or not, but I'm musically inclined and I care.

  • @EmmaSong-vj8zp
    @EmmaSong-vj8zp ปีที่แล้ว +22

    As a tone deaf person, we know the difference between two notes. It’s just that we don’t know if they are “higher” or “lower” unless they are the same note of different octaves. I had a hard time playing any instrument because I had a hard time figuring out if a note was out of tune because I just thought it was a flat or sharp of some note😢

    • @therealjibrano
      @therealjibrano 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      can non tone deaf people have similar experiences? before i started playing bass i always felt weird because i couldnt always tell if a note was higher or lower than another one. but after playing bass for a while and actually making music my ear has gotten a lot better and i dont really have this problem anymore. i know im not tone deaf because i actually have always had a decent ear, and thats why this problem was kind of confusing for me.

  • @adamsaustria2005
    @adamsaustria2005 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    The way hoodie guy and his mom just sounded like Morgan freeman after that note made me laugh so damn hard at 2:23

  • @pissboi9000
    @pissboi9000 ปีที่แล้ว +307

    My choir teacher must resonate with this

    • @garrettbecker2445
      @garrettbecker2445 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Ok I wont

    • @Picksle
      @Picksle ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Don't Read My Profile Photo ok

  • @metarunner514
    @metarunner514 ปีที่แล้ว +475

    As someone who plays most songs by ear this was painful. Also the computer voice is too funny.

    • @TeenPerspektiva
      @TeenPerspektiva ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Well if you can play songs by ear you are definitely not tone deaf. So how why is this painful? I would imagine it would be funny or something

    • @metarunner514
      @metarunner514 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      @@TeenPerspektiva it’s painful because I can’t stand seeing someone struggle so much.

    • @Lawrencelot89
      @Lawrencelot89 ปีที่แล้ว

      A

    • @agentjohn4313
      @agentjohn4313 ปีที่แล้ว

      same

  • @UyamaHNYukiio
    @UyamaHNYukiio ปีที่แล้ว +37

    2:14 THE NECK CRACK. *opens eyes tensely*

    • @DANIELHGG
      @DANIELHGG 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

      But what happened in the end? I do not understand.

  • @LivingGuy484
    @LivingGuy484 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    As someone who is not creative, the fact that people like Daniel can make me laugh for several years in a row feels like nothing short of a miracle

    • @LivingGuy484
      @LivingGuy484 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      This is my lame attempt at a compliment

  • @callmeravenlee1972
    @callmeravenlee1972 ปีที่แล้ว +139

    Impressive that one of the most musically talented people I’ve ever seen is able to convey tone deafness

  • @max_the_mantis5173
    @max_the_mantis5173 ปีที่แล้ว +902

    I'm not tone def but I do have audio processing disorder and it makes it so some sounds and words sound indestinguishable from each other. I often have to ask people to repeat themselves because I don't understand what they are saying sometimes. My former dad used to insist that I was making it up because he could tell it wasn't a physical hearing issue. But it is a nuerological issue, that commonly effects nuerodiverse peoples, that I'm now diagnosed with. I love to sing and make music despite this. I've been in choir before. I love music and can sing along well.

    • @Myuunium
      @Myuunium ปีที่แล้ว +70

      When I first found out about auditory processing disorder I was glad because it perfectly explains why I have to ask everyone I talk to to repeat themselves at least 8 times in any conversation. Also I'm neurodivergent, so it checks out.

    • @artkincell
      @artkincell ปีที่แล้ว +8

      You are an awesome person! I'm being serious.

    • @freshestavacado9195
      @freshestavacado9195 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      It usually comes most commonly in people with adhd. I can hear music and tones perfectly well (actually better than most), but if I'm in a crowd and someone is trying to say something to me, I hear it perfectly fine, but it just doesn't seem to make any sense among the plethora of background noise. It basically goes: No compute, I give up, too much effort, lol

    • @midnight_blue_moon
      @midnight_blue_moon ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@freshestavacado9195 You know, seeing as how I have adhd, this is actually a really good explanation for why I have so much trouble understanding people even when I have my hearing aids in.

    • @WelliTriedYT
      @WelliTriedYT ปีที่แล้ว +44

      I know there is a whole story here, but I just cant help finding the words "Former Dad" a bit odd lol

  • @little_isalina
    @little_isalina ปีที่แล้ว +666

    This feels incredibly relatable as a neurodivergent person. The "Come on just do the thing you absolutely can't do! You just gotta try!"

    • @PINKBOY1006
      @PINKBOY1006 ปีที่แล้ว +99

      I was cringing the entire time. It's so painful to hear those words "All you gotta do is try/practice!" NO THATS NOT HOW THIS WORKS "Sure it does"

    • @Ciurk
      @Ciurk ปีที่แล้ว +30

      "just be better"

    • @maxdanielj
      @maxdanielj ปีที่แล้ว +42

      "stop faking it" or "you're just doing that to get attention"

    • @Jordan-zk2wd
      @Jordan-zk2wd ปีที่แล้ว +55

      "No, but come on like try for real."
      I assure you I am at maximum try ;~;

    • @sadi5713
      @sadi5713 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      just ask these guys if they can benchpress 1000 kg, can fly or read minds. if they say no: you just gotta try harder then.

  • @asheeandmonkey9855
    @asheeandmonkey9855 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    My mom plays piano and ukulele, and is mildly tone deaf. She can hear what notes are what, tell the diference between major and minor scale, she can do everything... _except hit the proper notes when singing somehow._ She's always an octave/half an octave higher. I don't know how that works at all. But she's well aware, and gets a laugh out of it. I can hit a lot of mid to low range notes from a lot of male singers (I'm 27f at the time of this comment), and my younger brother can hit _really_ deep notes, so the three of us have started harmonizing to music in the car. It's so much fun.

  • @littleblueclovers
    @littleblueclovers 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    In all seriousness, the “tone deaf portrayal” of the songs would be FANTASTIC for a quiz show.
    “Piano. Piano. Piano. Piano. Harmonica. Harmonica harmonica.”
    “It’s… piano man?”

  • @WideSmileOfficial
    @WideSmileOfficial ปีที่แล้ว +539

    Petition for Daniel to do a cover of ‘Welcome to the Internet’

    • @yoshilovesyoshi
      @yoshilovesyoshi ปีที่แล้ว +18

      But make it melodramatic and sappy

    • @yoshilovesyoshi
      @yoshilovesyoshi ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @daniel please

    • @jassthelasso
      @jassthelasso ปีที่แล้ว +2

      YES

    • @jhakardballoch2986
      @jhakardballoch2986 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      But in a way higher key cause Daniel is a tenor and Bo is a bass baritone and It would just be cool to hear it done differently like that.

    • @lemonraven
      @lemonraven ปีที่แล้ว +8

      He commented on Bo's video actually! It'd be fun if he was up for it

  • @AM_I_Able
    @AM_I_Able ปีที่แล้ว +321

    I love Daniel's subtle cry for help when he brought out that horsewhip

    • @NorthernSeaWitch
      @NorthernSeaWitch ปีที่แล้ว +68

      Oh, that's not a horse whip, Daniel is a freak.

    • @SirArthurTheGreat
      @SirArthurTheGreat ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Subtle…

    • @manticore1787
      @manticore1787 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Why does he have that...😅

    • @manticore1787
      @manticore1787 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ya..definitely not a horse whip..

    • @he4rt5
      @he4rt5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      so glad someone brought it up
      but oh... dear sweet summer child, that is NOT a horse whip (also who even calls it a horse whip? are you thinking of a riding crop?)

  • @hotgarbage-cc4cu
    @hotgarbage-cc4cu ปีที่แล้ว +30

    1:52 caught me so off guard 😂😂😂😂

  • @rinka4560
    @rinka4560 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    omg this is actually so amazing. love videos like this that take something familiar and totally put you in the shoes of another person. super well done. this reminds me of How English sounds to non-English speakers

  • @RichardBronosky
    @RichardBronosky ปีที่แล้ว +15

    1:11 I lost it when he used the electric piano!

  • @leslieroth9908
    @leslieroth9908 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Ah, my favorite song is the one that goes like flute, flute piano, piano. It's so beautiful.

  • @silverandexact
    @silverandexact ปีที่แล้ว +1055

    For those of you who are nerds like me and want to know what tone deafness is actually like after watching this video:
    True tone deafness is called amusia and can be congenital (affecting about 4% of the population) or caused by brain damage.
    People with this condition aren't able to recognize wrong or very out of tune notes or familiar melodies. They have difficulty or an inability to perceive differences in pitch (low note vs high note) though they can tell differences in timbre (piano vs guitar). Amusic people often find music unpleasant or annoying.
    So although this is obviously a humorous exaggeration, Daniel didn't get anything wrong per se.

    • @deltablaze77
      @deltablaze77 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      That would suck, music is incredible.

    • @ricochet4674
      @ricochet4674 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      As someone who has played an instrument for ten years. What the fuck. I can imagine this. Like not being able to tell the difference between the highest note on the piano and the lowest one is insane for me.

    • @zuhararaamiz5572
      @zuhararaamiz5572 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      thanks

    • @jay_______________________
      @jay_______________________ ปีที่แล้ว +17

      As someone who plays piano, this would absolutely suck. I rely a ton on my hearing, especially to check if I pressed the wrong or right key

    • @scribblecloud
      @scribblecloud ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@deltablaze77 i know right :(

  • @brianthesnail3815
    @brianthesnail3815 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    I am definitely tone deaf. When I was at secondary school we always did major musicals with thousands of people attending but I never had anything but chorus parts yet I always won the school drama prize for acting in small plays so the music teacher decided 'he was going to teach me to sing'. Two hours later he had me stood by a grand piano playing notes at me and making me sing the tune. Well, he eventually admitted defeat after another two hours with the words 'wow you really are tone deaf'.
    Didn't stop him making me organise an entire choral concert to sing the Nelson Mass sometime later just because I accidentally said to him in passing that it would be a great idea to raise money for a local charity at Xmas by holding a choral concert in a local church. Music teachers never give up hope! 😁

    • @Raev222
      @Raev222 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Question then, when you're at the piano attempting to sing in tune, do you not hear it then? The tones clashing? Does it just sound like.. nothing?

    • @brianthesnail3815
      @brianthesnail3815 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@Raev222 I can hear the difference between notes that are played slowly say half an octave apart but I cant mimic them with my voice. I can make my voice 'high' or 'low' but how high or low I simply have no clue. I find it almost impossible to distinguish which notes are 'higher' and which notes which are 'lower' if they are close together in tone and played quickly one after another in a normal piece of music. I can hear a scale progression from low to high if it is played slowly but once the notes are randomised I have no clue.
      For someone who is clearly a very gifted musician who has near perfect pitch, Daniel shows in his video a remarkable sense of what is really like for someone less gifted than he is. I really do hear 'high-guitar, drum, high-guitar, low-guitar', 'drum' when I listening to rock music for example. I hear rhythm not tone if that makes sense.

  • @ivyagamet4045
    @ivyagamet4045 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I didn’t know much about tone deafness at the time, but through mutual determination of everyone my grandmother taught my grandfather who had gone deafness to sing in a barber shop quartet. My grandmother and myself love singing and have experience in it, and after trying to teach him he because more dedicated. It worked! I don’t know what helped him, but he loves singing and music, it made him so happy. ☺️

  • @spacetaco048
    @spacetaco048 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I asked my dad if this is really how he always hears music.
    He said no he doesn't hear music that way. He says "Sometimes I use headphones, and sometimes I don't."

  • @lootmaster1337
    @lootmaster1337 ปีที่แล้ว +129

    So glad a big youtuber like daniel managed to get such a unknown person like morgan freeman to voice in his skit. Proud of you for giving smaller actors a job

  • @tesoruccia
    @tesoruccia ปีที่แล้ว +27

    No one gonna talk about the flogger at 1:45 ??? *WHY DOES DANIEL HAVE A FLOGGER*

    • @weirdtoe1682
      @weirdtoe1682 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      THATS WHAT IM SAYIN MAN-

  • @florencelee321
    @florencelee321 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    What is hilarious is I got an ad before this video on hearing aids 😂

  • @slkjvlkfsvnlsdfhgdght5447
    @slkjvlkfsvnlsdfhgdght5447 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    how can people like that even have a conversation? human speech has so much intonation in it!

  • @RoboticPress
    @RoboticPress ปีที่แล้ว +89

    I am still training on not being tone deaf and if I am being honest this is surprisingly accurate and the more I train the more I understand the insults people threw at my old covers and pieces-

    • @keepinmahprivacy9754
      @keepinmahprivacy9754 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I think if you can train your way past it, it's not "true" tone deafness, just a poor ear. Thankfully you can correct that with practice, because that's a pretty common condition!

    • @RoboticPress
      @RoboticPress ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@keepinmahprivacy9754 true actually, I noticed myself getting less and less tone deaf by transcribing and listening to more music, I definitely can't tell what a note is just by hearing it yet but I can definitely tell when it sounds off

  • @Philip942
    @Philip942 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    Why did I crack up? 1:02

  • @YazzMusicOfficial
    @YazzMusicOfficial ปีที่แล้ว +56

    WHEN IT WAS PIANO AND HARMONICA, I new it was piano man 😂😂😂

    • @LinKueiDragon
      @LinKueiDragon ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@DontReadMyProfilePhoto_2 Oops. Too late.

    • @GT-tj1qg
      @GT-tj1qg ปีที่แล้ว +6

      ​@DontReadMyProfilePhoto_2 I read your name. Then I read your profile photo. It had a message telling me not to look under my kitchen sink. I looked and there was a note telling me not to open the can of alphabet soup I bought. I opened the can and took out all those spaghetti letters. I arranged them a hundred different times looking for a meaning and then I found it "previous commenter is gae".

  • @ozzyfernandez8228
    @ozzyfernandez8228 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My Dad is tone-deaf and cannot sing to save his life, but he loves music. He has no concept of sound quality and is more than happy listening to his favorite songs on TH-cam set to 360p. He doesn't know the difference and is happy with that. Ignorance is truly bliss.

  • @allysmith33
    @allysmith33 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    OH MY GOD. THANK YOU. I rely almost solely on rhythm and lyrics to identify songs. Occasionally there's a really distinctive instrument in a song that helps me identify it, like one song by DM Dokuro for the Calamity mod soundtrack that has "Calamity Bells." That said, if you were to show me any other song that had a similar intro, I might not know the difference. Centuries and... What was it, Tom's Diner? They sound identical.
    On the plus side, 98% of the time i will not recognize if something is wrong with a song. Most of that 2% Megalovania because I listened to it and several variations obsessively as a teen, which has enabled me to pick up on the tone differences much more easily. It helps when my tone-deaf mother tries to sing.
    Piano man is actually pretty easy for me to recognize. It's got a distinctive piano opening that I don't usually hear on the radio stations I listen to EXCEPT for that song.
    If you make me do karaoke I will cry so hard I throw up. I have several memories of finding instrumentals to favorite songs and not recognizing them at all. Do not make my tone-deaf ass sing to music I cannot remotely begin to understand in tone or (without words) timing.

  • @umeinui
    @umeinui ปีที่แล้ว +22

    0:28 I was not ready lmao

  • @caracheyenne8839
    @caracheyenne8839 ปีที่แล้ว +124

    As a tone deaf percussionist, I literally cannot tell if a scale is going up or down 😭😭

    • @m0L3ify
      @m0L3ify ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Don't worry, as long as you can count to 1, you're fine. 😉 (sorry, just a little percussionist on percussionist violence there lol. couldn't help myself!)

    • @caracheyenne8839
      @caracheyenne8839 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@m0L3ify no fr I took AP Music Theory and my teacher curved my grade from a D to a B because he felt so bad

    • @m0L3ify
      @m0L3ify ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@caracheyenne8839 Music Theory is tough for sure. I'm glad your teacher was compassionate about it! I mean...what can you do?

    • @ictogon
      @ictogon ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Do you still listen to music? Like percussion albums or something?

    • @caracheyenne8839
      @caracheyenne8839 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@ictogon I listen to any and all music I just don’t hear the full range of notes and I can’t decipher between notes 🤷🏼‍♀️ it’s really hard to explain but if you heard me try to sing you would understand 🫣

  • @gideonbrown4215
    @gideonbrown4215 ปีที่แล้ว +87

    It’s good to see Daniel doing another piano sketch.

  • @andrewguerra9343
    @andrewguerra9343 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    1:50-1:56 “does this sound happy or sad?”
    Can I get a large pepperoni?
    THAT’S ROMANTIC!!!

  • @TheMilwaukeeProtocol
    @TheMilwaukeeProtocol 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I didn't believe that tone deaf people could learn to sing through practice until I met my husband. It is remarkable. I do not have that level of skill and dedication for almost anything. I either just do something automatically or I don't.

  • @laurelloaf
    @laurelloaf ปีที่แล้ว +45

    For years, I would make fun of my family’s haunted choir when they’d sing happy birthday. I thought, how can I be the only one in my family who can hold a tune? I finally figured it out that it’s one of my sisters who drags everyone down but everyone else sounds fine when she’s not around. Thank you for bringing to light her terrible condition and what she hears when she listens to the radio!

  • @guestuser4506
    @guestuser4506 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I'm Morgan Freeman and I approve this message.

  • @cornelius5926
    @cornelius5926 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    At 2:48 I only hear "Synthesizer, Synthesizer, Synthesizer, Synthesizer..."

  • @kalinaszek
    @kalinaszek ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "Come on, blindness isn't real, you just have to try harder"

  • @benjaminsagan5861
    @benjaminsagan5861 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I played piano for a show once, and I was warned beforehand that a guy in the cast was always going to ask me to play "his note" beforehand. The note in question was a genuinely tricky harmony, but there was zero chance he'd retain it for 30 minutes so it was completely pointless. But I was assured that it was easier to just play along because "he's tone deaf anyway". The routine was, he'd come ask for his note; I'd play it; he'd sing the wrong note; I'd gently coax him up to the right pitch; he'd walk away looking very dissatisfied.
    But on the third or fourth time, I realized something pretty extraordinary. He wasn't singing a random wrong note. It was always the *same* wrong note. A fifth below. So when that dawned on me, I tried playing the note up a fifth, and he sang the pitch I wanted instantly.
    Therefore, he hears his relationship with the music at a harmonic.
    Knowing that, all I had to do was orient his singing to how he hears, and it was never a problem again.

    • @joker6solitaire
      @joker6solitaire 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I had no idea that was possible. CONSISTENTLY a fifth below?! The human brain is astonishing. Thanks for sharing.

  • @ceilinh6004
    @ceilinh6004 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Daniel has a talent for taking basic premises to completely unhinged levels of farce, and I love it.

  • @Chexmix6
    @Chexmix6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    As someone who is tone deaf, it's so true! It has its ups and downs; on one hand, you can't play or judge the quality of any music, but on the other hand, all speakers sound the same. Even the cheap ones.

  • @thewizard-edits
    @thewizard-edits ปีที่แล้ว +20

    I’m just impressed that Dennis managed to become a world-famous musician back in “When You Compliment a Musician but Don’t Mean It” while being tone deaf this whole time

  • @zoyadulzura7490
    @zoyadulzura7490 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    0:52 I watched that like 30 times

  • @Tibberrs
    @Tibberrs ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The way they pulled out the flogger I about died. 🤣

  • @dhanarsantika
    @dhanarsantika ปีที่แล้ว +5

    2:26 at least he heard iphone ringtone

  • @trollnystan
    @trollnystan ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Not tone deaf, but this reminds me of when I lived in a youth home at 16 and one of the guys brought me to his room to check out his new sound system. He made sure I sat in the "right spot" and he looked so proud, and all I could do was smile and nod when he asked if I could hear how much better it sounded. I have ADHD, don't ask me to compare to something I heard a month ago, lol

  • @jonnnnniej
    @jonnnnniej ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I had a roommate who actually had a beautiful singing voice, but for the love of all that sounds great... she just couldn't hold a tone or note. I think now I finally understand why

    • @rich1051414
      @rich1051414 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Not being able to hold a note usually just implies poor vocal control and an inaccurate internal voice. Tone deafness means they literally can't distinguish different notes and can't comprehend chords and progressions, it just sounds like random notes with no correlation.

  • @TheArchivist14
    @TheArchivist14 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I'M SO CONFUSED I JUST GOT AN AD WITH YOU IN IT WHILE I WAS WATCHING THIS VIDEO

  • @robertosnow3841
    @robertosnow3841 ปีที่แล้ว

    It's amazing how people like this guy who are tine deaf have very strong musical opinions.
    I'll never forget when i asked someone to sing the vocal melody of we will rock you and they began just tapping thier legs. Tap tap tap. Tap tap tap.

  • @zucchinirosti
    @zucchinirosti ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I wonder what he used that whip for outside of shooting sketches

  • @alf5617
    @alf5617 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    02:00 little bit Gilbert Gottfried 😂

  • @TeacupKitty13
    @TeacupKitty13 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    As someone who is tone deaf, I can confirm this is totally one hundred percent accurate.

  • @KitsuyuutsuR
    @KitsuyuutsuR ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I can kind of relate… I have perfect pitch and married someone who can’t carry a tune if it had a handle on it 😂 I’m a huge music lover, I also play piano and guitar. Sometimes we’ll be listening to a song and I’ll hear this AMAZING key change. It’s subtle, but it sticks out to me like a sore thumb. I’ll play it for my husband and ask him excitedly if he thought the key change was amazing also and he didn’t notice it. Even when I point at the exact moment it changes keys, nope… still doesn’t hear it. Even if it’s a really obvious key change, he often can’t tell. There’s a part in Tubular Bells (the theme from The Exorcist) where the notes are switched. He can’t tell that, either, even though I think it’s very obvious. Our (adult) kids can’t really tell, either. One day I played it for my mother and she found it as obvious as me, but to be fair, she also plays piano and we both sang in school chorus. Actually, her side of the family was very deistic and musically inclined going way back, so maybe that’s why? I don’t know, but it’s frustrating that my husband can’t hear these marvelous things and my kids often can’t hear them either. At least my kids seem to love music as much as I do, especially my youngest. He has a taste range as broad as my own 😊

  • @stevenanderson718
    @stevenanderson718 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is absolutely brilliant, you inspire me tremendously to create amazing skits like this one. You are the man!!!

  • @anonymoustrumpet
    @anonymoustrumpet ปีที่แล้ว +61

    As someone with perfect pitch, I am astounded on way these people live.

    • @AkshaySharma-ut6rv
      @AkshaySharma-ut6rv ปีที่แล้ว +11

      ‘Astounded’ not really until you know a good chunk of people think neither in images or language.. many are rather incapable of picturing any image in their imagination (aphantasia).

    • @whatbroicanhave50character35
      @whatbroicanhave50character35 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      ​@@AkshaySharma-ut6rv I had a therapist when I was in the mental hospital argue with me for nearly 15 minutes because she insisted that all people think in images and I disagree. Doesn't compute to me at all. When I think of something, I can recall how to describe it, perhaps where I interacted with it last if it's an object or when I'd seen them last and things I know about them if it's a person. I don't "see" images in my mind in the same way I "hear" music/words in my mind. I can play back songs very accurately in my head. I can give myself the chills imagining the intro to brahms violin concerto, and how the instruments swell into the solo violin. I can hear the words others have spoken in their voice and cadence. I don't have perfect pitch (sadly) but I do have really good relative pitch. When I try to "picture" something it's like a vague impression, there's not really anything there but my ability to describe the thing with words. I "can" visualize to a degree if I have reference in front of me, such as imagining how a shape would look if it's been rotated, but without any physical stimuli it's nearly impossible to visualize to any practical degree. I think aphantasia is still an incredibly misunderstood subject and there's a massive issue with terminology and our ability to objectively describe how we experience thought. I don't know if I have aphantasia because I'm not sure if I understand how other people actually visualize things. Like with imagining sound, I don't hear it with my ears, I hear it in my mind. I don't really have a visual equivalent to that, and it seems from what i've read the average person would say that they do. Its a really fascinating topic.

    • @loverlei79
      @loverlei79 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I'm not only tone deaf but I'm missing my mid range and half my low range so unless i turn treble off everything sounds like metal in a garbage disposal.

    • @AkshaySharma-ut6rv
      @AkshaySharma-ut6rv ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@whatbroicanhave50character35 My case is precisely the same as yours about mental imagery. I don’t think in images but I can visualise very vaguely.. like very specific highlights and, relative orientations. It is essentially just a sense of awareness that I use to explain. I don’t think in words either.
      I am very good at relative pitch too haha. Helps me in composing music. I can sing in my head but not really listen to it like you do.

    • @thelelanatorlol3978
      @thelelanatorlol3978 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@AkshaySharma-ut6rv The inability to imagine things is actually incredibly rare, dunno what you mean by ''good chunk of people''. Probably a bigger chunk than you can bite off but likely such a small chunk that every single person with no imagination could fit into a relatively small apartment building. If you can visualize anything at all no matter how dull it may seem, you don't have aphantasia, you just have an underdeveloped ability to imagine. You can train this, or at least i was able to and was able to go from a pretty dull imagination to being able to vividly imagine things to the point where they pop out even against a real world background.

  • @haexan
    @haexan ปีที่แล้ว +146

    I'm tone deaf, but I still love music, I just can't sing for the life of me. I feel so bad for the people who had to listen to me every school year for our annual Christmas performances for eight years. I butchered everything from ABBA to cherished Christmas sons, just because everyone had to participate ;P

    • @Milamberinx
      @Milamberinx ปีที่แล้ว +23

      But... that's not what tone deaf is... that's just being bad at singing.

    • @katecosettevocals
      @katecosettevocals ปีที่แล้ว +27

      often I've worked with people who thought they were tone deaf but the problem actually wasn't in hearing the music, it was more in how they were physically singing, i.e. mouth shape or breathing etc etc. If you really wanted to learn to sing, please don't give up because you may not be tone deaf after all. :)

    • @baggelissonic
      @baggelissonic ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You can still learn to sing even if you are tone deaf at some extent. It's really hard, but it's possible.
      It only matters if you have fun, but it might be nice way to expand your horizons.

    • @manicmuffin
      @manicmuffin ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Singing is a physical skill that requires a lot of practice and muscle memory in order to develop the control throughout your vocal tract to hit the notes you want to hit. If you try to sing a specific note, hit the wrong note, and can tell that you're singing the wrong note, then you're not tone deaf. Tone deaf people literally cannot distinguish different notes from one another.

    • @thespeculativemusician
      @thespeculativemusician ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I believe being tone deaf is not something binary (either you are, or you arent), it’s more likely something you can have more, or less of it, and also in most cases, something you can train to fix

  • @HoneyBeeGtag
    @HoneyBeeGtag ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Piano, piano, piano, piano.. truly a work of art 🙏

  • @being7310
    @being7310 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I never knew that tone deafness could be, let alone has been like this. seems like i have something interesting to search up now instead of aimlessly browsing youtube
    also-no fault of urs Dan-but I hate hoodie guy after 0:34 bc he just ignores what his friend had just blatantly said about how his hearing works, and won't accept how differently his brain works
    "you're going to have to try harder than that" especially got me screaming internally

  • @swansyboy8512
    @swansyboy8512 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Morse code:
    1:22 YOU'RE TONE
    1:32 DEAF
    2:05 Man I barely even hear it, some help please?

  • @zacharysien5245
    @zacharysien5245 ปีที่แล้ว +120

    I don't want to be a huge downer, but I also went to SCAD.
    I was there for one semester, three kids had died on campus, one directly behind my dorm building by jumping off the bridge. There was an ambulance outside my dorm at least once a week. So many of those kids needed help that they never got.
    I'm not trying to convince anyone to not go there, but it can be extremely expensive and I was honestly shocked that such tragic events happened. If Dan had a good time, then I'm glad to hear it. I was just personally really disgusted with the place and that it managed to get a good reputation with shit like that happening. I'm still trying to pay off that one semester.
    This place was actually in Georgia and in Savannah specifically. If you know what you want to do and what you want to go for, then go for it. Just be careful. I don't know why I felt compelled to leave this whole lore dump, but I did.
    Have a good day everyone, be safe.

    • @mossmoss167
      @mossmoss167 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      a couple of my friends actually want to go to SCAD so this is actually very helpful. high end schools tend to be very stressful but hearing from someone who went there just confirms my suspicions. i’ll be sure to at least warn them of the stuff they’ll take on if they end up going.

    • @PhoenixGodwin
      @PhoenixGodwin ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Not just this, but SCAD has also contributed immensely to the growing gentrification of the city, exacerbating the poverty and disparity a great deal, mostly affecting families who have been there generationally.

    • @MyroslavaRm
      @MyroslavaRm ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@PhoenixGodwin that's literally every college that isn't located in a major city

    • @megamandrn001
      @megamandrn001 ปีที่แล้ว

      Also a graduate of SCAD. If you like seeing Wallace spend all of your tuition money on a lavish lifestyle, knock yourself out

    • @DaddyAsh3r
      @DaddyAsh3r ปีที่แล้ว

      SCAD is a huge scam. I went there for a graduate degree and the education was a joke. Worse Paula Wallace the president is a horrible woman who has used SCAD as her and her family’s personal trust fund, enriching herself with $2 million a year and flying private jets. It’s so bad that the FBI investigated SCAD to see if it could even be classified as a non profit anymore. DONT GO TO SCAD it is a waste of time and money

  • @doormatcat
    @doormatcat ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Daniel gets consecutively more into very specific things and then works them out into something insane. I absolutely adore it, the growing intensity in the things his videos are about is always insanely funny.

  • @blockman3508
    @blockman3508 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Love how this is the first sketch Daniel’s made with a piano in ages and we don’t even get to hear it

  • @glowormrdr6183
    @glowormrdr6183 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I've never forgotten my confusion when a friend long ago told me she just didn't like music. I never asked why, but later wondered if she'd been deprived of music, somehow, growing up. Actual tone deafness never occurred to me. Being deprived of music perception seems to me a very hard loss.

  • @kellyalvey7627
    @kellyalvey7627 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Edwin Gordon did a study that displayed that musical aptitude (a person's potential to learn music) is pretty much determined by musical training and exposure before the age of 8! Students in the study were asked to do things like echo rhythms and tell which pitch was higher/lower. Before the age of 8, scores improved dramatically from year to year. After the age of 8 (all the way up to 18), there was not much change in scores from year to year!

    • @tonylee1667
      @tonylee1667 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's unrelated to this video though

  • @mikef5951
    @mikef5951 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Why does Daniel just have the flogger on hand at 1:40

  • @susannadanner906
    @susannadanner906 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This is how I feel when people tune their guitar by ear and then go "ah much better" but to me it doesn't sound any different. Also I can't tell bands of the same genre apart AT ALL. I wish I could find joy in music like many of my friends do. However, ASMR is the best thing ever

    • @hurpdurp123
      @hurpdurp123 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Oh, I didn't realize my "very male country singer sounds the same" or "every emo band sounds the same" was a tone deaf thing. I do agree that ASMR is the best thing ever, although for me music is a type of ASMR, if it is complex enough, because I really like unpredictably, and complex music can get pretty unpredictable.

    • @susannadanner906
      @susannadanner906 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@hurpdurp123 Well tone deaf is probably the extreme version haha. YES all emo bands sound the same to me. My ex boyfriend was suuuper into emo and would sometimes ask me "Which band is this?" and I never had a clue despite the fact that we had heard the same song many times, live and on CD. Probably a reason why we're now exes xD

  • @theonetruesarauniya
    @theonetruesarauniya ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I'm crying at that "AH" and the tv static key.

  • @marlowefinley-brown5817
    @marlowefinley-brown5817 ปีที่แล้ว

    The mention of 'Take my horse to the old town road' gave me wiplash since the commercial that played before this played that song

  • @shrimpjar2
    @shrimpjar2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My tone deaf friend says it sounds like 2 notes playing at the same time, except together it just makes the music sound waaaaaaaay out of tune.
    he said it's really hard to explain fully though.

  • @veenoir1991
    @veenoir1991 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This is similar to showing technical metal to your non metal friends.

    • @Bork_In_Volcanic
      @Bork_In_Volcanic ปีที่แล้ว +1

      True story. They just say "what's that noise"?