Man I don't think people in the comments really appreciate the people who sent him the moon clips; every single person he named is an incredible musician from their own well-known music group. I'm seriously astounded; at a first glance it just seems like random people, but in reality it's Quincy Jones, Hans Zimmer and Herbie Hancock. It's crazy.
@@dylanloew why would you assume that other people 'in the comments' don't appreciate these people? I don't think many people watching Jacob Collier videos haven't heard of Quincy Jones, Hans Zimmer and Herbie Hancock etc
When I see an accomplished musician it's like looking at someone on a high mountain; I can see how, given enough effort and time I could get up there. When I see someone like Jacob Collier its like looking at someone sitting on a cloud; I have simply no idea how to get there.
Randy Price the lesson is the music is actually amazing for his specific audience. If you don’t like it then you don’t. Nobody can force you to like it but this is impressive, technically amazing and actually very inspiring. They way he “over saturates” his music is absolutely amazing and the specifics of it are purely amazing. I feel people just hate on it to hate on it. I see it all the time. You can be one of the most talented musicians on the planet and people will still hate you. You showed that people can still have a distain for technically amazing music that SOUNDS good. That’s absolutely baffling to me.
i just spent an hour and 37 minutes watching a man wearing a wizard hat explain the breakdowns of a song that he is madly crazed and in love with and *i dont regret a single millisecond.*
It's just insane, there just seems to be no way anyone could do this and he does it like its nothing. After 10 years I will not be able to play the piano the same way after knowing it's not justly tuned, fuck me.
@@moritzheinzel815 To be fair, you should be happy it isn't justly tuned otherwise you'd be constrained to a single key and everything else would be useless.
So true. Unless you're already at that elite level you aren't really learning anything that's directly useful. It's more like you're being inspired or amazed that these higher levels exist.
40:21 Jacob casually stating "the first thing you need to know about this chord is that it doesn't exist," and then off-the-cuff PROVING that it doesn't exist, then digging into the degrees of cents necessary to achieve it, and then _fist-pumping_ as a means of transitioning into the key of D half-sharp should have been a top ten moment in UA-cam Rewind.
29:24 Contrary motion for modulation. 30:20 Replace a note with the two surrounding notes. 1:02:28 Fluent movement through key signatures. 1:05:10 Equal temperament vs. just intonation visualized.
It's so refreshing to hear music taught in such a way that's not just theoretical, but to see it as a fabric, and art that flows and dances and something that's alive.
Right! The Disney theme is actually and old song called "When You Wish Upon a Star", which is a jazz standard nowadays. The fact that him just throwing stuff down on the keyboard is better than most of the thousands of renditions I've heard is just astonishing.
I am only half an hour into this. What an incredible gift to be able to watch a genius explain what he did and why he did it. Not only is Jacob a rare, musical genius but he is an extremely witty and charming person. He is using his great power to make the world a better place. Thank you.
18:31 "So the notes that feel important are enphasized by adding more Jacobs" it surprises me how much sense it makes, with or without context, I mean everything is emphasized by adding Jacobs
everyone's texture on just "moon" makes me realize the deep musicality that exists within EACH of or voices. Jacob I salute you to constantly catching me off guard with your inspiration.
He describes things in a way that makes complete sense, and makes me feel smart, which completely juxtaposes with the insanity that is moon river. My hero.
Its a mac I think too, what the fuck - pretty sure its record breaking stuff
5 років тому+3
Jesse Bout i bet he has a cheese grater hahaha. Yea Jacob can you share to us what computer you’re using? Not that we can max it out like you do but, we’d love to know what’s reliable for you
Definitely a great tool to help flavor some of my old boring white bread chords. Bring some much needed tension and movement. Thanks Jacob! Now, how to get out of the tension.....well that’s a different story altogether. 🤷🏻♂️ 🍌
“I was thinking the other day about chords ... and I realised a thing ...”: the entire musical world stops breathing in anticipation of learning something totally new.
Nowhy sorry I don’t agree, we can all learn something new. He wasn’t claiming he had invented something totally new. But something he has discovered, understood and is able to communicate to those of us willing to learn some tips and tricks when composing. However even saying that, composers are pushing the boundaries all the time and innovating new and fresh approaches to music, some will stick most won’t ... but the idea that we have arrived at musical completion and nothing can be learned is not a good place to be I would suggest. Additionally, our western music is learning from other cultures more and more adding more colour, texture and diversity to our western styles ... I believe these are all good things.
how crazy we get stuff like this, for free. I love the details, especially when he discusses certain details like the two dynamic ways the DAW plugin generate the same note sound. And the difference is miniscule. I consider myself having a decent ear and can barely tell the difference. To him it seems like it might be night and day. I can relate to this to some degree in my craft (not suggesting respectively we are anywhere close at same level, I can't see the bottom of his shoe). But u do become more sensitive in your own craft if you spend enough time on it. He is using very simple colloquial terms to speaking about the process since it's a public stream and I can barely keep up with it at all. truly next level.
I am a hardcore music amateur, and I will probably sound pretentious, but the difference is not miniscule. I understand every little thing he did here, he's just completely meta and doesn't find doing everything by hand and ear as tiresome as I do. I ended up being a programmer, I don't really enjoy repetitiveness, though I'm quite dexterous. This comes from someone who couldn't purse music in life solely because of inconsistent hearing that largely depends on air pressure and humidity, and if I'd listen a pretty good track on a bad day, I would destroy it out of spite and lose interest, because I can't hear the goodness in it any more. This would inevitably spiral down until I lost all interest in music except as a hobby, though I've persisted more in some tracks where rhythm played a larger role, however the harmony is what is really fascinating to me, because I seem to have a keen perception of microtonalities, and also the way of playing music in my head is based on absolute hearing and I can always tell the tiniest discrepancies. And who knows maybe I'm actually a musical genius, but wasn't very lucky or recognized. I can't really play any instrument like Jacob and my theoretical knowledge is basic at best. Still the difference is not miniscule for me, it is incredibly huge, and Jacob's now helping us move out from the quantization hole we've dug ourselves into. All this being said, I truly appreciate Jacob and his work, but I actually don't like his music. He's a good craftsman, and a brilliant mind, but he's more of a classical composer, in a sense of doing it for the entertainment of people who thought they couldn't be surprised and are willing to praise the young master. It's a technical and intellectual surprise (and enterprise), virtuosity, embellishment, that kind of thing, not really a well-balanced, well-grounded storyline, to which ordinary humans can innately and passively connect.
Thank you for your thoughtful insight and experience. Music is out of my lane but something I always want to explorer, recently start to play around with FL studio hehe.@@milanstevic8424
I’ll be simply amazed if he doesn’t win for best arrangement. You And I (deservedly) won in the same category and Moon River feels an entire level beyond in terms of virtuosity.
"I can't play those notes cuz they don't exist." Mind-blowing walkthrough of Jacob's absolutely unbelievable PhD-in-Soul-AND-Music-Physics arrangement of Moon River.
1:14:23 I can’t wait for you to explore more those gospel, darker moods. They sound so optimized and pure and go straight where it feels good to hear them. That’s where I personally find richness and depth to the story that is being told. When the set of emotions are mixed, tangled, undecided, bitter, grief are giving death to the song. Looking forward to the older Jacob that has lived more rodeos. I dig the song and your approach and surprised for my non-educated ears that everything I’ve heard is revolutionary in its harmonizations where it felt logic to my ears. Rules, habits and the lack of exploration is a dry well.
I want the internet and Jacob to know that this video is the thing that's got me most excited during the past decade. A 96 minute smile, chills running up and down my spine (dissonant, in contrary motion), laughing out loud, my heart jumping out of my chest. And yes, I understand what you mean and it's such a shame that roughly 7.7 billion people cannot delectate this as profoundly as I can. (But at a current human population of 7.75bn, that still leaves 50 million potential profound delectaters, which is more than Bach ever had...) I'm so grateful to be alive at the same time as you, Jacob!
If you ever catch yourself typing (or saying) “7.7 billion people cannot delectate this as profoundly as I can,” you need to stop and ask yourself, “Am I being a huge tool right now?”
Lol I've actually gotten pretty good at overtones, but I have a bad habit of practicing when my mind wanders and I get funny looks, which is a great way to start conversations so it's not so bad.
@@manfredwurst8769 Luckily you don't need perfect pitch to do overtones. It's a singing technique that's not too hard to learn but very difficult to master. There are a lot of great videos on how to learn the technique. So, good luck I guess.
We are witness to the next Mozart/Bach/“whatever musical genius you want to compare him to” being alive and sharing his work... 🤯 This is by far the most incredibly amazing, awe-inspiring thing I have ever seen... un! be! lievable!
found the quote of the year to describe Jacob's magic @1:11:15 "it's all possible thanks to some very careful Skull-duggery and a lot of heart and soul" -JC
To see someone give so much detail to harmonies......it's wonderful. I focus on harmonies as well. You don't hear enough of them and the support of certain chords and such that you pay attention to. This is amazing. Your mind must run a milllion miles a second. It's really hard to sleep but the result is something you feel in your soul.
The level of complexity, technique, subtlety, finesse, heart...at which this guy is operating is beyond belief. And the incredible technique is a consequence of a search from instinct. I have to watch this many times.
The whole crazy ascending end section starting at 1:11:17 is literally a DMT trip/the circle of existence as an organic lifeform captured in harmony. The "Huckleberry Fin" as familiar faces from across the seas of life, deja vu, finding yourself anew in a place you've been before, birth, rebirth... He uses words like these throughout to describe what's happening musically. Not saying Jacob smokes DMT, but his musical/harmonic genius has allowed him to stumble on equivalent realizations.
Hey Jacob! There's a bunch of comments comparing you to Bob Ross in this video, I was wondering, would you ever do a "compose along" session, where you make something in Logic in real time with the intent for people to make something along with you? I'm not sure exactly how it would work but I think it could be beautiful.
The fact that he is playing G half sharp while singing a perfectly intonated B and then showing that the B on a piano is 14 cents off just blows my mind!
Moon River is my favorite song of yours and seeing this breakdown blew my mind! It was extremely fascinating to see how you actually accomplished all this stuff. Thanks for taking the time to share it with us!
I knew Danny Williams quite well in the last six years of his life. He had the number one hit in the UK in 1963 of Moon River and always sang it in the original key Eflat. I think he's watching this video from heaven with the other angels and thanking Jacob with his smile of joy.
So stinking satisfying to hear you break down every deliberate pyramid, swell, breath, that causes me to weep uncontrollably every time I hear this darned song...of COURSE I'd end up here...
24:33 "It's just a little bit of cold water. [...] Do you guys take cold showers? Heard that... cold showers... the way to go these days." - Jacob Collier, 2019. He's so adorable.
I’ve learned so much about composition, arranging, and production from watching these break downs. Thank you for sharing your process. You are MASSIVELY inspirational
i do not even come close to being remotely in the same world of genius jacob is when he is simply sleeping, but i can relate to him. i love finding something that sounds cool randomly or through improv. i get that same sense of excitement. sometimes i get a weird high off making my own music. i’m glad there are other weirdos out there like me lmao. i just wish i was even remotely as intelligent theoretically as he is
I honestly doubt if any other earthling will ever attempt, match, talk less of exceeding this masterpeace, Jacob. That's long way of saying, your work is literally out-of-this-world. Love you man!
“That’s such a nice thing to do to a root, give it a fifth to be friends with”. Jacob Collier is the Bob Ross of harmony, confirmed.
akowalz bob ross of music
WAIT. I LITERALLY TEXTED MY FRIEND THIS LIKE 5 MINUTES AGO ALMOST WORD FOR WORD. ITS OFFICIAL
❤️🥺
why are you even suprised lol
This made me laugh way harder than I thought it would😂
"I like to change key sometimes."
Jacob Collier, 2019
understatement of the decade lol
@@tremen151 Are my eyes decieving me or is that you, Tremen? Good to see you here!
Anteros _ hey I’ve been recognized in the wild! Also why wouldn’t I be here, Jacob Collier is a genius
😂
In one of his masterclasses somewhere on youtube he says "I have a tendency to change chords sometimes"
i love how he casually just said “chris martin, hes my friend, hes in a band called coldplay”
sarah elizabeth I mean, at this point he is a celebrity, you know
When I first saw this comment I kinda thought that he was going to just mention Chris, not actually FEATURE HIM.
Man I don't think people in the comments really appreciate the people who sent him the moon clips; every single person he named is an incredible musician from their own well-known music group. I'm seriously astounded; at a first glance it just seems like random people, but in reality it's Quincy Jones, Hans Zimmer and Herbie Hancock. It's crazy.
@@dylanloew why would you assume that other people 'in the comments' don't appreciate these people? I don't think many people watching Jacob Collier videos haven't heard of Quincy Jones, Hans Zimmer and Herbie Hancock etc
@@dylanloew ya man u not special, in fact, u named all the normies of the bunch
"I would sing a note that I wish was in the chord".
~ Jacob Collier
This quote won my like.
This quote .... story of my childhood.
Oh to have this kind of equipment easily accessible 25 years ago like it is today.
hahaha when he said that i screamed YOU’RE SUCH A NERD
but also, same. respect. lol
20:00
When I see an accomplished musician it's like looking at someone on a high mountain; I can see how, given enough effort and time I could get up there. When I see someone like Jacob Collier its like looking at someone sitting on a cloud; I have simply no idea how to get there.
What a great metaphor! I dig it...
i reckon that was perfectly said
Couldn’t agree more. We are witnessing genius and it is a privilege.
@@QalinaCom omg, fixed now
This is the best explanation of what I also feel.
The fact that he shows us everything he's thinking is seriously inspiring
Little less conversation,little more action[sang,Elvis]
1:00:45 Yes, Jacob, thank you for this vision that you have given all of us to see music in an entirely different lens.
Really, he is being so incredibly generous letting us into his thought processes for music writing, performing, and recording
„Do things on your own term, do things in your own time, do things for yourself, and give everything away“ JC Grammy speech 2020
"If you ever send a moon to someone, do it with a crossfade."
Thanks Jacob, I'll keep that in mind
Ben G extremely useful advice!
His dry British humor is so wonderful.
basically every 10 seconds of the whole video theres a life changing lesson for any musician to absorb
That means every second of this arrangement has that.
absolutely. the lesson is - don't oversaturate your music. less is more.
Randy Price the lesson is the music is actually amazing for his specific audience. If you don’t like it then you don’t. Nobody can force you to like it but this is impressive, technically amazing and actually very inspiring. They way he “over saturates” his music is absolutely amazing and the specifics of it are purely amazing. I feel people just hate on it to hate on it. I see it all the time. You can be one of the most talented musicians on the planet and people will still hate you. You showed that people can still have a distain for technically amazing music that SOUNDS good. That’s absolutely baffling to me.
@@JabariMore Hes just envious
Randy Price you’re just jealous you could never have this many elements in your track without sounding like garbage... plus you’re white
It seems like he's rediscovering his own music sometimes, and it's a childlike wonder. I love this man.
Very well said.
i just spent an hour and 37 minutes watching a man wearing a wizard hat explain the breakdowns of a song that he is madly crazed and in love with and *i dont regret a single millisecond.*
you didn't watch the whole thing, cos he takes the hat off LOL
*you mean a nanosecond*
I mean, he IS a wizard.
45:40 casually singing between justly tuned, Pythagorean and equal tempered thirds.
Just Jacob things
It's just insane, there just seems to be no way anyone could do this and he does it like its nothing.
After 10 years I will not be able to play the piano the same way after knowing it's not justly tuned, fuck me.
Moritz Horst 🤣 exactly the fact that his voice and brain are so different and unique is crazy
@@moritzheinzel815 To be fair, you should be happy it isn't justly tuned otherwise you'd be constrained to a single key and everything else would be useless.
@@andytrox Yup
Dude is 100% in touch with his voice and pitch, it's like he has a tune knob that he can consciously turn, and sing it.
Imagine all the different locks in his home with the way he keeps changing keys
Leftclot damn it. Hahahahaha
lol
Oh, Chip...
Ohhhh mannnnnnnn
You genius you absolute comedic genius 😭🙌🏾😂
Learning music by watching Jacob Collier is like learning to drive a car by watching Formula 1 racing
So true. Unless you're already at that elite level you aren't really learning anything that's directly useful. It's more like you're being inspired or amazed that these higher levels exist.
More like learning to drive a car by watching Han Solo fly the Millennium Falcon
Sorry did someone say formula 1👀
@@TenorPhan23 Bet you he would learn a lot on how to drive with Kimi
Well put...
“Someone went and captured the Notre Dame as a space, and I filled it with moons.” I'm pretty sure that's one of the coolest sentences ever spoken
Na
This. This is why he won a Grammy for this song.
The Grammy was honoured that he won it
I’m glad he made this video because I can appreciate the talent that went into the song much more now.
Gifa
58:03 "that should not be allowed...... and yet, i did it."
Basically sums up Jacobs entire musical career.
Indeed
"You can remove said squeak and remain victorious"
-Jacob Collier, 2019
beenjammins
Yes.
That quote explains so much because of the choice of the word victorious.
It's like musical photoshop.
BEN JAMMIN In the house?
that's a new sentence
40:21 Jacob casually stating "the first thing you need to know about this chord is that it doesn't exist," and then off-the-cuff PROVING that it doesn't exist, then digging into the degrees of cents necessary to achieve it, and then _fist-pumping_ as a means of transitioning into the key of D half-sharp should have been a top ten moment in UA-cam Rewind.
YESSS
Honestly it’s the one chord that truly feels like it shouldn’t exist on this planet lol
Maybe its a Bbsus4(13)?
This man casually name drops legends like Quincy Jones and Hans Zimmer. Legendary.
29:24 Contrary motion for modulation.
30:20 Replace a note with the two surrounding notes.
1:02:28 Fluent movement through key signatures.
1:05:10 Equal temperament vs. just intonation visualized.
“I like to change keys... sometimes. You can quote me on that.”
-Jacob Collier (2019)
Jacob "I was thinking the other day about chords" Collier
It's so refreshing to hear music taught in such a way that's not just theoretical, but to see it as a fabric, and art that flows and dances and something that's alive.
👍
53:28 *I love how he just playfully composed the Disney intro theme song, without even trying...*
THIS MAN'S A LEGEND!
also at 26:52 it’s joy to the world
Right! The Disney theme is actually and old song called "When You Wish Upon a Star", which is a jazz standard nowadays. The fact that him just throwing stuff down on the keyboard is better than most of the thousands of renditions I've heard is just astonishing.
I am only half an hour into this. What an incredible gift to be able to watch a genius explain what he did and why he did it. Not only is Jacob a rare, musical genius but he is an extremely witty and charming person. He is using his great power to make the world a better place. Thank you.
1:35:48 "I'm going on tour next year!"
-Jacob Collier, 2019.
aw not anymore 🥺
he is going on tour as soon as safely possible, though.
edit: tour dates were announced!
Pure evil
“Top ten moments before disaster”
Somebody: *makes joke*
Jacob: *laughs in Dmaj7
Vltra Vlogs D half sharp* maj7
With a hint of added #11 & #15
D F# A C#
ha ha ha ha
Then Laughs in D lydian
Plus C7
Laughs a 1/1-5/4-3/2-7/4 where D=1/1 (just intonation version)
25:34 "wherever there was a silence to be breathed in, i brathe in it" - Jacob Collier
Vincent Penschke this was literally the funniest word I think he has ever said.
"And uh, yeah, that's what I did"
"That's the last thing I did. I breathed everywhere"
okay but can you imagine being one of the people that Jacob Collier just causally texts
No
Wait, you mean you guys didn't get his text message?
Really couldn't be me
@@Bankai2169 😂
18:31
"So the notes that feel important are enphasized by adding more Jacobs"
it surprises me how much sense it makes, with or without context, I mean everything is emphasized by adding Jacobs
I was not expecting to sit on my bed for an hour and watch this whole thing but here we are this was the best UA-cam video I’ve ever seen
"The first thing you need to know about this chord is that it doesnt exist"
D half sharp.
That moment 😍
ua-cam.com/video/cY0DhushY_0/v-deo.html
*laughs in microtonal*
40:20 for anyone who wants the time stamp
33:54 Imagine if Jacob didnt get the Grammy for best a capella arrangement because they discovered there are bubbles in moon river 😂
WHAT A CHEATER!! OMG lol
wait didnt he add a timpony
@@governmentofitaly1026 yeah there are orchestral drums in there too
he could have just said that's him gurgling mouthwash
@@governmentofitaly1026 timpani*
Imagine being Jacob Collier's artist of the decade
Kimbra!
Meghan trainor
Century most likely
everyone's texture on just "moon" makes me realize the deep musicality that exists within EACH of or voices. Jacob I salute you to constantly catching me off guard with your inspiration.
Bloody hell, this is class. A Grammy undermines what thought goes in.
It's not often that we get to see into the mind of such an unparalleled musical genius.
for free too! he's so nice
„Do things on your own term, do things in your own time, do things for yourself, and give everything away“. JC Grammy speech 2020
Wait... Hans Zimmer sent him a "moooooooon"? Holy...
So he TEXTED Hans Zimmer.....
@@elinemay AND Hans responded him back...
well yeah... thats cool i guess. but i mean... CORY HENRY sent him a moon
@@severinruschsr Herbie Hancock sent him one lmao
And I think he did it with throat singing
I imagine Jacob has 15 tracks layered just for silence
Have you seen him listing all the types of silence? It’s really cool!
@@caryshooper8072 pockets
@@caryshooper8072 where can i find this
It’s in his Interview with June Lee (part 3) at like 28 mins
1:29:44 he actually has, look carefully at the bottom, not 15 but some
30:25 A very interesting harmonic tip I found extremely useful for immediate unique and explorative voicings
Jacob: "I sat here for a week and I didn't leave the room." Imagine the stuff he's making right now!!!!!!
He describes things in a way that makes complete sense, and makes me feel smart, which completely juxtaposes with the insanity that is moon river. My hero.
My brain is crashing watching this, not sure how your computer survived.
132 Gb RAM
it's so obvious that his computer went to the gym
its actually mostly audio files so it wont be too stressful on the comp. If it was a bunch of VSTs though it would crash instantly haha
Its a mac I think too, what the fuck - pretty sure its record breaking stuff
Jesse Bout i bet he has a cheese grater hahaha. Yea Jacob can you share to us what computer you’re using? Not that we can max it out like you do but, we’d love to know what’s reliable for you
that idea of replacing a note in a chord with the adjacent notes is suuuuuuuper cool. Love it!
Vigilance Brandon when did he talk about this?
@@ryanjackson5437 30:27
it really is i never thought abt it!
Definitely a great tool to help flavor some of my old boring white bread chords. Bring some much needed tension and movement. Thanks Jacob! Now, how to get out of the tension.....well that’s a different story altogether. 🤷🏻♂️ 🍌
Let's take a moment of silence for those who still don't know that this man & masterpiece exist ...
54:20 “you just walked in on me micro-tonalizing” I hate it when that happens
Love the part at 58:00
“You could describe it as a maj7#9#5,
but why would you do that?”
Extended chord tones.
@@shanecombs1993 oh damn, so you’re good good
“I was thinking the other day about chords ... and I realised a thing ...”: the entire musical world stops breathing in anticipation of learning something totally new.
The concept of something totally new has no place in music, it has its place in selling music ( about which a true artist never cares about).
Nowhy sorry I don’t agree, we can all learn something new. He wasn’t claiming he had invented something totally new. But something he has discovered, understood and is able to communicate to those of us willing to learn some tips and tricks when composing.
However even saying that, composers are pushing the boundaries all the time and innovating new and fresh approaches to music, some will stick most won’t ... but the idea that we have arrived at musical completion and nothing can be learned is not a good place to be I would suggest.
Additionally, our western music is learning from other cultures more and more adding more colour, texture and diversity to our western styles ... I believe these are all good things.
@@Nowhy words newer spoken by a great musician.
Marvel: Infinity War is the most ambitious crossover event in history.
Jacob: Hold my moon.
HOLD MY MOON
HOLD MY MOONS
Literal ringing laughter
Godamnit😂
how crazy we get stuff like this, for free. I love the details, especially when he discusses certain details like the two dynamic ways the DAW plugin generate the same note sound. And the difference is miniscule. I consider myself having a decent ear and can barely tell the difference. To him it seems like it might be night and day. I can relate to this to some degree in my craft (not suggesting respectively we are anywhere close at same level, I can't see the bottom of his shoe). But u do become more sensitive in your own craft if you spend enough time on it.
He is using very simple colloquial terms to speaking about the process since it's a public stream and I can barely keep up with it at all. truly next level.
I am a hardcore music amateur, and I will probably sound pretentious, but the difference is not miniscule.
I understand every little thing he did here, he's just completely meta and doesn't find doing everything by hand and ear as tiresome as I do. I ended up being a programmer, I don't really enjoy repetitiveness, though I'm quite dexterous.
This comes from someone who couldn't purse music in life solely because of inconsistent hearing that largely depends on air pressure and humidity, and if I'd listen a pretty good track on a bad day, I would destroy it out of spite and lose interest, because I can't hear the goodness in it any more. This would inevitably spiral down until I lost all interest in music except as a hobby, though I've persisted more in some tracks where rhythm played a larger role, however the harmony is what is really fascinating to me, because I seem to have a keen perception of microtonalities, and also the way of playing music in my head is based on absolute hearing and I can always tell the tiniest discrepancies.
And who knows maybe I'm actually a musical genius, but wasn't very lucky or recognized. I can't really play any instrument like Jacob and my theoretical knowledge is basic at best. Still the difference is not miniscule for me, it is incredibly huge, and Jacob's now helping us move out from the quantization hole we've dug ourselves into.
All this being said, I truly appreciate Jacob and his work, but I actually don't like his music. He's a good craftsman, and a brilliant mind, but he's more of a classical composer, in a sense of doing it for the entertainment of people who thought they couldn't be surprised and are willing to praise the young master. It's a technical and intellectual surprise (and enterprise), virtuosity, embellishment, that kind of thing, not really a well-balanced, well-grounded storyline, to which ordinary humans can innately and passively connect.
Thank you for your thoughtful insight and experience. Music is out of my lane but something I always want to explorer, recently start to play around with FL studio hehe.@@milanstevic8424
48:07
Jacob: “You’d expect like a C # half finished... wouldn’t you?”
Me: “Duh of course we would expect a C # half diminished.”
Apple: introducing the new Mac Pro with a 28 core processor and 1,5 TB of RAM
Jacob: so I made a song with ten thousand tracks
Jacob exploring the limits of computers
Marek Prudil 😂
Does anyone know his actual computer specs?
@@Chasenwajaé At the end he's talking about 128 Gb of RAM...
@@Chasenwajaé I bet that it's a hackintosh. He says that his friend built him the computer at the end.
If this does not win the grammy I will be in the streets, protesting!
amen
I'll be joining
I’ll be simply amazed if he doesn’t win for best arrangement. You And I (deservedly) won in the same category and Moon River feels an entire level beyond in terms of virtuosity.
@Sam Yaza I agree. Then I shall protest the institution "Grammys" itself!
well you don't have to protest now!!
"I can't play those notes cuz they don't exist."
Mind-blowing walkthrough of Jacob's absolutely unbelievable PhD-in-Soul-AND-Music-Physics arrangement of Moon River.
1:14:23 I can’t wait for you to explore more those gospel, darker moods. They sound so optimized and pure and go straight where it feels good to hear them. That’s where I personally find richness and depth to the story that is being told. When the set of emotions are mixed, tangled, undecided, bitter, grief are giving death to the song. Looking forward to the older Jacob that has lived more rodeos. I dig the song and your approach and surprised for my non-educated ears that everything I’ve heard is revolutionary in its harmonizations where it felt logic to my ears. Rules, habits and the lack of exploration is a dry well.
if I had this mans mind, I’d literally never finish any music, whatsoever. the “ideas” are endless. how does he just ✨PICK ONE✨
1.5 hours of secret chord trickery your music theory professors are too scared to teach you
Music Theorists hate him!
Learn how to justly tune your chords...
M my. M MB Mann. Mnnnnm mmm man m mmmn
@@Relflow hate? Nah theorists don't hate, they envy who they admire.
@@Nowhy you mean pettynes? ☺️
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I want the internet and Jacob to know that this video is the thing that's got me most excited during the past decade. A 96 minute smile, chills running up and down my spine (dissonant, in contrary motion), laughing out loud, my heart jumping out of my chest.
And yes, I understand what you mean and it's such a shame that roughly 7.7 billion people cannot delectate this as profoundly as I can. (But at a current human population of 7.75bn, that still leaves 50 million potential profound delectaters, which is more than Bach ever had...)
I'm so grateful to be alive at the same time as you, Jacob!
Paul Mina Storm Just smoked some Jacob Collier and now my spine is delectating
you know, Arne actually translates to 'He who enjoys sniffing his own farts more than average'
AMEN
@@mackhomie6 😂
If you ever catch yourself typing (or saying) “7.7 billion people cannot delectate this as profoundly as I can,” you need to stop and ask yourself, “Am I being a huge tool right now?”
44:41 "I'm not very good at that kind of stuff, you're probably much better."
No. No. No, we're not...unfortunately.
Lol I've actually gotten pretty good at overtones, but I have a bad habit of practicing when my mind wanders and I get funny looks, which is a great way to start conversations so it's not so bad.
Lol exactly🤣
@@fatguy338 Perfect Pitch must be nice
I wish I had it :(
@@manfredwurst8769 same
@@manfredwurst8769
Luckily you don't need perfect pitch to do overtones.
It's a singing technique that's not too hard to learn but very difficult to master. There are a lot of great videos on how to learn the technique.
So, good luck I guess.
We are witness to the next Mozart/Bach/“whatever musical genius you
want to compare him to” being alive and sharing his work... 🤯 This is by far the most incredibly amazing, awe-inspiring thing I have ever seen... un! be! lievable!
I just heard of Jacob Collier looking for songs to test a new headphone, immediately though this kid is going to be the 21st century Mozart!
Every time I listen to this guy I learn something new. He's a serious genius.
54:23 "Oh, you just walked in on me microtonalizing!"😂
found the quote of the year to describe Jacob's magic @1:11:15
"it's all possible thanks to some very careful Skull-duggery and a lot of heart and soul" -JC
Meanwhile mine struggles with 20 tracks ...
You know that mac is decked tf out with like 360 GB of RAM and a processor he got from an annunaki mothership
I get cpu issues with 7
@@omeismordaunt6224 hahahaha
Wow! I thought I had it bad with my 40 track studders!
@@PleiadeezNutz
Wait, seriously? 360 GB of RAM?
That’s insane...
Love the profile pic btw. Hiatus Kaiyote is dope.
I understand nothing about music and I am still so happy to listen to him all 1,5 hours :D This is so cool!
Same
Me too :-)
To see someone give so much detail to harmonies......it's wonderful. I focus on harmonies as well. You don't hear enough of them and the support of certain chords and such that you pay attention to. This is amazing. Your mind must run a milllion miles a second. It's really hard to sleep but the result is something you feel in your soul.
What a gift. Thanks Jacob!
acapellascience I keep finding your comments on videos I watch! Glad someone has my taste in music. You also commented on a barbershop arrangement
44:27 44:33 44:42
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it took me 3 hours to watch this because i had to stop it every 5 min. to close my eyes, grab my forehead and try to calm myself down.
did you try whackin' off?
@@mackhomie6 um.
ZTAso Well, the OG comment was a bit headass. But still mad respeck on Jacob’s name
Cole Allen fr he’s a genius
Well, did you try whackin off?
"I went through and just breathed...everywhere. Wherever there was a silence to be breathed in, I breathed in it."
Jacob Collier, 2019
best part is how much you actually enjoy doing these; you're literally pushing me into one of your sparkling ponds of imaginations
first time I heard this arrangement was the first time I've ever been moved to tears by a song.
"so somebody went and captured the notre dame, and i filled it with moons"
-jacob collier discussing his recent jail sentence
Despicable Me 4: Collier’s Revenge
The level of complexity, technique, subtlety, finesse, heart...at which this guy is operating is beyond belief. And the incredible technique is a consequence of a search from instinct. I have to watch this many times.
33:52 “non-plastic glitter”!! This is why I love this guy. Yes!
The whole crazy ascending end section starting at 1:11:17 is literally a DMT trip/the circle of existence as an organic lifeform captured in harmony. The "Huckleberry Fin" as familiar faces from across the seas of life, deja vu, finding yourself anew in a place you've been before, birth, rebirth... He uses words like these throughout to describe what's happening musically. Not saying Jacob smokes DMT, but his musical/harmonic genius has allowed him to stumble on equivalent realizations.
My favorite part 🥲❤
This is amazing, even just 11 minutes in. Thank you so much.
Also..."This is Tom Misch, look at him glow" truer words have never been spoken.
No one is gonna talk about how he just sends text asking for a moon from hans zimmer and Celine Deion??
Cookie Monster I appreciate your Powdered Toast Man profile picture. And no, no one is going to talk about it because we're all "mad jelly" of him.
Isiah Buda thank you! I appreciate your acknowledgement of him.
This man works way too damn hard NOT to get Grammy's every year.
and then he gets nominated and just goes, "the Grammy's don't mean much." smh
@@wilberforce95 They do when he gets them because he deserves them more than anyone else.
“If you ever send a moon to someone, make sure you cross fade.” That one was my favorite.
Logic Developers: No one will ever need the new 1000 track feature.
Jacob: Hold my Logic.....🤯
I've been playing music for 40 years, and I have just learned a dozen new things in the course of this video. JC is the best!
"There is Chris Martin, my friend. He's in a band called Coldplay"
Yeah... That's a thing I usually say too
Hey Jacob! There's a bunch of comments comparing you to Bob Ross in this video, I was wondering, would you ever do a "compose along" session, where you make something in Logic in real time with the intent for people to make something along with you? I'm not sure exactly how it would work but I think it could be beautiful.
Your wish has come true! ;))
@@notpresobama1553 wait did he do something like this?
@@eliaswren yupp you can search “jacob collier song creation tiktok” on youtube to find it 👌
@@notpresobama1553 Wait did he!?
yesss this one’s great check it out!
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My God. The incredible Genius of Jacob Collier. Masterful to watch this man at work.
Talent, not genius.. Yes, this is outstanding craftsmanship, but no craftsmanship in itself is ever art.
"god knows what this chord is"
*Plays chord*
"Of course! It's a classic"
Proof that Jacob is god
Jacob is indeed god
It's the secret chord that pleased the lord
@@harukomeyers7073 HAHAHA
Calm down. Jacob is a master at his craft, he's no God.
@@mytruthslays1303 ever heard of hyperbole?
34:27. Effervescence. Refreshing...cleansing. The difference between cold water and sparkling water. Love it.
When you started throat singing at 44:20 you hit the same note(s) at the same time as my washing machine. Congrats. You made my day
🤣🤣🤣
The fact that he is playing G half sharp while singing a perfectly intonated B and then showing that the B on a piano is 14 cents off just blows my mind!
Which part is that?
Moon River is my favorite song of yours and seeing this breakdown blew my mind! It was extremely fascinating to see how you actually accomplished all this stuff. Thanks for taking the time to share it with us!
I knew Danny Williams quite well in the last six years of his life. He had the number one hit in the UK in 1963 of Moon River and always sang it in the original key Eflat. I think he's watching this video from heaven with the other angels and thanking Jacob with his smile of joy.
So stinking satisfying to hear you break down every deliberate pyramid, swell, breath, that causes me to weep uncontrollably every time I hear this darned song...of COURSE I'd end up here...
24:33 "It's just a little bit of cold water. [...] Do you guys take cold showers? Heard that... cold showers... the way to go these days." - Jacob Collier, 2019.
He's so adorable.
Watching this video is like imagining Mozart composing a symphony! Pure genius! God bless you, Jacob and thank you!
these logic session breakdowns are the greatest resource!!
I’ve learned so much about composition, arranging, and production from watching these break downs. Thank you for sharing your process. You are MASSIVELY inspirational
"If you ever send a moon to somebody, do it with a crossfade"
- Jacob Collier, 2019
I watched this whole video even though I've never heard of Logic and have no intention of making music.
1:05:17 AMAZING live demonstration of harmonic series vs equal temperament.
"we are now entering into the key of D half sharp" I laughed out loud at that one
i do not even come close to being remotely in the same world of genius jacob is when he is simply sleeping, but i can relate to him. i love finding something that sounds cool randomly or through improv. i get that same sense of excitement. sometimes i get a weird high off making my own music. i’m glad there are other weirdos out there like me lmao. i just wish i was even remotely as intelligent theoretically as he is
I honestly doubt if any other earthling will ever attempt, match, talk less of exceeding this masterpeace, Jacob. That's long way of saying, your work is literally out-of-this-world. Love you man!