i find him so contrived, unoriginal and just cringey. like yeah hes smart and knows all about theory but when it reaches the level hes doing it just feels like science with no soul or anything that makes him stand out in a creative and enjoyable way, i cant take his voice seriously and it just makes me uncomfortable, i cant sit through a video of his for 10 seconds without needing to change it. there are so many other talented musicians who have such a sound and originality to them that are being so slept on just so this guy can harmonize with himself a billion different times. its stale
Sam Jenny hmmm a lot of projection going on here. Must point to an incredible degree of insecurity if you feel so threatened by his completely neutral demeanour.
@@jordanwillrog 6:29 to 6:31 he says "each number of the times tables had its own little song" then he specifically references the 7 times table and then he even jokes about releasing them. Because he has a bunch of videos
@@jordanwillrog wow you literally don't know how to listen.....thats scary tbh. He litetally says every word I typed out, how on earth didn't you hear. He litefally says that the 7 times table was in 7/4 so what the hell are you talking about? Having "piano" in your username really doesn't help 🤣. Your inability to listen is astounding. Not only that but you think insulting people when you're the one that's wrong makes you look cool? You look pretty darn stupid 🤣
i love how most artists are like 'AHHH I CAN'T THINK' and jacob is like 'okay i have a song but before time runs out lemme tell you about my connection with this particular song as well as change the settings on this keyboard to a 12 piece drum kit'
I agree! Especially how he explains every single song he sang, each of them has a different way of catching his attention. also, the way he engages people throughout the whole video is just amazing. very thankful to Elle for having him!!
James Cunico I wouldn’t say American culture created it, improvisation has been around since, well music began when you really think about it. Improvisation exists in different forms around the world. Jazz in America, django Reinhardt and gypsy jazz in france, hell even Celtic musicians improvise with slight different variations on each part of even very repetitive AB dance music.
did anyone else get really anxious when he just kept talking about how good the song was going to be so good... but he hadn't sung the word yet... and the timer kept ticking
This man experiences music on a completely different level than all of us. I love music, but I'm almost jealous that I'll never be able to experience it to the level that he does
I suspect there is a darkness he has to get through from time to time, but that is where his "don't hold onto things like they're forever" philosophy comes in.
lfdoidao Look for his video breaking down Stevie Wonder's Sir Duke on Vox's channel. His ability to explain jazz chords and music history is just mesmerizing! In case you wanted to geek out a bit more!
Elle: Give us one song for this word Jacob: Ok here’s a full orchestral rendition of One Last Time in multiple key changes, different instrumentation, oh and wanna know more about my childhood and lifelong aspirations? Us: PLEASE AND THANK YOU
As a Bulgarian, I just want to share that my heart skipped a beat when one of my favorite artists said he wants to collaborate with the Bulgarian female choir. I felt so unbelievably happy and I'd love to see this happening
I love how this guy just loses himself in every little detail and it seems like after a little while he realizes it’s still an interview and then he comes back to reality ! So glad I found out about him like 2 weeks ago 🙏🏼
@@raphaelkelly861 I remember when the first Jun lee interview came out a few years ago and I probably watched about 4 times within the space of a week. If you haven't already, take any opportunity you can to go see jacob live, Its incredible
Peter Oselador I do that too. I could be like “this is one of my favorite songs to play!”, and when people ask me to sing it I’d be “but I don’t know the words 😬”. Even when I know the words, I sometimes still don’t pay attention to what the song is about.
3:25 - Almost exactly 4 years later, he arranges and sings an amazing rendition of "Wild Mountain Thyme" with dodie, Laufey, the NSO, and the audience as a choir at The Kennedy Center.
14:31 is perhaps the most telling part of Jacob Collier. He dips down and plays a note with his nose because he ran out of fingers. And for those of us watching, we expect that to be a little joke hes throwing in there to be funny and we expect some kind of smirk or acknowledgement of that fact from him afterwards. But there's no reaction to it on his part because he wasn't doing it for comedic effect. He just knew he wanted that note in there and knew he was out of fingers. So the nose was just this natural reaction from there to get the sounds he had in his head out into the world.
@@zacharylewis2161 I wasn't making a point about anything being deep. In fact my point was antithetical to that notion; I was pointing out that his decision to use his nose there was likely completely pragmatic and actually lacked any other kind of meaning.
He loves that sound. I've even seen him add it into his recordings when using MIDI. Some synths can replicate the keyboard clack and allow you to adjust the level. He loves it... I kinda do too. :)
The fact that this video is over 18 minutes long shows just how sincere he is about music and how he can just get carried away by the simplest melodies - music appreciation at its best
“I’d like to collaborate with the Bulgarian women’s choir of television and radio, they’re like ridiculously killing, and they make these sounds like *EEiEeIEEieEEHHhHH* ...and yeah that’s cool so I want to collaborate with those guys.”
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I love the fact that he out of nowhere played that one single note with his nose. He truly feels music so much he HAD to play that one single note. A genius
NHaezer in jazz many would say that it sound weird or bad. In reality he’s improvising on a high level, using complex chord voicings and tritone substitutions. To make something sound “good” you can play something “bad” before the “good” chord to emphasize the feeling if resolution. 14 year old danish kid out.
@@toshirobozdogan2207 I think you might be mistaken with what the comment was originally. Birder was saying that he often got the song with 1 second remaining out of his 10 seconds. So he was 1 second away from failing a lot of the time. Because he was going into so much detail with the jazz arranging and finding the obscure songs like with the word 'Bad' for example
This is so accurate I don't even know what to say. I sometimes just fall down the rabbit hole of Jacob Collier and resurface to find I've been away for hours.
Jacob Collier is quintessential musicians' musician. Out there, really experimental, very intelligent. I'm even surprised a mainstream publication would feature him like this.
In what world is this "out there"? This is straight up Vanilla music disguised as "clever and experimental" collier fans are the worst. So much pretension, so little knowledge...
Depends on your life situation if you do or don’t kno these songs. No judgment is necessary about whether someone expresses that for them, these songs were obscure.
I was looking for this comment because I wanted to add that this goes to show how amazing his mind is. His brain is 2 steps ahead of his body, already sending the signals to his arms and hands to get ready for the gloves part of the sentence before he's even finished processing the cognitive thought and then catches up with himself and says "such as gloves! there you go" lol
For real, its like "wow it's actually humanly possible to understand music on that intimate of a level" and then you go sit down and play your instrument and then it's like "wow Jacob Collier is the only human on earth who is able to understand music so intimately"
M1dorin he don’t have a level of complexity such as negative harmonies. There are much proofs that he composed much things when he was a kid but he did the melodies while his father “completed “it so, why wouldn’t he be able to be compared? Jacob is compared to him for his talent. Mozart isn’t the one musicians and theorist thinks as the goat (this is Bach btw)
Weirdly I actually just like this dude as a person, crazy harmonies aren't really my thing, but I love how open and warm he is when talking about them. This is what happens when you warmly encourage creativity in a bright kid. He's CONFIDENT, and so happy with the sounds he's making.
Jacob is the Mozart and Beethoven of our time.....pay attention, learn from him, study him and remember him - we are so lucky he exists in our lifetimes. He should be known - tell others what this incredible musician can do. He is a musical genius who knows he also has the power to change not only anything in music but how people feel about themselves, our society etc. with his messages of peace, love and caring for others. He is truly unique and important to learn from. All people, not just musicians, should know about him and what he does and how he creates. Amazing indeed. What a brain! Most of us literally only use about 10% of our brain - can't say that about Jacob Collier.
of any of these videos that could be 18 minutes long, i'm glad it's this one managed to catch him live (and i recommend everyone else does to) and he was incredible.
I got to see him live in Hamburg and my god, he’s just brilliant and such a beautiful soul! Was very upset that his concert in Berlin on April 1st got cancelled :/
Any other person: " I'll have ONLY 10 seconds to think of a song" Jacob: "I'll have 10 WHOLE seconds to think of a song" Perspective make all the difference in the world
everyone else doing this: *rushes to sing* ahhhhhhhh *thinking* jacob: ooo, leemme intro this song quick and play some notes, don't worry about the timer.
he’s such a fresh air to the music industry. he has so much to talk about when it comes to music, he gets so passionate, and that’s amazing to see. he seems like a really nice human being too.
2 days ago I clicked on this video with no idea who Jacob was. I have since listened to all of his albums and watched his entire UA-cam channel. His talent, skill, and personality are overwhelmingly magnetic.
Jacob uses his perfect pitch to sing the song first and then play the rest of chords, haha, how blessed he is with his perfect pitch, hardwork, and not to mention his good personality too
He definitely has perfect pitch. Just watch one of his streams where he can tell by how many cents a singer is off key without any notes to go off, and tell you the key signature of a song within like the first 5 secs etc. Obviously there’s natural perfect pitch there but he’s worked on it a hell of a lot to get it as good as it is
william land honestly i think he was just being funny🤷🏽♂️😂 but maybe he was implying that the he thinks the song is great the way it is? i don’t think he would mean it in a cocky “i could go higher than ariana” way
THANK YALL FOR LETTING HIM JUST TALK AND PLAY!!! I'm so glad that y'all didn't cut him off and just let him be. Simply be. And we got to enjoy his be-ing.
@@hugebeebop2955 how so? Certainly Not characterwise, and also not in the tonal language. What reminds me of Mozart is the ease and playfulness he displays, and extreme memory. Beethoven takes everything extremely seriously and wrestled for every note.
@@ramram4754 oh i see. You can see it that way. I was thinking more about the influence and the subversivness. And maybe it's because i widely prefer Beethoven and i want JC to be respected (but i mean Mozart is already a fair comparison)
Watching Jacob Collier videos, it's so nice how people just let him riff and keep going. Like he's making gold, who's going to tell him to stop. It's not even ego. It feels like he wouldn't even push back if you asked him to cut. He doesn't strike me as the kind of person who brings up that he has 4 Grammy's. But, it's obvious when he's just playing that he deeply loves music in a way that challenges your notion of deep. One of my favorite things about the modern world is that people like him can thrive and make music. Imagine if someone shamed little 5 year old Jacob Collier, making up melodies for the times tables? The world would be a poorer place.
"It's not even ego." A lot of people don't seem to understand this. Some people think he's just bragging about his talent with his perfect pitch or really fast riffs, but that's just Jacob's self. That's his essence. He doesn't play piano or guitar, he plays Jacob.
Now and again, a musician will play a chord while singing, and it will sound wonky, and I'll think something along the lines of "this sounds weird because they lack musicality". Then Jacob Collier will be playing a chord while singing, and it will sound wonky, and I'll think something along the lines of "this sounds weird because I lack musicality".
Not necessarily, he's not exactly a millionaire so he hasn't really nailed musicality himself. I find him very entertaining as a musician and more as a person, but most of what he plays is technically amazing while being nothing anyone would pay to own and that's part of musicality. A song can be technically perfect but not have the listener appeal to become a money maker, and making the money is the point... or so they say. By they I mean most people.
@@korkee1111 I think equating musicality with how many people a song appeals to and how much money it makes is probably a mistake. Unless you think the same old pop-country ballads over the same old 4 chords, or autotuned lyrically deficient codeine-trap music are the epitome of musicality.
Wonkiness is relative. Does that mean more traditional chords are better than Jazz or what Jacob is playing? No of course not, but the more you expose yourself to different types of music (culturally and in different genres), the easier it will be for you to find the beauty in the weirdness.
@@TwiggyAlienorCameron I totally get what you're saying but since we all (unless you've got a VPN) live in capitalist societies and nobody spends their lives perfecting their ability to play without hopes of cashing in on it. Sad, but true... I guess it's more of a comment on society than Jacob.
Everything about him just fits the historical image of Mozart: the positive energy, the musical genius, the talent in improvisation, the superb ability on multiple instruments and singing. It's beautiful.
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Which song would you love Jacob to arrange?!
Rick Astley's "2gether 4ever"
Love Never Felt so Good - MJ :)
ANY SONG
Big yellow taxi - Joni Mitchell
all of them
"daniel caesar is a massive legend, if you don't know him "
"you should know him"
*"now you know him"*
love me some chaotic energy
Someone with taste... yasss
MASSIVE LEGEND!!!
I love this this guy😂💘
You know him now.
He is in your mind.
Me after watching Jacob Collier talk for the first time:
Oh, so he’s a GENIUS genius
😂😂😂 when I first heard him talk, it felt like his voice didnt match his body
O. B. Totally! He sounds like an afro grown fat jazz singer
One of the most talented musicians alive right now in fact.
i find him so contrived, unoriginal and just cringey. like yeah hes smart and knows all about theory but when it reaches the level hes doing it just feels like science with no soul or anything that makes him stand out in a creative and enjoyable way, i cant take his voice seriously and it just makes me uncomfortable, i cant sit through a video of his for 10 seconds without needing to change it. there are so many other talented musicians who have such a sound and originality to them that are being so slept on just so this guy can harmonize with himself a billion different times. its stale
Sam Jenny hmmm a lot of projection going on here. Must point to an incredible degree of insecurity if you feel so threatened by his completely neutral demeanour.
His hair fits his personality so well, chaotic and weirdly charismatic
same with his funky sweater
A perfect synchronization of style with the person's personality
enfp things
😂 True
This is what it looks like when someone finds their purpose and absolute passion and they live it with every cell in their body
Amen :)
Factzzzz
YES ❤
And has the time, money, opportunity.. and from the youngest age..
As a kid, this guy made songs for times tables and each song's time signature depended on the table. Let that sink in
That is why he is being compared to Mozart. Of course not the Mozart 200 years after his dead, but Mozart at 12, o 17 or 22 or 25.
@@jordanwillrog no, he gave the 7 times table as an example but had songs for.each.of the times tables. He says this clearly lol
@@jordanwillrog 6:29 to 6:31 he says "each number of the times tables had its own little song" then he specifically references the 7 times table and then he even jokes about releasing them. Because he has a bunch of videos
@@jordanwillrog wow you literally don't know how to listen.....thats scary tbh. He litetally says every word I typed out, how on earth didn't you hear. He litefally says that the 7 times table was in 7/4 so what the hell are you talking about?
Having "piano" in your username really doesn't help 🤣. Your inability to listen is astounding. Not only that but you think insulting people when you're the one that's wrong makes you look cool? You look pretty darn stupid 🤣
@@jordanwillrog if anyone needs to get their facts right (and hearing checked) it's you dude....
He’s so musically chaotic and it’s everything
E v e r y t h i n g
He's super fast and complex. Breath of fresh air to hear someone who really knows their stuff.
@@ReasonMakes an addition: someone who knows his stuff but can also have fun with it !
He reminds me of Bill Wurtz in that way kinda interested in a collab between them
@@sebastianrichards6053 yes!!! I completely agree!!
i love how most artists are like 'AHHH I CAN'T THINK' and jacob is like 'okay i have a song but before time runs out lemme tell you about my connection with this particular song as well as change the settings on this keyboard to a 12 piece drum kit'
Probably safe to assume the words were chosen specifically to allow him to show off his greatest hits...
@@q-tuber7034 yeah dude. But he is amazing though.
😂😂😂😂😂
@@q-tuber7034 that just dampened the joy of it all. I’m sure you meant it to be positive but geez
@@q-tuber7034 is it safe to assume then that the same would apply to all the other videos too?
im convinced the just puts his hands wherever he wants and the keyboard just agrees
he plays the piano with as much ease it takes for him to talk, the guy's beyond talented
You have to spend some time on it 😉
I agree! Especially how he explains every single song he sang, each of them has a different way of catching his attention. also, the way he engages people throughout the whole video is just amazing. very thankful to Elle for having him!!
Practice :)
Most people will never reach that level even with a lot of practice. He is the Mozart of our time.
Dsc yingyue Dude that’s exactly it 😁
it’s kinda crazy how he plays each song with his own sorta melody, like he hears them differently from everyone else. wild
I’m pretty sure every musician does this to some extent.
he plays it with the original melody but changes the harmony, which is common among advanced musicians. everyone perceives the world in their own way.
James Cunico I wouldn’t say American culture created it, improvisation has been around since, well music began when you really think about it. Improvisation exists in different forms around the world. Jazz in America, django Reinhardt and gypsy jazz in france, hell even Celtic musicians improvise with slight different variations on each part of even very repetitive AB dance music.
James Cunico can’t really argue with that, well put. For the record tho I’m Canadian ;)
He’s more messing with the harmony then he is the melody. It’s what Jazz musicians do a lot.
Jacob Collier: *Records himself 5000 times to make Moon River and put it on his album*
Also Jacob: *forgets words*
he's tired of recording it so bad he decided to just forgot the lyrics
I love how Elle let's Jacob have his above average long video. He deserves it. He's extremely talented.
I think the time keeper was so amazed by him, so they're too stunned to speak and stop him 😂
No such thing as talent
TRUST me, its a strategy😄
@@Undaglibenglaubenglobennah there definitely is
@@Undaglibenglaubengloben what is you talking about ☠
Normal kids: Learns to play twinkle twinkle little star
Jacob: Composes a song in 7/4 to study math
that proves how much of a genius he is!!
btw, how come this had no replies with 1.4k likes already?
@@vickytrifo sussy
Maths
hehehe! Yeah...I guess that happens!
lol the mind of a genius
did anyone else get really anxious when he just kept talking about how good the song was going to be so good... but he hadn't sung the word yet... and the timer kept ticking
Ikr🤣🤣 like I'm nervous for him.
I get so nervous about that timer... But I'm honestly here to listen to Jacob ramble about music anyways so I'm 100% here for it lol
MEEEE
Yeees
Yess
I’m convinced that Jacob is just music in human form sent down as an experiment
How does this have no comments after a year and has 2.2K likes
Right....
@@Skwuushi because its true.
yeah lol
Seems like it
This man experiences music on a completely different level than all of us. I love music, but I'm almost jealous that I'll never be able to experience it to the level that he does
I suspect there is a darkness he has to get through from time to time, but that is where his "don't hold onto things like they're forever" philosophy comes in.
Same!
Enjoy
I love how he turned a usually 8-minute clip into a 18-minute mini-concert.
We owe him a check.
HAHA
He talks way too much.
Yeah, but every second of it is enjoyable😊❣
You want another Stevie wonder?
I like how this video is 20 minutes and every other artists is between 5-8 minutes.
and i watched ALL 18 mins lolll
Time is given by measure of their talent
he just talks a lot lol
Nat and Alex Wolff's video was 29 minutes. Lol at that point they were just jamming 😂
Felt like 5mins
this man is not only extremely talented but incredibly intelligent and well spoken, i admire him
Nardos Felefele sorry what-
Nardos Felefele sorry what-
and i fancy him 😳
He is extremely talented... Check him out a little more
Nardos Felefele Can no one on this thread read? 😂
He looks like a mad scientist of music.
And i love it.
This man is music personified. Its in his character, his bones, he is just a pure artist.
Nope
@Kathy Barrios probably trolling
I N. MY. B O N E S.
i see what you did there ;)
💀There's a fuckin feelin in my bones, In my bones,
and I know I got that fuking feelin
╭∩╮╭💀╮╭∩╮
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His jazz levels are astouding
Michael Karezin LMFAOOO
Michael Karezin D E F G E- C D-
lfdoidao Look for his video breaking down Stevie Wonder's Sir Duke on Vox's channel. His ability to explain jazz chords and music history is just mesmerizing! In case you wanted to geek out a bit more!
jorge loaiza *Adam Neely has entered the room*
Michael Karezin he is beyond that
Elle: Give us one song for this word
Jacob: Ok here’s a full orchestral rendition of One Last Time in multiple key changes, different instrumentation, oh and wanna know more about my childhood and lifelong aspirations?
Us: PLEASE AND THANK YOU
I didn't see that song in this video! Is it posted somewhere else? I'd love to see him cover One More Time by Daft Punk
Chance Devlin whoops. Meant one last time. The Ariana song he did
amanda jo YES that was indeed epic
Parks and Rec reference?
Ikr that key change was astounding
He is a real life Pixar character and I'm obsessed
😮 you might be on to something…
Disney?? Animated documentary 😂😂???
You can just see him cycling through like a 100 'obvious songs' before settling on one haha
Almost every time! Especially with heart, considering he literally wrote a song called "with the love in my heart"
there's a chance he may have just forgotten his own music
but it may well be the cycling thing
@@sommeone I feel like he was thinking of doing that but he just forgot it lol
@@madhavraghu Maybe! At the end of the day, who knows!
He's so good at this. His mind is so interesting
This is the best Song Association guest ever
Facts
Hands down
no cap
Na
@@Andres-lt7hp duh
Nobody:
Jacob: *casually plays in key that doesn't exist*
probably e sharp...
As a Bulgarian, I just want to share that my heart skipped a beat when one of my favorite artists said he wants to collaborate with the Bulgarian female choir. I felt so unbelievably happy and I'd love to see this happening
Was scrolling to find such comment! Cheers fellow bulgarian! Long live bulgarian women choirs and Jacob!
Me too!
(АКО ГО НАПРАВИ ЩЕ СТАНЕМ ОЩЕ ПО-FAMOUS ДОСТА БЪРЗО...)
What a genius he is!
What a coincidence, me too. Или иначе казано, и аз също търсех този коментар 😊
Sameeee 💖💖💖
He did that recently!
He exudes so much JOY. It's so rare, it's kinda addicting.
It's what Jazz does.
YESS and he's so chill, literally my dream
Exactly
Yeah it’s called Autism
I would totally exude happiness too if I were rich and my job consisted of doing stuff everyone else does for fun.
I love how this guy just loses himself in every little detail and it seems like after a little while he realizes it’s still an interview and then he comes back to reality !
So glad I found out about him like 2 weeks ago 🙏🏼
2 weeks anniversary for us both 🤝🏾
@@dariusroberson7693 1 year checking in - once you go Jacob you can't go back...
Darius Roberson haha did u find him on the 'Best Part' Video too? 😅
@@raphaelkelly861 I remember when the first Jun lee interview came out a few years ago and I probably watched about 4 times within the space of a week. If you haven't already, take any opportunity you can to go see jacob live, Its incredible
@@Matt.Craine Definitely on my to do after quarantine list!
It’s crazy how he doesn’t even know the words but can still play the musical progressions of these songs he hardly knows
he's improvising the progressions lol. he doesn't have to remember them
Some people hear words first and notes later, some hear notes first and words last. But yeah
I'm someone who can almost always sing you the melody, but can't remember lyrics to save your life!
Cheers from a music major
Peter Oselador I do that too. I could be like “this is one of my favorite songs to play!”, and when people ask me to sing it I’d be “but I don’t know the words 😬”. Even when I know the words, I sometimes still don’t pay attention to what the song is about.
Melody in music is way more memorable than the words, at least for me also especially for someone with perfect pitch like Jacob
3:25 - Almost exactly 4 years later, he arranges and sings an amazing rendition of "Wild Mountain Thyme" with dodie, Laufey, the NSO, and the audience as a choir at The Kennedy Center.
“So I wrote it in a key that doesn’t exist”
I mean, he just blew me away with that statement, I can't believe this guy, he's the Jim Carry of music.
If you don't already know who Jacob Collier is, that sentence basically sums it up.
@@zacharywilliams2 yea exactly, that's Jacob Collier in short 😂
when??
Amanda Eliasson 11:44
14:31 is perhaps the most telling part of Jacob Collier. He dips down and plays a note with his nose because he ran out of fingers. And for those of us watching, we expect that to be a little joke hes throwing in there to be funny and we expect some kind of smirk or acknowledgement of that fact from him afterwards. But there's no reaction to it on his part because he wasn't doing it for comedic effect. He just knew he wanted that note in there and knew he was out of fingers. So the nose was just this natural reaction from there to get the sounds he had in his head out into the world.
Totally thought he was so into the music he started smelling for it… 😂😅
My lord, that man ain't human.
it’s not that deep
@@zacharylewis2161 I wasn't making a point about anything being deep. In fact my point was antithetical to that notion; I was pointing out that his decision to use his nose there was likely completely pragmatic and actually lacked any other kind of meaning.
@@zacharylewis2161 And you're not that smart.
Let people enjoy things.
Jacob: *plays beautifully*
keyboard: *KLACK KLACK KLACK*
He loves that sound. I've even seen him add it into his recordings when using MIDI. Some synths can replicate the keyboard clack and allow you to adjust the level. He loves it... I kinda do too. :)
The fact that this video is over 18 minutes long shows just how sincere he is about music and how he can just get carried away by the simplest melodies - music appreciation at its best
Honestly he’s that annoying kid in music class but secretly you’re jealous cause they’re so talented and they’re friends with everyone
Right?!!!!!!!
This is... oddly specific
Stop atleast youre admitting youre jealous instead of being bitter... more healthy!!!
Except he’s not annoying !
@@Jjjjjjjj27 which makes it more annoying (￣3￣)
What i love about him is the fact that he plays the keyboard like he grew up in a black church
yesss! he’s has that vibe, it’s like he’s playing with more soul.
It's called jazz and you can learn it
Why is this so
s p e c i f i c
@@helloworld7818 I don’t think you get it.
@@helloworld7818 there’s white people jazz, and then there’s soul.
“I’d like to collaborate with the Bulgarian women’s choir of television and radio, they’re like ridiculously killing, and they make these sounds like *EEiEeIEEieEEHHhHH* ...and yeah that’s cool so I want to collaborate with those guys.”
Cameron Hawes *gang signs*
As a questionable sounding Bulgarian I will offer myself as a sacrifice
*makes swag gestures*
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@@cornelesmokodompit1683 I just had a seizure reading that.
I love the fact that he out of nowhere played that one single note with his nose. He truly feels music so much he HAD to play that one single note. A genius
Can't even hate this guy, he's just so positive
Mark Jesmer why would you even consider hating him
Mert Akyol Because he’s obnoxiously good at music😂
he's living on the edge with all these close 1 second failures
We love a risk taker.
birder are you familiar with jazz harmony?
? Care to explain?
NHaezer in jazz many would say that it sound weird or bad. In reality he’s improvising on a high level, using complex chord voicings and tritone substitutions. To make something sound “good” you can play something “bad” before the “good” chord to emphasize the feeling if resolution.
14 year old danish kid out.
@@toshirobozdogan2207 I think you might be mistaken with what the comment was originally. Birder was saying that he often got the song with 1 second remaining out of his 10 seconds. So he was 1 second away from failing a lot of the time. Because he was going into so much detail with the jazz arranging and finding the obscure songs like with the word 'Bad' for example
I read “Jacob Collier” and I’m instantly here
Challenge: 10 seconds to think of a song with a word.
Jacob: 10 seconds to get to the word in the song.
Is no one gonna talk about how he managed to arrange the 7 times table into 7/4 at the age when you’re still learning your times tables?
He's a freakin geniuuuus 💜💜💜
must have been an awesome kid to know.
cringe
The fact that he wants to collaborate with Kendrick is quite literally a match made in heaven and a dream come true
Started casual, then ended up listening to a musical TED talk while sipping a cuppa tea and losing track of time to float in the sky with him.
This has literally restored my faith in humanity tonight in the midst of this turbulence.
@@drbunny69 So happy to hear it, got to stay positive :)
This is so accurate I don't even know what to say. I sometimes just fall down the rabbit hole of Jacob Collier and resurface to find I've been away for hours.
The universal experience of watching Jacob Collier videos
Jacob Collier is quintessential musicians' musician. Out there, really experimental, very intelligent. I'm even surprised a mainstream publication would feature him like this.
In what world is this "out there"? This is straight up Vanilla music disguised as "clever and experimental" collier fans are the worst. So much pretension, so little knowledge...
He is 100 percent counting the ten in his head and waiting till 1 second is left on purpose
Thats exactly what i thought hahahahaaaa
He doesn't count down in seconds, he counts down in 60BPM.
@@dansaunders1655 you're a total legend for this
Dan Saunders he’s actually counting 30bpm in eighth notes to make it more impressive
@@kleancut5016 he actually counting in 15 bpm in 16th notes to seem more impressive
I love how obscure his selections are. The musicality of this dude is the real deal.
Not really, they're all popular music songs.
Depends on your life situation if you do or don’t kno these songs. No judgment is necessary about whether someone expresses that for them, these songs were obscure.
I like how varied they are. Dude pulled out both Ella, Ariana, Imogen, and James in one sitting.
And then the word is Sun and I come up with the same song he chooses. I'm so proud of myself for that one.
Yeah, Here comes the sun is pretty obscure
Jacob Collier looks like his brain exploded inside his head, but the only thing that reacted was his hair.
And his clothes
LOL this is the best comment I’ve seen in weeks mate
This had me dying
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
funny but accurate.
Lmao
Jacob going “Idk why I’m doing this with my hands” but just vibing with it is my favorite thing
And then realizing slightly later why .. ah gloves !
I was looking for this comment because I wanted to add that this goes to show how amazing his mind is. His brain is 2 steps ahead of his body, already sending the signals to his arms and hands to get ready for the gloves part of the sentence before he's even finished processing the cognitive thought and then catches up with himself and says "such as gloves! there you go" lol
He'd be a great childrens' tv program host. Teaching them through music and stories. Love him!
Yes!
This is a great idea
I'd watch the heck out of that
Omg this is so true. He'd be the biggest success in that, that's for sure! He teaches adults like kids btw, with that charm and love!
Blues clues vibes for sure.
This called me musically incompetent in keys that don't even exist...
D half sharp major
Everything he says just seems so important
♡
because THEY ARE... people just forgot the essence of life, wich is understanding and carrying about the importance of things.
He's absolutely electric. It looks like he thinks in music and it's lovely.
as an aspiring musician, listening to this man perform is simultaneously extremely inspiring and extremely depressing
For real, its like "wow it's actually humanly possible to understand music on that intimate of a level" and then you go sit down and play your instrument and then it's like "wow Jacob Collier is the only human on earth who is able to understand music so intimately"
Ignore my grammatical errors, I’m aware of them i just don’t feel like fixing it.🤷🏾♂️
“I was into maths” I KNEW IT!! He gives off vibes of someone who likes math.
Meehui Messina fuck off
music is math
@@vetoedimpersonator4478 Your way with words is so subtle, so nuanced. Absolute poetry.
Yeap, more crystal
i think this is why i have struggles with music, im bad at maths
this is the mozart of our time and that is not up for argument
facts
Even Mozart didn't have this kind of understanding on harmony.
I'm not even a fan of mozzart but there is not a person that can be compared to him in terms of music.
M1dorin why?
M1dorin he don’t have a level of complexity such as negative harmonies. There are much proofs that he composed much things when he was a kid but he did the melodies while his father “completed “it so, why wouldn’t he be able to be compared? Jacob is compared to him for his talent. Mozart isn’t the one musicians and theorist thinks as the goat (this is Bach btw)
He really seems to embody a child that was very well loved and catered to🥺👏🏾
Maybe a little too much? It seems like this guy is surrounded by yes men only!
@@joelbarish u bitter, bro?
@@joelbarishyou saying that says so much more about you than him
Did he really say “Stevie Wonder if you’re watching”
What a flex
Ngl he prob is tho
HOW IS HE WATCHING BRUH
@@variousvirals9139 hes blind tho
@@papanoahh8541 exactly
no one: he's blind
literally everyone: he can't see
jacob : stevie, if you're watching hit me up
haha there's the video of stevie catching the microphone stand and also all his friends who he jokes about driving with lmao
ua-cam.com/video/Uu7MHznFM9E/v-deo.html
Is he blind?
@@tamarestherperezmedina3722 not fully blind I guess
@@bforbieber No Stevie is fully blind, happened at birth.
No one:
Jacob: due to a shortage of hands, I shall play with my nose
tbh i thought that was a lil appreciation kiss. HAHA
And then comes back to keep on flawlessly talking like that wasn't weird at all
Sometimes he plays with his feet
This guy is probably the best musician alive right now, his ability to create something on the spot is INSANE
"I can keep going up and up the keys, but Ariana Grande doesn't deserve that"
"Alright, Jacob. We definitely know you can." 🤣
because he doesn't want to butcher her music, not because he thinks she's not worthy 😂
She’s not worthy
@@0777coco interpretation lmao
@@manit9226 no way he plays that dirty lmao
I dont even know who this dude is but I love him already
Delaney Myers go explore his UA-cam page he has some incredible songs. Originals and covers
He's a musical genius like Music Theory PhD x100, multi grammy winning, perfect pitch, crazy level genius
@@jaredbaum lol spot on.
check him out, what have you been doing with your life ;)
@@alexbeshay7965 apparently living under a rock
Weirdly I actually just like this dude as a person, crazy harmonies aren't really my thing, but I love how open and warm he is when talking about them. This is what happens when you warmly encourage creativity in a bright kid. He's CONFIDENT, and so happy with the sounds he's making.
Jacob is the Mozart and Beethoven of our time.....pay attention, learn from him, study him and remember him - we are so lucky he exists in our lifetimes. He should be known - tell others what this incredible musician can do. He is a musical genius who knows he also has the power to change not only anything in music but how people feel about themselves, our society etc. with his messages of peace, love and caring for others. He is truly unique and important to learn from. All people, not just musicians, should know about him and what he does and how he creates. Amazing indeed. What a brain! Most of us literally only use about 10% of our brain - can't say that about Jacob Collier.
of any of these videos that could be 18 minutes long, i'm glad it's this one
managed to catch him live (and i recommend everyone else does to) and he was incredible.
Thank you for tuning in Chelsea! He is truly an amazing talent.
Chelsea Jaaziel im so mad i was gonna see him in may but i doubt its gonna happen :(
Yeh I was meant to see him last week but it was cancelled :(
I got to see him live in Hamburg and my god, he’s just brilliant and such a beautiful soul! Was very upset that his concert in Berlin on April 1st got cancelled :/
Helene Reinicke Vielleicht wirds ja nachgeholt...
Any other person: " I'll have ONLY 10 seconds to think of a song"
Jacob: "I'll have 10 WHOLE seconds to think of a song"
Perspective make all the difference in the world
First
@@stonkman1705 ?
@@OrdinaryLatvian yes
I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING!
Please release that times table albums, the world’s children need it.
i need it
I want
African kids say food but yeah
@@abigailjean7375 ratio
everyone else doing this: *rushes to sing* ahhhhhhhh *thinking*
jacob: ooo, leemme intro this song quick and play some notes, don't worry about the timer.
i do not believe he is human. I'm genuinely honored to be existing in the same universe as him
with love, renée. LMFAOOOOO
14:31 He doesn't hesitate in the slightest to play with his nose
He just thinks "Yeah" and goes for it
i JUST saw it as i saw this comment
Nobody:
Jacob: I could keep going up in key, *but Ariana Grande doesn't deserve that*
Adashelby He doesn't want to butcher the song by keeping going up.
I thought he meant that Ariana Grande doesn't deserve all the effort that goes into transposing into higher and higher keys lol...🤣💀
god with me Hahaha nooo, he is too respectful to the art!
Yeah, I thought it was a diss too? Idk. I don’t know him enough to make out which way he was leaning there. Lol
Sarah Girard Well, he is one of the most adorable and insightful living beings to ever walk this Earth :)
I want so badly for my children to learn the times' table through Jacob's music.
And time signatures
he’s such a fresh air to the music industry. he has so much to talk about when it comes to music, he gets so passionate, and that’s amazing to see. he seems like a really nice human being too.
2 days ago I clicked on this video with no idea who Jacob was. I have since listened to all of his albums and watched his entire UA-cam channel. His talent, skill, and personality are overwhelmingly magnetic.
i just started my journey, nervous about how much time i'll lose but excited about how inspired i'll feel
As a maths teacher and avid Jacob fan, I would LOVE to have that times table song at my disposal. Please release it into the world!
could not agree more!
Thaakiyah Ryklief get ready with your crazy polyrhythms if you wanna teach it though XD
YES
This dude is so naturally, effortlessly, charmingly weird.
Jacob uses his perfect pitch to sing the song first and then play the rest of chords, haha, how blessed he is with his perfect pitch, hardwork, and not to mention his good personality too
the crazy thing is that he doesn’t have perfect pitch. his relative pitch is just so good that he essentially has perfect pitch if hears middle c
SioPaolo He has perfect pitch
He doesn’t haha if you don’t know that it means look it up
What's your problem people. He does have perfect pitch
He definitely has perfect pitch. Just watch one of his streams where he can tell by how many cents a singer is off key without any notes to go off, and tell you the key signature of a song within like the first 5 secs etc. Obviously there’s natural perfect pitch there but he’s worked on it a hell of a lot to get it as good as it is
Jacob Collier: Indisputably the biggest musical genius of the generation, gets the word heart and decides to sing hot girls
yup
“i could keep going up and up keys but ariana grande doesn’t deserve that...”😂
What do you think he meant by that?
william land honestly i think he was just being funny🤷🏽♂️😂 but maybe he was implying that the he thinks the song is great the way it is? i don’t think he would mean it in a cocky “i could go higher than ariana” way
@@williamland2646 He probably meant that the song is too good that it doesnt deserve his "bad" high notes, as a joke about himself
@@Megachampp yes, it was definitely this
@@Megachampp thats the sense i got
His existence is absolutely a gift to this world.
so glad he'a getting more exposure. the way he talks about music life and even the way he carries himself is amazing
Ninjanugets123 nice way of putting it
Yo THIS WORLD NEEDS A KENDRICK X COLLIER COLLAB
Yeah perkins is good.
FR!
Idk
Would sound weird imo
Pigeon Morris no it doesn’t
this will never happen.
THANK YALL FOR LETTING HIM JUST TALK AND PLAY!!!
I'm so glad that y'all didn't cut him off and just let him be. Simply be. And we got to enjoy his be-ing.
I think most of them sound mushy and many don't fit with the vocal melody at all.
I enjoyed that, too!! :))
Jessie J you’re a meathead
It's insane that he can just figure out the chords for these songs with no prep, just chucks straight into them. Insanity
I feel honored to witness a musical genius in all his glory.
Same! Reincarnation of Mozart probably... Outrageous talent!
@@ramram4754 beethoven is actually a better comparison
@@hugebeebop2955 how so? Certainly Not characterwise, and also not in the tonal language. What reminds me of Mozart is the ease and playfulness he displays, and extreme memory. Beethoven takes everything extremely seriously and wrestled for every note.
@@ramram4754 oh i see. You can see it that way. I was thinking more about the influence and the subversivness. And maybe it's because i widely prefer Beethoven and i want JC to be respected (but i mean Mozart is already a fair comparison)
@@Johnwilkinsonofficial r/woosh
His sweater reflects his personality so much, amazing 😆
I think so too hahaha I love it ☺️
pappen dega
Yes!!
Watching Jacob Collier videos, it's so nice how people just let him riff and keep going. Like he's making gold, who's going to tell him to stop. It's not even ego. It feels like he wouldn't even push back if you asked him to cut. He doesn't strike me as the kind of person who brings up that he has 4 Grammy's. But, it's obvious when he's just playing that he deeply loves music in a way that challenges your notion of deep.
One of my favorite things about the modern world is that people like him can thrive and make music. Imagine if someone shamed little 5 year old Jacob Collier, making up melodies for the times tables? The world would be a poorer place.
"It's not even ego."
A lot of people don't seem to understand this. Some people think he's just bragging about his talent with his perfect pitch or really fast riffs, but that's just Jacob's self. That's his essence. He doesn't play piano or guitar, he plays Jacob.
I feel like he could sing whatever and say "this is a song I created just right now in this moment", and we'd all buy it
Jacob collier is the alien of music that has come down to earth to bless us with his talent.
Now and again, a musician will play a chord while singing, and it will sound wonky, and I'll think something along the lines of "this sounds weird because they lack musicality".
Then Jacob Collier will be playing a chord while singing, and it will sound wonky, and I'll think something along the lines of "this sounds weird because I lack musicality".
Haha nicely said
Not necessarily, he's not exactly a millionaire so he hasn't really nailed musicality himself. I find him very entertaining as a musician and more as a person, but most of what he plays is technically amazing while being nothing anyone would pay to own and that's part of musicality.
A song can be technically perfect but not have the listener appeal to become a money maker, and making the money is the point... or so they say. By they I mean most people.
@@korkee1111 I think equating musicality with how many people a song appeals to and how much money it makes is probably a mistake. Unless you think the same old pop-country ballads over the same old 4 chords, or autotuned lyrically deficient codeine-trap music are the epitome of musicality.
Wonkiness is relative. Does that mean more traditional chords are better than Jazz or what Jacob is playing? No of course not, but the more you expose yourself to different types of music (culturally and in different genres), the easier it will be for you to find the beauty in the weirdness.
@@TwiggyAlienorCameron I totally get what you're saying but since we all (unless you've got a VPN) live in capitalist societies and nobody spends their lives perfecting their ability to play without hopes of cashing in on it. Sad, but true... I guess it's more of a comment on society than Jacob.
when he was given "stay" i immediately thought of
"Staaaaay, for a minute, let me hold you in my arms..."
Feel - Jacob Collier Ft. Lianne La Havas
👍 One of my faves
You can see the passion. That alone is addicting. I can watch this guy forever.
“I’m from england, which is a good place to be from”
hes not lying tho
unknown elephant and then plays a Scottish/Irish song 🤦🏽♂️
England is the worst country on earth in my opinion lmao
@@TheIceAsian bruh i kinda wanna hear your reasoning, especially since north Korea exists 😳
Sophie Hacker nothing North Korea has done can measure up to the centuries of shit England has perpetrated
jacob collier: records 5000 tracks of moon river
jacob collier: "I don't even know the words"
it was more like 700 lol
Everything about him just fits the historical image of Mozart: the positive energy, the musical genius, the talent in improvisation, the superb ability on multiple instruments and singing. It's beautiful.
Not to forget his hyperactivity and impulsivity.