Trying Out Tik Tok Music Hacks (You Won't Believe How Good Some Are)
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@@pickloy8045 patreons get early Access to Content i guess
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The NFT guy was my favourite. Ignoring the NTF thing, I never realized that all you had to do was to get TEN THOUSAND people to pay 100 dollars. If only I'd thought of that.
Bit of free advice: there are 10 billion people in the world. Nobody would care about losing a single penny. So just ask everybody in the world for a penny and you've instantly made 100 million dollars :) it's that easy, why isn't everybody a millionaire?
Wait - how did I not know that it was so easy? HERE'S TO BEING OVERNIGHT SUCCESSES!!
@KrypTic It was satire, yeah. Also I thought the population was practically 8 billion now? Either way it's generous rounding
The explanation of NFT's was not really correct - they don't give you any rights over the digital file - only the "right" to be associated with it. "as described recently by one of the original NFT creators Anil Dash in an article for The Atlantic, "[t]his means that when someone buys an NFT, they're not buying the actual digital artwork; they're buying a link to it." ("NFTs Weren't Supposed to End Like This," April 2, 2021)" This is from a Reuters article called "What are the copyright implications of NFTs?"
well, if kanye could sell his album on stem players for 200 dollars each, and make something like 6 million dollars, it is entirely possible. if someone with a big enough fan base made 10000 NFT's and sold them for 100 dollars each, you are bound to have 10000 fans that wont mind spending a quick 100 bucks. and that is an easy milli for them
Saw this meme going around recently
"NEVER Ask a woman her age
NEVER Ask a man his salary
NEVER ask an indie musician why their parents' names are blue on wikipedia"
very indie-pendent
dude, that was not a completely pointless waste of time (rubber banDs on aluminum can)...it was so worth it for you to unleash THAT GLORIOUS MANE OF HAIR!
Any video where Sammy's hair comes down is a good video
I came here to say the same thing
As a one-man band, I can 100% confirm that to play harmonica, I shove it all the way into my mouth. The farther down your gullet it is, the deeper the pitch.
The key is to get multiple harmonicas in there, at various depths, in order to get a full scale range
The deeper you get, the more resonant the tone phlegm
That's what she said
Try sticking one end in! That way you can move it in and out of your mouth and change pitch. It's a trick my dad taught me, and he learned it from some guy in college, so it's gotta work!
@@tapirlover1005 Thank you! This definitely left me satisfied and smiling, in fact I'd love to show you some tricks sometime
the NFT one is hilarious. NFT's are a scam, and on top of that, theyre dying. People have finally recognized they were a scam, even though it was obvious throughout their conception
What part of NFT is a scam? The part where you have digital signature of ownership that's by definition 'non-fungible', or the part where you make a big deal about it and market is as some non-tangible non-fungible, but somehow fungible product people will buy for loads of fungibles and even tangibles to have them as fungible non-fungible digital object that you can fung for even a bit of tang?
@@JoniIkalainen fungible is such an abomination of a word
@@randommandom4691 it kinda reminds me of when Chuck says chicanery in BCS
@@JoniIkalainen look up the tulip mania that happened in Europe. Some tulips were selling as much as a palace. That's how everyone views NFTs
@@JoniIkalainen If you took your head out of the sand for more than 2 seconds you would know that every single aspect of them is a scam lmao
The secret cardboard band makes the most beautiful music
The cardboard one was honestly so funny. It made me smile
Yes! It was hilarious 😂
And original to boot. Showed imagination.
Reminded me of what a tortilla sounds like on a record player
Here's the real guitar center hack: remember how he said they just leave the guitars out there? just pick one up and run out of the store. you've just added an $800 guitar to your collection for free.
that dude really is still sucking down that NFT copium in September of 2022. somebody help him
even if i had to google the meaning of NFT copium...
sadly i have to agree with you.
In my boomer words it sounds like this:
Man, he still tries to generate more views out of Tiktok smh
@@WhiteCranK "copium" is a newfangled chronically-online term for when someone frantically tries to justify their bad opinion, or insist that something they care about will be big and important someday when it clearly won't. you can use it in lots of different contexts. thanks for being the kind of boomer that doesn't immediately launch into a rant when you see new slang lol
Maybe he's a bag-holding cryptobro too, I hope not though
@@matthewbertrand4139 Boomer still don't get it
@@WhiteCranK "copium" is just a play on words of "cope" and an element on the periodic table, lets say person 1 is defending an obviously horrible and inferior product or idea, person 2 would say "person 1 is high on copium"
Even the biggest artists can't seem to sell NFTs. Just ask Steve Vai who was made to auction NFT's and didn't unload a single one after several attempts.
You'd think at least one person would buy one just to be recognized by Vai as the only person who bought one from him (unless it was ridiculously expensive)
@@FacePomagranate I think there was one bid by the second or third auction attempt and it was cancelled by the auction house. Was probably a friend or shill who was trying to get the ball rolling, lol. I think someone made Vai do it, as I recall as NFT'S don't even seem like they'd be up his alley. This happened with the Hydra guitar hype.
Bowie did studio trickery on “Heroes” where as he sang louder and louder, the gates on 3 microphones set several feet apart would switch off, or turn on, so by the end that last chorus where he’s sing-yelling, it’s because the only microphone that’s active is all the way across the studio.
Do you have any source for this? I'd be interested in reading a bit more about it
@@ale14zoppi professor of rock did a video on it: I heard this elsewhere before as well.
ua-cam.com/video/JSeDUONX12U/v-deo.html
@@ale14zoppi Search for "Tony Visconti breaks down the multitrack recording of Bowie's 'Heroes'", it should bring you to a forum post with a link to a 20 minute BBC documentary.
@@DaedalusYoung Thanks!
I'm sure a bunch of people are commenting this, but:
That background vocals trick will HEAVILY depend on the mic used. Sounds like you have a REAL awesome mic, that is able to pick you up quite easily at a distance.
I mean, I don't know, I've never tried this myself, but my gut feeling is that it would actually work better with a weaker mic.
It's actually a bit deeper than this and the original video the guy does a great job explaining it. But you get a different tonal quality depending on how close you are to a microphone through something called the proximity effect. If you record yourself a bunch of different distances it kind of sounds closer to multiple different voices
@@samuraiguitarist there’s a video floating around of Michael Jackson using this exact technique
@@samuraiguitarist You also get more relative room sound when you're further away, since the level of the room reverb going into the mic will be mostly the same no matter where you stand, but the level of your voice will get lower as you get further away.
Also if I understand correctly proximity effect is considerably less (if at all noticeable) with omni-directional mics versus cardioid. But the majority of mics are cardioid so most mics will have proximity effect.
Queen did something along the lines of this for Bohemian Rhapsody.
Technically, you’ll just get lower dB vocals as you gradually step away from the mic. There might be other benefits to be gained from this, but I’m oblivious to those. Please enlighten me.
"Stop looking for shortcuts" is the best advice I can give to anyone doing anything. To be blunt, shit takes time. Be patient. Everyone sounds bad at first, there's too much expectation put on people who play instruments to be amazing even within the first two years of playing. You don't need to worry about being good or developing your own style, specifically for guitarists out there here's from one noobie to another: CHORDS, CHORDS, CHORDS. And then, SCALES, SCALES, SCALES. And then, PLAY, PLAY, PLAY. Learn your favorite songs, try making a song of your own and then never show it to anyone because it's likely to be terrible, and keep making songs, and keep making songs, and keep ma- you get it. As with everything in life, as the saying goes, practice makes perfect.
Don't stress, you may feel like you're taking too long but it's just the fact of our nature, we take years to be great at something. I'm the best damn janitor you'll ever have because that's my favorite kind of job. My music sounds terrible, but I'm still learning. Save everything you make even if it sounds bad, it's nice to have a look at your early days, trust me.
Curb your ego, make stuff. You won't get anywhere if you don't keep making crap and learning from it. Hell, some of the best things I made were from intentionally making garbage, and it turned out to be my favorite song I've made.
You want a real cheat? A real shortcut? Make music you like, don't try to be popular. I love listening to small artists who just make what they like, they do really awesome and interesting stuff I never hear in popular music. Not trying to advertise, but message me on SoundCloud so I can follow you: GargoyleOfNoble
cardboard records were a real thing back in the day, actually! iirc sometimes cereal boxes would include them as a prize. they would cover them with a small amount of plastic, though
There used to be postcards from Commie era Poland that can be played on a record player....
Techmoan has some videos about them :)
I remember as a child carefully cutting away the remaining cardboard from the back of a cereal box and playing the cardboard record. To a child's inquisitive mind this was fantastic!
Sounds like a Plexi
The idea that NFTs allow anything new for artists is literally insane. For one thing, the way this guy is describing it, it's just a sale of a security in a music business, which is something that can be done anyway without any need for a new fad like NFTs. And if you somehow have fans who would pay that kind of money, then just buckle up and make some damn music for them and sell them that instead. Like how the hell is "just get a million dollars in sales before releasing a single piece of music" advice.
If you've got 10,000 people willing to spend $100 on your NFT, go make a Patreon account. Then you get regular income and probably can capitalize on a larger percentage of your audience.
That proves once again that TikTok is mostly useless.
As for that on-hold music hack, it might work if the company uses the appropriate software but as you rightly found out it's unlikely to work for any on-hold music out there.
make sure to leave a negative comment for the youtube algorithm!
TikTok is easily the best platform if you're a teenager with high cheekbones and great hair who is average at guitar. UA-cam is better if you're an ageing millennial.
@@andrewnicon oh man this hit way to close to home
Tiktok is mostly useless, but UA-cam shorts are significantly worse. Everyone can agree on that.
Tik tok had the best algorithms of any of these sites. What it ends up showing you is completely unique to you and your tastes, and so if you can only see crap on your feed, that's because you have a taste for eating shit, a poo palate. It's entirely your fault if the videos you see on Tik tok are all awful. It really doesn't take long at all for Tik tok to learn what you're into and show you appropriate accounts and videos for that.
It's a bit like all those guys who complain to their Facebook friends that ads on Facebook snd elsewhere keep showing them ads for gay porn and gay dating sites, only for people to respond to them and point out that ads are customised to what the person chooses to seek out, why sites that person chooses to visit, so if they're seeing gay porn ads, that means they've been searching for gay porn. They're telling on themselves when they then complain about it.
But yeah Tik Tok should probably be made illegal. Cos the reason it's so good at determining what you like is because it dives way deeper into creating a profile for you than eveye other app does, to the point where it's arguably a complete violation of privacy, and is dangerous because it's controlled by a state government of a country that's basically the biggest enemy of the west, China. Even though there's an uneasy but solid peace right now because of the huge amount of trade the two countries have with each other, if a world war III were to happen, it'd almost certainly be dominated by the 2 biggest players on either side, the US as the biggest force one on side vs China as the biggest force on the other side.
So yeah banning Tik Tok, and banning companies from having their computer chips made in China and forcing them to make the chips in the US instead at greater cost, are direct attacks on china, peacetime diplomatic attacks, but attacks all the same. They won't be happy about it.
But every huge war starts with something seemingly relatively minor that escalates as the war goes on into something gigantic, so that soon the war is being fought for completely unrelated reasons to the reason the war kicked off in the first place.
Hi Sammy - The "rubber band can" needs elastics that don't have nylon/cotton around them, as your hair bands are essentially absorbing/nullifying the vibrations/air waves. To achieve the effect in the video, you can adjust the bands around the can by pulling on the sides of each band, wherein the rubber will grip the side of the can and somewhat hold its tone for a short period. Thanks and hope you have a great day.
Even then, the original video is lying to people. One band can make 2 different notes, they're all the same length so they should be the same pitch, and they'd sound nowhere near that good
Whats the name of that song?
@@Brookzplayzmuzic Nacksott (Neckshot) by Lifelover
Yeah the 1 band 2 notes is definitely not possible without editing, but 2 strings the same length cam have different notes if they have different tensions, just like tuning a guitar
@@mariesyvian8187 Yeah, I used to do this sort of thing when I was young. This was before the internet existed (and by extension, before TikTok), so whenever I was bored, I had to find ways of entertaining myself. Trying to make an instrument out of rubber bands was not an uncommon activity in those days. And while you can actively change the tension to get different pitches from one band, there's no way to accurately hit exact notes spot on.
"They leave all these guitars just hanging around!"
"Go the recording studio they have there"
I cringed harder at that video than the NFT video
The way that you spit out that harmonica and it hit the table on beat was hilarious! Thanks, SG!
I've never once left Tic Tok with the feeling my time was well spent.
Sammy you’re the best, man! I chuckled so hard when you spat out that harmonica because of how committed you are to your love of music and making your fans happy. Thank you
For hold music that's going a while, I practice finding the key, improvising, and trying to learn the music by ear on guitar while I sit there waiting.
the background vocals hack was my favorite. definitely going to use that
Hey! As far as that soda can hack is concerned, I used to do this in school using a calculator cover as a soundboard and using rubber bands. You tune the rubber bands by twisting them and thus producing more tension which raises the pitch. I had way too much time back then and not enough discipline lol.
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Actually the better harmonica hack imo is just sticking one end of it into your mouth instead of the whole thing, that way you can sorta move it in and out of your mouth so you have different tones. Without practice it's relatively imprecise, but slightly more useful than only having the one note blowing on the entire thing gives you.
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You know I've done something similar to 11:15 when I've recorded myself as a choir. Varying the angle to the mic as well as the distance and subtly changing my intonation and enunciation between takes creates a surprisingly realistic effect of a bunch of people singing the same things.
It makes sense, because listening to an actual choir, you wouldn't be right in front of every singer's mouth.
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I love how you can listen to someone explain what NFTs are, and you can figure out what they feel about NFTs... The more accurate the explanation, the more likely they are to dislike them....
Love these videos, and glad you're feeling better, my dude. Cheers :)
The soda can thing was rubber bands, that might actually get some kinda tune better than hair bands.
Glad to hear you are feeling better!
Every "breakout" musician I've noticed in the past few years has had a big leg up from nepotism, I think she meant like fame levels of success rather than just being able to make money as a musician
That is what the "payola" system is. The popular music industry runs mostly under this system. Stephen Cornelia and some Hip Hop channels touch on the extent such nepotism have on the industry...
like who?
your record-money party trick just blew my mind
TikTok just seems like a place to avoid getting advice from altogether. It's insane how many people just blatantly lie
TIkTok is the prolapsed anus of the internet.
Or speculate using very flimsy or misguided information
Your anger at ruining a recyclable was palpable
I like your videos, and I love your subtle, almost Brittishh sens of humor - "you are Canadian, not you are?" (Quote from Cheech & Chong record nineteen seventy-something)
Sami G! I love your videos man, my favorites are when you make songs from ridiculous cheap instruments from like wish. I always end up picking up my guitar and jamming after watching your vids.
Amazing, I love your videos!
The background vocal trick actually does blend together because of the proximity effect! You're essentially getting a little less low frequency response with each step you move backward which makes masking a bit less of an issue
I use the distance trick for vocals when I want to sound like a choir of people singing the same thing, but I don’t typically do it for separate harmony parts.
Used by John Lennon, my favorite harmonica holder is the Dunlop HH-1. Drawback: only for traditionally-shaped diatonic harps. Pros: 2 pivot points, lighter and smaller than many holders. Costs around 25 bucks.
props to the spit and land of the harmonica as a perfect timing end to that little ditty.
Great video Mr. G. I don’t usually comment but you deserve it. I watch all your videos - I’ll try to comment more often.
I've decided you have an awesome singing voice. I already knew this because of your video where you made those three songs (Human Garbage, Double Dinner and uh, the other one that's slipping my memory at the moment) but hearing your "Background Vocals" take? You need to cut out the "Oh, I suck at singing, boo hoo" crap and just make more tunes with you as the vocalist.
Not only can you carry a tune, and not only do you have a good voice in general, but you're surprisingly versatile. A lot of people would _kill_ to have the grit that you seem to so easily be able to put into your voice. Don't short-change the quality of your vocal skill, man, I implore you.
@12:04 regarding recording background vocals, each take try to make different shapes with your mouth. The idea is to alter the timbre of your voice and adds more variation to each take making it more akin to a multi-person choir.
For the hold music thing, it wouldn't surprise me if this was specific to one or two VoIP phone systems, rather than being universal.
The background vocal one is pretty good, but Id recommend doubling every vocal you do and panning left and right as well.
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TikTok sometimes can be helpful and can be misleading, but thanks to you we don't have to try it in ourselves anymore! Looking forward to another content like this!
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9:08 missed opportunity to dub this with the craziest guitar solo ever conceived
Yooo that cough and fart would hit so hard at the start of a breakdown after a high hat “ting” before the snare, kick, guitars and bass come in. Sheeeeesh.
I know about the phone talk box thing.
Also, I think the hold music thing only works on that phone/phone service.
The background vocal hack is good. It uses something called the proximity effect.
The Guitar Center bit hits home, like 10-11 years ago I used to drive to Sam Ash (it might have been MARS Music back then) and play on a Korg Triton for HOURS, I'm talking 4-5 hours a day at least 5 days a week, I ended up just bringing in a case for my floppys and a video camera and would sit at the Triton, none of the sales people got upset cause there would be a small crowd around with dudes freestylin and when they would ask questions I would answer, I know I helped sell at least a dozen Tritons, finally after 6 months I went and bought my own, I miss those days it was ballsy but a ton of fun. Now I wonder how I had that much time free every day.
That mic trick for vocals is a David Bowie trick...
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I allways have something to laugh about. Great humor. Love it.
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Anybody notice the bug crawling around in the background at 0:42?😂
1:27 I reckon that hack is call center dependant. Like it "might" work for certain call centers because they have in fact set their phone system up that way. But for the most part I would say most haven't
1337 video length nice, old school 😂
The harmonica part absolutely killed me 🤣🤣🤣
I think the mic trick might work nicely to fatten a lead vocal, singing the same notes for every recording but again, moving back each time. Isn't there a guitar legend of somebody putting a slave amp down the hall and creating an analog slap back when recorded with a mic? I couldn't have dreamed that, could I?
Ooh... Now that I need to try, for the lead vocal that is. I've always had some trouble getting quite the tone I want out of a vocal.
Mouth stretching with the harmonica was hilarious.
10/10 would watch again. XD
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I gotta think that the rubber band on the can thing may be worth more experimentation. This probably depends on the can and how easy it is to crush, then on the back side where the rubber bands go around the can, there may need to be something pinching the sides of the rubber bands at different distances causing variation in tension. I don't care enough to try it, but it may have some potential.
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I love this series with all of my heart lol
That Harmonica Hack makes ya look really Cool> I think Les Paul did this at a very young age, lol. He did invent the Harmonica holder that goes around your neck at age 9 or10, so he gave up inventing musical gear and lived happily ever after. Maybe there was 1 or 64 other music inventions but thats it
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Unrelated to the video:
What do I do if I'm having a bad guitar day? Like, I'm playing and playing for an hour or two and it's just not feeling or sounding right.
These days are super discouraging and it can be hard to battle the depression that comes with it. There are definitely days where I feel like I'm killing it, but it's tough to get to those days through the bad ones.
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That step back from the mic technique is how Bowie recorded the vocals for Heroes. By the last verse he has to yell the reach the mic. That's the secret of that song.
I love how when he did that with the money and it played highway to hell by AC/DC
I have zero business acumen, and my single-mindedness was overwhelmed by societal pressure as a youngster.
Sammy: *spits harmonica out*
Me: ☠
love the content! if you get a chance, you should check this crazy guitar called the Variax Shuriken, it can change tuning with the press of a knob. pretty unique
Best Sam Quote ever " so thats how Bob Dillan did it " 🤣
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The last one is funny but Durry is one of the biggest out of nowhere bands to come out of the Twin Cities in the last few years - they have killer songs and gotta give him props for that
9:30 holy shit I'm glad you're okay now that's absolutely brutal and a little bit hilarious too
I fully expect a paint peeling rant if you get hit with a copyright stike for the the record hack.
Completely lost it at the harmonica lmao
@9:15 was absolutely NOT pointless: we got that gorgeous, shampoo-commercial-ready hair toss! 😂❤
The harmonica in the mouth is very funny to watch though. If I saw a busker doing that I'd definitely stop and give some change
Loved the Bob Dylan joke hahaha
Trick number 2 raised my hopes and dashed them quite expertly...
U truly suffer for your art!! Great video sir
That can in that video sure had some good sounding reverb
I use the mouth trick to hear what Wah sounds like on different songs. I found out how to do it when I was 6 though.
What was the song the guy was supposed to be playing on the can with the strings, I hear it in alot of videos
Remember when cereal boxes would have records imprinted right on them to cut out? The Archies and Kiss Crunch pop up with a quick google. Holy nostalgiaballs!
This has become my favorite channel and I don't even play the guitar.
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4:40 #4 is timing. Gotta be at the right place at the right time. It's a little more specific than luck because the right place doesn't fall out of the sky. The right places already exist, you just gotta be there.
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Very funny! Unfortunately there was only one hack, the one about the background vocals, that made sense.
Question: Why has nobody yet come up with a mount that attaches a harmonica to a pair of sunglasses? It could even be flexible, to move the harmonica up away from your face when you're not playing it.
12:30 You did it, you madman. And no, it's his guy that is abnormally big.
I have a question that has been killing me. With solid state amps becoming to popular -- does it even matter which guitar you have if you are only playing thru a solid state? With my Spark, I feel like all I need to do is tweak the amp settings and I can get any tone I want. Am I missing something? So maybe my question is -- if you have enough versatility with your amp set (maybe a ton pedals) does the guitar even matter?
I recognise Bon Scott’s vocals anywhere on that vinyl
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Thinking about country, you should check out Country Road by The Ineffectuals. It's a parody of country songs that's more country than the songs they're mocking.
Ooo nice setup