I belong somewhere between the last two. I feel like it doesn’t sound good simply because I don’t like the tone of his voice and I have no idea what the difference between keys is or what other comments are talking about with overtones, 5ths and all that jazz. It completely flies over my head.

@Niccolo Adami I won't lie and say that I really understood what you explained but I feel like I understood a little bit. Basically, if I don't hit the exact key I am playing the music on, I will sound out of key, but if I hot a vastly different note, it may sound intentional and thus good. Or something like that.

@@ExceedProduction He is singing the wrong note that does not match with the chord. You don’t really need technical musical theory explanations to understand it or to know that the note he is singing, f sharp, is not part of the key of F major. If Elvis, Whitney, Pavarotti, Dean Martin, Dolly Parton, Julie Andrews, Luis Miguel, Billie Joe Armstrong…whomever it is who you DO like, sang it, it would still sound awful. Or it should, and I do think you would still think it sounded awful. Unless you have no tonal awareness at all. I had a girl that was tone deaf who wanted me to teach her to sing. I can t teach singing. I didn’t learn it by studying; I just know I have never not sung even as far back as I can remember, which is age two. It can be a handicap to not know how it is you do something, lol. Other than a few technique tweaks from a Russian maestro who could teach pop singing, when I was an adult. This tone deaf girl loved Mariah Carey, but when she sang, even sang along with a record, she was on an entirely different pitch planet. Not even close to the right key. If people you know who are being honest with you about how you sound say that’s you, then maybe you can’t hear the difference, but pitch is a mystifying thing, and I don’t understand how anyone can enjoy any singer if they can’t even tell if they themselves are pitchy. Pitch is a fascinating topic of study, actually. It also makes for very funny songs, like this one!

​@@ExceedProduction in short: a "key" is a set of 8 notes that make up a music "scale", which all sound good together. A song is likely to only use the notes of a specific key, because otherwise they sounds dissonant. An example of a key is C major, which is centred around the C note and the scale contains all the white piano notes, but none of the black ones. The eight notes in a key are set at specific intervals (along the black and white notes). All of the different major keys feature the same intervals between notes, meaning a tune played in different keys will have exactly the same melody, just using different notes to do it. Mixing a song in the key of F, which doesn't include the note F# in the scale, with the note F#, produces dissonance and sounds bad.

How odd - the reaction you’re describing is exactly the reaction that Tim describes the audience having in the DVD of the tour that had this song in it. Hooves, horses, zebras..

Incredibly more difficult.

Infinitely more difficult

Way harder, yes.

@@Ms.OliversLife it's really not with any practice at all

It's insanely difficult to do. It's right up there with dissonant harmonies which feel wrong but work lol

I hear it as a picardy 3rd over the D minor hah The last one over F definitely stings, though

The last F# is also too sharp for F#, more like F3/4#

Repetition legitimizes

Omg no! 😂 I have 5 family members who have perfect pitch. They are the only non musicians in the family. The musicians in the family are all working musicians, but the perfect pitch people are extremely sensitive about pitchy performances. This would make my cousin’s daughter, especially, almost throw up or maybe cry if she had to keep hearing it over and over. And in my head, even though I find the song so catchy that it stays there, every time he hits the F#, if I’m doing something else, a voice in my head says “Ah! That guy is sharp!” 😖And I’m not even one of the five family members I mentioned. I wonder if he wrote this after having to sit through listening to a pitchy singer who leaned sharp. Like also maybe someone with a bit of Dunning-Krueger Syndrome who sang loudly and proudly sharp 😂. Known a few of those in my life. Briefly.

it doesnt

You've been singing in f.... SHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARP, f.... SHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARP, f.... SHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARP

😂😂😂😭😭😭

F Shahp*

@@JackLe1127 facts

his last F# is flat in my ears... sounds more like F half sharp to me

​@@99temporal Whoa, it's interesting hearing this several years later. My ears are so much better. Now, my first thought was, "He's not playing 'F Major.' The entire song was in d minor except for the very last note." XD Do you have a piano handy? I'm sitting next to keyboard, and when I checked the last note, it sounded higher than F# but lower than G. Anyway, thx for reminded of this song. I might have to change the lyrics or reharmonize, but it's still a genius concept lol.

@@99temporal It is definitely sharp.

@@aarongrooves d minor is parallel to f major , so it is in fact in f major

@@99temporal 3/4 sharp

True lmao

pls STAAAAAAHP

savvas athanasiou **correction** f shaaaaaap F SHAAAAAAP F SHAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPP😁

Haiya

Thank you, I couldn't make out the lyrics.

Genius. Masterpiece. Like nails on a chalkboard.

He made you crap your pants with just the sound of his voice? That's intense.

The Brown Note is a mythical sound that reverberates through your body, causes your bowels to loosen, and any waste you had built up to immediately be flooded into your pants. Or in layman's terms it makes you crap yourself.

+Phoenix White nup it's been proven that it doesn't exist and simply can't exist

+Finnmega26 "Mythical"

Hahaha

That's not tone deaf then

Interesting. I wonder if it's some kind of auditory processing issue, like how stutterers hear the sound of their voice too soon or too late and get stuck from it. Maybe she hears her own voice a bit lower than it actually is.

dafuq

Sounds like she's hearing the overtones of the melody notes

@@MrRodgers I love the Overtones, I have all their albums

Amazing. What a story.

Josh Cohen it’s not from nowhere. It’s from him playing in F ?

Jordan Lombardo more to the point how many times he would have rehearsed it anyways

It isn't from nowhere. The key is in D minor. One of the most essential notes in the chord is the minor third (F). He only has to go up one semitone in his head. Easy interval to imagine

Sebastian-Benedict Flore now you explain it anyone can do it

@@Bart-tk9um ???

how can we dance when our Earth is turning how can you watch while your ears are burning

Same can not stop watching

The watching is okay. It's the listening that hurts lol

Ah, but notice he cuts just before the orchestra does (common) and the orchestra's F-major is the last thing heard. So granted his voice didn't resolve the chord, but the orchestra did, for the entire piece hence why I think the song works more mainstream.

There is a video here of Africa by Toto where the vocals are out of key and off beat. It's as painful as it sounds. And the wirst thing is, the vocals come early. You want to chime in, but it just doesn't work. It just keeps breaking you. If it were late, you could just scream over it, but no. You keep stumbling.

The last F# was not quite an F# though.

@@JohnDoe-zo2ww Correction G1/2b

no

@@neoromanempire no, its sharp

@@Wtahc Sorry, English is my third language, but isn't # sharp and b flat?

ME TOO CAN WE BE FRIENDS

I can always use more friends!

Oh my goodness let's all have a perfect pitch party! And hmm, I quite like c#m aha

My favorite keys are Db Major, D Major, and Eb Major. My least favorite is G Major, but it's not like I hate it.

This song physically makes me shudder and cringe >.

He's actually playing in D minor. It's the relative minor of F Major, so to all intents and purposes you're right, it's just which note is played as the root that counts.

@bullsi20 actually, his comment is relevant because of the modal difference between Fmajor and Dminor.

Wow, you've got a real chip on your shoulder.

@bullsi20 imagine your boss paying you a wage of 00.03 euros this month, it's the same as 3000, right? That they use the same set of notes (and they mostly don't, as d minor uses the A major chord, containing a C#) doesn't make them the same at all. Also, in the song (which is still hilarious), he states he plays in F major and sings in F sharp, while he actually plays AN F natural and sings AN F sharp, both in the key of d. In other words, he plays in d minor and sings in D major. Nonetheless this song is awesome

P O L Y T O N A L I T Y

this is bad. It's better to sing too high rather than wrong.

No that’s called jazz it’s a major 7th it’s nice

jazztom86... Are you aware of the concept of irony?

Ava Winehouse yeah but like everytime he would’ve played the D major chord and sang a g#, tension would rise without a fantastic resolution arising from the amaj7

you just gotta have a basic understanding of notes tbh, my mom whose tried piano for a couple weeks and stopped understands this

Anyone with basic school music background with reading any notes like ever can understand how hilarious this is.

When se sings "F sharp" he sings it in "F sharp", but the song itself is neither in F nor in F sharp.

Hello Mark Towther. Did you mention CIA? Please open the door

"beautifully frustrating" Thank you for this Nelly!

As he says himself "most of my songs are .... stupid and I fear that people think I lack depth" and then proceeds to sing Darkside.

I am very poor, so I cant afford to get a guy to tune my piano, or a tuning hammer. It's funny how nothing changes in a year.

Never heard of that before, but I will give it a try. Thanks! No need for the app, I play by ear anyway.

1:46 G QUATER FLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT

D minor is F major's relative minor. I suppose that counts for something :)

Music theory FTW!

Cool story bro

Know one cares

I play in F major and sing in D minor

Thets right, and plus i amagine he would find it very confusing to do it for the whole song

+Ollyphant I actually don't think it would reasonably be possible without earphones in or something.

HeroDude1000 he actually plays in d minor *drops mic*

@bullsi20 oof, using the same set of notes doesn't mean they're the same, otherwise 500 euros is the same as 0.05 euros

@bullsi20 not really, doing a PhD in music right now, and I can assure you that while d minor and F major use mainly the same notes, they're completely different things

+LamboFan If... if you don't know who Tim Minchin is, and you have a sense of humor, please check his specials out.

+Neceros Hah, you know I'm only joking. The man's got talent.

When I saw him, I actually thought of Beetlejuice...

Because that's half the joke. Tim intentionally makes the musical error of both not playing in F Major and not technically singing in F# Major to further irritate those of musical knowledge. The people who try to point out his errors are the butt of the joke, since the song in of itself is an error, the idea of combining F# Major and F Major into a single song.

Whale McDolphin Good point mate, those analysing, do they even think about the whole work with the orchestra and the ability to sing a sharp note(F#) to a natural play (F or D minor)? I think the mind/the voice/fingers are used to working/sync in one key signature in such cases, so i find it a special ability to do that easily.From my perspective, the closest thing i can compare to this ability musically is to play a bass instrument and sing as well, mostly singing the melody as u play bass lines on a instrument which is very challenging. Richard Bona style......Anyway, what i mean is that, those who dont get the joke should consider his competence in pitch in this context.

Because they have been F sharped. Lol

Because some people enjoy analysing things, and that's OK too.

bullsi20 louder for the people in the back!!

You don't have to be one.

+Crowwreak Stevenson omg yes kill it now....

for anyone that doent understand Crowwreaks comment, im here to translate "Look At Me! Im A Musician Too And Il Write Any Comment That Means I Can Tell Everyone That Fact"

I know

+Crowwreak Stevenson you mean thumbs up xD