This dude really played the THX theme at 400x slower speed with his left hand

“Drummers can’t play chords” Drummers: hold my B major

The most impressive part of this is his ability to tap that polyrhythm on a whim

This is my favorite thing about music in its entirety. This is my favorite piece of knowledge from music school. Because this means something huge. Pitch and intervals are just sped up rhythms, and therefore music is made up entirely of rhythms only

"Are you more into complex polyrhythms or simple harmonies?" "Yes"

😁

Earthquake hits Jacob Collier: I know exactly the pitch, Its on Cb and its in chromatic scale🗿

Bro really started his car

So, if all rhythms are slowed down harmony, and everything we do, by nature of intervals of time, is there for a rhythm, are we not collectively creating a very slow symphony?

my grandpa who was a war veteran woke up and told me to seek shelter.

i for some reason began laughing uncontrollably after watching this

Adam Neely's polyrhythym speech for ableton live on this was amazing

Fuck it. This man is a wizard from another dimension. You can't change my mind about it.

Being able to do that that rytm with one hand severely messes with my head. That's crazy!

A video of finger tapping made me laugh like I'd just discovered a secret of the universe.

Jacob: Which I will now demonstrate on my left hand. *Uses right hand*

This is really cool, as it demonstrates how music is just maths, and how the same maths underpins rhythms and harmony.

At this point i'll just accept whatever he makes and believe it's magic

Not only that, it’s a major chord tuned in JUST INTONATION! so beautiful

*slowly makes me feel like I'm about to watch a movie*

The increasing pitch and volume just sounds like the increasing proximity of impeding doom signaled by the local air raid sirens

Wtf that is insane my brain just gave up. Holy shit Jacob collier is a genius

"Hey look at this poly rhythm i edited" *begins playing hypertone*

If musical notes are sound waves then they peek consistently. So the next highest note the crest hits more frequently. So every musical chord can be expressed as a Polyrhythm

Technically only 3 fingers are required for the major chord (as 2 &4 and 3 & 6 are in octaves) but with 2 free fingers, might as well round out the harmonics!

When the god designed Jacob «Hmmm… let’s see… the eternal young look and…» «excuse me Chief, the musical ability tank is leaking» «yes, yes. Very good» «But, Chief. It’s flooded the production floor» «Just pump it all in here! It’ll work out» «That’s what you said about the dinosaurs, but okay…» *Procedes to completely massacre the known boundries of musical ability*

I really want to see this done with an actual recording of him tapping. If his rhythm is precise enough to make a reasonably intonated chord that would be even more impressive.

the end of the sound got me feeling AAAUUUUGGGHHH

That's basically the THX sound

When I teach young children the idea of high and low notes. This means I am actually not being accurate. A high note is just a really fast note. Our distinction between tone and pulse is just speed.

Ah, so this is how they made the THX theme…

Excellent! Road Fighter NES. Awesome JOB🙌🏼

Adam Neely did a talk about this a few years ago. It was fascinating.

So imagine the 2 representing a C, the 3 will be a G then, the 4 a C (1 octave higher), the 5 an E, and the 6 a G (1 octave higher), so adding a 7.5 would create a B, which would make a nice chord, or adding a 9 would add a D, would be nice too, or a Bb (7.1111...)! Also changing the 5 to a 4.8 would make it a minor chord, but good luck with that..

My favourite Jacob Collier video

Adam Neely did a neat video on this (I think the video was titled Harmonic Polyrhythms), was one of the things that got me into studying this kinda stuff!

The fact that the chord sounded so harmonious shows how incredibly consistent his rhythm was. Edit: I rewatched it and it was not his fingers being played back faster, but a recreation with metronome clicks, lol.

'I will now demonstrate on the fingers of my left hand' *proceeds to demonstrate on the fingers of his right hand*

William Moser did some examples of engine layouts (and I think firing orders too) and how their harmonics line up against others

Sound design is awesome.

On each finger, he seems to be tapping at a certain consistent tempo so when you speed it up, it forms several notes (the chord). This is how you make a tone (via sine wave, square wave, triangle wave, sawtooth, etc.) on a synthesizer. What he's doing here is making his own oscillations at really low frequencies so when he speeds them all up, he increases the frequency and therefore the pitch of each vibration. Cool shit man, it helps me better understand the physics involved in synthesizers, communication devices, or generally anything which applies oscillation in that regard.

his extensive knowledge of music is just insane.

Mind blown. Seriously is there anything this dude doesn't know about music. The Einstein of Music. In love with you ❤

lmao i just did my high school project/thesis on this shit. i love jacob

What the heck how does a human do this it's not fair

Hey, I think Adam Neely had a video about this 'Harmonic Polyrhythms'

Incredible content takes time don't stress out about time between uploads. You have a great voice and great editing style.You got this man

Every time jacob is on screen my world's horizon gets bigger

Okay guys ! Jacob is amazing, because he shares this knowledge. But don´t overdo it with "he is a god" and oh how mighty he is. He is just a person in the end, a very special one and very much appreciated. Most people who study music and learn deeply abot music theory know that stuff.. it´s not like he is making this up in his own head. And don´t underrestimate your own potential of being creative ! :)

60 tics finger 1 hits at tics 30,60 finger 2 hits at tics 20,40,60 finger 3 hits at tics 15,30,45,60 finger 4 hits at tics 12,24,36,48,60 finger 5 hits at tics 10,20,30,40,50,60 right? Practice repeat accelerate

Bro that was literally one of the best things I’ve seen on how our world works since getting out of college over 10 years ago. Thank you so much.

When tapping turns into a motorcycle into an d# major chord

This dude operates in a superior mind level

Theres a Ted talk on this phenomenom. It basically explains how rhythm is just slowed down notes. Very interesting stuff. Its all about frequencies at the end of the day and frequency is how much something happens in "X' amount of time, which is also how rhythm is made. But seeing it like this is so mind blowing. Edit: It is not from Ted Talk. It is from the official Ableton channel. It is called New Horizons in Music: Polyrhythm.

This is so interesting! If you think of the 2:3:4:5:6 rythmic ratios in terms of the frequency space (such as plotting the fourier transform of the polyrythm), then speeding it all up together is like translating the shape of that fourier transform rightward until you get to the human-audible area of frequencies, so the various peaks of the transform become the notes you hear in the major chord

Math and sound are amazing.

That feeling when you actually did know that the polyrhythm was a major chord because of Adam Neely's talk he did on this B) it really is cool tho, rhythm and pitch are the same stuff, just due to the difference in tempo, our brain processes those things differently, wild

Well. I pooped a little. My heart skipped a beat. I've got beads of sweat dripping down my face. What just happened.

I did a video on my tiktok a while back on how to do this polyrhythm yourself. I use it as a fidget sometimes now

I’m convinced….that you are a genius who has applied his wisdom allllllllllll the way down the rabbit hole. And we are all the better for it.

i saw this live and thought that time, “well at this point he’s just messing with us”.. well hot damn.. this just destroyed me.. 😆😂😆

Adam Neely did a great video on this subject. He also showed me Jacob

My favorite polyrhythm is 76 against 23 against 5 against 86 against 4728 ❤❤

“On my left hand” *plays it on the right*

Maths, -at the core of everything. And it takes someone like Jacob to have pointed this out to me once more, with his ingenious left-hand rhythm demo there, linking it to a major chord….too easy, right? Mind boggled….

this guy is the next evolution of man

Someone is knocking on the door. When do you know it’s Jacob? - When the knock is a slowed-down JC-halfsharp-hypermajor chord.

It honestly seems as if iskall would’ve had better luck killing zombies for carrots than what he’s been doing for the past few episodes!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

why is no one talking about the fact this guy sounds exactly like elon

I love this maniac! The more I learn about frequency modulation and harmonic series I'm starting to realize that sound, light, objects, people... we're connected, our perception is all that separates us.

My god, I was about to have a heart attack, thinking I was going to get bamboozled by a rickroll. 😭

He’s possibly the best musician in not only our lifetime but possibly ever he’s just so talented

That isn’t specific to polyrhythms though, is it? I imagine you could speed up pretty much anything and inevitably at some frequency you’d get something resembling a chord

Omg I remember when I realised this when I was high and it blew my mind. I was just like holy shit. Harmony and rhythm are the same!!!!! Harmony is microscopic rhythm. I wondered if you matched tempo to key it would sound better? I also intended to do this exact experiment. Now I don't have to aha

We are all musicians trying to master our instrument in this Symphony called life. Love this video by the way

Jacob is a gift. And a living legend

This guy is the musical equivalent of a homeless man that is a genius no one understands.

there is no way anyone can convince me jacob is human

I hear those all the time when tornadoes come around here in Texas

Beyond surreal!! 🤩

Get back to me when Jacob Collier can write a fugue like Bach.

How does that even work and how does he know the arrangements of how to tap his fingers to create which pitches?

it turned into a V10 Lamborghini

I was waiting for the beat to drop

anyone else really feel turned off by jacob collier? his attitude and general smugness, just cannot get into his music or vibe.

This guy may be a musical genius but his music is legit terrible

My anxiety when listening to this: 📈📉📉📈📈📈📉📈📈📈📈📈📈📉📈📉📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈

BRO WHY DOES THAT SOUMD LIKE MY GRANDMAS CAR STARTING💀💀😭

THX sound: "FINALLY! A WORTHY OPPONENT! OUR BATTLE WILL BE LEGENDARY!"

Holy shit dude nice.

I think one day very soon Jacob will figure out the structure of the entire universe

This made me soo happy. I don't know why, so satisfying

"now don't get like that" is the funniest thing ever

Amazing. He’s amazing.

This is the loudest fucking sound imaginable at 3am

Brilliant. He’s doing the same things other people do sometimes, but taking them much further - and finding ways to dramatically demonstrate really brilliant connections (as in modulating a half step, for example-or this). There’s always a dramatic summary of his thought-through connections. I saw Adam Neely speed up a rhythm to form a tone… but for Jacob to A. Make the connection that multiple rhythms in set relationship speed up to harmonies, B. Think through what those are (specific poly-rhythms) C. Perform those (what???) on one hand D. Have the high-level savvy to figure out how to demonstrate it dramatically in a short video. He’s untouchable. What else can you say? Love you JC. Less related, I’ve decided after some thought, that one of the things Jacob is trying to do harmonically is to progress _smoothly_ (via voice leading and common extensions) through a series of modulations at the same rate that a (diatonic) harmonic progression typically progresses. That’s an identifiable, high level innovation (necessitating the technical solutions that are so often explored). He (like others before him) wants all of the drama that a shift in tonal centre provides with none of the sea-sickness of too-frequent modulations. I think, even if it’s not what he does consistently t’s not a bad summary of his harmonic motivations-turning the Jazz Kaleidoscope and moving smoothly through worlds. It reminds me of the scene in Guardians of the Galaxy where Rocket goes through too many ‘jump points’-that technical problem of how to move smoothly through so many places that are complexly ‘other’. Colour by colour by colour.

The opening chord to “Clumsy” by Fergie at one point

Pitch is rhythm this video proves that

haha, bike goes vroom vroom

On top of his perfect pitch and everything else, this doesn't even seem like it should be possible