As a musician, this was the best part of the movie for me

I absolutely love how the animators actually took the time to make sure the piano playing was accurate and he was playing the right notes.

i love how it just paused in the middle

This movie hits way too hard for musicians. The worries and troubles he goes through are the reality for a lot of musicians.

That moment you were taken to the zone and didn't realize when the others stopped to listen. Great musical movie moment!

Joe teaching middle school kids music is like Walter White teaching kids chemistry.

This part always gives me goosebumps and makes me want to cry. It FEELS so good.

Listening to this gives me goose bumps..

Even though I love Soul, I wish that it was more grounded in reality (like this, before Joe dies) and that Joe reached the same conclusions about life in a different, more human, less "soul blob hijinks" way. I think it would've made the movie's themes that much stronger.

As a musician, I can confirm the animators took the time to match the exact notes they’re playing. Every single note is spot on. Love that about Pixar, every single detail counts

0:03 love how he plays the root note first before a chord.

bro.. one day I was picked up my pencil... I dont know.... I drew 34 scenes... and when I finally came out of my zone 6 hours have passed... it was ....magical.

I don't think Pixar or anybody can go much further than this in terms of animation. This scene is perfect.

this moment is actually beautiful

You know, one detail that I think is truly underrated is how even Curly, Joe’s former student in band class, was shocked by the improv. So many teachers out there are like Joe. They have extraordinary talents, but society passed them by and even their students don’t give them their dues. Curly obviously was very appreciative of Joe’s mentorship growing up, but it goes to show just how much someone as ordinary as a band teacher can surprise you.

The musical aspect of this movie is what made me love it. It also doesn’t hurt that I view the piano as gods musical gift on earth.

I’ve felt the exact same way playing before, it’s crazy how accurate this is.

This is the first time in the movie Dorothea Williams is introduced. Throughout the movie, she never referrers to Joe by name. She only calls him "teach". The only time she called Joe by his name is on part 2:00. Though she says his first and last names. But that's really the only time she calls him by his name.

This is literally one of my favorite scenes in all of cinema, ever

This movie was so beautiful. I loved it so much and had such a good time watching it

Man, when I first saw this scene, it put me in tears. I just miss playing my saxophone, and the way the animators portrayed this scene is so realistic. I just feel like I'm so happy when I play, just like he does.

Accurate. The whole art of, well, ANYTHING is to let go and let your brain do the walking. Your subconscious is smarter than your conscious mind, so it's a matter, really, of not thinking. That's the one aspect, but the other aspect is that, in order to get to that kind of place as a musician, you need to have enough muscle memory to know what you're doing. Think about typing, even: you're NOT thinking about it, are you/ That' muscle memory, or the Zone, in this case.

First time I ever saw this was tripping on acid. Just came back to cry again from the future. I’m actually still on it but you know writing this for future me. Relieve every emotion felt watching this. That’s life.

1:16 I thought that was me! You sneaky editor, you!

That man Jamie became ray charles again lol

If only this was made into a full length song. Amazing

I love how realistically his hands move I won't call myself a musician but i do play percussion

This part. Wrecked me when I first saw it. Like. Fuck.

Disney outdid themselves with this movie. Did not need to go so hard.

So.... I want to give a more personal take. It's very rare that I feel music gets the respect it deserves in film. Usually it's either set dressing or it's more about the history or enhancing the scene and whatnot, but this one scene showed something I've rarely seen a film truly capture, and that's the pure spirit of music. I once was speaking to a professor in an honor band I was in and he referred to it as "The Musical Drug". I don't really know how to describe it, but essentially, say you play the instrument in this scene, the piano. You become the instrument, and the music speaks through you just as you are speaking through the piano when you play. The focus isn't on the individual performer once this happens. Like the piano, they need to be tuned in and at their best performance level. The focus is on the music itself though and how it wants to sound. I found that when I truly listened, music has a direction it wants to go. Sometimes fast, and others much slower. Anyway, thanks for coming to my TED Talk. Glad to see other musicians love this scene too!

That my friends, is what we call "the flux". See, it is like a trance state that someone can access by focusing on what he's doing, and only what he's doing, and in which you feel that anything you do will work out, not because you work hard, but because you work with passion. It is a state that is commonly accessed by artists, videogames players, or just any fields someone can be passionnate about. And at that moment, anything else becomes useless. You don't feel yourself as you are, you feel yourself as one with what you're doing. At that moment, the piano isn't a piano anymore, it's your fingers. You don't feel yourself breathing, blinking or even moving. At that moment, stress, fatigue and time no longer exist. Your body needs doesn't matter... In fact, the only thing that matter is what you feel yourself doing.

Jon Batiste is an awesome musician.

still kinda mad this movie decided to be about fucking blobs in space with metaphysical 2d drawings instead of being about... this. just saying it would've been the first mainstream animated movie about musicians, specifically soul music aswell.

Absolutely beautiful and I love the end of the solo

lmao imagine farming views by recording it and getting a buffer

As an artist and guitar player, i can confirm that place is exist...

It's not only the piano they animated good, the drummer is playing all the right drums that match with the sound, the upright bass is playing all the correct fingering, the saxaphone is held correctly and played correctly, they did so much

This is incredible. This helps me slip into a deep meditative state. This is lightning in a bottle.

Thank you for uploading this scene…I was sitting on the couch, starstruck. Can watch and listen to this all day

Honestly I wish I had a movie like this when growing up 😮‍💨

one of the best Pixar movies i have ever seen. I play the piano myself and this scene gave me goosebumps. It exactly feels like that while i play music.

this movie was so beautiful

the solo was fire, but this would probably get him thrown out of the jam.

Best scene I never seen

this scene perfectly visualizes what it’s like to tap into a ley.. “the zone”

Totally the best moment of the movie. The music is breathtaking 😁

If you’re a musician thus was the perfect movie for you !!!!!!!

I wish I could play like that

makes me cry every time

Que parte musical linda 🖤🎼

Is there a full version of this song anywhere 🤔

When the people disappear my heart skips a beat 😩😩😩😩😩♥️♥️♥️

i want to find a passion in life that would make me zone out like him in this scene

I am not crying, you are ❤

0:22 hear this, it sounds like the piano is playing her part. Okay how does this work, is it the combination of the mic and the saxophone playing together that makes it sound like someone is perfectly mimicking her. I always assumed it was the piano somehow knowing the lines of the improve saxophonist like Ben Wendel (incredible bassoonist too), but it's so perfectly coordinated that it has to be us hearing the mic and the acoustic voice underneath the mic sounding like two matching saxophones.

I always cry when i watch this clip 💓💓

I just love it !

i love this

so beautyfull

I need 1 hours of this

really nice but the ending just having 2 frames of him walking out the door is hilarious

OMG, HE IS SO GOOD AT PLAYING THE PIANO!

Wowza😻😻😻🙏🏻listened so many times Love Jon🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

A way to give frisson. Brilliant jazz!

Wow ✨ I love soul music 🎶 music mood change ker deti hai amezing ✨✨🎶

Yesterday we were in a gig with the trío and early today, one of my friends sent me this! THIS IS A GENUINE IMPROVISATION MOMENT!

Nice recorded buffer @ 1:15 totally ruined this clip

Amazing scene in a otherwise ok movie.

yo this hit different

1:14 bruh XDD

Amaaaaazing piano

This may be what all musicians aspire to when “jamming”

Adding to "self help" playlist

It’s that love man.. Music is that truth

hahahahaha he went batshit crazy 😂😂😅😅😁😁

This makes me get goosebumps on my skull

The end was perfectly cut

Bro i cried

Crazy

Oh no, you gotta reupload this. That buffer gotta go!

🎷That's Jon Batiste 🔥🔥🔥

I didn’t know electro played piano

Sounds like coltrane

Oh, I used to be in the zone. Completely. Not music, but drawing. And I lost it.. somehow these days I get distracted too much. I'm often exhausted.. does anybody know how to get ot it back?

That's how I feel when I'm out with my camera shooting

Perhaps the last ever inspired Pixar sequence

Every time I hear this music I think of Pete Doctor and Terry 😁😁😁

Toca ermoso

My friend loved this film and I never understood why and I wish I could tell them I understand now

Pretty accurate on how it is to be in that pocket

❤️

I download all clip and mix it and now i have full video sorry im bad at english im from indonesia

Are you an adult watching a Disney movie? Yeah me too

0:42 Peach, you're so cool And with my star, we're gonna rule Peach, understand I'm gonna love you 'til the very end! Peaches, Peaches, Peaches, Peaches, Peaches Peaches, Peaches, Peaches, Peaches, Peaches I love you, oh! Peaches, Peaches, Peaches, Peaches, Peaches Peaches, Peaches, Peaches, Peaches, Peaches I love you, oh! Mario, Luigi, and a Donkey Kong too A thousand troops of Koopas couldn't keep me from you Princess Peach, at the end of the line I'll make you mine, oh! Peaches, Peaches, Peaches, Peaches, Peaches Peaches, Peaches, Peaches, Peaches, Peaches I love you, oh! Peaches, Peaches, Peach, Peach!

I would gladly have watched a a Pixar film about a music teacher trying to achieve his jazz musician dreams, adopting a cat, and vibing with his neighborhood, with lots of jazz and other styles of music along the way... But I'm also not the Pixar target audience or a shareholder, so who cares what I think?

Any musician can understand how this image feels

Souls

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I'm gonna be a pianist too.

Jon Batiste - Bigger than us ...minus the 1:15 buffer