One of my former friends is tone deaf. He got the LEAD ROLE in The Little Mermaid because his mom was the music director. The girl playing Ariel was incredibly talented, got a full-ride scholarship for her singing. The show was painful to watch because Prince Eric sang worse than the frogs.

As someone who had a choir class with two painfully untalented kids, this hits home y'all

i think hes getting more insane by the video

Love how the tone-deaf kid is implying that the other kids are the ones who are bad. Reminds me of one of the first times I went to a karaoke bar and one obnoxious friend in our group - who openly admitted to being tone-deaf - told me that she "doesn't mean to insult me", but she had never in her life heard someone sing this bad. I've been so terrified of this kind of feedback that I didn't have the guts to sing in front of people for the first twenty years of my life, but luckily my mind instantly realized that there's no reason to pay any attention to her judgment given how she sings and her admitted - and quite apparent - inability to distinguish pitch. So I continued to go singing at that bar (but without her) and soon got plenty of positive feedback from people while hearing ZERO negative feedback ever since. 😂

I read “tone deaf” as “deaf” and I just spent the entire video trying to figure out how that one kid could still hear them.

Can we take a minute to appreciate how hard it is to force yourself to sing bad when you know how?

I was a band kid, but I used to go to the choir concerts, and all of my friends were in the choir branch. There was one that sounded exactly like that. Whenever the choir kids would break out into song during lunch, that one kid would be so flat, reportedly the choir teacher said “you’re the reason flat earthers exist.”

as a choir kid, THIS IS ACTUALLY SO TRUE

"nor should I have set Carl on fire" I was ready for anything else except that

:-( I was the tone deaf kid in choir. I love singing. I always went out for our school musicals (they would accept everyone, so I was just background in the ensemble.) I knew I couldn't sing, people did not hesitate to tell me. I sought one-on-one help from our chorus teacher, but she wrote me off as a lost cause. I still sing to myself a lot as long as no one is around. The big disconnect with me is that my voice sounds so different in my head compared to what it actually sounds like when recorded. When I play a note, it sounds like a perfect match to me, but nothing could be further from the truth. Sad times, my friends.

As the son of a choir director in a men's choir, we have this kid in our class all we can do is pray he sings quietly during concerts.

Oh god that was me. Our high school had a choir of about 500 people. Attendance mandatory for everyone who took music instead of art (I can't paint, but music had a lot more theory and mathematics in it). Choir teacher first called me in for remedial classes. Those didn't help. In the end, I was the only kid out of 500 who was allowed to take a break and do homework while choir training was on.

Retired music teacher here & this is so relatable! Great rehearsal song list! Always here for talent and laughs! Thank you! :D

I love how Daniel is almost unable to sing off pitch. I totally get it. You don’t have to be a good singer to feel like it’s impossible to intentionally mismatch a pitch

I remember the kid in my choir class who kept getting set on fire. Poor Crispin.

It's always the tone deaf one accusing everyone else of being tone deaf 😭

Our music teacher actually had a kid with Down's Syndrome in the choir. It was certainly a different sound, loud, sometimes a beat and word behind, sometimes just him shouting because volume regulation was difficult for him, but he loved singing, it made him so happy. He passed away in his early 20's. He was always smiling and riding his bike around town singing at the top of his lungs. Rest in peace Michael, you were a kind and beautiful soul. We couldn't hear the sound you heard but there was always music in your soul. ❤ That aside... returning to the video. Damn Daniel. Guess you could say that kid's musical talent was pretty lit. He really was on fire.

Carl's the tone deaf one. Just listen to that note he sang at 3:02, that says it all.

having taught a school choir class once, everything about this is 99.99% accurate

I am concerned for Daniel's well-being at this point, but I am all here for it.

Dang, I was REALLY hoping at 1:27 he'd say: "It's me, I'm the problem it's me."

Clancy isn't singing the wrong note, he is just in the process of discovering the 13th note.

I feel Jacob so hard! Whenever it’s said that someone is flat, am always like “it’s me… sorry.” Regardless if I know it’s me, because I always feel like ‘what if it’s me!!’

Oh man, the painful memories. This one guy in my class just couldn’t sing. And he was super loud as well On a positive note (no pun intended): he practiced a lot and ended up getting kinda good. Towards the end of our last year he actually managed to hit the notes. Our final performance together as a choir was a success. So there’s hope y’all

2:53 He ruined it all 💀😂

I whispered to the choir director that I had difficulty keeping on pitch with the person behind me being tone deaf, the director knew about it, but when word got out I said anything, he had a meltdown in class, yelled at me, and stormed out. Brings me back

I'm a teen, and I joined the choir at my church. No joke, almost everyone except me and one other woman are over 50, and the average is about 80-90. They're the sweetest and I'm grateful they pitch in but oh lord, every Sunday is difficult, I'm just thankful our director is younger and has a lovely voice and can sort of balance it, and I have a very young sounding voice so I help as well.

1:04 *the utmost confidence in one face*

2:35 definite Squidward moment "maybe we should play so quietly, no one can hear us"

I think this was an even more accurate representation of choir directors.

2:00 I was expecting Mr. Teacher to find a way of slamming the piano lid onto Problem Child's fingers.

I love how it went from every video being about music, now like once every 5 vids there’s a piano in it and it’s just pure chaos. I’m here for it tho

This reminds me of this girl I thankfully only worked with once… but she was insufferable. Not because she was tone deaf, but because on top of that she was a diva who would yell at me and belittle me for trying to correct her. This was with a community theater group, my first show with them and thankfully only show I had to deal with her. She couldn’t hold a pitch to save her life, and since she was so loud and brash with her singing and kind of the popular girl of the group, all the unconfident performers who needed someone to help keep them on track would follow her, and half of the group would end up not just singing off key, but in a completely different key. Even with backing music. I’m very sensitive to pitch and so during one of our last rehearsals I stepped in and said “Hey, you guys aren’t singing the right pitch” and this girl starts yelling at me like “That doesn’t matter, we all need to sing in unison and you singing differently from us and trying to correct us makes things worse” like I’m sorry I want us to actually sound good? Sorry I actually know how to keep the correct pitch? It happened a few times she would confidently make a mistake with choreo or singing, I would go in and try to correct things because I didn’t want us to look and sound pathetic, she kind of seemed to take it as a personal attack by just how rude she was about it. This girl just had the biggest ego and none of the talent to even back it up, and the show came around and yeah, it was pretty painful. Just finished a show with the same company and director, this time I had a leading role. We had some complications with music but we had a woman in charge of it this time and she actually listened to me when I’d point out things here and there to help out. She actually went up and thanked me after the show for helping her, she was a really nice woman. Not only did I get compliments from audience members after the show and my cast mates for my vocals, but my director actually really encouraged me to try and pursue more vocal opportunities. It meant a whole lot to me because I have had insecurities about my voice for the longest time because of things I was told when I was a kid, mean directors who never really gave me much help on how to improve, but it’s something I’ve been passionate about my whole life. My problem back then was never pitch, but technique. So I put in the work and had some vocal lessons and now every karaoke night I go to I am always begged to sing more. I just felt like sharing this little story because 1. this video just reminded me of that girl and 2. just because you aren’t an amazing singer now doesn’t mean you can never be, and even being tone deaf having a good attitude and passion, while it can’t completely make up for a lack of talent, can still help. Sometimes even an off pitch performance can still be enjoyable if the person singing has a good energy, joy can be infectious like that.

Ever since i sang next to a person who was tone deaf, the amount of times ive been scared that ive been singing wrong even tho im not at all is insane

Unfortunately, I’m in chorus right now and we have multiple kids in here like this. One of the people I can think of sounds like he basically talks instead of sings. Of course, there’s PLENTY of time for them to improve, so obviously it’s not a problem. 😂

This is the equivalent to that one game teammate who loots everything, kills no enemies and gets knocked out regularly and needs to be revived.

“You’re very loud” and “like the Olive Garden” 😂

2:18 this reminds me of the duet between John Lennon and Chuck Berry with Yoko Ono experiencing an exorcism in the background.

"Yes, you're very loud." He's trying so hard to be tactful. 😂

The more tone deaf they are, the bigger their ego seems to get..😅 so so trueee

The tone deaf person always be the most confident too. 😂😂😂

0:27 That is the most devious, evil stare I have ever seen

This is highly relatable to me, not choir but research group in uni. We all were working on research and knew what we were doing, very talented group, except for the guy who was the son of the dean of the physics department and had no concept of even the most basics of differential equations or how to use schrodingers equation of time evolution. Yet he was allowed to remain and blamed us everything he made a huge error and we had to fix it. Nothing we could do

As someone who sings in church next to a...untalented kid, this is so true

I'm tone deaf but this takes it to a wbole another level.

I’m the tone deaf choir kid and I feel so bad for the rest of my choir 😭

"ew jacob no one likes a pity party" as a choir girl who had this obnoxious girl in the choir who was good at singing but not good at personing i felt this

I'd love to see daniel create a comedy show. the idea of reoccuring characters and plotlines all managed by the funniest youtuber ever just fills me with joy

I've worked with preschoolers, so I completely understand the frustration. And it appears as though Clancy needs an exorcism to release Adam Sandler. Hahaha. Great skit as always, Captain Hands. xo

Clancy looks like that one character from a horror game,who keeps following you around with the creepy smile except this time he sings/screams in your face

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“Like Olive Garden” made laugh so much for some reason

Each day, Daniel keeps me sane and insane at the same time.

I had a choir teacher that was direct and to the point, none of use were tone deaf because he had all of us do a testy do. So, after that test he unapologetically pointed out who was way off to get them closer in line. And if he believed you really weren't trying he'd just leave practice and go about the rest of his day. Unfair, yes, but it kept the ones that didn't care more in line and improved the ones that actually listened.

We didn't have this but we WERE forced to do Christmas concerts every year. Specifically remember my last year when most of my classmates were so bad that the music teacher singled out the literally like three of us who were good and told us she was going to put us at the front by the mics. Then she forgot. What a concert it was.

The way I relate to this so hard cuz I'm soprano section leader of my choir and I'm super sensitive to pitch accuracy 😭 There's this one person who I swear is making up their own melody and then when i give the group advice (in hopes she gets the hint passively) she goes "yeah _yall_ need to work on that"

Hahaha! Couldn't help but laugh as I remembered how our choir teacher once threatened to set my off-key singing skills on fire, just like poor Carl here! Guess some tunes are too hot to handle. 🔥🤣🎵

I thought he was going to throw the fire at the tone deaf kid, but that took a dark turn 🤣(also nice job on the editing of the fire)

as a choir/theatre kid for this is the story of my life for the past 9 years. hits a little to close to home! 😬😬😬

What did carl do?!? 😂😂😅😅💀

This is so relatable. You get this everywhere but you just have to help them and sing louder.

God it was always that one theater kid who was convinced he was the greatest singer ever, when he was only there because we didn’t have a lot of people, and you’d only be able to hear his voice distinct to everyone else’s

I find that I watch every video of Daniel’s all the way to the end, including the spot for the sponsor because I’m afraid I’ll miss some bit of entertainment he puts out.

As someone who was in choir with a girl who would ALWAYS have the wrong vowel sounds, YES. She would always BELT IT OUT, too. We’d be going “aaaaahhhh” and she’d be just SUPER NASALLY going “AAAAAAAAAAAAA”. You could hear it in every single recording, too 😂

Daniel. You are a damn genius. Intelligent, hilarious, handsome, extremely creative... truly brilliant.

If someone gave me one note and told me to sing from that I would look at them like if they just asked me to figure out how fast a car moves using only their tires size

accurate asf and its always the tone deaf person who has like someone who is in charge over the person overseeing them or just a really annoying parent that thinks their kid should be the star no matter what when there are clearly people with dedication and talent who try hard compared to the person who has no talent for it and never seems to care or try and the parents always seem to force their way into getting their tone deaf kid a lead role or a major part whatever their being cast for they have to be at the top or their gonna throw a tantrum as full grown adults and that just makes everyone uncomfy

Are we sure that Daniel doesn't just have has multiple personalities, and this is just him arguing with them?

My favorite is when one of the singers is on pitch but overdoes everything and therefore is trying extra hard to be a soloist instead of a choir and doesn't understand the difference

the choir director "stop" hand motion gave me FLASHBACKS (e.g. 0:46)

As someone who goes to the conservatorium with highschool heterobasic lads, i can confirm this is how all of the lessons end

And this is why I’m in show choir. Can’t dance for the life of me but at least there’s less likely of a chance I’ll have to deal with someone like this

I’m tone-deaf in being able to sing on my own but was in choir for 4 years in high school (only made it through by having a friend stand behind my belting the notes into my ear) but I can definitely tell when someone else’s singing is off 😂

I swear, my high school choir director actually stood me next to the tone deaf kid because I could still keep the tonal center. But, man was it hard!

yes youre very loud spoke to my soul

“I don’t know if you can tell by now” 😂😂😂 nearly spit out my drink 😂😂😂 Yes we can tell 🤣 lol

Damn Whiplash's plot isn't quite how I remembered it

I've been watching your stuff for years! Your content also helped me connect with my parents better. We don't always have the strongest relationship but I love showing them your videos and seeing them laugh! My dad compared you to Bo Burnham! Your videos also helped me during the darkest time of my life. I was constantly numb and whenever I did feel something it was only ever pain or sadness. I attempted to take my life twice and failed. I stayed in a mental hospital for a week and was diagnosed with major depressive disorder. My parents had me switch schools and cut me off from my old life. I found it really hard to smile or laugh everything just felt so fake but your videos brought me real joy. Thank you so much for everything you've done for me! I really hope one day I can save up enough money to go to one of your shows and meet you! It would be a dream come true to meet my idol since I was 12! Hopefully I'll see you one day!

it’s okay, he’s just adding some ~resonance~

Daniel makes me feel an emotion that doesnt exist yet

Clancy out here sounding like Fork Sinatra

Daniel has never made a bad video

BAND KID VERSION- Percussion just dancing in the back when the director yells at everyone else

the one thing that I remember of my choir teacher that wasn't in this was that she also had an armory filled with her nerf guns, besides that, very accurate

0:06 are teachers supposed to be sorry for yelling?????

i feel like this is me every time i join a choir

I witnessed this firsthand. Science fair project to see if body size correlated to vocal cord length. Asked a guy to sing his lowest note, and he went "uuhhh." Highest note was just a louder "UUHHH" in the same pitch.

So relatable this happens so much and it is so annoying when the teacher doesn’t even say it was from the right section so everyone in all sections has to sing together and then nothing changes

One big Tribute to Carl for his heroic appereance...

the camera work and overall cinematography is insane in this one!

As a kid who's tone deaf, it's one of my favorite things to mess the choir up XD

I was laughing so hard I actually started crying when he started screaming- this video is legendary

I want to see more of Daniel on a grand piano though!!!!!!

1:54 HAHA! 🤣

I love when he starts singing the national anthem it actually sounds so incredibly on point and perfect 😂

My dad is tone deaf. But he still sings to my younger sisters every night. It's so sweet ❤️

Carl kinda looks like that one skillet album cover

Carl must have been laying down some fire cords.

As an alto in choir, this is EXACTLY what happens

‘Let’s just pay attention to the pitch, mkay?’ OH MY GOD!!!! HAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA.