If BILLIE JEAN Was The Hardest Song In The World

IG: @charles_berthoud

Original Song: Billie Jean by Michael Jackson

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[CharlesBerthoud]

If was the hardest song in the world 👇🏻

[vikingmetaldragon]

5. Tappy Jean is phenomenal. Its the dreamy sound that most enthusiasts of melodic/symphonic death/black metal bands would be proud to have in a song. I've heard very few sections quite as good.

[myprettyselena]

I just saw this for the first time. I dropped my jaw open, dropped the microphone and went for a cold beer absolutely bewildered. I've been a guitar player for over 50 years and I've never encountered a bass player this good.

[ThiagoHenrique-klku]

I used your video in class today as I was teaching the 4th grade about sounds, pitch and instruments. They loved it and asked for more. Keep up the great work, man!!! Hats off!!!

[reluctantapologist]

I could listen to Tappy Jean for the rest of my life. I think it might be the most beautiful 10 seconds of music ever recorded. 🤯 And now I will figure out how to put it on repeat for 10 hours. Wow.

[delorianwhiteman]

This is how I feel looking at normal sheet music

[jshua]

The little ping note at 2:41 is the greatest bass note ever played.

[azas]

At this point, you can basically play any song as the hardest song ever

[educaton]

i had no idea it was possible to play that well on a bass, you really pushed it to the limit, this is awesome

[bayezidahsan]

Tappy jean was seriously something out of heaven! I want an expanded version NOW!!

[iblong]

Sleeping with your bass is totally normal - I sleep with my new surfboards. But who sleeps in a collared shirt? That's just weird.

[kristoffliftoff]

Hell yes Charles! You liked my suggestion and a week later you came through. You rock my dude!

[Bloodshed_Silence]

Number five tho… I would pay to listen to a full version of just that tapping. Holy shit man that was amazing. And I thought upright was cool lol

[travismcdowell]

Tappy Jean is one of the greatest things I've ever heard. I would love to hear it on the 12-string bass.

[gevzoran]

I love it that you always put so much thought into your compositions, instead of just playing fast and impressive slappage you also combine it with beautiful music and thats not something every musician can do

[loganbrown]

That tappy jean part was the part that blew me away the most because of how you made a classical music piece and a improvised synchronization of Michael's dance moves with the capability formalizations of the base and fused them into one pinnical luminescence of infinite scope of essence that elevated the originality of the songs message to a whole new level that raises the universal enigmatic connection bar between human capabilities and the inner visual premonition of how music resonates and reflects off of the soul of human intricacies of the human body and how music itself can be utilized as another form of people wide language socialization in multiple adaptations that could be innovated, improvised and insinuated just like in a normal conversation with another person except you have more time to make the person and the other listeners more comprehensive of what your trying to implicate. You expressed how music can truly be innovated and a way to inspire others who want to make their own music. Good music never dies it can only evolve and spread growth to new great songs and music ideas off of the foundation of music that stands the test of time no matter how old it is.

[JonniVanPlatoni]

No matter how many times I am surprised and delighted by Charles' playing I come back and he manages to do it all over again.

No "getting used" to what Charles achieves - the tank appears bottomless.

[DegonTheMighty]

It's never a bad day when Charles has an upload. You're the reason I practice every day, man, please don't ever stop playing that bass!

[ahoward]

If you recorded an album of covers, I'd buy it without a second thought

[RiverGibbs]

The hits like at 1:19 is what made it for me and then of course the following breakdown. This is unreal talent.