tell me you have perfect pitch without telling me you have perfect pitch

it's like the world of music vs jacob collier at this point

#jacobcollier

[HaveAVindicare]

What incorrect rubbish. The piano isn't out of tune, you know it's a compromise so you can actually use all 24 keys George, without a large chunk of them sounding awful.

[maddiehenion]

This kid in my choir class was having a rlly hard time blending with the rest of the choir, and it turns out he has perfect pitch, and we were all just singing so flat that his in tune notes sounded wrong😭

[matthewrandell]

Most people use pianos to tune their voices, Jacob uses his voice to tune pianos

[Enginejen]

This makes me think of Adele’s “Easy On Me”. For most of the song she is just a fraction of a cent off tune on random notes, but dang, if you pitch correct it, it completely loses all its soul and emotion. Sometimes being off key is an emotional or stylistic choice.

[nothingmuch]

Jacob Collier absolutely has perfect pitch however, this is actually just him using relative pitch and intonation to show the limitations of equal temperament. If you are in a choir or a string ensemble you have most likely done some intonation exercises but if not try what he is doing out at the piano. Although your third might not be as "pure" as Jacob's here, you might actually be surprised that you are a bit flatter than the piano because you sing using "just intonation" and not equal temperament:)

[delikateproject]

Jacob: your piano is out of tune
this man: *genuinely sad and kinda sorry*

[jakelance]

Nightmare of a talk to translate in the moment

[CristiNeagu]

Can you imagine just how annoying all this must be to Jacob? For us normal mortals, we can't even tell the difference. For him it must be like looking at a fence where every single post is crooked in some way.

[hannahtrapp]

can we talk about how his shirt looks like he is some sort of secret cult leader

[RachelHardy]

He may be right but I grew up relying so heavily on piano that my man Jacob just sounds flat to me.

So now we have a dilemma… be right and sound flat? Or be wrong and sound on tune to the average musician’s ears? (I doubt it makes any difference to the average listener though)

[SillyWillyFan]

Piano: Well I guess people like me for my even temperament.

[Aruesx]

* goes on FL studio *

Jacob: This note is out of tune

[NicosLeben]

The problem is that the natural tuning only works for one key. If it sounds fine in C it will sound totally out of place if you try to play it on the same piano in D.

[lastflowers]

Welcome to temperament. The piano was tuned in a way to make a circle. Life spirals.

[yousawnothing]

So, what your saying is i'm actually not a bad singer, the piano has always been off... finally i've been validated

[michaelbouschet]

The piano isn’t out of tune, it’s a synthetic keyboard, it’s impossible for any note to be “out of tune”. That A that he’s talking about is a perfectly in tune A, however, within the confines of the F Major chord, it sounds out of tune because each note within a chord has to be tuned to the root, not to itself. So, the A, as the third, must be tuned flat so it’s in tune with the root, F. If the A is in tune with itself, it will sound ever so slightly out of place. That’s why when you hear a large band or orchestra play a chord perfectly in tune with each other, it sounds so lush and massive, because the notes are tuned to the chord, not each individual note. And the craziest thing is, humans do that naturally. At least, the ones that aren’t tone-deaf do. Our brain naturally wants all the notes in the chord to work with each other, so we will, without realizing it, tune those notes to match the root, instead of being perfectly in tune.
I love videos like this, but because there’s such a small portion of it, it can be very easy to misunderstand what he’s trying to say, and I hope some of you actually managed to read all the way here.

[christclinger]

I have a hard time getting into his albums but I absolutely LOVE listening to him dissect theory and harmony

[sedzanithilivhali]

I swear his shirts get baggier with every video

[dannysmash]

If you play the piano in a single key then you can tune it perfectly and all the overtones will make it sound amazing. It’s just the way the harmonic series works. But the issue arises when you start modulating because then all those notes that aren’t part of the harmonic series just don’t fit in. That’s why we compromise and tune each note equally so we have the ability to modulate with having to own 24 different pianos.

[jisejkhjukuh]

i love how jacob is so down to earth
he's never arrogant and stuff