the REAL reason why JVKE says you can't play 'GOLDEN HOUR' on piano...

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[ezrac]

I like how JVKE was talking about this like it's the deepest thing ever when he did what the Beatles did several times unintentionally 60 years ago.

[Idontknowhoiamanymore]

JVKE says you can’t play it on piano because JVKE can’t actually play it on piano

[juansandoval]

If I had a penny for every time someone told me I couldn't play Golden Hour on a piano, I would have roughly 32 cents.

[mikefetters]

Listening to microtonal music, specifically 31 even tones in an octave is sort of a game changer for music. It sounds really unpleasant at first but you grow more used to it and the dissonance it can create is unlike anything in the standard 12 tones per octave. Great video!

[clammy]

I have recently played golden hour on a slightly out of tune piano and when I took my recording and played it side by side with the original it sounded practically identical so if you want to play golden hour just find an out of tune piano

[hhz]

It's not that deep. A typical piano is tuned so that A is exactly 440Hz, JVKE uses a piano that has been tuned down slightly to A=432Hz which is why "you can't play it" because it will sound lower. All the stuff about "there are only 12 keys" and "keys represent emotions" is valid but he barely scratches the surface. If you want to really understand it then listen to a musician like Jacob Collier who uses microtones and microtonal keys a lot more often. There are lots of videos of him talking about it in much more detail.

And you didn't cover "the REAL reason" why JVKE says it... he says it because the social media algorithms will make it go viral. That strategy is obviously a big part in his overall success.

[Chrysanthemums]

At this point JVKE should name his song "GOLDEN MILK"

[Jeej]

JVKE do be milking the shit out of golden hour

[GianFerreyraBouillon]

The only reason JVKE said you can't play it on piano is so that other musicians started talking about it. JVKE is no music genius, but he definitely is very good at Marketing

[heeckypi]

Love that u added how to google what you want to search for! That’s a skill i think everyone benefits from when shared! :)

[kennichdendenn]

You maybe cant hear a few cents, but half a semitone is reasonable to be discerned. Turkish and arabic music regularly has quartertones, btw. If you step out of the 12 tone western music bubble, there is a lot to discover 😁

[alexanderpiano]

Love your breakdown! Also the ever so subtle gentle roasting :)

[jazzimel]

I was experimenting with tuning ever since I was young. I would notice how certain songs, especially older songs seemed to sound like they were "off key" but in a good way so to speak, in a different key that didn't exist, and I'd be confused, trying to play in the correct key but it was somewhere in between... I learned how to tune to a certain cents to make a song convey a specific emotion. Make a love song feel even more romantic, an edgy song more intense, make a song feel vintage like mimicking the imperfect play speed of an old record or cassette player... it fascinated me...

[BrandonPoirierBlair]

I was a big fan of JVKE right before ''this is what _ feels like'' came out and I was digging the vibe of Golden Hour for a month when it came out but he's been shoving it in everyone's face with sketches and shorts so much that I got burnt fast. Too bad he's been milking this one song for over a year, he had real potential and according to wikipedia he was SUPER active for a decade before Golden Hour. Maybe hes just in it to make a check, and now that he finally has it he's just cashing it.

[AlarkiusJay]

You can find the true key of the song if you have a digital electric piano by using the "tone knobber" off to the side and use a pin to stick it in place. The whole song on the 432hz spectrum is played by a semitone between the F/F# - G/G# key, which makes it difficult to actually play on a grand piano

[zomb]

Someone said it before but the biggest issue is how complicated he made it sound.

[derekkane]

0:55-1:10 Jacob Collier can hear the difference between notes only a few cents apart. His pitch is beyond perfect. It's astounding

[DERSITHA]

I was looking for different and your video seems to be the only one who really show the comparison

[johnmetzler]

FINALLY. I’ve been trying to figure this out for so long, thank you!

[abnorth]

I agree with you to an extent but at 1:11 you say that there isn’t an infinite amount of pitches, even though there is. I still think there is something to the fact that we tend to only use 440hz tuning and that combining different tunings or just using different tunings may lead to different emotional responses.