What Is Wrong With Everyone?

In this episode, I explore what it means to be in tune. Based on a series of untimely events, I begin to question what it really means to be in tune... and my sanity.

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[MusicisWin]

If someone ever accuses me of bending a note out of tune I'll be sure to let them know they simply don't know the song

[galacticdgg]

Rick's entire family are just pranking him at this point lmao

[wimdutch]

I can’t stand anything out of tune and i hear it immediately.

[Hydraina]

I am not a musician, nor a music expert -- but I swear tuning is like one of THE most basic things for me. I know what flat/sharp sounds like and I am absolutely baffled you had this experience

[ttaibe]

So, basically I do not sing out of tune, people just dont know my songs. Great, ty

[kevindie]

*_This video perfectly illustrates the madness of being a musician surrounded by normal people. LOL_*

[HoboMachinist]

I'll never forget the sticker my dad had on one of his many acoustic guitar cases. It stated "tune it or die"

[plicdat]

I told my husband years ago that Kenny G was sharp. He didn’t understand until I told him he played above the pitch. Now he gets it. Watching American Idol helped him understand. Lots of folks were flat, singing below the pitch. He gets it😊

[djh]

My daddy was a piano tuner for 60 years. He tuned for Phil Collins, Status Quo, Elkie Brookes among many others. He knew when my guitar was off by half a cent. It was always in tune when dad was around. He passed last year. I miss him so much😔

[Johnkiernanmusic]

😂😂😂I’m crying. You have to make this a shirt.

“How do I know it’s out of tune? I don’t even know the song.“

[lespaul]

Hearing a song with an instrument out of tune always gives me shiver....no matter whether I know the song or not. And the first thing I learned BEFORE starting to play my guitar was to set the guitar in tune.

[cmopro]

I am old school, you make total sense...

[markhamilton]

You’re NOT losing it Rick. I think you are really in tune with this topic.

[mytchel]

Best Rick's rant of the year so far.

[Zeke-kxzw]

Rick, that’s the only way I’ve ever thought about it, the way you hear and described it. I didn’t realize there were people that actually don’t hear it.

[goatcheeta]

In my experience playing with concert bands, symphonies, and rock bands, the latter never spent enough time tuning. In the other groups we would spend 10-15 minutes making sure everyone was in tune before the show. The directors made us tune individually to A440. We would then go from section to section separately to make sure that section was in tune. Then we would test the larger group. I have known conductors stopping in the middle of a show after a number and retune. You are on the money - absolutely essential. You have to be in tune yourself, first. In church groups now I work with I encourage the instrumentalists to take that extra time in the beginning to tune. Many of them don't which I don't understand. I have offered my services to help and most don't take me up on it. Rick, you are gift to the music field!

[Balin]

The moment Rick realizes most of his audience doesn't understand most of his content, but he makes it fascinating anyhow ...

[misterwombat]

"How would I know? I've never heard the song!"

My new answer to everything 😂

[davidkearns]

There is the apocryphal story of a composer and concert master listening to a rehearsal - at the time, flutes were not tunable and subject to wide fluctuations of intonation because of humidity and heat and other conditions. In the middle of rehearsal the concert master turns to the composer and says "Maestro, what could be worse than a flute?" The Composer replied, "Two flutes."

[pattimann]

I'm just an amateur guitar dabbler and I've always known what it means when an instrument is in tune or out of tune, regardless of the song. You are not crazy, I share in your bafflement.