Jacob Collier's 2:3:4:5:6 (analysis)

This video is about 2:3:4:5:6

[puzzLEGO]

The amount of muscle memory a normal human has to have in order to even come close to this is astounding

[Reeseington]

It’s crazy how as he’s counting the different rhythms it feels like it’s getting slower but his thumb is going the same speed the whole time.

[brendandowse]

This is not a thing a human person should be able to do

[suomeaboo]

The 5 is what makes things a lot more complicated. Imagine having all primes like 2:3:5:7:11.

[stickmanonastick]

2:3:4:6 is hard but manageable; they are pretty common rythms and they line up nicely. 2:3:4:5:6 is nightmare fuel.

[jasonsaj.]

I literally can’t even understand what he is doing after 8 years of piano and music theory lol

[lippi]

This guy has got an abnormal amount of musical talent, almost like a superhuman or something

[intervalkid]

Great finger independence! Excellent exercise!

[djtoddles]

So on drums this would be all 4 limbs going as well as... one of those cymbals between your knees that the one man band guys play?

[liugaobang]

man could literally play an entire band with his four limbs if technology allowed

[remdalen]

Learning and understanding the pattern is quite easy, but counting every Finger and switching the rythms without changing Speed is really difficult. I am Training this by Just doing 4/3 and switching the Main Rythm. So First counting the one Finger with 4 and then the Finger with 3. And then I try with 5/4 and then with 5/3 and so on. And then some day I Put all rythms together.

[EngineTheRobot]

it took every brain cell in my head to be able to do this myself

[jacob.gamble]

Took a bit of practice, but I got it down. Make sure you’ve got 6:5, then slowly add in the others (6:5:4, then 6:5:4:3, then 6:5:4:3:2). A polyrhythmic metronome helps tremendously.

[masonkiller]

just take a look at the scale and practise the sequence of the fingers playing. after a while you can play it without understanding what it aktually is^^

[marcosjbs]

I needed some time to understand what he was doing. When I realized, ... Amazing!

[mahastoon]

Doing it is not what impresses me the most, I guess one could do it with enough work of memorization and muscle memory BUT the fact that he's counting each rythm while maintining all of them and without altering any of them is REALLY impressing

[sanjayyethipathi]

i love the internet, that wow clip at the end put a smile on my face!

[jemb]

I don't know what he's doing, but this is impressive!

[SL-wtfm]

I once tried to improvise something in 3 against 4 in a piano, and i could never get the rythm, even if had it in the background. Damn you musical demigod.

[peterscott]

I can see in theory how to use the 6 as a base and fit the 4, 3, and 2 over the top. But how on earth can you fit the 5 in? You would have to feel 6 beats with the beat split into 5 subdivisions.
Or do you start with 5 beats with the beat subdivided into 6? And superimpose everything on top of that? Maybe that could work.
Can anyone else do it? If so how?