when your audience is musically competent

Performed by: @jacobcollier + Glastonbury

faq:
Q: how are you related to jacob collier? / A: i'm not, we just have the same last name
Q: how do you transcribe? / A: i use musescore for notation and 'Transcribe!' for beat marking, slowing down etc
Q: do you have perfect pitch? / A: no
Q: why are some videos not transcribed by you? / A: sometimes other people submit transcriptions, most are commissioned from others who can do a better job than i can. i want to make sure you see the best transcriptions possible!

[GeorgeCollier]

audience paid for the tickets and still have to make the music themselves 😒

[dominikn]

So proud to say that I was an instrument of Jacob Collier this year.

[Stewartist]

This particular choir had 40, 000 people as ONE harmony

[ollysombrero]

He could... I mean I know he wouldn't.. but he could so very easily become the most wholesome cult leader for the biggest cult in history.

[benmontey]

As one who has been to two of his concerts, this is truly magical in person, and I HIGHLY advise you put this on your bucket list.

[ParkourAxolotl]

they managed to cut off better than my old middle school symphonic band cut off

[StuartQuinn]

There's one part in this performance where he tells the crowd "louder" - the crowd get slightly louder, so he said "louder" again and they increase in volume by the exact same amount. It was as if his pressed the vol up button on his remote 😂

[kilo]

More folks should write pieces of music explicitly to be sung by hypothetically-untrained audiences, I think 😊 This is so cool!

[TopRanky]

1000x better than audience members who clap off beat

[commanderwyro]

there is truly nothing more beautiful than the sound of 1000s of voices coming together in harmony

[MenelionFR]

Each and every time I see those videos, I get shivers down my spine and tears on my eyes. This is and must be the Human race. Not wars, not missiles, not people dying of hunger, not jerks trying to prove to the world they are the best, none of those — but this supreme kind of art, where hundreds of strangers sing in a perfect choir, surprising angels in heavens and extraterrestrials on the orbit. I don't know where Jacob Collier came from, but it's the perfect time for such a person to come to Earth.

[brotemca]

Having huge groups all singing together like this is always so beautiful! I have a relatively small church, but there's two events I can recall - one being my sister's wedding - in which it was jam packed with people, and the combined weight of so much support and love from every side made me cry, especially in the final chorus of Emu Music's "Hear Our Prayer" - the accompaniment dropped out, so it was just hundreds of voices in perfect unison singing, "We ask with one voice", and I will never forget how I felt in that moment

(the crying might've also been cause of the whole marriage thing but whatever-)

[spartanxbear]

It will never cease to amaze me how few people sound good alone, but when all the people sing as one, it always sounds beautiful

[hellohowareyou-fwmn]

How he does this is completely beyond me! Congrats on 700k btw🎉🎉🎉

[columbinafan]

For almost a minute people were able to just co-exist and it was beautiful

[NO-quuk]

There's something about a thousand voices, all singing at the same time like this, that just sounds so right.

[tmage]

Bobby McFerrin does something similar where he teaches the crowd the pentatonic scale by giving them 3 notes and they will automatically know the rest.

Somehow music is ingrained in our minds and we just get it on a primal level.

[NicDunn]

He doesn’t play music for people, he plays people for music

[jessemorales]

Putting a lot of faith in that crowd 😂

[Nameless-bpgt]

It doesen´t matter how good or bad you are at singing. Thousands of people singing together always sounds great