15 Note Poly Tempo Pendulum

I played 15 diffrent notes at 0.2 bpm diffrences. The result is an amazing sweep of the rhythmic subdivision spectrum!
Each time you hear a bell it means that we’ve reached an important subdivision. 8th notes, triplets,
and sixteenth notes.
Spotify : open.spotify.com/album/6foQtjVK6YZOa9AOJSYjW9
electricvibes.bandcamp.com/album/phased-out
The Pendulum kzbin.info/www/bejne/j2HFmamCqbh0q9k
jercarrier

[@irespondtotheads7453]

When your blinker starts to go out of sync with the car infront of you.

[@Josh-vc2ul]

Exactly the same, and for the same reasons

[@Lovesergeon]

Yooooo

[@mikegleim5241]

...and you'd be perfectly OK with sitting there for 5 minutes to see it come back around into sync! 😂

[@weakw1ll]

TRUE

[@wardrich]

This user to make me so angry, but now I'll learn to love it as polyrhythms!

[@commodoor6549]

It's cool that everyone is wearing the same shirt.

[@mokopuppet116]

Very talented gentlemen

[@MrMarvinWiley]

They're a band

[@aaroneschenburg4018]

😂

[@stanvanillo9831]

It's amazing that they found 15 guys who look exactly the same.

[@Hathorspirit]

@@stanvanillo9831 I said the same thing when Neo was fighting Mr. Smith

[@Fallin2Rhythm3]

It's like a kaleidoscope for your ears

[@katrinarose2210]

What kinda weed are you smoking, and where'd you get it from, and do you wanna smoke it together?

[@nicked_fenyx]

Perfect description.

[@antoniobranderas]

@@katrinarose2210😂

[@minkmiau]

Exactly

[@chrisB_OG]

@@katrinarose2210 YAAAY

[@motttti]

Can we appreciate the fact that this guy stood there for a total of 75 minutes just hitting a single note repeatedly for each clip?

[@jono_young]

Right?! 😮‍💨🫡

[@WillSenechal]

That we know of! I bet there were retakes

[@wyattstevens8574]

​@@WillSenechalHe recorded to a click track, so less likely.

[@JayPhonomancer]

That had not occurred to me. That's impressive

[@BoyKissBoy]

Why, why!? Why on Earth would you not run loops? 🤯 Yeah, amazing. Still though, why!? 😮

[@MrCamerononicus]

You see, son, life is like a 15 Note Poly Tempo Pendulum. Sometimes there's chaos. Sometimes there's beauty. But no matter what, there's always a pattern, and history repeats itself every five minutes.

[@unavaatu]

Underrated comment

[@tyronium2]

lol

[@mariekkje]

Wow that's deep

[@someonesnobody2222]

Dang...that hits hard

[@danibot3000]

The fractal nature of KZbin comments... .. .. .

[@WillowPercussion]

The dedication to play perfectly in time for 5 minutes shouldn't go unnoticed, nor should the split screen editing

[@JeremieCarrier]

It was quite the challenge but I love the whole process hahah thank you!

[@Yoctopory]

Not 5 minutes - 75 minutes!

[@litterbox019]

@@JeremieCarrier you look so dead inside tho

[@undercoveragent9889]

@@litterbox019 lol

[@ObeyNoLies]

I doubt it was his first try.

[@frittataficionado]

I like how he's using his left hand for just one of the notes.

[@birdeater2848]

Right arm probably got tired by then lol

[@supersolomob422]

dunk dunk dunk dunk

[@citizenhal]

@@birdeater2848No, it’s because he’s hitting the furthest left note so he has to use his other hand to match the blocking of the other shots. Also if he used his right hand then he would have to reach over too far and it wouldn’t be symmetrical with the first shot at the top left.

[@steelman774]

Didn’t notice until you pointed it out. Now I can’t help but stare. 😮

[@Kieran.percussion]

0:00 quarter note 0:08 30-let half the space is "filed" by notes 0:17 15-let, given that there are 15 marimbists, this is the place where there is no longer significant note space 0:20 14-lets 0:22 13-lets 0:24 12-lets 0:26 11-lers 0:28 10-lets 0:31 36th notes (9lets) 0:36 32nd notes 0:40 septuplets 0:48 sextuplets 0:57 quintuplet 1:13 4-tuplet 1:37 triplet 2:27 2-tuplet 3:42 4:3 theoretically It is a 350:349:348:347:346:345:344:343:342:341:340:339:338:337:336 polyrhythm

[@wigwagstudios2474]

marimbists ERUEUIREIUREIURUIERIUERIUEIRUEUIREIURIUERUEURIERUEIRIUEUIREIUREIUR EHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMNGHHKHLFGLJK;;JGH;DFL'JKL;'GDH;LJGHD;'JLGDHF;J;GKGHDK;HGDLKJ'

[@Kieran.percussion]

I counted 351 notes played for the top marimba, including the final note. 350 played in 299 seconds Equates to 1.1705 notes per second. * 60 70.23 bpm Realistically he probably chose 70 bpm. Getting the ratio of (69.8/70)*350 notes and repeat that

[@thornels]

Nerd🫵

[@mrlucius57]

bro are you for real?! if so thats incredible that you kept track and equated that....seriously damn @@Kieran.percussion

[@Kieran.percussion]

@mrlucius57 thx bro. My brain (and the phobe!) likes to compute these things✝️

[@minerforstone4136]

It's so awesome hearing it converge into a fire beat only to return back to chaos after a few seconds

[@Scatyricon]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/r4fOlZmAbrWeiLMsi=9XU7m499JZSqwn4W

[@cheeto4493]

@@Scatyricon Now I want to build a machine that is a combination of the two. Clockwork driven chimes with a wave timing to it.

[@SidusBrist]

There's something poetic in a mathematical way on this video.

[@Δ-Δ-Δ-Δ]

Dead By Daylight.

[@naringrass]

people typically call that "musical"

[@FancifulSKey4468]

​@@naringrass Really?

[@willemakkermans4067]

If you tried this in real time, all players would magically lock together in a synchronised rhythm, no matter how off-time they started 😂

[@xistithogott]

This is basically impossible for real musicians. But how cool if you could actually perform this live

[@Obi-WanKannabis]

It would be possible if they all get earmufflers with a click track in their ear.

[@ABarbershopBarber]

@@Obi-WanKannabisexact same thought i had. I wonder if the same phenomena would happen or not.

[@daemn42]

Not all single instrument, but check out "Music for 18 musicians" by Steve Reich played live.

[@Obi-WanKannabis]

@@ABarbershopBarber Rob Scallon's video of playing reverb with actual players shows that it is possible even when you can hear the other players. But it is insanely hard.

[@PCanas]

I like how there's a constant "humm" or "pad" underneath coming from the natural sustain of the lower notes

[@raine1319]

It might be added in for effect, there's an added percussion hit at 1:16 as well.

[@jazzy_jaymond]

I believe its from the two lowest notes (top left) from looking at them ​@@raine1319

[@PsilocybePsientist]

@@raine1319 He states in the description the bell noise denotes important subdivisions.

[@knotwilg3596]

Some math and Q&A. Working our way back, we know that the fastest rhythm is 70 bpm. Then the other notes are played at rhythms 69.8 69.6 69.4 69.2 69 and so on up until 67.2 bpm. 1. Q - Why do all notes are in synch again after 5 minutes? A - Because multiplying the above numbers by 5 gives you whole numbers. We hear the 350th beat of the fastest note, the 349th of the second ... and so on until the 336th beat of the slowest note. Indeed 5 times 67.2 is 336. 2. Q - In between we also hear regularities appear. What are they? A - Halfway through, after 150 seconds or 2 and a half minutes, the abovementioned numbers are multiplied by 5 and divided by 2. This means some notes (8) fall on the beat on that second, the other (7) notes on the half beat. That's why you hear a "duplet" or "eighth notes" if we agree the beat is a quarter note. Likewise, after 100 seconds, you'll find 5 notes on the beat, 5 on 1/3 after the beat and 5 more at 2/3 after the beat. You hear it as a "triplet". We can go on like this to get quadruplets at 75s and so on, dividing the 300s in smaller portions. 3 - Q - Yes, but the regularities also appear in the second half. A - Indeed, there is symmetry. The triplet at 100 is "repeated" at 200. The quadruplet at 75 is repeated at 225. (At 150 it is "hidden" in the duplet). 4 - Q - When do we hear the 15 notes evenly spaced out? A- At 20 seconds. Since 300/15 = 20, the distance between each note will be equal after 20 seconds. As said, one note lands on the beat, and all other notes are a 15th of a beat away from each other. Due to symmetry, you hear it again at 300-20 = 280 seconds, or 4:40. 5 -Q - When is the first occurrence of two notes synching up? A - At 300/14 = 21,42... seconds the spacing is 1/14th of a second so that the slowest note and the fastest note are in synch. Shown in another way: the fastest note at 70/60 = 7/6 bps will catch up first with the slowest note at 67.2/60 = 28/25 bps, at x seconds, where 7/6 x = 28/25 x + 1. Solving for x gives 150/7 or 300/14. Here's the "14-let". It doesn't land on a whole number of seconds because 14 is no divisor of 300. I'm not expecting anyone to read this but I thought it might be of interest to a few.

[@hermask815]

Yeah, we should have played more attention when factorisation, Least common multiple and Greatest common divisor were taught in school 😊 Or read that part of the manual of your calculator (my Casio does this🤓)

[@bibabuba8223]

Thanks

[@ricespana]

You are such a perfect nerd! I love it. Thanks.

[@rashkavar]

Wow, this brings back a weirdly specific memory. There's a game called Glider, where you control a paper airplane flying through a house full of hazards. In this game, there is a room with a narrow gap in which 2 infinitely bouncing basketballs are bouncing ever so slightly out of sync, which you need to cross. There is no safe place between them, so the solution is to wait until they sync up and then fly through the gap, preferably using your speed powerup to give you some margin for error. It's one of the hardest rooms in the game, and is called Double Jeopardy. When I was little, the high scores were littered with attempts that ended in that room since my entire family enjoyed that game and we all struggled to get past this room. I remember sitting there, agonizingly waiting for the moment those two basketballs would bounce in perfect sync. I'm almost tempted to go download glider and replay it. It's abandonware, as I recall, and thus freely available on any site that has it.

[@regrettablestitches]

jeebus crimbles you just unlocked a deep memory lol

[@ion337]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/qWnCqqN_lKhqpK8 😄

[@snoski]

This is like 100x as cool as I was expecting it to be from the title nd thumbnail alone

[@ChristinaVasilevski]

Wow, this really reminds me of Steve Reich!

[@BigDaddyWes]

Mmmm mmmmm minimalism.

[@JeffreyChilton]

I feel like I’ve heard some of the rhythms this settled on specifically in some of reichs works, or at least super similar!

[@soniccucumber6639]

Got this in recommendation after finding Steve's Electric Counterpoint

[@arapacismtl]

I was thinking the same thing!

[@immaSpy1]

Pretty much the same principle Steve used a lot (called phasing)

[@blunderbass851]

This is some real Animusic sounding stuff, and it's incredible And listening to it on different speeds is a completely different experience

[@antoniobranderas]

Good idea. Going to try that now.

[@paulsture7045]

Yes and if you have premium controls you can make your own rhythm by quickly going from normal to 2x. So much fun❤😊

[@perigee_vitz-wong]

bottom right two be like: WINDOWS ERROR

[@Krilium]

top left be like: WINDOWS INFO MESSAGE

[@opeksei]

One of the most profound pieces of music i've ever heard. Has a haunting, mystical beauty to it. Feels like it's expressing something very fundamental concerning nature, periodicity, emergence of form and stuff like that.

[@fastenbulbous]

You’ll love Steve Reich.

[@Pewlpewl]

+1 Steve, and John Luther Adams is worth a listen!

[@_qwerty_3545]

this is lowkey kinda terrifying and yet so beautiful

[@sniffelur7996]

3:00, banger

[@jacuhb8445]

3:07

[@sniffelur7996]

3:20

[@solanshuemaker8738]

1:18

[@zealot1543]

4:08

[@migfus-codes]

Want banger? Try polyrhythms virtualriot

[@wiggletonthewise2141]

Call me polyamorous, because I love this

[@aguynamedshelly]

@@konroh2Except for those that aren't interested in monogamy. Then whatever they choose is best for them.

[@konroh2]

@@aguynamedshelly If good is true good then it's universal. As such we don't choose our own ethics. So I'd respectfully disagree, we either pattern ourselves towards the good and best or we don't.

[@suphorg8597]

⁠@@konroh2counter point: the “best” is entirely subjective and depends on the person, because, believe it or not, what someones interested in is going to be the best for them. as such, there is no argument to be made for either side because it truly does not matter.

[@konroh2]

@@suphorg8597 That's the point, it does matter. Good is not subjective. Morals are not relative. It doesn't matter what feels good or best, it matters what is good or best. Ultimately if good is truly good then it will be the best. We are arguing from different worldviews. I believe truth, beauty and good are truly real, it seems you do not. (If they are subjective and relative they are not universally real.)

[@acidxbathfuckgoogle3724]

@konroh2 Aaaand let me guess...The Bible is good and moral🙄 Yeah that checks out time and time again. What about the Quran? it’s the same book just in a different language🤡

[@charliezard64]

The fact that you had to have spent AT LEAST an hour 15 minutes on this is crazy. Shows the dedication!

[@OwenP26]

At least an hour and 17.5 minutes haha

[@charliezard64]

@@OwenP26 you right, my bad

[@kvnmahan87]

​@@OwenP26still technically *at least* an hour and 15 minutes 😂

[@peter-andrepliassov4489]

@@OwenP265:09 on my desktop.

[@kriscollinstunes]

That doesn’t include the editing. Probably a bit more time there too.

[@emilylindley6304]

I didn’t expect to watch the whole video, but once I started I couldn’t stop. Very cool. 😊

[@paulstaley4472]

This was really impressive. I’ve seen computer simulations of these tempo pendulums, but for someone to have done themselves in real life is admirable. Well done.

[@SteelOnVR]

Wait untill jacob collier does this with a crowd

[@JeremieCarrier]

Lol I would love that!!!

[@milleemille2063]

Hahaha only in Italy though

[@jonathanspray2362]

😂

[@erlandodk]

I bet he can do it with the fingers on his hand just like he can do polyrythms

[@SteelOnVR]

@@erlandodk quite possibly

[@flymypg]

There is a piece for two pianos (whose name I forget) where each pianist plays the same piece at slightly different tempos, which I heard live on an amazing pair of Bosendorfers. The performance moved through many varying zones of melodic and harmonic discord, each with its own distinct texture and feel, from sadness to pins & needles, with my ears always struggling to find meaning in the chaos. The point at the end when they synched together again was unexpectedly emotionally intense, cathartic even, releasing a tension we were unaware we had been tightly holding on to. Few other pieces have ever taken me on a journey like that one.

[@daviddawkins]

Is this it? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Phase

[@juneyellowsnek]

@@daviddawkinsthat is it.

[@juneyellowsnek]

Piano Phase; it's been covered on MANY different instruments though so it's become kind of just a _(x instrument)_ phase performance but it's still wicked to see

[@pixelmentia]

Props to whoever made this. Can’t imagine the bravery it took to allow yourself to be cloned 14 times.

[@CornMonarch]

i like how if you really focus on one frame, you can really pick out the note that that frame is playing....... really cool 😊

[@ephraimcullen]

I kept hearing thosr chimes and was confused until I read the description. Very cool project!

[@XavierXonora]

This is actually kind of a cool teaching tool for how a Fourier tranfrom can work. I have no idea if the maths is similar, but the demonstration of incredible structure emerging from overlapping "sine waves" is super cool to think about

[@akaHarvesteR]

It is actually. There's an awesome 3blue1brown video about it

[@colleenwilliams1689]

This takes a car's turn signal playing slightly out of sync with the radio to a whole new level.

[@TheNoteworthyDanny]

I like minimalist steve reich type experiences and this was worth the listen

[@danielcorrigan6998]

Respect for bass man using left hand like a boss

[@JoshPillault]

Oh dude why is this so satisfying So intricate and the constant shift makes it so pleasing to the ears and refreshing and surprising Wow this unironically is amazing to listen to

[@DanG1001]

This is wonderful. Your utter contempt really sells it.

[@trombonetimo]

This is a masterpiece.

[@unclerhombus]

What a wild journey that was. I loved it. My wife got annoyed 😂

[@andregalvao5739]

This is way better than I expected

[@Ktouen]

Let's make it a ringtone

[@sirgavalot]

I'd never want to answer the phone!

[@Ktouen]

@@sirgavalot ahah exactly

[@Henrix1998]

Alarm would be more fitting

[@jono_young]

@@Henrix1998 absolutely 👌👌

[@BritishMiscellanyYT]

This is certainly one of the best minimalist pieces I've heard!

[@JeremieCarrier]

Wow ! thank you :) I love this concept so much, I wrote a full tune with it as well, and I'm not sure what I prefer, the composition or just the phasing part on its own! kzbin.info/www/bejne/j2HFmamCqbh0q9k

[@ChristopherWoods]

Been watching some of the channels publishing computer generated polyrhythmic vids recently and those are great BUT THIS IS AWESOME! From one percussionist to another, bravo 👏👏👏

[@SingularityEngine]

Watched the entire thing at 4:54AM. Mesmerizing.

[@maartengroenendijk8997]

This video sent me to another universe. Wow! Also, credits for being so consistent throughout the whole 5 minutes!

[@TheOddHolloway]

It’s like it’s changing into a different song every now and again. Brilliant and inspiring sounds!

[@dylanmckeithen4281]

That was a little surreal

[@bigmac51290]

This is soothing but also anxiety inducing.

[@jono_young]

It’s like a struggle snuggle 😱😌😱😌

[@llynxfyremusic]

Goes on a similar rythmic journey to Virtual Riot's polyrhythm track. I could track that song with this in my head

[@scatt3r1]

I was looking for this comment! Its basically the same idea. I could also hear VRs song

[@rey_jeff]

Combine this with some ambiant sounds and you've got yourself a hit! Would love a trance or psytrance remix.

[@eugeneimnotgonnatellyoumyl5513]

PLEASE PUT THIS ON SPOTIFY I NEED IT

[@irrelevantduckfan4413]

I swear that I have just listened to every basic movies soundtrack genre in 5 minutes, Suspense, horror, comedy, action, cerebral indie, quirky indie... You name it and it is in there somewhere

[@jmagemusic]

This is wonderful to listen to. I feel like I’ve been looking for this music all my life. Amazing that it’s generated by such a simple principle

[@MorriganJade]

Look up "so you I heard you like polyrhythms?"

[@munstify]

You might like Shpongle if you're into this

[@jmagemusic]

@@munstify respectfully, I just checked them out, and I don't see the connection. But to each their own.

[@jmagemusic]

@@MorriganJade oh yeah that's pretty cool! Although somehow the organic/performed aspect of the marimba vid above really does it for me

[@JeremyEllwood]

This. Is. Fabulous. I want an hour of this for meditation purposes.

[@Pewlpewl]

This is fantastic!!! Great work!! Have wanted to make something like this for a long long time!

[@SebastianWellsTL]

This is absolutely fascinating! Probably the coolest video I have stumbled upon this month!

[@goodshorts]

This is amazing.

[@WormAteWords]

Very hypnotic. It feels like soldiers marching into battle, at first coordinated, then descending into chaos, regrouping, and then rejoining at the end to march to the next battle.

[@k0r0e0s]

No.

[@WormAteWords]

@@k0r0e0s Yes, actually.

[@WormAteWords]

@@k0r0e0s Yes.

[@juneyellowsnek]

it ain't that deep.

[@alvarorojas4942]

This is like when the windshield wipers or blinkers sync up with the 15 cars in front of you

[@brendancskinner]

5:02 Eb really needed to get home early.

[@danbuck84]

the effort into making it!! congrats on spending over almost two hours straight hitting basically the same note!

[@ryanscho]

Fantastic! Thank you for your courage. x0.75 speed sounds like Gamelan

[@janekk8]

The bottom right corner with you holding the stick with your opposite hand compering to the others makes my OCD cry

[@gorchde7934]

Very well done and nice to hear the various patterns in between.

[@Constantingold]

Absolutly amazing! Nice job! It drags you in and you cant stop lsitening and discovering new pattern. Crazy!

[@ethelrocio4786]

Some time around 0:50 it starts sounding like it could a dramatic discovery scene in a movie

[@ТимурДаргелис]

Yes, for me it reminds of Poirot theme

[@fadhilmauls811]

the changes are insane, it feels like a very different scene of movie every couple seconds 🤯

[@henrystickmin3735]

reminds me a lot of Electroplankton, that surreal musical game on the DS.

[@polyduckwanaland]

That game fucks so hard. I need to play it again now.

[@Skid834]

I swear I started hallucinating because I thought at some point the two bottom middle frames were 1 with two arms on one person😵‍💫

[@kylespeer4461]

i know aphex twin is watching this just PLOTTIN

[@ForrestYoung]

75 minutes of standing and patiently playing one note over and over... Bravo! And, all the time spent editing the video... The results were worth it!

[@danolivier4899]

It's very interesting how when you look at one of the frames you can suddenly hear that individual note.

[@drcardinalli]

Wow! You’re right!!!!

[@MaxVliet]

Love how you can tell the passing of time by how each clip was brighter than the one before it!

[@andrewhobbs6962]

One of the best things in the internet

[@sandtrick]

Please put this in a 10 hour loop!! Amazing

[@WHALEx3]

3:05 was a bop

[@mikegleim5241]

Truth. All the jazzheads just sampled the s!*# outta that!

[@Henrix1998]

2:58 is even better, more tension

[@Meltz14]

@@Henrix1998 Theres some real deadmau5 vibes

[@RaccoonEatingCacti]

The fact that this is done on an actual physical instrument makes it so much more impactful. I doubted that more than 8 notes in a polyrhythm could really sound good, but this is transcendent. Thank you for your dedication.

[@JeremieCarrier]

Wow! Thanks, yeah so did I before, I even tried 20 (in my midi) and it didnt work for me so I feel like 15 is a lot but it definitely still works :)

[@jonmichael8432]

reminds me so much of learning about foreign music from the middle east and also from africa. if it was possible to get a group to do this live would be so cool

[@dylaniy]

i think it’d be possible with in ears, 15 seperate click tracks, and rehearsal time!

[@spejampar]

what the what the what?! This is my new favorite thing. Did you do the planning so you knew EXACTLY where they would end up together again?! Holy crap, this is amazing. I SOOOO appreciate this. Thank you.

[@kthwkr]

It's how my car runs when the timing belt breaks.

[@calebandersen4334]

This is so mesmerizing, truly, VERY well done. The more I think about it, the more impressed I get+

[@robinthesky6728]

1:50 action movie sequence, running ontop of train, etc

[@ebgbees]

Sounds like crash bandicoot music to me haha

[@robin_miller_music]

(As a drummer?) what I found interesting was that after a few seconds of watching just 1 camera angle I was able to single out that note being played. How does everyone else find trying this?

[@GlenTindal]

Steve Reich would eat this up!😁😁😁

[@user-df3kp9nn7b]

I could've listened to this for another hour.

[@Accuratetranslationservices]

the fourth guy from the left on the bottom is the master of all of them and the leader

[@yllekjs76]

I was stuck on him too. But it seemed to go out of time so not sure?

[@jrrarglblarg9241]

It creates a five minute minimalist symphony. Fascinating.

[@slonski]

okay this is the most magical thing I've ever witnessed. an I saw Lisan Al Ghaib recently.

[@darraghodonovan]

Lisan al-Ghaib!

[@Xenn000]

Now this is an amazing mix of this! I fell in love with Virtual Riots "I heard you like polyrhythms" and this gives a great different vibe!

[@barackdrinksWD40]

1:00 hits hard

[@melodypudding]

This is so soothing and stimulating at the same time. I love this so much!!!

[@drwagner14]

brilliant, beautiful! The ending was very impressive! Where's the metronome?

[@JeremieCarrier]

I recorded audio and video separately, at first this was purely an audio experience so I had the click in my ears, but when I realized the visual potential I re-recorded the whole thing but just for the audio, so the click is playing in speakers but then I used the audio from my first take. It was a long process 😅

[@LupinTelegar]

You've got to admit, the guy's got rhythm.

[@joshburns1777]

Incredible. I’m fascinated to know how you stayed so incredibly accurately on the beat such that the rhythmic sweep that you describe is actually depicted so clearly. Playing so many parts for such a long time with such an onus on clinical precision and with no apparent slip-ups is remarkable. I know that sounds suspicious - I promise it isn’t. I’m just very impressed and very curious. Thanks for this!

[@gwamhurt]

Prolly a metronome in an earbud

[@joshburns1777]

Right. I'm not asking how he can make it so that he can hear a metronome while he plays. I'm essentially asking how he maintains such near-inhuman accuracy so consistently@@gwamhurt

[@emperorsascharoni9577]

Many attempts and a metronome pretty sure any novice could. The editing seems harder though both would be tedious work.

[@joshburns1777]

Any novice definitely could not. Any novice can tap to a beat, which I think is what you mean. "Tapping to a beat", defined very specifically according to the common usage of this phrase, means "tapping with a reasonable enough level of accuracy to the beat that every tap can be unequivocally associated with one particular beat". This means that every tapped beat can have quite a wide margin of inaccuracy and still "sound" like it is on-beat. This standard is FAR too low for what this video perfectly demonstrates. To represent 15 different BPMs, all 0.2 BPM apart from each other, and to properly and smoothly sound out the extraordinarily intricate rhythmic interplay that happens when these 0.2 BPM differences gradually phase in and out of time with each other requires, as I said originally, a near-inhuman level of precision. If some of your "taps" do not fall EXACTLY on the beat, the "rhythmic sweep" that is described in the video description will not be properly represented. A novice can "tap to a beat", easily. A professional percussionist can "tap very precisely to a beat" (at this level, the "rhythmic sweep" would be audible but noticeably imperfect and slightly staggered or jarring in some places). Only a computer, or someone playing nearly inhumanly, can tap to a beat so accurately that the result is this video.@@emperorsascharoni9577

[@zonictrout]

@@emperorsascharoni9577I’m sorry, but you’re just wrong. I’ve been playing percussion for 3 years now (even got district honor band 1st chair), and at most I can make the metronome disappear for a measure or two (~8 seconds). He’s doing this perfectly for 5 minutes straight. That is something I’d expect from myself after a full decade of playing. A novice could not do that so easily. Note: 5 minutes is 300 seconds

[@mystictnediser3854]

I love you that you gave each frame a subtley different way of looking and behaving infront of the camera!

[@t23c56]

I absolutely love this. It's like an art piece. The fact you could have achieved the same results using a computer and xylophone sample in minutes but chose to do it manually shows a strange obsession which is quite striking and strangely disturbing.

[@dygituljunky]

This is one of the most satisfying things I've ever heard. I expected a full house music production to break out at any second, though.

[@gdvortex2169]

3:03 Turns into a sick beat

[@jimmyzhao2673]

I'm having an eargasm.

[@JustKelsey]

wonder how hard this would be to play live with multiple people with no clicks 🤔

[@JeremieCarrier]

I think impossible unfortunately, The difference between each part is just about 20 milliseconds. Also I had to do a bit of rhythm correction just to get the exact effect I was looking for

[@JustKelsey]

@@JeremieCarrier i am almost certain that it is impossible. with rob scallon doing real life delay, it was already hard with 3 people xD however, im just thinking a loud xD

[@phaudraig]

I, too, absolutely love Steve Reich and all the experiments with phasing. More of this, please!