Animal Collective - My Girls (Piano Cover)

I love this song.
Two things.
1. As you can see, I cheated. The final audio is a live overdubbing of a pre-recorded track. Both audio tracks were recorded in the final video. You'd need three hands or a fantastic imagination in order to do the song justice in only one take.
2. For the life of me I couldn't get both video tracks to sync up with the audio. Eventually I gave up and lagged the final audio behind the video it originally matched with (the top video) in order to make both sides a bit off at different points (don't know why this happens, it must be some kind of distortion introduced by the split-screen effect). This way it's equally disorienting regardless of the side you're looking at!

[@Free_Snooki]

I remember hearing this on Skins. This brings back so many memories & is very revivifying to hear this again. _:}_

[@IWantSky]

This is so sweet. It's awesome that you can play that hemiola with one hand and the melody with the other. You have great independence with your hands.

[@brigeeey]

flipping so CRAYYYY ahhhhh amazing

[@MrRed-cf6gk]

Oooo really beautiful. 👏

[@monthlysurvey]

The song doesn't change time signatures, it's 4/4 all the way, and it doesn't change tempo either, what happens is there are triplets on the keyboard in the intro, but they're really just regular 16th notes. They sound like triplets because the downbeat sounds like it's the high note in that riff. But when the shaker sound comes in after the intro it gets funky, giving you the "actual" downbeat. The phrase for the keyboard is always 4 bars, not sure what you mean by 3 beat phrase.

[@milkmanswife93696]

it does change tempo though. in the intro, each crotchet is divided into three triplets. after the intro, each crotchet is divided into four semiquavers, where the semiquavers are the same absolute tempo as the triplets were before. therefore, the relative tempo slows down by 33% (though it aesthetically speeds up because the tempo resolution is halved into double-time by the singing after the intro).

[@adam4g]

Brilliant!

[@cbr0oks]

FINALLY. someone doing a cover of the song who gets what they were doing with time signature / 3 beat phrases.

[@Retro_Naut]

Dang this cover is so fluid

[@azrielabyss]

Sweeeeet!

[@cbr0oks]

no, i mean three beat phrases. When they change time signatures after the intro, the keyboard riff turns into a three beat phrase.

[@SheWearsthePants]

this is beyond amazing. sheet music would be greatly appreciated!!

[@studderman]

I fucking love this!

[@DravenX53]

@leeolson3 The freshest wave.

[@coolnesss16]

I read that it was ''Or to take part in a pressured race'' AC doesn't release the lyrics to the songs so you can never know for sure.

[@darktowersl]

@IWantSky hemiola!! impressive :)

[@kyletomlinson5365]

This song relies a lot on its percussion, however I think you did it really well without it

[@Free_Snooki]

Certainly to keep that rich, fast tempo too.

[@VirtualWaffle]

@SamuelMaglor In their precious ways. It makes more sense in terms of social stats.

[@xasia_]

I had a cheating ex and the one good thing about the relationship is him showing me this song

[@JAMxSkalla16]

weird that i came across it cause u added it yesterday, but this is really sweet/ ive been looking for some animal collective piano tutorials. if you want to do any let me know and message me. ill totally sub if you put a few up here and there

[@dirtierdog]

Wow. I'm guessing you've been playing piano your whole life.

[@NadaCero]

How do your hands not get tired?

[@IWantSky]

@darktowersl Haha I am a sucker for songs with hemiolas :)

[@dudewhatthehellman]

How the hell did you figure this out

[@johndavis331]

Sheet music?

[@leeolson3]

@JackPostich a pressured race.

[@IndianSummerAR]

You mean triplets? That's three notes on one beat.

[@rwatson8]

Your hands are a midi