Robot Piano Catches Fire Playing Rush E (World’s Hardest Song)

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Oh, and it also speaks English.
Shout out to Sheet Music Boss. Go check out and sub to their channel!- / @sheetmusicboss
Also go check out Grant from 3Blue1Brown. He the best explainer of complicated stuff I know (the buttery smooth delivery certainly doesn’t hurt)- www.3blue1brown.com/
Cool piano animation by Jared Owen- / jaredowen
Finally, the piano in the video is from Edelweiss. Thanks to our friends at pianodisc.com/ for helping to modify one of their Prodigy player systems to make this possible. We had to modify it so it could play Rush E and all the keys at once otherwise out of the box they can play about 30 keys at once. If you want more info, you can find it here- www.edelweissinfo.com/
P.S. No Chopstix were hurt in the filming of this video (i.e. he didn’t ACTUALLY catch fire).
I started a company called CrunchLabs where we build a toy together and then I teach you all the juicy physics for how it works. So if you want to learn to think like an engineer and have really fun time doing it, check out the current promotion where you get 2 FREE boxes at crunchlabs.com
You should also go subscribe to the CrunchLabs KZbin channel cause we’ve got some bangers in the pipeline- / crunchlabs
Thanks to these folks for providing some of the music in the video:
Ponder - / @pondermusic
Laura Shigihara - @supershigi
Andrew Applepie - / andrewapplepie
Blue Wednesday - / bluewednesday

[@MarkRober]

Thanks to Sheet Music Boss and Grant and Chopstix!! Sorry it’s been a hot minute since I’ve uploaded but I promise I’ve been working harder than ever planting and cultivating some seeds that should bear some very delicious fruit for all of you over the next 5 months or so.

[@comohyper]

YESS

[@yoens.b9929]

Yo

[@TUBERMIKE]

Awesome!

[@glurrb1736]

Cheese

[@kyleiguesss8964]

j

[@SheetMusicBoss]

It was great to collaborate with you, Mark! Thank you for the invitation!

[@daxyzeus]

wow

[@astridpopofficial]

It was incredible

[@jeuno.]

Was a nice video to see the full on version on a physical piano

[@shalevwiden7209]

I was so suprised to see a big and trending creator collaborating with a more niche area of KZbin, piano, which I love . Great to see it tho

[@diegoclayton7561]

Here before Mark Rober

[@DoodleChaos]

What an unexpected crossover! Rush E is the perfect final boss for chopsticks.

[@xyxyl7154]

heyyyy aren’t you the line rider guy

[@themangoninja8]

Love your vids!

[@EEEEEEEE]

E‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎

[@_wetmath_]

E

[@phototantra1422]

wet math you said and

[@harigamedev]

As a piano player myself I never knew how piano actually worked thanks mark very cool

[@MonkeyMod]

Yeah

[@VitekArhipskiy]

Это хорошо. Чем более глупы и узкоспециализированы люди, тем больше денег они тратят на специалистов.

[@treyposey8507]

"MY LAWYERS ARE GOING TO SUE YOUR A-" had me dying lol😂 Edit- YOO NEVER HAD THIS MANY LIKES BEFORE THANK YOU

[@AnimeWatcher-do4hu]

Same

[@CardboardG00SE]

lmao same🤣

[@melbarivera3610]

Same

[@michaelescobar8461]

Same

[@NO_EPIX]

Newsletter - Mark Rober, famous Uber, was sued by a piano 😂

[@shades3692]

Never thought I would get rick-rolled by a singing piano...

[@gabrieldaniels5002]

:-)

[@B.MAN.99PRUDUCTIONS]

@@gabrieldaniels5002 never gonna give you up

[@Ben_Rex]

@@B.MAN.99PRUDUCTIONS never gonna let you down

[@nikmrn]

It is no rickroll lol

[@Vesperitis]

I'll take "Sentences I did not expect to hear in my entire goddamn life" for 300.

[@MandJTV]

Fun fact: the Green Needle Brainstorm toy is actually a Ben 10 Alien Force toy of the alien Brainstorm from about 12 years ago, so we know for sure Brainstorm is what it's actually saying!

[@magicarp6315]

Yo mandjtv hi

[@megaascension2748]

Hey I was just watching one of your videos last night. I’m also currently playing a Ben 10 watch.

[@Puntehh]

Micheal this isn’t pokemon whatcha doin here

[@Puntehh]

Also wait I think I have that toy except it says swampfire

[@FervidVirus]

Oh hey it's u, how's it going

[@IShowLife_45]

5:50 great idea how to rickroll😂

[@ProHakerGaming]

Since I was a kid, I wanted to play the piano and make it say actual words. Here come my childhood dreams!

[@eliaspeter7689]

Never realized how complicated the structure of a piano key is.

[@RyanSoltani]

It really makes you appreciate the work put into it

[@EEEEEEEE]

‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎E‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎

[@Alex.tg07]

Same

[@jasonzervos]

And he didn't even touched the pedals. Besides the pipe organ, the piano is the most complex common instrument out there

[@nirvana155]

magyarok!

[@SgtVennamo]

This seems like an extremely complicated way to rickroll everyone. Well done.

[@darthzayexeet3653]

“The flow of time itself is convoluted“

[@danny_boi3537]

POV: You get pianorolled

[@LJK69420]

I genuinely almost threw my phone across the room

[@danny_boi3537]

@@LJK69420 Well at least the piano *didn't start dancing*

[@ItsFurious.]

Sounds like rick can’t sing without voice cracking

[@Stalbunny]

1:05 Did you say FLAMES?! I swear, if you so much as make me WARM, My lawyers are going to SUE YOUR A- laughed at that moment so much🤣

[@zjinxs_zjx]

the piano took it seriously

[@Euphonium_boi]

That got me *-deceased-*

[@SwiftlyTheFunny]

Make me W A R M

[@ananyarawat4598]

@@SwiftlyTheFunny NO

[@SwiftlyTheFunny]

@@ananyarawat4598 what???? The tone he says warm is funny fym no?

[@wishdoom]

Thank you for teaching us the mechanics of a piano.

[@bigchungu7698]

The part about how when it gets chaotic and some sounds are more or less muted is because the piano can't reset its hammers fast enough before the next note is played. That's why Rush E is strictly electronic. If you did play it fast enough, the piano wouldn't be able to keep up.

[@jirivicar6001]

Wjdj

[@chrismichaelyoung]

this is why he should've done it on a grand piano as the hammers are aided by gravity to reset as opposed to an upright piano which has to turn vertical motion into horizontal and can no longer reap the same benefit

[@Vitrexer]

@borris wensly idk how tf can u not know but its: dr dre - still dre

[@ressecup819]

@borris wensly it’s a song by Dr. Dre. Still D.R.E

[@Vitrexer]

@borris wensly i dont either but its literally one of the most popular songs on the whole planet mostly in memes, like im sure that almost all ppl that arent some 13 year olds will know it or at least heard of it

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

The one and only time I will accept being Rick rolled!

[@jameelakhan2036]

lol yeah

[@meisterstrobel1468]

He rick rolled nearly 6 million people

[@lorenzoelizarraras3850]

He Rick rolled a LOT of people

[@Warthunderhater]

I was like…………..I accept my fate even before the song started

[@austin3396]

Yea

[@HaddoxMc]

Bro got rick rolled by a PIANO!!!

[@brandonladue5485]

We were expecting flames. You click-bated me Mark Rober!

[@IICubeII]

10/10 It "speaking" and "singing" is absolutely haunting.

[@Yutoryry]

if you dont read the text on the bottom of the screen you have no idea what its saying

[@esteprod5056]

@@Yutoryry for real

[@deddest_guy]

@@Yutoryry but the way it sings Never gonna give you up tho

[@AmidaNyorai48]

@@Yutoryry 🤔🤔

[@doralaexplora8642]

True

[@LyricWulf]

5:23 I made that piano visualizer with the particles and special effects! It's called Embers. Never would I have thought I can say I kinda made it into a Mark Rober video?? 🤯

[@AsrielKujo]

LYRICWULF! i noticed that and it's amazing that you get some recognition for everything you've accomplished here on KZbin, Love from a fan!

[@SportsurgeDotNet]

Congrats?

[@mliny]

Congrats furry :D

[@tonystark-gi3dr]

haha

[@phlimy]

It's looks super cool!

[@user-os8xv1ck1r]

As a person with perfect pitch, I find this really fascinating. I am so glad someone finally explained this! Thank you Mark!

[@thespumeljoke213]

Correction: John Isaac Hawkins Invented the upright piano, not Cristofori, those are two completely different machinisims where Isaac just took Cristofori's Hipsacord design and turned it upright. this is such a simple concept.

[@veritasium]

Awesome video Mark! I've often thought about digging into Fourier decompositions of speech to show how different vowel sounds are made but operationalizing it with a piano was amazing - great job!

[@oshxdxw]

Sup

[@flowerballs_008]

oh

[@fyrelorde]

Can't wait to see how you explain it

[@imnotanexpert4245]

This is Fire 🔥🔥

[@Speedrunner.007]

hey

[@cadefilms4072]

0:04 if you look in the audio track I think they also changed the piano so that it says it in the other languages

[@masterofotaku8234]

I didnt expect 3blue1brown. Awesome! :D

[@JCs_-]

That is insane, i've always wanted to see rush E played irl and to see it done by a robot is just the cherry on top.

[@LITTLE1994]

Yup

[@tonystark-gi3dr]

ikr

[@ItsJCYT]

ikr

[@JRNimmo]

I don't think you can convince me that a human can play that

[@JCs_-]

@@JRNimmo lmao true, but I reckon multiple people could attempt it together.

[@Crypticat]

never thought i would be rickrolled by a piano that can play itself and talk

[@silly_popcat5228]

Same

[@eliyco2480]

Me too

[@Its_kassie]

I didn't whatch the video yet so ty for telling me I will know Edit: sadly I still got rickrolled 😭

[@valentinaembers5713]

Same ngl 😂

[@leturnip1136]

I GOT RICK ROLLED BY A TALKING PIANO. :(( Honestly Chopsticks can take the win, I'm more impressed than upset.

[@sizablesplash7815]

I was glad to see Jared Owen work with Mark Rober on the animations. I knew it was him from the animation style

[@leahcompton2522]

You are the best engineer ever Mark!!

[@Mattiaskrantz]

If only someone had a piano were every key also was tuned to EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[@aaronhalminen1838]

That would be quite a coincidence.

[@Logofham]

e

[@DevranUenal]

I expected you in the video! :D

[@DeepSpace_Pw]

I've seen the video and looked it up to post the link here only to see that it was made by you...

[@lostincyberspaceIII]

I was just about to try and find a way to message you about this!

[@jamestheredstickman6626]

"If you even make me WARM my lawyers are gonna SUE YOUR A-" Is the best quote from a piano.

[@valentinaembers5713]

Ikr 🤣 🤣

[@UltraDumbass1782]

I mean true, but I don’t feel like that’s a hard achievement.

[@leviathan.minecraft5577]

Lol

[@kamilix25]

@Wren 1:16

[@vicentechaves3474]

It is so funny

[@PugCuber]

3:05 that’s why I like to consider them as both at the same time! String Percussion instruments!

[@ATK_J.Y.S_I.N.D_Offical]

0:45 Chopstix: Deal With It. 😎

[@MattTelepenko]

You can really hear that it's a percussion instrument when it's hitting those big green chords in Rush E it actually sounds like a drum

[@Mike__B]

I was thinking that too, a very big "foot stomp" sound that I didn't think could be made with a piano.

[@luctan881]

ok

[@agerven]

Very true. It is only through the pedals, e.g. feet, and the fingers and the emotion of the piano player that the instrument becomes so much more than a percussion instrument.

[@fashnek]

You can hear keys moving on saxophones, flutes, trumpets, etc. don’t mischaracterize the playing action vs. mechanical requirements

[@ravs6003]

Soon may the wellerman come to bring the sugar and tea and rum

[@harlbean]

My dad always says ‘that piano isn’t gonna play its self!’ When I don’t practice. But then I showed him this…

[@tobysceptiman7058]

Big brain move

[@infinitygamer4991]

but than you rickrolled your dad…

[@abuticky311]

lol

[@abuticky311]

@@infinitygamer4991 then i need to teach you grammar lol

[@retard4582]

@@abuticky311 Who cares lol

[@GXH542]

Mark you should totally create another channel dedicated to chopstix music! It's lovely!😍😍

[@cbs1710]

08:45 - It's weird. I can either hear: - the first word twice; - the second word twice; or - first word once, and second word once. However, for the life of me, if I start with the second word, it is impossible for me to hear the first one after it: it's always the second word, again.

[@abhidababy6746]

"See if he can pick out the singer's actual voice in this classical piece of music history" *Proceeds to rickroll us*

[@mantasluk1005]

mark Robert never rickrolled until now he tricked us pretty bad and destroyed us

[@carly_warly13]

I didn't know you had it in you, Mark.

[@glenngriffon8032]

Well it's not just a fun cheap shot but it's also a song that most netizens will easily know regardless of age. He could have picked something by Neil Young if he wanted or Mike and The Mechanics or something by... * looks up young people music * Billie Elish and in so doing had a lot of his audience aurally lost. A rickroll however, well it's an older meme but it checks out sir.

[@yakinthebox]

What the f did he try to say? "can pick out the singer's actual voice in this classical piece of music history" what does this even mean?

[@tompelle1061]

@@yakinthebox It is what Mark said

[@dobbs5860]

Achievement acquired: Rickrolled by a talking piano.

[@A_justify]

Haha yup

[@Potato76577]

@@A_justify agree

[@Prettytoenails]

Lol

[@sir_zech13.7]

I am happy that this still is relevent

[@edsheeransleftnut6794]

Next achievement: Rickrolled by a talking guitar

[@Iowa-State-Roleplay]

The IF YOU SO MUCH AS MAKE MY WARM MY LAWERS WILL SUE YOUR A- part had me dying

[@williamcroft7420]

Paino catch cold ice when playing RUSH E. Great video though. The Brainstorm GreenNeedle was kind of insane.

[@Danub69420]

I never thought a robot piano would rickroll me lol

[@Lexvato]

We got rekt by a robot

[@Candycorn-vr]

Now I can tell my friends I’ve been rick rolled by a robot

[@no-er1fz]

Yeah it even had the voice of rick Ashley if you listen closely

[@anulhovhannisyan7668]

Did i just get rickrolled by a piano. If i told my friend she would never believe.

[@boboften9952]

5:49 ....... !

[@zegreznidi2922]

I never ever thought I would get rickrolled by a talking piano. Well done Mark

[@honlt4678]

Post this to your freind and see their reaction!

[@TheXjearex]

Me neither

[@elf0n]

Nice we got Rick rolled by a talking piano

[@kailileadbeatter5872]

I was dumbfounded when he rickrolled me.

[@MortaIII]

I was not expecting

[@samanthareed2462]

1924- In a century, we'll have flying cars. 2024- T A L K I N G P I A N O

[@NateWithWho]

Not sure if those smoke were real though, looked kinda like dry ice. Anyhow, amazing project!

[@jackielinde7568]

The dampener on each string also does ONE MORE THING: Prevents harmonic vibrations from vibrating related strings. There are things called overtones when a note is played. You don't just get that note, but you get other, higher notes as well because of how the period of the string's vibration can be split into other notes. And, if you hit the harmonic resonance, things vibrate. So, a lower note could cause strings of higher notes with relative periods to vibrate as well... if they didn't have a big, fat felt pad on them. This is also why some intervals in a scale sound better than others.

[@neileapenninan8706]

Oh nice!

[@theturtlerguy1236]

I play bari sax and overtones are a blessing and a curse

[@kyleolsen3809]

E

[@anonymous.dontask.8343]

To translate to english: Without the sponge looking things that make it quiet, the notes around the key you hit also played.

[@TY-df7fg]

@@anonymous.dontask.8343 not quite. The effect he’s talking about isn’t based on proximity. He’s talking about resonance and harmonics. Where if you play a low C, another string at middle and high C will vibrate slightly despite being entire scales away in terms of distance on the piano, and has a lesser effect for certain intervals in between. Has something to do with the frequency of vibration, which I don’t know in detail since I don’t study music theory or physics. Being based on it just being close would imply it’s just the impact of the hammer bleeding over to other notes, which probably would still happen, but that’s not what is being discussed.

[@gigabyteguru2452]

Fun fact: Mark Rober is now one of extremely few humans on planet earth if any who have heard the full difficulty version of this song without the use of a speaker.

[@uselessweeb6505]

Dammm now I want to

[@pennyberry7776]

yeah

[@chickenmanvr841]

Yeah true

[@thenewlbj]

Imagine if the octaves were 10x more. tempo 5x more.

[@vincemeyer2280]

@CoolFool with a speaker!

[@justinmatiasramireztobos6906]

RICK ROLLING💀

[@Cloud_fairy915]

Omg mark rickrolled us.. but the captions also recognize the lyrics

[@captaindelta43]

When you realise how complicated the structure of a piano key is. Hats off to you Mark .

[@draxoronxztgs1212]

And still, they all are taken for granted in such a way that it has become an entertainment to destroy them in uncountable ways. Like the one they dropped from a roof, creating the PS2 startup sound. And in cartoons.😄

[@checkit7528]

@@draxoronxztgs1212 woosh me, they didnt create the ps2 startup sound by dropping a piano down a building

[@draxoronxztgs1212]

@@checkit7528 Maybe they don't, but there's a video where it sounds pretty like it.

[@giovannib27]

As a classical pianist for ten years, it was interesting to actually learn how the piano works.

[@AvarFPS]

lmao same

[@doodleedoo]

here before the masses find out that mark hearted this comment

[@andrewgardner7986]

I think the explanation was taken from a Jared Owen video. It looks like the same animation.

[@michelin3140]

Yeah

[@maz8546]

But what do the foot pedals do?

[@franklai2648]

That piano just exploded 🤯

[@Paws_in_the_grass]

“MY LAWYERS ARE GOING TO SUE YOUR-“ Chopsticks what were you gonna say..? Were you going to say a-

[@SillyLilly13]

😂

[@sasakikook]

Mark: creates a piano that can play Rush E perfectly Fanchen: "I personally wouldnt publish something so unpolished"

[@thatmusicdude9513]

I understood that reference... heh

[@Xedrie]

HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE

[@legendarypinkmilk3092]

😂😂😂

[@Flankie]

NOT AGAIN

[@Nojnoj]

Fanchen: *proceeds to play better*

[@billlipp1076]

Mark : let’s play rush e on this talking piano! Also mark : explains how the entire piano works.

[@knifekirby918]

What, that doesnt make sense

[@oxhly2741]

@@knifekirby918 it does

[@getbouncin5244]

E

[@markroberssonisretarded765]

Can we appreciate the fact that he always manages to make us smile?

[@user-xe1bw4sz4m]

@@knifekirby918 Helooooooo

[@buddyboy8012]

I almost burnes the house That was incredible!

[@SlickDawg_]

anyone: imagine getting rick rolled by a talking piano mark: yes

[@GeorgeCollier]

This transcription will not take long at all.

[@kakyoindonut3213]

*transcript this I dare you*

[@Varstle]

Oof

[@engie1433]

;-;

[@julianrosenfeld7177]

Lmao he gonna finish it in like 8 years and post it and nobody’s gonna remember what it was from lmao

[@vietnamesecat5781]

Transcribe this already

[@scottdotjazzman]

As a piano technician I appreciate so much that you're explaining why a piano action has to be so complicated! One note though, the "backstop" is actually not for repetition, it's to prevent the hammer from bouncing off the rest and striking the string again. The fact that you gain repetition speed is a happy side effect.

[@locus1222]

Happy little accidents

[@ifer1280]

This explains what's wrong with my girlfriend's piano! I was wondering why I occasionally get a double hit..

[@MrTaiese]

Yup merely impossible to play fast repetitive notes on a worn piano kinda love the repetition lever even some of the uprights have something similar

[@faland0069]

one NOTE though... i saw what you did there

[@scottdotjazzman]

@@faland0069 HA no pun intended

[@Danielz184]

Such a selfless piano, he caught on fire for science.

[@dorianmymryk3447]

0:45 well who saw that coming? 😂😂

[@mo2cubing]

I love how he decided to rickroll us with a talking piano. Genius.

[@IdkAnyNames_]

F r

[@harperglisten4137]

it’s true

[@issackaiser]

SMB: No human could perfectly play this song ever ! Chopstick the piano: Fine. I’ll play myself !

[@htocisi]

Chopstix isnt a human

[@sub-zero-0]

@@htocisi you have ruined the joke my freind

[@TeminsTe]

@@htocisi r/woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooosh

[@teh_catto6127]

@@htocisi go. Just leave

[@davidenatoh359]

@@htocisi hahaha!!!

[@Motionless_Mute]

Getting rickrolled by a piano was not something I expected in my lifetime

[@Dominate-h]

First time rickrolled by a piano

[@CMP7778]

This vid had everything, a talking piano, engineering, Mark Rober, and a rickroll. Perfection.

[@kindlyhelpmereachto100ksub9]

WOWW YOU DON'T READ MY PROFILE PICTURE

[@Phymacss]

And rush e!!

[@eddie_lol]

its funny how everyone got rickrolled by the talking piano

[@ZvY1x]

Perfection. 👌👌

[@timothysullivan1669]

Don’t forget 3Blue1Brown

[@OrangutanGang]

never thought i’d be rickrolled by a talking automatic piano and of course, Mark made it

[@alexpascu8586]

me too

[@OrionTran-hp9jz]

Yeah

[@orsonlarter6475]

@Fish and lemons the better you'll be

[@Melikemonkeys]

Same

[@lethanspriggs4820]

Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna turn around and desert you.

[@I_Live_in_thy_woods]

I knew at the start of the vid, when chopsticks started playing that, there was gonna be a rick roll somewhere in the vid.

[@matthewandresen3740]

I love your Crunch labs!😆

[@puzzLEGO]

that section from 3b1b about waveforms was so helpful! I've been wondering how a sound can be constructed from smaller waves of different frequencies

[@richardharrold9736]

This is how the harmonic series basically works. You get the fundamental tone, the octave, the twelfth, fifteenth, seventeenth, nineteenth, flat twenty-first, twenty-second, etc etc! How those harmonics are blended and at what relative strengths to each other is how organ pipes and synthesisers vary their tonal quality.

[@5hirtandtieler]

He also has great, longer form videos on the fourier transform - definitely worth a watch!

[@piogre]

There's a video I found a while back (and sadly can't find again) that show how, because you can use this technique to effectively make midi data of human speech/song, you can change the instrument on the midi to have it say/sing words in varying "voices" of different instruments.

[@ethandeister6567]

It's actually often overlooked in how modern music theory is taught. The average general music theory class will usually cover harmony, melody, and maybe some basic rhythm, completely brushing instrumentation and timbre despite timbre being one of the most complex and interesting aspects of music. It's why Beethoven's 5th sounds weird on a synthesizer and why All Star by Smash Mouth sounds out of place when played by an orchestra. It's hard to come across an artist or band that experiments with harmony, melody, rhythm, and timbre in meaningful ways, but Pink Floyd and Radiohead mess around with all of those very well, even if they aren't the top of the top for each category.

[@MrMonny]

IKR!???

[@stetsonhendrix9103]

When I was learning Portuguese I could understand everything as long as I could see the person’s mouth. Phone calls sounded as foreign as if I didn’t speak it at all. I eventually got fluent to the point I could talk on the phone, but what Mark said about auditory senses depending on visual input rang very true.

[@LucasAnimacoes1]

Thanks for learning my language!

[@yourprobablyastalker5546]

i want to learn portuguese so bad but the words wont stick

[@usedevilthing]

Aí sim rapaz! Congrats

[@ee-en4pg]

The King of the Piano 👑

[@azadehvaziri1954]

5:49 I just got piano rolled 🤣

[@TheAdvertisement]

The little bits where the piano responds to Mark, or plays tunes like "The More You Know" are adorable.

[@Hithere-uz6wd]

Omg piano waifu???????????

[@davidenatoh359]

@@Hithere-uz6wd ​ Huh???

[@Hithere-uz6wd]

@@davidenatoh359 yeah

[@ZarroTM]

Shut up

[@ZarroTM]

@@Hithere-uz6wd shut up

[@5MadMovieMakers]

Loving the "as you can C" puns

[@sombathmolina5243]

Use it to the same box

[@l__-]

l v

[@RayAnimations..]

Stop You are under a Rest

[@gmodiscool14]

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[@wolfgameplays3291]

Hey i watched your diesel train stunts video a few years ago on your channel i really liked it

[@VonWasHere13]

5:49 I Was Not Expecting That 💀

[@andrewmartinez9429]

9:34

[@b3_creative]

Never gonna give you up!

[@ajohnistaken9507]

Still can't believe how he made this cool piano and how I got rick rolled by a piano.

[@sapandream]

One more beluga fan :D

[@jobancheta19]

He didnt make the piano

[@stuntrushjr64]

Lol

[@mee8274]

noob

[@caidenbonari6253]

I was waiting for someone to own up to it 😂

[@linwaiyancho2567]

Mark: see if he can pick out the singer's actual voice in this classical piece of music history. Me: my rickroll senses are tingling.

[@stormchasers7598]

lol

[@aroace.mamabear]

i facepalmed when i realized what the song was hahaha

[@vtgamer151]

I already could tell what it was before he played it lol

[@zerrierslizer1]

@@vtgamer151 not to be rude, but to NOT be able to figure it out you'd either have to be deaf or already dead lol.

[@claypot882]

i think you mean "astley tingle"

[@boomchannel3291]

Thank you so much❤

[@kellysteiner7105]

I kind of like chopstick... Whoever made this Talking piano is so awesome

[@operationtrickshot8201]

Wow being Rick rolled by a talking and self playing piano is never something I thought I’d be able to say I’ve done😂😂 Mark Rober you’ve nailed it again😂

[@ourfastestfox1481]

Same here lol

[@bobcool81]

Same

[@operationtrickshot8201]

Now I can check that off my bucket list lol 😆

[@arandomdiamond2]

I feel like I must've been under a rock at a crucial time and never learned that reference...

[@operationtrickshot8201]

@@arandomdiamond2 what Rick roll?

[@Data-Expungeded]

remember. Mark is the only living person to hear what rush e actually sounds like in person. Meaning that scientifically, he’s super based

[@Prince_Katamari25]

he might have ear damage too, but its for science and science is better than hearing (obviously)

[@prithvisinghpanwar6609]

cameraman:🗿

[@-_deploy_-]

Fr fr

[@PatTheCat1014]

it sounds kinda strange being played on a real piano lol, for some reason i expected it to sound more like it does digitally 🤷

[@c0dejjshizpostarchive624]

​@@PatTheCat1014Well the digital version is enhanced. Different parts of the song are louder. So 65% of the notes are barely audible among the rest of them. So physically you don't have that.

[@AizYT_]

Im speechless- ❤

[@murraycorkin2310]

If you go to the part with green needle and brain storm, where you see both of the words. you can switch between the one you're looking at and hear, brain needle or green storm

[@YellowCyanXY]

I’ve always wondered what Rush E would sound like on a real piano.

[@killuagon6324]

Same

[@hypergroove2663]

You would hear the cinders of fire and sound

[@bengardner8639]

It's been done multiple times before

[@cydaber2072]

5:50

[@danielr2194]

@@cydaber2072 fml

[@Marshful]

I love how he considered the Rick Roll a classic piece of music history, and I agree with that statement.

[@shoam2103]

Most casual rick roll I've seen in a long time!

[@samanthagracia7370]

So true. My friend(s) sometimes rickroll the group chat.

[@kiennnenh]

which absolutely is

[@roysuryo9927]

LEGEND 🔥

[@afsaanadance1385]

Mark rober Is favourite youtuber thanks for future plans

[@Clipzyy9401]

“Simple songs like that” Piano: literally plays every other note all at once

[@valentinaembers5713]

1:20 I did not expect a robot piano attempting to swear at Mark Rober to make my day. But it did.

[@Th3GamerR4smu5]

ARE GOING TO SUE YOUR A-

[@tikkitofficial]

@Player HEY! THATS AN INAPROPRT LAUNGREAGE, LOSETR!!1!1!!1

[@coolingeby3470]

@@ultimatedoppel same

[@vomitdrinker1]

Bro that ain't a swear, it's a cuss

[@kabbb0501]

@@vomitdrinker1 same thing

[@Sam_995]

How could anybody not like this

[@andersonlynch8795]

1:14 I swear, if you so much a make me WARM Best thing chopstix ever said

[@EverythingTheorist]

I love how you explained a whole bunch of different topics (piano engineering, sound waves, human senses) in one coherent 11-minute video. Just goes to show how science is interconnected, and different branches explore different aspects of the same wider world.

[@lordrasanath9780]

Being a student i hate the fact that your comment stands true and that i gotta study for my exams

[@themeyermotionpictures]

@@lordrasanath9780 "I hate that i have to study for my exams" same, brother. same.

[@TechWithBrett]

Thank you for making this! My kids are learning piano and this was so fun for them to see!

[@bloxboy72]

Oh hey there verified person

[@Numbergamer2024]

If you want to see and hear Chopsticz playing Rush E, click this time stamp: 8:49

[@kohaku3726]

@@Numbergamer2024 mate, you don't have to use your last braincells to give out the obvious. I can just watch the video without needing the timestamp

[@LITTLE1994]

I bet they were laughing watching this.

[@randomness6956]

11

[@Juan-og2xc]

Hello Mark Rber, could you make a video of how radio telescopes work and how they transform those radio signals into visible images?

[@kenny5788]

That was soooooo amazing

[@adrianbucholtz3002]

I have to hand it to you, you are impressive that you rick rolled me with a talking piano.🤣👌

[@user-rd1qs6yb7r]

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[@TheKweenII_09]

@@user-rd1qs6yb7r no

[@valentinaembers5713]

True that 😂 😂

[@TheSavageProdigy]

Well I can say weirdly this is the first time I’ve been Rick rolled by a talking piano, props to you mark.

[@tonystark-gi3dr]

first

[@Nayaaaaaaaa]

Exactly- also second lol

[@scrambledeggs2256]

Yup- I call third

[@RyGaming77]

I call 4th-

[@YourAveragePersonLol]

I call fifth :/

[@Justacatwithglasses]

I have never thought that it was real notes I still I saw this video

[@dawsonwu7272]

8:50 is actually so cool I cant stop doing it