MUSICIAN REACTS to musicians in TV and movies! | Team Recorder

[@DavidWickes]

Ahhhh Doctor Who! Finally something I know about! Patrick Troughton is really playing - and it's his own recorder.

[@sweetrecorderconsortcic3403]

He was featured on a front cover - can't remember which magazine - but they had flipped the image, so his right hand appeared at the top = LOTS of complaints lol!

[@Rena-ff8fu]

My school wind band conductor actually played the ‘flute’ for Alien Covenant! He is an early music professor and cornettist, so I’m sure he feels your pain!

[@tomk3909]

Greetings from Brazil my dearest teacher Sarah (sorry for being a so lazy student) . You forgot simply the MOST important! The flute played by Cap. Picard in the Hugo winner "Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode "The Inner Light"(S5/E25)!

[@nekokna]

that moved me to start playing the ocarina,as long as i just play secretly for myself i should be "learning" something in +10 years!

[@honeychurchgipsy6]

Tom K - yes of course - it looked like an Irish tin whistle by Clarkes I think - they make one with that tapered shape - and he did learn it if I remember correctly Patrick Stewart talks about it in an interview somewhere. Excellent episode - are you a Trekkie fan - if so what do you think of the new series - I can't get by the hairless Clingons - lol - so we (my partner and fellow Trekkie) are currently re-watching Voyager!!!

[@jacobopstad5483]

I love that song!

[@jacobopstad5483]

In fact, Star Trek has several episodes with music involved. There's Riker's trombone, Data's violin... Not to mention all the alien instruments that pop up from time to time.

[@tomk3909]

Yeah! There are klingon songs and opera too. But I think they are not within our teacher's scope for these videos. :-)

[@AndromedaCripps]

The best part of that string player in the French film was the period instrument and even proper period technique by geography for holding the bow!!!

[@tristanrush5526]

In "Toutes les Matines du Monde", the actor is doing the proper fingerings and the bow articulations were correct. The bow hold was also stunning.

[@arnoe104]

it's tous les matins du monde my dear ^^

[@mossna71]

Dr. Who was actually playing. It was a “hobby” of his. Sort of. Lol

[@ikarikid]

To be a bit more technical: the show was largely recorded “as live” for the interior scenes, much like you would film a sitcom. It made budgetary sense for Patrick Troughton to actually be playing the tune.

[@robertofontiglia4148]

"I'm so curious to hear what you think of it." is quite a serene thing to say about a début album... If I released an album, I would probably be screaming internally every day that I didn't know if people liked it, then a few people would like it and I'd be overwhelmed and then the first person to not like it would tear me down to shreds. I don't mean to brag or anything, that's just how emotionally stable I am...

[@MarsLos10]

YES YES YES do an other one! This style of videos remind me of TwoSetViolin roasting cliche-classical-music movies but I love it I never get enough of it hahah

[@idraote]

Hello Sarah! This video was hugely entertaining, I love you being nerdy and I'd definitely like you to make more videos like this. Not to mention that you point out some films/shows which could be worth seeing. Well done!

[@stenoknight]

I loved this! I can't seem to catch the name of that recorder player in the Brooklyn 99 clip either, but Captain Holt does call out Frans Bruggen specifically in a later episode, which made me so happy!!!

[@jessicavaliente9342]

With Brooklyn 99 and Captain Holt, the name has to be as complicated and unmemorable as possible!

[@alexalestareon695]

The first one could be a medieval tabor pipe?? It has three holes and has a range of an octave and a half.

[@mrsenstitz]

How about Outlander first season. A welsh bard plays the recorder. Looks and sounds correct but immediately moves to a tune played by s tenor recorder. Ooh, that makes me mad.

[@KorbentMarksman]

i bought your CD last week! I love it so much, I've been digging a lot of like avant-garde jazz this year and it scratches a similar itch in a weird way. beautiful playing and interesting compositions

[@knitwit9447]

I'm a flute player, and although I love the jazz flute scene and music, mannn his fingers are so off XD he still did a great job!! And I hate when people call recorders 'flutes'. They're completely different. I'm thinking about playing recorder, too. I still have my old plastic recorder from elementary school but I might invest in a wooden one!

[@jessicavaliente9342]

That's what I love about this scene, it's how absolutely absurd it is. It's very SNL. It carries over into Jack Donaghy and also Jonathan playing the flute in 30 Rock. But I must admit I get a bit upset when Alec Baldwin throws the flute in the scene with Condolezza Rice (who was really playing the piano, btw). I hope it was a cheap flute, at least!

[@arugula_fan]

The album is so wonderful!!! The 'minimal' perspective is such an effective way to link contemporary, folk, and early music, something which the recorder does brilliantly anyway. I particularly liked the ricercare, Austro and I wish; lovely rework of Vermont counterpoint as well!

[@Cecilia-bp2dn]

Such a fun idea and I loved your historic-themed film recommendations too - thanks Sarah. Although the viola da gamba 'player' at 8.09 did not convince me. Beautiful piece though.

[@frannbug]

Been doing this for years, Sarah! So much scope for it if your first instrument is piano! What fun!

[@SewsAndCodes]

I play a tabor pipe, and you _can_ get lots of notes from a three-holed pipe :). You start in the second harmonic (so an octave up from the lowest note), then overblow the third (a fifth up), fourth (next octave), fifth etc. The range isn't great and you have to remember that the fingering is different in every register.

[@jessicavaliente9342]

I was just going to say... But I think Sarah must be familiar with tabor pipes.

[@ryoxilla]

There's a video of Patrick Troughton playing his recorder for a group of convention workers the day before he died - several pieces he played on the show (Skye Boat, Tottenham Toad, Can Ye Sew Cushions) - it was real handy for me learning those pieces as a complete novice who'd never played one before last week! Funnily enough, one of the little pieces he played in an episode which now only exists in audio form was especially composed for a BBC music educational show and is apparently now the only surviving example of said piece being played!

[@androidelga1753]

Greetings from Dominican Republic. You are an excellent musician and teacher and I love your channel. It has helped me a lot to learn to play the recorder. I liked this video a lot, it's very interesting and fun.

[@ΝαταλιαΘεολογου]

Yes please make another video like that one!!!😆 I would love to!😍

[@mariadavis8745]

Would love to hear your reaction to Amadeus.

[@tenoreDB]

That is actually very well done. Tom Hulce played on a keyboard that was muted. But he practiced in real and alctually could play the pieces. YES he hits the right keys !

[@Machodave2020]

I've never seen an orchestra so dedicated, but only in the Titanic.

[@FrankDudgeon]

Very cool. Wolf Hall is such a wonderful series. Nice to know it strives for authenticity even in places where that would go right by a typical viewer. Just ordered the CD. I'm really looking forward to it.

[@acyutanandadas1326]

Yes, more reviews

[@cesarvidelac]

I'm not a professional musician, but I play recorder and flute a little, and my brother in law plays guitar and accordeon, but there are many details in movies about musicians that annoy me, like digitations and so. Unless the actor is a real musician, there is no way they can look fine. Love your channel!

[@MRegah]

Aaaaah, so nice you closed off with Ron Burgundy, Sarah! : D Loved your video!

[@boomerhippie]

If you do another video on this topic, how about Gabriel's Oboe from The Mission? The other one I like is Jack and Stephen playing together in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.

[@karlmortoniv2951]

Ennio Morricone did a Q&A out here some years ago and someone asked him about “Gabriel’s Oboe” - the woman asking found it a very inspiring piece herself, what can have been in Morricone’s head when he wrote it? Did he write it before the filming, as he did for other directors, etc. Morricone responded by calling attention to Jeremy Irons’ fingers dancing like crazy up and down the instrument and said that’s what Irons did unprompted on the day and that’s what Morricone was presented with in the edited scene so he felt compelled to write music with more flittering about than he would have had he been left to his own devices. He said it always amuses him that so many people love that piece as his main thought when writing it was trying to cover for Jeremy Irons who was obviously not told what to do with the instrument. But a lot of Morricone’s answers were self-effacing and kind of funny like that, so take it for what it’s worth. 🙂

[@enzoma7253]

more nerdiness pls! xD

[@rubygray7749]

I do this nerdy criticism on stars who fake kneading bread, handmmilking a cow, and playing dead. Hours of fun can be had!

[@britainonabudget]

This was awesome! I love that you included Anchorman. Have you watched Mozart in the Jungle?

[@lordfoogthe2st]

That thing in the first movie was more like a medieval pipe than a recorder

[@tenoreDB]

The funniest thing I ever saw at actors faking on an instrument: a bigband in the back and the one with the clarinet still had to cap on ! So he wasn't blowing on his mouthpiece and on the reed but on the metal protection cap. As a musician you can only laugh and say how is that possible that they missed that !

[@harryjoseph1802]

'The Red Violin',they do a terrific job! Also an old Hoĺlywood flick 'Rhapsody' to name two. Harry

[@malahamavet]

8:50 Omg thank you so much for this scene, now I want to see the film. A shirtless guy dancing was never so epic

[@TheMattBattersby]

Patrick Troughton was actually playing in Doctor Who! Being a huge Who fan and him being my favourite Doctor is one of the reasons I started playing! His character was very impish and childish so I think the song reflects that rather than connotations of the instrument?

[@jean-ivey]

Love your videos Sarah. On the Doctor Who clip; Thank you so much for including pieces from "the past" I was lucky enough to meet Fraser Hines who played Jamie opposite Patrick Troughton's 2nd doctor. I asked Fraser Hines whether Patrick Troughton actually played the recorder and Fraser said Yes, he did and he chose "Sky Boat Song" because it was relevant to Jamie's story coming from the 1745 Jacobite uprisings. Thanks so much for including that clip. I love the recorder.

[@andrewcranmer9653]

Love it! On the nerdy theme with Brooklyn Nine Nine - if you were to choose an extract from the Telemann Fantasias to demonstrate the beauty of recorders the Moderato from #10 would be somewhere at the bottom of the list.

[@blackeuropechives5494]

If you allow me : it's "le roi danse" and "tous les matins du monde" Greetings from France. I have to purchase your album

[@lshin80]

1. Jeremy Irons playing oboe in "The Mission". Jungle, humidity about 300%... how didn't the oboe melt??? 2. Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis playing double bass and saxophone in "Some Like It Hot".

[@bl3313]

1. Looking forward to getting your CD, which I ordered yesterday. 2. As others have mentioned, although "Skye Boat Song" isn't particularly difficult to play, it's hardly a child's song in content. 3. I don't know if you've ever gotten to see a late-90s TV show of Canadian origination called "The Adventures of Shirley Holmes" (she's Sherlock's great grandniece and of course solves mysteries). In the episode "The Case of the Precious Cargo" Shirley is seen playing a large (tenor?) recorder in the closing scene - but nowhere else in the series!.

[@tenoreDB]

Have to try to find the footage again: but on a German tv show there was a singer with an orchestra in the back: and the fluteplayer was clearly an actor who never say a flute before. The flute was going to the left side and he gripped it with both of his hands with the backside to the front. Never seen a more uncomforatble way. And its a wonder he didn't drop the the instrument !!

[@raimogeel9497]

A flute with 3 holes is a txistu. A basque flute played with one hand and the other hand is playing a drum

[@SamoylovaAlisa]

So awesome and entertaining! Thank you:)

[@lillywhy]

I've always wanted to see a video like this!! If you do another one, might I request the movie High Strung, and Lemonade Mouth? Or Camp Rock!! Lol! I love those movies, but the playing looks so awkward sometimes.

[@ssedarius]

Really fun vid, loved it! X

[@mariadavis8745]

By the way I enjoyed your video. You don’t see this sort of thing often. Very interesting! I think I shall look at actor ‘musicians’ through different eyes now.

[@canofanger]

Awesome video -always enjoyable!

[@joyceroble3165]

Hi,sarah! I recommend that you release a play-along of sky boat in a soprano recorder

[@stevewolfe3214]

Yes, I'd like to learn that quickly.on the 3 hole recorder that morphs into the modern recorder or whistle. as for bad habits, someone indeed encouraged me to lift that little finger like he is doing. It as a bad habit I am trying to break.

[@TheGenflute]

😂🎶🎶 oh man, this is so funny! As a flute and recorder player myself, it TOTALLY cracks me up when there are music scenes. Have you seen the Mozart in the Jungle series? I completely want to hate it but secretly love it, am addicted to it and am sad that they've stopped producing it!

[@robvanwyck3063]

I had fun with your observations. I can't help but notice the same things too. One small typo issue which would help others find the movie ... it's "Tous les matins du monde". Picky ... yes, I confess. But search engines may not be forgiving. Love your videos.

[@victoreijkhout6146]

Try "A Late Quartet" with Christopher Walken. The coaching of the actors on how to hold instruments is extremely good.

[@davidmolloy126]

Brilliant Sarah, really funny, thanks.x

[@Loweene_Ancalimon]

Yaaaay I was wondering if Tous les Matins du Monde (careful, it's matins, not matines 😉) and Le Roy danse would be in there ! They are two of my favourite movies. For tous les matins du monde, you actually took zone of the nice shots ! There are quite a number where you see Sainte-Colombe playing, and it is well-known in the ancient strings world that they didn't manage to teach the actor. It's so painful to see that I know quite a number of people who just skip those scenes, although it's a wonderful actor playing ! According to my teacher who knew him, Guillaume Depardieu, who plays Marin Marais, was already a cellist, and he learned how to play gamba for the movie. It still is Savall you hear. There is also one scene, in the first part of the movie, where you see Madeleine, the eldest of the two daughters, being taught by their father, and playing with him. There, you can see that the girl they cast to play child Madeleine is actually a gambist ! That movie is so well-made, it's really a shame they didn't manage to teach Marielle how to convincingly lay his left hand on the fingerboard... Bow hand is okay-ish, but when he has two fingers on the same string and trills with the first one... *sigh* in France, we call that a Belgian trill. Maybe you can include some other Tous les Matins du Monde excerpts in your second video, if ever you make one !

[@e.v.martinez5083]

Encore, please! Great picks!

[@janeward2878]

Some piano music works well on recorders! I picked up volume 2 of Jean-Claude Veihan’s arrangement of seven of Bach’s three-part Sinfonias for keyboard students arranged for recorder trio (ATB). I persuaded two friends to give the first in the book a try; we loved it and now we working our way through the rest. I don’t think it would be very difficult to arrange these yourself as obviously the original keyboard music was intended to have three distinct lines.

[@janeward2878]

Apologies! My previous post was supposed to on the video about arranging other music!

[@cynlee9520]

This was highly entertaining!

[@elektra121]

What is the piece in "Wolf Hall" called? It sounds lovely.

[@honeychurchgipsy6]

Sarah - the actor playing the Doctor here - Patrick Troughton was a recorder player who apparently used to play during down time when recording the shows.

[@jlee54]

Toutes les Matines du Monde: Did ANYBODY notice that he's playing the cello with the bow upside down? I mean, the bow hair is flailing in the air while he saws into the strings with the wood! Not even going to mention his hand position, using a drummer's grip! LOLOL :)

[@NoHomerS]

The Tabor pipe has 3 holes and can play 2 complete octaves.

[@brycesusong6307]

The trumpet has 3 valves and can play F#2-F#5

[@SuzOfNine]

Lol, totally agree with cellists taking longer to sit down than a child at the dinner table... but no comment on the guy in Toutes les Matines du Monde holding his bow upside down? I'm a cellist and I never got a sound that good doing col legno (I'm a rubbish cellist ;) ), but then I've never seen the film either :D Is it a film about a guy who plays with his bow upside down?

[@ryanlambe4005]

Hi Sarah, This is another great video. These things bother the heck out of me too! I'm wondering . . . you've helped me improve so much as an amateur recorder player. Do you know of people like you (vloggers?) that you can recommend so that I can improve as a violist da gamba. I saw the Marais there in this video and it reminded me that I wanted to ask you this. Any help would be so appreciated.

[@Team_Recorder]

Hmm I don't know any viola da gambists on KZbin, but you should check out emilyplayscello - she is an awesome Baroque cellist with really specialist information!

[@ceciliakate128]

If you do find someone specifically for Gamba it would be great if you could share that here. We've been looking around for a while, too...

[@janetcbass]

The Viola da Gamba Society of America has lots of great teaching videos open to everyone! vdgsa.org/cgi-bin/teaching_videos/tv.cgi They also have a one week Conclave in varying places in the US, with classes at every level and lots of fun playing.

[@ceciliakate128]

@@janetcbass Thanks very much for answering! :-D

[@kianas8708]

So fun

[@junenovae]

Actually I auditionned i a music school in the main concert room.. so it does happen. But it is a smaller school than julliard

[@tacoman6864]

I inherited two recorders that were slightly flooded with water during hurricane Harvey and I need advice on what to do

[@灵灵-c2t]

Through them away.

[@pearspeedruns]

What brands? Are they wooden?

[@susanneschleelein-emge8895]

Danke für das interessante Video und vor allen Dingen die deutschen Untertitel!

[@me-artist7016]

Very fun viduo, i didn't notice these parts in the movies clearly until now, one question what's the name of music in the 11:11? Thank u :)

[@malahamavet]

More please

[@felixsmith659]

I believe they might have based fassbender's "flute" on a tabor pipe used a lot in cotswold Morris dancing. However I highly doubt you could play tunes like what he was.

[@stevewolfe3214]

Apparently in the show the Second Dr. Who's recorder was almost magical. Patrick Troughton actually played it. Here is a very short piece by the BBC discussing: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rafckKmDd99rh5o and some fan info: tardis.wikia.com/wiki/The_Doctor%27s_recorder

[@GuitaristInProgress]

I would definitely love to see another video like this. However, I would love to challenge you to give your reactions without speaking, just by your facial expressions and gestures. Judging from this video, I think you would still have absolutely no problem getting your meaning across.

[@charliechrist7537]

Love the video. A movie is why I started playing it's a Jim Henson movie called The Dark Crystal it would have been cool if you did that movie there's also a Star Trek episode where Captain Picard plays the tin whistle

[@TheLoisblake]

And Spock playing his harp(?) In the original series.

[@E.V.A.444]

At 4:50 press ⏸ and put subtitles

[@barbaramoore3214]

Our very own Alison Melville played recorders on the soundtracks for The Tudors, The Borgias, and The Vikings. Alison regales us with her experiences, for example, in one scene in the Tudors the actor held a tenor while we hear her playing soprano on the soundtrack. Here are two clips of The Tudor where we can hear Alison playing: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rYbFnqRjeN6nnac kzbin.info/www/bejne/p2nWcpKqo8Rri6M

[@harryjoseph1802]

Toutes les matines du monde...further on in the film Colombe/Marin Sr plays a note with his 2nd left hand finger and 'vibrato' with the 1st finger behind the fingered note on the same string???

[@Team_Recorder]

Haahaaaa omg I have tp imclude all the parts this movie gets wrong in another video! 😂

[@ceciliakate128]

The movie The red violin (le violon rouge) was interesting/entertaining. And I really liked Chicken with plums (poulet aux prunes) when I saw it see several years ago, but I don't remember how convincing the musicians were. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qamaomp7rMmVeJI

[@121X0N]

Hi there, you content is getting better overtime since I followed you long time ago. Btw, Do you play flute? Im curious.

[@jessicavaliente9342]

This was such a fun video! I just want to say one "very small quibble": Okay, Titanic. Would they sound that good? In the freezing cold and salt sea air, of course not. Would they have to sit their asses down and be ready to pay that fast and not be all fussy and string-playery about it? Um, maybe. Probably. Have you ever worked for a cruise ship? It can be bad. Really bad. Depends on the company, of course. For some of them, you'd better get it together that quickly or be deposited at the next port without your pay. Or maybe there was a sense of urgency because they were about to die. Not sure. I have actually never seen this movie.

[@giovannirafael5351]

I love this video so much XD

[@ryanhorwitz417]

What about Hagrid playing an instrument similar to the recorder in the sorcerers stone?

[@christophertsiliacos8958]

0:43 Sarah as you already know, it’s known as artistic license, historical license, dramatic license, poetic license, narrative license et al. Movie and television writers, producers and directors are notorious for using it. I critique them all the time for doing it. For example, what is a slot machine that wasn’t produced until 1899 doing in a movie scene within an American western saloon that was supposed to have taken place in the year 1877? How’s that for an anachronism? 😲

[@cherylcrockett6177]

Re: Dr. Who, here is more information from the BBC's retrospective: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rafckKmDd99rh5o

[@zuditaka]

Here's Dickon playing wooden 'corder in BBC's 1975 TV series The Secret Garden: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qKKshZ17p650rqsm29s

[@我在海的那边]

Hi There Sarah Jeffery.

[@krystynasibielak6569]

My child likes it, he wanted me to write this comment :-)

[@mrsenstitz]

La folia. En tour les matins, it’s la follia by Corelli, but really Lully.

[@zvonimirtosic6171]

Yes, the immense "believability" of today's movies … a guy holds a quarter-sized flute .. comes out a saxophone sound with strings.

[@mikhahrreaves3126]

Hi Sarah how do you like the Kristine West vid? I thought it was very good. Would like to seen you in it tho!

[@rudolphpyatt4833]

The Anchorman scene immediately made me think of the Steve McQueen/Jacqueline Bissett restaurant scene in Bullitt: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i4CQk2ltocygr80 Flute and recorder sound great with guitar (would love to hear your take on the kind of band in this clip). And kudos on the new CD! I immediately downloaded it from iTunes and it’s wonderful.

[@Neophema]

Tous les matins du monde. :) I can tell that he's not playing by his left hand, but I've seen much worse. What is that piece called?

[@stenoknight]

La Folia, no?

[@flockbloede]

How's the movie about Marin Marais called? I would like to watch it...

[@joshuarosen6242]

It's called Tous les Matins du Monde. I saw it a long time ago when I was at university and I can't remember a great deal about it but I do remember Gérard Depardieu and a rather dream like quality about it. I enjoyed it.

[@Tore_Lund]

The boat is sinking, they are a cruise ship band, still this was early in the morning so they simply didn't care how it sounded?

[@Shastasnow]

If so they should have sounded terrible. I have a violin and it takes a good minute or so to get it in tune. Chelo is even more fickle. Even nice instruments have it hard when it comes to weather because they are made of wood.

[@boulyprod]

Aaaah Sarah it's "tous les matins du monde" & "le roi danse" 😉

[@Team_Recorder]

Ahhhhhh my French is horrible!! Je suis désolééééééé!

[@Machodave2020]

Yes, that is your job, telling people how to do there job.

[@diegopardoflautista]

beautiful reacts to flutists of the youtube recorder would be something great I have videos in case you dare to see them greetings from Mexico

[@danielaberger5623]

What was the piece that was played in "Toutes les Matines du Monde"?

[@Loweene_Ancalimon]

It's Marin Marais' Folia

[@sarahspector5294]

Love you …AND - it’s TOUS LES MATINS du MONDE. Not “Toutes les Matines”… thanks for your ****BRILLIANT**** channel.

[@sarahspector5294]

Wondering what that movie that starts “Le Roi..” is. TYVM, Sarah!