What the audience hears vs. what the pianist hears

[@piano_in_the_wild]

Subscribe if you heard a mistake

[@iwanpurnawan2440]

Yes, actually im begginer of famous song in piano

[@RaghavChandraNaveen]

i heard a different mistake

[@user-rg8xu6rw8w]

Yea,definitely! I’m an beginner at rush e!

[@6600sis]

I'm a pianist, (amongst other things). Technically, I cheated. 😂

[@AmeliaEarhart537]

I heard it, and I don't play any instrument.

[@wheezer-the-weezer]

If you're a musician in the audience, you also hear what the pianist hears 😅

[@eliasgonzalez5357]

When its major, yes, but if its minor and you dont know the piece, its not likely you Will notice

[@wheezer-the-weezer]

@@eliasgonzalez5357 True, especially if the piece has accidentals. I don't know why they're called accidental notes if they're composed on purpose, but I love how a lot of people perk up at them 😂

[@otto7588]

No you usually dont

[@BrianPham-sc6pz]

As a pianist myself I can confirm this is true

[@AJbigboy2]

I was 1 thousandth like (i have the power on this comment)

[@FishingForLife28]

I was at a studio recording a few demos with my band. I play the trumpet. I cracked on a high note and asked to redo it. Both sound engineers could not hear where the crack was. Neither could the rest of my band. It ended up on the final version and I can still hear it everytime I play the demo. No one else I've played it for can hear it

[@piano_in_the_wild]

Great story! I think that's the sugar and salt of being a musician!

[@ilmansalt]

Imperfections are what makes music special. In a world of midi nowadays, imperfections are hard to replicate naturally and are often what producers are looking for.

[@valtteripennanen4043]

One night of missed practice, only the musician notices. Two nights of missed practise, the band notices. Three nights of missed practise everyone notices.

[@GrandpaPuppetGuy550]

​@@piano_in_the_wild This video assured me to play the entire La Campanella in front of my music room one day lol. I am learning that song, and I can play 2 minutes into the piece.

[@piano_in_the_wild]

@@GrandpaPuppetGuy550 wow, that's so cool! Good luck and all the best!!

[@philliptoone]

The second one is just the jazz improvisation of the original. :)

[@chriscoolpog]

Stolen

[@TwitterChannelOfficial]

​@@chriscoolpogyou stole the word "pog" to your ign

[@PlayNowWorkLater]

100% true. Professional piano player here. Audience never notices. Just keep playing. Don’t talk about with people who compliment you.

[@richardpogoson]

Its just a jazz rendition guys nothing to worry about

[@Kenny_Matthews]

Underrated

[@atlandfrisk]

average jazz player (Im a jazz bassist)

[@Sedyon]

I was thinking about that too 🤣

[@malik-a-creeper]

​@@atlandfrisk _bruh_ hahaha

[@FrozenJedi38]

As a jazz pianist, there are ✨ no accidents✨ 😌

[@depressedonion9080]

That weak and disappointing hand gesture as you give up is also quite relatable

[@randomkitten6268]

YAAA

[@editorindebt8410]

na i rage bang

[@user-or6zb3xs1r]

@@editorindebt8410 same

[@amiapsychopat]

⁠sad hand gesture is for public situations, rage bang for practice sessions

[@LivingHazelnut]

I just smash my hands randomly in the piano after i'm done with the song, or my head if i'm in the right mood

[@himey78]

So true. I am a pianist and can vouch for this 👍

[@LizzyOdiase]

Frrrr

[@Cloverleaf-ih3gw]

ikrrr

[@lunakittyx3]

Same lol

[@dustins382]

For my senior sax recital in college, there was a high note followed by a tricky run back down. I kinda got it, but I noticed my own failures and I know my sax teacher heard me play it better before. When she came and congratulated me at the end, I said "yeah but I missed the tricky part!"... She looked at me and said "shut up and take the compliment! Nobody else noticed! Just say thank you and move on"... That stuck with me for life. We can be so critical of ourselves that we forget how much joy we can bring to others with our music.

[@andreproject4285]

General audience doesn't notice mistake, they only notice that musician has noticed something and became nervous

[@Cassidyyyyy]

Bruhh that me when I play violin

[@djulianofficial]

That’s true hahaha

[@PeaceNinja007]

I feel like people notice mistakes more so when your live covering a popular song everyone knows. I normally don't play popular songs but I do play very diatonic music and I also feel that if I mess up, people can still hear it. I just tell them I had a little jazz slip lol

[@djulianofficial]

@@PeaceNinja007 Yea that’s true, it also depends on what mistake you are making. If you are playing another note in the same key it does not sound off :p

[@PeaceNinja007]

@@djulianofficial You’re right. But my goofy azz tends to slip usually one semi tone up which for the most part is not on the same key

[@jacobschiller4486]

This makes me feel better about making mistakes due to performance anxiety.

[@usx06240]

Watch Seymour Bernstein on this subject.

[@opticalreticle]

the audience hears too much pedal

[@jacobschiller4486]

@@usx06240 I would, but I haven't the faintest idea where I can find him talk about this. Is there a video in particular? I'm guessing tonebase but I really have no idea.

[@Kglickaaackr]

Yes this helps, we allways say this to eachother before performing😊

[@justsomeundertalefan8561]

İ littreally will prefor in front of all school tomorrow 😮‍💨

[@charlesvanderhoog7056]

This is exactly what happens!!! The greatest challenge is playing through mistakes as if nothing has happened. This is what I am training on now.

[@FutureboyForever]

Me too😅😅

[@FutureboyForever]

God bless

[@xijnin]

The best part is watching yourself later and realize you played really well

[@musictchr67]

My h.s. choir director used to say, "Never underestimate the ignorance of your audience." It's a truth that has served me well. One of the hardest things I ever learned was how to accept a compliment when I knew I had made mistakes. Just smile and say thank you, sans explanation or self-deprecation. Don't reprimand people's compliments. It's as if you're telling them they are too stupid to know the difference between a good performance and a bad one. And while that may be true, it's incredibly rude to point it out!! 💯

[@piano_in_the_wild]

That is so true!

[@Fourmyle44]

what if you discover Hannibal Lecter in the audience

[@forgotultag1543]

​@@Fourmyle44 chances are, you won't - because you made a mistake 😈

[@dustins382]

That's what my sax teacher taught me at the end of my senior recital when she complimented me and I mentioned my failures instead of taking the complement. She said "shut up and say thank you!" 😂... That stuck with me.

[@astrocartomanciacienciaanc5308]

​​@@Fourmyle44the book!!! 😅 Well... Our brains would suffer...😂

[@mamansulaeman6287]

As a pianist, the one single mistaks feels like a electric strike to my ears and brain

[@FreeSpirit318]

So accurate

[@tomtative]

People with an ear for music are awesome. I wish I could hear that kind of thing

[@OutOfRangeDE]

And the hand starts to become desorientated, mistakes will follow ⚡️

[@PeaceNinja007]

@@tomtative Are you sure? It psses me off when I make a mistake lol And then i'm all nervous if I have a crowd looking at me ..

[@amiapsychopat]

@@tomtativewhen you learned a piece you will immediately know if you hit a wrong note even without hearing anything, because your hands, exes and brain all know what you were supposed to play

[@stevec404]

Too true! Most of us cave in to despair from something that others may hardly notice.

[@YoutubeBuam]

Every good musician hears if there are mistakes, even if you play another instrument. Its all about your ear for harmonies and when they collapse.

[@MacyFitch]

If you fuck up as a drummer, on the other hand, EVERYONE notices 😭 Edit: Thanks for 500 likes! I had a feeling I wasn't alone on this one lol

[@firdakbarw882]

Even the drum itself dissappointed

[@_InTheBin]

drummer here. Can totally relate 😢

[@jackc9386]

Really? I’m a pianist and a friend of mine is a drummer. There have been multiple times I heard him play and he said he messed up a bunch but I didn’t notice any of it.

[@_InTheBin]

@@jackc9386 Drummers being extremely self-critical.

[@MacyFitch]

@@jackc9386 that's reassuring :) but based on the 110 likes, you might be in the minority on this one 😭

[@I_eatkidz]

POV: a musician in the audience

[@Xelaria]

I made a piano recital as a final exam in my Piano class during school. I made about a 40% accuracy but everyone thought I played flawlessly.

[@xCoral95x]

The fact that you could still hear what the song was when they were purposely messing up shows how skilled this person is!!

[@danniet9375]

This is by far the truest thing I've ever seen. And that's saying something.

[@steam-js3vd]

I feel so comfortable when I don't understand the mistakes, I enjoy my life listening to any music 😂

[@blakeknight14]

mucho *hugs*

[@isanewday]

True. And one thing is playing for the audience and another playing for musicians . . .

[@-sAnS-iS-cOmInG-]

ngl it actually sounded pretty cool tho- (the first one)

[@Ally_is_silly]

My mind when it said “Pianist” 💀

[@kakahtukat]

what the 🥜

[@AsinT.]

get of that damn site boy

[@tragicreeze]

get your mind out of the gutter little bro

[@addyschannel8527]

What the pean--

[@DoofenSpyroDragon16]

@@tragicreeze I’m not even in the gutter and I heard it too! 😆

[@user-or4bn1hy8v]

This goes for every instrument

[@ds_onia_fans124]

That makes people no matter how mistakes you make the best pianist also does

[@Acutiepieyetstrong]

It's because when you're listening to someone playing piano, you just know the song but you don't know the melody in details but when you're the pianolist, you know every A-Z details so when you make a single mistake you fill like you messed up but in reality the audience doesn't get it in anyway.

[@Benovip]

Remember, there are no mistakes, only happy accidentals

[@2760ade]

Absolutely, Bob!😀

[@joshuathomas6904]

Life would B pretty ♭ without them, wouldn't it

[@denniskanyanja3728]

That’s a # way to look at it my friend.

[@joshuathomas6904]

@@denniskanyanja3728 Well, what can I say? I'm A♮

[@BikeArea]

​@@2760adeEverybody needs a friend, even a mistake.😮

[@milena9948]

THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS! I have some kind of performance anxiety and each mistake often feels like end of the world, which is not ;)

[@SamuelPulkkinen-jp8ev]

Started to learn piano like a month ago. Never before have I felt the need to lecture my hands.

[@Sapphiccity]

Honestly I think both of them were great

[@TheWeirdGuyHidingFromPeople...]

BRo Wath??

[@boodledemic6430]

I love contemporary pieces because the audience can’t tell if the weird note was a mistake or intended 😂

[@PeaceNinja007]

lol I had a whole comment thread debating someone justifying contemporary music as .... music, and this was one of my arguments. The audience doesn't even know what they're listening to. You can make a "mistake" and no one will ever notice, it's lazy, requires no effort, and honestly ugly lol

[@rishavhasadhd]

This applies to singers and other instruments as well. When I sing the mistakes I hear, do not sound much of a different to the audience. Unless your a musician among the audience.

[@ianwilkes435]

100% When I make mistakes and listen to the recording of it I realise how hard it actually is to notice it

[@Jake-O-Rama]

I love being able to hear the piano noises (more than just the strings). That’s cool

[@Mittens_28]

Kosei when he sees his mum in the audience:

[@MemorieMusic]

lmao frfr

[@aster69]

Real😂

[@t_aikutsu]

was looking for this

[@OoiYunKai]

APRIL IS OVER PLS DONT DO THIS TO ME

[@abhishekbagdiya8032]

Lmfao

[@Misha_editzz]

Youre so talented dude! I really wish i had a piano. Really wanna learn to play it 😔

[@Tomiepsirverh]

This is sooo accurate lmao. That's why when you're learning, every music teacher ever will tell you to play past it, especially during a performance. If I make a mistake, the first thing I want to do is restart, but if I'm performing live, it's best not to.

[@wedemeyerr]

I'm still looking for the mistake in the audience part😊😅

[@jackc9386]

Can definitely relate. First time I performed a Chopin Etude, I was totally unprepared because even though I knew all the notes I didn’t understand the technique and did not play it expressively. In the performance I arguably played more wrong notes than right notes. I felt awful afterwards. And the audience thought I sounded fantastic.

[@Thelegendofme]

This is true, I'll occasionally play on a public piano, and some people will tell me I'm really good, as I'm cursing at myself for hitting a wrong note.

[@fahriagung-_.]

As long as you stay confident and don't get nervous and try to get back on track or express it, maybe we won't find out

[@johannes31]

The last chord and the key after it is jazzy. I like it

[@dalilsty]

One time in an audition i froze for a small moment. I left the stage almost crying, but a couple of days later my mom genuinely asked if it was a mistake or part of the music 'cause she didn't remembered that part from when she heard me studying

[@sharmadivyanshuu]

Truth as hell!

[@carrieonaccessibility]

Hey, they both sound great to me!

[@20a10v]

As a pianist with perfect pitch, I can more than relate lol

[@mustard_96]

A piece if advise I give to musicians, and probably the most important (that took me a long time to really learn) is than no one hears your mistakes more than you do. Unless the mistake is egregious, chances are most people won’t even notice

[@profoj]

What I hear : Pure music 🥰

[@mlgamings6110]

So the mistake was that he missed some notes. I believe it was the f and the a that he missed during the section with the grace notes. But it probably isn't that noticeable to general audiences and it still sounds fine, but it does nicely demonstrate how musicians hear the music vs general audiences.

[@GabrielleRivera-pw9pv]

Dude, this actually happened to me I was supposed to be playing E chord and I ended up hitting the third instead of the route, and it sounded terrible and so I had to keep playing till like resolve it. It was so bad.

[@near5148]

I konw that feeling i did make a mistake before

[@burger2011]

OMG it's frisk

[@CARTERFIX4808]

YO FRISK UNDERTALE BRO!!1!1!!1🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥📢📢📢📢📢

[@duducglr]

omg thats so true, im a pianist too and when i make even a little mistake im not continuing the music because of that😅

[@MFK1703]

Both sounds fine to me

[@harrisonryan2031]

why is this so relatable

[@last.knight]

once i recorded myself playing and while i was playing i was so convinced i fcked up the whole thing but when i rewatched the recording it was completely fine 😭😭

[@jacobanderson7859]

That’s so true, it hurts

[@barmalini]

The second part can easily make a true jazz lover happy

[@Enhadiccted]

Soo frickin relatable. Im like that when i make a mistake

[@arpeggiomikey]

Rubinstein once said, "If I miss one day (of practice), I notice it; if I miss two days, the critics notice it; if I miss three days, the *audience* notice it!" The moral: practice, practice, practice! 🧐😬🎶🎹

[@nathadagothia7341]

40 HOUR!

[@ElskaTheAnimator]

That is so real 😂😭 I’ve had a concert last year in which I did so much mistakes and my mother would replay and replay the recording, loving what I had played and each time, I would literally roll on the ground in pain

[@croatiafootballfan]

The way it said "pienist" got me rolling to Greece

[@arcticbanana66]

I played alto sax in the school band for 8 years (stage orchestra, not marching band). Every year at work when the Christmas music starts playing, there's a version of Canon in the song rotation where one of the violins plays a flat note, and none of my coworkers has any idea what I'm talking about. They apparently can't hear it, but it's so blatantly obvious to me.

[@Tomek_964]

my mom is the audience fr

[@slashano]

It's so true, and as we know that the audience doesn't hear it, we act as if nothing had happened! Since I've been doing concerts I've gotten used to it, however now I notice that: When I pull my mouth, I play in tune. When I play out of tune I smile. So when I play out of tune people think I'm playing in tune but when I play in tune they think I'm playing out of tune 😭😭😭

[@FutureboyForever]

So true my mom tells me i play real good i just smiles and say i happy you like it 😊

[@SunnyGachaforEVAAAAA]

“She just said pianist” “She just Said Pianist” “She just Said Pianist” (EDIT:DAMN MY PHONE IS BLOWING UP!)

[@Wowwowowowwow]

FR

[@eulalawrence4389]

FR

[@leonardo-kr2oo]

FR

[@sourrlemons]

FR

[@serplunk7146]

FR

[@Roblox_for1ife]

Help the voice saying pianist

[@Reggae023]

That’s so true, I need to get over my habit of restarting the entire piece when I make a mistake 😭

[@nmmstony]

I’m glad to have improved so much, where I can hear it

[@Brain_not_braining]

I play 6 instruments, so I hear what the pianist hears as well.

[@dmfetkewicz]

Whoah cool guy alert

[@brochill1130]

Damn save some for the rest of us

[@forehaha8105]

Please delete I don’t want my girl to see this

[@bajke5591]

When I was in music school, we always had a small concert where you would perform if you accomplished something such as good placement on competition. I won the first place recently, so I had to perform. In middle of playing the piece, my brain and hands just stopped, like fully stopped. I just looked at the crowd and my teacher in the back, there were a few giggles in that dead silence, and then I remembered the notes and continued playing. I'm pretty sure they noticed da mistake.

[@mollyd]

I’m a music teacher and I tell my students this all the time, that as long as you don’t react to the mistake, or stop or try to go back or just generally make a big deal out of it, 99% of people won’t even notice, especially if it’s a song no one knows! Just act like nothing happened and keep going

[@joshdubrow6494]

I like to do drum covers and sometimes I mess up, but at the same time I also take the real drums out of it so it’s only my drums. When I mess up, I can tell. I wonder if the people watching them do, because I think it really comes down to your ability to interpret music and understand the beat.

[@foreverstay33]

Literally me🤧

[@paulmartinez594]

Just a normal arrangement by Hamelin

[@G.R.A.2023]

As an amateur pianist, I have to say that it is true! I played recently in a piano concert and I made three mistakes in my play. I thought I played awfully, in fact when I saw the video, I couldn't even realize that I made those mistakes because they were not so important

[@svr7823]

It's a pure torture, when you play an instrument and you know you make mistakes, but others say you don't, so you're not sure if you really play well or they just say it to make you feel better.

[@saffylllama5609]

So True!

[@flawlesspiner1674]

that pianist is still hearing it way better than i would if i was playing

[@djeorgiavalentinafrancisco1173]

As a pianist and a perfectionist and overthinker i totaly agree w this thats why i get so nervous in my recitals

[@maykdennis]

The last note actually sounds good

[@NicleT]

So true!

[@dazmindleon]

Yep this me! lol

[@LivingHazelnut]

As a perfeccionist, i can indeed hear this everytime i try to play a song without missing x,D

[@morganc.m1830]

It honestly makes me feel so bad when seeing other people playing piano. I've wanted to play it since I was a child, but I never actually got to start until 7th grade. I'm 21, and I just recently, around age 20, started taking lessons off and on. It's a semster thing, and somwtimwa I can't get in a slot, and I miss the semester. I was taking some from an old church friend, but she seemed to get super impatient with me, and so I haven't seen her in a while. I still suck at it after all these years.

[@Flipflopskipskop]

This video makes me have to go pee

[@Piano_Session]

🤣 Yes - I know that!

[@Eden-r5g]

As a pianist, I can relate I do this all the time 😂

[@Marsling_from_Mars]

My piano teacher said I have to continue with a smile on stage but my hands are literally auto grammar 😭

[@aaronwalderslade]

I was always told if you play a wrong, note play the next note louder! (If that note's still wrong, go back to the first note: it's probably right by now, as the chord's changed!) Guitarists do this *all the time.* It's not so easy on the piano.

[@kfmdre5383]

Greatly accurate actually

[@Michael-ks1sn]

I just preformed yeasterday for 300 people, and they told me it was the most beautiful and amazing piano playing they had heard ever. Some of them broke down to tears, and I were told they didn't hear my mistakes by the viewers. I thougth it were honestly horrible playing. It was advanced and beautiful, but a lot of small mistakes because of stress

[@user-rc7ts9xu6b]

As a pianist myself, this has happened to me so many times and almost no one notices, it's hilarious!

[@atdawn166]

So literally pianists are perfectionists

[@musicfan5921]

As a hobby pianist, not a professional, yes, we are, every single mistake note feels awful 😂

[@-.Alexiel_Edits.-]

I always hear that when practicing, even during recitals sometimes 😭

[@CoryCouttee]

Facts Still haunting me till this day

[@Teamred100]

as a fellow pianist I feel your pain