when your audience is musically competent

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Original video: ​⁠ • @GlastonburyOfficial ...
Performed by: ‪@jacobcollier‬ + Glastonbury
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[@GeorgeCollier]

audience paid for the tickets and still have to make the music themselves 😒

[@christullier2410]

ikea concert

[@EstamosDe]

What a scam! But who doesn't wanna be scammed like this

[@nathanallen9068]

The Korean BBQ of concerts

[@bobsmith12345]

he should've just played it as a backing track smh

[@Warrigt]

Keeps them occupied so they're not trying to clap with the music.

[@dominikn19]

So proud to say that I was an instrument of Jacob Collier this year.

[@Stewartist1]

I will be this September

[@Macsky_Prod]

Haha same

[@Brooster811]

Same

[@justwondering1967]

Is that you at :45?

[@skyetheuniversalspy]

Same

[@ollysombrero8427]

He could... I mean I know he wouldn't.. but he could so very easily become the most wholesome cult leader for the biggest cult in history.

[@keleighshepherd345]

Hundred percent here for this where do I sign up all praise the Leader!

[@zacharyliles8657]

I'm drinking the kool aid

[@jeppoo1]

Isn't he already one? 😅

[@missy1806]

Confused here, cult leader for what? I've never heard of him before this vid.

[@Blobbyo25]

​@@missy1806Jacob Collier is a multi-award winning musician. He can basically play every instrument and writes (and performs) songs in keys outside the standard western tuning. Look up "In the Bleak Midwinter - Jacob Collier" and he modulates into G half-sharp. He has become famous for his non-standard attitude to harmony and rhythm, and for brilliant audience participation events like this. I saw him live in Cambridge, UK and it was genuinely magical. Man is a wizard

[@Stewartist1]

This particular choir had 40,000 people as ONE harmony

[@edgedg]

Sounded so good, I suspect some decent post production went into cleaning up the audio.

[@Sam-op6us]

@@edgedgI watched it live and it sounds the same as far as I can remember. It was incredible

[@_layman_]

That is a few thousand more than on the Estonian Song Festival, and without practice... Impressive!

[@liddad]

​@@edgedgit was broadcast live by the BBC, although they always do really well with the broadcast sound for Glastonbury

[@nessparadis6948]

He had 40k people come to see him 😮?

[@ParkourAxolotl]

they managed to cut off better than my old middle school symphonic band cut off

[@real_yomchi]

Hahaha exactly this. School orchestra of 20, at least 3 would always miss the mark :D

[@ParkourAxolotl]

@@real_yomchi lol

[@sparkleeses]

I was in a band of 80 and there was always like 10 people that missed it

[@masedase1334]

haha. but you have to keep in mind, that fans of Jacob Collier often are musically trained (i would at least guess that) grown ups and your middle school band was a group of young people still in musical training (music teacher speaking trying to defend these children) ;)

[@ParkourAxolotl]

​@@masedase1334 of course :) im just joking around lol

[@benmontey3438]

As one who has been to two of his concerts, this is truly magical in person, and I HIGHLY advise you put this on your bucket list.

[@TURBOMIKEIFY]

How big were your goosebumps? I can imagine bigger than mine, and I’m behind a screen.

[@3CouzHein]

I second this, it was such an incredible experience !! You MUST go to one of his shows!

[@benmontey3438]

@@TURBOMIKEIFY Words can't describe dude, words can't describe. Think of going to Disney as a kid, or a carnival, or being in your favorite movie at your favorite scene. Easily 100 times past that.

[@PleppyPenguin]

Taking notes from this

[@TheBeeFactory]

Yes! I saw him last year and when he did this it was incredible. Being in the middle of thousands of people singing harmonies is quite a unique and magical experience. Especially since it was an audience of musicians and music students, so the harmonies were good too lol.

[@kilo3989]

More folks should write pieces of music explicitly to be sung by hypothetically-untrained audiences, I think 😊 This is so cool!

[@another_aaron]

this is technically also what most church hymns are for

[@CottidaeSEA]

@@another_aaron Church hymns go crazy high for being stuff that normal people are supposed to sing. I do think they are overall great for larger groups though.

[@another_aaron]

@@CottidaeSEA depends on your hymnal I guess. Most of my hymns at work typically top out at a D with a couple of Es sprinkled around

[@raffertymetcalfe]

Bear in mind this is the UK so everyone here has sung at least 3 hymns a week for at least 7 years in primary school

[@Shiranui115]

​@@CottidaeSEAThen it's up to the choir director/lead cantor to properly pitch the piece. Which, sadly, many of them never do, so a very large part of the congregation is incapable of joining in.

[@StuartQuinn]

There's one part in this performance where he tells the crowd "louder" - the crowd get slightly louder, so he said "louder" again and they increase in volume by the exact same amount. It was as if his pressed the vol up button on his remote 😂

[@TopRanky]

1000x better than audience members who clap off beat

[@NuncNuncNuncNunc]

Collier will just switch time signatures for them.

[@camelCase_]

I think that's just physics. The speed of sound is only 1125 ft per second, so audience members standing 100 ft away from the stage hear the beat about 0.09 seconds after it happened, and then it takes another 0.09 seconds for the sound of their claps to travel back to the stage. If the clapping section is at 60 bpm, they're off by 18 percent, and it's even worse when it's faster. It's bound to sound horrible. With these long, drawn out notes, the voices will overlap eventually, even if someone is actually off beat. Also, the audience closest to the mic will be heard louder than those farther away, lessening their impact. And on top of that, the changes in pitch are coordinated by the arm movements, which are seen at the speed of light, so basically no delay at all.

[@commanderwyro4204]

there is truly nothing more beautiful than the sound of 1000s of voices coming together in harmony

[@cypdead]

hamburgor i ate today clears no lie

[@MenelionFR]

Each and every time I see those videos, I get shivers down my spine and tears on my eyes. This is and must be the Human race. Not wars, not missiles, not people dying of hunger, not jerks trying to prove to the world they are the best, none of those - but this supreme kind of art, where hundreds of strangers sing in a perfect choir, surprising angels in heavens and extraterrestrials on the orbit. I don't know where Jacob Collier came from, but it's the perfect time for such a person to come to Earth.

[@Xion3Dan]

:')

[@mateuszochman5075]

It's not that deep bruh

[@danielguy3581]

I sing along to these videos while developing anti-personnel mines, it increases my productivity.

[@noou]

❤

[@thelad9434]

You don’t want wars? Tell that to NATO. France is also the cause of the Mali Conflict which has escalated rapidly in recent months. Too bad everyone is blaming Russia and China for being “bad” when the Western nations don’t even attempt to make peace, instead opting for warmongering.

[@spartanxbear9076]

It will never cease to amaze me how few people sound good alone, but when all the people sing as one, it always sounds beautiful

[@hellohowareyou-fw4mn]

How he does this is completely beyond me! Congrats on 700k btw🎉🎉🎉

[@RadiumX]

Some people will sing higher, others will sing lower if you give them a cue. Not that hard

[@Dabaka93]

@@RadiumX the hardness lies in making those people sing when and what you want them to sing. I'm a music teacher, believe me, it's way harder than it looks - especially with an audience of thousands of people.

[@rzrsixfour6182]

@@Dabaka93 Well, thats why hes using one of the most 'organic' and 'natural' scales to do this (and the reason for why it works out so well). Its very predictable, to the point non musicians can follow it through.

[@NicDunn]

He doesn’t play music for people, he plays people for music

[@brotemca8020]

Having huge groups all singing together like this is always so beautiful! I have a relatively small church, but there's two events I can recall - one being my sister's wedding - in which it was jam packed with people, and the combined weight of so much support and love from every side made me cry, especially in the final chorus of Emu Music's "Hear Our Prayer" - the accompaniment dropped out, so it was just hundreds of voices in perfect unison singing, "We ask with one voice", and I will never forget how I felt in that moment (the crying might've also been cause of the whole marriage thing but whatever-)

[@papagynther6905]

Just take a look at some footage from the estonian song festival and you'll realise that as long as everyone is singing together your audience doesn't need to be musically competent, just confident

[@user-ed7et3pb4o]

That said, Estonians are usually massively competent and good at singing. So are Brits, they’re trained for it in school via daily communal singing!

[@columbinafan]

For almost a minute people were able to just co-exist and it was beautiful

[@jessemorales1245]

Putting a lot of faith in that crowd 😂

[@NathanielSnider1017]

they're at a jacob collier concert i'd say most of them are musicians

[@yetanother9127]

In any given crowd, some people will be too sharp and some will be too flat, so overall it will tend to average out if your crowd is big enough.

[@johnp.4981]

​@@NathanielSnider1017the most surprising part its a glastonbury festival, so not everyone knows jacob or a musician 😂

[@yetanother9127]

@peterg5383 If you've got ten thousand violins all playing microtonally different notes in an normal distribution around D, you'll hear a D.

[@ToxicTurtleIsMad]

​@@NathanielSnider1017this is music for low iq individuals lmfao

[@tmage23]

Bobby McFerrin does something similar where he teaches the crowd the pentatonic scale by giving them 3 notes and they will automatically know the rest. Somehow music is ingrained in our minds and we just get it on a primal level.

[@NO-qu1uk]

There's something about a thousand voices, all singing at the same time like this, that just sounds so right.

[@rollertoaster]

A musically competent audience is something you will never find at Astro world.

[@Nameless-bp9gt]

It doesen´t matter how good or bad you are at singing. Thousands of people singing together always sounds great

[@Charely1925]

Congratulations, you played yourself.

[@EldritchGrimoire]

Shit that caught me off-guard; that was moving

[@benitocamelo1488]

This video felt heavenly, I can't imagine how great would this feel live

[@RayMak]

This is really next level

[@alexisalvarez2330]

If there's a heaven, I'm sure it must sound like this

[@nuagor]

Harmony for humanity.

[@finchi55]

Even though they paid, being apart of a giant group like this singing feels awesome

[@imnotparkour]

Great video! What a amazing sound.😊😊

[@feartheghus]

Ah yes, a self-serve concert.

[@user-gc8zl1vz2l]

He can literally make music out of anything and everything

[@da1315]

"I am going to a concert . Are you coming?" " Who is the performer?" "We are...."

[@user-um7tw6kx4r6]

That is very impressive. I am so glad that despite what we see on X-factor and American Idol, the world is NOT full of tone-deaf people lol

[@efdangotu]

80/20, if 20% of the audience can sing well, 80% will follow along or be drowned out by the volume of the good singers.

[@rohkakaobananenshake807]

I don't know, how I got here, but I have goosebumps everywhere!

[@void7555]

The sound my car keys make when I just finished downing 10 beers

[@o0GrayMatters0o]

pure genius. this gave me chills.

[@thenachocheeseburger9637]

Every audience is musically competent when they have JACOB COLLIER leading them...

[@burgereaterboy]

this is so wholesome 😭😭

[@gustavocortico1681]

Yes, probabilistic music, dependent on the collective interpretation of gestures, collapsing into a specific harmony

[@m1bl4n]

I read that as "incompetend" and was scratching my head

[@gnvw]

I love how he always just plays with his audience 😂

[@Kender591]

Wow! That's beautiful

[@jackbarn8046]

Some music. Makes me cry. This is that music. Damn

[@albinorhino1313]

Enjoyable chills I just got

[@blurplemurple4960]

WHEN THEY HARMONIZE ON THE F NOTE

[@danalexander2149]

I had to restart this video 8 times before the ads stop cutting in.

[@saintsundere]

my brain got chills

[@TruRequiem]

Imagine carrying a vibe so strong you are able to have a 40,000 person choir mid concert

[@WarrenPostma]

What can you say Jacob is a treasure.

[@DesoxGaming12]

They're just going up the scale, the chorus effect is really nice tho

[@jack1701e]

This is pure music; so many different people singing one note. How cool is that!

[@yeganehbehdin6586]

Now, we can say these people are real fans of music!

[@TheHippyProductions]

another live moment I liked was that one concert where the crowd perfectly sung the chorus of Blind Guardian's Valhalla and Hansi was completely in awe

[@swordturtles5401]

Title had me thinking DJ Khaled

[@CamBoone]

0:30 CRUSHED

[@acoverdc9272]

Now imagine the same crowd on horseback throwing spears at you

[@Cat..Person]

And there’s still always one person just trying to be as loud as possible instead of understanding that a lot of low volume sounds add up to a high volume. Instead they hit the wrong notes trying to be loud

[@mafia2boy33]

This was angelic

[@Secret0zv]

Why couldn't my fuckin' music class be this good?

[@ahttun200yearsago6]

lol true🤣

[@_TQ]

I don't really go out much, but I wish I could've been there to see that. What a legend.

[@jesusofbullets]

“And next, here’s Wonderwall”

[@Atmos_Glitch]

Ok but that's pretty cool!

[@missy1806]

I've never heard of Jacob Collier before but there are a lot of concerts where audiences join in whether it's stomping feet, clapping, though not as a full substitute to any instrument or person on stage unless the singer/s get the audience to sing some lines in a song instead. BUT I've seen this done before, only once through-out the whole show and it is rare for stage performers to do this, but amazing as well (is definitely worth the cost of a ticket!). Does Jacob do this a lot in his shows or is this the only "song" (notes to me 'cos I've heard better with different notes sung at the same time)?

[@Ravencraft97-iv6cu]

He does this audience choir at basically every show, there's a compilation of songs ones he's down so far somewhere on this channel actually.

[@Dabaka93]

Also usually he starts with either an improvisation or a rendition of a popular song. He makes the audience sing some notes or words from that song, often in 2-3 parts. Then he blends it into the harmonisation that's in this video.

[@taffles7498]

0:31 i LOVE how you can hear some random lady’s voice trembling so prominently

[@byrontheusurper6505]

Damn that's insane!

[@justmustard3338]

i was waiting for the crowd to start ascending

[@sairamr6886]

When you're such an advanced musician that all of your audience are actually trained in music of some sort

[@sophien3825]

THE OVERTONE

[@difigiano3939]

so that's what happens over there in britain

[@IXLDGOLD]

i havent cried in a while, this done it.

[@BirdMom0]

I CANT CONVINCE MYSELF THIS IS REAL HELP

[@musicaspiringto]

Teacher: What do you want to be when you grow up? Student: I wanna be an instrument!" Teacher: *calls parents* Where did your child learn to want to be an "instrument" Parents:

[@mydogsareneat]

Imagine just casually walking by this

[@LuckyLifeguard]

CHILLS

[@thelusogerman3021]

Now THIS is a fucking show

[@jennaundisclosed8801]

I was instantly reminded of the chorus from the Wind Waker when you play a melody

[@JollyOl]

I noticed I didn't see just about anyone holding phones up during this. Pretty cool!

[@conorwilliam2558]

Sounded like the intro to old football games at the end from when i was young

[@KirbySweg]

If I heard this a mile away I would be like what the heck is happening

[@gatomadness]

that was the greates moment i ever seen in a concert

[@Pyroific]

i had tickets to see him live on my birthday in 2020 but it was canceled from covid stuff :(

[@Cruton2025]

Magnificent.

[@lorisp186]

It's called the Averaging Effect

[@creeperbros-dg9jr]

Every choir teachers favorite dream

[@jakedye172]

it mustve been electric being there

[@Foatizenknechtl]

dude's gotta feel like a magician xd

[@JamesWilson-ts5xk]

This is just awesome!! ❤🔥

[@SupremeDP]

Jacob has got to be the only person able to pull this off. I mean have you heard people sing in a "normal" concert?

[@w.werion4801]

Bro that sounded like duel of the fates at some point

[@chris.breadman]

Damn that was crazy

[@trumpetguy13]

“Is mayonnaise an instrument?” “No, Patrick…” “Ok…How about tens of thousands of strangers?” “Only if you’re Jacob Collier…”

[@JazzGuitarNoob]

14 to 16 seconds sounds like a part of the theme from Band of Brothers.

[@JuicyJesus420]

this seems unreal

[@DogDogGodFog]

Jokes aside, this is probably what entering heaven would sound like.

[@LinkTheFusky]

the green day crowd sung bohemian rhapsody this is just a warm up

[@DanyTV79]

Amazing!

[@gayakusum5168]

OOOOOHHHHHH MY GOODNESS !!!!!!! DAMN BEAUTIFUL !!!! ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@Kefiafusu]

this that bobby mcferrin science.