Dude I can relate, I play trumpet, sax and short sax. Sitting there eating snot, and then out of the blue you’re summoned to go ape shit. You’re totally like “I’ve been waiting my time hole life for this”, so you just totally put all that solo’s you’ve been practicing into that moment. Hat off to my fellow saxer 🤣
Right?? "Mean streets of Cary" being the Taco Bell on Kildaire by the Big Lots. That I remember when it was built. "What you got to do"= walking one more block to the Goodberrys. And Starbucks.
We're going to write a full orchestral piece to a 1970s action series in less than 20 minutes. The only thing that this song missed was some electric guitar with a wah wah pedal doing some Waka Chicka's
Whew boy. I just checked and he's had 1,093 solo concerts, 1,051 since June 28, 2002 in Chicago (the first Rock This Bitch). Even if we assume he's only had to do Rock This Bitch at 75% of those, that's still 788 unique songs! (And I think it's probably closer to 90-95%.) This man has crazy musical creativity.
Ben. You are a musical GOD sir. Totally hearing CHiP's, Fantasy Island, Dynasty, Dallas and Shaft in this orchestration. Not saying he ripped anyone off, its where the music takes me. Outstanding.
A master songwriter and performer! It got me in the last half, first part i was wondering where he found this orchestra because they were very shy, but they really loosened up and found the groove!
Seriously? Classical musicians are accustomed to playing what's on the page. Yeah they're professionals but only some can play by ear, ad lib, jam etc. It's risky doing something like this which is what makes it exciting to watch 💓
He played a free show in Norfolk for the release of rocking the suburbs at the boathouse. It has since been blown away by a hurricane, but that was a really good day...
I need Ben Folds to surpass Hans Zimmer Ludovico Ennuadi while composing live. Still waiting him to drop another crazy song like these new spaces are all designed to be flexible! That one i have watched like 1000 times always refreshing.
Music follows certain forms. Like the AAB thing he inserts at the beginning. Most working musicians can follow what he's doing. Some musicians need everything written out for them and can't wing it whatsoever. But in reality, this is fairly rudimental. Still, entertaining as hell.
Don't mean to try to diminish this cool ass experience but he didn't do anything profound. A rudamentary understanding of composition is all thats needed. Any high-school music teacher could arrange this piece. Still fun as all get out though!
“The rest is just the same isn’t it?that doesn’t really work does it? did you try 🎹🎼🎹🎼shouldn’t it be a bit more🎼🎼🎹🎼 or this 🎹🎹🎹🎹🎼🎼🎼🎹🎼🎹🎼🎹🎼🎹🎼this yes, better what do you think?”
im gonna confess, I have no idea who any of these people are. This video auto played and like, im only 4 minutes in and they have me absolutely baffled
