How to make people cry when you play piano  

"how to make someone cry with a piano" my dumbass: *remove the keys.*

"How to Make someone Cry with a piano" My brain: *play it badly*

How to make someone cry with a piano : “steal their piano”

Alternatively: 1. get them to sit down and start playing a song of their choice 2. SLAM the key cover on their hands

They literally used the higher octave in UP when Ellie died.

"How to make someone cry using a piano" My brain: *Bump their head at the edge of the piano*

I do this trick with my violin, playing higher but slower, then shifting back down can be a very emotional effect, and it’s very fun (also helps practice string switching and shifting positions)

“How to make someone cry with a piano” I was expecting a rickroll throughout the entire video💀

honestly i thought you were going to say something like drop the piano on their foot or something.... i mean that WOULD make them cry

“U can use any song” Me: never😭gonna🥺give😢you😭up😢

When I’m performing I LOVE to play things lower or higher on the piano even if they aren’t “supposed” to be played that way. Sometimes it just adds so much depth to the song

Me still trying to finish moonlight sonata: I'll give it a shot boss

"How to make someone cry using a piano" My brain: *throw it at them*

“How to make someone cry with a piano” Me just trying to play. That’s how

“How to make someone cry with a piano” Smash their face into it

"How to make someone cry from playing piano" Answer: *Chop onions beside it*

“How to make someone cry using a piano” Me: shut it on their fingers…wait whatttttt

Guy : play in higher octave to make people cry Me: proceed to play still Dre

Clair de Lune is one of my favorite songs to play in a higher octave. It’s so calming and feels like it’s just saying “Goodbye”

I thought I was gonna get rick rolled when he said "you can also do that with literally any song-" 💀

Someone once made me cry with a piano, he closed the lid of it on my fingers as I was playing.

“How to make someone cry with a piano” Hitting them with it usually does the trick

Finally, an actual tutorial that works

“How to make someone cry using a piano” My brain : *press ALL the key at the same time*

"how to make someone cry using a piano" play the g note

If you experience much crying there’s two reasons usually; parents and grandparents watching how their little boy has grown and now he can play piano, or genuinely music geniuses who think you are slaughtering the music from their favorite composer.

I can confirm this… I almost cried when I heard him play it.

This is actually a really important tip to know, as it helps you understand the power of using different octaves.

All you have to do is play glimpse of us on your piano, and you've successfully made the whole world cry 🥶👌👌

in that higher octave it does touch the 'crying' pathway...very sympathetic feeling...

just playing "im a little teapot" will make my mom cry, cause it reminds her of her grandma who used to sing it to her

Me the whole time "it's a Rick roll.. Im waiting for it.... Anytime now.. Oh"

I always find this to work better when you use the lower/darker notes in tandem with the high notes. Just some of those Really low keys can elevate a sad song.

I knew blake a couple years ago, he's so big and mature now!

I played L's theme one octave higher and everyone around me just dropped to the floor with tears in their eyes, but they never got up. I think they're asleep

"How to make someone cry with a piano" Just throw the piano at them

Alternatively, you can have them put their fingers on the keys, then slam it shut

“how to make someone cry with a piano” Me brain: leave’s from the vine

"How to make someone cry with a piano" My Brain: Drop it on them

And also, I’ve done the Peanuts theme (Charlie Brown) in the higher octave and at a slower tempo and it sounds like what you would hear at the end of that movie (although it technically isn’t).

“The entertainer” sounds too happy even when 2 octaves up

I’m built different. I don’t cry from sad songs *holding back tears*

Everyone: *Thinks something else* Me: *Just wants him to tell us what to play*

I felt that tingling sensation when you started playing the high note almost instantly. pretty insane what emotions music makes you feel.

I like to play “River Flows in you” in the higher octave! So pretty 😍

Bro, when the song is higher pitched, it brings back memories

Honestly, the Interstellar theme is able to make me cry with any keys and on any instrument

Bro this worked so well. I played Girono’s theme in that octave and I couldn’t stop crying. Gonna play this at my friends birthday so we can all cry together.

*”How to make someone cry with a piano”* *Me thinking of using it to Wack them across the head*

I thought this would’ve been a meme where you’d make ppl cry by playing so badly, it brings tears to their eyes.

"Hehe" *Plays never gonna give you up*

That's probably because that's the version that played when ellie died. That's the feeling we remember

I know an easier way to make someone cry with a piano… Smash their head into the keys!!

Aria math with higher octaves is heavenly 🙏😌

To me the higher octave is like hearing the lower octave in a nostalgic way if that makes sense. It’s like a “faded” version of the original music, kinda similar to how in movies when they try to make it clear for you that someone is recalling something they’ll make the scene look a little bit yellowish and faded. Sometimes it feels desperate when I wanna go back to the past but there is no silver lining cuz time is unbeatable

No joke the first seconds of this guy playing up my eyes started watering and i was suddenly crying

“You can also do that with literally any other song you can think of.” My god damn mind: *M E G A L O V A N I A .*

Bro the Up song brought back a lot of memories that made me tear up BRO 🥲

Unravel is another level with the high notes

“how to make someone cry with a piano” My brain: “drop it on them…”

Instructions unclear. I tried this with “Never gonna give you up” but then I got beat up and I cried. I demand a refund of something.

But You know that part is already there right? When it slows down it plays exactly on these higher keys. Congratulations, you outsmart yourself.

I tried this with all sorts of songs and I got hired to write every movie trailer nowadays.

"How to make someone cry using a piano" Expectation: Grab neck and smash into piano Reality: Play theme tune from UP in a higher octave

It worked. I played “pimps and hoes” in a higher octave and now I can’t stop crying.

Phineas and ferb theme in the higher octave is phenomenal

the only song that makes me cry is: "play him off,keyboard cat" idk why but it just sounds so nostalgic 😭

"Yeet the piano at them" makes them cry 100%

"How to make someone cry using a piano" Me: do it the asdfmovie way

Theme from Up is so simple it's brilliant. Beautiful piece

nostalgia hit hard in the middle

Bruhhh I was thinking in my head “wow I gotta try this with the interstellar theme.” And then this man proceeds to say “You can even do it with the interstellar theme!” I think I’m telepathic or something at this point.

How to make someone cry with a piano: make cringe sounds then break a part of the piano then throw it in the face.

The higher octaves tend to reflect a more emotional response because it is a psychological association between those tones and more emotional moods in audio visual media. Our minds make the association between past experiences with audio visual media and those emotions that are both tender and often moving.

His theme from Undertale. I actually tried it and it reminded me of some memories from when I was younger. Mostly with my brother. Needless to say it worked

"I'm not crying your crying"

imagine being like "oh, i'll just play these exact same notes in a higher octave, no biggie" * *cries in beginner cellist* *

I always play the second verse or parts of a song in a higher octave. Think it sounds pretty cool

Soo happy I’m a beginner and learnt this in 15 mins thank you!

Sometimes when I’m playing “His Theme” from Undertale I play it in a lower Transpose instead of Octave

“How to make someone cry with a piano” My first thought: “lift it up above your head and bring it down on top of them”

I seriously thought he was going to close the piano on someone's hands...

Or go down an octave, the melancholy that adds to Reinaeiry’s “Immortal” which is already a really sad song 👌👌

Ah, yes. Now I can make people cry with a Rick Roll.

Normally when I want to make someone cry with a piano I drop it on one of their loved ones. This is a far easier way! Thanks! 😂

"How to make someone cry with the piano" "Write the letters A-Z but miss H with a sharpie"

Him: “How to make a pianist cry” Me: **Genuinely scared for my life before anything even happens** 😨😰

I definitely didn’t start crying when he played the up theme in a higher octave🥺😢😭

“you can use any song!” “megalovania too?” 3 seconds later…. “man my eyes are hella dry”

Holy shit a tutorial on playing things in a higher octave. Thank you so much!

"How to make someone cry in a piano" Me: Sh*t on the keys

"how to make someone cry with a piano" Me sat here thinking hit them over the head with a piano 😶

"How to make someone cry using a piano" first thought, smash their head into it and slam the top down or somethin

This reminded me of my favorite dog in my life and I love my dog and I have to be there for him to get my back up for my birthday and I will have a lonely 😞 birthday

Why does the last theme sound so deep. It makes me think of life please send me the song to that

amazing! keep posting lessons like this

"Wanna make someone cry using a piano?" Idk why my first thought was hitting them with the piano

“how to make someone cry by using a piano” Me: Immediately thinks of picking up the piano and chucking it at someone😂😂🤣🤣💀

“How to make someone cry with a piano” My brain: hit them with it

The “sad” version just sounds like that one movie that has those emotions inside Riley