Jacob Collier Explains Music in 5 Levels of Difficulty ft. Herbie Hancock | WIRED 

his style is like John Mayer's

sounds like blues and jazz

exactly.

@@unlshtb4524 Yeah ! And slipping that minor chord in there absolutely made the end of their musical conversation. That young man is ballsy and I'm loving it :)

dude seemed vaguely high XD

this is the hardest I've ever laughed at a youtube comment

@@liammoynihan5419 true thought 😂😂

Halfway there

this might be my favourite RU-vid comment

I'd like to skip the college and professional stages, any recommendations?

yeahh..

right

oh yeah

Amazing.

Beautiful

💯

*more than he does. Respectfully, Herbie Hancock has been at it for far too long to attempt to act as if they're in the same league. Esperanto Spalding is a prodigy and I still understand d that she and Christian Mcbride aren't in the same league.

otherwise, the trivium - grammar, logic, rhetoric.

For me, I think that point was "You've heard of the circle of 5ths right?" After that, I was lost :P

I wasn't lost until him and Herbie started flirting over harmony lol

What a quote man

yes. its like they understand each other over just piano chords... wow

Yeah I had to rewind it for a second because I knew I missed something there :D

run

“Have you heard this song called Chameleon?”

I was glad he began that interaction with questions. Appropriate humility

He has all the right to ask

"Have you heard of amazing grace?"

Oh wow, congratulations!

Where did you go to college that’s so awesome

I love to hear it. It's like your life comes into color. Cheers.

AMAZING, ENJOY YOUR INTELLECTUALITY

Congrats, where do you study?

Yeah! Mozart, yet another reincarnation.

so, yet another youtube tutorial ;)

LOL

I'm a drummer and I understood through the professional scene. It's subtle and based strongly on feeling.

That is because by the end, there is no explanation, its just uh hum.... yeah...ahhhhh. Imagine I scientist explaining electromagnetism at the *expert* level and just saying, well you know, light shines, mmmm yeah, like so cool man, its just jus so bright man, yeah, uh hum, would you take him seriously?

@@n4rzul in an art field like music, once two professionals understand almost everything about their craft, they don't need to be specific or articulate because their peers know exactly what they mean. Nothing needs to be over-explained or simplified into baby-talk. It can be as simple or as complicated as it needs to be as long as their peer understands.

Greg C on god though

Bro that’s so C major

that’s so Csus7 and b one octave higher aswell as a repeating f to g arpeggio every 2 measures

And that’s on musicianship 😌✨💅🏻

@@MyPissBurns I'm getting A flat dominant 13 vibe coming off you, you know, a real Ab Gb Bb C F

I mean the host is Jacob Collier

I think they mentioned they met before

The change between 'Hm. Care to demonstrate that?' and then laughing with joy seconds later as Jacob demonstrates that.

Herbie Hancock hasn't just been playing music longer than Jacob Collier has been playing music. Herbie Hancock has been playing music longer than Jacob Collier has been *alive.*

@@kenpokid10 Pretty sure OP was talking about the guy before Herbie

good example of how being good at something doesn't necessarily make you a good teacher of a thing.

⁠@@kenpokid10w

"Real recognize real"

Exactly.

Lmao

Can't blame him.

@@bananokratos Of course not, it would be ridiculous.

lol

I mean jamming with him would be such an honour

Jacob:🎹 Herbie:🎹

Hahahaha I was looking for this comment

he becomes russian? if you know what i mean)))

ConnieP That guy seemed so amazed!

good comparison honestly he was basically doing the same thing as a car navigator, he's playing chords and using musical terms to describe them

Totally G sus

g sus af

That is a great analogy 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

Samir?

Can't help it when Jacob explains it in a way it's fun to listen to

right

Even as a person that understands music theory i couldnt understand gg

should be top comment

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!

which second?

God: **Telepathically perfects Jacob's knowledge about music in an instant**

@@TheIndogamer Jacob: did anything happen? It feels like nothing changed

Yeah God is good, but I honestly prefer Herbie

Manuel Fontana you right *level 5 god Level 6 Herbie

@@Taco_Burrito39 Jacob: **starts talking about the VY Canis Majoris tuning**

Not even scientists, more like a Druid and a Sage performing alchemy experiments lol

Or two philosophers having a conversation...

he looked like he was in love with jacob

@@blondedivy LMAO the way he looked at him😂

ꕥ LMAO

@@blondedivy lol, to me was more like a "yeah dude, whatever, just stop talking through it" 😂

@@TeakTeakchannel so true😭i was born a vocal prodigy but i have never been able to put it into words like jacob. like he’s beyond a prodigy. i’ve been surrounded by music prodigies since i was little and have never run into someone like jacob collier😭 his understanding is just different. i would pass out and die if he showed up in front of me

Lmao. Can't wait to hit the Herbie phase.

Can't wait till i'm old enough to be Herbie Hancock.

LMAOOO

Tonia Di Biase ... I came to comment exactly this. Not all heroes wear capes my friend. Keep fighting the good fight.

I aspire to retire when I Herbie Hancock.

I think that was just a nod to resolve the tension in the chords and end the musical conversation

@@BrandonMillerRapsyou’re right man

Brian May, Astrophysicist and Queen Guitarist: Let me explain

I could imagine brian may laughing at this scene

It’s not like I invented a burger.

As a 4th year physics student taking a music theory class for the first time, 100% can confirm. ^

@@avenp.5739 Cringing at how smart you're trying to sound. You only sound stupid when trying to talk like that lmao.

Do you *know* how much my Martini-sipping Hamptons parents paid for my education??!!!11?? ;-)

Exactly I felt personally attacked xD Like of course he has heard of circle of fifths, but then my mind was blown away

But do you know the circle of 9ths?

Andrew Bryan thats called the whole tone scales XD

Dailin Li you are correct.

I am really glad you were able to have a moment like that again

Change a to the and it’s probably more accurate

Correction: “my name is Jacob Collier and I am THE musician” there I fixed it.

“My name is Jacob Collier and i am music”

“My name is Jacob Collier and I am everything.”

“My name is Jacob Collier and I am” ) OR: “My name is Jacob Collier and that is it” ;)

We here vibing with them

How was that even Amazing Grace at the end there? It sounded random. 😶 Were they just playing random chords that might fit the tune?

Understandable, what would he explain or teach to Herbie Hancock? 😆

@@1Flyingfist It was improv

@@1Flyingfist you wouldn’t get it lmaooo

I mean, it said Eastman. That's like asking a student at MIT if they've heard of algebra.

@@reepicheepsfriend well put

lmao

At the same time, you still gotta ask 😂

yea it seemed patronizing, and the college student looked like he wanted to punch this guy

JustForFun this is the best comment here you win

I guess Herbie Hancock do know something

NUT

@@mattpk2385 thanks babe

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X'D Good one!

Sounds like Bob Ross talking about his paintings lol

Underrated comment.

lmao

LOL... 😂😂😂😂😂

What a perspective! Don’t let this go over y’all heads!

It’s like the Picasso quote: It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

There’s so many intricacies going on in their music; if you don’t know how to listen to it, it can be confusing

That's the goal.

Reminds me of something my music teacher told me once: "Everybody wants to PLAY jazz, but nobody wants to LEARN jazz."

People say similar things about abstract art

This comment deserves far more credit than it has.

LMAO THIS IS THE NOTE F LMAOAOAOA

There aren't many people who have perfect pitch - and really it's for our benefit and not the pro player.

Lol funniest comment on RU-vid

xriex it’s for the professional as well. It’s hard even after years of experience to just pull the note out of thin air

HAHAHA HE WAS PROPERLY STARING, no break of eye contact HAHA

When musicians are so focused on feeling the sound they sometimes forget about their body language I've seen it happening to many players

@@lalasee2873 no he just gae

@@Speed4Runs 😂😂

@@Speed4Runs LOL

Thousand of words?…. Right, right!… yeah, yeah…

Omg yesss lol

YUP

I totally agree!

9:00 btw

Even bigger flex: “when I was working with Miles Davis”

You just described jazz my guy

Ahah🤣 true

It’s called jazz

Happy thousandth like my friend!

Pure musical conversation. (And I'm still pretending that I understand a liiiiiiitle bit of it)

Genuinly underated comment

This is a great comment

His violin phasing piece seriously messed me up. Listening to it on cans with my eyes closed I started to get the sensation the I was spinning, faster and faster And then had to quickly throw my hands up to my neck because I was sure that the core was wrapping around my neck, only to discover I was neither spinning nor wrapping The cord around my neck.

This is the greatest comment I've ever seen on the Internet. I just wiped the tears out of my eyes I laughed so hard, oh my god. Bravo.

Dan Saunders 😂😂😂

felt a little bit condescending

He was there to listen. Simple there was no need for him to speak if he knew it or not, could be shy, that could just be his personality you never know

If you're a music student and in the same room as Jacob Collier, it would be foolish not to do a lot more listening than talking.

id be smiling if jacob colier was in my room talking to me about harmony

@@Christopher-md7tf very fair

Paul Goodwin - Nope. Herbie is the last level. Notice that Jacob mostly asks questions at level 5? Level five is catching up to Herbie Hancock.

The Hard Problem I agree, Mr Problem. I was being facetious, Herbie is undoubtably the last level - at the moment. However, Collier, if he can wind his chops in, looks set to become one of our greatest public music educators. 😀

Paul Goodwin - Right on!

Level 7, the keyboard turns on the camera and just starts playing what Jacob is dreaming :-D

Level 8, four more keyboards are added, encasing them in in a dice playing a 3D instrument with 88 x 6 keys In level 10, their brainwaves fabricate spherical instrument ensemble holograms encasing stadiums of distant galactic listeners

😂

It's at least one very possible explanation.

Herbie doesn't look 77 either.

It's probably also a little fair to hold our other 23 year olds to just a slightly higher standard lol

77? Woh, looks like 52

they lost me at Bodhi

@@unknowablerootvegetable lmao. The kid’s a legend.

I need a timestamp for this 👀😂

@@K_J_Coleman_Composer 9:34

the part with herbie is actually a little hokey doe, they def made some mistakes when they were explaining to each other

🤣

How can you be a musician that hasn’t heard of amazing grace, it’s like being a basketball player not knowing how to dribble

@@bubba4847 it's a religious song that isn't widely known in every single part of the world

@@bubba4847 it's also a largely western song. If I berrated you for not knowing Махаббат бер маған you'd realize that pseudo pop culture music isn't applicable to every place ever

@@bubba4847 He was talking to a seven year old, to be fair.

I met him once, I went to one of his shows. he’s a really cool dude. he’s super nice.

Fax

It was fun watching him open up. You can tell at the beginning he's there to try his best to be a student, but he's uncomfortable due to his level of mastery. But as soon as Collier throws something at him he doesn't already understand he becomes almost childlike, and you get a window into how the true master is always ready to revel in being a student of his craft.

it was probably one of my favorite parts because it just shows you that there’s always new things to learn if a professional can learn something new then everyone can yknow

nice try, professional guy

this is it, it found the best comment.

lmao why is this so funny

lmao that's so cute

idk why i’m dying of laughter

"now you talk" "now you play"

lmao

:( i felt bad too, poor melody

This is so sweet :(

@@apug296 'Sarrite, it made a good investment with its meagre earnings, now lives in a penthouse on Prak Ave.

the addition of the word lonely (a very subjective and emotional term) is the only reason why the whole proposition had sense, and argumentatively this is a trap! so jacob can vindicate his own argument causing the kid believe him although it's not necessary true, how many of our experiences are this way and we live upon floating castles of thruths and meanings connected only to the emotions of our preexistent experience

Lmao. Like how could he NOT have?

While rudementary for the musician that into question was for the audience to set up the rest of the conversation.

it is the spiral of fifths, really.....

@@DanFromIran is it the cyclone of fifths, really.....

Just small talk leading up to an eventual exchange of phone numbers? I thought they was feelin' each other. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Lmao

Directed by Robert B. Weide

Loool

I'm done. 😂

Jacob Collier: *years of academy training wasted*

Never ask a college student about a circle of fifths. You'll end up hearing a story about 10 guys with tequila

Marceline the Vampire Spleen why?

@@marcelinethevampirespleen8492 lol, even in a music school?

Cameron Vadnais Lol? Can you even operate a glock?

@@marcelinethevampirespleen8492 hhhhh

Remove the limitation of "vocabulary thinking" and thought becomes more efficient, too.

So true. It was more like yeah yeah right right music music yeah yeah right yeah music :D

I didn't get the last song, but their smile at the end tells us their language is on another level

...or they simply tried to hide the awkwardness of the situation. A 23-year-old dude explaining something to a 78-year-old is already kinda awkward, add to that the idea of anyone at all "explaining" music to Herbie Hancock and you get a disaster. We're talking about 1) a living legend, 2) with multiple degrees, 3) who gives university lectures of his own. Seriously? I'm not a fan of Hancock at all, I barely ever heard any of his stuff, so don't take this as a fanboy getting offended by proxy. Scroll through the comments and you'll see that people who know anything about harmony, or simply have enough commuincative skills, understand that there's no need for this "explaining" after level 2. There's no real discussion happening at all. Asking a music student if he's ever heard of the circle of fifths (something you find out in year one of learning music) - really, dude? And even when he asked Hancock for advice, he managed to do it in such a weird, condescending, smarmy way - "How do you find the courage to make a choice?". "So, you see, Herb, I'm sitting in front of my piano, and my extreme brain-power allows me to see all these endless possibilities, all these chord choices and key shifts... How do I handle all that vast richness? Oh, the pain of making a choice - something that those other plebians cannot even imagine!" So yeah, if you're in an extremely awkward situation, there's nothing to talk about, and there's a piano in front of you - what do you do? That's right - shut up and play! All while wearing a serious face, nodding along, patting each other on the back and making meaningful grunts. "Oh, yes, that was smart, you're a smart person and an expert!" "Why, of course, and that gives me the necessary expertise to pronounce you a smart expert person as well, tah-tah-tah!"

@@kathorsees everyone was like lol wtf I already know this. only the professional had the courage to try to make things interesting, but Jacob was like, nope lol I gotta stick to the script they gave me, sorry guys Cx

...and don't you forget it. 😉

@@jerryjazzbo2845 Jerry Jazzbo... hahaha thats a memorable name.

He is tho

Listen to headhunters and you'll understand why, absolute beast.

Herbie is different

his response was actually very polite. Regardless of how trivial it may seem, it's always good to touch base when u dont know the other person

Yes, but do you KNOW what the circle of fifths is?? Yes, but do you KNOW?? Yes, but have you heard of Giant Steps? "Ah, I know nothing."

I have had the opportunity to go to the Eastman school of music to visit a few times it’s pretty cool. I know you probably don’t care but most of the students there are just like him very nice polite and kind.

He's sitting there talking with Jacob Collier. He probably was secretly wetting himself in excitement. But good god, i would love to have someone in my life look at me like that while jamming.

@@ChrisM-qo1jc ya

HAHAHA I was just about to comment about this

Tbf, wouldn't you do that with a now 4x Grammy winning artist ahahahaha

The dude was so seductive a guitar spawned in his hands out of nowhere.

@@stephaniem8467 Yeah

lowkey i ship them

Hiiiiiiiii! Huge fan here!

Hey

Haha, that's probably because they're actually pretty good friends

There's literally nothing in this video that Herbie didn't already know! 🤣

i read that as as "i love how they touch each other in the 5th level" and i was like wtf

Jacob is like modern day Bach

Orome Herbie is one of his long time mentors... you are exactly correct

Right, it becomes more like a student giving a presentation about what he knows to a teacher that already knows it

I think at that point Jacob wisely moves to the Socratic method and helps Herbie realize things about himself and phrasing them in a way that educates everyone including himself

Jacob is the translator.

no one is a teacher when herbie hancock enters the room, besides him

I mean, yeah, but you don't even have to be that expert in music to do that! Music has always been a language, and a uniquely universal one at that, and what's even cooler about it is that literally everybody can pick up an instrument and get a feel for it! Of course to play music with other people one must learn a bit of music theory, at least to some extent, but after that you're free to do anything you and your, say, high school "wanna make a band" buddies desire! Since music is an art form, a lot of the time it's really driven by emotions, and feelings, and as such it quickly becomes really easy to use those feelings to produce music the way you want to, which you can then intertwine with other people's music. That's why I love improvisation in music.

that's what jamming is all about

That final harmonization they both spoke was so satisfying.

💯

I know you mean this as a joke but when I’m with my professor and he asks me a question 90% of the time the response should be done on my instrument. If it’s in words it’s wrong.

Herbie says "hey, how's it goin, let's take this somewhere smooooth", and Jacob says "guhioWHOIQ:EJA:IOgjsop;QIhgW;LKSMLKJ, are you impressed?"

As someone who takes AP music theory, when in it's in our head it makes sense but hearing someone else talk about it, it's a lot oh yeah yeah, let it sit, and realize it later

they understood the concept of harmony in its entirety that there was nothing else for them to say except "yeah"

They finished playing and just laughed. They didn’t have to speak because they already communicated with music. Beautiful!

"Pointing" tones😅

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So true, I keep coming back to this video every few months to check if I've understood something more.

Dude, exactly same. It feels so good when you have "aha" moment after "aha" moment.

So relatable

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No no. When he met Herbie. Is Herbie explain to him.

Level 7: Ohmmmmmmmm... Ohmmmmmmmm... Ohmmmmmmmm...

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA

Level 8: *intense silence*

Level 9: harmonized silence 😂😂😂

Level 10: RREEEEEEeeeeeeeeeEeeeeEEeeeeee

I would listen to every word this kid says, as gospel as well. He’s incredibly imaginative with music.

Fair

Yes, the last conversation was almost surreal. They pretty much said a couple phrases about inspiration and a little bit of technical stuff about notes and the whole rest of the exchange was in music. They pretty much went over technicality and into the realm of abstract, talking in notes.

As a teen but in band I get the college level explanation.

@@mekenziebrown3205 👏

@@ryanzea7196 OK buddy

You know you’re special when you get played on by Herbie Hancock

Thank u 4 dumbing it down

@@nicolasberube5188 lmao exactly

You're *always* in for a wild ride with Collier

Dr. Glickenstine not Herbie?

Dr. Glickenstine I'd say more so with herbie

kdt its about to get jazztastic in here

"This is where the fun begins"

Was gonna like this but it's at 69 so I couldn't

Adventrium noble effort but it has been made useless

Quazy Duck so sad

Nah. The kid was into Jacob, but Jacob and Herbie fell in love in the end

leave ur yaoi fantasies in your brain plz.