the beautiful plays the piano in this awesome episode of Criminal Minds, 6x16, Coda, hope you enjoy!! LIKE, Comment, subscribe my beautifuls:) I DO NOT OWN THIS!
This scene is the sweetest. The way Sammy grabs Reid's hand to play the piano with him us so special and Reid is so patient with him it made my heart melt.
"I can't..I..I never have before but, its essentially all math" while i'm half way through a fundamentals of music theory video taking notes and losing my shit.
Getting through to a child with special needs especially to the extreme that Sammy is like reid did is amazing. It’s a once in a life time experience that is probably one of the best feelings in the world
Tldr: People with high support needs deserve a life with human connection, not just a "once in a lifetime experience". I agree that forging that connection, especially with a child still finding their voice and means of communication, is enxhilirating when you make a breakthrough. I just hope you realize that people like Sammy will have to "breakthrough" to most people they meet in their life and that is an exhausting experience. By romanticizing moments like these makes it easier to forget that people with high support needs are still people. Its harder for them to connect with a world that wasnt built for them. People often seem determined to misunderstand those who think and see the world differently. These moments are often "once in a lifetime" events bc people do not spend their lives with differently abled people. When you have to take the time to unlearn your standards of communication and learn what the high support person wants, feels, and needs and how they individually communicate, it is so much easier to think of them as a child and blame and isolate people like sammy bc of things they cant control. Reid connected with sammy bc he was open and honest and listened to sammy. He asked sammy if he understood and believed him. Reid told sammy when he didnt understand and didnt blame sammy for not communicating in a way he could understand. When you see people as people and genuinely connect with them, no matter their individual needs, you learn to stop dehumanizing them by realizing that treating them as obstacles and objects you fail to acknowledge that while it can be difficult to work with them for reasons beyond their control, they can be assholes entirely on purpose and you can still love them anyway.
@@cait812 yep. My thoughts exactly. Reid had so much shit thrown at him so far. But they just. Poof. And the plot line is gone. I know this happens with big ensemble shows.... But so much wasted potential
He didn't just play "the simplest major scale". He played with one hand and the proper thumb-under crossover, which means the person has had lessons or taught himself -- so, it's a reasonable assumption that he plays the piano. In this case, Reid claims to not play, but somehow picked it up because it's mathematical. In reality, it's obvious the actor playing Reid has had at least a few years of piano lessons.
@@Finians_Mancave are you sure ? Cause I essentially learned a full song after watching someone play it twice on piano and had never even touched one before that. I wouldn’t say it’s “mathematical” but this guy seems to represent a person with Aspergers and has a photographic memory and in that case it isn’t far fetched at all that he would learn very quickly
@@Finians_Mancave you don't have to have had a few years of lessons to do a c-major scale with thumb-under-crossover and a few chords. Takes maybe half an hour to learn, maybe an hour if you're untalented. (Doesn't mean that it's impossible that he did have lessons though). Besides that the fingering of the downward scale was wrong. He crossed over with his index finger instead of the middle finger.
I know. I used to be able to play A Thousand Miles and River Flows in You but I don't really play. I just imitated the ones shown in RU-vid tutorials. XD
I love this scene! Reid is so patient with Sammy and the way they bond through the song on the piano is so heartwarming. Sammy voluntarily grabbing Reid's hand to place it in the right spots was a great surprise :)
The scene is really sweet, though Reid can clearly play the piano a little, it usually takes a little bit of time building up the finger strength and control for clear notes like that. I'm just being pedantic though as a pianist. It is a beautiful way to get through to the child though
As someone who is autistic I feel like Reid is on the spectrum also I like to remind people it’s a spectrum everyone reacts differently to it I feel it helps him with his work along side his brain power he definitely has traits of autism in my opinion
@@TheTaintedRelic yes I can confirm they did say that in one of the first episodes in the first season. The one with the twin blonde girls and the obsessed stalker
Broken Mirrors, S1, E5. The Unsun begins to list characteristics about all of the bau agents, and for Reid's, he says something along the lines of, "You're a team of profiles but somehow nobody's addressed the undiagnosed autistic." (That's definitely not exact, don't quote me.)
I've been trying to find the song my nana played on the piano before she died, we used to have a beautiful piano when I was little and when she would baby sit me she would play. .....she died a few years and I heard this song at one of my friends house and I recognized it and I went home and heard it on criminal minds......and I remembered that moment with her. And this song reminds me of her.....thank you....thank you so much....I wouldn't of found the name without you. This song means everything to me now
Season 1-7 had the best clear cast, the strongest one, 8-10 had Blake and she was ok but didn’t feel like family, Kate had potential but never came back
Every time I hear the song it gives me flashbacks and I think in a way that's what's happening to Sammy. I think when he plays this song he sees what happened to his parents and in a way that's what he's trying to tell Reid. This conversation sounded a little better in my head so if this sounds stupid I'm sorry...
For some people, it is. ASD is so varied that there are definitely people who communicate this way. Now, getting a Spencer Reid who can “talk” back to you so quickly would be nearly impossible, which could be why it’s not seen very often, but as someone who’s autistic, I can say that this IS how at least an aspect of ASD works for some people on the spectrum.
My friends and I (all autistic) had a fuckin blast watching this episode. I do find it funny how Reid is pretty much textually autistic but seems to have the same approach as me most of my life, just "Yeah probably but maybe if I don't look at it won't be there".
Let me start by saying I love Criminal Minds. However in the scene when I the camera pans up and they show the backing landscape I promise there isn’t a land mass in all of Louisiana that is that high. I live in Lake Charles Louisiana about 70 miles west of Lafayette. The highest point in Louisiana is only a little over 6 hundred feet. I don’t know we’re this was filmed but it wasn’t in South Louisiana.
It is either called the smile of a child, or the cry of a child, but we often call it 'coda'. You can RU-vid 'coda piano tutorial' and it'l come up, I'll send a link.
this scene was my 2nd time seeing autism in play...........not rain man.....and it actually helped me recognise some signs....glad that I got my kid early intervention at 2yo....
@@danna5048 Damn sis, it's been 8 months but I'll do my best. Ok, so the piano scene, in the end, represents a story. The kid is not playing music for entertaining purposes, he's doing it to communicate with Reid.
@@danna5048 And here's an article that explains in-depth: Sammy communicates through symbols, not words. Ergo, the “L” that he’s been repeatedly drawing isn’t a letter -- it’s a representation of the clock hands for three o’clock, which is the time he arrives at his parents’ music store after school each day. Prentiss and Seaver examine the surveillance tape from the music store for three o’clock on the day of the kidnapping. On it, Sammy enters the store and immediately starts playing the piano. Bill Thomas arrives shortly thereafter and delivers packages to Charlie and Alison. The team makes a few of their customary wild leaps in logic, which as usual turn out to be 100% correct, and accurately peg Bill as the unsub.
@@bryanho8938 "The team makes a few of their customary wild leaps in logic, which as usual turn out to be 100% correct, and accurately peg Bill as the unsub." what a beautiful summary of Criminal Minds
Everything on a computer is all generated by math (since you are just mapping concepts to numbers or patterns) so saying playing a piano is all math is stupid and pointless because everything can be represented with it.
