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as soon as the keyboard starts the car alarm doesn't even sound like an alarm anymore it's insane how music can turn any random sound into an instrument.
It's rendered. IDK what software was used, maybe a mix of Concert Creator AI (RIP) and Unity or UE4, but it doesn't look real. Everything is too "clean" and there's several notes not being pressed. You'd have to have 3 hands to play this exactly as it's heard. Listen and watch closely at 2:00. You hear the right hand playing higher notes, the left playing lower notes.... but where are the middle notes coming from?
it is real buddy, it would take more work to "fake" something like this rather then just learning it, also when u listen and look what hes pressing, its 100% accurate. If you really cant believe it and wanna investigate further slow the video down and write down each note pressed. If you don't know what hes pressing then you're not a pianist and so on don't have the right to judge@@frostbite1991
i will be the one to say that there's a high chance that he was already making a song that was keyed around B which is the same pitch as the car alarm, so he could've picked one of his W.I.P. pieces and fit it accordingly. But also I like to believe he made this song for the car alarm.
@@StunXPlayz im a piano nerd but i know nearly nothing about academy music theory, but i laughed so thank u. ill try to relay my understanding because im still figuring it out. (EDIT: the car alarm is actually a multiple of tones, but this explanation is based on the B sound in the horn, and therefore may be inaccurate) you can test this out on a piano. the car alarm is the same pitch as a "B" note. so if u play the B note on the piano it should sound the same as the car alarm. (car alarms aren't designed with perfect tuning in mind so the actual car sound could be in limbo somewhere between 2 semitones) but its *closest to B.* its important to remember that most songs use a specific note as a foundation to build the song from, which is the *key.* since the alarm is essentially just a "B", this song uses the B major scale. so B is our foundation note that the melody is based around. there's a select few note combinations that sound good when played in the presence of a recurring B note, and the recurring B note here is the Car Alarm. So the person in the video could have just been making a song already using the B major scale and have it fit serendipitously. If your oven timer made a sound that was like a C note over and over again, you could just find a song online that uses the C major scale and do the same thing.
i'm gonna make actual music nerds throw up with my terminology and limited knowledge but; honestly it's magical if you can recognise a song's key and you're sitting at your comfort instrument. because if the song stays in the same key, you can just play any note in that scale and almost every time it will sound good. combine this with general knowledge of music patterns and you can play in time to a song you've never heard before, making your own riffs as long as you're staying in the same scale.
I really wanted to say "it's driven" in a way that you would find funny and not like I was being a smart arse but this is the best I could come up with. ❤️
There was a movie I saw once, quite a while back, with a story about an astronaut floating alone through space. A ticking sound he could not identify or end nearly drove him mad... until he made a symphony about it in his mind. This instantly reminded me of that. Identical transformation of something maddening into something transcendantly beautiful, rescuing the mind from the anguish and torment of what is beyond our control. Thank you for sharing your amazing talent.
As an aspiring pianist, i always appreciate how professional speedy piano playing looks like a toddler slamming his hands around the keyboard as fast as possible, but it actually sounds good
This guy also has a suuuper exagerrated technique. Have a look at some proper top end pieces like Liszts Mazeppa, 99% of pianists wont look half as dramatic.
growing up i had a ceiling fan in my bedroom, it was old, terribly unbalanced, and ALWAYS made a damn near ENTIRELY random ticking noise, there were a handful of patterns it'd tick out, but with no set order for when each pattern would happen. i LOVED that fan, and still miss it 20 years later, because after a while it became an anchor for my brain to run through random sound loops to go along with the patterns, and then join them together in the few seconds of silence before another pattern would emerge, every night was a new song to lul me to sleep. to this day i cannot sleep properly without the sound of a fan in the room... but never have i found a fan that made me sleep quiet like that one did.
@@dranoelhtar4655 considering our dumb brain has had us come back and watch this several times over since weve seen it, yeah we kinda enjoyed it. then again this is coming from someone who likes a techno song that uses soundbites from an industrial printer so i think that says more about us than anything else...
I can see this as a song at the end of a movie where the character gets in a crash, the music fading in with the car horn fading out, and the events of their life and the movie flashing before their eyes and when the song ends the car horn is replaced by a heart monitor that falls silent
There is something so intense about the melody and how passionately he plays it, it's like you can feel the fury and frustration that built up after months of dealing with this car alarm finally put into one supremely cathartic work of art that he released all at once
As a musician who has worked in studios most of my life and with artists most of my life, studying music most of my life, just seeing this guys hands immediately reminded me of Liberace’s amazing hand style. Many pianists are stiff and their hands move in almost a robotic motion. But this person’s hand style is simply intoxicating. I want to see the rest of him. I bet he could make a killing as a solo pianist or at the very least a musician at a dueling piano bar like the ones i used to frequent in Memphis, Nashville and i even went to one in Orlando Florida. And we can’t even see what is actually happening as his go pro can’t catch every frame of his hands moving and sometimes it just looks like his hands are floating above the keys. GREAT VIDEO! Friggin car alarm! LOVE IT!
During a recent hospitalization, I was annoyed by the medical instrument alarms until I realized that they were a great rhythm section for tunes. One played an major 7th chord arpeggio. Another regularly played the same note. I laid in bed, made up tunes in my head to the alarms and was happy again. This video showed how to make an annoying situation fun. The world abounds with similar opportunities.
I often do the same thing with credit card readers when someone leaves in a credit card for too long. It has a certain rhythm, pitch, and musical quality. It'd be fun to see it performed by an orchestra arranged as a symphony.
I worked in a book factory, I just had to load paper in and stack the books once they were out of the machine. A very monotonous job with fine paper particles everywhere, the machines were so loud I didn’t even know what to think anymore. But at some point the rhythm started getting to me, I began to remember all the songs I knew with that tempo and eventually new tunes started to pop up in my head
Somehow fits? It fits due to it's harmonics. The car horn is playing the notes Ab and B which are a minor third apart. He is playing piece in a key and using chords that musically compliment the notes of the horn.
@MM-jf1me You're so welcome. An instrumentalist with a deeper knowledge of musical theory probably could have explained it a bit better. I was a career vocalist until I retired. Then again, those folks often talk above the general listener's heads.
He intentionally made the song to fit with the alarm Of course it's a good metronome, it's a perfect pause between each horn, that's all you need for a metronome.
I like to imagine that the owner of the car was on his way to turning it off, until he heard this majestic masterpiece and decided to wait until the piece ended to stop the alarm
This is genius. This is madness. This made several minutes of car alarm one of the most important things that I absolutely needed to keep listening to. I don't even know what say. Amazing.
He isn't just annoyed to the point of making a piano arrangement, he's so annoyed that he made an arrangement that conveys a huge amount of emotion. He needed to desperately get all of that pent up rage out.
So true. Art is a way people cope with pain, anyone going through extreme pain can discover their specific artistic talent. I think it's a form of survival inside every human. It's what moves us to tears when we hear or see outstanding art created by someone. It's the deep subconscious understanding of the pain behind the beauty.
It almost sounds like the music score for an apocalyptic movie. The dramatic tone of the song along with kind of frantic tone of the car alarm adds a relatable kind of building tension that turns into a desolate, slightly ominous one as it continues to go unaddressed. Really cool.
I love how the blaring alarm gave you the total freedom to play as loud as you wanted. Kinda cool how you took a negative experience and turned it so positive and beautiful.
It's an electric piano and since it's being recorded clearly via a direct line it's a safe bet that they're only playing through the headphones and no one outside would be able to hear it.
and the audio we hear probably doesn't match the video and instead added a track recorded in studio (and the car alarm probs isn't going off either)@@Keonyn
It feels like the montage music for a emergency operation, when doctors operate day and night, and the car alarm is the heart monitor beeping. This song is fire
Imagine standing by the car and between beeps hearing piano of in the distance somewhere, and it seems to be synchronized to your horn. You can't quite make out the details, but then you see it: two buildings away on the second story, an actual wizard harnessing the power of your alarm to become more powerful.
it doesn’t even look like he’s playing it sometimes because he plays the notes so fast so it looks like he’s just waving his hands around infront of it and music is being produced. i love it
he isnt actually playing it, I dont think that piano is even real, ive seen him with it in bizarre places. but he is certainly playing the right notes, just with the music overlayed
I've been waking up to any song I want since high school. I always pick a song I love to hear because I think it's unhealthy to start the day annoyed. You sabotage yourself by hitting snooze.
I don't recommend doing that, you know that the first times you hear you alarm isn't that bad but overtime you start to hate it? Well, that can happen with anything that wakes you up, a song, a person, an animal, anything that wakes you up overtime you most likely will hate. It has happened to me once, I tried using one of my favorites song and then I had to literally remove it from my everyday playlist bc everytime I ear it it makes me angry and anxious.
this is why i love artists. they hear a sound, any kind of sound and they are like "f*ck it, this is music to my ears" and makes something beautiful. I've come to the conclusion that music is my favourite kind of art
Reminds me of the intro to "A moment apart" by Odesza which talks about the beat of the song being a loud piece of equipment on a soviet spacecraft, and the music is the Cosmonaut coping with it. "The cosmonaut decides the only way to save his sanity, is to fall in love with the sound"
@@Link2editionI had no idea lol. That song is also the title screen music in Forza Horizon 4, I didn’t know it was supposed to represent something like that
That’s it! Logically I know the car alarm is a constant but my brain can’t help but hear the car alarm changing tone every bar. ‘Context’ is the perfect word ❤
You may enjoy this song Cherry by Ratatat, its around 9 mins long iirc and builds different parts over the course of the song when it comes together at the end all layered. I like it
Well now we know the car Alarm is in B4 on piano so he used a well tactic to put the arrangement to G#m which the revenant major or the mom of chords 1 which is B major so I love this kind of arrangement is G#m in 4/4 and uses G#m E C#m Ab E B
At the end when the piano stops and that oppressive alarm takes over again really got me. It wasn’t instant, the memory of the piano lingered a bit and just faded away. Dang, that was wild.
Not sure how real vs staged this is, but it's really cool regardless. Awesome that you take a repetitive, mentally exhausting noise and make it beautiful. I will never hear a car horn the same way again.
Yeah, but they're also born to be cringe. Whenever I hear someone play the lick I want to commit arson. Now I hear that our top jazz band is playing a tune that part of it is just the lick repeated going down, and the professor is just taking the piss out of it. God bless the man. That one's going in my cringe compilation.
@@reddo6092That's where I got completely stuck in piano lessons. The first song where I had to play new notes with the left hand while holding a note with my right. I absolutely couldn't do it.
@@psymar Same. I'm new to the piano too, and I can manage to play the left hand part and the right hand part seperately. But both at the same time? No fucking way lol. No clue why that is so hard when I can write fairly fast with both hands on a normal ass keyboard.
I suppose it might come to natural talent too, some have it easier to learn, some have to put in more effort. I'd say the ones with less talent are actually more impressive as they have to work much harder to be able to play
@@musicman0329I think everyone can learn to play with their hands separated. Look at the gamers, their left hand is completely disconnected from the right game and does completely different things
Honestly I'm impressed and amazed. Having this level of technical control over your playing while sticking to a (not entirely consistent) beat is absolutely astonishing. I aspire to make music like this from everyday sounds. Beautiful, kind person. Beautiful.
I think the really cool thing about this is the juxtaposition. A car alarm isn't meant to be particularly musical or creative. It's a robotic noise on an infinite, unchanging rhythm, meant to attract attention. There's no passion in it. It's a machine generating a noise. You're able to take that monotone sound and wrap it in the beauty of the human soul. Well done.
After listening to this about 2 weeks ago, my wife and I heard a car alarm go off, looked at each other, and smiled. I dont think I will ever be annoyed by this sound again. Youve changed it for me.
All I want to do is commit this to memory so much that I just hear this brilliant rendition! Course they may lock me up for dancing and flinging my arms wide with a euphoric face lifted upwards.
Most cars have 2 horns at different pitches, like this one. When he changes key, your brain just harmonizes with the correct horn and it sounds like a modulation.
I used to work as a valet and had to stand outside a building downtown for hours at a time. There was a car across the street that had one of those old alarms that cycled through different sounds. A mockingbird that lived nearby learned the sounds and would mimic them all the time (and improve upon them IMO).
This may be one of the most profound pieces of music I have ever heard. Written all because someone’s car alarm going off was such a frequent occurrence for this man that he wrote it. In some unknown tempo set by a car alarm. This is incredible.
If this was played by a neighbor in my apartment complex every time a car alarm went off… I wouldn’t care if any car alarms went off. Absolutely gorgeous!