@@eliasgonzalez5357 True, especially if the piece has accidentals. I don't know why they're called accidental notes if they're composed on purpose, but I love how a lot of people perk up at them 😂
no offense but i think its more suggestive of how skilled the COMPOSER of the piece was.. and how popular and iconic it is. dont get me wrong, hes obviously skilled. but that opening phrase is unlike any other, and he even got the first like two beats correct. much more, the clip that PRECEDED it was the correct piece, so our brains knew what to listen for.
I feel like people notice mistakes more so when your live covering a popular song everyone knows. I normally don't play popular songs but I do play very diatonic music and I also feel that if I mess up, people can still hear it. I just tell them I had a little jazz slip lol
@@PeaceNinja007 Yea that’s true, it also depends on what mistake you are making. If you are playing another note in the same key it does not sound off :p
I was at a studio recording a few demos with my band. I play the trumpet. I cracked on a high note and asked to redo it. Both sound engineers could not hear where the crack was. Neither could the rest of my band. It ended up on the final version and I can still hear it everytime I play the demo. No one else I've played it for can hear it
Imperfections are what makes music special. In a world of midi nowadays, imperfections are hard to replicate naturally and are often what producers are looking for.
One night of missed practice, only the musician notices. Two nights of missed practise, the band notices. Three nights of missed practise everyone notices.
@@piano_in_the_wild This video assured me to play the entire La Campanella in front of my music room one day lol. I am learning that song, and I can play 2 minutes into the piece.
@@usx06240 I would, but I haven't the faintest idea where I can find him talk about this. Is there a video in particular? I'm guessing tonebase but I really have no idea.
My h.s. choir director used to say, "Never underestimate the ignorance of your audience." It's a truth that has served me well. One of the hardest things I ever learned was how to accept a compliment when I knew I had made mistakes. Just smile and say thank you, sans explanation or self-deprecation. Don't reprimand people's compliments. It's as if you're telling them they are too stupid to know the difference between a good performance and a bad one. And while that may be true, it's incredibly rude to point it out!! 💯
That's what my sax teacher taught me at the end of my senior recital when she complimented me and I mentioned my failures instead of taking the complement. She said "shut up and say thank you!" 😂... That stuck with me.
@@tomtativewhen you learned a piece you will immediately know if you hit a wrong note even without hearing anything, because your hands, exes and brain all know what you were supposed to play
Really? I’m a pianist and a friend of mine is a drummer. There have been multiple times I heard him play and he said he messed up a bunch but I didn’t notice any of it.
For my senior sax recital in college, there was a high note followed by a tricky run back down. I kinda got it, but I noticed my own failures and I know my sax teacher heard me play it better before. When she came and congratulated me at the end, I said "yeah but I missed the tricky part!"... She looked at me and said "shut up and take the compliment! Nobody else noticed! Just say thank you and move on"... That stuck with me for life. We can be so critical of ourselves that we forget how much joy we can bring to others with our music.
lol I had a whole comment thread debating someone justifying contemporary music as .... music, and this was one of my arguments. The audience doesn't even know what they're listening to. You can make a "mistake" and no one will ever notice, it's lazy, requires no effort, and honestly ugly lol
Can definitely relate. First time I performed a Chopin Etude, I was totally unprepared because even though I knew all the notes I didn’t understand the technique and did not play it expressively. In the performance I arguably played more wrong notes than right notes. I felt awful afterwards. And the audience thought I sounded fantastic.
That is so real 😂😭 I’ve had a concert last year in which I did so much mistakes and my mother would replay and replay the recording, loving what I had played and each time, I would literally roll on the ground in pain
Dude, this actually happened to me I was supposed to be playing E chord and I ended up hitting the third instead of the route, and it sounded terrible and so I had to keep playing till like resolve it. It was so bad.
A piece if advise I give to musicians, and probably the most important (that took me a long time to really learn) is than no one hears your mistakes more than you do. Unless the mistake is egregious, chances are most people won’t even notice
I can relate. when you know your music better than anyone, YOU know when YOU SCREW UP, and only you hear it because everyone else is just absorbing it in a general sense.
One time in an audition i froze for a small moment. I left the stage almost crying, but a couple of days later my mom genuinely asked if it was a mistake or part of the music 'cause she didn't remembered that part from when she heard me studying
Rubinstein once said, "If I miss one day (of practice), I notice it; if I miss two days, the critics notice it; if I miss three days, the *audience* notice it!" The moral: practice, practice, practice! 🧐😬🎶🎹
This is sooo accurate lmao. That's why when you're learning, every music teacher ever will tell you to play past it, especially during a performance. If I make a mistake, the first thing I want to do is restart, but if I'm performing live, it's best not to.
I played alto sax in the school band for 8 years (stage orchestra, not marching band). Every year at work when the Christmas music starts playing, there's a version of Canon in the song rotation where one of the violins plays a flat note, and none of my coworkers has any idea what I'm talking about. They apparently can't hear it, but it's so blatantly obvious to me.
When I was in music school, we always had a small concert where you would perform if you accomplished something such as good placement on competition. I won the first place recently, so I had to perform. In middle of playing the piece, my brain and hands just stopped, like fully stopped. I just looked at the crowd and my teacher in the back, there were a few giggles in that dead silence, and then I remembered the notes and continued playing. I'm pretty sure they noticed da mistake.
It's so true, and as we know that the audience doesn't hear it, we act as if nothing had happened! Since I've been doing concerts I've gotten used to it, however now I notice that: When I pull my mouth, I play in tune. When I play out of tune I smile. So when I play out of tune people think I'm playing in tune but when I play in tune they think I'm playing out of tune 😭😭😭
