How They Fool Ya (live) | Math parody of Hallelujah
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- Опубликовано: 2 июн 2024
- Happy Tau Day! Here's something a bit out of the ordinary for you.
Thanks to Matt Parker, @standupmaths, for the invite.
More about the event: festivalofthespokennerd.com/s...
Thanks to Tim Blais, @acapellascience, for helpful thoughts on the song, including the key phrase "How they fool ya"
Video about the circle pattern
• This pattern breaks, b...
Video about those integrals
• Researchers thought th...
Video about the primes in base 4
• Paterson Primes (with ...
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:20 - Song
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I love that when he played guitar but didn't have another verse, I was once again fooled by a pattern.
Oh, opportunity lost. He should have started the next verse with how they were now fooled by pattern into thinking there was another.
@@TormodSteinsholt But then there would be another and they wouldn't have been fooled.
@@dumaass Unless he stopped without finishing the verse?
@@dumaassbut as being fooled by patterns is a pattern within the song, not being fooled by a pattern would fool those expecting to be fooled by a pattern
@@Robbedem sure
This is so good.
We need more semipatterns-
WHAT
I remember that prime pattern in base 4 from a Numberphile video
Edit: actually, Grant has posted the link down on the comment section and it actually featured himself
You are very right.
Boring
There's something about 3B1B's edifying manner of speech that had me sincerely confused about whether or not he was joking for a lot longer than I'd care to admit.
ditto 😂
It's true that Leonard Cohen wrote a whole bunch of different verses before settling on the ones he did. Other artists doing covers will often root around in those to put together their take.
It's that seed of truth that lets you follow the lie longer than you otherwise would. Which probably wasn't intentional but fits the theme.
lmao
Honestly, true! I somewhat thought it could be legit until Grant mentioned base 4. I already heard from a relative that ordinary people don't care at all about other bases way too many times to not connect the dots by that point!
Footnote:
For those asking how the integral didn't give it away, I'm autistic and watched way too many educational parodies including Calculus Rhapsody! 😂
@@MathNerd1729 I am too, so I can't really speak for all the allistics watching - but in hindsight I think everyone else probably figured it out at _"one of the earlier versions was about this particular pattern in math"_ 😉
Brings a whole new meaning to "chord progression".
😂 Too good
underrated comment
SAME THOUGHTS
r/angryupvote
i mean that is literally how chord is used in the first verse of both hallelujah and this song
It is legally required to have at least 1 Matt Parker on screen when making a semi-serious math video involving patterns that are almost complete.
Yes
Parker Patterns?
@@thebiblioholicDefinitely Parker Patterns.
@@thebiblioholic We're officially calling it that now.
Nah, that is just another pattern that fooled ya 😂
Grant turned an sorrowful lament about love and loss into a sorrowful lament about love and loss. Truly inspirational!
“Loss” lmao
@@farrankhawaja9856you didn't
so this song's ontology is basically like a tensor - it maps like a tensor LOL!
*THE LYRICS* _(since I'm a little late to comment, here I am leveraging your comment xd):_
"Well I heard there was a sequence of chords
splits the circle to 1, 2 and 4
n points seem to cut in the powers of 2, yeah
It goes on like this, with the 4th and the 5th
but something's odd, when you add a 6th
it cuts in 31
patterns fool ya
how they fool ya, how they fool ya
how they fool ya, how they fooo-ooo-ool ya
When your faith is strong
you still need proof
what seems natural to guess
can lead to goof
each integral up on the left is pi over 2, yeah
you might think that's true
for the next, which is fair
but like a joke we've shown
that it's off by a hair
it's a subtle slip, but it's true the
pattern fooled ya
how they fool ya, how they fool ya
how they fool ya, how they fooo-ooo-oool ya
Now take a prime, and write it in base 4
read those digits like you'd have before
each prime gives a new prime
with this rule, yeah
or does it though?
you'll eventually find
new primes are not
so simply designed
patterns hold
then they're broken
how they fool ya
how they fool ya, how they fool ya
how they fool ya, how they fooo-ooo-oool ya"
Haven't laughed so hard in weeks. Thanks for a great cover!
I’ve had this recording in my files for a while, with a vague thought that one day I might try to record a better version before posting it more publicly. Well, it's now been three years, and the raw live version seems more fun anyway, so I figured hey, why not! For any of you who want to dig into the math, there's a full video for each verse:
Circle division: ruclips.net/video/YtkIWDE36qU/видео.html
The integrals: ruclips.net/video/851U557j6HE/видео.html
Primes in base 4: ruclips.net/video/jhObLT1Lrfo/видео.html
Fantastic, a million out of ten. Leonard Cohen would be confused and then proud
It’s hilarious
Brave to post something so relatively unpolished, and I couldn’t be happier! Thanks for sharing it
Why here and not the Grant Sanderson channel?
It's been a favourite of mine, it's great to now be able to share it publicly.
I’ve played hallelujah on guitar for years, it’s cool to know the history behind it.
don't be fooled by 3b1b's authoratitive voice
@@zmaj12321 it's now canon
How he fooled ya
When I met Leonard Cohen at Vidcon 2019 he confirmed to me that his inspiration for the song was the pattern of n^17+9 and (n+1)^17+9 being relatively prime breaking at n=8424432925592889329288197322308900672459420460792433
In all seriousness, the man wrote dozens and dozens of verses and kept only the best few. There are many many scrapped verses to hallelujah, if I heard correctly.
Damn knowing that Grant can sing, is like unlocking a new part of 3b1b lore!
and play
He can do anything
3 blessed 1 beat
Grant is gifted enough to be good ... actually, excellent at everything. We need more people like Grant. In so many different areas!
@@irok13 skills 1 grant
"When your faith is strong, you still need proof"
I see what you did there
wdym
@@lu0z9_the_I I think this comment might be alluding to an implication that faith isn't enough (at least for some people). Or maybe they think it isn't enough period.
@@cosmiclightning4723 I think it's just that he got nearly the exact original lyric to work very well, with a totally different meaning, in this new version, it was just really good word play. Original lyric:
_Your faith was strong, but you needed proof_
Honestly the most impressive thing is how you hold the chords out through the laughter, pausing the vocals until the crowd quiets down, without losing the beat
For real. That's a "pro" musician move right there.
It's kind of like being out on the water and "riding the waves"...
@@skilz8098way to contribute
@@chocomilkfps1264 Way to contribute.
@@lookupverazhou8599, way to contribute.
Brilliant accompaniment by Matt. As an instrument, Keynote can be a bit bland and mechanical, but Matt brings a lot of emotion out of it in this performance.
So true. Matt is such an Excel virtuoso that it’s easy to overlook his skills on other instruments.
it's funny because "key" and "note" both have important meanings in music so "keynote" sounds like it could also be a musical term.
@@Rubrickety the pun was *right there* howd ya miss it? howd they fool ya????
Unironically, the timing on the slide changes was on point.
@@only20frickinletters Seriously, either Matt was that good and/or it was fixed in post. Maybe both.
Although none of them were about mathematical patterns, Cohen really did write *dozens* of versions of 🎵Hallelujah🎵, with about a hundred verses in total. The _Shrek_ version is a cover by John Cale (from 10 years before the movie), who chose the verses he liked the most from a huge list that Cohen gave him.
But Rufus Wainwright sang the Shrek one ? (I'm not 100% sure I know what "cover" means)
@@MrBoubource The soundtrack album has Wainwright's because of licensing issues, but the movie itself uses Cale.
@@theadamabrams law lol, thanks !
The verses chosen by Cale is more or less "the standard version" of the song, sung like that by countless other artists, including Rufus Wainwright, Jeff Buckley, among others.
Cohen himself was known to perform different verses, though, sometimes even varying the selection between performances, and recordings of a couple different variants exist.
@@MrBoubource A "cover" is another artist recording a song made famous by (or written by) another performer. A cover is complete and unaltered version, contrast with "parody" where the lyrics are changed (like Al Yankovic) and the work possibly shortened, lengthened, or with rearranged accompaniment.
I thought this was gonna be cringy, but omg I love that song
Making a song like this (the fourth, the fifth...) without being cringy is an impressive achievement. It turned out really great!
100% the same. I didn’t watch it when i first saw it in my feed (which is a first ever for a Grant video). My loss, this was amazing
It helps that his voice is fantastic
So you're telling us...
He fooled ya.
As a musician and long-ago math major, I am laughing so hard I'm crying. Thanks for making my day.
Do you know the song Hallelujah? (That made me laugh.)
@@wayneurquhart7192 indeed, i do not know this song - there are so many songs with the word Hallelujah in it... I also do not understand why people are thinking this is funny 😀 They are laughing, but what's the joke ?! (Don't explain it to me)
Love to see a song about math by a non-professional singer that actually has no cringy vibe and is in fact absolutely hilarious.
Ah, a lecturer with 3B1B's voice 😂
3:45 you could have said "you might expect another verse, but that's not the case, the pattern fooled ya."
But that would be another verse, no?
I love how close it is to the original lyrics. This isn't a parody; it's how it should have been all along!
"That's it, I'm just guitaring."
As a music teacher who loves your videos thank you for being brave enough to share your music. I know how hard that is getting up and performing in front of a live room, let alone sharing it on the internet. Amazing stuff.
Yes!!!! Finally this is publicly shareable! I've loved this for years and wanted to show everyone but couldn't!
wow! did you see this live?
I wish! I think I saw this on one of their patreon channels.
@@edanmaor I think Matt Parker published it awhile back.
I never thought about hearing grant sing, but omg your singing voice is amazing
After math rock, comes math worship music. We need a studio release of this, your voice is sooo good!
Let me know when we hit blue eyes southern revival gospel..... Ya know.... the song about how many holes a straw has..... "hardly hole-y"?
I like to imagine the crowd erupting in laughter at the base 4 primes was because each and every one knew exactly when the pattern breaks
I can mathematically prove that Grant's insistence that this was Leonard Cohen's original version makes it at least pi times funnier.
And if not pi then at least pi + wtf 😋
π/2 times funnier.
Except when it isn't.
That's irrational!
Even though you can, you won’t. The proof will of course, be left as an exercise to the reader
This guy is so talented I'm not even jealous
Not you expositing a literary gem for me to steal
This is what makes Grant such an awesome storyteller: anyone would have said "this is a parody", but he invented this little tale behind the creation of the song.
I appreciate that after the first four bars, with raw footage of the projector screen, someone has superimposed a clean version of the slide deck into the edit, with just the corner masked out so as not to cover Grant's arm.
Also, the performance and lyrics are excellent!
These are the kind of things that make me believe that there is, after all, hope for the internet. Just epic...
Hope for the human kind, you mean.
Yes!🎉
I agree, a version with clean audio and high-production graphics to make it a stand-alone music video (meaningful for those who didn't watch the referenced lesson) would be great. But, the audience reaction at certain points gives this live recording a special charm.
Agreed. I'm not even sure if I'm laughing more because it's actually funny or because the audience thinks it's funny and I just get swept along with the mood.
Full math album when?
You're laughing. He sings with a devastating sorrowing and you're laughing.
The way he sounds so emotional about this song is so funny
I love this! That not-actually-powers-of-two pattern was given as a problem when I was in highschool. I saw the pattern immediately. When I counted 31, instead of learning something interesting, I fudged it! The worst part is my math teacher gave me full marks!
Why did your teacher give you full marks?
@@DavidSartor0 he likely didn't know and barely looked at it. He would also deny obvious mistakes he made, when pointed out. My other math teachers at that school were superb. It's really funny how I counted it a few times, then decided to go with the wrong answer, and still remember as a grandpa. :-) I've always been more interested in the things I didn't understand than the things I did.
@@tolkienfan1972 Thank you.
@@DavidSartor0 welcome
Not sure which is funnier, the song or watching Matt Parker trying to keep a straight face.
I would absolutely love a studio version to add to my Spotify playlist; this is hilarious
Bro, he plays guitar too. And sings. I love this guy
Almost wish you’d included the example of the apparent prime sequence of n² + n + 41 which is prime until n = 40… but I freaking loved this well done!
And in fact with n=40 the result is 40(40+1)+41, which is plainly divisible by 41 !
@@columbus8myhw what's the next one that isn't difivislb eby 41
@@andrewzhang8512 n = 41 is divisible by 43
@@andrewzhang8512 n = 44, it gives you 43*47
for any sequence n^2 + n + (z+1), there will always be a square (not prime obvs) number at z, because:
z^2 + z + (z+1) =
z(z+1) + (z+1) =
(z+1)(z+1) =
(z+1)^2
This goes straight to my playlist of best vidoes of all time (a grand total of 15 of them so far). Absolutely amazing. The way you find the rhymes and keep the rhythm, mind-boggling
Can't I like this more than once!?! :D The facial expressions of the guitar player, Matt and that one audience member who cannot stop laughing😂
Not many things get me laughing out loud, but this is gold.
I love that there are going to be a lot of 3b1b subscribers who just watch the very straight maths explainers and don't watch Matt's stuff and for them this will have come wildly out of left field
As an autistic aroace who was watching maths educators for ages [very likely for more than 8 years] and saw tons of educational parodies & original compositions [in fact, I was rewatching some for nostalgia before this one came up in my recommendations], I find this comment hilarious! 😂
I remember watching quite a bit of Vihart & ASAPScience along with some other nerds like Hank Green, Dr. Peyam, blackpenredpen, Mathologer, DorFuchs, et cetera. And given the fact that the first RUclips video I liked when I finally made a RUclips account in early 2016 was [forgive me for this one being nowhere near math related] . . .
. . . the Google Translate Sings parody of Love Is An Open Door by Malinda Kathleen Reese . . .
. . . the RUclips algorithm probably knew way before I did that I'm not an average neurotypical cishet person who just goes along with whatever is trending! 😂
[Clarifying note: I don't have any suspicions on any of these educational creators' orientations or mental health]
@@MathNerd1729 stop thats literally me too though. On the spectrum, asexual, obsessed with mathematics and science for years and years, the algorithm knows us best doesn't it...
@@spate7207 Agreed! :)
@@MathNerd1729 If you're also interested in not really math but still science parodies, may I recommend acapellascience... >:) It's all made by 1 or 2 guys (Tim doing the songs themselves and his friend Tom behind the camera)!
Fun fact- I was there when he changed it from this to the other one. I remember, I pointed out that not many people would get the math behind it, to which he responded by swearing profusely at me and flipping me off. When I tried to apologize, he grabbed a ruler and snapped in in half out of rage, then gave me a wedgie. After that, he grabbed my arm, and did to it what he had done to the ruler. This was followed by things I won't mention. About a week later, he came in to where I was in the hospital and told me that he was sorry, and that he'd learned the value of friendship- and changed the lyrics of the song based on what inspiration that gave him. I didn't hear him, since I had since become deaf, but it was still nice of him. I ended up dying from the physical trauma he gave me, and now I'm dying again from the emotional trauma this video is giving me, which seemingly cancels out. Love the vid, btw.
Disclaimer: *THIS IS A JOKE COMMENT. PKEASE DO NOT TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY.*
I like how you set up a pattern and then surprise break it in presentation of the examples, too.
Thanks so much! I showed this song and the video about Moser's circle problem my math course at a bavarian grammar school today and the pupils were really excited and loved it! We deconstructed every step and it was great fun. Your visualisations are the best I've ever seen and how you are arousing interest in maths is the best way I can imagine.
the double upload feels like christmas morning
"Matt Parker on keynote" is a fantastic introduction
Way back when, I was into Math (got a BS in Math a long time ago) and I started seeing patterns here and there and began wondering about them and why they worked, and slowly working through them, began seeing some here and there start to break down. And I wondered about that, too. Other aspects of life took over (spouse, kids, grandchildren, job changes, all that) and I put my thoughts aside. I've used math a lot over the years, fixing coding errors in programs of others, now I'm into amateur astronomy and math is very useful. But I'm glad I found this video as it rekindled a little of why I was fascinated with mathematics in the first place. Thank you for sharing this..
I wish I could like this twice; thank you Grant for this wonderful look back on this amazing pieces of music history
You can like it 3 times! In fact you can like it any prime number of times and it would still count the like. But just the one like.....there has got to be some poetry to that somewhere......
@@zombieregime You can like it 11 times, or 7 times, or 5 times, or 3 times... but don't let the pattern fool ya.
@zombieregime any prime except 2. The pattern fooled ya
(I assume you meant odd, but I couldn't resist)
:D
@@egwenealvereiscool7726 I tried to be clever on RUclips, instead I came out looking like a boob, Im wondering if I should turn in my HSE.....the pattern fooled me. The pattern fooled me......
I did mean prime, but only checked if primes were odd, not if there were any un-odd primes....And missed, or only read as far as I needed for a confirmation instead of checking for exceptions, that 2 is also a prime...should have added 'any prime>2'..... but the pattern fool me.....(note: only the first paragraph should be read with a beat half way through a verse....I mean, you can try to do it on the second but like with my maths skills, I make no promises 😜 )
We deserve a studio versionof this.. please please please
Legend! He even could've added a verse about expecting another verse (since the original has so many), but then stop halfway into it.
If only this had closed out with "How they foooo-oo-oo-ooool... us" to again, break the pattern. Thanks for uploading!
That's genius!
Additional pattern even in the structure of the song?
Holding it for a moment to make the audience wonder if the song would keep going - that was my favorite part!
I didn't even realize that! That's the cherry on top! 😂
Nice observation. Almost wish they parodied a completely different song for the last verse.
I'm really impressed how the guy can keep playing while everyone is laughing so hard 😂
I sense this is the classic youtube video I keep mentioning and showing to my friends forever.
Having a full version of this song with good sound quality would be absolutely insane😂❤
Matt's face throughout this is easily the best part of the video.
I love how Matt Parker giggles in the corner :D
Dude, how many talents do you have...
So devastating... your heart just so sure you have something that's going to last. And then it's gone.
I wish I could subscribe a second time, lmfao. You're fantastic Grant!
This song is absolutely golden, you made my day😭😭
This is the one of the most brilliant parody's of all time! It's freakin' hysterical, but it's also quite moving. No joke, I got a little choked up at how beautiful and clever it is. BRILLIANT!
31 seems to be the prime nemesis of patterns
Just when I though I couldn't love this channel any more
Your calculus series pushed me to finally pursue my enjoyment of math. I always liked it, but seeing the really interesting visuals persuaded me to actively study and enjoy all kinds of math. Thanks!
same here. made my world better. much thanks
That's a great soap-opera-laugh-track sounding audience!
It's impossibel to discribe in how many dimensions this is brilliant.
This has to be one of the best ideas I have ever seen performed. Congratulations, really really beautiful!
I don't think this silly grin will go away for a while. Thanks for the laughs 😂😂😂
"That's it, I'm just guitaring" 😂
Brilliant. These students will forever associate this feeling of laughter and happiness with learning and/or maths.
I want more verses, that was amazing.
Just shared this with my high school math department colleagues. Easily one of the best parodies I’ve heard in a while!
Some people were expecting another example because he continued playing. How he fooled yah.
This is one of the best things that I have ever seen/heard.
This is incredible! I don't remember seeing your face before and now there's a video of you SINGING a parody lol
He’s been on numberphile before and he did the Stanford commencement speech this year on his second channel, Grant Sanderson.
@@Holobrine Oh wow! Thanks for the info
In 2020 he did several hours of close up live face content on this very channel - top notch instruction I would add. And he has done interviews in the past as well.
Grant, you're truly an inspiration! You have a wonderful mind and singing voice!
"Really thought wtf?" In the screen is just supreme
More proof that math teachers have the best taste in music out of any.
Love songs are boring. We need more songs like these. This is awsome
I've watched this 10 times now, and I genuinely believe this is better than the original!
As someone who ascribes patterns to people, I needed this reminder that patterns fool, yeah
This is the best thing I've watched for quite a while. Thank you.
this is a wonderful song, thank you for enriching the world with it
Did not expect this for Tau Day lol
Oh yes, you are right. Here's to Tau, the number twice as cool as PI :D
I've wanted to go to An Evening Of Unnecessary Detail for years. Always seemed like a laugh.
This is fantastic, thanks for sharing that with us. Would honestly listen to a full version of the song all day long!
To celebrate Tau Day today!
Beautiful work! Love your chanel ❤
This is so incredible. I love the original and the number of times you stick so close to the original lyrics-wise while completely changing the meaning is just awesome.
I genuinely love your visualizations and general educational work but I i think this is my favorite video of yours. Well, maybe after the colliding blocks calculating pi.
It’s so great all around. Macro, the song is appropriately so sad for the feeling of betrayal and incompleteness from broken patterns. Micro, the math references and parallels to the original song hit so right. Bo Burnham would be proud.
I
need
this
in studio version
It made me laugh as well, but I don't hysterically laugh out loud.
The world needs this done in a studio recording version!
We need a studio version of this!
And then the orchestral performance!
And then the metal cover!
@@wolframstahl1263 Conviently, I have a degree in music composition and specialised in orchestral writing 😁
@@FB-no4lr Hm, what a weird coincidence...
Almost as if the world wanted to tell you something... hemmmm.....😁
@@wolframstahl1263 That almost sounds like a pattern
@@LabGeckohow they fool ya 😂
Wow, probably the single most beautiful parody I’ve heard in my life!
❤ This is a real gem, great writing and performing, waiting the extended studio version, thank ya
You're a god! Can't believe you waited to upload, come on, this is wholesome and simple it's a gem
This is awesome!
I heard there was a secret chord that Grant played and it pleased Descartes
This is the sequence that breaks the pattern of exponents of 2.
I’m gonna memorize it and drive my siblings crazy.