My Worst Trainwreck

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  • Опубликовано: 7 апр 2019
  • Train wrecks happen on the bandstand. This is the story of a particularly nasty one at a wedding where we totally butcher a perfectly decent Elton John ballad.
    Mark Guiliana + other people at the Blue Whale:
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    Zach Lapidus harmonizes tone deaf singer through modulations
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    NOTE: Certain details from this story have been altered to protect the innocent, nameless bridesmaid, who was just trying to do a nice thing for her friend.
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Комментарии • 2,5 тыс.

  • @ShowTheOreo
    @ShowTheOreo 4 года назад +2620

    Legendary singing performance by that lady. It was so bad that it managed to throw off 4 professional musicians into different keys

    • @Dowlphin
      @Dowlphin 4 года назад +142

      I was actually surprised they didn't try playing LOUDER to suggest to HER who is the one singing WRONG how to do it right.

    • @anistissaoui
      @anistissaoui 4 года назад +9

      Underrated

    • @Varod737
      @Varod737 4 года назад +4

      3 proffesional musicians

    • @seanspartan2023
      @seanspartan2023 4 года назад +41

      @@Varod737 Actually she may have even thrown off the drummer's rhythm too...

    • @Varod737
      @Varod737 4 года назад +12

      @@seanspartan2023 managed to throw off 4 musicians *into different keys*

  • @garrettmick3452
    @garrettmick3452 5 лет назад +5907

    The drummer couldn’t tell anything was wrong the whole time

    • @Coastfog
      @Coastfog 5 лет назад +487

      It's a simple life but a good one, too.

    • @Bassalicious
      @Bassalicious 5 лет назад +214

      He knew there wasn't a way out of it all along.

    • @vitamin9165
      @vitamin9165 5 лет назад +91

      When the finally comes he's just sitting like mom come pick me up I'm scared

    • @linnik2649
      @linnik2649 5 лет назад +22

      i think anyone can tell when a song is going to shit hahah

    • @JohnnyJazzFreak
      @JohnnyJazzFreak 5 лет назад +10

      Yeah, it probably never sounded as good to the drummer.

  • @andrewprahst2529
    @andrewprahst2529 5 лет назад +4061

    Trainreck? Quadratonal modulations are SPICYYY

    • @silverhawkroman
      @silverhawkroman 5 лет назад +71

      I guess the groom got four renditions of the song in one. That bride is a keeper xD

    • @milesyalzin2018
      @milesyalzin2018 5 лет назад +7

      Is that Cirno?

    • @stefanburlacu8803
      @stefanburlacu8803 5 лет назад +7

      @@silverhawkroman 5 with the scale the bridesmaid was playing

    • @speedsterh
      @speedsterh 4 года назад +12

      @Andy Zhu Jazzy ? Avant-garde, rather

    • @juicebox_music
      @juicebox_music 4 года назад +3

      Androvsky *bridesmaid

  • @MrIzzy5466
    @MrIzzy5466 5 лет назад +2499

    I had a cymbal fall over, cut a patch cord to the guitarist mid solo. A friend jumped up to give him a new cable. Tripped up and fell on a trombone player who smashed his trombone into the trumpet next to him.
    One cymbal, two instruments broken in 6 seconds...oof.

    • @mrbob55304
      @mrbob55304 5 лет назад +123

      Now, THAT'S a trainwreck.

    • @kevdmiller
      @kevdmiller 5 лет назад +107

      A similar thing happened to my old band. Luckily it wasn't a trainwreck because it was the absolute last note of the night. The drummer hit a loud crash and the symbol stand toppled towards the front of the stage and sliced a cable which caused a pretty spectacular (but harmless) pyrotechnic spark. It was an awesome finale and all we had to do is replace a cable before the next gig.

    • @TonyCoyle
      @TonyCoyle 4 года назад +32

      Was setting up a PA for a college disco when I was setting a top tweeter on one of the stacks. On the instructions of the stage manager, I moved the top tweeter over a little too far, which then fell off the stack along with the mid range onto the stage (temporary raised staging) which hadn't been properly locked yet - it collapsed, which pulled the DJ station with it (they'd been tied together already) along with a few thousand 45's (yes, long time ago) and pulling down the connected light system, which took the remainder of the PA stacks, the lights, and any and all equipment with them.
      Fun times.

    • @greggleventhal5010
      @greggleventhal5010 4 года назад +37

      I once spilled a 2 liter of dr pepper, freaked out and turned to look for paper towels and knocked over and spilled a 4 foot bong.

    • @youtubeuser206
      @youtubeuser206 4 года назад +13

      @@greggleventhal5010 you win

  • @doddleoddle
    @doddleoddle 5 лет назад +3422

    "there's no way out" ahHAhAhAHHA oh my god what I would give to hear this

  • @bobschroder8640
    @bobschroder8640 5 лет назад +2119

    This is so sad. Alexa play "Can You Feel The Love Tonight" in 4 different keys...

    • @MarekBarna
      @MarekBarna 5 лет назад +2

      Bob Schröder hahaha 😀😀😀😀😀 that good
      Also I’m the 800th! 💪🏼

    • @Dowlphin
      @Dowlphin 4 года назад +1

      Alexa: "reported"

    • @jumpman8282
      @jumpman8282 4 года назад

      Alexa Keyes

  • @jb-ro4ow
    @jb-ro4ow 5 лет назад +3000

    "White people love uptown funk." Adam has always been a classy memer

    • @reidgowan2670
      @reidgowan2670 5 лет назад +39

      j b I mean, he’s right.

    • @JiveDadson
      @JiveDadson 4 года назад +1

      Michelle Pfieffer! (I's white.)

    • @bigstunna2049
      @bigstunna2049 4 года назад +11

      I mean everyone loves uptown funk

    • @Gamma_Radiation
      @Gamma_Radiation 4 года назад +20

      Uptown funk is a universal language - Adam Neely

    • @pie-vd5qq
      @pie-vd5qq 4 года назад +1

      i dont get it

  • @DonyaLane
    @DonyaLane 5 лет назад +854

    Ha Ha...Been there! I haven't played a wedding gig since 2000, but man, did this story bring back some hilariously similar memories!
    You know, there's a famous musician joke about it: A cover band is playing in a club, and a girl who likes to sing with the band asks if she could sit in with them. She wants to sing "Misty" (it's an old joke). So, the bandleader turns upstage and says, "OK, listen-up. We're gonna play 'Misty' in Ab... But only for 3 bars. On bar 4 we modulate up a half step to A for about 2 bars. But watch for my cue to take it DOWN a whole step. Probably hang there a couple of bars, maybe... then back to Ab. Play the turnaround in 5/4. When we take the repeat, play the top of verse 2 in 3/4 and..." At this point, the wannabee singer panics and interrupts the bandleader, "Wait, wait a sec! I don't know how to sing 'Misty' like that!" And the bandleader says, "Yeah, ya do. That's exactly how ya sang it with us last week."

    • @jumpman8282
      @jumpman8282 4 года назад +32

      A band went into a bar - a quadruplet

    • @tomvesely4008
      @tomvesely4008 4 года назад +9

      Damn that burns

    • @pinkajou656
      @pinkajou656 3 года назад +7

      Oh my god that’s just... hilarious

    • @jonathanmcdaniel1040
      @jonathanmcdaniel1040 3 года назад +13

      The girl sings "Danny Boy" and the Groom breaks out in a sobbing cry"
      The Bride turns to him and says "I didn't know you were Irish."
      Between sobs he says "I'm not.(sob) I'm a musician.(waaah).

  • @fadil-f
    @fadil-f 5 лет назад +1837

    Adam : Plays miliseconds of Uptown Funk song
    *UMG WANTS TO KNOW YOUR LOCATION*

    • @jackburton3149
      @jackburton3149 5 лет назад +90

      *sudden sniper red dot appears on forehead*

    • @fattyjaybird7505
      @fattyjaybird7505 5 лет назад +15

      Are you able to type U9t0wn Fvn% ?

    • @jerbear97
      @jerbear97 5 лет назад +13

      what is this, U6t4wn F*&%?

    • @jerbear97
      @jerbear97 5 лет назад +2

      @imshippyupup just ruined it for ya

    • @candle_eatist
      @candle_eatist 5 лет назад

      Oops xD deMontentized

  • @aggressivejazzhands2569
    @aggressivejazzhands2569 5 лет назад +714

    CAAAAAN YOU FEEEEL THE LIIIIICC TONIIIGHT

    • @Herehear49
      @Herehear49 5 лет назад +9

      Really, some of these (s)hit songs deserve the treatment they get by overenthusiastic non-singers.

    • @arnonyme6
      @arnonyme6 5 лет назад +28

      *Can you licc the love tonight ?

    • @lucasMcarter89
      @lucasMcarter89 5 лет назад +3

      damn, beat me to it.

    • @marceugeni
      @marceugeni 5 лет назад

      Hahahahahahajahajajja

    • @CoryMck
      @CoryMck 5 лет назад

      👅 😜😉🌃

  • @tsg_frank5829
    @tsg_frank5829 5 лет назад +746

    I wish there was some kind of recording of that beautiful beautiful trainwreck, I need that quadratonal rendition in my life.
    I want that intentionally performed and named "can you feel the cringe tonight"

    • @MassiveBridge52
      @MassiveBridge52 5 лет назад +7

      I like that

    • @fabianvanderelst9643
      @fabianvanderelst9643 5 лет назад +7

      Yeah, definitely! That's a super good idea 😂

    • @dlevi67
      @dlevi67 4 года назад +5

      Can't oblige fully, but remaining on the (deliberate) trainwreck at a wedding, here you go: ruclips.net/video/8dOthGfFRmE/видео.html

    • @dinidusamaranayake3266
      @dinidusamaranayake3266 4 года назад

      dlevi67 gg

    • @Dowlphin
      @Dowlphin 4 года назад

      Gold star comment 😄👍

  • @markwilliamson8047
    @markwilliamson8047 5 лет назад +985

    By the time you got to "quadratonal" I was cry-laughing so hard that no sound was coming out and I couldn't breathe.
    Thanks. I needed that.

  • @Theblueshark27
    @Theblueshark27 5 лет назад +666

    4:30 Star Spangled Banner but its Giant Steps

    • @bipbipletucha
      @bipbipletucha 5 лет назад +6

      Lmao!

    • @nickmonks9563
      @nickmonks9563 5 лет назад +36

      I support this movement to make the Star Spangled Giant Steps the new national anthem of the United States.

    • @alphanum001
      @alphanum001 5 лет назад +5

      Ha! I bet the pianist will be will become one of the most accomplished improvisers ever.

    • @cyrusgarretson7928
      @cyrusgarretson7928 5 лет назад +1

      What an underrated comment

    • @jerbear97
      @jerbear97 5 лет назад +2

      *_oh my god_*

  • @DanThomasUK
    @DanThomasUK 5 лет назад +195

    4 simultaneous keys = peak jazz

    • @larrybird8536
      @larrybird8536 5 лет назад +12

      DanThomasMusic along with 4 simultaneous time signatures

    • @Xenon1825
      @Xenon1825 5 лет назад +5

      AGGGHHHHHHH SO JAZZY

    • @michaweinst3774
      @michaweinst3774 5 лет назад +4

      Well, if there were two songs with this experience, it's legit. As you know: "Repetition legitimises".

  • @lukelyons7255
    @lukelyons7255 5 лет назад +1390

    2:50 is the jazz equivalent of getting rick rolled. You could have ended the video there 😂

    • @tylerbrah4676
      @tylerbrah4676 5 лет назад +15

      Explain I’m new to this jazz thing

    • @benmorris8674
      @benmorris8674 5 лет назад +164

      Chuck shulder he’s playing a melodic line that was used by so many jazz musicians in the past that it became known simply as “the lick” and now it’s essentially a jazz meme.

    • @jibbityjobbity1954
      @jibbityjobbity1954 5 лет назад +77

      @@tylerbrah4676 I think jazz is when you use a time signature that's not 4/4

    • @pietervanleeuwen8570
      @pietervanleeuwen8570 5 лет назад +18

      I burst out laughing right there. I couldn't believe he had to do it to em like that

    • @emmaclarkcomposer8251
      @emmaclarkcomposer8251 5 лет назад +104

      I guess we got lick rolled, huh?

  • @theredstonelab6104
    @theredstonelab6104 4 года назад +225

    "I mean, without checking, can you remember if Elton John modulates?"
    Me: Yes I can remember because I've watched this video 12 times
    Thanks for teaching me a musical "fun fact" that I will never forget Adam

  • @DrumWild
    @DrumWild 5 лет назад +1124

    I’ve done “Stairway to Heaven” in three-minute Reggae style, but have never done “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” In Trout Mask Replica style. Damn!

    • @Novalarke
      @Novalarke 5 лет назад +16

      It's been done - by Dread Zeppelin, 20 years ago. Not 3 min - but Stairway done Reggae. With an Elvis impersonator as the vocalist. The 90s were weird.
      ruclips.net/video/M7DqjyNGHJU/видео.html

    • @nanayawberko3212
      @nanayawberko3212 5 лет назад +6

      This was such a good reference

    • @EliseOfTheValley
      @EliseOfTheValley 5 лет назад +3

      Henry Warwick the 90s were the best of times and worst of times

    • @henrycurtis3652
      @henrycurtis3652 5 лет назад +3

      @@Novalarke Can't decide if this is a travesty or if it circles back around to being amazing, but it's fucking hilarious either way

    • @theaddictofgaming9174
      @theaddictofgaming9174 5 лет назад +3

      Doesn't Frank Zappa's Stairway start as a reggae.

  • @KamilHenri
    @KamilHenri 5 лет назад +677

    Good thing Elton John showed up to the wedding to save the day and play it himself

  • @groovylobster
    @groovylobster 5 лет назад +58

    My worst trainweck was when i was playing drums at a gig using another bands kit (that they set up). The first song begins and i'm playing their hi-hat thinking "huh, this hi-hat sounds like it's from toy drum kit", and then when we reached the chorus, i hit the high crash, and to my horror, it made nothing but a bell sound. We go through the whole set with me being completely dumbfounded by whatever's going on with this kit, and right as the last song starts, it hit me: whoever set up the kit mixed up a hi-hat with the high crash. It was already too late to change it. Astoundingly, no one seemed to notice, and i'm still told that it was a great set.

    • @DockingFreidmanRecords
      @DockingFreidmanRecords 4 года назад +6

      Bro who mixes up the hi hat with the cymbal. Bro that must've been horror like damn.

  • @thesadsquatch
    @thesadsquatch 5 лет назад +214

    2:50
    You just got liccrolled

    • @benjaminlum5894
      @benjaminlum5894 4 года назад +9

      K Jonks I like that term. I better start practicing how to pull a joke like that off to my non-musically inclined friends XD

  • @devongilweit388
    @devongilweit388 5 лет назад +317

    I would pay $7 to here this recreated as a midi

    • @neo-babylon7872
      @neo-babylon7872 5 лет назад +15

      I would do it but I'm afraid this much money would spoil me.

  • @jaseneffendy17
    @jaseneffendy17 5 лет назад +399

    The version the bride was singing is C Suspended-Off-The-Top-Rope 4 with a flat 6

  • @donovangallaway3632
    @donovangallaway3632 4 года назад +29

    3:30 I've never winced so hard at the word "harmonize"

  • @tylerehrlich1471
    @tylerehrlich1471 5 лет назад +166

    I absolutely lost it when you perfectly evoked that MOMENT when everyone switched to four keys at the same time. Thank you for sharing!

  • @michelthibodeau3474
    @michelthibodeau3474 5 лет назад +304

    3:00 "... soldiered on in atonal ignorance"... also applies to my signing

  • @oscarcourtney5894
    @oscarcourtney5894 5 лет назад +92

    am i the only person thinking this would make a great ted talk?

  • @RickerbyMusic
    @RickerbyMusic 4 года назад +20

    I once recorded a live gig where a singer sung a Bruno Mars sung perfectly, one semi-tone above the backing track... All I had to do was pitch shift the backing track up a semitone in post and it sounded great. Not so great for the audience who witnessed it live though haha

  • @KathyWashburnBunn
    @KathyWashburnBunn 5 лет назад +110

    When an untrained female vocalist tries to sing in a key selected for a tenor, she's going to have a hard time. 🙃

    • @AlexFBauer
      @AlexFBauer 5 лет назад +15

      Found the bridesmaid!

    • @KathyWashburnBunn
      @KathyWashburnBunn 5 лет назад +26

      @@AlexFBauer Who, me? LOL no it wasn't me, but I feel bad for her. I hope, for her sake, that she's truly tone deaf so that she didn't have to share in the band's pain. 😅

    • @TheresaTV1
      @TheresaTV1 4 года назад +1

      LoL! For real! I can do it, but I’m a trained contralto. Last time I sang it at a cabaret, I actually sang it in D major, I wasn’t aware the movie version was in Eb.

  • @warpatato
    @warpatato 5 лет назад +362

    PROTIP: Make sure the bridesmaid and the band are in the same key

    • @joost9430
      @joost9430 5 лет назад +6

      I'm not sure if the groom would agree with you

  • @atkubelka3722
    @atkubelka3722 4 года назад +48

    The Quadratonal part made me exert a laugh I’ve never laughed before

  • @MePeterNicholls
    @MePeterNicholls 5 лет назад +195

    Pentecostal churches. I was late teens. An elderly black lady wanted to sing a dedication. So I gave her an intro. She started in another key, so I vamped down to her key and she followed, so I tried again and she followed again. And in the end I just did anything I could. Oh and her rhythm/ timing was a struggle to follow. And she eventually cane to a finish. She was very happy, thanked me. And I went for a very strong coffee. And got a lot of back slapping for giving it a try.

    • @SoulTheScytheOG
      @SoulTheScytheOG 4 года назад +11

      I play bass in a Pentecostal church and I can relate very hard to this. Hearing elderly women sing in their own world really just comes with the territory, but it's made even more difficult by the fact that the piano player isn't the most experienced when it comes to proper accompaniment. It's almost solely up to rhythm section to hold anything together, but at least I play with an excellent drummer that can catch all those skipped beats!

    • @rovaldorobinson9929
      @rovaldorobinson9929 4 года назад +4

      Yeah bro as a Jamaican Pentecostal we just change key and everything always work out

  • @koreboredom4302
    @koreboredom4302 5 лет назад +107

    Welp, time to make a full quadratonal track of that beloved Elton John song.

  • @nicholasromig5506
    @nicholasromig5506 5 лет назад +109

    also, I would kill to hear this avant garde rendition of Can You Feel The Love Tonight.

  • @BlikeNave
    @BlikeNave 4 года назад +18

    I had a really rough practice tonight with my band. Felt pretty bad, but this vid cheered me up. 5:30 was great, and hearing "If a few minutes of cringe are the worst thing that happen in your job, then you've honestly got a pretty sweet gig" made me feel happy with what I've got.

  • @user-oy7gz5bf2h
    @user-oy7gz5bf2h 5 лет назад +77

    I did a similar thing. With Bohemian Rhapsody. Let that sink in. Ok, not four keys at the same time, though. That's next level!!

  • @pwc3rock
    @pwc3rock 5 лет назад +67

    As a person who has played with a lot of different singers in church settings. I understand starting in one key and then finding what key the singer is in before we hit the first chorus.

    • @jonathanmcdaniel1040
      @jonathanmcdaniel1040 3 года назад

      Donald Fagan did this in the beginning of Gold Teeth II. Just kidding.

  • @FreezepondMapping
    @FreezepondMapping 5 лет назад +120

    Can you feel the *Jazz* tonight
    The chords the wedding plays
    The band for once can't find their harmony
    In all four different keys

  • @succ6031
    @succ6031 5 лет назад +95

    i just realized i've never been a part of a legitimate trainwreck live. thanks adam, i now have a new reason to stay awake at night.

  • @roicalvin
    @roicalvin 5 лет назад +50

    2:47
    "Another melody wich sounds kinda simmilar"
    *Starts playing the lick real slow and emotional*

  • @noashore2312
    @noashore2312 5 лет назад +273

    Thanks Adam. Sometimes it's good to be reminded of that

    • @luisrocha26
      @luisrocha26 5 лет назад +2

      Were you in the band?

    • @noashore2312
      @noashore2312 5 лет назад +15

      @@luisrocha26 Not THE band, just A band. We played a show with somewhat similar predicaments, and it was good to be reminded that it's not that bad

    • @benyverezub5217
      @benyverezub5217 5 лет назад +11

      Luís Cláudio she was the bridesmaid

    • @marcoscorrea93
      @marcoscorrea93 5 лет назад

      Took me a while to find a comment that actually talks about the meaning of the video. Let it go, it's not that bad

  • @omnibusprimephd7914
    @omnibusprimephd7914 5 лет назад +199

    "There's no way out..."
    Suddenly this story became very Peele-esque

    • @AngelHdzMultimedia
      @AngelHdzMultimedia 5 лет назад +2

      sUs

    • @notaninstrument7707
      @notaninstrument7707 5 лет назад

      Jordan? There are a lot of Peeles tbh.

    • @omnibusprimephd7914
      @omnibusprimephd7914 5 лет назад

      @@notaninstrument7707 Well since it was in the context of a line you would hear in a horror movie... Jordan

    • @omnibusprimephd7914
      @omnibusprimephd7914 5 лет назад +8

      *Instead of reaching the very end of the song, the bridesmaid, trapped in her own world, separated from any key signature, started the first verse again.*
      Oh yea you could totally get a real horror movie out this story. The possibilities are endless.

  • @MrWben70
    @MrWben70 5 лет назад +47

    "Atonal Ignorance" - Beautiful prose

  • @winstonmacmahon9735
    @winstonmacmahon9735 5 лет назад +113

    I'm literally laughing out loud. Awesome. I've had that same thing happen. Love chasing the singer.

    • @Dowlphin
      @Dowlphin 4 года назад +3

      Off the stage is probably the suppressed desire.

  • @cerebralaudio5587
    @cerebralaudio5587 5 лет назад +176

    I saw it coming a mile away, but I still got the uncontrollable giggles at @5:50.

    • @Jamie_kemp
      @Jamie_kemp 5 лет назад +8

      6:29 🤣

    • @marselmusic
      @marselmusic 5 лет назад +3

      aight im prepared

    • @Jim_Thomas_Draper
      @Jim_Thomas_Draper 5 лет назад +1

      Likewise, 100%

    • @coolmanjack1995
      @coolmanjack1995 5 лет назад +6

      You just can't non verbally communicate really abstract thoughts like "well Elton pitches up but this girl is pitched down but wait is she going to pitch up at the end?"

  • @scarfbandit177
    @scarfbandit177 5 лет назад +79

    This sounds absolutely traumatic. I'm glad to see you've overcome it man

    • @aknopf8173
      @aknopf8173 5 лет назад +4

      Be strong. Keep on keeping on.
      Our prayers are with you!

  • @maxwellhurrell3920
    @maxwellhurrell3920 5 лет назад +40

    PRO TIP: Make sure the instruments and vocals are in the SAME KEY

    • @Dowlphin
      @Dowlphin 4 года назад

      PRO TIP: (insert coin to continue)

  • @chrisjt86
    @chrisjt86 5 лет назад +69

    Nobody gets hurt during a musical train wreck? What about spontaneous combustion while drumming?

  • @TheAkramCat
    @TheAkramCat 5 лет назад +911

    Adam:
    "Fortunately there's another melody that sounds similar"
    *melody starts playing*
    Me:
    Wait, that sounds kinda familiar,
    Oh, oh no, is he,
    O H N O
    it's the L I C K

    • @christianfriisjensen2055
      @christianfriisjensen2055 5 лет назад +22

      the sly bastard

    • @illford
      @illford 5 лет назад +7

      What is "The Lick"

    • @annalapanda7676
      @annalapanda7676 5 лет назад +32

      @@illford If you're familiar with musical notes: D E F G E C D
      Otherwise: The lick is basically a jazz meme, as it is played many times in jazz music. This video explains it well. Heads up: it's basically *just* *_T H Y L I C C_*
      Video: ruclips.net/video/krDxhnaKD7Q/видео.html

    • @MrCG35
      @MrCG35 5 лет назад +5

      That’s the T R I C K
      or the tricc

    • @archaicpentameter500
      @archaicpentameter500 5 лет назад +1

      @@annalapanda7676 THANK YOU!

  • @kadourimdou43
    @kadourimdou43 5 лет назад +148

    Can you feel the love tonight.
    Answer. No

    • @PianomanDarrell
      @PianomanDarrell 5 лет назад +16

      I’ve had a older Japanese gentleman come up to me and ask me to play “Fry Me To The Moon” in “J minor”. I assumed he meant G minor but when he started to sing, he suddenly turned to me and asked me to “play 3 octaves lower.” I modulated over to E minor and he was so happy afterwards that he tipped me ¥10,000 (about $100). It sometimes pays to keep your cool!

    • @loejewis
      @loejewis 5 лет назад +4

      Looks like the script for a Bill Wurtz video

    • @stephenutterback5704
      @stephenutterback5704 5 лет назад

      @@loejewis or a Dwight Schrute quote

  • @kinggimped
    @kinggimped 4 года назад +13

    When you started playing the lick over the chords of Can You Feel The Love Tonight with a completely straight face, I think I just about died laughing

  • @ravendevino6419
    @ravendevino6419 5 лет назад +21

    I had my pianist run to the bathroom during a break in a set and come back high as a kite.

    • @DriveCarToBar
      @DriveCarToBar 4 года назад +2

      I watched a drunk patron spill an entire beer on a violin at a bar. When the fiddle player came back, she picked it up as they were rolling into their first song and the whole thing was a mess. She put it down and just sang with the guitar player and only when she tried to tune the thing before the next song, did she hear the liquid sloshing inside and lost her shit.

    • @ravendevino6419
      @ravendevino6419 4 года назад

      @@DriveCarToBar I'd be HOMICIDAL, Omfg.

  • @huunliia6130
    @huunliia6130 5 лет назад +99

    it's Adam Neely's "My Worst Trainwreck" video, but everytime Adam says "trainwreck", a random pitch shifted copy of the audio is added on top.
    someone please

  • @owenminter7341
    @owenminter7341 5 лет назад +133

    This was so funny! Pls do more annecdotel videos from your experiences

  • @teddyd9031
    @teddyd9031 5 лет назад +34

    Enjoyed the story and the analogy of comparing life to musical train wrecks.

  • @513BRAM
    @513BRAM Год назад +2

    I feel this so much. Almost ever time anyone that wanted to sing a song at a gig.. they F#@&ked up.. But 1 time just once.. a girl took the stage and KILLED absolutely SLAYED !! I Will Survive.. I was blown away and so surprized.. was she th best singer no but she found the groove and made it her own.

  • @alexanderforslund9880
    @alexanderforslund9880 5 лет назад +39

    I'm loving your subtle shrieks in the background. You'd make a wonderful wedding singer Mr. Neely.

  • @timotejbernat462
    @timotejbernat462 5 лет назад +48

    "Can You Feel the Love Tonight", arr. C. Ives

  • @EdwinDPZ
    @EdwinDPZ 2 года назад +1

    Somewhere in that wedding audience was a child that heard the modulation trainwreck who will grow up to revolutionize music as we know it

  • @lnxrox
    @lnxrox 5 лет назад +20

    Imagine some days before this Video went up the brides maid told all her friends: "oh my god i was on Stage with him, everybody subscribe!"

  • @KJlegend18
    @KJlegend18 5 лет назад +24

    The way you manage to sneak the lick into every video is mindbaffling. I love you man.

  • @achmadramadhan1550
    @achmadramadhan1550 5 лет назад +40

    Here's a tip to recognize which version of the song should be played. The lyrics for both versions are actually different.
    The Lion King version starts with:
    I can see what's happening/What/And they don't have a clue/Who/They'll fall in love and here's the bottom line/Our trio's down to two/Oh
    Elton John's version:
    There's a calm surrender/To the rush of day/When the heat of a rolling wave/Can be turned away
    "Most of the ballads, I know all the words to." - Keith Jarrett, interviewed by Ethan Iverson

  • @kuru9157
    @kuru9157 4 года назад +2

    I want a recreation of the moment. I want quadritonal modulation

  • @alwayshappypastry
    @alwayshappypastry 5 лет назад +11

    the storytelling of this story is amazing. i busted out laughing at the trainwreck part

  • @schelsullivan
    @schelsullivan 5 лет назад +16

    About 15 years ago I caused a musical train wreck due to the using of my desktop PC as a VST I live rig. We were on a very bouncy stage. I could see my PC bouncing back and forth to the rhythm of the music. And then... Digital Screech at the most ear piercing pitch possible emanating from my rig. I went to unplug the rig and drop back to the internal sounds on my Korg M1. I tripped and fell right on my right hand. Luckily I didn't break anything. But with my injured hand in the cheesy M1 sounds I cringed for the remainder of the gig.

  • @MoltandMigrate
    @MoltandMigrate 5 лет назад +17

    I work at a leading coffee chain, and when everything melts down, that's sometimes the only thing that helps:
    "It's only coffee."

  • @dimibrije7302
    @dimibrije7302 4 года назад +8

    This has to be the funniest video I've watched in a long time. 5:50 onwards has me crying

  • @bswisher52777
    @bswisher52777 5 лет назад

    THANK YOU for your honesty and great retelling of the happenings. That being said, I demand a video!

  • @juliusteo
    @juliusteo 5 лет назад +62

    It’s okay. Your band were just ahead of your time. Sometime in the future there’ll be poly-key music

    • @masonharris9166
      @masonharris9166 5 лет назад +1

      That already exist. I actually think part of the superman theme by John william has the brass section in a differnt key from the strings.

  • @glitchedconfused6469
    @glitchedconfused6469 5 лет назад +23

    That's why I'm making electronic garage noise punk. At on gig, I spilled my beer on my hardwares (big beginner mistake, I admit it). But it goes "P-P-PP-PPPVVVVVVVVV-PVVVVV" and that was indeed noisy and garage ! Everybody laughed and my gear came out of there unspoiled and intact. That was a good trainwreck, afterall.

    • @noesunyoutuber7680
      @noesunyoutuber7680 5 лет назад

      Same reason I'm playing a noise/grindcore set at an upcoming school event: can't fuck it up when it's noise from the start.

  • @AlessandroIaquinta
    @AlessandroIaquinta 4 года назад +3

    “Remember, it’s just music, in a musical train wreck nobody gets hurt, everybody goes home”. God, you were so reassuring when you said it!

  • @kmpons
    @kmpons 2 месяца назад

    I’m hearing this story again 5 years later and I’m still laughing out loud at the quadritonal modulation part.

  • @benje1403
    @benje1403 5 лет назад +151

    BUTCHERING ELTON JOHN. Okay that sounds unnecessarily gruesome.

    • @lucianodebenedictis6014
      @lucianodebenedictis6014 5 лет назад +12

      Nothing that didn't already happen in Kingsmen

    • @Eazyrun
      @Eazyrun 5 лет назад +6

      @@lucianodebenedictis6014 Or in 2000's Eminem tracks am i right lads?!

    • @HomoChomsky
      @HomoChomsky 5 лет назад +12

      Adam son of Neely, Butcher of Eltons

    • @lifeontheledgerlines8394
      @lifeontheledgerlines8394 5 лет назад +1

      @@lucianodebenedictis6014 I've been trying to remember the name of that movie series for months now! Thanks dude.

    • @lucianodebenedictis6014
      @lucianodebenedictis6014 5 лет назад +1

      @@lifeontheledgerlines8394 no problem

  • @michaeljprice1097
    @michaeljprice1097 5 лет назад +15

    im in a stand up club at my college and sometimes ppl will purposefully tell bad jokes at meetings just to get used to the feeling of bombing

  • @bookstuart
    @bookstuart 5 лет назад +2

    What a nightmare! Brilliantly told thank you. You do have the gift of the gab.

  • @slorge2012
    @slorge2012 5 лет назад +1

    I had a similar gig...coincidentally an Elton John song... "Your song". "I hope you don't mind..." became our mantra as we played this one...

  • @neo-eclesiastul9386
    @neo-eclesiastul9386 5 лет назад +35

    PRO TIP: Make sure that voice and instruments are in the same tonality

    • @Dowlphin
      @Dowlphin 4 года назад

      Only slightly related, but ... Make sure you are PERFECTLY following the tooanality. 😄
      - a German

  • @SaberToothPortilla
    @SaberToothPortilla 5 лет назад +4

    Damn, your friend made a pretty profound statement.
    In a musical environment, you can mess up something pretty awful and, even in the absolute worst case scenario, maybe a few people get hurt, and deaths are exceedingly rare.
    In a lot of other cases, like a lot, people can die, maybe even dozens or hundreds.
    Having a safe environment to fail in is something a lot of people don't have, so might as well enjoy it!

    • @TheStuF
      @TheStuF 5 лет назад

      Not sure I see your point Saber.... Most ice cream scooping related accidents occur in a "safe environment", also there is people who work with pens and paper - normally no deaths there... You've got dog walkers, hairdressers, cashiers at grocery store... many, many, many work environments other than just "musical environments" are pretty safe you know - perhaps one of the safest is to be a RUclipsr :)

  • @waste4245
    @waste4245 3 года назад +1

    Absolutely LOVED when Guiliana turned the trainwreck of the drumset into something chaotic and cool

  • @isamusika
    @isamusika 5 лет назад +5

    As a musician of 24 years, I’ve been involved in lot of train-wrecks. But yeah, you gotta move on and learn from it.
    Forward is the only way to go✌🏽

  • @Ice_Karma
    @Ice_Karma 5 лет назад +9

    My worst musical trainwreck? Has to be one of these two:
    • I had written and composed a song which I was performing at my school's last event of the year. I thought I knew the lyrics by heart, so I didn't bother to take them with me to the performance. Sure enough, standing there on stage I went completely blank, so my accompaniment went to vamp... as the lyrics come back to mind and I start. We ended up half a verse out from each other.
    • I was performing in an end-of-year concert organized by one of my music teachers, and halfway through a demanding piece-and for the very first time-I completely lost track of where I was, had to have her stop and back up.

  • @jacklandismusic
    @jacklandismusic 5 лет назад +6

    “Everything would run smoothly, in our minds, so long as the bridesmaid knew the song.”
    *C R A C K*

  • @verenavonasek2370
    @verenavonasek2370 3 года назад +2

    This is one of the funniest stories I have heard in years....thank you for lighting up a cold May-night!!

  • @bennissimov
    @bennissimov 3 года назад

    Guitar and BEGINNER piano teacher here. Had a guy I worked with who is a middle school band instructor asking around the studio if anyone could sight read. I jokingly said, "If you give me about 5 hours."
    Somehow this landed me a gig playing as piano accompanist at Solo & Ensemble Festival later that week. I had never done this before (or since), but it paid $200. All I had to do was play the harmony to "Largo" all day long. I had it practiced perfectly, had it memorized even.
    The day went so smoothly; I was getting compliments on my playing! Then... the last student of my day, on a scheduling error, was playing Surprise Symphony and surprise! I didn't know it! I informed the head brass at S&E, to which he said, "you can play this, right?", and I the confidence of the day so far turned to hubris as I totally agreed with him. I had to GO TO FEDEX and copy the music first.
    An absolute travesty ensued. After a lengthy delay to ice the kid out, I absolutely butchered the crap out of that song. Eventually I just stopped playing because it sounded so horrible and I could feel the kid's confidence draining on the back of my performance. He could barely produce a tone out of his flute and it wobbled meekly. I apologized to the judge and implored them not to go too hard on the kid.
    I told the teacher about it afterwards and he brushed it off, but I was like, "No, you don't understand, I RUINED his performance." A couple weeks later I heard him recounting the story to a fellow teacher.
    I needed this reminder! At the end of the day, it was uncomfortable, it sucked, but I live to play another day.

  • @ritiksrivastava3093
    @ritiksrivastava3093 5 лет назад +4

    Just call it Jazz

  • @sam08g16
    @sam08g16 5 лет назад +5

    7:20 that was so Tom Scott! Love Adam's fluency with both music and words.

  • @stephencoxbass
    @stephencoxbass 5 лет назад +1

    Hysterical!!! I used to feel stupid and have anxiety spike when things like this happen, but after 10 years of things happening, I'm getting a slight bit better at not completely acting a fool...haha! It's tough to just ride the wave and not make a bigger mistake. Thanks for sharing!

  • @entrxpic
    @entrxpic 5 лет назад

    I love this so much! Please please do more

  • @spmil999
    @spmil999 5 лет назад +13

    That clip from Community had me spewing at my dinner table. Now I think I need to watch that show again....
    Good Stuff, Adam! Funny story that was very well told.

  • @WangleLine
    @WangleLine 5 лет назад +37

    MUSIC IS GONE

  • @AcousticBruce
    @AcousticBruce 5 лет назад +10

    Zack Lapidus is the piano player that you showed "chasing her melody" I took lessons from him for a while.

  • @jcxz100
    @jcxz100 5 лет назад +1

    My worst trainwreck (choir concert): This song starts in Eb, with no melody (tenors) in the intro. Unfortunately the sopranos and altos had difficulty hearing us basses (combo of too deep pitch, and bad accoustics) so some of them (those circling around the major third) were drifting downwards. Thus, in an attempt to minimise the clash of harmonies we basses drifted downwards too... but couldn't decide among ourselves how far down. All the while some of the girls were holding on to the initial key, but on average we were probably down almost a half-note even before the intro had ended. Then the tenors started singing verse and were confused and divided in two keys about a half-note apart.
    But! Lo and behold! By magic, when the chorus modulated up to (what was supposed to be) Gb, we aproached each other and before the end of the chorus it sounded alright! though maybe in F rather that Gb!
    Alas, then everything collapsed again; because while verse two should modulate back down to Eb (eeh, D, I guess) at least one person kept singing chorus (had forgotten that the chorus does not repeat first time around)... much confusion arose. Anyhow, now I couldn't hear what the other basses were singing and my brain was running out of my ears, yet I decided to follow what I perceived to be the majority and stay up in Gb-ish. Everybody was drifting apart and drowning in the stormy waters of 50 people singing in 50 different keys. Then... imagine we have to modulate back up for the final chorus? As we attempted this (half of us going from Gb to A -ish, second half moving from Eb to Gb-ish, third half not modulating at all, and the remaining seven and three quarters halves floating around in their own private nightmare) I started to laugh and almost choked, but somehow managed to fake still singing by moving my lips in about the right way! To our praise we all kept the rhytm, and everyone seemed determined that the show must go on to the bitter end, and indeed we all ended at the same time which was no small feat...
    Afterwards I tried to analyse the intervals we were singing and there was some pretty interesting "harmonics" going on, but I won't go into that here, because then my comment would be too long. Longer. Too much longer. Right. The choir leader's comment? "I don't think anybody noticed..." :-D :-D

  • @aylbdrmadison1051
    @aylbdrmadison1051 5 лет назад +17

    Train wrecks on stage are a actually an opportunity in the making. I was playing a gig once, and all of a sudden literally half of the drummers kit fell off the drum riser and our one poor roadie and I (still trying to play the song, as was the drummer) were trying to literally push that falling half of the drum kit back into place. I turned around after and had a good laugh along with the audience. I'll never forget that gig because of that, lols..... *When comedy strikes, just flow with it. ^-^*

    • @sludgerat666
      @sludgerat666 5 лет назад

      Don't take it too seriously! Good for you guys for going with the flow.

  • @n-Chantreuse
    @n-Chantreuse 5 лет назад +16

    NAILED IT!
    Right to the cross.
    I have to say, you guys were very kind.

  • @Milessongs
    @Milessongs 5 лет назад +2

    Thanks for (another) great video, Adam! A bandmate shared this with me shortly after my 'personal best' musical train wreck at a wedding, and it helped pull me back from the brink. Bottom line: no one was hurt, everyone got home safely!

  • @BassMeisterable
    @BassMeisterable 5 лет назад +3

    Oh my god this was an amazing video. Couldn't help but laugh along when you talked about the final chorus of 4 keys at once. Great vid :)

    • @jg-reis
      @jg-reis 4 года назад

      Just four?! What was the drummer doing? :)

  • @neonjesus8831
    @neonjesus8831 5 лет назад +5

    QUADROTONAL. We truly have hit the greatest timeline.

  • @henrycurtis3652
    @henrycurtis3652 5 лет назад +11

    I just laughed so hard I cried. I think you at least temporarily alleviated if not cured my final-semester existential "AAGH"

  • @northernmostbecker
    @northernmostbecker 2 года назад +1

    This was excellent storytelling. Not an ounce of footage of the actual event and yet you had my attention the whole time.

  • @julianduncan2548
    @julianduncan2548 Год назад +1

    Oh you want me to have ONE good train wreck? I am quite the overachiever, you see.

  • @megalamb
    @megalamb 5 лет назад +15

    Without checking, yes, I could remember if Elton John modulates, and as far as I recall, yes. There's a key change up 1 tone. I haven't fact-checked myself, but I'm pretty sure.
    Edit: And, having watched the rest of the video, sounds like I was right about the Lion King version and not the original!

    • @pereztube2
      @pereztube2 5 лет назад +2

      wow cool, bro

    • @GuyNamedSean
      @GuyNamedSean 5 лет назад +1

      See I thought there wasn't, but I almost always listen to Elton's stand-alone version. The key change in the film version always catches me off guard because I forget about it.