Thanks to Sheet Music Boss and Grant and Chopstix!! Sorry it’s been a hot minute since I’ve uploaded but I promise I’ve been working harder than ever planting and cultivating some seeds that should bear some very delicious fruit for all of you over the next 5 months or so.
The part about how when it gets chaotic and some sounds are more or less muted is because the piano can't reset its hammers fast enough before the next note is played. That's why Rush E is strictly electronic. If you did play it fast enough, the piano wouldn't be able to keep up.
this is why he should've done it on a grand piano as the hammers are aided by gravity to reset as opposed to an upright piano which has to turn vertical motion into horizontal and can no longer reap the same benefit
@borris wensly i dont either but its literally one of the most popular songs on the whole planet mostly in memes, like im sure that almost all ppl that arent some 13 year olds will know it or at least heard of it
Fun fact: the Green Needle Brainstorm toy is actually a Ben 10 Alien Force toy of the alien Brainstorm from about 12 years ago, so we know for sure Brainstorm is what it's actually saying!
5:23 I made that piano visualizer with the particles and special effects! It's called Embers. Never would I have thought I can say I kinda made it into a Mark Rober video?? 🤯
Awesome video Mark! I've often thought about digging into Fourier decompositions of speech to show how different vowel sounds are made but operationalizing it with a piano was amazing - great job!
The dampener on each string also does ONE MORE THING: Prevents harmonic vibrations from vibrating related strings. There are things called overtones when a note is played. You don't just get that note, but you get other, higher notes as well because of how the period of the string's vibration can be split into other notes. And, if you hit the harmonic resonance, things vibrate. So, a lower note could cause strings of higher notes with relative periods to vibrate as well... if they didn't have a big, fat felt pad on them. This is also why some intervals in a scale sound better than others.
@@anonymous.dontask.8343 not quite. The effect he’s talking about isn’t based on proximity. He’s talking about resonance and harmonics. Where if you play a low C, another string at middle and high C will vibrate slightly despite being entire scales away in terms of distance on the piano, and has a lesser effect for certain intervals in between. Has something to do with the frequency of vibration, which I don’t know in detail since I don’t study music theory or physics. Being based on it just being close would imply it’s just the impact of the hammer bleeding over to other notes, which probably would still happen, but that’s not what is being discussed.
As a piano technician I appreciate so much that you're explaining why a piano action has to be so complicated! One note though, the "backstop" is actually not for repetition, it's to prevent the hammer from bouncing off the rest and striking the string again. The fact that you gain repetition speed is a happy side effect.
Very true. It is only through the pedals, e.g. feet, and the fingers and the emotion of the piano player that the instrument becomes so much more than a percussion instrument.
Fun fact: Mark Rober is now one of extremely few humans on planet earth if any who have heard the full difficulty version of this song without the use of a speaker.
When I was learning Portuguese I could understand everything as long as I could see the person’s mouth. Phone calls sounded as foreign as if I didn’t speak it at all. I eventually got fluent to the point I could talk on the phone, but what Mark said about auditory senses depending on visual input rang very true.
And still, they all are taken for granted in such a way that it has become an entertainment to destroy them in uncountable ways. Like the one they dropped from a roof, creating the PS2 startup sound. And in cartoons.😄
I love how you explained a whole bunch of different topics (piano engineering, sound waves, human senses) in one coherent 11-minute video. Just goes to show how science is interconnected, and different branches explore different aspects of the same wider world.
In Music there are several classes, one of them is the string class, within the string class there are several subclasses: plucked strings, rubbed strings and struck strings, the piano is part of the struck string family. I hope it helped, I'm from Portugal, don't judge me for my English, which isn't the best
Well it's not just a fun cheap shot but it's also a song that most netizens will easily know regardless of age. He could have picked something by Neil Young if he wanted or Mike and The Mechanics or something by... * looks up young people music * Billie Elish and in so doing had a lot of his audience aurally lost. A rickroll however, well it's an older meme but it checks out sir.
@@PatTheCat1014Well the digital version is enhanced. Different parts of the song are louder. So 65% of the notes are barely audible among the rest of them. So physically you don't have that.
ive heard this speaking effect before in midified versions of songs with vocals, and ive seen people claim it was just your brain filling in lyrics you already know. its cool to know theres also a bit of actual sound approximation going on!
I absolutely can't hear anything resembling a voice with that " speaking piano ". Not an english native speaker. That's probably people's brain filling the gaps.
@@bendu49100 a piano doesnt have the range to reproduce consonants. But the theory behind it is solid. Computers use it to synthetize speech and instruments. It's called MIDI
There's a video I found a while back (and sadly can't find again) that show how, because you can use this technique to effectively make midi data of human speech/song, you can change the instrument on the midi to have it say/sing words in varying "voices" of different instruments.
It's actually often overlooked in how modern music theory is taught. The average general music theory class will usually cover harmony, melody, and maybe some basic rhythm, completely brushing instrumentation and timbre despite timbre being one of the most complex and interesting aspects of music. It's why Beethoven's 5th sounds weird on a synthesizer and why All Star by Smash Mouth sounds out of place when played by an orchestra. It's hard to come across an artist or band that experiments with harmony, melody, rhythm, and timbre in meaningful ways, but Pink Floyd and Radiohead mess around with all of those very well, even if they aren't the top of the top for each category.
9:55 Finally someone acknowledges that the criss-crossing lines are in fact notes. And, if played, they drown out the entire song. I’m not trying to knock other renditions, but this portion is never played as displayed, perhaps to protect our ears. Not this guy!
its supposed to be a joke, and if it were real, then it would be WAY harder than what ud think... considering u WOULD need more than 1 piano to fully perform this
The original almost barely plays it either anyway. They might be there in the main video, but they're like, really, really subtle that not playing them barely makes a difference to the overall sound.
7:05 Grant showing us once again he's the best at explaining math... Seriously I had already seen this representation but the animation is so beautiful in explaining the concept of a Fourier transform
The way it was laid out visually was amazing. I wasn’t even paying attention to what he was saying as much as I was looking at the sine waves lined up and stuff
As a pianist, this is one of the weirdest and most interesting creation of an english-speaking piano since when I have first seen it done in computers to speak pineapple pen
7:48 Similar prompting is generally necessary to "hear" supposed backwards messages in sound recordings. Without first being told what you're supposed to hear, you tend to hear gibberish (unsurprisingly).
I’m glad I that when talking about an audio to MIDI transcription Mark didn’t call hearing vocals an “illusion.” I have heard that term used many times in other videos, and it’s just not accurate to call it as such. That’s like calling a pixelated and hard to decipher photograph an “illusion” of the original. In reality the sound is just so heckin’ distorted that you really struggle to tell what’s being said, but the original sound is in there, somewhere. As an audio engineer that is a major pet peeve of mine, and I thank Mark and 3B1B for the much better and more accurate simplification.
Agreed. More than illusion is an aproximation because to actually get the accurate voice you'll need infinite amount of piano keys that reproduce the sound of every frequency not only the peaks of the future transform.
Nitpicking: Parts of the original sound are in there. As an audio engineer you're probably familiar with nyquist's sampling theorem, and midi discretization is basically just sampling of the frequency spectrum. The big problem is loss of high frequency and phase information, as those are fundamental for replicating the exact sounds. (e.g. plosives like p, k, t are very narrow time impulses and therefore have a very broad frequency spectrum)
@@tjreynolds685 Not true. This is the same argument that says that digital audio cannot exactly represent analogue sound, but there's some math proof that that is not the case (what it's called, though, I don't recall). Edit: Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem.
What’s so cool about this is they’re reviving one of the oldest vocalizing-synth methods, and it was never done acoustically before. It was MIDI notes in place of audio samples. (OMG that recreation of Give You Up is insane)
9:23 Really like how the light from the notes on screen reflects off of the keys making them looking a bit like they're glowing the color of the note they're playing.
As a blind person, when you speak of visual signals making you understand sound in a different way, it really interests me. Ic't understand a word that the piano says all the way through the video because I can't see the words on screen, and the clip that says "green needle" sounds exactly the same every time for me. I'd be interested if there were a way of getting the transcriptions of what the piano said... Because I think it insane that such a thing can exist. Incredible.
There are automatically generated subtitles for the episode, but I'm not sure how to download them. I'm not blind, but "green needle" sounded the same for me every time as well, even if I looked away from the screen entirely.
Just out of curiosity how do comment and read comments on RUclips, do you use audio description and how does it cope with peoples bad spelling and grammar?
Ever since that whole Yanny/Laurel debate, I’ve come across that “Green Needle” clip several times throughout the years, and here marks another time. No matter what, I can _never_ hear the word “brain storm” no matter how hard I try to listen or how badly I try to think it’s there. It just always sounds like “green needle” to me.
Same for me, I never understood how people hear Brainstorm... Ps: Yeah sometimes I do hear Brain needle (especially when looking at the word "BrainStorm") but again the needle part never changes for me
First time I heard Green Needle. Then I learned it was a Ben 10 toy and the character is called Brainstorm. Then after seeing the character and understanding the context, I can now only hear Green Needle when reading the text. Any time I hear it without text now it's Brainstorm.
At 9:53 I'm pretty sure the original recording of Rush E is played over Chopstix to make it sound better than it actually was, kind of misleading. I could be wrong though. Also, the part before the "E" at the end seems to be slightly slower with Chopstix than the original, perhaps it was lagging a little?
@@shadowyzephyr yea the original video’s audio was played over, the sound’s a bit different and also if u heard that in real life no matter how accurate the solenoids are it’d just sound like an entire piano’s keys being mashed at once and it’d be pretty hard to hear the actual song
Wow being Rick rolled by a talking and self playing piano is never something I thought I’d be able to say I’ve done😂😂 Mark Rober you’ve nailed it again😂
1:44 "If you're thinking like an engineer, the best design gets the job done in the most simple way possible" Unless the client is paying per line of code...
If you can get to Graz in Austria they may still, have Ballet Mechanique set up with us basically a full band of this but with 5? Pianos. I bet someone has it on YT - but if not I recorded the whole thing too.
Mark, this is absolutely fantastic, I've played the piano for 18 years and I never imagined I could learn so much about my own craft in 10 minutes. Truly took me by surprise so thank you!
![Coheed and Cambria - Searching for Tomorrow [Official Video]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/hDsYGLbmadg/mqdefault.jpg)
Thanks to Sheet Music Boss and Grant and Chopstix!! Sorry it’s been a hot minute since I’ve uploaded but I promise I’ve been working harder than ever planting and cultivating some seeds that should bear some very delicious fruit for all of you over the next 5 months or so.
YESS
Yo
Awesome!
Cheese
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It was great to collaborate with you, Mark! Thank you for the invitation!
wow
It was incredible
Was a nice video to see the full on version on a physical piano
I was so suprised to see a big and trending creator collaborating with a more niche area of RUclips, piano, which I love . Great to see it tho
Here before Mark Rober
What an unexpected crossover! Rush E is the perfect final boss for chopsticks.
heyyyy aren’t you the line rider guy
Love your vids!
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wet math you said and
The part about how when it gets chaotic and some sounds are more or less muted is because the piano can't reset its hammers fast enough before the next note is played. That's why Rush E is strictly electronic. If you did play it fast enough, the piano wouldn't be able to keep up.
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this is why he should've done it on a grand piano as the hammers are aided by gravity to reset as opposed to an upright piano which has to turn vertical motion into horizontal and can no longer reap the same benefit
@borris wensly idk how tf can u not know but its: dr dre - still dre
@borris wensly it’s a song by Dr. Dre. Still D.R.E
@borris wensly i dont either but its literally one of the most popular songs on the whole planet mostly in memes, like im sure that almost all ppl that arent some 13 year olds will know it or at least heard of it
Did I seriously get Rick rolled by a TALKING PIANO
yeah
Yes
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@@Imababyidksococolol
Talking Tom❎
Talking piano✅
Fun fact: the Green Needle Brainstorm toy is actually a Ben 10 Alien Force toy of the alien Brainstorm from about 12 years ago, so we know for sure Brainstorm is what it's actually saying!
Yo mandjtv hi
Hey I was just watching one of your videos last night. I’m also currently playing a Ben 10 watch.
Micheal this isn’t pokemon whatcha doin here
Also wait I think I have that toy except it says swampfire
Oh hey it's u, how's it going
10/10 It "speaking" and "singing" is absolutely haunting.
if you dont read the text on the bottom of the screen you have no idea what its saying
@@Yutoryry for real
@@Yutoryry but the way it sings Never gonna give you up tho
@@Yutoryry 🤔🤔
True
Never realized how complicated the structure of a piano key is.
It really makes you appreciate the work put into it
E
Same
And he didn't even touched the pedals. Besides the pipe organ, the piano is the most complex common instrument out there
magyarok!
" my lawyers are going to SUE YOUR A-"
Ss
Sus
@@noboduGTADaNiElASuS ?
my lawyers are going to SUE YOUR A- GET OUT
My lawyer's are going to SUE YOUR C (dies)
This seems like an extremely complicated way to rickroll everyone. Well done.
“The flow of time itself is convoluted“
POV: You get pianorolled
I genuinely almost threw my phone across the room
@@LJK69420 Well at least the piano *didn't start dancing*
Sounds like rick can’t sing without voice cracking
5:23 I made that piano visualizer with the particles and special effects! It's called Embers. Never would I have thought I can say I kinda made it into a Mark Rober video?? 🤯
Congrats?
Congrats furry :D
haha
It's looks super cool!
@@SportsurgeDotNet made it further than you will. Congrats?
6:05 PPL WE GOT RICKROLLEEDDDDDDD
💀
😂😂😂
Nooooooooo
That is insane, i've always wanted to see rush E played irl and to see it done by a robot is just the cherry on top.
Yup
ikr
ikr
I don't think you can convince me that a human can play that
@@JRNimmo lmao true, but I reckon multiple people could attempt it together.
Awesome video Mark! I've often thought about digging into Fourier decompositions of speech to show how different vowel sounds are made but operationalizing it with a piano was amazing - great job!
Sup
oh
Can't wait to see how you explain it
This is Fire 🔥🔥
hey
This transcription will not take long at all.
*transcript this I dare you*
Oof
;-;
Lmao he gonna finish it in like 8 years and post it and nobody’s gonna remember what it was from lmao
Transcribe this already
10:24 why is he standing at a creek
The dampener on each string also does ONE MORE THING: Prevents harmonic vibrations from vibrating related strings. There are things called overtones when a note is played. You don't just get that note, but you get other, higher notes as well because of how the period of the string's vibration can be split into other notes. And, if you hit the harmonic resonance, things vibrate. So, a lower note could cause strings of higher notes with relative periods to vibrate as well... if they didn't have a big, fat felt pad on them.
This is also why some intervals in a scale sound better than others.
Oh nice!
I play bari sax and overtones are a blessing and a curse
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To translate to english: Without the sponge looking things that make it quiet, the notes around the key you hit also played.
@@anonymous.dontask.8343 not quite. The effect he’s talking about isn’t based on proximity.
He’s talking about resonance and harmonics. Where if you play a low C, another string at middle and high C will vibrate slightly despite being entire scales away in terms of distance on the piano, and has a lesser effect for certain intervals in between.
Has something to do with the frequency of vibration, which I don’t know in detail since I don’t study music theory or physics.
Being based on it just being close would imply it’s just the impact of the hammer bleeding over to other notes, which probably would still happen, but that’s not what is being discussed.
As a piano technician I appreciate so much that you're explaining why a piano action has to be so complicated! One note though, the "backstop" is actually not for repetition, it's to prevent the hammer from bouncing off the rest and striking the string again. The fact that you gain repetition speed is a happy side effect.
Happy little accidents
This explains what's wrong with my girlfriend's piano! I was wondering why I occasionally get a double hit..
Yup merely impossible to play fast repetitive notes on a worn piano kinda love the repetition lever even some of the uprights have something similar
one NOTE though... i saw what you did there
@@faland0069 HA no pun intended
You can really hear that it's a percussion instrument when it's hitting those big green chords in Rush E it actually sounds like a drum
I was thinking that too, a very big "foot stomp" sound that I didn't think could be made with a piano.
ok
Very true. It is only through the pedals, e.g. feet, and the fingers and the emotion of the piano player that the instrument becomes so much more than a percussion instrument.
You can hear keys moving on saxophones, flutes, trumpets, etc. don’t mischaracterize the playing action vs. mechanical requirements
Soon may the wellerman come to bring the sugar and tea and rum
The true definition of a trailblazer! I love you Mark!
As a classical pianist for ten years, it was interesting to actually learn how the piano works.
lmao same
here before the masses find out that mark hearted this comment
I think the explanation was taken from a Jared Owen video. It looks like the same animation.
Yeah
But what do the foot pedals do?
Fun fact: Mark Rober is now one of extremely few humans on planet earth if any who have heard the full difficulty version of this song without the use of a speaker.
Dammm now I want to
yeah
Yeah true
Imagine if the octaves were 10x more. tempo 5x more.
@CoolFool with a speaker!
If only someone had a piano were every key also was tuned to EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
That would be quite a coincidence.
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I expected you in the video! :D
I've seen the video and looked it up to post the link here only to see that it was made by you...
I was just about to try and find a way to message you about this!
This is one of my favorite videos! I watched this like 50 times.
When I was learning Portuguese I could understand everything as long as I could see the person’s mouth. Phone calls sounded as foreign as if I didn’t speak it at all. I eventually got fluent to the point I could talk on the phone, but what Mark said about auditory senses depending on visual input rang very true.
Thanks for learning my language!
i want to learn portuguese so bad but the words wont stick
Aí sim rapaz! Congrats
Never thought I would get rick-rolled by a singing piano...
:-)
@@gabrieldaniels5002 never gonna give you up
@@B.MAN.99PRUDUCTIONS never gonna let you down
It is no rickroll lol
I'll take "Sentences I did not expect to hear in my entire goddamn life" for 300.
When you realise how complicated the structure of a piano key is. Hats off to you Mark .
And still, they all are taken for granted in such a way that it has become an entertainment to destroy them in uncountable ways.
Like the one they dropped from a roof, creating the PS2 startup sound.
And in cartoons.😄
@@draxoronxztgs1212 woosh me, they didnt create the ps2 startup sound by dropping a piano down a building
@@checkit7528 Maybe they don't, but there's a video where it sounds pretty like it.
mark: FLAMES piano: "IAM GOING TO SUE YOU BUDDY"
It's chopsticks
I love how you explained a whole bunch of different topics (piano engineering, sound waves, human senses) in one coherent 11-minute video. Just goes to show how science is interconnected, and different branches explore different aspects of the same wider world.
Being a student i hate the fact that your comment stands true and that i gotta study for my exams
@@lordrasanath9780 "I hate that i have to study for my exams"
same, brother.
same.
My dad always says ‘that piano isn’t gonna play its self!’ When I don’t practice. But then I showed him this…
Big brain move
but than you rickrolled your dad…
lol
@@infinitygamer4991 then i need to teach you grammar lol
@@abuticky311 Who cares lol
never thought i would be rickrolled by a piano that can play itself and talk
Same
Me too
I didn't whatch the video yet so ty for telling me I will know
Edit: sadly I still got rickrolled 😭
Same ngl 😂
I GOT RICK ROLLED BY A TALKING PIANO. :(( Honestly Chopsticks can take the win, I'm more impressed than upset.
This is actually my favorite video that you made. Chopsticks will go down in history as the best piano
The one and only time I will accept being Rick rolled!
lol yeah
He rick rolled nearly 6 million people
He Rick rolled a LOT of people
I was like…………..I accept my fate even before the song started
Yea
Mark: creates a piano that can play Rush E perfectly
Fanchen: "I personally wouldnt publish something so unpolished"
I understood that reference... heh
HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE
😂😂😂
NOT AGAIN
Fanchen: *proceeds to play better*
This vid had everything, a talking piano, engineering, Mark Rober, and a rickroll. Perfection.
WOWW YOU DON'T READ MY PROFILE PICTURE
And rush e!!
its funny how everyone got rickrolled by the talking piano
Perfection. 👌👌
Don’t forget 3Blue1Brown
In Music there are several classes, one of them is the string class, within the string class there are several subclasses: plucked strings, rubbed strings and struck strings, the piano is part of the struck string family. I hope it helped, I'm from Portugal, don't judge me for my English, which isn't the best
I never thought a robot piano would rickroll me lol
We got rekt by a robot
Now I can tell my friends I’ve been rick rolled by a robot
Yeah it even had the voice of rick Ashley if you listen closely
Did i just get rickrolled by a piano. If i told my friend she would never believe.
5:49 ....... !
"If you even make me WARM my lawyers are gonna SUE YOUR A-" Is the best quote from a piano.
Ikr 🤣 🤣
I mean true, but I don’t feel like that’s a hard achievement.
Lol
@Wren 1:16
It is so funny
"See if he can pick out the singer's actual voice in this classical piece of music history"
*Proceeds to rickroll us*
mark Robert never rickrolled until now he tricked us pretty bad and destroyed us
I didn't know you had it in you, Mark.
Well it's not just a fun cheap shot but it's also a song that most netizens will easily know regardless of age.
He could have picked something by Neil Young if he wanted or Mike and The Mechanics or something by... * looks up young people music * Billie Elish and in so doing had a lot of his audience aurally lost.
A rickroll however, well it's an older meme but it checks out sir.
What the f did he try to say? "can pick out the singer's actual voice in this classical piece of music history" what does this even mean?
@@yakinthebox It is what Mark said
I never ever thought I would get rickrolled by a talking piano. Well done Mark
Post this to your freind and see their reaction!
Me neither
Nice we got Rick rolled by a talking piano
I was dumbfounded when he rickrolled me.
I was not expecting
remember. Mark is the only living person to hear what rush e actually sounds like in person. Meaning that scientifically, he’s super based
he might have ear damage too, but its for science and science is better than hearing (obviously)
cameraman:🗿
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it sounds kinda strange being played on a real piano lol, for some reason i expected it to sound more like it does digitally 🤷
@@PatTheCat1014Well the digital version is enhanced. Different parts of the song are louder. So 65% of the notes are barely audible among the rest of them. So physically you don't have that.
I love how Mark implements modern-day technology into things that are just for entertainment! Thanks Mark for the coolest things!
Thank you mark
thanks Edelweiss for the piano
@@milliekultra he did not make the piano
"I SWEAR, IF YOU SO MUCH AS MAKE ME WARM, MY LAWYERS WILL SUE YOUR A-"
-Piano 2022
never thought i’d be rickrolled by a talking automatic piano and of course, Mark made it
me too
Yeah
@Fish and lemons the better you'll be
Same
Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna turn around and desert you.
I love how he considered the Rick Roll a classic piece of music history, and I agree with that statement.
Most casual rick roll I've seen in a long time!
So true. My friend(s) sometimes rickroll the group chat.
which absolutely is
The little bits where the piano responds to Mark, or plays tunes like "The More You Know" are adorable.
Omg piano waifu???????????
@@Hithere-uz6wd Huh???
@@davidenatoh359 yeah
Shut up
@@Hithere-uz6wd shut up
0:36 didn't know a piano can roast a person😂😂
chopstix: *"catches fire"*
mark: *"puts out fire"*
chopstix: THAT WAS AWSOME
Edit: dam yall thought I thought chopstix really caught fire?
didn't actually caught fire, unfurtunately , see yourself in the end of the description of this video
KNAI
Did anyone believe it actually caught fire 🙄 mark would have immediately used the extinguisher instead of waiting for it to finish
@@magica3526 read decs lol!
Lol
Mark : let’s play rush e on this talking piano!
Also mark : explains how the entire piano works.
What, that doesnt make sense
@@knifekirby918 it does
E
Can we appreciate the fact that he always manages to make us smile?
@@knifekirby918 Helooooooo
ive heard this speaking effect before in midified versions of songs with vocals, and ive seen people claim it was just your brain filling in lyrics you already know. its cool to know theres also a bit of actual sound approximation going on!
I've heard those too, but I always just heard that it accidentally picks up some of the singing as well
I absolutely can't hear anything resembling a voice with that " speaking piano ".
Not an english native speaker.
That's probably people's brain filling the gaps.
@@bendu49100 a piano doesnt have the range to reproduce consonants. But the theory behind it is solid. Computers use it to synthetize speech and instruments. It's called MIDI
There are subtitles, that is what your brain is using to fill in the gaps.
Look up "Peter Frampton - Do You Feel Like We Do". He makes his guitar speak. Live.
9:08 THIS THE MOMENTS
I love how he decided to rickroll us with a talking piano. Genius.
F r
it’s true
that section from 3b1b about waveforms was so helpful! I've been wondering how a sound can be constructed from smaller waves of different frequencies
He also has great, longer form videos on the fourier transform - definitely worth a watch!
There's a video I found a while back (and sadly can't find again) that show how, because you can use this technique to effectively make midi data of human speech/song, you can change the instrument on the midi to have it say/sing words in varying "voices" of different instruments.
It's actually often overlooked in how modern music theory is taught. The average general music theory class will usually cover harmony, melody, and maybe some basic rhythm, completely brushing instrumentation and timbre despite timbre being one of the most complex and interesting aspects of music. It's why Beethoven's 5th sounds weird on a synthesizer and why All Star by Smash Mouth sounds out of place when played by an orchestra. It's hard to come across an artist or band that experiments with harmony, melody, rhythm, and timbre in meaningful ways, but Pink Floyd and Radiohead mess around with all of those very well, even if they aren't the top of the top for each category.
IKR!???
@@piogre ……………………………………..
I’ve always wondered what Rush E would sound like on a real piano.
Same
You would hear the cinders of fire and sound
It's been done multiple times before
5:50
@@cydaber2072 fml
I never tried this markrober!
This is so cool
Still can't believe how he made this cool piano and how I got rick rolled by a piano.
One more beluga fan :D
He didnt make the piano
Lol
noob
I was waiting for someone to own up to it 😂
Props to you for rickrolling all of us in the most unexpected way possible.
there wasnt a rick roll
@@UltimateGamer34 ...you absolute NIMROD
@@UltimateGamer34 you just got rickrolled mentally
@@UltimateGamer34 yeah there was
@@apm69 when
As a pianist with all 88 fingers, I understand how difficult this is to play. Hats off to chopstix!
Cheers🍷🗿
88!
Ye
All 88? Oh I only have 78 :(
Lol
Rest in peace chopstix🫡
9:55 Finally someone acknowledges that the criss-crossing lines are in fact notes. And, if played, they drown out the entire song. I’m not trying to knock other renditions, but this portion is never played as displayed, perhaps to protect our ears. Not this guy!
i did notice that, i'd see the early full lines zig za across and i had pay close attention to actually hear them
Exactly
Generally I’ve always heard them played softly so it was there but you could still hear the main theme.
its supposed to be a joke, and if it were real, then it would be WAY harder than what ud think... considering u WOULD need more than 1 piano to fully perform this
The original almost barely plays it either anyway. They might be there in the main video, but they're like, really, really subtle that not playing them barely makes a difference to the overall sound.
7:05 Grant showing us once again he's the best at explaining math... Seriously I had already seen this representation but the animation is so beautiful in explaining the concept of a Fourier transform
The way it was laid out visually was amazing. I wasn’t even paying attention to what he was saying as much as I was looking at the sine waves lined up and stuff
Mark: see if he can pick out the singer's actual voice in this classical piece of music history.
Me: my rickroll senses are tingling.
lol
i facepalmed when i realized what the song was hahaha
I already could tell what it was before he played it lol
@@vtgamer151 not to be rude, but to NOT be able to figure it out you'd either have to be deaf or already dead lol.
i think you mean "astley tingle"
8:46 I hear brain needle💀
Fr
Fr
and I hear green storm
SMB: No human could perfectly play this song ever !
Chopstick the piano: Fine. I’ll play myself !
Chopstix isnt a human
@@htocisi you have ruined the joke my freind
@@htocisi r/woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooosh
@@htocisi go. Just leave
@@htocisi hahaha!!!
As a pianist, this is one of the weirdest and most interesting creation of an english-speaking piano since when I have first seen it done in computers to speak pineapple pen
Thank you for making this! My kids are learning piano and this was so fun for them to see!
Oh hey there verified person
If you want to see and hear Chopsticz playing Rush E, click this time stamp: 8:49
@@Numbergamer2024 mate, you don't have to use your last braincells to give out the obvious. I can just watch the video without needing the timestamp
I bet they were laughing watching this.
11
in the first six minutes, you explained pianos, showed off player pianos like our buddy Chopsticks, and RICK ROLLED US!!!
7:48 Similar prompting is generally necessary to "hear" supposed backwards messages in sound recordings. Without first being told what you're supposed to hear, you tend to hear gibberish (unsurprisingly).
WOWW YOU DON'T READ MY PROFILE PICTURE
Watch the best part of it 5:49
@@scubaI wow a rickroll
I’m glad I that when talking about an audio to MIDI transcription Mark didn’t call hearing vocals an “illusion.” I have heard that term used many times in other videos, and it’s just not accurate to call it as such. That’s like calling a pixelated and hard to decipher photograph an “illusion” of the original. In reality the sound is just so heckin’ distorted that you really struggle to tell what’s being said, but the original sound is in there, somewhere. As an audio engineer that is a major pet peeve of mine, and I thank Mark and 3B1B for the much better and more accurate simplification.
Agreed. More than illusion is an aproximation because to actually get the accurate voice you'll need infinite amount of piano keys that reproduce the sound of every frequency not only the peaks of the future transform.
@@Busterblade20 Not only an infinite amount of piano keys, but an infinite amount of piano keys including every frequency between the notes
Nitpicking:
Parts of the original sound are in there. As an audio engineer you're probably familiar with nyquist's sampling theorem, and midi discretization is basically just sampling of the frequency spectrum. The big problem is loss of high frequency and phase information, as those are fundamental for replicating the exact sounds. (e.g. plosives like p, k, t are very narrow time impulses and therefore have a very broad frequency spectrum)
@@tjreynolds685 Not true. This is the same argument that says that digital audio cannot exactly represent analogue sound, but there's some math proof that that is not the case (what it's called, though, I don't recall).
Edit: Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem.
What’s so cool about this is they’re reviving one of the oldest vocalizing-synth methods, and it was never done acoustically before. It was MIDI notes in place of audio samples. (OMG that recreation of Give You Up is insane)
DID YOU SAY FLAMES!?
I SWEAR. IF YOU SO MUCH AS MAKE ME WARM,
MY LAWERS ARE GOING TO SUE YOUR A- *gets cut off* 😂
9:23 Really like how the light from the notes on screen reflects off of the keys making them looking a bit like they're glowing the color of the note they're playing.
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The color was added - they aren’t reflecting the image (at least not that vividly)
@@raseon97 Ah fair enough, even cooler detail then!
Mark: "this Classical piece of music history"
Community: I wonder what it is?
Mark: "Rickroll everyone"
Community: -_-
He didn't say a piece of classical music
Its not classical, it's classic.
Yuuuup
Nooooo
-_-
Loving the "as you can C" puns
Use it to the same box
l v
Stop
You are under a Rest
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Hey i watched your diesel train stunts video a few years ago on your channel i really liked it
I don’t know about you guys, but this is my first time getting rickrolled by a piano.
Achievement acquired:
Rickrolled by a talking piano.
Haha yup
@@_leooguidera agree
Lol
I am happy that this still is relevent
Next achievement:
Rickrolled by a talking guitar
1:20 I did not expect a robot piano attempting to swear at Mark Rober to make my day. But it did.
ARE GOING TO SUE YOUR A-
@Player HEY! THATS AN INAPROPRT LAUNGREAGE, LOSETR!!1!1!!1
@@ultimatedoppel same
Bro that ain't a swear, it's a cuss
@@fardung same thing
I can't believe Rober technically Rick Rolled us... I'm not even mad, just impressed.
Same, I can't believe it either
Same
fun fact: when u change the language audio chopstix voice is translated and also still sounds like a piano
i love how mark instantly started spraying the fire extinguser when the E came
Gotta let him finish his gig bro
Well I can say weirdly this is the first time I’ve been Rick rolled by a talking piano, props to you mark.
first
Exactly- also second lol
Yup- I call third
I call 4th-
I call fifth :/
As a blind person, when you speak of visual signals making you understand sound in a different way, it really interests me. Ic't understand a word that the piano says all the way through the video because I can't see the words on screen, and the clip that says "green needle" sounds exactly the same every time for me.
I'd be interested if there were a way of getting the transcriptions of what the piano said... Because I think it insane that such a thing can exist. Incredible.
Your blind? Who wrote this comment for you 🤔🤔
There are automatically generated subtitles for the episode, but I'm not sure how to download them. I'm not blind, but "green needle" sounded the same for me every time as well, even if I looked away from the screen entirely.
Just out of curiosity how do comment and read comments on RUclips, do you use audio description and how does it cope with peoples bad spelling and grammar?
@@chrissmith3587 It is all thanks to a type of software called a screen reader. It reads out loud everything that comes up...
@@tobiasheath529 thanks, I’d heard of screen readers before but didn’t realise that they would work with more complex interfaces
1:21 is one of the best Mark Rober moments
This isn’t even an option it’s a fact
“My lawyers are going to sue your a-“
The fact that you can actually HEAR the words coming out of the piano amidst the notes is astonishing
JTOH JTOH JTOH JTOH
x
@@cyrusds LOL
@@ovvfoids yes
Try listening to it speaking without reading subtitles and you won't understand anything lol
I have to hand it to you, you are impressive that you rick rolled me with a talking piano.🤣👌
@WHATSAPP㈩④⑨①⑦⑥⑨③⑤⑦⑧⑥④⑨ no
True that 😂 😂
Ever since that whole Yanny/Laurel debate, I’ve come across that “Green Needle” clip several times throughout the years, and here marks another time. No matter what, I can _never_ hear the word “brain storm” no matter how hard I try to listen or how badly I try to think it’s there. It just always sounds like “green needle” to me.
Same for me, I never understood how people hear Brainstorm...
Ps: Yeah sometimes I do hear Brain needle (especially when looking at the word "BrainStorm") but again the needle part never changes for me
First time I heard Green Needle.
Then I learned it was a Ben 10 toy and the character is called Brainstorm. Then after seeing the character and understanding the context, I can now only hear Green Needle when reading the text.
Any time I hear it without text now it's Brainstorm.
You have to think it
I can hear both just as easily
I can hear both, I hear whichever one I'm thinking of even if I don't see the actual word
I can’t believe I got Rick rolled 1:35
“Simple songs like that”
Piano: literally plays every other note all at once
I'm impressed that the song actually has a tune and it isn't just banging random notes on the piano.
At 9:53 I'm pretty sure the original recording of Rush E is played over Chopstix to make it sound better than it actually was, kind of misleading.
I could be wrong though.
Also, the part before the "E" at the end seems to be slightly slower with Chopstix than the original, perhaps it was lagging a little?
@@shadowyzephyr Yeah, you have a point. It does sound a bit odd
@@shadowyzephyr yea the original video’s audio was played over, the sound’s a bit different and also if u heard that in real life no matter how accurate the solenoids are it’d just sound like an entire piano’s keys being mashed at once and it’d be pretty hard to hear the actual song
The song IS banging random notes on piano so it looks cool, but they are mostly silenced
@@notmusictheory74 cool :O
Wow being Rick rolled by a talking and self playing piano is never something I thought I’d be able to say I’ve done😂😂 Mark Rober you’ve nailed it again😂
Same here lol
Same
Now I can check that off my bucket list lol 😆
I feel like I must've been under a rock at a crucial time and never learned that reference...
@@arandomdiamond2 what Rick roll?
1:44 "If you're thinking like an engineer, the best design gets the job done in the most simple way possible"
Unless the client is paying per line of code...
The "piano noob" in the advertisement 5:04
The "piano expert" in the advertisement 9:55
Simply piano in a nutshell
BRUUUHHHHH
But true
Finally , ive caught up with your speed .
Okay
Alr
can we just appreciate how mark was able to incorporate so many elements of meme culture into engineering
yup!
E
There should be a Mark Rober museum with all the things he has ever created. I would definitely visit it. ❤️
It's called his youtube channel.
If you can get to Graz in Austria they may still, have Ballet Mechanique set up with us basically a full band of this but with 5? Pianos. I bet someone has it on YT - but if not I recorded the whole thing too.
He didn't make the piano, it's made by Edelwiess
I saw this video when I was younger and didn’t understand it but now, as a musician, this makes sense and is genuinely really interesting
Never would I think I would get Rick rolled by a piano
Who’s joe
E
You can cross that off your bucket list :)
timestamp?
Wanna get rickrolled by some stepper motors?
Mark, this is absolutely fantastic, I've played the piano for 18 years and I never imagined I could learn so much about my own craft in 10 minutes. Truly took me by surprise so thank you!
You can actually hear all those random notes they put in the piano score, amazing that it still sounds nice!!!
Your friends with 3blue 1brown?I love watching him,I love math.
It never occurred to me that I could be rickrolled by a self playing piano.
I really thought the piano would just play without the Rick Astley clip. That would've been the funnier burn.
Its the Influence of Mrwhosetheboss
@@Sketchitect def
was probbly the whole point of inventing it.