Perfect Pitch: Unlocking Jacob Collier’s musical brilliance
Twenty Thousand Hertz
Dallas Taylor
4.9 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:45.1 | What you're hearing right now is one person's voice, layered in perfect harmony with itself, |
| 0:50.9 | using an instrument called a vocal harmonizer. |
| 0:53.9 | This is a live performance that hasn't been |
| 0:55.8 | edited or altered in any way. The voice itself isn't being digitally tuned, meaning one wrong |
| 1:01.9 | note and the harmonic structure will fall apart. The singer is Jacob Collier. So what happens when |
| 1:08.8 | I play the harmonizer is I sing a note and I play a few notes on the keyboard. |
| 1:12.6 | And what you hear coming out of the instrument is all of the notes I'm playing on the keyboard |
| 1:16.3 | sung by my voice. So it's almost like I can be this spontaneous choir. |
| 1:26.0 | Singers have used vocal harmonizers for a long time, but this one is special. |
| 1:30.6 | It was invented by Jacob, and he's one of the only people in the world who can make it sound |
| 1:35.2 | like this. |
| 1:38.7 | What I realized about this instrument, when I started to try and get my friends to try and play it, |
| 1:48.0 | is that it's really, really difficult to play unless you know what note you're singing. |
| 1:52.0 | Because if you know what note you're singing, like, say for example, I sing an E, or if I think, |
| 1:55.0 | oh, I want to play a chord of E major, and I go, ooh, and I play the chord, I don't have to think about trying to find |
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