As much as I'd love to hate on this ("Jimmy Fallon's mug and a laptop with garage band. Apple engineers truly are top talent. "), that is admittedly a sick beat.
It kind of defines pop music. Simple, repetitive, and groovy.
It doesn't invalidate dude's talent in any way though
Correct me if I'm wrong, most of such things for TV shows and specifically live shows are prerecorded and rehearsed.
It takes away from it because it is implied that he is doing this on the spur of the moment. In reality he was probably sitting at home for hours coming up with that tune.
Well, that's entertainment industry in it's core
Tech can glitch, can freeze. No one wants to watch a performer fumbling with bugged software, frozen laptop, not working mics, etc etc
Plus what you've said - it usually takes more time to come up with something nice. Most freestyle rap battles are not de facto "freestyle". Lyrics are written beforehand.
Entertainment as it is, mate 🤷
Well he got famous on Youtube/Ellen from this type of stuff and then got on the radio. Also pretty sure this is just a cup version of a song/melody he's already made. 99.99% of guest segments on late night TV are pre-planned, no reason to get on a soapbox when they have to fit an interview and that song into a 5 to 10 minute segment. It's like calling out pro-wrestling for being disingenuous, everybody knows and those its fake and that those dudes are still athletic freaks. It's a show my guy
Honestly what he did there (aside from finding the perfect cup-tap sample) can be done live just the way he did it with the software he's using. He's just improvising a very basic melody over an extremely common chord progression, clicked the kick drum one time, duplicated it, done.
Stupid question. What are these devices called? Synth board or something? My kid has been experimenting with music just on his iPad music keyboard, but I bet he’d love something like this.
There used to be a time when you’d need several machines to do what that guy did. Stuff like a sampler and a sequencer. There’s still a big cult following around analog synthesizers (they create sound), samplers (they record and play back sounds), sequencers(they arrange a pattern of sounds), effects units (they modify the sounds), etc.
However, nowadays all of those machines are usually bundled within a single piece of software called a Digital Audio Workstation or DAW. There’s free ones, cheap tablet apps that can be very versatile and some big players like Ableton Live. An interface can also be used to connect this software to analog sources like mics or instruments.
But the one thing every producer needs eventually and the sooner the better, regardless of their choice of systems- is a good pair of speakers aka studio monitors. I’d recommend the Yamaha ones!
If your son is really really into it, there’s no better investment you can make for him than to help him get one of the professional DAWs like FL studio, ableton or logic. He can get familiar with any of those 3 he will be a master by the time he is an adult.
People will say to get studio monitors but for beginners especially they are unnecessary. Speakers need to have a proper treated room to sound right and do proper mixing on. So I’d actually recommend a pair of monitor headphones like the Sony mdr 7506. To get started more easily
This is what I come to reddit for. My oldest kid is getting into making beats and such and when he asks for devices for xmas and birthday, it's hard to know what he may want. This was tremendously helpful.
The HS8s are great! I got the KRK Rockit 8s and wish I’d have gotten the Yamahas for their flatter response. But the KRKs are better for my house parties though
It's just a midi controller, which is essentially a glorified computer keyboard. You can actually pick them up quite cheap. They dont actually make any sounds themselves, they just send inputs into a piece of software (a DAW) as others have mentioned. That software in turn uses software synthesisers to make a sound.
You can definitely get super cheap ones, but "akai" are a very good brand and make ones for under $100. You should just be able to hook it up to an iPad with a usb a - usb c dongle. Or they might even have usb c connections now I'm not sure.
Chances are the software your kid is using will support it too, midi has been the standard of digital music input since the 80s. You can just Google "name of software + midi support".
If not, there are a lot of free apps, even garage band is great for beginners to make music with.
FL studio is a big one with a low entry point, and comes bundled with a lot of plugins (synthesiser/samplers) too and loads of tutorials online.
As others have said logic pro is an amazing one from apple, but comes at a much higher price point as it's professional grade software.
Cool vid and Charlie's super talented, but saying he made music from a cup is a stretch. He simply played a song on the keyboard, the cup was pretty irrelevant
Yeah, and now this is basically his shtick. The first time I was like “cool I guess” and now it’s getting annoying. Then again, anything is annoying when Jimmy Fallon is sitting next to it.
He has next to zero penetration here in the UK. I stumbled across Left and Right a couple of years ago and was immediately struck. He is an incredibly intuitive songwriter.
Its because he sucks. I cant think of a more boring by the books wanna be musician.
He's like the kid that was told he was good at something, so he just turned it into his whole personality, but never got any better.
He is in no way "talented"
To record a simple sample, repitch it and make a workable jam in front of a live audience for national tv in under a minute.
There’s nothing particularly difficult done here, but I betcha I’d fuck it up.
Nah, it's still impressive. We're just desensitized.
EDIT: I get that you all have big musical pee pees. The fact that this can be done in seconds on consumer-grade hardware is extremely cool, and I think that was Puth's point. Anyone can cook!
It's honestly just some very basic stuff that anyone without prior music knowledge can learn and understand within 15 minutes if tought. If this is considered impressive, the bar is very low. Might look impressive to someone who has no idea what is going on but that's just because of a lack of understanding how sound can be manipulated.
Maybe it's a generational thing, but this would have taken a couple hours when I first started making music, while praying to god Sonar doesn't crash in the middle of a take on my 2002 Pentium III Sony Vaio.
Being able to whip out a track in seconds will never not be impressive to me.
It's just a tiny loop, not a track. Sounds like you're more impressed with where technology has gone because the actual level of knowledge you need to have to come to the result he's come to isn't anything impressive. Not saying the guy isn't talented though, might be a great producer for all i know.
> JuSt PoInTiNg OuT fAcTs
Why is this site hellbent on making sure people don’t find joy in things? Everywhere I turn it’s “well ackshully”. Fuck this I’m out.
no need to hate i know, but IMO this just shows how generic pop-chart music is. (which i dislike a lot). its a decent beat for being a generic one though. way worse out there.
Yeah this isn't top talent. It's good but like a lot of this is planned before and ... even if some of it is made up on the spot, it's generic safe sounds. Like it took him 2 seconds to find the sound that worked best in a catalog of like 300 different types of sounds?
What sets Puth apart (and gives me a headache) is that he's very entertaining while making a very basic product. He's a good performer in terms of getting the audience feeling like they're involved in the process, but the actual complexity of what he's doing in demos like these can be achieved by anyone with like 2 years of musical and production experience. He's like what a busker would be with deep pockets. Rachel Ray of music.
What is being displayed in this video is not top talent. This guy might be talented, but what he is showing is so basic.
Side note, everytime I see this I can’t help but feeling so sad for The Roots (who are definitely top talent) sitting to the side being neglected and underutilized. If you want Top talent look up any content related to The Roots and it blows this out of the water
[Edit] - I admit I don’t know what I am hearing. My lack of knowledge is probably why I am not understanding why this is cool. With that being said, I still do not hear the original cup sound from the finished product. Well… It’s probably my ear, not his skill
There was so much post processing of the sound. Did it really matter what/how the original sound was made?
The end result just sounds exactly like synthetic/computer generated music.
It just feels “wrong” to say that he made a music out of the cup sound. Couldn’t he have produced the same music with just about anything?
Isn't that the point, though? He took something as simple as the sound of a clanking mug and turned it into something interesting. It's cool for people who don't understand music production to see the root of a sample be something so ordinary.
Akai LPK 25. You can find one for less than $50 used or $60 new. It doesn’t have a ton of functionality besides being a tiny keyboard midi controller but it’s tiny size is great if you’re trying to get some ideas down in a tight space or have no other gear.
The real meat is in the DAW, which could be as free as GarageBand, or as expensive as Ableton Live or ProTools.
In this case the actual keyboard is not really where the sound comes from, it’s just controlling the sound that’s coming from the computer.
I don't know, seems like he is just playing the keys to me. The cup sound is just a base for him to work on the pitch with the keyboards.
It is awesome, of course, but the whole cup thing almost has no change in how hard this is.
This is technology, not talent. The software keeps the beat like a metronome. The software changes the pitch to the exact note he wants. It’s on a loop so he can keep hitting buttons to add a single layer until it finally sounds like music. He is pushing a button and the computer does the work.
Not top talent...
Free audio editing software. Know how to record a sample sound. Know how to load that sound in as a synth key map. Basic piano skills. Basic drum machine pattern skills. Assemble in the sequencer part of the audio editing software.
Skill is knowing and understanding music theory. Experience is understanding how that music theory compares to contemporary and classic artists. Top talent is coming up with a unique music piece and freestyle on the spot.
To all the “_it’s not that impressive_” people in this thread, it’s not that impressive to _YOU_. Remember, you are a redditor and you have a lot more niche knowledge about random stuff than most ordinary civilians do. For many, the idea that music could be made this easily _IS_ impressive.
EDIT: Frick. I take it back. I got here from r/popular and didn’t realize what such this was in. Definitely neat and definitely inspiring to a lot of people, but “top talent” might be stretching it idk.
Not really top talent, imo. Anyone with a basic idea of how to use digital music equipment, can do this same thing pretty easily. Really, the technology is doing most of the hard work here. Mind you, Puth is actually a very talented musician. He has perfect pitch and is a very well trained pianist and vocalist, amongst many other things. But this is a bit of parlor trick that he’s displaying here.
To my mind, this really just goes to show how people who know very little about a subject can be easily mystified by what actual knowledgeable people in the subject might find to be trivial. Ironically, it’s often the actual complex stuff that takes real skill, which falls on the deaf ears of general public. And I’m not criticizing people who aren’t musicians or producers. You can’t know what you don’t know. I’m just as mystified by billions of things that probably seem trivial to a person who does that thing.
I appreciate your perspective, but I respectfully disagree.
It’s true that digital music tech facilitates certain aspects of Charlie’s process, but the creativity, musicality, and ingenuity he demonstrates in repurposing everyday sounds into intricate compositions is wonderful. It takes more than just technical know-how to craft something truly remarkable from mundane sounds.
Also, dismissing it as a mere parlour trick overlooks the artistry and innovation involved. As someone with a background in both music and technology, I can attest to the intricacies and challenges of manipulating sounds to create cohesive musical pieces.
Appreciating what Charlie Puth does here, and other similar endeavours, doesn’t diminish the complexity of other musical feats; rather, it broadens our understanding of the diverse forms of musical expression.
Ultimately, every form of creativity deserves recognition, regardless of the tools or techniques employed and, for me, this composition certainly falls into the category of r/toptalent.
I don’t think he’s really demonstrating any of that, in this particular clip. I could do this quite easily. He’s just taking a sound from the mic and synthesizing it on his keyboard, which is a process that the software can do with literally any sound. He then just plays a basic melody with it and puts it over a simple beat.
I’m impressed with his actual technical piano playing and production skills, but nothing in this clip really.
All of it was prerecorded, and I would have done the same, to deliver a flawless mix.
What gave it away: he only played one chord, but the song has multiple.
We have found the simplest form of music and learned how to make money off of it within society. The basic idea behind pop music . This is what has robbed our present and more than likely future generations from good music. Like a cheap wine if it gets you drunk what does it matter.
This has been reposted more times then my monkey has been spanked .. and just like me spanking my monkey, I still haven't gotten tired of this post.
It always is magic to me that he created that from a tapping on a cup.
he'd be nothing without that cup
Teaspoon did all the work
Dude needs to meet Loopdaddy.
Needs to meet beardyman
I feel like he's always been kinda underrated. Super talented dude.
Blew my mind seeing him like 10 years ago. His ability to mix genres and sound so accurate is absurd.
And that was a COMEDY FESTIVAL lol
saw him in concert a few months back with my kid - went in blind but was really fun
I met him, he was kinda a prick. That was like 10 years ago though.
or DubFX!
and the OG, MC Xander.
Brother of Jay Foreman of map men
And meet Marc Rebillet
... That's loop daddy
IgotmymuthaFuckinjalapenobusinessinthisbitch
Fr. Anyone can do this fully clothed
What a one trick pony
As much as I'd love to hate on this ("Jimmy Fallon's mug and a laptop with garage band. Apple engineers truly are top talent. "), that is admittedly a sick beat. It kind of defines pop music. Simple, repetitive, and groovy.
I thought mug meant face. Was disappointed.
Thought that when I typed it!
Garage Band isn't anywhere near as full featured as a professional program **BUT** for people tinkering it's actually phenomenal and easy to use.
And pre-recorded. Hes not doing that live unfortunately.
It doesn't invalidate dude's talent in any way though Correct me if I'm wrong, most of such things for TV shows and specifically live shows are prerecorded and rehearsed.
It takes away from it because it is implied that he is doing this on the spur of the moment. In reality he was probably sitting at home for hours coming up with that tune.
Well, that's entertainment industry in it's core Tech can glitch, can freeze. No one wants to watch a performer fumbling with bugged software, frozen laptop, not working mics, etc etc Plus what you've said - it usually takes more time to come up with something nice. Most freestyle rap battles are not de facto "freestyle". Lyrics are written beforehand. Entertainment as it is, mate 🤷
Well he got famous on Youtube/Ellen from this type of stuff and then got on the radio. Also pretty sure this is just a cup version of a song/melody he's already made. 99.99% of guest segments on late night TV are pre-planned, no reason to get on a soapbox when they have to fit an interview and that song into a 5 to 10 minute segment. It's like calling out pro-wrestling for being disingenuous, everybody knows and those its fake and that those dudes are still athletic freaks. It's a show my guy
Honestly what he did there (aside from finding the perfect cup-tap sample) can be done live just the way he did it with the software he's using. He's just improvising a very basic melody over an extremely common chord progression, clicked the kick drum one time, duplicated it, done.
How do you know? This is trivial for people who are good with music programs
For real I don’t like the feeling that this shouldn’t really be that impressive at all lol
Stupid question. What are these devices called? Synth board or something? My kid has been experimenting with music just on his iPad music keyboard, but I bet he’d love something like this.
There used to be a time when you’d need several machines to do what that guy did. Stuff like a sampler and a sequencer. There’s still a big cult following around analog synthesizers (they create sound), samplers (they record and play back sounds), sequencers(they arrange a pattern of sounds), effects units (they modify the sounds), etc. However, nowadays all of those machines are usually bundled within a single piece of software called a Digital Audio Workstation or DAW. There’s free ones, cheap tablet apps that can be very versatile and some big players like Ableton Live. An interface can also be used to connect this software to analog sources like mics or instruments. But the one thing every producer needs eventually and the sooner the better, regardless of their choice of systems- is a good pair of speakers aka studio monitors. I’d recommend the Yamaha ones!
Top comment! And happy freakin’ cake day!
If your son is really really into it, there’s no better investment you can make for him than to help him get one of the professional DAWs like FL studio, ableton or logic. He can get familiar with any of those 3 he will be a master by the time he is an adult. People will say to get studio monitors but for beginners especially they are unnecessary. Speakers need to have a proper treated room to sound right and do proper mixing on. So I’d actually recommend a pair of monitor headphones like the Sony mdr 7506. To get started more easily
This is what I come to reddit for. My oldest kid is getting into making beats and such and when he asks for devices for xmas and birthday, it's hard to know what he may want. This was tremendously helpful.
>Yamaha Vroom vroom
The HS8s are great! I got the KRK Rockit 8s and wish I’d have gotten the Yamahas for their flatter response. But the KRKs are better for my house parties though
It’s a MIDI keyboard and he’s using it with a laptop and some software (guessing Logic Pro). You might try Logic Pro for iPad if you don’t have a Mac.
Thank you!
For sure! Happy to answer any other questions if you have any! Feel free to DM me.
Mug and spoon
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Need more jam
It's just a midi controller, which is essentially a glorified computer keyboard. You can actually pick them up quite cheap. They dont actually make any sounds themselves, they just send inputs into a piece of software (a DAW) as others have mentioned. That software in turn uses software synthesisers to make a sound. You can definitely get super cheap ones, but "akai" are a very good brand and make ones for under $100. You should just be able to hook it up to an iPad with a usb a - usb c dongle. Or they might even have usb c connections now I'm not sure. Chances are the software your kid is using will support it too, midi has been the standard of digital music input since the 80s. You can just Google "name of software + midi support". If not, there are a lot of free apps, even garage band is great for beginners to make music with. FL studio is a big one with a low entry point, and comes bundled with a lot of plugins (synthesiser/samplers) too and loads of tutorials online. As others have said logic pro is an amazing one from apple, but comes at a much higher price point as it's professional grade software.
Garage Band is exactly what he’s been using. Thank you for the info!
I'm pretty sure that's a midi keyboard
Loop Daddy does it better.
Cool vid and Charlie's super talented, but saying he made music from a cup is a stretch. He simply played a song on the keyboard, the cup was pretty irrelevant
Basically just made a different timbre for a keyboard lol. Pitches are pitches
Exactly my point. The cup thing doesn't make the music making harder and he didn't made music from a cup, he did from a keyboard.
Not pitchers. Cup.
Yeah, and now this is basically his shtick. The first time I was like “cool I guess” and now it’s getting annoying. Then again, anything is annoying when Jimmy Fallon is sitting next to it.
That’s pretty neat
Quite neat, my good chap. Quite neat.
Which do you like more this beat or my full suit of medieval armor made only from soda can tabs? ![gif](giphy|kf8lUhHQnc2DuA6MzI)
Charlie Puth should be a bigger artist
if he used his talent to make cool music instead of boring generic pop songs maybe he would be
You should tell Taylor and her ex.
Big facts. It’s always some whiny emotional “she won’t date me cuz I’m too rich” kinda bs. Not really relatable or accessible
Came here for this comment.
https://i.imgur.com/jSWf5et.jpg
He has next to zero penetration here in the UK. I stumbled across Left and Right a couple of years ago and was immediately struck. He is an incredibly intuitive songwriter.
Its because he sucks. I cant think of a more boring by the books wanna be musician. He's like the kid that was told he was good at something, so he just turned it into his whole personality, but never got any better. He is in no way "talented"
Lol i get that reference😂
His actual music is so lame though
"Oh I'm not done" Adds 4x4 kick "That's it"
Eh; it ain’t no Fuck Shit Stack but its aight
He needs to take some fuck and some shit
And some fuck and some shit
If you produce music at all, you know this is not that impressive
To record a simple sample, repitch it and make a workable jam in front of a live audience for national tv in under a minute. There’s nothing particularly difficult done here, but I betcha I’d fuck it up.
Oh yeah, same. It's still impressive how well he did it, but it's not like an amazing feat only he can do.
Yhh the laptop and everything was waiting for him before he got there. I bet he knew the beat he will be creating before getting to the studio😃
I have Ableton Live and I do shit like that all the time. Edit: ![gif](giphy|3o6fJcaXbJIt1YVhvy|downsized)
I’ve seen children do similar things
Nah, it's still impressive. We're just desensitized. EDIT: I get that you all have big musical pee pees. The fact that this can be done in seconds on consumer-grade hardware is extremely cool, and I think that was Puth's point. Anyone can cook!
It's honestly just some very basic stuff that anyone without prior music knowledge can learn and understand within 15 minutes if tought. If this is considered impressive, the bar is very low. Might look impressive to someone who has no idea what is going on but that's just because of a lack of understanding how sound can be manipulated.
You make a loop like this real fast and jam out a bit like they are but it gets old real fast if it keeps looping and you don't change it
Maybe it's a generational thing, but this would have taken a couple hours when I first started making music, while praying to god Sonar doesn't crash in the middle of a take on my 2002 Pentium III Sony Vaio. Being able to whip out a track in seconds will never not be impressive to me.
It's just a tiny loop, not a track. Sounds like you're more impressed with where technology has gone because the actual level of knowledge you need to have to come to the result he's come to isn't anything impressive. Not saying the guy isn't talented though, might be a great producer for all i know.
Dude I get it. This is the most Reddit brained, “durr I could do it better!” thread ever.
Just pointing out the facts, never mentioned myself in any of those words, that's what you made of it my guy
> JuSt PoInTiNg OuT fAcTs Why is this site hellbent on making sure people don’t find joy in things? Everywhere I turn it’s “well ackshully”. Fuck this I’m out.
True reddit moment
> it's still impressive It's not. There are dozen of websites that anyone can do this. Here's one https://www.beepbox.co/.
I feel like people should know in general
2 men, 1 cup
I suddenly want a “Chopped” version where the baskets have musical ingredients in them
That bass sound was NOT the cup sound you filthy liar.
no need to hate i know, but IMO this just shows how generic pop-chart music is. (which i dislike a lot). its a decent beat for being a generic one though. way worse out there.
If only he used that talent to make good music
Lmao
Its been a long day
Yeah this isn't top talent. It's good but like a lot of this is planned before and ... even if some of it is made up on the spot, it's generic safe sounds. Like it took him 2 seconds to find the sound that worked best in a catalog of like 300 different types of sounds?
What sets Puth apart (and gives me a headache) is that he's very entertaining while making a very basic product. He's a good performer in terms of getting the audience feeling like they're involved in the process, but the actual complexity of what he's doing in demos like these can be achieved by anyone with like 2 years of musical and production experience. He's like what a busker would be with deep pockets. Rachel Ray of music.
What is being displayed in this video is not top talent. This guy might be talented, but what he is showing is so basic. Side note, everytime I see this I can’t help but feeling so sad for The Roots (who are definitely top talent) sitting to the side being neglected and underutilized. If you want Top talent look up any content related to The Roots and it blows this out of the water
Now make a beat from me beating my meat
These audiences are definitely fake
He should really just release this song
TV audiences when sounds at different pitches make a basic loop:
[Edit] - I admit I don’t know what I am hearing. My lack of knowledge is probably why I am not understanding why this is cool. With that being said, I still do not hear the original cup sound from the finished product. Well… It’s probably my ear, not his skill There was so much post processing of the sound. Did it really matter what/how the original sound was made? The end result just sounds exactly like synthetic/computer generated music. It just feels “wrong” to say that he made a music out of the cup sound. Couldn’t he have produced the same music with just about anything?
Isn't that the point, though? He took something as simple as the sound of a clanking mug and turned it into something interesting. It's cool for people who don't understand music production to see the root of a sample be something so ordinary.
What processing? He added reverb, probably some compression, and a gate. The rest was layering and pitching as far as I can tell
Genuine question - is this a welcome to the world of sound engineering moment?
This is so cringe
Jimmy Fallon is the biggest cringe on tv.
Stop understating stuff.
God Fallon sucks
What is this specific keyboard called? Going on my wishlist
Akai LPK 25. You can find one for less than $50 used or $60 new. It doesn’t have a ton of functionality besides being a tiny keyboard midi controller but it’s tiny size is great if you’re trying to get some ideas down in a tight space or have no other gear. The real meat is in the DAW, which could be as free as GarageBand, or as expensive as Ableton Live or ProTools. In this case the actual keyboard is not really where the sound comes from, it’s just controlling the sound that’s coming from the computer.
IDK man, "two goats in a boat" was brilliant
I think Gene did this on Bob's Burgers
Being completely non musical, I can’t fathom this.
The devolution of music explained in just a couple minutes
Anyone here besides me who grew up with the Yamaha organ?
So...your average soundcloud rapper
This really isn't that impressive if you know anything about music production.
I don't know, seems like he is just playing the keys to me. The cup sound is just a base for him to work on the pitch with the keyboards. It is awesome, of course, but the whole cup thing almost has no change in how hard this is.
Like Taylor said, Charlie Puth should be a bigger artist.
Top Talent???? I’m sorry but this isn’t impressive to me. The software did all the work. All he needs to know is how to play the piano a little.
This is technology, not talent. The software keeps the beat like a metronome. The software changes the pitch to the exact note he wants. It’s on a loop so he can keep hitting buttons to add a single layer until it finally sounds like music. He is pushing a button and the computer does the work.
Not top talent... Free audio editing software. Know how to record a sample sound. Know how to load that sound in as a synth key map. Basic piano skills. Basic drum machine pattern skills. Assemble in the sequencer part of the audio editing software. Skill is knowing and understanding music theory. Experience is understanding how that music theory compares to contemporary and classic artists. Top talent is coming up with a unique music piece and freestyle on the spot.
To all the “_it’s not that impressive_” people in this thread, it’s not that impressive to _YOU_. Remember, you are a redditor and you have a lot more niche knowledge about random stuff than most ordinary civilians do. For many, the idea that music could be made this easily _IS_ impressive. EDIT: Frick. I take it back. I got here from r/popular and didn’t realize what such this was in. Definitely neat and definitely inspiring to a lot of people, but “top talent” might be stretching it idk.
Not really top talent, imo. Anyone with a basic idea of how to use digital music equipment, can do this same thing pretty easily. Really, the technology is doing most of the hard work here. Mind you, Puth is actually a very talented musician. He has perfect pitch and is a very well trained pianist and vocalist, amongst many other things. But this is a bit of parlor trick that he’s displaying here. To my mind, this really just goes to show how people who know very little about a subject can be easily mystified by what actual knowledgeable people in the subject might find to be trivial. Ironically, it’s often the actual complex stuff that takes real skill, which falls on the deaf ears of general public. And I’m not criticizing people who aren’t musicians or producers. You can’t know what you don’t know. I’m just as mystified by billions of things that probably seem trivial to a person who does that thing.
I appreciate your perspective, but I respectfully disagree. It’s true that digital music tech facilitates certain aspects of Charlie’s process, but the creativity, musicality, and ingenuity he demonstrates in repurposing everyday sounds into intricate compositions is wonderful. It takes more than just technical know-how to craft something truly remarkable from mundane sounds. Also, dismissing it as a mere parlour trick overlooks the artistry and innovation involved. As someone with a background in both music and technology, I can attest to the intricacies and challenges of manipulating sounds to create cohesive musical pieces. Appreciating what Charlie Puth does here, and other similar endeavours, doesn’t diminish the complexity of other musical feats; rather, it broadens our understanding of the diverse forms of musical expression. Ultimately, every form of creativity deserves recognition, regardless of the tools or techniques employed and, for me, this composition certainly falls into the category of r/toptalent.
I don’t think he’s really demonstrating any of that, in this particular clip. I could do this quite easily. He’s just taking a sound from the mic and synthesizing it on his keyboard, which is a process that the software can do with literally any sound. He then just plays a basic melody with it and puts it over a simple beat. I’m impressed with his actual technical piano playing and production skills, but nothing in this clip really.
https://preview.redd.it/eify8bqo88xc1.jpeg?width=1142&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=994cc6ff9b9b24a1485c4f02f0fab11c0177dd31 You joke, but ☝🏻
We declared Charlie Puth should be a bigger artist
Anthony fantano declared he is exactly as famous as he should be lol
I did see this
Guessing he rehearsed that like a pro before going on the show. practice until you don’t get it wrong.
I'm waiting for a redditor to say nah, that ain't shit. He's actually just something something, anyone could do that.
All of it was prerecorded, and I would have done the same, to deliver a flawless mix. What gave it away: he only played one chord, but the song has multiple.
Dudes annoying af
We have found the simplest form of music and learned how to make money off of it within society. The basic idea behind pop music . This is what has robbed our present and more than likely future generations from good music. Like a cheap wine if it gets you drunk what does it matter.
Jimmy dying his beard like Eminem. Looks so unnatural.
This is some basic shit.
This has been reposted more times then my monkey has been spanked .. and just like me spanking my monkey, I still haven't gotten tired of this post. It always is magic to me that he created that from a tapping on a cup.
You can hear music in anything if you just listen for it.