The climax starts at 3:13
December 14, 2011 10:43 PM Subscribe
Matt Mulholland performing "My Heart Will Go On" on the recorder. That is all. (SLYT)
Wellington represent!
posted by Samuel Farrow at 11:03 PM on December 14, 2011
posted by Samuel Farrow at 11:03 PM on December 14, 2011
He's actually capable of playing the recorder, and does so in his Circle of Life video at around 2:30. But the FPP video brought back fond memories of childhood and elementary school music classes. He does great music but "My Heart Will Go On" is something special.
posted by Rory Marinich at 11:10 PM on December 14, 2011
posted by Rory Marinich at 11:10 PM on December 14, 2011
Laughed till I cried. As one of the Youtube comments states "Fucking nailed it!"
posted by greenhornet at 12:30 AM on December 15, 2011
posted by greenhornet at 12:30 AM on December 15, 2011
Matt Mullholland is all about The Darker Side Of Friday.
posted by benzo8 at 1:17 AM on December 15, 2011
posted by benzo8 at 1:17 AM on December 15, 2011
What is it about Wellingtonians and videos full of mock cheese?
posted by AndrewStephens at 2:08 AM on December 15, 2011
posted by AndrewStephens at 2:08 AM on December 15, 2011
God. That was... I wept.
posted by From Bklyn at 6:04 AM on December 15, 2011
posted by From Bklyn at 6:04 AM on December 15, 2011
I swear it was a link here on Metafilter that brought me to 'like' Matt's Facebook page and thus receive updates, but I can't find that link at the moment. He posts new videos/songs pretty regularly, and recently he posted that he has a Cover album coming out tomorrow on iTunes.
posted by mysterpigg at 7:59 AM on December 15, 2011
posted by mysterpigg at 7:59 AM on December 15, 2011
Even after reading the comments, when I clicked on that link I expected to hear an awesome-sounding, perhaps multi-tracked recorder rendition of My Heart Will Go On; something that I could legitimately thumb my nose at and say: "He auto-tuned the shit out of that."
I should have known otherwise. In fact, I dimly remember hearing this exact rendition of the song at least once before.
Part of the "joke" of the awful rendition, if you could call it that, is that he's playing the song in its original key of E Major, which requires a low B at the bottom at the vocal part, and you're not going to get that note out of a standard Soprano/Tenor recorder. I've played some ocarinas where you could get away with it by blowing a *really soft* low C, but the only way you could possibly get anything close to a B out of a C-tuned recorder is to "trombone" it by temporarily pulling the rear segment(s) partially away from the mouthpiece... and that would be horrendously difficult to get right on a regular basis.
You could play it legitimately on an F-tuned recorder (I just did), but it would take some skill to make it sound smooth and pleasant, as you'll be fingering the equivalent of the key of B major on a C-tuned recorder, and frequently jumping between the recorder's first two registers.
...or you could take the easy way out and transpose the song up a half-step to the key of F, or a step further to the key of G.
If I ever want real inspiration in my own sorry attempts to play recorder, I watch this rendition of the Overworld Theme from The Legend of Zelda. I can do nearly as well with it on a Sopranino (F-tuned) recorder, but he's playing it on a C-tuned recorder and reaching effortlessly into the instrument's third register. It's just far enough beyond my reach to make me practice a little bit harder, but not so far that it depresses me, like this kid's rendition of Flight of the Bumblebee.
posted by The Confessor at 8:12 AM on December 15, 2011
I should have known otherwise. In fact, I dimly remember hearing this exact rendition of the song at least once before.
Part of the "joke" of the awful rendition, if you could call it that, is that he's playing the song in its original key of E Major, which requires a low B at the bottom at the vocal part, and you're not going to get that note out of a standard Soprano/Tenor recorder. I've played some ocarinas where you could get away with it by blowing a *really soft* low C, but the only way you could possibly get anything close to a B out of a C-tuned recorder is to "trombone" it by temporarily pulling the rear segment(s) partially away from the mouthpiece... and that would be horrendously difficult to get right on a regular basis.
You could play it legitimately on an F-tuned recorder (I just did), but it would take some skill to make it sound smooth and pleasant, as you'll be fingering the equivalent of the key of B major on a C-tuned recorder, and frequently jumping between the recorder's first two registers.
...or you could take the easy way out and transpose the song up a half-step to the key of F, or a step further to the key of G.
If I ever want real inspiration in my own sorry attempts to play recorder, I watch this rendition of the Overworld Theme from The Legend of Zelda. I can do nearly as well with it on a Sopranino (F-tuned) recorder, but he's playing it on a C-tuned recorder and reaching effortlessly into the instrument's third register. It's just far enough beyond my reach to make me practice a little bit harder, but not so far that it depresses me, like this kid's rendition of Flight of the Bumblebee.
posted by The Confessor at 8:12 AM on December 15, 2011
I'm embarrassed to admit how many times i've watched his O Holy Night.
posted by Lutoslawski at 12:07 PM on December 15, 2011
posted by Lutoslawski at 12:07 PM on December 15, 2011
That was so momentous that Carl Wilson's going to have to revise his book "Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love: Journey to the End of Taste."
posted by umbú at 9:11 PM on December 16, 2011
posted by umbú at 9:11 PM on December 16, 2011
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