Trainwreck of a music video on youtube

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I'm not posting this to take the mick out of the players, but because the two players did not know what to do. Clearly, either the sax player or the guy on keys got it wrong. I suppose the sax player could have had the music he was playing in the wrong key - but it strikes me that he was attempting to 'blow' the tuning to fix it, when clearly, it wasn't out of tune it was a different key. The piano I suspect was transposed - maybe for a previous song, but neither was willing to sort it out. The comments on the various versions of this on youtube are musically wrong - all blaming the sax player.

I have seen fixes for this done by one of the players dabbing a note to work out if they are sharp or flat and then changing key manually or with a button, and I've seen people stop, sort it and start again. I have never seen two people play to the end, absolute in their opinion it is not them.

 
IT seems the two players want to beat each other up - I couldn’t listen to more than 20 second before I clocked out.
 
I watched a Pink Floyd video where Richard Wright was merrily playing a different song than the rest of the band was. Eventually he sorted it out, but it made for a confusing two minutes.
 
rob aylestone said:
I'm not posting this to take the mick out of the players, but because the two players did not know what to do. Clearly, either the sax player or the guy on keys got it wrong. I suppose the sax player could have had the music he was playing in the wrong key - but it strikes me that he was attempting to 'blow' the tuning to fix it, when clearly, it wasn't out of tune it was a different key. The piano I suspect was transposed - maybe for a previous song, but neither was willing to sort it out. The comments on the various versions of this on youtube are musically wrong - all blaming the sax player.

I have seen fixes for this done by one of the players dabbing a note to work out if they are sharp or flat and then changing key manually or with a button, and I've seen people stop, sort it and start again. I have never seen two people play to the end, absolute in their opinion it is not them.

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"Make a joyful noise unto the lord"
 
Supercreep said:
I watched a Pink Floyd video where Richard Wright was merrily playing a different song than the rest of the band was. Eventually he sorted it out, but it made for a confusing two minutes.
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That's almost literally one of their songs. "And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes, I'll see you on the dark side of the moon."
 
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A few months back, my friends and I were playing a song for the first time. Both the bassist and I pulled down recordings from Youtube to work things out, but it turns out that each was in a different key. We started playing and it was one of those WTF moments. "What key are you in? C. No it's in G. No it's not." We pulled out our respective versions and sure enough, we were both right. It was easy enough to move to the other key, and off we went.

At least it wasn't in front of people!
 
LOL.... 'blow' the tuning. Reminds me of one of Elaine's boyfriends
 
I love how the keys player look across on the first note, then looks down at his hands and just carries on. Then the singer sort of puts his hand out, then even he gives up. Clearly, one of them should have sorted it. Carrying on was the craziest choice.
 
Oh my gosh... This is horrendous. They obviously knew something was wrong. Just stop the song, communicate for a couple seconds, figure out what the issue is, fix it and restart. Not a big deal. If stopping wasn't an option, and I were the keyboard player, I'd be reaching for the transpose button and seeing what could be done. That was just painful. Reminds me of when Evanescence had the same problem when they played My Immortal live, but luckily, it was just the ending of the song that was murdered - not the whole thing.
 
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