She's really good, really talented, it's insane when you can hear music and almost instantly play it.
Thank you.
Thank you.
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Streamer lara6883 listen and learns to play Dragonforce's 'Through the Fire and Flames' live in under 4 minutes
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I mean, no one here is doing that? Doesn't really matter what song she picks up, the point is the impressiveness and speed in her ear.
I remember watching this the first time and nearly screamed witchcraft when she somehow managed to plug in the Nodame Cantabile theme of all things in there.
You need to be at least somewhat musically inclined, and then it's years and years of training. If you study / play music for long enough you learn, either consciously or unconsciously, the patterns that make up 99% of it, and your brain will predict them for you, that's how jazz bands are able to improvise so well. You also develop a muscle memory for an instrument, where you can instinctively play a melody without thinking about it. Picking it up this fast is impressive, but it's also not prodigy tier, it's professional studio musician tier. Professional musicians are impressive though. I would probably need to rewind each part 5+ times to nail it down (not the full song, but just the chord progression / basic melody, like she's doing)
Pretty much this. It's amazing what you can do when you practice your ear training. Basically if you can run a major scale in your head you can figure out most chord progressions just by listening.
Love it. Though I don't think perfect pitch and synesthesia have anything to do with it. I've been playing the piano 28+ years (grandma was a Suzuki method practitioner) and can pretty much do the same thing. I probably wouldn't pick it up as quick now because I haven't thoroughly practiced with an instrument in 11 years. It's just something that happens when you've played an instrument for so long and aren't trained to learn music off of sheets.
Professionals like her can do stuff like this with sight reading and just listening at a high level.
Putting aside for a moment her prodigious talent, I don't think she claimed to have literally never heard the song in her life before.
I am always in awe of people who who work out how to play a song just by ear. This is simply breathtaking.
She's great, some insane talent right there! so good! Need to watch more of her!
Maybe not as impressive, but in the same style, 8bitdrummer just adds drum to any songs requested during his stream, while talking and reading the chat at the same time he's playing, it's quite good :
sometimes he already knows the music but it's still amazing, he's having a lot of fun :
Maybe not as impressive, but in the same style, 8bitdrummer just adds drum to any songs requested during his stream, while talking and reading the chat at the same time he's playing, it's quite good :
sometimes he already knows the music but it's still amazing, he's having a lot of fun :
I remember seeing that medley video making the rounds a while back. She's great.
I most definitely can't recreate a song from scratch this completely though, so this looks mostly like a superpower to me too. I don't know if this is prodigy level, or if many talented pros can do this.
On a related note, talented drummers can play along pretty well to a piece of music even if they haven't heard it before, by adlibbing a rhythm that fits the music. It's kind of like clapping to the beat of a music, but taken to an entirely different level.
I'm not a pro musician, but I can sometimes get a vague feel for what notes are coming next in a piece of music, even if I haven't heard the song before. There are only so many ways a piece of music can go at any given moment while still sounding like music. Music is about fulfilling or subverting one's expectations of what's coming next, so some pieces are easier to predict than others. This gets easier the more music you listen to. I imagine pros can do it way better than I can. I can only guess very vaguely, or not be that surprised when a piece of music goes somewhere else.
I most definitely can't recreate a song from scratch this completely though, so this looks mostly like a superpower to me too. I don't know if this is prodigy level, or if many talented pros can do this.
On a related note, talented drummers can play along pretty well to a piece of music even if they haven't heard it before, by adlibbing a rhythm that fits the music. It's kind of like clapping to the beat of a music, but taken to an entirely different level.
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I'm glad these are saved with the chat. I enjoy way too much seeing a wave of pogchamp or kreygasm drop in exciting moments.
What? She doesn't read sheet music on stream. A 20 second viewing of this video would tell you that she is reading chat and choosing from chat what to play.
That's fucking insane talent.
Guy makes dumb post. Crazy.
As far as I'm aware, and maybe I'm wrong, there's actually no such thing as "having perfect pitch."
I don't say that to discredit her though, it makes it more impressive.
I don't say that to discredit her though, it makes it more impressive.
I thought it would be obvious, but it is a link to her playing the Rick Roll song.
Is getting rickroll'd so old that people can't even tell when they're getting rickroll'd?
BTW the medley video is amazing. I wish she had played some of those tracks for longer than just a few seconds.
The chorus sounds so good on piano. Metal has such great melodies.
Chord progressions are generally pretty predictable in most music.
Chord progressions are generally pretty predictable in most music.
It's a shame this isn't going a bit viral using her own Youtube channel. I remember when Lost in Vegas went viral when they did a reaction to a metal band and then blew them up pretty big. I would love to hear her listen and learn some more heavy metal tracks! Hopefully this gives her a pretty big boost in viewers and subs on Twitch. Start a Patreon! I'll subscribe!
Yes I am dumb. I haven't thought about that meme in a long time, haha.
Well this is what she does in every other stream. 3 hours 3-4 times a week. Picks songs from chat and plays them for a long time. That and learning new songs by ear. This mega medley of 10 second songs was just a game she wanted to play this one time. In Nov 2017.
Even without the synesthesia and perfect pitch, folks who put in that much work and training pick up songs quickly.
Ayup, just tuned in. was surprised to see her pop on this early.
She talks about her synesthesia in this video. She's very matter of fact about it, which makes sense since for her it is completely normal. She has no frame of reference on what it would be like to not experience sound the way that she does.
muteKi Why the snarky comment? People sharing legitimate moments of excitement and happiness together in realtime is a great thing.
muteKi Why the snarky comment? People sharing legitimate moments of excitement and happiness together in realtime is a great thing.
"It's the TTFAF girl" - love it!
Lara is great, and she's been at this a long time. She currently does medleys and marathons while most in the US are sleeping.
Lara is great, and she's been at this a long time. She currently does medleys and marathons while most in the US are sleeping.
damn hope she can adapt to sudden popularity. like, she's gonna need some more chat mods and stuff lmao.
Just said on stream that she got many requests because of reddit asking her to try dragonforce, but apparently the one that started it was one of the bandmembers? That's pretty neat. Then proceeded to play her version of it then added bubble bobble to the end of it for the hell of it.
While this is impressive, the song ultimately follows some pretty simple and cliched chord progressions & melodies and repeats shit quite a lot. Talented musicians like her can easily pick up on shit like that because these things are common between songs & even genres.