PickVidsBest Music performance & songs Videos
The 239 Music performance & songs videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 2 introductory, 6 intermediate, 231 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a music video. What they share is that the performance or the making of it is the thing being watched. Channels you will keep seeing include The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel, OK Go, Vic Firth.
Speaking Piano - Now with (somewhat decent) captions!
A player piano is made to reproduce human speech, here reciting a European Environmental Criminal Court proclamation in German at the 2009 World Venice Forum.
4 Chords | Music Videos | The Axis Of Awesome
A comedy-music medley from the Australian band The Axis of Awesome showing that dozens of famous pop songs use the same four-chord progression.
Farbrausch & Neuro - Masagin (HD Stereo)
Masagin is a realtime demoscene production by Farbrausch and Neuro with music by paniq, using animated recursive SVG graphics made in Inkscape.
Why guitarists USED TO play more in tune! (Microtonal Frets)
Classical guitarist Brandon Acker shows how guitars with tied-on gut frets, as used 300 years ago, can play more in tune than modern fixed metal frets.
Teenage engineering OP1 - Live looping [Thoj]
Musician Thoj performs a live looping session on the Teenage Engineering OP-1 synthesizer, building a deep house track layer by layer.
Philip Glass - Sesame Street - Geometry of Circles.mp4
A Sesame Street animation from 1979 with music composed by Philip Glass, showing geometric circle patterns.
Rocker Jack White - Serious Jibber-Jabber with Conan O'Brien | Team Coco
Conan O'Brien interviews Jack White in a Serious Jibber-Jabber episode shot on 35mm film.
Public Service Broadcasting - Go!
Music video for Public Service Broadcasting's "Go!" from the album The Race For Space, built from NASA audio and archival material of Apollo-era voices.
Beats That Defy Boxes | Reggie Watts | TED
Reggie Watts performs at TED 2012, blending vocal looping, beatboxing, poetry and comedy across musical genres in a larger-than-life improvised set.
Tom Lehrer Full Copenhagen Performance
A full-length recording of Tom Lehrer's 1967 concert in Copenhagen, mixing his satirical songs with spoken comedy between numbers.
Justin Bieber 800% Slower
A Justin Bieber song slowed down 800% with the PaulStretch program, turning a pop track into a long ambient drone.
Yacht Rock 1 HD
The first episode of the Yacht Rock web series, a comedic parody about the smooth soft-rock musicians of the late 1970s and early 80s.
Super Mario World Ending Theme sight-read by Tom Brier
Pianist Tom Brier sight-reads a piano arrangement of the Super Mario World ending theme, working from a first-draft score by Keeper1st.
What Makes This Song Great? "Into You" MAX MARTIN
Rick Beato analyzes the music and production of Max Martin through Ariana Grande's Into You, breaking down its layering and songwriting craft.
Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio - Warm-up Set (Live on KEXP)
A live KEXP warm-up set by the Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio, recorded at Upstream Music Fest in 2017.
In The Bleak Midwinter - Jacob Collier
Jacob Collier layers ten vocal parts to arrange and perform Harold Darke's carol "In the Bleak Midwinter", with inventive harmony and tuning.
Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale | World Science Festival
Bobby McFerrin uses audience participation at a World Science Festival event to demonstrate how instinctively people follow the pentatonic scale.
Rhyme: Why Eminem is one of the most impressive lyricists ever
A re-upload of a video breaking down Eminem's rhyme schemes, showing multi-syllable and internal rhymes in songs such as Lose Yourself.
Eduard Artemyev - Siberiade theme (1979)
The main theme from Eduard Artemyev's score to the 1979 Soviet film Siberiade, an electronic piece that features the ANS synthesizer.
The Most Unwanted Song (FULL VERSION)
The 1997 novelty song by Komar and Melamid with composer Dave Soldier, built from survey results on what listeners dislike most in music.
Robotic Liberation by PWP (VIC-20)
Robotic Liberation by PWP is a music video demo performed entirely by an unexpanded Commodore VIC-20 and a 1541 disk drive, using only a few kilobytes of RAM and a 16 KB disk.
Axis of Awesome - 4 Four Chord Song (with song titles)
Australian comedy group Axis of Awesome perform a sketch showing that dozens of pop hits share the same four chords.
Kylie Minogue - Come Into My World (Official Video) [Full HD Remastered]
The official music video for Kylie Minogue's Come Into My World, directed by Michel Gondry, built around a looping scene with multiplying copies of Kylie.
Death Magnetic Retail vs Guitar Hero 3
A short comparison of the retail release of Metallica's Death Magnetic against the Guitar Hero 3 version of the same song.