Harry Connick Jr & French Rhythm Accents

[jross1972]

The second best part is Harry's genius to do this, the best part is that the audience was COMPLETELY clueless about what had just happened to them!

[bigjcinsky]

This proves his talent which is incredible.

[IndependentGeorge76]

clap on the off beat motherfuckas

[JoNathanRJammin]

@FlushMeJ he adds it cuz the stupid audience was clapping on 1 and 3 and it was getting on his nerves lol

[DasBullWy]

HAHA amazing!

[lamastiaous]

Lol ! I'm a french new orleans musician, and what he's doing is awe-some ! Only possible when you're playing alone. This is pain in the ass in France when you're playing on stage !

Great job Mr Harry !

[gordonbalmforth]

@lamastiaous Paul Weston aka Jonathan Edwards (Darlene and Jonathan Edwards) does it a few times - with rhythm section and backing singers in Tiptoe Through The tulips!

[Phil88888]

Legend!



[adelebraccoguinga]

Yes, voilà ka solution, une mesure à 5 temps (à 42 s) et le publique se retrouve à claquer des mains sur les temps faibles enfin les 2 et 4... Trop fort Harry et merci pour la musique et nous les Francais arrêtons de claquer sur les temps forts les 1 et 3. Cela ne fait qu'alourdir le groove.... pitié pour la musique et pas que pour le jazz....

[danalovesgig]

Brilliant! One of my new favs...loved the comments.

[banterflaws]

@Duesvinet @FlushMeJ Being a solo piece, we'll never know whether that's simply a pause on the fourth beat for the length of a beat or a 5th beat in the bar. Either way it adds the length of a beat, so that bar is as good as 5/4. If you were notating what he played, you'd write that bar as 5/4 because a pause would be too inaccurate. Although you might be right Duesvinet, there is no disupting that there were 5 distinct beats. Such is the need to argue here that you just denied the undeniable.

[rapherko]

Fuck Yeah !



[clairekow]

Yeap, that's music, tht's talent, that's a REAL artist! just take the audience off and the stupid "générique" and you get one of a kind!!!!!

[cptexpando]

HA HA HA HA!!! I can't stop watching this!

I love the little smile he throws back to the band as if to say, "here we go again".

I'm not sure if my favorite thing about this is:

- the fact that he actually did it

- the fact he did it without even batting an eye

- the drummer throwing his arms in the air, -- -- "VICTORY!"

.... or that the audience had NO CLUE of the act of genius they just witnessed.

[jobsworth23]

harry you are a wizard

[SandyLrt]

Amazing! Even better than One last pitch

[kaufmann6988]

Check the drummert reaction in the background @ 0:43 :-) He's really happy !

[MrLindseyBuckingham]

the crowd seem like their enthusiastic. * cough, cough *

[DogBoots77]

That is so awesome! Doesn't flinch for a moment. No big deal. Just do it. Coolness.

[CSFRCADET]

whats this song called??

[SandyLrt]

@CSFRCADET come by me

[zeezycel]

this is jazz

[nikoBCN]

1:12 Red Headed French girl is loving it LoL

[nikoBCN]

@nikoBCN Let's say 1:10

[muguette94]

Moving. That's splendid.....

[qutam0]

woaw époustouflant le gars !!! ^^

[stoney490]

Lol, you can see the guy behind him at :45 rasing his hands like "Victory!" after the switch, haha.

[stoney490]

What a stud. Most people don't even know the beast of a musician that Connick is.

[tamuso212]

@tkabl..definately, that switch is one of the best things ive seen on youtube..love it.

[tukabl]

Holy crap, that's cool *rofl*

That switch is the mark of a true genious :-))

[usedchevy2]

The best thing about this is when he couldn't take the people clapping on one and three anymore, he added a beat to his solo to put the claps on 2 and 4.

[MrPatrR]

"il faut dire ce qui est, je suis musicien et c'est vrai que c'est chiant quand les gens frappe des mains a contre temps"... il faut être français, prétentieux et idiot pour publier un commentaire pareil car le propre du jazz c'estl'accent à contre-temps!

[bozo0237]

Je ne sais pas si je te comprends bien , mais le fait est que, pour un musicien (je suis batteuse), il est insupportable que les gens marquent les temps forts (1 et 3) et pas l'after-beat (2 et 4). Prétentieuse ou pas, je ne m'y ferai jamais ! Bizoo, Véronique

[MrPatrR]

Tu as raison....Tu as raison, mais je contredisais celui ou ceux qui trouvent que battre à contre-temps est la mauvaise en jazz..... C'est la grande mode de frappper dans les mains... C'est trés pénible...

[philipchek]

Comme la vie des musiciens serait plus facile sans le public inculte et ignare. A vous lire, on croirait que le mieux pour vous serait de jouer uniquement entre connaisseurs, sans ce public ignare et inculte. La musique, si je vous comprend bien, ce serait un peu comme les rillettes bordeaux chesnel, on mélange pas torchoins et serviettes. Quelle rigolade, en effet, de faire planter volontairement le public. Bon, des musiciens qui ont une autre vison de la musique. Il y en a, heureusement.

[bozo0237]

Il ne fait pas "planter le public", mais, au contraire, le remet "dans le droit chemin", même si ce dernier ne s'en rend pas compte !

[philipchek]

Oui tu as raison, je me suis mal exprimé. Ma dyatribe était plus une petite exaspération contre des commentaires sentencieux envers le public. A les lire, bientôt il faudra montrer son brevet de solfège à l'entrée des concerts. Les musiciens qui la ramènent avec leur technique : basta - y'en a de meilleurs qui n'en parlent pas. Sur cette excellente vidéo, on peut apprécier l'art et l'artiste, sans pour autant comme certains, mépriser le public, à mon humble avis.

[hqmophhyhml]

Purely Amazing! I'm sure the audience didn't even notice that!

[merilion12]

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO too sick hahahaha

[samfreemanwatford]

Hats off to him. It was a HUGE risk, and it worked!

(talking about adding the beat)

[Thomas3682]

Excellent !

Et en effet, le public ne se rend compte de rien... Heureusement, ça aurait été trop lourd qu'il s'en rende compte et retape sur le 1 temps !

Faudrait apprendre aux gens à taper dans les mains quand ça swing !

[bozo0237]

C'est excellent ce temps en plus ! C'est vrai que ne pas taper l'after beat est insupportable (pour ceux qui s'en rendent compte). A Taratata ou même avant chez Sevran, il y avait un "clapeur d'afterbeat", pour que le public s'exprime correctement ! Biz, Véro

[rockaroundband]

yes je me lasse pas c'est trop ce temps en plus !!! elle assure trop la bête !

[rockaroundband]

aha ah c'est trop fort !! il faut dire ce qui est, je suis musicien et c'est vrai que c'est chiant quand les gens frappe des mains a contre temps et là il a su tirer profit de leur erreur et je suis certain que mis à part les musicos personne ne s'en ai rendu compte !!! c'est génial ! j'adére !!

[FlushMeJ]

Oh and its definitely not just French audiences that do this. I performed American Music for 3 years in Germany and it seems the Germans have no idea how to clap on 2 and 4.

[KJshackx3]

it was driving me crazy too, but he displaces a beat around 40 seconds in to get them back with him. haha

[FlushMeJ]

Lol he just adds a beat. Between :39 and :41 he does a measure of 5/4. Awesome.

[tbbeatlescard]

@FlushMeJ He had to get the claps on the offbeat! ...some audiences...

[Duesvinet]

@FlushMeJ - No, that's not entirely true. If you listen you will hear the audience clapclapping on 1 and 3, which is not correct. In 4/4 music you clap on 2 and 4. Harry Connick, Jr. deliberately turns the song arond to make it fit the audience's clapping. And since he is the only one playing at that particular moment, he can do it without ado. Now, that is the work of a capable musician.

[adamtoensberg]

If you cant beat them, join them - an aikido approach to fighting audiences claping on 1 and 3 - way to go Harry!!

[kasperhertz]

Very nice. Every musicians hate people who do the rhytmical things on 1 and 3..

[MikCph]

I don't think the French audiences are worse than most other European audiences, I have noticed the same with German and Danish audiences... Even though American popular (music) culture takes up more and more space in Europe, the old march music in our blood is not that easy to get rid of!

Fantastic when musicians have so much surplus, reminds me of Danish pianist who just included "Nokia Tune" in an improvisation when a mobile in the audience began ringing...

[Flemmingdoerken]

@MikCph Which Danish pianist was that?

[MikCph]

@Flemmingdoerken Sigurd Barrett, of course! ;-)

[Flemmingdoerken]

@MikCph Cool :) Victor Wooten did kind of the same thing once, except on bass overtones. Youtube-link: /watch?v=Efmw6Fb4sX0

[pauldav1d]

freak...and just turns the beat around to put the audience on 2 & 4...

[phoebyforyou]

Je l'ai vu au Grand Rex à Paris et je dois dire qu'il n'a pas pris une ride !!! toujours aussi fabuleux !!! sur tous les plans !!

[vikss68]

quel beau gosse ... il assure

[kareldevogeleer]

amazing pianosolos !!! harry is the best !

[jihadistsmustdie]

Harry Connick Jr doth rock.

[DedeWalter]

C'est une chose que j'ai déjà remarquée chez le public français et je dois dire que c'est assez affligeant... Le français n'a pas le sens du rythme... En tout cas, chapeau à Harry pour avoir rattrapé le coup en direct pour que le public tape enfin comme il faut. C'est une chose très difficile à faire!

[DedeWalter]

Brilliant!

[tantejohanna]

oh Harry, come by ME!

[KITKAT94007]

My bad meant to click the tick

[elvisozturk]

this is harry :))