One Direction - What Makes You Beautiful (5 Piano Guys, 1 piano) - ThePianoGuys

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**ALL THE SOUNDS YOU HEAR WERE CREATED BY THE PIANO** (WITH SOME VOCALS AT THE END)

STORY BEHIND THE SONG
The idea: A couple months ago the 5 of us were gathered round a piano prepping for a video shoot scheduled for that day. We were brainstorming ideas when one of us (can't remember who!) got off task and starting flicking a piano string. Since all of us are poster children for ADHD, it wasn't long before ALL of us had joined in -- banging out a beat, plucking a string, or hitting keys. The brainstorming meeting had been sabotaged beyond repair, but another music video idea was born!

The song: We went through several song possibilities before landing on "What Makes You Beautiful" by One Direction. We like this song because its catchy and the music, lyrics, and video passed our "sesame street" test (meaning family friendly). We thought about the ramifications of taking on a teenybopper boy band tune as five middle-aged married guys who are desperately holding on to their hairlines. One of us even has a son older than the guys in One Direction (we won't say who) :-) BUT you know us -- we love a good challenge! This one was so fun to write that the "challenge" part of it never was felt. We just acted like kids playing a piano and it totally worked! :-) After we figured out the main "techniques" of playing the piano unconventionally we loved experimenting with swapping out chords and throwing the structure of the song around until it clicked.

The location: Where to film? Fitting in video shoots between touring, writing, recording, editing, and spending time with family has always been a challenge. Let's be honest, even getting all 5 of us in the same place at the same time has been a challenge! We had a big sold-out show at the Sandy, Utah Amphitheater. We all determined to be at the show and film the video right on stage sometime between sound check and the performance. Sounds like a good idea right? Well...because of a lot of factors, including weather (we had a huge storm sweep in and knock everything down on stage during sound check) the only time we had to film was between the hours of 2AM - 7AM the morning of the concert. In the video at 2:30 you can see the morning light start breaking -- we literally played into the sunrise! :-)

Many thanks to the awesome guys at Annex Recording and Giles Reaves (engineer) for letting us record at their studio. Check them out at http://www.annexrecording.com

Thanks to Sandy Amphitheater http://www.sandyarts.com/sandy-amphit... for letting us film this video on their stage. They were so great to work with and we've performed so many times there the staff are all old friends (especially you, Mearle!)

And thanks to Cole Adams, the lighting genius - who hung out all night allowing us to pull an all-nighter to film this.

CREDITS
"What Makes You Beautiful" written by Rami Yacoubm Carl Falk, and Savan Kotecha
Published by KOBALT MUSIC PUB AMERICA OBO RAMI PRODUCTIONS, AIR CHRYSALIS SCANDINAVIA AB, EMI APRIL MUSIC INC OBO MR KANANI SONGS, EMI APRIL MUSIC INC
Arrangement written and produced by Al van der Beek, Jon Schmidt, Steven Sharp Nelson, and Giles Reaves
Performed by ThePianoGuys: Paul Anderson (videographer/video producer), Tel Stewart (videographer/editor), Al van der Beek (music producer), Jon Schmidt (pianist), Steven Sharp Nelson (cellist)
Vocals: Al van der Beek, Steven Sharp Nelson, Jon Schmidt
Piano recorded by Giles Reaves at Annex Recording Studios
Additional Piano and vocals recorded by Al van der Beek at TPG Studios
Mixed and Mastered by Al van der Beek at TPG Studios
Video filmed on the stage of Sandy Amphitheatre in Sandy, Utah USA
Lighting by Cole Adams
Video produced by Paul Anderson and Tel Stewart

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[Rick S]

Nope.

WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY BETTER, than the original.

This is MUSIC!

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[Abdullah Aqeil]

coool



[Aaronathers]

Do more of these with one piano and 5 people. It's epic!

[James Whelan]

none of one direction's singing wayyyyyy better :) i so want to get some of my friends and do this..!

[Jada Storay]

Amazing!!

[SBee3399]

P laying piano is what I LOVE to do

I m 13 and make covers of songs

A nd it would be so amazing if any of you could check out one of my 14 videos

N ame is Sophia

O ne more thing... Thank You!!!!:)

[Wang Lihan]

of course you are not

[Сергей Белоусов]

I'm a pianist and it HURTS me.

One mustn't hadle with a piano like that! It's unacceptable!

The music is good but it is like seeing flaying somebody!

[1337ified1]

first vid i saw from them... HOLY SHIT!!!

[Milos Kovacevic]

At approximately 2:44 - you can almost feel the piano having an orgasm... When it was made it never realised such powerful and versatile music can be come out of one instrument.

[Marvin Nitz]

so sollte musik sein. bekannt aber net zu alt . modern aber net zuviel hip hop