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.
Just Intonation vs Equal Temperament
A short demonstration comparing just intonation with equal temperament, played so you can hear how the tuning compromise changes intervals and chords.
Glenn Gould and Leonard Bernstein: Bach's Keyboard Concerto No. 1 (I) in D minor (BWV 1052)
A 1960 CBS clip in which Leonard Bernstein introduces and conducts Bach's Keyboard Concerto No.
Boards of Canada - Dayvan Cowboy
The official video for Boards of Canada's Dayvan Cowboy, built from reassembled documentary footage.
Tom Lehrer - The Elements - LIVE FILM From Copenhagen in 1967
A 1967 live film of Tom Lehrer performing his patter song "The Elements" in Copenhagen, reciting the chemical elements to a Gilbert and Sullivan tune.
J.S.Bach "The Goldberg Variations" [ Glenn Gould ] (1955)
Glenn Gould's 1955 recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations, uploaded as a continuous performance of about 39 minutes.
Here Comes Another Bubble v1.1 - The Richter Scales
A cappella parody song by The Richter Scales, set to Billy Joel's 'We Didn't Start the Fire', lampooning the Web 2.0 startup bubble.
Wintergatan - Marble Machine (music instrument using 2000 marbles)
Wintergatan's video of the Marble Machine, a hand-built music instrument that plays a song using about 2000 marbles on a mechanical clockwork-style mechanism.
Prejudice by Tim Minchin
Tim Minchin performs Prejudice, a comedic song about the power of words and the language used to abuse and demean.
OK Go - Needing/Getting - Official Video
OK Go's music video for Needing/Getting, shot in the desert with a Chevy Sonic fitted with pneumatic arms that play over a thousand instruments across two miles.
Vintage Lady Gaga Live at NYU - Captivated & Electric Kiss
Footage of Stefani Germanotta, later Lady Gaga, performing 'Captivated' and 'Electric Kiss' at NYU's Ultraviolet Live talent show in 2005-era college days.
The Epic Of Gilgamesh In Sumerian
Peter Pringle sings the opening of the Epic of Gilgamesh in Sumerian, accompanied by a reconstructed ancient instrument.
Iannis Xenakis - Metastasis
A score-following video of Iannis Xenakis's 1950s orchestral piece Metastasis, showing his graphic, mathematically derived notation as the music plays.
Dan Tepfer: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
A Tiny Desk concert in which pianist Dan Tepfer plays with a Disklavier player piano driven by a program he wrote that responds to his playing.
Aphex Twin - T69 Collapse
The music video for Aphex Twin's T69 Collapse, directed by Weirdcore, with heavy strobing and glitchy audiovisual imagery.
Jake Thackray 'Molly Metcalfe'
Jake Thackray performs the folk song Molly Metcalfe, which opens with an explanation of the traditional northern English sheep-counting system (yan, tan, tethera).
Flanders & Swann - 'First And Second Law'
Flanders and Swann perform 'First and Second Law', a comic song about the laws of thermodynamics, from their 1964 stage show At the Drop of Another Hat.
Renault F1 engine playing God Save the Queen
A short clip of a Renault F1 engine playing God Save the Queen by precisely controlling its RPM, recorded at Goodwood.
jacob collier tunes the piano
A one-minute clip of Jacob Collier tuning a piano, remarking that it is not in tune at all.
Larnell Lewis Hears "Enter Sandman" For The First Time
Drummer Larnell Lewis hears Metallica's Enter Sandman for the first time on Drumeo and learns to play it by ear, using his musical vocabulary.
Jolene at 33 rpm
Dolly Parton's song Jolene, slowed down to 33 rpm so that it sounds deeper and more drawn out.
The Molecular Shape of You (Ed Sheeran Parody) | A Capella Science
A Capella Science parody of Ed Sheeran's Shape of You, rewritten about molecular bonding and orbitals and sung a cappella.
Tom Lehrer - Wernher von Braun - with intro - widescreen
Tom Lehrer performs his satirical song about rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, with an introduction.
Philip Glass - Pruit Igoe (from Koyaanisqatsi)
The Pruitt-Igoe sequence from Koyaanisqatsi set to Philip Glass's 1998 re-recorded score, showing the housing project's demolition.
Fatboy Slim - The Rockafeller Skank | Het verhaal achter het nummer
A Dutch Top 2000 a gogo segment in which Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim) explains how The Rockafeller Skank is built, in his studio.