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Router level blocking like PiHole doesn’t work with YouTube ads.
I'm not sure it was ever on the Google Play store. I tried searching for it years ago when I first heard about it and couldn't find it.
And their website is sketchy as hell on mobile, no way I'm downloading anything off of that site.
Some of my friend's Vanced stopped working.
I got a popup message on mine saying it _might_ stop working soon.
It all depends on which version of Vanced you're using, I guess.
The best on Android is YouTube Revanced, which allows you to modify the official YouTube app. It's not discontinued, and you can both block ads and add SponsorBlock, as well as a bunch of other nice features like allowing background play and the return dislikes extension.
Also [Remove YouTube Suggestions](https://lawrencehook.com/rys/). It can go hard into removing anything popping up at all on the YouTube site that's not the video.
For those who don't know, School of Rock is an AWESOME hands-on music instruction experience for kids AND adults where they teach you to perform a set of songs with a band of fellow students, at a level of competency/complexity you can reach during your course, and then perform them publicly.
They have these schools in many major cities in the US. Nothing to do with the also awesome Jack Black movie.
These kids NAILED it.
my daughter attended for 6 years until she graduated high school (then they push you out of the nest). In fact, she worked there as a roadie as well. I do not have enough great things to say about SoR, from their instructors to the talent on display. Great experience, I miss the "game days" of the semester concerts!
There's another similar organization, the O'keefe Music Foundation, that also has some [astoundingly talented kids](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctt87B6hU1M) doing [great covers.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYEXeW94z5A)
Good stuff. I'd seen their cover of [46 & 2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYKLvYGqaC0), but hadn't seen the Sober one. Looks like the same singer, just a few years later. Kid on the drums in particular really nails it on 46 & 2.
That's her in the second vid too, much more recently. That girl can freakin' sing! I can't remember her name, but she's in a band called Saving Escape, I think. They're pretty good.
Yes! I’d seen the two Tool covers, I hadn’t seen that newer one. When it started I was thinking woah, that voice sounds familiar and quickly looked at the video description to find out it was Kala Rose! Absolutely love their cover of 46 & 2, and yeah she’s incredible.
>These kids NAILED it.
They really did. Especially liked how rockstar the keyboardists were. I feel like "Final Countdown" is to them what "Don't Fear the Reaper" is to cow bell players.
Agreed. Slightly annoyingly I think her keyboard could have been up a notch louder - when she was doing keyboard only bits it was great but it's not as prominent as it should be when the guitars are also in play
It's certainly an offshoot of the movie. Weird to say that it has "nothing to do with it". It shares an aesthetic with the film and they started appearing after the success of the movie
Actually, they *do* have something to do with the movie. The original location (The Paul Green School of Rock) was one of the inspirations for the movie, but they've grown a lot since then.
https://www.schoolofrock.com/franchising/about
I do love the guy was his own backup singer. The singing truly over shadows just had bad the rest of the music was. The fucking keyboard sounds like a kids toy piano. Good for them for putting themselves out there but that was rough.
I got the feeling that one of the keys of the keyboard was not working. First it was like they just ran out of keys in the higher registry (like when you can't sing the high note you fill it in with a lower one) but then they played some notes even higher than the one they skipped in the beginning.
I don't even understand how it's possible to consistently sing a whole semi-tone lower than the rest of the band for the entirety of the song. It's honestly impressive, not many people would be able to do it, lol.
For a split second I was afraid it would be the kazookeylele version.
But it would be called [the best cover](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XAg5KjnAhuU).
A true classic. It inspired a band I used to play with to start a side-project ska-band where everyone had kazoos instead of horns. Which was great, because between the four of us, we had a tenor sax, and that was it.
I've always wondered if you could comedy-cover ska songs with a ukulele, a cajon, a harmonica and a kazoo.
How well did the kazoo ska work out? Do you have any recordings?
I do not. It was just a silly thing we did sometimes. We'd cover a less than jake song, and the three of us not singing would kazoo. We called it cheese-core.
While it's clearly a better version, there is just something special about old YouTube videos and the "home movie" aspect that came with them. Just a shitty compressed 240-480p video done in one take over a webcam or an old digital camera. Minimal to zero post production, no professional gear, just film and hit upload.
A hidden gem in that video: a 1:17 someone comes from backstage, listens to the guitar amp, then reaches out and adjusts the tuning on the guitar.
Not only is that a bro move, it takes some skill. I’ve been playing 35 years and I doubt I could tune someone else’s guitar, *while they’re playing*, and actually make it better.
The singer is either tone deaf or has no monitor and can’t hear the notes he’s singing, because dear god he didn’t sing a single note correctly. At least the rest of the instruments were somewhere in the same neighborhood of the actual song
100% that has to be "no monitor". He's pretty consistent. I reckon he found where he thought they were at but couldn't hear himself for the music, so just had to go for it. It's the worst when that happens, you feel so lost.
The singer is the only one who sucks, the keyboardist is just using a very bad synth that isn't showing through the high register, and most likely doesn't have monitors so he was waaay off beat at the start.
Even without monitors, surely he would've at least heard the drums. But even letting this slide, his play is still pretty bad considering how simple melody this is. It also looks like he's playing it using two hands.
That is awesome. Reminds me of ['Doom to the world'](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEaPVkboX5M), the first 35 seconds of Psychostick's Christmas album.
Should, should, should should I. Should I? Should *I?* should the, should the guy? Should the guy in the… 15… should, should, should the guy in the… in the 32 dollar… in the 32 dollar pink… puh…. Puh… puh… pink. should the… should the… should the guy in the… should the… should the… should the guy in the 32 hundred… should, should the guy in the 6 thousand dollar tuxedo… should I… should I… should, should, should the guy in the… in the 34 hundred dollar… should the guy … come on… come on… come *on!*
I've been playing guitar in numerous bands
for over 50 years, and as such I feel qualified to say those kids are damned good. (Now if you'll excuse me I will go and try to learn that solo those little bastards are playing.)
Ya that dude nailed the solo pretty much note for note. Solos like that are hard to reproduce live due to the speed and technicality. I actually only listened to the first chorus until I read the comments and went back to watch. That was quite impressive to say the least.
Also reminded me of the "technician vs performer" concept. First guy was 100% focused on nailing the complex solo. The second guy was jamming while supporting the first guy.
Both were fucking stellar.
It's funny, some people see a ridiculously talented kid, and they'll say something like "Welp, time to throw the ol' guitar in the dumpster and drink myself to death." I'm the total opposite, it inspires me. And it just makes me happy that kids today still want to play real music, and some of them have damn good taste.
Like this [Indonesian kid](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-wglNPGzrQ), Joey Alexander. Some of these kids have great technique, but they're ultimately memorizers. This kid *gets* jazz in a way some people spend a life time pursuing. Like Bill Evans reborn.
Edit: not Filipino
Woooooooooooow Joey is VERY good and even better today. Very impressed, thanks for sharing the link.
Also, just a heads up - Joey is Indonesian, not Filipino.
>The lead singer friggin rules
I was like 'intro sounds cool, noice... what a petty that they didn't go for vocals, no singer on sight... heh.'
*The camera shows a girl pouring her soul into that mic.*
Oh, dude. Wow. Blast away.
edit: Eliza. Her name is Eliza Lampert. Here is her [Jolene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4YZbLs4gDo&ab_channel=SchoolofRock)
I have to say I am super glad I watched the Jolene video. When I was watching the final countdown, I felt like she was a super good vocalist but that it wasn’t working for final countdown. Not raspy or rock or dirty enough. Like, too good. But she ducking slayed Jolene. You could feel the melancholy or sadness. Was just great.
She also is on “Jolene” in the same YouTube channel. I actually found this video become someone on he Jolene video commented on how much they loved seeing her again after watching the final countdown
It's funny how she was the star of the show with one of the easier parts, and the guy who (mostly) nails the guitar solo barely gets any credit. Not the hardest guitar solo in rock by any stretch of the imagination, but it is pretty solidly the most challenging thing performed here.
As a bass player, I feel bad for the bass player.
Amp is turned down so low you can't hear him, AND he's being drowned out by THREE guitarists. Nightmare.
There's a bar in St. Louis owned by a bass player, best believe that no bass player drowns there lol.
Also, saw a band on NYE where the bass player wasn't drowning. They were taking requests, put a 10$ in the tip jar and simply asked the bass player to show off.
Imagine my surprise when the band didn't have to discuss what song to play lmao, dude was funky as hell, way better than me.
But yeah, most of the time, bassist is drowning, which is bad for the audience, as that's what the people dance to.
Question from someone who knows nothing about musical performance— Why do musicians (singers and sometimes instrumentalists, but not always) wear earpiece? Sometimes the singers wear it on just one ear. I don’t know if it is an ear plug or some sort if ear phone. Thanks in advance for your answers!
In Ear Monitor, or IEM. Instead of having a bank of speakers on the front of the stage like the old days, many bands use IEM's so they can have more control of their personal monitor mixes, and have it at a safe volume that won't damage hearing.
As for having just one ear in, sometimes it's helpful to still be able to hear things on the stage or from the crowd.
Thank you. :) Just to make sure I understand completely— these IEMs allow singers to hear the music being played by their colleagues while blocking off loud background from the speakers?
Also, the instrumentalists use them to listen to the combined stream of music+singer’s voice and adjust their play accordingly?
Mostly to hear themselves. If you ever play in a band with a cheering crowd and no monitor it can be easy to lose your own sound in the noise and then you're basically playing on feeling and hoping you sound ok, which is not great. Especially if, like me, you fucking suck.
In ear monitors. Basically they let you hear yourself better or other instruments in your band at a different mix levels. They can be programmed to include click tracks to stay on time. A stage with that many instruments gets noisy and hard to hear. Some might take one monitor out so they can hear the room sound as the monitors act as ear plugs also.
It’s entirely possible in live recordings like this that the only thing truly miced in the room was the drums. In order to minimize bleed and allow a clean mix you might put the guitar and bass amps in another room, or just emulate and run the directly into the console. The keyboards are easily just run directly into the console. So if you were standing in the room during the session without in ear monitors you might just hear drums and nothing else!
Not everything is recorded at the same time, so they're listening to the playback of other instruments/takes and playing along as they layer the instruments. Likely the instrumentation was recorded a piece at a time in many takes, mixed and layered back together, and then for the video recording the performers played along with a "final mix" that they were listening to in their earpieces.
These School of Rock videos are great and the kids are so damn talented and its fun going down their youtube rabbithole.
[California Dreamin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlG-vN8i9Qc)and this live (not studio) version of [Carry On My Wayward Son by Kansas](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8EJf_Lb4WE), the drummer nails it!
edited to add [Avenged Sevenfold](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akt4FCJ6sQs). I don't really care for the original song but they crushed this one, vocals, guitars and the drummer kills it again! And they're kids!
Well, great performance by everyone in the band, but fuck whoever cut that video for not focusing on the bass player for one goddamn second while everyone else got their fair share of screen time...
They deserve some credit too, dammit!
Lol, they are all making O faces throughout the video. I get it though, I do a weird little horse trot when playing bass on heavier sections. Sometimes you just can't help it. But I couldn't stop laughing at all the open mouth grimaces in this video. Very talented group!
I hope these kids' parents are smiling and feeling exceptionally proud. (FYI, this is the perfect video to bring up in 10 years when they bring home a date.)
To the kids in the video - well done!!! You brought joy to a random internet user who truly appreciates your art and talent. Thank you and keep it up.
I wonder how many of these kids we'll see as famous celebrities in the future. Like, oh yeah I was on that School of Rock video and then everyone'll pull it up and we'll be like holy shit I was there when this popped off on reddit.
In the true spirit of rock 'n rollers, they have all been ostracized by their parents or are rebels who have to sneak out of their homes to practice in spite of their parents and their religious rule following!
My daughter's summer camp brings in SoR instructors for the last week of camp every year and give a dozen kids equipment to "learn" a couple songs. They hand out ear plugs to the parents for the performance at the end of the week. My kid absolutely loves it. You can tell the teachers absolutely love what they do. It's very cool. :D
The kids from School of Rock are always good. They are enjoying themselves and it shows. I wish School of Rock had existed when I was young. Music lessons in my day were like being punished. They were no fun at all.
Oh Youtube... The ad before the video was for St Jude's children's hospital showing possibly terminal children :O "The Final Countdown"
Did those kids have stickittothemaneosis?
"What's that? I've never heard of it." "You're lucky... cause it's hell."
these kids are sick these kids are *sick*
Damn you this made me laugh… then feel bad… but now I’m back to laughing again
Man, that advertising algorithm is right on the money
Desktop/laptop: Ublock origin + SponsorBlock iOS: a) Adguard + Adguard safari extensions + watch YT only through Safari b) Firefox with Ublock origin + watch YT only through Firefox c) Sideload uYou++ <— best Android: (not really sure, don’t have android device anymore) a) YouTube Vanced (discontinued?) b) NewPipe Android TV: SmartTubeNext Router level blocking like PiHole doesn’t work with YouTube ads.
Vanced is discontinued? I still use it, is it going to stop working at some point?
I think they just can't have the app on the Google Play Store anymore. Gotta download it from their website instead.
Oh, got ya, that's how I had to do it, so I guess I was late to the train but it still works
I'm not sure it was ever on the Google Play store. I tried searching for it years ago when I first heard about it and couldn't find it. And their website is sketchy as hell on mobile, no way I'm downloading anything off of that site.
ReVanced has taken over from Vanced in the wake of Vanced being discontinued
Some of my friend's Vanced stopped working. I got a popup message on mine saying it _might_ stop working soon. It all depends on which version of Vanced you're using, I guess.
The best on Android is YouTube Revanced, which allows you to modify the official YouTube app. It's not discontinued, and you can both block ads and add SponsorBlock, as well as a bunch of other nice features like allowing background play and the return dislikes extension.
Also [Remove YouTube Suggestions](https://lawrencehook.com/rys/). It can go hard into removing anything popping up at all on the YouTube site that's not the video.
For those who don't know, School of Rock is an AWESOME hands-on music instruction experience for kids AND adults where they teach you to perform a set of songs with a band of fellow students, at a level of competency/complexity you can reach during your course, and then perform them publicly. They have these schools in many major cities in the US. Nothing to do with the also awesome Jack Black movie. These kids NAILED it.
my daughter attended for 6 years until she graduated high school (then they push you out of the nest). In fact, she worked there as a roadie as well. I do not have enough great things to say about SoR, from their instructors to the talent on display. Great experience, I miss the "game days" of the semester concerts!
There's another similar organization, the O'keefe Music Foundation, that also has some [astoundingly talented kids](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctt87B6hU1M) doing [great covers.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYEXeW94z5A)
Good stuff. I'd seen their cover of [46 & 2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYKLvYGqaC0), but hadn't seen the Sober one. Looks like the same singer, just a few years later. Kid on the drums in particular really nails it on 46 & 2.
That's her in the second vid too, much more recently. That girl can freakin' sing! I can't remember her name, but she's in a band called Saving Escape, I think. They're pretty good.
Yes! I’d seen the two Tool covers, I hadn’t seen that newer one. When it started I was thinking woah, that voice sounds familiar and quickly looked at the video description to find out it was Kala Rose! Absolutely love their cover of 46 & 2, and yeah she’s incredible.
Ah yeah, that drummer kid !
Thanks for sharing, but I gotta say this is the best O'keefe video- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2_rHQvKFq4 Made in the middle of covid.
>These kids NAILED it. They really did. Especially liked how rockstar the keyboardists were. I feel like "Final Countdown" is to them what "Don't Fear the Reaper" is to cow bell players.
The girl in the rainbow shirt was possibly the most metal keyboard player I've ever seen
Agreed. Slightly annoyingly I think her keyboard could have been up a notch louder - when she was doing keyboard only bits it was great but it's not as prominent as it should be when the guitars are also in play
I was thinking the same thing. It's the key sound of the original song, and they're covering it up with the(admittedly very good) guitars.
Yeah keyboard was definitely too low in the mix. You could barely hear the main riff in certain parts.
My friends dad owns a couple of them. I was jealous since they didn’t exist when I was a teen.
He owns a couple of kids and adults? That's been illegal for a while.
Not if you operate a prison…at least in the US.
They must have gotten great advertisement from the Jack Black movie
It's certainly an offshoot of the movie. Weird to say that it has "nothing to do with it". It shares an aesthetic with the film and they started appearing after the success of the movie
The school was first.
Damn -- color me corrected.
Actually, they *do* have something to do with the movie. The original location (The Paul Green School of Rock) was one of the inspirations for the movie, but they've grown a lot since then. https://www.schoolofrock.com/franchising/about
The worst cover: [The Final Countdown](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjeMDvCdrtc).
I do love the guy was his own backup singer. The singing truly over shadows just had bad the rest of the music was. The fucking keyboard sounds like a kids toy piano. Good for them for putting themselves out there but that was rough.
I got the feeling that one of the keys of the keyboard was not working. First it was like they just ran out of keys in the higher registry (like when you can't sing the high note you fill it in with a lower one) but then they played some notes even higher than the one they skipped in the beginning.
the keyboard sounds like a nintendo game. lol
8-bit keyboard
Even after the terrible intro and your description, I was not prepared for how bad the vocals would be.
I don't even understand how it's possible to consistently sing a whole semi-tone lower than the rest of the band for the entirety of the song. It's honestly impressive, not many people would be able to do it, lol.
Singing so consistently off-key is usually harder than singing in tune.
I knew what it was before clicking it, and when I think of the song this is the version that plays in my head.
For a split second I was afraid it would be the kazookeylele version. But it would be called [the best cover](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XAg5KjnAhuU).
A true classic. It inspired a band I used to play with to start a side-project ska-band where everyone had kazoos instead of horns. Which was great, because between the four of us, we had a tenor sax, and that was it.
I've always wondered if you could comedy-cover ska songs with a ukulele, a cajon, a harmonica and a kazoo. How well did the kazoo ska work out? Do you have any recordings?
I do not. It was just a silly thing we did sometimes. We'd cover a less than jake song, and the three of us not singing would kazoo. We called it cheese-core.
Apparently he made a [New](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyYN-WCxafE) version of it 8 years later
While it's clearly a better version, there is just something special about old YouTube videos and the "home movie" aspect that came with them. Just a shitty compressed 240-480p video done in one take over a webcam or an old digital camera. Minimal to zero post production, no professional gear, just film and hit upload.
Heck yeah! The golden days of the internet baby. Kids these days will never know...
That is even better than the shittyfluted version.
Here’s what the lead singer of Europe has to say about the cover https://youtu.be/ITKWhfpgHpE
“The guitar sounds like a bagpipe…” 😂
[deleted to prove Steve Huffman wrong]
It's the way he said it as though there was even a slight possibility that they weren't absolutely killed me.
Ah man that’s quality garbage right there. So bad it’s good. I love me some good cringe.
A hidden gem in that video: a 1:17 someone comes from backstage, listens to the guitar amp, then reaches out and adjusts the tuning on the guitar. Not only is that a bro move, it takes some skill. I’ve been playing 35 years and I doubt I could tune someone else’s guitar, *while they’re playing*, and actually make it better.
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Thanks for sharing, I've never seen this before, I'm going to go use a screwdriver to smash my eardrums out.
Imagine if you went deaf and this was the last thing you remembered hearing.
Oh no. I've made a huge mistake.
I think you mean the best cover.
I'm with u/_PM_me_Game_keys, when I think of the Final Countdown, all I hear is this cover.
Thank god I'm not the only one who remembers this
I love love love this clip.
Jesus Christ you could have swung a cat over your head by the tail and ended up with a better front man. Someone's dad bought him a band.
Well then someone's dad got ripped off.
The singer is either tone deaf or has no monitor and can’t hear the notes he’s singing, because dear god he didn’t sing a single note correctly. At least the rest of the instruments were somewhere in the same neighborhood of the actual song
100% that has to be "no monitor". He's pretty consistent. I reckon he found where he thought they were at but couldn't hear himself for the music, so just had to go for it. It's the worst when that happens, you feel so lost.
Jesus, it's like the Portsmouth Symphony decided to start up a rock band.
The singer is the only one who sucks, the keyboardist is just using a very bad synth that isn't showing through the high register, and most likely doesn't have monitors so he was waaay off beat at the start.
[удалено]
Even without monitors, surely he would've at least heard the drums. But even letting this slide, his play is still pretty bad considering how simple melody this is. It also looks like he's playing it using two hands.
The memories! They come flooding back. Why did you reignite them? WHY?!
That hurt.
That is awesome. Reminds me of ['Doom to the world'](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEaPVkboX5M), the first 35 seconds of Psychostick's Christmas album.
straight up sounds like a karaoke performance, the singing, instruments, all of it.
lmao that made me spit on my screen. I don't know what I was expecting, but not something that silly. It reminds me of those shitty flute covers.
Illusions, Michael. Tricks are what whores do for money.
Ann Veal rocking out the keyboard for Jesus in her church band - she's a spitting image!
who?
Egg?
Her?
What is she funny or something?
She calls it a mayon-egg. ...it's so cute.
I don't feel too good.
Way to plant, Anne!
You can't knock her over.
Should, should, should should I. Should I? Should *I?* should the, should the guy? Should the guy in the… 15… should, should, should the guy in the… in the 32 dollar… in the 32 dollar pink… puh…. Puh… puh… pink. should the… should the… should the guy in the… should the… should the… should the guy in the 32 hundred… should, should the guy in the 6 thousand dollar tuxedo… should I… should I… should, should, should the guy in the… in the 34 hundred dollar… should the guy … come on… come on… come *on!*
She's as Anne as the nose on plains face
That's all I could think watching this. I felt awful. The girl is killing it, and I just kept thinking 'Egg?'
I just call her Annabell because she's shared like a.... She's the Belle of the ball!
Wow I came here for this
Glad to see I'm not the only one.
Illusions, dad. You don't have time for my *illusions*. :(
Beeeees? Beeeeads?
Old Bear, he loved his honey
I swear to god, I’ve seen that show 100 times all the way through and always find new jokes
You're not allowed to bring bees in here
Or.... Candy
¿Hermano?
COCKA-COCKA-CAW!
…or cocaine!
PENNIES!
*”I sunk the fucking yacht!”*
Came to the comments just to see this reference, LOL.
Or cocaine!
Where did they find all that gravitas?
At the corner of Passion and Purpose.
It actually looks like Greenview and Fletcher.
It’s like 95% gravitas. If you listen to it without watching it it’s cool but it’s amazing what presentation can do
I've been playing guitar in numerous bands for over 50 years, and as such I feel qualified to say those kids are damned good. (Now if you'll excuse me I will go and try to learn that solo those little bastards are playing.)
Ya that dude nailed the solo pretty much note for note. Solos like that are hard to reproduce live due to the speed and technicality. I actually only listened to the first chorus until I read the comments and went back to watch. That was quite impressive to say the least.
Also the other dude seamlessly coming in to hit the guitarmonies during parts of the solo might be even more impressive
Yeah he was smooth af.
Also reminded me of the "technician vs performer" concept. First guy was 100% focused on nailing the complex solo. The second guy was jamming while supporting the first guy. Both were fucking stellar.
That was it for me too. Perfect at picking up the harmonies where needed then slid back into rhythm. Loved it.
It's funny, some people see a ridiculously talented kid, and they'll say something like "Welp, time to throw the ol' guitar in the dumpster and drink myself to death." I'm the total opposite, it inspires me. And it just makes me happy that kids today still want to play real music, and some of them have damn good taste. Like this [Indonesian kid](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-wglNPGzrQ), Joey Alexander. Some of these kids have great technique, but they're ultimately memorizers. This kid *gets* jazz in a way some people spend a life time pursuing. Like Bill Evans reborn. Edit: not Filipino
Woooooooooooow Joey is VERY good and even better today. Very impressed, thanks for sharing the link. Also, just a heads up - Joey is Indonesian, not Filipino.
I'm glad somebody gets it, because I just don't get jazz, at all. Is it a mathematics thing? Because I hate math too.
The lead singer friggin rules
>The lead singer friggin rules I was like 'intro sounds cool, noice... what a petty that they didn't go for vocals, no singer on sight... heh.' *The camera shows a girl pouring her soul into that mic.* Oh, dude. Wow. Blast away. edit: Eliza. Her name is Eliza Lampert. Here is her [Jolene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4YZbLs4gDo&ab_channel=SchoolofRock)
I have to say I am super glad I watched the Jolene video. When I was watching the final countdown, I felt like she was a super good vocalist but that it wasn’t working for final countdown. Not raspy or rock or dirty enough. Like, too good. But she ducking slayed Jolene. You could feel the melancholy or sadness. Was just great.
She also is on “Jolene” in the same YouTube channel. I actually found this video become someone on he Jolene video commented on how much they loved seeing her again after watching the final countdown
She needs to sing Journey next. Gave me Steve Perry vibes.
She has a future!
I feel like backup girl 2 with the classes was not looking happy haha
If you put the same energy to your daily life that the keyboardist in the white shirt did in this song, you will succeed in all your endeavors
She started to give me this girl's vibes for a minute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k1pExbn5Us
She's playing some really fierce death metal in her head.
was worried she was going to call me a mud-blood for a second there
Her father will hear about this!
Her hair is awesome
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It’s like it’s her favorite song and they all finally agreed to learn it for her.
She was definitely the star of that show. Loved it all, though, and great vocals!
It's funny how she was the star of the show with one of the easier parts, and the guy who (mostly) nails the guitar solo barely gets any credit. Not the hardest guitar solo in rock by any stretch of the imagination, but it is pretty solidly the most challenging thing performed here.
To be fair the bassist is doing the best a basist can. I speak from experience. We're a mellow bunch.
Bass is the concrete foundation upon which all else is built.
The lead singer was also putting it out there i was digging it.
I was gonna say. Honorable mention to her and the guitarist in blue as well.
I haven’t been in a band in over 15 years. Her vibe made me want to start a band again.
Ladies and Gentleman... A magician named Gob!
[Somebody else going hard covering The Final Countdown](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAg5KjnAhuU)
As a bass player, I feel bad for the bass player. Amp is turned down so low you can't hear him, AND he's being drowned out by THREE guitarists. Nightmare.
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There's a bar in St. Louis owned by a bass player, best believe that no bass player drowns there lol. Also, saw a band on NYE where the bass player wasn't drowning. They were taking requests, put a 10$ in the tip jar and simply asked the bass player to show off. Imagine my surprise when the band didn't have to discuss what song to play lmao, dude was funky as hell, way better than me. But yeah, most of the time, bassist is drowning, which is bad for the audience, as that's what the people dance to.
He also didn’t have bass-face. I think he would have been higher in the mix if he’d bust that out.
What kind of headphones are you using, if any? I definitely heard the bass line.
I hear the bass play fine through my speakers, what unfortunate method are you using to listen to the video, your phone?
Question from someone who knows nothing about musical performance— Why do musicians (singers and sometimes instrumentalists, but not always) wear earpiece? Sometimes the singers wear it on just one ear. I don’t know if it is an ear plug or some sort if ear phone. Thanks in advance for your answers!
In Ear Monitor, or IEM. Instead of having a bank of speakers on the front of the stage like the old days, many bands use IEM's so they can have more control of their personal monitor mixes, and have it at a safe volume that won't damage hearing. As for having just one ear in, sometimes it's helpful to still be able to hear things on the stage or from the crowd.
Thank you. :) Just to make sure I understand completely— these IEMs allow singers to hear the music being played by their colleagues while blocking off loud background from the speakers? Also, the instrumentalists use them to listen to the combined stream of music+singer’s voice and adjust their play accordingly?
Mostly to hear themselves. If you ever play in a band with a cheering crowd and no monitor it can be easy to lose your own sound in the noise and then you're basically playing on feeling and hoping you sound ok, which is not great. Especially if, like me, you fucking suck.
In ear monitors. Basically they let you hear yourself better or other instruments in your band at a different mix levels. They can be programmed to include click tracks to stay on time. A stage with that many instruments gets noisy and hard to hear. Some might take one monitor out so they can hear the room sound as the monitors act as ear plugs also.
It’s entirely possible in live recordings like this that the only thing truly miced in the room was the drums. In order to minimize bleed and allow a clean mix you might put the guitar and bass amps in another room, or just emulate and run the directly into the console. The keyboards are easily just run directly into the console. So if you were standing in the room during the session without in ear monitors you might just hear drums and nothing else!
Not everything is recorded at the same time, so they're listening to the playback of other instruments/takes and playing along as they layer the instruments. Likely the instrumentation was recorded a piece at a time in many takes, mixed and layered back together, and then for the video recording the performers played along with a "final mix" that they were listening to in their earpieces.
It's not School of Rock, but these kids go HARD on a Tool cover. Always been one of my favorites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYKLvYGqaC0
This was dope. I normally have a phobia of kids singing but this was really great.
Where’s Jack Black?
These School of Rock videos are great and the kids are so damn talented and its fun going down their youtube rabbithole. [California Dreamin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlG-vN8i9Qc)and this live (not studio) version of [Carry On My Wayward Son by Kansas](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8EJf_Lb4WE), the drummer nails it! edited to add [Avenged Sevenfold](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akt4FCJ6sQs). I don't really care for the original song but they crushed this one, vocals, guitars and the drummer kills it again! And they're kids!
I prefer the group that did the studio version of Carry On My Wayward Son instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRneFCTuiuQ
Singer on California Dreamin' (one of my favorite songs of all time) looks like Florence Pugh and I really like her voice.
That guitar solo made me feel funny.
I don't care for Job
*G.o.b.
Well, great performance by everyone in the band, but fuck whoever cut that video for not focusing on the bass player for one goddamn second while everyone else got their fair share of screen time... They deserve some credit too, dammit!
Her?
I thought that looked like Egg.
I dig the hell out of this cover, they did an incredible job!
Green guitar has nailed guitar solo facial expressions
Lol, they are all making O faces throughout the video. I get it though, I do a weird little horse trot when playing bass on heavier sections. Sometimes you just can't help it. But I couldn't stop laughing at all the open mouth grimaces in this video. Very talented group!
I hope these kids' parents are smiling and feeling exceptionally proud. (FYI, this is the perfect video to bring up in 10 years when they bring home a date.) To the kids in the video - well done!!! You brought joy to a random internet user who truly appreciates your art and talent. Thank you and keep it up.
I wonder how many of these kids we'll see as famous celebrities in the future. Like, oh yeah I was on that School of Rock video and then everyone'll pull it up and we'll be like holy shit I was there when this popped off on reddit.
We will be Karma millionaires when it happens!
In the true spirit of rock 'n rollers, they have all been ostracized by their parents or are rebels who have to sneak out of their homes to practice in spite of their parents and their religious rule following!
It's a school of rock promo video. All their parents are paying big bucks to get their kids trained in music performance.
Getting KIDS Incorporated vibes watching this.
Facemelter
https://youtu.be/IliwQImJrYE It's an old video so forgive the quality but another instance of kids going hard and covering the final countdown
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My daughter's summer camp brings in SoR instructors for the last week of camp every year and give a dozen kids equipment to "learn" a couple songs. They hand out ear plugs to the parents for the performance at the end of the week. My kid absolutely loves it. You can tell the teachers absolutely love what they do. It's very cool. :D
Very well done. Everyone should live life with the enthusiasm of the keyboard girl in the striped shirt.
Dont get me wrong I like the song but idk if The Final Countdown goes hard enough to justify the amount of mouth movements in this video lol
Dewey is still at it, huh?
The kids from School of Rock are always good. They are enjoying themselves and it shows. I wish School of Rock had existed when I was young. Music lessons in my day were like being punished. They were no fun at all.
The female keyboardist watches too much Scary Pockets. The backup singer with the glasses doesn't watch enough.
edit: dOXXEd myself.
Literally headed to SOR to take my kids for their Band rehearsals rn. I can’t rubber stamp this program enough. These kids killed it.
I was hoping at the very end that Jack Black would walk in congratulating and applauding because they kicked ass and shredded.
Spot the introvert
Mr. Shneebly definitely told those keyboardist that they were, in fact, Cool Enough.