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Tori Kelly is the most underrated yet one of the best vocalists of this generation!

OMG I loved this video, glad u reacted to it. Also answering your question, Tori learned those riffs on the spot, and they recorded her part under 1 hour because Tori had a show to go to.

This just won a Grammy.  Jacob's ear is better than it's possible for us mere humans to imagine.  He doesn't just hear these notes perfectly, to the cent, he also hears the entire harmonic structure and progression simultaneously.  All we can do is watch and wonder.

He wrote the whole arrangement, including the runs.  He recorded the runs on his own, doing what he calls sort of a poor impression of Tori Kelly, and he was able to play the recordings of his own voice to help her learn them.  She executed them in a way that only she could,. but he deserves the credit for having imagined them and given Tori the support and encouragement to go to this place.   If you're interested in more background than anybody can handle, Jacob has a long video in which he walks through the Logic Pro session of the whole song.   Tori herself had never heard the riffs before this very brief session.  I think they only had about an hour, at her house.  You said "there must be a really cool chord there," and if you want the answers to those questions, that 2-hour walkthrough is something you'll love.

That run Tori does at 12:30 is what puts her in an elite class for me. It’s like a powerful engine that can just keep giving you power the more you put the pedal down regardless of what speed you’re already going.

Me, listening:   "OK, Jacob is a generational talent in music theory & Tori is a generational talent in vocal acrobatics... aaaaand here's Tara just casually singing along note-for-note while she straw-sips her coffee." 🤯😂🥰 Girl, you are wild!  The GIFTING on all 3 of yall... 🙌🏼

Honey, you gotta hear the finished piece: not only do you get Yebba and John Legend, in addition to Tori, taking turns on the verses, you also have the craziness  of Jacob doing all the backing vocals in the most insane polyphony which he recorded in literally hundreds of different tracks, one at a time, and layered together in the mix.  He doesn't sing in quite the same way as most singers generally do, but rather he uses his voice as a tool for making the most original and surprising harmonies.   He has perfect pitch like nobody's business, and a huge range, and can sing quarter tones and can even sing to different tunings i e. A = 432 hz, 440 hz, or 457 hz *within the same song*.  He's a musical genius, the Mozart of our time.  He started uploading his self-harmonizing videos, made in a room in his family home in North London when he was 13 years old, was later 'discovered' by Quincy Jones and Herbie Hancock, has worked with artists as diverse as Coldplay, SZA and Hans Zimmer, and has already won Grammys for each of his first four albums. His arrangdments of things like the Theme from the Flintsones, Lionel Ritchie's All Night Long and Moon River will make you gawp in disbelief while trembling with pleasure. His live concerts are wild, he turns the audience into an impromptu scratch choir that hatmonizes with itself.  And he's a pure, gentle and joyful soul.  You will live him, and also be slightly annoyed by good he is, but only a bit because he's so disarming.  He's like the Dimash of music theory, but not at all dry or academic.  He's heard strange and wonderful sounds, and he wants to help us to hear them too.

These are two geniuses.  I have no doubt this is "live live".

Tori said on an interview with Zach Sang that she had an hour to record with Jacob and that he set up the camera and recorded without her knowing that was happening, she doesn’t even remember all of that happening, according to her, she recorded her part in under an hour

Jacob did a breakdown of the arrangement. He said they had one day, just a few hours to record this, and got the recording completed.

7:03 “there must be a really cool chord underneath there” oh honey 😂

If you haven't already, listen to the actual recording "Jacob Collier Bridge Over Troubled Waters" featuring John Legend and Tori Kelly. It's bonkers!!!! And it makes sense with all the runs (Also, the beginning opens with a sample of a recording of Yebba, which is pretty cool.) But basically, Jacob came up with this entire arrangement and when it came to Tori's part, he literally envisioned and came up with all these runs specifically for Tori. He usually records his sessions. Also, if you have time, Jacob also has a Logic breakdown where he breaks down the entire song and arrangement and production. It's more than an hour, but it's interesting.

The story I heard was that was that Tori was a late (last minute?) addition. On a podcast interview of Tori  she said JC was in L.A. he called her up to see if she could do the 3rd verse. She only had a about an hour before some commitment and he was up against an album release deadline so he went there and they did it in less than an hour. It's pretty clear to me that it was already largely composed in his head. Obviously he knew the likely backing harmonies if he hadn't already recorded them. Tori called it the craziest session she'd ever done.

I came here for a reaction and ended up stank-facing and shouting “WOOO” whenever you mimicked their runs because GIRL YOU CAN SING!!!

That video of them both doing this is mesmerizing.   Tori can go from sweet to brilliantly insane 3:34 !!  Jacob's vocal range, also insane. Watching the recording video made me appreciate even more the finished product so much more.

Girl you gotta react to the final product to hear it all come together it's soo good!! And would love to hear you analyze it!

It’s so satisfying to watch people who you admire react to artists you love and appreciate them as much as you do!

The speed with which Tori is picking up these vocal gymnastics is incredible. Of course, it's stunning that Jacob can also sing these so accurately.

For your question as to whether they knew the song before this video was recorded: Jacob had an outline of what he wanted her to sing and had some mock up runs done in LOGIC. Tori Kelly was hearing it for the first time during the recording. She was short on time because she had to get to a concert so she learned and recorded her part in about one hour. amazing.