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So, you're watching this show where someone appears to be The Cast Show Off, then you notice that their hands aren't matching the notes at all. Sometimes, to the point where they didn't even try. Or, perhaps someone is talking about music and it turns out it's just musical Techno Babble. When an author/artist/filmmaker/game designer/etc. tries to create a work featuring musical instruments or music as a plot point and they are not an experienced musician themselves, they will usually lack the knowledge necessary to correctly depict that instrument or how that instrument functions. To people not familiar with music, it doesn't bother them, likely because it's not relevant to the plot, but to musicians it's obvious. It also mostly applies to instrumental music, because not everyone knows the technical skills and what it looks like to play an instrument, and instruments can be easily substituted in on the soundtrack because of the uniformity of sound. Guitars sound much more like each other than voices do. This can manifest in a work in three ways: Type 1 is on the performance end, where an actor is playing a performer and is obviously NOT playing it in real life. Sometimes this is Lampshaded for comic effect, and thus Breaking the Fourth Wall. May also be Impractical Musical Instrument Skills, which are usually Played for Laughs as well. Type 2 is on the writing or editing end, where the writer or editor is not familiar with music performance or composition. This applies to incorrect terminology, obvious dubbing or computerized music. This is less common because usually higher-end productions come with a composer, sound editor, music supervisor, etc, and have decent sound libraries. A good example, most obviously and notoriously, is the use of the phrase 'rising to/reaching crescendo' - crescendo refers to the rising of volume of a piece; it's a process, not a destination. Type 3 is on the conceptual end, where it's clear that the writing staff doesn't understand music physics and thus has the characters perform or compose things which are not actually possible in real life. Examples include: Arbitrarily scaling musical instruments up or down in size and then having those scaled models sound just like normal-size instruments. In reality, the pitch of most instruments is proportional to their size. A gigantic guitar wouldn't just be a very loud guitar; the notes that the strings could create would be of different pitches, because the strings would be of different length. (And if the instrument is too large or small, the resultant notes would be at pitches inaudible to the human ear.) Adding impossible effects or dynamics, such as having a held piano note grow louder over time. Having an electric guitar (or any other instrument that requires amplification) sound like it's plugged into an amp when it clearly isn't. Note: Lip-synching does not apply here, because most people know how to lip-synch, and music videos are (almost) always the voices of the artist. See also Music Genre Dissonance. Impractical Musical Instrument Skills can overlap when it involves playing techniques that are impossible in real life. |
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Among the many hilariously bad parts in Journey's infamous "Separate Ways" video is the instrumental bridge, where between the acceptable break of a drum kit made of barrels and the guitarist doing his job well, the bassist only taps his instrument, and the keyboardist does a dismissive "slap" towards the camera, hitting all the keys along the way. | |
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Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony: Kaede Akamatsu, the Ultimate Pianist, is forced to play "Der Flohwalzer". The majority of the piece is played with black keys, but Kaede only presses white keys that are nowhere close to the keys used to play the piece. | |
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Eagle Eye is particularly bad. The final scene involves a group of grade school students playing the national anthem. First, the song is difficult enough that grade-schoolers would almost certainly not be able to play it. Second, they play it absolutely perfectly, despite being children. Third, anyone who plays one of the instruments in question can see that their hand movements are completely random. | |
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The sound of Roger's acoustic guitar in RENT is obviously an electric guitar being played offstage; he doesn't even strum the strings. | |
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Rock Band and Guitar Hero avatars are designed by real musicians who took painstaking care in making the avatars come as close as possible to miming the music...it's only noticeable when the song has instruments that aren't in the game design (like banjos) or the drummer is hitting a piece of percussion that's not present in his kit, instead going to the closest facsimile. And of course ghost orchestras, horn sections, etc (although in Rock Band 3 you could chalk them up to samples from the keyboard player). | |
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Love Me Licia (the Italian live sequel to Ai Shite Night) zigzags this. In the first seasons is mostly played straight (like musicians' fingers moving incorrectly, or not moving at all), but the drummer averts this, because he can really play the drums. This trope becomes less evident in later seasons, which mostly feature different band members, and where even the photography evolves to show that yes, this time the guitar virtuosisms are real. | |
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Bones: In "Death in the Saddle", Dr Brennan says that a birimbao is a "small flute". A birimbao is a stringed percussion instrument. | |
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Parks and Recreation: Leslie is listening to bluegrass music, and the banjo is MIDI. It could be a case of Leslie not being able to distinguish real instruments from MIDI, but most $1.00 CDs you can get at a gas station have real instruments. | |
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In Miraculous Ladybug, Plagg reveals himself able to play the piano. Being a tiny fairy, he can only hit one key at a time, but chords are heard regardless. | |
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When Montoya plays the violin in the first episode of Queen of Swords, he just draws the bow across the strings in no particular rhythm, and doesn't even bother moving his fingers. | |
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Heroes: Emma playing the cello is to a lesser degree. She does move her fingers some, and some of the open strings match what is heard. | |
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Looney Tunes has this to the level where they obviously just did not care. There is nothing even remotely accurate about the way any of the characters play any musical instrument. But then, they weren't trying - Rule of Funny is the single most important element of Looney Tunes shorts. | |
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Type 1 is averted and then played straight in the Mysterious Ways episode "Free Spirit": in the first few scenes of Miranda playing the violin, the finger movements and bow strokes match the music, but when she plays later in the episode she's obviously faking. Since her face is only clearly shown in the later scene, the difference could be explained by the use of a Talent Double. | |
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While it is less obvious, in the climactic scene of Back to the Future, Marty is clearly not playing the guitar. It becomes painfully obvious during the solo. Years later, Michael J Fox really did learn Johnny B. Goode and performed it at an event. The guitar tone heard would likewise have been basically impossible to produce using the guitar and amplifier shown. The guitar he borrowed from the band in 1955, did not exist until 1958. The specific version shown did not exist until years later. | |
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In the show Okaasan to Issho, there's a skit for a music video called Rock N Roll Dragon that has the hosts pretending to be a rock band. Mitani and Itou are the guitarist and bassist and obviously have no clue how to play, and they don't even fake it (they simply hold the guitars rigidly). Kobayashi behind the skins seems to know what he's doing, though | |
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Kirk Douglas may do his own singing for the song "Whale of a Tale" in the movie 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, but he certainly doesn't handle the music. Like most fake guitar players, he remembers to strum, but almost completely ignores the existence of the frets. | |
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Parodied in Lightning Made of Owls in "The Sound of Failing at Music". After Holly finishes writing a song, Delkin starts criticizing her on various aspects, one of which was that she used the wrong tunings. Holly points out that those aren't even real tunings. | |
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The "banjo boy" character in Deliverance is clearly not playing the banjo part of "Duelling Banjos", which in turn is obviously being played on a resonator banjo. Both the banjo AND the guitar have capos, which would not be required for playing in G. | |
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One episode of The Transformers features a scene with a marching band, with the show's "Military parade" BGM repurposed as the music they're playing. The animation and the music are blatantly mismatched, with the most obvious example being the flute section at the beginning being apparently played by trumpets. | |
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Jim from The Andy Griffith Show. In his first appearance, he's a talented but struggling street performer playing a dirty archtop acoustic. His playing is clearly overdubbed over with an electric guitar (Andy, who plays a flattop Martin D18 on the show, isn't dubbed over, possibly due to him already being an accomplished musician). While it wasn't uncommon for archtops of the era to include electric guitar pickups, Jim's guitar didn't, nor did he have an amplifier plugged into his instrument. Then after joining a touring rock band, he returns in a later episode, this time with a Fender Jaguar (a proper electric, and in fact Fender's top-of-the-line model at the time before it would be forever overshadowed by the Stratocaster). He's seen performing for the Taylors with his Jaguar, but still without an amp. What makes this especially odd is that the show had real musicians guest star from time to time (most notably the Darlings, portrayed by the real-life bluegrass band The Dillards), and they play their own instruments live. | |
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In an episode of The Big Bang Theory, Leonard is playing in a string quartet with the hairs on his bow facing outwards. The bow hair on the string is what makes the sound on the cello. This is doubly surprising given that Johnny Galecki is a trained cellist and is seen using it correctly at least once. Not to mention that after half of the quartet left, he and Leslie practice with just the two of them - and the full quartet's sound. Playing with the wood of the bow instead of the hair (col legno) is used occasionally in classical music, so it might have been just one of those pieces... | |
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Drumline: The printed music that comes out of a snare drum solo in the middle of the movie has sharps and flats, despite the fact that a snare drum has only one note (roughly, "bang"). Though the more ridiculous thing is that there is some sort of magic computer program that can perfectly transcribe what you're playing as you're playing it. No such program exists, or at least, it's not even close to accurate. Well, such programs actually do exist, but they operate by MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) i.e. a synthesizer attached to a computer. |
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Walk the Line: Waylon Payne (as Jerry Lee Lewis) is backed by an electric bassist, but an upright bass is heard instead. | |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit: In the scene where Eddie Valiant is mingling with the toons at Maroon Studios, he comes across a saxophonist standing next to the enchanted brooms from Fantasia. However, the saxophonist is just swaying his body while playing the saxophone; he isn't even moving his fingers. (Although a toon saxophone probably would be able to play itself.) And, to add insult to injury, it's not even a real sax playing. It's a synth. | |
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In Top Secret!, Val Kilmer did his own singing, but in scenes where he's both singing and playing a guitar, it's pretty obvious that he's faking the latter. This is most apparent during "Are You Lonesome Tonight?", which involves an intricately plucked intro and multiple key changes, while Val's character Nick Rivers is shown strumming the same chord the whole song. | |
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A unique sort of Artistic License comes up in UHF, which threw in the music video for "Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies". Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits only allowed the parody on the condition that he would play the lead guitar. "Weird Al" Yankovic's usual guitarist, Jim West, had worked hard on perfectly imitating Knopfler's original performance; Knopfler himself did not. This is why, unusually for a Weird Al parody, the guitar part sounds quite different from the original song, especially noticeable in the opening riff.note It has been said that nobody plays that riff exactly like the recording, even Mark Knopfler. | |
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In Peppa Pig the episode "Chloe's Big Friends" says that "reds" and "greens" exist as music genres, when they obviously don't. | |
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Although the musical numbers featured on Later... with Jools Holland are notable for not having the artists use prerecorded music or vocals, it doesn't mean that the various effects and session musicians aren't fair game. This performance by Blur not only features a painfully missed cue where lead singer Damon Albarn strikes a pose and waits in vain for the song to start, but also a string section that starts playing a good couple of beats after their parts have started playing. | |
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Ashens and the Quest for the Game Child, when Stuart unlocks the door with a piano, the paper that he is using for reference reads ABADGH. He actually plays ABABCB and then the highest key, which is marked with an H. As well, him playing a B is taken as incorrect, despite it being a correct note. It's worth noting, however, that H is a letter used in some musical spellings, where it stands for B-flat. (Bach naturally took advantage of this to write fugues based on spelling his name on the keyboard.) | |
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On The Beatles cartoon, this goes through the wringer due to its low budgets. As John, Paul and George play their stringed instruments, there are no guitar picks used. The strings and frets aren't even seen on many longs shots. In any recorded song where one Beatle is singing with overdubs, all four of them are shown singing ("Mr. Moonlight" is especially egregious—John's opening is coming out of Paul). In the episode for "Eleanor Rigby", the band can somehow mimic an entire string section with just two guitars and a bass. | |
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Robbie Ray, like Billy Ray Cyrus, is left-handed, and plays left-handed guitars. However, he has multiple Stratocasters often seen in the background that are right-handed. note However it is not unusual for left-handed guitarists to own right handed guitars strung upside down, Jimi Hendrix famously did so. | |
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Clifford DeVoe from The Flash (2014) is supposed to be a genius in every field, including music, but he still gets hit with this a few times. Part of his Establishing Character Moment is telling his wife that he finished Schubert's Unfinished Symphony because he listened to his entire body of work that morning. He's likely being sarcastic when he says it happened in one morning, but saying you could "finish" the symphony is like saying you can build an entire skyscraper because you've looked at every other skyscraper. What he did in his other works is immaterial because no one knows what he was planning to do next, meaning any attempt to finish it is pointless. During his massacre of the A.R.G.U.S. guards, he's conducting the Hallelujah Chorus (which he's making play in the background In-Universe). However, because the music has to jump around for cinematography reasons, he's conducting to an edited version and it's blatantly obvious that the actor does not know how to conduct music - in a piece written in four, he conducts in both five and two while remaining completely off rhythm. His idea of a cutoff is also about six seconds too long, again for cinematography reasons. |
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Jamzy from Mixels, being a living guitar, is listed as a "Frender Mixocaster", but he resembles a Flying V more. | |
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Donkey Kong 64: Two of the playable characters' instruments don't sound like their real-life counterparts. Donkey Kong's bongos are much more melodic than real bongos, but it's particularly egregious with Chunky Kong's triangle. It actually makes the sound of a celesta, a completely different instrument! | |
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Slater from Saved by the Bell is so good at playing drums that we hear the beats before he even hits the drums. | |
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Waiting for Guffman: In the overture, someone decided to dub in MIDI instruments. This is either a gigantic In-Joke to musicians or a fail on behalf of the music editor. It's not Lampshaded. | |
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Glee: Calling what they do a "glee club" is like calling a rock band a "string orchestra." The term is "show choir," which they do acknowledge in-show. "Show Choir" probably didn't sound as cool a title. Glee had a madrigal choir competing against New Directions at a show-choir competition. There are other competitions for typical school choirs (not show choirs), where one would think that a madrigal choir, with their use of classical repertoire and lack of dancing, would fit better. There's also the case of the Warblers, who are supposed to be an a capella group. This would be much more believable if half their backing vocals weren't so obviously synthesizers. |
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As with most animated violin-playing, the movement of the bow in the 'Devil's Trill' arc of Descendants of Darkness, which centers around a particularly speedy and hard-to-play piece of music, does not begin to match the sound, and in fact it's completely off the general rhythm. He's also holding the thing wrong. | |
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Groundhog Day: during the big dance scene at the end, an upright bassist is shown but electric bass is heard. | |
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Shrek 2 has an example that takes liberties with the key of the music - during the scene where Shrek and his friends are Storming the Castle with Mongo the giant gingerbread man, the Fairy Godmother sings "I Need a Hero" by Bonnie Tyler. She asks for it to be played in C minor, and while this may have been the case in-universe, to viewers and listeners it is actually played in G minor. | |
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Mystery Science Theater 3000 loves to make fun when on-screen performers don't match up with the movie soundtrack. In Eegah, when Arch Hall Jr.'s acoustic guitar song is accompanied by female backing singers: "It's a good thing he brought along the Andrews Sisters." In Girl in Gold Boots, when Critter sings and plays guitar, with an invisible harmonica accompanying: "I love the way you play the harmonica with your ass." The SOL crew get in on the act themselves in one host segment: Mike plays a sad acoustic guitar song until Crow interrupts to say he made nachos. Mike rushes off to grab some, and the song keeps playing without him. In Wizards of the Lost Kingdom 2: |
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The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius: The episode "Man At Work" has Hugh pull a guitar out of thin air to sing the Taco Shack theme song. He is somehow accompanied by a full band behind him despite it only being him and his guitar. | |
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In Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, at the end, when Amazing Freaking Grace is played, James Doohan's fingers do not match the notes being played. For anyone familiar with the bagpipes, this is very, very obvious, but hardly a drama-breaker. | |
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In the film Amazing Grace, there's a scene where William Wilberforce sings the title song in a pub, using the familiar tune we all know. In fact, that tune wasn't paired with the text until the 19th century, a couple hundred years after the events in the film. The original melody that would have been sung in Wilberforce's time is lost to history, so that's probably a justified case. | |
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In the Canadian film Hard Core Logo, Callum Keith Rennie's portrayal of Billy Tallent, guitarist of the eponymous band, barely even looks like he's trying during the performance scenes. Hugh Dillion as singer/rhythm guitarist Joe Dick is much more believable, as he's an actual musician. | |
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Often done deliberately by performers on Top of the Pops, in protest at being required to mime. Many an instrument was seen to play itself, without any help from its performer. | |
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In Frosty Returns, when Frosty reveals himself at the winter carnival, right before he sings “Let There Be Snow� he requests a trumpet player to give him a B-flat. But the trumpet player actually plays a G instead. Plus the song is really in G major. | |
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Hannah Montana: Robbie Ray, like Billy Ray Cyrus, is left-handed, and plays left-handed guitars. However, he has multiple Stratocasters often seen in the background that are right-handed. note However it is not unusual for left-handed guitarists to own right handed guitars strung upside down, Jimi Hendrix famously did so. Miley always plays properly, but what she plays doesn't always match the audio. |
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Grand Piano Keys: The game uses a piano with much fewer notes than a real piano, and the keys don't always match the music. This is done to make the game simpler to play. | |
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In The Producers (1968), LSD's backing band onstage for "Love Power" consists of a keyboard, a saxophone, and a guitar, but the song is clearly accompanied by a full orchestra with drums and bass and horns and even an extended flute solo. | |
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Wizards of the Lost Kingdom 2: Music from a Medieval-esque string band plays in The Dark One's tavern, but the "band" is actually a lone fiddler. On closer inspection, his bow isn't even touching the strings. | |
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In performances of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Schroeder's miniature piano is obviously fake, and an orchestra piano is what's actually playing; some of the notes aren't even possible on a piano the size of his. Toy pianos like Schroeder's generally can't play accidentals (sharps and flats). It's even pointed out in one comic strip that the black keys are just painted on. In A Charlie Brown Christmas, his toy piano is versatile enough to sound like a classical piano and a pipe organ (Rule of Funny is in full effect for the scene in question). | |
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The Partridge Family did a pretty good job of hiding that not only did none of the fictional family play their on-screen instruments, but only David Cassidy and his real-life stepmom Shirley Jones actually sang. That concealment, however, went as far as showing long stretches of performance from the rear, such as this version of their biggest hit. | |
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Onmyōji (2016): MÅ�ba plays a heavily stylized shamisen (which didn't exist during the time period the game is set in) by plucking at the strings by hand. Apparently YÅ�kinshi can play a guqin standing, holding it in one arm while playing with his free hand. You can't really blame the guy, because he fights with the stuff. He plays it properly when given the chance to sit down. |
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Bedazzled (2000) (the remake): Brendan Fraser is playing guitar during one of the fantasies, and he has his hand above the capo. | |
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Eegah!: During a camping trip, Arch Hall Jr. pulls out his acoustic guitar and sings a song. A phantom orchestra and choir can be heard accompanying him. | |
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The Cuphead Show!: In the first episode, the Devil is shown playing an instrument that has just one keyboard like a piano, and sounds like a piano... except it has stops and pipes like a pipe organ that seem to go completely unused. Most pipe organs are not able to sound like a piano. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: In "Naughty Nautical Neighbors", Squidward's "Solitude in E Minor" is not in E minor. It is impossible to tell what key it is in, as there are only two notes (C and F, respectively). And when SpongeBob asks Squidward to "give him an A", he plays A sharp/B flat. In addition, SpongeBob claims the instrument he plays is a "bassinet", when really, there's no such thing and he's actually playing a double bass. Though SpongeBob shows to be terrible at the instrument regardless, so it could just be ignorance on his part. In "The Paper", SpongeBob claims he can play the song "Mary Had a Little Lamb" in A minor, but he actually plays it in C major. Though he technically may be right, as C major is parallel to the A minor scale. |
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The Parent Trap: Hayley Mills is not moving her fingers when playing guitar Beethoven's 5th Symphony. Then on "Let's Get Together" her strumming does not match the music (in addition to not moving her fingers). | |
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In My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks, the human world Rainbow Dash plays an electric guitar as part of the Rainbooms, but at a few points in "Better than Ever" and "Shine Like Rainbows", the sounds the guitar makes often come out as acoustic. | |
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Josie and the Pussycats: The band consists of a guitarist, drummer, and tambourine player. Despite this, the songs clearly use instruments that they shouldn't (and often Valerie's tambourine isn't even present). Eventually subverted with their comic incarnations. They're shown with various instruments, and Valerie eventually traded her tambourine for a guitar. | |
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At one point in Knife for the Ladies, Seth is playing the violin without doing any fingering at all. | |
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Dooley Wilson, who played Sam in Casablanca, was a drummer, not a pianist. It's fairly obvious. | |
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An episode of ER featured a gifted young violinist. At the end of the episode, he performs a piece - his fingering movements are completely out of sync with the music. | |
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In Kids Incorporated, the actors aren't really playing the instruments. Ironically, some of the show's cast have gone on to have real-world music careers, though always as singers. | |
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While Whiplash is very popular among non-musicians, jazz musicians tend to agree that while it gets some details right, there are an awful lot of things it gets wrong: Fletcher's treatment of Andrew is not something that a jazz teacher in a real school would inflict on a student, because the teacher would know perfectly well that he could get fired for it. This comes to bite him in the ass later on. The "jazz" that Fletcher plays in the NYC jazz club doesn't even remotely resemble jazz you'd hear in an actual New York City jazz club. This is because composer Justin Hurwitz, on his own admission, had never listened to much jazz before Damien Chazelle played him some. The scene where Fletcher calls a tempo and insists that Andrew get it exactly right is not something jazz students get taught, because they don't need to have memorised tempos. What they are trained to do is keep a consistent tempo. Then again, this may be to highlight Fletcher's draconian teaching methods. It's next to impossible to punch through a snare drum head. They are designed to withstand being struck repeatedly. Substitute drummers don't sit on stage behind the core drummer, as Andrew does, waiting for a chance to play something. Fletcher talks about someone in a band being "promoted" from third trumpet to first trumpet. The trumpet desks in a big band aren't arranged in a hierarchy like that: they have different roles, all of them equally important. Veteran drummer Peter Erskine is not the only jazz musician to note that hardly anybody in the film seems to actually enjoy music: they treat it more like a brutal competitive sport. The student characters aren't constantly discussing great music they've checked out recently the way actual jazz students do. |
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August Rush: Electric guitars without amps, a so-so composition that gets him into Juilliard without the audition process. Generally, the movie did not play well with musicians. August is supposed to be a Child Prodigy, but he strains the Willing Suspension of Disbelief by being able to play several instruments with Impractical Musical Instrument Skills the first time he ever picks them up, and even composing for full orchestra within a few hours of the first time he ever sees music notation, before ever studying music theory or orchestration. (For reference, those are feats even the likes of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart couldn't manage in real life.) | |
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Both averted and played straight by K-On!. All of the girls play real instruments with real model names made by real companies. However, there are some errors: A guitar amp will not produce feedback if you unplug a guitar from the amp (unless maybe you unplug it while it's producing sound). It may, however, produce a popping sound. Feedback is much more likely to occur if you plug it in while it is on. Some of the music does not match up to what type of instrument is played. And then there's Mugi, who prances around with a 17 kg synth as if it weighs nothing. This of course has led to memes surrounding Mugi's strength. |
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In Animal Soccer World, the band's music consists of a banjo, 3 types of drums, and a violin, but the band is playing a violin, one drum, a cello, and a saxophone. And to put the icing on the cake, the cello-playing donkey tells the violinist cat "only the guitar solo, it is still a problem". | |
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In Ghost World, the actor portraying the guitarist/singer of Blueshammer has never played guitar in his life - this may be Stylistic Suck, since they're not supposed to be a very good band in-universe. | |
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When Right Said Fred performed "I'm Too Sexy" on Pointless Celebrities, the line-up of guitar, bass, and drums (but no keyboards), very obviously didn't match up with almost entirely synthesised backing track. Probably because even Right Said Fred like to invoke Rule of Cool. | |
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Cledus T. Judd has played with this a few times: Averted in "Paycheck Woman". Although Judd is not normally a guitarist, his strumming does seem to match up to the chords of the actual song. Zig-zagged and Played for Laughs in "(Weight's Goin') Up Down, Up Down". Again, his rhythm guitar appears to be on par, but his family is standing behind him with bored expressions, barely paying any attention to their instruments (which include a ukulele and hand drum, neither of which is actually in the song). |
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Cannibal! The Musical: The conversation at the end of "The Trapper Song" is an aversion. Trey Parker and Matt Stone obviously know their basic Music Theory (Parker was originally a film-scoring major in college, which helps). | |
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Girl in Gold Boots: The final scene is Critter singing and playing an acoustic guitar. Somehow there's a harmonica playing as well, with no visible source. | |
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A couple times in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend When Valencia strums the guitar and sings "Women Gotta Stick Together", there's a straight Type 1: Gabrielle Ruiz's right arm keeps perfect time but her left-hand fingers hold the same chord shape throughout the song. Averted in Greg's song "What'll It Be", where even if Santino Fontana didn't play the opening piano break on the recording, he mimed it perfectly. Type 1 in the song "Let's Have Intercourse", parodied in that Nathaniel mimes playing guitar for a few moments and then drops it on the floor (with an audible bonk) because he just can't be bothered. |
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Googlebrains's background music is literally either flat out copyrighted or a bunch of songs mashed together. | |
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In Legends of Tomorrow, when Elvis Presley plays in the church, the actor Luke Bilyk plays some unusual chords that are not what's being heard. | |
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In a unique version of this trope, the titular character of Mr. Bean's Holiday performs for money by lip-syncing to the opera aria Oh mio babbino caro while enacting a scene where he plays a woman who is apparently mourning her dead child. The trope comes in here since the show he puts on has absolutely nothing in common with the lyrics of the song which are actually about a girl threatening that she will commit suicide if her father will not accept the man she loves. The scene is played for laughs though, so it is forgivable. | |
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My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Friendship Games features at one point a marching band playing behind Rainbow Dash. All of them are just generically looping while music plays in the background, most egregiously being the snare drummer who is completely out of time with the song and is barely moving his sticks while the snare drums of the song are loud and performing complex rhythms. | |
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The Hot in Cleveland episode where the girls form a band seems to have been this trope. It's most obvious for Betty White's character. Are you really gonna make a woman in her eighties hit those drums? | |
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In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Deja Q", Q ends the episode by appearing with a mariachi band and a trumpet of his own, and then playing it. Problem is, his finger movements both do not match the rhythm of the tones, and do not even match the fingerings that would make the tone in question. Though given it's Q, this could possibly have been an intentional feature. | |
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