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As a juggler myself, all I can say is... if this is actually legit... this ... is ... amazing ... and if it's faked, well, it's still pretty awesome to juggle five balls down in the patterns he does, so it's still pretty amazing...
 
that was pretty cool.

it looks real, but what happened when he bounced the ball at 1:42?
 
I doubt the actual hitting of the keys is real; he probably has a preprogrammed sequence and every time a ball hits the key it advances to the next "note". But juggling five is hard enough, juggling them down is much harder, and then to vary the timing? That's pretty huge, so I have to give him props on that anyway. And if he was *actually* playing? That'd be phenomenal.
 
Watch the phrase from 1:46 to 1:50. It starts with one ball hitting once, then has two hitting at the same time five more times to complete the phrase.

The third instance of two balls hitting at the same time creates a pitch that is higher than the previous notes, yet both balls are hitting lower on the piano.

Fake, but a pretty cool trick.
 
There's a guy who does a similar act touring different NBA cities performing at halftimes. He was rehearsing in OKC prior to a game a few months back as we were setting up cameras. It was discovered that the keyboard is a trigger for pre-recorded notes. That is, it didn't matter where the ball landed on the keyboard because the next note of the song would be triggered so long as a ball hit the keyboard. So, the rhythm had to be controlled, but not the pitch of the note. Further, a "wrong" note could be programmed in to help sell the audience that it was real.
 
that las bit is wow no words to describe the speed.... now add a bit more motion blur and it looks like a perfect line.
 
Terry_Lasater said:
There's a guy who does a similar act touring different NBA cities performing at halftimes. He was rehearsing in OKC prior to a game a few months back as we were setting up cameras. It was discovered that the keyboard is a trigger for pre-recorded notes. That is, it didn't matter where the ball landed on the keyboard because the next note of the song would be triggered so long as a ball hit the keyboard. So, the rhythm had to be controlled, but not the pitch of the note. Further, a "wrong" note could be programmed in to help sell the audience that it was real.
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Aww man. Next you'll be telling me that Operation Repo is fake too. :Drogar-Kriz(DBG):
 
Michael Anthony Horrigan said:
Not if it's fake it's not. He's merely a decent juggler.
I've seen good performers juggle some pretty amazing objects while riding a unicycle. If he's not hitting those notes and it's merely rigged.... it's really not all that impressive.

MAH
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Agreed. I feel like most people with good coordination (and perhaps a bit of juggling practice) could do something about 75% as good as this.
 
the notes look legit to me, the position look on point, especially the timing where he hits two notes and one ball is slightly behind and stuff like that, the playing matches his key position so well it would be a waste not to do it for real.

but more importantly... Barry juggles?! WTF I'll never live up the legend :(
 
Rakesh Jacob said:
the notes look legit to me, the position look on point, especially the timing where he hits two notes and one ball is slightly behind and stuff like that, the playing matches his key position so well it would be a waste not to do it for real.
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"Watch the phrase from 1:46 to 1:50. It starts with one ball hitting once, then has two hitting at the same time five more times to complete the phrase.

The third instance of two balls hitting at the same time creates a pitch that is higher than the previous notes, yet both balls are hitting lower on the piano."

I'm not sure if that's intelligible, but if you can figure out where I'm talking about, I'm pretty sure you'll see that it's faked. Most parts are very well done though.
 
Drew Ott said:
Agreed. I feel like most people with good coordination (and perhaps a bit of juggling practice) could do something about 75% as good as this.
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And maybe three years of practice.

You can learn to juggle three balls reasonably well in about a week.

You can learn four in about a month.

You can learn five in about a year.

But that's going UP. Now turn it around and push balls down? That's an order of magnitude harder.

I can do pretty well with five, when I've been practicing I can hold 'em for about a hundred throws. I can juggle three balls off the ground, and four is impossible and five is incredible. So when he does five, and plays music with 'em (even if it's just a timing thing)? I seriously doubt most people could do that, at least without a couple of years of practice.

And hey, I know jugglers; I sold Albert Lucas Moreira his Apple IIC back in 1985...
 
To me, bounce-juggling seems easier than up-juggling. This is probably because I played point-guard in basketball for 8 years. FWIW, I can't juggle at all (well, no better than your average non-juggler).

When I say 75% as good as him, I mean just the easier parts. After watching the video again, I don't think he's even controlling the timing when he goes a lot faster.

edit: During the fast parts, his timing is at a continuous rhythm, his sequencer that is controlling the pitches also controls volume of individual notes, so the melody sticks out. It's actually easier to do something fast and constant than try to control the rhythm of the melody without the extra notes.
 
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