Three, Two, One, Dim!
Off.
Perfect
Behind The Scenes
Jon: I am so excited about this tune.
Perfect by Ed Sheeran. I read an interview that he did about this tune.
He thinks it’s going to be his biggest tune ever.
It really is. I think it’s going to be a landmark tune for him.
People are going to love it.
To be able to do an arrangement of it, is just awesome.
It has this cool 6/8 time meter that works really well for solo piano.
I loved arranging in 6/8 time.
The inspiration for it was just off the charts.
It was one of the arrangements that I've felt more inspired on than any other.
When we get slammed, we divide and conquer.
Steve and Al work together at the TPG Studio,
and I go back to the studio that I used to work at before TPG.
Before I ever knew Al.
I work with Chuck Meyers and Jake Vaughan. They are amazing.
They are so great to work with. They do a lot of stuff for TPG.
Do you want to play something for a second? Play the Intro? Sure.
Jon spent 3 weeks arranging the music for “Perfect”…
and only 1 day recording it in the studio.
Big Idea Studios is where we filmed the video Rockmaninoff.
And actually several other recordings that we’ve done.
“All of Me”, “Love Story Meets Viva La Vida”, and “Michael Meets Mozart” were all recorded at Big Idea Studios.
Three, Two, One.
Dim.
Off.
Like that, on this last one. Since they start dim on the last one.
Yeah, Yeah for sure.
Paul injured his arm or his back.
What was it Paul? His neck.
Paul had injured his neck. He couldn’t lift a camera.
We’re filming “Perfect”, Ed Sheeran’s “Perfect” now.
I’m not actually doing the filming this time. I have a hurt neck.
A herniated disc. A bulging disc. I can’t even pick up a camera. Which is so sad.
We leaned on Parker Wahlbeck.
Who stepped up big time and did a great job for us.
I found Parker online.
He does these online courses that are just great.
I’ve seen his portfolio and it was awesome.
We were like, “Okay Parker. Do you want to come film this?”
He set everything up himself. He got all the extras.
Parker: All right guys, conversation. Give me your best.
Cheese it up for me guys!
Conversation. So fun. Give me a nice big laugh.
We did a quick turn-around on this one. We did this one in one afternoon.
It was filmed at the Lakai restaurant.
Which is a beautiful, beautiful place.
Ready, and Action! Filming began at approximately 10:00 AM…
All right guys. We’ve got two more long takes…..
and finished around 4:00 PM.
Hopefully, we'll knock it out in the next 20 minutes and then we’ll break for lunch.
Just try and keep pockets of you guys here so we can film some tight shots.
He’s got all the lighting. He got the people to come. The table lamps.
We’re all trying to set it up to look like La La Land.
(The Piano Guys - Perfect) (Scene from La La Land)
The lights were cool. We actually had to do a lot of takes.
Parker: I’m trying to think how to do this best.
It took more than a dozen takes to perfect the lighting…
I’ll say, “Switch” and then just turn off the switch of the actual lamp.
The goal is to try and get them all off at the exact same time.
We’ll try it a couple of times.
One person from each table controlled the brightness of their lamp.
Three, Two, One, Dim! Switch!
Okay. Let’s try again. That’s pretty good.
Even the big overhead light had to be manually switched at the right time.
Here we go! On, "SWITCH!", Yes. Turn it off.
Three, Two, One, Switch!… or sorry!
You guys are on top of it!
Three, Two, One, Dim!
Switch!
All right everybody. That was really good on that.
This time. We’re going to do a little bit different.
Same thing on the intro, but this time is like, hold back out.
We’re going to go, “Three, Two, One, ON!
Get ready. Three, Two, One, ON! Dim Up!
Okay. Good. Cut.
Jon: I’m so glad I played that good.
Nice job!
Oh! Nailed it! Wow!
Thank you. Good performance everyone. Paul: Yes!
This is fun. It is really cool to see Parker in action.
He’s doing a great job. This is going to be a fun song. I think you’re going to love it.
The Piano Guys