21 classical music TikToks to distract you from all the practice you should be doing
9 November 2020, 15:43 | Updated: 3 March 2022, 20:51
We’ve done the scrolling so you don’t have to. Put your instrument down and get ready to digest some top-tier classical TikTok content.
If you’ve ever been on TikTok, you might have felt a tad overwhelmed by the constant stream of videos.
No fear: we’ve trawled through the torrent of TikToks and handpicked the most iconic classical music videos, just for you: the person who should really be practising right now.
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When you try to Google classical music...
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This quarantine-inspired song is exactly what you’d expect...
Read more: Music teacher creates unexpected yet relatable quarantine-inspired TikTok song >
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Bro-zart.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber is on TikTok. Make of this what you will...
Read more: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Phantom of the WAPera’ TikTok mashup confuses the world >
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Warning: turn your volume down before you watch this masterpiece...
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When you *literally* play Mario.
Read more: 5-year-old pianist plays Super Mario Theme and it’s super cute >
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One cat instantly regrets its decision to step on a piano...
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But don’t worry – we have more cats! And this one loves the piano.
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The Harry Potter theme, but played on a washing machine.
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This TikTok is 100% historically accurate.
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One hand playing the piano, the other solving a Rubik’s Cube. Casual.
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When practice gets hard, the Wii Theme is here to comfort you.
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Low brass is where it’s at.
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Hans Zimmer’s Pirates of the Caribbean theme, played by Jack Sparrow himself
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When scale practice results in Britney Spears’ ‘Toxic’. Anyone else?
Read more: Someone’s leaked the audio of Britney Spears singing Toxic before it was auto-tuned >
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Catto, but there’s harmony.
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Music teachers are heroes...
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‘Come Get Her’ on violin is a VIBE
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There it goes again
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Pure evil.
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When piano practice gets a little out of… hand
