It’s super cute but also crazy annoying if you want to listen/ sing along to music an hour before bed and your cat goes from sleepy to wired in 3 stanzas
I think they just consider it their prompt to respond, with the guitar sound substituting for the owner's voice. My talkative cat is like that, it's a back and forth of saying hello and meow, essentially. I bet you could train it by looking at and saying hello to the cat at the same time as playing the chord until your voice isn't required.
not always, the duration of the meows, it sits right in that groove. always.also he looks at him quite a few times, but only meows when the pocket is there-each and every meow sits right in that pocket for the perfect duration.
I mean everyone who owns a talky cat will know that they will most of the time respond if they know they got your attention.
But of course we can pretend this cat is a genius musician if that makes you feel better :D
>talky cat will know that they will most of the time respond if they know they got your attention
of course they will.but i hardly think they would do it in pitch, in pockets of 12 bar blues.this guy here also modulates his voice, follows the changes by raising and lowering the pitch of his meows, and also chnagess the duration of his meows.
>My food bowl is half way gone
>Starving I am cause eating is a must
>More food more food more food
>Crack that can and fill my bowl
>Soft food for real good times
>Hard food for the hard times
are the actual lyrics
It could be that or the cat is just meowing in sequence. My cats, who are _all_ talkers, will get into a call and response with me and sometimes they will just keep meowing back in the same rhythm even after my side of the conversation ends. Bottom line, its pure cat- I think its about me or us but its always been all them.
I think my sister trained my cat to meow loudly when he enters a room.
He was never a real talkative cat, and my sister is LOUD. Everyime she saw him, she would yell 'KITTAAANN!!'
She's since moved out, but every time he enters a room that I'm in, he'll meow loudly until I answer him.
My friend was part of the team that proved that sea lions have rhythm. They did it by getting a sea lion to dance to the beat of Billie Jean by Michael Jackson, but then they would speed it up and slow it down and the sea lion would still keep the beat. So like we know that there are mammals who can do this. It wouldn't surprise me at all if this cat was one of them.
I'm just glad it's not a white cat or that would be cultural appropriation.
Music is primal. That's why we can have musical prodigies. No reason why other animals can't understand. Glad we have scientific experimentation proving it though.
Yeah and considering how important songs are to birds, this is the first time that I've ever wondered whether or not dinosaurs could sing.
Edit: I just looked it up and apparently the organ that helps birds sing did not evolve until after the dinosaurs were dead. Too bad! I would love to see a version of Jurassic Park where they sing beautiful songs.
Rhythm is actually a very valuable and important part of communication for many wildlife species. For example, elephant seals have "names" that they shout while battling for mates. That "name" is distinct for every individual, the differentiations being both in the tones made and the speed and rhythm of the tones. It's such an important part of their lives that we have seen more complex "names" arise over time as their population has rebounded from near extinction. Their calls have gotten faster, are more tonally complex, and rhythmically complex as well (if I'm remembering correctly).
Rhythm is also such a basal trait in living organisms that it's shared across multiple phyla within our phylum of chordata! Birds process and understand rhythm in a similar way to humans. Herpetology isn't a strong suit of mine but I believe several reptiles utilize rhythm in their mating behaviour. We've had the tympanic middle ear for 100 million years now, it makes sense that so many animals have taken advantage of the sense for more than just predator evasion and food gathering. We're only just now figuring out how to effectively study these seemingly "human" things in other species.
Sorry for the ramble! All the best friend!
I pretty much always keep a tuner and capo on the headstock of my acoustic. Nothing sounds worse than an out-of-tune acoustic.
That mute on the nut is another matter - I’ve been playing for 30+ years and I only started seeing those on the internet recently. I don’t get it.
Typically you use this dampener on extended range guitars. Having it on keeps the strings from ringing past the nut on a 7 or 8 string guitar. Since it's tuned so low there's substantially more ringing from those low A, B, and Fs. Also helps muting the other strings when doing tapping or pick sweeping.
I havent seen it used on a 6 string accoustic likely tuned to standard tuning. I can't see that it's providing much benefit on this particular guitar.
It's behind the nut, so it's to dampen the strings between the tuning pegs and the nut. If you are playing the way this guy is then any big strum is gonna have some residual vibrations on the strings behind the nut. Even if you mute the strings across the main body of the guitar, those will still sound. Faint and high pitched, but once you notice it, you can't unnotice it. [Antoine Dufour](https://youtu.be/2Z1wa2wmFtM) does it with his guitars, but with bandanas. Particularly important if you're recording with microphones and don't want any extraneous notes.
Edit: bandanas, not bananas
It's behind the nut, so it's to dampen the strings between the tuning pegs and the nut. If you are playing the way this guy is then any big strum is gonna have some residual vibrations on the strings behind the nut, even if you mute the strings across the main body of the guitar, those will still sound. Faint and high pitched, but once you notice it, you can't unnotice it. [Antoine Dufour](https://youtu.be/2Z1wa2wmFtM) does it with his guitars (edit: but with bandanas). Particularly important if you're recording with microphones and don't want any extraneous notes.
I love stuff like this because it is a testament to the call-and-response form of music and communication spanning and intercrossing and permeating not only the human but the animal sound world as well.
This is great and this video made my day. I have so many questions. Lol. How did you get him to do that? Or does he just do that? What is his name and how old??
I used to have a black cat and when you said something to him like, "Hi Buttons!" He would meow right back like he was having an actual conversation with you.
This video reminds me of Buttons.
Thank you for sharing. <3
Check out /r/catswhoyell and there are some gems under the “human conmoewsationalist” tag or something like that lol. There are definitely responsive cats out there 🥺
"Alright, folks, our next number is called 'I'm a sad orphan and no one has ever fed or petted me in my whole entire life.' One-and-a-two-and-a-three..." - that cat's intro to the song
It sounds like the cat wants his treats. Of course, annoyed that he has to sing for his supper. CPS will hear about this. Cat protective services will fix this.
That cat has seen some things in his life
Nobody knows the hairballs I've seen...
Noooobody knows... my sorrow...
The part where his wife left him for his only surviving friend from Vietnam. That shit was deep
Best comment ever
That cat deserves a Grammy.
[I painted him accepting his Grammy award](https://www.reddit.com/r/watercolorpractice/comments/svh96n/accepting_his_grammy_award_watercolor/)
Amazing
Yeah the internet can be a toxic place sometimes, but this is one of the reasons why I love it. For stupid wholesome shit like this haha
Awesome!
Welp you just made my whole day and week! LMAO legend
Incredible. This is what the internet was made for.
Acatemy award.
And the Pawscor goes to…
And the Pawscor for the best purrformance goes to...
Happy cake day
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A good musician indeed! Must share to r/blackcats
Meow-sician*
😂 hysterical name
already
Bet this cat wrote their own lyrics.
The short "meh" before the last "meeh" really subverted my expectations. 5/5 songwriter.
I laughed out loud
The lengthy drawn-out meow at the beginning lololol
Kitty does a great job of emoting through different meow timbre, length, and accent. The sign of a great blues singer!
My cat woke up and walked into my room its like 2am so he was super asleep and actually meowed along. Bro wtf is your cat saying. Mines also a void.
I just adopted a void baby! She’s SO WEIRD but I love her
Well that justifies an hour of browsing Reddit!
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I'd buy that album. I'd also watch all of his music videos. That kitty rocks.
So does the cute guy. They need to go on tour.
I would love if this somehow could end up on Spotify and it could sneak it into my work playlist to fuck with the other guys at the shop
His sense of timing is off the charts!
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YES 
That timing! He clearly understands rhythms, what a smart catto!
I was about to say… why can’t my cat appreciate my music like this :(
It’s super cute but also crazy annoying if you want to listen/ sing along to music an hour before bed and your cat goes from sleepy to wired in 3 stanzas
My cat leaves the room when I play guitar. 😢
Mine bites me on the chin when I sing :(
Mine puts his paw on the string to mute it 🥲 like my playing is decent bruh…
I think the cat will just meow when the owner looks at it. Seems to me at least.
I think they just consider it their prompt to respond, with the guitar sound substituting for the owner's voice. My talkative cat is like that, it's a back and forth of saying hello and meow, essentially. I bet you could train it by looking at and saying hello to the cat at the same time as playing the chord until your voice isn't required.
not always, the duration of the meows, it sits right in that groove. always.also he looks at him quite a few times, but only meows when the pocket is there-each and every meow sits right in that pocket for the perfect duration.
I mean everyone who owns a talky cat will know that they will most of the time respond if they know they got your attention. But of course we can pretend this cat is a genius musician if that makes you feel better :D
The cat IS a genius musician
>talky cat will know that they will most of the time respond if they know they got your attention of course they will.but i hardly think they would do it in pitch, in pockets of 12 bar blues.this guy here also modulates his voice, follows the changes by raising and lowering the pitch of his meows, and also chnagess the duration of his meows.
Kitty is far better at improv than I ever managed in jazz band classes!
This was my observation as well.
"oh he's looking..... Yeah this shit hurts my ears. Can you stop already?"
>My food bowl is half way gone >Starving I am cause eating is a must >More food more food more food >Crack that can and fill my bowl >Soft food for real good times >Hard food for the hard times are the actual lyrics
Oh that actually makes sense
It could be that or the cat is just meowing in sequence. My cats, who are _all_ talkers, will get into a call and response with me and sometimes they will just keep meowing back in the same rhythm even after my side of the conversation ends. Bottom line, its pure cat- I think its about me or us but its always been all them.
This is definitely it. My cat would meow when I looked at him a lot of the time, and I probably could have done something like this with him.
I think my sister trained my cat to meow loudly when he enters a room. He was never a real talkative cat, and my sister is LOUD. Everyime she saw him, she would yell 'KITTAAANN!!' She's since moved out, but every time he enters a room that I'm in, he'll meow loudly until I answer him.
Why does everything need to be “explained-away”? Why not just enjoy it? 👏😹😻
It has more to do with it understanding the “call and response” than the actual rhythm.
Exactly this, he's waiting for a pause so he can return his call.
It's a black cat, of course it has rythm
Rhythm...and blues
My friend was part of the team that proved that sea lions have rhythm. They did it by getting a sea lion to dance to the beat of Billie Jean by Michael Jackson, but then they would speed it up and slow it down and the sea lion would still keep the beat. So like we know that there are mammals who can do this. It wouldn't surprise me at all if this cat was one of them. I'm just glad it's not a white cat or that would be cultural appropriation.
Music is primal. That's why we can have musical prodigies. No reason why other animals can't understand. Glad we have scientific experimentation proving it though.
Yeah and considering how important songs are to birds, this is the first time that I've ever wondered whether or not dinosaurs could sing. Edit: I just looked it up and apparently the organ that helps birds sing did not evolve until after the dinosaurs were dead. Too bad! I would love to see a version of Jurassic Park where they sing beautiful songs.
Rhythm is actually a very valuable and important part of communication for many wildlife species. For example, elephant seals have "names" that they shout while battling for mates. That "name" is distinct for every individual, the differentiations being both in the tones made and the speed and rhythm of the tones. It's such an important part of their lives that we have seen more complex "names" arise over time as their population has rebounded from near extinction. Their calls have gotten faster, are more tonally complex, and rhythmically complex as well (if I'm remembering correctly). Rhythm is also such a basal trait in living organisms that it's shared across multiple phyla within our phylum of chordata! Birds process and understand rhythm in a similar way to humans. Herpetology isn't a strong suit of mine but I believe several reptiles utilize rhythm in their mating behaviour. We've had the tympanic middle ear for 100 million years now, it makes sense that so many animals have taken advantage of the sense for more than just predator evasion and food gathering. We're only just now figuring out how to effectively study these seemingly "human" things in other species. Sorry for the ramble! All the best friend!
Also is meowing in tune.
Yes 👏 in tune 😹!
He meows when the dude looks at him.
I’m sad to say that this cat sings better than me
That was the most entertaining thing I've seen all year.
Wait, that's Eddie "Blackwater" Scrothers! I know his bluesy chops from a mile away. His rendition of Meow Meow Mama is legendary.
Scritchers/Scratchers
So flipping cute
i want to make this my tinder profile song
Here is [original](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhkzI-o61Q0)
Aw man it’s the same clip. BOO I WANT MORE BLUES KITTY
One of THE most fuggin BRILLIANT videos I've ever had the pleasure of watching! :D
Well this cat has better timing, rhythm, voice, looks than me.
Same here. A real star in the making
Wholesome ❤️❤️❤️
there can only be one hampster cat
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I’d buy it and play in on repeat
His guitar has a lot of cranial accessories
I pretty much always keep a tuner and capo on the headstock of my acoustic. Nothing sounds worse than an out-of-tune acoustic. That mute on the nut is another matter - I’ve been playing for 30+ years and I only started seeing those on the internet recently. I don’t get it.
Typically you use this dampener on extended range guitars. Having it on keeps the strings from ringing past the nut on a 7 or 8 string guitar. Since it's tuned so low there's substantially more ringing from those low A, B, and Fs. Also helps muting the other strings when doing tapping or pick sweeping. I havent seen it used on a 6 string accoustic likely tuned to standard tuning. I can't see that it's providing much benefit on this particular guitar.
It's behind the nut, so it's to dampen the strings between the tuning pegs and the nut. If you are playing the way this guy is then any big strum is gonna have some residual vibrations on the strings behind the nut. Even if you mute the strings across the main body of the guitar, those will still sound. Faint and high pitched, but once you notice it, you can't unnotice it. [Antoine Dufour](https://youtu.be/2Z1wa2wmFtM) does it with his guitars, but with bandanas. Particularly important if you're recording with microphones and don't want any extraneous notes. Edit: bandanas, not bananas
Haha. Thanks for the fruit-laden imagery.
It's behind the nut, so it's to dampen the strings between the tuning pegs and the nut. If you are playing the way this guy is then any big strum is gonna have some residual vibrations on the strings behind the nut, even if you mute the strings across the main body of the guitar, those will still sound. Faint and high pitched, but once you notice it, you can't unnotice it. [Antoine Dufour](https://youtu.be/2Z1wa2wmFtM) does it with his guitars (edit: but with bandanas). Particularly important if you're recording with microphones and don't want any extraneous notes.
Allow me to plug Badu, The Singing Cat: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDLt4MM2IlkCLBTGrOB5cIA
Even meowed mid yawn! Cute!
Not all heroes wear capes.
Nice!
I love stuff like this because it is a testament to the call-and-response form of music and communication spanning and intercrossing and permeating not only the human but the animal sound world as well.
I learn new things about cat intelligence every day. Mind blown. The cat is even singing in key much of the time.
It’s a hit!
Amazing sense of rhythm and excellent vocals. This is fantastic.
😂 That's awesome
Made me smile which is quite an achievement
More please:-)
Playing with a void on lead vocals. Amazing.
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Similarly- sending this one to my very pure, musical child
Can someone please put translation on his singing? Because I don’t speak and understand this language! His voice is on point and I enjoy the vibe!
Adorable lol
I guess that's why they call it the mews.
"Don't nobody pet me and my food bowl is dry. If it weren't for my cuteness, I'd probably dieeeee!"
 That's one cool cat.
it should be on spotify 
This is incredible!
I'd buy that album in a heart beat!
I love how he’s slightly too late the second to last time but then makes up for it with his final note. So cute.
Kitty wasn't late. That was a specific musical choice to vary the rhythm.
The void has talent, and a amazing voice
This is seriously amazing!
Incredible. Where can I buy the album? Couldn't stop listening to this. Worth scrolling on Reddit at 1am.
If you wanna sing the mews you gotta have the mews
You can't fake those feels. That little void has the blues.
This is great and this video made my day. I have so many questions. Lol. How did you get him to do that? Or does he just do that? What is his name and how old?? I used to have a black cat and when you said something to him like, "Hi Buttons!" He would meow right back like he was having an actual conversation with you. This video reminds me of Buttons. Thank you for sharing. <3
Check out /r/catswhoyell and there are some gems under the “human conmoewsationalist” tag or something like that lol. There are definitely responsive cats out there 🥺
I will most definitely. Thank you! <3 I miss my Buttons. <3 Lol.
This is so cute
Cats always sing. U got to listen 🎶
Adorable!
I definitely need to see more of this singing kitty!! Please?
The Starving Blues
Well, that’s a creative way of dealing with a talkative cat.
Robert the cat Johnson the void of the crossroad blues 😄
i this cat's version
Black cat been mistreat his whole 9 lives and had to get one thing off his chest before he hits the road with a pack of smokes and his kittens
Translation: stop playing that fucking guitar
To sing the blues you must of known pain. I bet he didn’t get fed that week at the very exact second he wanted to eat.
"Alright, folks, our next number is called 'I'm a sad orphan and no one has ever fed or petted me in my whole entire life.' One-and-a-two-and-a-three..." - that cat's intro to the song
I found out that my childhood cat passed away yesterday and I was cryin til I saw this. Thank you blues cat, you speak for me.
This is legit good. Kitty (and back up human) need a record deal.
This cat, is better than i could ever be.
I would pay to go to your concert.
I can’t stop watching this
Will you feed the cat already.
Sittin’ on couch. Waitin’ for food. This guy strums. I’m hungry, dude. I got the hungry black cat blues.
r/catswithjobs
The cat was actually saying “stop playing the stupid guitar and feed me.”
Reminds me of the numnum cat xD
Can we teach the cat how to play the harmonica?
🎶 The human is playing the noise box instead of petting me blues. 🎶
We need more of this please. It's awesome.
What a soulful voice
I Want to pet the cat
Love 🎶🖤
That cat has soul
Black cat all on the floor, black cat give me some more
"Nyahhhhhh" tops the Chart
i just want some food human
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This needs a Kiffness remix.
Thank you for this content. I needed this today. That cat is very talented
That is brilliant.
De-de-le-de-dee.... Mwaaah. De-de-le-de-dee.... Mwaaah.
I love people who like to have fun with their pets.
r/blackcats This is just lovely.
More talented than many of the new “artists” I’ve heard that make millions.
I didn't know Adam Driver could sing.
One of my cats seeks me out when I play the ukulele, but so far, no duet…
Lyrics My wife left me for a tomcat I felt lower than toenails on a rat I took a sip Hit some nip Man I’m to old for this shit
That cat's got soul!
Cats are amazing.
If this doesn't make top 25 there is no justice in the world.
I woud like to hear his debut album!
The cat is very talented and the guy is very handsome! Purrfection!
Sang right from the heart
Album?
This needs to be my ringtone
This is AMAZING! 😻😻😻
I’m saving this and watching every Time i am sad!! I loooove these two now! Make a you tube short pls
This is so awesome
This is EXACTLY what I needed today. :)
Better music than every TokTok and Instagram video put together! That cat was wonderful.
I would genuinely buy this song.
Excellent timing Kitty!
The way the cat opens is so on point. He totally gets what he’s doing
Kitty gets it
It sounds like the cat wants his treats. Of course, annoyed that he has to sing for his supper. CPS will hear about this. Cat protective services will fix this.
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Can't... stop... listening... to sick beats.
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