Rather enjoying what the soloist is doing.

Another solo now. See what you can pick up from this.

And I've listened to that solo 200 times, and I still like it.

Now comes the solo. I propose I do that myself.

And as we held on, and we breathed as one, we knew we weren't on this journey alone.

And the one in mono, by the way, he used the pedal, and as he got older, he said, No, no, wait a minute.

Helen was calling 'stay in the process, stay in the process'.

And Gould recorded it in two major recordings that you may know about, one in mono, and one in stereo.

Usman Riaz is a 21 year old whiz at the percussive guitar, a style he learned to play by watching his heroes on YouTube. The TED Fellow plays onstage at TEDGlobal 2012 followed by a jawdropping solo from the master of percussive guitar, Preston Reed. And watch these two guitarists take on a very spur of the moment improv.

One of a kind R B group Naturally 7 beatboxes an orchestra's worth of instruments to groove through their smooth single, Fly Baby.

It's a real experience, not only to learn how to play and listen to rhythms, but to train your musical memory and playing music in a group.

This is actually being performed by Brian McWhorter, who is an extraordinary performer.

So it's unpredictable. We'll paint this palette again.

This is when those big forms arose the symphonies, the sonatas, the concertos.

Famous vibraphonist Stefon Harris has recorded at least one balafon solo.

Do you play a musical instrument?

MIDI rhythm station for ALSA

He is playing music.

Play the Humppa!

This is the 1913 Trio performing one of my pieces at the Milwaukee Art Museum.

The Cape Breton piano playing is just awesome. It's very rhythmic and, you'll see it.

I've been playing TED for nearly a decade, and I've very rarely played any new songs of my own.

The whole orchestra is playing.

Caroline Lavelle casts a spell on cello

This still applies to him.

Pianist and composer Jennifer Lin gives a magical performance, talks about the process of creativity and improvises a moving solo piece based on a random sequence of notes.

Clarence I would rather be able to play an instrument again than walk.

Thirdly, variation in tempo.

MacMaster Leahy play the fiddle

Jim accompanied her on the piano.

She accompanied me on the piano.

I accompanied her on the piano.

Are you able to play organ?

Consider the memory of long temporal sequences of movements, like a pianist playing a Beethoven sonata.

For his first studio album release in decades, musical innovator Thomas Dolby has been composing music in the uniquely inspirational setting of a restored life boat. Here he premieres a gorgeous, evocative song from that album about one night with a legend. He's backed by members of the modern string quartet Ethel.

Saxophonists often double on flutes, which have similar fingerings to their primary instruments.

I play in a band.

That's the first time I've ever played it.

They want to get back to slower rhythms.

She will accompany me on the piano.

Can you play the key of C minor?

He said, that's what flutes are for to be played well.

Afterwards, I played a piano track underneath so that the singers would have something to listen to.

I get to write, sometimes for soloists and I get to work with one person, sometimes full orchestras, and I work with a lot of people, and this is probably the capacity, the role creatively for which I'm probably best known professionally.

Since then, I've never looked back.