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* ''[[Bedazzled]]'' (the remake): Brendan Fraser is playing guitar during one of the fantasies, and he has his hand above the capo.
* ''[[Drumline]]'': The printed music that comes out of a snare drum solo in the middle of the movie has sharps and flats, despite the fact that a snare drum has ''only one note'' (roughly, "bang").
* ''[[Mr.
** Of course, that is not the point of the movie, but to show that his real "Opus" was the impact on his students as a teacher, not his ability to compose. And to show the importance of music education. Even Kamen's foundation he founded after the film was about education, not composing music.
** Some musicians don't like the fact that Mr. Holland [[The Southpaw|conducts left-handed]], but they definitely do exist.
* ''[[The Parent Trap]]'': Hayley Mills is not moving her fingers when playing guitar Beethoven's 5th Symphony. Then on "Let's Get Together" her strumming does not match the music (in addition to not moving her fingers).
* ''[[
* [[Johnny Cash]] referenced this trope when he first heard of the biopic ''[[Walk the Line]]''; he said that he hoped that whoever portrayed him knew how to hold a guitar correctly. The movie itself averts it, as both Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon (who portrayed Cash's wife, June Carter) worked for several months with producer T-Bone Burnett to learn how to sing and play instruments.
** However, the film does play it straight several other times, including one scene where Waylon Payne (as [[Jerry Lee Lewis]]) is backed by an electric bassist, but an upright bass is heard instead.
* ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'': In the scene where Eddie Valiant is mingling with the toons at Maroon Studios, he comes across a saxophonist standing next to the enchanted brooms from ''[[Fantasia]]''. However, the saxophonist isn't doing anything else besides just swaying his body while playing the saxophone. The thing is, he isn't even moving his fingers while he was playing the saxophone.
* In the Canadian film ''[[Hard Core Logo]]'', Callum Keith Rennie's portrayal of Billy Tallent, guitarist of the eponymous band, barely even looks like he's trying during the performance scenes. Hugh Dillion as singer/rhythm guitarist Joe Dick is much more believable, as he's an actual musician.
* Kirk Douglas may do his own singing for the song "Whale of a Tale" in the movie ''[[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]]'', but he certainly doesn't handle the music. Like most fake guitar players, he remembers to strum, but almost completely ignores the existence of the frets.
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** Though, it could be a [[Truth in Television]], or [[Defictionalization]], as a lot of show choirs in the U.S. are calling themselves "Glee Clubs."
** More recently, ''Glee'' had a madrigal choir competing against New Directions ''at a show-choir competition.'' There are other competitions for typical school choirs (not show choirs), where one would think that a madrigal choir, with their use of classical repertoire and lack of dancing, would fit better.
* ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'': Emma playing the cello is to a lesser degree. She does move her fingers some, and some of the open strings match what is heard, but what she was playing would in real life like sound [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS6KI0dnkiw like this].
* ''[[
* [[Kelsey Grammer]]'s fake piano playing is actually pretty convincing in ''[[Frasier]]'' but if you look closely you can see that it's dubbed. Definitely not [[Lampshaded]].
* The ''[[Hot in Cleveland]]'' episode where the girls form a band seems to have been this trope. It's most obvious for [[Betty White]]'s character. You really gonna make a woman in her eighties hit those drums?
* When Montoya plays the violin in the first episode of ''[[
* Type 1 is averted and then played straight in the ''[[
* An episode of ''[[ER]]'' featured a gifted young violinist. At the end of the episode, he performs a piece - his fingering movements are completely out of sync with the music.
* In an episode of ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'', Leonard is playing in a string quartet with the hairs on his bow facing outwards. The bow hair on the string is what makes the sound on the cello.
== [[Music Videos]] ==
* Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love". Some people criticized the video because the "musicians" (portrayed by fashion models) were not correctly playing their guitars. [[VH
* The music video for "If I Die Young" by The Band Perry has one of the band members playing an accordion. Even the least musically-inclined person can tell there's no accordion in the song (it's a ballad; why would they even use one?).
* Similarly, [[Scatman John]]'s "Scatman" video has a trumpeter, upright bassist and drummer in it, when all of the instruments are obviously synthesized.
* And in the video for The Bellamy Brothers' "Old Hippie (The Sequel)", one of them is strumming a resonator guitar in the video. This is doubly wrong; besides the complete lack of said instrument in the song, resonator guitars are usually played horizontally (like a lap steel guitar) or finger-picked, not strummed.
* [[
* Richard Swift's "Knee-High Boogie Blues" video has a lot of closeup shots where it's obvious the drumsticks are not touching the drum head at any point, and the guitarist isn't touching the strings at all. It's so obvious that one can only assume that it was intentional.
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== Musicals ==
* ''[[Cannibal!
{{quote| '''Frenchy:'''Nutter was singing in the wrong key!<br />
'''Nutter:''' No I wasn't. It was Loutzenheiser. I was singing in E♭ minor.<br />
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*** and in the Christmas Special his toy piano is versatile enough to sound like a classical piano and a pipe organ in addition.
== [[Real Life]] ==
* Early in [[Stan Freberg
* [[Muse]] were told on an Italian TV show that the would be lip-synching. So, to mess with everyone, they switched instruments and exaggerated all the movement. Apparently, the Italian director of the TV show didn't notice.
* The Finnish dance musician [[Darude]] once "played" his hit tune "Sandstorm" live on Finnish TV with a synthesizer; however, anyone with any knowledge of synthesizers could see it was not even plugged in.
* A fair number of bands didn't really think much of ''[[Top of the Pops]]'' when it was on air, but since they had to promote their singles, they often decided to make the most of it by invoking this trope. Highlights include Marc Bolan performing with the lead from his amp going into his back pocket and members of the Faces stepping back from the microphones when they sang.
* There is also [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwNUIt5Hc0Y this little gem] thanks to [[
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