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IrelandA singing hippo joins "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" piano lesson
Straight To The Point Tutorials pairs numbered keys with an animated vocalist in a Short drawing a much faster audience than usual.
Straight To The Point Tutorials
Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 54,046 views a day, 43 times a normal first day on this channel (1,248).
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Yellow labels mark the keys, an unseen player's hand picks out the melody, and a brown cartoon hippo supplies the singing. Straight To The Point Tutorials needs little else for its miniature lesson in "The Lion Sleeps Tonight."
The Short reached roughly 39,000 views in its first 13 hours, already far beyond the channel's usual first-day audience for this format. It is a brisk demonstration rather than a spoken lesson: number sequences appear above the keyboard, showing which labeled keys to press as the tune unfolds.
The description connects the song to The Lion King, though its history stretches much further back. The Tokens made the English-language version a hit in 1961, decades before Timon and Pumbaa sang it in Disney's film.
Familiar melodies from very different corners of entertainment sit together on this channel. Its recent lessons include the Wii Sports theme and "The Gummy Bear Song," while its most-watched Short teaches the OIIA Cat Song. Here, the animated hippo keeps things visual while the hand works through the phrase, finishing with repeated presses of the same key.
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- Subscribers
- 247,000 ▲ 2,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 3,213,308
- Channel views, pace per day
- 562,331 (on a normal day: 402,280)
- Video published
- November 14, 2026
- Video views so far
- 39,390 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 54,046
The numbers
The piano Short has already passed the channel's usual full-day audience by a wide margin, with its first day still unfinished.
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What kind of animal is Timon in The Lion King?
Timon is the meerkat who forms a comic duo with Pumbaa, a warthog.