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Musician plays as section of keyboard are removed

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Guitar Hero YYZ guy plays real guitar

ant says...

Wow, over a decade ago. Better late than never for me. Freddie Young looked so young back then! *related=http://videosift.com/video/Guitar-Hero-2-Rush-YYZ-on-Expert

spoco2 said:

Um, linking the original video would have helped, you expect us all to just know what YYZ is?

Geeze

Still, nice, both videos, nice.

He has excellent real and fake guitar skills

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Guitar Hero YYZ guy plays real guitar

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MilkmanDan says...

@ChaosEngine --

I've only seen one other piece by this dude, so I can't claim that I definitely "get" what he's going for, but... To me, his shtick is: "I wanted to be a rockstar / guitar hero when I was growing up, but my parents made me learn the piano instead of guitar. So, I'm going to live that rockstar dream via the piano instead of guitar, partially because I enjoy it, partially to stick it to mom and dad, and partially because other people seem to enjoy it as evidenced by views / likes / comments, etc." (And importantly, he can't play the guitar, so he uses the skill that he has available.)

I like his stuff (well, the 2 videos I've seen of his). This one is pretty reliant on bends, and to nitpick I think he should have used an analog pitch bender for that instead of the fancy touch digital one he had. On the other hand, it isn't too critical, and he seems to go for playing by ear without a lot of (maybe *any*?) practice run-throughs which would definitely be required to nail those bend sections perfectly. So, the imperfect on-hand equipment (digital vs analog) and imperfect execution don't detract much from the performance for me.

You're also correct that he played the wrong notes a few times, but in a musically acceptable way -- he was still playing chord notes in the scale and key of the song, but not exactly the same ones as in the original. So while I noticed it, that also doesn't really detract much from the performance for me either.

Taking a piece for another instrument and adapting it to a different one as opposed to trying to "imperfectly" emulate the original can also be very cool. Youtube covers of rock songs on a Korean Gayageum come to mind. BUT, I also get a kick out of my interpretation of this guy's shtick, and don't feel like he's trying to do the musical equivalent of forcing a round peg into a square hole or anything.

Definitely all subjective though.

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ChaosEngine says...

Well, I was joking, but replace "predicting" with "instructing" and that still describes exactly the way guitar hero or rocksmith work.

And it will only ever be as perfect as the human playing it.

Either way, it's a cool video and a nice piece.

Shame the movie wasn't nearly as good...

Payback said:

Not really. The incoming notes were exactly what he was playing, only running reverse through time, effect before cause. They were actually "predicting" his key presses.

You could tell where some notes were shorter than what they'd actually be in a Hero game, or in some cases where two notes were held and one ended a fraction of a second before the other. A Hero game would be "perfect" but this was imperfect.

Considering the movie, this visualisation, basically showing you information from the future, is pretty cool.

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