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Russian parents made you learn Piano? Improvise!
@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.
Russian parents made you learn Piano? Improvise!
Yes, you are 100% right in that he does a great job of getting about as close as possible to the sound of the guitar on a piano.
But I'm not questioning his playing ability, I'm questioning the choice to do it in the first place. Or more specifically, the choice to try and REPLICATE the sound of the original.
Here's what I would consider a good example of adapting a guitar piece to the piano. She's not trying to make the piano sound like a guitar, but using the piano to create a different version of this.
Or the other way round taking a famous piano piece and adapting it for guitar.
Obviously, art is a subjective thing and you're not "wrong" for liking or disliking this... I just feel like it doesn't really add anything to the original.
Also, since I'm posting unpopular opinions.. .he actually plays the wrong notes a few times... amateur
Well, yes, a guitar can do things that a piano can't and the pitch-shifter doesn't quite achieve the right timbre but the point is that he's adapted a piano to sound like a fairly convincing facsimile of an electric guitar; the playing of the piece is secondary to that. The achievement is how much the piano now sounds like an electric guitar, given how different the instruments are. It's not a bad version of that guitar solo, it's a good version of the solo considering it's being played on an instrument that's normally unsuitable for playing it.
Russian parents made you learn Piano? Improvise!
Well, yes, a guitar can do things that a piano can't and the pitch-shifter doesn't quite achieve the right timbre but the point is that he's adapted a piano to sound like a fairly convincing facsimile of an electric guitar; the playing of the piece is secondary to that. The achievement is how much the piano now sounds like an electric guitar, given how different the instruments are. It's not a bad version of that guitar solo, it's a good version of the solo considering it's being played on an instrument that's normally unsuitable for playing it.
To play Devil's advocate... why do this?
He's essentially playing a bad version of that guitar solo.
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Russian parents made you learn Piano? Improvise!
To play Devil's advocate... why do this?
He's essentially playing a bad version of that guitar solo.
I mean, yeah, he's obviously a good musician and I'm guessing from some of his other videos he's a talented pianist (don't know enough about piano to judge).
But there are things you can do on a guitar (slides, bends, harmonics) that are impossible to do on a piano. That doesn't make a guitar better than a piano, just that it has different strengths.
He's (kinda) compensating for the bends using that pitch shifter, but it's a pretty crude version of a guitar bend, and there's no incorporation of the subtleties of how a guitar player changes little things like pick attack.
I am all for people reinterpreting musical pieces on a different instrument, but if you're going to do that, change it for the strengths of your instrument.
But still, upvote for the dog
Russian parents made you learn Piano? Improvise!
That dog knows how to steal a show!
Also the piano run through effects pedals, a guitar amp, and that controller he has is pretty righteous! I want to hear what it sounds like with some Beethoven or any classical music!
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Robert Levin plays Mozart on Mozart's piano
The same piece played on a modern piano, for reference:
Super Mario Bros. on Marimba with 4 Mallets by Aaron DeWayne
Wonderful.
My oldest boy is learning the song on piano for his holiday concert in December, so I have a special appreciation for the details of this performance.
You don't realize some of the intricacies of performing the song until you get in there and try it. Your hands really have to jump all over the place and at a tempo and cadence that's really hard to get right at some spots.
Professeur Layton Thème - Matthieu
Self proclaimed Self-Post
*ban
Here is my second piano cover, on the theme of video games: Professor Layton and the strange village.
{Details on this video}
- Genre: Video game music.
- Composer: Matthew.
- Editing: Matthieu
- Photo: Matthew (This is my own photo.)
- Date of publication on the internet (YouTube): Tuesday, October 24, 2017.
- Composer of the games Professor Layton: Tomohito Nishiura.
AUTOMATICA 4k - Robots Vs. Music - Nigel Stanford
CGI rendered tests to further fool you into thinking it's not all CG. It's been done before.
This seems like a job for Captain Disillusion!
EDIT: Perhaps I should clarify a bit. By CGI I don't just mean it's all 3D renders. I mean more that it's all computer trickery of some sort. Some 3D, some compositing, lots of time manipulation. Just look at how often he's clearly green screened in. Look at how the cymbals move. A robotic arm can punch through a piano? There's a lot of CG going on here. And if it's in the crazier shots, I don't see why it wouldn't be in the simpler shots.
I don't think all of it is. These tests seem like they wouldn't have been done if the whole video is cgi.
https://youtu.be/mAdLcUEzu-Q
https://youtu.be/qPT0TNj-YRk
https://youtu.be/tNu6PT7KKQg
Secret Life of Pets
This video has been seconded as a duplicate; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof seconded with isdupe by bareboards2.
Secret Life of Pets
*dupeof=https://videosift.com/video/Dog-Caught-Playing-Piano-and-Singing-on-Hidden-Camera
Secret Life of Pets
This video has been nominated as a duplicate of this video by eric3579. If this nomination is seconded with *isdupe, the video will be killed and its votes transferred to the original.
Secret Life of Pets
Found it with dog and piano keywords, but it's dead Jim: http://videosift.com/video/Dog-Caught-Playing-Piano-and-Singing-on-Hidden-Camera .
Very very old, @ant. Like, years and years. Probably impossible to find the original at this point.