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Ragtime Super Mario Bros (Sight reading)

submitted by carneval

1 decade 2 years 5 months 2 weeks ago

From the video:

If you've seen my other videos of Tom sight-reading videogame ragtime sheet music that I've put in front of him, this video should come as no surprise to you.

I had not yet finished correcting the awful score that is available online for this tune (I did put it into the correct time signature, but it still has some really funky chords and other problems), nevertheless I put a copy of it as it stands in front of my amazingly talented friend Tom Brier this weekend.

This was the result.

Tom is a highly regarded pianist and sight-reader in the ragtime community. I have other videos of him you can find (and more to come) which will give you an idea why.

There are so many amateur pianists out there playing these rags from video games, but I thought it would be nice to see what a pianist who specializes in ragtime music would make of them.

This tune is by Koji Kondo (近藤浩治) and is one of the most famous tunes of all music from Nintendo video games.

I still haven't cleaned up the score completely. Here it is as Tom was reading it -- no repeats, some questionable chords, etc.

http://www.keeper1st.com/music/athleterag.pdf

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*quality *doublepromote!!!

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by gwiz665.

Double-Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Friday, November 18th, 2011 2:04pm PST - doublepromote requested by gwiz665.

This makes me happy.

I agree
*happy

Adding video to channels (Happy) - requested by grinter.

Amazing.

Yeah, basically this piece was already ragtime, I think. but still wonderful!

Tags for this video have been changed from 'gaming, tom briar, piano' to 'gaming, tom briar, piano, mario paint' - edited by marinara

Just a note for the tags: this music is originally from Super Mario World for the SNES/Super Famicom, not Mario Paint (although it might have appeared in that too--never purchased Mario Paint). You can hear the original here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7UqfczyR-4

bmacs27 says...

I think it's pretty obvious he doesn't play video games.

When he went into the refrain I had to crack a smile.

And he even does a speed run without hacks! Quality.

dag

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The Reddit version of this post was all about the neck beard. Proud of VideoSift.

So, some sad news about this guy--he was in a major car accident and in a coma for a while. He's currently in rehab but there's no telling if he's ever going to play the piano again (source: this reddit post).

*promote his amazing music

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Wednesday, November 16th, 2011 6:49pm PST - promote requested by SDGundamX.

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