"Nairobi Trio" -- heh, heh. Brings back my ill-spent childhood nights sneaking out of bed to watch Ernie Kovacs' program, and especially "Silents Please", the silent film show he hosted with this piece as theme music, if I'm not mistaken. Wonder how many of us are around who still prize the humor of Ernie, the old Mad magazine, Bob & Ray, Stan Freeberg, Tom Lehrer, etc...
Great job! Did you put tacks in the hammers? Love the old saloon sound to your piano! Very cool. I just recently discovered Rialto Ripples and adding it to my repertoire.
and, if you don't believe me, listen to Charley Straight's piano rolls on Imperial circa 1917-1922, and/or the rolls of Max Kortlander and/or Victor Arden on QRS from about the same time. These gentlemen were editors-in-chief at their respective companies and thus had ABSOLUTE control over what happened with the final roll master, including rhythms, added notes, etc. They edited their own performances and in many cases created a performance on the master without touching a piano.
How very entertaining and what a splendid and distinctive upright! Never seen one so ... architectural! The perfect tone to carry off a rag? Fabulous! (I really must make room for an acoustic piano!)
Terrific playing! Dude, if you want, there is a sheet music transcription of Gershwin's hand-played piano roll of this rag that you can print out from Benjamin Intartaglia's "Ragtime France" website... just go to the english version and click the "Bonus" sidebar on the left. There are TONS of rare rags and especially great piano roll transcriptions available here! (the ones of tunes still in copyright are not free but available for sale via email)
Amazing my friend! I play this rag and I'm modeling my interpretation after yours become i love it so much! I did the same with the maple leaf rag cus I love your interpretation SO much! Can you please do the Charleston Rag by Eubie Blake as well as the Chevy Chase Rag by Eubie Blake? Thanks! Amazing work!
You've got the perfect piano for this kinda song! To me, it felt a bit too fast, and could use some more dynamics, but overall, if was very accurate and expertly played. Bravo!
dude, this is a fox-trot rag from the 'teens, it is written dotted, and by about 1916, as evidenced by contemporaneous piano ragtime recordings and piano rolls, the dotted notation MEANS to swing (that is, effect a swinging triplet feel). For example, compare two of Charley Straight rags (he was the quintessential 'teens ragtime composer) that he made on roll for QRS just two years apart. "Humpty Dumpty" from 1914 uses a dotted rhythm PLAYED dotted, while "Lazy Bones" from 1916 is SWUNG.
Not that hard of a song, but nice variations. The use of octaves in part is not in my version of this song. Nice work on the B section btw, it's the intense part of the song.
Great playing - one small point: surely if you are playing a rag, then the quavers SHOULDN'T be swung? Otherwise we're getting into the realms of stride and boogie-woogie. Nice playing though!
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It's too bad that Ernie Kovacs didn't live long enough to hear this kid play his theme tune..Ernie would have love it.
"Nairobi Trio" -- heh, heh. Brings back my ill-spent childhood nights sneaking out of bed to watch Ernie Kovacs' program, and especially "Silents Please", the silent film show he hosted with this piece as theme music, if I'm not mistaken. Wonder how many of us are around who still prize the humor of Ernie, the old Mad magazine, Bob & Ray, Stan Freeberg, Tom Lehrer, etc...
I agree with you..EMTube..this kid's piano rendition of "Rialto Ripples"reminds me of Ernie Kovacs' tv theme music.
such a COOL rag!! love it!! amazing! I agree with DalrockCountry...can't wait for your next piece (:
Great job! Did you put tacks in the hammers? Love the old saloon sound to your piano! Very cool. I just recently discovered Rialto Ripples and adding it to my repertoire.
Nice work :)
and i like your piano
and, if you don't believe me, listen to Charley Straight's piano rolls on Imperial circa 1917-1922, and/or the rolls of Max Kortlander and/or Victor Arden on QRS from about the same time.
These gentlemen were editors-in-chief at their respective companies and thus had ABSOLUTE control over what happened with the final roll master, including rhythms, added notes, etc. They edited their own performances and in many cases created a performance on the master without touching a piano.
How very entertaining and what a splendid and distinctive upright! Never seen one so ... architectural! The perfect tone to carry off a rag? Fabulous! (I really must make room for an acoustic piano!)
By far the best video of this online, bravo! And I'm sure by now you're even better. Upload some more videos! :)
*smiles*
Always astounding and amazing.
Oooh, alliterations. *laughs*
Cheers,
Tabb
great playing....do some more..please!!
Incredible job on this man!
Great performance, I loved it!
EXCELLENT! that's one of the best performances i have heard so far =) BRAVO!
Beautifully done!
This is pretty amazing
This guy must be the reincarnation of Gershwin is all I can think !
Well played, nice job ! I like the regularity you have that is necessary for a ragtime
Amazing!
Me & My partner will be performing this piece in the next festival.
We just picked out this piece today.
DUDE , you da bomb shizzle! hahahaa nice playin man keep it up
Great playing! I just Michael Feinstein play this live last night. Never heard it before and I thought I knew a lot of the Gershwin canon.
Terrific playing!
Dude, if you want, there is a sheet music transcription of Gershwin's hand-played piano roll of this rag that you can print out from Benjamin Intartaglia's "Ragtime France" website... just go to the english version and click the "Bonus" sidebar on the left.
There are TONS of rare rags and especially great piano roll transcriptions available here! (the ones of tunes still in copyright are not free but available for sale via email)
What a boss.
nice starting tempo.
Good job throughout nice work man.
really great
dry emotion is classic today currency, i think.
i like this performance, applause. faster go faster.
I'm only in gr 8 piano but I want to play this :$ ps. I'm digging your old school metronome, overall this is intense! good stuff :)
@Evanissimo Please upload more of you playing the Piano.
I'm one of your newest Fans!
BRAVO!!!!!
I love it
Amazing my friend! I play this rag and I'm modeling my interpretation after yours become i love it so much! I did the same with the maple leaf rag cus I love your interpretation SO much!
Can you please do the Charleston Rag by Eubie Blake as well as the Chevy Chase Rag by Eubie Blake?
Thanks! Amazing work!
Thanks!
Wow, great! Do you have the sheets (notes) for this song?:)
You've got the perfect piano for this kinda song! To me, it felt a bit too fast, and could use some more dynamics, but overall, if was very accurate and expertly played. Bravo!
My sax quartet is playing this song :)
it's a grade 10 piece in the RCM
Also, nice piano! What make is it?
Nice.
:)
im not in love wit this song but im sure if i had the sheet music i might give it a try
What's the name of the manufacturer of your piano?
yeah, and laurel & hardy come tumbling in as firemen, and they find a lovely lady inside the house.
dude, this is a fox-trot rag from the 'teens, it is written dotted, and by about 1916, as evidenced by contemporaneous piano ragtime recordings and piano rolls, the dotted notation MEANS to swing (that is, effect a swinging triplet feel).
For example, compare two of Charley Straight rags (he was the quintessential 'teens ragtime composer) that he made on roll for QRS just two years apart.
"Humpty Dumpty" from 1914 uses a dotted rhythm PLAYED dotted, while "Lazy Bones" from 1916 is SWUNG.
rcm?
Not that hard of a song, but nice variations. The use of octaves in part is not in my version of this song. Nice work on the B section btw, it's the intense part of the song.
Great playing - one small point: surely if you are playing a rag, then the quavers SHOULDN'T be swung? Otherwise we're getting into the realms of stride and boogie-woogie.
Nice playing though!
Thats cus it's an ARCT piece :P
Just saying but why was your piano sooooo high pitched?? Is it out of tune??
I wondered the same - or he has played the felt off the hammers.
Two bad 4 people here are jealous old farts :(
hahahah
it's not ARCT
U were accurte on ur jumps!! too fast 4 my taste.. It's a rag, when it's so fast it doesn't sound carefree
shit is this bad
too much fauts