@@BarackObamaJedi The American pronunciation of that letter is "zee". No one is a moron for pronouncing letters or words in the manner everyone in their country does, you fucking asshole
I was cruising through looking for the YYZ version with Niel's long solo and came across this. I thought...ok... kid concert... I'm the mood for some cheese. All I can say is that was 100% badass! The more it went on the more I was impressed. this...is...a ...single..... 11 year old kid! It got to the end and I was waiting for the audience to go out of it's mind... I was... I even had a lighter up in the air and all this girl got was crickets. Whoever you are keep doing your arrangements.
As an organist and bassist and singer myself and massive rush fan I have no words to describe how brilliant this is, only an organist or anyone who's perfected this song on bass will understand how long that would have took to learn. As we say in Australia: bloody brilliant
Fourth time watching this clip since discovering it 40 minutes ago. I bought this album when it came out in 81. I know every note of this song intimately. This is the most true and accurate recreation I have ever heard. People have commented for years on how amazing it was that Rush could make the sound they do with just three guys. This girl is nailing it all by herself. Amazing performance. Then recognize she is only 10 years old at the time.
I don't care how many times I've watched this video, I just amazed how anybody can play this song on that Yamaha keyboard!! Especially an 11 year old kid!!
And here I thought Rush was amazing to produce so much music with only 3 members...her talent is insane! I wouldn't have been surprised if she bowed to the audience and just magically disappeared! Oh look...13 years and I'm just noticing this now?!? La Villa Strangiato Xylophone couple is now my second favorite instrumental cover.
Absolutely astounding for this young lady not only grasp the technical demands, but also to put forth emotion into her playing, grasping the subtle nuances of the piece....well done young lady now for her next challenge, la villa strangiato lol
Amazing! !! The sad part is that the audience had no clue about the song and it's difficulty factors. They were applauding without knowing what they were listening to. Great job!
As no child I know could perform such a task as this, and America couldn't perform a symphony this good, you are the best musician I am familiar with. Saying much, for all the wonderful composers out there. Apparently, those who dislike this are the same ones that like such "artists" as Lady Gaga. Prayers go out to Japan, for everything given.
"Oh, thou clear spirit, of thy fire thou madest me, and like a true child of fire, I breathe it back to thee." - Herman Melville, from Moby-Dick. Ameri, don't let anything stop you from fulfilling whatever it is you wish to obtain! Your skill astonishes me, and humbles me! You ROCK!
Most Excellent ! Brilliant ! I can't wait to see more. YYZ is an all time favorite of mine. A exquisitely complex piece. You have amazing skill ! Much Love 🙏
Amazing!!!!! This little girl is outstanding! My goodness, each time I watch this... It blows me away! does this little girl understand how special she is?
I agree with Thomas H....the internet does something wonderful once in a while...This young lady is out of this WORLD!!!! Her coordination is impeccable.
Thank God we have internet so she can show people with actual brains in their heads one of the most fantastic and hardest executions of a song, ever, she was playing for the wrong people there, so here's my congratulations, it was insane, specially for how young you were in then. When i was 11 i could barely kick a football ball.
This kid knocks out one of the toughest prog rock songs ever.... I mean look at her feet work the bass line! And then she gets a smattering of polite applause for 4 seconds. The audience must have been too stunned to go nuts.
+Michael Gombos here's the quote "Oh, I've seen this chick! She's amazing! Somebody sent me a new one of this eight-year-old boy playing drums to 'Fly by Night.' You should check it out. . . But this is unbelievable, just unbelievable. It seems insane and inconceivable, yet how sweet. She's got the feet going. Look at her feet go. This is just unbelievable. Crazy, man. I'd love to pat her on the back. Again, this is awesome." -GL
I've been a Rush fan about twice as long as you've been alive, and I've been involved with music for about that long too, so I'm accustomed to people showing off their chops by covering Rush tunes. But this... was something entirely different. Truly phenomenal.
OMG,I simply can't BELIEVE the LACK of applause she gets after she FINISHES this tune!!! OBVIOUSLY,the people in this audience know NOTHING of "RUSH",or ROCK for that matter!!! If I was there watching this,I'd stand up on my SEAT afterwards,screaming and yelling,going "YEEEEEEEEAH,You GO GIRL,ENCORE....ENCORE"!!!! Lol.
Near as I can tell, the keyboard is a STAGEA ELS-01C (Electone.) I couldn't figure out how she could do what she did, until I looked at the manual. For one thing, on the lower rank, there's buttons a player could hit without her hands leaving the area of the keyboards to change voice settings. There's also a knee operated solo mode which could be used to switch to a solo voice on the upper manual (This is a very expensive keyboard even in used condition.)
Very very cool! I won 1st place at a Yamaha Electone Organ Festival when I was a kid. My tour de force was a raunched up version of The Beatles "Eight Days A Week"...complete with heel/toe walking bass lines, and a hybrid playing style, sort of Earl Grant meets Vincent Crane. It's so nice to see a young person such as yourself using the pedals so proficiently. It was a pleasure watching you play!
So. Amazing. I have never seen anyone with your kind of musical dexterity, able to reproduce an entire incredibly complex song so accurately with just a single instrument... and all four limbs! Astounding.
Not only is it mind blowing to us mere mortals, but she is so cute and shy, at the end when she takes a bow with her old school Rush shirt on and off the stage she goes, Adorable.
crowd golf clap , they didn't know what they had just heard. Too bad really, This was not an easy thing for her to accomplish I bet... And how does an 11 year old asian girl even get into Rush in the first place...I might be assuming too much ...maybe she's from Toronto and has an older brother Rush fan or something ...either way just loved it WTG!!! You have excellent taste in music girl \m/
+Mud Sh-sh-shark She's from Japan. I correspond with her father and he's a single parent. Her father writes in English (albeit barely) , but his daughter is very talented. I asked her to perform La Villa Strangiato but that may be too much. YYZ was tough enough. Ameri did come to the U.S. last year for six months as an exchange student and earlier last year she and her father were visiting Los Angeles, but I could not visit them. Sad thing though, her father is extremely worried about her health, especially after Fukushima. I have a feeling he wants her to move here to the U.S. or maybe Canada. I guess next time they are here, I'll visit them.
I used to live in Willowdale no far frm Ged and Alex...now I live in the far unlit unknown just north of Toronto's subdivisions ...She and her dad are welcome here.
Absolutely astounding for this young lady not only grasp the technical demands, but also to put forth emotion into her playing, grasping the subtle nuances of the piece....well done young lady
Just heard an interview with Geddy Lee on some British radio station and the host asked Geddy if he'd seen this. He said he had and thought it was amazing. And it is!
... and if they're Japanese, they'll also be more humble, more polite, more socially adjusted, more healthy, eat better than you, have a more fulfilling family life, be more educated...
"...socially adjusted..." Hikikomori? "...healthy..." Japan has 4x more smokers than average US country. "...fulfilling family life..." Birth rates are plummeting. "...humble..." XD
For those wondering... yes, Geddy Lee and Rush ARE aware of this girl and this performance... Google: "Rolling Stone Geddy Lee Dives Into Rush's Video Timeline" and the 10th video is this girl...Geddy discusses it and is very taken with the performance!
This kid's awesome... This makes me think of Mike Portnoy's comment in 'Beyond the Lighted Stage': "Yeah, I can play YYZ, but can you play La Villa Stangiato?" "Well, no, but can you play YYZ all by YOURSELF?"
Positively amazing, my psychology professor introduced me to this video. What an amazing guy, and what an amazing girl playing this awesome song on the keyboard! Kudos!
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after all these years this remains the single most amazing thing i've seen on the whole internet.
liberace was phenomenal on piano, but this is a young girl and she goes nuts with the foot pedals.
and it's Y Y friggin Zeeee!
@@SnowDogRedSectorEh it's zed, you fucking moron
@@BarackObamaJedi The American pronunciation of that letter is "zee". No one is a moron for pronouncing letters or words in the manner everyone in their country does, you fucking asshole
I couldn't agree more...this is nutz!!
Yyz is an excellent example of 3 musicians rocking in harmony, this little girl can do all 3 by herself, awesome, sure we will hear from her again
I came back to this video after hearing that Neil Peart passed away. It was this video that made me fall in love with the actual song. RIP Neil.
Only a Rush fan can truly appreciate how epically AMAZING this is! AWESOME!
Here I am, a 51-year-old man, crying.
Vill du prata om det?
I was cruising through looking for the YYZ version with Niel's long solo and came across this. I thought...ok... kid concert... I'm the mood for some cheese. All I can say is that was 100% badass! The more it went on the more I was impressed. this...is...a ...single..... 11 year old kid! It got to the end and I was waiting for the audience to go out of it's mind... I was... I even had a lighter up in the air and all this girl got was crickets. Whoever you are keep doing your arrangements.
Playing the song on the keyboard is one thing but that hand-foot coordination is really incredible.
This is no kid, this is an octopus
boomer
Now a day i think she be a big Boss of the octopus!!! ❤
Parenting Level 1000
As an organist and bassist and singer myself and massive rush fan I have no words to describe how brilliant this is, only an organist or anyone who's perfected this song on bass will understand how long that would have took to learn. As we say in Australia: bloody brilliant
What organ do you play?
Probably the only human who can do this. If anyone can do the same show us. Some people are just naturally that good. Scores a 10 out of 10 for sure.
O....M....G... Already YYZ is a nightmare for an accomplished bass or guitar... dang....
I can safely say... that this girl has reached GOD LEVEL
I remember my father showing me this when I was 12, 10 years later and it’s still my favorite RUclips video.
Fourth time watching this clip since discovering it 40 minutes ago. I bought this album when it came out in 81. I know every note of this song intimately. This is the most true and accurate recreation I have ever heard. People have commented for years on how amazing it was that Rush could make the sound they do with just three guys. This girl is nailing it all by herself. Amazing performance. Then recognize she is only 10 years old at the time.
I don't care how many times I've watched this video, I just amazed how anybody can play this song on that Yamaha keyboard!! Especially an 11 year old kid!!
And here I thought Rush was amazing to produce so much music with only 3 members...her talent is insane! I wouldn't have been surprised if she bowed to the audience and just magically disappeared! Oh look...13 years and I'm just noticing this now?!? La Villa Strangiato Xylophone couple is now my second favorite instrumental cover.
I took the rush tour in Toronto and no other band like them ever. This girl has mad skills
playing guitar on a piano and using feet to play bass?? F*ck! Some of us can't even play individual instrument correctly.
Absolutely astounding for this young lady not only grasp the technical demands, but also to put forth emotion into her playing, grasping the subtle nuances of the piece....well done young lady now for her next challenge, la villa strangiato lol
It's 2020 and I don't understand how this girl isn't running the world by now.
its like someone else here said, no matter how good you are at something, some Asian kid some where is way better than you. lol
Amazing! !! The sad part is that the audience had no clue about the song and it's difficulty factors. They were applauding without knowing what they were listening to. Great job!
As no child I know could perform such a task as this, and America couldn't perform a symphony this good, you are the best musician I am familiar with. Saying much, for all the wonderful composers out there. Apparently, those who dislike this are the same ones that like such "artists" as Lady Gaga. Prayers go out to Japan, for everything given.
The audience has no idea how great that was.
all the thumbs down must be from drummers because there was no drum solo....this is absolutely amazing...bravo, nice work.
holy crap.... this is amazing. 1 young person is doing what 3 masters do.... i love this
darienlake consider she is using synths opposed to guitars. But still, that pedaling is crazy
She's not playing drums. Only Neil Peart can do that.
She's not only talented but has great taste in music.
Yamaha should pay this girl some serious yen for an endorsement deal.
"Oh, thou clear spirit, of thy fire thou madest me, and like a true child of fire, I breathe it back to thee." - Herman Melville, from Moby-Dick.
Ameri, don't let anything stop you from fulfilling whatever it is you wish to obtain! Your skill astonishes me, and humbles me! You ROCK!
Most Excellent ! Brilliant !
I can't wait to see more. YYZ is an all time favorite of mine. A exquisitely complex piece. You have amazing skill !
Much Love 🙏
Amazing!!!!! This little girl is outstanding! My goodness, each time I watch this... It blows me away! does this little girl understand how special she is?
I agree with Thomas H....the internet does something wonderful once in a while...This young lady is out of this WORLD!!!! Her coordination is impeccable.
Thank God we have internet so she can show people with actual brains in their heads one of the most fantastic and hardest executions of a song, ever, she was playing for the wrong people there, so here's my congratulations, it was insane, specially for how young you were in then. When i was 11 i could barely kick a football ball.
Absolutely incredible. As a lifelong Rush fan, I thank you very much for this! Never stop!
Wow. I am amazed. This song has been praised by many websites and magazines as the best rock song of all time. It truly defines the genre.
This kid knocks out one of the toughest prog rock songs ever.... I mean look at her feet work the bass line! And then she gets a smattering of polite applause for 4 seconds. The audience must have been too stunned to go nuts.
Geddy, Alex and Neil will ❤ it!!! 👍 Rush is my all time fave rock band!!!!!
If this is a talent show,I'd hate to follow her. Everybody go home,we have a winner.
Estaba viendo videos de vaporwave y me encontré con esta joyita!!😳😳
Pd: Temazo!!🤩
HA! This is so cool to see an 11 year ld girl not only appreciate Rush's music, but to interpret and play YYZ so well. Amazing!
Switch 625 captured me , then I watched this one and was transported to another level of her talent 👍 cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
The applause from the audience only lasted 3 seconds....
It needed to last a hell of a lot longer than that imo. Just sayin
Great job. I'm a big Rush fan and this is a very difficult song for anyone to play. Well done... keep up the great work!
Geddy Lee saw this :D
+Downstrike He thought she was amazing. He mentions it in an interview thats on RUclips :)
+snarlingrabiddog5150 Link?
+Michael Gombos www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/geddy-lee-dives-into-rushs-video-timeline-20131007/yyz-fan-video-0398772
+Michael Gombos here's the quote
"Oh, I've seen this chick! She's amazing! Somebody sent me a new one of this eight-year-old boy playing drums to 'Fly by Night.' You should check it out. . . But this is unbelievable, just unbelievable. It seems insane and inconceivable, yet how sweet. She's got the feet going. Look at her feet go. This is just unbelievable. Crazy, man. I'd love to pat her on the back. Again, this is awesome." -GL
Still amazed whenever I see this.
I've been a Rush fan about twice as long as you've been alive, and I've been involved with music for about that long too, so I'm accustomed to people showing off their chops by covering Rush tunes. But this... was something entirely different. Truly phenomenal.
Real deal. Been a RUSH fan since Hemispheres. Amazing talent.
OMG,I simply can't BELIEVE the LACK of applause she gets after she FINISHES this tune!!! OBVIOUSLY,the people in this audience know NOTHING of "RUSH",or ROCK for that matter!!! If I was there watching this,I'd stand up on my SEAT afterwards,screaming and yelling,going "YEEEEEEEEAH,You GO GIRL,ENCORE....ENCORE"!!!! Lol.
Saw this on the Rolling Stone Geddy Lee interview and it just blew me away. What an amazingly talented girl.
Outrageously brilliant! That really put a smile on my face. I really hope Geddy, Alex and Neil have seen this. They would definitely approve.
And to think its amazing that geddy lee played bass sang and did keyboards
N.Kashiwa's Electone Arrangement is Wonderful !
Geddy and Alex be all pleased with themselves, "these riff are hard to play", Ameri - "hold my coat"
my mind is officially blown
Words cannot describe how good your performance was!
Great work!!!
I'm never going to play music again, because I'm afraid of taking up precious air from this talented kid.
That’s straight up incredible! 🤘
Mind blown.
Mind blowing epic.
It takes 3 Canadians to play this song.
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That kid is absolutely unbelievable, that audience... equally unbelievable.
I'm floored! This is incredible. What an amazing display of musical talent and discipline. Bravo! I hope she lets us know when she starts her band.
Absolutely incredible! You are an amazing talent.
Near as I can tell, the keyboard is a STAGEA ELS-01C (Electone.) I couldn't figure out how she could do what she did, until I looked at the manual. For one thing, on the lower rank, there's buttons a player could hit without her hands leaving the area of the keyboards to change voice settings. There's also a knee operated solo mode which could be used to switch to a solo voice on the upper manual (This is a very expensive keyboard even in used condition.)
I think it's a Electone HX-1
I have the exact same one. This looks to be mounted in an aftermarket stand with the 20 pedal board.
Very very cool!
I won 1st place at a Yamaha Electone Organ Festival when I was a kid. My tour de force was a raunched up version of The Beatles "Eight Days A Week"...complete with heel/toe walking bass lines, and a hybrid playing style, sort of Earl Grant meets Vincent Crane. It's so nice to see a young person such as yourself using the pedals so proficiently. It was a pleasure watching you play!
You truly know what REAL music is!!
You are AMAZING!
KEEP ROCKIN'!!!!!!! ❤ ❤ ❤
DANIEL LOPATIN WAS HERE
She performed it beautifully......and the applause only lasted 5 seconds? WTF!?
Have these people never heard this song?
Even if they didn't recognize the tune, the complexity of the music alone and her precision playing it was enough for a standing ovation!
The programming alone would kill anyone. I have this exact keyboard. It's a Yamaha Electone HX-1
So. Amazing. I have never seen anyone with your kind of musical dexterity, able to reproduce an entire incredibly complex song so accurately with just a single instrument... and all four limbs! Astounding.
And as a trubute I will attempt to walk/talk/chew gum, nevermind! So incredible! What a awesome way to honor Rush!
The lovechild of Alex, Geddy, and Neil
I wish I could like this 40 times......
Not only is it mind blowing to us mere mortals, but she is so cute and shy, at the end when she takes a bow with her old school Rush shirt on and off the stage she goes, Adorable.
seen it a billion times. It's still just sick. I can't imagine that talent. I played forever and can't do that.
This is _madness_!
¡Magnífico!
Smiling the whole time. What a wonderful world.
agree, when I was 11 I was still listening to KC and the Sunshine Band on 45. She's great, and whoever turned her on the Rush is great too
crowd golf clap , they didn't know what they had just heard. Too bad really, This was not an easy thing for her to accomplish I bet... And how does an 11 year old asian girl even get into Rush in the first place...I might be assuming too much ...maybe she's from Toronto and has an older brother Rush fan or something ...either way just loved it WTG!!! You have excellent taste in music girl \m/
+Mud Sh-sh-shark
She's from Japan. I correspond with her father and he's a single parent. Her father writes in English (albeit barely) , but his daughter is very talented. I asked her to perform La Villa Strangiato but that may be too much. YYZ was tough enough.
Ameri did come to the U.S. last year for six months as an exchange student and earlier last year she and her father were visiting Los Angeles, but I could not visit them. Sad thing though, her father is extremely worried about her health, especially after Fukushima. I have a feeling he wants her to move here to the U.S. or maybe Canada.
I guess next time they are here, I'll visit them.
I used to live in Willowdale no far frm Ged and Alex...now I live in the far unlit unknown just north of Toronto's subdivisions ...She and her dad are welcome here.
Music to play Tetris Plus to.
(It's a compliment, don't even start.)
*****
More like people who just wanna get at me for everything in general.
Music to play Tetras to? Music to play KENDAMA to!
Absolutely astounding for this young lady not only grasp the technical demands, but also to put forth emotion into her playing, grasping the subtle nuances of the piece....well done young lady
...and she's wearing the first Rush shirt...man this was the most impressive performance i have seen in some time, excellent.
The crowd were expecting Mozart....
+Eggnogonthebog Productions Japanese audiences are very reserved.
Holy fuck
Just heard an interview with Geddy Lee on some British radio station and the host asked Geddy if he'd seen this. He said he had and thought it was amazing. And it is!
Never gets old watching this video. Their is hope for the future of music.
i'm asian and i can't do this 😅
But can you flip-roll a pen back and forth around your thumb 500 times? Betcha can!
did you mean pen spinning? i can't do that neither :(
+Adhi Pambudi hello
+Nelly Carlson hello too..
what's up?
I'm Geddy Lee and I can't do this.Psych! of course, I'm not Geddy Lee. but I still can't do it
Remember, regardless of what you think you are good at, there is an Asian child who is better at it than you.
... and if they're Japanese, they'll also be more humble, more polite, more socially adjusted, more healthy, eat better than you, have a more fulfilling family life, be more educated...
Gee, thanks rub it in why don't ya
"...socially adjusted..."
Hikikomori?
"...healthy..."
Japan has 4x more smokers than average US country.
"...fulfilling family life..."
Birth rates are plummeting.
"...humble..."
XD
Not on drums bro ;)
For those wondering... yes, Geddy Lee and Rush ARE aware of this girl and this performance... Google: "Rolling Stone Geddy Lee Dives Into Rush's Video Timeline" and the 10th video is this girl...Geddy discusses it and is very taken with the performance!
This kid's awesome...
This makes me think of Mike Portnoy's comment in 'Beyond the Lighted Stage': "Yeah, I can play YYZ, but can you play La Villa Stangiato?"
"Well, no, but can you play YYZ all by YOURSELF?"
Pretty good, but you were rushing. *ba dum tss* nah just kidding but it sounded good
INSANE>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> These Kids Are Gonna Take Progressive Music to GREATNESS.....
I watch this once a week just to remind myself how awesome this chick is!!!!!!!!!
Positively amazing, my psychology professor introduced me to this video. What an amazing guy, and what an amazing girl playing this awesome song on the keyboard! Kudos!
I can't believe my eyes! Why doesn't everyone know about this kid? What a phenomenon!
This is absolutely great. And It's a very classic song. Thank you for posting back in 2008.
Awesome. I think one of the coolest things about this video is the fact that an 11 year-old knows about Rush.
Yeah this is so rad!
My city made Rush what it is today! The rock and roll capital of the world! Cleveland Ohio
After her classic bow, she exited...stage left and then destroyed everyone in Dance Dance Revolution.
That’s insane holy shit! I’m blown away!
Rush is the most difficult music to perform. This is awesome !!!! C´mon !!!