I'm sure he got to meet Ryan. That's something. But yeah, I'm impressed. Gosling can't really sign, but he can play. I would like to think he'd keep it up.
As a pianist myself , building up from nothing to this in just 4 months is absolutely incredible and would love to see Gosling go further from here . Some other time perhaps
I’ve been going for 6 years and I can’t even do that. I do take piano as more of a hobby though so I never gave all of my energy to the piano like Ryan did but still very impressive
@@richardisley9063 damn its really not that deep... and he said himself he can only play these specific songs well because hes rehearsed them for hours since he was extremely committed for this role in the movie. for other songs, he cant play that well.
Yeah he didn't really "learn" them so to speak. He memorized the exact notes through practice. He didn't learn the theory and could not actually improvise the things that sound improvised. That would be impossible and would take years. After 10 years I am close to that level, but still not there yet with improvisation and understanding harmony. Anyone can learn to press the keys in a certain order.
@@supdude414 Stop it. As a trained percussionist for many years, I can say that yes, basic piano songs can be learned with relative ease through repetition and muscle memory. But the pieces that Ryan learned to play in such a short period of time...thats unheard of. This guy could've legitimately have become a VERY accomplished pianist instead of an actor if that path was the one he chose. That kind of raw talent and ability is SOOOOO rare, that most couldnt even comprehend it enough to be able to appreciate it enough. This man is a fckin BEAST.
You have more smarts and proper technique while Ryan does still play beautifully but he doesn't properly know how the notes work, which notes work, how to improvise properly, etc. He focused only on those songs while you can learn any song given a little bit of time and effort since you have the prior knowledge of how it works.
Wow... Ryan is incredible. That takes commitment and talent: hard, hard work. How did he not win an Oscar? He was amazing as Sebastion?! Also, RIP hand double.
Of course pianist Randy Kerber must get his due here. Executive music producer on the film, Marius de Vries: "One of the first scenes in the shooting schedule was his first big piano solo in the club, and I’ll never forget the astonished silence which settled on the room at the end of his first take. It was kind of miraculous. What he played was a very musically intelligent approximation of the difficult sections, with perhaps a few wrong notes here and there, but the basic melodies he had totally down. So even though the piano parts you hear in the film are played by Randy, the visual representation, every single pianistic hand gesture, was Ryan’s. It’s an astonishing achievement that when you watch the movie, you don’t for a second question that Ryan’s character plays the parts.”
@@jamestd6622 Yeah the way they kept saying every instance you SEE is actually him playing. They never really told us that he was also the one we could HEAR playing the music
Really. I just saw La La Land today...and god damn was I ever blown away. I just bought Manchester By The Sea because...I GOTTA see why Ryan didn't win the best actor oscar.
That’s right. As a musician I’m convinced by his hand movements as they’re spot on and I’m sure the film crew know how to capture these well… but I’m telling you there’s no way the actual sound he is playing would be any close to the actual music you hear. They’d even do the same thing with more experienced musicians
As a musician, it’s almost impossible to think anyone could do that in three months. Imagine someone trying to learn Steve Vie on guitar I’m 3 months. It’s not happening. Not even possible.
Maybe the best of the more popular but there’s quite a bit of more underrated actors who I think can match them probably more but they are both highly underrated
Rachel Wilson You are correct. All the music was recorded by an orchestra before filming. He played along to that track, with it dubbed over him in post. That's why they referred to the other guy as a hand double, not a full musician. All they recorded during shooting was the shots of his hands, not the audio.
Well think about this: you can play a piece that someone puts in front of you without you previously hearing the song, right? Well Ryan can't do that. No offense to him and I get why he had to do it, but it's the truth
Me too. It's Nov. 2020. I've seen the film three times, and am a pianist myself. I am blown away by his proficiency and talent. Not to mention his work ethic. Maybe I just don't want to face it, but I think he must be downplaying his piano skills. Maybe he didn't read music, but he has played. Regardless, it's amazing.
Please don't compare. Ryan had a challenge and engulfed it. Nothing more and nothing less. It shows me he takes his craft very seriously........And we all get to enjoy it!
to the people saying he's faking, what you see him play on screen in the movie is not always what you hear through your speakers- even if he was a virtuoso they do it in post for audio reasons
I love this, I read music and thought memorizing this melody would be too time consuming on the piano 🎹 but very Impressive for Ryan to learn in such a short time!
Obviously these aren’t live takes though right? He’s playing as close as he possibly can, obviously with mistakes, and they overdub the original recording which was done by musicians. It just LOOKs very good in the sense that he’s playing close enough for it to look like he’s playing what you’re hearing himself. That’s my guess and I think that’s fair. I believe it
Do you know how hard it is to match a live piano take with an overdubbed piano take? Lol Maybe sometimes, but when you go into any improv, you absolutely have to capture it live, and there's no reason why you shouldn't want a live performance over an overdubbed one anyway, especially when you have a grand piano, where you can literally mic it from the inside, or from the bottom, and also use a room mic. For the close-hand shots, you can also put a few a few mics above the piano with the lid open.
Thank you, any person with piano experience who watches him play in the movie knows you cannot learn an instrument in three months. He has had prior training to surmount to this level of excellence...
How's it going? The way I see it, everyone gets three slots of time while maintaining social and mental well-being. You have your job (this is 25-40 hours a week), you have your career time (this is where a second job, extra work, and school come in) and you have self improvement (music, gym, hobbies, art). Assuming the split looks something like 65 hours sleep, 40 hours work, 15-20 hours school, and 15 hours for hobbies. This leaves 23 hours for you to see your friends, your grandparents, and your life partner. If I was a gambling man, I would say you succeeded :)
This is interesting. For years I believed that he learned how to play piano from scratch, which was seriously impressive! But I’ve recently discovered that back in 2009, Ryan Gosling and his pal recorded an album where Ryan played the piano - it’s called ‘In The Room Where You Sleep’ by Dead Man’s Bones. Ryan already had some level of piano playing ability before doing ‘La La Land’, which makes sense why he was able to learn all of this in a short amount of time. No discredit to him-it’s still a remarkable task. However, now it seems more credible that he was able to do it because he had already played piano before, just not at this complexity.
He's also been practicing and playing piano for most of his life. John Legend is the one who can't play his instrument, (guitar), at all in La La Land. Not even close.
I don't understand this. I've played piano most of my life, I can't play those fast arpeggios up the piano with all the keys. Do I need to practice 4 hours a day or something?
People listen to what he said at the beginning. He did what he had to do to sound realistic. Is he a pianist? No way. But he took the time to learn to serve the movie well. Nuff said.
@@mikedowd66 Ryan worked for 4 months to learn these parts and to copy the actual piano playing which was most-likely done by another pianist in the studio. I've watched Ryan play in the film and he's missing some notes, but his technique and understanding of how one actually plays the piano cannot be learned in 4 months, as he has difficult movements and fingering down very well. What is misleading, by those involved in La La Land, is their downplaying the fact that he was already a pianist, in order to make this backstory (regarding him learning to play piano in 4 months) more sensationalistic, which is done all the time when promoting films, and those who star in them. There is a huge difference between learning to play specific piano parts, as opposed to learning the techniques in order to play those parts believably, and he already had the techniques down before La La Land. Because he already knew how to play piano. The truth to all of this is that he learned those "specific parts" for La La Land, not that he learned to play piano in 4 months. That's the real truth.
@@richardisley9063 I'm going to believe everybody else on this and not you. I just don't see Ryan, the sweet piano teacher in the clip, and everyone else lying about this.
@@mikedowd66 Well, in the riff (hard part) of the song that is played on the restaurant he ks faking the movement, you can tell by the position of his hands
Some poor hand double thought he was gonna be in a movie with Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone and then he got fired because Ryan was too good 😂
lordtacoz hahahahaha
I'm sure he got to meet Ryan. That's something. But yeah, I'm impressed. Gosling can't really sign, but he can play. I would like to think he'd keep it up.
@@scottslotterbeck3796 What does sign mean? I'm new to piano.
@@ibuyfriends4467 I'm guessing it was supposed to be "sight read"
@@ibuyfriends4467 i know it’s a year later but he typo’d “sing”
what’s even more impressive is that he learned not just regular piano, but JAZZ PIANO in 3 months
it's impossible to play like that in 3 months. they just lied to us. And u r stupid if you fell for that
As a pianist myself , building up from nothing to this in just 4 months is absolutely incredible and would love to see Gosling go further from here . Some other time perhaps
It’s not built from nothing. If you watch videos of his band from 2009 he plays piano so he at least knew his way around a piano
He learned to play like that in 3 months? Holy shit.
I’ve been going for 6 years and I can’t even do that. I do take piano as more of a hobby though so I never gave all of my energy to the piano like Ryan did but still very impressive
@@richardisley9063 damn its really not that deep... and he said himself he can only play these specific songs well because hes rehearsed them for hours since he was extremely committed for this role in the movie. for other songs, he cant play that well.
Yeah he didn't really "learn" them so to speak. He memorized the exact notes through practice. He didn't learn the theory and could not actually improvise the things that sound improvised. That would be impossible and would take years. After 10 years I am close to that level, but still not there yet with improvisation and understanding harmony. Anyone can learn to press the keys in a certain order.
@@supdude414 I don't know how to play the piano but what you say makes perfect sense.
@@supdude414 Stop it. As a trained percussionist for many years, I can say that yes, basic piano songs can be learned with relative ease through repetition and muscle memory.
But the pieces that Ryan learned to play in such a short period of time...thats unheard of. This guy could've legitimately have become a VERY accomplished pianist instead of an actor if that path was the one he chose. That kind of raw talent and ability is SOOOOO rare, that most couldnt even comprehend it enough to be able to appreciate it enough. This man is a fckin BEAST.
3 months...i been playing for 10 years and im not even close to this level.
HappyBuggy The thing is, he only plays rhese songs, and he practiced for hours, I think in general you play better but these songs, just wow
HappyBuggy Same!!
Damien said it in another video as well. He can play these particular songs extremely well, but not any other song.
HappyBuggy LMAO😂😂😂 tell me about it...
You have more smarts and proper technique while Ryan does still play beautifully but he doesn't properly know how the notes work, which notes work, how to improvise properly, etc. He focused only on those songs while you can learn any song given a little bit of time and effort since you have the prior knowledge of how it works.
Wow... Ryan is incredible. That takes commitment and talent: hard, hard work. How did he not win an Oscar? He was amazing as Sebastion?! Also, RIP hand double.
it's impossible to learn to play like that in 3 months. they just lied to us. And the stupid fell for it
@@mangkyou who are you to say?
@@mangkyou Or maybe you are just not as hardworking and talented
Of course pianist Randy Kerber must get his due here. Executive music producer on the film, Marius de Vries:
"One of the first scenes in the shooting schedule was his first big piano solo in the club, and I’ll never forget the astonished silence which settled on the room at the end of his first take. It was kind of miraculous. What he played was a very musically intelligent approximation of the difficult sections, with perhaps a few wrong notes here and there, but the basic melodies he had totally down. So even though the piano parts you hear in the film are played by Randy, the visual representation, every single pianistic hand gesture, was Ryan’s. It’s an astonishing achievement that when you watch the movie, you don’t for a second question that Ryan’s character plays the parts.”
Is there anything this guy can't do, damn
Sing. Not a great singer.
@@scottslotterbeck3796 bruh? his city of stars
Dude's in the NFL too. Crazy
He said once in an interview he cant bake
Give funny interview
he got a hand double fired? lol
He prob still got paid regardless the double end up on screen or not. Things like these happen on set tho
It's Hollywood, can you really believe any press release or statements from pr?
That’s my piano teacher holy shit
Is it actually
Would you be able to ask her if ryan could actually play at this level ? (Including the solo part)
u r def gonna be good at playing fo sure
@@jamestd6622 Yeah the way they kept saying every instance you SEE is actually him playing. They never really told us that he was also the one we could HEAR playing the music
For real!? :0
NOT QUITE MY TEMPO
Now were you dragging or rushing?
LOL
Really. I just saw La La Land today...and god damn was I ever blown away. I just bought Manchester By The Sea because...I GOTTA see why Ryan didn't win the best actor oscar.
And ????
it was a close call but I think casey affleck did a very amazing job there
Manchester by the sea is one if my favorite movies. Casey does an excellent job
Yeah he absolutely blew it away...the movie was so sad tho
la la land is heartbreaking, while manchester by the sea is devastating
Ofcourse the actual sound of piano we hear in the film is not played by him but seeing him play and the hand movements is sure very convincing
hence why you don't see the pedal move and the runs aren't the right fingering
I think in the City of Stars scene the sound is from his piano. I think that might be the only one though.
That’s right. As a musician I’m convinced by his hand movements as they’re spot on and I’m sure the film crew know how to capture these well… but I’m telling you there’s no way the actual sound he is playing would be any close to the actual music you hear. They’d even do the same thing with more experienced musicians
That's enough I'm gonna burn my keyboard
How he managed to achieve that level of playing in three months is truly astonishing and mind blowing. He is a natural.
it's impossible. they just lied to us trying to do a marketing move. and the stupid fell for it
@@mangkyou So you know do you? Evidence?
@@mangkyouHe already knew how to play piano, in those 3 months he learned jazz piano and the songs he have to play
As a musician, it’s almost impossible to think anyone could do that in three months. Imagine someone trying to learn Steve Vie on guitar I’m 3 months. It’s not happening. Not even possible.
totally true. he must have played since he was a kid. they are lying to us, trying to make a marketing move. and only the stupid fell for it
Ryan and Jake are the best actors of their generation. Heath would be there too if he was alive
Maybe the best of the more popular but there’s quite a bit of more underrated actors who I think can match them probably more but they are both highly underrated
Yeeyee Bubba I don’t count Leo, Bale, Damon because they’re a little older
Respect.
i have been playing for 6 fucking years and i can't play those jazz riffs and rolls as well as he does
Rachel Wilson You are correct. All the music was recorded by an orchestra before filming. He played along to that track, with it dubbed over him in post. That's why they referred to the other guy as a hand double, not a full musician. All they recorded during shooting was the shots of his hands, not the audio.
Ally Bravo maybe because you damn
Well think about this: you can play a piece that someone puts in front of you without you previously hearing the song, right? Well Ryan can't do that. No offense to him and I get why he had to do it, but it's the truth
This just blows my mind. Been playing for 25 years, and all I can say is that is impressive af.
A year on I'm still in awe of his performance and the epicness of the film
Me too. It's Nov. 2020. I've seen the film three times, and am a pianist myself. I am blown away by his proficiency and talent. Not to mention his work ethic. Maybe I just don't want to face it, but I think he must be downplaying his piano skills. Maybe he didn't read music, but he has played. Regardless, it's amazing.
Please don't compare. Ryan had a challenge and engulfed it. Nothing more and nothing less. It shows me he takes his craft very seriously........And we all get to enjoy it!
3:36 He learned this riffs in 3 months, not even knowing how to play piano?? What the hell kind of god is this man?
That part is fake, you can tell by the positions of his hands
that's proof of high intelligent. cheers !
Anas Nih And your comment is proof of low intelligent. cheers !
@@miXn lmao, dickhead
Is mayonaise an instrument
@@rawfeekee657 thats like asking if oxygen is important. obviously it is.
I play a mean belly.
Really appreciate you uploading every special feature! I've been waiting to see these since its release, so thank you!
the long takes showing him really playing and of them dancing really make this movie a masterpiece
I'm speechless, knowing now that he just learned how to play! Wow, comes to mind. Super impressive! Thanks for sharing that.
Give him an oscar!!!!!!!
Clever man and awesome actor!!!
He must have gotten a huge bonus for learning the piano in 3 FRICKING MONTHS!?
to the people saying he's faking, what you see him play on screen in the movie is not always what you hear through your speakers- even if he was a virtuoso they do it in post for audio reasons
I love this, I read music and thought memorizing this melody would be too time consuming on the piano 🎹 but very Impressive for Ryan to learn in such a short time!
It’s just so beautiful
Being a piano teacher myself, I'm impressed!
Still gets emotional when he plays the theme song...
This is really amazing. Just...Wow. Absolutely phenominal job to everyone! Bravo!
I bet Ryan learned thermodynamics, rocket science, astrophysics and all that shit for his role in the first man.
Great stuff! Fantastic attention to detail for a guy who once had very bad adhd
Honestly, this is my first ever comment about any celebrity. I have to give Gossling major credit for such an enormous accomplishment
He knew SOME piano I mean what about his band dead mans bones
That piano teacher is a lucky lady
That’s just unreal...
Amazing
cudos to this kind of commitment!
One word: INSPIRING !!!
bloody amazing
Oscar didn't deserve him ❤
He can play. I am impressed. It's not easy.
He is so good at playing the piano
Ryan is a daddy thats why he can do everything
He's got some talent
I'm so impressed! It's exciting to see that with practice and commitment, it's possible. Hope for me yet! :)
Ryan is such a legend!
One if the best movies to date
See kids, if you have commitment then you can accomplish anything! Very impressive
Ryan ROCKS ❤❤❤❤
No double needed!!! MY heart IS so happy....
He should have got an award!
The way Sabastions hair falls in his face falls in is face everytime her plays the piano, is so 👌👌👌
Unfuckingbelievable.
Gosling is definitely in that coolest guy ever stratosphere.
Still Super Super amazing!! oh man
Major respect right there
thats truely amazing
Give this guy a 🏅
Obviously these aren’t live takes though right? He’s playing as close as he possibly can, obviously with mistakes, and they overdub the original recording which was done by musicians. It just LOOKs very good in the sense that he’s playing close enough for it to look like he’s playing what you’re hearing himself. That’s my guess and I think that’s fair. I believe it
Do you know how hard it is to match a live piano take with an overdubbed piano take? Lol Maybe sometimes, but when you go into any improv, you absolutely have to capture it live, and there's no reason why you shouldn't want a live performance over an overdubbed one anyway, especially when you have a grand piano, where you can literally mic it from the inside, or from the bottom, and also use a room mic. For the close-hand shots, you can also put a few a few mics above the piano with the lid open.
@@jacobestrada4468 film now and dub it later. It's not hard
@Jacob Estrada As long as Ryan was playing on beat and in rhythm, it would match up closely.
most music in movies is overdubbed anyways.
www.soundonsound.com/techniques/inside-track-la-la-land Source for above comment
Hollywood ... dream factory in any sense
OK Ryan was in a band called dead man's bones and there are videos that he plays the piano.
Thank you, any person with piano experience who watches him play in the movie knows you cannot learn an instrument in three months. He has had prior training to surmount to this level of excellence...
Unbeliveable!
Mission Passed! Respect +
what!!!! i thought ryan could read music and classical trained
Well done Ryan Gosling (and tutor)! W-O-W
Just ordered my first MIDI Keyboard. Gonna balance college with teaching myself piano. Who knows, maybe I can do it.
you can do it!!
How's it going? The way I see it, everyone gets three slots of time while maintaining social and mental well-being. You have your job (this is 25-40 hours a week), you have your career time (this is where a second job, extra work, and school come in) and you have self improvement (music, gym, hobbies, art). Assuming the split looks something like 65 hours sleep, 40 hours work, 15-20 hours school, and 15 hours for hobbies. This leaves 23 hours for you to see your friends, your grandparents, and your life partner. If I was a gambling man, I would say you succeeded :)
Inspirational!
This is interesting. For years I believed that he learned how to play piano from scratch, which was seriously impressive! But I’ve recently discovered that back in 2009, Ryan Gosling and his pal recorded an album where Ryan played the piano - it’s called ‘In The Room Where You Sleep’ by Dead Man’s Bones.
Ryan already had some level of piano playing ability before doing ‘La La Land’, which makes sense why he was able to learn all of this in a short amount of time. No discredit to him-it’s still a remarkable task. However, now it seems more credible that he was able to do it because he had already played piano before, just not at this complexity.
Unbelievable!
He learned of all of this in 3 months? That's amazing hahah!!
Freaking unbelievable..
not to mention my dude can dance too. it's pretty bad ass to pick up skills like those just from doing your job
Ugh. Ryan's too good for us
he probably played everyday for 12 hours until he hated it. Probably why he was so good
ah yes the love of my life
Some people just have it all..
Perfeito, zero defeitos
Calm down you guys, he also got paid to practise. You'd be shocked what that does to motivation
He's also been practicing and playing piano for most of his life. John Legend is the one who can't play his instrument, (guitar), at all in La La Land. Not even close.
I don't understand this. I've played piano most of my life, I can't play those fast arpeggios up the piano with all the keys.
Do I need to practice 4 hours a day or something?
Tom Walter 25 hours a day
Sound is overdubbed
You're watching Ryan Gosling play, but hearing Randy Kerber. Similar to Miles Teller in Whiplash.
Practice 40 hours
@@neilp192 Do you have any official source stating that? All I find is stating that "Ryan did all piano". Nothing explicit.
Wow.
3 frikin monthhhssss whhhaaaaaat. I don’t mind learning myself
so what you're saying is Ryan gosling is a piano prodigy
isn't it quite easy to just record over his playing? He is playing for sure. But it might not sound ideal and consequently they used a prof recording?
Wow! :O
People listen to what he said at the beginning. He did what he had to do to sound realistic. Is he a pianist? No way. But he took the time to learn to serve the movie well. Nuff said.
This is truly amazing to me. I still can hardly believe it, despite what everyone is saying in this video. 4 months??!!
4 months to work on these specific songs, but he's been playing piano for most of his life.
Except for the fact that he says the opposite in this clip. I guess you know better than him.
@@mikedowd66 Ryan worked for 4 months to learn these parts and to copy the actual piano playing which was most-likely done by another pianist in the studio. I've watched Ryan play in the film and he's missing some notes, but his technique and understanding of how one actually plays the piano cannot be learned in 4 months, as he has difficult movements and fingering down very well. What is misleading, by those involved in La La Land, is their downplaying the fact that he was already a pianist, in order to make this backstory (regarding him learning to play piano in 4 months) more sensationalistic, which is done all the time when promoting films, and those who star in them. There is a huge difference between learning to play specific piano parts, as opposed to learning the techniques in order to play those parts believably, and he already had the techniques down before La La Land. Because he already knew how to play piano. The truth to all of this is that he learned those "specific parts" for La La Land, not that he learned to play piano in 4 months. That's the real truth.
@@richardisley9063 I'm going to believe everybody else on this and not you. I just don't see Ryan, the sweet piano teacher in the clip, and everyone else lying about this.
@@mikedowd66 Well, in the riff (hard part) of the song that is played on the restaurant he ks faking the movement, you can tell by the position of his hands
“guru”
2 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 3 months. Ok let's see what happens when I try.
how is this even possible? and he didn't get the oscar
The term photographical memory.
how .. just how ....
.... 3 months?.... CAN I LEARN THIS POWER!?!?!
💖
He is real gangi man
3 months holy fuck