Animaniacs Theme sight-read by Tom Brier, piano
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- I suddenly realized before leaving my house on Saturday that Tom probably would have a blast playing the Animaniacs theme which I transcribed back in 1995 and finally created a score for earlier this year.
So I put the sheet music in front of him that night, and this was his first read through it. Indeed he did have fun with it! He even said there's a lot of potential for ragging it up, so he might work on it some more...
Don't know about you, but it sure made my day, year, decade... Two of my favorite things -- Tom's piano playing and Animaniacs -- all together!
The "cheating" and "three hands" remarks are a reference to the fact that I put the flute/xylophone runs in the score as optional cue notes, which cannot be played by a single pianist without losing some of the melody. They're important parts of the tune, though, so I put them in there for the sake of multiple musicians or instruments who might want to play it.
You can download my transcription that he is reading here: members.cruzio....
or here:
www.keeper1st.c...
This was at the Sutter Creek Ice Cream Emporium in Sutter Creek, California.
Sorry that the image is so dark. I was at the Lyon County Fly-In in Silver Springs, Nevada, earlier that day, and I had switched the camera to its automatic shutter speed setting which is ideal for outdoor use. I forgot to set it back to manual mode for indoor use (the camera's automatic mode always uses too fast of a shutter speed when indoors, resulting in a darker, grainier picture).
If you haven't figured it out by now, this is the theme to the Warner Bros./Amblin cartoon series "Steven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs" which ran from 1993-1999 on the Fox and WB television networks. The music was composed by the late Richard Stone. (Yes, I know I misspelled the title in the Tags; I did it for those people who search for it but don't know how to spell it!)
For the lyrics, see my Animaniacs Mega Lyrics File page: members.cruzio....
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1:36
"haha I can see why you would need 3 hands"
*starts playing with 3 hands*
Yep, that made me laugh.
Thats mind blowing
He is the GOAT
i died reading this
He's been playing since he was 5 (so, since about 1977), getting lessons after his parents discovered that he could play pieces after hearing and watching their player piano play them.
Imagine his piano teacher not knowing what Tom would eventually become...bless his heart.
please tell Tom that discovering these videos of his gift has recently brought great joy to me when i really needed it. much love to him from Connecticut
This man is a national treasure and must be protected at all costs.
I read somewhere that he had an accident and isnt doing too well :(
Anyone knows more?
Nerfi Mcnerfnerf After the accident he was in pretty bad shape, and he still isn’t in the best shape, but he is doing a lot better than he was.
@@kalebkulp6782 I really hope that he gets 100% again...
Gm3m he won’t ever, again. Brain damage was so bad that even if he did fully recover he would have forgotten by that time
@@LiquidHonor I know, and that really sucks. Meanwhile people who are murdering, stealing and making drugs are perfectly fine, life is so fucking unfair.
Tom never being able to pay again would be a sin to the world, I would give up my left foot for him to have his full capacities again... Hope he gets well soon.
It got recommended to me again recently - every time I see his videos I tear up a bit. I just hope he's feeling OK and will continue his recovery.
alystair *play
What happened
@@masonskaggs7775 he suffered a car accident I believe in 2016...as far as I understand it his car was hit by another car whilst he was driving...and sadly he lost a lot of movement in his body...he is a magnificent talented piano player I just hope that he makes a recovery one day...and can once again share his remarkable talent with the world
@paperchasin23 im really sorry
Those left hand jumps are insane!
Standard march or ragtime playing, actually.
Pretty good tho
+Keeper1st Still impressive as hell, though.
Yeah that huge jumps is what makes ragtime sounds so great! And it is very hard for beginners
It's what I personally love about ragtime
Man...at 1:56 he makes that sound to fantastic. I find my self thinking about that part while just walking around taking care of things during the day.
I just want to cry and hyperventilate #fangirl
this ma did have a script and DID bother to reherse
Actually, he didn't rehearse. This is his first time playing it.
Same thing happen with me, but with that characteristic ragtime he does at 2:39.
@@ZrhioZ this is like the end of the cartoon
Holy crap he makes those left hand jumps look easy.
At this tempo it was practically child's play for him. Check the ending of this performance where he really gets movin'! -- ruclips.net/video/_ChNUW4HtP8/видео.html
Hey i've seen you sometimes in Mariovehrer videos! Whats up man?
Ikr
Erik C 'Piano Man' I’ve seen you in a TwoSetViolin video before.
@@Keeper1st I feel there's a difference between tempo and the actual speed of his finger work in this particular performance. It has to be very difficult to have your fingers flying all over the keyboard accurately, vs that other performance you linked which is more straightforward... just feels more... frantic.
@10INTM I met him when I attended a ragtime festival he was playing at in Watsonville, California, in the early 1990s. Seeing how he seemed to like obscure tunes, I brought him an obscure rag from 1906 or so that I had an original sheet music for. He sight-read it on the spot. The idea of videogame tunes was simply that the tunes are ragtime. I thought ragtime fans would be intrigued by this modern source of ragtime, and that game fans would like to hear them played by a ragtime musician.
The improv from like 2:30 onwards just absolutely blows me away. He’s able to put so much funk on a song he’s heard ONE time...incredible
also playing sight reading & playing at full speed, while improvising, sometimes having never seen the sheet music...wow
non musicians don't appreciate how incredible that is
The ragtime ending slayed me. Good stuff guy.
Plot twist:
His neckbeard is actually covering an eye, so he can watch his hands and the sheet at the same time
OH MY
You realize the Warner Brothers had a forty piece orchestra to play this song, and every song for them? So Tom here is playing an entire 40 piece orchestra song with two hands. And jazzing it up a bit! I'm truly awed by this.
The theme of the single greatest animated show of all time played by (most likely) the greatest piano player of all time
So true
When I am King, Tom Brier will be my court musician, and he will delight me with tunes all the day long.
.........why the actual balls are there dislikes on this video???????
This man is life
Haters
@@marcussenter4542
What did Snoopy ever do to you?
@@littlefishbigmountain
Many people don't know this but before going into show business, Snoopy was a communist dictator in eastern Europe, responsible for the deaths of millions through starvation and genocide.
He shaved his mustache, moved to America and the rest is history. He has yet to be punished for his crimes against humanity.
@@brickman409 Wow. Fuck Snoopy. I'm never watching the Simpsons again
THATS A FUCKING GOOD QUESTION
(nobody knows the answer, exoect me.)
The answer is:
ALL the dislikers are maiacs.
I know him through the ragtime scene in northern California. First saw him probably in 1991 or '92. Saw how he knew a lot about obscure pieces, so I showed him some old sheet music I had picked up at a library's sale. He sight-read them on the spot then asked if I could give him photocopies because he'd never seen them before. I showed him some rags that I had composed as well. He liked them so much that he re-scored them to be more readable and played them in his sets the following year.
His skills are impressive enough, but if he pulled off a "goodnight everybody" at the end, that would've blown my mind. :P
And this isn't mind blowing?!??
Tom never plays anything exactly according to the sheet!
His biggest weakness is his biggest strength
Something considered a death sentence for a ragtime player, and he managed to pull it off. The madlad.
The mark of a truly excellent musician.
@@happypiano4810 Actually, the professional ragtime pianists of olden days almost never played rags as written. If you did, you didn't have much chance at a career, as most rags were published simplified from what the composers intended (the Joplin, Lamb etc rags were exceptions to this rule, as were Texas Fox Trot and a few other serious ragtime works). If you played, for example, a two-finger rendition of "Wild Cherries Rag" or a popular song of the day, in a large venue on a professional gig, they'd run you out of the place and get somebody good. So most of the professional pianists in the big cities in the USA 100 years ago cultivated a semi-virtuosic style which could both overcome the difficulties of NO available amplification (when pianos started being amplified in clubs, pianists started playing differently, and greatly pared down their playing), and also please the crowds. You can still hear this manner of playing on their original audio recordings and hand-played piano rolls, some of which Tom also heard/knows.
@@happypiano4810 For an excellent example, here's the original extremely simple published sheet to "Wild Cherries Rag" from 1908:
ruclips.net/video/YihyI6SqFTY/видео.html
Now compare with Frank Banta's virtuosic arrangement from 1921. It doesn't sound that impressive on the disc due to this being an acoustic record with limited presence, but if you transcribe it, you see he's playing a great many low bass notes and tenths in the left hand, and frequent filled octaves etc in the right, for a rich, full sound. Also, his cleanly articulated, flawless runs he puts in are awe-inspiring to hear. Banta was house pianist for the Victor record company in the 1920s and one of the most flawless of all recorded ragtime pianists. I can't say I ever have heard him miss a note in any of his records, and I've heard probably over 100 of the thousand or two recordings he made: ruclips.net/video/sZBwAkzQeCo/видео.html
Aside from this guy just being really, really good, I love his interpretation of this! It gives it a really different feel. The orchestrated version sounded like your typical big show tune. Here it sounds like old-timey circus music. Like, I can just hear the barker going "Hu-ray hu-ray hu-ray! Come see the a-maaaaaaaaayzing ink blot children, the Warner Brothers and their sister Dot!"
CALL ME DOTTIE AND YA DIE
Every time I stumble on another Tom video I end up with the hugest grin on my face! Amazing talent!!
It's the neckbeard. It gives him his power.
Usually neck beard's are the worst thing ever.
except in his case.
#notall
Behind the beard there is no neck, just another hand.
Q pH
@MyGrassIsGreenest He's been playing since he was 5 (so, 35 years). His practice regimen is a bit of a mystery. He says he doesn't have time to practice these days, but some of us think he is always pulling out or being given new music and he reads them, which, while not "practice" in the traditional sense of scales etc., still should count for something.
If Tom Brier were a saloon pianist, you can bet your bottom dollar that saloon would have the best fights ever.
Every song sounds great on a old piano like this :D
Steve Bergen ikr
Wrong. Every song sounds great when this man plays it. =P
Whenever somebody says "Boy you're good at piano", (which some people actually do, believe it or not) i always say, "Thank you, but i am not *that* good. Have you ever heard of a guy called Tom Brier?" and then i normally show them either this video, the angry birds or the legend of zelda ending theme.
Omg God wait there 😳 s an angry birds one!!!
1st time through: Astonishing skill
2nd time through: My left arm the God Hand
Oceanmachine27 Nice Louis Wain icon. His later art was fascinating yet unsettling to look at.
BRIER MODE ACTIVATED!
@dogman15 Sadly, yes. Tom Ruegger has seen this, as well as Bryan Pezzone (the pianist for the WB orchestra in those days). Bryan declared simply, "Tom Brier is amazing."
Decades later, the original song still brings me joy. More than a decade later, this video still brings me incredible joy. Bless you, Tom. And bless you Keeper1st for sharing these with us over the years!
I think I've watched this video about 50 times or more. I still enjoy it everytime.
Still watching
Still watching
Me too, till this day, even I can now playing his interpretation
I simply cannot believe that a human is capable of such remarkable skill! It's frighteningly phenomenal!
You can tell he's enjoying it too
You've got it. He seems usually to scan just enough of the left hand to figure out the chord sequence and plays whatever is comfortable within that framework.
Tom has been my idol for years for his piano wizardry..i lost everything then tom did..even more...bless u bid!!
1:54 what the actual fu..?? lmao this guy is legend!
0:05 Wow! This is amazing!
1:55 *Faints
What a legend, I can't imagine how good that sounds to be near the piano and feel the timbre. Tom Brier is the man, I hope he's able to enjoy music still.
WOW WOW and MORE WOW!!!!Good God this is INSANE!!!! The skill and surety you have to have to play without ever looking at your left hand jumping is amazing!! God bless and thank you for sharing this! I'm a huge fan of Tom Briers now!!!
How does he come up with those endings? They are so good! Any advice on how to do those kinds of ragtime endings??
+ZonkyTonk Years and years of playing, a stunning hearing and understanding (more feeling) of music ;)
take some music theory online and listen to the chords he does they are ussualy simple enough
Probably late but look up "cadences"
One of the best one in my opinion is to start the ending by doing IV , IV#dim, I/V, VI, II-, V7, I.
After which do the conclusion with a I, I7, IV/VI, IVmin/VIb, C
and finish with using two fingers (not chords) doing V, Vb, V, V#, VI, VIIb, VII, I.
(eventually with left hand V, Vb, IV, III, IIIb, II, IIb, I)
I hope this helps you find something cool.
Toms pure joy with all of these really shines through. You can hear it in the music
“I could see how you would need three hands.” - proceeds to play it with two.
My face melted off on his second go around.
My favorite part is 2:04 - 2:06 where he drops the bass. So clean, so well performed, excellently builds up adrenaline 2:02 - 2:03, and shows the mark of a truly good player: the ability to artfully lean into the qwerks of a particular piano 2:02 - 2:06.
I'm still absolutely astounded by Tom many years later.
"goodnight everybody!"
Keeper1st, thank you for uploading and maintaining this valuable archive of footage. While I'm sure it is rewarding to see people enjoying Tom's playing, I can only imagine it must be terribly difficult seeing people comment about your friend without knowing about (or worse, speculating on) his condition. Thank you for allowing Tom's work to continue to bring people joy.
My favorite part is at 2:00
I just love that riff he plays
2:00
As soon as he got started, a smile came to my face. I don't know whether it was because I loved Animaniacs, or because he did it so much justice. Either way, he is a legend with amazing talents!
This video I’ve watched at least 30-40 times in the last few years. It just breaks my heart now. What a wonderful human.
how on earth does this have only 240k views?
It's based on how many times it's been viewed.
1:55 NOW THATS WHAT I CALL PARLOR!!
Please keep this videos on so they may live on forever even after we pass.
Oh my god! This has elevated my mood instantly. Thank you very much for this,
you are an amazing talent.
Holy shit! his own take on it is just amazing!
Good job Tom!
I guess just from playing a lot, same as an athlete has more stamina in whatever muscles he uses. These days, his fingers seem to hurt after a while. A few times, I've seen him play literally until his fingers bled. I've also seen him play some more after bandaging a bleeding finger!
He has perfect pitch, yes.
Just found this, absolutely amazing, love it! Sad to read that he was in an accident, I hope he can recover in some capacity, best regards to him!
I keep coming back to this and I just can't stop loving it! Makes my day every time!
Oh wow 👏 😳 that ending jamwhaaaat amazing 👏 every time
Yeah. I'm pretty sure he'd heard the tune before at least, but this was the first time he'd seen the music.
I wish he would record a CD of these video game tunes. I would be first in line! I love listening to him play. Really inspiring to me as a fellow piano player.
one of the few people who actually blow my mind. that side reading, improvisation and fast jumping is just crazy
1:28 I love his joy so much
Thats brings everyone to smile its so nice
The fact that this came out in 2010 and still doesn’t have 1M views is a sin to the world
Its awesome when a musician can read a score like one would read a book aloud to children. Effortless.
Wow, the modifications he made in the second half were awesome.
He and Adam did break into Tiger Rag eventually in the video "Improvised two-piano Chopsticks redux".
OMFG! When he Brierized it after the first playthrough: *MINDBLOWN!*
I thought he was playing head and shoulders knees and toes xD
...which is actually "There's a Tavern In the Town". But yeah, the melody of this is very very similar indeed.
bubellian LOL
so maybe _that's_ why the Animaniacs theme sounded so familiar to me as a little kid.. (even though I never had watched the show at the time)
1:39 That moment when you take Zany to the Max...
He said that. He was ignoring some of the run notes (which you have to in order to play it with two hands actually).
Astonishingly good!
The keys doesn't even get time to bounce up XD that is speed!
beautiful playing
This is incredible. I have never seen anyone as good as this guy on the piano. Absolute legend! I have to say this guys piano I can listen to all day every day and especially when I'm high 😂
I'm speechless, happy, and glad this man is on this Earth to delight us with his insane talent.
I am speechless. This is beyond talent. He must be some sort of god.
It hurts my heart to see this video and know he cannot do this any longer. Tragic!
not yet!
@mastergx1 That piano is almost 90 years old and sits in an ice cream parlor getting played every day. A tuner can only reduce how much it is out of tune.
How can someone just read music that fast! I can't play that even if I had 10 years! And he ragged it too! He's a musical genius!
1:40 Don't mind me, just making a time stamp 'cause this part is absolutely amazing.
Guy: I can see where you need three hands.
Tom Brier: *C H A L L E N G E A C C E P T E D*
It actually was Tom who said that.
Tom is such a freaking beast on the piano! I can listen all day long. hope he's doing well with his recovery
I had a dream where I heard this song rag time style. I typed it into to Google and there it was. Man the internet is awesome.
I like the way he plays the piano because it makes me happy all the time with every single notes. And I love the way he says "Arigato!" at the last scene of this video :)
This Video actually got me to watch every episode of Animaniacs all over again, I was younger than 12 at the time. All those Adultive innuendos were genius.
His history is the saddest on youtube
The "Brierizing" on this piece is absolutely amazing!
AMAZING!!!
ABSOLUTELY INSANE! The talent here is unfathomable! I am choking!
He does have a few albums, however, and is working on a new one.
How is this men able to read left and right hand at same time WOW just incredible
now there is someone who practiced their scales. Holy shit.
I keep watching this video over and over again
I was happy just hearing the old song but the revision he made up just after made me appluad. Just. Wow.
One of his other videos just got recommended to me but I remember him for this one I saw all those years ago. Great stuff.
Tom's performance here is incredible, but the transcriptionist deserves equal credit!
I can't help but hear the words in my head, after 15 years, every single one