Razor Blades (Tom Brier) played by me in concert
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- Опубликовано: 4 июн 2022
- Tom was the one and only that inspired me to start learning piano. I had heard ragtime before and thought nothing of it, but when Tom played it I instantly fell in love with every little part of his style.
Even to this day years later I still watch RUclips videos of him every day.
This was my first time ever performing at concert, it was a piano student concert and I was honored to be invited to perform.
The grand piano, felt amazing. It sounded very balanced and felt great for ragtime. This was not a paid concert, and there were about 30 other people who also performed (audience was approximately 90 people in total including the other perfomers).
Recorded on the 3rd of June in 2022 using a Zoom H1n microphone with no effects, a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge and two iPhones. 
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Nice. I love that Brier music is still being learned and performed!
I'm glad to see young people discovering ragtime. Tom has inspired many people (including me) to start playing piano. Currently I am learning a few of his waltzes(The Stygian Waltzes & Sunlight and Shadow), they are quite magical.
A very difficult piece indeed!
You did a great job here!🔥🔥
This is an amazing version of Razor Blades man.
Keep going and you will definitely be the best you can be man.
I am really proud of you.
I appreciate it! I am really proud of you too, would to meet you at a ragtime festival sometime (not for at least a few years :D).
I don’t understand how you manage to play that fast😮 Increadably🤩👏
Wow!!
What a great performance!!
Thanks for posting and for this special tribute to Tom!
I loved the Tom-themed ending =D Sounded just like the man himself!!!
Thank you! The ending was inspired by one of his performances. I don't think I would be playing the piano if didn't stumble upon Tom on RUclips.
Yay! Well done 👏🏻
I somehow managed to miss this video when it was uploaded. This is utterly fantastic to watch! I love the spirit of it all!
Thank you! It was a great learning experience for performing in front of an audience.
Wow great job Tarzoq! 😊
Thank you! Looking forward to see your piano playing!
Bravissimo
Great performance!
Thank you Shafalou!
The pianos shaking! Reminds me of Brian Hollands ibtereptation!
It really does now that you mention it, the shaking is caused by the movable platform the piano was standing on.
Great job man! This is is really impressive. Especially the left hand runs…
I also like the spin you gave this, by starting slow, and then going much fast er. :)
Your playing kinda sounds like Tom’s too!
I’m sure you could get used to playing more concerts. You did great for your first time! Who knows, perhaps you’ll play at ragtime festivals in the future?
Thanks, I appreciate it! I combined most of what I heard Tom play from different performances of it. I try my best to sound like Tom, I love the style. Playing in a concert was an interesting experience. The day leading up to my performance I almost had a panic attack, I had trouble sleeping and I was anxious. But with time that will fade away if you keep playing in concerts, this concert was organized by a music school which I'm not even in :D.
I really look forward to attending a ragtime festival sometime in the future, sadly there's nothing like it Sweden :(. But if I one day go to the U.S, I will definitely attend to one.
@@Tarzoq yeah there aren’t any festivals here, but at least we have a community in Europe now… perhaps we could organise something, someday
@@pjotrkolster I like the sound of that!
Nice performing!
Thanks, I appreciate it!
It sounds absolutely Tremendous to me. It seems to me you have got " Natural Talent " Great Job... Jim
Thanks! I have some people say that to me. :D I actually think the "secret" ingredients to "natural talent" is hard work, passion and of course, not being tone deaf. To this performance I actually practiced so much I got shoulder pain, from the rapid octave melody in the right hand.
@@Tarzoq The pain is worth it. Just listen to yourself. It just doesn't get much better than this !! You kinda leave the others in the dust. Keep up the great work, JIm
@@jimmymiller77 Thank you! I do try my best :D The pain is definitely worth it, at the time of writing this I no longer feel any pain. I am currently almost about to learn the Easy Winners by Scott Joplin, as you requested. ;)
@@Tarzoq Thanks so much. I am sure if you do it ..it will be Fantastic.. Take your time, I will be here. Have a Great and Safe week, Jim
You might've rushed it but the razor blade walkup sounded fine xD
I played it faster than when I practiced it, my instincts wanted me off that stage. That is nice walkup, can you play it?
@@Tarzoq I've tried, though when I did it sounded like a 5 year old stomping around on the piano xD
Ay what up again
@@edginess2690 I'M BEING STALKED xD
nice man! currently studying this, its not the easiest to play!
Definitely not easy, especially at the tempo Tom played in. I'm just glad I got hands big enough to play all of those octaves. 😄
I love the "not the easiest" optimism! LOL
@@gustavobraga582 heh, I'd say there are no 'easy' Tom compositions, he makes you work for it! At least this one this one is among the more accessible ones to play for mere mortals :P
Wow! That piano has a very nice tone to it! I love how some of higher tenor notes have a nice blooming sound to them and whole thing has a very nice timbery tone. You should do more recordings on it if you can, maybe ask the owner if you can do a recording session on it! I'd like to visit the Scandinavian region in general so maybe I'll drop by Sweden :D
That piano has to be one of the best sounding acoustic pianos I have ever played on yet. Hopefully I can get access to it in the future. And if I do, I will be sure to record it. If you do go to Sweden, it would so fun to meet you, have piano duets and all that stuff. I have never met anyone yet who can play any ragtime songs, though ragtime is very unusual here in Sweden so it's not surprising.
@@Tarzoq I'd love to play a duet with you! I've done duets in the past and they're so much fun! As far as ragtime goes, yes, I've noticed it's not as common a genre in Sweden though Denmark and Norway seem to be on par with it. There is actually a Swedish Ragtime Society run by Oleg Mujesev (I think that's how you spell his name). You should check them out :D
@@PiotrBarcz Not a common genre in the world unfortunately :'(
@@gustavobraga582 Well, I beg to differ, ragtime is really popular now. Obviously not as popular as pop and jazz music but it still has one heck of a following.
Absolute savagery
Bravo! Jag skulle aldrig ha kunnat utfört den där snabba oktav delan så där bra. Skulle också vilja dela videos där jag spelar men har tyvärr inte tillgång till något fungerade akustiskt piano (endast ett keyboard, vet dock inte hur man spelar in ljudet direkt från enheten utan att man hör ”klickandet” från tangenterna). Som sagt, otroligt bra ljud du får ur flygeln!! 🎹🎹
Tack så mycket! Finns det inte någon musikaffär i närheten där du bor? Om du kan koppla in hörlurar i pianot på så sätt att du dessutom får ljud ut i högtalarna, så kan du (om du har en dator) koppla ljudkabel mellan pianot och in till datorn genom "Line In", och sedan spela in på datorn med ett program som t.ex Audacity. Samtidigt som du spelar in video, sedan synkar du bara ihop det i ett redigeringsprogram.
@@Tarzoq Jag bor i en relativt liten stad så den närmaste musikaffären ligger förmodligen i Nyköping, drygt 40 min bort. Jag ska börja på gymnasium i Nyköping så förhoppningsvis kan jag få tillgång till något piano där, vi får se.
För ett tag sedan köpte jag en sladd som man kopplar mellan pianot och datorn. Med sladden kan jag spela in MIDI med ett online program, enda problemet är att jag inte har något bra/gratis program som kan spela upp dessa filer utan att pedal och andra utmärkelser försvinner. Jag kommer testa Audacity för att se om det kan hjälpa mig, ska dock bort i en vecka så det kommer dröja ett tag innan jag har möjlighet att utforska programmet.
@@tim_e478
Förlåt, det jag menade i min förra kommentar var en ljudkabel som kopplas in i pianots hörlursuttag. Kan du koppla in en ljudkabel och ändå få ut ljud i högtalarna? För i så fall hade det funkat jättebra att spela in i Audacity. Det skulle också funka om du har en hörlursplitter(som delar ett 3.5mm uttag till 2st) där du kan få ljud både till dator och hörlurar.
Annars finns det ett program som heter "midieditor" som kan laddas ner från www.midieditor.org/ . Detta ska kunna spela in MIDI samt pedal. Om detta funkar så kan du om du vill skicka midi filen till "Piotr Barcz YT#7668" på discord. Han är duktig med MIDI filer och har dyra plugins med bra pianoljud.
@@Tarzoq Kabeln jag har går inte in i hörlursuttaget men snarare ett annat uttag menat för kabeln, dock kan jag samtidigt som kabeln sitter i få ut ljud ur högtalarna precis som du beskriver.
Jag ska testa spela in en Midi-fil och sedan skicka den till Piotr för att se om han kan förvandla den till något värdigt. Tack för tipset om Midieditor, verkar vara det program som jag sökt efter all denna tid.
1:31 I had to laugh when you tried to play that high octave Bb😆. Overall that's a good performance! Tom would be proud🤧
:D I obviously played the thing too quickly, I usually always hit that Bb.
Are you self taught?
Indeed.