It hurts my heart to hear Tom is still recovering. Best of luck, it’s a long road to what may never be full functionality again, but you’ve got at least one random dude on the internet rooting for him! I’m really glad these treasures made it to youtube to show him at his best.
Yes he dose need it, I cannot understand why his family won’t allow him to start recovering, and even if it was crowdsourced and right now it’s seems like they just hate him for some reason
I mean tom has written like hundreds of musics so i wouldn't doubt he could just make stuff like this up on the spot. Hell he made an entire composition from angry birds into a silent film genre from a REGULAR angry bird sheet music.
I've been playing Pokemon since 1998, and I've loved ragtime since I was very young. I always wanted to hear this tune done in this style - give Tom a big thank you for fulfilling one of my childhood wishes!
The best part is, Tom is experiencing this music for the first time too, even though he's the one playing. He can see the music on the paper- but only when his hands have played it out can he hear what beauty he's making. I can't imagine just how satisfying and almost scary it would be being enveloped by the music, not hearing it from an outside source, but yourself. It's almost like it's someone else controlling your hands. I just think that would be beyond amazing.
+Lefty Jones nice idea, but what should he do with 20 Porygons ? I mean.. 20 PORYGONS!! I never found a use for these Pokémons... It was just nice to keep them for showing them someone.
\_/\_[0_0]_/\_/ Yes, thanks a lot (: I'm remembering the z-moves. Just one of the great features of gen 7. And I didn't finish the game. Honestly, forget about hm's and the other stuff. These unique features of gen 7 is what Pokémon really needed..
John Yargus I don't recommend to train a Porygon in the first gens. It's worth to train from gen 4 or upper gens, because it gets his final evolution in gen 4.
スロットコーナーの曲を弾こうとしたその目の付け所を賞賛したい笑 もちろんその素晴らしい腕前も！！ I praise you for your view point where you tried to play this music and ,of course, your excellent performance! by Japanese high school student (If there are some wrong points in this sentence, please permit me. I'm still studying English. σ(^_^;) )
What part of "embellishing" in the description did you not understand? And there's such a thing as repeats, you know. All of us who compose ragtime music love to give our new stuff to Tom to hear how he embellishes upon them at first read. Highly skilled musicians like him can play more than what's on the page. He (and others I know) can accompany singers when given only the chord progression of a piece, and can play a full embellished rendition of the chorus when the singer finishes.
For those who are wondering... The reason he can play a video game song flawlessly from a manuscript without ever hearing it, is because he's never played video games... He practiced piano instead.
those things are not mutually exclusive my guy (also playing video games practices similar skills; coordination, multitasking, identifying patterns) but what do I know, as a video game loving person with a music degree :)
@@SuperAmazingJared thank you Jared but I disagree, a music degree means nothing my guy, just like any degree handed out in the last 30 years. A batchelor of Arts degree in the 1950s was an extremely difficult degree for a layman. Now days you can basically order one online. The joke I was making was on the back of him not knowing and had never heard the Mario Bros theme song, the reason? He practiced piano, and often. I am a multi-instrumentalist and have played since I was 6 years old... I also know most video game songs from that era... I am not as good a player as he is, I played a lot of video games. So behind my comment is some real truth my friend. In addition there are almost no skills obtained by staring at a screen and mashing buttons, I have gained absolutely no skills from playing video games and neither have you. There was even a study done once showing that 20 minutes of playing catch would attribute better hand eye coordination skills than hours of playing video games. Peace
Wow keeper 1st usually corrects people who think ragtime is from the wild west, when in reality it originated in the African American communities of St. Louis.
I get how he can sight-read so well, and even all the embellishing he's able to do, as impressive as it is, makes sense to me. But what I do not and may never understand is how he's able to come up with an ending that turns the tune completely on its side and yet sounds like it was meant to be there all along, in a tune that has no ending no less! Brilliant work!
That's Will Perkins, a terrific pianist himself. A couple weeks later, Will placed third in the 2012 World Championship Old-Time Piano Playing Contest.
He sight reads it, then improvises on the theme, I don't know if you've ever tried to do that, but it's a lot more impressive than just reading the piece down. While reading it, you have to fully understand what exactly you're playing so that, by the end, you can play it again differently.
We're rapidly approaching a time in which you can command an AI to write you a ragtime version of a song and play it and you'll receive something fairly competent, but I truly believe that nothing an AI could produce will ever be able to reach the heights of vibrancy, creativity, and authenticity that Tom Brier has shown us. Thank you for giving us the gift of your music, Tom. Wishing you happiness.
Ha, I found it hard just to folow the follow music while he was playing it, let alone actually PLAYING it. This man is just a GOD. You are really are aninspiration to me.
I've seen and shared loads of your videos for the past year and have thoroughly enjoyed myself, but the last minute and half of this one really gave me goose bumps. I could almost feel Tom's brain radiate and bring improvised glory to our ears! Thank you for sharing!
So here I am, just doing my usual search of "pokemon piano, by date", and up pops the most unexpected thing imaginable -- a Pokemon cover from KEEPER1ST. I was like, "0_0 no weh" This was just so unbelievably great. I loved Tom before, but now he's taken my all-time favorite franchise and put rich caramel syrup all over it.
He's playing the melody note with his thumb, then the rest of the chord above it, with the melody note an octave higher on top, then the lower melody note with the thumb again. The first note is just before the actual beat with the last note just after it.
Been watching these videos when they pop up in my recommended for months now, but never knew there was a Pokémon one! Such a great and nostalgic tune, played by a master.
This is amazing. Holy crap. I've been watching these videos, and like, these improvisations on the theme is just insanely awesome, it's fun sounding. :D
Tom is amazing! Since He reads it like words (as in, reading the basic tune and adding his own chords and tunes to match any style he wants) It must be a lot of fun for him to play music like this.
I think that's the one that I was given a transcription of a while back. It's not on the front burner yet. I have enough backlog of things to show Tom right now to last through all the ragtime meetings in this coming year, probably!
Among Tom's many musical gifts, his dramatic outros are truly special. He just feels it out, often extending the Outro way past expectation...so damn cool
I just thought that the performance was impressive as all hell and just the quality of the video combined with the place he's playing in reminds me of the place where I learned music and that just gives me so much nostalgia just to think about
Stevens sold the place a couple years ago, but he still helps out there. Tom has been playing there every other month (and of course during the ragtime festival in August) for many years. He'll be there again this coming Saturday evening.
You kick so much tail!!!!! You are just friggin awesome piano player. And the fact you play video game music on the piano makes you that much more awesome. YOU RULE!!!!!!
Tom lives in Sacramento. I live near Carson City. The video was shot at the Sutter Creek Ice Cream Emporium, 51 Main Street, Sutter Creek, California. Next meeting there is July 27, 2013, at 7 p.m. (usually goes to about 11 or so; the shop stays open late for us).
Cool. One of my other subscribers, EugeneShin1337, came to the West Coast Ragtime Festival this past weekend to meet me, Tom and the other musicians featured on my channel.
On the contrary, he totally is playing the song. Though you are right about it all being improvised, all improvisation is is adding flare to the original notes. Hidden behind all the flare is the original tune, if you listen closely enough, though it's much more obvious in certain parts of the song. And, for the record, sight reading can be incredibly hard to do accurately, so to be able to play this piece or any within 30 seconds or so is actually incredible in itself.
hey! there is a switch behind this poster!
I love you
DON'T TOUCH THAT
Hey kid, you didn't touch the button behind the poster, did you?
*spoiler alert* xD
Push it
It hurts my heart to hear Tom is still recovering. Best of luck, it’s a long road to what may never be full functionality again, but you’ve got at least one random dude on the internet rooting for him!
I’m really glad these treasures made it to youtube to show him at his best.
Amen.
If anyone needs it it’s this piano god
Yes he dose need it, I cannot understand why his family won’t allow him to start recovering, and even if it was crowdsourced and right now it’s seems like they just hate him for some reason
More like hundreds of thousands lol
yeah what's up with that
The amount of happiness this gives me is indescribable
Word
6 people never got a porygon
LOL
Gregory Hess 9
lol
Amount of people increased by more than 100% xD
400th one to like😊
Holy crap, I'm looking at that sheet music and what he's reading vs what I'm hearing is goddamn absurd. Dude is a friggan legend.
up to about 48 second he was reading the sheet music as is should be, then he just improvises a fuck load :P
Yeah. It's straight up insanity!
@@TheAngryMoth104 He improvised the whole way through, no way the first part of the sheet music has that many fills and layers to it
I mean tom has written like hundreds of musics so i wouldn't doubt he could just make stuff like this up on the spot. Hell he made an entire composition from angry birds into a silent film genre from a REGULAR angry bird sheet music.
I've been playing Pokemon since 1998, and I've loved ragtime since I was very young. I always wanted to hear this tune done in this style - give Tom a big thank you for fulfilling one of my childhood wishes!
Tom played piano!
It's super effective!
Clefairy is dancing wildly!
It's true. I cosplay a Clefable and I applaud this!
In the green is Will Perkins. I have some videos of him playing piano too. He's fantastic.
The best part is, Tom is experiencing this music for the first time too, even though he's the one playing. He can see the music on the paper- but only when his hands have played it out can he hear what beauty he's making. I can't imagine just how satisfying and almost scary it would be being enveloped by the music, not hearing it from an outside source, but yourself. It's almost like it's someone else controlling your hands. I just think that would be beyond amazing.
Yes, the possession by the muse is common when you give your body over to the music. its rather enchanting to experience.
I think he knows what it sounds like just by reading it
I'll keep coming back this every month or so, just pure pure pure genius.
4:42 - 6:13
One of the most beautiful outtros I've ever heard. Nearly put me to tears. Thank you Tom ❤️
I won a Porygon at the game corner once. Then it gave me a seizure.
XD
I used to be a Porygon winner like you. But then I took a seizure to the knee.
Name checks out
That was Pikachu. Porygon did nothing wrong.
Did you save at least?
The Game Corner would give this man 20 Porygons to play piano for them. :D
+Lefty Jones oh, I dunno, they were pretty tight with their Porygons in my experience.
+Lefty Jones nice idea, but what should he do with 20 Porygons ?
I mean.. 20 PORYGONS!!
I never found a use for these Pokémons...
It was just nice to keep them for showing them someone.
\_/\_[0_0]_/\_/ sorry but what's z-conversion? Little hint: Didn't finish the 7 gen yet
\_/\_[0_0]_/\_/ Yes, thanks a lot (: I'm remembering the z-moves. Just one of the great features of gen 7. And I didn't finish the game. Honestly, forget about hm's and the other stuff. These unique features of gen 7 is what Pokémon really needed..
John Yargus I don't recommend to train a Porygon in the first gens. It's worth to train from gen 4 or upper gens, because it gets his final evolution in gen 4.
I love this, every time I watch it it puts a stupidly big smile on my face :D
+ThePokeman92 weirdo
+ThePokeman92 I'm just kidding man, me too, me too.
+ThePokeman92 I think that is the nostalgia and memories of this fantastic game.
Just like the guy sitting next to tom xD
I can't even sight read Mary Had a Little Lamb, jesus.
No wonder no one else dared to post their own version of this theme. You destroyed the slightest hope for competition man xD Truly brilliant!
It's impossible to watch Tom play without getting a big dumb smile on my face 😃
one of my favorite people on the internet
Hey! There's a switch behind this piano!
Here's hoping that Tom's recovery from this point will go smoothly. Many of us are there for him just as his music is here for us!
スロットコーナーの曲を弾こうとしたその目の付け所を賞賛したい笑
もちろんその素晴らしい腕前も！！
I praise you for your view point where you tried to play this music and ,of course, your excellent performance!
by Japanese high school student
(If there are some wrong points in this sentence, please permit me.
I'm still studying English. σ(^_^;) )
大丈夫だよ！日本語を分かります。氷月さんの英語も分かることができました。勉強では、頑張ってね！
Skill is an understatement. Hard to beat and that's talking anybody
What part of "embellishing" in the description did you not understand? And there's such a thing as repeats, you know. All of us who compose ragtime music love to give our new stuff to Tom to hear how he embellishes upon them at first read. Highly skilled musicians like him can play more than what's on the page. He (and others I know) can accompany singers when given only the chord progression of a piece, and can play a full embellished rendition of the chorus when the singer finishes.
Tom inspires me more than any other musician. He is amazing.
For those who are wondering... The reason he can play a video game song flawlessly from a manuscript without ever hearing it, is because he's never played video games... He practiced piano instead.
Maybe
@@zlrivo it could be a possibility
So true lol
those things are not mutually exclusive my guy
(also playing video games practices similar skills; coordination, multitasking, identifying patterns)
but what do I know, as a video game loving person with a music degree :)
@@SuperAmazingJared thank you Jared but I disagree, a music degree means nothing my guy, just like any degree handed out in the last 30 years.
A batchelor of Arts degree in the 1950s was an extremely difficult degree for a layman. Now days you can basically order one online.
The joke I was making was on the back of him not knowing and had never heard the Mario Bros theme song, the reason? He practiced piano, and often.
I am a multi-instrumentalist and have played since I was 6 years old...
I also know most video game songs from that era... I am not as good a player as he is, I played a lot of video games. So behind my comment is some real truth my friend.
In addition there are almost no skills obtained by staring at a screen and mashing buttons, I have gained absolutely no skills from playing video games and neither have you.
There was even a study done once showing that 20 minutes of playing catch would attribute better hand eye coordination skills than hours of playing video games. Peace
This went from fun video game music to classical masterpiece; I can't stop listening to this wonderful man's music!
Welcome to the Game Corner Saloon out in the Wild West lol! Brier is awesome as usual I love these videos
LOL
Wow keeper 1st usually corrects people who think ragtime is from the wild west, when in reality it originated in the African American communities of St. Louis.
I get how he can sight-read so well, and even all the embellishing he's able to do, as impressive as it is, makes sense to me. But what I do not and may never understand is how he's able to come up with an ending that turns the tune completely on its side and yet sounds like it was meant to be there all along, in a tune that has no ending no less! Brilliant work!
That's Will Perkins, a terrific pianist himself. A couple weeks later, Will placed third in the 2012 World Championship Old-Time Piano Playing Contest.
Around 1:45 - 2:15 it sounds a lot like the theme from Bubble Bobble on the NES !
That's exactly what I thought as well.
Yup, I definitely spotted a bit of Bubble Bobble in there (although I knew it from the C64)
You should look up Silvagunner's video then. It literally is Bubble Bobble 😆
@@biggallcaps Do you have a link??
at 0:42 in this video and 0:25 in this ruclips.net/video/VTmJJ0lUyQc/видео.html
It sounds like music from an old-time carnival! So cool!
Sightread... Holy cow...
I didnt think this song could get any better. But then this....!!!
man, this can literally just put the title as rearrange already. And this is what i call "doing something that you love". Such creativity.
Having now listened to every game rendition Brier's done, this is hands down my favorite.
How are there always one more of these I haven’t seen? And this is a great one!
This guy's awesome!
He is a legend
Looping this video works so perfectly. Very short time with no playing and it stays perfectly in tempo 👌
He sight reads it, then improvises on the theme, I don't know if you've ever tried to do that, but it's a lot more impressive than just reading the piece down. While reading it, you have to fully understand what exactly you're playing so that, by the end, you can play it again differently.
We're rapidly approaching a time in which you can command an AI to write you a ragtime version of a song and play it and you'll receive something fairly competent, but I truly believe that nothing an AI could produce will ever be able to reach the heights of vibrancy, creativity, and authenticity that Tom Brier has shown us. Thank you for giving us the gift of your music, Tom. Wishing you happiness.
You can never replicate the feeling of watching a human being perform like this.
OMGDD!!! THIS MAN IS AMAZINGGG!!! I cant get ENOUGH OF TOM BRIER!!!! SOOO GOOOODD!!! Unrivaled skill!!!!
Ha, I found it hard just to folow the follow music while he was playing it, let alone actually PLAYING it. This man is just a GOD. You are really are aninspiration to me.
I have no idea where you guys live or how often Tom plays, but I would love to spend a day just hangin' out and listen to Tom play the piano live.
I've seen and shared loads of your videos for the past year and have thoroughly enjoyed myself, but the last minute and half of this one really gave me goose bumps. I could almost feel Tom's brain radiate and bring improvised glory to our ears! Thank you for sharing!
Yet another masterpiece by the greatest ragtime piano player in RUclips History! Get well my young friend!
Man I don't know if I have enough years left to get as good as he was then...
Old West Pokemon.
I listen to this guy as I watercolor sometimes because hopefully listening to the master do his work will inspire me to do mine.
My favourite theme from one of my favourite games ever given an ending like that... Just incredible to hear.
for double fun, put it up to 1.25 speed.
This guy is my music hero, I really hope he makes a good recovery! Sending all my energy to him~
I always come back to this. The ending movement is sooooo absurd, over a minute long
So here I am, just doing my usual search of "pokemon piano, by date", and up pops the most unexpected thing imaginable -- a Pokemon cover from KEEPER1ST. I was like, "0_0 no weh"
This was just so unbelievably great. I loved Tom before, but now he's taken my all-time favorite franchise and put rich caramel syrup all over it.
Nostalgia'd all over my laptop, awesome tune Tom! And thank you Keeper1st for arranging this tune for him
Mr. Brier doesn't end a song because he has to, only because he wants to and even then, it's on his terms!
He's playing the melody note with his thumb, then the rest of the chord above it, with the melody note an octave higher on top, then the lower melody note with the thumb again. The first note is just before the actual beat with the last note just after it.
Been watching these videos when they pop up in my recommended for months now, but never knew there was a Pokémon one! Such a great and nostalgic tune, played by a master.
This should be the official Game Corner theme.
The look on the boy's face when the tune starts. Pure joy...
This is amazing. Holy crap. I've been watching these videos, and like, these improvisations on the theme is just insanely awesome, it's fun sounding. :D
If only this god person had played "Piano before Cynthia" we could have discovered what paradise looks like while being alive.
Tom is amazing! Since He reads it like words (as in, reading the basic tune and adding his own chords and tunes to match any style he wants) It must be a lot of fun for him to play music like this.
Who knew there was so much classic ragtime music in Japanese video games? Absolutely terrific 👏!
I think that's the one that I was given a transcription of a while back. It's not on the front burner yet. I have enough backlog of things to show Tom right now to last through all the ragtime meetings in this coming year, probably!
Dear lord, Tom is simply amazing.
Bubble Bobble might be a fantastic tune for Tom to try out!
Absolutely astounding. Bravo, maestro!
Sight read, and uniquely improvised... Exceptional mastery.
Among Tom's many musical gifts, his dramatic outros are truly special. He just feels it out, often extending the Outro way past expectation...so damn cool
So much nostalgia. Love it so much
I just thought that the performance was impressive as all hell and just the quality of the video combined with the place he's playing in reminds me of the place where I learned music and that just gives me so much nostalgia just to think about
Dang, I assumed it would be the one from Gold/Silver for some reason. I love that one.
what's happening ?
Tom is in evolving in... Machamp !! and plays with 6 hands !
I was planning on spending all morning playing video games but instead I spent all morning listening to ragtime music FROM video games.
The music theory is strong with this one!! I need to meet this man.
Like, oh my God.
Stevens sold the place a couple years ago, but he still helps out there. Tom has been playing there every other month (and of course during the ragtime festival in August) for many years. He'll be there again this coming Saturday evening.
You kick so much tail!!!!! You are just friggin awesome piano player. And the fact you play video game music on the piano makes you that much more awesome. YOU RULE!!!!!!
you can rely how he's playing with the music, he has NO CLUE where the song is from
It's green shirts fault this is happening
Seeing this show up in my feed instantly brightened by day! :]
This is incredible! Wow! I am truly awed.
Allright, since you have uploaded a lot of sightreading by this guy I just can't leave without subscribing, can I ?
Tom lives in Sacramento. I live near Carson City. The video was shot at the Sutter Creek Ice Cream Emporium, 51 Main Street, Sutter Creek, California. Next meeting there is July 27, 2013, at 7 p.m. (usually goes to about 11 or so; the shop stays open late for us).
Wow, mind blown, could not stop watching and listening...
this makes me so happy........
I remember that song when I played pokemon blue in my color gameboy, good times
Cool. One of my other subscribers, EugeneShin1337, came to the West Coast Ragtime Festival this past weekend to meet me, Tom and the other musicians featured on my channel.
The part starting around 0:52 - wow!
i want to see tom duel another pianist
Samuel Miller See several "Fun with two pianos" / "Fun with 2 pianos" videos, or this one: ruclips.net/video/V6oYBE-ttV4/видео.html
Wow, this is amazing.
Not a game song, but I'd love to hear Gunpowder Tea from Trigun get this treatment.
This guy is a HERO!
The ending to this was just amazing!
i just got blasted with nostalgia, thank you sir
August 2024.Who's here ?? .... from Fort Worth, Texas
Saginaw MI
Yes. "wilscool". But most videos of him are by other people, like myself, "rtpress", "verybigrifle", "tdub1941", etc.
We should all chip in to get everyone in this video new pairs of shorts.
As a piano player all I can say is that this is insane. Thank you.
dude; it becomes one of the best I have ever heard beginning at around 0:48
2:10 rondo alla game corner! 4:22 waltz of the rockets! I love this!
Bubble Bobble? o_o.. I could've bet there is some bubble bobble in there too
Really awesome performance ^^
yup.. bubble bobble. i hear it too
yup.. bubble bobble. i hear it too
yup.. bubble bobble. i hear it too
yup.. bubble bobble. i hear it too
yup.. bubble bobble. i hear it too
On the contrary, he totally is playing the song. Though you are right about it all being improvised, all improvisation is is adding flare to the original notes. Hidden behind all the flare is the original tune, if you listen closely enough, though it's much more obvious in certain parts of the song.
And, for the record, sight reading can be incredibly hard to do accurately, so to be able to play this piece or any within 30 seconds or so is actually incredible in itself.