"I made in Encore about 10 years ago after receiving an email with MIDI file attached from someone in Japan saying, "My friend makes music for video games. He wrote this rag."" ....you have an original MIDI file from Nobuo Uematsu!?!?!?
@Luca Yates Regards to quality probably. Not that the playing is bad I guess, but the video quality is outdated... Unfortunately, it's not happening anytime soon.
His finger dexterity is insane.. Same with all great piano players. Sometimes I just get lost watching their hand movements. It all looks so effortless
This puts to shame every other version of this song on the web. To think this is just a sight reading too. Tom captured the real feel of the tune. To think what he could do with this with a little practice....
@Vice TOLUCT If you would look at the most recent video on this channel, or do a little digging, you would see that Tom Brier, has indeed been injured for well over 2 years now. We would all appreciate if did some research before commenting.
@Vice TOLUCT This is not his channel. Only a close friend's. If you look at the most recent video, it explains everything. All the other uploads are of other musicians. It's okay to be corrected, y-know.
@Vice TOLUCT My bad, it was uploaded only a couple hours before I posted that previous comment. Look at the video that says Tom update, 18 January 2019. I'm pretty sure even the title is enough evidence to prove that tom is in a terrible situation, and it's not worth arguing over.
No; it's like walking onto a Hollywood "Western" set with anachronistic music. This music style is from African-American youth of the very late 19th and early 20th century -- not from white cowboys in the mid-19th century. Thinking so is like thinking modern western bars would have 50 Cent playing in them! But because this type of music was the most popular when silent movies were, and so many silent movies were Westerns, the misconception persists.
"When it does that slow down bit, I always imagine it going into a one-step." *laughs* "I could do that" *makes it up on the spot* Look in the dictionary for the words "awesome" and "pianist". Pianist shows a picture of Tom, Awesome says "please see pianist."
Ragtime was never meant to be rushed: Just take a look at Scott Joplin's explicit instructions written all over his work. For some great examples of ragtime at the tempo Scott Joplin envisioned it, listen to Joshua Rifkin playing Fig Leaf Rag, Gladiolus Rag, and Magnetic Rag. Pineapple Rag is also another great piece that I think heavily influenced this rag by Uematsu.
@@annoynymouse1146 I think it would be inaccurate to call fast ragtime “stride” as the only similarity the two genres share is the oom-pah left hand. Stride piano is an offshoot of ragtime that is based around improvisation, and ragtime is (if you’re going by how the composers of classic rag envision it) to be played deliberately and as written. Perhaps to call it a ‘galop’ would be a more correct term as I’ve seen that word tacked onto the names of fast marches.
@@kevinchan1598 I would also say that syncopation is another similarity... so... the main difference between ragtime and stride is just the improvisation part? the added fills? Tempo is not considered that relevant?
Nobuo Uematsu + Tom Brier = Amazing^2. It is also amazing how he enjoys the music and inserts new passages. Absolutely, telented. What about if both Nobuo and Tom meet together; it would be the apocalypse. Sigo pensando que si Nobuo Uematsu y Tom Brier coincidieran en el espacio-tiempo, el universo implosionaría.
The score does say to begin the strain slow but accelerate to the normal speed within a few measures. His second time playing the tune here, he decides instead to play the strain slowly all the way through, then play it in one-step rhythm (i.e. where the oom-pah bass moves twice as fast but the melody stays the same). It is not notated that way; I just suggested it to him after the first take and he made up a one-step version off the top of his head.
Ive been playing piano and organ since I was 13 and this guy is just hands down incredible! Have a lot of great memories from playing piano all over the world when I was in the military and a few pubs in my home town that have old piano's just collecting dust. I rattle off a few 300 memorized tunes and get them all tapping there toes and clapping hands, but this guy is 1000 times better :) It is definitely a great gift to have and share with others. A complete pleasure to watch and hear him play!
@@leifvejby8023 That's possible. Probably alot involved with playing on his level. No restrictions to hand eye coordination, able to concentrate and focus solely on a few tasks, memory recall, photographic memory, being able to associate many things at once and such. I can play with my eyes closed too, but I'm at the bottom of the ladder hes climbing lol. I would be the one holding the ladder lmao. Enjoying what you do and years of practice and training help too.
I seriously would pay to have a clean copy of him playing this song mistake free. He is so good, and no matter where I look I can't find anyone that plays this song better than him.
This is one of Tom's most brilliant videos! Humility, sense of humor, excellent playing, tons of embelishments, fun, creativity... Truly Tom all around!
I don’t get how he’s able to do that at 4:29 He has the lady’s hand in his face twice during the hardest part of the song and he plays it flawlessly. True Talent
@MrCokeLolx Part of the reason I post the videos of Tom playing these tunes is to introduce ragtime as a genre to people who like the tunes but are unaware that this style is a living genre outside of video games and Disney theme parks. They see videos like this, then see videos of "normal" ragtime and realize the style of music as a whole is what makes these game tunes so catchy and memorable. So, you're a case in point. These videos have introduced you to ragtime as a whole. That's great!
This has been like my 100th time watching this and it really just dawned on me how amazing this is, around 1:48 is just unbelievable....This must be so much fun for him to be able to do this.
Tom was a joy. This concert from 2001 also is something you'll enjoy in seeing how much fun Tom had, and how much fun people had WITH him. (Just have to deal with the poor VHS quality!) ruclips.net/video/g_6kd3xrkk8/видео.html
Soren, I've seen you everywhere, and I remember you because of your super awesome Commodore profile pic and (I'm going to take a guess here) Scandinavian name.
Toms music always brightens my day and ill never get tired of this video. You should get him an updated score so he can learn and perform it. Id love to hear a full ragtime band cover.
Maybe next month. I'll see him again at the Sutter Creek Ragtime Festival. He played it flawlessly (with plenty of wild embellishment) when I showed him the score two months ago, but I didn't record it 'cause I thought I'd let him practice it first. He didn't need any, unlike some of these others like this one.
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.
Tom brings this piece to life! he realy seems to enjoy playing it. So alive and fresh! It would be amazing to see a clean copy of this. The wonders he could do with this if he spent some time on it! Now THIS is Rag!
@VegasBilgeRat Heh, no, but it is a rather old building -- about 160 years old. It's the Sutter Creek Ice Cream Emporium, at 51 Main Street, Sutter Creek, California.
Long time fan of Uematsu, honest he's one of the very best composers alive. I was only like 14 or so when I first heard this song and I got Final Fantasy 3 for the SNES. I was really surprised at how 'authentic' this song felt compared to much older and well known ragtimes.
Besides folk songs from the Old World, and new pop songs ("Oh Susanna" is still popular today), you'd have heard a lot of opera music, believe it or not. While today opera is considered high-class music, in those days before TV, movies or radio, it was the entertainment of the masses. You'll notice that many preserved old Western towns have an opera house, in fact. I've seen some racist songs about Chinese from the time too (many towns had a Chinese population as they were railroad workers).
@GeorgesVI Same time (well a bit later) but different place. This was music in the cities -- particularly the ethnically diverse cities, as it came from African-American musicians. In many predominantly white areas, ragtime music and its related dances was banned for being obscene.
Wow that was amazing. What I love about this tune is that you would never guess it was from a video game, which is how all VG music should be; good enough to stand on it's own.
you prolly dont care but if you are bored like me during the covid times you can stream pretty much all of the new movies and series on InstaFlixxer. I've been watching with my brother recently xD
@chaff5 Actually he says, "I could see that..." before doing it. I kinda figured that if I put the idea into his head, he'd run with it like that. But the result is almost always better than I imagined!
how many years it has been since you've played this one? 42 ! That was funny BTW, I can't wait for the MOO MOO FARM song. That one will be epic. Like every song Tom plays. You rock !!!!!
You should make a playlist of all of the videos you have of Tom playing video game tunes. I've tried finding them all in your videos, but you have -so many-. I found this one by accident when I found the Earthbound one. XD He's so great!
@WyattEpp It was earlier than '99, I think. I was still using dial-up unix shell accounts, so it was probably '96, '97...? I didn't know what game the tune was from for many more years when I happened to come across Uematsu's name and looked around. Don't remember the name of the person who sent it either. The person had mistaken my site for a MIDI ragtime music repository, when actually it's just for my own MIDI sequences.
@Taedrin Oh, sorry about that. I had moved all my web space to a new host and domain last year. I thought I had updated all my links, but I must have missed this one (which didn't matter until now because the old host still hadn't taken down the space that I hadn't been paying for since about this time last year!). Anyway, I've put the new link in the description now.
It's a pretty regular request. I'm sure it would, but I don't expect it to happen. Martin Spitznagel did do three awesome videogame music tracks on his "Handful of Keys; Face-Melting Ragtime" album.
@DarknessSavior I've been loath to do that because one of the reasons for posting these videos is to introduce gamers to the genre as a whole -- including ragtime music from sources other than games. If I were to do it, I wouldn't just have the videos of Tom, but my sheet music transcriptions and my video of Martin Spitznagel doing the Mario theme in stride piano.
Yeah, besides the wrong time signature, they seem never to have heard of a double-sharp. The score I made a long time ago was just a quickie which still has some problems, though. The bass beats aren't separated, the grace notes are written out as 32nd notes (Encore would likely crash if you tried to start a measure with grace notes), and there's one place where I put an F-natural when it should have been notated as an E-sharp. But it's readable, at least. Most videogame scores online aren't.
@amplimax Notice how he plays it after I suggest it as a one-step, if you compare it to how it was played before, the bass line moves twice as fast in relation to the melody.
Thank you for putting the address on here. I remember talking to you a couple years ago, and I swear I read that this was at an ice cream shop in Mariposa. Well I live over near Oakhurst about 30 miles away, so every now and again I would take hwy 49 over to Mariposa and poke around looking for this place just exploring. Now I know it's closer to 150 miles away. haha Even so, this ice cream shop looks great, and it still seems like it might be a fun little way to spend a weekend drive with the kids. Maybe I'll see if I can pack up the family and head over during the ragtime festival this year. As long as it is before the kids school starts, there shouldn't be a problem. Thanks for the info!
RicoLen1 The festival is Aug. 14-16 this year -- suttercreekragtime.com This Saturday evening we're having our bimonthly ragtime meeting too, though 150 miles may be a bit of a trek (it's about 100 miles for me, over highway 88).
I kept scouring Mariposa, wondering how I could miss this place. My kids didn't mind me taking them to look for every ice cream shop in town. I don't know how I got it in my head that you had told me Mariposa now though. haha Oakhurst would be a lot more convenient considering my wife works there and that's where we do 90% of our shopping too. TBH I really want to see this ice cream shop! haha I've never been further up hwy 49 than Mariposa, but I'm always looking for a reason to go somewhere new so it'll be fun to head up Sonora way.
This video was recorded 12 years ago and Tom is about 50 years old now - which would make him about 38 at the time. Therefore when he said he hadn't played it in 42 years, he was probably making an HHGTTG reference! Or perhaps something related to Final Fantasy 6-
@shadowzero9200 Oh, that's a great rag. I hadn't heard that one before. Definitely will make a score of it. Thanks for the heads-up! I also have Slide Show Part 2 from FF VII in the queue of tunes to make readable scores from (scores exist for both of these tunes but they're either overly simplified or have a lot of wrong accidentals or are in the wrong time signature, use too many ledger lines, etc., so I have to score them myself to make them truly readable).
Hearing this piece waaaay back in the day, when I played FFVI for the first time, is what made me fall in love with ragtime as a whole. Made me want to learn piano, too.
I play by ear but can read notes,just can't play directly from sheet music, but I can have fun with songs I do know, change key rythem and tempo. My dad could play from sheet music but not manipulate the songs, resticted to the paper. Think he was amazed at how I could change the songs. I wish I was at this guy's level, really looks like a lot of fun.
Oh, so one of the greatest vgmusic composers did rag too! The Chrono Cross music is my all-time favorite, that combined with my favorite pianist =D Just plain greatness
Upon watching more and more of your videos. I now realize that he was in a terrible car accident that has left him unable to play the piano as he was once able to amongst other things. That is very unfortunate to hear and I wonder if he’ll recover fully and go back to playing piano.
imgur.com/l9RNRk6 The Emporium has seen some fantastic ragtime moments thanks to you and Tom, Keeper1st :) I keep watching them over and over because they're just so good :) Thankyou!
OH MY GOD SO BEAUTIFUL Man I stink at piano! My version of spinach rag isn't ANYWHERE NEAR even good compared to this. Sir, you are truly gifted to play music this beautiful!
"I made in Encore about 10 years ago after receiving an email with MIDI file attached from someone in Japan saying, "My friend makes music for video games. He wrote this rag.""
....you have an original MIDI file from Nobuo Uematsu!?!?!?
Well, from someone in Japan who claims to be a friend of Nobuo Uematsu's.
3:32 "The keys move so that they land underneath my fingers."
SO THAT'S HOW HE DOES IT :O
"The keys move to land underneath my fingers"
LOL
@3:31 for anyone trying to find that quote XD
I've never met this man... and yet, i love this man.
Usucito
Same
now you understand religius people, you are one of them now, bowel to the higher being
@@joseangelmonterroza9364I'd rather not give my bowel to anyone, even if they're really good at the piano.
Ragtime piano players like Tom Brier are one of a kind. Watching him nail a video game soundtrack (especially Final Fantasy) is mind blowing.
This is the best version of Spinach Rag on youtube, and the man wasn't even trying!!!
I wish there's a clean version of this
@Luca Yates Regards to quality probably.
Not that the playing is bad I guess, but the video quality is outdated... Unfortunately, it's not happening anytime soon.
3 imagine if he started trying, dude. World peace
L1LE1 well he just got moved to a facility and is getting legit help now
Literally anything that he plays becomes the best version of that song on youtube
His finger dexterity is insane.. Same with all great piano players. Sometimes I just get lost watching their hand movements. It all looks so effortless
Another mortal bears witness to the glory of Brier.....
This puts to shame every other version of this song on the web. To think this is just a sight reading too. Tom captured the real feel of the tune. To think what he could do with this with a little practice....
Not that i don't think you are completely right, i just laughed a little bit, as i was reading through your comment, when i heard 4:54. How ironic.
"No practice" except about 50,000 hours practice playing piano and reading sheet music.
Shame is for people who are done working on improvement. For everyone else, this is an encouragement to keep pushing their musical skills further.
Man this guy NEEDS to do an album of video game rags.
Would be awesome! Unfortunately, copyrights probably make that a daunting task.
He does, it's an unofficial version, though provided by the platform of his fans on RUclips
@Vice TOLUCT If you would look at the most recent video on this channel, or do a little digging, you would see that Tom Brier, has indeed been injured for well over 2 years now. We would all appreciate if did some research before commenting.
@Vice TOLUCT This is not his channel. Only a close friend's. If you look at the most recent video, it explains everything. All the other uploads are of other musicians. It's okay to be corrected, y-know.
@Vice TOLUCT My bad, it was uploaded only a couple hours before I posted that previous comment. Look at the video that says Tom update, 18 January 2019. I'm pretty sure even the title is enough evidence to prove that tom is in a terrible situation, and it's not worth arguing over.
No; it's like walking onto a Hollywood "Western" set with anachronistic music. This music style is from African-American youth of the very late 19th and early 20th century -- not from white cowboys in the mid-19th century. Thinking so is like thinking modern western bars would have 50 Cent playing in them! But because this type of music was the most popular when silent movies were, and so many silent movies were Westerns, the misconception persists.
"When it does that slow down bit, I always imagine it going into a one-step."
*laughs* "I could do that" *makes it up on the spot*
Look in the dictionary for the words "awesome" and "pianist". Pianist shows a picture of Tom, Awesome says "please see pianist."
14 years oh damn, time past so fast
I freaking love watching Tom play and his enthusiasm and laughter, this dude is my people.
Tom's music continues to bring joy to my life. Best wishes for a continued recovery, Tom. Like the world the lady is blown away by the talent.
"the keys move so that they land underneath my fingers" that pretty much sums up Mr.Brier
No matter how many times i watch this, it's always just as entertaining to watch.
At 7:45, just when you think he's done, he melts your face!
Yes!
This is the ONLY version on the internet that actually sounds like a proper Rag. Everyone else, including the FF cd's themselves play it far too slow.
I wish there's a clean version of this
Ragtime was never meant to be rushed: Just take a look at Scott Joplin's explicit instructions written all over his work. For some great examples of ragtime at the tempo Scott Joplin envisioned it, listen to Joshua Rifkin playing Fig Leaf Rag, Gladiolus Rag, and Magnetic Rag. Pineapple Rag is also another great piece that I think heavily influenced this rag by Uematsu.
@@lonesilv right? If someone wanted to play it faster and... harder, maybe as a stride would be a better way to play it (and to call it)
@@annoynymouse1146 I think it would be inaccurate to call fast ragtime “stride” as the only similarity the two genres share is the oom-pah left hand. Stride piano is an offshoot of ragtime that is based around improvisation, and ragtime is (if you’re going by how the composers of classic rag envision it) to be played deliberately and as written. Perhaps to call it a ‘galop’ would be a more correct term as I’ve seen that word tacked onto the names of fast marches.
@@kevinchan1598 I would also say that syncopation is another similarity... so... the main difference between ragtime and stride is just the improvisation part? the added fills? Tempo is not considered that relevant?
Nobuo Uematsu + Tom Brier = Amazing^2. It is also amazing how he enjoys the music and inserts new passages. Absolutely, telented. What about if both Nobuo and Tom meet together; it would be the apocalypse. Sigo pensando que si Nobuo Uematsu y Tom Brier coincidieran en el espacio-tiempo, el universo implosionaría.
Tom Brier is just awesome! This is the only video I've seen of someone playing Spinach Rag at the proper tempo. Keep up the great work!
Hes the Bob Ross of piano! Everything he plays is art.
He sight reads music like he is reading from a textbook. That ability must be so liberating.
The score does say to begin the strain slow but accelerate to the normal speed within a few measures. His second time playing the tune here, he decides instead to play the strain slowly all the way through, then play it in one-step rhythm (i.e. where the oom-pah bass moves twice as fast but the melody stays the same). It is not notated that way; I just suggested it to him after the first take and he made up a one-step version off the top of his head.
It is amazing how Tom enjoys the theme and does what he wants with the music. Absolutely amazing. Cannot stop listening it.
Ive been playing piano and organ since I was 13 and this guy is just hands down incredible! Have a lot of great memories from playing piano all over the world when I was in the military and a few pubs in my home town that have old piano's just collecting dust. I rattle off a few 300 memorized tunes and get them all tapping there toes and clapping hands, but this guy is 1000 times better :) It is definitely a great gift to have and share with others. A complete pleasure to watch and hear him play!
Could it be that he has no filter between his brain's association center and his hands, but just a direct connection?
@@leifvejby8023 That's possible. Probably alot involved with playing on his level. No restrictions to hand eye coordination, able to concentrate and focus solely on a few tasks, memory recall, photographic memory, being able to associate many things at once and such. I can play with my eyes closed too, but I'm at the bottom of the ladder hes climbing lol. I would be the one holding the ladder lmao. Enjoying what you do and years of practice and training help too.
That woman is all of us the first time we watched Tom hahah.
yep!
how could he came up with 3 different endings ?? and every ending has its own level, this man's creation is beyond God tier!
I seriously would pay to have a clean copy of him playing this song mistake free. He is so good, and no matter where I look I can't find anyone that plays this song better than him.
I revisit videos of Tom every year and will always be in awe of the talent.
I first visited this video 10 years ago and I'm still coming back. The guy was a master.
This is one of Tom's most brilliant videos! Humility, sense of humor, excellent playing, tons of embelishments, fun, creativity...
Truly Tom all around!
I don’t get how he’s able to do that at 4:29 He has the lady’s hand in his face twice during the hardest part of the song and he plays it flawlessly. True Talent
@MrCokeLolx Part of the reason I post the videos of Tom playing these tunes is to introduce ragtime as a genre to people who like the tunes but are unaware that this style is a living genre outside of video games and Disney theme parks. They see videos like this, then see videos of "normal" ragtime and realize the style of music as a whole is what makes these game tunes so catchy and memorable. So, you're a case in point. These videos have introduced you to ragtime as a whole. That's great!
This has been like my 100th time watching this and it really just dawned on me how amazing this is, around 1:48 is just unbelievable....This must be so much fun for him to be able to do this.
I downloaded Keeper's arrangement of the sheet music and actually learned this a while ago. I should really re-learn this. It's a great tune.
This is great, you really get an idea of how Tom is to be around
Tom was a joy. This concert from 2001 also is something you'll enjoy in seeing how much fun Tom had, and how much fun people had WITH him. (Just have to deal with the poor VHS quality!) ruclips.net/video/g_6kd3xrkk8/видео.html
Soren, I've seen you everywhere, and I remember you because of your super awesome Commodore profile pic and (I'm going to take a guess here) Scandinavian name.
Toms music always brightens my day and ill never get tired of this video. You should get him an updated score so he can learn and perform it. Id love to hear a full ragtime band cover.
Maybe next month. I'll see him again at the Sutter Creek Ragtime Festival. He played it flawlessly (with plenty of wild embellishment) when I showed him the score two months ago, but I didn't record it 'cause I thought I'd let him practice it first. He didn't need any, unlike some of these others like this one.
This is amazing! What a rendition. He got the timing almost down perfectly and he Sight Read this?!? I call shenanigans!
Well... This guy's just showing off. (And having all the kinds of fun doing so. Nice!)
Tom was never one to show off; he just had fun.
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.
I'd kill for talent like this. Keep these videos coming, Keeper1st!
This is the best video on RUclips.
Tom brings this piece to life! he realy seems to enjoy playing it. So alive and fresh! It would be amazing to see a clean copy of this. The wonders he could do with this if he spent some time on it! Now THIS is Rag!
@VegasBilgeRat Heh, no, but it is a rather old building -- about 160 years old. It's the Sutter Creek Ice Cream Emporium, at 51 Main Street, Sutter Creek, California.
Damn! And that's pretty much at the same speed as it's played in the game! Awesome job, Keeper1st! :D
That improv on the last run-through is what makes it pro.
Please get well soon Tom, the world needs more of your genius
This is one of his best videos in my opinion. I love it. Not just a good musican, but also funny XD
Long time fan of Uematsu, honest he's one of the very best composers alive. I was only like 14 or so when I first heard this song and I got Final Fantasy 3 for the SNES. I was really surprised at how 'authentic' this song felt compared to much older and well known ragtimes.
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Besides folk songs from the Old World, and new pop songs ("Oh Susanna" is still popular today), you'd have heard a lot of opera music, believe it or not. While today opera is considered high-class music, in those days before TV, movies or radio, it was the entertainment of the masses. You'll notice that many preserved old Western towns have an opera house, in fact. I've seen some racist songs about Chinese from the time too (many towns had a Chinese population as they were railroad workers).
@GeorgesVI Same time (well a bit later) but different place. This was music in the cities -- particularly the ethnically diverse cities, as it came from African-American musicians. In many predominantly white areas, ragtime music and its related dances was banned for being obscene.
Composed by a genius and interpreted by another genius. Damn for a moment I was sitting in the Saloon watching the girls dance concorde :3
These videos are such treasures.
Wow that was amazing. What I love about this tune is that you would never guess it was from a video game, which is how all VG music should be; good enough to stand on it's own.
Kupo, KUPO!!!
This video alone makes me want to abandon everything in life and learn how to play ragtime instead. Wonderful!
I'd like to bid on 1/1200 of an airship please...
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you prolly dont care but if you are bored like me during the covid times you can stream pretty much all of the new movies and series on InstaFlixxer. I've been watching with my brother recently xD
@Kyng Kyng Yup, been watching on InstaFlixxer for months myself :)
1:55 What an amazing recover
Beautiful! It's been lots of years since I've played Final Fantasy VI and then I heard this familiar tune again. Realized it has never really left me.
This does put a smile on my face
I love that Tom's always having fun
@chaff5 Actually he says, "I could see that..." before doing it. I kinda figured that if I put the idea into his head, he'd run with it like that. But the result is almost always better than I imagined!
how many years it has been since you've played this one?
42 !
That was funny
BTW, I can't wait for the MOO MOO FARM song.
That one will be epic.
Like every song Tom plays.
You rock !!!!!
This play is epic, but also this "My friend makes music for video games. He wrote this rag." (in the description)
You should make a playlist of all of the videos you have of Tom playing video game tunes. I've tried finding them all in your videos, but you have -so many-. I found this one by accident when I found the Earthbound one. XD
He's so great!
@WyattEpp It was earlier than '99, I think. I was still using dial-up unix shell accounts, so it was probably '96, '97...? I didn't know what game the tune was from for many more years when I happened to come across Uematsu's name and looked around. Don't remember the name of the person who sent it either. The person had mistaken my site for a MIDI ragtime music repository, when actually it's just for my own MIDI sequences.
@Taedrin Oh, sorry about that. I had moved all my web space to a new host and domain last year. I thought I had updated all my links, but I must have missed this one (which didn't matter until now because the old host still hadn't taken down the space that I hadn't been paying for since about this time last year!). Anyway, I've put the new link in the description now.
It's a pretty regular request. I'm sure it would, but I don't expect it to happen. Martin Spitznagel did do three awesome videogame music tracks on his "Handful of Keys; Face-Melting Ragtime" album.
There are books on the subject you can check out, such as the classic "They All Played Ragtime", or newer books on ragtime history by Ed Berlin.
This is my favorite one that he's done so far
Thank you, Keeper1st. I appreciate it.
@DarknessSavior I've been loath to do that because one of the reasons for posting these videos is to introduce gamers to the genre as a whole -- including ragtime music from sources other than games. If I were to do it, I wouldn't just have the videos of Tom, but my sheet music transcriptions and my video of Martin Spitznagel doing the Mario theme in stride piano.
Yeah, besides the wrong time signature, they seem never to have heard of a double-sharp. The score I made a long time ago was just a quickie which still has some problems, though. The bass beats aren't separated, the grace notes are written out as 32nd notes (Encore would likely crash if you tried to start a measure with grace notes), and there's one place where I put an F-natural when it should have been notated as an E-sharp. But it's readable, at least. Most videogame scores online aren't.
@amplimax Notice how he plays it after I suggest it as a one-step, if you compare it to how it was played before, the bass line moves twice as fast in relation to the melody.
Thank you for putting the address on here. I remember talking to you a couple years ago, and I swear I read that this was at an ice cream shop in Mariposa. Well I live over near Oakhurst about 30 miles away, so every now and again I would take hwy 49 over to Mariposa and poke around looking for this place just exploring. Now I know it's closer to 150 miles away. haha Even so, this ice cream shop looks great, and it still seems like it might be a fun little way to spend a weekend drive with the kids.
Maybe I'll see if I can pack up the family and head over during the ragtime festival this year. As long as it is before the kids school starts, there shouldn't be a problem. Thanks for the info!
RicoLen1 The festival is Aug. 14-16 this year -- suttercreekragtime.com
This Saturday evening we're having our bimonthly ragtime meeting too, though 150 miles may be a bit of a trek (it's about 100 miles for me, over highway 88).
RicoLen1 Oh, and I should mention also that Tom does play at the annual Oakhurst Ragtime Festival right in your backyard.
I kept scouring Mariposa, wondering how I could miss this place. My kids didn't mind me taking them to look for every ice cream shop in town. I don't know how I got it in my head that you had told me Mariposa now though. haha
Oakhurst would be a lot more convenient considering my wife works there and that's where we do 90% of our shopping too.
TBH I really want to see this ice cream shop! haha
I've never been further up hwy 49 than Mariposa, but I'm always looking for a reason to go somewhere new so it'll be fun to head up Sonora way.
that was awesome! Thanks for uploading this :)
Easily the best live play on RUclips, it sounds like the game and speed is just right
Such a classic performance. Love this.
Ah, incredible every time!
I THOUGHT I WAS DONE WITH THE BLOODY AUCTION HOUSE DAGNABIT
This video was recorded 12 years ago and Tom is about 50 years old now - which would make him about 38 at the time. Therefore when he said he hadn't played it in 42 years, he was probably making an HHGTTG reference!
Or perhaps something related to Final Fantasy 6-
Absolutely Hitchhiker's!
@@Keeper1st That's so cool!
@@newgate-zerohour You mean hoopy.
@shadowzero9200 Oh, that's a great rag. I hadn't heard that one before. Definitely will make a score of it. Thanks for the heads-up! I also have Slide Show Part 2 from FF VII in the queue of tunes to make readable scores from (scores exist for both of these tunes but they're either overly simplified or have a lot of wrong accidentals or are in the wrong time signature, use too many ledger lines, etc., so I have to score them myself to make them truly readable).
thank you very much again for sharing this
Hearing this piece waaaay back in the day, when I played FFVI for the first time, is what made me fall in love with ragtime as a whole. Made me want to learn piano, too.
I play by ear but can read notes,just can't play directly from sheet music, but I can have fun with songs I do know, change key rythem and tempo. My dad could play from sheet music but not manipulate the songs, resticted to the paper. Think he was amazed at how I could change the songs. I wish I was at this guy's level, really looks like a lot of fun.
He was the greatest rag player in history, ever.
Oh, so one of the greatest vgmusic composers did rag too! The Chrono Cross music is my all-time favorite, that combined with my favorite pianist =D Just plain greatness
@Mapinga78 I dunno about that; he just knows what I mean by "one-step" which I would expect of any musician.
always excited to see new Tom Brier videos, still waiting to hear Moo Moo Farm!
Upon watching more and more of your videos. I now realize that he was in a terrible car accident that has left him unable to play the piano as he was once able to amongst other things. That is very unfortunate to hear and I wonder if he’ll recover fully and go back to playing piano.
No mas decir que el piano es el mas hermoso instrumento de todos, en todo sentido :)
Yeah, wild dancing was a shock to Victorian sensibilities.
How the hell this can be. This man is one of a kind.
@xarboy5000 It's in the description. Final Fantasy VI.
Fan for ever!
@shadowzero9200 I posted a video of Tom sight-reading the Treno tune last night.
@jere3416 Not specifically. Referring to ragtime music in general.
Great, greater, greatest
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The Emporium has seen some fantastic ragtime moments thanks to you and Tom, Keeper1st :) I keep watching them over and over because they're just so good :) Thankyou!
Seeing the comments requesting the piece, I hastened to find an mp3 (having never heard it before). This is of course superb.
This is wonderful!!!
OH MY GOD SO BEAUTIFUL
Man I stink at piano! My version of spinach rag isn't ANYWHERE NEAR even good compared to this.
Sir, you are truly gifted to play music this beautiful!
You have to have the dedication to play tens of thousands of hours to get that good. To call it a gift is belittling the achievement.