Debussy -Petit Nègre - Little Negro

[Twinstar1100]

Maybe to fast? But i'ts nice done!

[thejellybeankid]

That looks soooo HARD!!! I'm choosing what piano song to do for grade 6, and I thing this is it!!! :D

[MasterOfDisguise116]

the title of the song is merely pointing out which boy... its only identifying, not putting down. He wrote songs with titles like "The girl with the Flaxen Hair" which defines WHICH girl he is playing for. The title gives no racism (that is, putting someone down because of their ancestral origin) hence it is not racist. For the Youtube Record.

[MasterOfDisguise116]

im glad i stumbled upon this... i loved it so much i got the music for it and then arranged it for a woodwind quintet (bc im a noob like that :P) so hopefully i can get some of my fellow band mates record it, and post it here :D

[tiroirdelmare]

@MasterOfDisguise116 looking forward to it!

[tomatenpower1990]

It's easy to play... believe me! 2 weeks and you can play it like him...(you have to play piano for more than 1 year xDD!!!)

[0oOSTFUOo0]

well i'm learning this since like 2 month and im reeeely slow compared to him >.<

[MasterOfDisguise116]

D: that was godly! Fantastic!

[Landstockman]

Magnifique

[kihij98]

excellent! :D

[titidu3131]

Perfect !

[jfeucht82]

Very nice performance! I suspect like most people, I was drawn to this video by the politically incorrect title.

[indrawardani]

awesome! I hope i'll be that good on my perform next week :p

[koalaswrath]

Debussy was French. It was the dickhead Americans that were racists. Slavery had already been abolished in France.

[LoseUrCool]

@koalaswrath when this piece was composed slavery had been abolished in America for a long time. To say there wasn't any racism in France then or now is idiotic.

[mattpva777]

Haha ragtime overlapped with debussy lol

[BunnyLover210716]

THIS IS THE BEST!!!! At almost exact timing!!!! This song is supposed to last for 1 minute and 20 seconds AND YOU......nailed (most of) it!!!!

[CCMrJones]

oooh... thats the tempo oO

[SuperMegaPeanut]

@CCMrJones Listen to Pascal Rogés version. I prefer gis tempo a lot more

[voixhumaine]

Excellent!

[Lover0fMusic1]

Very nice performance, I loved it!

[DavidEMadsen]

Great playing, loved it!

Back when Joplin was playing ragtime, it was played slowly. Almost all of his sheet music had "It is wrong to play ragtime fast!", or something similar. My teacher, who worked for Thomas Edison as a youth,(yes, I'm an old guy) told me that it was in 1917 or so that "Tiger Rag" came out and that was it, it then became the fashion to play ragtime fast. When Debussy wrote this though, ragtime was played slowly. Fast or slow, it is a great piece.

[Rock93fy]

0:00 <---- free replay button

[OneManAndHisCastle]

definatly reminds me of a little negro

[TekoMuto]

They stole this from Kanye West

[PaulThePuppetier]

@TekoMuto this is by Claude Debussy man. He died loooooong before Kanye was born

[Fulsii]

@TekoMuto hahaha

[Nomisalpha16]

à travailler

[vakondnagymami]

isn't it fast a bit? but nice, great job :)

[PoppyAmelia93]

@tiroirdelamre

Did you change the fingering at all for this piece? I am learning it at the moment and the fingering feels a little awkward. Thanks!

[lePistolero]

The little nigger was actually a french cake.

[KHDemyx]

It's like you're missing some staccatos in the ´"bridge" between the main theme and the second theme. Otherwise, great tempo, rock-steady play, good phrasing, great dynamics, the second theme is also nice and almost rubato. I certainly couldn't have done better myself, or at least not without one giant buttload of practice ;)

[astarintheshadow]

perfect ^^) beautiful song . I learn it and i want to play it like you =)

[Ghoundai]

This song was originally called "Le Petit Negre" by Claude Debussy. It's a CLASSIC work.  Why does the song title bother so many people. Oh, that is because they see the word and don't understand this song was titled out of respect. It is MODERN America that has warped terms.

[Prestothemusic]

Oh, I get it! Could this song be named after Scott Joplin? This song sure does sound like a ragtime and jazzy piece.

[Prestothemusic]

Little Negro?????

I wonder what's the story behind THAT title? :/

Anyway, very jolly and great song! :)

[marapprech]

too slow!! no, just kidding, loved it, you're great!

[Xexi95]

... stole mah bike

[DarkOwner1337]

lil bit too fast i think.... but well done :)

[merlinos95]

...and the jazz was born!

No actually I think this piece was a bit inspired by ragtime tunes that were already existing then. Great performance!

[fredpep]

vraiment trop rapide... C'est suposé être une pièce lente... la rapidité enlève tout le charme à cette pièce facile mais sympathique...

[C3P0meetsData]

I would love this piece if it didn't have such an awkwardly racist title.

[nextren]

It's not racist. "Negro" was the standard polite term for black people until about 1965. In its day, this title was as PC as anything.

I guess the awkward part is the idea of the piece itself: write a piece about a cheerful little black child? Creepy! But, what's really creepy about it? The music is positive, assertive, celebratory. Nothing in the music puts anybody down. And Debussy is doing homage to ragtime here. (Brahms is said to have been interested in ragtime too in late years.) ENJOY

[John19182004]

@C3P0meetsData maybe it should be called "little NIGGER" to make it truly racist? There's nothing 'racist' about the word Negro.. You gonna go to the country of Niger and tell them to change their country's name because it's too close to nigger? I'm sure you think *I'm* a racist now because I typed the word "nigger" You're proably some liberal PC anti-human asswipe. There's nothing racist about words, only how they're used. If I went up to a Negro and yelled "You NIGGER!", that's racist.

[C3P0meetsData]

@John19182004 Oh, stop it! I'm just having a little fun. I was just commenting on how "awkward" it would be if you were going to preform this piece and you're like, "Hello, my name is John Doe and this evening I'm going to be preforming the "Little Negro" by Debussy." It seems like YOU'RE the one being to sensitive here. I'm not upset because you typed the word nigger, but I'm a bit annoyed that you called me a liberal PC ass-wipe when you don't even know me!

[BeauJames59]

Hello my Darlin, hello my baby, hello my ragtime gal!

[andreaDFC11]

fantastic!! Im in 6th grade and i just got this piece. i was stuck in one part, and this video really helped!!! thanks!

[iMacOviasProduction1]

@andreaDFC11

??? This is a grade 5 piece?

[mrnorthwesternfan10]

Just got this piece. Not sure how i as an eighth grader will ever get it that good.

[verabenida]

very good!!!!



[jeremymango]

you can connect a mike to your camera and you'll probably get awesome sound quality then... but i think the camera mike's are a lil costly.

[mrenike1]

That's beautiful ^.^

Grat .

[TheAnekatrine]

So cool :) I'm playing this piece of music right now, but i'll never get that good!!! Well done!

[Realythe]

Je suis en train de l'apprendre en cours de piano :)

J'fais du piano depuis 8mois ^^

[wrzlbrmpf123]

The best one on YouTube.

[debussy84]

Am i the only to notice how racist this piece is. It's obvious Debussy stumbled upon a melody that resembled american rag time and the first thing that popped into his ignorant head was black people. At the time it was published, no one would have batted an eye. There's no way ANYONE ANYWHERE in this day and age would name a composition as such.

[Eggland21]

@debussy84 You're an asshat. Everyone back there simply referred to black people as Negroes. Debussy was just as "racist" as everyone else, you ignorant fuck.

[debussy84]

@Eggland21 Wow, dicksmack, you're clearly retarded and have difficulty with reading conprehension. I never said it was racist because of the name but because he associated the medoly black people with. He and other composers often did this with melodies they percieved to be black or asian sounding. But thanks for informing us that black peeople were referred to as negros as if everyone didn't know that, you're brilliant. I suggest you stick to to your Lady Gaga and refrain from music above u.

[BizzarreProductions]

@debussy84 Because blacks totally didn't invent jazz music, right?

[nadeaarrct]

loved the middle though id prefer it a bit more... cake walky! though you played the piece beautifully with the speed :)

[TheSugarMuffin]

i'm 13 and i'm playing this piece. very good job, loved it a lot. :)

[summerdaystoday]

@TheSugarMuffin omg me two! i have to preform it this friday.

[Thegirlbling]

Wonderful!

I really like the beginning.

But I don't like so much these variations in the middle...

Thanks for this great presentation!

[qlynne]

Nice! Very clean and expressive. I like the piece at this tempo ^_^

[Darekakun]

Great job =D

But you almost forgot staccato keys, which is one of the reasons why this piano piece is beautiful ^^

[DylHsu]

too fast

[rbeva]

Wow, I didnt relize that your supposed to play it that fast

I've always been playing it really slow

[chinonononozu]

Lil' Nigga

[StefanTrost]

@chinonononozu

ist auch so.

ist so.



[PaulThePuppetier]

@chinonononozu this is the best comment you could have possibly made. No sarcasm

[VCube100]

@chinonononozu rotfl

[dragonsoul1999]

@chinonononozu Indeed

[titandown]

@chinonononozu i dont think its meant in a good way. debussy is racist

[BunnyLover210716]

@titandown Well it wasn't really debussy who 'its name, I think it was the Europeans maybe....t that time there was no.and a such of the word "racist" anyway

[BunnyLover210716]

@BunnyLover210716 I MEAN gave it's name ~>_<~

[kranxta]

@BunnyLover210716 it was still racist even if the word hadn't been defined

[IntentoDeBohemia]

WOOOWW!!! ahora a ver si consigo que se parezca un poco.. xDxD

[Surmusicp]

thats a nice piece...i liked a lot..it has several elements from ragtime and afroamerican music!! obviously...those elements are employed "a la debussy" in a short piece form...

very well played!

[Xanczor]

Great job! Keep playing!

[alexluvzya]

awesome, great job! i play this on clarinet for school

[angeee993]

wow you're amazing!! that was fantastic!

[LeCompteCommun]

very good, I am learning it too !

[Merkavastreetfighter]

Thank you!

You helped me a lot!

[cammywatt95]

im learning this at music school atm :D nice

[aliciahannahmaria]

wundervoll

[bemdafis]

very expressive.nice job. i'm beginning on this piece now, hope I can arrive at your level.

[chimpangutan]

This is the most epic song in all of epicness. Debussy, and accompanying pianist, I bow to your expertise.

[xxh3llfir3xx]

YOU SIR ARE RACIST FOR POSTING THIS VIDEO!

lol jk, great playing!

[Shtove]

That's where all the silent movie soundtracks come from?

[rossetta4ever]

bello, ma bello davvero

[kilmeluber]

ТЕХНИКА ОЧЕНЬ ХОРОШАЯ НО СРЕДНЯЯ ЧАСТЬПРОСИТ ДУШИ!

[McTomson]

allright!

[jmj738]

A tes souhaits !

[EllaABo]

Wow, you play it way faster than I do! I wish I could do that!

Sounds pretty good!

Funny, I do my right hand above my left when I play the lower part.

I do think you should play the part where it goes up fastly (from 0:10 till 0:14) more open and with more space between the notes. I don't know how to say it in English...

Well, anyway, Very, very impressive. I think I'll have to practice more!

[katyfel]

i also think its the best version online- awesome!

wish i could play it that fast with all the dynamics and lightness!

[TikiFury]

a very clear tone and very impresive speed keep it up you seem to understand debussy perfectly and not all can say that...

[xossie]

i have to learn this one to!

[sweetangel376]

wow that was great! i've learned this song but i dont have it that fast yet...

[Finny315]

great job, I love playing this song.

[Abchase1890]

looks like fun to play

but my black cousin would hve a fit i played this in front of him lol

Especially if i would sight-read it, I may have to put a post it note on the title lol

[jimicheesecake]

ya, best version on the web for sure, i dont play it that fast, but i like it.

[yellowbrendan]

best version i've found on youtube. perfect speed, dynamics, touch..

[Dschon13]

i really like your speed and your dynamics!

I'm 15 and I hope i can play it as good as you soon.

[nextren]

What a good pianist!

Thanks!

[DanceCrazy100]

omg wow!

[michaelnyman1]

bravo

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congratulations

[czmicbrwnichild]

so clean and the touch is just right! very lively and energetic! i love it!

[Alexknobsob]

Exceptional.

[xxslienpuntxx]

leuk

[soogoonu]

molto ben fatto brava!

se ci provo io mi si annodano le mani :)

[pablonoxi]

she's very good.I played this song with my saxophone in a competicion and I won.

[Shankovich]

I love the hint of ragtime in the song lol

[idosunon]

wasen't so amazing,if even,what was the goal? play it as fast as you can? oh well

[stume618]

A very nice performance, but I think the tempo of the main theme should be slowed down a lot.

[xionixus]

c moche tu va trop vite

[PianoJoeWist]

Very nice...^_^

[evelyn5998]

Great job!

[lespotespotter37]

super, j'aime beaucoup l'angle de vue utilisé, sinon de très belles nuances ! Bravissimo !

[Microrator]

This is a lovely video, played with feeling and thought. .

well done.

[flashy89pao]

I played Little Negro when i was in 5th grade and won for my category-now im in college and i forgot how to play the whole piece-except for the first part.

[agustin1955]

Beautiful interpretation.5 Stars for me...!!!

[Mayka99]

Beautiful playing:) I loved it. Greeting

[NeoComposer]

Very beautiful interpretation^^!!!!

[TheBlackPage1]

Debussy in his Joplin phase? :)

Wonderful!

[dicom]

Nice bouncy tune!