Marshall Harrison plays Frederic Freakin Chopin's Winter Wind Etude 11 op 25

[davtones]

alright now play the godowsky version lolol

[fantomg1]

Just met you for the first time here on youtube. Was watching your guitar playing and stumbled on one of Chopin's Etudes near the top of my fav's op25 no11. Just one thing, and please know this is not criticism in any derogatory sense: Accent the right hand notes (every other note) to bring out the 6/8 feel or it gets lost, especially when the damper pedal is used (which Chopin often wrote in his music moreso than others).

[fantomg1]

@fantomg1 On break for a sec from working... Wondering if you've played this on the guitar? Will have to look it up. And if so, are you able to accent those notes with the guitar?

Better late than never: Congratulations with your ability to play both instruments at the levels you do! 

[skatefallen15]

you're inhuman, why have I never heard you play before

[ignaziodisalvomusic]

you're simply incredible...

[KeithWhalen11]

You can do it all Marshall! Always impressed to see musicians, especially guitarists, who can also tackle the demanding works of Chopin, Liszt and Alkan. Have you ever had a try at any of the Alkan etudes on piano?

[hairlessdog101]

thats was really cool man.....but to the other people once you get pretty good at guitar piano just comes natural ithink like i got pretty good in like two 3 weeks so if you apply things ou know on guitar to piano and vice versa possibilitys are endless

[TomJoadsGhost1]

@hairlessdog101 wait! Sorry guitar and Piano are vastly different instruments, and while all western music incorporates the same rules, ones mastery of either would not equate immediate success on the other.

This artist deserves double Kudos... one for playing the piece and one for doing it from memory!

[hairlessdog101]

@TomJoadsGhost1 i understand what your saying i was talking about like scales and timing and chords and stuff........But yeah hes great piano player and your righttt......Cool song

[Steve128967]

it's impressive for something to be that fucking good at guitar and piano...

[SirJamestheIII]

that was awesome. Have you heard Vitalij Kuprij's version?

[RozarSmacco]

@SirJamestheIII Yes. I have heard Vitalij's interpretation and it is pretty damn good. but compared to Hamelin's Godowsky Winter Wind and Richter's. yes.

[Granttt93]

@RozarSmacco dang! how did you find the time to practice that much?!

[54NT14G0]

Marshall, that was SICK, you're amazing.

[Granttt93]

how long did it take you at playing piano t be able to play this good?!

[ExtremeBogom]

Anyone playing Chopin has my respect!

[wiregate107]

do you stiil have time to eat or sleep?..you're a genius..you played piano like guitar and played guitar like a piano

[syntheticalnothing]

One of my favourite pieces of Chopin. Incredible. I've always loved the chord change at 3:17ish.

[andyvicius]

you could at least turn the tv off.... great playing anyway...

[RozarSmacco]

@andyvicius I had the radio on, ("the Jim Rome Show" for the curious). I was experimenting with an idea by Glenn Gould. He stated that if a radio/electronics device/machine is running while one is playing piano then its easier to play more freely or something along those lines...

[andyvicius]

@RozarSmacco interesting theory hehe... glenn gould playing was IN.SANE!

[Timotheedle]

@RozarSmacco

that's cool, I'm going to try that when I practice.

where did you read or hear that about Gould?

[shadowknight132]

@RozarSmacco

Hmm... Did it work? Seems like it did.

[mrjazzvids]

@RozarSmacco I've heard this before, too. Haven't experimented with it yet, though. I love your videos where you're watching TV while playing absolutely the most ridiculously technically astounding things on the guitar.

[TomJoadsGhost1]

@RozarSmacco So was it easier?

[JayLovePlaysGuitar]

You are a very talented individual

[niixj]

You do it all, Marshall!

[gunfart]

chopin sounds pretty cool, i just watched a thing on jean sibelious, how do u rate him?

[RozarSmacco]

@gunfart Sibelius from the frosty northern regions eh? too frozen over for me, no fiery "communicative electricity" or at least not enough for my taste. Liszt: Passion, fire, bravura, limitless virtuosity. yes, please!

[RozarSmacco]

@RozarSmacco Favorite Liszt anecdote: Arthur Friedheim was having a lesson Liszt at the resplendent Villa d'Este in the Italian countryside in the 1880's in the evening and he couldn't quite set the right mood in the "harmonies du soir" (transcendental Etude no. 11). Liszt opened up the curtains, and motioned out the window and said "there are your harmonies du soir, play THAT"

[gunfart]

@RozarSmacco Well he sibelius did do 7 symphonies so there must be some fire in there. Some of his diary entries are beautifully constructed. I can't beleive he burnt the 8th. I'll check liszt, I'm always looking for something epically tragic sounding and never really find it, Mahler came pretty close once. Maybe I need to listen to modern classical?

[lauriemonk]

Welcome back ;)