Martin Leung at Video Games Live (professional video)

[TheAmazingUploader]

THAT KEYBOARD DOES NOT DO THAT MAN JUSTICE! GIVE HIM A PIANO NEXT YEAR! AND PUT VERDEGRAND ON THE PERFORMERS LIST NEXT YEAR!!

[gerry12ac]

what song is that at 7:36 LOL

[elliottrawr]

@gerry12ac i dont get it? :/

[m03hawkman]

why was he hiding inside a box at the beginning...? o.o

[xmccormick]

@escalante

I see your point, and I haven't seen every performance, but this is the first time I haven't seen him on a piano.

[owned55n9ne]

the 4 faggots who disliked this shit HAVE NO IDEA WHAT REAL SKILL IS!

[smyth950]

What is the song at 4:11

[SchnuffelB]

lol Snake martin? awesome video

[muhammed5566]

The should've at least gotten some speakers to that keyboard, i mean come on.

[TonyTHEponyCONS]

How come that chick gets a MASSIVE harp, and he only gets tiny Casio 80's style keyboard?

[escelante]

@TonyTHEponyCONS

A harp is easily packed away and transported. A grande piano is not. Piano's are generally provided by the venue, not the performer.

[riicecracker]

Never thought keyboard could sound this good...O__O

[imafatwhiteguy]

My fav part is from 0:00 to 7:35

[ArcXIII13]

My favorite FF song! :P

[Usylys]

wow nostalgic or wuuut

[runnybabbit12]

at 3:01 what song is that?

[Pandenomioum]

With Aerith theme Martin smiled while hearing audiences reaction. He really loves it :P

[sexierikamalubuy15]

harpist meanmuggin

[The3Answer1]

at 3:00 when he plays the half step melody..woof beautiful

[lupin392]

@The3Answer1 do you know the name of the song at 3:00?

[ivicole]

@lupin392 FF8 - Fragments of Memories

[DragonShinobi11]

That woman behind looks like is falling in love with him. XD

[Bummul]

Wish he could be my personal piano trainer!!!

[chickenboo88]

I love how he slipped the battle victory song into the end there!

[RedPidgey]

I went to Video Games Live in November '09 when it came to Dundee. Best night of my life. Also, they gave Martin Leung a piano there and it sounded so much better than what I heard in this video... but still his talent is just beyond amazing.

[SpencerIsSecks]

I miss playing Scorch2000 with him D=

[96012cpscps]

lol you people they clap because it is the next part of the song thats what you do and btw i know this because i was at the 2010 video games live

[HazardJack]

why they clap in the middle, damn fools!!!!!

[halofanaticboy]

This is " To Zanarkand " right?

[Neoplasie1900]

The first is a song played in a menue, the second one is "To Zanarkand".

[fuexiong]

whao..when her played one winged angel..i had the goosebumps

just watching him play it..hahaah whao

go martin!

[Himpeli]

Could anyone help out? The song which starts at 3:22 and goes to 3:50 (I think). From which FF and what song? It's so familiar but I can't just put my finger on it.

[Deranes]

@Himpeli Tina/Terra from Final fantasy VI

[Himpeli]

@Deranes Thanks man!

[chickenboo88]

@Himpeli

Well, Final Fantasy VI in Japan, III in the USA. =P

[hermy3041]

@chickenboo88 Final Fantasy VI in europe PAL

[rallykarate]

lol martin learn

[DLPBurke]

hands up who thought that was amazing!

[Anjalena]

@DLPBurke He's been amazing for quite a while now. I'm very glad my son found him a few years ago and sent me the links. He does more than just video game music too, btw. He actually plays John Lennon's "Imagine" standing backwards. =)

[DLPBurke]

clap at the end you morons.

[kentonbrent]

i agree tabletennisperson =-D

[BrolyMaster21]

are there any videos where he plays Jenova's Theme?

[sonic12111]

He said Martin Learn

[drecklia]

the sound of the keyboard sounds so....arg!

grand piano is what he needs!!

[mentaluproar]

agreed. I hate synth!

[rafaelluiz18]

He is fan of Snake ^^

Nice, principally Terra Theme.. The best World/Hero theme of all FF games.

Final Fantasy VI RULES

[tabletennisperson]

looooool

wtf is he doing on a keyboard?

GIVE HIM A PIANOOOOOOOO

[Nicotuba]

@tabletennisperson I agree!!!!

[Gsus665]

@tabletennisperson i don´t think its a keyboard mh :) it´s an Stage-Piano...an digital-piano...when you don´t see that its not a normal piano and just hear...you maybe even don´t hear the different ;)

[escelante]

@tabletennisperson

Not every venue can afford a grande piano.

[l3umblexl3ee]

3:36 anyone know it?!?!?

[Capofer]

Final Fantasy III

[Mattaru12345]

Terra's theme from FF6 (PS)

[ezungwong]

A keyboard sounds more crisp than a piano ...

[crazzybill]

Crisis Core is awesome but it is no way responsible for 75% of the fanbase.

[lilshortypie72]

Dude, they could have at least sprung for a /real/ piano. Martin deserves better than to be playing on a keyboard! >:o

Otherwise, fantastic vid. Best footage of the medley on all of YouTube.

[Bobstew68]

@lilshortypie72 He also deserves better than arriving at the stage in a carton box. The whole thing seems so undignified. .-.

[juju6018]

oh wow a big ass event but they couldnt even bring him a real grand piano how sad

[QtipRocketLauncher]

maybe he didn't want one.

[heinzgilbert]

OHHH MY GOD!!!! what a great talent you have there son....

[bobskywalker123]

i saw him live hes amazing =)

[TempterMan]

Interesting woman on penumbra!!!

[WhatAmU]

wat is the name of the song at 3:51?

[claytonvinnie]

ff9 melody of life i think

[QtipRocketLauncher]

It's called Melodies of Life at 3:51

[snaerdi]

hahah I love the crowd of Video Games Live, we ''nerds'' can really appreciate good music! :))

[kevinmshields]

I was a little disappointed with his version of liberi fatali, everything else was exceptional, good FF medley

[colt45joe]

seriously... liberi fatali needs to be done with an orchestra.

[Stevetheanimeninja]

... and maybe one winged angel... idk...

[colt45joe]

I think one winged angel is one of the songs that VGL does every concert with the orchestra. while they do liberi fatali with the orchestra rarely ...

[de4th1snt3nough]

i cant find anything special about this video or this guy....theres kids at my old high school that could do this on a REAL piano....

[st0n3dst4ts]

@de4th1snt3nough yea he jus perfected all of the game sounds. but the keyboard and piano has the same keys/sound so how could that make him less talented?

[evefromthesky]

Whats the songname of 3:23?

[lapchiduong]

its from FF3 the begining.

[OMGLOLproductions]

Terra's Theme. From ff3 and ff6

[kylethedarkn]

Would be better if the audience didn't cheer and laugh like retarded children every 5 secs.

[DexTerminax]

God I love FFX....

[CerezFFM]

stop discussing and whatever, just listen .. nothing else matters ;)

[gnimish]

I wish i was cool enough to get that mad about a theme song.

[silverrane173]

Lol. I wasn't mad about a theme song per se, but at the insult that came out of nowhere to a comment that was AT THE MOST, ambiguous. Which theme did you think Mattaru was talking about?

[silverrane173]

What I meant was that the time was ambiguous, not the theme. The theme was stated clearly to be Terra's.

[Mattaru12345]

the transition into terra's theme was beautiful

[BigKiwiLad]

Aerith's you idiot

[Mattaru12345]

lol, typical retarded jewtube comment.

Terra's, you blithering fool.

[BigKiwiLad]

hmm, did you have to practice to become this stupid? or is it hereditary? do your parents have the moron gene and they just passed it on? either way.... 1:52 that's Aerith's theme. you drooling, ignorant tool.

[silverrane173]

WOW you are stupid. He's talking about at 3:23. You honestly thought that 1:52 transition was better than the one into Terra's theme?

[BigKiwiLad]

actually, i really shouldn't be so surprised at the level of frustratingly retarded comments left by complete and utter nimrods..... yes i DO think it's better... that's my opinion :D everyone is entitled to an opinion.... it's just that my opinion, unlike yours, matters :D

[silverrane173]

and that reply is exactly why you're a dipshit. There are better ways of stating opinions. Instead you entered with an insult and didn't even bother to clarify. If only people like you were in charge, humans would've wipe each other other decades ago.

[BigKiwiLad]

"WOW you are stupid. He's talking about at 3:23. You honestly thought that 1:52 transition was better than the one into Terra's theme?" << oh hey look! it's you entering in with an insult! does that make you a dipshit too? i realise they're foreign to you, but try and learn the concepts of common sense and logic, they will hopefully save you from making more painfully embarrassing idiotic comments in the future.

"humans would've wipe each other other decades ago." << i rest my case :D

[silverrane173]

yeah I'm a dipshit, congrats on joining the club. Looks like your so called 'common sense and logic' are just as stupid as your comments. I suggest that you stop before you degrade yourself further.

[BigKiwiLad]

right then, it's clearly obvious you're a glutton for punishment and don't know when to quit while you're behind and you have an almost emo like need to hurt yourself.... but i'm not a cruel person, i don't believe in beating a person after they're down... and seeing you declare that "common sense and logic are stupid" well, that strongly suggests to me you've lost any shred of rational thinking you may have had :/ so to prevent you from further harming yourself i shall say good day sir! :D

[silverrane173]

You sound like a lunatic. Make sense. Lunatics can't understand anyone but themselves. I started with an insult çuz you weren't gracious enough to ask for a clarification before spewing your own insults at others. I noticed how you left out the part where I said 'YOUR logic and common sense' from your quote. There goes any ounce of credibility and intelligence in the last part of your comment dumbass. Good luck with your rose-coloured glasses.

[BigKiwiLad]

it's good to see you admit that you entered in with an insult in lieu of being able to contribute a comment that contains the slightest hint of intelligence it's just a shame that you seemingly haven't attempted to stop this practice. I also completely understand how someone totally unfamiliar and inexperienced with the ability to actually make sense could construe someone who CAN as a lunatic. the unknown can be scary! hope one day the alarm goes off and you wake up to yourself :/

[kevinmshields]

Lot of dumb people on the internet, what can you do? BigKiwiLad, both Aeris' theme (learn to spell kthx) and Terra's theme can be heard. Terra's theme ftw imo

[BigKiwiLad]

hmm, did you have to practice to become this stupid? or is it hereditary? do your parents have the moron gene and they just passed it on? either way.... 1:52 that's Aerith's theme. you drooling, ignorant tool.

[Melvin29FiLi]

lol

[xnthyangx]

RAR I KILL KEYBOARD ! RAR! LOL

[GAMMATRON5000]

This is what I hate about live music. People have no manners. Some moron recognizes and/or likes the song the guy's playing, so instead of actually listening to it, they start yelling and clapping. Why? Didn't you pay money to be sitting there? To HEAR music? STFU and let the guy play! Trust me, no one cares whether or not you know the song.

In other news, the "victory fanfare" ending was a nice touch.

[exosfear512]

Chillax man, there clapping cause they're showing appreciation.

[Digman2012]

i absolutely agree with you, those assholes fucking yell and scream and clap and appluade, what the fuck, just enjoy the fucking music, we all know what it is, and we don't care that you are so retarded that you think we care, just shut the fuck up and let people enjoy it.

[HomelessTwit]

Um, if you actually go to a VGL concert, clapping and yelling is actually encouraged, so please don't try to impose your viewpoints on those who have actually been there and enjoyed the cheering.

[GAMMATRON5000]

Um, if I went to a VGL concert, I wouldn't enjoy the cheering, whether it was encouraged or not. I don't care what kind of concert it is; I'm there to hear the music, not the audience. That's not a viewpoint, it's common sense. Cheer all you want, just wait the whole 3 minutes while the artist you're there to see is done doing what you paid to see. You must love it when people talk on their phones at the movie theater too.....

[HomelessTwit]

LOL the audience is ENCOURAGED to cheer at VGL, so your cellphone analogy doesn't make any sense.

1) The producers want cheering.

2) The audience cheers..

3) The musicians enjoy the cheering (if not they wouldn't be there).

4) The music can be heard easily if you were actually there, and not listening to it via youtube. But you would know this if you were actually there.

5) You don't like cheering, which is fine.

But don't call it common sense to not cheer at a video game concert.

[Maul3rR4ngx]

You're absolutely correct, I went to video games live(2008) and he (host) told us it was encouraged. At first i thought it was annoying how people tried to clap along and cheered but i realized everyone was just having a good time like i was. Besides, how the hell can u not clap at Martin Leung live and playing the mario themes blindfolded!

[laobrasuca]

sorry to disagree with you, but you miss the point here. A LIVE performance is meant to the artist to interact with its audience! Can you imagine an comedian doing it's show and no one laughing but waiting till the end to applaud? It just destroys its performance, the artist feel no motivation on continuing. Look at the boy's face when people cheer, he enjoys it, he loves it, its the kind of thing you can't get in a studio recording section. It's spontaneous cheering and yelling, not kid stuff!

[GAMMATRON5000]

I suppose plays, musicals, operas, and other performances like that aren't "LIVE" then, right? Stand-up comedy is completely different, but if you must use that analogy, think of people applauding in the middle of a joke. It just makes it harder to hear the punchline. Watch some videos of Nobuo Uematsu conducting (like all the "Tour de Japon" videos on here) and explain to me how his audience is "destroying the performance" by simply listening and enjoying the music....?

[kevinmshields]

That depends on the kind of show. You wouldn't cheer during a classical concert, but this seemed to be more for fun, and obviously Martin Leung was feeding off the crowd's energy. I say kudos.

[madhotdog]

The cheering is good fun. However, when they started playing the WoW theme We had two guys that wouldn't shut up about their characters so we had to turn around and tell them to shut up

[arquijhan]

Damm when he Do the Sephiroth theme i though he gone mad and smash the piano EPIC OWNAGE

[villolparalosamigos]

the winner

at the end

[adgp]

what are they laughing at halfway in?

[y0urlives]

That harpist looks mighty jealous in the background..

[wiebenjijzeg]

indeed xD

[hazzard77]

Someone tell me, why is he in a cardboard box at the start?

[tahoe2113]

solid snake

[NakedMischiefYo]

Because he's awesome.

[laserworld94]

he makes cardboard look cute :) :P:P

[arquijhan]

Because He is Awesome, XD Bettar than snake

[sitdownmarty]

OMG! Terra's Theme from FFVI. EPIC!!!!!!

[Enfeeblement]

Isn't Terra from FFIX? But yeah, epic!

[Ragnarokender]

Terra is from 6. Terra is a planet in 9 (probably others).

[Saru4life]

ah man he's was freaking awesome!

[DontTouch26]

OMg, at the start.... that's from FFX o_O back to Zanarkand i think...

[Sakkuriru]

To Zanarkand.

[GBallaJ]

dont worry it is back to zanarkand ur right lol

[mrxerosquared]

anyone know the name of the final fantasy piece at 3:27? and at 4:14?

[Serjreaven]

at 4:14 its another version of Eyes of me, from Final Fantasy VIII

[Serjreaven]

Eyes on me, that is. T_T

[sitdownmarty]

ya i think its waltz to the moon. using the eyes on me melody

[windheavenX]

he frakin amazing he should apply for the youtube orchestra

[Singingnut93]

I was literally feet from him on stage! I was in the back row with my Brookline High school camerata choir on 11-21-08 at the Wang Theatre in Boston, Ma

[GohanNr2]

The lady in the background is pretty neat to watch instead of Leungs head

[wLasky]

wow finally.. a great Waltz for the Moon arrangement on piano. But the sheet music is not released, isn't it !?

[Giovanni222]

You bring Martin Leung along. He's going to play some of the best music since the end of Romanticism. You give him a shitty electric piano?

[ZhasX2]

How do you know it's not his...

[matthew798]

i have to agree, a little electric shitbox... sad because it's such nice music.... Hes a professional weather or not he plays video game music.

[maxpower201]

haha in Chicago's show they gave him a pretty nice black piano.

[SinnerJ]

I believe he wasn't part of the main play (Orchestra was the main I think), so they gave him a E piano so they don't delay the schedule from taking the piano aside. Although I have to agree that giving him a E. Piano on a stand was... enough to piss off most fans. Yeah

[StudioFeniceImport]

/bow

[SaigoKusunoki]

ASIANS IN BOXES.

[ryankayne]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Classic...

[I7emon]

why did everyone laugh at 4:05?

[ZhasX2]

offscreen obviously. behind leung, stage left.

[dranzermstr]

songs used i think 1. Fanfare all FF 2. Prelude all FF 3. To Zanarkand FFX 4. Aerith's Theme FFVII 5. Eyes on Me FFVIII 6. Fragments of Memories FFVIII 7. terra's Theme FFVI 8. Melodies of life FFIX 9. Waltz for the Moon FFVIII 10. One Winged Angel FFVII 11. Liberti Fatali FFVIII 12. Fan Fare all FF

[hellspiano89]

now thats my kind of music >:D

[DirtyHarryDeux]

no matter how many times i hear martin leung..it always is so amazingly well played..its crazy..respect!!

[KeidoEX]

Awesome vid! But what´s the name of the song starting at 5:24, after One Winged Angel? And what´s the name of the last song?

thanks in advance ;)

[DirtyHarryDeux]

no sorry man i dont know that theme

but do you know or anybody what theme martin lueng is playing from 3.24 till +- 3.40 ?

[KeidoEX]

@DirtyHarryDeux

The song is called "Tina". It´s from FF6.

@Airstepa

With "last song" i meant the song played before victory theme (unless the victory theme lasts longer than 10 sec) ...sorry

[Airstepa]

last song is the victory theme

[chiboi89]

It really sounds like Liberti Fatali, the intro song from Final Fantasy VIII. Although the actual song isn't piano like this.

[dranzermstr]

yea it is liberti fatali, there was vid of him doing this arrangement at VGL concert at yale that gave the names of the songs, so, i could give a list of all the songs used

[Cheer0912]

Thank you!!!

[Cheer0912]

What's the name of the song he starts playing at 1:17???

[Darksephiroth901]

To Zanarkand FFX The following one is Aerith's Theme FFVII

[bluberrypenguin]

hi this is my future husband kthx.

[vbabe1]

@bluberrypenguin <3 lets move to canada

[famAAAs]

saw him today ^___^

[chaosGLOW]

Man, I was there at the Las Vegas/Henderson show of VGL and I saw this... what a masterpiece. I STILL get emotional when I listen to it haha.

[Sphongsavanh91]

no, not terra's theme...the one right before it

[dranzermstr]

i think its Fragments of Dreams from ff viii

[Sphongsavanh91]

wat song is he playing at 3min?

[EThasAmulleT]

Terras theme from FF6. Look down next time.

[Anthony883]

you can pretty much tell he has 100% hand eye coordination..

[Anthony883]

shit I like his long hair its better like this and 5/5

[sodiumhydroxidechan]

quite strange to combine like this~~= =

[hydroTC]

hes not human

[genius10391]

would you QUIT CLAPPING! I CAN'T HEAR!

[MiNDx1er]

Whats hat SONG CALLED on 3:22!!??!?!?

PLeas Help Me out here

[drfoxdrfox]

That's terra's theme from FF6

[XikoKarpa]

Wow, he really puts feeling in it

[YHALOTHARBTARD]

Ha ha! I was in the front row!

[jahseemun]

Very nice quality!

I really like it!

Thanks

[jrfancypants]

Woot, I was there ^^