Circus Galop - Marc-Andre Hamelin

[toffeepupu]

wtf =.= ugly music

[TheComenterMan]

Must be insane to play this in a piano.

[steinwaygrande1]

What sadistic swine composed this piece of "music " ????????

[Strikerx20]

This is what Chuck Norris does when he's bored.

[mikenaim90]

is this song made for 1 person?

[Joshlama]

@mikenaim90 it is made for player piano.

[XxWenYixX]

@Joshlama what's player piano?

[Joshlama]

@XxWenYixX This /watch?v=zXXw5LIvD7Q

[RollerCoasterManiac]

@mikenaim90 the song is possible if 2 or more people play it at the same time

[funnyesthomevideos]

How many fingers would you need? :O

[lostlov30]

lol @ how this key is in F, yet the song's chromatic, basically.

[tfmMspringles]

okay the composer smashed the keyboard then = . =

[Gord185]

Why is the sheet music all stretched out?

[mphello]

What a lazy composer! He quit before bar 400. (grin)

[sbanchi]

Where is the part where Hameline wrote it on Synthesia?

[lhc89]

If there was one person ever who could play this it would be Marc Andre Hamelin himself lol.

[DD2009252525]

why from 4:22~4:25 I hear "aoohhhh" sounds O.o

[Joshlama]

@DD2009252525 Your not the only one. :)

[saxophones1397]

I'm so gald I came across this song. The next time someone wants me to a piano challenge, I'll tell them to look up this song, the challenger is DEFEATED!

(By Marc-Andre Hamelin)

[lila2k03]

how to rape a piano.....

[deskset24]

To quote a famous line from the play "Amadeus": "too many notes".

[sgivas]

I like this fellow ..however this is WEIRD, affected, and pointless.

[sheppoz]

Since this was posted, I've worked 24/7 to learn this inspiring work. The lyrical content is 2nd to none and I feel I connect with the composer's psyche. The only problem I had was that upper bass clef - the one that doesn't do much. But I sorted it. They don't call me 'Clever Dick' for nothing.

[Joshlama]

@sheppoz have you posted your results in video form on Youtube so that you can be the first person to be able to play this work?

[sheppoz]

@Joshlama

Modesty prevents me from doing so. You with me ..............?

[VincentDeLaTorre]

@Joshlama I can play this. Give me two weeks. Maybe only a week. Then check back on my channel :)

[Joshlama]

@VincentDeLaTorre ZOMG!! That's a lot of edits!

Shame that you used the MIDI and didn't record each note and then did what MGM did with his Figaro piece.

[VincentDeLaTorre]

@Joshlama Actually, I synced up every note correctly (for the most part) in the song. Even though it was MIDI - most notes are correct (ignoring the fact that my piano is two octaves short haha)

[ferocel]

@sheppoz Best comment! Don't think the uploader got your 'clever dick' reference but hopefully your reply pricked up his ears.

[Joshlama]

@ferocel I got it after the reply. :)

[MrOliverKjaerulff]

If this was written by Liszt, it would have been a left-hand etude.

[awsomedrummer100]

dude that most of taken along time since you used finale. wish i have finale but i dont want to pay $600 for it

[Joshlama]

@awsomedrummer100 Well, I was using a MIDI file to import into Finale. And I was using Notepad (which was free at the time.)

[cowzilla8]

Could you make one for death waltz by john stump, if that's possible?

[Chopininoff]

Just ridiculous....

[15silverblade]

I liked this song very much, I consider it an very good artistic job!!

[aschickelgruber1]

sounds like The Chipmunks on a barroom pianner

[MrKittycat331]

I wonder how Marc-Andre Hamelin created a crazy note like this

you should see Death of Waltz by John Stump

Anyway, thanks for upload :)

[ledzepluvr42]

I didn't even know notes like that exsisted. o.o

[mazeppa63]

This piece has too many notes and 'more genius than taste.'

[nchionh]

may i know where i can get the sheet music? or how did you get the music to be played on the software?

[sussexbearandpelt]

what a fab piece - think it was inspired by nancarrow - and actrually nancarrow is pretty tonal!

[klavierspieler72]

I think this is actually pretty amazing, like tonal Nancarrow, and lots of fun!

[C2Dlive]

im afraid....

[Kriss8994]

This is the most annoying piano piece i've ever heard :D

[hotbebimauz]

this wouldnt be even possible for four hands lol..

[NewEquinoxProduction]

Finale..

[RaphaelPargger]

can i get the sheets somewhere ????

[cky12qxz]

How did he make this song if it's impossible to play..?

[paulturtle92]

@cky12qxz read uploader Joshlama's comment on SilentViolins, it was written for Player piano!!

[MarioNintendoh]

@cky12qxz Simple, really. You can write just about anything. Playing it is another story.

[BabyVegeta9000]

The day someone (only 1 person, no player pianos or programs) plays this song on a piano is the day the world ends.

[oceanboy1993]

sounds like an orchestra of game boys and pinball machines at double-speed

[colombiadan94]

the hardest part is from 0:00 to 4:41

[Joshlama]

@RayDheartpower This is a serious song.

This isn't the best recording of the work, so choose another one, such as this one: /watch?v=6utk2nFjpXA

[afertyus1000]

i can play it like that at the same speed

[Joshlama]

@afertyus1000 Does it involve randomly hitting the (piano) keyboard really fast?

[afertyus1000]

@Joshlama not randomly i assure you:)

[Theonedue]

No human can plays this (at this tempo).

[SilentViolins]

The ending was probably first made when Hamelin was playing it himself on a piano, and as he was approaching a big finish ending like he had in his mind, the piano just broke. He decided to use that instead.

[Joshlama]

@SilentViolins It was written for Player piano, that is a piano that plays by itself.

If Hamelin was playing this piece, he would need to have grown 4 more arms!

[SilentViolins]

@Joshlama I know that, I was making a joke about Hamelin's ability as a pianist.

[s694019001]

@Joshlama and like 3 more hands for each arm

[TheNameless991]

It's really piece for circus. If some duet (trio, quartet) will REALLY play this galop, it will be like a Death Defying (ыщккн for my bad English).

[oseltrenado]

I think it has to be played on 10 pianos

[OverFjell]

Isn't this for 4 pianos?

[Joshlama]

@OverFjell This piece was written for player piano. It could be rewitten as 4 pianos, or even 10.

this is clearer here /watch?v=6utk2nFjpXA&

[gluse]

@OverFjell no, for two player pianos

the ones that play by themselves

TWO OF THOSE

[Joshlama]

@gluse It was written for ONE player piano.

[atree3]

has any one person ever played this live.? At this tempo?

shades of Conlon Nan Carroll

[addeex1]

omg is this alkan on crack? xD

[FeloFilms]

this guy, Marc-Andre Hamelin was a perverted mind, killer, genious, and fucking talented person, he made this, maybe for hate at the pianists,

[KawhackitaRag]

It was actually written for player-piano.

[chao4356]

ik hou van bami

[eeks1982]

It sounds as if the Joker was managing a circus in Wackyland...

awesome and insane piece, and magistral and coherent composition...

[Frelkage]

I need this sheet music.

I want to have my shot at this, through duet, of course.

I can trade you all sorts of sheet music.

[cammywatt95]

oh man.... that, is just pure INSANITY through the medium of music. how did he actually have that stuff going on in his head?!?!?!?!!!!! maybe he's sane and we're all mental

[Joshlama]

I'm kinda listening to some of the hardest pieces to play on the piano and, there's a lot of things the pieces do that he does to a much grander level in this piece.

[andrew181094]

that's not even a song, there are just anoying noises

[Joshlama]

Who said that music can't be anoying noises?

[cammywatt95]

yeah they let that happen with shit pop music

[fakericky]

This song is gonna give me nightmares >_>

[Zoroark7]

@fakericky I had a nightmare about me being chased by an undead Nazi circus while this song played throughout the whole dream. It was a lot scarier than you think.

[P3drotta]

Hamelins hands must have been bigger than Rachmaninoff's :S

With whom is he playing this?

[Joshlama]

no-one...

This was written for Player Piano. (the one where you put in a roll and it plays the music for you.)

[rafjuven]

a question, maybe half-witted, why the score is deformed much in comparison with the original?

[Joshlama]

in MIDI, the score needs to be condenced for easy reading.

[sakisv1971ath]

a great composition by Hamelin!! I have arranged it , for piano 4 hands and now I'm working the version for 2 pianos.

[KawhackitaRag]

I think it might be possible for two pianos and four pianists - or if not, then maybe three pianos and six pianists! (but the pianists have to be VERY VERY good!!!)

[simonjp90]

pff, thats not impossible, i could sightread it

[Starbirdy9999]

Isn't this song made on MuseScore?

[Joshlama]

It's played on Finale Notepad 2008.

I got it from a MIDI.

Finale Notepad can get MIDI and use it in this way.

Read annotations and info in the side bar.

[Starbirdy9999]

Oh. Then why does yours have that yellow background, did you change the paper size and settings or something?

[hjiuhfhrehui]

i think sibelius software is more usefull than Finale Notepad 2008

[Starbirdy9999]

Well, in my opinion, Finale Notepad is easier to use, and who needs one-hundred sixty-fourth notes notes anyway?

[Starbirdy9999]

FYI, I posted this comment before Joshlama added that the song was made on Finale Notepad.

[Joshlama]

Good point for ^^

I had it on defult settings. It's always been a yellow background (for me), and It was at letter size.

[Starbirdy9999]

Maybe if more than one person would play this, it would be possible in some parts.

[Joshlama]

yeah, we came to that conculsion earlier on in the comments.

[Starbirdy9999]

Exactly 5 people. I saw it one on synthesia.

[Medsas]

the videos on youtube have a better audio quality than this one imo.

[Joshlama]

I know. Amazing what can happen over a year.

[AndreicaGabriel]

This piece can not interpret the piano because it has a tempo too fast and even four hands is too difficult to interpret someone.

[Joshlama]

true.

[mayorde18]

that's not a new

[jackewiebohne]

next soundtrack to super mario!

[Joshlama]

do you have the MIDI?

[jackewiebohne]

no i am sorry i don't

[celach]

Oooh, you use Finale too! Could you send me the .mus file?

[ch252525]

i wonder why he didn't orchestrate the piece or arrange it for 10+ pianos so that this can be played...

[franzleone]

Hamelin is a genius

[MajesticFerret]

Those are some mighty massive chords

[Pianisteny2k]

Probably possible for 4 hands?

[Joshlama]

maybe 8???

[Gabry950]

Dopo qualche decina di secondi inizia a spaccar i timpani,mi dispiace!

[Joshlama]

Prova a trasformare il volume. E 'una cattiva rechording.

(I can't speak Italian, I just used Google Translate.)

[plerimest]

who did compose this?

[Joshlama]

It says in the title.

[libetta]

let's see if Cziffra can get a hold of this. i think he'd pee through his pants halfway this piece

[LetTheMusicFlow1]

lol....i'd love to see argerich, yuja wang, hamelin and lang lang to get together and try to play this. too bad cziffra is dead...

[Joshlama]

Plus a few other pianists.

[ReignOfPraine]

Really great and advanced.

[vananhthepianist]

oh wow! this piece is RIDICULOUS! hahaha

[vincecharus]

It is actually very craftily composed. I particularly like the inner voicing coming out of the dense texture, as well as the Ligeti-like chromatic clusters of sound.

[Joshlama]

I love how he has used the main theme, and has worked on it, while still making this really good 'ragtime' feel ( but contemporary) piece. for example: theme " 0:09 to :27 " and my favourite idea " 3:25 to 3:41 "

Also how you think it's going to be ragtime @ the beginning, then it goes crazy.

[HooksGambit]

I wonder if Hamelin listens to this on romantic evenings...

[Joshlama]

I'll just lower the lights, get ready, and play ( 0:03 )

[OrangeSodaKing]

Oh, one other thing-I actually have a live recording of this piece being performed actually pretty recently. Chuck Norris was the pianist, as I recall XD

[Joshlama]

You got me exieted for a moment there!

[KeithWhalen11]

Hahahahahaha!

[OrangeSodaKing]

LOVE the awesome sound effects using uberfast notes starting at 3:26 when the main theme comes back again! what a comic relief break from the intense classical music!

[BLC152]

I had a friend who tryed to play this...He died.lol

[nanioushka]

LMAO!

[PumpaBeno]

Yeah, i guess so.. OMFG xD

[musicpiano14]

yes, this is impossible to play. Crazy!

[terryregnar]

If you watch the whole thing, you break on through the other side, there's no going back either, your insane. No jokes this is revolutionary composing, Liszt would've probably imploded hearing this. Lol

[schzx]

Hahah, I knew this piece but I didn't know it was composed by Hamelin, I though Hamelin was playing it and I was like wtf I know he's a supervirtuoso but.....

[mandypants11]

wow. that was... epic.

[Joshlama]

The entire piece is avalable on the web as midi files. One of the cool things with finale notepad is that it will transcribe midi's to a .MUS (finale) format and you get what you see here.

The midi that I've used here I can't find any more.

[nicolaj0154]

how can i find it?.

[Joshlama]

A MIDI of the piece is in the decription. It's not the same as the original though.

The program that I used is Finale Notepad 2008. You now can't download it any more, and Finale Notepad 2009 cost $10 US Dollars.

[rvn10rvn17]

i used to have the original hand-written sheet music by hamelin himself but now it's lost..

[PianistFN]

I still have the link to the manuscript....it is pretty crazy indeed ;). Took him three years to write it down (between all his recitals that is).

[KawhackitaRag]

Love to see it!

[emilygclarinet]

I have it as a pdf somewhere.

[PumpaBeno]

The link in the description is wrong, the file is missing.

[Joshlama]

Thanks.

[squishym]

What...the...f*ck.......

Thumbs up! Haha.

Kind of freaked me out, not gonna lie. That's why I like it =)

[Gulbransen14]

Insane!!! =)

Though, I'm pretty certain that I had uploaded the original midi of circus galop.

[pois86]

wonderfullllll

:-)

[wargreymagic]

i think the program is called 'finale' or 'sibelius 3/4/5'. both are music notation softwares (:

[IloveAlexisBledel689]

I want that program, what is it called?

[Frozentoes1]

Then perhaps you could write what you mean and mean what you write. It is the responsibility of the writer to clearly express him/herself. Don't blame the audience for your lack of writing skills, dumb ass.

[Frozentoes1]

I've got a better idea. Stay the fuck off you tube and don't bother us with your ingnorance. Clearly, Hamelin's music is too complexe for your simple little pea brain.

[nudeman7]

this tune is SOOOOOO addictive! when it 's not playing it's in my head so I may as well play it over and over! Loveit!

[comrademarxist]

At 0:31, that's the nastiest cluster I've ever heard.

[Joshlama]

It sounds alright though. You don't expect though

[Achtelnote]

is this a composotion from hamelin?

[Joshlama]

yep, for Player Piano.

[Achtelnote]

thanks,i will learn it.

[shrinkingglasses]

good luck. lol

[mvs1312]

i think he will learn,

after his hands being mutated

[mdeonx12]

OMG, Hamelin is the only one who can create a song so complex (with the possible exception of Conlon Nancarrow).

[coqdorysme]

I doubt so. The score is pretty straightforward if you look at it (I have the first half of his manuscript) - and it's dedicated to Jurgen Hocker, who is one of the best pianola guys around. Gyorgy Ligeti easily surpasses this.