@csfcom I have been trying to Fantasie impromptu since i was 10..at the age of 13 i did and i was 3rd grade of music school.I believed i was a genius.But you are brilliant.I cant believe u did it in 1 year so i kinda hate you cause of that.But still this is amazing
I have been trying to Fantasie impromptu since i was 10..at the age of 13 i did and i was 3rd grade of music school.I believed i was a genius.But you are brilliant.I cant believe u did it in 1 year so i kinda hate you cause of that.But still this is amazing
i was able to play this piece completely when i was 18. i can tell you now that what David is playing here is different from the revolutionary or fantasie impromptu in the sheet music. he's improvising some of the runs, first in his head, then on the keys. this is totally mind-blowing! i had a classmate in music school who hummed and played classical music without even looking at the sheet and David is doing exactly the same thing but i don't hear him humming!
Oh my gosh! I don't care if everyone is having a snit about how he learned it, or whatever, but I've heard these pieces before and could not imagine how much work it would take to play them. He simply has talent, and I really appreciate that he was able to make it sound so beautiful at such a young age. Just enjoy! It's a privilage to listen to him!
Alex...playing by ear is a gift. Go through all of his videos. Notice NO SHEET MUSIC? Everything is in his head. Once his fingers touch those keys it all flows out with ease. He has an amazing gift...not everyone is so lucky. Just listen to him and enjoy! :~D
Oh, yes!!! It's possible to learn difficult pieces by ear. I watch short video clip showing a blind kid learning music just by listening to what his teacher plays. That kid knew exactly what keys his teacher strike with fingers, just by hearing his teacher's performance once.(I think he was shown on 60Minutes) This is gift Mr. Bérubé was born with.
AlexAngel92 -It's hard to believe (pre-production)and and I think it because I am a pianist too and I study composition LOL for this reason you do not believe. Would be humbler my friend and you will believe.
Hi David ! Je suis hyper impressionné! Moi aussi j'ai commencé le piano en apprenant les pièces à l'oreille... Mais jamais des pièces aussi difficiles! Tu pourrais m'en dire un peu plus sur ta façon "d'apprendre d'oreille" ?
Yeah it's pretty amazing but I highly doubt that he learned it by ear. He probably learned someone of the melody of revolutionary etude by ear but not this whole piece. And 1 year of playing?! Oh please.
i agree. i mean this is great and he's very talented but am not sure what ppl mean by playing by ear? am quite sure that he had to read the notes to know what to play. he cant just discover all the notes by ear! especially at 1 year of playing.+ i wonder if its true that he started Playing the piano actually. cuz i started playing the piano 4 years ago but i started taking lessons next year so i cant say i started playing last year. i wonder how it is about mr. berube's case
oops, sorry. i re-read what i wrote and i wonder whats wrong with me, i was talking non sense lol. correction: ...started playing the piano a year ago...
and: ...i started taking lessons Last year... (not next, how can it be lol)
Yep I reckon he did learn it by ear there were heaps of different notes and different timings as opposed to what's actually written on the music. But pretty clever 12 year old all the same!
Obviously you don't play this piece. Every note was exactly as written. If there were any not as written they are called mistakes. He did a great job. Much better than me. But not by ear!
Actually i do play all these pieces myself so I know every exact note and every exact timing, I also studied the etudes when I was 12 and also the impromptu in C#. So perhaps you should learn to read music yourself then let me know so you can point out the notes on the mucis to me. have a nice day.
Just how does one actually go learning by ear?? You hear the tune & then try to find that notes or chords on the instrument?? Kinda like a trial & error thing until you find every note/chord in the piece???
I do know the suzuki method actually involves this thing of learning by ear. But how the students go abt it is still a mystery!!
really great David! and just by ear! Man, I'd do almost anything just to have perfect pitch! and you're really tall! ugh, give me some of that height! haha! :)
cmec429, i think you are simply jelous bc YOU are unable to learn anything by ear. This guy is amazing, and who you are to accuse him of lieing? so, STFU!
Fantasies Impromptu - I played that, but not even 1/2 as well as you did at 12. lol
Your trills are romantically beautiful. I always have problems with them. I can't understand why. I get so frustrated with them; especially, with The Minute Waltz. Geez!
lol fuck off cmec429 mate this guy is a freak of nature behind the board. oh how did mozart write shit that great so young? no one showed him to play what wrote did but he accomplished amazing things. just accept your level of ability falls short of David and go back to masturbating in your fathers woodshed
Im sorry but i agree with cmec 429. The boy is a very good pianist, but i doubt he learnt these songs by ear, thats pretty impossible. If he did, his iq MUST have 4 numbers XD.
do you know that he never had touched a musical instrument before he was 10½ year old... so when he played this had he played in one and a half year!! inncroyable!
The Revolutionary was great, but the Impromptu wasn't that good. Still, though, for twelve, that is a mind-blowing talent! He's the Mozart of the new millenium!
It's not possible for a person to learn a piece by ear, especially pieces such as Revolutionary and Fantasie Impromptu. I highly doubt that you haven't looked once at the sheet music. And if that is so, then that means the caption you posted is false.
I started playing piano since one year today. I'm learning the revolutionnary etude. I have learn "nocturne in C# minor" and the Rachmaninov prelude op.3 n°2. I belive that this boy had learned it by ear. The technical difficulty is not important. Some peaople like this little boy can more than others in their entire life but only the idea and the sensation are important.
There are a lot of musicians that learn and even compose very complicated pieces of music by ear only and do not know how to read music at all. I believe Mozart was famous for being able to learn and perform music by ear at a very young age. So I don't know how you could say it's not possible to do it...
If it's false then that further informs the public of how an ass you are for posing false information. I see dludi8hn has no background whatsover with the above noted pieces, thus havenot the slightest clues to the difficulty of Chopin music. My point is that you should respect the level of chopin music, and not demeanor it by saying such naive phrases as "I learned it by ear"
Actually, cmec429, I did learn a little about Chopin while majoring in Piano and Classical studies, and I think one only demeans(demeanor is a noun, not a verb) classical music by criticizing without evidenciary reason.
Just because the piece is extremely difficult does not mean that it's complex. It is simply a series of rapid chromatic runs and simple arpeggios in the left hand, with repetitive octave-spread melody in the right. It would actually be fairly simple to learn it by ear if one with Mr. Berube's talents were so inclined.
Looking at the 3rd movement of Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata, arguably one of the most difficult piano pieces of the High Classical period, I learned it mostly by ear. The structure is relatively simple, it's just played so fast.
I'm really sorry about my scepticism but I can't believe it .. 12yo is hard to believe but it seems to be true ! GREAT, I'm amazed !
But just 1year of piano ? IMPOSSIBLe !
We're talking about one of most difficult chopin mieces! At least you play 4or 5 hours a day during 360 days ... then you'd probably be able to play it ...
people that could usually this has a disability. THey showed it on a documentary once. Can't remember the name of the disease, but they can't do normal things that we do, like, other part of their brains don't work, thats why they can concentrate on the musical part. but.. they still shake and wobble and stuff..
hey Jennifer, check out David's page for other pieces, whether improvised or composed it's fantastic. A few vids will dispelled your doubt...the guy is NOT disabled, he's a brilliant pianist!
There was a progamme a few weeks ago on BBC tv about the case of a man with cerebral palsy who was a self-taught gifted pianist..However if one googles 'self taught pianist' there are a number of pianists/musicians who are self-taught from very early ages.
wow amazing! I'm not really amazed by the fact you can play this at 12, but be able to play this only after playing piano for a year? which means if you start earlier maybe you can play it at age 7 or 8. and I almost cant believe that you really learned this by ear at that age? that's a real genious. I really want to know how you do it! like how many times you need to hear the music, do u pause and try it on piano? do u write down the music or just memorize? anyway good job!
Incredible... even if not really learned by ear, and if not really after a year of piano playing - it's incredible to play such pieces in the age of twelve!
where the fuck did this guy go? he is so awesome... i want to see more of him.
axwapples 1 month ago
what the , what the hell , thats impossible !!!! only one year . omg
molossuspiano 5 months ago
At 12 years old, you played that ? I know you're good but it's impossible !
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@csfcom I have been trying to Fantasie impromptu since i was 10..at the age of 13 i did and i was 3rd grade of music school.I believed i was a genius.But you are brilliant.I cant believe u did it in 1 year so i kinda hate you cause of that.But still this is amazing
Supirior12 9 months ago
I have been trying to Fantasie impromptu since i was 10..at the age of 13 i did and i was 3rd grade of music school.I believed i was a genius.But you are brilliant.I cant believe u did it in 1 year so i kinda hate you cause of that.But still this is amazing
Supirior12 9 months ago
i was able to play this piece completely when i was 18. i can tell you now that what David is playing here is different from the revolutionary or fantasie impromptu in the sheet music. he's improvising some of the runs, first in his head, then on the keys. this is totally mind-blowing! i had a classmate in music school who hummed and played classical music without even looking at the sheet and David is doing exactly the same thing but i don't hear him humming!
lasalista1000 1 year ago
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Blah22yea 2 years ago
12 years old!?!? one year of playing!!!!? A prodigy if I say so myself.
AntiChrist06660 2 years ago
and all memorized....
ElisabettaVS 2 years ago
wow !!! tell me ... David Bérubé is a french name right? are you from Québéc...if so, I want you to be my teacher haha.
marcxb 2 years ago
amazing!!!!
Lana120694 2 years ago
where is the stage is it on place des arts coz i live in montreal
huyhuyhuytae 2 years ago
we are unworthy of your talent. Seriously if you learned that by ear your ear must put spiderman's spidy sense to shame
Foglemclovin 2 years ago
i envy you.....
how can you were that great at 12!!!???
i am 20, and i wish i can play just half as good as you....
coneroc 2 years ago
how could you learn all the fast low pitch parts by ear? that seems almost impossible.
Charmander5000 2 years ago 4
..... i'm speechless...
ibou 2 years ago 2
what randolph127 said :)
holy crap
rayazn9 2 years ago 4
:D Same for me, and for most other musicians, I guess...
jpAmarok 3 years ago 3
holy crap.
randolph127 3 years ago 4
This is absolutely incredible, I question if Chopin himself even had as much talent as David...
D0ug16 3 years ago 8
I was wondering if you learned them all by ear... Fantastic. I wish I had your kind of skill. I can't read music and I still can't play well. ;)
ravendreams176 3 years ago 2
his hands look like fluid over the keys... it's unbelievable...
shyboy04 3 years ago
Oh my gosh! I don't care if everyone is having a snit about how he learned it, or whatever, but I've heard these pieces before and could not imagine how much work it would take to play them. He simply has talent, and I really appreciate that he was able to make it sound so beautiful at such a young age. Just enjoy! It's a privilage to listen to him!
middleC17 3 years ago
Alex...playing by ear is a gift. Go through all of his videos. Notice NO SHEET MUSIC? Everything is in his head. Once his fingers touch those keys it all flows out with ease. He has an amazing gift...not everyone is so lucky. Just listen to him and enjoy! :~D
Baybeebear82 3 years ago
Oh, yes!!! It's possible to learn difficult pieces by ear. I watch short video clip showing a blind kid learning music just by listening to what his teacher plays. That kid knew exactly what keys his teacher strike with fingers, just by hearing his teacher's performance once.(I think he was shown on 60Minutes) This is gift Mr. Bérubé was born with.
msl37431 3 years ago
AlexAngel92 -It's hard to believe (pre-production)and and I think it because I am a pianist too and I study composition LOL for this reason you do not believe. Would be humbler my friend and you will believe.
oneyota 3 years ago
True Genius. He must be Mozart reborn.
msl37431 3 years ago 7
Hi David ! Je suis hyper impressionné! Moi aussi j'ai commencé le piano en apprenant les pièces à l'oreille... Mais jamais des pièces aussi difficiles! Tu pourrais m'en dire un peu plus sur ta façon "d'apprendre d'oreille" ?
bien à toi !
benjamingrossmann 3 years ago 4
Oh, please. He DID NOT learn this by ear. Maybe some of it. And one year of piano??? ya.......really.
Pianoman545 3 years ago 6
Yeah it's pretty amazing but I highly doubt that he learned it by ear. He probably learned someone of the melody of revolutionary etude by ear but not this whole piece. And 1 year of playing?! Oh please.
tjtheplay 3 years ago
i agree. i mean this is great and he's very talented but am not sure what ppl mean by playing by ear? am quite sure that he had to read the notes to know what to play. he cant just discover all the notes by ear! especially at 1 year of playing.+ i wonder if its true that he started Playing the piano actually. cuz i started playing the piano 4 years ago but i started taking lessons next year so i cant say i started playing last year. i wonder how it is about mr. berube's case
IsamuTakekura 3 years ago
oops, sorry. i re-read what i wrote and i wonder whats wrong with me, i was talking non sense lol. correction: ...started playing the piano a year ago...
and: ...i started taking lessons Last year... (not next, how can it be lol)
IsamuTakekura 3 years ago
Yep I reckon he did learn it by ear there were heaps of different notes and different timings as opposed to what's actually written on the music. But pretty clever 12 year old all the same!
jordonbrown123 4 years ago 9
Obviously you don't play this piece. Every note was exactly as written. If there were any not as written they are called mistakes. He did a great job. Much better than me. But not by ear!
marcose1994 3 years ago
Actually i do play all these pieces myself so I know every exact note and every exact timing, I also studied the etudes when I was 12 and also the impromptu in C#. So perhaps you should learn to read music yourself then let me know so you can point out the notes on the mucis to me. have a nice day.
jordonbrown123 3 years ago 2
Holy shit :|
12 yrs old... I would not have believed that if I hadn't seen this myself
EmRyo 4 years ago 5
i am so jealous.... i wish i was born with that talent...
i'm just mesmerized by pianists..
Seagullflying 4 years ago 5
Just how does one actually go learning by ear?? You hear the tune & then try to find that notes or chords on the instrument?? Kinda like a trial & error thing until you find every note/chord in the piece???
I do know the suzuki method actually involves this thing of learning by ear. But how the students go abt it is still a mystery!!
jbdoggy 4 years ago 4
HE didn't learn all that by ear!!! Sure, he's probably 12... and MAYBE he's been playing for one year... but he did not learn the whole piece by ear.
KarrotKun1 4 years ago 3
jealous? :)
albuseverus 4 years ago 4
sorry, I read that wrong; you began actually with one year. But that´s, how it sounded to me!
You have the great feelings and expressions in/for your playing.
Nice to have found you. You inspire with your rather adult way of playing (and your adult feeling for it)! You play a big figure, not small small!
Pianda 4 years ago 2
GREAT, boy! I´m impressed of your capabilities and talent!
Only one year playing piano? Sounds as if you were raised with piano! Very nice!
Pianda 4 years ago
dude i belive that he learned this by ear cause im 12 and im learnig to play this by ear lol. Hey could u give me some tips please lol
tjtheplay 4 years ago
could u give me a few pointers cause im 12 and i just got that piece yesterday
tjtheplay 4 years ago
really great David! and just by ear! Man, I'd do almost anything just to have perfect pitch! and you're really tall! ugh, give me some of that height! haha! :)
handsdown4dBEATLES 4 years ago
cmec429, i think you are simply jelous bc YOU are unable to learn anything by ear. This guy is amazing, and who you are to accuse him of lieing? so, STFU!
:)
xana255 4 years ago
You learned all of that in one year by ear? Wow~ Perfect pitch is so nice. I've got a good ear, but not that good. You're so cool!
NillaWafer 4 years ago
Im 12 too but i dont play piano like you 0_0.
jesuislepluscool 4 years ago
You have a good talent, perfect that and you will be very good !
DarkRossignol 4 years ago
Fantasies Impromptu - I played that, but not even 1/2 as well as you did at 12. lol
Your trills are romantically beautiful. I always have problems with them. I can't understand why. I get so frustrated with them; especially, with The Minute Waltz. Geez!
You're a natural born genius!
BankFace 4 years ago
You're showing off now. lol
;))
Twelve? You never cease to amaze me.
BankFace 4 years ago
lol fuck off cmec429 mate this guy is a freak of nature behind the board. oh how did mozart write shit that great so young? no one showed him to play what wrote did but he accomplished amazing things. just accept your level of ability falls short of David and go back to masturbating in your fathers woodshed
dcallaghan89 4 years ago
Im sorry but i agree with cmec 429. The boy is a very good pianist, but i doubt he learnt these songs by ear, thats pretty impossible. If he did, his iq MUST have 4 numbers XD.
nicooliva 4 years ago
I am stupefied with the boy!!!
he is wonderful!!!
that is a pianist!
cmec429
probably you a re a big shit who cant play a decent piece
go ot the hell
lara9114 5 years ago
this boy is a FANTASTIC pianist he play chopin etude,imprompu with 12 jears it´s awesome :D
Slavka911 5 years ago
do you know that he never had touched a musical instrument before he was 10½ year old... so when he played this had he played in one and a half year!! inncroyable!
guldklimp 5 years ago
The Revolutionary was great, but the Impromptu wasn't that good. Still, though, for twelve, that is a mind-blowing talent! He's the Mozart of the new millenium!
Audiophile87 5 years ago
you're pathetic cuz you knwo you didn't learn it by year ass hole
cmec429 5 years ago
yeah nobody learns by year... they learn it by ear.. omg cmec429...
geez... jealousy strikes again...
bilbomarks 5 years ago
What's the purpose of your criticism, cmec429?
dludi8hn 5 years ago
It's not possible for a person to learn a piece by ear, especially pieces such as Revolutionary and Fantasie Impromptu. I highly doubt that you haven't looked once at the sheet music. And if that is so, then that means the caption you posted is false.
cmec429 5 years ago
I started playing piano since one year today. I'm learning the revolutionnary etude. I have learn "nocturne in C# minor" and the Rachmaninov prelude op.3 n°2. I belive that this boy had learned it by ear. The technical difficulty is not important. Some peaople like this little boy can more than others in their entire life but only the idea and the sensation are important.
GabTH 4 years ago
There are a lot of musicians that learn and even compose very complicated pieces of music by ear only and do not know how to read music at all. I believe Mozart was famous for being able to learn and perform music by ear at a very young age. So I don't know how you could say it's not possible to do it...
TonysMusicRoom 2 years ago
If it's false then that further informs the public of how an ass you are for posing false information. I see dludi8hn has no background whatsover with the above noted pieces, thus havenot the slightest clues to the difficulty of Chopin music. My point is that you should respect the level of chopin music, and not demeanor it by saying such naive phrases as "I learned it by ear"
cmec429 5 years ago
Actually, cmec429, I did learn a little about Chopin while majoring in Piano and Classical studies, and I think one only demeans(demeanor is a noun, not a verb) classical music by criticizing without evidenciary reason.
dludi8hn 5 years ago
Just because the piece is extremely difficult does not mean that it's complex. It is simply a series of rapid chromatic runs and simple arpeggios in the left hand, with repetitive octave-spread melody in the right. It would actually be fairly simple to learn it by ear if one with Mr. Berube's talents were so inclined.
dludi8hn 5 years ago 2
Looking at the 3rd movement of Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata, arguably one of the most difficult piano pieces of the High Classical period, I learned it mostly by ear. The structure is relatively simple, it's just played so fast.
dludi8hn 5 years ago
cmec429 = Pwned.
bilbomarks 3 years ago
None of this is simple including the arpeggios and chromatic runs.
jordonbrown123 2 years ago
I'm really sorry about my scepticism but I can't believe it .. 12yo is hard to believe but it seems to be true ! GREAT, I'm amazed !
But just 1year of piano ? IMPOSSIBLe !
We're talking about one of most difficult chopin mieces! At least you play 4or 5 hours a day during 360 days ... then you'd probably be able to play it ...
badr5555 5 years ago
I think this song is write in romantic form, but in the style of BAROQUE!!! Good!!!
Krerksakul 5 years ago
LOL
jennifermorrison 5 years ago
people that could usually this has a disability. THey showed it on a documentary once. Can't remember the name of the disease, but they can't do normal things that we do, like, other part of their brains don't work, thats why they can concentrate on the musical part. but.. they still shake and wobble and stuff..
jennifermorrison 5 years ago
Hi jenni,
I'm lucky I dont have this disease....or maybe I don't know if I have it ???? (like Homer say)d'oh! :(
... ;-)
csfcom 5 years ago
hey Jennifer, check out David's page for other pieces, whether improvised or composed it's fantastic. A few vids will dispelled your doubt...the guy is NOT disabled, he's a brilliant pianist!
pagielme4ever 5 years ago
There was a progamme a few weeks ago on BBC tv about the case of a man with cerebral palsy who was a self-taught gifted pianist..However if one googles 'self taught pianist' there are a number of pianists/musicians who are self-taught from very early ages.
kahawn 4 years ago
@jennifermorrison I don't think you should be calling it a disease! A disease can be caught, and I doubt anyone is going to be catching this!
Minkymoo222 1 year ago
it shows you 're natural maesto David, Thank you for sharing
dabiribd 5 years ago
Very nicely done! Thanks for uploading it!
Dude, you kick ass!
linchase 5 years ago
wow amazing! I'm not really amazed by the fact you can play this at 12, but be able to play this only after playing piano for a year? which means if you start earlier maybe you can play it at age 7 or 8. and I almost cant believe that you really learned this by ear at that age? that's a real genious. I really want to know how you do it! like how many times you need to hear the music, do u pause and try it on piano? do u write down the music or just memorize? anyway good job!
reynardmh 5 years ago
Incredible... even if not really learned by ear, and if not really after a year of piano playing - it's incredible to play such pieces in the age of twelve!
Maticomp 5 years ago
Pure talent!!!
oynasbohol 5 years ago
I think you must continue your study. You will far! Congratulations.
EnricoCaruso 5 years ago
Great Job!!!
Enzo24680 5 years ago
u got perfect pitch then! congratz
seahyimin 5 years ago
It's mind-boggling to me you were able to learn this by ear and play it so well at such an early age. What an accomplishment!
jfeucht82 5 years ago
thats an amasing proformance even though i never heard the song before that was pretty cool(not rating it 4/5 though)
matrixkid 5 years ago
This boy kicks ass!! was that really learned by ear?
antoinedelacroix 5 years ago