Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No 3, 1st movement (Part 1/3)

[mademan39]

how long have you been playing piano and how long did it take you?

[highonyomama]

Do you know where I can get the recording you're playing along with?

[Eztoez]

Do you have any tips on how to practice it. I'm starting at the pui mosso, first movement. Did you literally practice it very slowly one bar at at ime, focussing on fingering, then build up tempo over time?

[biokemiker]

@Eztoez I practiced it very slowly like when you practice all other pieces. I usually practiced some pages at the time and slowly increasing the tempo.

[chrismanners1]

This is a really really good performance of a seriously hard work! Well done :)

[Matsurika88]

i envy you for the emotion very few have the ability to go through. to pull off this piece so aptly and feeling it with all its beauty.

ps: Shine's the best! got the same impressions. that and The Legend of 1900 where he played that supposedly-impossible cigarette-lighting piece xD

[theBliaN]

can you please post the orchestra part :(

im learning this concerto at the moment and i want to play a long so bad with the orchestra

[gonzalojosevb]

Stop doing something different than playing the piano, you are a good pianist, you must dedicate all your time to practice the piano and offering concerts, come on my friend!!

[AlexChernetsky]

How much time you learned that? It's my blue dream - to play this concerto...

And do you still have the record of the orchestra? I would be happy if you sent it to me.

[TheGuyWhoJustShotYou]

that looks like so much fun to play! did you have fun playing? or is it so hard that you can't enjoy it?

[TheAlcolade]

is the recording of just the orchestra?

[xdiminished5thsx]

I'm trying to learn how to play this right now. How did you do the pedaling to make the notes not sound blurred?

[52NANO]

man, this is so inspiring, playing the most difficult concerto to the recording of the orchestra. I'm practicing Chopin's second concerto first movement. It's of a lower technical level, I suppose, but I love that piece to death. Hope one day I could post that one on youtube.

Great job!

[OrangeSodaKing]

@52NANO Well, there are a few concerti harder than Rach 3, but Rach 3 is definitely not one to sneeze at... Chopin 2 is a great one! :) My two favorites are Brahms 1 and Busoni.

[pianistsan]

@OrangeSodaKing Rach 3 is the hardest xD

[OrangeSodaKing]

@pianistsan Have you heard Prokofiev 2 or Bartok 2?

[pianistsan]

@OrangeSodaKing Of course

[tchykovsky]

@OrangeSodaKing You cannot compare those because they're different in terms of difficulty.

[GTXGeforce]

your asian no wonder ur so good at piano :p

[CSPlayerDamon]

You people need to define hard..(And no, I'm not saying this isn't one of the hardest piano concertos ever.)

[Martel211996]

Anyone who can play this, whether its musical right or not...should take piano as a profession.

[Jcm9991]

I wouldn't know where to begin learning a song this complex, lol...

[marteco]

very good, men! Keep training!

[fuckslipknot21]

SHINE??

like die in jap?

[cullyvan]

That takes dedication and for that reason I salute you. Well done.

[dialecticon]

Your work inspires me....

[Holowachuk]

it may be difficult but there are better songs to learn.

my opinion...

[thetheatreofmadness]

Wow!

[phoolisness]

That's pretty good... I'm still working of the the piu mosso at the very beginning - but I'm a real amateur.

Where did you get the recording of the orchestra?

[biokemiker]

@phoolisness Thanks so much. I got the recording from a friend.

[Lavalampoflava]

Hey, you're good! Looks like you have a nice house and library too....

[KakashiDude101]

When i saw the beginning i was thinking this piece was easy.

Until i listened up to 1:18

NICE!!

[CandyBlooded]

Easy...

[GdbuB]

amzing

[linkinpark43100]

ive seen harder not tht hard jus a bunch of 32nds i would think amd 64ths

[CSPlayerDamon]

@linkinpark43100 See the whole concerto, if you haven't, and then comment....

[sackwhacker]

can someone help me find sheet music for the Rach 3 cadenza???

thx

[Sanitoeter666]

That's really insane. You should really try Scriabins Etude 42 Opus 5! And the Mephisto Waltz. Though i've never played Rachmaninoffs hard pieces, i think it'll be a challenge for you to play the waltz ;)

[s0larb01]

great job! how long did it take you to learn this?

[biokemiker]

@s0larb01 Thanks so much for watching. You mean the whole concerto? It took me around one and a half year I think. But this is because Im not professional pianist, but only practice in my free times (and weekends:)

[s0larb01]

@biokemiker I was wondering how long it took you to learn this by movement. I'm also an amateur. Just started working on this and from what i'm seeing, it looks like it'll definitely take me over a year or 2 to learn haha

[biokemiker]

@s0larb01 I think it took me around 4 months for this movement. The third movement is the most difficult part.

[rurikrussi]

All pianists know this is at least one of the 10 most dificult and demanding concertos of al time, also one of the most beautiful too ;). I think is a very good interpretation :D

[TheSioux]

you make some funny eye-brow movements when you play lol, but great job :)

[joumenpoonk]

I never implied this piece wasn't difficult, or that it didn't require enormous technical and emotional ability. He is a great pianist.

[irishgn08]

This is great :D

[joumenpoonk]

Extraordinary job. Very inspiring performance. You've managed to bring the piece down to a level where us amateur pianists can have some hope of ever performing it. Thanks for the inspiration.

[clocklvr]

Love your playing. Keep up the excellent work.

[ms19333]

my deepest respect for your hard work, it really paid off!

[dahnnyc]

i love how you do this in your spare time! : ) you're obviously some kind of genius!

rocky III is the greatest piano concerto ever!

[pianopotato]

I loved watching this video! When I was a small kid, I would do a very similar thing - get out a favorite concerto recording and play along with it. For many years, I also had a brown upright piano, just like yours!

[Alucard33592]

at first I was all like " ahh that shits easy " and then I was all like " =o"

[tpzurdo]

WOW very nice I love Rasmaninov it's hard but absolutelly beautiful. Congratulations!!!

[superfly181]

Very nice ,for how long have you been playing ? i want to start playing piano soon

[theunthinkable1]

@superfly181 my music teacher, who has been playing piano for at least 20 years, still cannot play this song, poeple have gone isnane playing it he claims. So, yeah :D

[freddiemercury777]

I saw "SHINE" as well...You Play it Good!

Hope you did not Get Mad!

hehe

[palefountain]

were you a child prodigy who ended up as a researcher?

[biokemiker]

I don't know if I was a child prodigy, but I didn't like to play piano when I was a child. But when I was around 12 years old, I got interested in playing piano. I do research as its interesting for me:)

[chomskyFTW]

I must say that this is one of the most awesome things I have ever seen. I have never heard of an amateur pianist attempting this. Good on you.

[louismagie]

It should be so hard to play without a real orchestra.

[AhdaAhda]

Amazing playing! You should record playing it on a grand with a good mic to really bring out the quality of your great performance. Where do you get the orchestral accompanying music?

[tommy9882]

you are a very good amateur

有機會你也要彈第二首钢琴协奏曲阿

[JohnVenning]

Definitely my favorite too.

[Charlaweyd]

I've started playing the piano with the goal of eventiually learning this concerto. It's so beautifull. I've allready tried playing some parts of te cadenza. As they say, it's very difficult, but i notice that if you are familliar with rachmaninoff, you'll see it goes a lot easier and you're able to guess the following notes after every other note.

Btw, is the music in the background without piano? Where can i find that?

[JonH0890]

it just amazes me watching something like this. I am a pianist, but my gosh i could only ever hope to play like this. how long would you say this took you to learn in total? and i assume you will have originally learnt from sheets? Well done!

[biokemiker]

hi, thanks so much for watching and commenting on my video. It took me very long time, around 2 years to learn and memorize the whole concerto. But this is due to that I don't play piano as my profession. I'm only playing piano as my hobby, so I only have time when after I get free from my work:-)

[MarkSublime]

Well played my friend, not only that but you put your soul into it. No piece is whole with out emotion. Bravo

[2Colton8]

You are one of the best piano players that I have ever heard. Keep on playing and I'm sure you could be the best.

[dekulewan]

at the beggening i was like "wtf this is easy" but then it got harder lolz.

[katimski]

that's what she said

[Zirotecha]

@katimski

no u

[hammer29106]

amateur? are you kidding? youre awesome man. anyone whos learned rach3 is no amateur

[DeSuperjang]

It's somehow paradox, isn't it. The Concerto with the most notes per second, but surely also one of the Concerto's with the less notes for the main theme (opening theme). :D It's only around 10 different tones! :D

[biokemiker]

Haha... you right.... It looks like Rachmaninoff wanted to make a very very simple warming before the hard parts:)

[TreblRebl]

this is great! i'd love to do something like this! it's very difficult but so much fun

[goodarzi]

wat the hell man. you have just reached immortality, so powerful, just lovely, maybe one day i might just be able to play this if my fingers grow by like another 4 inches lol

[Sullenya]

I refuse that you call yourself amateur pianist! You're awesome. I demand that you change what you've written.

[Darksenrine]

If he doesn't do it for his job, it means he's an amateur; get your definitions straight.

[JinHee1986]

nice guns. And you do look a bit like Yiruma too! :)

[shentaistolk]

good achievement. your the best pianist i ever seen i my hole life.

[sinfoneura]

Tiene un gran oido y una muy buen proceso tecnico.

[sinfoneura]

Mesorprende, y en sobremanera el modo de sentir al atacar las notas.Pese a que percibo algo de tensión esta desaparece. No sientas al piano como un objeto de desafío, sientelo como parte física de tu espíritu...En general estas a la altura de esa música. Me recuerdas mucho a un amigo que hoy es un Jazman, por la forma de buscar que el piano este siempre dentro...Tu puedes estar afuera y dentro con el.

[Waltelfe]

i cant say more.

the others said, what i also feel :)

how many years are you playing the piano ?

great

exellent

:)

[biokemiker]

I've been playing for around 20 years so I ought to play like this :)

[wadusboi]

how dare you even attempt to play this

gr8 effort though :) bravo!!

[curzmg]

I honestly love you. You are a genius. This piece is the measure of genius. It was excellent, wonderful, you are an incredible pianist. Yamaha, Steinway or whatever your preference should simply donate you their best grand. Thank you. xXx

[snipee911]

great playing, but besides the performance by Rush, Shine is an amateur film, inspiring, but fatally flawed.

[ReinhardvonHolst]

for an ameteur you are light years ahead of me... well done

[siralchemistuk]

welldone....not perfect but still a good achievement

[gozhn]

What the fuck are you doing trying to play this? I know it's a grand piece and all, but cmon. David Helfgott is probably the way he is from having to learn this damn thing.

[CrazyMan305]

Lol, you remind me so much of my piano teacher, not just how you play but how you dress too. It's scary how similar it is :D

[shentaistolk]

hey check out the stolk experience.

[shentaistolk]

did you ever like Isaac Albeniz.

[rojinegrafer]

Uff, he rocks!

[VisaAkuma]

VERY cool. SO GOOD. It all works together! Amazing talent. ^_^

[andrevalverde]

Thanks for sharing with the world

[xHuntedGunzPCGx]

talk about tight ass pants squeezing the wrong things :/

[shuchenchen]

incredible

[berylhoo]

bravo!!!!who cares whether you are a pro or not~the only one that matters is the joy you have when you playing piano~besides~you are really great=]

[hrspwr69fstbck]

I know the enormous time, and effort, and practise that must have gone into learning this as a hobby pianist. Great performance. Well done!

You should hit the stage

[ulsbolde89]

I put this video on and went back to surfing the Web. For a moment there, I completely forgot I wasn't listening to a professional recording. That's how excellent this is.

[nojstradamus]

i totally agree about the tempo. i prefer pianist who really like to push during the first movement

[Morfee]

You realise he has to go with whatever tempo the tape is recorded at right?

[rekuls]

Bravo! Congratulations.

[raulmendezvela]

absolutely beautiful... keep playing i'ma a huge fan!

[shalloee]

wow,you call yourself a hobby pianist,but you have played Rachmaninov 3 quite professional!speechless!keep playing!i think you have deserved to play it with an orchestra!

[FMStudioProductions]

nice..

[dabiribd]

Awesome

[CoolKidX85]

AMAZING!!

[enigma2024]

You may call yourself on amateur pianist, which I dont think i accurate - although you not pursuing this as a career you are VERY good and VERY proffesional. Congratulations.

I need to dust off the cobwebs of my Rach 3, lol. Give a few hundred weeks :(

[Saragxysooner]

弹得真好，听你弹琴整个人很舒服，可以完全沉静在音乐的世界里。­

[biokemiker]

真谢谢你的夸奖！我非常喜欢这首钢琴协奏曲！

[GJGJ654]

great, my favorite piece from rach is the 2 concerto part 2, i play part 1 and 2 from the concerto 2, and at the good speed, still some mistake i must admit by moment but in general it's good , im proud of myself for now beacause i could never imagin that i could play, it, but it's the passion for the song who motivated me, i like the 3 to, i want to start concerto 3, i have the sheet, how mush time it take you to arrive at this, and where have you find the orchestral part only

[GecSword]

Phenominal my friend!

Absolutely wonderful.  I'm so glad I've rediscovered classical music :)

[MMICGER]

BRAVO! Get the Rachmaninov "Paganini Rapsody" also. Listen to the Wladimir Ashkenasi recording for DECCA from the beginning 70th. Label: Decca , ADD/DDD, 63-82, Vladimir Ashkenazy - Great Piano Concertos

[ivanbunny25]

This is such an incredible piece of music, complex and emotional, just brilliant. Yes Shine was a great inspiration for me too.

Well done, and good luck!

[biokemiker]

thank you my friend! I already learned the whole piano concerto before, but Im starting to learn memorizing the 2nd movement now (damn, so many notes to remember, haha....).

[erfanaszman]

Hi

you're good!!!!!

[QinaT]

Heej fætter , det er mig :D

Ejj hvor er det fantastisk!!! Ville ønske jeg ku spille så godt (;

[biokemiker]

Hej Tina, det glæder mig at du har set min nye video! Tak for det! Dette er kun første del ud af tre. Jeg lægger resten af koncerten på (en dag i fremtiden) :)

[HarveyTruffaut]

Sublime music. Thank you.

[Jone1992]

you're the best of the best!

[CALVINBYKELVIN]

BRAVO JOHNNY!!! BRAVO!!!!

[mlr2107]

dude this is TRULY pretty damn amazing that you've taught yourself this and are learning the rest of the concerto. The computer I am at has no sound but I can't wait to listen to it tommorow when i do my hw!! im sure its just great!! I thought i was good when i taught myself the rhapsody in blue, LOL!! Keep it up and i cant wait til u finish it and put it on here! o ya u should check out my new vids now and coming up..there gonna funny!

[i9506853]

厲害啊,,,譜也背了!!!

[jannokas85]

You don't have to be a professiona to play beautifully! What shines through the most about your playing is your determination and I find it very inspiring!

[pianogirl98]

That was wonderful!

[Failein]

try the hungarian rhapsody no.2 by franz lizst, I think you could pull it off pretty well

[Erikerikdk]

Som sædvanligt - utroligt flot!

[biokemiker]

Hvad er det dog for noget du siger??? Som sædvanligt??? Ikke mere end det???? Hahahahahah..... spøg til side..... Tusind tak for du gad at se videoen og kommentere min gode ven :)

[Erikerikdk]

Mit problem er bare at jeg efterhånden mangler ord. Hvad kan jeg sige istedet. Bliv prof!

[biokemiker]

hahaha... det var jo bare for sjovt. Du har virkelig allerede sagt så gode ord om mig. (og vist interesse for mine videoer):=)

[harryg94]

Absolutely beautiful. This is truly an incredible achievement, I doubt many "amateurs" in the world have attempted to learn the entire 40 minutes of Rach 3, so very very well done!

[schroder79]

Bravo! Very good job. I hope that you will continue to add to your preformance collection. If you are taking requests I would be interested in Rach 2 and Finlandia.

[Leok450]

awesome keep up the good work, i wish i could play that well