Animaniacs "Piano Rag" song on piano (of all things!)

[ciararavenblaze]

also, if'n I were there, I'd hold the camera for you. :D

[ciararavenblaze]

I'm not gonna comment (much) on your talent--because you already know I think you're quite good at what you do. but I'm curious--what's with some of the keys missing the ivory covering on 'em?

[Keeper1st]

@ciararavenblaze Actually they're all missing the ivory; someone removed them for money and replaced them with plastic covers before I bought the piano. When moving from sea level to almost a mile above sea level, the change in air pressure caused the wooden black keys to expand, and many of them rubbed against the white key covers, so they got pulled off.

[ciararavenblaze]

@Keeper1st d'oh!!! that sucks. but at least the piano works, right? :D

[lbrown21494]

Well done! Maybe i'll try and learn it. I don't generally play piano often, but heyy, why not\? I can't wait to hear this piece up to speed! I actually considered asking you to transcribe this, or if you had, but kept forgetting about it. Oh, I've started storyboarding episode one, warm up your Rutherferd voice! (that sounds....odd)

[Keeper1st]

@lbrown21494 Heh, well, last time you said my normal voice was more what you had in mind, so... consider it warmed!

[kingmallow]

This is wonderful :D <3

[DiegoAchcar33]

Where is Tom?? I miss his "brierized" ragtimes themes from famous games, like Zelda =D

[perfessorbill]

Just pop it up a half step. This piece depends less on a certain tonality than something like Moonlight Sonata or Honeysuckle Rose. It does not HAVE to be B. I play Maple Leaf in Ab, G, B, C, Db, Eb, A - why? Because I can and it allows me new possibilities. So try C/F and you might get gooder results.

[MrTjanz]

@perfessorbill your a professor and yet you use gooder. lol

[Chris246t8kr]

@MrTjanz No he's a PERFESSOR! :)

[Keeper1st]

@MrTjanz You don't know Bill. He's being intentionally goofy.

[Keeper1st]

@perfessorbill Of course, but as I am presenting my transcription of the piece, I wanted not only for the transcription to be in the original key, but my presentation also. (Though my piano-shaped object isn't tuned to modern concert pitch -- insofar as it's tuned at all -- so it's a little flatter than the original.)

But frankly, what I did here is about as good as it gets for me at the keyboard, in any key! I can't even play my own rags, even if I wrote them at the keyboard.

[Megabine]

Tom does it better but you don't do it half bad :P

[AceWissle]

You played it wrong, you have to dance and jump and fool around on that stool and use your feet to play!

So... when will Tom play this? :D

[alphadev]

The piano playing isn't half bad. What's bad about playing in B and E? I never personally have any difficulties. After the first few missed sharps, I start picking them up again and just remember somehow.

Work on the singing though. ;)

[Keeper1st]

@alphadev When you're used to reading and playing through ragtime, it's tough, because it's rare to see anything more than one sharp in the key signature (while five flats is fairly common). So when playing lots of black keys, the instinct is to hit B-flat when you're thinking "B", as I even do a couple times when explaining that I prefer to play the bass notes an octave lower.

[trudbol]

I'm very naive, so forgive me for asking : why force onesefl to play in a certain key and not transpose to a key with perhaps less sharps or flats? Since the piano is tuned in equal temperament, it shouldn't make a difference, should it?

Keep posting your great videos, I'm always happy to watch what you have in store for us!

[Keeper1st]

@trudbol No, it doesn't really make a difference, but I thought it was important to write the music down in its original key, and thus to present it in the original key as well.