Final Fantasy Prelude

[jimai808]

i think leung is a chinese name...

[jamaloogy]

pity those noise!!

[ChiWaKaDiZ]

Even appreciating the technique, I gotta say he doesn't have a little bit of feeling, and so losing all the song's charm...

[isabottini]

japanese....of course! i can play this song i know how i love to play this song in piano!! relax me

[enphynity]

He misses a note at 1:10...his parents must be very disappointed

[mototsugumiho]

右手と左手が事故りそう

[TheEpicTwinkieTV]

For some reason, it sounds like it should be in the old E.T. movie. Just a thought.

[discovery531]

in 0:53 a nice KOEI logo sound breaking me than...

[zuko25]

awesome

now...drive

[xXEMOXROXx]

i love how you can play this song by Ear. all it takes is practice with the fingering and coordination... other than that this song is complicated yet Easy to learn at the same time. and its probobly one of the most fun to play out there

[Broth3rz]

Does anyone know how to what finger he uses for what notes? If I could find out I'd learn this. I just can't understand the finger placements.

[cougher989]

@Broth3rz

Well for the first few chords the fingers would be... left hand: 5-4-3-1, right hand: 1-2-3-5. I'm not sure about the fingering when the flat/sharp notes come in.

[Goldstinger54]

HE MADE A MISTAKE @ 1:10 AMGZ!!

[jen95xx]

I can do that too!!!(only 10 times slower)

[marv013]

watch this dude play music from Mario at insane speed, its insane, he's good nuff said

[Toxicifity]

at least the dude can play it. ffs all u ppl being negative abt his playing... no respect. i thought he did a good job.

[usernameissean]

Sure its Precise but he plays with no feeling

[LadyHale08]

Epic precision..! Favorite! \m/

[Lavietto]

woow if this was in better quality then this would b heaven!! BEST PIECE MADE FOR VIDEOGAMES EVER!! :)

[Belldandy205]

wow...this is epic....:O

[UnbornHopes]

not to be stereotypical, but OF COURSE HE'S ASIAN. D:

[stergenakis]

Sorry, but this song is ridiculously easy, can some simple arpeggios played at 90 bpm be considered hard? I only play the guitar but I can tell this is easy on the piano.

[abysswolf48]

@stergenakis really? why don't you learn it then? since it's so ludicrously easy, surely even someone who only plays the guitar will be able to do it no problem at all! while you're at it, why don't you also play the parts that mr leung didn't include because they're not technically possible without doing a duet on two separate pianos?

[stergenakis]

@abysswolf48 I d be impressed by him if he could play the second Hungarian Rhapsody ^^

[abysswolf48]

@stergenakis you're quite an annoying guy... :(

still, maybe i overreacted slightly

[MrFavorite01]

@abysswolf48 Nah, he's just being a cocky, ignorant person. Sure, I guess this song IS easy for EXPERT piano players, but guitar and piano are WAY different in playing, so stergenakis doesn't even know what he's talking about.

[satsuechanye]

Le mec flotte sur son piano quoi... busay

[hdturner]

Wow, those are some of the most graceful hand movements I have ever seen. I'm semi-entranced. i wish my playing was half that technical.

[MisterMegafou]

Incredible :D :D SO GOOD

[YunaBakax]

Oh im so impressed. Its really amazing. This hands dance... I love it :)

[MetalWingedAlchemist]

SPIDER HAND!! :D

[melaniohh474]

holy crap!!! =O

[joshdins]

o_o'' WOW.. JUST WOW

[DHrocks90731]

13 people are mad because they're not asian

[diekill123]

@DHrocks90731 lmao!

[DDEVILs001]

i think i can play this with my toes. ;D

[TheAdeSings]

I wish my hands moved this fast!

[14raulivan14]

la mejor vercion que e visto

[joelmusic100]

@14raulivan14 vé fial fantasy medley por ''w3sp'' esa es la mejor vercion q yo e visto

[chesshair]

For those thinking that this is easy... wrong... this guy is just good enough to make it look that way :)

[FieryFiendJazz]

@chesshair Actually, it is. Just play C D E G then repeat that up the piano till the 5th C where you do it backwards until just before you reach the C you started with then you do the same with A B C E then C D E G again then A B C E again then A C F G then B D G A then G# C D# G then A# D F A and thats it.

[akczenaiwok]

@FieryFiendJazz hahaha thanks GREAT TUTORIAL !!! JUST PRACTICE XD

[truexgunnerxchronica]

and of course hes japanese

[deztructicus]

@truexgunnerxchronica leung is more like a vietnamese name

[hyotei]

@deztructicus vietnamese? it is 粱 in cantonese D: i bet he is from hong kong

[deztructicus]

@hyotei hmmm true, i'm just thinking tho

[andrez123100]

@truexgunnerxchronica he is half japanese

[truexgunnerxchronica]

@andrez123100 but hes still japanese ;)

[LoKxDoWN]

@truexgunnerxchronica what's that supposed to mean?

[blooplefacethewise]

@truexgunnerxchronica Leung isn't a japanese name.

[HeartShapedHand]

@blooplefacethewise LOL. good call.

[boyluckluck]

@truexgunnerxchronica He's Chinese...

[KendallRock]

WHAT, UNPERCEIVABLE!

[wontonzor]

Was this the same dude that made those Mario compilations a while back?

[GozOfMetal]

how can 12 ppl dont linke his video??

[myboomstick]

@GozOfMetal coz they're gay retards like j93010

[godsune]

!!!!!!!! *nose bleed* this brings out the geek in me

[AutunmToWinter]

Enorme...

[SHREDDER4387]

THIS GUY IS A G!

[cassaran]

incredible. this performance was absolutely fantastic. you gave justice to an amazing piece. thank you

[DBirdFly]

Finally, someone plays it like the original instead of the re-transcribed piece! Flawless 5/5 brother! Thank you for sharing this. Your skill is immeasurable and this is the best I've seen of this piece! Yoku dekimashita :)

[DannyBoiix978]

thats so crazy ...

[deejoov]

Amazing! 5/5 stars

[Macktastic7]

omgoodness, its soo amazing...i wish i could play like him heh

[K1ngBD]

nerddddddddddddddddddd haha jk sexy

[endowrider]

flawless :) I must buy the music sheet!

[THanimerxtar]

@endowrider u want the notes?...... they are cdeg cdeg cdeg cdeg c gedc gedc gedc gedc abce abce abce abce a ecba ecba ecba ecba and then it and thats all i know hope it helps

[THanimerxtar]

@endowrider actually theres more i know LOL after that its ac fgac fgac fgac fgac f cagf cagf cagf cagf bd gacb gabd gabd gabd g dbag dbag dbag dbag hope it helps

[MakinoMaya]

so smooth...and your hand looks flexible..

[LunateLights]

not flexible, its literally all in the wrists

[ilovethecliff]

Abc123xyzlaw is sandy cause Asian's are good at things?? humm, I guess you're the only one that has a problem with that, take a pill man, I said they where good, you make it sound like I made a small wang joke.

[ShadowValentine]

lol I like your screen name. Katakana way of saying "Sexy". :D 5/5

[Bbarrbaseball13]

YOU'RE SO ASIAN! and its awesome. but unfair that you are so naturally good at life.

[kevin7funny]

@Bbarrbaseball13 No one is naturally good at life. He set goals as a child, and aimed for them. That is why he is there now.

[Nymphetamine2791]

Wow.

[Eorzean]

the technique is good, but the fingers are so high up!!! can't believe you can play it this fast with such raised fingers, unbelievable! great vid!!!!!

[shadowdota1]

im asian.. but im not chinese or japanese..

im malaysian, and im still white !! :)

[sindragoon]

I will marry whoever can play this piece.

[ilovethecliff]

ok, srsly, Asians need to stop being good @ things...

[Abc123xyzlaw]

People need to stop making racial stereotypes about Asian people.

[phoenixwater]

I feel JEALOUS!!1

[Sabin06]

you and me both man you and me both this guy is just awesome

[saddlerider1989]

Yes. 1337 indeed!!!

[seon1239]

dang u make that look so easy!

[spanishqueen19]

Marry me?

[lloydxlomentigar]

damn this guy is just sweeping his hands over the keys like nothibg

[FFDissidiaPsPFan]

Holy hell! i just learned the first 2 parts of this.... this is AMAZING! took 2 hrs... but im new at piano and i wanna know it alllll :O good vid! you were into it :D

[Wahsayah]

i'm with you on this one, i'm a newbie on the keyboard.....>.>

but man learning by yourself is a bitch lol

but hey some advice, print off some stuff off of wikipedia and get to know your notes, there's gonna be alot of crap that may skip your eye if you don't know your E's from your F's. just a fair warning I'm working on a song right now, i'm only half way through it and it's a two pager- once I complete it i'll only be through step one of mastering a keyboard. :/

[zflakhn]

That looks so easy to play because he makes it look easy. I would love to be able to play this song but I would much rather prefer a nice set of breasts

[03crichardson]

To non-piano players; take how hard that looks, times it by 10. THAT is how hard that is to do well.

[xkillsteph]

holy fuck.

[jcsieg]

That guy is amazing.

I want to be like that guy.

Hot damn...

[Radkennster]

my last name is also leung =)

i saw him at VideoGamesLive

[superking1]

Martin Leung is my new prince.

[Keytap15]

this is why he's called the video game pianist

[TheProject7613]

WOW!! I can play this song... BUT NOT LIKE THAT!!! Your amazing!!

[Hiteryan]

I came

[LueLime]

wow~! eyes wide open. i cant believe it was ever possible.

[skaruts]

Amazing!

Simply that...

[touyaca]

ur fingers is so flexible.

[j93010]

play it more beautifully... you're playing it like it was techno.... watch this other guy do it.... it's better

[sekushidesu]

I didnt play this.

[jglsd1]

he's playing it the speed of FFIV..noob

[GozOfMetal]

@j93010

l2 live! kkthxbai

[Henry1993bc]

@j93010 what techno have you been listening to ? haha

[Siferess]

i enjoyed it veary much so,

[kidkid2901]

Amazing :3

[hellspiano89]

okay i this guy is way to fucking awesome lmao

[oscarofb]

very awesome

[Algadetto]

It must have taken you quite some time to learn that :O I'm trying to do so myself, but I've got a long road ahead of me until I can play it that naturally. Splendid work indeed :>

[Heero545]

Wish my left hand was that agile and precise = (

[princesslore]

XD He makes it look so easy, but IM PRETTY SURE ITS NOT EASY AT ALL!!!!

[josiphorus]

Not imposible, but not that easy either. The prelude sounds lovely. I´ll try to play this piece !

[kakianak]

thats awesome.

[ToteMichBitte]

You are....amazing.

[squall00258]

i have to cheat... using y right hand to do the scales and left to do the other melody

[Megafire88]

Elite skills that is, looks uber hard.

[max2082]

thats insanly amazing how he is crossing his arms like that way to go man I could never do that on a piano

[ricluvno304s]

...needs two keyboards but amazing nonetheless

[legendofhugh]

play something "hard" and post it then. I'm ok on piano, but not nearly this level. If you're not this level either, don't be so condescending.

[drumstyx6464]

you're right, it's really not that hard a piece, to the general public it looks amazing though. although it's just a basic application of an intermediate technique, people see the crossed arms, and hear the sweet sounds of the prelude, and melt...myself included even though i am a piano player myself

[neblixsaber]

I just started playing the piano (using that piano book made by the guy that turned proffesional piano playing into easy stuff for kids) BESIDE THE POINT

I'm a beginner and I'm getting good at the arpeggio... however I get stuck at the F chord inversion arpeggio.

[CHamboga]

can i have your life story too please?

[neblixsaber]

... No.

[JonLTD]

I laughed.

Hahah.

[LoneWolf029]

Holy crap that doesnt even look human man, that is 1337 skills,

[HaloChaos]

This is going to be so damn hard to mimic.

[javierlan28]

Man thats awesome!!! really nice skills there wish i could do that =P. Viejo que habilidad mas grande, de veras que esta buenismo!!! xD

[datura1983]

he's doing a continuous scale up and down to play that song.. watch closely before it goes into the change over

[krzyflip209]

thats freakin beast if you can do that omg dude that's amazing!!

[samkim123]

eww his fingers look unnatural and they move soo fast! XD SWEET!! :D

[fmanarutofan]

hmmm not to sound rude, but where are the skills. Anyone who plays piano could play this song. It's one giant arpeggio and a few added chords randomly throughout the song. I mean he is decent, but not AMAZING.

[eromusofwom]

You obviously have no experience playing the piano making such a comment. This is not an easy piece to play...and on top of that...it requires significant technical precision to play well.

[LittleCharmer8i]

@eromusofwom Its Not that hard;) Check the tutorials- its quite simple. But yes it requires ALOT of time, but its SO SO So SO simple! Its almost the same. Just get the slight part in ya' hands. and you get it at once.

[FieryFiendJazz]

@eromusofwom Want to know a little secret? Playing this consists of doing C D E G then repeating that up the piano till the 5th C where you do it backwards until just before you reach the C you started with which you do the same with A B C E then C D E G again then A B C E again then A C F G then B D G A then G# C D# G then A# D F A and thats it.

Dreadfully easy on a big enough piano after you know that (though the other part can get tricky when done with this first part)

[lys4lys]

that's amazing

[ross10192]

Wow. That was magnificent.

[mirvecus]

Skillz!!

[imperialcrypt]

I've been using a my computer for like 2 years and can type really fast, even with my eyes closed and know where all the buttons are. I'm think you'll have to practice a Longg time to fast like that with a piano keyboard.. T_T

[legendofhugh]

as they say in team america: jesus t***y-F***ing Christ!

[FFPianoDude]

the way he plays it makes it look like a finger exercise

but it is very nice

[superioshi]

magnific T_T wow

[biggreenblob]

i love this vid so much.

[Kanaru92]

Wow, very nice job with this.

[pureLproductions]

liseting to it gives me goosebumps

[kasaru]

i just heard koei in the background 0:52

[bindywinner1]

i sooooo wish i could that song just like u its so nice!!!! =D =D =D!!!

[Giovanni222]

I thought for a second that 1337 was the number of piano skills that he possessed (quite a lot, I've only got 1233). But obviously then I realised that was stupid.

[CandypopAlice]

omg, lol! I thought the same till I read your comment =)

[jamaloogy]

1 star off for poor sound quality...

the rest awesome!!

[1tehmoog1]

poor quality? this was taken at E3 in 2005, its a convention not a concerthall. Id say amazing considering the circumstances.

I say E3 2005 as I remember watching this, and that shirt, lol. If im right I would have been standing just behind and to the right of the cameraman. time to scroung my hdd for pictures, see if I took any video. if I did, it will be worse(just regular digi cam lol)

[5now5torm]

dont be an ass edalchemy

[klink180]

that was amazing to start out with, but then he added in the arms crossing and the little thing that made it even cooler!!!

[zombierobopirate]

very nice other than the horrible sound quality =P

[gustguy]

wth means 1337?

[edalchemy]

it means youre a noob.

[gustguy]

and now the real reason?

[5now5torm]

dont be an ass

[killamexe]

it means leet, which means Elite, or above all the rest.

[gustguy]

kay, still hes awesome

[imperialcrypt]

You have to be 1337 to know what 1337 is. xD

[gustguy]

sweet...

[nibbles1637]

*drool*...you're good!

[stormyandcold]

Anyone who wants to try this needs to master the left side first. Lock that arpeggio down and once you can add that 1st right hand chord in, you're off :)

ok, not as simple as it sounds or looks :)

[f2army]

AMAZING!

[DoCWaSaBe]

the most beautiful piano piece iv ever heard

[Meatbagz]

only japanese people can have this much epic skill at the piano.

[azndebee143]

as if.

[nibbles1637]

ya, thats why the guys name is martin "leung" (chinese)....nuff said..

lmao! And thats why people shouldn't chat about what their race has done or accomplished. In the end you c