Mario Kart マリオカート - Yoshi Valley / Moo Moo Farm - sight-read by Tom Brier

[Fennell19900]

0:58 = badass

[danzinnyman]

1 dislike from the piano .....it's never been played sooo haarddddd lol

[ferimentodefoice]

Oh my! Oh my!!!

[athena600rr]

so cool...!



[WickedKnightAlbel]

This works perfectly

[LangleyKuoch97]

If I had a friend like Tom I would force him to play me songs all day. From videogames.

[BoomhaurReplica7]

hey you know what I think would be a good one for him?how about the Spiral Mountain theme from Banjo-Kazooie?Im sure he could spice that one up.lol

[Keeper1st]

@BoomhaurReplica7 That's one of the tunes I started to work on but haven't finished. I showed a few works in progress in a recent video. Someday I'll finish it.

[Jason64nothere]

I just love when the key changes to F Major!

[Morahman7vnNo2]

Hey wait a second! Where's the double time at the end!?

Where it's at the last lap and you don't have enough time left.

You know!

[TicklePunch]

I love how he's never heard of or played any of these games and you keep giving him the music to them! I love it!

[arqivus]

I think he would like the "Quenchless Curiosity " theme.

[Keeper1st]

@arqivus Oh, definitely. That's real ragtime. I'm surprised no one has alerted me to its existence before.

[MrRiffraff84]

Add a "HEY!" at 0:13! ;-)

[ShoemakerFamily1]

I checked the sheet music you provided and it actually says "tempo di collo rosso."

Was that your doing or Mr. Nagata's doing?

[Keeper1st]

@ShoemakerFamily1 It's my own joke. One of the tunes Tom is well known for playing very fast is "Redneck Rag", so I wrote "Tempo of a red neck" (literally; not translating to an equivalent of "redneck") on the score as a joke.

[connortimoti]

awesome

[TexMurphy01]

Still watching them and still really enjoying them. He should do more game themes. Perhaps some Sonic? There are some really good piano translations (if that's the right term) if you've heard those versions by Martin Leung. Also more Final Fantasy of course!

[TaniaKRD]

After this I would of totally showed him the original. He does such a good thing at every song, and never has ever seen them! It's crazy.....

[MrRynoCerus]

Ah the memories. ^_^

[nawaf10soccer]

Great Job! I loved it!!! :D

[thisallie]

hahaha i would always win while playing on this course!!! XD i loved moo moo farm... man now i want to break out the 64.

[Keeper1st]

@MEZIKEK I post videos with music quite frequently, though it's true that few are actually songs. But most people don't know what the word "song" means anyway...

[XLeeHarveyOswaldX]

@Keeper1st id really like to hear him play the "slider"theme from super mario 64. i think that is an extremely well suited ragtime song.

[nicotjuh]

He should try out Birabuto Kingdom from Super Mario Land

[Keeper1st]

@nicotjuh Been there, done that. You should see it in the Related Videos list on the right.

[bigpotatofive]

Missing the constant ringing of the item wheel, the whine of the karts, and the flailing about and cursing uttered by good friends playing with me. Otherwise it is perfect.

[Zebeldarebel]

no dislikes...the way it should be.

[ChibiVegito]

@Zebeldarebel Oh, no.  One hipster disliked it!

[AustralianShuffla]

i want to see him play somthing from Mozart..

[greenyoshi24]

cool



[Phosdiphide]

0 dislikes

[InkStudiosVideo]

Really good

This is one of my favorite tunes

Im totally getting the sheet music for this

[josiah566]

redneck tempo *snort*

[Keeper1st]

@josiah566 It's a sort of in-joke, referring to the tempo at which he plays "Redneck Rag" -- a tune he was playing an awful lot in those days.

[kandemJV]

Amazing *_*

[dbzlotrfan]

Now that I hear it, it sounds (to me) a bit like Birauto Kingdom from SML.

[EMmorse1]

Have him do the tubba blubba chase (or "the castle crumbles") from paper Mario (64)

[DevinBaggage]

get him to do more of these. seriously.

[VoldyRoss]

this is the work of gods =O

[ReturnOfTheStienway]

GAAAAAAAH I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS SO MUCH!

[Quietschquatsch]

I would like to hear "Choco mountain"

[LedZeph]

That was pretty impressive

[DJ141999]

ONE WORD: AMAZING

[Zebeldarebel]

This guy is amazing...

[josephiles]

this guy is a pro, PRO!

[NIGMAnsider]

Absolutely fantastic (5 out of 5). Great music and excellent performance. Congrats!

[ClassicTracks2]

Any chance of seeing a "Cantina Band" performance from Star Wars?

Great playing as usual.

[Keeper1st]

@ClassicTracks2 I do have a video of Martin Spitznagel doing that (as do others), which will not disappoint.

[Kitty9991]

What a lovely performance!

[usernameunave0]

Great performance as usual! You know, after hearing this it made me think... I bet the horse race theme (Ingo's Theme) from Ocarina of Time would turn out as a good rag, what about you?

[Keeper1st]

@usernameunave0 Hadn't heard that one 'til you just mentioned it. It's a bit short. But to give an idea of what Tom could do with it, type "redneck rag" into the YouTube search box. Be sure to stick with the video for the whole nearly seven minutes...

[BoomhaurReplica7]

that's kinda tough to play on piano.most of the zelda songs i'm sure he can play,but the Horse Track song would be a pain.i guess it would be possible.

[RonixEnclave]

Horse track would actually be to simple and short though.

[BoomhaurReplica7]

i just got finished listening to the Horse Track Racing song and you could be right.shoot knowing this guy i'm sure he could improvise it to make it sound better and more complex.

[Steeliguana]

fantastic once again, you never cease to make me happy to have watched a video.

[arqivus]

It is amazing. When you watch him, you get feeling, that he was playing this piece thousand times before.

[mariokartrainbowroad]

epic :D

[TolaMacarino]

Koji Kondo did not compose this song. Kenta Nagata composed the entire soundtrack for Mario Kart 64.

[Keeper1st]

Really? Then those who suggested the tune to me must have had it wrong. I'll have to make a change to the sheet music then. Thanks for the heads-up.

[dragongame2]

@TolaMacarino you are right but this song is verry simulair as horse race from zelda ocarina of time from koji kondo

[Keeper1st]

@dragongame2 A video of Tom sight-reading that one was posted about a week or two ago.

[hihurdler110]

OHHHH MMYYY GOOOOODDD!!!

Brilliant..I havent seen a better ragtime pianist in all my life!!

[juliar65]

I love the joyful, lilting style that Tom uses on these pieces. I used to think that he played rags a little fast, but fast is relative. There is the tempo he plays those "piano cutting" pieces that he has written and then there is the tempo that he plays rags where they are uplifting and never drag. I think he has an understanding of ragtime missing in most performers.

[mangobat827]

omg, i thought all of the ragtime videogame music had been played by him by now, wow, i totally forgot about this one! oh, and would you call the "Club 64" song from Paper Mario (for the n64) swing, jazz, or ragtime? or a mix of two? I dont really think its ragtime but Ive been trying to think of ragtime-esque songs from videogames and thats the only one i could come up with that you havent already asked him to play =P

[Keeper1st]

I'd call it swing. It could be condensed into a ragtime piano (or novelty piano) score... by someone with a greater grasp of jazz chords than I, probably.

[BachScholar]

Yes.

[jebeebus]

omg yes

[ThisIsKuroCat]

WOOOOW :D

AWESSOMMEEE

5588555858 STARS xD

[cuchacani]

AWESOME!!

[BachScholar]

Does Tom ever play anything slow and with "feeling"? I mean this is like eating chicken every day of your life. Very one-dimensional in my opinion. Fast, fast, fast........

[Maturkus]

it's the first time he has ever seen or heard this music, one can't espect it to be perfect.

[BachScholar]

Maturkus: You are not understanding what I'm saying. I said all he plays is fast music. I didn't mention anything about accuracy or perfection. It's just all fast. Every single video. I have heard nothing slower and with feeling.

[Keeper1st]

Ragtime is mostly up-tempo. Slow pieces are few and far between (indeed, a note from the composer of Sleepy Hollow Rag describes its "SLOW and SOFT" nature as being a novelty), but Tom certainly does play and compose them. See the "Perryville" video for one example, and some of his improvisations posted by me and tdub1941. I'm uploading another ("Reminiscence") right now.

[BachScholar]

I see your point and I'll be the first to admit much classic ragtime (like Joplin) is often played too slow, but can't players especially of Tom's ability distinguish between certain types of "fasts"? He just seems to plow through everything the same way every time. It gets old very fast. It's like someone telling the same joke 100 times and we all know the punchline already. This is my impression from the 50 something videos I've seen of him. Just voicing my opinion, don't get upset.

[Keeper1st]

I think the fast ones are just the only ones to have caught your attention, for there are plenty of moderately-paced ones of Tom out there, including my own Morgan Hill Rag and Puppy Dog Rag, plus Grandpa's Garden, Buddy's Habits, Hap Li'l Mose... off the top of my head. You can listen to clips of every track of his most 2006 album Rewind on CDBaby and get a sense of the varied tempos and styles that he plays during a set.

[OSDboarder90]

@BachScholar- eh I don't recall the music for yoshi valley / moo moo farm being pieces that are supposed to have "feeling". It's video game music after all and is meant to just be fast and frantic. And I'm sure tom is able to play a piece with feeling if he is able too sight read that well. I can't imagine how good a piece (non video game) would sound by him if he actually put work into it.

[juliar65]

It just seems that way because most of the things that get posted are the romping stomping versions. He is the most amazing pianist I have ever known and he can play the wonderful standards of the 30s and 40s with the understanding and sensitivity this music deserves. He can make your heart melt.

[CptnMoosingle]

@juliar65 And his beard is godlike. It crushes nations under its mighty power, the beard is all, the beard is forever, the beard is GOD!

[AceWissle]

Brilliant- what else should be said?~~

[dippydawg827]

THANKS SO MUCH!! Tom is awesome :D

[kinghippo423]

Thank you very much

Again a flawless performance by Tom.

Is it me or Tom added some notes here and there in his second run in the video? Specially between 1:30 and 1:37

Also the left hand at 1:27 was, from my point of view, not easy to do with those fast 16th/32th (I'm not sure here) and Tom played it like it was nothing.

[Keeper1st]

Certainly not flawless, but quite good. Of course he's adding many extra notes in many places (even the first time around), as he almost always does. At 1:27 those would be 16th notes with a slight swing, just a sort of walking bass line -- it's pretty common in ragtime playing, so it does come naturally for him to throw in that sort of riff.

[kinghippo423]

Well I guess it wasn't flawless but for a good reason, it was his only 2nd read. I can't imagine how perfect it could be with practice.

The intro was dead on. Sounded exactly like the original song.

[MasterKoga]

Yeeeaaaah. :)