"I Wanna Be Like You" (Jungle Book) played stride piano style by Andrew Barrett

[lholspearson]

your really skilled.... :)

[SportsVill94]

Incredible! 

[FistVugel]

nice, dudelido, nice!!!!!!!!

[sandrovaro]

COOL!!!

[PureAwesomenessful]

brilliant performance!

out of curiosity what key are you playing in?

[Keeper1st]

@PureAwesomenessful I do believe he's playing in C. That's certainly where the left hand always ends up.

[MochiMochable]

this is tiiiiiiiight. did you play this by the ear or do you have music sheets? cause if you do can you send me the link please. thank you. [p.s. can you also make a tutorial for this?]

[Keeper1st]

A "tutorial" is not possible. He was just making up the arrangement as he went along. That's kind of the essence of this type of music.

[Keeper1st]

Such ignorance still exists in the 21st century? Amazing.

[mdidion777]

@Keeper1st i love your sarcasm haha

[danohrly]

Music doesn't have a race!

[halo2pc]

@danohrly

That was one of the best comment I have ever read here on YouTube.

Thanks for that !

[calafornia5]

@danohrly but it has a pulse my friend and this pulse it beating FAST!!!!!!

[MrDevildog666]

anyone can play the type of music they want to. a certain style does not "belong" to a specific race. it belongs to those who have the spirit of music mixed with incrediple talent like the man playing in this video.

[RhotenXxX]

@NatKingCole46 what's wrong with Classical music? Don't be hater!

[Squarerig]

If this be crap what is it like when you a re playing excellently?I am full of admiration for your talents and skill.I do enjoy this "crap".

[KawhackitaRag]

OK, this is just bad playing. I can't understand why so many people like this. There is a good moment every once in a while, but most of what I'm playing is just so much crap. I think that unless I get offered enough money to do an exact transcription of this, I'll do a somewhat different arrangement of the tune which I would consider much better. I am almost ashamed of this, but since so many people apparently like it, you can leave it up, Ron.

[Keeper1st]

You'd been playing this for so long before I started recording that at this point you were really going wild with it. Of course, you're your worst critic, naturally. It's not so bad, especially as you're making up the arrangement on the spot! But hey, work up a new version and we'll make a new video, with the better camera. That old camera did a lot to ruin good playing with its gain control making everything sound fortissimo.

[iamdarragh]

just wondering do people do solos in ragtime/stride music? I know theres a lot of embellishment in the melody but im curious if there is full solos like in jazz

[Keeper1st]

When there is a band or multiple performers, they will tend to lay out or let each other take the melody. That the earliest jazz musicians considered what they were playing to be "ragtime". Jazz was more a style of playing than a style of music, so the distinction is somewhat murky.

[3700956patrice]

wow i love this =)

[OhAnnaVapours]

Does anyone know where to get the sheet music for this song? I'm not saying this version in particular (although it sounds absolutely AMAZING!), but just this song in general... :)

[iamdarragh]

if u find out could u tell me too please??

[KawhackitaRag]

Man I loved that beard when I had it, but the girls sure didn't! So it's gone now!

I think I like the clean look better!

Now that I proved to myself I can grow a beard in about 2 weeks, I don't need to wear one all the time.

[mcrsoundman]

Top vid love it! great talent 5*****

[Saggezzasaphira]

which is the difference with ragtime?

[Keeper1st]

Stride is a more flashy style of ragtime playing -- closer to jazz. A key element is a more interesting left hand (note how sometimes the "ooms" and "pahs" switch places), the bass often playing passing tones on a downbeat (not so much here I guess, but listen to a bunch of stride performances and you'll pick up on it). It still is under the "ragtime" umbrella, though.

[KawhackitaRag]

so-called "stride piano" (actually a very specific way of playing utilized by a few musicians who actually played in many other styles) is typically up-tempo, uses single notes or tenths as the lower notes, and emphasizes swing (rather than straight-8ths), devices in consecutive thirds and sixths in the right hand (as opposed to novelty devices which are typically in fourths and fifths), blue notes and "bent" slurred notes, and frequent use of sophisticated hemiola patterns in both hands.

[KawhackitaRag]

For an example, the way James P. Johnson, Fats Waller, Willie "The Lion" Smith, Donald Lambert, Cliff Jackson, and Luckey Roberts played up-tempo tunes can be considered excellent examples of stride piano. Other pianists of the same general era, however, had different styles with less stride influence. These people included Clarence Jones, Jesse Crump, Blind Leroy Garnett, and Cow Cow Davenport.

[ChSilver]

or a fake book

[ChSilver]

please stop asking, im sure thats played out of mind, there is no sheet music; he really CAN play the piano. to play the piano you do not necessarily need any sheet music

[KawhackitaRag]

hey hey hey man... I just might put a version of this on paper for Mr. Steve to puruse at his leisure... when I have a little more time. It would be free for "private use" of course, so the big mickey-mouse overlords don't swoop down and get me like the flying monkeys in Wizard of Oz.

You're right, I was making this up though, and it was 2 AM and I was asleep at the keyboard which is why part of it is so crappy! I don't use sheet music a lot but can certainly read and write it.

[lLukus]

Very clever, I want the sheet music!!

[pianorollblues]

Great arrangement! Do you have this put to paper..I know I would surely like to buy a copy to play on the old piana....

Advise with Email address... Thanks....Steve

[Keeper1st]

I'm pretty sure he was just improvising it. You can ask him. His YouTube account is KawhackitaRag.

[Maturkus]

D; I wanna be like you!

[Maturkus]

It's a pity ragtime has got a big "corny" stamp in the forehead, otherwise this kind of stuff would be all over the radio stations today I think. It's alot more fun to listen to than todays (in Sweden) boring pop culture. in my town we have like 6 radio stations and 3 of them are more or less pop/pop ballads 24/7, and other than that we have like a classical/opera station, one talkbox and "calm favorites" yuck! I so envy pretty much anyone that has anything good on the radio. Car trips are hell.

[mangobat827]

*sings along*