Animaniacs Theme sight-read by Tom Brier, piano

I suddenly realized before leaving my house on Saturday that Tom probably would have a blast playing the Animaniacs theme which I transcribed back in 1995 and finally created a score for earlier this year.

So I put the sheet music in front of him that night, and this was his first read through it. Indeed he did have fun with it! He even said there's a lot of potential for ragging it up, so he might work on it some more...

Don't know about you, but it sure made my day, year, decade... Two of my favorite things -- Tom's piano playing and Animaniacs -- all together!

The "cheating" and "three hands" remarks are a reference to the fact that I put the flute/xylophone runs in the score as optional cue notes, which cannot be played by a single pianist without losing some of the melody. They're important parts of the tune, though, so I put them in there for the sake of multiple musicians or instruments who might want to play it.

You can download my transcription that he is reading here: http://members.cruzio.com/~keeper/temp/animsolo.pdf

This was at the Sutter Creek Ice Cream Emporium in Sutter Creek, California.

Sorry that the image is so dark. I was at the Lyon County Fly-In in Silver Springs, Nevada, earlier that day, and I had switched the camera to its automatic shutter speed setting which is ideal for outdoor use. I forgot to set it back to manual mode for indoor use (the camera's automatic mode always uses too fast of a shutter speed when indoors, resulting in a darker, grainier picture).

If you haven't figured it out by now, this is the theme to the Warner Bros./Amblin cartoon series "Steven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs" which ran from 1993-1999 on the Fox and WB television networks. The music was composed by the late Richard Stone. (Yes, I know I misspelled the title in the Tags; I did it for those people who search for it but don't know how to spell it!)

For the lyrics, see my Animaniacs Mega Lyrics File page: http://members.cruzio.com/~keeper/00.html#1

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[matiserafini]

loco, sos muy groso. that means your awesome! can i please have the score for that?

[Keeper1st]

@matiserafini There is a link in the description. Of course Tom is embellishing upon it.

[517634]

I had a dream where I heard this song rag time style. I typed it into to Google and there it was. Man the internet is awesome.

[GrafKrolock82]

I don't think that this piano is out of tune. It's a perfect sound for a ragtime piano. Using a perfect tuned Steinway & Son grand piano would not fit to ragtime music..

[prudiemcprude]

I'm a fan of mr brier! Awesomeness!!

[KingNast]

Tom's performance here is incredible, but the transcriptionist deserves equal credit!

[CeeRoyJenkins]

Dat neckbeard

[Tpdude046]

That is so awesomely ridiculous I don't even. I especially loved that second version toward the end XD

[CeeRoyJenkins]

TEACH ME

[Keeper1st]

@crowntotheundergroud Yeah, unfortunately lessons that teach you to play an instrument tend not to teach "music" per se. Music theory is practically a different field of study. It shouldn't be -- especially on the piano. The Wikipedia articles on Music Theory and Chord Progression can help if you're good at self-study.

[crowntotheundergroud]

@Keeper1st yea i get it. Thanks for the explanation. I want a teacher who actually teaches me about that kind of shit rather than just teaching me to read music to learn songs. All of that is cool and all, but i want to know that it's "dissonant" like you said. Never had a teacher who cared to explain what's actually going on inside of the music.

[Keeper1st]

@dogman15 Sadly, yes. Tom Ruegger has seen this, as well as Bryan Pezzone (the pianist for the WB orchestra in those days). Bryan declared simply, "Tom Brier is amazing."