Grand Fantasy on Inspector Gadget (by Andrew Thayer)

Piano variations on the Gadget theme (in a quasi-Horowitz/Cziffra style) by Andrew Thayer. I handed these in as part of my University composition module (for which I received about 40% if I remember rightly).

This is a pretty crappy performance (the polonaise is a complete screw-up) because I hadn't practised them in years before I had a brief run-through before filming, but this is the general idea. I'll redo this when I've practised it properly.

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• inspector
• gadget
• piano
• transcription
• vladimir
• horowitz
• gyorgy
• cziffra
• arrangement
• volodos

[hjiuhfhrehui]

please!!! tel me .. i want to lern to make a improvisation in cziffras style.. can you tell me you ??

thx :)

[cziffra1980]

I can't even improvise a series of slow chords. I just faked this by doing figuring stuff out VERY slowly, variation by variation. I'd simply have a look through the peters book vol. 1. Various things here are loosely derived from stuff in there.The crash at about 45 seconds in is a total rip off of a comedy change of octave (for a single chord) in the William Tell galop,for example.

It's not too hard to fake a few bits in the style, but I'm afraid that improvising is a whole different game.

[cziffra1980]

sorry 54 seconds

[cziffra1980]

Frankly, a lot of the more 'spicy' chords in this were just exactly the same in each variation. I kept reusing them, with slightly different textures and different stuff on either side. eg. C minor with a D and F sharp on the way. You can run them up the piano in various combinations, or simply slam them down as clusters.

It's worth trying simple chords with a load of bum notes thrown in-

It's a bit like 'passing notes', but sometimes you can just sling them into a fat chord. 9ths are good.

[BuffaloBillsSon]

Hello could you do a tutorial on Bugys Marlones "You give a little love" or i think it's called "We could've have been anything"

I've brought a keyboard to learn it on but i can't read music and this youtube tutorials have been the best thing in helping me learn! i would be very greatful! please!

[cziffra1980]

Sorry, don't know it. I'd really advise you to learn to read music though. It's really not hard, if you just learn the letters for the spaces first (just four notes!). Once you have basic reading skills you can learn anything you want. When you've got the hang of it (which likely be done in under a week, if you put your mind to it), it's considerably easier to learn from a score than to attempt to reproduce what someone else is doing by memory.

[StarIessNight]

hey,,, you forgot to hide the head of the man you killed last night. LOL

[raineyc14]

nice severed head.

[wenchsammas]

Beautifull!!!!! the musics great too

[lashannakay]

people please wait until 0.54 before making your decision- very 1950's b/w movie!

[TomiRing]

The song is nice, but a bit too much of acting with the hands. Too modoros.

[smcientistamaluco]

truly amazing :| this is at a total new level, way better than anything around here.

congrats dude, very VERY good ;)

[meageekygirl]

you are a master. I bow down in your video apperance. *bows* all hail the piano master. all hail the piano master. *bows more and more and on and on forever*

[Slava69]

Hey! Could you send me the sheet music of this! I need inspiration for my own transcription ^^

[danny15593]

jajaja...me parece un poco extraño...jajaja

de hecho lo es...jajaja o no?? jajaja

[EmilKing]

jausjauajaajajajajajaja

[danny15593]

porque hay una cabeza en tu ventana??? o-o

[EmilKing]

awesome!!