Super Mario Athlete's Rag Air Platform sight-read; Tom Brier

If you've seen my other videos of Tom sight-reading videogame ragtime sheet music that I've put in front of him, this video should come as no surprise to you.

I had not yet finished correcting the awful score that is available online for this tune (I did put it into the correct time signature, but it still has some really funky chords and other problems), nevertheless I put a copy of it as it stands in front of my amazingly talented friend Tom Brier this weekend.

This was the result.

Tom is a highly regarded pianist and sight-reader in the ragtime community. I have other videos of him you can find (and more to come) which will give you an idea why.

There are so many amateur pianists out there playing these rags from video games, but I thought it would be nice to see what a pianist who specializes in ragtime music would make of them.

This tune is by Koji Kondo (近藤浩治) and is one of the most famous tunes of all music from Nintendo video games.

I still haven't cleaned up the score completely. Here it is as Tom was reading it -- no repeats, some questionable chords, etc.

http://www.keeper1st.com/music/athlet...

I have a web page now with a lot of other VGM and TV show sheet music: http://www.keeper1st.com/music/vgm.html

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[MeJoho]

I'm not asking for proof, but is there proof that he hasn't practiced this before? oh whatever, how would he even prove that he hadn't. I believe him.

[Keeper1st]

There are plenty of other videos where you can see Tom struggle with more difficult music a bit before getting it down pat later on. Or you can simply come see him play sometime and watch as people give him things to read -- or even bring something yourself, as one of my subscribers did one day.

[X6insane6X]

The beard must be the source of his power.

[Keeper1st]

I guess you didn't see/hear the "Tom Brier CDs" video which includes a glimpse of the pre-beard Brier...

[Keeper1st]

If you have a PDF viewer and are capable of clicking the provided link, then I suppose you can.

[ViktorKalashnikov]

THE NECKBEARD ಠ_ಠ

[Seamachgun]

He does it so easily!

[Justin Bernal]

LMAOOOO

[Melissa T]

Holy crap that was AMAZING, made me feel all warm and fizzy inside. :3 makes me want to learn piano.

[bidhendy]

EPIC face warmer

[MeJoho]

yea I saw some other videos. He is pretty great isn't he. I play classical piano myself.

[daredevildillon]

I swear the beard looked at me

[DJ14111441]

Epic