Super Mario Athlete's Rag Air Platform sight-read; Tom Brier
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Uploaded by Keeper1st on Aug 12, 2008
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/athleterag.pdf
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Dat Neckbeard
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Really nice job..keep it up!! :)
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Tom has perfect timing excellent,
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like a boss
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He no asian?!?!!?!
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The Koji Kondo is strong in this one
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He is mind blowing.
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this inspires me to stop trying to learn from midi sequences and get to practice reading music
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This is really good..
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Some things just make me smile wider then anything on the planet. This is one of those things.
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Great arrangement! Keep on swinging, Tom!!! (:
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why was this embedded on Failblog? kinda defeats the purpose of the site.
TJhandford524 2 weeks ago 3
@TJhandford524 I found that surprising too when I saw the updated stats. It turns out that failblog has a section for "wins" as well as its namesake "fails".
Keeper1st 2 weeks ago 11
Its a matter of practice right? I bet it's just as easy for him to sight-read play that piano just as easily as it is to read a book for him.
plasmathunderdx 3 weeks ago
@plasmathunderdx That's what he has said -- that because he learned sight-reading from age 5, it developed as sort of a second language.
Keeper1st 3 weeks ago 7