Earthworm Jim "Who Turned Out the Lights?" stage music sight-read by Tom Brier

This actually is his second time through the piece, in the same sitting. The first read through was quicker but had a few problems. This time was cleaner, but, as he says, those triplets in places were still causing a little trouble.

This tune from the "Earthworm Jim" Sega Genesis video game contains a couple quotes from Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag" though in the key of C (Maple Leaf was published in A-flat, and the song version in E-flat).

The piano score he is reading is here:
http://www.keeper1st.com/music/ewjlights.pdf

I threw it together in a couple hours from an existing sloppy score that had the wrong time signature, some bass notes wrong and had the chords much too low in spots (the original arranger was deathly afraid of having to move his left hand more than an octave, it seems -- well, tough, dude; this is ragtime). I did some re-arranging and made it actually readable.

The music was composed by Mark Miller.

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Music

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• ragtime
• piano
• rag
• sightreading
• vgmusic
• video game
• pianist

[Miffex]

Let him play Andy Asteroids that would be groooovy

[Keeper1st]

@Miffex Certainly up Tom's alley. But do you have a transcription of it?

[Miffex]

@Keeper1st check your inbox

[Keeper1st]

@Miffex Thanks. I created a score. Those who know how to edit URLs can find it in the same folder as the one linked in this video...

[agger382]

IN THE END, IT REMINDS ME OF THE "MAPLE LEAF RAG", SCOTT JOPLIN.

[Keeper1st]

@agger382 That's because it is. So is most of the second strain (starting at about 30 seconds into the video). It's just in a different key.

[Keeper1st]

@flobbywelly The guy behind him (pianist Will Perkins whom you can see in some other videos of mine) was very tired; it was after midnight. This is also Tom's second time through the tune, so all the laughter and smiles in reaction to the tune have passed. And he did indeed laugh along with Tom when the Maple Leaf quotes came along.

[flobbywelly]

1. Guy behind you looked bored lol

2. EPIC BEARD

3. Awesome Playing XD

[Miffex]

@Keeper1st check your channel comments

[lipsynchORswim]

@Henry1993bc Vatican Rag is an original song by Tom Lehrer, which does play off of the basic rag theme that Joplin is so well known for.

[digicorpweb]

neck beard ratio has reached critical mass

[goat00000]

Dude always looks so happy playing. The piano sounds happy too. I'm glad he and the piano found each other, however many years ago it must have been.

[SolidDustin]

Geil man....das is das versteckte Level bei Dr Affenkopf!!!! Wo diese Musi kommt. Diese game hat meine Jugend geprägt :D