Super Mario Bros. 2 / 夢工場ドキドキパニック/ sight-read by Tom Brier

helll yeahhhh

The songs from Kirby games certainly aren't ragtime, but they all have a very bouncy feel to them that does require the jumping of the left hand (and in this case impossibly fast).

Just listened to a couple. They're one-steps. Certainly not impossibly fast on the left hand (not for someone of Tom's caliber), but yeah, I'd prefer to stick to ragtime. The idea is to entice fans of ragtime tunes from games to check out ragtime tunes that aren't from games -- and to show ragtime fans that the music does have a younger audience through the tunes used in games. But maybe someday I'll have a go at making a score for one of those Kirby tunes...

This is crazy considering he never heard it before.

nice piano sound :D

srsly lol fucking awesome player!

not bad :)

Very impressive. A little slow, but he probably didn't know that, since he'd never heard it before. Which makes this even more impressive.

It might have been deliberate. Scott Joplin was quoted as saying one should never rush ragtime.

Nah, it's slow because I thought it should be, not knowing the original tune, so I told Tom that it should be at a relaxed tempo.