The Amazing Hands of Tom Brier

Tom Brier playing his own composition "Razor Blades" from 1994. This video starts during the repeat of the second strain, but continues to the end.

The sheet music for this rag is included in Tom's second folio. I can get you in touch with him for purchasing details; he does not have a web site.

Recorded in the American Exchange Hotel during the 9th annual Sutter Creek Ragtime Festival in Sutter Creek, California on Saturday 11 August 2007.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• ragtime
• fast
• piano
• tom
• brier
• sutter
• creek
• festival
• 2007

[nubianbroheim]

Would like to see some of his music as the backing track to old Charlie Chaplin type grain films.

[Keeper1st]

@nubianbroheim Another pianist I know who can be seen on my channel, Frederick Hodges, actually does backing for silent films. In fact, he was the pianist in the recent Google doodle for Chaplin's birthday.

[pathologicaldoubt]

a player this good deserves a better piano

[Keeper1st]

@pathologicaldoubt I do have another video of him playing this same tune ("Razor Blades") on a Yamaha grand.

[entheomycophagist]

Great player, but must youdo the whole thing at triple-forte?

[Keeper1st]

@entheomycophagist Did you not hear the quiet Trio section? Granted, the camera's gain control kept the volume constant, but you can tell from the timbre that the playing was soft in that section. But only the first time through. The tune is called "Razor Blades" after all -- not "Fluffy Pillows".

[Bigmalletrs]

Your sir, are a fucking idiot. If you cannot see that this a is a master of the art or piano and ragtime, you are blind, Helen.

[19Summers94]

Amazing!! who could dislike this??? =)

[Sl33qy]

yeah the hands are moving so fast, but the awesomeness are not the hands, its his head and brain!

[manynyful]

i think i just wet myself... sorry guys. wow he is good. inasne

[tazp123]

Happy Tom, why is he so happy?

[jamocha101]

You live to make the world jealous.

[farruca111]

この人初見でエアプラットホーム弾くんだよね…