Extraordinary Piano Performances

[JDMEK5]

Ever find a piano performance on YouTube that was a cut above the rest (of the rest of the other videos for that same song)?
Well, here's where you show that.

Doesn't matter what style; rag, baroque, classical, jazz, video game/TV soundtrack, anything.

I suppose I'll start with these two:

Star Wars Theme

Pirates of the Caribbean Theme

[universe-X]

The Wind Garden theme done by tzohar. Allow me to do a full analysis of this performance.

Well, first off, he made the song his own not only by removing the well-known introduction to the piece and inputting an 8va part, but by also making a free-verse left hand part that just adds so much more to the piece when played on piano. His ability to add such crisp grace notes is also a nice element to the song.

And to make it all the better, this dude can't read sheet music and tuned his piano a half-step higher than it should be (probably for playability reasons), and learned a Db-major song on a C-major based performance.

[Bespinben]

Pokemon RBY Gym Leader battle. An immaculate recreation of the original 4-bit tune. DAT LEFT HAND.

[Nebbles]

I think this is pretty impressive... remember when I first saw this, I was like "Woahhhh..."

[spitllama]

^^ Didn't that girl make an account here? She posted the video I think

/randomness

[wariopiano]

Mission Impossible
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvMDV-73J30

i think this song is pretty cool!!!

[JDMEK5]

That would be pretty awesome if only he didn't say in the description that he didn't even know what he was doing.
He says there that he had an audio track playing in the back and was only hitting random keys...

But yeah, the song itself is great.

[wariopiano]

It looks like hes really playing though!

[JDMEK5]

Meh, whatever. He might be exaggerating in the description, but unless he says so, I'm going to assume he isn't.

But yeah, it really does look like it.

[JDMEK5]

I'm no cellist, but even I thought this was pretty amazing.

Carol Of The Bells (12 Cellos)

[Bespinben]

Cello stuff

Title: Extraordinary Piano Performances

[Olimar12345]

The Wind Garden theme done by tzohar. Allow me to do a full analysis of this performance.

Well, first off, he made the song his own not only by removing the well-known introduction to the piece and inputting an 8va part, but by also making a free-verse left hand part that just adds so much more to the piece when played on piano. His ability to add such crisp grace notes is also a nice element to the song.

And to make it all the better, this dude can't read sheet music and tuned his piano a half-step higher than it should be (probably for playability reasons), and learned a Db-major song on a C-major based performance.

All of this only leads me to believe that he isn't that great of a pianist... Removing hard parts, simply changing octaves, improvising left hand with basic triads, adding grace notes, transposing a song to an easier key to play(when Db is already a very simple key for piano lit.)... it just doesn't sound like an "Extraordinary Piano Performance".

[JDMEK5]

Title: Extraordinary Piano Performances

Wow. I can't believe I forgot that! (*laughs at self in slightly embarrassed manner*)
Me! Of all people! .... Wow...

[KefkaticFanatic]

Meh, whatever. He might be exaggerating in the description, but unless he says so, I'm going to assume he isn't.

But yeah, it really does look like it.

So I guess this is a My First Sarcasm moment for you

[JDMEK5]

Yep. (*second sarcastic moment*)