@@Bluejay-ri1yf exactly. People label clasical musician as pretentious because they keep correcting the same word and making it sounds like it's a big deal.
@@Hahshdhbcbcyoutube Just wondering, do you differentiate between a novel and a biography? They're both text, yet they are not the same. Just like a song and a piece are both music, but not the same. I think that people label classical musicans as pretentious because they already have an image in their head, an image pushed by media as classical being the music of choice for the "elite" and other stuck up people. From personal experience of being a hobby classical musician, people react differently when they actually meet classical musicians.
"Life is like a piano. White keys are like the happy moments, and black keys are like the sad moments. Both keys are played together to give us the sweet music called life". My life being played in C# major 💀
OI you missed the penatonic scales... all black for maximum depression. or just take the blues which only has one white key... and you know blue = our lives
The end about music industry is the most real thing guitarists will literally go to every possible gig no matter the genre or difficulty and still be short on rent
This is the reason why I'm gonna start tuning pianos too (Definitely not because I want to play Some-rich-doctor-who-probably-doesn't-even-know-how-to-play-piano's $100,000 nine-foot Steinway for free)
And if you're facing difficulty in earning anything from your performances, likely not much more than a teenager at a gas station (which you will, guaranteed), you can just start teaching some impressionable kids the pianoforte and possibly brainwash them into wanting to become the second coming of Liszt. The cycle continues.
I think this video went over a lot of ppl heads. This doesn’t just go over piano players but also most classical instrumentalist and musicians in general. Especially bc classical performers ticket sales have gone down 30 % in the last 4 years. ( but no one talks about that) being a profitable professional musician is intense, very repetitive, and a very hard lifestyle that truly doesn’t fit everyone. And I like how you pointed out that truly you’re either a superstar or your a average teacher who Is working on a masters degree in hopes to make your local symphony, living pay check to pay check. People really need to have set plan realistic goals and focus on networking and making connections and having a safety net before even considering putting there all and I mean every bit ( bc to be top tier you literally have to be only focused on music ) into professional music career-in my opinion ( ik not everyone will agree but as a musician that’s just how I see it)
You wrongly explained the middle pedal. It's called sostenuto, yes, but it has a different function on a grand piano. On an upright it does dampen the sound for your grandpa at midnight, but on a grand piano it will sustain the specifically pressed down keys but not the others, therefor you can play e.g. staccato with both hands on a sustained chord.
It's funny that he said the sostenuto is used at night, and the left one is never used, when it's actually the left one that is used at night, and the sostenuto is never touched :D
This makes me appreciate the relationship I have with my piano. I taught myself how to play from the age of 4 or 5, and all of the progress I've made has been self motivated. I have some experience playing live with other musicians, and I was in band in high school, but it's never felt like the performance aspect has been that important. I play because I love music and I love writing music. It's all for myself at the end of the day, and I think I'll keep playing until the day I die ❤
3:16 if you’re implying that this pedal is for practice mode, I’m pretty sure the actual function is only sustaining the notes played while the pedal was initially pressed?
Well, the practice pedal is just in some vertical pianos, If we're talking about the sostenuto pedal, that's exclusive in the grand pianos, people don't talk about this often. But yeah, the way the middle pedal works changes in some pianos.
I can confirm that that level of concentration and focus for the harder pieces can give you a headache just to LEARN, especially if you force yourself to finish that one piece you’ve been having trouble with for the past several weeks.
the middle pedal on grand piano is sort of a "selective sustain" kinda pedal where if you press a few notes and the press the pedal then only those few notes will be sustained and you can play the rest of the piano unsustained and i do not have a funny joke to go with this i am very sorry though the middle pedal on uprights are indeed usually the _extremely soft_ pedal where it puts a cloth between the hammer and the strings, the actual soft pedal on all pianos is the left pedal where iirc it makes each hammer hits less strings (which is indeed not that easy to notice)
The compsci and piano combination has caught up to me 😂 My Computer science studies is about to start and I have been studying piano for about half a year now! Thank you for causing a dejavu!
3:14 as far as i know the sostenuto pedal is for sustaining the only the notes you have presed before that is the midle pedal on a good grand piano on normal upright the midle pedal brings a curtain and makes the piano softher
literally the best video on piano I’ve seen ever I’m now playing Rachmaninoff at Carnegie hall and got promoted from the streets into concert pianist making 5 mil a note I play, naw genuinely great video tho
as a perfect pitch, the first phrase of let it go ends on a C# instead of a D, which you did play at the end of the second phrase. The first end note is C# to indicate the song starts "sorrowful" or sad, but the second phrase ends on D to indicate there is hope immediately before the vocals come in.
It's a field that used to be known as great to know into but now is oversaturated due to increased grads and tech layoffs (I'm not in the field this is what I've heard from comp sci majors)
As a piantist, when ever I play a piece, I make really weird faces, sometimes even sticking my tongue out. I dont notice it, and I dont try to stop it, because who cares?
you described my entire experience with the piano up until the computer science thing, because just 3 days ago i swapped majors from nursing to computer science. i am scared.
Ahahaha the prodigy kinda reminded me of that one moment when i was watching a grade 4 kid (who is probably autistic or just adhd since he scream and run around alot) plays la campanella without breaking a sweat 💀. Bro, as an amateur pianist at that time damn i guess i underestimated him...
Nice, but did you glue your pedal to the floor? One of the biggest complaints my piano teacher had with me when I was younger was the amount of pedal I used.
Dear God, my brother suffered this exact upbringing (being constantly beaten & screamed at for not practicing enough or making mistakes, told how his future is dependent on him qualifying for & winning 1st place in piano concert competitions, so he can get into college, get a job & not be homeless and stuff), I had a taste of it (but had it easier because I was second born, quit by middle school & allowed an easier route to life than competing for some BS overblown ivy league spots), and this is truth lmao Thank you, you are a hero for shedding light on the perverse world - it's not just funny, it's brutal reality - of course he wasn't just in piano, but also AP & honors roll classes, and there are some routes alternative to computer science - medicine, engineering, law...
As a pianist there’s a couple of things very inaccurate. The left pedal is extremely important (on a grand piano that is I think uprights don’t quite have it or it doesn’t have the same mechanism), we use it all the time it’s typically marked as ‘una corda’’ meaning one string to achieve soft whisper. The most important aspect of piano playing is actually your touch/tone production. This takes years to master and some never do because it’s a very physically intensive ability tied to how you’re able to relax your wrist and arms completely and yet still have perfect control and rigidity over your fingers, at the same time you have to have to musical ear to tell and adjust your tone to sing or achieve the sound you want, its what differentiates a good pianist or professional from a bad one. If you don’t have the perfect technique for tone production your sound will always be plain, uncolorful or even downright harsh.
Calling out the com sci students cry😂😂😂 Also the most overplayed song in my head was Yiruma. Even non pianist can name and identify the song. Ending song is obviously darude sandstorm
New Discord Infinity Link (old one kept expiring): discord.gg/6rYtcQN9J9
People are like a piano, black or white I'm still gonna touch them until they make a sound
I feel like most pianists would break up with you for uttering the words “piano song”.
Classical: A Piece
Jazz: A Tune
Pop: A song
Rock: the one that goes *plays a bit of the melody*
And that's why people label classical musicician/ clasical music lover as "pretentious"
@@Hahshdhbcbcyoutube Why? It's just a word lmao it's not that deep
@@Bluejay-ri1yf exactly. People label clasical musician as pretentious because they keep correcting the same word and making it sounds like it's a big deal.
@@Hahshdhbcbcyoutube Just wondering, do you differentiate between a novel and a biography? They're both text, yet they are not the same. Just like a song and a piece are both music, but not the same. I think that people label classical musicans as pretentious because they already have an image in their head, an image pushed by media as classical being the music of choice for the "elite" and other stuck up people. From personal experience of being a hobby classical musician, people react differently when they actually meet classical musicians.
the fact that i play piano and want to pursue comp sci- i feel called out lmao
Exact same situation with me lol it's crazy how many of us can relate to this
Same tf
crazy I did exactly just what he said, am now in second year comp sci😭
The fact that i stopped pursuing piano for computer science💀
bro i play piano and thought about doing something in tech and software and i feel called out (im going into trades instead tho)
Bro has a beef with computer scientist
It’s always computer science. Good thing one can become a successful SE w/o dropping 100k on a degree lol
@@garrom5652
What's an SE ohhhh
Software Engineer.
blud DONT want to prove NP-c of hamiltonian paths 🔥i respect him
"Life is like a piano. White keys are like the happy moments, and black keys are like the sad moments. Both keys are played together to give us the sweet music called life".
My life being played in C# major 💀
What about A# minor
@@jadinkllz12 that works better than my joke tbh
OI you missed the penatonic scales... all black for maximum depression. or just take the blues which only has one white key... and you know blue = our lives
💀
C# Major actually can be quite beautiful instead of sad.
The end about music industry is the most real thing guitarists will literally go to every possible gig no matter the genre or difficulty and still be short on rent
Tough. At least you can take your instruments to gigs 😭
"budget twoset violin" HAHHAHA was so funny for no reason
This is the reason why I'm gonna start tuning pianos too (Definitely not because I want to play Some-rich-doctor-who-probably-doesn't-even-know-how-to-play-piano's $100,000 nine-foot Steinway for free)
Yea haha this is something I am thinking about too because I have no clue what to do after school anyways
And yup that is (would be) so cool
I’m tryna become the doctor with the Steinway that can actually play
BRO YES EXACTLY ITS ALWAYS THOSE RICH PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEVER TOUCHED A PIANO BEFORE BUT HAS A 7281910 DOLLARS STEINWAY IN THEIR HOME 💀💀
You can try to find a cheap piano I have one that I got for 175$
my mome casually heaving a royal Bechstein at home
And if you're facing difficulty in earning anything from your performances, likely not much more than a teenager at a gas station (which you will, guaranteed), you can just start teaching some impressionable kids the pianoforte and possibly brainwash them into wanting to become the second coming of Liszt. The cycle continues.
This is actually sad lol
@@katttttt it is what it is
3:09 "to make the music sound more connected to replace the connection they lost with their families"
nahh thats wild💀
as a pianist, thats also very true
This is SOOO underrated. Funny af
@@IAmRacc 😂
I think this video went over a lot of ppl heads. This doesn’t just go over piano players but also most classical instrumentalist and musicians in general. Especially bc classical performers ticket sales have gone down 30 % in the last 4 years. ( but no one talks about that) being a profitable professional musician is intense, very repetitive, and a very hard lifestyle that truly doesn’t fit everyone. And I like how you pointed out that truly you’re either a superstar or your a average teacher who Is working on a masters degree in hopes to make your local symphony, living pay check to pay check. People really need to have set plan realistic goals and focus on networking and making connections and having a safety net before even considering putting there all and I mean every bit ( bc to be top tier you literally have to be only focused on music ) into professional music career-in my opinion ( ik not everyone will agree but as a musician that’s just how I see it)
Ticket sales are down because TH-cam and because old people are dying
You practically both made and ruined my day in the span of 7 minutes
ur welcome
Lift that pedal bro😼👊🏻
Same.
I feel that part was personally targeted towards pianists who would realize
3:10 hit hard bro…it hit so hard
You wrongly explained the middle pedal. It's called sostenuto, yes, but it has a different function on a grand piano. On an upright it does dampen the sound for your grandpa at midnight, but on a grand piano it will sustain the specifically pressed down keys but not the others, therefor you can play e.g. staccato with both hands on a sustained chord.
It's funny that he said the sostenuto is used at night, and the left one is never used, when it's actually the left one that is used at night, and the sostenuto is never touched :D
Yeah and the left pedal doesn’t just change the volume, but also the timbre.
The sheet music at 0:27 is Chopin Ballade no 4 in F Minor
"Posture" and there's Keith Jarrett basically humping the piano while playing (he even moans)
I like that the background music is the music that plays when you fall in the game “Getting Over It: By Bennett Foddy”. It feels very fitting
I thought it was let it go from frosen
Do you know what the song is called? Can I find it anywhere?
4:12 "...but half the time they look like they're taking a giant shit" I couldn't hold the laughter in anymore
love how raw and real it is. Humor comes through and the quirks. Keep it up
You forgot : develops health issue
And also develops (mental) health issue
Because of looking only at the walls for 40 hours a day and comparing yourself with ling lings
Wthell😂😭
Bro really Let It Go at the end.
More like "Let her go" cause bro is probably beating his meat out of his life as a pianist
@@Zuion_Art I can relate in like 10 different ways.
great playing at the end! Just make sure to lift the sustaining pedal bettween different chords so they dont bleed into each other :)
This makes me appreciate the relationship I have with my piano. I taught myself how to play from the age of 4 or 5, and all of the progress I've made has been self motivated. I have some experience playing live with other musicians, and I was in band in high school, but it's never felt like the performance aspect has been that important. I play because I love music and I love writing music. It's all for myself at the end of the day, and I think I'll keep playing until the day I die ❤
you go guy
I like when people reveal they play on an upright because they don’t know what a sostenuto pedal does.
3:16 if you’re implying that this pedal is for practice mode, I’m pretty sure the actual function is only sustaining the notes played while the pedal was initially pressed?
Well, the practice pedal is just in some vertical pianos, If we're talking about the sostenuto pedal, that's exclusive in the grand pianos, people don't talk about this often. But yeah, the way the middle pedal works changes in some pianos.
@@lostintheworld2750 some expensive uprights have it as an actual sostenuto pedal:)
@@laurinbaumann Really? That's great! I didn't know... I mean, if you have the space... At that point the baby grand could be a better option.
@@lostintheworld2750 yep absolutely of course:)
I can confirm that that level of concentration and focus for the harder pieces can give you a headache just to LEARN, especially if you force yourself to finish that one piece you’ve been having trouble with for the past several weeks.
I took way too long realizing that the piece was the song was "Let it go" from Frozen.
the middle pedal on grand piano is sort of a "selective sustain" kinda pedal where if you press a few notes and the press the pedal then only those few notes will be sustained and you can play the rest of the piano unsustained and i do not have a funny joke to go with this i am very sorry
though the middle pedal on uprights are indeed usually the _extremely soft_ pedal where it puts a cloth between the hammer and the strings, the actual soft pedal on all pianos is the left pedal where iirc it makes each hammer hits less strings (which is indeed not that easy to notice)
On a more expensive piano the middle piano acts like a more situational sustain pedal
the description of when to use the middle peddle was tooo accurate
After 4 years of studying piano I still can't keep my hands as relaxed as you do at the end of the video 😢
I've never subscribed to someone so fast
Suddenly having second thoughts about switching to piano major
3:28 You can literally hear my man fixing his posture so that he can talk about it lmfao.
I'm pretty convinced that it was good that i didn't pursue a career as a jazz pianist, but sometimes i need videos like this to remind me. Thanks.
The compsci and piano combination has caught up to me 😂
My Computer science studies is about to start and I have been studying piano for about half a year now!
Thank you for causing a dejavu!
Why do you only have 922 subs? This vid had me fucking ROLLING LMFAOOOOO Banger vid man
That was the best random video I saw in a while
when i heard overplayed song, i thought canon in d
why is this explanation actually comprehensive for my sleep-deprived and pre-ap exams stress-induced brain😭😭
3:14 as far as i know the sostenuto pedal is for sustaining the only the notes you have presed before that is the midle pedal on a good grand piano
on normal upright the midle pedal brings a curtain and makes the piano softher
that drake joke is wild
only works when u play minor chords
Yet has Major consequences lol@@yayamayacayanaya
literally the best video on piano I’ve seen ever I’m now playing Rachmaninoff at Carnegie hall and got promoted from the streets into concert pianist making 5 mil a note I play,
naw genuinely great video tho
good luck mate!
6:21 / 6:47 aint no way blud played LET IT GO
That is that and this is this.
1:32 that was personal....
missed opportunity for a rick roll at the end
as a perfect pitch, the first phrase of let it go ends on a C# instead of a D, which you did play at the end of the second phrase. The first end note is C# to indicate the song starts "sorrowful" or sad, but the second phrase ends on D to indicate there is hope immediately before the vocals come in.
Bro did NOT lift the pedal at ALL until my favorite part of the song arrived 6:38
What makes you think learning computer science leads to homelessness?
It's a field that used to be known as great to know into but now is oversaturated due to increased grads and tech layoffs (I'm not in the field this is what I've heard from comp sci majors)
@@alicesenz6374as a comp science major, this is 100% true at least where I live.
I choked on water while viewing this and laughing my ass off. This is hilarious fucking love you
As a piantist, when ever I play a piece, I make really weird faces, sometimes even sticking my tongue out. I dont notice it, and I dont try to stop it, because who cares?
your spitting facts. i pity those who judge you.
You just spit out the biggest FACTS
First time I've ever heard the piece in the end.
Nahh, the sostenuto pedal can actually be kinda nice if you don’t want all that reverb in a rhythmic song.
you described my entire experience with the piano up until the computer science thing, because just 3 days ago i swapped majors from nursing to computer science. i am scared.
Sir the sostenuto pedal sustains the keys that are being pressed down at the time
Ahahaha the prodigy kinda reminded me of that one moment when i was watching a grade 4 kid (who is probably autistic or just adhd since he scream and run around alot) plays la campanella without breaking a sweat 💀. Bro, as an amateur pianist at that time damn i guess i underestimated him...
I SWEAR TO GOD HE WAS LIKE 10 or 11 YEARS OLD THAT TIME
As a guy who played fantasie impromptu at 10 years old, I can confirm that I fucking quit
Thx youtube recomendations, here since 1k subs
budget casually explained
This video was recommended to me after Yunchan Lim's Beethoven Piano Concerto nº4. Lang Lang is the budget version of Yunchan Lim.
bro this guy is criminally underrated im not going to lie
you predicted my life 😭
Nice sense of humor hehe
you're personally my favorite undiscovered youtuber
Doing this as a hobby
man ur hilarious, investing before 1k subs, expecting 100k by end of the year
So we are all in agreement that, as far as we can tell, the third pedal does fuck all?
I don't have 88 fingers. 🤔
Pro tip: buy dx7 or some korg to expand
haha the middle pedal has a lot more uses though. As a pianist this hella funny and entertaining lol
that drake joke was witty af
cant believe its not walk through the park
Why is nobody talking about how well he played that piano in the last part,, like bro
this video is so underrated 😭
now im going to play piano for 5 days straight
Like if you're also both studying computer science and playing/composing music
As a computer science student who plays music as a passion i feel very targeted :')
I mean, hey,
Learning Beethoven is a good start
where do i find this let it go cover
+1 sub foorrrr suuuureeee!
Awesome vid man, love it
Bruh lift the pedal at the end
Bro is like the younger brother of Casually Explained
Nice, but did you glue your pedal to the floor? One of the biggest complaints my piano teacher had with me when I was younger was the amount of pedal I used.
I love how he says the analogy in the beginning was kinda racist, which it isn't, and then blatantly makes a racist joke against asians later.
Beinghomelesspianist never bothered me anyway ❄️
Dear God, my brother suffered this exact upbringing (being constantly beaten & screamed at for not practicing enough or making mistakes, told how his future is dependent on him qualifying for & winning 1st place in piano concert competitions, so he can get into college, get a job & not be homeless and stuff), I had a taste of it (but had it easier because I was second born, quit by middle school & allowed an easier route to life than competing for some BS overblown ivy league spots), and this is truth lmao
Thank you, you are a hero for shedding light on the perverse world - it's not just funny, it's brutal reality - of course he wasn't just in piano, but also AP & honors roll classes, and there are some routes alternative to computer science - medicine, engineering, law...
As a pianist there’s a couple of things very inaccurate. The left pedal is extremely important (on a grand piano that is I think uprights don’t quite have it or it doesn’t have the same mechanism), we use it all the time it’s typically marked as ‘una corda’’ meaning one string to achieve soft whisper. The most important aspect of piano playing is actually your touch/tone production. This takes years to master and some never do because it’s a very physically intensive ability tied to how you’re able to relax your wrist and arms completely and yet still have perfect control and rigidity over your fingers, at the same time you have to have to musical ear to tell and adjust your tone to sing or achieve the sound you want, its what differentiates a good pianist or professional from a bad one. If you don’t have the perfect technique for tone production your sound will always be plain, uncolorful or even downright harsh.
Calling out the com sci students cry😂😂😂
Also the most overplayed song in my head was Yiruma. Even non pianist can name and identify the song.
Ending song is obviously darude sandstorm
I’m ending it.
Budget Lang Lang 😭😭
Good video my guy. 👍 Dont hold the pedal too long my brain fuzzy
2:27 what😂😂
bro you don't have to stand on the sustain pedal...
I will NOT accept the soft pedal slander
A quote from a pianist, your middle finger is so weak you don't play chord fully.