Hello everyone, this video is dedicated to my Patron Mike Barnett who has been doing some amazing things with my MIDIs. He's been supporting me since the beginning, so I want to thank him and all of you for your ever-growing support! This piece evokes the feelings of being in a dream, like floating amongst clouds in ultimate tranquility, I hope it brightens your day.
Rousseau thanks that's really cool I hope you a good day as well I've been trying to learn how to play piano I've only played wind intruments though (baritone trumpet flute and clarinet) and I would love to know how to play it 😂
Simple can be relative to a lot of pianists~ So something could be very simple, but the way pianists play it can be considered difficult :) Satie may make it look simple, but there has to be a certain mood I'm sure he wanted portrayed.
This piece is considered by many to be Satie's most prominent work. But while, as you can see, a lot of people in the comments reminisce about old times, express emotions of sadness or happiness, feel calm and tranquil from the simplistic beauty of Gymnopédie, he never intended it to be interpreted in any of these ways. Satie produced this piece as "Furniture music", sort of like musical white noise in the background of other activities. For example, as ambiance for a fancy restaurant. He never knew that it would become so impactful in the world of music, as he died in 1925 and his legacy started to rise in the 1960s. It's amazing how even in a minimalist throwaway piece, he was able to, accidentally or not, capture such a wide range of experiences and moods, still listened to by millions around the world in modern times.
@@jldragongamesI don't think it is as unlikely as it seems. Camille Saint-Saens wrote "Carnival of the Animals" and locked it in a drawer, never to be performed. He was embarrassed by it. This (Satie's song) is favorite classical piece, and I often hear it in the most unlikely places. As an example, there was a Benny Hill Sketch where he is a clown who falls asleep and, while this piece plays, has a dream about dancing with a beautiful woman who walks off of a billboard.
This was the song that always put me to sleep when I was a baby. This song is one of my earliest memories. Playing it in front of my family today felt a little surreal, like the past was repeating itself. It was one of the very few times i've seen my dad cry. I wish I could thank Erik Satie a thousand times for this beautiful piece that inspired my love for piano.
This just goes to show that maybe older things from the past are always better simply because we enjoyed it as a kid and we still enjoy it today… As long as nothing has changed…
@@Allry24 Sometimes it's so, but sometimes things really change. Sometimes you meet very good people, that become friends of a life but one day they go far away in an other city, in an other country and you will not meet them again. In my case, i fall in love for the first time (and i will not fall in love for an another) 8 years ago, i was, and i am deeply in love for her, but i never say it to she. She was a very nice person for me, we spoke a lot of times about life, music, a lot of things, sometimes our eyes look so intense to each other, one time she write on a little paper, something, she was going to give it to me but suddenly she chose to put in a basket it, perhaps she was embaressed. I will never know what she wanted to tell me, but i think that for sometime she fall in love for me. Now years are passed and i never met she again, but i remember that beatiful days and my heart everytime fills of warm nostalgy, remember her green eyes, her smile, her words, every moment that i passed with her. I hope that perhaps a far day she will know what i feel for her
@@Myysterius I truly understand what you say, and I may experience this in the future but I am still not ready to go out into the rest of the world yet, for I am still in the middle of high school trying to get a good career path and get my life on an open road to meet new people and opportunities and one might be my true love but that is not important to me right now. I appreciate your wise words on how things do change very greatly and whether it is good or bad we all still must move forward for it is an obstacle for us to pass. Good luck, and keep moving forward in life and live your dreams to the fullest.
this is the same song, but it feels like - enjoying your happy days - playing music with the homies in the auditory room - watering the peaceful garden - sitting on the couch with your wife - entering retirement - nearing the end of life
I dunno if the composer, Erik Satie, would have considered it a masterpiece. He composed it for relaxing reasons. You know, Music that could be played in the background while pepole are talking or reading, something like that. No kidding, that was really his intention. But nevertheless, for me it is a masterpiece. :-)
This makes me tear up, that's how nostalgic it is. When I was around 7, I had a little owl toy that would play music until morning, with his face glowing yellow. At morning his face would glow green and say "hoo-hoo! it's ok to wake up!" This was one of those songs that would play. It was always hard for me to sleep, having ADHD. I would hear this one play a lot while I was bored. This song in particular however, would be the one that would ever put me to sleep. I finally found it. I am so happy.
My 12 year old son just learned this and played it for his mom's birthday two days ago as her gift. Needless to say, she wept a bit :) Its now one of my favorites to listen to. And I cant help but shed a tear a little bit when I see my son playing it. Its make him that much more beautiful of a person.
Thank you for sharing that beautiful story. This is the beauty of Satie. At first it seems like a simple piece. Slow. Melancholy. But as you listen you begin to feel emotions you didn’t expect. I listen to Gymnopedie No.1 to relieve stress. To meditate. It always moves me in ways I didn’t expect. Cheers to you and your family. Hope your son stays with it
They played this at my best friends funeral. She was 15 at the time and absolutely adored this piece. Always played it and nearly perfected it through practice. I really love it too but for lack of better words it was ruined by her death. I can't listen to it and not think of that person and it really hurts. So it kinda sits there. And sometimes when I wanna feel that extra bit closer, I'll have it play in my room and just run over the memories through my mind. You were taken far too soon, Samantha. I'm a grown ass man now but not a day goes by. Rest in Peace, get ready to play this again when I see you in the beyond. 🕊️
I’m so sorry. I have a similar issue with weezers’ buddy holly. My friend Kiera sang it with me every time it played during color guard rehearsals. She committed suicide a year after we got to bond. I think about her from time to time, life is such a painful experience at times. I hope you’re well. I’m trying my best to stay okay.
willem sluijs Music is subjective and so is feelings. Personally I find the song to sound sad, but that doesn’t mean you’re wrong. Again Music is subjective so we’re both right
Perhaps it’s just because in popular media, people use it as background music for sadness, or to describe the feeling of an old memory that you can’t revisit.
My teacher used to play this in class to calm us for quiet time. It has both comforted and haunted me for decades not knowing the name of this composition but my ears never forgot it. Finally found it, thank you.
FINALLY!! SOMEONE WHO GETS THE RESTS RIGHT! It has been driving me crazy trying to find someone who doesn't rush those first notes but also doesn't weigh the melody down by lingering. *Thank. You.*
@@NobleOne-cm7lr As with most art, it lives through interpretation. With that being said, some people just absolutely murder art, especially in the medium of music. Though the actual beats and rests may read one thing, there is also an important part to playing an instrument which includes style and personally the way rousseau interprets this piece is the exact way I believe it should be played. You can find the sheet music online for free as it's copyright laws are all expired by now. Hope this helps!
this feels like when you’re remembering a good memory, from when times were happy and carefree. That nostalgic melancholy that spreads through your chest and makes you tear up knowing you can never go back to those memories.
You literally couldn’t have said that better, thank you. This piece always gave me the feeling of longing for something I never had but your description is quite better
This song makes me feel a unique type of melancholy, it's so strange, I feel so sad,yet it sooths me,it drowns me in a sort of sad yet satisfying feeling...
I think that's why they chose this for Spiritfarer's Soundtrack, the game is all about letting go loved ones, but instead of feeling sad, remembering all the good times you had together.
When I was 5, I heard this song on roblox, a sonic rp game to be exact, but I could never find it, 9 years later I finally found it via another TH-camr, and this brings a tear to my eye, as I recall all my childhood memories, (as I know, the game was deleted) thank you, and to you, reading this comment, you might have something you lost, like a memory, a belonging, or a person, but never let go of that determination to get it back, and I hope you have a wonderful year. Wow that was corny, but I still wish you a good year, good luck finding that lost something, and thank you for staying around for my small chat.
The fact that this masterpiece gets confused/compared to Minecraft just goes to show how both are able to successfully evoke nostalgic happiness vibes in our emotions and we should appreciate the composers of both classical and video game genres
It definitely sounds like something I could listen to in minecraft when I'm farming or out on an adventure. Wish I could figure out how to override the music files on mobile and I would 😂
Dont ask me how but this song makes me happy and sad at the same time. Like that part in the movie when something great is happening then it all falls down. Like....UP when they were getting older
I was just going to say white prince and the devil black prince (My favourite Japanese drama) God it's almost like listening to a depressing song after a break up 😩😩😢
I never realized this song was used in popular media that people confuse for being the original like Minecraft or Haruhi. I've always known this song as a child because of choir, my teacher loved to play random songs before the bell rang. Gymnopedie and Clair de Lune are my favorite. I've always romanticized piano ever since I was 14 it always made my heart swell. It's so beautiful! A horrible experience almost ruined Gymnopedie for me, but I don't want to let that win, because I've always loved the song even before things happened. Listening to you play now, I try to forget the present memory that hurts me, and try to recall my younger days instead. ^^
While this piece has been used in games before, it actually isn't used in Minecraft. The main reason people think it's from Minecraft is because Gymnopedie No.1 and the Minecraft soundtrack are what's known as 'Furniture music' or music that's played in the background which you're not supposed to pay attention to. Plus, Gymnopedie No.1 and Minecraft's most well known song, 'Sweden', have a few similarities which could confuse listeners.
If I were to describe this song, i would say it feels like sitting on the edge of a rooftop nearing sunset looking at the sky while the wind blows calmly through the hair.
And if ur feeling depressive, it would also feel like remembering the good times while you're sitting on the roof but now everything is different from before.
For me it actually reminds me of Roblox because the 1st Roblox game I played (Work at a Pizza Place) has this song or a similar 1,I don’t play Roblox anymore because November 24 2020 my password stoped working I’m better now but this song will always be a nostalgic reminder of Roblox :) (Edit because grammar)
I have no clue why, but when this piece randomly starts playing everything around me freezes for a good 30 seconds. It's like my brain and soul stop dead in their tracks as I'm trying to conceive the beauty of these sounds. It might be a "simple" piece as some of you say, but the contrasting emotions of beauty, sadness, calmness, melancholy, happyness, depression and hope it envokes are everything but simple. What an absolute masterpiece! Thank you Satie.
*“Hey man! Let’s finish our hotel after school.”* *Last Active : 7 years ago* (This is minecraft related, and this happened to my online minecraft pals it went from “Cya” to *Last Active : 2 Years ago* ...and let me explain why “hotel”, why did I choose hotel? Well me and my old friends wanted to build a hotel for our village on an old server, it was going to be for new people joining our little town full of houses made by me and my friends, we had currency and everything like rules of course. Getting kicked out for stealing and griefing and that’s it. Also it’s NOT blockheads... (I’ve never heard of that game). ) ( Also I know the song is from Blockhead but I’m just saying that this *reminds* me of the Minecraft!!)
As a 13 year old who's piled with school work. Hearing this beautiful music now that was last heard when I was 7 comforted me so much I could cry. This is such a highlight of my year. Thank you.
Try not to let the school work get too much or you, there’s a lot ahead of you but you got it! I just got home from college for break and heard this for the first time in years, just stumbled upon it in my recommended. Nearly cried myself TH-cam’s algorithm is pretty amazing
I'm trying to sleep now. Today, my dog was diagnosed with bone cancer. I am 18 years old and he is 15 years old and needs to amputate his paw and undergo chemotherapy. But at that age he can't take it ... So he'll probably be sacrificed. I'm crying so much ... He was always my company. And now you're going to move on to another plane. This song calms me down a little and helps me in this sad moment. I hope you don't go through the same pain that I feel now. Animals are angels and should not suffer. Edit: today (04/19/2021) my dog gone by natural death. he had cardiopulmonary arrest. Thank you very much for your support. It was very painful, but he was a warrior. He fought anemia, widespread infection and tick disease and managed to survive ... However, unfortunately, he was unable to resist cancer and its consequences.
Bless your heart! Im glad this song helps you and others through hard times. Animals having to pass away is a really hard thing. Once he is gone he will no longer be in pain. You will always miss your friend, but you won't feel as awful as you do now, forever. All my strength to you, enjoy every moment with all loved ones, animal or human.
I lost my dog when I was four years old and this was one of the hardest thing I ever had to overcome, he was there since my day of birth and I had never imagine my life without him. It is hard but he will be forever in the depth of your soul and heart. Wish you a good day and a good life even if it will be certainly without him. Bye
i know just how you feel. my dog didn’t have cancer but he was blind and deaf and in physical pain bc he was so old. don’t worry , it’s okay to cry. we all cried. but just know he is in doggy heaven and he will live on forever and ever with no pain 💜🕊
@@mattd507 true but a lot of people in the comments admit themselves that depressing isn’t the right work but it’s the best they know to describe it. I didn’t mean to be condescending and tell people they’re wrong I just wanted to give a possibly more apt description of what I believed people were attempting to describe
everyone interprets things differently. some people might see it as sad because of similar pieces they experience it with. nostalgia is also usually associated with past memories and maybe people can’t attribute this to anything that reminds them of a past experience. so there’s no wrong or right way to describe it, although some words fit better than others. i don’t think there’s anything wrong with saying it’s sad, depressing, nostalgic, or melancholic. personally, i would agree that it does feel melancholic.
Maybe melancholy but I wouldn’t say nostalgic. I feel absolutely no nostalgia while listening. I see it as simple yet beautiful. Mainly because when I play it, I notice the patterns and realize how simple it is but it doesn’t feel that way.
I want the last minutes of my life hearing this song slowly playing in the background as I remember all the beautiful memories and achievements before finally resting in peace, smiling, and surrounded by my loved ones.
Even though many disagree with me, I find this song to be really sad. Not sad in a dramatic way, just sad in the way that you…miss something. Whenever I listen to this song, I feel sad because I want to go back to a specific time, a specific memory, where I felt good. I don’t know how to describe the feeling, it’s just wanting to be there again, it’s almost lonely. edit : yall I think I’ve got a pretty good idea of the feeling im feeling you don’t need to passive-aggressively reply “ummm it’s nostalgia” every time 💀
@@mawla3836 im sorry man, but im not gonna just go search up something im not exactly interested in order to change my philosophy. plus, i think the word i was looking for was nostalgic anyways, a feeling that is different from sadness. and to once again add, this comment was 6 months ago. it’s…just really not worth my time. thanks for the advice though.
My teacher used to play this to make us go to sleep, she has had I believe one or so children and she had made me the person I am today, I am almost rich, I have never been truly truly depressed, because of such a kind person, she was so nice. Thank you Ms.Cook and may your child(ren) be happy and safe. Thank you ❤.
When I hear this song, I always imagine myself in New York in one of my apartment building, on the first floor. Looking out the window and seeing the gloomy and rainy sky. It also evokes many emotions like the sorrows of life.
@@nathanielmorgan9108 is it on that movie? I feel like its from a movie I have seen often. I just can’t place what one. I always loved that movie! I just have not seen it in years.
I find it amazing how the 'chorus' (for lack of a better word) makes you feel differently when it is repeated for the second time than when it is played for the first time...
This piece is not happy or sad. It’s in between, maybe similar to just living life. It also seems like a rainy day at dusk. EDIT: Thanks for the likes! 😁
You might be feeling this way because the first chord is g Major 7, so it’s playing g Major and b minor at the same time. Major 7 chords tend to have a melancholy feel
this song is very peaceful. it’s one of my favorites. we just put my dog spiky (14yrs old) to sleep so this song has brought me tears and relaxation. thank you so much for your talent. fly high Spiky 🕊💜
This song reminds me of my piano teacher who we lost earlier this year. Her name was Moly Costello she was 88 and died of a brain tumour. She will forever be in my heart and all her pupils.🖤💙❤️
Losing people I know is the most terrifying thought for me. My previous and current piano teachers are definitely the kind of people I would not want to be taken away from, since they are both amazing people. I am really sorry for your loss, it must had been so hard for you. I hope you are happy now, so that you make your teacher even prouder. Have a good night (or day, it's 23:11 here in Greece).
Can't listen to this without getting choked up, It brings out a deep deep sadness in me. Like a reflection on everything I've ever lost. That being said it's my all time favorite piano piece
The most I ever tried was poking out Mary had a little Lamb with an index finger. I visited my parents today and sat down at their piano and emulated the sequence visually. Got okay at the first 50 seconds of the composition with just 30 minutes of practice. You really can learn this 👍
After deciding to learn playing piano being 50 years old this is the first piece of music i learned to play i would call a real piece, not only exercice. It was so satisfying to hear me play it, even if i am not perfect at it. Before that i almost was about to forget about my plans to learn piano, cause my exercice pieces bored me on one hand or where overdemanding on the other. What a lovely song.
The way how Firey gazed at the detailed tree near the end of BFDIA 13 is probably one of the most beautiful scenes to ever exist in BFDI as a whole. It resembled Leafy to him and how much he had missed her, even if it wasn't shown much in the previous episodes and when she stole Dream Island from him (although he was a jerk).
This song gives me that feeling of "I've had a very long day and for some reason the world feels against me, everywhere I turn, but at this point I've accepted it."
Yes, i have a depression. There, i said it! I think i'm not worth, i'm struggling with my work and i try to be perfect and try to avoid all mistakes at work. When i make one, it makes me sick. But this song, it helps. I'm walking on a beach, hear the waves coming in, hear the seagulls, and i'm in peace....
If you don't love you do know. Even without knowing your experience. Your hardships. Your struggle, or what makes you happy. I love you man. Keep pushing don't give it up.
If you like playing this song not because memories and nostalgia, but you just like the song itself, I have mad respect for you. You have good taste in music
wot? music can be played however it’s the melody and ur aspiration for playing it. it can be both. u play the song because u like it, but it comes with a feeling that only u would understand
I tried so hard to do this song justice when I was in college, but I could never bring the emotion to it I feel when I hear it. I love this piece so much.
its fall, raining. All the oaks and maples are red and orange. you sit with the fireplace on the table looking outside with a nice cup of coffee with just the perfect amount of froth... with a classy book in hand.
I believe that this song perfectly describes depression. The distant chords underneath portray a sad overlay of life, but the calming melody describing getting lost in the comfort of it and accepting that this is what life is like for you.
There is no sadness in depression. People who are diagnosed with depression often don't feel anything. No sadness, no happiness, no desire and so on. But yes, you are right about accepting the current situation, whatever it might by. Every time I play it I feel like everything is just the way it supposed to be.
@@zvone-os bro i have diagnosed persistent depressive disorder i know what it's like. thats why im saying this is the closest to what my interpretation of how it feels is.
@@taeyongssidehoe7014 I am really sorry to hear that. I apologise for trying to be a smartass.. Sometimes I am triggered when people associate sadness with depression, but that's my problem that I need to take care of. I am suffering from seasonal affective disorder and very soon I should become a psychotherapist, so I have interviewed many people with depression in general. But since I am still learning psychology, I tend to make many mistakes. One of them is forgetting how people experience the same things in a different way. Once again, I apologise for being an ass. I truly hope that you are managing your depression effectively. I only become depressed during the winter, when I usually exercise daily, eat healthy, taking vitamins and visiting psychotherapist, but all of that helps just a little. Depends on the day. Anyway I just hate that feeling of emptiness,but at least I get better usually in March, so that's a good thing. Is there anything that helps you with depression, at least occasionally? Sorry if I'm asking too much, you don't need to answer this
@@zvone-os its ok! i was just a little annoyed you assumed i didn't know what i was talking about when i suffer with depression too. but i get where you are coming from. I haven't been able to find much that helps me, i take medication everyday but even that doesn't do much for me. i just try to spend time with people who care about me, even if it's hard to be around people! :)
This song sounds peaceful. Like going to school while starring out the window and spacing out. It sounds like a boring yet peaceful life, its... simple. It sounds like being alone, but content with it while sitting on the roof. Simple, boring, but peaceful and content.
Ok but imagine this. A young Russian soldier, after having lost all his friends and family in the war, walks alone in the snow. His bones are colder than the empty roads outside and he looks at all the bright windows and hears the sound of sweet lullabies coming from them and yearns for a place or a person he also could call home, where he could curl up in warmth and cry. Cry for all the things he wasn't ever given, for all the things he lost. In fact all he needed was to feel even one second of warmth, but even that wasn't given.
Yeah. Crying for all the things he wasn't ever given. I mean I may be a cry baby and a bit selfish, but I don't think it's bad to cry sometimes for how bad you have it. No matter how privileged, everyone wishes they had more some times.
Man , your imagination is deep. What I imagine while listening to this song is every thing around which I loved the most . Memories of childhood , things that I wanted , dreams I wanted to come in real life , every one of them , getting lost in this cut throat world . Shattering around me and getting into my flesh and making me realise WHAT I HAVE LOST . Things far more expensive than money . And in the end of the song you realise that you have survived for so much time but you NEVER LIVED IT . Thanks if you are still reading this .
@@creativeusername5867 I won't call it a slave but life is tough man . There is so much competition . I am from India which is 2 highest in population levels . The competition is so tough that even for become a employee in a small company people have to clear highest level of education . The small wages work like being a watchmen or a cleaner is normal for engineers who study cleared their engineering from renounced college . More over I've just completed my high school ( till 10 ) and have to choose a carrier like medical or non medical for +1 and +2 . I am stuck , what to do . Pressure is building up . I guess it is common for people stuck in situation like mine
I don't know why everyone thinks this song sounds sad, depressing, and melancholy. I think its peaceful, and relaxing, I don't see any sorrow in this piece!
Likewise, I always pictured a man resting after a hard day's work. Maybe its starting to rain. He sits in tranquility listening to the soft sounds of nature at the end of his productive but tiring day. Not a care in the world.
This song was performed in 1890 by a French artist named Erik Satie. During his prime he produced three works, this being the first. The title in French is “Lent et douloureux” which literally translates to “transforming slowly with pain/grief” His solos are amazing and they really redefined the romantic era.
Can we stop calling pieces, etudes, cadenzas, concertos, movements, sonatas, etc. "songs"? A song is a piece of music for which accompanying words have been written (or vice versa). Words are the operative part in the definition. Without them, the piece is something different.
When I was in grade school, my Nana picked up a grand piano at a local thrift store and used to play many of Satie's works when she would come over and watch my brother and I every day, this one being the one I remember most prominently. She passed away last January, but every time I listen to this piece, I remember how it felt to be sitting next to her on the bench while she played this and hummed along to it. I miss her dearly, and this piece will always be near and dear to me.
This recollects me of a moment when I was a child about 4 years old, I would always hear this being played by somebody near our apartment where there is a public piano standing right there, Everytime I'd look at the balcony or at the screen door to listen I'd almost fall asleep or even fall asleep in the dirty rugs by the door, I still remember my maid taking me out of the dirty rags to my bed room where I cannot hear the tune anymore, Years me and my family moved away through that place, Suddenly whilst I was browsing on TH-cam I heard this song and felt a sudden familarity hearing it upon, I remembered that man always playing the piano, That moment I remembered that man was a beggar unnoticed by many in our neighbourhood, Knowing this I tried to find the song's name and maybe try to learn it too, After 3 years have passed I finally found the song in a TH-cam's description, *I found it about 3 months earlier*I was really happy to find this beautiful song once again, I'm considering on learning it by my parents piano if I could ever do so, This made me so nostalgic.
Everything_Nerdy When it’s something from the past that comforts you, it’s pretty much like it can never get old. I can listen to this for ever. I’ve listen to it for hours and yet doesn’t get a minute old. This song also makes me quite nostalgic, although I just finished my first year of High School, it reminds me when I was in Eight grade. For me, they were golden memories that slipped by with me even noticing after months
As young ballet student (a million years ago..) I fell in Love with this piece of music and I was determined to choreograph dance moves to it. And now as an elderly lady I listen to this and I'm transported back, reliving every move, and it makes me happy..
This was the last song I learned to play on piano before I finally decided to Quit after having played for years. Pianist or not, piano pieces will always have a comforting and special place in my heart, this one especially.
Saige Leigh girl same. I heard it so many times and no one ever credited the song to know what to search and turns out I was supposed to study the song and never did.
This piece was my childhood, never forgot about it. Really calms me down when something bad is happening. My dad used to play this on replay on the dvd player. I fall asleep instantly by listening to it at night. I'll never forget about this, until forever. :')
This song holds so many memories for me, I used to sit around all day listening to creepypastas and so many TH-camrs used this song in the background. It reminds me of when I had nothing to really worry about. This song is truly beautiful
this song makes me feel an emotion that doesnt exist. i dont know how to explain it. it's like being calm but alone and sad at the same time.. edit: the replies are making me question my existence
I would say nostalgia about love. To remember someone you loved but never loved you back. But time goes and now you're thinking about what you felt and it's hurting but at the same time you almost miss it
I can't describe it. I've always had a very strange connection to this song, and I've never been able to describe it. I often find myself crying profusely to it, and I have no idea why.
I've been a piano player since the age of 5 and I'm 15 now, learning this for the first time and this helped with understanding how do I have to put my hands, thank you
With no classical piano training and only an understanding of the base cleft from over 6 years ago this is the type of teaching I need, got a little under half the song down, thank you! And this is my favorite rendition and the one I listen to from Apple Music consistently
We hear this somewhere We look it up See it Click it Absorb it Your life flashes before your eyes. The happy times Getting a dog Holding my first cat Finding the start of a friendship The sad times A cat dies My grandma leaves Losing that love We are brought here Young and old Probably depressed We search for things to entertain us But we feel like TH-cam has been fully watched No good shows Anywhere you look You’ve read every book in the house Twice We meet. And we depart. Here, Gone.
Whenever I hear this song, it’s just crazy how peaceful it is, especially against most songs which were composed the time it was composed. Just crazy to me. Satie had the right idea with this one
This piece feels peaceful, then it turns dark or sad, but then it goes back. I feel as if this piece really just expresses all the emotions we feel into one song. It’s a beautiful piece, and I wish to play it soon. Wonderful cover Rousseau
sounds like something that would play in my head after something bad happens like that silence after a tragedy,everything is silent,you're silent.You're grieving silently and the world is also grieving silently with you. also minecraft
One of the sweetest compositions ever. . . This piece feels to me like being home, calm, content, at peace, more the feeling than a place. Being in that sweet present moment, of being no body in no time and in no place. . . Bliss. . .
Hello everyone, this video is dedicated to my Patron Mike Barnett who has been doing some amazing things with my MIDIs. He's been supporting me since the beginning, so I want to thank him and all of you for your ever-growing support! This piece evokes the feelings of being in a dream, like floating amongst clouds in ultimate tranquility, I hope it brightens your day.
Rousseau thanks that's really cool I hope you a good day as well I've been trying to learn how to play piano I've only played wind intruments though (baritone trumpet flute and clarinet) and I would love to know how to play it 😂
What kind of piano do u use in your videos i am new to your videos and would love to play piano
what a night to find this channel played along w tears of joy never knew the name to this melody
I made the mistake of listening to this 5:10am, So peaceful and beautiful i now have to go to sleep. (Very Amazing Though)
Can I request September Song by Agnes Obel?
Sometimes the simplest melodies bring the deepest thoughts
FuriousElectric Amen
very true
*_AMEN_*
art isnt about skills at all. art is about creativity
Like nuvole bianche☺️
Satie actually wrote some most "simple" pieces and yet they are absolutely gorgeous
Simple can be relative to a lot of pianists~ So something could be very simple, but the way pianists play it can be considered difficult :) Satie may make it look simple, but there has to be a certain mood I'm sure he wanted portrayed.
Literallyyy I’m learning it rn and there’s a lot of effort for a simple effect
as Debussy said, music is the silence between the notes.
simple piano pieces are better than ones with 1 billion notes
@@lightmodesupremacy7321 >:(
This is one of those classical pieces you can recognise but never know the name of, until now...
Pete the name will forever be in my head now... thanks to Rousseau.
Love this piece. and it aint even long.
I've remembered it from various (gaming, ASMR, etc) channels and it just stuck with me.
i actually never Heard that before laat year.
what a shame
This is so TRUE
exactly
This piece is considered by many to be Satie's most prominent work.
But while, as you can see, a lot of people in the comments reminisce about old times, express emotions of sadness or happiness, feel calm and tranquil from the simplistic beauty of Gymnopédie, he never intended it to be interpreted in any of these ways.
Satie produced this piece as "Furniture music", sort of like musical white noise in the background of other activities. For example, as ambiance for a fancy restaurant. He never knew that it would become so impactful in the world of music, as he died in 1925 and his legacy started to rise in the 1960s. It's amazing how even in a minimalist throwaway piece, he was able to, accidentally or not, capture such a wide range of experiences and moods, still listened to by millions around the world in modern times.
Not only listened, but played. I'm learning it right now, it's incredibly easy.
It ' s very sad that during his life his music was so underrated. I hope he's happy seeing the impact of his music , now
This isn't true. Satie referred to three specific sets of his compositions as "furniture music." None of those were Gymnopédies.
aint no way bro accidentally created the most beautifull thing my ears had the opportunity to enjoy, and intended it to be used in walmart music
@@jldragongamesI don't think it is as unlikely as it seems. Camille Saint-Saens wrote "Carnival of the Animals" and locked it in a drawer, never to be performed. He was embarrassed by it. This (Satie's song) is favorite classical piece, and I often hear it in the most unlikely places. As an example, there was a Benny Hill Sketch where he is a clown who falls asleep and, while this piece plays, has a dream about dancing with a beautiful woman who walks off of a billboard.
This is either:
A. The most relaxing piece ever
B. The most depressing piece ever
Yes it is
Let’s say AB
@@Seltjan78130 🆎
You choose what should be depending on your mood
@@c0ffixx very good point
For 4 minutes and 5 seconds, everything in my life was...perfect.
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Wes Tolson ironic😎
I TOTALLY agree!! my favorite song ever❤️
Sad
And so was your comment 👌🏾I bliss out every time with Satie 🙏🏾
This is the best song to play on a stormy night. 🌉☔🎶
Jake.The.Pianist thx for the idea imma do that after i got some tea
Jake.The.Pianist The Storm by Burgmüller
Yea true that’s a good idea
Wonderful idea... Feelings are coming up
You know what, I would really do that as it is night and I feel like playing this. To bad my neighbours aren't deaf though,them little f******.
This was the song that always put me to sleep when I was a baby. This song is one of my earliest memories.
Playing it in front of my family today felt a little surreal, like the past was repeating itself. It was one of the very few times i've seen my dad cry.
I wish I could thank Erik Satie a thousand times for this beautiful piece that inspired my love for piano.
This just goes to show that maybe older things from the past are always better simply because we enjoyed it as a kid and we still enjoy it today…
As long as nothing has changed…
@@Allry24 Sometimes it's so, but sometimes things really change.
Sometimes you meet very good people, that become friends of a life but one day they go far away in an other city, in an other country and you will not meet them again.
In my case, i fall in love for the first time (and i will not fall in love for an another) 8 years ago, i was, and i am deeply in love for her, but i never say it to she.
She was a very nice person for me, we spoke a lot of times about life, music, a lot of things, sometimes our eyes look so intense to each other, one time she write on a little paper, something, she was going to give it to me but suddenly she chose to put in a basket it, perhaps she was embaressed.
I will never know what she wanted to tell me, but i think that for sometime she fall in love for me.
Now years are passed and i never met she again, but i remember that beatiful days and my heart everytime fills of warm nostalgy, remember her green eyes, her smile, her words, every moment that i passed with her.
I hope that perhaps a far day she will know what i feel for her
@@Myysterius I truly understand what you say, and I may experience this in the future but I am still not ready to go out into the rest of the world yet, for I am still in the middle of high school trying to get a good career path and get my life on an open road to meet new people and opportunities and one might be my true love but that is not important to me right now.
I appreciate your wise words on how things do change very greatly and whether it is good or bad we all still must move forward for it is an obstacle for us to pass.
Good luck, and keep moving forward in life and live your dreams to the fullest.
@@Allry24 Thank you very much, i really appreciate your words.
Hope you the best in everything
@@Allry24 I wish you the best in life
This piece is neither happy nor sad.
It is a description of peaceful life.
thanks stalin
@@pesevengi5358 LMFAOO
@@froggyfan feels to me like putting people into gulag
this is the same song, but it feels like
- enjoying your happy days
- playing music with the homies in the auditory room
- watering the peaceful garden
- sitting on the couch with your wife
- entering retirement
- nearing the end of life
@@kx163f4 no, pls not now before i nuke nagasaki
I don't understand why people would dislike such beautiful masterpiece.
If YOU like it, that's enough. Trying to understand human behaviour or decision making will...
Don't know if its a masterpiece. Its definitely very pretty though
Often it’s spite from comments like this one
I dunno if the composer, Erik Satie, would have considered it a masterpiece. He composed it for relaxing reasons. You know, Music that could be played in the background while pepole are talking or reading, something like that. No kidding, that was really his intention. But nevertheless, for me it is a masterpiece. :-)
maybe they disliked the fact that life is too short to listen to the song for eternity and disliked out of jealousy and spite
This makes me tear up, that's how nostalgic it is. When I was around 7, I had a little owl toy that would play music until morning, with his face glowing yellow. At morning his face would glow green and say "hoo-hoo! it's ok to wake up!" This was one of those songs that would play. It was always hard for me to sleep, having ADHD. I would hear this one play a lot while I was bored. This song in particular however, would be the one that would ever put me to sleep. I finally found it. I am so happy.
Izzy the Trashposter I want that toy. For no reason at all
Happy for ya buddy
My 12 year old son just learned this and played it for his mom's birthday two days ago as her gift. Needless to say, she wept a bit :) Its now one of my favorites to listen to. And I cant help but shed a tear a little bit when I see my son playing it. Its make him that much more beautiful of a person.
Wow!!
Invaluable!
Wow! he is such a nice young man! So sweet!
Thank you for sharing that beautiful story. This is the beauty of Satie. At first it seems like a simple piece. Slow. Melancholy. But as you listen you begin to feel emotions you didn’t expect. I listen to Gymnopedie No.1 to relieve stress. To meditate. It always moves me in ways I didn’t expect. Cheers to you and your family. Hope your son stays with it
❤
A ya 😂
They played this at my best friends funeral. She was 15 at the time and absolutely adored this piece. Always played it and nearly perfected it through practice.
I really love it too but for lack of better words it was ruined by her death. I can't listen to it and not think of that person and it really hurts.
So it kinda sits there. And sometimes when I wanna feel that extra bit closer, I'll have it play in my room and just run over the memories through my mind.
You were taken far too soon, Samantha. I'm a grown ass man now but not a day goes by. Rest in Peace, get ready to play this again when I see you in the beyond. 🕊️
Heartbreaking loss too soon. I am so sorry for your loss.
I am sorry for your loss.
I wish you all the best.
rest in peace
I’m so sorry. I have a similar issue with weezers’ buddy holly. My friend Kiera sang it with me every time it played during color guard rehearsals. She committed suicide a year after we got to bond. I think about her from time to time, life is such a painful experience at times. I hope you’re well. I’m trying my best to stay okay.
Sounds poetic rather than legit so shut up yea? Don't tryna get likes and ruin this song with fake stories, this is getting way to common.
Also if this song is ruined by her death, why did u play it at her funeral? Why not go pick some other songs, there are millions of them out there.
If this ain’t played at my funeral I ain’t coming
*going
@@Ali-mi9up what? He used Coming correctly. Going isn't correct.
@@Ali-mi9up haha I guess you missed the joke. Rip ali khan
"Aight who be playing that sad sh*t? Nobody?!?!?" *HOPS OUT OF CASKET* "aight imma head out"
@@octave11thpianist58 what's the joke, then?
Those bass notes... I can feel it in my soul
Why does everybody associate this song with sadness? I think it's actually a very calm and peaceful song.
willem sluijs Music is subjective and so is feelings. Personally I find the song to sound sad, but that doesn’t mean you’re wrong. Again Music is subjective so we’re both right
Perhaps it’s just because in popular media, people use it as background music for sadness, or to describe the feeling of an old memory that you can’t revisit.
Maybe because this piece is very quiet and slow.
@@Jyudee yeah same
Because the tempo marking is slow and painful
I love this piece of Satie. It feels like someone I love is dying in few minutes and we're making the best out of the remaining moments.
yes
That's dark, but I agree
This was played at my grandfathers funeral 3 years ago
How tf y'all get these random thoughts? I just think of sleep.
Samuel Wolfe lmao i feel you
This might be the only piece I could play that Rousseau played...
Kimchi Fried Rice Even then, it’s harder than it sounds. Having to move the left hand from the low bass to the chords takes a bit of practice
No you cant
@@Jimmy-ys2kd ?
@@Jimmy-ys2kd ?
@@Jimmy-ys2kd ?
My teacher used to play this in class to calm us for quiet time. It has both comforted and haunted me for decades not knowing the name of this composition but my ears never forgot it. Finally found it, thank you.
FINALLY!! SOMEONE WHO GETS THE RESTS RIGHT! It has been driving me crazy trying to find someone who doesn't rush those first notes but also doesn't weigh the melody down by lingering. *Thank. You.*
Pika Pika?
Tamuril Goldleaf i dont have the sheet music. Can someone tell me what the rest is? Just wanna know for sure
@@NobleOne-cm7lr As with most art, it lives through interpretation. With that being said, some people just absolutely murder art, especially in the medium of music. Though the actual beats and rests may read one thing, there is also an important part to playing an instrument which includes style and personally the way rousseau interprets this piece is the exact way I believe it should be played. You can find the sheet music online for free as it's copyright laws are all expired by now. Hope this helps!
This is Rousseau we're talking about here... cmon... of course he's going to do everything perfectly
Agree
this feels like when you’re remembering a good memory, from when times were happy and carefree. That nostalgic melancholy that spreads through your chest and makes you tear up knowing you can never go back to those memories.
You literally couldn’t have said that better, thank you. This piece always gave me the feeling of longing for something I never had but your description is quite better
If nostalgia had a theme song it would definetly be this.
I believe that emotion is called "saudade".
*You are filled with Determination.*
not sorry for the Undertale reference.
It's like you read my mind..
This song makes me feel a unique type of melancholy, it's so strange, I feel so sad,yet it sooths me,it drowns me in a sort of sad yet satisfying feeling...
Agreed!
Bro same
I think that's why they chose this for Spiritfarer's Soundtrack, the game is all about letting go loved ones, but instead of feeling sad, remembering all the good times you had together.
@@davidtorazzi7650 I don’t know what game your talking about but okay, I really only found this song while scrolling through my Spotify
@@renna495 Sure, that's why I mentioned what it's about. I just thought that it fits so well.
When I was 5, I heard this song on roblox, a sonic rp game to be exact, but I could never find it, 9 years later I finally found it via another TH-camr, and this brings a tear to my eye, as I recall all my childhood memories, (as I know, the game was deleted) thank you, and to you, reading this comment, you might have something you lost, like a memory, a belonging, or a person, but never let go of that determination to get it back, and I hope you have a wonderful year.
Wow that was corny, but I still wish you a good year, good luck finding that lost something, and thank you for staying around for my small chat.
DISCLAIMER: IF YOUR LOST SOMEONE IS DEAD, DO NOT PERFORM NECROMANCY OR WITCHCRAFT, NOT TO PROTECT YOU, BUT IT DOESN'T WORK, TRUST ME, I'VE TRIED.
The fact that this masterpiece gets confused/compared to Minecraft just goes to show how both are able to successfully evoke nostalgic happiness vibes in our emotions and we should appreciate the composers of both classical and video game genres
Exactly, having your song compared to something from the Minecraft OST should be a compliment, not offensive.
It definitely sounds like something I could listen to in minecraft when I'm farming or out on an adventure. Wish I could figure out how to override the music files on mobile and I would 😂
It doesn’t remind me of Minecraft, I feel like I’ve hear it before in a kids show like the amazing world of gumball. I’m not sure how to explain it
C418 was inspired by Erik Saties music Thats why this reminds to minecraft music
this song plays inside my head whenever i look at the night sky in Minecraft.
Dont ask me how but this song makes me happy and sad at the same time. Like that part in the movie when something great is happening then it all falls down. Like....UP when they were getting older
Master Sushi Chef nostalgic is the word sir
@@espurr6628 my apologies, good sir
That is the exact movie I thought of when listening xD
How?
I was just going to say white prince and the devil black prince (My favourite Japanese drama) God it's almost like listening to a depressing song after a break up 😩😩😢
Me trying to remember the name of this song:
Gym Nope Die
En español, suena a "Yo no pedí"
Lol me talking to my gym teacher
Me trying to remember this song: centipede on a jungle gym- no gym centipede- gym no pede.... eh close enough.
I actually remembered it as gynophobia lol
@@elnoroii lmaoo XD
I love the minimalistic, expressive feel of this song. Thank you for posting this. 🎹
I never realized this song was used in popular media that people confuse for being the original like Minecraft or Haruhi.
I've always known this song as a child because of choir, my teacher loved to play random songs before the bell rang. Gymnopedie and Clair de Lune are my favorite. I've always romanticized piano ever since I was 14 it always made my heart swell. It's so beautiful! A horrible experience almost ruined Gymnopedie for me, but I don't want to let that win, because I've always loved the song even before things happened.
Listening to you play now, I try to forget the present memory that hurts me, and try to recall my younger days instead. ^^
While this piece has been used in games before, it actually isn't used in Minecraft. The main reason people think it's from Minecraft is because Gymnopedie No.1 and the Minecraft soundtrack are what's known as 'Furniture music' or music that's played in the background which you're not supposed to pay attention to.
Plus, Gymnopedie No.1 and Minecraft's most well known song, 'Sweden', have a few similarities which could confuse listeners.
Same, this song and Clair de lune are absolute all time favorites and the romanticized piano bit at a young age.
i've heard it used in the arcana for the high priestess's realm :)
Were you classmates with FilthyFrank? Wth
I learned of it because of the disappearance of haruhi suzumiya but I knew of it's existence because such and I love music like this
heard this song a while ago, heard it again on Queen's Gambit and re kindled my love for this beautiful piece of music, great work!
literally the same thing for me man lol
Bravo “Gambit” Bravo
Yeah beth's mother played that piece
Same here. I have two more episodes.
She didnt play the whole piece well though, too fast and powerful
If I were to describe this song, i would say it feels like sitting on the edge of a rooftop nearing sunset looking at the sky while the wind blows calmly through the hair.
feels like sneaking downstairs to the fridge at nighttime
And if ur feeling depressive, it would also feel like remembering the good times while you're sitting on the roof but now everything is different from before.
And that wind, man
It feels like this song
Oh yeah i do that in minecraft
For me it actually reminds me of Roblox because the 1st Roblox game I played (Work at a Pizza Place) has this song or a similar 1,I don’t play Roblox anymore because November 24 2020 my password stoped working I’m better now but this song will always be a nostalgic reminder of Roblox :)
(Edit because grammar)
I have no clue why, but when this piece randomly starts playing everything around me freezes for a good 30 seconds. It's like my brain and soul stop dead in their tracks as I'm trying to conceive the beauty of these sounds. It might be a "simple" piece as some of you say, but the contrasting emotions of beauty, sadness, calmness, melancholy, happyness, depression and hope it envokes are everything but simple.
What an absolute masterpiece!
Thank you Satie.
Me sucede lo mismo
*falls asleep while listening to this*
*forgets to turn auto play off*
*Ad: HI BILLY MAZE HERE WITH THE HANDY SWITCH*
Billy MAYS, you uncultured swine. Bruh
I got Phill swift
Egriff123 sooooooooo?
@@lorraineadormonicus dOn'T jUdGe pEoPle bY thERE dIffeREnCES
How? Billy Mays passed in 2009
*“Hey man! Let’s finish our hotel after school.”*
*Last Active : 7 years ago*
(This is minecraft related, and this happened to my online minecraft pals it went from “Cya” to *Last Active : 2 Years ago* ...and let me explain why “hotel”, why did I choose hotel? Well me and my old friends wanted to build a hotel for our village on an old server, it was going to be for new people joining our little town full of houses made by me and my friends, we had currency and everything like rules of course. Getting kicked out for stealing and griefing and that’s it. Also it’s NOT blockheads... (I’ve never heard of that game). ) ( Also I know the song is from Blockhead but I’m just saying that this *reminds* me of the Minecraft!!)
what type of kid builds a hotel wtf??
Me. (Ps4 Littlelion585 wanna play minecraft)
this isn’t minecraft
"Can we meet again?"
"Sure!"
Last active: *13 years ago*
I am the only one who has come back..
I love this song it’s so depressing and yet so calming
Totally agree
totally agree with that
For me it’s like thoughts swirling about my day, while looking out a window watching snow fall, or watching rain fall
𝙳𝚎𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚐?
for me its not depressing at all
Man i could listen to this on loop for hours and still not get tired of it
As a 13 year old who's piled with school work. Hearing this beautiful music now that was last heard when I was 7 comforted me so much I could cry. This is such a highlight of my year. Thank you.
Try not to let the school work get too much or you, there’s a lot ahead of you but you got it!
I just got home from college for break and heard this for the first time in years, just stumbled upon it in my recommended. Nearly cried myself
TH-cam’s algorithm is pretty amazing
Good luck with all your studies!
School work is good for you! Don’t forget, it’s for your future!
same here 😔
@Sophia Victoria Maria Merten I'm in yr 11, advanced, its hard
I'm trying to sleep now. Today, my dog was diagnosed with bone cancer. I am 18 years old and he is 15 years old and needs to amputate his paw and undergo chemotherapy. But at that age he can't take it ... So he'll probably be sacrificed. I'm crying so much ... He was always my company. And now you're going to move on to another plane. This song calms me down a little and helps me in this sad moment. I hope you don't go through the same pain that I feel now. Animals are angels and should not suffer.
Edit: today (04/19/2021) my dog gone by natural death. he had cardiopulmonary arrest. Thank you very much for your support. It was very painful, but he was a warrior. He fought anemia, widespread infection and tick disease and managed to survive ... However, unfortunately, he was unable to resist cancer and its consequences.
woow :(
Bless your heart! Im glad this song helps you and others through hard times. Animals having to pass away is a really hard thing. Once he is gone he will no longer be in pain. You will always miss your friend, but you won't feel as awful as you do now, forever. All my strength to you, enjoy every moment with all loved ones, animal or human.
Love is something you cant destroy. He will always be there.
I lost my dog when I was four years old and this was one of the hardest thing I ever had to overcome, he was there since my day of birth and I had never imagine my life without him. It is hard but he will be forever in the depth of your soul and heart. Wish you a good day and a good life even if it will be certainly without him. Bye
i know just how you feel. my dog didn’t have cancer but he was blind and deaf and in physical pain bc he was so old. don’t worry , it’s okay to cry. we all cried. but just know he is in doggy heaven and he will live on forever and ever with no pain 💜🕊
Whenever I hear this, I always picture myself looking out of a window to a gloomy and rainy day 😇
And sighing contentedly.
Yooo deadass. And just sitting there with the person you love
I picture myself hitting a tree to collect wood
I picture myself walking in the rain with nothing in the middle of nowhere...
Fun.
Where you can only feel content. Peaceful.
Nobody is using the right word to describe this song. It’s not sad or depressing it’s a nostalgic melancholy
Art is subjective.
@@mattd507 true but a lot of people in the comments admit themselves that depressing isn’t the right work but it’s the best they know to describe it. I didn’t mean to be condescending and tell people they’re wrong I just wanted to give a possibly more apt description of what I believed people were attempting to describe
everyone interprets things differently. some people might see it as sad because of similar pieces they experience it with. nostalgia is also usually associated with past memories and maybe people can’t attribute this to anything that reminds them of a past experience. so there’s no wrong or right way to describe it, although some words fit better than others. i don’t think there’s anything wrong with saying it’s sad, depressing, nostalgic, or melancholic. personally, i would agree that it does feel melancholic.
Maybe melancholy but I wouldn’t say nostalgic. I feel absolutely no nostalgia while listening. I see it as simple yet beautiful. Mainly because when I play it, I notice the patterns and realize how simple it is but it doesn’t feel that way.
Nostalgic nails it on the head.
I want the last minutes of my life hearing this song slowly playing in the background as I remember all the beautiful memories and achievements before finally resting in peace, smiling, and surrounded by my loved ones.
Same.
That got deep
Well said, it is just so calm and soothing.
u mean the credits?
Same, but remove the achievements bit lol.
On paper, this looks like childishly easy music, but it needs a sophisticated touch to convey the spine ripples of extacy.
David Thom
True.
Honestly I'd argue otherwise. It's super easy to play emotionally but I think that's what's great about it. Anyone can play it.
@@Venpris Au contraire, I think it is difficult to interpret it well, as it is with most music.
Big words I dont understand 🙃
Even though many disagree with me, I find this song to be really sad. Not sad in a dramatic way, just sad in the way that you…miss something. Whenever I listen to this song, I feel sad because I want to go back to a specific time, a specific memory, where I felt good. I don’t know how to describe the feeling, it’s just wanting to be there again, it’s almost lonely.
edit : yall I think I’ve got a pretty good idea of the feeling im feeling you don’t need to passive-aggressively reply “ummm it’s nostalgia” every time 💀
It makes me feel homesick for a place I've never been.
@@mawla3836 i do appreciate it, it’s just the emotion the music makes me feel,
@@mawla3836 not to mention, the song clearly has a sad-ish tone to it.
@@mawla3836 im sorry man, but im not gonna just go search up something im not exactly interested in order to change my philosophy. plus, i think the word i was looking for was nostalgic anyways, a feeling that is different from sadness. and to once again add, this comment was 6 months ago. it’s…just really not worth my time. thanks for the advice though.
@@mawla3836 you should allow people to interpret pieces in their own meaningful way… it’s not for everyone
My teacher used to play this to make us go to sleep, she has had I believe one or so children and she had made me the person I am today, I am almost rich, I have never been truly truly depressed, because of such a kind person, she was so nice. Thank you Ms.Cook and may your child(ren) be happy and safe. Thank you ❤.
Let’s go shopping son!
Plays gymnopédie-
It started to rain... maybe tomorrow
did she lost her son or something?
He means the music is so sad it rained
Haha ❤
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@@KokoroKatsura Nani?
When I hear this song, I always imagine myself in New York in one of my apartment building, on the first floor. Looking out the window and seeing the gloomy and rainy sky. It also evokes many emotions like the sorrows of life.
nice ending line you should get into literature like poetry and book writing
me too but with paris
Makes me think of wandering in nature while it’s overcast.
This channel is severely underrated. I love your videos!
Underrated!?! Rousseau's gotten 10,000 subscribers since I found him 2 weeks ago. 27,000 to 36,000. Rousseau... You deserve it.
Darnald Tramp lol I just ment that compared to other piano channels it's relatively small
Underrated? 2-3 Months, he already has million of views! Maybe my channel is underrated ?!
Branden2432 too underrated even though he’s gaining fast he deserve so much more
You do have a good channel lol
I don't know why, but this music reminds me of my beloved Mum, and always reduces me to a few tears. Sweet memories of her.
This piece gives me this weird feeling of missing a beautiful memory I have that doesn't exist
"Anemoia : nostalgia for a time you've never known."
Right! I have been looking for a way to describe this song for a couple years now!
If you like that feeling I recommend the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind as well as it's soundtrack.
@@nathanielmorgan9108 is it on that movie? I feel like its from a movie I have seen often. I just can’t place what one. I always loved that movie! I just have not seen it in years.
9/11
the beginning of this song is the most heavenly thing i’ve ever heard
Everything is so purple
I like it
😂
GAEEEEY
youre gay go hell
Fiaro Rabe no u
Magic Monkey no u
I find it amazing how the 'chorus' (for lack of a better word) makes you feel differently when it is repeated for the second time than when it is played for the first time...
This piece is not happy or sad. It’s in between, maybe similar to just living life. It also seems like a rainy day at dusk.
EDIT: Thanks for the likes! 😁
Neutral
@@sodacity6609 i would say, realistic.
Lent et Douloureux, painfull is the word Satie describes the piece and interpreters takes as metrics
Basically minecraft
You might be feeling this way because the first chord is g Major 7, so it’s playing g Major and b minor at the same time. Major 7 chords tend to have a melancholy feel
this song is very peaceful. it’s one of my favorites. we just put my dog spiky (14yrs old) to sleep so this song has brought me tears and relaxation. thank you so much for your talent. fly high Spiky 🕊💜
Rest in peace. ♥️♥️♥️
This song reminds me of my piano teacher who we lost earlier this year. Her name was Moly Costello she was 88 and died of a brain tumour. She will forever be in my heart and all her pupils.🖤💙❤️
sorry for your loss, I’m sure she lived a happy full filling life, she’s in a better place now.
i'm so sorry for your loss. she must have been a great teacher, and she's somewhere better now
@Chloe Chen thank you it is much appreciated
Losing people I know is the most terrifying thought for me. My previous and current piano teachers are definitely the kind of people I would not want to be taken away from, since they are both amazing people. I am really sorry for your loss, it must had been so hard for you. I hope you are happy now, so that you make your teacher even prouder. Have a good night (or day, it's 23:11 here in Greece).
sorry for your loss
Can't listen to this without getting choked up, It brings out a deep deep sadness in me. Like a reflection on everything I've ever lost. That being said it's my all time favorite piano piece
officially...
this is the most bittersweet piece in music history.
like dark chocolate… yum
me: i could learn this
me listening to the song: wow i could actually learn this *in shock*
What? That just flew over my head
Gamer •••• cause Rousseau plays music we can’t imagine playing lmao
Darryl Turner oh.. crap, sorry I’ll take my leave :|
The most I ever tried was poking out Mary had a little Lamb with an index finger. I visited my parents today and sat down at their piano and emulated the sequence visually. Got okay at the first 50 seconds of the composition with just 30 minutes of practice. You really can learn this 👍
I learned this piece for fun on classical guitar, the sound is quite different but still carries the same tone and mood
After deciding to learn playing piano being 50 years old this is the first piece of music i learned to play i would call a real piece, not only exercice. It was so satisfying to hear me play it, even if i am not perfect at it. Before that i almost was about to forget about my plans to learn piano, cause my exercice pieces bored me on one hand or where overdemanding on the other. What a lovely song.
Keep going! We believe in ya
I love this piece im learning it although im only 11 year old with like 2 motnhs of experience
The way how Firey gazed at the detailed tree near the end of BFDIA 13 is probably one of the most beautiful scenes to ever exist in BFDI as a whole. It resembled Leafy to him and how much he had missed her, even if it wasn't shown much in the previous episodes and when she stole Dream Island from him (although he was a jerk).
@@sleepy4205 No, It's not. The scene used Gymnopedie No. 1, that's why I came here.
@@iamdonewitheverything my bad
AHHH. OSC SPOTTED IN THE LAST PLACE I THOUGHT I WOULD SEE
This song gives me that feeling of
"I've had a very long day and for some reason the world feels against me, everywhere I turn, but at this point I've accepted it."
Piece*
Not a song
@@patrickallenpimentel3062 Who cares
@@deardoting6482 fr
Dude you have just described what i feel exactly
Simple, but beautiful, Satie was an expert to write songs like this. Thank you very much for show us
This feels like a sad calm rainy day. ☔
Yes, i have a depression. There, i said it! I think i'm not worth, i'm struggling with my work and i try to be perfect and try to avoid all mistakes at work. When i make one, it makes me sick. But this song, it helps. I'm walking on a beach, hear the waves coming in, hear the seagulls, and i'm in peace....
Hi rulfan, Since you made this comments, I'm wondering, how are you doing now?
cheer up lovee! 💗
If you don't love you do know. Even without knowing your experience. Your hardships. Your struggle, or what makes you happy. I love you man. Keep pushing don't give it up.
If you like playing this song not because memories and nostalgia, but you just like the song itself, I have mad respect for you. You have good taste in music
wot? music can be played however it’s the melody and ur aspiration for playing it. it can be both. u play the song because u like it, but it comes with a feeling that only u would understand
Bruh its our TASTE OF MUSIC.
Your taste of music is weird.
@@jibele8299 ok...
Noob
Jk
I tried so hard to do this song justice when I was in college, but I could never bring the emotion to it I feel when I hear it. I love this piece so much.
It's never too late! I find that sometimes living life for a while brings more introspective qualities to life when playing the piano!
@@MotifMusicStudios I'm afraid I'm not talented enough with the piano to do it justice. I'm a clarinet player really.
The major 7 chord is the most nostalgic sounding chord. Amazing how a combo of 4 tones can evoke such feelings.
Personally for me its playing the root chord of the an inverted min6 line
its fall, raining. All the oaks and maples are red and orange. you sit with the fireplace on the table looking outside with a nice cup of coffee with just the perfect amount of froth... with a classy book in hand.
this song reminds me of all the times i used to play the blockheads, so sad the game is dead, also hope this masterpiece will stay alive forever
I believe that this song perfectly describes depression. The distant chords underneath portray a sad overlay of life, but the calming melody describing getting lost in the comfort of it and accepting that this is what life is like for you.
i love your interpretation lol i went "damn. thats so true"
There is no sadness in depression. People who are diagnosed with depression often don't feel anything. No sadness, no happiness, no desire and so on. But yes, you are right about accepting the current situation, whatever it might by. Every time I play it I feel like everything is just the way it supposed to be.
@@zvone-os bro i have diagnosed persistent depressive disorder i know what it's like. thats why im saying this is the closest to what my interpretation of how it feels is.
@@taeyongssidehoe7014 I am really sorry to hear that. I apologise for trying to be a smartass.. Sometimes I am triggered when people associate sadness with depression, but that's my problem that I need to take care of. I am suffering from seasonal affective disorder and very soon I should become a psychotherapist, so I have interviewed many people with depression in general. But since I am still learning psychology, I tend to make many mistakes. One of them is forgetting how people experience the same things in a different way. Once again, I apologise for being an ass. I truly hope that you are managing your depression effectively. I only become depressed during the winter, when I usually exercise daily, eat healthy, taking vitamins and visiting psychotherapist, but all of that helps just a little. Depends on the day. Anyway I just hate that feeling of emptiness,but at least I get better usually in March, so that's a good thing. Is there anything that helps you with depression, at least occasionally? Sorry if I'm asking too much, you don't need to answer this
@@zvone-os its ok! i was just a little annoyed you assumed i didn't know what i was talking about when i suffer with depression too. but i get where you are coming from. I haven't been able to find much that helps me, i take medication everyday but even that doesn't do much for me. i just try to spend time with people who care about me, even if it's hard to be around people! :)
This piece: *exists*
Everyone: I diagnose you with sense of _die_
same
Why even
I love this song. for me there's 3 fav. moonlight sonata, gymnopedie #1 and marriage d amour
Hmm yes always
@@keyboardbunny omg I know marriage d amour! I saw a video of someone playing it on kalimba! ill be right back and find it for you.
genuinely took me 2 years to find this song, and i just found it today and i have no regrets.
That sucks. It only took me a few minutes lol 😂
fr finding classic music is so hard. Its always called like: nocturne in b sharp minor op.9 no.2.
This song sounds peaceful. Like going to school while starring out the window and spacing out. It sounds like a boring yet peaceful life, its... simple. It sounds like being alone, but content with it while sitting on the roof. Simple, boring, but peaceful and content.
Ok but imagine this.
A young Russian soldier, after having lost all his friends and family in the war, walks alone in the snow. His bones are colder than the empty roads outside and he looks at all the bright windows and hears the sound of sweet lullabies coming from them and yearns for a place or a person he also could call home, where he could curl up in warmth and cry. Cry for all the things he wasn't ever given, for all the things he lost. In fact all he needed was to feel even one second of warmth, but even that wasn't given.
Yeah. Crying for all the things he wasn't ever given. I mean I may be a cry baby and a bit selfish, but I don't think it's bad to cry sometimes for how bad you have it. No matter how privileged, everyone wishes they had more some times.
Poetic xD
Man , your imagination is deep. What I imagine while listening to this song is every thing around which I loved the most . Memories of childhood , things that I wanted , dreams I wanted to come in real life , every one of them , getting lost in this cut throat world . Shattering around me and getting into my flesh and making me realise WHAT I HAVE LOST . Things far more expensive than money . And in the end of the song you realise that you have survived for so much time but you NEVER LIVED IT .
Thanks if you are still reading this .
This guy is definitely a sad slav boi
@@creativeusername5867 I won't call it a slave but life is tough man . There is so much competition . I am from India which is 2 highest in population levels . The competition is so tough that even for become a employee in a small company people have to clear highest level of education . The small wages work like being a watchmen or a cleaner is normal for engineers who study cleared their engineering from renounced college . More over I've just completed my high school ( till 10 ) and have to choose a carrier like medical or non medical for +1 and +2 . I am stuck , what to do . Pressure is building up . I guess it is common for people stuck in situation like mine
I don't know why everyone thinks this song sounds sad, depressing, and melancholy. I think its peaceful, and relaxing, I don't see any sorrow in this piece!
It's true. I played this piece
Likewise, I always pictured a man resting after a hard day's work. Maybe its starting to rain. He sits in tranquility listening to the soft sounds of nature at the end of his productive but tiring day. Not a care in the world.
Madison Feehan subjectivity is crazy innit
Not so right
I think it reminds people of hard times or time s that were happy but couldn’t be revisited.
This song was performed in 1890 by a French artist named Erik Satie. During his prime he produced three works, this being the first. The title in French is “Lent et douloureux” which literally translates to “transforming slowly with pain/grief”
His solos are amazing and they really redefined the romantic era.
Literally it means ‘slow and painful’
@@nocturne9257 exactly
Where did you find this information? I thought “lent et douloureux” was simply a direction for how the piece should be performed
Can we stop calling pieces, etudes, cadenzas, concertos, movements, sonatas, etc. "songs"? A song is a piece of music for which accompanying words have been written (or vice versa). Words are the operative part in the definition. Without them, the piece is something different.
@@carmium agreed
When I was in grade school, my Nana picked up a grand piano at a local thrift store and used to play many of Satie's works when she would come over and watch my brother and I every day, this one being the one I remember most prominently. She passed away last January, but every time I listen to this piece, I remember how it felt to be sitting next to her on the bench while she played this and hummed along to it. I miss her dearly, and this piece will always be near and dear to me.
This recollects me of a moment when I was a child about 4 years old, I would always hear this being played by somebody near our apartment where there is a public piano standing right there, Everytime I'd look at the balcony or at the screen door to listen I'd almost fall asleep or even fall asleep in the dirty rugs by the door, I still remember my maid taking me out of the dirty rags to my bed room where I cannot hear the tune anymore, Years me and my family moved away through that place, Suddenly whilst I was browsing on TH-cam I heard this song and felt a sudden familarity hearing it upon, I remembered that man always playing the piano, That moment I remembered that man was a beggar unnoticed by many in our neighbourhood, Knowing this I tried to find the song's name and maybe try to learn it too, After 3 years have passed I finally found the song in a TH-cam's description, *I found it about 3 months earlier*I was really happy to find this beautiful song once again, I'm considering on learning it by my parents piano if I could ever do so, This made me so nostalgic.
gamer dog Learning a song takes a lot of the nostalgia away, hearing it so many times ruins it. Trust me, and also that’s a lovely story.
Nah i think it adds another layer of charm to it
Thats my experience at least
Stop it your making me cry
Everything_Nerdy When it’s something from the past that comforts you, it’s pretty much like it can never get old. I can listen to this for ever. I’ve listen to it for hours and yet doesn’t get a minute old. This song also makes me quite nostalgic, although I just finished my first year of High School, it reminds me when I was in Eight grade. For me, they were golden memories that slipped by with me even noticing after months
Had to put down my cat, my best friend 2 days ago.. was okay and this song set me over the edge crying again. Idk why. Fuck I miss my cat.
Sorry for your loss...
You make me sad now.. how dare you.
Sorry for your loss. Cats just become part of the family
My sincere condolences. I never get over the loss of a cat...forever miss them
shut the fuck up
I dont even listen to classical, but this and clair de lune are amazing
Classical music has its own charm, it makes our thinking more positive. Isn't that right? my friend.
Have you listened to moonlight sonata movement 1?
@@themaidenlesswretch7819 I have listened
@@赤ちゃんが寝る音楽 good
@@themaidenlesswretch7819 💖🌹💖
As young ballet student (a million years ago..) I fell in Love with this piece of music and I was determined to choreograph dance moves to it. And now as an elderly lady I listen to this and I'm transported back, reliving every move, and it makes me happy..
I adore this song. Though it makes me sad because it is always played at sad parts in movies.
Nah bruh this is what plays when you're deadass mining some diamonds in minecraft
@Kiramekki gymnopedie is not in minecraft however there is a quite similar song called "Sweden"
400TH LIKERRR
@Thomas B. it was in a Haruhi Suzumiya movie
Brother
"Vivimos en una sociedad"
-El teclas
Viste el video de Jaime altozano
Cuando vi esta melodía se me vino esta frase
Entendi esa referencia.jpg
xd
"Y eso implica muchas cosas"
Vienes del vídeo de Jaime Altozano verdad?😂
It’s so calming...yet sad
It reminds me of better times
More innocent times
No worries
No cares
Just childlike wonder and amusement
This was the last song I learned to play on piano before I finally decided to Quit after having played for years. Pianist or not, piano pieces will always have a comforting and special place in my heart, this one especially.
I've been searching for this song my entire life and now that I've finally found it I'm crying 😪
If you watch the movie "my dinner with andre " till the end then you would like it even more.
Saige Leigh girl same. I heard it so many times and no one ever credited the song to know what to search and turns out I was supposed to study the song and never did.
This piece was my childhood, never forgot about it. Really calms me down when something bad is happening. My dad used to play this on replay on the dvd player. I fall asleep instantly by listening to it at night. I'll never forget about this, until forever. :')
When he said: 🎹🎹🎵🎶
I really felt that 😔
Leonardo Beltran same
I know this is a joke, but...
*He didn't said it, he played it.*
When he said P I A N O P I A N O
sometimes I disappoint myself
@@deth9794 you right, didn't said it, nor did he say it, nor did he sayed it.
R/wooooosh
lol
This song holds so many memories for me, I used to sit around all day listening to creepypastas and so many TH-camrs used this song in the background. It reminds me of when I had nothing to really worry about. This song is truly beautiful
this song makes me feel an emotion that doesnt exist.
i dont know how to explain it.
it's like being calm but alone and sad at the same time..
edit: the replies are making me question my existence
Depression.
I would say nostalgia about love. To remember someone you loved but never loved you back. But time goes and now you're thinking about what you felt and it's hurting but at the same time you almost miss it
@@lounirs THIS
I can't describe it. I've always had a very strange connection to this song, and I've never been able to describe it. I often find myself crying profusely to it, and I have no idea why.
@@sjgrall exactly..
This is so sad. Alexa, play Gymnopedie no. 1
i asked alexa to play it and she didn’t so i had to put it on a playlist and play the playlist so i could hear this 💀
@@victorialiani6326 my Alexa let's me play it.
Sure
What piano is this?
"I can only play despacito :'("
I've been a piano player since the age of 5 and I'm 15 now, learning this for the first time and this helped with understanding how do I have to put my hands, thank you
With no classical piano training and only an understanding of the base cleft from over 6 years ago this is the type of teaching I need, got a little under half the song down, thank you! And this is my favorite rendition and the one I listen to from Apple Music consistently
We hear this somewhere
We look it up
See it
Click it
Absorb it
Your life flashes before your eyes.
The happy times
Getting a dog
Holding my first cat
Finding the start of a friendship
The sad times
A cat dies
My grandma leaves
Losing that love
We are brought here
Young and old
Probably depressed
We search for things to entertain us
But we feel like TH-cam has been fully watched
No good shows
Anywhere you look
You’ve read every book in the house
Twice
We meet.
And we depart.
Here,
Gone.
What is this?
@@rainespiano Slam Poetry
how in the world does this masterpiece only have 6 likes?
Waitaminute people actually like my poetry
Lord he actually replied 😅
For those wondering, the song used in the outro is Debussy’s “Arabesque No. 1.”
Wow very nice you read the description. Proud!
@@arontangen5391 I didn’t see that lol
huh
I always thought arabesque was a dance move
Thanks i love debussy😂🥰
@@arontangen5391 i think the arabesque is pretty recognizable tho
Whenever I hear this song, it’s just crazy how peaceful it is, especially against most songs which were composed the time it was composed. Just crazy to me. Satie had the right idea with this one
Yeah for the period it just stands out so sharply. Honestly if I were to have been told this was composed like 6 years ago I'd of believed it.
This piece feels peaceful, then it turns dark or sad, but then it goes back. I feel as if this piece really just expresses all the emotions we feel into one song. It’s a beautiful piece, and I wish to play it soon. Wonderful cover Rousseau
So docile, so innocent, yet so deep that it’s incomprehensible, truly a spectacle to behold.
sounds like something that would play in my head after something bad happens
like that silence after a tragedy,everything is silent,you're silent.You're grieving silently and the world is also grieving silently with you.
also minecraft
Should I try to learn this masterpiece?
@@Nnavy14 why yes stranger,you should.
@@AckermanYuki ok thank you civilian
I will
@@Nnavy14 good luck
When your mom forgets to sign the permission slip 😢
OMG THX U SO MUCH I FORGOT TO ASK HER TO SIGN ONE YOUR A LIFE SAVER
When you forgot to tend to your kid...
cell 20527 when your mom forgets you
When your mom forgot.
😭
One of the sweetest compositions ever. . . This piece feels to me like being home, calm, content, at peace, more the feeling than a place. Being in that sweet present moment, of being no body in no time and in no place. . . Bliss. . .