1. Easy 2. Still easy and a better listen 3. More Festive 4. WTC prelude be like 5. Hammerklavier Sonate moment 6. WTC prelude moment again 7. Interesting interpretation 8. Scarlatti moment 9. Liszt moment 10. Hammerklaiver fugue be like 11. Alkan moment 12. Literally most of alkan solo symphony and solo concerto
That was beautiful! Love watching the written music as you play along, I play enough to understand what I'm seeing and can appreciate what you're doing.
Last day actually is feasible if excluding the octave jumps with octaves 😂 (since there are similar passage ik for other sections, which some pianists are able to perform)
@@dutchpropaganda558Yep Opening left hand basically Norma/Hexameron, then Alkan style Tho those consecutive 2 octaves jumps with octaves should not be possible (if only 1 octave jump it is still feasible)
@@colossusjak2I'd say it's still feasible, on the sacrifices that the offbeats are weak af Yet it's so tiresome definitely that it won't be really able to do the next variation
Yuja Wang would have zero problems sightreading this. If you made a slightly more playable version of this, I would buy it in a heartbeat. This is fabulous.
Hey just wanna say I love this arrangement so much, mostly because unlike many other comedy arrangement videos, the music is still actually all playable! Even if very hard at the end 😂. Probably will actually learn number 9 to play today it looks fun 🤩
1st one: I can play this 2nd one: I can't play this 3 through 10: I love how each one is a different style 11th one: Nobody can play this. 12th one: This is literally a black MIDI
Someone would need to start practicing this in early spring (March) just before the spring dst clock change, in order to get it ready for a December performance.
1. C major 2. D-flat major 3. D major 4. E-flat major 5. E major 6. F major 7. F-sharp major 8. G major 9. A-flat major 10. A major 11. B-flat major 12. B major
I did not think at first I am gonna like this (I am just simply not the fan of digital composing programs because of the robotic sound) but then it turned out to be quiet contrary😅
I kinda hate the idea of 11 more than 12 - loving octave stuff generally… but once it gets to the octave leaps thats when it becomes stupid bb. 12-14 the rest kinda looks fun to play. Liszt B Minor like
Really like sudden shift in 5:00. I hear it as if the tonality changes quite abruptly but in a very satisfying way at the same time. I recall hearing it in a few other pieces' cadences. How is it named / how is it achieved?
It's called "Accordo di sesta eccedente" (augmented sixth chord). In the tone of B major is Sol+Si+Re+Mi# (sesta eccedente tedesca) that solves in Fa#+Si+Re#+Fa# that is the 6/4 chord. In this case Mi# is in the bass. This chord is often used in concerts' cadenze: think about piano concerts when the orchestra prepare the soloist's cadenza with this chord followed by 6/4, then solist conclude candenza with V and I. EDIT: The sensation of tonality change it's because Sol+Si+Re is also the VI grade of B minor, that's a "Cadenza di inganno", evaded cadence V to VI, but VI has the augmented sixth.
I love it, except the fourth day is not written the way it's it traditionally done. The fourth day is very similar to the third, with "four calling birds", "three french hens", "two turtle doves" all sounding exactly the same, with that last going into 4/4 before "a partridge in a pear tree." It's not until "five golden rings" that "four calling birds, etc." changes to what you have written. I LOVE Day 7! Day 10 kind of reminds me of the third movement of the Waldstein Sonata. Awesome job!
Good ideas but it is a pity you didn't check the music better before throwing your essay on TH-cam. The tune for the 4th day is not as it should be, and there is a cruel lack of the 7th dominant chord on II (2nd degree of the current key) on the words "two turtle doves" (going immediately on the dominant chord there sounds very weakly). Curiously you're doing it right in the 9th day, but not elsewhere.
This is incredibly boring and unpianistic. Can’t believe that no new harmonies or creative composition were made in this remix. Hard for the sake of hard is so tedious and artistically uninspired.
Learned it on simply piano
This is what you get to learn when you finally join Scientology
Alternative title: "The Twelve Days of Simply Piano"
Alternative title: "The Twelve Days of Simply Piano"
@@Craigadammusic Did you know you can play that WHOLE piece in just FOUR CHORDS?
Omg stop@SamBrocks
#12 being impossible:
Liszt: "Hold my beer"
The last one called "impossible" is probably the most pianistic of the whole collection
Alkan ahh Christmas
this is probably the funniest shit ive ever heard
Oh yeah, same bro😂😂😂
real
Merry Lisztmas
😀👍👍
1. Easy
2. Still easy and a better listen
3. More Festive
4. WTC prelude be like
5. Hammerklavier Sonate moment
6. WTC prelude moment again
7. Interesting interpretation
8. Scarlatti moment
9. Liszt moment
10. Hammerklaiver fugue be like
11. Alkan moment
12. Literally most of alkan solo symphony and solo concerto
11 looks more like Liszt style rather than Alkan IMHO
@@melonica90not really. It sounds like a mix of scherzo focoso and festin de esop. Both by alkan
the end of 9 reminded me of a Chopin etude, maybe Op 25 no 1?
10's trills remind me of the beethoven sonata no. 30 in e major
i thought scarbo in 8
The invention is great, but do you know what makes me happy the most?
The fact that so many people in the comments know and love Alkan!
POV: you are Tom Brier and Keeper1st has asked you at gunpoint to play the 12 days of Christmas in the style of Alkan
Why is that so accurate tho
"So one of my friends arranged 12 days of christmas for piano"
[places sheet music on piano]
[Tom laughs]
0:00
Thank you for saying out loud that my piano skills were abominable without saying my piano skills are abominable
That was beautiful! Love watching the written music as you play along, I play enough to understand what I'm seeing and can appreciate what you're doing.
Last day actually is feasible if excluding the octave jumps with octaves 😂 (since there are similar passage ik for other sections, which some pianists are able to perform)
Really? At that tempo? I know I wouldn't be able to manage that.
@@dutchpropaganda558Yep
Opening left hand basically Norma/Hexameron, then Alkan style
Tho those consecutive 2 octaves jumps with octaves should not be possible (if only 1 octave jump it is still feasible)
Yeah, the octaves are brutal there, but otherwise 12 is easier than 11
Last day more feasible than the second to last day, the 11th days 16th note octave jumps r impossible
@@colossusjak2I'd say it's still feasible, on the sacrifices that the offbeats are weak af
Yet it's so tiresome definitely that it won't be really able to do the next variation
This... is actually really good! It stays musical even as it gets more complex, and even at its hardest, it's not too far beyond human capabilities.
I'm sure sooner or later someone will be able to play it ! 😅
Personally I like the A-flat one (9th day) the most. It has good flow, feels not too pretentious, and is still possible to play.
listened to this two days ago, this is still a certified banger
Good piece for beginners. ))
Yuja Wang would have zero problems sightreading this. If you made a slightly more playable version of this, I would buy it in a heartbeat. This is fabulous.
Someone should send it to her. Watch her look at it and say, "Amateurs!"
@@johnbutler4631 😄😄😄
……or Marc Andre-Hamelin!
A neat set of theme & variations.
The over-ambitious voices in the back of my head keep telling me to try and learn this. Maybe if I start now I’ll be in time for next Christmas
I would listen to a whole version in that Dflat variant... But I'm also in love with Dflat
At least it’s not “the saddest of all keys”.
12 steps to be Franz Liszt
Just played through this. The last couple are really only a little awkward. Eminently playable.
You somehow made 11 harder than 12... Maybe I'll play this whole piece with 4 HANDS!
Hey just wanna say I love this arrangement so much, mostly because unlike many other comedy arrangement videos, the music is still actually all playable! Even if very hard at the end 😂. Probably will actually learn number 9 to play today it looks fun 🤩
I HAVE NEVER SEEN OR HEARD ANYTHING LIKE THIS AGAIN...
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!
11 definitely qualifies as "solo piano, 4 hands"
I was expecting that to be more impossible than it ended up being. Doesn't sound half bad either
#11 is probably is the impossible one at tempo (mainly due to the jumps), #12 looks doable especially for someone like Cziffra
If Liszt or Paganini wrote a Christmas tune:
Masterpiece
1st one: I can play this
2nd one: I can't play this
3 through 10: I love how each one is a different style
11th one: Nobody can play this.
12th one: This is literally a black MIDI
It's more like twelve days of hell on the piano
difficulty chart obby ahh christmas song (and this is a certain banger)
Very clever and lots of fun!
Someone would need to start practicing this in early spring (March) just before the spring dst clock change, in order to get it ready for a December performance.
When all of the best, (and worst) composers take their turns with each verse…
I find it kinda funny the last one just reminds me of the end of the B Minor sonata by Liszt
learned this today thanks!
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12th seems impossible to us until Yuja Wang plays it, like the flight of the bumblebee in octaves 😂
1. C major
2. D-flat major
3. D major
4. E-flat major
5. E major
6. F major
7. F-sharp major
8. G major
9. A-flat major
10. A major
11. B-flat major
12. B major
12: Beethoven/Liszt 9th symphony
can I have the sheet music?
It's now in the description
I did not think at first I am gonna like this (I am just simply not the fan of digital composing programs because of the robotic sound) but then it turned out to be quiet contrary😅
i recognize noteflight when i see it
12. Hire György Cziffra to play this
I reckon liszt could play the last one.
what are you talking abt no 2 so hard, 5 flats?
It started and I was like “but if you touch me like thisss.” hahaha
It’s definitely playable. Not impossible. Stop over exaggerating
Last one might not be impossible if you can play Le preux's ending flawlessly
12 was awesome
I kinda hate the idea of 11 more than 12 - loving octave stuff generally… but once it gets to the octave leaps thats when it becomes stupid bb. 12-14 the rest kinda looks fun to play. Liszt B Minor like
why does it keep switching key signatures seems unneccesary
Talented.
Really like sudden shift in 5:00. I hear it as if the tonality changes quite abruptly but in a very satisfying way at the same time. I recall hearing it in a few other pieces' cadences. How is it named / how is it achieved?
It's called "Accordo di sesta eccedente" (augmented sixth chord). In the tone of B major is Sol+Si+Re+Mi# (sesta eccedente tedesca) that solves in Fa#+Si+Re#+Fa# that is the 6/4 chord.
In this case Mi# is in the bass.
This chord is often used in concerts' cadenze: think about piano concerts when the orchestra prepare the soloist's cadenza with this chord followed by 6/4, then solist conclude candenza with V and I.
EDIT: The sensation of tonality change it's because Sol+Si+Re is also the VI grade of B minor, that's a "Cadenza di inganno", evaded cadence V to VI, but VI has the augmented sixth.
@QMSystem32 Thanks a lot!
@@deadlysquad13 No problem!
Alexander Dreyschock could have played the 12th variation.
Another cursed idea occurs in my mind (Busoni's piano concerto)💀
b flat variation is more difficult than b variation
Bravo!
Noteflight legend
This is actually awesome lol
I love it, except the fourth day is not written the way it's it traditionally done. The fourth day is very similar to the third, with "four calling birds", "three french hens", "two turtle doves" all sounding exactly the same, with that last going into 4/4 before "a partridge in a pear tree." It's not until "five golden rings" that "four calling birds, etc." changes to what you have written. I LOVE Day 7! Day 10 kind of reminds me of the third movement of the Waldstein Sonata. Awesome job!
No. 9👍
Seen chopin codas harder than the "impossible" version 😂
Do not go Gentry into that good night. dlO ega tsum nrub dna !egar !gera tsniaga het gniyd fo eht otohp !sdulf
That's not the way that song goes. 0:49-0:54
Um so does the “easier than it looks” mean that you have actually played this? Dang, just when i thought i had a fighting chance
👍👍👍💯
I think 11 harder than 12
This is 12 days of Christmas complete Etude op12
Good ideas but it is a pity you didn't check the music better before throwing your essay on TH-cam. The tune for the 4th day is not as it should be, and there is a cruel lack of the 7th dominant chord on II (2nd degree of the current key) on the words "two turtle doves" (going immediately on the dominant chord there sounds very weakly). Curiously you're doing it right in the 9th day, but not elsewhere.
12 is actually not that impossible.
2 is not easy, the key is too hard to look at
Number 12 just straight up copied Liszt sonata B minor, his Beethoven 9 mvt 4 transcript and Alkan and doesn’t even do it in an interesting way.
A brainrot 3rd year composition major christmas.
Lol I did something like this last year
It’s a great idea but the midi playing is so unbelievably terrible how can anyone even listen to it?
This is incredibly boring and unpianistic. Can’t believe that no new harmonies or creative composition were made in this remix. Hard for the sake of hard is so tedious and artistically uninspired.
These arrangements are HORRIBLE and non-musical. Absolutely terrible.
Wow!