I'M BACK!!! Here's something a little bit different - Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, perhaps the most magical experience you can have in world of music, if you've never just closed your eyes and let Bach take you along for the journey, you are missing out. Written approximately 300 years ago, a piece as grand as this arguably wasn't to be written until the next century with the grand symphonies of the romantic period, it's quite easy to see how Bach was well ahead of his time and is, to this day, considered the grandfather of all modern music. I hope you enjoy the crunchiness in that intimidating introduction and the new patterned effects! This has been one of the most enjoyable videos to create in a long time :D For any organists, excuse the format (with the 3rd hand "pedals" and automatic registration), and a big thanks to my good organist friend for his guidance and advice. Hope you've all had a good start to 2020 ♥
This year, I want to experiment more. To make this somewhat possible, at least for the forseeable future I am planning to only release 2 videos a month to allow for a bit more time to perfect every video for you. Please let me know what you guys want to see more of - did you like this organ video? Don't worry there are many more piano videos incoming too ;)
For those who are wondering, the lowest notes are played using foot pedals on a church organ. No, you don't need 3 arms to play this, just very good hand and feet coordination.
@@S0larus the fugue have definitely Bachs fingerprints all over it, its definitely Bachs style, if it wasn't written by Bach then the rest of the music that is labeled by Bach isn't.
My brother Charlie, who sadly passed away last month, taught himself to play this, by ear, on the electric guitar 🎸 when he was in his late teens. it was mesmerising to watch and hear him play. So beautiful was his soul. Rest in peace with this beautiful music Charlie 🙏🏼🎼🎵🤍
My dad was church organist and I was turning the pages half the time. He’s unfortunately passed recently, but this one reminds me a great deal of him - good practice piece for a Saturday evening.
I love this entire piece, but this morning, 4:44 caught my attention. The effective G9 -> C7 -> Bbmaj9 -> A7b9 -> Dm Progression is really nice. The way Bach voices/developes that Bbmaj9 makes it sound like he doing a classic II7 V7 I, but he plops that D and Bb right in the middle of the arpeggio to recontextualize what at first sounds like the F chord and uses it to fall into that V7b9 -> i cadence to D minor. Some really cool chord cross-stitching. Bach did it all, and all these little nuggets I discover in his work blow my mind day to day.
I took a course on J.S. Bach for music appreciation back in university, and this video has fulfilled one of my favorite pieces. The rumor is that J.S. Bach was looking for another job at a church as an organist, and he played this song as a warm-up. The other players auditioning for the role were simply appalled and intimidated that they left without auditioning! Needless to say, J.S. Bach got the job.
Having now listened to this piece in its entirety for the first time, all I can imagine is that Bach wrote this after somebody insulted his playing, so he went and invented the heavy metal genre on the piano and then invented shredding on the piano. This was just Bach shredding for 9 minutes straight. Amazing.
Sadly, it does not sound like this on the piano. Ut would be nice though. Itvs for organ a much much bigger version of the piano and it is actually older than the piano. It uses air not strings to play. The piano was like a pocket version if the organ with strings. Yes, it so big that a piano is a pocket version.
Bach was known to play certain pieces of music in certain ways due to how others criticize him, indeed. People complained that his organ preludes were too long, so he'd make them too short. When people complained that they were too short, he did the opposite. Here is one example of Bach's antics: "And the one where he disagreed with Silbermann's organ tuning so vehemently that he called 1/3 of it "barbaric". And the one where he launched into a piece in A-flat major on purpose, i.e. the worst key in Silbermann's tuning, to pique Silbermann to his face (nevertheless, he and Silbermann were friends and colleagues, and this may have been as a joke)."
@@onedoc6517 that's what I'm saying, even people who don't know classical music know these pieces. I know classical music, I obviously know Beethoven's pieces ;D
One of the difficulties of playing Bach's music is not just the technical aspect, but making sure each voice of the music is heard. A common characteristic of Bach's music is the fact that he employs counterpoint, so being able to make each voice clear is very important. I believe you did a good job, Rousseau.
Bach played on harpsichord and organ though, and i'm pretty sure these instruments have no velocity-based volume control, all pressing velocities yield the same volume regardless of how hard you press the keys
I thought the same😂 Just learned it on the accordion, actually sounds a lot like an organ if played correctly, but sadly not as intimidating as an organ.
this piece gives me chills every time. It's powerful, majestic, it feels ancient, yet galactic in scale. Makes me think of walking into a huge white cathedral the size of a mountain, a dusk sunlight entering it's crystallized windows, the secrets of the universe stored within its walls; this music echoing from somewhere deep within yeah, I dunno, my brain is weird
It's a great piece and has a visceral quality to it due to the power of the organ but let's be clear, Bach wrote lots of great music of equal or greater quality which travels way below the radar. It's all there from the Sinfonias - pretty obscure to the listening public - to the Partitas to the Toccatas; masses of it. Almost too much for anyone to process. This toccata is pretty much an extempore composition, one can imagine Bach approaching a newly commissioned organ (Silbermann or somesuch) and trying it out with this as a spontaneous "touch piece" to explore all the aspects of the new instrument.
Eduardo Sacasa I see the piece as a story, maybe even the story of humanity. It starts powerful with that epic introduction, that represents birth. The faster section is growing up and the rest of the toccata is possibly the rest of childhood and teenage years. The fugue is the rest of your life, it seems to fly away and not something you care too much about since you are always busy as an adult. The end of the fugue and the transition into the next part is when you get old and don’t have much time left. That’s why it speeds up and then slows down. The final chords is your dying breath. I see the final chord as when you leave the earthly life. And that’s how I imagine the piece.
The piece may be well-known, but you can't deny the beauty of each chord, each flourish. Baroque music has the peculiarity of being played on a small keyboard, five octaves maximum, so both hands work in synchronization, they seem like an extension of each other, harmony and melody become one. The shapes of the hands: Bach have a uniqueness, particular thing. The father of western music. Without commenting on the synchronicity of the feets (playing with two lines, often disparate, on hands is already complicated, imagine synchronizing that with your feets). There is no work by Bach that is merely irrelevant. And congratulations to the interpreter. Magnificent performance! 👏👏👏
Everybody knows and loves the intro to this piece, but I think many forget that after the intro there's actually a whole song there too! And it's spectacular!
woah, I've never been this early in my entire time of youtube. But honestly, welcome back Rousseau! *And indeed, what you brought us by far, was ultimately, **_Grandiose_*
@@Him_1 r/whooooosh big time, lol. You have heard of the concept of what a joke, is...right? Also, it isn't "too hard" to play is you have been playing piano for a while. I've been playing piano for 12 1/2 years and this piece was nowhere near the most difficult piece for me to play. Yes, I haven't "perfectly mastered" it, but it really isn't too hard. Lots of the dame hand patterns, same notes, etc etc. Of course this would be hard for someone with only a few years of experience, but if you have all that experience that you claim you do, then you should be able to do better than "barely play it". Don't even make me laugh, child
I've just blasted my neighbors out by playing this full volume. Heard it for the first time again in a long time a few weeks ago and my whole soul reverberated. Pure and utter bliss!
LordsebasAWLR Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor is my favorite piece right now (I am also an organist). I hope he can do something similar w it on his channel.
LordsebasAWLR I just wanted to say thank you for mentioning passacaglia. It’s a song I’ve been playing by ear all my life but never knew the name! Now 7 years later I know
The first thing i thought when i saw this, is "please play the passacaglia too" it is just so unpopular for people not playing the organ though its such a great piece of music. 'd be cool to see it in the future
@@istealurgf It is an organ pieace. Yes you can change the timber(the way it sounds) but on a keyboard just buy a keyboard with most voice changing and layering option on its control panal
Stefano Rossetti I agree. I love how the whole fugue is faster 8ths and 16ths and the final chords are slow quarters: bring the piece such amazing closure
@@bradyzimmerman8380 those slow quarters are actually fantasies. Why would he just right chords? Was he bored? Yes! He challenges the player to improvise over those chords and properly finish off the piece with the players own twist.
When I tried to close my eyes while listening, I felt some tingling through my spine. My goodness! This piece is so out of this world. It gave me chills as I listened to this one. Nice piece!
Bach Battles: Fugue Fight (retro boss fugue playing in the background) -Rousseau, the piano mage, has turned his piano into an organ! -Oh no! His organs are multiplying! -Press A to continue! -Press F to pay respect! (this is hard af)
@@argie9914 anythings possible. Parts of his music have been copied and incorporated into many modern works. To me at least his music kind of reminds me of edm or prog rock/metal.
I have listened to thousands of pieces of music on Spotify and TH-cam. This is the only performance that brought tears to my eyes. Bach would have been so proud.
@@Him_1 I think you got the joke wrong, he's making a pun about organ, one is the musical instrument called organ and one is the parts/organs in your body
What we learned: 0:44 What was on the test: 2:17 What I remember: 0:04 What the teacher said for the final test of the school year: "Ok now play it 10x speed backwards so I can see if u are good enough to pass."
Y'all don't even realize that on the organ, you're playing this on 2 keyboards, pulling stops midway through fast sections, and playing with both your feet. My uncle is an organist, and I watch him play all the time. Man,,, these people are just built different.
His other 2 hands must of fallen off, so it took him 1 month for them to grow back. Edit : Edit 2 : Edit 3 : Edit 4 : Edit 5 : Edit 6 : Edit 7 : Edit 8 : Edit 9 : Edit 10 : ah you thought I was gonna be those cringey kids.
When I listened to this peice really carefull, I realized that most of the composers nowadays are not originals and creative as much as I thought, their music are inspired by Bach and the old school. A fact cannot be argued.
I taught a couple of my piano students the first 25 seconds of this song just for fun. They keep asking to learn the rest of it, and I'm going to show them this video with the 3rd hand to show them why they can't learn it. :p
I last played this magnificent music over 15 years ago. Since then I have arthritis, and cannot even walk properly any more. But I can still rejoice in the glory of this music. My fingers and feet imagine what was and never can be again, especially the final forty bars.
I started playing the piano when i was 10.I played for 7 years and i quited some months ago.For some reason i stoped playing the piano but one day this video popped up in my recomendations i watched it and it returned me my love for piano and music.Thank you so much Rosseau❤️Now i can start relearn this amazing instrument!Thanks to you!!
Same now I want to go back into playing the piano❤❤ I miss it so much, I even remember playing one of Bach's pieces when I was around 1st grade its called Minuet in G
@@jeeither the actual instrument that this was played in and the instrument that makes the sound that the guy playing the song on the keyboard come from the organ.
@@onutube6392 yes, he's using an organ sound, and it was written for the organ, but it (obviously, as this is a keyboard) isn't only played on the organ. So if this performance inspired OP to start up the piano again, I think it's great regardless of what instrument plays is.
Wow, what organ VST did you use? Sounds so realistic and majestic! Love the textures in the bars too! I did a similar set-up for Hymnus but my organ VST's bass notes were too soft
I remember transcribing this to guitar and playing for a couple recitals, but I'd usually play a variation of the fugue only since it was more recognizable and I'd do it in standard E tuning since i was lazy. Then one dude brought his guitar and decided to start challenging me by shredding on his 7 string. I pulled out all the stops. I got my octave pedal going, tuned to Drop D and played the most intense version of the Toccata I've ever done. By the time i got to the final arpeggios, he was sitting down. By far one of the best moments of my life
If you want a good rendition, try Ketel Srrand on TH-cam. He has a couple of them find the one where he does a little sou d on sound Ala Les Paul with the video split top and bottom. WOW!
@@themoonfleesthroughclouds Liszt wrote some organ works and was allegedly not a very good organist himself. So he probably would not have played piano well with his feet given the urge to do so. I can't remember where I read this though and I could be entirely wrong about Liszt's foot activities.
@@mattbeef1221 Incorrect. Stop spreading myths. We know he wrote this. Why are musical laymen so dumb and keep repeating long debunked urban legends. This is a young Bach and analyses show clearly that is is very characteristic for young Bach. It was also never doubted by most experts that this could not be from Bach. It was less than a handful of people many years ago and they never provided remotely sufficient proof or indicators that this is not Bach. Please learn how science works; sciense is NOT "i make a weird claim against 99% of the other scientists and because I said so it becomes a serious scientific hypothesis". To change an accepted scientific paragdim, doubters have to present overwhelming evidence and plausibility. This was never done BMV 565. It is a genuine Bach piece.
As a great admirer of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, I am very grateful that you have done this, especially as it is now a wonderful model for practicing the piece myself, even though I am already at an advanced age. I wish you continued success.
I'M BACK!!! Here's something a little bit different - Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, perhaps the most magical experience you can have in world of music, if you've never just closed your eyes and let Bach take you along for the journey, you are missing out. Written approximately 300 years ago, a piece as grand as this arguably wasn't to be written until the next century with the grand symphonies of the romantic period, it's quite easy to see how Bach was well ahead of his time and is, to this day, considered the grandfather of all modern music. I hope you enjoy the crunchiness in that intimidating introduction and the new patterned effects! This has been one of the most enjoyable videos to create in a long time :D For any organists, excuse the format (with the 3rd hand "pedals" and automatic registration), and a big thanks to my good organist friend for his guidance and advice. Hope you've all had a good start to 2020 ♥
Rousseau thank you Rousseau. Your a legend🙏🏻🙏🏻
this was played in an organ but why piano?
Well, alternate
It is one of the greatest classic songs to me :)
I’ve always wanted to play La Campanella. My favorite piece of all time
This year, I want to experiment more. To make this somewhat possible, at least for the forseeable future I am planning to only release 2 videos a month to allow for a bit more time to perfect every video for you. Please let me know what you guys want to see more of - did you like this organ video? Don't worry there are many more piano videos incoming too ;)
It's OK! Quality over quantity!
Nooo!This is very bad.Please go on only piano covers
Yes it’s OK!!!
This organ was majestic
Rousseau every video of yours is perfect
For those who are wondering, the lowest notes are played using foot pedals on a church organ. No, you don't need 3 arms to play this, just very good hand and feet coordination.
Thanks for clearing this up, i was genuinely confused when i first watched this!
@@im_ann_apple4435 Organ Players have like 10 different pedals....
@@chopinfrederic5040 I think the standard number is something like 32, plus expression pedals.
Oooouuuh I get it ! Thank you, it’s quite helpful!
This statement will be very confusing for those who never seen organ. LOL
Ever since I was young, I remember dreaming of learning this piece. Is there any piece you dream to play in the future?
torrent etude
Hungarian rhapsodie no.2
Hi Rousseau welcome Bach!!
Ballade No 1 in G minor
Spring Waltz
Imagine hearing this in church in the 1700s, truly divine.
Still, hear this at church now we are alive ❤!!!
You can’t tell me this song turns you into a vampire
You're exactly right about that
@@mrnohax5436 yeah it depends but it's not real ?!?!?????
Watch Fellini's La Dolce Vita.
Rousseau: returns
Literally everyone: *BACH PUNS*
because of course
JD Smith Pls fix to “Puns are Bach
Rousseau: "It's good to be Bach."
You can say...
...they are CLASSIC!
Rousseau is bach!
Fun fact: Bach composed this piece to test the power of the new build organ in the church of the town he was playing in at the time
Fun fact: we don't even know for sure if it was really composed by Bach
@@S0larus the fugue have definitely Bachs fingerprints all over it, its definitely Bachs style, if it wasn't written by Bach then the rest of the music that is labeled by Bach isn't.
Interesting fact
True dat
@@TepsiMorphic It was most likely written by Bach, but this "fun fact" has no sources that I can find.
Imagine the hype when Bach dropped this on Spotify back in the day.
Spotify came out in 2008. Bach died in 1750. I think your math is a little off
@@OliverXur bro i said "imagine" bruh
😂 Sin duda habría sido todo un revuelo:)
bro did NOT get the joke
@@uno3130 fr
I've been playing piano for well over 400 years and this is by far my favorite piece to play.
You should invest in an organ
Would be a worthwhile purchase
why changing the profile
Did no one really asked how he could play piano for "well over 400 years"???
@@birkanklnc9062 +
Rousseau the man who can make an organ out of a piano
Well, now we at least know that he plays on a digital piano.
@@davidzhang6990 could be a hybrid
@@JuggsMCPvP ???
@@carlosvillagra6661 it could be a grand piano with digital piano features
Well he did in fact make an entire new arm, didn't he?
3:00 I absolutely love this part, Bach was something else
@@davinci2640 bruh
@@davinci2640 because its based on it....
Still he is
ikr
reminded me of la Campanella a bit
My brother Charlie, who sadly passed away last month, taught himself to play this, by ear, on the electric guitar 🎸 when he was in his late teens. it was mesmerising to watch and hear him play. So beautiful was his soul. Rest in peace with this beautiful music Charlie 🙏🏼🎼🎵🤍
God bless ur brother🪦😢❤️
@@ma_monna1450 thank you. You’re so kind. Peace be with you always 🙏🏼✨
Another angel left rip❤
May Charlie be at peace
@@Marksman_12 thank you so very much. I’m sure he’s received your blessing 🥰
Remember guys, this is the 1700’s. People with 3 arms was not uncommon.
@@GliffVFX ....................
I know right!? People also lived to be around 250 back then too, hell, dude's with 3'rd nipples was pretty common too. Or so I read.
huh weird I wonder how he's gonna play that note OH GOD WHAT IS HAPPENING
They had bass pedals.
that was not funny?
My dad was church organist and I was turning the pages half the time. He’s unfortunately passed recently, but this one reminds me a great deal of him - good practice piece for a Saturday evening.
GOD❤ bless you father
Sorry for your loss :(
Sounds like a cool dad! Sorry for your loss though...
F
I'm sorry for your loss..
As a vampire, this is the coffin jam. Get tucked in for a nice 50 year nap and have this on loop. Now that’s the stuff
damn covid got the blood tainted
@Kardz22 He has no feet so he couldn't execute THE PDQ Bach tootsie roll without the extra hand
@Kardz22 He didn't use feet because he is on a piano, not an organ. Just because he didn't use feet doesn't make him bad.
Install an epic sound system in the coffin lol
*nails a branch of wild rose to the lid*
The Vampire: *gasp* a wall
I love this entire piece, but this morning, 4:44 caught my attention. The effective G9 -> C7 -> Bbmaj9 -> A7b9 -> Dm Progression is really nice. The way Bach voices/developes that Bbmaj9 makes it sound like he doing a classic II7 V7 I, but he plops that D and Bb right in the middle of the arpeggio to recontextualize what at first sounds like the F chord and uses it to fall into that V7b9 -> i cadence to D minor. Some really cool chord cross-stitching. Bach did it all, and all these little nuggets I discover in his work blow my mind day to day.
I took a course on J.S. Bach for music appreciation back in university, and this video has fulfilled one of my favorite pieces. The rumor is that J.S. Bach was looking for another job at a church as an organist, and he played this song as a warm-up. The other players auditioning for the role were simply appalled and intimidated that they left without auditioning! Needless to say, J.S. Bach got the job.
This piece is so powerful that Rousseau immediately gave birth to his third hand while playing.
Jijijiji
Lol
Lol
That's not a third hand it's his feet. They just look like hands. LOL.
lobter
Having now listened to this piece in its entirety for the first time, all I can imagine is that Bach wrote this after somebody insulted his playing, so he went and invented the heavy metal genre on the piano and then invented shredding on the piano. This was just Bach shredding for 9 minutes straight. Amazing.
That's a piece for the organ, not piano
Sadly, it does not sound like this on the piano. Ut would be nice though. Itvs for organ a much much bigger version of the piano and it is actually older than the piano. It uses air not strings to play. The piano was like a pocket version if the organ with strings. Yes, it so big that a piano is a pocket version.
Bach was known to play certain pieces of music in certain ways due to how others criticize him, indeed. People complained that his organ preludes were too long, so he'd make them too short. When people complained that they were too short, he did the opposite. Here is one example of Bach's antics: "And the one where he disagreed with Silbermann's organ tuning so vehemently that he called 1/3 of it "barbaric". And the one where he launched into a piece in A-flat major on purpose, i.e. the worst key in Silbermann's tuning, to pique Silbermann to his face (nevertheless, he and Silbermann were friends and colleagues, and this may have been as a joke)."
3:01 one of the best moments in bach’s music, classical music and music in general
@@Jayhayjay777 so thats where bach nicked it from
Orochimaru's Theme is sampled from here as well
It was also used in two songs in the ost for twin star exorcist anime and assassin's pride
couldnt agree moree!
As a metal-head, this pleases me so much. Nothing more metal than the OGs like J.S. Bach
You should hear so of Beethoven music like 9th symphony or 3rd movement of "Moonlight sonata"
@@onedoc6517 thanks for your suggestions, but do you really think there is a person alive who doesn't know those pieces?^^
@@GreifvogelSGE it's the most famous nothing more. For person who don't know how to listen a classical music this will be the best start
@@GreifvogelSGE Beethoven is main metalhead of classicism
@@onedoc6517 that's what I'm saying, even people who don't know classical music know these pieces. I know classical music, I obviously know Beethoven's pieces ;D
Me: seeing piano keyboard
Rousseau: starts playing organ
Me: *wait... that’s illegal*
What do you expect organ keyboard to look like?
Smiley Dono multiple of them
@@its.me.reonne he uses a digital piano.
Sem Defesas no shit
Sem Defesas he could be using a grand piano with a midi system, kassia uses one
*Rousseau plays Toccata and Fugue in D minor without pedals*
Two handed poeple: Am I a joke to you?
Yes, seen a lil werewolf hand sneaking in on our left 😂😂😂
overrated
@@raccoltavideo3355 underrated
Third hand is pedals
Amputees watching this like:
👁👄👁
Such a holy transition between 4:09 and 4:20. The way it tensed up and resolved is incredibly breath taking, never stop making my heart torn apart.
That is objectively the best part..
Because I’m always right
I refuse to die if this isn't played at my funeral at full blast.
You would straight up refuse to die?
@@danielzhang7408 ...
Yes.
Same.
Are you kidding, I want this played at my wedding. And I want to appear right …. 2:56
This should be the song of both death and life
Me: “Hmm... this seems pretty doable!”
Rousseau: “You thought.”
*brings in his extra hand*
I’m pretty sure that’s to simulate the organ pedals
@@michaelibrahim9275 It is.
And MJT Free Time was making what we like to call...a joke
LuckyOwl777 No. 🌚
Honestly would be doable with a sustain pedal, but there is no way in the world I’m remembering all 9 minutes
This is the heavy metal of the classical music!
Not as heavy as the 1812 overture.
@ Bach was more metal with his keyboard concertos though.
The heavy metal of classical would be Vivaldi, Violin concerto no. 2 in G minor, Violin Concerto no. 4 in F minor.
Alexandre Machado I don’t believe you’ve been introduced to mr. Rachmaninoff yet. He is the true metal of the classical genre.
@Alvin Raul S Thanks, someone also realises here lol
The fugue part is just outstanding, I love it. Rest in peace, Johann!
چی؟؟
I’m obsessed with the chords at 7:46 and the ones at the very end. They give off a feeling that I never get from any other music.
Same dude💝
The one at 7:53
One of the difficulties of playing Bach's music is not just the technical aspect, but making sure each voice of the music is heard. A common characteristic of Bach's music is the fact that he employs counterpoint, so being able to make each voice clear is very important. I believe you did a good job, Rousseau.
Bach played on harpsichord and organ though, and i'm pretty sure these instruments have no velocity-based volume control, all pressing velocities yield the same volume regardless of how hard you press the keys
BLUE LOBSTER
crab
*The third hand scared me*
Everybody's gangster until the 3rd hand shows up.
Linus Torvalds you must be new here
When I first found this channel I thought the hands were real, and I was blown away by how perfect this guy was playing, until I looked closer lol
Bari Ngozi ????
@@BariNgozi what?? do you think its a robot playing?
The finale starting from from 8:31 and ending around 9:17 has got to be one of the greatest endings in the history of music.
I thought the same isn't it sound so good i am overwhelmed
if you want to hear that chord progression in a different context check out carolina crown’s opening hit from 2017!
guess its cool but i like the organ more haha
my absolute favourite chord sequence starts at 9:00 its pure magic
He rushes it a bit. 😅 I always play the last chord progression very slow because it feels so good. 😌
He took a trip to Chernobyl and got a third hand, that’s why he was gone for a month
He already has 4 hands
Lol! That took me about 5 minutes. It was really irritating me why I’d never heard that and then it clicked. Smart ass! Lol
I think he went to Fukoshima, Japan
Legeno
Me: Oh no, this does not sound so well on pia-
Rousseau: Hold my third hand I got this
I thought the same😂 Just learned it on the accordion, actually sounds a lot like an organ if played correctly, but sadly not as intimidating as an organ.
The third hand does the part of the feet
Mutant pianist :-)
The fugue sounds pretty good on piano.
@@unplayednamer0165 nothing sounds as intimidating as an organ, it truly is a magical instrument
3:02 the moment we've all been waiting for
A fellow fugue nut, how do you do
4:32
8:44 That ending though...
What does wainting mean
My favorite part is the first 42 seconds. And fun fact... my first name was inspired in Bach's.
There is legitimately nothing that gives me this much chills, people making these 300 years ago were the definition of talent
this piece gives me chills every time. It's powerful, majestic, it feels ancient, yet galactic in scale. Makes me think of walking into a huge white cathedral the size of a mountain, a dusk sunlight entering it's crystallized windows, the secrets of the universe stored within its walls; this music echoing from somewhere deep within
yeah, I dunno, my brain is weird
It's a great piece and has a visceral quality to it due to the power of the organ but let's be clear, Bach wrote lots of great music of equal or greater quality which travels way below the radar. It's all there from the Sinfonias - pretty obscure to the listening public - to the Partitas to the Toccatas; masses of it. Almost too much for anyone to process. This toccata is pretty much an extempore composition, one can imagine Bach approaching a newly commissioned organ (Silbermann or somesuch) and trying it out with this as a spontaneous "touch piece" to explore all the aspects of the new instrument.
It was composed just to test out the organ actually. It spans the entire sets of keys to test pipe function and sound quality.
That chord at 1:19 always makes me tremble. It is the most terrifying chord I’ve ever heard and I love it everytime I hear it
Eduardo Sacasa I see the piece as a story, maybe even the story of humanity. It starts powerful with that epic introduction, that represents birth. The faster section is growing up and the rest of the toccata is possibly the rest of childhood and teenage years. The fugue is the rest of your life, it seems to fly away and not something you care too much about since you are always busy as an adult. The end of the fugue and the transition into the next part is when you get old and don’t have much time left. That’s why it speeds up and then slows down. The final chords is your dying breath. I see the final chord as when you leave the earthly life. And that’s how I imagine the piece.
Not weird. But so true
When you accidentally stumble into a Romanian castle on your vacation in Europe.
Lets appreciate the fact that it is in baroque tuning
It's well tempered?
@@vilheim9508 That's got nothing to do with Baroque tuning.
The tuning standard in Baroque times was somewhere around A = 420.
@@VegetaPixel yeah something like that, as the hertz for A increased due to a "pitch war"
Thaaaaats why
Mmm no... it’s a whole tone below, or it sounds so similar...
The piece may be well-known, but you can't deny the beauty of each chord, each flourish. Baroque music has the peculiarity of being played on a small keyboard, five octaves maximum, so both hands work in synchronization, they seem like an extension of each other, harmony and melody become one. The shapes of the hands: Bach have a uniqueness, particular thing. The father of western music. Without commenting on the synchronicity of the feets (playing with two lines, often disparate, on hands is already complicated, imagine synchronizing that with your feets). There is no work by Bach that is merely irrelevant. And congratulations to the interpreter. Magnificent performance! 👏👏👏
Me: Oh, this playable!
Rousseau plays with his third hand*
Me: well uhm... nevermind
Just need to grab yourself an organ, Or a third Hand...
Not sure which is harder to get.
How did you learn to play piano without knowing the third hand technique?
😂😂😂
marieee km even without a third hand it’s still insanely hard. A lot harder than people give it credit for
Use your toes 😊
ME: HES BACK
Rousseau: I"M BACK
EVERYONE: HES BACK
BACH: IM BACH
Bach*
HE IS BACH
Or is he?🤔
*Bach
BACH: NO I'M BACH
* Rousseau disappears for a month *
Rousseau: Don't worry. I'll be Bach.
Edit: Woah thanks for the love, everyone. Right Bach at you.
This is so good, yet so bad
boi thats funny
The InnerTemple Oracle damn you
Oh god
I laughed too hard at this
Everybody knows and loves the intro to this piece, but I think many forget that after the intro there's actually a whole song there too! And it's spectacular!
my favorite part is the beginning of the fugue actually
Piece. It's not a song.
Rousseau: "im back!"
Me: sees the 3rd arm
Also me: "awww sh*t, here we go again.
Never would've thought I would see another trickshotter on a Rosseau video!
@@codysteevis9536 yep, weird
You'd normally use your feet to play the low notes in those parts...or one more hand.
Ok idk why but that sounds so wrong when you say third arm, that's just my state of mind sorry 😂
woah, I've never been this early in my entire time of youtube.
But honestly, welcome back Rousseau!
*And indeed, what you brought us by far, was ultimately, **_Grandiose_*
I can easily play this. Why is everyone saying it’s so hard to play? I know my WiFi connection is not the best, but the video played just fine.
I've even played this on TV.
Show off! 😁😁😁
i thought this was gonna be an original comment
@@Him_1 the joke flew over your head.
@@Him_1 r/whooooosh big time, lol. You have heard of the concept of what a joke, is...right?
Also, it isn't "too hard" to play is you have been playing piano for a while. I've been playing piano for 12 1/2 years and this piece was nowhere near the most difficult piece for me to play. Yes, I haven't "perfectly mastered" it, but it really isn't too hard. Lots of the dame hand patterns, same notes, etc etc.
Of course this would be hard for someone with only a few years of experience, but if you have all that experience that you claim you do, then you should be able to do better than "barely play it".
Don't even make me laugh, child
I've just blasted my neighbors out by playing this full volume. Heard it for the first time again in a long time a few weeks ago and my whole soul reverberated. Pure and utter bliss!
As an organist, this is extremely cool! Consider doing the Passacaglia or the Fantasy and Fugue in G minor too!
LordsebasAWLR Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor is my favorite piece right now (I am also an organist). I hope he can do something similar w it on his channel.
LordsebasAWLR I just wanted to say thank you for mentioning passacaglia. It’s a song I’ve been playing by ear all my life but never knew the name! Now 7 years later I know
The first thing i thought when i saw this, is "please play the passacaglia too" it is just so unpopular for people not playing the organ though its such a great piece of music. 'd be cool to see it in the future
I am kinda an organist, I play reed organ LOL
These three, I mean BWV 565, 543 and 582 are my favorite!!!!!!!!!!! Just love orgelwerke!
I'm Romanian so whenever I walk inside a room, this plays.
This is literally the theme song for Bucharest
Glad to see another Romainian
ok?
Maya Hee
@@emeraldfalcon194 why?
"when you find out you are 1% transylvanian"
Underrated comment, I appreciate it
😂
**romanian**
@@topic260 But specifically Transylvanian.
And, when you're actually born in Romania. My case :)
I’ve been playing this since I was 8, it’s my favorite song in the whole world, playing it doesn’t compare to just listening
song?? its a pieace
x2 i´ve been playing this for like 7 year and still learning
Hey question i want to get into the piano but this doesnt sound like a piano? Can you like change how it sounds?
@@istealurgf It is an organ pieace. Yes you can change the timber(the way it sounds) but on a keyboard just buy a keyboard with most voice changing and layering option on its control panal
@@Reggaetonpompom Maybe you are not giving it quality practice time.
*THIRD HAND REVEAL AT 3 MILLION SUBS*
Otaco Locasso wait that's illegal
I see you are a man of taste as well
i slapped that like button
E P I C
S L A P LIKE NOW!
I wanna play this but unfortunately my third hand is broken
Is it good now ?
Shouldn't have bought it at a second hand shop.
I have a spare, if yours still broken?
@@MrTridac I see what you did there
Just get a sustain pedal
The latest sequence of chords is devastating, powerful and definitive. Certainly futuristic at Bach time. Welcome back Rousseau!
Stefano Rossetti I agree. I love how the whole fugue is faster 8ths and 16ths and the final chords are slow quarters: bring the piece such amazing closure
@@bradyzimmerman8380 those slow quarters are actually fantasies. Why would he just right chords? Was he bored? Yes! He challenges the player to improvise over those chords and properly finish off the piece with the players own twist.
This is probably the most powerful piece by Bach, like the very inner feeling of the music is very very powerful.
When I tried to close my eyes while listening, I felt some tingling through my spine. My goodness! This piece is so out of this world. It gave me chills as I listened to this one. Nice piece!
Bach Battles: Fugue Fight
(retro boss fugue playing in the background)
-Rousseau, the piano mage, has turned his piano into an organ!
-Oh no! His organs are multiplying!
-Press A to continue!
-Press F to pay respect! (this is hard af)
what's that hiS actUaL oRgAns aRe mULtipLyinG
A
Ha ha ha original
F
@@nothingisreal6816 Thanks!
Rumor says Bach could play this with his toes
What did he do, lay on his Bach.
well, he was an organist
@@elcucumber2847 Yup, they also use their feet =)
Well thats technically the truth ig
A rumor that is actually a fact
I remember when this song came out! Never gets old🖤✨🤟
hol up >:/
Oh yes i remember too when i left romania to hear this masterpiece at around 1704. Made my pointy teeth and ears aroused.
😂😂😂😂 Awesome... 😂😂😂😂
Neither do you apparently
Then you must be about 321 years old! Wow, even longer than Jeanne Calment.
This is why I believe that if classical composers of way back when were alive today they'd love heavy metal.
Yep, i agree
I think you'd find them in all genres of music if alive today.
...except country xD
@@in_ur_moms_house Dvorak would've loved country
@@argie9914 anythings possible. Parts of his music have been copied and incorporated into many modern works.
To me at least his music kind of reminds me of edm or prog rock/metal.
this os baroque and the purpose of this peice is to flex ur skils
You know shit gets real when Rousseau grows a third arm to play a piece.
thats becuz the piece is menth for the (pipe) organ, where u use ur feet for the low notes.
0:04 back on the rocks initial d
3:01 orochimaru theme
Yep
Well orochimaru theme is composed from this music basically
+
Thx for the orochimaru theme xd
If Bach wasn't a genius, then no one was. There's no better intro to a piece of music, ever.
I have listened to thousands of pieces of music on Spotify and TH-cam. This is the only performance that brought tears to my eyes. Bach would have been so proud.
I am writing this and crying same time... That's most amazing performance ever - after Bach of course.
I skip all the church organ renditions . And always come back to this recording.
You want crying music?
Listen to Everywhere at the End of Time.
I like how he used the baroque frequency tuning for this, for anyone that is confused why it doesn't sound like d minor
That makes sense, I was confused at first! That’s really cool, that we’re able to hear it how Bach performed it.
What temperament is used for this version?
What does this mean?
@@NoteyouraveRage people in the baroque days tuned much lower than we do, at a = 415 hertz.
french mean tone
In the name of the whole Rousseau fan community --- WELCOME BACK!!
Welcome Bach!
0:01 Got Blue Lobster'd
Me: How is he supposed to play the feet part?
*third hand appears*
Me: oh
So when Rousseau tickles an organ and records it everyone’s fine with it but when I tickle organs at the hospital the security is called?
my name is jeff yum
LMFAO, this song is played at requiem's In Romania, or funerals. The cancer patients probably gonna hear it and pull the line.
@@Him_1 I think you got the joke wrong, he's making a pun about organ, one is the musical instrument called organ and one is the parts/organs in your body
So unfair
You're tickling the wrong kind of organ mate..
What we learned: 0:44
What was on the test: 2:17
What I remember: 0:04
What the teacher said for the final test of the school year: "Ok now play it 10x speed backwards so I can see if u are good enough to pass."
hahahahaahahahhahahhhahhaahahahqhha
LMAO
Jajajaaj pasado mano jajaja
Man this is brillian
Hahahahahahahahahahaha
9:00 These ending chords hit like an absolute TRUCK
Y'all don't even realize that on the organ, you're playing this on 2 keyboards, pulling stops midway through fast sections, and playing with both your feet. My uncle is an organist, and I watch him play all the time. Man,,, these people are just built different.
Right, you have 2 hands but also 2 feet!
His other 2 hands must of fallen off, so it took him 1 month for them to grow back.
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must of
And he grew an extra one😂
Eze Posada Must of fallen have.
Must of
When I listened to this peice really carefull, I realized that most of the composers nowadays are not originals and creative as much as I thought, their music are inspired by Bach and the old school.
A fact cannot be argued.
Bach says, "Thank you." So glad I've found you, Rousseau.
There is a rumor that the third arm is kassia's arm
United Nation poor, poor kassia...
oWo?
She doesn't deserve to be just the third hand!
Kassia is so overrated... Rousseau is a way better pianist.
@@vladimirnedeljkovic5268 how?
Bach: You can only play it on the Organ
Rousseau: Hold my piano
3:01 *Orochimaru entered the chat*
😂😂
That was what I thought
😂😂😂
So true.. 😂😂😂
😂
Huge props for giving this an organ sound!!! It really makes this piece what it is. I love piano, but it never quite does justice to this masterpiece.
I absolutely love the arpeggios and bass voices at 7:13. It sounds so intense and reminds me of Interstellar by Hans Zimmer.
U mean hanz zimmer? Christopher Nolan is the director
@@theguywithcoolpens6466 Oh yes, sorry about that.
@@theguywithcoolpens6466cant blame him. Christopher be asking hans to make music for every movie of his
The master of polyphany! Bach has so many masterpieces but this is one of my favorites❤
I taught a couple of my piano students the first 25 seconds of this song just for fun. They keep asking to learn the rest of it, and I'm going to show them this video with the 3rd hand to show them why they can't learn it. :p
Severe but right....xDD
There is a piano rendition though and it plays perfectly, teach them it! This song always stuck with me as a go to song to play.
They can play it. Just teach some cooperation.
I last played this magnificent music over 15 years ago. Since then I have arthritis, and cannot even walk properly any more. But I can still rejoice in the glory of this music. My fingers and feet imagine what was and never can be again, especially the final forty bars.
I started playing the piano when i was 10.I played for 7 years and i quited some months ago.For some reason i stoped playing the piano but one day this video popped up in my recomendations i watched it and it returned me my love for piano and music.Thank you so much Rosseau❤️Now i can start relearn this amazing instrument!Thanks to you!!
Same now I want to go back into playing the piano❤❤ I miss it so much, I even remember playing one of Bach's pieces when I was around 1st grade its called Minuet in G
This is pipe organ or whatever it's called
@@onutube6392 this is a keyboard
@@jeeither the actual instrument that this was played in and the instrument that makes the sound that the guy playing the song on the keyboard come from the organ.
@@onutube6392 yes, he's using an organ sound, and it was written for the organ, but it (obviously, as this is a keyboard) isn't only played on the organ. So if this performance inspired OP to start up the piano again, I think it's great regardless of what instrument plays is.
Wow, what organ VST did you use? Sounds so realistic and majestic! Love the textures in the bars too! I did a similar set-up for Hymnus but my organ VST's bass notes were too soft
Let me know if you find an organ like the one Rousseau used, I couldn't easily find one online (for free)
I don't know what's being used here, but you can check out Hauptwerk or GrandOrgue which are both absolutely fantastic.
Organ from Native Instruments Kontakt has been used
1:00 this part always gives me chills
it sounds so good omg
yes and its my favorite part
Frrr
This song is the definition of masterpiece
1:27 best part right here
You know it! So fun to play
Rousseau: **gets his hands on the keyboard**
Me: *oh*
Third hand: *H-hello?*
Me: *OH*
I remember transcribing this to guitar and playing for a couple recitals, but I'd usually play a variation of the fugue only since it was more recognizable and I'd do it in standard E tuning since i was lazy.
Then one dude brought his guitar and decided to start challenging me by shredding on his 7 string. I pulled out all the stops. I got my octave pedal going, tuned to Drop D and played the most intense version of the Toccata I've ever done. By the time i got to the final arpeggios, he was sitting down.
By far one of the best moments of my life
Pls upload tht vdo for testimony
@@subhsubhash2000 oh i wish I had a video for that. Somewhere i have a video of myself playing it on standard e tuning
@@Tevatron044 right mate...gr8
Master class in badassery. Nice.
If you want a good rendition, try Ketel Srrand on TH-cam. He has a couple of them find the one where he does a little sou d on sound Ala Les Paul with the video split top and bottom. WOW!
Dear Lord this was incredible.
Everyone: 3rd hand comment
Me: they must be new and not know about his 4th hand.
Or the 5th 😂😂😂
He went to the unemployment office and took on an extra hand.
My favourite parts
1:28 - 1:44
And
3:00 - 3:26
Easy to make a good impression, in my case, my motivation to practice this masterpiece.
Rousseau: needs 3 hands to play toccata
Organists: okay watch my feet
I reckon Liszt could play this on a piano with his toes
@@themoonfleesthroughclouds Liszt wrote some organ works and was allegedly not a very good organist himself. So he probably would not have played piano well with his feet given the urge to do so. I can't remember where I read this though and I could be entirely wrong about Liszt's foot activities.
Didn't bach wrought this?
@@giorgigiorgitko248 nobody really knows. It's attributed to Bach for sure but it really doesn't sound anything like anything else he wrote.
@@mattbeef1221 Incorrect. Stop spreading myths. We know he wrote this. Why are musical laymen so dumb and keep repeating long debunked urban legends. This is a young Bach and analyses show clearly that is is very characteristic for young Bach. It was also never doubted by most experts that this could not be from Bach. It was less than a handful of people many years ago and they never provided remotely sufficient proof or indicators that this is not Bach.
Please learn how science works; sciense is NOT "i make a weird claim against 99% of the other scientists and because I said so it becomes a serious scientific hypothesis". To change an accepted scientific paragdim, doubters have to present overwhelming evidence and plausibility. This was never done BMV 565. It is a genuine Bach piece.
As a great admirer of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, I am very grateful that you have done this, especially as it is now a wonderful model for practicing the piece myself, even though I am already at an advanced age. I wish you continued success.
I played this to my dog
Now he's a werewolf
Hahaha
I noticed that Rousseau is selling the sheet music, I wonder if it comes with an extra hand?
Maybe for bonus?
I wanna like your comment so badly but you are at 69 likes
No one :
Music in my head when going to pee during night:
haha that’s so true!
Lmao
When you live in some castle:
No one:
Random guys putting a space before the colon :
1:44 my favourite version of this part by far!