Lol

Lol

everyone with a sense for integrity has.

😂😂

we can leave the elitists behind where they belong

"wrong notes (a.k.a. jazz)" was also up there imo, made me realize how awesome I am for being able to play this 100% jazzy

@Kirk Horner Yeah what a talent to able play the piano like this and then to just wing out half a beat like no sweat :D

@@youtubeforcinghandlessucks Yep!

Same

7:22 "gradually add more wrong notes (a.k.a. jazz)" is what got me

Me too! She was so obviously enjoying the whole thing and I loved it, my mood got better by 100 percent just by watching the video.

Same here. It's completely stupid but I even had tears of joy.

Sort of. My go-to analogy is Jordan at his prime. He worked his _ass_ off to make it look easy.

Her smile? Those were practiced Ted Nugent mouth theatrics.

She has the rare joyful-stankface

Thank you

I wish I had known you in high school.

Hahaha 🤣🤣🤣🤣

😂😂

The smile she always has on her face is so contagious. I can’t help but smile when I watch this

Fake smile..

It's called play for a reason! it should be fun!

@@kostakowski LOL she's just... *pretending* to be happy while she plays piano for a bunch of people as loud as she wants? Okay.

I'd say I enjoyed it too if she weren't trying so hard to put on a facade..but the lack of consistent pacing just kinda made her demeanor a bit awkward. The annotator calls it "swing" in some places but honestly she's just not great at staying in time

Considering they were clapping on 1 and 3, confusing them off was the correct move.

@@taru4635 Well clapping on 1 and 3 on a classical piece is the right thing to do. But it's also jazz. So... clapping on 1 2 3 4 is the way to go ?

@@ZeZapatiste Clapping anything on a classical piece is a no go, lol

@@taru4635 When they first started they were clapping on every beat. Clapping in performances like this annoys me. The crowd is too big to be able to keep the tempo steady, and the performer might not even want to keep it steady.

@@ZeZapatiste could clap eighth notes and make it a soul clap!

When a performer does this I always think of Harry Connick Jr adding a beat to make the audience clap on the 2 and 4 rather than the 1 and 3. Very simple yet difficult thing to do on the fly

@@darkroomxvii Omg I'm so grateful for the internet, that I can find people who already commented what I was about to say !!

Even better if she had them clap “correctly” on the backbeat

@@darkroomxvii Seriously. It’s amazing how she does it almost immediately after the audience starts clapping out of time

she just adjusted what she was playing to be on their (incorrect) beat, I think it would be harder to NOT play on the beat there.

Same here! I can’t agree better!

She is gorgeous and she has swing.

this absolutely, the title of the video is just so apt

It can always get jazzier

Same. At first I was thinking this is getting about as jazzy as Norman White and the White Skat Chorale kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nt2irMteupyxiIU.html

"press random notes, AKA 'JAZZ'" lost it xD

"of the last eight minutes" literally the entire video

Description mentions one Tony Williams as the hero who did the transcription. What a wonderful gift he has bestowed upon humanity.

@Farb S may he rest in peace

@Farb S lmfao

Seriously, doing a transcription of this size would get you full credit as a major project in a jazz harmony or improv course in graduate level study.

So cool!

Hello Alexander, the sound on the right hand islike that because she put a metal stick on the strings

white people can't clap

It is on par with "prepare right hand for combat", yes.

Actually would have never noticed it if it was not written. It's so flawlessly done on the fly.

look at the graph of replaying the vid. Your comment single-handly change it, everybode comes back to 2:02 lol

Also it shows her skill. This means she was able to improvise on the fly and to adjust her performance to the audience.

Like Harry Cowlick Jr. (I know that's now it's spelled, I just think it's kinda humorous)

Like "hands off, I got this".

Am I an asshole for absolutely hating when an audience does this? I assume the people on stage are sort of happy for audience engagement because it shows they are enjoying the show, but I hate how these types of audiences “take over” a performance. I feel like a stooge, but i had to get this off my chest

@@day6stan Nah you ain't alone, brother

Truth

Reminds me of this comedy-cover of “I Will Survive” by Igudesman & Joo that uses a milk-frother against piano wire for a similar effect. 😂

The idea is cool, but I was really annoyed by the sound. It was so much better after she took it out.

Definitely a cool voice, don't necessarily like it tho. I thought the audio file were broken

@@melvinhawkins9208 since Pachelbel is a baroque composer, he didn't have piano back then but the harpsichord (even Bach barely saw the first prototypes of fortepiano). She used this trick to mimic the harpsichord on the medium-high octaves while accompanying with piano sound on lower thematic notes. Cheers!

So that's what it was for?

lololol

haha

"Are you rushing or dragging?"

Canon in D always makes me emotional for some reason and this performance especially filled me with joy and I sat here smiling and crying as well lol. I thought something similar how this is what life is about, there is so much talent and beauty and art in the world and I feel lucky to be able to see so much of it. Glad to share an experience and joy with you. Happy new year to you as well.

gosh i'm glad I wasn't the only one

gosh i'm glad I wasn't the only one

That is a wonderful response!

That's how it is when u make music in ur dreams. I make some amazing music in my sleep.... I wish I could recreate it when awake :(

Not a gift, hours and hours spent playing and understanding music.

@@humanbean3 that sounds like a gift too

@@kiransreekumar5004 I'll admit, I'm blessed with amazing dreams, every night. Playing music in a dream when you've become aware you're dreaming is incredible... I think it's kind of sad that a lot of people simply don't remember their dreams.

tbh as a singer there were a ton of areas i think many trained singers (myself most certainly included) would struggle to sing with the clarity and cleanliness she displayed

Truth be told, that's what every artist should be. Their own biggest fan.

If you would not listen to your own album, why did you record it?

​@@ori_the_omnivorous omg yess. One musician should love performing with all their heart. I can't avoid smiling while playing. It's all about having fun and enjoying because the music is pure magic. Something beautiful and unique.

But its a sad day when a musician needs to pay to play at their own show. This happens every time attendance is poor.

her name?

Amen!

amazing

Yep, music transcends nationality without completely disregarding it!

Yeah this connection reminds a kind of axis

@@Cptcat. NOOOOOO

Agreed. It looks like it feels so good to be able to just let your hands fly

This

Start learning man.

THIS BRO

devote time and effort. Music is a skill that only gives my friend :)

日本人いた、本当にそうですよねこの人…凄すぎて見入っちゃいました

What a great description of jazz

The best description of Jazz I’ve ever heard is that it is smooth spirals.

Yeah that describes it really good. Destroying the original music until ears of audience are hurting and for sol long that everyone is releived when it finally ends. 🤮 Jazz is really the most overfluent and misleaded variation in modern music by far. And I like MANY music styles when done well, nearly everything as long as it is not yazz. Yazz is always and forever with NO exception bad.

@@Rorimac67 boi you better replay the video

@@Rorimac67 what utter nonsense

I never thought about that but you're right. Must of taken a long time to get it right.

amen. well said.

Not for a profecional artist.

@@isaicordero5654 It's insane even for a professional.

Hes still in highschool too

if you watch any of hiromi’s other performances you can tell how much she loves what she’s doing, like in her performances with edmar castaneda she’s having a BLAST

There's a zone we get into when our hearts are finally opening up to unleash the deeper music.

Absolutely agree! Nothing is better than seeing a musician that is really loving what they are doing. It is so inspiring and makes me so much happier knowing they are loving it! I went to a concert of four metal bands and one of the undercard bands was Avatar. I knew of them and enjoyed their music, but they stole the show with how much fun they had on stage and with the crowd. It means so much more when the people there to entertain you clearly are enjoying doing it. In contrast, I saw Bob Dylan play the same venue and he came off like he felt he had blessed us with his presence - never thanked or even acknowledged the crowd and at the end, he walked up front, looked to the side, put a hand out in a flashy pose, turned and walked off stage. I would love to see Avatar again - wouldn't go see Dylan if the tickets were free (which is sad because I love his work).

That's the spirit, isn' it?

she is fucking stoked through the whole set

only non drunk metalhead can headbang to meshuggah

well said

Only Tim Minchin has called the audience out on their offbeat clapping so far.

@James Grant yes it's called sound waves lol

@@broccolee4328 Oh you're off beat, wicked

The jazz culture in me 🧐 wants to argue to exert my dominance in playing wrong notes the "right" way and considering exclusively the "classic" jazz pianists, as being offended by new interpretations of jazz is our primary responsibility as we progress towards PhDs in jazz theory, but...honestly, she's pretty dang good. 😆 I feel like this comment will inevitably cause contention in the jazz world because jazz schools teach musical superiority even more than they teach contradictory music theory, but...who cares? I'm impressed!

Yea i also think her creativity is outstanding!

Look up her Time Out piano solo :)

@@tajf5529 inhuman

@@samthisam570 she's great and Im a fan and have seen her play, but I think Chihiro Yamanaka is better

That was beautiful I'd say

When she did that she looked into the crowd and started laughing, probably to the person who yelled. God music is awesome

Great catch, I had to watch this section 3 times to see what happened!

4:15 on my player. Good catch!!

@@ytp3nohh lol thats where it is

@@rossou99 "When she did that she looked into the crowd and started laughing, probably to the person who yelled" it's difficult to conclude that that's what she did, because she was already looking to the crowd and smiling even before the guy shouted "yeah". Then she briefly looked at the piano and looked back the same way she was doing before. Even this whole idea that she repeated the lick just because of the "yeah" is kind of a stretch, as that could have been on her plans to do anyway, regardless of the guy shouting.

Witch!

I always wonder how people back then would have reacted to jazz!

Like a Marty McFly moment lol "Your great(x50) grandkids are gonna love this"

ask Copernicus how that went...🤣

@@lengmoua6861 Only if she weighs the same as a duck ;=)

I started tearing up very suddenly at around 6:21, when that bass line came in and she just kept that high thing going it was absolutely crazy

Beautifully said. Very emotional to watch this.

classical + jazz = country

@@jendralhxr no

me too ,me too tears at 3:06 also took all will to play piano again .....

_JAZZ_

I bet you clap the offbeat along with a performer who's trying to play it correct, messing them up and then coming on here talking about how you think jazz is

Jazz is spicy music.

Welcome to jazz

@Ruska oh, we haven't been formally introduced, but I'd gladly ask who you are so that I can unintroduce us. Also, 13 people agreed with me, none of you know jazz, you just benefit off of the daily random shit that greets you on the algorithm wagon. Get a personality

Just a live-action, abridged adaption of Kids on the Slope, really 😂

@@mattm7220 dammit, everyone is talking abt it and now I gotta watch/read it too (if it has a manga)

no she started studying jazz at 8...

Kinda like Crossroads.

@@michaeltagor4238 you should watch it rather than reading it if you like jazz music

You'd show this to him at his deathbed? (Well, I guess it would be his deathbed after seeing it)

@@Wecoc1 “this musical performance could kill a small Victorian child, or a large Baroque era Composer”

that's ok, she is his most recent reincarnation :P

He would cry a lot

@@kitsubi11 Cry from happiness I hope. It's hard to imagine a musician not feeling only joy for having this kind of a tribute done to them.

Those 32nds were straight, and the 16ths were swung, I think that's even crazier

.....

My jaw literally dropped for the rest of the performance

Me too!

It says jäzz, for a reason

Jazz is syncopation, 3 beats against 4 or a variation. "It don't mean a thing if it don't swing"

that was my favorite part about the whole notation XDD

I've been 2 hours bucle, no kidding

Your mom is right, harpsichord at home is better

Fr 🤣

any level of jazz needs that stank face ooomphh

Jazz just seeps into your soul and you can't help but smile.

Like how a guitarist makes the face when they're so absorbed in their solos.

@@SiniBANG I play oboe. Try making a face with that!

She's smiling through the pain

Almost every performance I've seen her do she brings this infectious, happy vibe that just draws you in and clearly shows how much she's enjoying her time at the piano.

Absolutely

@@kaptenlemper It's kinda creepy. Is it camp I wonder? I wish she wouldn't, the music doesn't need it.

@@davidhawley1132 Pretty sad that you don't recognize what happiness looks like.

Not that true since she is also playing with the public

@@neitsab8172 her zone is so poweful that she took the whole audience with her in her realm

That poor ruler didn't deserve to be violated as such...

I don't think it's a particularly great sound. Meant to emulate a harpsichord probably, or some other early keyboard, but it just sounds like a ruler stuck,k in a piano most of the time. This isn't Cage's Sonata 5.

@@davidwilson6577 fuck all the way off that shit was poppin

As soon as she took that ruler out, everything escalated into a full-blown musical perfection streak

After much calculations, I infer a hotdog sausage would create a more softer reverb over the ruler

It’s like two different people

Hand independence at its finest

Soloing and doing stride bass at the same time is notoriously hard to do, which is why it fell out of fashion. People _wanted_ to imitate it but it's really, really hard.

Wait until you hear Oscar Peterson doing it in Blues Etude: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e75mma-Cv7SxmXU.html

Who is she?

@@jasonlieberman4606 Hiromi Uehara

She is having so much fun. Reminds me of tommy Emmanuel on the guitar. If they were to play together their smiles would be out of control.

That's showmanship. It does add a lot to the performance. Some people force a smile when playing their instruments and they looked pathetic.

Transcendental

If you were sitting in the audience it wouldn’t sound off beat. It’s only because the mic is on stage, so the sound has to travel to the audience, they clap on the beat, and then the sound of the clap has to come all the way back to the stage. Sound travels pretty slow. The audience only has to be about 15 yards away for this to happen.

@@rogacz25 Acoustics baby, they're based in physics.

I wonder where this was recorded...

@@rogacz25 yea but sadly it's ruining this video for me.

One of my biggest pet peeves as a musician.

It wasn't even the rhythmic clarity for me, which is mind-blowing in and of itself; it was how she gave the melody that much personality and exuberance while keeping the treble so regimented and restrained. It felt to me like the melody had been so restrained for the previous measures it was just forcing it's way out of her. Glorious stuff.

My right forearm almost got a Charlie Horse just watching her perform that part!

"agressive delicacy" that's it, that's my new fav phrase, thank you for that one

Dude! She's OOZING feel! It's ridiculous!

OH YEAH! It's classic Erroll Garner with those full delayed chords. It's so wild!

It legit didn't even sound like a piano to me, it was so damn gorgeous

What a beautiful human being

@@AcousticOlli i mean he has multiple videos sent to him to upload every day and he handpicks the one he chooses. With his platform multiple unrecognized talents got in the spotlight. But I do see where you are coming from.

@@AcousticOlli Tony Williams (who transcribed this score) probably sent it to George because he wanted to share his work. This channel is the most popular one of its kind, after all. And I'm pretty certain George Collier aligned the transcription with the original video himself and made sure to keep the time marker in sync with her playing. He didn't just upload it.

🙂

@@tappkarton I commission Tony for all the transcriptions that he does for the channel. I have to research videos, edit them, manage a YT channel, manage a website, provide support, on top of other things and I’m in my final year of high school with final exams coming up!! By working with other transcribers for about half of my videos, you get more frequent videos and transcriptions of instruments I can’t transcribe like guitars and drums:)) only so many hours in a day 😂

@@GeorgeCollier you’re in high school?!?!!

aka jäzz

Hahah I laughed at “add a half beat so audience clap stays on time”

well you can make a machine do it

I think it starts with knowing what key it is in first. Then you just gotta know the scale. Chords are the last thing you can identify. Often melodies can be pulled if you have an anchor note( what I like to call it) like the 1st of the scale or just C in general.

I’m a piano player, and this is frickin’ awesome

@@thenonfurry You get it! :)

As a beginner pianist, this is so amazing and impressive. I can sometimes pick a simple melody line by ear, but I can't really pick up the bass, and I wouldn't even know the correct notation, time signature, etc. Amazing, I am so in awe with professional musicians.

* jäzz lol

"Wrong" aint a word in jazz baybee

Like Thelonius Monk said, "The piano ain't got no wrong notes."

beat me to it, lol

@@sharkofjoy There are not wrong notes, you only miss the confidence to play them.

That’s what I was thinking the entire time! It wasn’t until the video was over that I realize was face was just starting to hurt from smiling along with her the whole way. It’s something about seeing the joy radiate off of a musician while they play; seeing someone look so happy doing something they love. For me that aspect makes me enjoy the performance so much more. 💕

Remember watching a concert of hers on YT with her just going :D and her bassist going D: the entire time ^^

Thats what she sa…

hehe *hard*

@@mos680 😂

sus

PHRASING

How is that so spot on? FC

Arcaea hitsounds

Oh so thats what it is, i was wondering whats wrong witth this piano haha

As a bassist, I'm still thinking an orchestral adaption of this would be torture. Sure, there's the occasional interesting bit, but on the other hand you either have to count measures or pay really close attention to know when the next bit comes. Most of this song is just as boring as before for the bass and/or cello.

@@charlessaintpe8574 good thing this is done by a solo pianist for solo piano

@@emilyr8668 I get that, but that doesn't change how this song makes me feel. Maybe this will help you understand. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gMqonrmC3p21fIE.html

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