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This guy plays the riff in his left hand, A) Without mistakes (Easy with practice) B) Without looking (Feasible) C) *While talking* (What.)

Fun fact: playing piano while talking is a quick way to reduce most fluent English speakers to completely basic, scarcely functional English

As a trumpet player, I find it quite difficult to sing and play at the same time, but this man and his amazing talent has truly inspired me.

What's great about Liberace is when he found something that the audience loved he stuck with it. As years rolled on he just added layers and layers of extravagance to his shows.

"You wanna do it again don't 'cha 😏" He has earned both my respect _and_ my affection

ah yes, the Boogie Woogie 100% speedrun

"You wanna do it again, don't you?" I feel like only Liberace can say a line like that with such a tone. He was certainly an amazing musician.

2:18 That little wink! Apparently Liberace was the first to engage with the camera, as if he were looking at a person, and captivated viewers by making them feel he was doing the show just for them.

“You can’t play wrong notes this fast!” Me who sucks at accidentals: How about, no.

All the great jazz pianists talk about the importance of the left hand, and Liberace shows why.

I was lucky enough to see Liberace in concert here in Las Vegas back around 1977. He called me up to the stage, showed me his rings, and said, "See what you get if you practice?" I started piano lessons about a week after that. I only took lessons for a few years, so I'm nowhere near a virtuoso; but it's given me a lifetime of playing enjoyment.

Boogie Woogie is so much harder than it sounds if you aim to not make it feel repetitive and/or cheaply composed. Thanks for the sheet music.

a man with a hooded jacket comes up on stage and asks "do you know boogie woogie?"

Talking naturally while he's playing is the real impressive part imo Try it and you'll see what I mean 😏

You know your a true pianist when your hands look as free as his looked when he was playing. He wasn't even looking at the piano and managed to draw the crowd in by giving them a little story WHILE he was playing.

People mocked Liberace's splendorous customes, the candelabra, the rings, the lifestyle, forgeting he was a greatly talented artist. He just reacted: "I cried all the way to the bank" 🤣🎹💰

This man singlehandedly invented black midi at the end there

Not only a world class musician, but a world class performer.

Before I started playing other instruments, I started out as a piano player. I wanted to be Liberace. Then came rock and roll. Then came country. Then came Gospel blue grass. Never got to be Liberace lol! But I loved him. Critics panned him. I think they were jealous. I'd like to see their great "classical" pianist (many of whom I loved as well) do this and in later years he did it with large rings on his fingers and costumes that weighed many many pounds. Even if you could argue there were better players out there, He was by far the greatest showman of them all. He was the first concert I ever went to when I was about 7 or 8 and he signed a dollar bill for me and he made everyone of us waiting in line feel special for that moment that he gave each of us, and there were a lot of us. And it wasn't a scribble. Beautiful handwriting. There won't be another one. Rest in peace my friend, you were special.

My mama always talked about how much she loved Liberace and how talented he was. While going through her belongings after she passed, I found a signed photo of him. Beautiful handwriting. Thanks for sharing this. I now see what she so admired. He was amazing.

Plot Twist: the first guy that yelled “hey!” was getting someone’s attention and Liberace just went with it

The fact that he’s able to engage to audience so much during the entire thing really separates it from other performances.

I'm impressed how long he manages to keep that left hand ostinato going without tiring out, even while contorting his arm out of alignment with his hand so that he can turn to face the audience when talking to them.

man, I have so much respect for boogie-woogie pianists. Even though the forms are simple there's so much finger independence and dexterity needed, it's like using a piano as a drum kit.

Is nobody gonna talk about how virtuoso this guy is? He can fluently talk while he plays, that is INSANE.

I'm a blues piano player and this is actually pretty damned accurate. One thing I noticed playing blues is that if you hit a wrong note, hit it again... then resolve.

This is from the movie "Sincerely Yours". I was a little girl when this movie was released in the mid 50's and I remember how stunned I was at Liberace's piano abilities. I always admired his mastery of the piano. 🎹 ❤

Lee was one of a kind, probably the best showman I have ever witnessed in my life… i’m only 54, but I vividly remember seeing him in Vegas. When I was a kid, I’ll never forget it. He was a master not just of the piano, but of the audience as well, I actually cried when he passed away, because he made that big of an impact on me. Thanks for everything you did Lee, if you couldn’t find the peace and the love that you wanted in this life, I pray that you have found it in the next, you deserve it more than anyone else! Sending you lots of love from Toronto ❤️

AND he has a conversation while he is doing that.

**my mom asking me something while i play** "i- yes- uh- shit- yes- FUCK" **loses focus** this guy: "i can do this all day bud"

The one thing that feels like it's two times longer than it is but isn't boring

Liberace was a master piano player. If he had decided to play blues and rock piano as a career he would have run loops around Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis

Liberace at the end: "If you can play it slow, you can play it fast."

Me at the start: Yeah that’s fucking fast, but nothing that a decent pianist couldn’t achieve with enough practice 3:26 “Let’s try 16th notes” Me: *oh shit*

My grandfather played like this!! He was a badass that survived at sea when kamikaze planes took down his ship in WW2. He was a fun loving happy man and he played the piano so effortlessly. He was 100% self taught too. He was a one in a million kind of guy. Love you grandpa Eddie ❤🤍💙

I saw him live at Radio City Music Hall about a year before he passed. It was an incredible performance.

I didn’t know it was possible for human hands to do this until now

I'll say this as someone who has played piano for about 40 years, one of the most difficult things I've ever had to do is play a triplet against a different rhythm or accompanying music, especially at an allegro or faster speed. Liberace makes it look effortless and is very consistent at getting it perfect each time he does this.

Liberace was absolutely astonishing. Saw him at Radio City Music Hall in like 1982, 3rd row. He was a gift. And his candelabra.....

And we're back. This is Mr. New Vegas, and I feel something magic in the air tonight, and I'm not just talking about the gamma radiation.

"I can't think of anyone in a band who would get screams like that except Liberace." -Arlene Francis

"I stop playing for a moment, and that's because there isn't any music there" This man's a genius.

Others have said it but honestly the most amazing part of this video is the part where he talks with ease and even jokes while playing the left hand pianissimo perfectly.

What an amazing talent. And then there’s Roy Clark.

The fact that someone took the time to transcribe this onto sheet music is amazing

the fact he has this whole piece memorized, can play without looking, and can play without mistakes, AND TALKING TO THE AUDIENCE- LIKE HOW??!

1:40 That little break, that's the Cockney influence in Boogie-Woogie ;o)

The way he keeps playing while talking but modulates the volume is incredible

The real impressive part was getting the notes of these over him talking

This dude just entertains. He can hold a crowd like no other

You just know his muscle memory is so strong. Those notes are in his blood. After he's dead and buried, he'll still be moving his fingers just like that!

its nice that he's tying to preform for the audience in front of him and behind him

Therapist: Shredding on a piano doesn’t exist, it can’t hurt you. Shredding on a piano:

Man plays like they're charging him per second

The one thing it’s easy to forget about some of these legendary musicians long passed is just how TALENTED they were. People like Liberace, Roy Clark, Jerry Reed, etc.. just sheer, bewilderingly talented individuals.

I really love the underlying bass groove throughout this

well now i feel like shouting "hey!" whenever a pianist rests. this may be bad.

Didn't even recognise it was Liberace until I read the description.

WOW. I knew Liberace was a famous entertainer, but I had no idea he was that skilled at the piano. What a performance!

1974 I was a boy on vacation in Palm Springs and saw Liberace’s house. I remember being told he had a piano in every room and the one in his bedroom was how he was shaken out of bed in the morning. The butler would play a riff and stop just before it resolved. Liberace had to get up and hit the note to resolve it cuz it drove him crazy.

I love how humans have always had that sarcastic humor and it’s not just the new generation that does it but all of human history we’ve done it. 1:18 “You’ll notice right in the middle I stop playing for a moment. And that’s because...there isn’t any music for that part.”

It’s weird that most people nowadays don’t know that’s Liberace. He was so famous back in the day. Great piano player.

Oh my gosh, Liberace when he was just showing off his piles of talent and not the expensive gifts that foreign rulers had given him!

All those starry-eyed ladies barking up the wrong tree. What a genius.

His performances were overshadowed by his flamboyant personality and the stories about his private life. People forget that he was simply one hell of a performer and an outstanding piano player!

It amuses me how into Liberace every woman looks in this video.

You know you're doing it right when you have the audience and then lose them at the end.

I love this guys accent. Its perfect for the character.

Liberace: oh you only have 8 beats in a bar? That's cute.

Liberace, in his 40s: "Okay fellas, now it's your turn"

Extremely unique piano player. He was a virtuoso to a degree that never was replicated. Super skills beyond talented!

No matter where your talents or interests lie, there is a sublime joy in watching a master work at their craft.

He would hold the world record in Tetris without any shadow of a doubt. The ultimate hyper tapper.

I know a lot of you are younger and probably don't know who this is and I can see from the comments you're impressed (Which is good!) But this guy was a big friggin deal back in the day. Liberace, look him up. It's a bit sad that he faded into obscurity especially since he tried really hard to be memorable but at the core, he was an amazing piano player and entertainer.

3:21 - When the pianist starts getting paid by the song and not by the hour... (ie- "We don't need no stinkin time signature")

musicians that talk/entertain while playing like this is is another level type of skill

this is the moment when the weird nerd at school who is good at the piano becomes the cool kid at school who is good at the piano

The whole audience is smiling, what good entertainment!

So impressive (as ever) watching someone excel at a thing you couldn't even imagine being able to do. I'm going to go and dig out some Zither videos to amaze myself with now :)

That woman in the audience is totally head over heels go this man.

His endurance is incredible. His left hand never lost tempo at all and his speed and accuracy put him in a very elite class. Elton John admired his piano playing and that is very high praise.

I've known about Liberace for a half century, but usually as the butt of jokes. I knew he played piano, but never knew, until now, how damned great he was. Supreme entertainer!

Liberace was a genuine and well deserved star!

Now that's an entertainer. Imagine how much confidence you must have to do that.

I always like the sound of certain late 40's/early 50's music. Never knew how to describe it. The walking bass Boogie Woogie reminds me of a snapshot of American Graffiti.

This just proves that if you make a mistake you keep playing and nobody will notice. It also helps if you don't make a mistake...

The mark of not only amazing musical talent, but a raw ability to engage the audience with the music. Genuinely inspirational as a performer!

This might just be your best work yet !! Loved it, thank you

What amazes me the most is his ability to stay relaxed the entire time. Its not easy keeping those octaves going so accurately and quickly, and he not only does it at such a low dynamic level when he talks, his hand never once tensed up. Fast octaves are always challenging - even more so when they move around

This guy is an og, hit em with the ladies say “hay” first

He played semiquavers at 162 BPM effortlessly and last year I struggled putting semiquavers (RH) and quavers (LH) together at 100 BPM (Etude in A Minor, Kabalevsky)

The best and greatest to ever do it!!!

He was born to play, and compelled to entertain, and was so good at both.

Its actually incredible that it feels like it literally IS derived from some classical idea before it starts evolving into something more harmonically consistent with what im familiar with as boogie woogie. Definitely a diversiom of attentiom that added to the show.

OOOOoo When I was Liberace in the thumbnail I knew this was going to be gooood! I grew up listening to his music thanks to my dad :)

Clever to give people something so familiar and well-liked before introducing something so wild and different

"You can't play WRONG notes this fast!" I could play only wrong notes faster than that

Imagine having to learn this...Playing at 1% speed would be absolute hell. (EDIT: Don't comment with a detail explanation for as to why this is an easy piece I get it , you can play the piano.I aam talking from a newbies perspective.)

Gosh, I love your random taste in music. It matches my own a little too well XD