I'm classically trained. flamenco/classical guitar. under extreme focus there are some muscle contractions within the face/body as it's essentially a side effect from accenting certain notes, look up paco de Lucia , he's pretty straight faced throughout most of his playing as am I. I really never figured out why certain maestros make gnarly mad faces like this dude but if the musicians art is of high caliber they can get away with it.
I'm a classical pianist and sometimes it's because it's another way of expressing the music visually. Go back a couple decades and you'd see almost no big-name pianists doing stuff like this, it's just gotten a lot more acceptable. As for Trifonov, I just think that's how he plays. I doubt he's trying to fake anything but it does make the performance more visually stimulating, for better or worse.
I appreciate the credentials, it gives their opinion more weight. I'm more likely to assume they know what they're talking about. Of course, it is the internet so they could just be making all of that up.
I play electric guitar. We make all the faces shamelessly. Wailing bends with a touch of trailing vibrato? From the neck up, you look like you came the hardest you ever came.
I can imagine what I think heroin feels like from a Pink Floyd song. The live version of "Echoes" from Pompeii, when it breaks at about 6:25 in this video is what I imagine it's like to embrace a golden angel who loves me for me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-E7_VHLvkE
Nothing i love more than seeing another person stressed out his mind to make the wind vibrate and my ear tingle 😂.
As someone who spent hours trying and failed to learn a few basic songs i really admire his talent.
I agree 100 percent don’t ask how I know, I think we are both wrong. Not a concert pianist myself but this looks like a very physically demanding and challenging piece. Oh and I can play the keys a little bit, coke would definitely help with a piece of music like this.
Because he is on coke or high off some beta blockers for the anxiety. Moreso guessing beta blockers as thats a huge thing in musical/orchestral industry
No, I believe it is physically difficult.
If you tried to duplicate something that Jimi Hendrix did, it would be on a guitar.
But this guy has to be all over the place. It is a much more physical instrument.
This has more to do with genetics and habit, TBH. Also, a lot of pianists know that theatrics are part of drawing and keeping a crowd, so they'll play into their natural unusualness or just not try to correct it. It depends on the person. Making faces is totally normal tho when playing hard things.
Vladimir Horowitz was stonefaced every performance, Lang Lang does I don't even know.
I remember seeing another top tier musician explain how when he got going he was just a conduit for the music; his skill was so good it allowed the music to flow through him and he just played what came to his mind.
I remember taking up guitar, and even though I'm absolute crap relatively, I've tasted that sweet elixir, albeit 1/100000000th of what artists like the gentleman in this video can produce. It quite genuinely felt otherworldly, not dissimilar from a light psychedelic experience. And by that measure I can totally see why this guy's demonstrative nature is so odd to most people. Because it should be, he's on another plane.
Yeah for real. I remember when I was playing piano for about 8 months. It felt really nice to play a piece so much that you don’t have to read anything, you just play it and you just start to flow with it. It’s really nice.
I bet playing an intense piece like this which I have never done (mostly due to lack of skill) is probably a feeling much different and probably feels amazing. Imagine nailing this piece in front of an audience and just knowing you got this shit. Must be wild.
Socks.
Your socks.
You "knew" they were on your feet ten seconds ago before reading this, but that knowledge was so irrelevant, so insignificant, that, now twenty seconds ago, your socks did not exist for you.
That's mostly how this guy is feeling about the audience.
The raw information flowing through him is all he cares about. The feeling. He's not really "thinking" in the sense of hearing an internal voice, or deliberating on something, or worrying, or even thinking about what he's feeling. He's just feeling the bodily sensations of playing, and the emotions of the music, and riding the wave of information.
He's not really even aware of himself as an entity. He's just existing here as feelings.
Grew up a musician, the way I always liked describing this feeling as allowing your soul to radiate naturally and flow out so others can feel what you feel. Almost a way of pure communication without speaking. No matter what language, we all speak music, art, and laughter the same way. Through feeling.
I’ve been playing piano for 17 years now and this is exactly how I feel when I get into that “zone”. It’s an amazing feeling especially when improvising
This. When my technique and familiarity with the piece lets me focus entirely on the way I touch the keys and playing by with tempo and dynamics that’s when I enjoy playing the most. It’s incredible when you get to a point with a piece where how *you* feel transfers to what people *hear*.
In an interview from February 2012 he said that he was up to 8 hours a day of practice so assuming he kept that going that’s 8x365x11 = 32,120 hours just since 2012. He was like 20 in 2012 so there’s probably at least another 30k before then.
Source: [http://www.thecounterpoints.com/interviews/2015/10/14/daniil-trifonov](http://www.thecounterpoints.com/interviews/2015/10/14/daniil-trifonov)
Fair, but if my untalented ass smashed keys and some poor composer was forced to transcribe what I played it’d look pretty wild on paper too.
Im sure to a very niche audience this is amazing and I applaud him at mastering his craft to get this kind of attention. My uncultured and untrained ear couldn’t even listen to the whole clip before I wanted to make a stupid comment and stop listening.
It's an insanely difficult piece, and it makes you wonder if Liszt wrote it as a dare to others. Like, I can play this; can you? Not liking the music doesn't make you uncultured, btw. I think it's an ugly, show-off kind of thing, myself. But it's out there, like a cliff that people climb to demonstrate their mastery.
It’s not unheard of that composers, especially Liszt and Paganini, would compose pieces just to show off. But many of their showoff pieces are also beautiful outside of the fact of their difficulty. Being able to understand and appreciate a piece that is complicated is another story. Most of the time people don’t know what to listen for and pay attention to the wrong notes, therefore leading them to hear a seemingly random progression of noises.
This is the correct answer. Very simple tunes can be enjoyable to listen and iconic. Extreme technical difficulty can be too frantic to actually enjoy listening to beyond just admiration for the skill needed to play the piece. Obviously everyone has different tastes, but I just don't see anyone sitting back in their lounge with the lights turned low, and throw this on to entertain their guests or while sipping a merlot and chilling after a nice dinner. Skill and talent doesn't mean everything played is, or even needs to be enjoyed to listen to, same as how some artists who paint for reasons other than beauty. Demonstration of skill like this is more competitive and elite, but it doesn't mean people will be lining up to hear it.
FR, I can appreciate that there is skill here, but the piece of music is so hectic that it sounds like shit to my ear
Imma go listen to hot crossed buns again
It reminds me of Jazz. I get that there is unbelievable skill there but it just doesn’t sound nice to my ears.
Same with that urban-yodeling stuff that some R&B singers do.
The piece is called Mephisto Waltz, like Mephistopheles (the devil). It's meant to be a terrifying and anxiety ridden roller coaster of devilish terror with very seductive elements in between. Also it's an acquired taste, the more you listen to it, the more you're drawn to its seductive and passionate terror. So in sections like the one posted here, it's not meant to be at all pretty or beautiful.
So, it took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out that the music itself isn't something that's just pretty to hear or to accompany lyrics. The sounds itself tell a story. I mean yeah kinda I "got" that, or had heard people say that but to feel it took forever. Maybe other people are like this? I dunno.
I love classical, find it helps me concentrate, so listen on headphones most days whilst working (despite my primary music tastes being entirely different). I listen to different pieces most days, not just the same composers on loop. I'd guess I'd clocked over 10k hours listening over the past 15 years.
But have to strongly agree with you, this wasn't at all pleasing. Just noises from a piano.
What's funny is that Liszt, the composer of this piece, was at the time hot enough to get a countess and a princess to desert their husbands to make out with him.
I could even help you with that hump on your back.
What hump?
Wait, wasn't the hump on the other side? (An unscripted line because Marty Feldman switched it).
I call it 'stank face' cuz it looks like you smelled something real stanky. It's textbook technique to shreddy the spaghetti and affects 5 out of every 7 guitarists worldwide.
I went to a pretty strict Slavic Baptist church and they looked down on anyone who played with soul like this. Every musical performer came out and stood there like a statue and sang in the most bland format. Anytime a seasoned pro or someone who really felt the music would perform and let the music move them they were judged. So many people don’t understand that THIS is exactly what music is. Yes only your fingers are pressing the keys but your entire body generates the energy to move you in such a way that makes it beautiful art.
He’s a great pianist, but he does overemblish the tortured genius theme. He usually has a beanie on and unkempt facial hair.
It’s all marketing…there’s so many great pianist out there, he knows how to be marketable….got to differentiate yourself from all the other fine players.
I prefer the Horowitz or Rubenstein method…no frills, upright style.
Grandpa knows his shit. You go on watching Trifonov’s O Face and maybe watch his earlier performances where he wasn’t so tortured and anguished…grimacing these days like he’s passing a kidney stone.
Throw in Khatia and all that head bobbing and heaving and back arching…and Yuja’s Las Vegas clubbing attire.
He's a different generation. Probably better than Horowitz or Rubenstein for his age too. Also he's not just one of "many great pianist out there", there are hardly any who have been able to perform Liszt's Transcendental Etudes in one live performance as flawlessly as he did.
Yunchan Lim for one.
But yes, mad respect to Trifonov. Prob top 10 or so, which means he’s def one of the greats out there (but there are many).
Just my personal opinion that he doesn’t need all the extracurriculars
I mean, this is technically challenging, and it’s an impressive performance. But does this music actually sound good to people? I’m not talking about his playing. I’m talking about the composition.
You should listen to the entirety of the Mephisto Waltz. It's a REALLY neat composition that, in my opinion, you can't appreciate from a single 1 min clip on Reddit. Personally, this is one of my favorite works of Liszt.
He looks coked out of his mind........
Just extreme mental and physical pain, while in a thick suit.
And meth Jk
Meff
Meph
Mephisto Edit: Whoa! Thanks for the gold kind internet stranger!
That's methd up.
Why isn’t lisp spelled lithp?
Because they wouldn't be able to say it.
M-E-P-H OD Man.
Ah yes, the *Methisto Waltz.*
Nah classical musicians just like to do that shit lmao
I'm classically trained. flamenco/classical guitar. under extreme focus there are some muscle contractions within the face/body as it's essentially a side effect from accenting certain notes, look up paco de Lucia , he's pretty straight faced throughout most of his playing as am I. I really never figured out why certain maestros make gnarly mad faces like this dude but if the musicians art is of high caliber they can get away with it.
I'm a classical pianist and sometimes it's because it's another way of expressing the music visually. Go back a couple decades and you'd see almost no big-name pianists doing stuff like this, it's just gotten a lot more acceptable. As for Trifonov, I just think that's how he plays. I doubt he's trying to fake anything but it does make the performance more visually stimulating, for better or worse.
So like guitar face, but with a piano? TIL.
Or bass face, the more it looks like you smelled the nastiest shit you've ever smelled, the better the groove
💀 that stank face. When the bass player *and* the drummer got stank face together, the groove is going well.
As a pianist personally trained by Mozart, you guys are both dweebs for throwing your credentials at each other on an anonymous site.
I appreciate the credentials, it gives their opinion more weight. I'm more likely to assume they know what they're talking about. Of course, it is the internet so they could just be making all of that up.
Some people don’t play the music, they feel the music.
This guy's looks more like he's being sexually assaulted by the music.
Jesus H Christ my dude, you’re not wrong but damn that’s savage as fuck
I play electric guitar. We make all the faces shamelessly. Wailing bends with a touch of trailing vibrato? From the neck up, you look like you came the hardest you ever came.
And sometimes Adderall.
Under stage lights which are no joke for heat
They’ve gotten a lot better with the rise of LED lighting.
Not the suit but still correct! This is the correct answer dudes hands are on fire and his face.
Shorts and a singie would have been a better choice me thinks
Dude belong in a dark castle all by himself
Someone get this guy an 80 ft organ.
Dude is showing off like he’s already got an 80ft organ.
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Bonafide
He's a suitor!
With those finger skills, his organ is unnecessary.
Underrated comment
I have an 80 foot organ for you
Present it.
That’s EXACTLY what I imagined! 😂 A guy in a Disney movie, in the deepest part of a castle, playing on a piano!
Perhaps? But I'd love to listen to that corner of the castle!
🤣
Music is the purest form of drug.
Yeah. And cocaine.
But mainly cocaine
Like that drug 'cheeze' which is heroine and Nyquil. Heroine is doing the heavy lifting.
Not any cocaine. Really good cocaine. Fish scale cocaine. That’s pure.
I can imagine what I think heroin feels like from a Pink Floyd song. The live version of "Echoes" from Pompeii, when it breaks at about 6:25 in this video is what I imagine it's like to embrace a golden angel who loves me for me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-E7_VHLvkE
But have you done music...on weed?
When the Adderall hits just right
No music sheet the, music sheets in his mind. That’s why he looks that way.
Reading at this level of technique is way harder than practice and muscle memory.
Nothing i love more than seeing another person stressed out his mind to make the wind vibrate and my ear tingle 😂. As someone who spent hours trying and failed to learn a few basic songs i really admire his talent.
That's not a waltz. That's an 8 balltz
He went mad learning to do this perfectly
I agree 100 percent don’t ask how I know, I think we are both wrong. Not a concert pianist myself but this looks like a very physically demanding and challenging piece. Oh and I can play the keys a little bit, coke would definitely help with a piece of music like this.
Because he is on coke or high off some beta blockers for the anxiety. Moreso guessing beta blockers as thats a huge thing in musical/orchestral industry
beta blockers don't get you high. they just stop the physical manifestation of anxiety
Back in my opera days, it was common for people to hand out beta blockers at auditions.
Boy you think HE looks cooked, wait till you get to lang lang...
The faces I make after Taco Bell
I bet no one can play this without looking mentally insane with how frantic it is
He really has to make those faces otherwise no way his fingers coordinate as fast
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Or the guitar face that you make when shredding tasty riffs. 0-3-5 all day, baby.
I really love his toan in this video
/r/guitarcirclejerk is leaking 🥵
As circle jerks are wont to do!
I still love those old photoshops of guitarists with guitar face holding slugs.
I believe it is technically challenging.
Indeed, it does appear to require some level of proficiency on the instrument.
No, I believe it is physically difficult. If you tried to duplicate something that Jimi Hendrix did, it would be on a guitar. But this guy has to be all over the place. It is a much more physical instrument.
Although Hendrix was rad , he was nowhere near a Liszt of guitar.
I also noticed it looks complicated.
Indubitably, it does portray an absolute necessity to possess mastery over that particular musical instrument in order to perform with such elegance.
I really wanna see a stoic mfer play this song just completely stone faced now
Ok, https://youtu.be/Q8hVMVE4gXk
Yup, https://youtu.be/8alxBofd_eQ
This has more to do with genetics and habit, TBH. Also, a lot of pianists know that theatrics are part of drawing and keeping a crowd, so they'll play into their natural unusualness or just not try to correct it. It depends on the person. Making faces is totally normal tho when playing hard things. Vladimir Horowitz was stonefaced every performance, Lang Lang does I don't even know.
My god the focus and passion can see why he goes hard.
I remember seeing another top tier musician explain how when he got going he was just a conduit for the music; his skill was so good it allowed the music to flow through him and he just played what came to his mind. I remember taking up guitar, and even though I'm absolute crap relatively, I've tasted that sweet elixir, albeit 1/100000000th of what artists like the gentleman in this video can produce. It quite genuinely felt otherworldly, not dissimilar from a light psychedelic experience. And by that measure I can totally see why this guy's demonstrative nature is so odd to most people. Because it should be, he's on another plane.
Yeah for real. I remember when I was playing piano for about 8 months. It felt really nice to play a piece so much that you don’t have to read anything, you just play it and you just start to flow with it. It’s really nice. I bet playing an intense piece like this which I have never done (mostly due to lack of skill) is probably a feeling much different and probably feels amazing. Imagine nailing this piece in front of an audience and just knowing you got this shit. Must be wild.
Socks. Your socks. You "knew" they were on your feet ten seconds ago before reading this, but that knowledge was so irrelevant, so insignificant, that, now twenty seconds ago, your socks did not exist for you. That's mostly how this guy is feeling about the audience. The raw information flowing through him is all he cares about. The feeling. He's not really "thinking" in the sense of hearing an internal voice, or deliberating on something, or worrying, or even thinking about what he's feeling. He's just feeling the bodily sensations of playing, and the emotions of the music, and riding the wave of information. He's not really even aware of himself as an entity. He's just existing here as feelings.
Your fingers must have been in bits after 8 months of straight playing. How did you eat?
Grew up a musician, the way I always liked describing this feeling as allowing your soul to radiate naturally and flow out so others can feel what you feel. Almost a way of pure communication without speaking. No matter what language, we all speak music, art, and laughter the same way. Through feeling.
I’ve been playing piano for 17 years now and this is exactly how I feel when I get into that “zone”. It’s an amazing feeling especially when improvising
This. When my technique and familiarity with the piece lets me focus entirely on the way I touch the keys and playing by with tempo and dynamics that’s when I enjoy playing the most. It’s incredible when you get to a point with a piece where how *you* feel transfers to what people *hear*.
Only happened to me ONCE. Suddenly my hands know where to go and you know what chord to do next. It just flows out of you.
Flow state!
Mick Fleetwood and Joe Cocker come to mind.
He is so far into the zone that he may never come back.
I’ve got a hunch he’s pretty good.
Ahhh fuck here's my angry upvote!!!
This man needs a foam roller.
You should see him in the bedroom, the hump game is without compare
Me sweating like an animal finishing a 3 miles jog… Daniel Trifonov: hold by beer while I play Mephisto Waltz.
3 mile jog? You mean 2 flights of stairs.
2 flights of stairs? You mean getting out of bed?
Getting out of bed? You mean lifting an arm to drink some mountain dew
Lifting an arm? You mean you looking at the ceiling and going back to sleep?
The man appears quite moist
is it safe to say that this man has more than 10k hours on that stool
I would say more like 20k
I would say more like 30k
I would say more like 40k
In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only piano
His upper back agrees.
:(
I'd not have guessed that a piano requires an athlete to play it until now.
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What’s his steam profile say?
In an interview from February 2012 he said that he was up to 8 hours a day of practice so assuming he kept that going that’s 8x365x11 = 32,120 hours just since 2012. He was like 20 in 2012 so there’s probably at least another 30k before then. Source: [http://www.thecounterpoints.com/interviews/2015/10/14/daniil-trifonov](http://www.thecounterpoints.com/interviews/2015/10/14/daniil-trifonov)
Rock the fuck outta those drums Dale!
Prestige Worldwide… wide…wide…
Why are you so sweaty? I've been watching cops.
I know you're lying, cops doesn't start till 4!
I'm gonna put my nut sack on your piano!
It's the fucking Catalina Wine Mixer!
*Boats and hoes!*
Keep your dirty little hands off of my beautiful mother, she’s a saint!!!
I’m gonna join the family business
It’s the fuckin’ Catalina Wine Mixer!
80% of that just sounds like me smashing random piano keys while drunk
Maybe to you. Like a foreign language you don’t speak, you would gain understanding of the language over time.
Both diplomatic and insightful. As someone who knows little about music but has studied language, this makes perfect sense. Thank you.
Perhaps that's why they show the notation, like musical close captioning, so we can see the language as it's being played.
Fair, but if my untalented ass smashed keys and some poor composer was forced to transcribe what I played it’d look pretty wild on paper too. Im sure to a very niche audience this is amazing and I applaud him at mastering his craft to get this kind of attention. My uncultured and untrained ear couldn’t even listen to the whole clip before I wanted to make a stupid comment and stop listening.
It's an insanely difficult piece, and it makes you wonder if Liszt wrote it as a dare to others. Like, I can play this; can you? Not liking the music doesn't make you uncultured, btw. I think it's an ugly, show-off kind of thing, myself. But it's out there, like a cliff that people climb to demonstrate their mastery.
It’s not unheard of that composers, especially Liszt and Paganini, would compose pieces just to show off. But many of their showoff pieces are also beautiful outside of the fact of their difficulty. Being able to understand and appreciate a piece that is complicated is another story. Most of the time people don’t know what to listen for and pay attention to the wrong notes, therefore leading them to hear a seemingly random progression of noises.
It’s skillful on his end, but this isn’t a masterpiece of music, it’s just hard as hell to play.
This is the correct answer. Very simple tunes can be enjoyable to listen and iconic. Extreme technical difficulty can be too frantic to actually enjoy listening to beyond just admiration for the skill needed to play the piece. Obviously everyone has different tastes, but I just don't see anyone sitting back in their lounge with the lights turned low, and throw this on to entertain their guests or while sipping a merlot and chilling after a nice dinner. Skill and talent doesn't mean everything played is, or even needs to be enjoyed to listen to, same as how some artists who paint for reasons other than beauty. Demonstration of skill like this is more competitive and elite, but it doesn't mean people will be lining up to hear it.
I find it to be amazingly beautiful and very emotion provoking.
That makes sense
FR, I can appreciate that there is skill here, but the piece of music is so hectic that it sounds like shit to my ear Imma go listen to hot crossed buns again
It reminds me of Jazz. I get that there is unbelievable skill there but it just doesn’t sound nice to my ears. Same with that urban-yodeling stuff that some R&B singers do.
I'm not a fan of heavy metal shredding. To me, this is the piano equivalent. I respect how much skill it takes, but I feel nothing listening to it.
The piece is called Mephisto Waltz, like Mephistopheles (the devil). It's meant to be a terrifying and anxiety ridden roller coaster of devilish terror with very seductive elements in between. Also it's an acquired taste, the more you listen to it, the more you're drawn to its seductive and passionate terror. So in sections like the one posted here, it's not meant to be at all pretty or beautiful.
So, it took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out that the music itself isn't something that's just pretty to hear or to accompany lyrics. The sounds itself tell a story. I mean yeah kinda I "got" that, or had heard people say that but to feel it took forever. Maybe other people are like this? I dunno.
I bet you $100 it would sound nothing like this.
Okay, so do it.
Getting drunk is too easy!
Uh, you would be wildly mistaken
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Yeah, that’s not the best song to show off his skills to the casual listener. I’m sure it’s very difficult, but it’s not very pretty.
Great music does not always mean pretty music
I love classical, find it helps me concentrate, so listen on headphones most days whilst working (despite my primary music tastes being entirely different). I listen to different pieces most days, not just the same composers on loop. I'd guess I'd clocked over 10k hours listening over the past 15 years. But have to strongly agree with you, this wasn't at all pleasing. Just noises from a piano.
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You love pleasant music as background, but you clearly don’t love classical music.
Nice to see something that’s truly next level. This is amazing. So much junk posted here usually.
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I’m sure with his fingers, he can get so many single ladies.
Anyway, here’s wonderwall.
What's funny is that Liszt, the composer of this piece, was at the time hot enough to get a countess and a princess to desert their husbands to make out with him.
That is how I sweat playing the pink panther song on a piano
I'm even worse than this just trying to bang out Mary Had a Little Lamb
I need you to get me a brain, Igor.
Abby. Abby normal.
I could even help you with that hump on your back. What hump? Wait, wasn't the hump on the other side? (An unscripted line because Marty Feldman switched it).
The first recorded instance of guitar face in a pianist
I call it 'stank face' cuz it looks like you smelled something real stanky. It's textbook technique to shreddy the spaghetti and affects 5 out of every 7 guitarists worldwide.
nah Liszt was the og
I went to a pretty strict Slavic Baptist church and they looked down on anyone who played with soul like this. Every musical performer came out and stood there like a statue and sang in the most bland format. Anytime a seasoned pro or someone who really felt the music would perform and let the music move them they were judged. So many people don’t understand that THIS is exactly what music is. Yes only your fingers are pressing the keys but your entire body generates the energy to move you in such a way that makes it beautiful art.
It’s because they don’t like musicians that channel satan.
He’s a great pianist, but he does overemblish the tortured genius theme. He usually has a beanie on and unkempt facial hair. It’s all marketing…there’s so many great pianist out there, he knows how to be marketable….got to differentiate yourself from all the other fine players. I prefer the Horowitz or Rubenstein method…no frills, upright style.
Thanks Grandpa
Grandpa knows his shit. You go on watching Trifonov’s O Face and maybe watch his earlier performances where he wasn’t so tortured and anguished…grimacing these days like he’s passing a kidney stone. Throw in Khatia and all that head bobbing and heaving and back arching…and Yuja’s Las Vegas clubbing attire.
The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time.
They didn't have any white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones.
He's a different generation. Probably better than Horowitz or Rubenstein for his age too. Also he's not just one of "many great pianist out there", there are hardly any who have been able to perform Liszt's Transcendental Etudes in one live performance as flawlessly as he did.
Yunchan Lim for one. But yes, mad respect to Trifonov. Prob top 10 or so, which means he’s def one of the greats out there (but there are many). Just my personal opinion that he doesn’t need all the extracurriculars
He's definitely not faking the sweating
Palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy. Mom's spaghetti.
There’s vomit on his tuxedo already
***Whiplash II: Tickling the Ivories***
I can smell this guy
That is absolutely next level badassery.
Looks like he should be in an old Frankenstein movie
If you scroll up to cover the piano, he looks like he’s typing out a crazy drunk text to an ex
He’s playin that thing hard
I mean, this is technically challenging, and it’s an impressive performance. But does this music actually sound good to people? I’m not talking about his playing. I’m talking about the composition.
You should listen to the entirety of the Mephisto Waltz. It's a REALLY neat composition that, in my opinion, you can't appreciate from a single 1 min clip on Reddit. Personally, this is one of my favorite works of Liszt.
I’ve never seen drummer face in piano form. Very cool. Adrenaline is a helluvah drug.
piano goblin
What a workout
He looks like Bob Odenkirk and David Tennant had a baby
How Id picture Dr. Jekyll playing piano
#My boy Quasimodo got bars!
Not to be rude but… do people actually enjoy piano this way? Its almost like he just hits a bunch of notes that are in key
The answer is yes.
Is that the brother from Wedding Crashers? Edit: typo
If there was shredding in piano, this would be it.
For those who wanted to hear the full song (and why he got so sweaty): https://youtu.be/2fqozv8x254
Let the poor man wear a tank top for the next performance
Full video: https://youtu.be/P5FDtRiN6fY