Blindfolded Japanese Guy Playing Super Mario Bros Musical Theme on Piano

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haha.

anyway, why is being blindfolded a feat when playing piano? I thought piano was kind of like typing....
 
Hey guys, you won't believe this!!! I got this friend, and he had a friend, and he showed me how you can fold up this $20 bill and you can see the planes crashing into the WTC!!!!! OMFG!!!!!! The fucking Bushies strike again!!!!!
 
fennec fox said:
Hey guys, you won't believe this!!! I got this friend, and he had a friend, and he showed me how you can fold up this $20 bill and you can see the planes crashing into the WTC!!!!! OMFG!!!!!! The fucking Bushies strike again!!!!!

If you start up Microsoft Word, use font "WINGDINGS" and type out the flight number "Q33NY," you see a plane crashing into the twin towers!!
 
catfish said:
haha.

anyway, why is being blindfolded a feat when playing piano? I thought piano was kind of like typing....

That was what I was gonna say. It's not like you can play a song well if you still have to look at the sheet music.
 
He still seems off in some places. It seems more evident everytime I watch it. The star music is off, or at least is sounds that way to me. The water level music is the best part though. I've been playing the piano for years, and I have a few VG music songbooks, but give me a little while to memorize the notes, and I could play that blindfolded. :lol The music from SMB 3 is awesome as well. He is talented, I will give him that.
 
Wario64 said:
If you start up Microsoft Word, use font "WINGDINGS" and type out the flight number "Q33NY," you see a plane crashing into the twin towers!!

Holy shit, and a skull and crossbones and a star of david.
The Pirate Jews are on the loose!
 
The guy in the video is a wanker and anyone that wastes HOURS and stuffs up several times while showing-off with a simple blindfold needs to be shot for wasting my bandwidth months ago.
 
LakeEarth said:
That was what I was gonna say. It's not like you can play a song well if you still have to look at the sheet music.


Jesus Christ do you people know anything about Music? How about you learn a little something about a topic before you make a claim like that.
 
GMUNYIFan said:
Jesus Christ do you people know anything about Music? How about you learn a little something about a topic before you make a claim like that.
It's hours of practise. Anyone can use all five fingers properly on an acoustic and play Classical Gas like Eric Clapton if they are treated like a Nazi POW through practising.
 
catfish said:
haha.

anyway, why is being blindfolded a feat when playing piano? I thought piano was kind of like typing....

LakeEarth said:
That was what I was gonna say. It's not like you can play a song well if you still have to look at the sheet music.

GMUNYIFan said:
Jesus Christ do you people know anything about Music? How about you learn a little something about a topic before you make a claim like that.

It's true that most pianists don't memorize all the music they perform in most minor undergrad-level performances, and it's certainly not a requirement to memorize the music in order to be able to perform it "well". However, it is absolutely expected in major recitals or in a solo professional concert appearance.

That aside, it's cool that this guy spent the time to work out a keyboard score for this; it sounds great on the piano, and he performs it well enough. I think that the blindfolded thing really is a bizarre gimmick. Catfish is more or less right when he compares it to typing--there's a lot more real estate to cover on the piano, and more keys, but any decent pianist can play moderately difficult songs without looking at the keys (blindfolded if you must :lol). It gets hard to do with more difficult music, certainly, but the Super Mario theme he's doing is anything but difficult for an undergrad-or-better level pianist. For him to make the blindfold schtick the major "cool" point is just asking for a lambasting from other pianists. Blindfolded chess players are pretty impressive; blindfolded pianists...pffft.
 
Ironclad_Ninja said:
He still seems off in some places. It seems more evident everytime I watch it. The star music is off, or at least is sounds that way to me. The water level music is the best part though. I've been playing the piano for years, and I have a few VG music songbooks, but give me a little while to memorize the notes, and I could play that blindfolded. :lol The music from SMB 3 is awesome as well. He is talented, I will give him that.
I am not even going to criticize his performance since I can't even remotely play the piano...
 
Well for having had more than 10 years of Piano lessons this is nothing impressive at all.. just some memorization skills, and even that is not hard with such a simple piece..

I used to play my music pieces in pitch darkness when I was a kid thinking I "looked" cool doing it :P

But well I've never understood why people say that typing and playing piano is more or less the same.. except that your fingers are touching "keys" they share next to nothing.. A good typewriter won't make a good pianist and a good pianist won't necessarily be good at typing
 
Not impressive at all... because you guys are all probably doing this right now with your keyboard! And the Ray Charles pic was appropriate.

Duh.
 
Yeah, you're right Fularu, the typing-and-playing-piano-are-the-same-thing is an oversimplification at best and just wrong at worst. However, I'm convinced that having played piano forever before I took high school typing class gave me a huge edge over others, at least in the manual dexterity department. In fact, I was the Fastest Typist in the whole 9th grade. Probably the whole damned school! Even won a gigantic Kit Kat bar. And I owe it all to piano. Lemme tell ya, nothing gets the 9th grade chicks like banging out a few lines of the the Gettysburg Address really fast. Well, almost nothing. Hoo, yeah. :D

Anyway, I'd guess you are more likely to be a good typist if you're a decent pianist, but yeah, the reverse is not necessarily true.

Junkster, I don't think those few of us making comments that are less than reverential about this are self-aggrandizing. Honestly, when it comes down to it this really is sort of funny to any decent pianist. I don't know what a good gaming comparison would be...maybe, this'd kinda be like me putting up a website because I had a video of myself doing DDR and getting a 'B' on Rhythm & Police Heavy or playing Cutie Chaser with my back to the screen. My parents and non-gaming friends would think it was amazing, but the thousands of people who are 'AA'ing MAX300 would laugh their asses off. You play the piano for hundreds or thousands of hours, and yeah, playing a lot of stuff blindfolded is not a big deal. Upside down underneath the keyboard, hands crossed a la "Amadeus"? That'd impress me.

Oh, and apologies for the DDR analogy, couldn't think of many games that your average non-gamer bystander would be impressed with... :D
 
Inumaru:

Thanks for your input. I'm no musician by a long shot, so I was curious and wanted to ask about the very things you've already explained! Initially, I thought the blindfolded thing at first was fairly impressive (even if a wanky gimmick). Music-wise it was good, and you can't deny memorisation, but I thought that being blindfolded would make a piece that required many octave changes and stuff alittle difficult at least. Of course, you have opened up my eyes, and said that it's relatively no mean feat to do so for a pianist with a lot of practice, but I still think that the typing analogy is not entirely the same, as you say, the real estate needed to be covered is greater - that is, for a typist, the keys are qithin a few inches of a central position, but playing the piano (not so much the first part that guy did blindfolded, but the bits later, where his hands were changing fairly large distances - now had he done THAT blindfolded, perhaps....) requires jnowing how far to move your entire hand. However, you'd know better (having played piano before and such), but surely DDR is the same analogy as typing, and not so much the piano? The arrow pads are exactly where you expect them - maybe it'd be more akin to having four or five playmats at a certain distance rather than just one...or maybe using an onscreen keyboard device and typing your name blindfolded. Maybe, I don't know - perhaps good pianists get that familiar with the keys, you could get them to play any single not blindfolded on the first go.

I'd like to see someone play tetris blindfolded, with someone else narrating the pieces!
 
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