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Fats Waller's music is called stride which is very different from ragtime and much better IMO. The pianist is very good and adds some of his own stuff to the notated version of this piece. The overhead view is very distracting. Perhaps it was intended to showcase the constant left hand jumps in this style of music, but I think nothing justifies the camera angle, and I'd guess most people do not enjoy the overhead view.
I was wondering why this was even posted on the Piano Forum until I saw the box in the lower right corner.
"Imagine it in all its primatic colorings, its counterpart in our souls - our souls that are great pianos whose strings, of honey and of steel, the divisions of the rainbow set twanging, loosing on the air great novels of adventure!" - William Carlos Williams
Yes, he's very good. And I don't mind the aerial view; it highlights the drama of the stride movements in the left hand.
Listening to another YouTube posting of Fats playing the same piece, it's evident that this youngster left out the left-hand 10ths which are probably unattainable for him. He'll probably grow into them.
I've played a few of these stride pieces, and even with my big paws, those tenths at speed are a challenge!
Fats Waller's music is called stride which is very different from ragtime and much better IMO. The pianist is very good and adds some of his own stuff to the notated version of this piece. The overhead view is very distracting. Perhaps it was intended to showcase the constant left hand jumps in this style of music, but I think nothing justifies the camera angle, and I'd guess most people do not enjoy the overhead view.
I was wondering why this was even posted on the Piano Forum until I saw the box in the lower right corner.
I wasn't meaning to label the music as ragtime that was being played, I merely meant to say that the left hand is similar to that of some ragtime pieces that I used to play.
I wouldn't say that that one genre was better than the other, it's just one's preference. I can appreciate both without without leaning towards one or the other.
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He's very good on Handful of Keys but his Chopin Fantasie Impromptu is not so good. I'd guess he plays mostly non classical at this point. His technique is nowhere near the level of the most of the top classical pianists at that age but he seems to have terrific flair for pieces like the ones in the OP.
I continually find it interesting that a 'good' performance by a gifted child always stimulates so much more interest and conversation than a 'masterful' performance by an old guy with a gut and male pattern baldness...
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He's very good on Handful of Keys but his Chopin Fantasie Impromptu is not so good.
Amazing how some folks find always something negative to say. Perhaps its some kind of medical condition? Wondering how your playing was at age 11.....
Of course, your comment about "always finding something negative to say" is outrageously wrong and utter nonsense.
The video I mentioned does show that this pianist is much better at playing stride than classical. And those familiar with the skill of the the best 11 year olds know that there is a huge gap between between those people and the this performer.
I too have noticed this and was waiting for it. Unfortunate.
What nonsense. Not true if one just looks at this thread. Of course, if you think all "reviews" should be 100% positive...but I think a balanced review is usually far better. What nonsense.
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