@@lightball1414 what the fuck do you even know? How is it normal ? She messed it up in front of everybody! how about fucking sit down for an hour and learn that damn piece?? dont tell me it is that difficult. Just lazy and messed up
I've done that playing at church. Forgot my cadenza AND it as an organ/piano duet. Lots more problems here. How bout that Chinese guy that that lost it during a concerto! You really have to have your game on to play those things. And yes, I believe Yuja holds 20 concertos in memory. I'd need some kind of external expansion brain....
Highinsight7 yup she does, i myself have appalling memory the only concerto i could memorise and struggled was chopin piano concerto in e minor. It was a struggle. Oh its ‘Sturm und Drang’ its nice that Beethoven implements this keeps you on your feet
@@MrTaiese The Chopin E minor is a MONSTER... YEARS ago... I put a BIG concert together... The Chopin F minor Concerto, with me as soloist... and the Mozart Requiem on the second half... I hired the orchestra, singers, soloists... and hired a friend to conduct...AND I found all the backers for the financial stuff and one of the chorus member to make the programs. ... and I also found the prefect hall as well... the day of the rehearsal the conductor was sick and showed up LATE! THE day of the performance, the conductor cancelled and requested that we postpone to concert... I REFUSED... I ended up conducting the Concerto for the bench and the entire Requiem fifteen minutes later... ended up being a pretty decent concert... never wanna go through that again!
3:15 - and that is on Musician muscle memory. I don't know how but especially during a performance muscle memory takes over and you really have no idea what you are playing or what even comes next but you just know to do a certain movement it will just work. It is like your mind disconnects and your body just takes control and magically you play it better than any time before. It is a crazy feeling.
1:33 is one of the most epic dramas in classical music. What Pires does is as he said, a miracle. AND the music to boot has all the weight and drama appropriate for the metamorphosis that Pires goes through - it is the perfect soundtrack. I get chills when I watch her progress emotionally from the shock to the resolve to do it! Someone on another thread joked at what if the roles were reversed and the pianist starts playing Rach's 2nd.
it is so amazing, I could so much feel with her! And I looooove the conductor for his supporting words! (just wondering how it is possible she didn't realize BEFORE the concert started, that she hasn't got her sheets with her..?!)
@@MusicCoversByEssie I forgot this video collection did not have the full clip with the conductor introducing the video. She was definitely expecting something else: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CJXnYMl_SuA.html Someone in another thread joked wouldn't it be funny if the pianist started play the Rach 2nd and the orchestra wasn't ready!
It's horrible to put a professional pianist through that. I'm talking about the Mozart piano concerto #20 that was not the one she prepared for? How can an orchestra not give the right piece to the piano soloist? What a champ for saying : I can try 1:41 Wow, I would have walk out.
caroline professional concert pianists usually have around 40-60 concertos committed to memory. The D minor concerto is a staple of the repertoire. She could play it automatically if she had to.
@@bartwatts1921 Well the conductor seems to thinks it was a miracle that she took a minute and was able to play the concerto that she hadn't prepared for and do it without any mistake. Conductors should know? She seemed really shocked and lost for a moment. Are you a professional concert pianist?
@@bartwatts1921 Staple? Maybe to a specific group of people. I'm more inclined to believe Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff and chopin as a standard, But, the empty cadenza for this piece is always either beethoven or just never played. That to me is another indication this piece isn't common among pianists.
that poor second girl; either she didn’t practice enough, didn’t even know the music, or just simply got so nervous that she completely failed playing the piece. as an intermediate level pianist and percussionist, i can say that i have PLENTY experience with overwhelming nerves.
Yeah, I practice a lot for recitals, but I messed up bad one time (not as bad as her, and my piece was much more difficult). It was my first recital after quitting piano for 4-6 years and my whole body and hands were shaking. I was so agitated, and even with my piece out, I still screwed up. I was shaking like hell man, it felt so horrible 😔
This happened to me and my teacher had to go over the whole piece with me... I got so embarrassed and cried after my lesson- I think in of quitting because my anxiety always gets the best of me, I'm not sure if I'm meant to be playing piano as a career.
@@aprilshowers193 Hey! Don't quit! Just relax, nobody is gonna kill you if you miss a note, and talk about it with your teacher, don't keep it all inside. You could play in front of your parents, friends, relatives to earn confidence.
Nah, I skipped it cause I didn't even want to see a person who doesn't know how to play the piano to go on stage. Like if you are going on stage, learn the fricking piece!
@@sauliusltcool6902 Hey, Clara Schumann started this BS! Evidently, she decided that the objective was not the performance of the music, but instead, showing off the skills of a virtuoso which included the stage and memorization, i.e., working without a net.
@@ngollo3570 I just looked up school recitals.( I didint know that word, I am not from an english speaking country.)well I guess but I just wouldnt even go on stage cause that would be really akward for me if I wouldnt know the piece and lots of people would be watching.. Well I dont know, thats what I think...
@@sauliusltcool6902 It can happen that you suddenly forget what you have to do when you're nervous on stage even if you played the piece without mistakes some minutes ago
she had prepared the wrong piece and hadn’t rehearsed with the orchestra before the performance. so when the orchestra started playing, they were playing a different piece to what she expected. luckily she knew the piece they were playing and her muscle memory kicked in and she was able to complete the performance.
I saw the video of the concert pianist with the Mozart before--blew me away--if you can find the original video--you should watch the whole thing. If I remember right, she was called to substitute at the last minute and was told to prepare a different concerto and when she sad down with the orchestra...well, you saw it--and she was able to pull it off-so incredible!!
That’s not at all what it sounds like when a piano is “broken”. A piano is a somewhat simple mechanical device, I can think of no malfunction that would make it suddenly play random notes. I would be very surprised if that were the answer. I also don’t think it’s him pretending to play. I think perhaps he plays a simple part and there might have been an embellishment track that was misfiring. They may still use midi for such things so that it can keep time with the band as opposed to the other way around. Some technology was just coughing up a digital lung. Sounds like a corrupt file. Either that or he pissed off some tech on the crew who sabotaged him to make him look foolish.😀 All speculation of course, but I do have some experience with such things.
Listening again, you can clearly hear the part he is playing and IT sounds fine... I now have a different theory, many bands use a “hidden” keyboardist or other musicians off stage and out of sight to help them produce a large sound that people expect and demand. I think perhaps it’s an intoxicated person who is backstage and decided to play along with the band while the secret keyboardist was away on a smoke break because he or she was not needed on this song! 😂 Honesty, that’s what it sounds like. Someone messing with him.
@@murdockscott the keys got stuck and the piano repetitively played the same notes. If it was a person backstage they would have been doing a whole lot more
Armando Morales I think we are gonna have to disagree on that. I have more than a little experience with music gear and performing myself and what you describe seems implausible to me. But who knows... I guess Yamaha did make digital player grand pianos at one point back when I was selling keyboards so I guess it could be one of those (or the newer equivalent) malfunctioning. But if that is this case, why does he have a piano onstage that can play itself on stage? As a performer myself, I personally would not agree to that. However... since pianos are often provided and not carried with the band from location to location (unless you are a very big act), so I guess it could have been a piano that was acquired locally and had digital player piano functions. But why plug it in to power? He does seem surprised by the whole fiasco. Typically though a standard piano is not capable of playing notes without someone striking the keys. Also, I guess it could be a “fake grand” a digital keyboard hidden inside a empty grand piano shell. That could explain what’s going on. It’s a fun mystery.😀
I know that piano mistakes can be a trying experience, remember as long as you have some of your score memorized after the problem can make it a better recovery.
@@lukasrudenas5398 3.14 is the mathematical constant of Pi I was merely pointing out that the timestamp just happened to be the value. I just thought it was a cool coincidence
I've got to give Axl credit, he didn't throw a tantrum like he would have in the old days but instead handled it like he should have which was to just laugh and go with it, the audience was only going to laugh with him.
@Jahliyah TeMoni erm not how it works at all. One or multiple strings get broken, you'll have to entirely restring and retune it, you can't "untangle" it as you say, also they aren't called chords, they're called strings.
@@Souls_p_ - Is it a children's piano? A piano can withstand a lot, and to literally mess it up by pressing down too hard, would be hard. I know Beethoven had it happen, but with his sometimes aggressive playing and banging chords as loud as possible, it's understandable. And that's talking about 1800's pianos. If Axl broke the piano by pressing down too hard, either the piano was very used or he doesn't know how to use it, and just smashed at it basically.
P Nizzle Also it’s not an “1800s” piano I’m speaking of, all pianos have to be restrung that way, including modern ones, you can’t change the core principle of a piano.
@@ludwiggalaxy4277 I mean... you should be able to, unless you’re a beginner student. I still have every piece I’ve played for a recital in my memory, maybe with 1 or 2 areas I’d have to think for a few seconds. You don’t forget a pop song you know after a year.... so of course you wouldn’t forget a piece you’re proficient in!
It’s the scariest feeling when you first come on stage. The mind plays games and for a while you have doubts about playing. But, after about 10 seconds the fear goes away.
Well , we all have to start somewhere - I recall my first time performing before an audience - a solo french horn number - could barely hold the instrument save for the trembling - but got through and , on the positive side , found my inner strength as a performer 😌
Something very similar to the second one happened to my little sister a few days ago, actually. She was playing "We Shall Overcome" on the school piano in front of the whole middle school (400 people). The night before, she had been crying and stressing about the upcoming performance, as she hadn't been practicing at all!! Just as you thought her situation couldn't get much worse, right before she played, her teacher said she had to sing the song, too. She didn't know all the lyrics. But, you know what? She did amazing! She sang the song with incorrect (but not really noticeably incorrect) lyrics and played simple high notes and low notes that sounded like the song she scrambled to practice the night before. It really sounded great. Of course, some of my idiotic, waste-of-space classmates were chuckling about her shaky voice (and some even were trying to imitate it), but people like them are in every school performance. They're just some thirteen-year-old trolls who would mindlessly joke about anything. It was her first performance, and I am extremely proud of her. Afterward, she claimed she felt relieved that the whole thing was over and that *she did it*. And that is extremely commendable. "A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step" - Lao Tzu.
I’m a professional pianist, and suffer from stage fright. It’s debilitating, but I think most of us get through it by saying “this too will pass” or “most people won’t notice a mistake.” But I think the biggest is “no matter what, people will eventually forget this ever happened and it’ll never bother me again.” The knowledge that my bad performance may be immortalized for life for comedy will haunt my dreams now 😭
@@nakkilama If he was really that good, he should have been able to play the song in other keys too. I think that's a pretty regular requirement if you're a professional music artist.
All winners I reckon! Dude having a jam in a tube station, real beginner playing in front of loads of people and doing well, great pianist didn't have the sheet music, axel as fucked up as the equipment but able to see the funny side....all good stuff!
As a bassist, I can say I’ve never felt this pain. However I have failed a few chords on bass in front of people so I do know the tension feelings and stuff lmao
Ugggh, playing solo recitals or having to play as a soloist is nerve racking. Playing within a band or with at least two or three other people really relieves you of a tremendous amount of pressure. You really need nerves of steel when performing solo. Playing solo at a cocktail party where everybody is milling about and not just sitting there in silence just looking at you isn't that bad either. But recitals....don't like them.
If you have stuff memorized, my damage control is to quickly start playing some other piece hopefully seamlessly enough that the confused audience doesn't know what's going on!!!!! (Can't do that in a concerto though!)
The lady playing the Mozart number 20 scared me the most. I had a dream once that I was to perform for a full concert hall, but I hadn’t prepared properly and was uncertain with a few pieces. I was terrified. I woke up before I started playing!
Any idea what went wrong with the piano? I'm sure it's not a real Grand Piano, but the body of one with a digital keyboard inside.... I'm wondering if some MIDI Strings or something were playing the wrong sound? Oh well that's technology!
I saw Chick Corea break a piano string in the middle of an extended piano solo. He didn't even blink. Just kept building the solo for another 5-6 minutes, occasionally incorporating the broken string (G above middle C) into his solo as percussion.
La niña del #3 me dio mucha pena... Aunque al menos debería haber aprendido unas cuantas cosas en esos breves momentos: Pensar bien las notas del principio, antes de empezar, para situarse en el compás, no pasar delante del público sin dar la cara y saludar de frente a él al terminar. Ésta actuación pudo producir dos cosas en ella, rechazo absoluto a volver a pisar un escenario o considerar esa primera intervención como un primer paso en lo que se ha dado en llamar "tener tablas". Espero que tomase partido por la segunda opción... En todo caso, bien por ella, supo salvar la pieza del desastre absoluto. :)
I fell down the stairs after my piece in a piano recital and landed at the feet of the teacher's best student...I was so embarrassed. That was worse than having brain blanks during my song.
I maybe laughd A LOT but i kinda feel bad for those ppl up there Edit1: I messed up too at my first concert no lie :P Edit2: The Second girl made me laugh so much i think she cant read the Notes correctly
@@jessereeks8520 That's not the point. The point was that wasn't a performance. That was a guy walking up to the piano and playing the Entertainer. Yes he fell apart at the end, but that wasn't a performance. That clip shouldn't have been in the video.
Yo I know exactly how it feels. I was playing the piano in a Church ceremony and I messed the song up and started over. This just brings back horrible memories.
I feel so bad for all these people coz I’ve performed guitar a fair bit and the nerves are so high and it’s not hard at all to stuff up no matter how hard you practiced
