First of all, the piano is considered a percussion instrument strangely enough. So hitting the keys is natural. This man is probably the second best piano player in the world. Tell me who you think is first. I've seen him twice.
Liberace. Check out the videos on RU-vid on him. Elton John, Barry Manilow, Billy Joel are all good. Liberace takes it to another level. I’d say as big as Beethoven, Bach, Chopin, Mozart are supposed to be hands down Liberace was probably the closest that we’ll have in our lifetime reaching that type of greatness. . Check him out. Check out several of his videos. Truly impressive.
@@adamb4610 yes, it’s not to be disrespectful to Elton John, Billy Joel, etc. They’ve made millions of dollars doing what they do and for good reason. But looking at what Liberace does (did) with the piano one can see there is definitely a separation of greatness in piano playing between him and all the ‘rest’. Liberace could take any theme-most were complicated that he did-and entertain with it. So, if Liberace chose to play Anthony’s Song, New York State of Mind I’m sure he would have taken those songs to another level.
@@carlmorell567 Because they scored their works. To really hear what they sounded like on piano though you have to tune your piano to different temperament instead of 12 tone equal temperament. In these older temperaments different keys have different qualities. Like in well temperament (there's also mean temperament(s)) C sharp sounds manic.
You have to remember he almost always sang and recorded his piano simultaneously on the final track released, so it's understandable that he made a bum note or two. I don't really understand why we dissect these Seventie's definitive songs with modern day technology. Perhaps only because we can. Listening to his piano part isolated during Anthony's Song has confirmed my belief the guy was a phenomenally skilled music maestro but I knew that anyway.
it's really just to make it easier for people to learn it on piano and play it as close to the record as possible. plus it's always interesting to hear the individual parts. also saying it's been dissected with modern day technology makes it sound like it's been filtered or something when nothing like that has happened here.
Notice his left hand for the main riff goes C (octave down) C instead of C E (E below the C)...whereas the bass an guitars are doing the latter. Yet in concert he's basically always played it the latter way as well.
