Super Mario World Ending Theme sight-read by Tom Brier 

The last minute or so isn't even on the page; he made up a super-long epic ending on his own, as he often did.

My man didnt even need to look at the sheet he used his Piano Man abilities to create a whole new part out of it

Yoinker Man that’s right, that skill is called improvisation. Implementing your own “flare” in a piece of music. It can be from a different articulation all the way to an entire phrase that the musician believes fits with the piece. I know that the last minute sounds like then end of a fanfare-ish or maestoso kind of ending- my favorite kinds of style 😍😍.

@@Keeper1st man, props to you, still replying after 9 years....

tom is a legend.. and he will always be

African-American style piano music, composed by a Japanese musician, for use in a Japanese video game featuring an Italian plumber, and played by children in the USA and around the world. 😳

It’s also the quality of the piano, since it’s really old it sounds like you’re in some sort of saloon and I’m guessing he either improvised the rhythm/the music was made to fit his style. If it was played on a classical piano with the original theme, it wouldn’t sound like that

It's the syncopation. It makes every tune an earworm and ragtimey.

@@bolson42 you are definintely on to something. most up right pianos are slightly out of tune to give that "salooney" feel. It doesnt have to be a semi tone off for it to sound ....different. just a little bit gives that feel

@@williambarnes5023 This is definitely the answer. That staccato, the way most of the notes are sort of stabbed and rarely are let to ring. But it's also the melody. The Underground Theme doesn't sound ragtimey at all, even though it's also staccato.

Id put it right at the zenith, just above the japanese orchestra performing a Megaman 2&3 suite

He shredded the fuck out that piece, mr kondo is happy af

And sight read, too! He's something else man

I’ll always click on this video when it’s recommended.

The only one that's come close for me has been bismuth's cover, which i get the feeling was influenced and inspired by this performance

too bad he cant do that anymore.. :(

ten years ago nobody ever heard kf recording actually

There’s a reason it’s called RU-vid I guess. It’s all about showing the world the uniqueness of anyone from anywhere. You can be any age, gender, race, height, you can have any beliefs and thoughts and you can share them with the world. That’s why I love RU-vid. It like someone on a big stage handing someone in the audience a microphone. It’s a big stage that anyone can go up onto and perform! So make something! Express the uniqueness of yourself as an individual, or express yourself in the perspective of a wider group. RU-vid offers something truly great, and this is a fantastic example :]

THIS ❤

@@meestersecure9060 what are you talking about 😭

Turminal LMAOOOOOOOO

Hilarious

this is a beautiful comment

Lol

Waiting for someone to not know what :|| means

Thank you, excellent correction.

Now this is a much more accurate description!

i would also like to add "and you even have a shit load of fun answering the test questions" ^-^

this is the equivalent to landing a jumbo jet on a rollercoaster track while juggling chainsaws

Can we get this over 5k likes please.

What happened to him?

@@Sloimer I just looked it up. He was injured in a rear-end collision and lost his ability to speak, write, and walk due to brain damage. Absolutely heartbreaking for such an immense talent to be taken

@@SlotMachineBassist that’s really sad. Thanks for filling me in. Yes very sad for such a talent to be taken.

@@Sloimer He got in a car accident and received major brain damage

me heart is break 😔

All we can do is hope for a miracle or a new medical advancement, which I do, both for his health and for how incredible of a success story this would be.

@@matthewb5364 Personally I think it's fine the way things turned out. That's just how life works. He's already demonstrated his mastery over the piano, there is no need to go back to the past.

​@@Slukke Your comment is... Asinine. Yes, that's the word. Absolutely asinine...

@@Slukke Dude is paralyzed from the neck down, but its cool. He was really good at piano, no need go back to a time when he could walk.

@@Slukke Imagine a loved one of yours' gets paralyzed and someone says it's fine like that...

you seem pretty fluent

where are u from??

@@__-cd9ug Congratulations, you got the joke!

Unfortunately same 🤦🏾‍♂️

@@hellohowareyou9745 thanks! 😀

Absolutely. Tom never played anything as written -- even things he'd played hundreds of times. In some of these sight-reading videos, he's reading a single page of simplified music and he goes on for 10 minutes in all sorts of variations.

"certain liberties were taken" he says at the end...

Chris Bennett no shit einsten

I found that most impressive of all.

Go see what he does with Cool Cool Mountain from Mario 64. Prayers for you Tom.

really shows how piano is a percussion instrument. great pianists i’ve played with have polyrhythmic intuition i’ve only ever seen before in drummers. this piece does a decent job prepping your hands for the phrases before syncopating them but it’s still an incredible feat to sight read it with that level of proficiency!

And I think that was completely improvised too, that's not in the original piece, he just added that in on the spot!

He does it again at 2:55 ... If I'm sightreading and I see that, my hand will just break...

Except at 1:30h he's playing chords and the tempo is somewhat slow... Funny enough it's much easier to pull that off than some of the other feats he accomplishes in this video...

Just a 2:3 hemiola. The hard part is that it was most likely an improvisation on a song he'd never played.

Well said!

He was paralyzed in an accident years ago and will never play like this again.

@Abel el Mexikano *certain

you can't take those liberties, come on, man..

Messed up your 300 licks

Hes not taking many more liberties now. I hope he doesnt spend the rest of his life in the nursing home.

Like the dude saying ayahayay in the middle of the song wasent in script for example

+Josh Riley Seriously world class.

***** I don't think he's a savant if it's not like, the ONLY thing he's not only not retarded at, but completely masterful at.

+Adam Dresch He is not a "savant" or anything like that. He is ""just"" a very talented pianist that has been playing the instrument and practicing since about 1976, according to his friend.

+Adam Dresch Yeah, there are only a handful of other pianists I know who can come close to Tom's sight-reading ability.

+Josh Riley It's his neckbeard, that thing almost goes all the way down to his chest.

Man you win the comments section.

Titanism

Actually Ragtime developed long after the time of "Wild West". :-D

This is ragtime, so it's more likely a razor fight than a gun fight.

With one of the best rag time pianist in the world

@Anime Rapist idk, if the pianist could play like this i wouldnt care

666 likes... are you satan?

i get it the end of the world song XD

Wtf

2020

This is genius, lol!

Nice bro

god really is a sick fuck

Me too. I love the other videos he’s in and usually I hate nostalgia BS, but the pull to my childhood on this song is too damn strong.

Hope he gets better as soon as possible to watch such great performances again.

Same lol

Yes.

Octo Pi bro ive litterally been getting videos like this all day its amazing

What happened to him?

@@victoria87cub he got rear-ended in his car and is paralyzed. Not looking good in terms of him playing piano ever again.

@@SheenylHassan Oh my god that is horrible. :(

ugggghhhh why is it just only the amazing people that get something bad happen to them😡😡😡

Wow. I just saw this for the first time, and it's incredible. So glad he lives to fight another day. Medicine is making incredible strides. It might not be all that long before something happens that will improve whatever ails him, as well.

He never read these

He can’t. Tom got into a car accident in the summer or 2016. Ever since then he’s been paralyzed in the arms and upper body. He uses a keyboard to speak & seems to be stuck in his head. I got an answer from his close friend - who I believe uploads these - and as of Sept. 2022 he’s gonna be like this forever :( Very sad

@@nolanwolfe well I hope the message is passed on, one way or another, that his music has filled so many people's lives with joy, including mine.

​@@salsaordieYes! Fortunately he understands that he is appreciated all over the globe. 😊

Yeah music is amazing

Acing a calc 3 test without having done basic algebra essentially

Michael petty not really because he’s obviously very good at piano, so more just like acing an exam without studying

Aweik no it's more like spending a lot of time studying different subjects so you are able to get a decent score of any subject. Don't diminish the amount of practice required to get this proficient.

Nah its like taking a level 1 course after you’ve graduated from Princeton

It's curing cancer on your 3rd grade science lab on the stages of water.

If they made a book of yt greatest comments you'd be in the first pages

@@tibi2674 much appreciated my friend.

@@tibi2674 if the first comment isn't "First" then I want a refund

@@kanaka118446 quest to find the first "first" comment

best comment ever

Do a search for "Tom Brier Improvisation" or "Tom Brier Makin' It Up" to see some examples of him just making stuff up off the top of his head.

4:32

“Certain liberties were taken.” 😂

Ragtime Mozart!

Yo I follow you and came back here today too 😂

It sure is a fantastic video

Holy shit lmao I love the 8 Bit Big Band

Haha didn't expect to see you here right after your comment. You guys made an awesome cover of this too!

Yep

lol

+jekblom123 no one cares

this video is about tom not your dad

I've just watched this video and you have used the exact words to describe how I ended up!! Such a Maestro!!

Really like this description.

Heh, there's a word in Portuguese for this. Saudade

This song feels like "its over, we made it"

It is an ending theme after all~

@@inafridge8573 Whoever wrote this described what a bitter-sweet ending feels like without using any words. That's pretty cool.

lol

I just noticed, can't unsee now.

the greatest neckbeard of all time

It’s the secret to his talent

was lookin for this lol

Fr it surprises me when they say "what u can't play this or that" Some of us are still learning😢

I thought he died like a year and a half ago

@@AyyyGabagool there is a video on this channel with Tom from 1 week ago

What happened to him?

Car accident, partially paralyzed and can’t use his hands that well or speak

Will he ever play piano again?

same

Some other particularly long endings: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Qg5-RpqenfQ.html -- ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jQ6BJyBzn2s.html and ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-G5siaQzyMqQ.html among others.

@@Keeper1st thank you so much

10 years later still replying to comments Holy shit

@@tomw3863 insane

?

It’s a neck brace

Earth pulls down but you also need to factor in the moon, which pulls the beard out of shape.

@@Simon0 yeah I think that Newton explains his beard in his laws

The hair from his head moved down to his neck to hear the music better

Indeed, Tom has/had tremendous humility. He found his popularity a bit strange, it seemed!

Mom and Sam no, he got in a car accident, and is partially paralyzed and can’t use his hands well or speak

@@Keeper1st basically every musician when they learn prodigies exist.

@@Keeper1st i want that teacher

Y’all know how old this video is right

He still does! It’s the motor functions he has lost.

Student Eder Diaz, pretty sure he meant Thom

Student Eder Diaz xD (Edder)

What was the piece?

@@Mosil0 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JFEftsKAUvY.html

Crazy story! I once asked a church organist to help me with the analysis of some opera. I showed him the full score of the opera and he just casually proceeded to sight read a reduction of the whole orchestra on the piano while singing the main part! I am still blown away whenever I think of that.

The title explains that

Oh.. no shit.. I thought I was watching a video on crotchet.

This kills the piano student.

And me, sitting in front of my piano, can't even play the 1st page correctly with lots of training. But dude Tom added his own little tweaks to the theme and HE DOESN'T EVEN KNOW HOW IT ORIGINALLY GOES this guy is amazing.

He's practiced for years - just not this song specifically. Many folks could probably read a book first time through without practicing, and read it aloud pretty fluently - same concept, different context. Not taking away from his ability at all, but we're watching the result of hard work and dedication to playing, rather than something superhuman

Well, technically they are letters-

@@outcastkrew8787 well yes but you see notes not the actual letters themselves

@@outcastkrew8787 keep commenting like a redditor everywhere you go, huh? 🤢

It's not just amazing, it's decades of dedication. Sadly Tom (The guy in the video) got hit by a reckless driver in 2016 which left him without the use of his legs and right arm. It's really sad something that awful has to happen to such an amazing musician.

@@SplinterAce ugh dan ridditors 🙄🙄🙄🙄

You could tell how much fun Tom was having by how long of an ending he'd make up!

@@Keeper1st yo what? you are still replying to comments? you are awesome!

​@@VinnySmithMusicHe is even replying to a comment from 1 month ago from now on. insane

seems to look like bad things always happen to good pple, kinda sad

What happened to him?

Or you can look at it as glass half full, he's incredibly talented and loved by many. The nature of life change based on who you are.

@@Hanesboi a car accident in 2016 I believe (was looking at some other comments here and that's what they say, but you do your own research)

A car accident left him paraplegic. No spinal damage, but cerebral, so he may be able to recover.

@ryan mccoy That’s a great observation.

@@lebojay That's a great observation

@@EthansPiano339 That's a great observation

@Axolotl Is Cool That's a great observation.

@Pestilence That’s a great observation.

When you put it like that, it really does seem impossible

And not only that but he's taking the piece he's site reading and improvising bits of it.

@@Boogie-og7sf it’s more than bits even he’s improvising on most of his chord progressions in the left hand

It took me 1 month to learn a normal song ahh

You can't master Piano. It's humanly impossible. Same thing with guitar.

He was a ragtime specialist, so had the muscle memory to hit the bass notes and chords without looking.

@@Keeper1st It’s been a few years since learned about Tom Brier and this channel, really cool to see you still replying to comments here! The left hand has always been the most difficult part for me, this talent is INCREDIBLE

I can't hit those bass notes like that either.

@@Keeper1st ahhh ragtime specialist. Makes sense!

@God Just being realistic. I think most people who haven't seen someone with such an injury don't quite understand how devastating and permanent brain damage can be.

A crazy amount of practice and study. I'm told that sitting down and reading music in your head helps with sight reading also; either way, this man is truly talented.

i tell you what i did lately. after practing basic technique and playing a few pieces, i started flcussing on looking at the notes and imagining the keyboard, moving fingers as needed without looking. like seeing notes while you play. that helped me a lot. learned a new simple piece in one day, mostly looking at the sheets. im really reading sheets since 3-4 months and you get better all the time. i bascially surprised myself a lot. it become second nature like any other language. theres only so many things that can appear. chords, scales, triplets, third, fifths, octaves, staccato, legato, louder, quieter, thats basically it. hardest thing for me right now is remembering the "modifiers" for each key and switching between bass and major note space. start small, play things you love to play, and it will come to you. dont force it, dont think too much. i just now started playing back the score for bachs adagio in my head, which i was practicing this week. seeing the scire in my mind. never had that before. go for it! he made it, im getting better, anyone thats loves the piano can and needs to do it!!!

look man the most complicated thing ive played (entirely) so far is Wet Hands from Minecraft we all know the struggle

@@Deimos620 thats not an easy piece, make no mistake! the arpeggio in the left hand involves finger crossings and the right hand is moving quite a bit. so if you get that right with proper tehcnique, youve actually come pretty far. my guess is: you play it dirty ;) dont do that, get a teacher, she will show you how it is done right. expect a few months of training to play this proper!

@@oooodaxteroooo dw ive got a teacher lol. She cringed a bit at the fingerings I was using at first when I figured it out on my own but it worked out in the end. It's nothing Chopin would approve of but its not terrible

It really fun to follow along in the sheet music and realize he just goes off the chain in parts

Underated comment holy shit

Succulent Ravioli, grammar saves lives. Let’s eat Grandpa! Let’s eat, Grandpa!

I can now only read the title as Super mario: world ending theme

Nathan•yah’al BanYah it does, the kids could of gotten food poisoning!!!!

Tyler Shaver - Why, because it was... old?

More than half of the notes on the paper were not on the paper? Sure buddy!

@@FaxanaduJohn watch as he plays. He plays once though the entire song and then the next time he plays through the song it is almost entirely improvised. This is how a majority of jazz pianists play actually. Except that they use a lead sheet instead which is much simpler to read and leaves it open to more improvisation. Tom in this video changes the style in which he plays a number of times. After the first time he plays it he is more comfortable with playing it his own way the next time. Even his family have confirmed that he plays mostly by ear. I think it would be a disservice to Tom to say that he can just simply read sheet music really well when he has so many piano skills in improvisation, style, and the intonation of every note he plays. As a jazz pianist, I can ensure you most of what he is playing is improvised and I 100% doubt you could find an exact carbon copy of what he is playing in this video.

@@jakergaming7703 I was being a dick- I understood what you meant although your wording was a little mixed up. I agree with you- this dude is incredible!

@@jakergaming7703 at 1:17 he completed the first reading and starts improvising

@@FaxanaduJohn LMFAO

I think its also a little fun :P

Wholesome moment.

Laughter is the language of the soul

@I love 5G and the aliens that are coming back. as humans ourselves, we can see that

Does he have Christ within or aka is he Christian?

Pieces are usually read through before playing when sight read

Idk if you know but he unfortunately had an accident that reduced his ability to play piano to almost zero

@@WindowsDrawer what happened

@@S-fn3oe he was in a car accident and got paralyzed i think

shit

Yea, I'm commenting on a 5 y o comment, I know, BUT I play the piano too and can't even play the first few "lines" without mistakes and I started to play/train that sheet days ago or so idk exactly.

NetroAlex Not alone...

@@sportschampion5418 Yes, not alone...

Certainly not alone 😂

I've played piano for more than 10 years, but I still cannot sight read as good as him lolll He's just genius

XD lmao

The comment should have 16k likes

Always. It would be nearly impossible to sight-read if one read and tried to play every single note. He read just enough to get the melody and chords and then improvised from there.

HES STILL REPLYING

@@trickstar4576 God-tier content creator here

@@Keeper1st I obviously am not the first one to say this, but holy moly this is incredible. How is nobody reacting to him? Is it cuz they are being nice for the audio recording? If I were there I'd be freaking out and dancing all over the place.

@@ErrrorBS I thin that’s part of it, and also maybe that he’s so good that this isn’t even impressive for him.

Wait, what's he in need of recovering from?

www.reddit.com/r/piano/comments/5qlpz2/a_tentative_january_update_on_tom_brier/

car crash?

fucking fuck, i want more tom!

Man, I read this comment and then read the story from reddit. Made me so sad, Tom's playing is really fantastic, top notch playing. Any update on his recovery?

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Dick head

we're only saying: the guy would be much more popular if he left the "neck" part out of his beard, thats all. just a few inches. and maybe a hat.

lmaooo

Ever heard of the Dooo?

@@agent3495 yea but thats relative pitch, this guy reads multiple notes on both hands and can do relative pitch

John Ogden. Hold my beer :)

unfortunately Ogden isn’t alive and Tom is paralyzed 😢

+Adan Thio I know!! I felt like clapping and dancing! what an awesome performance.

adan im joining ya

This swings so much I brought out my drums and played along

My something else stood up too.

i dont care if i am getting a standing ovation. You, sir, are alone in my room.

1 minutes?

Keep going! All things come with time and practice ^o^

@@hi_speed_chase nah quit, this time is hard to buy

Constantine Vorobyov nah shut up, no one cares

@@forsaken696 ahh a rookie clarinet, what chords did you see today?

This comment is severely underrated! 😂

Disagree

When you're that good at anything you can look however the fuck you want lol

@@wea69420 indeed my guy

@@wea69420 In f##kin deed stay safe!

Oh no is he ok?

Sophia McGarlin He got into a car accident, and became partially paralysed, including losing some motor function in his hands, and can barely speak. He seems to be making some slow progress, but it looks like it’s going to be some time before he can make a full recovery (if he can at all, that is). His friend, who I think owns the channel, made an update video a few months ago.

@@Connor-sj7uv damn... Thanks for the detailed reply. Hope he'll recover fully

Yeah, as do I. Unfortunately, I only found this channel after his accident, but the guy seemed like an amazing pianist. Certainly one of the best at sight reading that I’ve ever seen. Would be great to see him recover fully.

You don’t say!

He's alright

*Eh*

Yeah I mean he's okay...

Tom is piano

Lol

You should be scared of the whole decade. Just sayin

The curse of 2020

**You can now play as Luigi.*

I lmao

Gotta be closer to the action

Just wait until you see his fingers if he recovers

I bet it's true!

Fort2312 HYPE ZONE I think tom would smile if he see this

DING DING DING YOU GOT IT

...Bro

Your lie in April type beat