"Virtual Tom Brier" concert at 2023 Historic Sutter Creek Ragtime Festival 

I mention that at the end.

Your comment just pushed me to the edge of crying

Thank you for providing this tracklist!

Yeah, your awesome!

The picture is of Tom holding the Lifetime Achievement Award he received last year from the Scott Joplin International Ragtime Foundation.

That is one hell of a typo

@@jumpythehat woah. Fixed

@@jumpythehat Please, I need to know what it was.

@@Persun_McPersonsonWhy

Same here! It was Super Mario World Ending Theme, and I know the exact date it happened. It was Aug 22nd, 2019. Since then he has been part of my life. Cheers to Tom's fans all over the globe!

Same for me - without this, I would have ditched all my keyboards already :D

We have the late John Motto-Ros to thank for most of this. All but one of these performances were at concerts he commissioned, and he had the piano recording. The "Over the Top" performance from 2013 was thanks to the late Richard Reutlinger, as he had his piano recording for a set Tom played with the Raspberry Jam Band at his home during the 2013 AMICA convention.

He is alive but will never recover.

@@Keeper1st I'm so sorry 😞😞😞 it's good he has good friends.

​@@Keeper1stI have been wondering about this for years, thank you for sharing the information, I'm so sorry to hear it as well :(

I can't believe it 😢

His family failed to give him the treatment he needed for thier benifit.

Indeed and same :(

Right? I completely agree. My favorite part is at 22:14

And thank you keeper for all the updates through the years 💙💙💙

Oh yes he definitely enjoys doodling at the keyboard. I have not seen him in four years but by all accounts he still enjoys being at the keyboard.

@@Keeper1st Thanks for replying, that's really nice to know!

@@Keeper1sthow come you haven’t seen him for such a long period ? Has he worsened a lot ? Greets from Germany. I admire Tom Brier and actually working on razor blade. That’s a hell of a masterpiece…

@@DrPetem He is too far away for me to visit.

It was part of a show called The Collectors. I think the video was Best of The Collectors. Pretty sure it’s in my Favorites list…

They think in intervals and relative chords - not in absolute notes. So instead of thinking, “This is an E-flat 7 on the page but I have to play it as an F7,” they just see a V7 chord, so play the V7 chord for whatever key they happen to be playing in at that moment.

@@Keeper1st Oh interesting. So if I spend time getting familiar with intervals and chords then I would have an easier time switching keys in my head?

@@Keeper1st Or is the gift that Tom has a matter of genetics, you know, with his perfect pitch and stuff. As someone who doesn’t have perfect pitch, is it possible to get remotely as good as he was with being able to improvise and switch keys?

@@crosbym100 It is a learned skill. This is how other musicians could do things with Tom like in the video of Maple Leaf Rag in 12 keys, or just decide on a whim to play something familiar in a particular key. As I recall, the video I have of Jeff Barnhart and Andrew Barrett riffing on “Indiana” has a key change called out by Jeff, for example. Andrew can follow along because he knows the chord sequence of the tune in relative terms rather than absolute values.

@@Keeper1st Yeah I totally get it, it looks so cool! I just don’t really know where to start - I assume trying to play maple leaf rag with a different key signature is fruitless because of my lack of experience.

You could try watching the video.

Link on channel Community tab.

He did when he played. I am not sure if his family still has the Living Trust fund set up.

He is resting at home peacefully, very much alive.

@@Keeper1st oops my bad thanks for the clarification

@@Keeper1st same sentiment stands lol

lol

how about you mind your own business? we don't need your negativity

If recordings weren't made, we wouldn't have things like this in the first place.

Have you ever watched a Tom Brier video?

I have given whatever updates I hear about, on the updates channel of the Discord. There just isn’t much. His condition seems stable at this point so there’s no news to be reported.

@@Keeper1st I have been keeping an eye out over the years. The updates have been far between. I guess when I saw how spread out they were and how little we knew I made the assumption that we weren’t getting it all. I saw where he was in a nursing home, then moved to a facility getting 6 hours of therapy, and then eventually moved home with family. Then the woman had updated us telling us there were signs that he was still himself on the discord. Did he ever get his iPad? Do we know if he’s capable of using it? How is his speech, memory, and motor skills after the therapy? I guess if there hasn’t been significant improvement then I can accept that. I just hope that Tom is doing well. I hope that he’s still enjoying his company of friends and family as much as possible and enjoying sheet music or music in anyway that he is still able too. I have a lot of respect for Tom as a person and talented musician/composer and for you for being a good friend to him. I found you/Tom many many years ago when RU-vid was still young. I was in my early twenties. I’m a young man of 34 now and I find with each passing year I grow more empathetic for Tom and fall deeper in love with his art. In the glimpses of Tom that we get through the videos you post it’s clear that he is an odd man with a sense of humor and a smile that’s infectious. He seemed to have his ways about him but his playing is pure and good and his talent off the charts. I wish I could’ve had the honor of meeting him in his prime playing days. It’s so very sad what happened and unfair. People need to use their damned brains and stop speeding/put their phones down. It breaks my heart that we may never get to hear Tom stroke those keys again. Anyway I am rambling. I appreciate the updates you’ve given and the glimpse into Tom’s playing that you shared with us all. I’ll keep praying for Tom and his family. I hope all is well for him.

I couldn't write a better comment. I'm slightly relieved that I'm not the only one who was devastated by learning about the accident. I still keep commenting on RU-vid several years later, because I probably haven't come to terms with it yet.

@@jakedomoto6802 His family was shown things that can be done with the iPad and reportedly commented, “Well look at that!” in surprise. Unfortunately, they’re not terribly tech savvy. Given my experience having Tom try to use a computer mouse (he just mashed buttons repeatedly and laughed at whatever happened on screen), I do not think he has the mental capacity to use an iPad on his own. I talk about his memory in this video and also reported the same on the Discord late last year.

The input was by Tom himself. These were all live performances by Tom playing on recording pianos (in all but one instance, this same piano actually).

Same 😢 But we can still be happy that we were able to experience his masterful playing, thanks to (not only but greatly) the care of Keeper1st for documenting a lot of his performances.

Not everyone will ask that. Some will actually watch the video.

@@Keeper1st holy dang . 1. I hope the guy is around 2. Merry Chrissy from the land down under 3. What was the cafe that tom used to shred keys at?

Eight years ago I got the HD camera. I did just get a GoPro capable of 4K60, but it would not be suitable for recording music performances. It is for doing FUV videos.

Not beyond a little slow left-handed work.

I hope everything goes well with him. @@Keeper1st

Last video update was last year, in the Virtual Tom Brier Concert. He cannot use devices.

@@Keeper1st ill watch it than. Sorry to hear that. I often come back to some of his videos. He was great.

He, definitively, will never be able to play piano like he used to; he can only play some with his left hand.

Answers are heard in the video.

Watch the video.

No. I talk about him here and show the audience a picture of him with his recent award.

@@Keeper1st ahh, ok. You are a good friend to him. I hope he knows that, even if we never touches a piano again, we're all still cheering for him to get better. His Yoshi's Island athletic theme is my favorite version of it. The mistakes, hitting the wrong chord and then fixing it, are what make it really good. I also find it funny how the right hand fast notes would be what most people struggle with, but for Tom that's the easiest part.