[1:42] Simply looking at the way he adjusted his glasses makes me think there were two things that could have happened. 1, he improvised that part on the spot so he had to play with only 1 hand, or 2, he already had that part mapped out in his head, and was waiting to get there so he could adjust his glasses.
He didn't reproduced perfectly what he heard (there's tons of differences), but he still aproach the whole very well, and he has this incredible capability of keeping a coherence in improvisation to make it organic. This is perfection in itself. He also has a great sense of rhythms, and can make them to variate while keeping a great originality. This is mind-blowing.
Yes, this was a lovely rendition of Tom Brier's music and I too think that both Derek and Tom Brier mastered the language. I hope we get to see them perform together one day...
Most of us have had to learn music as a foreign language, and some people like Derek speaks it as their native language. That's how I feel. Us mere mortals have to sort of translate everything we hear and we want to do, and for Derek it just comes out, no translation needed
Aw man, I discovered Tom Brier's videos just a year or so ago, and was deeply saddened to learn of his accident, which he's still recovering from. This is a fantastic tribute to him.
@@derekparaviciniAnd as a pianist on the spectrum myself I 'think' I hear, once or twice, what made him smile. He dropped in some cheeky, slightly leftfield motifs with non-rag genre techniques. I'd hope he's been listening to some fusion genres like Neo Soul. Has he heard the techniques of Robert Glasper?
I was autodidact and a musician and pianist too by 5, very much lacking in certain other social skills, and even I know you can only speak for yourself and not say "we". are witnessing something you consider great right now. And it IS great. Less of this melodramatic "we" stuff.
I totally understand Matt's reaction. Sometimes when someone is that good at something all you can do is just laugh in disbelief 😆 Well done! Awesome as always Derek! 🎶
@@derekparavicini Tom was that way as well. My wife asked me once "What's so funny?" when I was watching Tom improvising (as one often hears me doing in videos!).
@@Keeper1st Aah it's really nice that you've seen Derek's little tribute to Tom. He definitely got a kick out of doing this. Thanks for all you've done to document and preserve Tom's playing, and everything else on your channel and please give him all of our and Derek's very best!
@@derekparavicini I did mention this video in a letter I wrote to Tom for his recent birthday. I also suggested for Anthony Sarginson to show this to Tom at his birthday party, as I knew Anthony would be able to attend. I haven't heard if he did though!
Was the "Blue Lampshade" excerpt at 1:19 a genuine improv on the spot or maybe Derek is an undercover fan of Tom already?!?! 😁 This is ABSOLUTELY brilliant, Derek! Well done! You should definately do more Tom Brier! He is a genius such as you! By the way, he has more than 250 original compositions. Peril in Pantomime and Blue Lampshade, which I just mentioned, are just two of his fabulous compositions! Maybe you can create your own version of Tom's classic Redneck Rag?
Great spot. Blue Lampshade is my favourite Tom Brier composition. What's interesting about the name is that it's a mondegreen of "Boodle-Am-Shake", which is the title of a Creole song.
@@Calship66Oh wow! Even greater 'spot'! But is that confirmed as a mondegreen or are you just suggesting it may be? I'll also have to compare the two now to see if there's also a musical correlation! 🤪
This is nothing I can do this in my sleep. Just, when I wake up it won't sound anything like I played in my dream. 🤣 Honestly, Derek has a super normal ability.
On top of his flawless performance with crystal clarity...He played that after hearing rather distorted audio. How he is able to hear and identify such fast notes on top of each other that sound like mush [too fast for me to hear] in the speaker, is beyond comprehension. It's as if his mind is moving so quickly that he perceives music in slow motion, like approaching the speed of light.
Matthew, once you stop looking at him and look at yourself you will perhaps realise something about yourself. The fact you think you can describe what it
Also Matthew, there is no "distorted audio"; it wouldn't matter if there was; why do you think Derek would even have a system that distorts; and most importantly why do you 'think' it was? It seems you are subconsciously 'projecting' this supposed problem when it doesn't even exist. Kind of proving what I pointed out about the mind and how it's possible that we may set ourselves up for failure by allowing baseless, negative thoughts in the way of our true, creative nature.
@@thekeysman6760 Thanks for your words, although my words were misinterpreted but happy to inspire. I aim for affability, so this is a great revelation on misinterpretation. The recording he listened to was distorted yet he drew such clarity from it. As our minds speed up, everything else slows down relatively. It's why we sometimes gain superhuman strength in life threatening situations, where everything seems to "slow down." Perfect pitch is truly a rare gift. I get where you're coming from though, as we often perceive humanity much worse than it actually is, as Danger requires attention. How we treat others is how we treat ourselves, but the myth of happiness as profit must be overcome before the masses stop hurting themselves. A NDE altered my ability to maintain chord memorization, so I'm always relearning, and it's also a gift, as I'm always relearning. That NDE revealed the pure love and bliss that awaits us all. I find myself cherishing the miracle that surrounds us and gone are the existential anxieties that came before. With those anxieties healed, optimism flourishes.
Hi, this is amazing! Would derek be able to check out another one of tom’s compositions or sight reads? Would love to hear legend of Zelda: ending theme or just peachy!
Derek appears to have an auditory “ photographic memory “ , it would be fascinating if some research could be done on what is going on in his brain whilst he is listening, then playing a piece he has just heard . It can be done now I think using some special equipment? Derek is just phenomenal!!
I suspect Derek is able to experience an internalized proprioception of his fingers playing the music as he hears it. It's like a transcriber seeing the words on the page as they listen to a person talk and then they copy what they see.
@@MonologueMusicalsAh, but no. The analogy of seeing words on a page that aren't there when you are listening to someone to dictate is not the same at all.
Derek hears it for the first time, I hear it for the first time, Derek then plays it and I'm thinking, how do I even know this is correct seeing that I've already forgotten it. Haha!
@@thekeysman6760 the word literally means to emphasize what you are saying is true even though it seems exaggerated or surprising. To say that piano music regularly makes me cry would seem unlikely, but this video of him playing did in this instance. I agree many people use it incorrectly, but my use of it was spot on.
i knew derek befor this video.. i saw a dokumentary about him quite a long time ago.. i still cant even grasp what information he gets from tones to be able to do stuff like this.. exeptionally mindblowing.. keep up the good work :D
Easy! The "information" he gets from "tones" is your neuro-typical mind getting in the way! 😂 He 'hears' and knows. Just as you hear someone talking in your language and apparently don't have to 'think' about what it means. It's exactly the same, and I was autodidact at 5 with music theory and instruments, eventually landing on keyboard based instruments. So I know what we have and what we also may lack compared to neuro-typical people. The thoughts of the mind are always the problem in life!
@@thekeysman6760the more I scroll the more cringe your comments get, every time I see there’s a reply on a comment I prepare myself to witness unprecedented amounts of Reddit mod cringe
If you want millions of views, do a video where you hear gaming/meme music for the first time and play it on the spot. Not Chronotrigger, it's not popular enough. We're talking Mario classic theme, Yoshi's Island main theme, Guille Theme from Street Fighter, Megalovania from Undertale, For the Damaged Coda from Rick and Morty. I'd be happy to give more suggestions or even do a collab. You're so talented and you could easily have millions of subs on youtube. Good luck!
@@Radishboy Did I say it wasn't? I'm suggesting you single-handedly did nothing that you said you would, is all. And no, if you're not a musician already, and/or on a certain spectrum of neuro-diversity, then you or anyone never understands what is going on for Derek.
@@thekeysman6760haha you worded that comment wrong in response, and you also assumed he meant you didn’t want people to understand the brilliance behind those eyes, which he didn’t even mean, really you make a lot of mistakes yourself let me laugh with laughing emojis 🫵😂🫵😂🫵😂🫵😂🫵😂🫵😂🫵😂 let me predict your response: “when did I say I didn’t understand he didn’t mean that I meant I couldn’t recognize the brilliance behind his eyes, also I’m a big piano man at 5, and um I’m really smart, and um you can’t understand my brain, and um yeah *tips fedora* “
It was close, but it there were specific phrases of dissonance and patterns of notes that were totally left out. It was more like he already knew the original song and played that rather than the interpretation of the player in the recording.
It's because Derek hears music less in terms of individual notes and more in terms of patterns and underlying structure. He'll hear something, grasp the structure, and then build outwards from there. The exact precise order of notes in the original recording is sometimes incidental to him. As you can hear in this one, he creates a B section himself that makes musical sense in context. If we were to specifically ask him to copy it exactly (rather than improvise on it), he would be able to though.
