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What gaming can teach us about classical piano (Lang Lang, Mozart, Minecraft, FF7 & BOTW)
We explore the musical, cultural and poetic relationships between classical piano and video games.
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⭐ Featuring ⭐
Kristen L. Abbey, PhD: www.youtube.com/@AbbeyNeverOverthinking
Dr. Gabrielle Chou: www.gabriellechou.com/
George Xiaoyuan Fu: www.georgefupiano.com/
Written, Edited and Hosted by Robert Fleitz rfleitz
Additional cinematography: Matias Tamlander
Additional research and script assistance: Dennis Fleitz, Zachary Detrick, Jakob Schmidt, Han Shi, Anthony Lioi and Amanda Wagner
Dedicated to my uncle Rick, who first introduced me to video games and whose support helped my piano journey as well.
⏰Chapters
00:00 Video Games VS Classical Music?
02:36 High Speed Lang Lang
04:45 Eternal Sonata and Chopin's Neo-Romanticism
06:48 Resident Evil and Piano Puzzles
08:08 Final Fantasy 7 and the Trap of Oversimplification
10:50 The Minecraft Generation
13:15 Mozart, Breath of the Wild, and Musical Topic Theory
16:38 Building Relationships through Music and Games
17:42 The Magic Circle... and the Grind
ESSENTIAL SOURCES
🎹 Tonebase Lessons
Sara Davis Buechner “Mozart’s Sonata K.332”
Seymour Bernstein “Fur Elise”
John O’Conor “Beethoven’s Pathetique Sonata”
Derek Remeš “Windows on a Mozart Sonata: Topic Theory”
🎮 Video Games
Tennis for Two (1958)
Beethoven Lives Upstairs (1995)
Super Mario 64 (1996)
Resident Evil (1996)
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998)
Eternal Sonata (2007)
Deemo (2010)
Gran Turismo 5 (2010)
Super Meat Boy (2010)
Minecraft (2011)
Max Payne 3 (2012)
Super Smash Bros Ultimate (2014)
Assasin’s Creed Syndicate (2015)
Undertale (2015)
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (2017)
Wandersong (2018)
Celeste (2018)
Before Your Eyes (2021)
Resident Evil 8 (2021)
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (2024)
📽️ Media
Ludwig Goransson’s Oscar Speech
The Cat Concerto (1945)
La Note Bleue (1991)
Tar (2022)
📚 Books and Articles
Brian Ashcraft “Chopin’s Role in Eternal Sonata Explained”
Ian Bogost “How to Talk about Video Games”
Melanie Fritsch "Worlds of Music: Strategies for Creating Music-based Experiences in Videogames"
JJ McCullough ua-cam.com/video/iKSYA29_mgs/v-deo.html
Zen Hsu, “The Min/Max Pianist: Introducing Video Game Music to the Piano Repertoire”
Francis McCabe “Music to My Ears: Playing Video Games Might be Good for You”
Roger Moseley “Keys to Play”
Willa Rowe “People Can’t Stop Playing Piano In The *FF7 Rebirth* Demo”
Jim Samson "Chopin, Pianos and East Asian Modernity”
Nahre Sol ua-cam.com/video/Dxcx-weAePI/v-deo.html
Thomas B. Yee, “Narrating Near-Death Experience Chopin’s “Revolutionary Étude” as an interpretive key in Eternal Sonata”
About
This video is about how to become a better pianist by learning from video games. We discuss the connections between classical piano and video games -- their history, philosophy, culture, and of course, music. Lang Lang's appearance in Gran Turismo 5, the game Eternal Sonata and its inclusion of Stanislav Bunin, Minecraft and its impact on piano pedagogy, the use of piano in Resident Evil and FFVII Minigame, Breath of the Wild, and more. We also get into Mozart music and topic theory.
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How to master Mozart's most FAMOUS joke (featuring Orli Shaham)
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A piano lesson on one of Mozart's most famous pieces the Turkish March. 🎹 Try Tonebase Premium: www.tonebase.co/piano? Watch this NEXT! ua-cam.com/video/wgTnvNsgQIg/v-deo.html Facebook - tonebasepiano/ Instagram - tonebasepiano Questions? Leave us a comment below or contact us: team@tonebase.co Tonebase Artist Orli Shaham teaches a lesson on one of Mozart's most famo...
Instantly improve your thumb technique with these tips (Boris Berman, Seymour Bernstein, et al)
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Struggling with tricky passages? There's one finger that might be holding you back. 🎹 Try Tonebase Premium: www.tonebase.co/piano? Watch this NEXT ua-cam.com/video/wgTnvNsgQIg/v-deo.html The thumb can cause quite a lot of trouble for pianists as it is anatomically different from the other four fingers. This tutorial presents four exercises from Tonebase courses that help to improve the dexterit...
I listened to 51 recordings of three notes by Beethoven. Here's what I found out. (Sonata Op. 110)
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I listened to 51 recordings of three notes by Beethoven. Here's what I found out. (Sonata Op. 110)
Struggling with octaves? Here’s what to do about it. (Biegel, Korepanova, Durso, et. al.)
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Struggling with octaves? Here’s what to do about it. (Biegel, Korepanova, Durso, et. al.)
One-Woman Orchestra Plays George Gershwin's Masterpiece (feat. Claire Huangci)
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One-Woman Orchestra Plays George Gershwin's Masterpiece (feat. Claire Huangci)
How Rotation Immediately Changes Your Playing (featuring Bernstein, Durso, Roskell and Golandsky)
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How Rotation Immediately Changes Your Playing (featuring Bernstein, Durso, Roskell and Golandsky)
How Chopin's Legacy Revolutionized Piano Playing (ft. Emanuel Ax, Seymour Bernstein and more!)
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How Chopin's Legacy Revolutionized Piano Playing (ft. Emanuel Ax, Seymour Bernstein and more!)
Rachmaninoff and Gershwin's Musical Love Child [9/10 ORGANIC UNITY]
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Rachmaninoff and Gershwin's Musical Love Child [9/10 ORGANIC UNITY]
Rachmaninoff and Gershwin's Musical Love Child [8/10 CRITICS]
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Rachmaninoff and Gershwin's Musical Love Child [8/10 CRITICS]
Rachmaninoff and Gershwin's Musical Love Child [7/10 CADENZAS & QUOTATIONS)
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Rachmaninoff and Gershwin's Musical Love Child [7/10 CADENZAS & QUOTATIONS)
Rachmaninoff and Gershwin's Musical Love Child [5/10 MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS]
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Rachmaninoff and Gershwin's Musical Love Child [5/10 MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS]
Rachmaninoff and Gershwin's Musical Love Child [4/10 ORIGIN STORY]
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Rachmaninoff and Gershwin's Musical Love Child [4/10 ORIGIN STORY]
Rachmaninoff and Gershwin's Musical Love Child [3/10 GERSHMANINOFF]
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Rachmaninoff and Gershwin's Musical Love Child [3/10 GERSHMANINOFF]
Rachmaninoff and Gershwin's Musical Love Child [2/10 AMERICANA]
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Rachmaninoff and Gershwin's Musical Love Child [2/10 AMERICANA]
Rachmaninoff and Gershwin's Musical Love Child [1/10 PIANO CONCERTOS]
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Rachmaninoff and Gershwin's Musical Love Child [1/10 PIANO CONCERTOS]
Rachmaninoff and Gershwin's Musical Love Child [INTRO]
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Rachmaninoff and Gershwin's Musical Love Child [INTRO]
Rachmaninoff and Gershwin's Musical Love Child [10/10 INTERPRETATION]
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Rachmaninoff and Gershwin's Musical Love Child [10/10 INTERPRETATION]
Rachmaninoff's 4th Concerto is Criminally Underrated (ft. Lugansky, Giltburg, Ohlsson)
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Rachmaninoff's 4th Concerto is Criminally Underrated (ft. Lugansky, Giltburg, Ohlsson)
There's A File Cabinet Inside This Pianist's Head (ft. Leif Ove Andsnes)
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There's A File Cabinet Inside This Pianist's Head (ft. Leif Ove Andsnes)
Super-Virtuoso Breaks Down 9 Impossible Piano Pieces (ft. Marc-André Hamelin)
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Super-Virtuoso Breaks Down 9 Impossible Piano Pieces (ft. Marc-André Hamelin)
I Snuck Into Juilliard To Interrogate Pianists In Their Practice Rooms
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I Snuck Into Juilliard To Interrogate Pianists In Their Practice Rooms
I Asked a Soprano to Sing Mozart Piano Melodies (ft. Chelsea Guo)
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I Asked a Soprano to Sing Mozart Piano Melodies (ft. Chelsea Guo)
The 12 Easiest Bars In Rachmaninoff Are A Pianist's Nightmare
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The 12 Easiest Bars In Rachmaninoff Are A Pianist's Nightmare
Beethoven "Moonlight Sonata" Master Class: Seymour Bernstein teaches piano technique
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Beethoven "Moonlight Sonata" Master Class: Seymour Bernstein teaches piano technique
What if Rachmaninoff & Gershwin co-composed a piano concerto? (ft. Yuja Wang, Teddy Abrams)
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What if Rachmaninoff & Gershwin co-composed a piano concerto? (ft. Yuja Wang, Teddy Abrams)
25 Pianists Play Brahms D Minor Concerto 2nd Theme (Leon Fleisher Memorial Tribute by Lydia Seifter)
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25 Pianists Play Brahms D Minor Concerto 2nd Theme (Leon Fleisher Memorial Tribute by Lydia Seifter)
Piano Professor Breaks Down 16 Legendary Pianists’ Techniques
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Piano Professor Breaks Down 16 Legendary Pianists’ Techniques

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @RH-of5cr
    @RH-of5cr Годину тому

    prelude in c - waaaaay to fast

  • @zvonimirtosic6171
    @zvonimirtosic6171 2 години тому

    Rhythmically, that does not sound like mazurka. And tempo is all over the place.

  • @ottogatto
    @ottogatto 6 годин тому

    Forgot two of the best ever: Pollini and Benedetti-Michelangeli. It makes all the rest somehow letting you waiting for the best. Yet the best does not come. Not worth watching, so very biased.

  • @cherylnathanodette
    @cherylnathanodette 8 годин тому

    I wouldn't have a clue which is best as a recent learner and so much information, I would say the basics you need then go with what feels easier for you and go with the flow.

  • @susumukudo009
    @susumukudo009 9 годин тому

    Fei, Fei! I love your teaching. Your English is virtually perfect. You can teach any where in the world including Europe, USA, Japan and Korea. I am sure that your students will be one of the best pianists in the world!

  • @brucebuckley8483
    @brucebuckley8483 10 годин тому

    What an amazing life!

  • @cadriver2570
    @cadriver2570 11 годин тому

    Sound is so important. It changes in every space with every instrument. Use of pedals changes depending on those variables, and how you play changes. I dampen my home piano to get the sound that I like. Just the process of asking this question while practicing or performing opens up so much possibility. Such great tip, but its value might not be immediately clear to everyone.

  • @davidcblock
    @davidcblock 11 годин тому

    These videos are really expressing some rather superficial cliches about this music, I’m at a loss as to how the image of peeking at Chopin crying is going to give me any ideas as to how to interpret his music.

  • @davidcblock
    @davidcblock 11 годин тому

    Another esoteric point just posted out as a sound bite. Are we supposed to imagine what it all means like we are imagining how the sound bounces off a column in the hall we are playing?

  • @davidcblock
    @davidcblock 12 годин тому

    This format is poorly conceived, there is no evidence of how what its stated can be improved/achieved. The click-bait culture is invading Tonebase and it’s rather disappointing.

  • @allthumbs3792
    @allthumbs3792 12 годин тому

    Love Seymour Bernstein!!

  • @jeanjean777
    @jeanjean777 13 годин тому

    God, I hate shorts. Give me something meaningful

  • @ct3293
    @ct3293 16 годин тому

    The last few minutes of this lesson ,spoken so eloquently by Mr. Bernstein, reminds me of how Yunchan Lim approaches his music learning process and projects it all to every note he plays.

  • @yt-jf2jd
    @yt-jf2jd 16 годин тому

    The skinny pete theme

  • @jvtentertainment7943
    @jvtentertainment7943 18 годин тому

    Im a middle beater i guess, i barely move my head when playing😅

  • @SCHEPPEL
    @SCHEPPEL 18 годин тому

    I heard no LH voices btw

    • @davidcblock
      @davidcblock 11 годин тому

      I was trying also to hear them to no avail.

    • @ringtracing5921
      @ringtracing5921 2 години тому

      It didn't even look like he knew the LH part lol - he's dusting the keys😂

  • @AldenHardaway
    @AldenHardaway 18 годин тому

    Such an important point!

  • @verslaflamme666
    @verslaflamme666 18 годин тому

    fabulous technique and voicing. but why does he wear these tacky robe things all the time

    • @davidcblock
      @davidcblock 11 годин тому

      I heard no voicing whatsoever on the left hand chords. Perhaps I’m missing something?

    • @kakasvk
      @kakasvk 7 годин тому

      ​@@davidcblock neither have I heard. I was expecting left handed voicing, but no.

  • @malarosavila
    @malarosavila 19 годин тому

    Seymour je car 👑

  • @paulluc5070
    @paulluc5070 22 години тому

    Marta Argerich is the best of the best!! Just amazing emotion.

  • @bazingacurta2567
    @bazingacurta2567 22 години тому

    If classical music isn't dead, it should be. No culture that insists to live in the past survives, and that's how it should be.

  • @cescania
    @cescania День тому

    Hanon helps me solve my insomnia, but it gives me neck problem

  • @lubosschelepak7032
    @lubosschelepak7032 День тому

    You have forgotten to say-show, what do they do so badly.

    • @davidcblock
      @davidcblock 11 годин тому

      My point exactly. It’s the pervasive (perverse) culture of just mentioning in passing… oh you just don’t look good, you could do so much better…

  • @thegreenpianist7683
    @thegreenpianist7683 День тому

    Pre-2016 Sam Smith dropping piano wisdom on us!

    • @warpnweft2192
      @warpnweft2192 День тому

      With that coat it’s more close to modern era lol

  • @slapmyfunkybass
    @slapmyfunkybass День тому

    “I have to wretch compositions out of a heart that is inwardly torn” F Chopin

  • @MDkid1
    @MDkid1 День тому

    1:44 please?

  • @vodkat07
    @vodkat07 День тому

    Reminds me of Katsaris' voicings

  • @buffuzo4201
    @buffuzo4201 День тому

    The only reason to be happy with this is because of the amount of time and effort spent in the video and it shows how much effort is needed to make it look good for the camera

  • @Mallenaudrix
    @Mallenaudrix День тому

    Agent Smith is really into the classical music…

  • @freddypyotr3771
    @freddypyotr3771 День тому

    Interesting. I'm not a classical music enthusiast but I always associated Chopin more with Mozart. Their piano pieces sound like they are singing. At least to make, I don't know if that makes sense for others though.

  • @nanthilrodriguez
    @nanthilrodriguez День тому

    This video contains many good rules of thumb

  • @timothy4664
    @timothy4664 День тому

    No

  • @NorkiNorkiGaming
    @NorkiNorkiGaming День тому

    That edit at 7:15 is hilarious!

  • @cufflink44
    @cufflink44 День тому

    You need to be able to sight transpose only if you're working with the kind of singer who presents you with a score in D and says, "I sing it in B flat." If you're a soloist or chamber player, you don't need that skill.

  • @CDIII-im6nf
    @CDIII-im6nf День тому

    hey he was my teacher

  • @RodrigoRaez
    @RodrigoRaez День тому

    These masterclasses are pure gold.

  • @user-us2hp9ms2m
    @user-us2hp9ms2m День тому

    吉田秀和氏はFM放送でスクリアビンの9番のソナタにアムランの録音を選んでいた。意外だったけれど聴いて納得した。あの曲のベストかも知れない。

  • @RenatoMariaPassarello
    @RenatoMariaPassarello День тому

    But Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli??????? Maurizio Pollini?????????? italian pianist ????????????????? I'm very sorry because you don't talk about the greatest pianists in Italy and, if you allow, in the whole world who have ever lived. But Glenn Gould?????????? You have forgotten the greatest of all in my opinion.

  • @robstockton911
    @robstockton911 День тому

    I would have liked to see Mitsuko Uchida included amongst the others, as she has the most even legato of any pianist I’m aware of. Please do a sequel! 😂 PS: personal anecdote- My university piano teacher, Claire Richards at Univ. of IL, told me to stop trying to imitate anyone else’s technique (“You’ve reached the stage where you have your own technique”) because she just felt everyone’s anatomy was unique. Once I stopped obsessing on curling my fingers like my high school teacher harped on weekly, my Chopin improved immediately. 😂

  • @neiljopson8138
    @neiljopson8138 День тому

    When I learnt the piano 50 years ago, I was taught to use my fingers and hands like hammers. A few years ago I went to a potential teacher, and when I played for him, he criticised my technique and insisted that I play with flat fingers. I was unwilling to comply and so I never realised his potential!

  • @roberthaveman4726
    @roberthaveman4726 День тому

    I love this woman! She gets it.

  • @ariadne4720
    @ariadne4720 2 дні тому

    When I was about 10 years old, my piano teacher, a Julliard graduate, assigned me that famous (infamous?) Mozart piece for next week's lesson. I'd never heard the piece before (hard to believe, but true - my parents were into music but not 'classical music'). And do you know what? I played the piece *exactly* like Gould! Needless to say, I was gently but firmly castigated by my teacher who 'corrected' my interpretation. I've been playing it (rarely, nowadays) my teacher's way, the 'correct' way, ever since. Sad, really.

  • @jamieredden554
    @jamieredden554 2 дні тому

    I learned so much about this piece that makes me want to dig it back out and play it

  • @lordleo9047
    @lordleo9047 2 дні тому

    bernstein has always been an obnoxiously pretentious musician.

  • @Asterioy
    @Asterioy 2 дні тому

    She won because she is decades better than you

  • @ramaoanastacio9913
    @ramaoanastacio9913 2 дні тому

    Who is playing the Chopin op 10 #3 in the background?

  • @RafaelGarcia-ue6uc
    @RafaelGarcia-ue6uc 2 дні тому

    "Keep that pig out of my garden."

  • @dozie85
    @dozie85 2 дні тому

    Ok

  • @manchildx277
    @manchildx277 2 дні тому

    Please shave

  • @cristiandone5749
    @cristiandone5749 2 дні тому

    I Would add his own HR#2 cadenza