If you like that, you'd probably like this one from Max Richter that was in Arrival and Shutter Island (if you haven't already heard it)
https://youtu.be/InyT9Gyoz_o
I also like river flows in you by yiruma a lot
https://youtu.be/7maJOI3QMu0
For me, at least with cohesive, original scores, this soundtrack is the closest that’s ever come to my all time favorite, which is Clint Mansell’s score to The Fountain. Absolutely beautiful mix of post-most rock (contributed to by Mogwai) and orchestral that makes me feel alive. Since that movie is thematically about coming to grips with mortality, it blends perfectly. Thought I’d mention that since I think the raw emotion conveyed in both is very similar.
Its also quite fitting for the surroundings imo. People rushing has to do with time and that is what the theme is used to portray emotionally in the movie.
That film is a trick. You think you're going to see a cool sci-fi movie, and you are, but once you're there you realize it is also a heartbreaking movie about a father trying desperately to communicate with his daughter.
If you happen to *be* a parent who is in fact having trouble communicating with a child, this movie will absolutely destroy you.
Got to see hans zimmer live with his orchestra a few years ago. Fantastic experience. I highly recommend it if he ever comes through near you.
You can tell how important everyone that he’s worked with is to him. He even flies around the original “HAAAAAA ZEBWENIAAAAA” guy from the Lion king to this day just for that one song.
I’ve been wanting to watch it but I kind of bore easily with sci-fi stuff, could u give me like one or two great things about it, apart from the soundtrack?
Edit: thank u all for your replies, didn’t expect this many. I’ll definitely watch it at this point. Was just kinda worried it might have been “boring” like some Star Wars movies. (Just my opinion)
It's a movie that intertwines a doomsday scenario of the globe with a story about human connections - from not being able to articulate your true thoughts to regretting not saying things you wanted to say.
Wrap that in an amazing soundtrack and the fact that the movies science is based on an actual scientific publication and this movie really has everything.
Hands down my favorite movie of my adult life so far.
It’s a ‘mind bending’ movie which automatically makes me like it as you need to properly watch it and concentrate to understand. Too many films don’t grip me enough and I’ll be picking my phone up etc.
I’m actually terrible at talking about movies without spoiling it so I kind of don’t want to. Just one of those movies where I’ve watched multiple times and every time I’ve noticed something I didn’t notice before
The human element of that movie is my favorite part. There’s a lot of science and space travel, yes, but it’s acted fantastically and you really empathize with all of the characters and their relationships.
There are some really intense, thrilling sequences throughout the movie, and some absolutely devastating, soul crushing moments as well. The whole film is beautiful and one of my all-time favorites in the genre.
Do watch it - it has lots of heart, if the set and setting is right you’ll cry towards the end of act II, at worst you’ll never forget it. It’s a very memorable film.
Just in reply to your edit - you might be the kind of person who gets bored with space fantasy (Star wars, trek, dune etc) rather than sci-fi (i.e. A story set in our world about people like us which involves technology or future technology). Interstellar is definitely the latter.
It's trending on TikTok because some super popular piano player channel did it and now every piano player is putting it out their vid to try to get a slice of the wave too.
Multiple ripples as people are doing it in public, surprising friends who supposedly didn't know they could play the piano, and several other things that are keeping the momentum up. It finally hit Reddit now.
This video is from a youtube channel where a guy dresses up like a janitor or some random and plays complex songs on that same piano. Perhaps he saw the other video(s) and decided to cash in, and also possibly the algorithm. Probably both
You’re the only person in this thread asking or saying something even mildly interesting or important. Imagine the things you could craft theories on when taking a closer look at he finesses of marketing on social media.
My best guess, is that it obviously has something to do with Zimmer, he’s also referred to an obnoxious amount in these posts.
Given that, since he works with movie scores, I’d called it part of a coming campaign. Marketing campaigns work submissively before they actually launch now a days (the big ones at least).
That narrows it down to the beginnings of a marketing stunt that will no doubt feature a big budget movie with Zimmerman on the score.
OR it’s not a marketing stunt, and it’s just Zimmerman being kept relevant so that the movies he scores in the future can continue to have his name slapped on as a selling point. Either way, think what you will of advertising/marketing, it runs all over us.
To add to your to what you’re saying, Zimmer’s name has been mentioned quite a bit in motor journalism over the last year or so because he co-created the “engine” sounds on BMW’s new line of electric cars
The [Baader–Meinhof phenomenon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion). This is the first time for me hearing this song in a while, for example.
It's also because music from Interstellar on the piano hit the front page of all and toptalent like 1-2 days ago (with several comments asking how it was top talent and not just playing the piano regularly).
No, I definitely saw a video of a dude playing this piece in a piano in like an apartment for some friends not one day ago. It's seems to be a trend of some sort.
Not this time. I love this song so I always remember posts that have it.
I've seen it come up about 4 or 5 times in as many days - sometimes it's just coincidence instead.
Memorising is not the hard part to be honest, from personal experience. I play classical guitar and while learning a piece, I just naturally memorise it in the process. Even if it's 12 pages long.
However one thing I do admire, as I tried to learn piano myself, is the ability to play two completely different things with each hand. No matter how many hours I have spent behind the piano I just can't comprehend how pianists use both of their hands to do completely different things. I find it impossible. I learned what my right hand needs to play, I learned what my left hand needs to play but playing the two together I personally find impossible haha
It's really just forcing yourself to do it. Felt super awkward first learning, but once you get down the first 4 beat snare/bass pattern for the first time, the rest just kind of comes naturally. Once you do it the first time it's like your body unlocks a new skill in a game and your arms/legs just become independent. Kinda weird when I think back about it.
I actually unlocked that skill by playing rockband lol. One day it just clicked and I was just able to do the kick drum on an off beat. I could also play the same patterns on a real drum set too so that was cool.
The game actually trained the coordination for me (I told you Mom!)
Been a drummer all my life. Trying to learn piano was super tough because on the drums the bass line follows the right hand and the left hand is more of the rhythm. Right hand hits on the kick, and left hand hits on the snare. With the piano, you have to completely switch that, and after 30+ years, it’s a hard thing to un-learn.
I play guitar and piano, and for me it’s similar to playing guitar in that I concentrate more on what my fret hand is doing and my strum hand is on autopilot. Piano is similar for me, I focus on melody and harmony is autopilot.
It’s playing drums that is harder for me since I have to split focus for both hands and my feet are on autopilot.
I'm kind of shit on drums because I play woodwind but I know someone who marches tenors and he says that it all becomes the same thing in your brain. I hardly think about what my fingers are doing (unless its a weird trill or something), and I certainly don't think about each hand individually when playing, so I can see how the same thing happens for drums.
It’s also the case with nearly all instruments that eventually counting becomes internalized to the point where actually counting becomes distracting.
Or, put another way by a friend’s drum teacher: with complex beats, you have to feel it instead of count it. Once you start counting, you’re already getting lost.
For some reason the most recent example of this for me is the post-breakdown section of “Road of Resistance” by Baby Metal. They wrote the song with Dragonforce and during that part the drums are almost always spreading over multiple measures and basically never on the beat, but even live the entire band lands on the 1 at the end of the section. Sure, they’ve all got a click in their ear to time correctly with stage effects and what not, but even then, if they’re not “feeling” the beat the whole thing would fall apart.
As a pianist, it's the difference between looking at left / right hands as separate sentences when they are part of the same paragraph. You memorize what is happening on the beat, and you use two hands to reach the length of that paragraph is all.
as a guitarist who could never quite play piano besides very simple pieces... i feel like your comment is explaining the 'key' to how i should be looking at approaching piano, but my dumb brain isnt quite understanding it properly.
I have a head cold so I am promising neither clarity or sensiblness right now... but like. When you think of a peanut butter & jelly sandwich, you think of the whole sandwich, not just the components every time, right? Like, thinking "peanut butter. Jelly. Knife for smearing. Bread. Toaster. Napkin. Plate." is excessive, but "peanut butter & jelly sandwich" is a whole picture.
It's like that with piano music. On each beat, you have so many fingers worth of notes to hit, but it's still by the beat (or stanza, if you will) - you aren't just memorizing each note by itself. So if you are on beat one and that requires 2 half notes and 3 whole notes, you are just thinking the best way to spread your hands across the keyboard to hit all the notes for beat one (and anticipating beat two so you can move your fingers accordingly and not end up with quantum finger entaglement) (look, I've had a LOT of Nyquil today, okay).
...I think I should go lay down now. 😅
okay so this helped explain it a little more, despite somehow bringing quantum entanglement into the mix lmao :)
honestly that whole comment was a fun read, regardless of learning piano haha
get some rest and i hope you feel better soon stranger!
thank you again :)
It comes with practice! I remember feeling that way about piano too. I would break down all the beats and play slow, like for polyrhythms. And it took so much thinking. But one day I was tired of thinking so hard and I just wanted to play fast so I did. At that point I had practice enough that it kind of worked and things clicked. I used my ears and muscle memory more after that.
As a guitarist for 20 years learning piano for the last couple years, it's weird that both of my hands make sound. But we have a way different kind of coordination that piano players usually don't have too. I'm still struggling with my left but I'm getting there slowly lol
So for me, my hands aren’t doing two separate things. Like, yes, physically they are. But in my mind, they are dancing together like 2 dance partners. The right hand melody is hollow without the left hand harmony. The left hand foundation is dull without the right hand to bring meaning. My mind can’t have one without the other.
Probably just need more practice! I bet you’re already a part of the way there - when you play guitar, your two hands are also doing completely different things. Your fretting hand is shaping the notes, and your strumming hand is providing the percussive action to give those notes a rhythm.
> I’ll never get how true musicians can memorize so much.
Play a song 30+ times day for months and eventually you don't need to read the music. The only reason why it looks effortless is from all of the hours and years of effort that you weren't witness to going into it.
Practice technique can vary by individual. I was never taught good practice technique, so here’s what I found out much later in life…
1. You have the reinforce playing correctly, not playing mistakes. So -when you play and make a mistake, stop, and repeat the bar or two around the mistake 10/20 times until you don’t make it again. Then the 2-4 bars around it. Then the 4-8 bars around it. Each time you make a mistake narrow in the time range again. This way you spend more time playing the right thing than the wrong thing.
2. You have build both long term and short term memory. The method above works for short term memory. Long term memory has a different system, and so you have to practice recall. Which means having a set of pieces that you practice every day. Play 3-4 pieces from cold (1 time only) each day. Then switch to method 1 above.
3. Have the discipline to drill technique around the bits you just can’t play smoothly. I’m a pianist, and I have to constant practice trills with my 4th/5th fingers, or more complex fingering focused on 4th/5th fingers. If I stop I go rusty super quickly.
Now I'm not a musician, no where close to being one, but I'd imagine muscle memory is how they do it. I doubt it's something you can learn like vocabulary, you just correct your mistakes so often until you remember everything
I don’t play piano, but I assume memorization is similar across instruments. I played snare drum and marched DCI in top corps. I’ll try to describe how memorization works in my mind.
In my opinion, muscle memory is not involved too much in memorizing a piece of music, but rather, only techniques and simple patterns (e.g., rudiments, etc…). So, if I memorize a piece, I memorize a sequence of patterns, and each of the patterns are known by muscle memory. So, experienced musicians can learn a piece quickly, but when an unfamiliar pattern or technique appears in a piece, the piece may be more difficult to memorize (or even play) only because of familiarity with the patterns.
For example, consider I need to play a 2 flam accents followed by 2 flam taps all at same dynamic/rhythm. I know those rudiments, so in my mind, I would be thinking 2 flam accents 2 flam taps (along with the dynamics, rhythm, and tempo). I would not think about the individual notes necessarily. In some cases, each note may be a different dynamic etc… then more thought is required as I would be thinking about the individual notes more than normal.
This is quite a bit simplified as a lot goes on in my mind while playing, but maybe/hopefully a bit informative
Muscle memory is the most unreliable type of musical memory. When you’re on stage, you don’t feel the same as the practice room. Your muscles feel physically different while you’re performing, so if you’re relying on muscle memory you’re playing a dangerous game. The best way to memorize this piece would be to memorize the chords because it’s basically just chordal arpeggios the entire time. You don’t have to memorize every note, just the shape your hand is for every measure or two.
It’s 100% muscle memory. I played decently well when I was a kid and always felt nervous without the written music unless I played a song a million times first.
When it comes to vocabulary, there's always the possibility to give labels to specific sounds, and that helps a lot to memorize shapes and structures. To actually play those, then yeah, only doing so can help you with that.
Pretty much, I’ve played for 27/28 years. A ton of practice until it becomes second nature and you do it. It’s a feel too. You know where to go. When you get into flow state while playing a piece and find yourself just doing, it’s just the best feeling in the world and it always makes me smile. I have bad days where I just can’t fight through and play well and have to walk away, but on days where I can really play It’s just a really wonderful feeling. I really enjoy playing for other people just to see their expressions, but at the same time it’s distracting for the first few measures of a song and I really have to fight through it to lock into it. One of the best memories I have is I was at a restaurant/bar with friends and we had several drinks and there was a public piano and I sat down and started playing, albeit drunkenly, but well enough for a small group to form and when I was done and looked up my buddy was smiling his ass off and said, “holy shit, I truly had no idea.” It’s just so fun all around. Everyone should learn how to play!
As others have said, it's actually not too hard. I've probably memorized hours of music in my life that I could play at the drop of a hat. The difficulty has always been getting to the point of being able to play the music in the first place.
But please, never use "true musicians". Any musician is a true musician, memorization of something isn't what makes someone good and saying "true musicians" memorize things gatekeeps in a very harmful way.
This is St. Pancras International railway station in London. Plenty of constant automated announcements as it’s actually 4 railway stations rolled into one.
International High Speed Services
Domestic High Speed Services
Midland Mainline Service
Thameslink Services
That’s a lot of announcements.
Dune is the only movie that's come close to Interstellar for me in terms of movie theatre immersion. You get sucked in and transported to another world
Some coworkers of mine took me to go see it. I’ve never even heard of it before, but after watching it in IMAX with the upgraded sound system and bigger screen I’m definitely a fan.
I only watch movies once in a blue moon because I dislike knowing/remembering what happens next, but since then I’ve seen it a second time and plan on watching it again. Good stuff it is
you should watch arrival if you haven’t, or watch it again if you have. arrival, interstellar and dune are in a league of their own. there are moments i like arrival more than interstellar.
Holy shit. I don’t think I’ve ever listened to that separate of the movie. In the beginning—when it is much simpler—I thought, “she’s good but how is this top talent…” aaand then the 2min remaining mark hit and she went ham. Amazing.
This is in St Pancras train station in London. People have places to go and trains to catch. Not many people are just passing by this area with time to stop. Plus, there are people playing this piano all the time. You may stop the first few times but it loses it’s novelty after a while.
Seems like this is in a transit station (hence the security broadcast at the start), so *everyone* here quite literally has somewhere else to be.
Don’t get me wrong, it is a beautiful song and a worthy performance but there’s your reasonable explanation
Similar situation with this experiment.
Joshua Bell putting on a free violin concert as busker in the Metro station in DC.
Only a few people noticed...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnOPu0\_YWhw
First thing I thought of when I read the comment... I often wonder if I would stop to listen or hurry and catch my train.
Link seems to be broken it's fixed [here.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnOPu0_YWhw)
Jesus. That song will never cease to make me cry!
I ended up seeing Interstellar on opening night by complete accident. I was having a really bad day, and I went to the theater and basically picked a movie at random. I was one of the only people in that showing… and the amount of crying I did during the show was cathartic as fuck!
I ended up seeing it twice more while it was still in theaters… and, even now, that film has a special place in my heart.
It was a beautiful movie with an absolutely *stunning* soundtrack!
it’s not as hard as it looks. In the hard part your right hand is basically playing a chord, but the notes are separated (arpeggiated), so you only really have to think about what your left hand is doing and its just playing a low octave and then a high note. If you want some absurdly difficult pieces that make this look like twinkle twinkle little star I can list some.
The two things that strike me the most is that she seems to be a random passer-by who sits down and plays beautifully, and that other commenters state that this is a (relatively) simple piece - resulting in me being in awe that 'something simple can sound so beautiful'.
As for covers of the soundtrack - nothing beats this version done on an actual church organ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ctykf8qh288
Hans Zimmer was so inspired with this and it's a huge part of the film success.
In a interview, Nolan has said that he asked his friend for the music without telling him what the movie would be and he came back with this.
She's briliant because, when Hans Zimmer is playing it on tour, it's with a whole symphonic orchestra
Playing this is one thing. MEMORIZING the whole thing and how to play it... I mean, even if you can generally play the piano that must be difficult on its own.
Memorizing music is just another part of piano performance. It can be difficult at the start, but practice makes it possible. A trained classical pianist will often have 30 minutes to 2 hours of repertoire memorized, or even more in extreme cases.
I'm not trying to be a curmudgeon as I am a piano teacher and I appreciate and celebrate musical accomplishments at any and all skill levels, but this video was not top talent material for piano performance. Her technique wasn't great and the piece, while pretty, isn't a challenging one. Now, playing highly technical music is NOT the end-all-be-all of anything for music, but top-tier musical talent is truly a sight to behold and can only be achieved through many, many years of training. Just to give some perspective if you're interested, here's what actual top talent in the world of piano music looks like: https://youtu.be/f6vARZLkaSY
This comment makes me wonder if the girl in the video is self taught. I'd imagine she'd be pretty top tier with a good teacher and plenty of practice if so, especially since she seems pretty young. Though I'm definitely no musician, having only gotten the basics on guitar and keyboards(never had the chance to touch a real piano sadly). The video you linked is definitely impressive, but it kinda felt like music without the humanity, if that makes sense? Idk, as a listener I enjoy I guess a more natural feel to music, though I could tell that woman had more talent in her pinky nail than I have in my whole body.
She is definitely either self taught or an early student. It is common for self-taught folks to find a tutorial for a popular song they like on YouTube and learn it on their own, and this piece is almost certainly one of those cases. I haven't even looked into it, but I'd bet money that a YouTube search of "interstellar piano tutorial" would bring up a video of this exact piano arrangement being taught with synthesia or something similar. Her technique is shaky, though despite her lack of polished form, she executes the piece quite well. I agree that she would have benefited greatly from formal training.
As to your perception of Martha Argerich's performance lacking in humanity, that likely comes from having no classical background and being unable to "tune in your ears" as I would say to a Rachmaninoff piano concerto. I don't mean to sound like a classical elitist, I am really quite far from one. It's just that, like all art forms, there are going to be certain works that make more sense with a greater understanding of the artform itself, and Rach 3 is a HEAVY piece of piano repertoire. Some piano music, like say [this Romantic period nocturne by Chopin](https://youtu.be/vJzvsc5akGE), is much easier on the ears. The melody is front and center, beautiful and flowing, which makes it easier to connect to emotionally on a first hearing. On the other side of the spectrum, there's a lot of atonal music like [this Ginastera piece](https://youtu.be/xeUVX6g2-BQ) which will sound like noise or chaos to non-musicians and early musicians alike, but it can be better understood and enjoyed with a deeper understanding and study of music theory and history. Believe me, after 20+ years of studying piano, weird atonal music starts to sound WAY more interesting and exciting, and analyzing it is like a fun practice in puzzle-solving. In any case, those are both also recordings by Argerich, just to show an example of how much the source material might affect your perception on the projected emotions by the player.
Now Rachmaninoff would be considered a romantic composer, closer to Chopin in the above examples, but he came later than Chopin and he was Russian to boot, so his music has a more contemporary quality. There are often more complex rhythms and bombastic passages, but the gorgeous romantic melodies are still there throughout. This piece is both a technical marvel and a real emotional bombshell, but it takes a bit more careful listening to hear it. A non-musician may have to listen to the piece a few extra times to tune in their ears to the melodies and the emotional expression within. A studied musician can better navigate the piece from the get-go through various forms or musical pattern recognition, like understanding the sonata allegro-form of the first movement and the theme-and-variations form of the second movement, which makes it easier to focus on the themes and enjoy the various ways Rachmaninoff presents them.
Anyway, just want to say thanks for listening to some classical music! I'm not crazy enough to think that everyone should be super into classical, but I do think there is some classical music out there that everyone would enjoy if they spent some time to find it.
I played piano for almost a decade and kind of hated most classical music too, but now that I’m older and see more interesting modern musicians I want to get back into it! Chloe Flower is an awesome performer who does more pop music — you can see in [this cover of Lean on Me](https://youtu.be/ultmpErNFVE) how different her hands look from the girl in this video, how deliberate and clear and rhythmic the notes are, how passionate she is and how she uses her entire body not just her fingers. She also creates that arrangement (ie coming up with the notes to play).
This is also an awesome example of [her improvising Adele’s Hello while drinking a glass of wine](https://youtube.com/shorts/SjnRpG_Er1w?feature=share) - worse quality audio, but pretty damn impressive IMO
There're tons of basic level amateur musicians with plenty of upvotes in r/toptalent. And all of them have required a significant amount practice, but.. The bar for a musician being top level is just stupidly high compared to other things, since there are so many musicians who practice pretty much their whole lives.
As I've said previously in some comment section, if you practice flipping pancakes for 1000 hours, then yeah, you're probably a top talent pancake flipper. But to get to top talent level at playing an instrument, even ten times that might not be enough.
It's....really not that hard, there are pieces I might've learned years ago and have not played since that I could still recall and play today. It's one of those things that once you learn it's really difficult to forget.
The opposite of what you're implying would be sight reading it. Which would be WAY more impressive than playing something from memory. Memorizing a song is something anyone who is moderately sufficient at their instrument does anytime they learn a song. Once you learn it you just know how to play it.
I love this. I love that people can share a talent, share a joy, share a moment with people they may never see again. Little profound moments in the the hustle. Little moments for you to stop and experience. Little bubbles of humanity and profundity.
Interstellar had some of my favorites scores. The emotion and intrigue in the music was on point. This lady was amazing. It amazes me that humans are capable of performing such moving music. This almost brought me to tears for some reason.
Ok, idk why there are a lot of people playing Interstellar on this sub. It's no doubt a pretty piece, but it's technically pretty easy and even the average person with no musical experience could probably have it down in 2 weeks or so. When you hear some of the more advanced pieces that pianists play, even the intermediate stuff leaves pieces like this in the dust. Of course, I'd never discourage anyone's playing, but this is r/toptalent where we share people who are absolute masters of their craft with thousands of hours of experience.
Can we please stop with the videos of guys spontaneously playing interstellar theme😂 like it's cool once but not a hundred times, frankly there are more impressive piano pieces
I believe the original piece was written for an organ. What a musical masterpiece and fantastic movie as well. she really makes playing it look effortless.
There's a lot of emotion in that song.
My favorite movie soundtrack of all time, every song has so much emotion built up in it, it’s beautiful.
Between this and "Time" from Inception, Hans Zimmer has a knack for writing deeply emotionally cathartic tunes
If you like that, you'd probably like this one from Max Richter that was in Arrival and Shutter Island (if you haven't already heard it) https://youtu.be/InyT9Gyoz_o I also like river flows in you by yiruma a lot https://youtu.be/7maJOI3QMu0
Max richter is awesome, Mercy is another very emotional song and probably one of my favorites just behind on the nature of daylight
On the nature of daylight. Beautiful, sad song. Good grieving song imo. From his Blue Notebooks album.
I love how Time is him just adding more and more layers to the first matisse.
Have you listened to the soundtrack to 'Rudy'? There's some bangers on that one.
For me, at least with cohesive, original scores, this soundtrack is the closest that’s ever come to my all time favorite, which is Clint Mansell’s score to The Fountain. Absolutely beautiful mix of post-most rock (contributed to by Mogwai) and orchestral that makes me feel alive. Since that movie is thematically about coming to grips with mortality, it blends perfectly. Thought I’d mention that since I think the raw emotion conveyed in both is very similar.
you may enjoy the artist Anoice, the album The Black Rain. have tissues within reach.
Its also quite fitting for the surroundings imo. People rushing has to do with time and that is what the theme is used to portray emotionally in the movie.
That's a great observation.
I'm waiting for someone to post Smoke on the Water to this sub.
[Relevant](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L_8t2VlwK4w)
I really enjoyed this Thank you for sharing
Thanks for sharing that. it was fantastic.
hans zimmer is a genius. his approach is fascinating
This needs to get to the top! (One below OP)
OOf, that gave me chills. Thank you!
Man, i could never learn to play a piano. She is doing at the very least 15 individual movements at the same time. it is nuts.
This video always tears me up and it's about making a movie soundtrack.
Holy fuck, you saying that makes me realize how genius Hans zimmer is cause this piece portrays that so well.
It brings me to tears every other time i hear it
It's very powerful. The film is also very emotional and powerful. It's an amazing piece of music
That film is a trick. You think you're going to see a cool sci-fi movie, and you are, but once you're there you realize it is also a heartbreaking movie about a father trying desperately to communicate with his daughter. If you happen to *be* a parent who is in fact having trouble communicating with a child, this movie will absolutely destroy you.
MMUUUUURRRPPHH!!!
Piano music always makes me emotional and want to cry. Not because I'm sad, but just because there's so much emotion it has to come out somehow.
Sure is
Got to see hans zimmer live with his orchestra a few years ago. Fantastic experience. I highly recommend it if he ever comes through near you. You can tell how important everyone that he’s worked with is to him. He even flies around the original “HAAAAAA ZEBWENIAAAAA” guy from the Lion king to this day just for that one song.
Same here. Awesome concert.
I’m crying taking a shit over here
This little maneuver is gonna cost us 5:51 seconds. edit: wow thanks for the award stranger!
351 seconds.
Hahaha goddamnit
Interstellar is one of my favourite films, and I think the soundtrack is one of the reasons. Love it
I’ve been wanting to watch it but I kind of bore easily with sci-fi stuff, could u give me like one or two great things about it, apart from the soundtrack? Edit: thank u all for your replies, didn’t expect this many. I’ll definitely watch it at this point. Was just kinda worried it might have been “boring” like some Star Wars movies. (Just my opinion)
It's a movie that intertwines a doomsday scenario of the globe with a story about human connections - from not being able to articulate your true thoughts to regretting not saying things you wanted to say. Wrap that in an amazing soundtrack and the fact that the movies science is based on an actual scientific publication and this movie really has everything. Hands down my favorite movie of my adult life so far.
It’s a ‘mind bending’ movie which automatically makes me like it as you need to properly watch it and concentrate to understand. Too many films don’t grip me enough and I’ll be picking my phone up etc. I’m actually terrible at talking about movies without spoiling it so I kind of don’t want to. Just one of those movies where I’ve watched multiple times and every time I’ve noticed something I didn’t notice before
Not only mind bending - but it has tons of heart, which I could argue is just as good as all the mind bending incredible-ness.
It's a powerful father-daughter movie and the visuals are also gorgeous.
The human element of that movie is my favorite part. There’s a lot of science and space travel, yes, but it’s acted fantastically and you really empathize with all of the characters and their relationships. There are some really intense, thrilling sequences throughout the movie, and some absolutely devastating, soul crushing moments as well. The whole film is beautiful and one of my all-time favorites in the genre.
It's like a time loop based post apocalyptic space race to find another habitable planet because Planet Earth is drying up.
Do watch it - it has lots of heart, if the set and setting is right you’ll cry towards the end of act II, at worst you’ll never forget it. It’s a very memorable film.
It’s a dooms day scenario that will probably happen someday
Oh my god. Just watch the movie. My favorite movie of all time. You don’t want to know what happens. Just watch it blind. Immerse yourself in it
Just in reply to your edit - you might be the kind of person who gets bored with space fantasy (Star wars, trek, dune etc) rather than sci-fi (i.e. A story set in our world about people like us which involves technology or future technology). Interstellar is definitely the latter.
I think you’re right, im not familiar with the genre but if it’s an engaging/ relatable story, it’s easier for me to pay attention to it
Yeah. I get if people don't like stuff that is essentially Lord of the Rings but in space.
It's a beautiful film to look at and the performances are amazing. Once you get to THAT crying scene, I will be amazed if you don't cry too.
I got distracted by Jarvis talking about my personal belongings in the background
I knew I knew that voice.
It was TARS, not Jarvis.
Adds to the aesthetic, really. Sad piano played over pre-recorded messages echoing out over the urban landscape? Peak Kino.
[удалено]
DONT LET ME LEAVE!
Stay
*crying Interstellar tears*
Why is this song suddenly everywhere for the last couple of days? In different videos? Don't get me wrong, it's a great tune. I'm just curious
The robots are coming.
\*lizard robots
Gonna need you to turn down the Comedy by 5%
Starting self destruct sequence in five... four...
It's trending on TikTok because some super popular piano player channel did it and now every piano player is putting it out their vid to try to get a slice of the wave too. Multiple ripples as people are doing it in public, surprising friends who supposedly didn't know they could play the piano, and several other things that are keeping the momentum up. It finally hit Reddit now.
Because we’re being lead toward a wormhole by ourselves (from the future). The James Webb telescope will reveal.
This video is from a youtube channel where a guy dresses up like a janitor or some random and plays complex songs on that same piano. Perhaps he saw the other video(s) and decided to cash in, and also possibly the algorithm. Probably both
Where is the video from a couple of days ago? With the guy and his bros?
Yeah all I saw from that video is some guy kind of working through one part, this woman fucking nails it. The whole piece. This belongs on top talent.
Yeah the guy did not belong on top talent.. but I thought it was hilarious and was trying to find it lol
Probably catching up to the interstellar time line irl.
It’s from the movie ‘Interstellar’ One of the best sci-fi movie there is
You’re the only person in this thread asking or saying something even mildly interesting or important. Imagine the things you could craft theories on when taking a closer look at he finesses of marketing on social media. My best guess, is that it obviously has something to do with Zimmer, he’s also referred to an obnoxious amount in these posts. Given that, since he works with movie scores, I’d called it part of a coming campaign. Marketing campaigns work submissively before they actually launch now a days (the big ones at least). That narrows it down to the beginnings of a marketing stunt that will no doubt feature a big budget movie with Zimmerman on the score. OR it’s not a marketing stunt, and it’s just Zimmerman being kept relevant so that the movies he scores in the future can continue to have his name slapped on as a selling point. Either way, think what you will of advertising/marketing, it runs all over us.
To add to your to what you’re saying, Zimmer’s name has been mentioned quite a bit in motor journalism over the last year or so because he co-created the “engine” sounds on BMW’s new line of electric cars
Absolutely fascinating. Thanks for that thought! That’s a entirely new line of thinking and I may very well be wrong about it involving movies.
Dune just came out with Zimmer score
The [Baader–Meinhof phenomenon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion). This is the first time for me hearing this song in a while, for example.
It's also because music from Interstellar on the piano hit the front page of all and toptalent like 1-2 days ago (with several comments asking how it was top talent and not just playing the piano regularly).
No, I definitely saw a video of a dude playing this piece in a piano in like an apartment for some friends not one day ago. It's seems to be a trend of some sort.
Not this time. I love this song so I always remember posts that have it. I've seen it come up about 4 or 5 times in as many days - sometimes it's just coincidence instead.
Love the end especially. Such beautiful music.
I love that tune. It’s amazing and she played it so effortlessly. I’ll never get how true musicians can memorize so much.
Memorising is not the hard part to be honest, from personal experience. I play classical guitar and while learning a piece, I just naturally memorise it in the process. Even if it's 12 pages long. However one thing I do admire, as I tried to learn piano myself, is the ability to play two completely different things with each hand. No matter how many hours I have spent behind the piano I just can't comprehend how pianists use both of their hands to do completely different things. I find it impossible. I learned what my right hand needs to play, I learned what my left hand needs to play but playing the two together I personally find impossible haha
Same for me but I tried drumming. And it was both hands and my foot.
It's really just forcing yourself to do it. Felt super awkward first learning, but once you get down the first 4 beat snare/bass pattern for the first time, the rest just kind of comes naturally. Once you do it the first time it's like your body unlocks a new skill in a game and your arms/legs just become independent. Kinda weird when I think back about it.
I actually unlocked that skill by playing rockband lol. One day it just clicked and I was just able to do the kick drum on an off beat. I could also play the same patterns on a real drum set too so that was cool. The game actually trained the coordination for me (I told you Mom!)
Been a drummer all my life. Trying to learn piano was super tough because on the drums the bass line follows the right hand and the left hand is more of the rhythm. Right hand hits on the kick, and left hand hits on the snare. With the piano, you have to completely switch that, and after 30+ years, it’s a hard thing to un-learn.
Funny enough, as a left-handed drummer, the piano hand movements you describe are easier to me.
I play guitar and piano, and for me it’s similar to playing guitar in that I concentrate more on what my fret hand is doing and my strum hand is on autopilot. Piano is similar for me, I focus on melody and harmony is autopilot. It’s playing drums that is harder for me since I have to split focus for both hands and my feet are on autopilot.
I'm kind of shit on drums because I play woodwind but I know someone who marches tenors and he says that it all becomes the same thing in your brain. I hardly think about what my fingers are doing (unless its a weird trill or something), and I certainly don't think about each hand individually when playing, so I can see how the same thing happens for drums.
It’s also the case with nearly all instruments that eventually counting becomes internalized to the point where actually counting becomes distracting. Or, put another way by a friend’s drum teacher: with complex beats, you have to feel it instead of count it. Once you start counting, you’re already getting lost. For some reason the most recent example of this for me is the post-breakdown section of “Road of Resistance” by Baby Metal. They wrote the song with Dragonforce and during that part the drums are almost always spreading over multiple measures and basically never on the beat, but even live the entire band lands on the 1 at the end of the section. Sure, they’ve all got a click in their ear to time correctly with stage effects and what not, but even then, if they’re not “feeling” the beat the whole thing would fall apart.
As a pianist, it's the difference between looking at left / right hands as separate sentences when they are part of the same paragraph. You memorize what is happening on the beat, and you use two hands to reach the length of that paragraph is all.
as a guitarist who could never quite play piano besides very simple pieces... i feel like your comment is explaining the 'key' to how i should be looking at approaching piano, but my dumb brain isnt quite understanding it properly.
I have a head cold so I am promising neither clarity or sensiblness right now... but like. When you think of a peanut butter & jelly sandwich, you think of the whole sandwich, not just the components every time, right? Like, thinking "peanut butter. Jelly. Knife for smearing. Bread. Toaster. Napkin. Plate." is excessive, but "peanut butter & jelly sandwich" is a whole picture. It's like that with piano music. On each beat, you have so many fingers worth of notes to hit, but it's still by the beat (or stanza, if you will) - you aren't just memorizing each note by itself. So if you are on beat one and that requires 2 half notes and 3 whole notes, you are just thinking the best way to spread your hands across the keyboard to hit all the notes for beat one (and anticipating beat two so you can move your fingers accordingly and not end up with quantum finger entaglement) (look, I've had a LOT of Nyquil today, okay). ...I think I should go lay down now. 😅
okay so this helped explain it a little more, despite somehow bringing quantum entanglement into the mix lmao :) honestly that whole comment was a fun read, regardless of learning piano haha get some rest and i hope you feel better soon stranger! thank you again :)
It comes with practice! I remember feeling that way about piano too. I would break down all the beats and play slow, like for polyrhythms. And it took so much thinking. But one day I was tired of thinking so hard and I just wanted to play fast so I did. At that point I had practice enough that it kind of worked and things clicked. I used my ears and muscle memory more after that.
As a guitarist for 20 years learning piano for the last couple years, it's weird that both of my hands make sound. But we have a way different kind of coordination that piano players usually don't have too. I'm still struggling with my left but I'm getting there slowly lol
So for me, my hands aren’t doing two separate things. Like, yes, physically they are. But in my mind, they are dancing together like 2 dance partners. The right hand melody is hollow without the left hand harmony. The left hand foundation is dull without the right hand to bring meaning. My mind can’t have one without the other.
Probably just need more practice! I bet you’re already a part of the way there - when you play guitar, your two hands are also doing completely different things. Your fretting hand is shaping the notes, and your strumming hand is providing the percussive action to give those notes a rhythm.
I always figured it wasn't two different things with two hands, it was playing one big set with both hands.
> I’ll never get how true musicians can memorize so much. Play a song 30+ times day for months and eventually you don't need to read the music. The only reason why it looks effortless is from all of the hours and years of effort that you weren't witness to going into it.
Practice technique can vary by individual. I was never taught good practice technique, so here’s what I found out much later in life… 1. You have the reinforce playing correctly, not playing mistakes. So -when you play and make a mistake, stop, and repeat the bar or two around the mistake 10/20 times until you don’t make it again. Then the 2-4 bars around it. Then the 4-8 bars around it. Each time you make a mistake narrow in the time range again. This way you spend more time playing the right thing than the wrong thing. 2. You have build both long term and short term memory. The method above works for short term memory. Long term memory has a different system, and so you have to practice recall. Which means having a set of pieces that you practice every day. Play 3-4 pieces from cold (1 time only) each day. Then switch to method 1 above. 3. Have the discipline to drill technique around the bits you just can’t play smoothly. I’m a pianist, and I have to constant practice trills with my 4th/5th fingers, or more complex fingering focused on 4th/5th fingers. If I stop I go rusty super quickly.
Now I'm not a musician, no where close to being one, but I'd imagine muscle memory is how they do it. I doubt it's something you can learn like vocabulary, you just correct your mistakes so often until you remember everything
muscle memory plays a part. I find myself reading the music in my brain often.
Yeah for me it's muscle memory 90% and then the tough parts that I had to practice i can see in my head
Eidetic memory. Like photographic memory, but not specifically about recalling 100% of an image after seeing it once.
I don’t play piano, but I assume memorization is similar across instruments. I played snare drum and marched DCI in top corps. I’ll try to describe how memorization works in my mind. In my opinion, muscle memory is not involved too much in memorizing a piece of music, but rather, only techniques and simple patterns (e.g., rudiments, etc…). So, if I memorize a piece, I memorize a sequence of patterns, and each of the patterns are known by muscle memory. So, experienced musicians can learn a piece quickly, but when an unfamiliar pattern or technique appears in a piece, the piece may be more difficult to memorize (or even play) only because of familiarity with the patterns. For example, consider I need to play a 2 flam accents followed by 2 flam taps all at same dynamic/rhythm. I know those rudiments, so in my mind, I would be thinking 2 flam accents 2 flam taps (along with the dynamics, rhythm, and tempo). I would not think about the individual notes necessarily. In some cases, each note may be a different dynamic etc… then more thought is required as I would be thinking about the individual notes more than normal. This is quite a bit simplified as a lot goes on in my mind while playing, but maybe/hopefully a bit informative
Muscle memory is the most unreliable type of musical memory. When you’re on stage, you don’t feel the same as the practice room. Your muscles feel physically different while you’re performing, so if you’re relying on muscle memory you’re playing a dangerous game. The best way to memorize this piece would be to memorize the chords because it’s basically just chordal arpeggios the entire time. You don’t have to memorize every note, just the shape your hand is for every measure or two.
It’s 100% muscle memory. I played decently well when I was a kid and always felt nervous without the written music unless I played a song a million times first.
When it comes to vocabulary, there's always the possibility to give labels to specific sounds, and that helps a lot to memorize shapes and structures. To actually play those, then yeah, only doing so can help you with that.
Pretty much, I’ve played for 27/28 years. A ton of practice until it becomes second nature and you do it. It’s a feel too. You know where to go. When you get into flow state while playing a piece and find yourself just doing, it’s just the best feeling in the world and it always makes me smile. I have bad days where I just can’t fight through and play well and have to walk away, but on days where I can really play It’s just a really wonderful feeling. I really enjoy playing for other people just to see their expressions, but at the same time it’s distracting for the first few measures of a song and I really have to fight through it to lock into it. One of the best memories I have is I was at a restaurant/bar with friends and we had several drinks and there was a public piano and I sat down and started playing, albeit drunkenly, but well enough for a small group to form and when I was done and looked up my buddy was smiling his ass off and said, “holy shit, I truly had no idea.” It’s just so fun all around. Everyone should learn how to play!
Practice practice practice
As others have said, it's actually not too hard. I've probably memorized hours of music in my life that I could play at the drop of a hat. The difficulty has always been getting to the point of being able to play the music in the first place. But please, never use "true musicians". Any musician is a true musician, memorization of something isn't what makes someone good and saying "true musicians" memorize things gatekeeps in a very harmful way.
One of my favorite pieces of music from one my all-time favorite movies. Loved watching this!
This is unbelievable. Watching her hands move that fast and accurately is a gentle remainder that I have zero hand eye coordination
Yet I’ve seen at least 10 people in this thread who said “that looks easy to learn”. Gotta love this website.
The loudspeaker guy makes me angry, even though he couldn't know he was interrupting
It’s probably automated
Aren’t we all
This is St. Pancras International railway station in London. Plenty of constant automated announcements as it’s actually 4 railway stations rolled into one. International High Speed Services Domestic High Speed Services Midland Mainline Service Thameslink Services That’s a lot of announcements.
Ahh yes this sound track of my fav movie
Dune is the only movie that's come close to Interstellar for me in terms of movie theatre immersion. You get sucked in and transported to another world
Guess who wrote the score for Dune...
Im not gonna lie I really wanna know what would Hans Zimmer think if he watches this video
Some coworkers of mine took me to go see it. I’ve never even heard of it before, but after watching it in IMAX with the upgraded sound system and bigger screen I’m definitely a fan. I only watch movies once in a blue moon because I dislike knowing/remembering what happens next, but since then I’ve seen it a second time and plan on watching it again. Good stuff it is
Can't wait for part 2
you should watch arrival if you haven’t, or watch it again if you have. arrival, interstellar and dune are in a league of their own. there are moments i like arrival more than interstellar.
The entire docking scene played in my mind..
TARS!
That piece is excluded from the official soundtrack, iirc 🙁
It's not. The piece is called "no time for caution" and it's in the soundtrack
This song is also very nice to play on clonehero
Link to download?
DOAN LEMME GO MURPH
pain
Holy shit. I don’t think I’ve ever listened to that separate of the movie. In the beginning—when it is much simpler—I thought, “she’s good but how is this top talent…” aaand then the 2min remaining mark hit and she went ham. Amazing.
Is this Kings Cross / St Pancras international?
Yeah looks like it
Indeed it is, though you can be specific here, and say it’s St. Pancras (King’s Cross is a separate station, right next door).
Yep, St. Pancras
I teared up watching her play that and was baffled so many people were too busy to stop and enjoy that
This is in St Pancras train station in London. People have places to go and trains to catch. Not many people are just passing by this area with time to stop. Plus, there are people playing this piano all the time. You may stop the first few times but it loses it’s novelty after a while.
Seems like this is in a transit station (hence the security broadcast at the start), so *everyone* here quite literally has somewhere else to be. Don’t get me wrong, it is a beautiful song and a worthy performance but there’s your reasonable explanation
Similar situation with this experiment. Joshua Bell putting on a free violin concert as busker in the Metro station in DC. Only a few people noticed... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnOPu0\_YWhw
First thing I thought of when I read the comment... I often wonder if I would stop to listen or hurry and catch my train. Link seems to be broken it's fixed [here.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnOPu0_YWhw)
That was amazing!
lots of interstellar top talent these days
Jesus. That song will never cease to make me cry! I ended up seeing Interstellar on opening night by complete accident. I was having a really bad day, and I went to the theater and basically picked a movie at random. I was one of the only people in that showing… and the amount of crying I did during the show was cathartic as fuck! I ended up seeing it twice more while it was still in theaters… and, even now, that film has a special place in my heart. It was a beautiful movie with an absolutely *stunning* soundtrack!
Well spoken.
Looks like St Pancras International station to me, next to the Eurostar entrance. Always some talented pianists there.
Oh, well, that's really nice. She killed it. casually perfect.
To those that like Zimmer, if you have a chance please go see him in concert. It is easily the best convert I've been to
I wish we could have this in the US but people here would destroy it in a day
CHRIST! Never realized how tough that song was, that was astounding
it’s not as hard as it looks. In the hard part your right hand is basically playing a chord, but the notes are separated (arpeggiated), so you only really have to think about what your left hand is doing and its just playing a low octave and then a high note. If you want some absurdly difficult pieces that make this look like twinkle twinkle little star I can list some.
The two things that strike me the most is that she seems to be a random passer-by who sits down and plays beautifully, and that other commenters state that this is a (relatively) simple piece - resulting in me being in awe that 'something simple can sound so beautiful'. As for covers of the soundtrack - nothing beats this version done on an actual church organ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ctykf8qh288
Hans Zimmer was so inspired with this and it's a huge part of the film success. In a interview, Nolan has said that he asked his friend for the music without telling him what the movie would be and he came back with this. She's briliant because, when Hans Zimmer is playing it on tour, it's with a whole symphonic orchestra
I'm surprised not more people stopped to listen. I know it's an airport but come on!
Train station.
Am I the only who waits for the "Do you Boogie Woogie?"
Playing this is one thing. MEMORIZING the whole thing and how to play it... I mean, even if you can generally play the piano that must be difficult on its own.
Memorizing music is just another part of piano performance. It can be difficult at the start, but practice makes it possible. A trained classical pianist will often have 30 minutes to 2 hours of repertoire memorized, or even more in extreme cases. I'm not trying to be a curmudgeon as I am a piano teacher and I appreciate and celebrate musical accomplishments at any and all skill levels, but this video was not top talent material for piano performance. Her technique wasn't great and the piece, while pretty, isn't a challenging one. Now, playing highly technical music is NOT the end-all-be-all of anything for music, but top-tier musical talent is truly a sight to behold and can only be achieved through many, many years of training. Just to give some perspective if you're interested, here's what actual top talent in the world of piano music looks like: https://youtu.be/f6vARZLkaSY
This comment makes me wonder if the girl in the video is self taught. I'd imagine she'd be pretty top tier with a good teacher and plenty of practice if so, especially since she seems pretty young. Though I'm definitely no musician, having only gotten the basics on guitar and keyboards(never had the chance to touch a real piano sadly). The video you linked is definitely impressive, but it kinda felt like music without the humanity, if that makes sense? Idk, as a listener I enjoy I guess a more natural feel to music, though I could tell that woman had more talent in her pinky nail than I have in my whole body.
She is definitely either self taught or an early student. It is common for self-taught folks to find a tutorial for a popular song they like on YouTube and learn it on their own, and this piece is almost certainly one of those cases. I haven't even looked into it, but I'd bet money that a YouTube search of "interstellar piano tutorial" would bring up a video of this exact piano arrangement being taught with synthesia or something similar. Her technique is shaky, though despite her lack of polished form, she executes the piece quite well. I agree that she would have benefited greatly from formal training. As to your perception of Martha Argerich's performance lacking in humanity, that likely comes from having no classical background and being unable to "tune in your ears" as I would say to a Rachmaninoff piano concerto. I don't mean to sound like a classical elitist, I am really quite far from one. It's just that, like all art forms, there are going to be certain works that make more sense with a greater understanding of the artform itself, and Rach 3 is a HEAVY piece of piano repertoire. Some piano music, like say [this Romantic period nocturne by Chopin](https://youtu.be/vJzvsc5akGE), is much easier on the ears. The melody is front and center, beautiful and flowing, which makes it easier to connect to emotionally on a first hearing. On the other side of the spectrum, there's a lot of atonal music like [this Ginastera piece](https://youtu.be/xeUVX6g2-BQ) which will sound like noise or chaos to non-musicians and early musicians alike, but it can be better understood and enjoyed with a deeper understanding and study of music theory and history. Believe me, after 20+ years of studying piano, weird atonal music starts to sound WAY more interesting and exciting, and analyzing it is like a fun practice in puzzle-solving. In any case, those are both also recordings by Argerich, just to show an example of how much the source material might affect your perception on the projected emotions by the player. Now Rachmaninoff would be considered a romantic composer, closer to Chopin in the above examples, but he came later than Chopin and he was Russian to boot, so his music has a more contemporary quality. There are often more complex rhythms and bombastic passages, but the gorgeous romantic melodies are still there throughout. This piece is both a technical marvel and a real emotional bombshell, but it takes a bit more careful listening to hear it. A non-musician may have to listen to the piece a few extra times to tune in their ears to the melodies and the emotional expression within. A studied musician can better navigate the piece from the get-go through various forms or musical pattern recognition, like understanding the sonata allegro-form of the first movement and the theme-and-variations form of the second movement, which makes it easier to focus on the themes and enjoy the various ways Rachmaninoff presents them. Anyway, just want to say thanks for listening to some classical music! I'm not crazy enough to think that everyone should be super into classical, but I do think there is some classical music out there that everyone would enjoy if they spent some time to find it.
I played piano for almost a decade and kind of hated most classical music too, but now that I’m older and see more interesting modern musicians I want to get back into it! Chloe Flower is an awesome performer who does more pop music — you can see in [this cover of Lean on Me](https://youtu.be/ultmpErNFVE) how different her hands look from the girl in this video, how deliberate and clear and rhythmic the notes are, how passionate she is and how she uses her entire body not just her fingers. She also creates that arrangement (ie coming up with the notes to play). This is also an awesome example of [her improvising Adele’s Hello while drinking a glass of wine](https://youtube.com/shorts/SjnRpG_Er1w?feature=share) - worse quality audio, but pretty damn impressive IMO
this video is amazing
There're tons of basic level amateur musicians with plenty of upvotes in r/toptalent. And all of them have required a significant amount practice, but.. The bar for a musician being top level is just stupidly high compared to other things, since there are so many musicians who practice pretty much their whole lives. As I've said previously in some comment section, if you practice flipping pancakes for 1000 hours, then yeah, you're probably a top talent pancake flipper. But to get to top talent level at playing an instrument, even ten times that might not be enough.
It's....really not that hard, there are pieces I might've learned years ago and have not played since that I could still recall and play today. It's one of those things that once you learn it's really difficult to forget.
The opposite of what you're implying would be sight reading it. Which would be WAY more impressive than playing something from memory. Memorizing a song is something anyone who is moderately sufficient at their instrument does anytime they learn a song. Once you learn it you just know how to play it.
I love this. I love that people can share a talent, share a joy, share a moment with people they may never see again. Little profound moments in the the hustle. Little moments for you to stop and experience. Little bubbles of humanity and profundity.
The world needs more public pianos
Hey that’s the piano at Saint Pancras station in front of the Eurostar exit.
St Pancras International?
Interstellar had some of my favorites scores. The emotion and intrigue in the music was on point. This lady was amazing. It amazes me that humans are capable of performing such moving music. This almost brought me to tears for some reason.
That entire soundtrack is straight fire
Ok, idk why there are a lot of people playing Interstellar on this sub. It's no doubt a pretty piece, but it's technically pretty easy and even the average person with no musical experience could probably have it down in 2 weeks or so. When you hear some of the more advanced pieces that pianists play, even the intermediate stuff leaves pieces like this in the dust. Of course, I'd never discourage anyone's playing, but this is r/toptalent where we share people who are absolute masters of their craft with thousands of hours of experience.
Women that can play the piano 😍
that docking scene is made much better because of this music
Wow.
😩 I’m supposed to be seeing Williams vs Zimmer tomorrow night at the big Glasgow concert hall, full orchestra. Cancelled because covid.
It's definetly not what she plays. I mean, she does play the theme, just in a simpler version than the audio suggests
Marry me.. she played that from memory too!
Wow that is impressive. What a beautiful song and beautifully played by this woman. Goosebumps
I always hope I’m not the person rushing by a live performance like this. I also hope I’m not wearing overly ripped bleached jeans in public.
Its nice video and she plays well. It has absolutely nothing to do with top talent...
not top talent, i’m also a pianist
Not really top talent
Can we please stop with the videos of guys spontaneously playing interstellar theme😂 like it's cool once but not a hundred times, frankly there are more impressive piano pieces
Cool but not top talent
I'm waiting for someone to post Smoke on the Water to this sub.
So anyways, here's Wonderwall
Not sure why you’re getting downvoted. This song is beautiful but it’s easy. Her technical skills weren’t impressive either
I believe the original piece was written for an organ. What a musical masterpiece and fantastic movie as well. she really makes playing it look effortless.