In The Hall Of The Mountain King - Black Midi | Pianist Reacts

[@orngjce223]

The huge keysmashes sound fine in the context of the song because they're basically being used as percussion

[@tacey_qz]

I love how he can pick it up and play it

[@matticawood]

A misspent childhood 😂

[@BoxIsEditor]

@@matticawood 😂

[@Fourty2]

Also he can probably read music

[@FAMOUSF3RN]

Congrats to the people who didn’t throw up watching this-

[@alemeshetmersha4763]

@@matticawood new sub

[@FireyDeath4]

Black midi composers tend to put in a lot of redundant and very quiet notes to get the note count up. They aren't really meant to be performable by humans unless they're simplified, although compound sounds are generally totally impossible (this is where they mess with the waveforms by stacking notes extremely close together). People put a lot of focus into adding visuals and either piling things in until it lags with powerful graphics/audio hardware, or greatly slows down the render time, but it's still important to remember it's a musical genre, and it's good to focus on the piece sounding good and using the notes to help add auditory details and quality. Rush E 2 and a couple of Touhou tracks uploaded early on by TheBrowntown21 seem to do this fairly well.

[@dayfelin3244]

its not just a song, its also a music video meant to bamboozle and confuse poeple

[@FireyDeath4]

@@dayfelin3244 Honestly I was kinda waiting for the day someone might point that out Didn't exactly plan for it, though, but, black midi is more kind of a novelty than anything... Usually the midi visualisation part is secondary (to the main melody) and the musical substance of the additional notes is tertiary. It reminds me of how they play Bad Apple on everything, but only the video part and rarely the music part. (Well, verbatim, rather than with a remix/cover/sound-font swap. I have yet to see it be played just on a gramophone...) I'm kind of a fundamentalist about things (- and for good productive reason -), so to me, black midi is still fundamentally a music genre, although I realise most people interpret it as an audiovisual/data art-form. But it's just more impressive if the notes you cram into a piece have more auditory substance than just senseless bright colours. I mean, you're not even innovating with the patterns or even just showing more interesting ones like many people in other cultures are... :P

[@ThatCzechGuy]

​​​@@FireyDeath4This is why I like Black MIDI Some japanese guy once thought "All this music is beatiful, but what if I took out the part where its supposed to be played by humans?", remixed "U.N. Owen was her" and out of it came something as beatiful as the original and accidentaly began a whole new music genre(the original was uploaded to niconico but you can find it on KZbin under the name Death Waltz, I believe) Edit: Found it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qpXWYaSlrbyJqdUsi=q3MLLgRABnIeJLK7

[@FireyDeath4]

@ They took out the part where music is supposed to be played by humans ever since they made the first DAW, really

[@ThatCzechGuy]

​​​@@FireyDeath4This brings it to an extreme tho. At some point we will get to a point when only a high end computer could play a piece and not explode

[@circumferenced]

This piece made the art of black midis known i think

[@1pre1]

This is a very interesting video, it was cool how you stopped at each section as the midi got more impossible and explain it. It's always nice too see someone how actually knows what they're talking about, and not just some random kid saying "just roll on the piano to play this!!"

[@matticawood]

Thanks! I’m glad you enjoyed it, they are fun to watch 😊

[@RoseQuartz692]

this is probably my favorite piano version of In The Hall of The Mountain King

[@sirspork5651]

I'm honestly surprised that midi has gone on this long, some daft little thing I made when I was 15 haha, never when I made it did I think it would get the reaction it did. Back into hiding now, great video :)

[@matticawood]

Well well well…You should definitely come out of hiding and do some more! Very impressive for 15 😊

[@Klabbity_Kloots]

Why are there screechy notes?

[@thepinkwizard_]

I'm getting confusion here, are you the creator of midi or did you make something from it that got popular?

[@thepinkwizard_]

Nevermind, I just realized you made this piece. I'm a total idiot, also very, very impressed 2.9 million notes asdagsjwgwavbmsgw

[@ZachsToysandFamily]

@@thepinkwizard_ what’s with the spamming random letters ?

[@AquaranSocialistRepublic]

Song: **INTENSIFIES TO THE MOON AND BEYOND** Melody: **quite literally the same**

[@Thatoneguybehindthewindow]

Simply piano ads be like :

[@CoyoteWanderer67]

Hi, it's Timmy, and this is day 1 of Simply Piano. I am so sh*t at this.

[@Announcer-BFDI]

dont get me started on simply piano 💀💀💀💀

[@jessicapohlmann5873]

Excellent comment, APPROVED!!!!

[@Shadowbladehydra]

So true lol😂

[@UniqueUnit-d5u]

I literally got that ad before watching this video 🙁

[@mastercord5077]

I love it how he noticed how it sounds very different to what the notes are showing

[@TwintailsEnjoyerToT]

Pianist: how much difficult you want to make it ? Sir spork: yes

[@thedarkpassenger7904]

@3:44 I don't know if the composer did it on purpose or "visualized" it mentally, but the drawings that certain parts give are impressive!

[@jackyfriedman1963]

Voiceplay is an acapella group known as the Theater Kids because they love to dress up in their videos. They are also very comical but keep true to the music but putting their own spin on the videos. They recently released a video of this. Dressing up as trolls around a cauldron. I would love for you to react to it beings you reached to this. Great reaction btw.

[@DrdaantjeGaming]

ur so underrated , i saw ur vid where u reacted to the 'most' difficult pieces. loved that vid

[@matticawood]

Thanks! I appreciate that 😊

[@mkd55rrff-v7o]

Imagine being at a school talent show, and someone plays this

[@miroslavzima8856]

Reminds me of Red Dwarf, where Holly was so bored at the prison and invented another key on the keyboard and mentioned that piano will be as long as crosswalk. Becuse this would need so many people and a BIG piano.

[@matticawood]

I very big piano! 😂

[@Bumblesalt.]

Wdym

[@Toogoodtobetrue458]

This is MADNESS!!!

[@SubEmperor99]

I got a simply piano ad before this 💀

[@marshayoung9387]

Please react to Voice Plays cover of In The Hall Of the Mountain King. They are a very theatrical acapella group & this arrangement of theirs is so different from anything you will ever hear. They are a total package. They are their own production company & everything you see is all them.

[@matticawood]

Nice! Il find it and see what I can do 😊

[@dianaroseamat3609]

this one is a masterpiece

[@MissyXL]

As now Mountain King impossible remains as the hardest piano song ever and I love ur vds 😌

[@BorisPenev]

Grieg once said I payed for the whole and i am going to use the whole piano and this person showed it

[@aramishadnot8618]

every single time when it goes to on that part I keep on thinking that I'm hereing Ambush sounds

[@jacksonclark9816]

3:28 I'm not an expert in sheet music or anything like that, but I *think* that it still comes out sounding like it should with those extra bits at least partially because there's just so much more stuff going into the... primary melody? Whatever it's called in this instance, than there is extraneous stuff.

[@Zalied]

2:10 it has to because holding a note is only 1 note. where as rolling it at a thousand clicks a second raises note count and gives a slightly different feel

[@TheCrazy_Plays1234]

"Why is all pieces impossible for your wrist" really perfect lol🤣

[@HameleoshaDeHoga]

This one was one of the first times I've ever seen such a thing as "black midi" and back then i commented how it made me feel very dizzy (in a good way) because i got so overwhelmed and impressed by this impossible thing. Sometimes i wish i could erase my memory and get that first reaction again, just the sheer power this thing had over me... And now i like noise music :)

[@nebxonexicron]

3:27 i think it's because they changed the volume of those colored notes. maybe the color of the note determines it's volume. 6:15 thing was so crazy his frickin camera lagged

[@Fourty2]

Basically this is like the rushes(a,b,c,c#,d,e,f,g) but harder

[@suakap]

What a legend

[@roanthewolf]

My ears after that video: Oh sh*t, here we go again!

[@AJ-kv1po]

if we got 88 people for each note, maybe just maybe it's possible if they know when their cue is...

[@Princess_Leia_Organa]

4:48... can anyone do that pls? A playable variant of that part? I looooove that

[@Dr._Geno]

if you're interested, I would suggest reacting to the piano duet transcription of "mope mope" by LeaF. as in LeaF was the original artist.

[@matticawood]

Il check it out! 😊

[@Handles_Are_Bad_Lol]

@@matticawood and then he died of a heart attack

[@katieheys3007]

"Well that was pretty intense" sums it up perfectly haha!

[@ethan6273]

We buy whole piano, we use whole piano-Grieg

[@WilliamMuneFyre76]

"I think it's gonna get pretty crazy" You have no idea

[@beatknightgaming3361]

What exactly is a Black Midi, is it a variation of a Midi file?

[@matticawood]

Yes! I think the premise is…it’s a midi piano file but it wouldn’t be possible to actually play. I believe the name came from the fact that if it was noted the page would just be black 😊

[@ruanaur]

@@matticawood you’re right

[@ReiSomethin_]

Of course

[@CuberGamesOG]

Black midi is when there's basically 10 octaves, and they use the black keys a million times

[@alwaysblackmidis]

put one on a music sheet and you will understand why its called black midi

[@AnnaandStanleyFNF]

If all the notes were the same volume this song would sound horrifying

[@Pugzilla0]

May have already told you this but i just really love these "Pianist Reacts" videos. Can you react to some of Lionel Yu's newer concert clips?

[@matticawood]

Thanks! Il check out some of his recent videos 😊

[@nafieseabdul3690]

@@matticawood If I haven’t already told you, I’ve seen some of your videos and I already love them. Especially the one that show a guy with the talking piano. It literally blew my mind when I saw it happen, bro.

[@nafieseabdul3690]

I’m not so sure about that last part of the video I mean, bro, the piano almost caught on fire when it was playing Rush E. Perhaps, playing that song on that piano…wasn’t such a good idea considering the fact that the song has more than a thousand notes added to it.

[@wewewerhoi1000]

Love it!

[@victorcarcamo1700]

Yes

[@ArrRachmaninoff]

In the hall of the mountain god

[@Fourty2]

I'd like to see 9 pro pianists play this or Mark Rober's talking piano

[@CuberGamesOG]

Those chords are: B minor B diminished (vii°) B sus4 D major

[@thenorseguy2495]

Next time I’m in a piano bar and the pianist ask if there are any request I’ll ask for this😂

[@Enderia2]

I just realized the patterns aren’t a different color. They’re damn spaces

[@TantalumPolytope]

Awesome

[@alemeshetmersha4763]

WHAT THE FUCK WHO CAN DO THAT YOU ARE A LEGEND DAM YOU BETTER GOT A NEW SUB

[@JUS_TIX.]

Can you react to 0 - 2020 and Rush F?

[@EVX444]

damn... matt is a legend

[@Danny_Editss]

Nice Matt

[@ReiSomethin_]

I like it !!

[@Qmtal]

new players who sees flowey bossfight in undertale

[@ucdungnguyen39]

If you can do that so you is a legend

[@bradleyhalim29]

Damn... Matt is a legend.

[@lamkao3719]

Thats insane!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Qchendrick]

A korder of a way from the end thats how fast u go when a rollercoaster goes insanly fast

[@TimothyYan-p8e]

love this

[@LiviaMiron]

❤❤❤❤❤ love IT

[@ryans413]

If someone can play this with two hands I’ll be amazed.

[@ulebule9850]

"this is fine"

[@LiviaMiron]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ love it

[@Tovosx2]

Idk why bit I laughed so hard when he was like: "hold on *plays piano* is the good enough?"

[@Goated_Earl_Sweatshirt]

You have the whole piano, you use the whole piano

[@jhoemen]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@donnelleraeburn9207]

Edvard Grieg:" this was my solo piece, such good times" Everyone else, this must be done with more than 1 person

[@amirhavyt]

I can only imagine that guy's computer engulfed in flames as he's playing it lmao

[@NathanTorres-m4y]

My computer after this 🔥

[@Butntrap2]

Dude the video wrecked my rtx 4090

[@RicMoreau]

I am surprised that you, Matthew, haven't mentioned the main reason for this type of "black" composition is it's visual impact. That audible result is not exactly pleasing and of course it's impossible for a human to play (though you do a very good job of parts of it). But it's very pretty to watch, like a '90's Laser Show. I would never criticize you and I enjoy your reactions to everything I've seen. What I haven't seen that I would like to see is your reaction to Gershwin, specifically Concerto in F. It's fascinating rhythm (pun intended), split second timing, the weaving of many themes leave me breathless! Gershwin never plays anything the same way twice. I wish Rousseau would digitize it, I'd love to see that! Anyway, kudos on your channel and I'm watching!

[@ngminhviet]

5:21 You can do this song alone: Records them on 100 piano

[@kevinvasquez2608]

You should look at Blue Midi Black Midi. KZbin called Blue Midi

[@matticawood]

Il check it out! 😊

[@danialpratama2923]

That 5 phase

[@4Bakers]

Those big green segments that are slamming an entire octave are only okay sounding because MIDI allows each note's volume to be controlled individually and these Black MIDI files abuse that to build complex sounds with many layers. That layer is for visual flair and is very quiet

[@candascastille7737]

After the song your fingers would be burning after you play that

[@CubingBones]

3:25 thats because the arts are silent

[@iamdum4961]

At 6:08 every key is playing a note

[@matticawood]

It’s pretty crazy! Yet it still sounds like the piece of music 😊

[@craig00199]

Dam matthew is a lengend

[@kianmatthewvivo5297]

Everyone: this is impossible! THAT ONE ASIAN KID:

[@homeleonardi2963]

SO NISE

[@NeilAnaiahBuhayo-q2h]

@matticawood There was a video that had 32,323,232 Notes in it and is a more intense version of In The Hall Of The Mountain King and was remade by 3 KZbinrs. Oh, And there is a remake of the song "Here I Come", There were many versions of it but the most chaotic one I found is the Death Mode... Can you try doing a reaction video based on what was explained above?

[@Grandtrunkboi4070]

Oh to to difficult to play that like its 5:51 OOMMMGGGG

[@matticawood]

Most of it is impossible 😂

[@ceciliaburke4726]

Is this hander then rush e2.

[@nukegamerzzz]

what about you react to Rush E & Rush E 2 which is Sheet music bosses recent video

[@matticawood]

Il have a look! 😊

[@lego_by_leo]

Looks like one I can dance to. 😅

[@daskem44]

You said that it's easy to write a playable ver. of it so can you do it🎉

[@PomadaGaming]

3:36 that sounds kinda demonic

[@PomadaGaming]

4:45 damn 6:01 I imagine

[@MidnightFractal]

Please react to the black midi tau or ouranos

[@matticawood]

Il find it and see what I can do! 😊

[@NextLevelLemon]

me at the start of the video: EINSTEIN MADE THE TIME MACHINE!!!!

[@skoopdewoop]

you should do mountain king but preforned bh 6th graders next

[@Pugzilla0]

can you react to the newest when you write a song that already exists by daniel thrasher

[@matticawood]

Il see what I can do 🙃

[@TantalumPolytope]

you should react to ''Tau the Song with 6.28318 Million Notes | Impossible Piano | Black MIDI'' by MusiMasta

[@TantalumPolytope]

@SuperGamingNerd i know i just found musimasta's version better

[@shriry]

did anyone else notice it went from 550fps in the begining and strugled for 30fps in the ending

[@anaraabdrahmanova5005]

You didn't see lagged on PFA Edit:it's called Legit run

[@cristianemontagner9616]

Green keys: soft hit. Red keys: hard hit. Thats why the green blocks dont appear to be in the song. And the more bluish the key is the faster it is hit btw

[@benseesyou_vr2183]

It was animated

[@Smex]

wait a minute, this isnt the black midi i was looking for lmao

[@rionfouts916]

If anyone tried to do that, they'd end up destroying their keyboard or something.

[@michadomagaa7841]

and at 4:16 there would maybe be 10 people

[@dunkinstafford8280]

2:24 those are pedgios not scales