Nyan Cat piano arrangement sight-read by Tom Brier

It takes him a few minutes to wrap his head around this one. You can see the arrangement he's reading here: www.keeper1st.com/music/nyanca... . It was arranged by our friend Vincent Johnson, whose KZbin page is / noveltypiano
Of course, technically the name of the tune is "Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya!" composed by someone in Japan who is known as "daniwell". His web page is aidn.jp and his KZbin page is / daniwellaidn He has an album out now which features a few different arrangements of this song as well as several other songs. Here is a video daniwell shot of himself playing it: • ^･ω･^)ﾉ Nyan Cat Piano
The Pop Tart Cat was a separate entity by cartoonist Christopher Torres a.k.a. "PRguitarman" whose KZbin page is / prguitarman1 . The two were merged together (using a remixed version of the song) by KZbinr "saraj00n" to create the bizarre sensation that is known as Nyan Cat: • Video
This sight-read was at the end of the March 2012 meeting of the Mother Lode Ragtime Society at the Sutter Creek Ice Cream Emporium, 51 Main Street, Sutter Creek, California. www.suttercreekragtime.com
The bulk of Tom's performances from the meeting have been posted at / sutterchip

[@ediehague4994]

I’m not sure people understand how impressive this really is

[@Mrswedish10]

imagine this, it's the 1800's and you are in a Salon. This guy walks in and starts playing this, but what you dont know is that he is a time traveler.

[@androo699]

I like how this video just periodically goes viral again

[@bornamovafaghi6075]

All those mistakes in the beginning might seem to point against his skill, but remember, he's never heard the tune to know what his mistakes are. That being said, he still recognizes them fine, which means that he can "hear" the song just by reading the paper, and knows when what he playing doesn't match up. His mistakes make his musicality even more impressive

[@Z3NTR0music]

Unfortunately Tom is still recovering from being hit by a truck about 3 years ago. Best wishes.

[@linebeck1381]

I hope he knows that 2.3 million people care about him.

[@getfikato100subs5]

the fact that he mastered this song in seconds almost scares me. but the same time I’m happy I saw this

[@PixelSlayer247]

I'd love to see this snuck into a saloon scene in a western movie and see how long it takes people to notice.

[@MrBaran-dz2mn]

12 years.. We are getting old fellas

[@toreythefox1603]

Never thought I'd hear nyan cat as a ragtime tune 😂

[@braanch]

I wish the comment section had a “oldest first” option

[@nathanstafford8412]

I like that his first instinct is to play it in ragtime swing

[@ivantxic7870]

This is the background music you hear when a fight breaks out in an old west saloon

[@nagnot6718]

How my parents think I’ll do on my first lesson:

[@mango.lightshows]

KZbin was really like “Hey wanna watch this 12 year old video of a guy sight reading Nyan Cat on the piano?”

[@IsaacFoster..]

This is an absolutely insane skill. He learned the song and he slowly adapted it to himself, he literally consumed the Nyan Cat. Nyan Cat became a piece of him. Nyan Cat became one with his divine art.

[@kermit7368]

he's bald because his mortal body couldn't contain all his power

[@TerraSept]

"Theres this really popular internet meme called Nyan cat"

[@justsomegirl627]

I saw this and thought "oh, this is interesting" and then he said "really popular internet meme" and I thought "oh wait, this isnt recent, when was it mad-"

[@martingu36]

I will always find it crazy how musicians can accurately play a piece by only looking at a sheet of paper. It's probably one of the coolest skills to master in life.