Mario Party マリオパーティ "Faster Than All" sight-read by Tom Brier

[@ShyGuyXXL]

If this guy was playing game music in a bar near me I'd go there every night and give tips galore!

[@vladgina]

Seriously. I don't have a lot of money so I wouldn't tip EVERY night... but I should would go and see him every night and give him my full appreciation and support? hah

[@ChaineYTXF]

@@vladgina the man had an accident and is, as I understand it, unable to play anymore😐

[@sulos4646]

When?

[@dubonzi]

Oh my god his left hand

[@Rztro1544]

He's know for his particularly aggressive left hand

[@andrewbarrett1537]

If you think his left hand is strong here, listen to what he does with "Picalilli Rag" by George Reeg, on his 1994 CD "Rising Star".

[@PHamster]

I’m honestly dishearten to learn that a reckless driver took away this man’s talent.

[@bobsomatic1935]

I know, it really is a shame. I hope he will be able to play again some day

[@rosspatton8306]

And, Disheartening is an understatement. What goes around, comes back around. And I'm confident that wreckless driver will get their "Come Up In" although, that unfortunately, won't undo the harm done to Mr. Brier

[@Actual-Knight]

disheartening? I'd say more infuriating

[@47Mortuus]

@@rosspatton8306 yeah what goes around, comes around. Maybe Tom f'd up hard in his previous life though ;) He also doesn't seem to have too much luck with attracting a mate. Maybe he's being punished in this life? Because this is pretty much too ironic otherwise.

[@kenobi894]

@@47Mortuus you’re comment is easily the most moronic thing I’ve read today. Congrats

[@smthone]

Just picturing an old west drunken saloon, revolvers going off in the background lol

[@ZorotheGallade]

+smthone Add in a big and a small guy socking blokes in the face and making them fly out of the window for full spaghetti western style.

[@DocZombiePhD]

+ZorotheGallade And a goomba on his 6th drink, lol.

[@sailor4076]

after everyone's dead he's the last guy sitting, playing, because no-one's crazy enough to hurt the music man as talented as this

[@joebacon4519]

That would be epic

[@MrGameguyC]

So this is what Wiggler meant by a "Hootenanny" at Western Land.

[@Keeper1st]

Tom is one of the most prolific ragtime composers in history, with well over 200 compositions to his name. There are videos you can search for on KZbin of some of his own, like Spasmodic, Blue Lampshade, Blue Sahara, Parallelograms, Perryville, Peril in Pantomime, Elephant Tracks, Razor Blades, Meditation, just a name a few off the top of my head.

[@evifnoskcaj]

He is an absolute legend, to be sure! Thank you for sharing gems like these! I keep finding new ones, and that is such a treat. Prayers for a speedy recovery for him! ♥️

[@Schimnesthai]

I'm glad to read that he has over 200 compositions, maybe some day i will assist a rag-time festival and hear one of his music pieces.

[@Indykathoris]

I wonder, After hearing a bunch over the years, do you plan to try to mimic sight reading as tom Brier if he walking to a piano once again?😮

[@johnnycoolguy9554]

I think out of all of his Mario/Nintendo sight reads, this is his best one. Not only is the original tune perfect for ragtime, but Tom's skill is unbelievably apparent here. The original melody is only played once, and the rest of the time is just pure technical improvisation. To know music theory so well, the piano so well, ragtime so well, he is able to play something he knows nothing about and pulls it off spectacularly. My heart weeps every time I think about him losing his abilities in the accident. His videos have shined bright for over a decade, and everyone should know his name. Tom Brier lived on the same Earth as men like Wolfgang Mozart and Ludwig Beethoven, and goddamn it, he deserves to be in the conversation when talking about great musicians. I hope someday, in this life or the next, I can get to see him play live. And if I do, dinner's on me. A thanks for the entertainment all these years.

[@juceinuse]

I absolutely agree! Tom Brier has skill that I will never be able to even fully wrap my mind around. It's a travesty that he isn't what he was now, but his memory will absolutely live on if we as a collective have anything to say about it. And, with any luck, we won't need just our memory if he can eventually bring that skill back

[@StanDeBo]

FINISH!

[@Charmolution]

Orgasm denial in music form.

[@MrGamerTH]

NEW RECORD!

[@winicious]

Handcar Havoc: sweet memories!

[@WilberWoolbear]

GOAL!

[@RenegadeScooter]

miss DOH I MISSED

[@michaels9985]

God bless Tom with a swifter recovery

[@PreservationEnthusiast]

I just love his sense of timing and rhythm. You can see it in the way his whole body moves. And the way he builds from the slower part to the fast tempo so smoothly. One could practice a lifetime and not do it like that. 1 in a million talent.

[@hutzman7664]

I'd call it 1 in 7 billion talent.

[@aguilarrojasoctavio4402]

@@hutzman7664 I´d do it too, I mean, are there recordings of someone like this "man"? Playing this fast, passionate, rhythmically, arranging and favoring the original song without rehearsal, composing in real time like Bach with his fugues. There are some musicians that improves on the style of Mozart or certain artists, yet IMO I cannot see a replacement for Tom´s work

[@Keeper1st]

I would have thought so, but when I gave him untitled sheet music of my ragtime arrangement of the Star Trek: The Next Generation theme, he could not for the life of him figure out what tune it was (stared at it for several minutes) until he began to play it.

[@limew]

Holy moly, the way Tom makes up endings to the music is amazing.

[@somebaker2613]

It's absolutely unfathomably astounding that he could turn one basic single sheet of song into this entire arrangement of music, off the top of his head, composing as he reads the music

[@Soundhound101]

All I can do to help is watch his talent. I was a fan before the tragedy.

[@iamfriskthepacifist6046]

THIS GUY CAN DO ANYTHING

[@asrieldreemurr8059]

Tom Jevil Tom Jevil Also, howdy Frisk!

[@KNACK2BABY]

@@asrieldreemurr8059 Yeah literally, what were the coincidences that someone who knows undertale would refer to deltarune before the game came out

[@Keeper1st]

Yes, he does.

[@beavinator]

"NEW RECORD!"

[@Keeper1st]

Yeah, the arrangement he gave to Tom was a much simpler version. I think it was the one that he based his arrangement off of. It seemed all right except for having bass chords, the arranger afraid to move his left hand more than an octave at a time as I see so often in these scores. Obviously, Tom compensated for that and put the chords in the tenor register where they belong.

[@cptredhorse5156]

A great and accurate assessment

[@TackyRackyComixNEO]

I really want to go out there to see Tom in person one day. Y'all are really lucky to be able to see such a master of the keys in person regularly.

[@banquoviaquo9220]

Between the ambience, music, and vicarious delight, these videos provide an uncommon sense of comfort and warmth.

[@jezzmaninjapan]

I can only imagine how joyful an experience it must've been, being in the same room with him while he's going ham on that thing.

[@MrSaemichlaus]

01:30 I could well imagine myself playing this part really well.

[@tidiestflyer7570]

The 9 dislikes are piano tuners.

[@Mumra2K]

Love this guy's sight reading abilities. I'm so jealous. :-)

[@TheMisterLaster]

haha this was really fun you guys were awesome!!

[@TheMisterLaster]

basically what I gave tom was the first page of the arragement, but I did correct the time signature to 2/4 instead of 4/4

[@ink1931]

HOLY CRAP! THIS GUYS GOT SKILL!

[@frost3173]

⚄

[@думатьиначе]

ink he’se also got some practice ;)

[@cjuice9039]

@@думатьиначе over 40 years of practice

[@crancelbrowser5478]

The fact that he's so effortlessly ripping so much music out of that one crinkled up piece of paper is simply astounding.

[@bin2805]

I can always rely on this video to make me smile

[@Talt0s]

Wow, as usual, Tom Brier and his Genius ! Thanks to share it with everybody !

[@michatroschka]

how is that possible, best und most fun piano playing ive ever heard. and these video game compositions are so great

[@bouncingsoul777]

I find myself watching with the biggest smile on my face every time I play one of this man's video's. How fun what an amazing talent that must be bordering genius. Thank you so much for sharing these :)

[@pubcle]

Ah, this one has so many memories for me, really hit that nostalgia nerve hard. When I was a kid I always rented Mario Party 2 which also had the theme from the local mom and pop type video rental store and played it at the McDonalds across from the school quite a few times back when they had those N64's hooked up and that theme in particular stuck with me, played that mini-game so much and the Western theme was always the favorite of the group (yes I know ragtime wasn't actually Western) and my favorite minigame was one of the ones with this song... urgh... what was it... hold on... Handcar Havoc at the time. This song never left my mind in all, what, 9 years? I started gaming back when I was 5, store went out of business around 9 so yeah a little over 9. The second most played game of my childhood with friends after the original Super Smash Bros and nothing beats Halo 2 & 3 in my teenage years. Still have the same old 64 and bought Mario Party 2 last year with plans to get 1 this year (Have had 3 as long as I can remember).

[@geese8996]

I've been watching and rewatching these Tom Brier videogame songs for a long long time, and it never gets old. I play piano and guitar myself and I mean I think I'm pretty good, but watching this it's like.. imagine every single time you do your hobby, every single person in their room takes their phone out to record you because it's so astonishing. I love this so much

[@JayJay64100]

It's just completely amazing what Tom Brier can make with one note sheet!

[@LordGopu]

This is a really good one. I still need to make it out there one day to hear him play.

[@jezzmaninjapan]

It's always a joy to keep discovering videos of this legendary man!

[@GrandpaParrotNHB]

T O M B R I R E R W I N S !

[@LukeA471]

This needs more views

[@supersmashdragon]

put this guy in the nintendo orchestra, NOW!

[@migduh]

No way!! This is one of my favorite VG tunes, can't believe you got him to rag dat ho up!!! Excellent work as always, Tom!

[@DocZombiePhD]

It's so fun to hear these songs the way they were composed as opposed to compressed midi files that we get in most of the games.

[@jean-naymar602]

A midi file is not compressed.

[@MoonWho78]

A lot of improvisation here. This is not the way it was composed or arranged

[@hartlesssc1512]

Keeper1st, did you clock how many BPM that was towards the end? 160+?

[@Keeper1st]

+HartlessSC I count 28 beats in 10 seconds, so that's 168 bpm, yes.

[@bachaddict]

Giving Tom Brier a piece named Faster Than All... now that's taking a risk!

[@Dutchyman]

It's amazing how a man can spontaneously create so much music out of one sheet of paper

[@Keeper1st]

Or in Tom's case, sometimes with no music at all -- just making stuff up e.g. kzbin.info/www/bejne/boCmeX9-iMipfJY

[@EddieKMusic]

I wonder if by only reading the music piece for the first time, without piano, does the music play in his head? :)

[@tempex5862]

Yes

[@Keeper1st]

The PDF he has on one of his videos is not the one he's showing to Tom; it's a more complicated version that he made. The one he gave to Tom here is a simple one made by someone else as I recall.

[@MrEdwithdreadz]

Absolutely incredible. I cant believe what has happened to him 😢😢

[@bryanedds8922]

It really was... Faster than All!

[@austinstitzel]

This is my favorite soundtrack in Mario Party 1

[@simonhebert4089]

What an absolute LEGEND

[@phibryzoai4421]

Bonjour, Comment va Tom ? Quelques nouvelles ? Belle performance. Hello, How is Tom ? Any News ? Great perform. Bravo

[@TheMimik123]

He plays like a legende

[@phantomsleet6166]

Mr. Tom, gonna have to write you a speeding ticket, because that left is going too fast!

[@Keeper1st]

Tom was once "arrested for speeding" after a performance by the local police, as a gag: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZCZnJdprdeeoZo

[@mblakew1273]

Can’t believe I’m just seeing this now! Currently learning his improvisation of the Mario athletica theme

[@VicJang]

For some reason this video never showed up in my recommendation and I didn’t see it until now! After all these years! Once again, thank you for uploading, and I hope we get to see Tom in front of a piano again one day.

[@MoMember88]

When I tell people this is one of my favourite youtube channels they are puzzled then I buffer a video and instantly a smile is on their face its the power of rag time no one can be un happer or sad when they are blasted with beautiful raw talent thank you so much for lifting my mood so often and being a constant inspiration Tom :)

[@newthepanch]

this is awsome when tom moves his left hand so fast the video shows it laggy xD

[@Uberphish]

Oh man, I've been looking for this tune for a while now, but I never knew the name! Thanks for putting this out there!

[@Cameronjhi]

What a legend! I would pay to go see him play!

[@staticwild8513]

This guy is probably one of the rare savants of our time. Am I wrong?

[@SordidDawn]

He got all that from one page?

[@codywalker4956]

The page just gives him the key and says "improvise" 😂😂 not really but that'd be funny

[@jaco7675]

It’s written really small

[@darrensucksatgames]

The way music is often written, it uses a lot of symbols and devices to shrink a lot of the repetitive parts so I'd have to say yes! I had the sheet music for the drum portion of Crazy Train and the entire song fits on less than a page and that tune is almost 5 mins long

[@andrewbarrett1537]

You just take the melody and chords/bass line, and then it's "off to the races" building variations :)

[@Keeper1st]

It is, but there was no opportunity to give it to him this weekend. Don't know if I'll go to the meeting in September or not. If I do, I hope this piano will have been repaired after having some strings break during the course of the festival weekend.

[@zeo278]

i just imagine four mario characters trying to throw each other of the water in giant balls.

[@Keeper1st]

There actually hasn't been much Mario music lately. I don't have any Mario tunes printed out to show him at this weekend's Sutter Creek Ragtime Festival. Got something from Sonic, of course the Banjo-Kazooie tune I just arranged, some older arrangements I still haven't given him, oh and I did throw together the Bubble Bobble theme recently. We'll see what there's time to show him, as I also have tunes by ragtime composers who want to hear him sight-read their music. Those take priority.

[@Keeper1st]

He does have studio-quality albums, solo and two-piano duets with the late Nan Bostick. They can be bought/downloaded from CDBaby.

[@EmileeAria413]

You know I hadn’t considered that Mario Party mini-game music would fit very well playing over a bar fight until just now.

[@Harmonyww]

I will attest to the brilliance of Tom and Nan Bostick's duet album "Dualing at the McCoys". It retains the fun feeling of these impromptu performances while being recorded using high quality equipment on well tuned pianos. Nan Bostick was a very talented pianist too, making it even more of a treat.

[@srenhaandbk7904]

How strange... I destincitvely remember Keeper answering Tom's "Is that a hint?" with something like "Well yes, it is actually." Either i'm turning senile at 15 years or the mandela effect is legit.

[@Keeper1st]

Different video. See the Angry Birds sight-read.

[@srenhaandbk7904]

@@Keeper1st Yeah, thought so. Thanks.

[@GPNYishai]

No one I showed this to believed it wasn't sped up!

[@andrewbarrett1537]

Show this recording to your friends too (although there's no video to accompany it). This is one of the great pop pianists from the 1920s, Frank Banta, who was one of Victor's top studio pianists in the 20s. Back then there was no editing of audio recordings, you had to play it as perfectly as possible in ONE TAKE (! ! !). This is a solo recording he made of this pop song in 1925, and his own very complicated and spectacular arrangement: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y3K8ooxueLWFm7M

[@onlypuppy7]

I love this arrangement so much

[@xodz]

he's an artist! even his mistakes become beautiful

[@Keeper1st]

Usually just two, three, or four from me and maybe one or two from others, occasionally. That's not counting the dozen pieces or more from his own collection that he brings without having played before (or not in several years).

[@othello7]

Legend

[@Ragtimer95]

"Faster than all". Heheh...I like that. I just recently got a duet version of "Midnight Whirl" from my friend, and she put the tempo as "Tempo de Brier, Stupid Fast".

[@Keeper1st]

For once, I didn't. It was "TheMisterLaster" who presented Tom with the score. I just was there to record it.

[@Keeper1st]

I have a long backlog of requests already, but I'm always open to any I haven't heard before (within the realm of ragtime of course).

[@mellowords]

Koji Kondo has a special flavor of ragtime/bluegrass that is so nice. This one reminds me of the Horse Race theme from OoT.

[@spongyoshi]

A Mario Party ragtime, hooray!!

[@CartoonCave]

I love this music from Mario Party!

[@Setherragen]

just fantastic !

[@brianwong3441]

the world greatest side-read??

[@Boshtrich]

Never change Tom!

[@jayeha]

He is just unreal. I would like to meet Mr. Brier now or be in the presence of him playing o_o

[@Chris246t8kr]

Dat ending. Spectacular performance. Thanks Keeper for the recording. Would like to see the condensed arrangement that Tom is playing as the arrangement "TheMisterLaster" has on his channel is 4 pages long. Hopefully he uploads it at some point...

[@Dranwulf]

Stuff like this makes me wish we still had ragtime pianos in our bars lol

[@岩田幸也]

最高！

[@guahk2727]

だよね

[@MariaLopez-nk3mi]

Todo lo toca genial. Es fantastico

[@yoka955]

That's AMAZING sight reading!

[@SheenylHassan]

when its the last lap of a mario kart race

[@Keeper1st]

Years earlier I gave Tom a score from Mario Kart, actually: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZXRn6uMi719pdU

[@WhiltiernaAria]

I request a love on KZbin with this crew! Aww inspiring and awesome!

[@trainwatcher411]

Tom,your greatest bar none Ed said that age71 years!

[@Rael0505]

I LOVE THIS MAN

[@Harmonyww]

Actually, that would be awesome. I expect more people would recognise a tune like that than something from Mario or Zelda too.

[@Keeper1st]

I actually recorded a ragtime pianist, Tim Rotolo, doing a Disney medley which contained that song. Stay tuned ...

[@legomeisterlp4375]

He's like the human version of Synthesia, but better!

[@Keeper1st]

...and besides those, there are videos of him just making stuff up off the top of his head too. Search "brier makin' it up" and you will find a few of the ones I know are out there. Search "brier improvisation" and there's at least one other. Oh yeah, I forgot another Brier original that's a good one to search for and listen to: Balderdash!

[@Keeper1st]

You'll have to ask "TheMisterLaster" where he got it. This was not a piece that I gave to Tom; it was one of my KZbin subscribers who showed up at the meeting and gave the sheet to Tom.

[@ChristianBChr]

Man he's good!

[@tarantinosnumber1fan]

YES.

[@Keeper1st]

Check out the video I made many years ago called "More of the Amazing Hands of Tom Brier". I slow a clip down to half speed, and it looks almost normal... then when it plays at normal speed, it really does look like fast-forward (apart from the rate at which the keys rise of course).