THE BARBARIAN (ELP Tribute cover)

[@SunlendingSky]

We thank you for all the wonderful comments. We have just finished another ELP piece. You can find it here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r5u6fnaKqtRjqNU. (be sure to crank it up!)

[@robertcooper1952]

Keith and Bela Bartok would be proud!

[@edljnehan2811]

This is one of my three favorite songs by them the other is the Endless Enigma and the third is Jerusalem😊 good job brother from a ELP listener since 1970😮

[@williamsoltes1658]

Excellent! The sounds, the notes, the nuances...all spot on. Best ELP cover that I've heard.

[@SunlendingSky]

Thanks for listening- It's a great piece to learn.

[@SondrioMusica]

I agree... everything is perfect! Well done

[@robertcowart1]

Not only was this played brilliantly, but the organ sound was spot on! Very very good!

[@SunlendingSky]

thanks

[@cascabelio]

Maybe the best Barbarian ELP cover thah I have heard...and I know so much about ELP. The piano seccion it´s awesome!

[@SunlendingSky]

Wow, thank you!

[@lesliemarincsak3992]

Exceptional!!!

[@m.a.v.p.8926]

Congratullation .. Perfect 👏👏👏👏.. Bravo!!

[@PavlaZachovalova-tk8sl]

Sunlending Sky - een perfect cover!!! Heel erg bedankt voor delen. Ondanks ik letterlijk dol ben op het stuk van Béla Bartók, vind ik, dat ELP hebben nog veel toegevoegd. Het is top! Er kan niets meer bij - voel ik. Dus mijn oprechte waardering voor deze cover en beslissing, om dichtbij ELP versie te blijven. En het is, bovendien, onwijs goed gespeeld! Thank you!

[@SunlendingSky]

thank you for the kind words

[@alsetwheats]

Can't get enough of this. 37 Subscribers? 197 likes??? Madness. This is probably the most true to original sounding cover I have heard and the keyboardist seemed so casual about the whole thing. Amazing.

[@SunlendingSky]

Thank you for the kind words.

[@HVYMETL]

maybe if a few of us leave a link on other ELP youtube songs, it will gain popularity. Internet land is strange and lonely.

[@carlosalbertoteixeira375]

OMG! Excellent! Congrats from Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 👍🏻

[@joeroot773]

Awesome cover. They would be proud.

[@HVYMETL]

The "gong" at 2:50. hahahahaha. I'm watching your hands on the piano at 1:24. thanks. I've always wanted to learn that.

[@SunlendingSky]

thanks.

[@SunlendingSky]

Proof that gongs can be funny sometimes.

[@PopShoppekid]

Excellent my friends!! Great playing Keith Emerson would be impressed. RIP Keith

[@SallySparks]

really great. You captured the right energy and grit of this piece.

[@pianotennisman]

Grew up on ELP and have their songs so very etched in my mind. This is a most excellent cover. Kudos!

[@JamesE707]

This is the first track from ELP's first album 'Emerson, Lake, & Palmer'. And it wasn't until 1973 when I initially heard them on Radio 1's 'Sequence' show on a Friday or Saturday night. The Barbarian was the very first track I heard and I knew it was them before it was even announced! I was hooked from then on. I've still got that BBC Radio 1 (mono) recording today somewhere. This is a great tribute to them - thanks for your effort and work that went into this!

[@SunlendingSky]

Thanks for tuning in. If it wasn't for KE and ELP, we might not have had the inspiration to pursue a music career. They were the right lesson at the right time.

[@AlejandroMartinez-fb8tt]

Awesome & perfect! Regards from an argentinian elp's fan...!

[@samuelmahmud1909]

Ooowwweee!🎵🎶🎹🎸🥁🎧 Awesome

[@SunlendingSky]

thanks

[@lenhumbird]

Man, that was amazing! I love the drum fills, that was also fantastic. BTW, YT linked me here from a performance of Bartok's Allegro Barbaro.

[@MrArchonta]

Absolutely fantastic.

[@alexeyulko]

Brilliant!

[@attiliobastosguarnieri5416]

Realmente o melhor cover de Barbarian. Excelente.

[@SunlendingSky]

Obrigado

[@peterthomerson3607]

Pobblee

[@davidlc166]

Perfect cover ¡¡¡¡👏

[@Sgtmajorsir]

Amazing. Simply amazing..

[@SunlendingSky]

Thanks a lot!

[@MrMjp58]

Fantastic tribute! Brilliant playing and backing track. I’d have been happy to just have this one track by ELP, even if they’d never recorded anything else. It’s perfect.

[@SunlendingSky]

thanks for checking us out

[@christophermorrison8632]

Brilliant! Well done.

[@matthewszymanski7037]

Outstanding work sir. Loved the gong!

[@royjr.1778]

Perfect! What an incredible talent.

[@Prog_drummer35]

Awesome!

[@scott30771]

Great job on the keys Mr Sunlending Sky and a well done cover/tribute effort to the late great Keith Emerson

[@juliolastra221]

Excelente!!! Felicitaciones!!!!

[@nelsonfernandez6819]

Que excelencia para tocar !!! Que maravilla, espero subas más videos, es una bendición al oído. Gracias por la música!!!

[@SunlendingSky]

Thank you and You're Welcome

[@Boltogenta]

Bravo! The sound is so similar to the recording...

[@raginald7mars408]

this inspired a Generation of Amateur Pianists in the 1970 s to study classic Music I am stil fascinated today

[@TheChessPatzer]

Love the gong!

[@MichaelBLevi]

SO GOOOOD Thank you for this.

[@SunlendingSky]

You're welcome and thanks for listening.

[@Daneel56]

Really a great job! Both Bartok and Emerson should be proud of you. One suggestion: "Take a peeble" might follow ...

[@SunlendingSky]

Thanks for the kind words.- Pebble could be a fun undertaking-

[@theSALSOLO]

Maestro!!!

[@seldonsinq]

Great Hammond sound!

[@SunlendingSky]

Many thanks!

[@1954rgcf]

Awesome. You captured the essence beautifully. Congrats and what's next ?

[@roliveira2225]

Excelente!

[@mitchdematoff9671]

Great...cover was very true to the original..Bravo!

[@SunlendingSky]

Thanks a lot!

[@kenfritz1140]

Awesome job!! Loved every second of your cover!

[@SunlendingSky]

Glad you liked it!!

[@graemesandstrom5654]

Stunning BUT I would have loved to have seen Cy and Borg! I thought that you were using some sort of backing track. I still think that you could Re edit it to include them. Having said that I think that you ABSOLUTELY NAILED IT! Congratulations! How impressive! 🙏🎶 🎹 🥁 🎸🎶🕺🇦🇺👍👏

[@SunlendingSky]

Thanks - Yes, even though only the keyboardist is shown in this video there are others that contribute to all our songs. In this ever evolving age of A.I. It's hard to know who's doing what. We may try to include more of the others in future endeavors when possible. 😃

[@jeffjeff4477]

Awesome job!!!!!

[@SunlendingSky]

Thanks!!

[@larrykent9821]

This is an excellent tribute/cover. Any chance you'll share the sheet music, or where to get it?

[@SunlendingSky]

Thanks for the kind words. The original Bartok piece can be found here:musopen.org/music/4109-allegro-barbaro-sz49/ KE took a good part of the middle piano bit right from the original. So that's really the best place to start. The rest was figured out by watching the various YT vids of ELP playing it. There's a couple good vids that show his left hand. It's an impossible piece to play and it took months to finally (by sheer luck) get a piano take that didn't totally suck at one point or another. We're pretty sure I could never play it again. And yet KE seems to play it almost effortlessly. I have more respect than ever now.

[@larrykent9821]

@@SunlendingSky Thanks for the link. One of my classmates in college played the Bartok, but I haven't played it, so this will be a good nudge to do that. You did a great job with this. Thanks again.

[@ysuzuki1773]

It's a wonderful performance. Hats off to Keith. When I look back at the time of my debut, I cry. I am Japanese.

[@jazzenthusiast4353]

fantastic. Thank you.

[@SunlendingSky]

thanks

[@chrisdimenna648]

Love the Gong

[@SunlendingSky]

we figured a little humor wouldn't take away from the barbarianism of the piece. Thanks for noticing.

[@sueeason7827]

Very well done!!! Do you do other ELP covers?

[@SunlendingSky]

Thanks for tuning in - We just started on another ELP piece. It's a long one, and is going to take some time. But it's going to be wonderful. (fingers crossed) Stay tuned.

[@loni50otter]

Wunderbar!

[@MyPaulocorrea]

Muito bom!

[@loganpierce9244]

Thank you

[@GDFourcade1]

Superbe!

[@SunlendingSky]

Thank you

[@robertcooper1952]

Just fantastic! I think he got it note for note.

[@SunlendingSky]

thanks for the kind words

[@robertcooper1952]

@@SunlendingSky You're welcome!

[@cuddleslapine]

bravo

[@GeolOil]

Wonderful! How did you captured all the wild energy?

[@SunlendingSky]

Whatever energy is there certainly didn't come from over confidence. Thanks

[@Crezelltree4261]

Good job.

[@SunlendingSky]

thanks

[@claudioruffinicastiglione4434]

Eccellente

[@cslloyd1]

Dude!

[@chuckcribbs3398]

So, how long did it take you to play this? I’m assuming you read music? Did you just listen and go, “I can play this”? Just curious excellent job! I’ve been an ELP fan since the early ‘80s.

[@SunlendingSky]

It took about 3 months to learn the Bartok piece - I put a link to the music in the description It took several more weeks to figure out what K.E. was doing plus putting together the rest of the music (recording, mixing -the gong etc) I did listen and said "I can play this". Turned out to be way harder than we expected.

[@AmaNotaGogo]

Very well done, although a few more barbarians could have been abused - just for the effect you know. Kieth will live in my mind.

[@ledorzejean-etienne3747]

Superb! And we can also clearly hear drum works by palmer. Drums were mixed so low and mudly in the cd version, such a shame. Even in the 2001 remaster it doesn't sound clear at all, huge difference compared to your video

[@SunlendingSky]

That's one of the things about re-doing these older songs- Because recording quality is so much better now, even when recreating the original arrangement, it can sound fresh. Palmer never took the easy route and recreating his parts was as rewarding as it was laborious.

[@ledorzejean-etienne3747]

@@SunlendingSky you also played his parts???

[@SunlendingSky]

@@ledorzejean-etienne3747 Yes we did - bass , drums, and keyboards - all recreated using various methods like electronic drum kits or pads or other techniques.

[@EastmanD]

Soooo...is he playing while the recorded version is playing ???

[@SunlendingSky]

Interestingly, it's way more complicated than that. Drums, Bass, Keys (and gong) were all recorded by different people at different times.(and from different locations) Video was taken of several takes of the Organ and Piano bits while listening back to our drummer and bass players tracks. However, running both video and Multi-track recording simultaneously is a bit of a nightmare. Ultimately the best video take and best audio recording are rarely the same. 😵‍💫

[@EastmanD]

@@SunlendingSky 👍

[@coachhannah2403]

Barbarian conservation is an important endeavor these days. So few gates...

[@coachhannah2403]

Visuals on bass and drum, please!

[@SunlendingSky]

sadly- none exists. - Drums and bass were mostly created by a combination of playing, editing, and programming by various contributors (known collectively as Cy and Borg) But we'll see perhaps on future endeavors.

[@coachhannah2403]

@@SunlendingSky - OK.

[@funone2no]

CAN I COME OVER AND PLAY?

[@edljnehan2811]

The drummer wasn't too shabby either😊

[@1941392]

When the Organ is better than the Guitar

[@HumbertoMaturana-r4t]

Elp number one