Take Me Out to the Ball Game -- Will Perkins & Tom Brier
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- čas přidán 10. 05. 2010
- 17-year-old Will Perkins (CZcams's "wilscool") will be competing later this month in the World Championship of Old-Time Piano Playing in Peoria, Illinois. His debut album is due out very soon as well.
Will is a huge baseball fan, and here takes the lead on the chorus of the famous 1908 baseball song by Albert von Tilzer (lyrics were by Jack Norworth), while Tom Brier adds accompaniment on a second piano.
/ wilscool - Hudba
Everyone’s having a grand time just enjoying themselves. What a vibe and amazing talent!
Tom Brier plays a great K.K. Ragtime...the tune from Animal Crossing...it is one of our favorites.....Lotsof fun going on at this gathering.......
Last year, Will had begun playing the Legend of Zelda theme in a stride style. He was almost prepared to have me record him playing it, but he hadn't worked out an ending he was happy with yet, so it never happened. At WCRF last year I was hoping to get him and Martin Spitznagel (who also does a stride version of it) on two pianos playing it, but Will had to leave early Sunday morning so that never happened. Now Will is in Argentina for two years, so it'll have to wait a while.
@fecesnugget There are now five pianos in that house! Can't wait for the next party!
I'd kill to be able to take my homework and just sit on the floor of that house working while listening to all that.
Wow that was a great rendition. Go Mariners!
This comment made me so happy, and surprised to do mariners, go m’s
What a great rendition!
Go green shirt
lol
Wow! I Love this rendition of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game".
Enjoyable, and VERY impressive.
Best Take Me Out to the Ballgame rendition I've heard in my life. Tom Brier FTW!
I LOVE THIS SONG. VERY GOOD
Gotta go to these parties!
That's a good question. He's doing his obligatory missionary work for the next two years, so I don't know how one might get his CDs in the mean time. I would imagine his family is still taking orders through the PO Box mentioned in Jack Rummel's review of Will's first CD.
This is absolutely beautiful. I wish I had seen this video sooner.
When you hear this song,you can't help always join in and sing. Every. Single. Time. It's the best song ever written in American history.
So beautiful
Bloody amazin !!!!!
@Keeper1st I thought both of them were competing, but Will should be able to win. he's real good.
I'm not sure. I first saw him perform when he was 14. He played classic rags, straight. His advancement into such a fine stride pianist was pretty rapid.
Hey it turns out "green shirt guy" is actually an incredible pianist himself. Nice!
Fantastic.
@GoTFCanada1230 Will is competing -- not Tom. And this video is about Will. Tom's just adding some accompaniment (which he is good at, admittedly). The melody and drive of this performance is all Will.
That ragtime was SWEET!
GO PHILLIES!!!!!
amazing!!
I call these guys Genius
@chaff5 Tom is playing accompaniment for the most part. Adding countermelody etc.
Awesome! :)
@lbrown21494 This is Will's last eligible year to compete in the junior division. We're rooting for him! I have loads of two-piano videos, as well as three- and four-piano videos. E.g., the "3 Pianos on Fire" series, and a recent post of The Entertainer with four pianos and lots of other instruments.
Wow
Awesome song !!!! ;) GG
Is tom playing the same thing on his piano? It's hard to hear both pianos. Sounds good but I bet it sounds even better in person!
and I forgot... Hope Brier and Co. Win! They deserve it!
A nice family of musicians
Wow that was superb. Have any other duel piano videos? I wish him the best of luck at his competition in Illinois. I've won a few local fiddle competitions, but those were very small. Hope he has good competition there. I'm sure he could win.
Everyone here is asking for more videogame music, but I would rather hear a composition of Merrie Go Round Broke Down if you have it.
That one dude don’t need no player piano to play itself he just plays it
Keeper, be so kind and make Tom play some more video game themes =P
The Ghouls and Goblins theme became an every-days thing for me, because it is really really amazing like all the other video game themes that tom plays
Only a Cub's fan can play like that!!!
Except Will is a Giants fan...
@GoTFCanada1230 A couple other hot renditions of this tune on CZcams that I highly recommend are the ones from Adam Swanson and Hajime Kobayashi (there are two of Kobayashi's rendition; choose the longer of the two).
@ThisIsKuroCat I too would like to see more video game themes, but I'm not really familiar with many ragtime video game songs.
Just wondering, but does Will know any video game music? This is the first video I've seen of him, but he seems really good.
one more question Keeper. What key are they playing this in? I tried learning it myself and the transcription from the government library sounded wrong.
They're playing in E-flat. The published song sheet was in D.
Ahh that's why! Thanks once again!
Watch what top key he hits at the end of the basic melody - E flat. That's the tonic note, and the key it's in.
Is there any ragtime sheet music of this song...
They're reading simple sheets & they're amazing minds translate it to complex ragtime I bet
When did Will start playing piano?
Now Will is 28 years old? What have you been doing with your life since you made this video?
Will is now a piano technician in Idaho. willperkinspianos.com/
So this is not a ragtime improv but rather a stride improv?
It depends on how rigidly you want to categorize things. Stride is a later style of ragtime playing, but some people today prefer to treat it as a separate genre.
that's very interesting. So, correct me if I'm wrong. I read that the original style of rag was out the door by 1908 1909 ish. Did stride come into play after that?
The more classic "ragtime" started becoming passé just after the war. The grand-daddy of all stride numbers, "Carolina Shout" by James P. Johnson, debuted in 1918, for example, and the iconic novelty hit "Kitten on the Keys" by Zez Confrey came in 1921. (And, on a tangent here, but while the first blues was published in 1908 ("I Got the Blues: An Up-to-Date Rag" by Antonio Maggio), it didn't begin to catch on with the public until 1912's "Memphis Blues: A Southern Rag" by W.C. Handy.)
Wow! I'm so glad that Ragtime and Stride are officially considered to be parent and child of one another! that's awesome! thanks for the lesson!
Go Yankees!
Poor Tom lost it all in that car crash.