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  • In this video I react to the most insane piano pieces chosen by Rousseau. Although these pieces are difficult and require a good level of ability to be played, I think there are a lot harder pieces out there to play. If you think there is a harder piece of music, let me know in the comments!
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  • @skogs6767
    @skogs6767 Před rokem +271

    I would definitely love to see your top hardest piano pieces

  • @yords7750
    @yords7750 Před rokem +32

    One that is hard both technically and musically is definitely ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit, you should definitely go over that one

  • @michaelmeyer2725
    @michaelmeyer2725 Před rokem +10

    Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No. 1 - I suspect not difficult, but cool...also Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2

  • @Bipolarbear373
    @Bipolarbear373 Před rokem

    Tbh love watching you review this stuff keep it up

  • @imapigeon7984
    @imapigeon7984 Před rokem +19

    Rach 3 and 2, Lizsts Sonata In B Minor, Bachs Goldberg Variations, Beethovens Hammerklavier, Liszts Spanish Rhapsody, are definitely harder than the pieces selected.

    • @alexreeves2686
      @alexreeves2686 Před 11 měsíci +4

      Finally someone who understands. I believe most people haven't dug enough into real classical music. Most people believe that cooler sounding pieces sound hard. But in reality it isn't, it is all based on the length, technique, and musicality.

    • @lagos4312
      @lagos4312 Před 2 měsíci

      There's even some mainstream pieces that are still harder (looking at you, Hungarian Rhapsody no.2)

    • @DavidFranklinDartMusic
      @DavidFranklinDartMusic Před měsícem

      Godowsky passacaglia is very hard too.

  • @doxaartsacademy7125
    @doxaartsacademy7125 Před rokem +1

    Please do more really hard piano piece videos really love them

  • @Kmbri
    @Kmbri Před rokem +1

    Loved this. Im glad CZcams finally suggested something great. Add one subscriber to your list. Btw, have u ever watched Tina S play moonlight sonata 3 on guitar? It was also recommended to me, and I was surprised it could be done on guitar. Anyway, thank you so much. Looking forward to more.

  • @asleep1812
    @asleep1812 Před rokem +6

    Off the top of my head:
    Rach concertos 2 and 3
    Ravel Gaspar de la nuit
    Ravel La Valse
    Liszt Mazzepa
    Liszt Spanish rhapsody
    Liszt hungarian rhapsody no12
    Liszt sonata in B minor
    Liszt reminiscence of Don Juan and Norma
    Balakriev Islamey

    • @mirokajevskivelevski8895
      @mirokajevskivelevski8895 Před rokem

      Rach 2 isn't as hard, maybe Beethoven Hammerklavier or the op 111 sonata

    • @funnyuser2796
      @funnyuser2796 Před 2 měsíci

      Replace spanish rhapsody with spanish fantasy and Norma with Reminiscences de Lucrezia Borga

  • @apianbelle1343
    @apianbelle1343 Před rokem +6

    One of the main reasons that moonlight sonata(all movements) is and will forever be my favorite piece is because of the coda. Beethoven's music has always been some of my favorites (waldastein, pathetique, rage over a lost penny), but moonlight sonata just takes the cake imo.

  • @blob6371
    @blob6371 Před rokem +8

    Rachmaninoff 3rd piano concerto has to be up there as one of the absolute hardest pieces especially given how long it is as wwll

  • @Joshua-levin
    @Joshua-levin Před 10 měsíci +1

    Matt is my hero.

  • @Scozerak
    @Scozerak Před rokem +1

    you definitely deserve more subs, I mean look at this a mazing video qaulity

  • @arctica3037
    @arctica3037 Před rokem +6

    Would say Islamey by Balakirev is up there

  • @alixer360
    @alixer360 Před rokem

    I wonder this is just a question but does anyone know how many years of experience this guy has doing classical music/playing piano because when he sees the person play the peice he plays it back so smoothly and fluently and I think that's so cool 😮😄

  • @etudeee6037
    @etudeee6037 Před rokem +1

    Will you do your top 10 hardest pieces video?

  • @ninadang2088
    @ninadang2088 Před rokem +2

    Moonlight sonata 3rd movement is like the moon crashing into the earth.

  • @laykidv
    @laykidv Před rokem +2

    Piano concertos, especially Rachamaninoff piano concertos. Or pieces like Islamey, Mephisto-watlz

  • @austinsavage4390
    @austinsavage4390 Před rokem +3

    La Campanella is definitely way up there in the hardest piano pieces. Just keep listening to the song; it is really epic

  • @kire6993
    @kire6993 Před rokem +12

    Liszt’s symphony no 9 transcription, alkan’s concerto for solo piano and mereaux’s 45th etude are what i think are some of the hardest

    • @notmusictheory74
      @notmusictheory74 Před rokem +1

      Finally some big brained person

    • @martynszalewski4762
      @martynszalewski4762 Před rokem +3

      also liszt paganini etude no. 4 (1838), liszt transcendental etude no 4 and 5. Also fun fact - mereaux's 45th etude is actually impossible to play in tempo

    • @notmusictheory74
      @notmusictheory74 Před rokem

      @@martynszalewski4762 transcendental etudes are not that hard. Should be Grandes Etudes

    • @martynszalewski4762
      @martynszalewski4762 Před rokem +1

      ​@@notmusictheory74 no 4 and 5 are very hard (especially no 5)

    • @meneerteungames926
      @meneerteungames926 Před rokem

      Also Liszt: Réminiscences de Don Juan and Réminiscences de norma, i love those two pieces.

  • @Howardsfz
    @Howardsfz Před rokem +3

    Some of the most insane/hazardous solo pieces: Paganini-Brahms Variations (difficulty 11/10), Cziffra's transcription of Rimsky Korsakov's Flight of the Bumble Bee (difficulty 12/10, probably only a few top pianists can play it properly), Liszt et al.'s Hexameron (difficulty 10/10), Godowsky's transcription of Chopin's Etudes (difficulty 9-12/10, probably only few of the best can play them all properly), Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit (difficulty 10/10), Beethoven's Hammerklavier sonata (difficulty 10/10).

    • @wardsnertmaster1152
      @wardsnertmaster1152 Před 5 měsíci

      flight of the bumble bee is really hard when i was practising and still is so 12/10 is a good rating

  • @mattmilford4202
    @mattmilford4202 Před rokem

    Just started learning the piano , love to be able to have this amount of ability to play
    Mattttttttt can you teach mmeeeeeee

  • @xcy8161
    @xcy8161 Před rokem +1

    Could you do one on ladivina fanatic’s performance of the Spanish Fantasy?

  • @deven1o126
    @deven1o126 Před rokem +8

    Liszt Hungarian rhapsody’s are very technically difficult because of the length of the piece or just the insane amount of notes . An example I’ve thought is the second Hungarian rhapsody when it gets to the frisks part. Along with the Hungarian rhapsody no 6. Near the end there is huge jumps on the left hand.

  • @1nonlyl1szt65
    @1nonlyl1szt65 Před rokem +2

    nugarian rhaspody no.2 and no.6? i can play no.2 and its pretty hard

  • @mwhossaini
    @mwhossaini Před 9 měsíci

    Great video.

  • @dwfinds3030
    @dwfinds3030 Před rokem

    Love watching people play but all I can think is oh my carpal tunnel I could never move that much.

  • @poesis11de22
    @poesis11de22 Před rokem +4

    Chopin‘s etudes op. 25 are pretty insane… I am learning the Winter Wind right now and I have no idea how to play this as fast as all those professionals can do… 😅

    • @DanielSilva-gc4xz
      @DanielSilva-gc4xz Před rokem +3

      I'm a piano student and I'm starting to get comfortable to playing fast.
      Get a good teacher, practice at least 3 hours a day. Dont fail your scales and arpeggios. Never tense up your wrist, always play relaxedly (that's insanely important). Get good fingering (good teacher needed for that). Practice in sections, don't just keep making concertos for yourself. Practice hands separately, if you can only play with the two hand then you only know half of the music. Use metronome regularly. Analise your music, it's important to know the harmonys of your music so you know how to interpret it correctly (tensions and resolutions). Play deep in the piano keybed so you dont miss notes. Practice staccato, modified rythms and modified accents in the fast sections (will help you to play faster)...

    • @yorkzie7593
      @yorkzie7593 Před rokem

      @@DanielSilva-gc4xz Definitely agree with the teacher and never tense up but the practicing 3 hours a day seems quite traditional in a way and I feel like if you follow that all the time even on days where you might feel tired then that might not be the best but I entirely agree with what you said

    • @DanielSilva-gc4xz
      @DanielSilva-gc4xz Před rokem

      @@yorkzie7593 3 hours is not much if you’re practicing everything you need to.

  • @tomgentry5987
    @tomgentry5987 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Islamey, gaspard de la nuit, some brahms, liszt transcendental studies, moskowski, busoni? All harder than this lot

  • @brozorb_gaming
    @brozorb_gaming Před rokem +5

    Chopin's ballade no.1

  • @rashido
    @rashido Před rokem

    Would love a take on animenz’s arrangement on unravel since classical pianists need to take a bit of time to practise it. Have also never heard anyone play it as well as animenz :).

  • @ghostassasin1054
    @ghostassasin1054 Před rokem

    Most challenging for me would be either Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit or Liszt's Transcendental Etude No. 5, but of course "most challenging" will mean something different to everyone.

  • @enlighten6016
    @enlighten6016 Před rokem

    You ar very underated ngl

  • @davideoliveiramendonca6848

    Could you react to one of Traum's videos, please? He plays a lot of insane pieces, you should definitely react to it.

  • @mtheblepalopYT
    @mtheblepalopYT Před měsícem

    One that probably isn't the MOST difficult piano piece but is very challenging is the toccata from Ravel's "Le Tombeau de Couperin"

  • @artimis9993
    @artimis9993 Před rokem

    Sorabji with his "screw you" time signature and polyrythms

  • @100mssnipes5
    @100mssnipes5 Před 20 dny

    I still find la Campanella quite difficult especially in the part where you have to play trills with the 4th and 5th fingers of the right hand

  • @aliffnaqiuddinbinasrulridh7600

    how are you so underrated-

  • @ZiMdagoatfr
    @ZiMdagoatfr Před rokem +2

    Beethovens 5 symphony is really hard for me to play because of the big jump in the beginning

  • @yahoo911emil
    @yahoo911emil Před rokem

    have you reacted to musical basics? he has some good originals like pachalbel nightmare, you can watch the one from 10 years ago or the fairly recent one like 3 years ago or blackstar

  • @potafish5107
    @potafish5107 Před rokem +1

    My list would be:
    Liszt Spanish fantasy
    Gaspard de la Nuit
    Islamey balakirev
    Liszt Beethoven symphony no 9
    Godowsky-Chopin etude
    Alkan Etude

  • @patinho5589
    @patinho5589 Před rokem

    I heard that listz’s transcendental etudes are the hardest.. or at least some of them

  • @Maestro19992
    @Maestro19992 Před rokem

    Weren’t all of these pieces also in the other video from rousseau?

  • @crankyreed
    @crankyreed Před rokem +6

    The hardest piano piece to play is one where you have to crescendo a whole note.

  • @willyafton
    @willyafton Před rokem

    in my opinion some of the hardest solo piano pieces are liszts rondo fantastique (el contrabandista), liszts reminiscences de don juan, liszts transcriptions of beethoven sonatas, especially no 9, and liszts 1838 paganini etude 4b

  • @user-kc3yz8rd4z
    @user-kc3yz8rd4z Před 5 měsíci

    alr im learning my arpeggios and scales now

  • @eredon246
    @eredon246 Před 10 měsíci

    Some hard pieces: Transcendental etuden minus Paysage, Thirds etude Chopin and also one of my upcoming pieces is fairly hard but thats on a different channel

  • @forgottenreaper7541
    @forgottenreaper7541 Před 4 měsíci

    Him: "It is not complicated as it sounds".
    Us:

  • @Rain_-_
    @Rain_-_ Před rokem +3

    I would love to hear you play Ballade No. 1 In G Minor op 23 that imo is one of the hardest pieces to play

    • @matticawood
      @matticawood  Před rokem +2

      I’ve played it in recitals before 😊 il maybe do it sometime…the last couple of pages are the most fun 😊

  • @Montu-pc5gp
    @Montu-pc5gp Před rokem +1

    Liszt's transcriptions of Beethoven Symphonies.

  • @Mar20133
    @Mar20133 Před rokem +4

    I feel like campanella is the hardest piano piece i ever sang😂

  • @dzefdet4800
    @dzefdet4800 Před rokem +1

    Polonaise op53 by Chopin is pretty hard :D

  • @WonderofRizz
    @WonderofRizz Před 6 měsíci

    Nice

  • @nooblydude6521
    @nooblydude6521 Před rokem +1

    I want you to make that vid again,but use the vid of "traum piano". He is the best pianist youtuber

  • @DenisPuscaOfficial
    @DenisPuscaOfficial Před rokem +3

    Like ravel gaspard de nuit is insainly hard as is ravel in general.

  • @auzziespiano
    @auzziespiano Před rokem

    Franz Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2! Rousseau plays that one as well and I consider that the hardest piano piece there is!

  • @ryanmccormick8375
    @ryanmccormick8375 Před rokem

    Chopin Black Key Etude!

  • @krishnafancystore4988
    @krishnafancystore4988 Před rokem +3

    you didn't even checked on the hardest part lol!

  • @yahyakhazbak4713
    @yahyakhazbak4713 Před 2 měsíci

    moonlight is difficult because you must hit the keys strong and fast and dont miss

  • @user-oi1qb2xn9i
    @user-oi1qb2xn9i Před 5 měsíci

    How bout the finger breaker?

  • @randomlukas9964
    @randomlukas9964 Před rokem

    Are not the first and the second ballade by chopin extremly hard?

  • @kkjay77
    @kkjay77 Před rokem

    Most insane must be Mereaux Bravura. The hand crossing is actually absurd.

  • @rcjew
    @rcjew Před rokem

    I'm surprised you didn't cover Godowsky (the easy ones if there are any). Also most of Ravel's pieces.

  • @lemonxalex7681
    @lemonxalex7681 Před rokem

    Islamey, Gaspard de la Nuit, Feux Follets to name a few

  • @DaveTexas
    @DaveTexas Před 9 měsíci

    For my money, Ligeti’s Etude No. 13 "The Devil’s Staircase" ranks as one of the most insane - and insanely difficult - pieces to play. I sure can’t do it.

  • @torebi6743
    @torebi6743 Před rokem

    Gaspar de la nuit, islamey or probably alkhan concerto for solo piano

  • @marcosun1640
    @marcosun1640 Před rokem

    Try bartoks 2nd concerto

  • @zia8040
    @zia8040 Před 3 měsíci

    I MOSTLY think that “Mily Balakirev Islamey: Oriental Fantasy” is the most difficult 😂 good luck

  • @Joshua-levin
    @Joshua-levin Před 10 měsíci +1

    La Campanella or Hungarian rhapsody no 2

  • @MF_Shorts010
    @MF_Shorts010 Před 8 měsíci

    the hardest piece to me would be rachmaninoff concerto no.3 because of the continuous playing fast for almost an hour, I almost fained trying to play this piece and I was sweating. so if you can play this or anyone here i am impressed.

  • @charvikmanyupalati2117
    @charvikmanyupalati2117 Před 3 měsíci

    Winter wind?

  • @1nonlyl1szt65
    @1nonlyl1szt65 Před rokem +1

    paganini piszt no.6??

  • @francoaravena6457
    @francoaravena6457 Před 7 měsíci +1

    Love dream. Liszt is definitely one of the hardest songs out there

  • @dfinitial1885
    @dfinitial1885 Před rokem

    Try doing rush E.
    In its actual form

  • @Leopardtwo
    @Leopardtwo Před rokem

    Mereaux 45 coda is insanely difficult

  • @jamesbosh585
    @jamesbosh585 Před rokem +1

    React to Volume 2!

  • @zenonorth1193
    @zenonorth1193 Před rokem +3

    No problem with your reaction, but unfortunately, most lists with titles like this one just reflect a lack of exploration of the piano repertoire by the people who put them together. IN terms of my personal musical taste, I'm pretty largely rooted in the 19th and early 20th centuries, but enjoy exploring both before and after those periods. So how you could make such a list and not include something like "Par lui a tout ete fait" from Messiaen's "Vingt Regards sur l'enfant Jesus" or one of the Ligeti etudes, I'll never understand. Throw Chopin Op. 10 #4 at most technically capable pianists and if they don't already know it, they'll say "Sure, I'll give it a go." Throw the Messiaen or Ligeti at them and they're likely to say "Ummm, I'm not sure I'll have the time...."

  • @theprodest284
    @theprodest284 Před rokem +1

    liszt don juan and Rachmaninoff Etudes Tableaux Op. 39, No. 1 or his third piano concerto

  • @animeariif5966
    @animeariif5966 Před 18 dny

    wanna see this guy playing chopin's op 10 no 1 or la campanella

  • @wenchengxue2164
    @wenchengxue2164 Před rokem

    I think Hungarian Rhapsody no 2 is up there.

  • @taronsento
    @taronsento Před rokem +3

    Ravel - scarbo

  • @yorkzie7593
    @yorkzie7593 Před rokem +1

    Think it was meant to be "most insane piano pieces played by rousseau" but great video
    Pieces that I think are in the range of top 100 most difficult
    Liszt/Beethoven Symphony 9 in D Major
    Scherzo alla napoletana
    Rach 3 (ofc)
    Transcendental Etude no 8 (Thats only if you play the entire set of 12 as this is right after you play the majority of the tiring etudes and not to forget about the fast jumps in this etude)
    Chopin op 10 2/25 6 (but theres definitely much harder pieces due to how short these pieces are and since they only focus on one piano technique)
    Liszt Reminiscence don juan

  • @stanx0176
    @stanx0176 Před rokem +1

    Heroic polonaise by Chopin is very difficult along with Hungarian rhapsody no.2 by Liszt

  • @Prima_guerra_mondiale

    Gaspard de la nuit (Ravel)

  • @aenarose3759
    @aenarose3759 Před rokem

    I love la campanella

  • @itsukikizuta
    @itsukikizuta Před 2 měsíci

    My problem with every piece there is is just the speed, the rest is easy.

  • @susabove
    @susabove Před rokem +1

    man LOL, and here i am stuck at learning beethoven's piano sonata op49 n.2

  • @peterchan6082
    @peterchan6082 Před 11 měsíci +1

    No list of "insanely difficult pieces" in the standard repertoire is complete without Liszt Feux Follets and Chopin Sonata in B minor on it.
    Talking about original works, that is.

  • @milkman4927
    @milkman4927 Před 5 měsíci

    play gaspard de la nuit

  • @Nightmare-uq5lh
    @Nightmare-uq5lh Před rokem +1

    Try Beethovens pathetique, I find it so hard

  • @kizowizo2010
    @kizowizo2010 Před rokem +1

    Im not sure if this is difficult or not but 'Scarbo' by Maurice Ravel is an insanely scary piece.

    • @norisky9987
      @norisky9987 Před rokem

      True

    • @silentsmiles1734
      @silentsmiles1734 Před rokem

      you would be correct! scarbo (and really, gaspard de la nuit as a whole) is one of the hardest pieces in the piano repertoire

  • @ha_ki_rum
    @ha_ki_rum Před rokem +1

    Hungarian rhapsody 2 ?🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲

  • @kolpma7254
    @kolpma7254 Před 9 dny

    I think scarbo from ravel "gaspard de la nuit" is the hardest piece

  • @quandalebingletonda3rd957

    Could you react to Vinheritos most difficult pieces

  • @everythinganderson2624

    Hammerklavier, Gaspard de la Nuit, Islamey. 'nuff said.

  • @abderxd1345
    @abderxd1345 Před rokem +2

    Liszt Operatic Fantasies and Reminiscences And Transcendental Etude And Years of Pilgrimage are difficult ✔️

  • @vesuvius2444
    @vesuvius2444 Před rokem

    Hardest song on piano is hot cross buns followed by jingle bells

  • @shokosugi2346
    @shokosugi2346 Před rokem +1

    I've been having a long-running debate with a fellow musician friend about the legitimacy of artists who primarily work in the space of digital music, and when I was recently checking out one particular performance, I sent it to him with the text "this right here would make a concert pianist blush." He was certainly impressed, and after our discussion, despite me not being a reaction video guy by any means, I found myself wondering if any pianists had reacted to it. I was surprised to find that almost nobody reacted to it.
    So here I am to pitch some reaction fodder to you. The artist is Shawn Wasabi, and the upload is his live "mashup" of Marble Soda: czcams.com/video/qAeybdD5UoQ/video.html
    I'd be interested to see what the debatable height of hand dexterity in the world of instrumental musicians has to say about this. I sincerely hope you dig it.

    • @smoloreo2410
      @smoloreo2410 Před 11 měsíci

      So... I watched it and I have no idea what makes you think this compares to the hand dexterity seen in a concert pianist. I mean, yes it's impressive, but it's nowhere near the likes of professional pianists. Just watch a performance of Feux Follet (Liszt Transcendental Etude No.5) or Scarbo from Gaspard de la Nuit by Ravel. Respectfully, it's incomparable.

    • @shokosugi2346
      @shokosugi2346 Před 10 měsíci

      @@smoloreo2410 Thanks for the recommendations, they were both very impressive and I really enjoyed both.
      And they make your case well enough, though to be fair, I'm not exactly saying that video constitutes an analog to the most impressive of dexterous piano play in all of recorded music - I cited pianists as the debatable height of hand dexterity in the world of instrumental musicians for good reason, which is why I wanted to see them weigh in.
      As a person who doesn't play the piano and who could only arrange the keygroup that Wasabi used if you provided me with the samples and a map, if I were to make an argument (just for the sake of a productive, healthy and respectful argument - I'm more curious than opinionated on this very specific question) for Wasabi's dexterity being comparable, it would be as follows:
      * While working with fewer keys (but possibly more inputs, depending on how many pad banks he's working with), he's working across two axes, which can (and I'd say does in this case) involve more complex and unnatural hand and finger movement/positions.
      * The keygroup is not a steady progression of notes, which is to say it's completely unintuitive until the performer makes it that way to the extent possible. The act of memorization, arrangement and performance doesn't have the support of an unchanging instrument that the player has a wealth of experience with - arranging it so its playable is, alone, a unique feat.
      * More than one instrument is being manipulated in a song where numerous instruments/sounds are playing in unison, which is to say, in my estimation at least, that this performance is more than just the sum of its parts in keystrokes. As an example, I'd offer up the act of playing an instrument while singing. While it comes naturally to some people, many, like myself, who can sing something well enough alone and play something well enough on (say, for this example) a bass, struggle to sing while playing even the simplest bass parts. For me personally, my brain tries to drag me into singing the notes I'm playing on the bass - I don't have as much of a problem singing while playing the drums, aside from the breathing of it all. For others, the potentially unaligned rhythms frustrate them. It's possible that a performance like Wasabi's might, for many people, be easier if they had a track map to follow without hearing any of the sounds - and I'd imagine that the sound of the keys being pressed wouldn't even necessarily sound like it's attached to music much of the time.
      * Slightly related to the last point, going back to that "map," Wasabi's performance require that fingers on both of his hands work outside of any kind of steady rhythm at many points, and the non-repetitiveness of virtually everything but the percussive sounds in that track (most of the samples don't repeat) ends up in something that, in the realm of my experience from the viewer/listener end, most closely resembles the type of classical piano performances you linked me. I have a feeling that were you to visually map out a moving track to Wasabi's performance, as I watched in the videos of performances you recommended, the two tracks wouldn't look too dissimilar in complexity, even if the single-instrument nature of the inputs might make the piano play sound more musical were you to play out the strokes on some monotone surface (like the buttons on a controller).
      Anyway, that's me trying to make an argument for the sake of exploring the topic. People with far more dexterous hands and fingers than my own may have a different take. Speaking of which, thanks again, assuming you're a pianist, and even if you're not and just had some perspective to offer. Again, I don't necessarily disagree, but I feel like it's healthy to explore the topic. I do think that people who play traditional instruments (which I do as well) oftentimes look down on digital music producers and performers, and while I don't think complex performance or composition a good song necessarily makes, I do think that anything to win people over to being more open to new things is fair game when it comes to music. I'm personally satisfied to judge something by the quality of its output, but I can understand how it can come off as kids stuff to lifelong musicians when they see people creating music by pressing controller button in front of Macbooks haha.

    • @smoloreo2410
      @smoloreo2410 Před 10 měsíci

      @@shokosugi2346 Well, I actually have a lot of respect for digital music producers. But the point I was mostly trying to make was that it's just not comparable to complexity and dexterity required to play some of the more challenging pieces on piano, or really any stringed instrument for that matter. Though piano is a bit more challenging at the far end of difficulty for the instrument, as compared to other stringed instruments (and yes I know the piano is technically a percussion instrument rather than a stringed instrument).
      As for your first point, about the number of axis, I feel the piano gains difficulty and complexity from having only one axis, because the keys are large, it allows for more complexity in the number of notes played in a confined area at a fast pace, or allows large jumps. Since the keys spread across a large area it requires, a lot of the time, use of the entire body in order to play with the proper technique and musicality.
      As with your second point, I will agree that the mapping of the pad does vary from song to song, and therefore it must be relearned for each one. This eliminates the advantage that pianists have with their familiarity with the instrument.
      In terms of the number of instruments manipulated, I recommend you look into organ music. An organ can be many instruments (or rather sound like many instruments), depending on which stops are pulled. And unlike a piano, organs have foot pedals, so not only are you possibly playing up to 4 parts (or more) in your two hands, you could also be playing one or two more parts in your feet, simultaneously. And during this you may have to push or pull stops in and out while your playing. This introduces a whole other layer of complexity and required dexterity/coordination. Quite literally, Organists sometimes have to nearly every muscle in their body to play certain pieces.
      Lastly, rhythm and repetition, or the lack thereof. I introduce to you... Xenakis - Mists. This piece contains no time signature. Its full of insanely complicated rhythms due to the composer being not only a musician but an architect. The entire piece, though not containing a time signature, is heavily mathematically based, though its probably impossible for a human to play faithfully to the score. This is one of the hardest pieces written for piano. But not the hardest. For that, I present Sorabji's Symphonic Variations for Piano. The piece is 9 hours long. As of writing this, no recording exists of it in its entirety as played by a human.

  • @Imilan05
    @Imilan05 Před rokem +1

    Hardest Piano Piece That I Know (technically)
    Galop In A Minor Liszt

  • @unknownone9117
    @unknownone9117 Před rokem

    Maybe Chopin's prelude in g# minor

  • @eredon246
    @eredon246 Před 10 měsíci

    And Le festine d’esope