I never learned how to read music, but when this came out on VHS; I kept rewinding it like Prince did. The first time I felt like I did something. It was on a Casio keyboard. I just kept going and going. I grew up on real music like this, and it taught me not to settle for just anything when it came to music. My ear is trained thanks to Prince! Love!
Notice how The Kid plays and looks up at the light. Prince knew how to draw one into a moment, a feeling, a song and make it a memorable experience. Genius. Unique.
I want the version on that tape SO BAD!❣ I actually recorded it and mixed together minus the pauses and it sounded MAGNIFICENT at the time! SOMEBODY PLEASE do this and make a video of it!
@@mojopin70 sigh.......I think EVERYONE understands that.....I liked how the movie depicted him learning by ear so quickly....I'm sure he could do that in real life.
I remember telling a friend of mine back in the day, "the most beautiful song I've heard played on the piano was Purple Rain". He literally just a few months ago after watching the movie after 40yrs called me up saying, "Damn, I just heard Pirnce play it, and I wish I heard more".
I grew up listening to prince. And saw this movie so many times when I was little. When he passed away, and this showed In theaters Not gonna lie I cried when he started playing the piano in this scene.
Yes!! I went to see it in theaters! It was such a privilege because I was 3 when this movie came out in the movies lol a lot of us cried in the movies that day
My 17 yo son is a advanced level classical pianist, I’m going to ask him to play this for me. This scene In Purple Rain still touches me to this very day.
I have looked for this EXACT clip for years. I had never touched a piano and I remember watching this as a kid and wanting to play this! Only this. I'm finally getting to learn piano and I hope to be able to play this one. The artistry in playing music based on just listening is what made price an icon (amongst other things) thank you beyond words for posting this.
@@steveeq1 sorry I have not found sheet music but I think I can get it by using Muscore (I think it's called) it's a program that transcribes music from mp3.... Contact me if you still need it and I'll email it to you.
I watched PURPLE RAIN recently with my granddaughter, she asked why I was sad. Could not put into words how this man and his music has touched so many effortlessly. One day I’ll try to explain it to her when she’s older...
Love this version of Purple Rain with a passion. I remember the first time i saw "Purple Rain" this song stayed with me along with Father's Song (computer Blue". I miss Prince.
What a movie ....I still remember it from 1984 when I was 14...what a movie!! There's a lot of kids these days that don't even realize Purple Rain is a movie.
💜Prince💜 looks like pure, energetic light here. At one with the music. This scene is healing. Healing within the context of the film and also outside of the film (oh, if only it lasted longer than a minute.)
I'm 45 and back in the early 8o's I hated Prince with a passion. Fast forward to 1986, and I was watching Purple Rain with my sister and uncle and this is scene I realized he was a genius. He became my favorite artist ever since that period.
How could you have someone with a passion in the 1980's? and then skip to 1985, you love him in that period.You should respect him if you say least about it in the first place. TRUE VISIONARY ARTIST!! CREATED MUSIC LIKE NO OTHER. Legendary 💖💜
On behalf of all the musicians and other creative peoples around the 🌎 you inspire daily and always will just like another funky genius Roger Troutman said... Now we got the Minneapolis connection Thank u Prince We ❤ U 🎸💜🥁
There was the original piano version by Prince on You Tube a few years back, but Prince had them take it down. You can't find it anywhere anymore. It's about 2:30 minutes long and stunning.
This scene says a mountainous amount of unspoken dialogue- you have to be a pretty good actor or it had to really happen to you at one time or other in life to pull this scene off believable like Prince did.
Well essentially Prince realizing that his band mates’ contributions are valid and that he was kind of being a dick to them by not hearing them out. I don’t have to tell you how pretty this sketch melody of purple rain is
I tried to play this melody by ear for 30 years, and accidentally hit the notes trying to play another riff. The majority of Prince's songs are in F or B flat, depending on whether he was composing on the guitar or piano. F is the perfect 5th of B flat and B flat is the perfect 4th of F, which makes those keys share the same notes, except E is flat in B flat. Almost all of Prince's songs use the 1-4-5 chord progression. As do most of the hit songs in Rock, Pop, and R&B. I said all of that to say this...The melody on this version of Purple Rain is 1-4-5-1 starting at F5. Walk it up, walk it back down, then 1-4-5. His genius was in his simplicity. I would find the sheet music to his songs and get pissed because it as never anything fancy. He used a lot of open chords, sus2 and sus4 chords at times, but nothing an average musician can't pick UP. The notes 1-4-5 on any key will always sound good played in any order, as the 1-4-5 chords will. It's the arrangement of these notes and chords that determines if what we hear is the work of a master, or of just another starving artist.
I always wondered what Prince was thinking as he started playing the keys, you can see clearly something emotional is going through his mind as hes not even looking down at the keys nor looking foward or even up wards, he is looking to the side and i always wondered what he was thinking
Finding a ray of hope in Wendy and Lisa's song. Like:"Maybe there's still a chance that I make it. Maybe I can still keep our jobs if I do this right. If I manage to make this song really good."
@intellectualrebel5340 i dont know, to me it looks like hes not even thinking about anything that has to do with the movie, it looks like hes thinking about something in his own real life, i always wondered what. But who knows, maybe you can be right
Me “I like to dedicate this video to my father Rudy Alapag SrPrince as The Kid “I would like to dedicate this song to my father Francis L. It’s a song, the girls in band wrote Lisa & Wendy”
I love Little Richard…I mean Prince😂🥰❤️First time I saw Prince I immediately said to my friend omg he looks like Little Richard. Both beautiful and talented men. RIP🙏❤️
Isaiah Johnson Father's Song is the one you're looking for. It was just released on the Purple Rain expanded edition. Never was officially released until now I think?
If anyone can find that version let me know.I believe the song is orginally called father's song.But it's a solo version with the piano like in the movie
This man tried to warn us before he died about the people who tried to dispossess him of his own music and his own stage name. He talked openly about a hidden governance structure that superseded the one we think we have influence over. He told us that same small group also controlled the media, journalism, and entertainment, including the music industry. He told us they were altering the weather. And then he was silenced forever. His life cut short under mysterious circumstances. Open your eyes people. Everything beautiful and true is being taken from us. Everything that will result in total control of everything we do is promoted. Prince risked and ultimately gave his life to reveal a truth hidden in plain sight. Honor his sacrifice by seeking the truth. The hour is getting late. Hey!
He made it sound so beautifully not just on the guitar but on the piano too and won an Oscar for the music score. Pure gold
I get so emotional every time he starts playing the melody on the piano. This scene was so beautiful. Where there is dark,there is light.🥰
This scene still gives me chills😆 That Melody played on the piano is so so beautiful
Same here I always get chills
Always!
Thekash415 a completely different key from the piano
Last time I saw prince live it was a few months before he died. The show was just him and a piano for over 2 hours. It was awesome
Facts
I’ve loved this scene almost my entire life. Absolutely brilliant.
This is one of the most beautiful scenes in cinema of all time.
I don't know why I can listen to this verse over and over again
Me too
Bobby Carter because it’s amazing. 💜
Same here! It's because it's absolutely beautiful and powerful!
Bobby Carter me too
I had my brother do a mix of this and listened to it over and over. It's so beautiful!!
I never learned how to read music, but when this came out on VHS; I kept rewinding it like Prince did. The first time I felt like I did something. It was on a Casio keyboard. I just kept going and going. I grew up on real music like this, and it taught me not to settle for just anything when it came to music. My ear is trained thanks to Prince! Love!
Yeap
The dopest musician ever
Eric Mitchell so good to hear
What?
EVER!
FOOREVVVVVVEEERRR!! 💜
The actual dynamics of this scene are amazing and the transition to his fully dressed thought....purely dope scene
Notice how The Kid plays and looks up at the light. Prince knew how to draw one into a moment, a feeling, a song and make it a memorable experience. Genius. Unique.
Never noticed but seems logical to look up when one is creating. Spiritual too.
At 0:41 I wanna walk down the aisle to this...Sleep In Heaven Prince 💜💎💜
Raven Phonixe omg that’s so beautiful... U made me cry
@@IamCatharineStevens I'm just now seeing this!!!!! This brings tears to my eyes!!! 💜🖤💜🖤💜
@DoesIt ReallyMatter? My Dad passed away 10 years ago. I might have my Gay God Daddy walk me down 😊💜😊
I want the version on that tape SO BAD!❣ I actually recorded it and mixed together minus the pauses and it sounded MAGNIFICENT at the time! SOMEBODY PLEASE do this and make a video of it!
This scene moved me soooo much...
Most Beautiful Piano Piece EVER
Iconic scene
I love how fast he picked it up by ear...
He freaking wrote it lol
@@IsaiahJohnsoncocoinc Duh...I was talking how it is portrayed in the movie not literally man...
Johnson and Johnson chill out
He's not playing that live....
@@mojopin70 sigh.......I think EVERYONE understands that.....I liked how the movie depicted him learning by ear so quickly....I'm sure he could do that in real life.
This scene made me cry so much as a kid because it was so epic, breathetaking, and beautiful 🥺🥺🥺
His playing is hauntingly beautiful 🥰
just this simple version shows you how brilliant he was as a writer. This part was always my favorite part of the movie.
I remember telling a friend of mine back in the day, "the most beautiful song I've heard played on the piano was Purple Rain". He literally just a few months ago after watching the movie after 40yrs called me up saying, "Damn, I just heard Pirnce play it, and I wish I heard more".
the BEST musician EVER and the BEST Entertainer EVER.....
I grew up listening to prince. And saw this movie so many times when I was little. When he passed away, and this showed In theaters Not gonna lie I cried when he started playing the piano in this scene.
Yes!! I went to see it in theaters! It was such a privilege because I was 3 when this movie came out in the movies lol a lot of us cried in the movies that day
Brilliance. Rest In Power Prince. Love you 4ever.
My 17 yo son is a advanced level classical pianist, I’m going to ask him to play this for me. This scene In Purple Rain still touches me to this very day.
One Of The Best Scenes Ever
This scene kills me everytime. That deep thought capture of prince while that melody is playing in the background 🥲🥲🥲
Thanks for posting this video!! I've been looking everywhere hoping someone out there posted this scene for whatever reason 😁😁😁
I just cried real tears watching this again. So beautiful. Could listen to it on a constant repeat. Miss him so much.
one of my fave scenes from the movie
Oh my God dude this part of the movie has ALWAYS blown me away and ALWAYS will!!!!!!! RIP u purple GIANT!!!!!!!
Can u imagine an entire song with just the piano and Princes' beautiful voice?!?!?😪
Definitely would be 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯💯
I want the version on the tape. I love it.
I have looked for this EXACT clip for years. I had never touched a piano and I remember watching this as a kid and wanting to play this! Only this. I'm finally getting to learn piano and I hope to be able to play this one. The artistry in playing music based on just listening is what made price an icon (amongst other things) thank you beyond words for posting this.
Inconic
Have you found the sheet music? I would like to play it too. Don't know how to ear the piece as well as prince, he he.
Hope you are playing piano now ❤️
@@steveeq1 sorry I have not found sheet music but I think I can get it by using Muscore (I think it's called) it's a program that transcribes music from mp3.... Contact me if you still need it and I'll email it to you.
@@plecturaproductions5816 I had taken a break from piano (sad face) but I did learn how to play this before I took my break.
Simply The Greatest Artist Ever!!
This is my favorite part of the movie! This part still gives me chills
I ❤ this scene 💜💜 Rip Genius We will love u always ❤❤💜💜
I love this version so much from the heart always 4ever “PRINCE” never ever end loving the music and Prince you’re a big legend
I love this song from the first moment I heard this back in middle school.... God bless you PRINCE!!!! 💔💔💔💜💜💜💔💔💔💜💜💜💔💔💔💔
I watched PURPLE RAIN recently with my granddaughter, she asked why I was sad. Could not put into words how this man and his music has touched so many effortlessly. One day I’ll try to explain it to her when she’s older...
The music so beautiful . thats how Prince was , he created such beautiful music. Purple Rain was one of my favorite songs.
I've always loved the slower instrumental version of Purple Rain. It sounds so nice~ 🎶
This is my fav moment of the entire movie
Still brings a tear to the eye. Doesn't get any better than this!
Love this version of Purple Rain with a passion. I remember the first time i saw "Purple Rain" this song stayed with me along with Father's Song (computer Blue". I miss Prince.
What a movie ....I still remember it from 1984 when I was 14...what a movie!! There's a lot of kids these days that don't even realize Purple Rain is a movie.
💜Prince💜 looks like pure, energetic light here. At one with the music. This scene is healing. Healing within the context of the film and also outside of the film (oh, if only it lasted longer than a minute.)
What a beautiful moment in time...when you had to rewind the cassette to start over a song. A truly amazing piece of music
That sound so good to the soul!!
When I watch this scene, all my troubles melt away.
So beautiful.
Prince was the best ever! 💜
Life without music is wrong, Beautifully made RIP PRINCE
This scene moved me to tears
I love what he did on that piano it was so beautiful
Simple is BEAUTIFUL! The camera person is AMAZING!
I'm 45 and back in the early 8o's I hated Prince with a passion. Fast forward to 1986, and I was watching Purple Rain with my sister and uncle and this is scene I realized he was a genius. He became my favorite artist ever since that period.
Kenny Hall yup, one of the top musicians in history
Kenny Hall this movie is what proved he was a musician and shown you what he could do, a true artist in history.
HOW COULD YOU HATE HIM AND YOU KNEW NOTHING ABOUT HIM?.
How could you have someone with a passion in the 1980's? and then skip to 1985, you love him in that period.You should respect him if you say least about it in the first place. TRUE VISIONARY ARTIST!! CREATED MUSIC LIKE NO OTHER. Legendary 💖💜
I'm glad u finally saw the light!!!🤘
Mark, I cannot Thank you enough for Posting this. I am telling you this scene moved me like No Other :) Prince was so Amazing!!
Me too 😢
On behalf of all the musicians and other creative peoples around the 🌎 you inspire daily and always will just like another funky genius Roger Troutman said... Now we got the Minneapolis connection Thank u Prince We ❤ U 🎸💜🥁
I miss him so much 😞
Piano Magic..makes my eyes act funny every time I hear these bars RIP Prince
Thank you. This was exactly the scene I was looking for. Powerful.
Best Piano version I ever heard.
My favorite s new from the movie. My favorite man ever
love you and miss you prince
thank you so much, Mark Bommarito
I love that you made this exact clip from the movie available.
I love this so much
How beautiful
Love u prince, 😘 R.I.P 😭
I could just listen to this all day no words
There was the original piano version by Prince on You Tube a few years back, but Prince had them take it down. You can't find it anywhere anymore. It's about 2:30 minutes long and stunning.
Ryan Neff please find it
I agree we gotta find it
That piano tho
Thank you for posting this
Amazing, my favorite scene in purple rain R.I.P
I used to rewind my VHS tape to try to see what keys he was playing lol
Pulled right up.... Needed this💜
I wonder if he ever did a version of this with just him and the piano. That would've been Awesome
His last concert was the Piano & a Mic tour. He played it often. Might be able to find it on CZcams. The Estate really needs to release those shows
So beautiful
so beautiful
This scene says a mountainous amount of unspoken dialogue- you have to be a pretty good actor or it had to really happen to you at one time or other in life to pull this scene off believable like Prince did.
Well essentially Prince realizing that his band mates’ contributions are valid and that he was kind of being a dick to them by not hearing them out. I don’t have to tell you how pretty this sketch melody of purple rain is
I want both the synth drum solo and the piano solo on separate loops. I can listen to them both and just get lost in them.. amazing pieces of music.
This is the ONLY THING I want to learn how to play on piano!
I tried to play this melody by ear for 30 years, and accidentally hit the notes trying to play another riff.
The majority of Prince's songs are in F or B flat, depending on whether he was composing on the guitar or piano. F is the perfect 5th of B flat and B flat is the perfect 4th of F, which makes those keys share the same notes, except E is flat in B flat.
Almost all of Prince's songs use the 1-4-5 chord progression. As do most of the hit songs in Rock, Pop, and R&B.
I said all of that to say this...The melody on this version of Purple Rain is 1-4-5-1 starting at F5. Walk it up, walk it back down, then 1-4-5.
His genius was in his simplicity. I would find the sheet music to his songs and get pissed because it as never anything fancy. He used a lot of open chords, sus2 and sus4 chords at times, but nothing an average musician can't pick UP. The notes 1-4-5 on any key will always sound good played in any order, as the 1-4-5 chords will. It's the arrangement of these notes and chords that determines if what we hear is the work of a master, or of just another starving artist.
Love this song 💜💜🎶
I always wondered what Prince was thinking as he started playing the keys, you can see clearly something emotional is going through his mind as hes not even looking down at the keys nor looking foward or even up wards, he is looking to the side and i always wondered what he was thinking
Finding a ray of hope in Wendy and Lisa's song. Like:"Maybe there's still a chance that I make it. Maybe I can still keep our jobs if I do this right. If I manage to make this song really good."
@intellectualrebel5340 i dont know, to me it looks like hes not even thinking about anything that has to do with the movie, it looks like hes thinking about something in his own real life, i always wondered what. But who knows, maybe you can be right
@@saulramirezkb5855 I meant The Kid, as the character.
@@intellectualrebel5340😂
The best ❤❤
Me “I like to dedicate this video to my father Rudy Alapag SrPrince as The Kid “I would like to dedicate this song to my father Francis L. It’s a song, the girls in band wrote Lisa & Wendy”
Thought I was the only one. Really wanted to walk down the aisle to the piano version
Held me up threw pain. Love life
I love Little Richard…I mean Prince😂🥰❤️First time I saw Prince I immediately said to my friend omg he looks like Little Richard. Both beautiful and talented men. RIP🙏❤️
I hired a piano soloist to do it at my uncles funeral .. it was perfect I will also be doing it at my wedding.. prince is a love of my whole family
Last song he'll ever play in concert, to his fans.
His apology.
He knew it the whole time.
💜
Did he ever release the piano version as a full song?
Isaiah Johnson Father's Song is the one you're looking for. It was just released on the Purple Rain expanded edition. Never was officially released until now I think?
If anyone can find that version let me know.I believe the song is orginally called father's song.But it's a solo version with the piano like in the movie
Father’s song is actually the ending section in Computer Blue.
Miss you... RIP !!!
My favorite scene in this movie Prince was my first celebrity crush
Can't believe it's been 5 years.
Over an over 💜💜
I MISS YOU PRINCE!!! YOU ONLY SHOWED THE WORLD 50% OF WHAT YOU COULD HAVE DONE!!!
This man tried to warn us before he died about the people who tried to dispossess him of his own music and his own stage name. He talked openly about a hidden governance structure that superseded the one we think we have influence over. He told us that same small group also controlled the media, journalism, and entertainment, including the music industry. He told us they were altering the weather. And then he was silenced forever. His life cut short under mysterious circumstances. Open your eyes people. Everything beautiful and true is being taken from us. Everything that will result in total control of everything we do is promoted. Prince risked and ultimately gave his life to reveal a truth hidden in plain sight. Honor his sacrifice by seeking the truth. The hour is getting late. Hey!
prince is the man yaul
💜😢
Whenever I get a moment Like prince was staring this tune pops in my mind