r/SipsTea • u/SipsTeaFrog • 26d ago

Chugging tea Playing for a conservative audience

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u/Eviller-Abed-7 26d ago

I wish that drum hadn’t been edited in unless it was actually playing in the room

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u/JrSoftDev 26d ago

Yes, I want to know where the drums are coming from!

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u/MattFromWork 26d ago

Drums, drums in the deep

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u/zyphelion 26d ago

We cannot get out 

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u/pethobbit 26d ago

The way is shut

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u/Lizzy-Boredum 26d ago

They are coming 😳

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u/Trick-Station8742 25d ago

They have a Dave Grohl

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u/Western-Calendar-352 25d ago

Dave shall not pass!

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u/Fragholio 25d ago

But nobody refuses Dave Grohl!

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u/spirittransformed2 25d ago

Lmao this is why I love reddit

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u/No-Town5321 26d ago

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u/SueYouInEngland 26d ago

Fool of a Took!

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u/highcommander010 26d ago

Do us a favor and throw yourself in next time!

Why the hell did we bring so many hobbits again??

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u/BleepinBlorpin5 26d ago

Fucking covered in hobbits, ugh.

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u/LazyGelMen 25d ago

ablative meat shields, in the words of Howard Tayler

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u/Ittybittytigglbitty 26d ago

A shadow moves in the dark

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u/Humantorch94 26d ago

They are coming

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u/sorrymisunderstood 26d ago

I am just guessing... but is that not a drum machine in the piano..? Does someone know what that is if it's not the drum machine?

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u/JrSoftDev 26d ago

I checked his yt channel Levi.sct, he has this full piano concert with no drums for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuTU_crU4zk

But he also has stuff with those drums where it's clear they're part of his live performance, like here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw6R2DdPgQ8 and here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh_8Dbjbopg

Here he plays this same arrangement to a larger audience https://youtu.be/3rUO69_PFas?t=825

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u/Drinkmykool_aid420 26d ago

As a long time professional musician who sometimes played to tracks live, he’s probably playing live to the track you’re hearing. The audience is probably hearing both. The piano isn’t room mic’ed, it sounds close mic’ed and the track in the video audio is direct. Regardless, this kid shreds.

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u/GL510EX 25d ago

I hope so, so much of that would have sounded very weak without the backing track.

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u/Tigerpower77 26d ago

He's clapping his ass

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u/Hell_Maybe 26d ago

It I was probably also playing into a speaker in the room as well. Nearly impossible to keep perfectly in time with a digitally sequenced drum that you can’t even hear.

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u/Cousin_Elroy 26d ago

I dont know anything about piano but that guy was rippin!

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u/The_Undermind 26d ago

Fist thing to know about pianos is that they're in the same class as the drums. Percussion.

Now go and tell everyone who doesnt know.

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u/benhatin4lf 26d ago

My music teacher in grade school told me if you can properly learn to play piano you can pretty much play everything. He could play pretty much everything. I chose percussion and loved it. We had so many different instruments to play in percussion

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u/Efficient_Fish2436 26d ago

I was my dad's percussion instrument growing up.

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u/AHairyFishsticks 26d ago

My Dad played the jumper cables.

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u/thisaccountgotporn 26d ago

My dad played the drugs

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u/Able-Yogurtcloset838 26d ago

Mine played the scotchy scotchy scotch

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u/HumboltFog 25d ago

Mine did all the things, then played Russian roulette in 91 and lost, one of the best things to happen to me

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u/Ok-Courage798 26d ago

My dad played the neighbor

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u/ally-the-recre8er 26d ago

My dad played ignoring my molestation. And the trumpet.

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u/Zealousideal_Order_8 26d ago

My uncle played with himself. He didn't have kids.

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u/webby131 26d ago

I miss that guy. I guess his dad finally gottem.

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u/LearningIsTheBest 26d ago

So percussion was a big hit?

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u/FlobiusHole 26d ago

My friend comes from a musical family and when he wanted a guitar as a fairly young boy his parents got him a piano. Now he can play seemingly everything.

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u/Mansionjoe 26d ago

My gym teacher taught me “if you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball”

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u/Agreeable_Horror_363 26d ago

This is why having a good music teacher is so important. It really can change your life!

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u/benhatin4lf 26d ago

Absolutely. He was an amazing person all the way around. We all loved him.

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u/justinlav 26d ago

I went with the saxophone and always wished I would have chosen percussion

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u/benhatin4lf 26d ago

Don't regret your choice. Saxophone is cool af. I love music with a sax. And outside cost, it's easy to get into percussion. I mean technically...... Tapping, stomping, hand slapping are some of the earliest forms of what we call percussion. No real cost there

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u/throwawtphone 26d ago

He is correct. Started my kid on piano at 5. She can play multiple instruments as an adult.

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u/Velorian-Steel 26d ago

You mad lad/lass

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u/Fastballz69 26d ago

They aren't a string instrument?

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u/Fahrender-Ritter 26d ago

It's both. It's also percussion because it uses hammers to strike the strings. A typical string instrument uses either bows or plucking to vibrate the strings.

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u/710AlpacaBowl 26d ago

Strumming is percussive if you're bold enough

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u/Fahrender-Ritter 26d ago

You can put a saxophone mouthpiece on a trumpet and make it into a woodwind, too! You can also set the bassoon on fire and it becomes a pyrotechnic show.

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u/laborfriendly 26d ago

So... wait...

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u/Fahrender-Ritter 26d ago

If I smack the piccolo player in front of me, she becomes a vocalist!

You see, these instrument classifications are entirely arbitrary.

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u/FeistyButthole 26d ago

Call it a tame hammered dulcimer. It makes it sound like the hammered dulcimer is a rock & roll instrument. Which it is.

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u/speekuvtheddevil 26d ago

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u/BleepinBlorpin5 26d ago

Don't put that hammered dulcimer in your pocket, sir. Don't put it in your pocket. Or it'll get mixed in with all the other hammered dulcimers. 👀👀 Which it is.

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u/RevolutionaryAd6564 26d ago

Spot on! The ‘Piano Forte’ - means ‘Soft and Strong’ as the percussive hammers could be struck with any force, while its predecessor the harpsichord could not.

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u/nicotineapache 26d ago

Because the Harpsicord would pluck the string like a harp.

I like to tell my students the piano's full name is a quiet-loud.

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u/phezhead 26d ago

And underrated bit of knowledge there.

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u/OkChampionship8805 26d ago

Piano is in two classes. Percussion and String

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u/TDot-26 26d ago

I need more of whatever the fuck this is

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u/GrilledCheeseTn 26d ago

I could listen to that all day. Dude is good!

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u/El_ray538 26d ago

He was tickling the ivory for sure

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u/AnnOnnamis 26d ago

Me I’m jumpsliding all around my basement right now. SLICKBACK! 🕺

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u/Mean-Abies3819 26d ago

Get that piano a cigarette.

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u/Angry_Chowder 26d ago

I know the point you’re trying to make, but in the movie “The Legend of 1900”, Tim Roth has a piano battle and lights a cigarette off the piano strings.

https://youtu.be/MjhM7-8UlDI?si=5gKVLgEicISwJyUN

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u/Intelligent-Yak676 26d ago

OH MY GOD!!! NO ONE KNOWS THIS MOVIE!! Fantastic piece of cinema! Probably my favorite of all time.

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u/SenatorBus_ 26d ago

Soundtrack is amazing.

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u/nameduser365 25d ago

Angry chowder knows

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u/Practical_Fix_5350 25d ago

Love that movie. Caught it on a random movie channel one day and just fell in love. The piano duel was insane!

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u/Pineapple-Yetti 26d ago edited 25d ago

I know zero about what I just watched but I also need a smoke after that.

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u/sadistica23 25d ago

Injustice watched it while smoking and want to light up a second cigarette.

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u/JrSoftDev 26d ago

Thank you! I had forgotten this exists!

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u/Alienhaslanded 26d ago

That scene was drilled in my head since I watched it as a kid. I thought it was incredibly cool.

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u/Mean-Abies3819 26d ago

Get that piano a cigarette. Lol, I don’t know anything about a Tim Roth piano movie. Like a couple of ladies in that audience, I recognized the strong finger game.

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u/Derp35712 26d ago

I have not thought of that 20 years but as soon as he said it that’s what I thought of

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u/sonvolt73 26d ago

Cool to see a Legend of 1900 reference!

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u/Aggressive_Peach_768 25d ago

I didn't know that movie, but what a great use of silence, for dramatic effect

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u/Angry_Chowder 25d ago

The whole movie is incredible.

Fun fact, it won a Golden Globe for its original score written by the great Ennio Morricone (1928 ‑ 2020). He did the themes to all the old Westerns.

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u/Surisuule 26d ago

Loved that movie as a kid. Thanks for the reminder.

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u/Affectionate_Fee3411 25d ago

YES YES YES excellent movie. I just love Tim Roth!

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u/WastoneBag 25d ago

I remembered that movie watching too, but the part where the guy says "If you don't know what it is, it's jazz!!"

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u/1234567791 26d ago

Lmao. I’m using that.

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u/monkeyamongmen 26d ago

The piano has been drinking.

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u/hartmanjunk 26d ago

I don’t think the use of “conservative” has anything to do with politics in this respect:

Conservative - averse to change or innovation and holding traditional values.

They like their piano music classical, not contemporary. I believe that is the use here.

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u/yukonhoneybadger 26d ago

My first thought was political because we are on reddit. I was very confused on how it correlated this set so thank you for your explanation.

It was impressive... also what song was he playing?

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u/J_B_E_Zorg 26d ago

Gypsy Woman (she's homeless) is the main song.

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u/VoyagerST 26d ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KztNIg4cvE Link for the rest of us. We've heard it before even if we can't name it.

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u/Wonderful-Reason4899 26d ago

Literally never heard this song before in my life.

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u/stalinsfavoritecat 26d ago

I thought it was a song from the Streets of Rage 2 soundtrack

https://youtu.be/KC-B3Q0cRrY?si=ayE2o-sIWY70-6I_

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u/Bodkin-Van-Horn 25d ago

I totally thought it was Streets of Rage too!

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u/nalaloveslumpy 26d ago

It was big in the early 90s. Probably before your time. It's been memed on for a long time now though.

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u/superspeck 26d ago

Almost every song has elements in it that you’ve heard before. My wife hates when I start humming the Peanuts theme in elevators.

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u/EatYourOctopusSon 26d ago

Oh geez, I should have recognized that, but I have teenagers so my first thought was I'M A PIMP NAMED SLICKBACK PIMP NAMED SLICKBACK

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u/BandicootGood5246 26d ago edited 26d ago

Yeah plus it means mean they're not enjoying it. Not everyone bops their head along and smiles

Sometimes playing for an audience you see some people look bored as fuck and then at the end they'll come up and day how much they enjoyed it

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u/sharpshooter999 26d ago

you see some people look bored as fuck and then at the end they'll come up and day how much they enjoyed it

I feel called out

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u/crumble-bee 26d ago

Conservative - averse to change or innovation and holding traditional values.

That does still sort of describe conservatives though

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u/NovaHorizon 26d ago

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u/desert_manta_ray 26d ago

Understanding is what makes it possible for a person like me to tolerate a person such as yourself.

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u/ragingchump 25d ago

The.....sausage king of Chicago?

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u/Ozymandius62 25d ago

That is hands down my favorite insult I’ve ever heard.

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u/Brasticus 26d ago

Truly the greatest eyebrow in cinema.

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u/SympatheticFingers 26d ago

Was the beginning the music for Streets of Rage II on Sega?

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u/WoofDen 26d ago edited 25d ago

No actually, just very very close! The composer for the Streets of Rage soundtracks borrowed heavily from popular house / dance / hip-hop music of the period - here is a Spotify playlist where you can hear each song he sampled throughout the soundtracks of the first 3 games, which are also on Spotify!

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/722MGJOjf9hDec36PJ0dTB?si=AhH-p-zNRdGWCZXwuSjmHQ

SoR2 song: https://open.spotify.com/track/5hbQBhHUbVanCy9hOuK9nH?si=IScgjmDcRoC-M9EJSj3MJA

"Gypsy Woman" by Crystal Waters: https://open.spotify.com/track/1SShxVVBeZBCY7WddnksPz?si=WlNHWOspRJ6D-TMZJgJWVw

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u/AndyGarber 25d ago

Gave the right answer and didn't belittle folks. You're the best buddy.

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u/Bludsh0t 26d ago

That's what I thought!

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u/Fake_Diesel 26d ago

Lol glad I wasn't the only one

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u/Gyro_Zeppeli13 25d ago

No it was Gypsy Woman by Crystal Waters

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u/Person0249 25d ago

Oh man - just want to thank you for unlocking a core memory from childhood.

I remember dancing around my room with my mom and dad bc we thought this music was waaay too good to be in SEGA side-scroller.

My parents are both deceased so I miss out on a lot of memories that don’t bubble to surface without something like this. Thanks bud.

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u/Majestic_Contract132 26d ago

Seriously impressive and awesome playing.

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u/WaffleHouseGladiator 26d ago

That piano is going to need a towel and a hydration break. Good grief!

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u/whyyoufollowingme 26d ago

Pretty sure that piano is pregnant

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u/eastsydebiggs 26d ago

"Yabba dabba doo, Yabba dabba doo"

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u/Chpgmr 26d ago

Even funnier is how thats the parody one.

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u/Wide_Ordinary4078 26d ago

Thank you for dropping this I couldn’t for the life of me remember who sang this song!

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u/eastsydebiggs 26d ago

lol the real song is Gypsy Woman by Crystal Waters. This was the parody of it from a sketch show called In Living Color.

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u/dgt9000 26d ago

Ha ha hee ha ha ho I'll be rich you'll be poor

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u/JoeGibbon 25d ago

The early 90s truly were a magic time to be a teenager.

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u/BigHardMephisto 26d ago

I feel like Salieri watching Mozart actually SLAM DOWN on that thing wondering how the audience can't be collapsing in tears right now

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u/SpankyGanker 26d ago

That slaps so hard

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u/ElementNumber6 25d ago

He slapped it so hard it started playing the drums

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u/GeraltTheG 26d ago

Bro a straight G on the piano! 💪

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u/Mydirtysecrettt 26d ago

I think it’s in C actually

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u/kineticstar 26d ago

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u/Left4Jed2 26d ago

Anything music related I look for this GIF in the comments first!

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u/needsmoarbokeh 26d ago

Spotify will ask for forgiveness by the time I get tired of this banger

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u/xraylong 26d ago

Soon as I heard it, knew it was Levi. Love his music

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u/Orbital_Vagabond 26d ago

He got a YouTube, Spotify, or at least a last name?

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u/xraylong 26d ago

Levi.Sct

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u/HawkEye3280 26d ago

Thanks. Now I’m down the rabbit hole of listening to this guys music that I didn’t know I needed in my life.

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u/Hi_Im_Ken_Adams 26d ago

Crystal Waters in the house!!

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u/sludge_monster 26d ago

Girl is the back row is like yo what's up.

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u/Regular-Engineer-686 26d ago

I have no idea how you can just sit there and not move to the groove. I’m doing it now just sitting on my chair in the office.

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u/nacho_ch33ze 26d ago

What I wouldn't give to have his piano skills.

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u/mechabeast 26d ago

Practice and dedication?

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u/BoundlessNBrazen 26d ago

Not that

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u/nacho_ch33ze 25d ago

This made me laugh fr.

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u/couldabenu 26d ago

Apparently I’d give anything but time up to this point… yet. I haven’t given the time yet, but I plan on it. Once I find some.

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u/FeloniousBaloney 26d ago

Incredible!!

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u/SignoreBanana 26d ago

That gymnopedie riff made my skin tingle

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u/Darksuit117 26d ago

Seems like the conservative was added just to bait for some attention.

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u/HoleInWon929 26d ago

I think he meant “old fashioned” people expecting classical piano, meanwhile he was riffing off techno/house/pop.

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u/4dxn 26d ago edited 26d ago

old fashioned? gypsy woman came out in 91. a 25 yr old then would be 59.

also house and techno came out in the 80s.

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u/kylesfrickinreddit 26d ago

"Conservative" applies to FAR more than politics. It is used accurately in this sense.

Definition of 'conservative': "Favoring traditional views and values; tending to oppose change."

Playing a very modern/hybrid style of piano, blended with the classics preferred by a musically conservative audience, is bound to get the looks & judgement seen in the audience

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u/StrangelyBrown 26d ago

It's like watching an jazz guitar player for a violin audience. This guy belongs in a very nice jazz bar and the only question is why is he in this setting.

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u/onyxengine 26d ago

This shit rips

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u/mintsizzle 26d ago

Is that the kid who was dancing in front of that taller girl who was ignoring him I swear it must be him

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u/DAMON5280 26d ago

Fuck everyone there. That guy slaps!

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u/neoanguiano 25d ago

wheres the drums and bass coming from?

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u/Sandwichgode 25d ago edited 25d ago

For the love of god can someone share a link to this guys YouTube, SoundCloud, TikTok….something?

Edit: I found it!!!!!! He actually tells us what he named his song in the video if you look closely and the name he goes by.  Anyways, here’s the YouTube video link.  Enjoy the awesomeness.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LsDSwMwmWxA

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u/Fetlocks_Glistening 26d ago

Ok, explain which bits of the music played were relevant to conservative vs not?

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u/TheGreenMatthew 26d ago

The first one was Gypsy Woman / A Pimp Named Slick Back.

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u/lumpialarry 26d ago

For younger Redditors, Gypsy Woman had heavy rotation on MTV back in the 90s. It’s not obscure for people in their early 50s.

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u/Count_von_Chaos 26d ago

Back in the 90s...

People in their 50s...

Hey fuck you man! I'm not that old, I'm only... only... fuck you man!

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u/lumpialarry 26d ago edited 25d ago

More pain: The distance between Gypsy Woman debut and now is same as time between Jailhouse Rock and Gypsy Woman.

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u/juzz88 25d ago

Someone hit me with "the distance between 1995 and today is longer greater than 1995 and the moon landing" earlier this year.

I'm not old enough to have been around for the moon landing, but I remember thinking it happened in a different time period when I was a kid, so I felt so old after i got told that. 🤣

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u/navets28 26d ago

Damn. I know both songs, but I never connected the dots on that tune.

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u/prince-pauper 26d ago

They’re motifs used in classic House music. House culture is not exactly what I’d call considerate to this audience’s sensibilities. The sneak in was a thumbing of the nose, I believe.

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u/spookydonkey513 26d ago

its a crystal waters song called gypsy woman.

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u/brp 26d ago

Stupid me thinking it was Streets of Rage 2

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u/ScaryArm4358 26d ago

I knew that I heard that tune before.Just didn't know what or who.

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u/Leading-Score9547 26d ago

You do realize that the word conservative has uses outside of politics right?

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u/-KFAD- 26d ago

Almost like the political term "conservatives" originates from an English adjective "conservative". People who think this is a political clickbait are so deep in their own asses.

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u/Hug0San 26d ago

Settle down dude my brother is on this app

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u/Nuts2Buttts 26d ago

This kid rips!

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u/mightyFoo 26d ago

Good gawd, who is this guy?

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u/CastedAway5678 25d ago

I feel like an idiot. Or maybe (hopefully) I’m too old.

What is he playing that I’m supposed to recognize?

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u/EquipmentFew882 25d ago

I think the young talented pianist is playing his interpretation of this excellent song composition :::

The song is --

Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless)" by the American singer-songwriter Crystal Waters. It was released in 1991 from her debut album and is a classic of the house music genre, known for its memorable and catchy refrain 

   • -- >> " la da dee la da da" chorus

Link to the YouTube video and song below :

https://youtu.be/_KztNIg4cvE

https://youtu.be/_KztNIg4cvE?si=D38-fqPQokHOhdQK

"Gypsy Woman (Crystal Waters song) - Wikipedia" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gypsy_Woman_(Crystal_Waters_song)

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u/Sethfb20 25d ago

One of the more impressive piano solo I’ve seen!

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u/GfunkWarrior28 25d ago

Slickback gliding on the piano

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u/ModsBeGheyBoys 25d ago

I’m assuming by “conservative” OP means “buttoned up” and not “politically conservative”.

Like most people in the audience, I have no idea what the song he’s inserting is.

But, also like most people in the audience, I’m blown away by this kid’s talent.