Check this out World record Chopin op10-1

[johnmar78]

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Just saw this by accident, on a light touch Yamaha clavinova digital paino...heeeeeee no effort to depress the keys......

He demostrate good use of UPPER body (core) for weight transfer....keep rocking baby....

Good work by this young fellow..just a speed drill I suppose...

[keyboardclass]

Fake!

[johnmar78]

Fake!

lol, you mean HACKED.

[keyboardclass]

HACKED!

[perfect_pitch]

This isn't worth posting. It's fake and it's lame.

This wasn't worth a thread.

[johnmar78]

my god, its fake allright. Should get his finger chopped off instead. SHAME....

[Bob]

How do they fake/create something like that?

[philb]

How do they fake/create something like that?

Playing through the piece slowly, then speeding the video up.

[ronde_des_sylphes]

I believe this is as fast.

 

[pianowolfi]

I believe this is as fast.

 

da zepp...
da good ol' days of dasdc I guess
mahbadzelf played this as an encore today, true (e)

yo. not that fast. but unleashy 

[ted]

I much prefer your version Wolfi. This preoccupation with speed is also infecting ragtime at the moment and it has an even worse effect there because it destroys rhythm completely. If everything goes fast enough, classical or jazz, it is heard merely as a continuous stream of babbling notes with no accents, phrasing or rhythm. It is a puzzling phenomenon because many of the people who idolise speed are not simple minded at all but otherwise very good pianists and musicians, so it cannot be explained as easily as that.

I think it goes deeper. My conjecture is that it reflects the human propensity to extol the physical over the mental. In the papers we usually read about a vital scientific advance in half a column several pages in, while the state of some muscular footballer's kneecap, or the exposed thigh of some female "celebrity" covers the front page and is illustrated with colour photographs. Speed at the instrument is just the same thing in the pianistic world.

The other reason is simpler, namely that it is a one-dimensional, linear property, and therefore can be used for comparison. Most aspects of music are very deep, complex, multi-dimensional, even numinous, making objective linear comparison an absurdity. Mind you, people seem hell bent on trying to do so, usually involving argument about degrees of "greatness", at least on forums.

Soon be time for me to unleash da fury on my Virgil Practice Clavier, which fortunately for music is silent.