Opinions of this performance

[virtuoso80]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP9mszAATx0

This is prog-rock keyboardist Jordan Rudess performing one of his own compositions.

Technique? Musical quality of the piece? Tell me what you think.

[le_poete_mourant]

His technique isn't that great. It gets by enough for him to do what he is doing, but it doesn't look good or natural, the way it should.

Musically, it's just a bunch of vanilla easy-listening stuff with nothing very interesting going on at all. It's like George Winston for people who've never heard of George Winston. Why waste your time with this guy when there is Keith Jarrett?

[ronde_des_sylphes]

Technique's adequate. Musically, it's dull as hell: not very harmonically sophisticated, lots of aimless noodling and the colouristic capabilities of a grand piano remain largely unexploited - I suspect that's because he's playing something written for keyboard, but on a piano.

[virtuoso80]

Thanks, I was curious. His solo work has never moved me, but I'm a longtime fan of Dream Theater, who he's the keyboardist for. He also has a weird, finger-y way of playing that I'm not used to seeing so I was wondering is there was some origin to that technique. It doesn't look comfortable to me either, but somehow he's managed a note-filled career without hand problems, so I guess it works for what he does.