5:32 PM
@Robusto oh I've read YouTube before. Don't think I will again. Had a very similar experience concerning a piano part.
There was that one track in Nintendo's recent Breath of the Wild game. Playing during the final battle, with very fast piano sixteenths that sounded very impressive for sure. Except of course that neither the composer (Manaka Kataoka) nor the pianist (my bad, don't even know the name) are morons, and the sixteenths are actually exceptionally easy to play. Mostly just arpeggios strung together.
But yeah there were a billion comments from Nintendo fanboys saying how impressive the piano part was and hard and fast and everything. They'd probably compare it to Horowitz playing Beethoven at quadruple tempo, except of course they couldn't because none of them had ever heard either name. That kind of discussion, you know.
So naturally I made the mistake of replying to just one of them, "Actually this is really easy on a piano. You'd know if you played the piano."
Well you can imagine the rest.
That was like a year ago maybe. I'm still getting replies once a week like.
The least inane of them all having been "I do play the piano. This is too fast for me." To which I replied, "well go practice, then".
The average reply being more like "you fucking suck moron". To which I replied "right on, I do suck. And yet I can play this no problem. So what do you expect from a professional pianist whom Nintendo picked out of all the pianists in the world to play the most central track in their most important flagship franchise."
And so on and so forth. You get the point.
If I may remind you, we're talking about a fucking arpeggiated chord here.
Specifically written by a stellar composer who plays the instrument herself to be idiomatic to said instrument.
Cerberus is right. Never argue with idiots.