The difference between her and Dragonforce is that she can actually play the song live.
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Streamer lara6883 listen and learns to play Dragonforce's 'Through the Fire and Flames' live in under 4 minutes
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The difference between her and Dragonforce is that she can actually play the song live.
It was actually 5 hours long but she only posted a hour and a half of it because she didn't think youtube people would sit through the whole thing.
It's typical Era. I remember we once had a thread where a trainee pilot managed to pull off an emergency landing under tough conditions and there were a few people who were like "pff, big deal"
There's also Pianoimproman on Twitch that does similar stuff. His channel kinda exploded all of a sudden a couple of years ago.
https://www.twitch.tv/pianoimproman
He's a retired musician living in Florida with is wife that just streams almost everyday now lol. He's really great.
https://www.twitch.tv/pianoimproman
He's a retired musician living in Florida with is wife that just streams almost everyday now lol. He's really great.
Lol, so lame.
I was born with the ability to feel porn through my skin from up 10 ft away.
Imagine this version being used for an Oscar winning movie trailer like that weird ass version of Creep for the Social Network.
Holy shit
DragonForce didn't die it was murdered.
Holy shit
Yuuuup, Song of Healing right before it as well. Fucking beautiful.
The best part of Lara's streaming for me isn't the impressiveness of the learns or the impressiveness of being able to play songs called out in chat for hours, it's the feeling she puts into the songs. So really the long versions of songs she already knows. She doesn't go viral because of that.
As far as learning this particular piece of music, it's actually not that difficult. Harmonically the song's actually not that terribly complex, in total it's maybe 6-7 chords/generalized note groups and the key/most basic note stays the same throughout. Notice her left hand on the base part doesn't move around much and often goes back to the same positions. Rock music has relatively predictable cadences, i.e. particular sequences of chords that end/begin a particular musical section/idea like going from the verse to the chorus, so to even the moderately trained ear it's not hard to listen and predict what's coming next (also why she's able to pretty easily point out "this sounds very chorus-y" right when it happens). The melody also pretty much stays entirely with the same key, so knowing basic major and minor scales will get you through the relatively small melodic intervals/jumps in pitch from note to note. All that being said, doing it as quickly and effortlessly as she does comes down to having practiced a long time and having both a good grasp of music theory and a well-trained ear, and the time and dedication it takes to get to that level is for sure praiseworthy on her part. She's really good, don't get me wrong, also largely because mechanistically playing piano at this level IS pretty hard and she's doing this all with relatively few mistakes, but this video specifically is hardly prodigy-level stuff given the material she's working with. Given enough time this level of musical ability is certainly achievable.
I wouldn't call this perfect pitch, though a really well-trained ear. And I think people in here have a misconception of what synesthesia is. synesthesia is the experience of perception from two or more unrelated sensory modalities from the same stimulus, i.e. perceiving uncolored digits as colors or tasting a sound. EDIT: OK nvm I see in another she talks about having synesthesia.
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Dang, seems like her talents are being wasted if she only has her Twitch stream.
Pretty awesome! The Mega Medley is even cooler. Started following her on Twitch, hopefully I'll be able to catch her stream on Monday (Sunday's way too early for me).
This is beyond a dream job for her being able to play music she loves most from her room to thousands of people setting her own schedule. She couldn't be happier.
Synesthesia is just a cool thing to have but I'm not sure it has any influence on her skills or learning ability.
Seriously, though, she didn't actually make it to the chorus. What she (understandably) misidentified as the chorus is better described as the song's pre-chorus.
I think it gives her improved perception. Like, she says people ask her "How did you know that was D-flat?" And she responds "Because it was warm orange."
I figure, her mutant superpower is giving her an improved ability to break down and analyze and remember a song. But her 30 years of training and practice and hard work is what gives her the ability to play a piano as easily as some people might hum a tune.
Yea, I was going to say this.
She has over two decades of musical experience that includes a degree in the field.
TTFAF isn't really that difficult of a song beyond the tempo. (also it's a really bad song)
With her level of skill and training I would expect her to be able to get the chords down rather fast, irregardless of any other special musical gifts she has that has been posted in the thread.
20+ years of playing music, that's how.
When you dedicate yourself to a craft you get crazy good
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I was going through her youtube channel. She is also plays the violin lol.
Very talented woman.
Very talented woman.
Right, it probably makes things easier to break down but in reality anyone in her talent level should have trained their ears to the point where they can easily name off notes and play portions of songs by ear without the need of sheet music.
Think of all the music you (you as in the people in this thread) hear on a daily basis. If you hear a new song, chances are you can predict chord progressions without even knowing what is going to happen next, or even without knowing what a chord progression even is.
Now imagine if you've trained decades on music theory and know chord progressions by heart, you'll be able to pick apart any type of modern music with ease.
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I have the same type of synesthesia and never learned to play an instrument and am lazy so yeah, it ain't just that.
She's amazing
She's amazing
I don't get why Through the Fire and Flames is considered this crazy song in large parts of the internet, especially for a pianist. Have people never listened to Chopin or Mozart? It's just embarrassing to read "you will die" and shit like that when she's probably played stuff like Fantaisie Impromptu.
She's a real talent though and I loved her medley video.
She's a real talent though and I loved her medley video.
The song is hard as fuck in Guitar Hero. I think that's really where its reputation comes from.
I just saw this vid she did with another artist named Marcus Veltri where they went on Omegle and played for strangers. Basically like what people were doing on Chat Roulette a few years ago. The number of pervs she encounters is crazy, but she's got a great sense of humor.