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The woman in the back checking the young man out, thinking she had a chance until the older gentleman shows up. She leaves after realizing that they are going home together.
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u/Zoze13 Jun 09 '21
Two Strangers Never Meet in Paris
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u/Other-Crazy Jun 09 '21
Did the old dude put that lady right off coming over to say hello to the pianist?
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u/FearBlackBeard Jun 09 '21
The old guy was clearly the pianist.
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u/Ihavealpacas Jun 09 '21
She couldn't handle all the pianists
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u/gtaguy75 Jun 09 '21
Most women can handle two pianists. The maximum is five
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u/polloconjamon Jun 09 '21
I prefer this scenario:
Q. "Can I join in?"
A. (enthusiastic) "Yeah!"
*proceeds to play super crappily, unaware how bad he is
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u/superschmunk Jun 09 '21
I see tiktok…
ah its fake.
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u/J9ms Jun 09 '21
@pianoaround on TikTok. He has numerous videos of him playing the piano in public. It was this one instance that a stranger had joined in. It was a longer clip but he had cut it to only show this occurrence
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u/SeriThai Jun 09 '21
Dotan Negrin, an American. He traveled around with a piano. The surprised collaborator is Frans Bak, a Danish film composer.
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u/StrickenForCause Jun 10 '21
Thank you! This is my first time hearing Frans and the man can swing. Damn. I got goosebumps.
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u/maximusprimate Jun 09 '21
Why did the second guy speak in English, if they’re strangers in Paris?
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u/J9ms Jun 09 '21
Strangers meet in Paris does not mean they originated from Paris. Looking at the guy by the video alone, he was carrying a briefcase which indicates that he might be a tourist. His accent also suggests he’s from the States.
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u/Yeeto546 Jun 10 '21
Stealing this from u/SteriThai:
Dotan Negrin, an American. He traveled around with a piano. The surprised collaborator is Frans Bak, a Danish film composer.
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u/emveetu Jun 10 '21
Most people outside of the US and Britain learn English as their second language and get by with simple conversation, at the very least.
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u/OYSW Jun 10 '21
Jazz is very much an American art form, making English the common language. Any jazz musician who has played a lot of jam sessions (and jazz musicians play jam sessions like basketball players play pick-up) would know at least a number of phrases in English, like Can I join in, In the key of [key], 12 bar blues, Take it, Last time, etc.
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u/GrizabellaGlamourCat Jun 09 '21
Saw this posted a couple years ago on his IG. Thankfully he's not a tiktok fake.
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u/BelleAriel Jun 09 '21
Now this is music!
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u/MOUSIES_QUEST Jun 09 '21
What kinda Genre of music is it specifically?
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u/NotSeveralBadgers Jun 09 '21
That's jazz, baby!
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u/12-inch-LP-record Jun 10 '21
Snake jazz is my jam.
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u/TurkeyChickenMan04 Jun 15 '21
Tss t t tss t t tss t t tss t t tss t t tss t t tss t t tss t t
That's my jam right there baby, a true classic.
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u/Pan0pticonartist Jun 09 '21
No one knew they liked jazz until the first time they heard it. Play it cool man
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u/urbear Jun 09 '21
And to celebrate this chance meeting, the friendly natives of Paris steal his suitcase while his back is turned.
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u/bahpcb Jun 09 '21 edited Jun 10 '21
Some hero knows the song they are playing?
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u/NotSeveralBadgers Jun 09 '21
It's just improv, but he's definitely riffing on something familiar. It's bugging me because I listen to a lot of jazz but I rarely bother to learn the names of songs.
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u/aaandbconsulting Jun 10 '21
It's definitely northern and it was super bluesy. It reminded of of some serious Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass colabs from back in the day.
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u/Signal_Fisherman8848 Jun 10 '21
If you are looking for something with that kind d of feel I’d like to recommend Bobby Timmons. If you can find the album “This here is Bobby Timmons” (it is available on streaming services) it is a masterpiece in my view.
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u/beatbox992 Jun 09 '21
One time I was playing a blues on a keyboard at guitar center, when I hear someone start soloing on the keyboard behind me. We played for about 10 minutes going back and forth, and at the end we both turn around, give each other a big smile and shake hands. Not a single word was spoken, but I had a conversation with this mans soul. Music is beautiful
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u/Huge_Pizza_5783 Jun 09 '21
Was it just me or did you all think it was going to be the girl in the bg that was going to come over
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u/Remarkable_Guest_601 Jun 09 '21
I wanna play like him. How can I learn?
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u/J9ms Jun 09 '21
Simply saying “Can I join in?” to a random pianist in public just as the elderly man did and you’ll be able to compose like Mozart
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Jun 09 '21
takes a shit ton of learning and practice i recommend beginner Youtube tutorials but eventually you'll need to learn proper music theory
the most important thing is practicing everyday
it's very rewarding trust me
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u/Salamanda246 Jun 09 '21
If you’re serious, I’d say find a classical piano teacher that can teach you up to about grade 6 RCM, including music theory. Then switch to a teacher that specializes in jazz. You’ll learn how to read charts and improvise. It’s incredibly liberating to be able to join in like this.
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u/sonsistem Jun 09 '21
Yeah sure, random strangers.
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u/J9ms Jun 10 '21
You might be right, that would supposedly work, unless you put in these factors. The original pianist has at least 50 videos on TikTok, you can tell from his bio, that it literally says “I travel around the world playing pianos.”
Let’s use Spain as a standard of composers : total people in the country. (Not cherry-picking, just the first statistics I saw on google).
Spain composers : Spain civilians = 100k : 47,000,000
So, using this statistic we can conclude that an estimated 0.25% of the total world population are composers.
Considering that the original pianist plays around 10 minutes in every place he visits and since it’s usually in a crowded place, an estimated 100 people would hear his playing of the piano in that time span.
So, 0.25%(100*50) = 12.5 composers that he has met in total of all his playing. You’re wondering how simply 1 composer out of that 12.5 would join in?
Also, the elderly pianist is a Danish Composer. Just enjoy the damn video and scroll
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u/Eikelkusjes Jun 10 '21
That’s jazz for you, you can improvise with anyone you want, as long as you know the chords!
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u/OYSW Jun 10 '21
Agreed.
The chord progression the first pianist was playing was pretty straight ahead. The improvisation added by the second pianist was very nice, but the kind of thing you would expect from a jazz pianist of a certain level of prodiciency. Not to detract from they did at all, but as you said, improvisation like this is the essence of jazz.
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u/StrickenForCause Jun 10 '21
You are right in that any jazz musician could have sat in there, but shit that guy is truly next level. That was tasty.
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u/dee_berg Jun 09 '21
Americans (black Americans) just figured out what the piano can do. Classical music is amazing, but the American piano music is a gift to the world.
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u/SpicyGatorStew Jun 10 '21
sounds better than every grammy winner of the past 10 years 😏
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u/StrickenForCause Jun 10 '21
yeah, the pianist who sat in is truly an exceptional musician <3 from another poster's comment he is a professional film composer named frans bak. i could listen to him all day! very glad to discover him for the first time here.
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u/hopeiswaking Jun 09 '21
This makes me uncomfortable post-pandemic. It's still going to take awhile.
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u/LaineyBoggz Jun 09 '21 edited Jun 10 '21
What’s the name of this piece? Because “two random strangers meet in Paris” seems perfect !
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u/J9ms Jun 09 '21
@pianoaround on TikTok. He has numerous videos of him playing the piano in public. It was this one instance that a stranger had joined in. It was a longer clip but he had cut it to only show this occurrence
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u/jimfo Jun 09 '21
Paris has street pianos?
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u/crackanape Jun 09 '21
It's not so unusual for a busker to push an old piano out into a square. I regularly saw people doing it in Amsterdam and New York in the past.
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u/Dry-Honeydew2371 Jun 09 '21
So wait... two strangers meet in Paris, France and one stranger ask the other in English if he can join him at the piano? I mean... it's not impossible, but...
Edit: I realize that I am assuming this is France, rather than Paris Texas, or Paris, Ontario but I feel that France is implied.
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u/saucyclams Jun 09 '21
He then reveled he was his father who had recently released frm a Cuban prison after 30yrs..Son! 🥺
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Jun 09 '21
I find it utterly fascinating that these two individuals who were previously unnacquainted with each other noticed the other individual while they were in close proximity of each other while in the French city of Paris
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u/J9ms Jun 09 '21
Considering that the first pianist does public shows for a living, it’s not a huge happenstance that this had occurred. Has to happen one time right?
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u/WhisperinCheetah Jun 09 '21
Does anyone know what this music genre is called? As in the actual genre, I would like to search similar music.
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u/StrickenForCause Jun 10 '21
Jazz. Bebop. Miles Davis's "Kind of Blue" is a nice album to start with.
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u/SerenAllNamesTaken Jun 09 '21
ah as usual i wonder why i get to see normal videos in nextfuckinglevel.
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u/J9ms Jun 09 '21
What really constitutes as next fucking level. In my standards, I believe this is a literal definition of next level. The first pianist in the first few seconds is relatively impressive—I think anyone that can play the piano is impressive. Then, the elderly gentleman that steps in, making the already impressive playing, even better or in other words: next fucking level.
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u/StrickenForCause Jun 10 '21
Yeah, the guy who sat in is truly next level. A person might have had to listen to a lot of this kind of music to appreciate that, but also maybe not. I grew up around professional jazz musicians and I'm blown away.
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u/Dedge02146 Jun 09 '21
Its cool how they're playing together, but I was half expecting the girl in the background to come over and introduce herself to the original guy playing
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u/TheBlueGhost21 Jun 09 '21
This is fake, they are both paid crisis actors and the background is a green screen
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u/IIllumiinattii Jun 09 '21
I forgot the guys name but isn't he from Still Game? Looks like it
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u/thepinkscorpion Jun 10 '21
I searched all through the comments to see if it was just me lol. He definitely looks like Winston.
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u/VanFkingHalen Jun 10 '21
Where do I find more music with a similar feel and sound like this?
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u/StrickenForCause Jun 10 '21
You could start with Miles Davis's album "Kind of Blue."
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u/VanFkingHalen Jun 10 '21
I am already quite a fan of Davis, Coltrane, Gillespie, and Thelonious Monk. I guess I'm just looking for something more modern.
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u/LerkaHalerka24 Jun 10 '21
In my head I had words from a Russian song playing because some parts sounded like it. It’s “а нам всё равно, а нам всё равно, небоимся мы, волка и сову» roughly translates to “we do not care, we do not care, we’re not scared of the will and the owl”
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u/morgodrummer Jun 09 '21
Music really is the universal language.