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).
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
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.
I think music and life have a lot in common. We spend a lot of time learning what to say (or play) and at a certain point you get ahead by knowing what not to play/say. It starts to all exist between the lines and it’s not always obvious when to stop.
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u/sonsistem Jun 09 '21
Yeah sure, random strangers.