Robot Piano Catches Fire Playing Rush E (Mark Rober) | Pianist Reacts

In this video I react to and talk about a video made by Mark Rober. Mark makes a piano that can play any piece of music by itself and even make it sound like a human voice. The piano also plays Rush E known to be one of the hardest pieces of music to learn (if possible at all). I talk about player pianos, how pianos are made, how to play repeated notes quickly and generally exhibit legendary behaviour.

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[coolmikefromcanada]

Rush e is an example of a music subgenre called black midi, it's notable by being generally only able to be played in simulation just by the shear number of notes played at once and it's called black midi because if you tried to print of the sheet music you wouldn't be able to see the staff for the notes

[lukeredinger]

Mark rober is possibly one of the only people to ever hear the full version of rush e in person, not through any form of screen

[XKloosyvv]

Just so you know, the piano is actually singing Rick Astley. It's not just playing the song, it's also singing it. That's the impressive part.

[LITTLE]

So nice to hear this from a professional who plays the piano. That Rush E song, man, it just wasn't meant to be played on a physical piano, whether it had "TAS" programming or not.

[noobpianist]

No human pianist on this freaking planet (no matter how professional or prodigy you are) can play exactly what that robot piano just played

[asj]

I'm pretty sure the "piano catching fire" part is just theatrics. The smoke is perfectly timed and comes from the bottom of the piano, while the part that is the most likely to overheat and produce smoke like that (the solenoids) are placed directly underneath the keys. You'd also see keys fail pretty quickly because that (usually toxic) smoke would be the insulation between coil windings burning up.

[christianbaxter]

whenever i saw this video i was like “oh i’ve never seen this guy what’s his channel called” and when i saw his sub count i thought it was 83000 and i believed it because of how well made the start was and the entirety of the video. keep it up and i bet you could one day reach 83000 subs and way more. great video!

[LOLZMinCraf]

This video has TONS of professionalism put into it, I thought you had well over 500K, but I was shocked to find that you were a smaller channel. You've blown my mind! Keep up the great work and I'll be sure to keep up with what you post!

[lucasvanoosten]

Great video! The reason it is not a similar copy is (first of all 127 inputs) but also when calculating the fourier transform they only take the peaks meaning its more of an average than exact values. Kinda like rounding a number down because you have limited decimals you can use.

[insanospaz]

I love that people are so impressed with RUSH E. It's barely testing the waters of what is black midi lol.
Great analysis and vid though. I'm always impressed with how much better an actual pianist can make things sound despite all the technology at our fingertips.

[razordu]

"This is a cool take produced really well!"

*scrolls down*

800 SUBSCRIBERS!?!? THIS IS CRIMINAL!

Keep up the excellent work; I have no doubt this channel will eventually explode!

[twizz]

This is the kind of reaction video I like. Actually giving input instead of just going "heh", "wow", and "okay".

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[shocalremix]

one thing people seem to forget is that there are 2 Rush E's in circulation. The original impossible version and the Possible version that someone created for people to attempt on real pianos. Still very hard, but actually "possible"

[ozyisgoated]

13:35 this is where the piano starts playing Rush E

[Skelabird]

I’m usually not the one to watch very in depth music videos but this video kept my attention the whole time great job

[epoc]

What makes it groundbreaking is that it can very closely mimic a human player using the mechanical action of a real piano. Many pianos like it are similar but… less. They can’t produce as close as that to a human. Also… while the speaking may sound bad, you also need to remember that it requires a very specific set of keys to be pressed at the perfect speed, pressure and timing to even get there. The fact you can still understand the words said, from a piano is pretty amazing. If it were done on an electronic one, that would be nothing special but no, that was on a real, playable by a human still, piano.

[vjustarandomnerd]

He was actually a 3.k+ YouTuber and i thought he has 500k or 800k+ subs... Its so mind boggling how underrated he is cause look at the audio quality and the video quality and also the professionalism put into the vid is just *chefs kiss*..

[HORRIOR]

I am not a self-playing piano expert, but I think playing Rush E on a piano roll would be impossible, as you would need to have so many holes so close together that it would possibly affect the integrity of the roll.

[rl-gtvr]

3.68K!? I thought you were in the millions! Keep up the profesional work!

[Midwestmx]

I like how he has a bunch of pianos in the background