Rousseau

Merry Christmas: an early release gift from me to you

Hello Patrons!! It's been way too long since I've been here, it's quite hard to remain anonymous and talk about all the big life changes happening in 2020 at the same time, so please accept my sincerest apologies for my lack of activity! I've had hundreds of messages - a lot of it spam too - so it's been hard to find the time to go through every...

Early Access: Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition (Baba Yaga & The Great Gate of Kiev)

Hey everyone! It's been so long since I've been active on Patreon, I apologize for the lack of activity, these last few months have been extremely challenging (even before Covid) as I'm sure most of you can relate. To celebrate the anniversary of my Discord server, I decided to finish a video and give all of my biggest supporters early access, a...

John Lennon - Imagine (Piano Cover)

Hey everyone! It's been quite some time since I've been here, sorry for the hiatus - this last little while has been, I'm sure you can relate, crazy. I have an extreme amount of messages I need to get to (I was spammed quite a lot over the last few months so any refunds will take quite a bit of sifting to get through, I hope you can be patient w...

Chopin - Etude Op. 25 No. 5 (Wrong Note)

Hi Patrons!! All the missing MIDI/audio files coming in 24 hours if I can get a stable enough internet connection, I'm not at home at the moment, but for now I hope you enjoy this little Etude :)

Chopin. Wrong Note Etude. The most common way I see this piece described is in two words: 'beautiful mess', 'harmonic dissonance', or 'perfectly ...

Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah (Piano Cover)

Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah. A bit later than the originally planned release date of Dec 12th, here is a simple little Christmas arrangement I made around this beautiful song. It's fascinating how this one always finds itself on Christmas albums, even though it's not a carol or even Christmas-themed - but this trend only started recently. In 2008...

Tchaikovsky - Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy (The Nutcracker Suite)

Tchaikovsky. Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy. One of his most charming and magical compositions. Although it is so often associated with ballet in popular culture, as a musician it's hard to think of the celesta without also thinking of this piece. Only invented a few years before, it's amazing to think what audiences must've thought at the arpegg...

Rachmaninoff - Moment Musicaux Op. 16 No. 4 in E Minor

Rachmaninoff. Moments Musicaux, Op. 16 No. 4 - Presto. This was was composed by the then 23-year-old, during a period in which he decided he would not compose. He was waiting for the premiere of his first symphony, and didn’t want to write anything until it was performed. His decision changed, however, when he was robbed on a train, and lost â...

Ravel - Gaspard de la nuit (Full)

HI PATRONS! Sorry for the delay with all of the MIDIs + Audio, the holiday season + 2 videos a week has eaten up a ton of my time - with a bit of unexpected travelling and not having access to my computer not helping too. These will all be here - hopefully - before Christmas!

Ravel. Gaspard de la nuit. One of the giants of the piano repert...

Chopin - Raindrop Prelude (Op. 28 No. 15)

Chopin. Raindrop Prelude Op. 28 No. 15. As with all his compositions, Chopin did not give the name to this one himself - rather it had been given to the piece by Chopin's lover, George Sand, while the two were staying at a huge Carthusian monastery in Majorca, an Island off the coast of Spain. According to legend, the monastery (being stuck betw...

Mozart - Piano Sonata No. 8 in A minor, K. 310 (1st Movement)

Mozart. Piano Sonata No. 8, 1st Mvt. Imagine a 22-year old Mozart who has just moved to Paris, having severed ties with his father, and is struggling to make a living on his own. On top of this, his mother is dying. During this period, he writes the darkest of his sonatas - the only one that, up until this point, he has written in a minor key. W...

Coldplay - Clocks (Piano Cover)

Coldplay. Clocks. It's amazing to think about how many thousands of people started playing piano because of this track, who would later go on to discover the classical greats. I still remember messing around with the opening riff when this song had just been released, there's just something so iconic about those arpeggiated chords that still res...

[Audio] Chopin - Heroic Polonaise Op. 53

[Audio] Rousseau Christmas 2019

[MIDI] Chopin - Heroic Polonaise Op. 53

[MIDI] Rousseau Christmas 2019

[Sheet Music] Deck The Halls (Christmas Piano Cover)

Hey guys,

Just finished the score work on Deck the Halls! This is the last public domain arrangement not yet available on Patreon - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town & Last Christmas will only be available on Musicnotes due to copyright (some big news about them soon as I've finally delivered almost all of the files of previous covers for ...

Jingle Bells (Christmas Piano Cover)

On the seventh day of Rousseau Christmas, it was the end of the week of Christmas covers! Is there any person on this planet who doesn't know this carol? Sometimes, it's easy to get sick of a melody that is beaten to death - this being one of them - but with a bit more harmonic movement, this one stands out as one of the more magical christmas c...

[Sheet Music] Jingle Bells (Christmas Piano Cover)

Another sheet before the upload! This video is still rendering, but it will be here (hopefully) within the hour. Thank you all for your patience, I'll get started on engraving the rest of the sheet music (and uploading the audio/MIDIs) for them to be up this week :) This has been one of the most grueling weeks of my life, and probably not someth...

O Holy Night (Christmas Piano Cover)

On the sixth day of Rousseau Christmas, the Night was O so Holy! I remember hearing this carol as a child sung by a choir, and to this day, I still get chills from those harmonies. One of the most underappreciated carols, I wanted to create a version that really brought out the harmonic language, while also staying simple without being too corny...

[Sheet Music] O Holy Night (Christmas Piano Cover)

Another sheet from the Christmas specials - I had this one done earlier so here it is! The other Christmas sheet music posts will be coming next week (including All I Want For Christmas is You (on MN) - and as per usual if they are covers of in-copyright pieces they will be via Musicnotes). All of the audio + MIDI files will be here too :) Sorry...

Wham! - Last Christmas (Piano Cover)

On the fifth day of Rousseau Christmas, we travelled back to the 80s with Last Christmas! I was actually planning on making this video for your christmas present last year, but I had a poll in the comments and you all chose Carol of the Bells :) This is one of my favorite modern carols - and although I also love the big band of the Buble album -...

The First Noel (Christmas Piano Cover)

On the fourth day of Rousseau Christmas, we sung The First Noel! This one is one of the oldest carols that is still well known today - no one really knows where or when this mysterious melody comes from, although it’s rumored to have emanated from France in the 13th or 14th Century. I hope you enjoy the arrangement written by J Goodwin, bringi...

Santa Claus Is Coming to Town (Christmas Piano Cover)

On the third day of Rousseau Christmas, Santa came to town! There's something about New York in Winter that feels so much like Christmas, and this carol just captures that New York feel so well! I hope you're enjoying the 'Christmas Special' week, only 4 more videos - so is there any carol you need to see a Rousseau video of? There is still time...

[Sheet Music] Silent Night (Christmas Piano Cover)

Many of you were asking for this - sorry for the delay, I'm currently working 18-20 hours a day trying to get one video a day done for you for Christmas. The other public-domain Christmas sheet music will be here next week as I'll need time to recover.

Deck the Halls (Christmas Piano Cover)

On the second day of Rousseau Christmas, we decked the halls! As you're all probably starting to realize - _'tis the season for one Rousseau video a day._ It was actually the videos of people syncing their Christmas house lights to music that was one of the original inspirations to create LEDs for my piano many years ago, in a sense - you could ...

Silent Night (Christmas Piano Cover)

On the first day of Rousseau Christmas, the night was silent! It's hard to comprehend how a simple melody like this one can contain so much nostalgia, but every time I hear this song a rush of memories come flooding back to me, so what better way to start off the week than with a tranquil arrangement full of rich voicings! The impact this song h...

Giorno's Theme (Piano Cover) - JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind

I, Rousseau, have a dream. This one has been requested so many times over the last few months - even so far back as 10 months ago by the famous commenter Justin Y! Well, I had a dream to fulfill all your most requested pieces so here we are - oh, and this may be the first time the licc appears on the channel too ;) That's how you kill two birds ...

[Sheet Music] Liebesleid (Love's Sorrow) - Kreisler (arr. Rachmaninoff)

[Audio] Liebesleid (Love's Sorrow) - Kreisler (arr. Rachmaninoff)

[MIDI] Liebesleid (Love's Sorrow) - Kreisler (arr. Rachmaninoff)