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Talented Musician Rocks Three Instruments at Once [Video]

by Robert Quigley | 3:11 pm, May 5th

In the video above, a young woman (the uploader description identifies her as Taiwanese) manages to play piano, violin, and what appears to be a guzheng [Chinese plucked zither] with incredible rhythm, coordination, and gusto.

(via Reddit)

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Musicians Are Geeks Too: Ragtime Mario, Harry Potter, and Star Wars

by Susana Polo | 5:32 pm, December 12th

This particular musician is improvising in the Stride style of the Ragtime genre of Jazz.

“Harlem Stride Piano, Stride Piano, or just Stride, is a jazz piano style that evolved partially from ragtime. The left hand may play a four-beat pulse with a single bass note, octave, seventh or tenth interval on the first and third beats, and a chord on the second and fourth beats… Unlike earlier “St. Louis” pianists, stride players’ left hand often leapt greater distances on the keyboard, and they played faster and improvised.” — Wikipedia

“Flipping difficult.” — Susana, resident Geekosystem piano nerd

(via Neatorama.)

The Blind Man Who Can Play Any Piece of Music After Hearing It Once [Video]

by Robert Quigley | 6:17 pm, November 15th

Derek Paravicini is a blind autistic savant with perfect pitch who can play any song on the piano after hearing it only once; the video above provides some insight into his life and showcases his talents. Long video, but it’s worth it.

(via Best of YouTube | Artist’s website)

Chatroulette: Piano Improv Edition

by Robert Quigley | 8:50 am, March 16th

Are you tired of the endless iterations upon iterations of Chatroulette-related humor? Maybe so, but if you are a fan of musical comedy, laughter, and hooded sweatshirts, you may enjoy Chatroulette Piano Improv, wherein a hoodied fellow called Merton (who disavows all comparisons to Ben Folds) improvises piano songs for all of the people he meets on Chatroulette.

Sample lyric: “Man in the dark with his headphones on doesn’t want no one to see him / Sittin’ out late at night on Chatroulette.” Chatroulette response: NO HEADPHONES / LIAR / LIAAAR.

Video after the jump:

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10 Terrifying Doors You Don't Want to Open

We're not afraid of doors or anything, we just thought geekdom has some pretty terrifying ones, that also happen to lead to terrifying things. We made up a list of ten of the scariest doors in geekdom, which we were super brave about writing and didn't spook us at all. Honest!

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Max Desert PolyBus: The game where you drive to Reno and then die.
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Eric Limer If I wrote a webcomic, every strip would be titled "Get it? GET IT?!"
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Max Got chili oil on my hands and face. It hurts. A lot.
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Eric Limer Suddenly I remember what I hate about PC gaming. Mainly never having a computer that can actually do it.
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James Plafke The halftime show taught me that football-watching men drinking beer who love seeing muscular men beat each other up really like to vogue.
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Max Pestering your friends at 8am is how you show you care, right? #hopeso
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Eric Limer Twitter is like RiffTrax for EVERYTHING.
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James Plafke I know global warming is scary, but not having a winter was pretty cool. I didn't have to spend money on shoes for the snow.
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Eric Limer I hereby apologize to all persons --past, present and future-- who have the misfortune of hearing me "sing" dubstep songs.
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Max Even Facebook's Timeline thinks I could have done more with my life.
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Max I did that thing where Facebook turns your Timeline into a movie. Mine had pictures of ducks and foliage set to really dramatic music.
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Max "But I don't wanna go to the dog show!"
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James Plafke People can't stop talking about Downtown Abbey. Is it actually good, or is the rest of TV so bad that comparatively, it isn't the worst?
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Eric Limer Awful is a funny lookin' word.
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James Plafke Remember when soda cans didn't have the wide-mouth openings standard?
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Max Hopefully backsliding on my resolutions for self improvement will shame me into success!
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Max This guy is wearing a paisley hoodie. He looks like furniture and I love it.
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James Plafke It's so attractive when the GNC girl talks supplements with me.
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Eric Limer I think Twitter is a pretty cool guy, eh limits yuo 2 140 characters and doesn't afraid of forcing you to be effiecent.
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Eric Limer Brainstorming a way to translate Nightmare Before Christmas into a litfic-y short story. #ThingsIAmDoingOnAFridayNight
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