The woman in this video was a keen aspiring musician. When she vacationed to Britain, she learned about Boogie-woogie music and instantly fell in love.
Everyone loves music. It’s the most popular thing in the world.
And the best thing about music is that there’s always something new to discover. The young woman in a viral video had never heard the boogie-woogie style of music before. But over the course of five minutes, she was playing it like a pro.
The video began with the woman, who was a tourist visiting the United Kingdom from Japan, playing music at a public piano.
An older musician, Brendan Kavanagh, walked up to her, and the two connected over their love of music.
Kavanagh asked if he could play some music with her on the piano.
Soon, Kavanagh was accompanying the woman. At first, he picked up the rhythm of the song she knew.
Then Kavanaugh swapped places with the woman so he could show her how to adapt the song to fit in with the boogie-woogie genre.
He started playing, adding extra notes to the music, giving it an oomph that made it sound like the music that accompanies old silent films.
The woman smiled. She clearly loved the new spin on the song. And yes, this style was clearly new to her.
Then she picked up her phone so that she could start recording it. Once she’d pressed record, she placed the phone back down and got back to learning this new musical style.
Soon, she was moving along to the beat. And then she ran her finger across the keys rapidly. Clearly, she was getting boogie-woogie right away.
When they had finished the song, Kavanagh and the woman shook hands. He asked her if she knew about boogie-woogie music. She replied that she didn’t. So Kavanagh explained it a little.
Then he started to teach her the principles of the genre.
The woman was already an accomplished musician herself, and in no time, she was more than a match for Kavanagh. They started playing some boogie-woogie together.
Soon, a crowd of people gathered around the two, enjoying the music.
When they finished playing, the crowd applauded.
The performers hadn’t even noticed that the crowd had gathered until that point.
They were just enjoying playing together.
Once the two had finished playing this second round of music, they got talking some more.
The woman enthusiastically announced that she loved boogie-woogie music so much that she was taking it to Japan.
This video then appeared on YouTube, where it soon went viral.
To date, it has gained over 3.4 million views. It also has more than 47,000 likes and 2,000 comments. People have been saying things like this:
Of course, everyone can relate to the woman in this video.
We’ve all been through that experience of discovering and falling in love with a whole new kind of music. It happens to us all. It’s just special in this instance because she’s both a talented musician herself and because it was all captured on camera.
Who knows, perhaps she will bring boogie-woogie to Japan? This video could be the start of a whole new musical revolution!
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