Remember when your mom used to make you go to piano lessons? I do and I hated it to death. Practicing scales and chords was just annoying, when I was a kid the only things that matter were sports and video games. I really didn't care to practice piano that much. So maybe you're like me.

But when I watch the Video Game Pianist, he makes me wish I payed more attention during piano lessons. So what he does is take themes from popular video games like Mario, Halo, and the like and puts them all down on piano. He's become so popular that he's performing publicly around the world. He also played with the Video Games Live Tour in 2006 and 2008.

The Video Game Pianist or Martin Leung as he is known on his W-2, started taking piano lessons at age four, and made his first performance at Carnegie Hall at age sixteen. He also can play most of these songs blindfolded. What this guy does is amazing. He makes want to start playing piano again. He is an interesting combination of passions, video games and music, but when does mix them the results are interesting.

The Bottom Line: If you like video game music, check out the Video Game Pianist.