VIDEO. Ahmed, a little prodigy who learned to play the piano on his phone

• Ahmed Majdi is a young pianist based in Ille-et-Vilaine. Aged 16, he started music less than a year ago.
• The teenager first played on his phone before learning on a synth. Today he works with pieces by Chopin.
• His story recalls that of Mourad Tsimpou, a kid from the northern districts of Marseille, spotted by a video posted on social networks.

He does everything by ear, or almost, and it succeeds rather well. From the age of 16, Ahmed Mejdi is a little gifted piano player. Confined to the parental home in Saint-Brice-en-Coglès, in Ille-et-Vilaine, the teenager spends several days playing his favorite instrument. And his progress is monstrous to believe his parents. Almost a miracle for him who started the piano less than a year ago. Story of accelerated learning.

“I started on my phone. I had downloaded a piano application because I was a little bored. I didn't know anything about music, but I liked it a lot, ”says Ahmed. To begin with, the teenager tackles La Lettre à Elise , a great Beethoven classic that he fully deciphers by ear, being unable to read a score. Her father, an oriental violinist, watches this closely and sees her son progressing at a crazy speed. “I immediately noticed that he had a musical ear. He knows very well how to correct his mistakes. I have been making music for thirty years and musicians like Ahmed, I have not seen any. ”

"When he arrived, he wanted to play Chopin"

A year ago, his parents decided to give him a synth. But very quickly, the tool became too small for him. In September, Ahmed therefore enrolled in the music school of Saint-Brice-en-Coglès to improve. To refine its rhythm especially, but also to learn music theory, a language which was unknown to it

“He works a lot and he has a lot of facilities. We feel that it integrates quickly and the results are super fast, ”says his teacher at the Interval ' Coglais school. Claire Sapey. “When he arrived, he already knew how to play three-minute songs. It is quite surprising for a self-taught who started so recently. When he arrived, he wanted to play Chopin. I never thought of offering him something so hard, ”admits his teacher.

Spotted playing on the piano at the Timone hospital, Mourad Tsimpou released his first album at just 15 years old and played at the Stade Vélodrome https://t.co/YrAhSRIlWj #marseille #OM

In December, his parents gave Ahmed a very nice gift: an upright piano. Since then, the teenager keeps running his fingers on the white and black of his Yamaha. The confinement imposed by the coronavirus epidemic only reinforced his passion. “Playing the piano relaxes me, it amuses me so I play it a lot. I'm in my bubble ”. But why did you get a taste for Frédéric Chopin's melodies? “I like complicated things. This is where I take pleasure ”.

He came to play in a retirement home

Before confinement, the one who registered for the first time at the Lycée Notre-Dame-des-Marais, in Fougères, had even had the idea of ​​going to play for the residents of the retirement home in his commune. "I noticed that there was a piano there but no one played it."

A story that strangely recalls that of Mourad Tsimpou, a kid from the northern districts of Marseille, who came to the Timone hospital to play La Fantaisie Impromptue de Chopin. Chance is that it is also Ahmed's favorite song. We wish him the same fabulous destiny as the Marseille minot, who released an album at Universal.

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