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Re: Bach’s Prelude in D minor, BWV 999 @David My "no-name" score has Low E to start and F Natural at the end in Bar 23. The last two top voice notes are both D with an incidental sharp at the start of the Bar.
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Re: Bach’s Prelude in D minor, BWV 999 @Blaise Laflamme and @Jack Stewart. Both fingerings are viable. The score I follow is closer to the first version (with an indicated slur, which I daresay is not mandatory) .…
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Re: Bach’s Prelude in D minor, BWV 999 @Blaise Laflamme Nice clean edition.
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Re: Bach’s Prelude in D minor, BWV 999 @Martin I'll probably not be able to give this my full attention on Friday as I have workers coming in to do tree trimming and I need to keep an eye in what's happening.…
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Re: Bach’s Prelude in D minor, BWV 999 A favourite part of the Prelude starts at Bar 7. The quarter-note basses descend very pleasingly: D C B Flat to A in Bar 10. Then two bars with G Sharp. LH fingering can be tricky.…
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Re: Bach’s Prelude in D minor, BWV 999 Here's a video showing LH only for Bars 19 to 22. Short, so went through it twice.
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- 7 days ago
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Re: Bach’s Prelude in D minor, BWV 999 The section starting at Bar 19 was tricky at first. This was because I was trying to hold on to rather difficult whole chords. Once I adopted a more 'fractional' approach, it became much easier.…
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- 8 days ago
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Re: Bach’s Prelude in D minor, BWV 999 @Neil Macmillan Looking more closely at Bar 15: Instead of using 4th finger for the E C E C in the second beat, try to replace 4 with 1 for the second C.…
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- 2 wk ago
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Re: Bach’s Prelude in D minor, BWV 999 @Nijwm Bwiswmuthiary The F bass note only has to last until the sixteenth note A has been played. Then E C E C can be held down with 4th finger pressure as that is the only fretting that's required…
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- 2 wk ago
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Re: Bach’s Prelude in D minor, BWV 999 Hello from Nanaimo, B.C., Canada. An appealing feature of this prelude is the repeated bass motif: quarter note on first beat; two eighth notes on third beat.…
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Re: What's your favorite movie soundtrack? Has to be Going Home, the theme from Local Hero, from 1983. Music was composed by Mark Knopfler. I work on a very nice classical guitar arrangement by Soren Madsen.…
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Re: Week 1: Improve your Recording Skills @Martha Kreipke Exercise 1: good sound in all three cases. I'm drawn to the second, then the third setup: Both give an airier sound than the first setup. Exercise 2: I like the Front-Right option.…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 1: Improve your Recording Skills @Immanuel Position A seems to give a nice full sound, especially in comparison to B which seems rather thin by comparison. C seems somewhere in between these two.…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 1: Improve your Recording Skills @Anthony DiMambro Thanks for commenting. The possibilities for experimentation are limitless.
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 1: Improve your Recording Skills @Martin Thank you for commenting. Over this TWI, I've become fond of more distance from the mic: 1 m rather than 60 cm which was my standard up to now. My reverb settings are quite minimal and hardly…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 1: Improve your Recording Skills @Francisco Portillo Very good sound with presence. You are making the most of your space. You seem to have a sloping ceiling which is probably good acoustically.
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 1: Improve your Recording Skills @Mladen Milojković Most of your samples sound very good. I have reservations about the mic behind you and also the farthest distance in Experiment 3. You seem to be in a fairly narrow room but you're…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 1: Improve your Recording Skills @Carlo Martins Thanks for commenting. One thing I've learned from this TWI is to be not afraid of greater distances between microphone(s) and instrument.
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 1: Improve your Recording Skills @David Trevors Unfortunately, I got a 'Video Unavailable' message when I tried to view. Maybe you need to look at the permissions you set on YouTube.
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 1: Improve your Recording Skills Exercise with three microphone distances; approx 20° off to player's RHS in each case. An X-Y stereo pair configuration was used. 65 cm from instrument; 125 cm from floor 120 cm from instrument;…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 1: Improve your Recording Skills Three microphone positions with a fixed distance of 60 cm. Height off the floor was 120 cm (to clear the music stand). First: Centre front Second: 30° to player's right. Third: 30° to player's left
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 1: Improve your Recording Skills @Martin Thank you for your comments. The first position is my standard place for practising and recording in audio only (which I prefer to video recording).…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 1: Improve your Recording Skills @Jeff Parker Thank you for the comment. The audio was recorded into GarageBand and edited. A little EQ, compression and reverb were applied. The completed audio track was imported into iMovie along…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 1: Improve your Recording Skills @Jeff Parker Your sound has good presence in most cases. Not so sure about the microphone behind the player, though @martin mentioned it.
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 1: Improve your Recording Skills Here is my Three-Position recording, combined into a single video, with still photographs showing the position in each case. The mic was directly in front,…
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- 1 yr ago
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