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WEEK 2: The Depths of J.S.Bach's Music! ![🐳](https://d56vh6ph4jjmq.cloudfront.net/emoji/emojione/4_0/svg2/1f433.svg)
Welcome to the Main Thread for the second week of the J.S.Bach Challenge! This is the place to post submissions of the second week!
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BWV1006a Gavotte en rondeau
Spanish challenge ended prematurely for me with several damaged nails.
I decided to try something different and some completely new where nails are not so important in the initial phases. I have never really tried Bach. and then the Bach challenge showed up. I found a masterclass with David Russel and chose this happy but a little fast piece. I have played it for two and a half week.
I use the Koonce sheet music . Not all fingerings are optimal for me. In bar 3 I challenge myself with the Russell tilted barre, in the last rondeau I succeed better.
I apology for the sound but I have 5 , even the pinky, broken nails.
What is easy Hmm , I thought I had it memorized.. but with recording on ..
What is difficult Bach is not really my habitat, so not diffusing over to that fantastic new tonebase lesson on Gerhard Fantasia ..
Ornaments, finding the dynamics and lines, reduce overringing.. and playing with bad nails.
Hope I will find time to record a later version with 2 weeks better nails and not least 2 weeks practice. Nevertheless I will keep practicing this piece also post the challenge- as well as the spanish pieces I had to pause - and the Gerhard fantasia..
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Sarabande BWV 997 Mar 14
Here is an update after a couple more days of practice. I am playing the entire piece here, with repeats (but no extra ornamentation yet). I do pretty much have it memorized just from playing it so much, but I used the score just to feel safer for this recording. The second to last measure measure (measure 31) is still difficult, but I'd say I'm getting through it maybe 50% of the time now.
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BWV 1002 Sarabande and Double Update
Well I almost got these in Week 1. These still need refinement but they are close (at least to my standard). I still have some annoying g spots but it doesn't grind to a halt as mine sometimes do.I think the mic was up too loud as they are a little harsh on occasion.
After watching Emmanuels MC on Bill's BWV 1007 Prelude I need to go over my phrasing as I tend to be more intuitive than informed. I also recently listened to Gideon Kremer's version of BWV 1002 and have some phrasing ideas from that.