
Learning Bach on the Guitar (Mar 5th) Questions / Suggestions
Alright, everyone! By popular demand, here is our very first ever livestream on Bach's music! It's happening!
Using very specific examples from Prelude, Fugue and Allegro (BWV 998), the first Lute Suite (BWV 996), the first Violin Sonata (BWV 1001), and more, this is going to act as a high-level overview of the steps required to learn a piece by JS Bach.
So excited about this one! Join me and please feel free to ask questions about any Bach piece, not just the three mentioned above.
Find the start time in your time zone by clicking the photo or following this event link:
https://app.tonebase.co/guitar/live/player/learning-bach
We are going to be using this thread to gather suggestions and questions!
- What questions do you have on this topic?
- Any particular area you would like us to focus on?
Learning the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, arguably the most influential classical composer of all time, can be a daunting task. How do you pick the best version to study? What key and tuning should you use? How do you craft convincing and expressive articulation? Where do you add ornaments? Should you treat Bach as highly formulaic or unique and full of surprising exceptions?
In this livestream, tonebase instructor Mircea Gogoncea will be providing some tips for learning Bach's music using examples from his Prelude, Fugue and Allegro (BWV 998), the first Lute Suite (BWV 996), the first Violin Sonata (BWV 1001), and more!
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Hi, Mircea. I can´t join today. Sorry, I´m at work. I´ll see you tomorrow. Last week I took Fugue 998, just to review it. I´ve already fingered it and this is my question: when there is more than one interesting voice, do you have a "pecking order" of the voices you want to hilight? I know some guitarists prefer to sing the higher voice, others look for the main theme whichever voice it is in, etc. The fact that this fugue has a Da Capo gives us a chance to seek for variation, I think. Thank you very much. HAVE FUN.
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I do not play Bach because I am agnostic and the music of Bach has a spirituality that I have tried but I cannot reach.
much is speculated about playing Bach but I think everything is speculation after all there is someone alive who has heard (recorded live or in audio) genuinely interpreting bach
I hope that we can discuss this in this master -
Alright everyone! Because of the incredible volume of fascinating questions you all asked in today's livestream, there were plenty of ones I didn't get to before we had to stop (even though we went over for half an hour!)
I've decided to save them and will comment on them in our next livestream. These are the ones we had left over in the Q&A section. Some are a bit off-topic, but we'll give them some love too. Based on my analysis of the chat, I think we did a pretty good job of going through those.
In addition, I am attaching here the Doctrine of the Affections that I used and promised during the stream. Hope you enjoy and use it well!
Thank you so much for tuning in today!