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Stereo pair for the guitar! Bridge and neck😊

Thanks so much!

Thanks! Yes, but really it's just a transposition of the cello original, i think i may have changed one note

Thanks for that, I love that bit!

Thanks a lot, Juan!

Thanks Jimmy!

I would disagree that the reason many guitarists play an E pedal there instead of an F is “due to the many incorrect guitar transcriptions”. It’s because of a technical problem. I would recommend that you in future give accomplished musicians the benefit of the doubt on matters like this, and not assume that the mistake is because they have not bothered to actually study the music, or because of some other form of negligence. The choice to play an E there rather than an F is a difficult choice every guitarist faces in this piece, and this particular performer, like many others, has decided that it is the lesser of evils. The alternative of playing the F an octave higher would maintain the original harmony of the piece, but it would be the only section in the piece where the bass suddenly jumps up like that, meaning that the bass as an independent line would be damaged. Other solutions include: playing the low F with the nose or chin; transposing the piece into an entirely different key; or having a friend nearby to fret the low F for us when it comes to that part. Indeed, all of these solutions have been used by many guitarists, while many others find these solutions to be inelegant. I’m also not sure your comment about Bach turning in his grave was warranted, though I appreciate your passion for this music!

@@JaxonBurn I appreciate your taking the time to comment. Let me explain a little: I too had played this piece for years--I'm sure you'd agree that it's a really fun piece to play!--in accordance with a transcription that simply repeated the E pedal tone. Then a few years ago I began learning to play the piano and BWV 999 came up. At first, when I saw the Eb in the bass of bar 23, I was convinced that it was a print error, but I investigated and found that it was actually my guitar transcription that was not correct! I now routinely play an F an octave higher in bar 23 (it easily fits perfectly in your fingers--no need to jump or stretch) and it sounds much more correct. Perhaps guitarists who don't also play this prelude on the piano find the pedal E bass note sounds better, but if you play the piano you'll feel that this one note is the most important, most dramatic note in the entire piece. Just listen to how the momentum and the forward drive pick up in bar 23 when a good pianist performs the piece (or better yet, if you play piano yourself, just play the D pedal note all the way through; you'll see that the piece is lacking something). Then look for the few guitarists here on RUclips who play that F an octave higher rather than stubbornly repeating the E pedal tone. It works! Of course, every guitarist is free to play the piece however he wants. I prefer, however, to play it like Bach notated it. To me it just sounds boring when you repeat the open E string; it takes all the drive out. I would therefore at least urge you to try it; believe me, it sounds better (at least to a pianist's ear). Please give it a sincere try. Thank you, and thanks again for taking the time to comment; I appreciate it.

Thank you so much for that - i'm actually working on the full version. It's very difficult, bit i'll try to make a video in the next couple of weeks!

@@gabrielbalogh3910 could you also make a tutorial or something of the sort? just some headers for an intermediate guitarist trying to learn this? I've got the start down but the second section is a little more difficult to figure out for me.

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@@gabrielbalogh3910 I'm sat, patiently waiting for the full version

​@@erucres6616 me too. Excited for it whenever it comes out

Thanks so much! I haven't written up the tab but it's really simple. It's just triplets - thumb, index, middle - with the two fingers on the top two strings and the thumb alternating like this: string 5, 3, 4, 3, 5, 3, etc. Hope that helps!

Do you have an Spotify account with your interpretations? It would be great to have it on my playlist !

Thanks very much! No spotify i'm afraid - maybe I'll look into getting some things on there soon. Thanks for listening.