Mikkel Ploug - Bach's "Art of the Fugue" on a Gibson ES-330 | The Fretboard Journal
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- Опубликовано: 24 июн 2024
- The Fretboard Journal is proud to debut Mikkel Ploug's arrangement of J.S Bach’s four-voice "Contrapunctus I" from 'The Art of the Fugue BWV 1080.'
Mikkel says: "I play it on my 1961 Gibson ES-330 through my newly-purchased 1964 Magnatone M-14 from Mike & Mike's Guitar Bar. I have been looking for an electric guitar sound that makes sense when playing Bach, and I found this vintage 330/Magnatone vibro sound mimicking in my opinion a harpsichord slightly, works great.
"To my knowledge, there are hardly any recordings of this piece for non-overdubbed solo-guitar. But I found that it is possible to perform the piece if one can sacrifice a few note lengths due to the limitations of the guitar.
"And besides that and some octavation the whole piece is there. And what a wonderful masterpiece of music it is!"
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This is beautifully interpreted. Bach was not of this Earth. Thank you for sharing.
As a piano player I am impressed.
vibrato will always will be something we can't do on our instruments
A lot of people may not realize the significance of this. Beautiful playing, really transcends ANY sort of traditional literature.
Incredible
Love the hint of break up on the amp
Beautiful
Amazing. A great accomplishment in arranging, playing and musicianship. Kudos!
I like this tempo, makes the lines easier to follow.
JS himself would approve.
wow, very special. And the ending is unresolved!
Beautiful playing. You really made the piece sing and it doesn't sound choppy at all, as something like this easily could on guitar.
wow lets go man this was amazing
Amazing!
Your Gibson sounds so beautiful. I've played lots of Casinos and I love Epiphones because of the Fab and John Lee but the 330 just has, "something about it." Top form. Oomph and jangle. Rock on Mikkel.
I caught the premiere by chance and I'm glad I did. A lovely performance; there should be more solo electric Bach. And I completely agree about the 330/Magnatone combo. It's just the perfect sound, clear but wavering, with a decay that's not too long or too short.
That’s called tremolo. I believe it’s from the amplifier, right?
@@GuitarUniverse2013 So, this is kind of a trick question, as Magnatones actually have true vibrato (modulates pitch), rather than the much more common tremolo, which modulates volume. Yes, it's from the amp.
Somehow I feel that this is not a guitar pretending to be a piano, sounds great, very guitar-like
Now I want to hear the other Contrapuncti as well! I did not expect such a great performance, I did not even expect such a accurate transcription.
Beautiful in every way. The Gibson es-330 with this tone really suits Bach. The music is so fresh and understatedly powerful it’s almost as if it could of been wrote in the present. Fantastic !
Masterful use of plectrum and finger
An exceptional guitarist! Superb!
So cool. Mesmerizing!
Gorgeous!
Excellent! The vibrato works wonders in this context.
Magisterial music and performance thanks
Man this is so nice.
This is gorgeous
WOW so beautiful! I see this piece takes hard work. Bravo!
Wonderful arrangement
really amazing
beautiful!!!
Beautiful playing.
really beautiful. Congratulations.
Bad ass my my man... Bad ass...
Stunningly beautiful!
Beautiful!
Excellent! ..an interesting RH technique
Wonderful!
Wow!
Counterpoint to the MAX, wow!~!!!!!!
Simply amazing, stunning!
wow this is just fantastic. perfect tone and touch.
Bravo, Mikkel!
WTF! Bach with Hybridpicking👍
This was magnificent!
Darkly lovely!
Superb. Thanks for this!
Wow, beautiful, thanks!
Lovely. Superb tone. Bravo!
Seek out lady in the unicorn. It’s a wonderful album by John Renbourn. He was one of the very first guitarist to play medieval and classical music on electric guitar. the beret and bee minor by Bock is especially lovely. Excuse the shit out of my spelling. By the way, Professor Bill Levitt of Berklee College of Music wrote three instruction books that were completely devoted to plain classical music with a pic. Very interesting approach. And Berkleee was the first Music school. One could go to and not be forced to study classical music. By the way, since a lot of blue-collar and working class, kids loved Guitar, they didn’t really have, the kind of lifestyle that would allow them to do nothing but play guitar music 10 hours a day. You know they played rock, Bluegrass, heavy metal, and old rock ‘n’ roll. And because you could go to Berkleee, major in music and have the guitar as your principal instrument it allowed thousands of middle-class and blue-collar kidsget a college degree. This is what I call the hidden gift Berkleee. It allowed a whole different kind of demographic to have a college degree.
Sure, except Berklee is insanely expensive.
Thanks Mikkel!
Bravo.
Well played
I like the pot plants in the corner there 😉
Three on the right are starters, I think.
Amazing tone man..those p90's
Very strange….i’ve just spent most of the afternoon working on two Bach fugues on my Gibson Les Paul. They’re not easy! I couldn’t use a plectrum (pick) though….just fingerstyle. This is excellent playing 👍🍷.
This music is everything
👏👏👏
Fantastic arrangement and tone, pretty much the definition of a good clean tone!
👏🏼👏🏼🎸🎶
How can I buy the arrangement? I would a lot of miney for that. My fav music of all.
Barney would be proud
Although this hybrid technique seems to me a bit weird, you did an amazing job indeed! Since I did my own arrangement of the piece I am perfectly aware of it complexity and difficulty.
Thanks so much! and yes hybrid is utterly strange I agree, but for me it can help to serve the lower voices to come out clearer. Your version is actually the only other solo-guitar version I have heard, you did a fantastic job! Congrats! The artificial harmonics you do are amazing.
@@mikkelploug thank you very much indeed! I haven’t thought you would check my own version, that’s really great, thank you. The hybrid technique seems weird to me as I am a finger player, I have never played with a pick. I especially appreciate you used the original key. I do the same whenever it’s possible. I’ve come across another solo guitar transcription which was in a minor. But I didn’t like it too much. I love your tempo and phrasing, which is so relaxed! Thanks for your kind words, sir.
@@unwrought9757 You are most welcome! And thanks, that really means a lot! I find it unbelievably "groovy" music thanks to the ever amazing counter lines. I will be working on this the rest of my life :)
@@mikkelploug so will be I! This is a lifelong sentence.
Impressive. Playing classical music on electric guitar is so difficult especially controlling dynamic… Was there any compressor/limiter used here?
The compression comes from the amp, nothing was added. It's recorded with a zoom recorder, set slightly too high so a little distortion happened in places
@@mikkelploug The clipping adds character, even if unintentional! Also, 32-bit float recording is now available--headroom galore!
Excellent arrangement and performance. Bach is always good regardless of the instrument. What is the BWV number?
Beautiful performance.
Note to recording engineer: I think the mic (or maybe the recording level) was overloaded into distortion at several points.
Might have been the point. Bach with P 90s
Wow.. is this arrangement written out anywhere?
We discussed this during the podcast (link in the description). No, not written out yet.
I'm still changing the arrangement to see if I can find better solutions, but maybe someday I will feel it could be good enough to be written down and shared, then you can have it for sure!
Ugh. That's not supposed to be possible...
Bro tabs please😢😢😢😢
this sounds infinitely better than any harpsichord
I have no problem at all with this version, but I reckon a harpiscord filled with water would still sound better than any electric guitar ever made.
Very nice playing ❤ unfortunately, I could never really like Bach so much...too répétitive and.mathematical...what to do...
you should listen to more bach 👍
😬
Amazing!