Excellent video with many good fingering solutions. First bar alternate fingerings: Use fingers 1-2-3 for the d-minor chord and finger 2 (4th string) and 4 (5th string) for the bass notes. I prefer these fingerings because the 2-4 on the 4th string is an uncomfortable stretch for my hand.
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This piece is one of the few Bach works that can be played without really difficult fingerings. Two remarks. First. There is still another way to play the first bar: easy and legato. Second. Bar 15 is the most difficult spot, but if you play for a few years and have a good guitar this gives no problem at all. Taking the bass an octave higher is typically one of those mistakes that guitarists often make while attempting to perform Bach on their instrument. But at the same time they lower or even ruin the musical quality of the work. So don't do this, it is not a minor adjustment. I have a strict rule: if I cannot play it exactly as the master wrote it, I don't learn the composition.
Thanks for your comment! This is helpful for many! As to the octavation of basses in Bach: they are unavoidable in many places as they exceed thevrange of the six-string. BWV 995 in many movements is a prominent example. Would you not play that suite "only" because the bass lines in some places need (good!) transposition?
". . . and so that problem is solved." Yes, but at some expense to the composition. Another solution might be to go ahead and play the low F with extra emphasis, then followed by a very short phrase break as you simultaneously let it go, muting the 3 base strings with the RH thumb as you guide LH fingers 2,3,4 up the trebles just in time to play the arpeggio. Yes, the bass sustain will be broken, but it will actually attract the ear of the listener to it and provide an interesting and dramatic effect which can sound intentional. Another solution that some with large hands and/or well developed stretch between LH 1 and 2 is to play and hold the low F and use 2,3,4 on the 5th fret. (Then consider the following A bass with 4 on string 4, fret 7, F with 1 fret 3).
Thanks for your comment. I totally agree that arrangements should be as close as possible to what the composer wrote. As transposed bass an octave higher certainly is a minor adjustment, if I think on many of those added basses by some in many transcriptions of Bach... Your phrasing suggestions can help to make it possible, though. 😊
I played this for the first time on Friday and immediately noticed the fingerings. I went to look for some advice for guitar, but only found keyboard lessons which did actually help with stylistic choices, though. This video is perfectly timed 😁.
@@joachimgeissler614 I actually found a fingering which preserves the legato on the first Dm by switching finger 2 for 1 on the 2& beat nd using the F on the 5th string.
@@LiamWakefield yes, that's another possibility. Adds some movement in the left hand and cuts the bar into two pieces. Here clearly is the choice of what is more comfortable. I prefer conserve the initial triad position, and so the stretch is needed.
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A very useful video
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Excellent video with many good fingering solutions.
First bar alternate fingerings:
Use fingers 1-2-3 for the d-minor chord and finger 2 (4th string) and 4 (5th string) for the bass notes. I prefer these fingerings because the 2-4 on the 4th string is an uncomfortable stretch for my hand.
@@aalb1970 thanks for you comment, Anders! 😊
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This piece is one of the few Bach works that can be played without really difficult fingerings. Two remarks. First. There is still another way to play the first bar: easy and legato. Second. Bar 15 is the most difficult spot, but if you play for a few years and have a good guitar this gives no problem at all. Taking the bass an octave higher is typically one of those mistakes that guitarists often make while attempting to perform Bach on their instrument. But at the same time they lower or even ruin the musical quality of the work. So don't do this, it is not a minor adjustment. I have a strict rule: if I cannot play it exactly as the master wrote it, I don't learn the composition.
Thanks for your comment! This is helpful for many!
As to the octavation of basses in Bach: they are unavoidable in many places as they exceed thevrange of the six-string. BWV 995 in many movements is a prominent example. Would you not play that suite "only" because the bass lines in some places need (good!) transposition?
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". . . and so that problem is solved." Yes, but at some expense to the composition. Another solution might be to go ahead and play the low F with extra emphasis, then followed by
a very short phrase break as you simultaneously let it go, muting the 3 base strings with the RH thumb as you guide LH fingers 2,3,4 up the trebles just in time to play the arpeggio. Yes,
the bass sustain will be broken, but it will actually attract the ear of the listener to it and provide an interesting and dramatic effect which can sound intentional.
Another solution that some with large hands and/or well developed stretch between LH 1 and 2 is to play and hold the low F and use 2,3,4 on the 5th fret. (Then consider the following A bass with 4 on string 4, fret 7, F with 1 fret 3).
Thanks for your comment. I totally agree that arrangements should be as close as possible to what the composer wrote. As transposed bass an octave higher certainly is a minor adjustment, if I think on many of those added basses by some in many transcriptions of Bach...
Your phrasing suggestions can help to make it possible, though. 😊
I played this for the first time on Friday and immediately noticed the fingerings. I went to look for some advice for guitar, but only found keyboard lessons which did actually help with stylistic choices, though. This video is perfectly timed 😁.
Happy to help in time. :-D
@@joachimgeissler614 I actually found a fingering which preserves the legato on the first Dm by switching finger 2 for 1 on the 2& beat nd using the F on the 5th string.
@@LiamWakefield yes, that's another possibility. Adds some movement in the left hand and cuts the bar into two pieces. Here clearly is the choice of what is more comfortable. I prefer conserve the initial triad position, and so the stretch is needed.
I am so glad that the original uses the higher F, so I don't feel like such a cheat on stiff hand days.
I'm afraid, the original is the low F2... Playing it an octave higher is minor adjustment, so don't worry. ;-)
@@joachimgeissler614 well, stretches it is, then.