@TheJohnblyth I absolutely love the arrangements. I deliberately play Bach on the piano ( clavier ) EVERYDAY if possible! It is a dreamy world I attend. Music answers all questions asked and all I seek i find in the European musical system. My piano broke:(. However, 40 years of guitar never allowed me into the same meditation as the piano. Guitar is a lot of work and I absolutely avoid memorization. Now, the work you have done has allowed the same motives in reading. And I thank you! I do have interesting questions concerning the transposed work of every key signature allowed on the piano yet, the guitar must compensate sprawling piano chord structures and key signature personality. I do not use a call at this point and the motives are said differently but still compatible and interesting and an excellent form of meditation and your work greatly improves reading and playing techniques. Again, thank you and nice work! Regards, Stephen
@ your use of that music seems similar to mine. I generally don’t memorise, but I read well, and, yes, so much original profound music has been written for keyboard, while hardly any for guitar. I’m not a pianist, but I’ve painstakingly played through a lot of the standard repertoire for keyboard anyway, and in the years before my big Bach project I would play through all of the WTC every Christmas vacation. It used to be frustrating to me that the only Bach pieces available for guitar were definitely pretty and characterful, but not of the kind of seriousness I craved. Eventually, through a series of events I found myself in a position of wondering if I could change that. The most important step was, I think, to lose reverence for exact transcription-which just isn’t possible-while feeling certain I could retain at least what I found most valuable in Bach’s music. Oh, and nowadays I don’t usually play those pieces with the capo either, although what I play nowadays is mostly my own compositions (however I also play duets with another guitarist, and sing in a couple of choirs, so I do get a chance to do music I might otherwise not touch). When I was a teenager I found that listening to recordings of Bach’s music helped my own mind to find order, and for whatever issues that had lain buried would rise to the surface. Only Bach could have that effect on me, at that time. Even today it’s a rare day that something by Bach doesn’t go through my mind, and my own compositions frequently imagine a kind of dialogue with his ouevre (and that of other admired composers).
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I have played your J.S. Bach
"The Complete Well Tempered Guitar"
Dozens of times now and I think it's outstanding work.
Ty,
Stephen
@@JamesHowerton-so6yw thanks! It’s very heartening to know that there are people like you out there in the world.
@TheJohnblyth I absolutely love the arrangements.
I deliberately play Bach on the piano ( clavier ) EVERYDAY if possible!
It is a dreamy world I attend. Music answers all questions asked and all I seek i find in the European musical system.
My piano broke:(.
However, 40 years of guitar never allowed me into the same meditation as the piano.
Guitar is a lot of work and I absolutely avoid memorization.
Now, the work you have done has allowed the same motives in reading.
And I thank you!
I do have interesting questions concerning the transposed work of every key signature allowed on the piano yet, the guitar must compensate sprawling piano chord structures and key signature personality.
I do not use a call at this point and the motives are said differently but still compatible and interesting and an excellent form of meditation and your work greatly improves reading and playing techniques.
Again, thank you and nice work!
Regards,
Stephen
@ your use of that music seems similar to mine. I generally don’t memorise, but I read well, and, yes, so much original profound music has been written for keyboard, while hardly any for guitar. I’m not a pianist, but I’ve painstakingly played through a lot of the standard repertoire for keyboard anyway, and in the years before my big Bach project I would play through all of the WTC every Christmas vacation. It used to be frustrating to me that the only Bach pieces available for guitar were definitely pretty and characterful, but not of the kind of seriousness I craved. Eventually, through a series of events I found myself in a position of wondering if I could change that. The most important step was, I think, to lose reverence for exact transcription-which just isn’t possible-while feeling certain I could retain at least what I found most valuable in Bach’s music. Oh, and nowadays I don’t usually play those pieces with the capo either, although what I play nowadays is mostly my own compositions (however I also play duets with another guitarist, and sing in a couple of choirs, so I do get a chance to do music I might otherwise not touch). When I was a teenager I found that listening to recordings of Bach’s music helped my own mind to find order, and for whatever issues that had lain buried would rise to the surface. Only Bach could have that effect on me, at that time. Even today it’s a rare day that something by Bach doesn’t go through my mind, and my own compositions frequently imagine a kind of dialogue with his ouevre (and that of other admired composers).