from Jose Sepulveda....Dear daffydoug...... You should have heard my old teacher, Guillermo Fierens (who was in the same Segovia classes with Parkening, by the way) play that same run. It danced over the strings like tiny electrical discharges, taking a totally different route than Mr. Parkening employs but with stunning incision. Guillermo was every bit as good as Chris is, (and that's saying something) but he was an Argentinian and never got the play that Chris did in America.
At 1:19, that run that he plays..I have heard many others try to play that run and it sounds really crappy. But when Chris plays it it sounds like lightening!
Yeah, but the note he lands on is terrible...like a thud.
This is not music but an exercise. Who would ever put something like this on to enjoy? No one but a Classical Guitar student. Villa Lobos wrote better pieces.
Parkening has been criticized in the past for touring little pieces like this on stage and when I saw him I was disappointed. I went to see him thinking it was a solo concert and the 2nd half was duets with a weaker player. And a hall too big for acoustic guitar.
@Rexicano Sounds to me like he put the emphasis on that last note purposely. Not music??? it's composed of NOTES on the staff and last I checked that fits the definition of music.
Maybe you should stick to what you know..like Chet Atkins.
Clearly your hearing is not atuned to Classical music and you think a study is a piece of music. So, I guess in your mind ANY notes in any sequence is music.
Good luck with that theory. I see why you're name is Daffy.
And where did you "check"? With the guy who taught you to type 3 exclamation marks?
@Rexicano On the contrary, clearly you have not the slightest inkling of what my hearing is. We could split hairs here all day on what truly defines music, but that would be fruitless. Shall we consult Webster? OK. Music: The science of ordering tones or sounds in succession, in combination, and in temporal relationships to produce a composition having unity and continuity." Hmmmm. Looks like Parkening's study in this video fits the bill. It fits within the parameters, does it not?
Once you get over the sheer brilliance.. it sounds more allegro vivace rather than the composer's allegro non troppo - the arpeggios don't have much chance to sound
@potrodsas The good thing about classical music is that allows for many interpretations. It would be boring if all of them were the same or even very similar...
@potrodsas Of about 20 versions of Segovia's interpretation that I've heard, none are anywhere near as deep (from a musical perspective as this one). Parkenings version has an incredible amount of dynamic control and rhythmic precision. By comparison, Segovias tend to be bass and treble with a wash of clicks and uneven bashing through the arp in between. Way better than me, but nowhere near comparison to Alvaro Pierri and Barrueco's versions.
Seriously, this was the study that told me I had no future as a classical guitarist. It was a grade 8 study at the RCM in Toronto. I could never do that G# stretch with out buzzing. As for the speed and cleanness of his arpeggio, it's just amazing.
You could have voiced your feelings without using volgarity. Music is so pure and you corrupted it with your choice of words. Perhaps you don't have the inner beauty it takes to play?
Perhaps I could have. But then again I don't believe you were really given the right to define what corrupts music. To me the beauty in music is that it can be what ever it wants to be, if it has vulgar language, that does not make it any less beautiful. I may not have the "inner beauty" to play this piece (which I don't need). Perhaps I have the determination to keep working at it until I am able to play this piece.
My first comment was a complement to Parkening and I was being sarcastic, I am obviously not really giving up, and I assure you one day I will be able to play that, with or without "inner beauty" which I don't need. And it will be very kick ass!
@mediumrare46 No dont my friend :D Check for example Paco De Lucia - Fuente Y Caudal here in youtube (the album version). But anyways, this is a beautiful piece.
@mediumrare46 Watch Rusty Cooley's sweeping instructional video. You'll skip that step and just hang yourself with the guitar string..... like in that Beck song.
@mediumrare46 - - That's funny. A guitar professor once told me jazz guitarists had similar reactions after seeing Joe Pass in concert - they were just ready to give up. He was THAT damn good.
@mediumrare46 thats funny. i love music all kinds. everything...even something i heard by metallica... my first records i bought at 11yrs of age was :nutcracker suite: i'm 71 now and rediscovering all i left behind..i tried to play organ and accordian..yeah!!!!! its not in my mind to accomplish this..so i will listen.. I think it takes a crazy person to write the music for an orchestra and each instrament...and a genuis to play it!!!!
Although Parkening is a great musician and deserves all the praises, people should keep in mind that these recordings are perhaps forty year old or so...
My favorite guitarist ever. What I don't understand is, why is he soooo good yet his technique is not "textbook." His wrist is cocked, he is hunched over the guitar, his right hand looks tight, and his thumb looks like a little bananna. How is he so perfect!!?? Love it!!!
his right hand looks like that because he was a pretty huge follower of segovia's style. if you watch segovia's right hand you'll see the same huge bend at the wrist, banana thumb, etc. and yeah that kind of playing, for most people, will cause problems later.
Yes, and I don't understand how he is still able to play this way without problems. When he was younger he would even play through a piece upon rolling out of bed without a warm-up. That would give most people tendonitis, but not C.P.! I just can't get enough of his recordings, though.
@StephenAnthonyMusic Because textbook rules are only a starting place. Every musician - every person, is unique. His approach works for him, and him alone. We bring a personal history to everything we touch that is as unique as our fingerprints, otherwise all our accomplishments would become too homogenized, and therefore inseparable. CP certainly is a genius on the guitar, but also a very together, kind, spirit filled man. God bless him!
From what I've heard my teacher say about his right hand placement, I believe his nails are somewhat different than the average person's nails. I think that he just has to angle them that way to achieve a desired tone.
I've heard alot of people do this etude, but Parkening's arpeggios are the smoothest I have heard. I own a copy of the original album with him doing this and it stunned me when I heard it
I agree. And not only are his arpeggios completely smooth, but he remains smooth consistent even while changing dynamics, which is incredibly difficult.
This is the first video I've watched of someone playing this etude. It's amazing that with such a constant flow of arpeggios he's using only three fingers.
Parkening is my all-time favorite classical guitarist, and I don't think his religious beliefs should ever enter into a conversation about his playing, but I do think it's hilarious that when I first saw this video it had been viewed 666 previous times. Great performance by Chris as usual...
wow I love this performance! I was shocked though I always thought Parkening used the A finger on the first string in his right hand. I have seen people finger the piece this way and it sounds more articulate.
There's only a maximum speed you can do with the A on the first string. I did it with A for a while then switched to this fingering and can get it much faster.
In regards to this performance, Parkening just nails it. He is one of the few people out there who make this etude sound spooky and gloomy and menacing like it should be
from Jose Sepulveda....Dear daffydoug...... You should have heard my old teacher, Guillermo Fierens (who was in the same Segovia classes with Parkening, by the way) play that same run. It danced over the strings like tiny electrical discharges, taking a totally different route than Mr. Parkening employs but with stunning incision. Guillermo was every bit as good as Chris is, (and that's saying something) but he was an Argentinian and never got the play that Chris did in America.
Hermeterec 1 year ago
At 1:19, that run that he plays..I have heard many others try to play that run and it sounds really crappy. But when Chris plays it it sounds like lightening!
daffydoug 1 year ago
@daffydoug
Yeah, but the note he lands on is terrible...like a thud.
This is not music but an exercise. Who would ever put something like this on to enjoy? No one but a Classical Guitar student. Villa Lobos wrote better pieces.
Parkening has been criticized in the past for touring little pieces like this on stage and when I saw him I was disappointed. I went to see him thinking it was a solo concert and the 2nd half was duets with a weaker player. And a hall too big for acoustic guitar.
Rexicano 9 months ago
@Rexicano Sounds to me like he put the emphasis on that last note purposely. Not music??? it's composed of NOTES on the staff and last I checked that fits the definition of music.
daffydoug 9 months ago
@daffydoug
Maybe you should stick to what you know..like Chet Atkins.
Clearly your hearing is not atuned to Classical music and you think a study is a piece of music. So, I guess in your mind ANY notes in any sequence is music.
Good luck with that theory. I see why you're name is Daffy.
And where did you "check"? With the guy who taught you to type 3 exclamation marks?
Rexicano 9 months ago
@Rexicano On the contrary, clearly you have not the slightest inkling of what my hearing is. We could split hairs here all day on what truly defines music, but that would be fruitless. Shall we consult Webster? OK. Music: The science of ordering tones or sounds in succession, in combination, and in temporal relationships to produce a composition having unity and continuity." Hmmmm. Looks like Parkening's study in this video fits the bill. It fits within the parameters, does it not?
daffydoug 9 months ago
hoho that's funny
Pikangu 1 year ago
nice...he's pretty good...thats my favorite villalobos piece to play.
newislandguitar 1 year ago
I had the privilege of watching this gentleman perform at my college. Just wonderful!
moonlightsonatina 1 year ago
Once you get over the sheer brilliance.. it sounds more allegro vivace rather than the composer's allegro non troppo - the arpeggios don't have much chance to sound
gbh001 1 year ago
Very nice! Thank you. (TS)
kei19690113 1 year ago
tocou com muita magia como o segovia
drosofilamelanogaser 1 year ago
I like how Parkening pays proper homage to his teacher: Segovia. He never loses perspective.
FrankGrigonis 1 year ago
Not a lot of sound production with right hand like that though it is quick.
GyveTurckee 1 year ago
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potrodsas 1 year ago
@potrodsas The good thing about classical music is that allows for many interpretations. It would be boring if all of them were the same or even very similar...
joab321 1 year ago
@potrodsas Of about 20 versions of Segovia's interpretation that I've heard, none are anywhere near as deep (from a musical perspective as this one). Parkenings version has an incredible amount of dynamic control and rhythmic precision. By comparison, Segovias tend to be bass and treble with a wash of clicks and uneven bashing through the arp in between. Way better than me, but nowhere near comparison to Alvaro Pierri and Barrueco's versions.
21Mar08myChannel 1 year ago
he's really fast at the very first part! XD
seungsongz 1 year ago
he was a student of segovia's i think, bb
inthecresents 2 years ago
fuck it...just fuck it.....where do i hand in my guitar and raise my white flag? He is insane.
mediumrare46 2 years ago 8
Seriously, this was the study that told me I had no future as a classical guitarist. It was a grade 8 study at the RCM in Toronto. I could never do that G# stretch with out buzzing. As for the speed and cleanness of his arpeggio, it's just amazing.
darkoanton5 2 years ago
@mediumrare46
You could have voiced your feelings without using volgarity. Music is so pure and you corrupted it with your choice of words. Perhaps you don't have the inner beauty it takes to play?
salvernata 2 years ago
Perhaps I could have. But then again I don't believe you were really given the right to define what corrupts music. To me the beauty in music is that it can be what ever it wants to be, if it has vulgar language, that does not make it any less beautiful. I may not have the "inner beauty" to play this piece (which I don't need). Perhaps I have the determination to keep working at it until I am able to play this piece.
mediumrare46 2 years ago
My first comment was a complement to Parkening and I was being sarcastic, I am obviously not really giving up, and I assure you one day I will be able to play that, with or without "inner beauty" which I don't need. And it will be very kick ass!
mediumrare46 2 years ago
Anyone who watches the dumb videoos you have as favs has no business throwing stones and learn to spell vulgarity before you fling it.
Music is so "pure"?
Utter bullshit.
Rexicano 1 year ago
@Rexicano Stop making negative comments about Parkening especially when u suck at guitar.
chinchilla1013 1 year ago
@mediumrare46 No dont my friend :D Check for example Paco De Lucia - Fuente Y Caudal here in youtube (the album version). But anyways, this is a beautiful piece.
GuitaristaDeFlamenco 1 year ago
@mediumrare46 yes.......my guitars are already in the fire place.........you should do the same. we are not worthy
littletimmyeggfart 1 year ago
@mediumrare46 Watch Rusty Cooley's sweeping instructional video. You'll skip that step and just hang yourself with the guitar string..... like in that Beck song.
usedtohatecellphones 1 year ago
@mediumrare46 - - That's funny. A guitar professor once told me jazz guitarists had similar reactions after seeing Joe Pass in concert - they were just ready to give up. He was THAT damn good.
gabeuop79 1 year ago
@mediumrare46 In school, they told me practice makes perfect. Then I was told that nobody is perfect. So I stopped practicing. ~ Stephen Wright
Meef1701 1 year ago
@mediumrare46 thats funny. i love music all kinds. everything...even something i heard by metallica... my first records i bought at 11yrs of age was :nutcracker suite: i'm 71 now and rediscovering all i left behind..i tried to play organ and accordian..yeah!!!!! its not in my mind to accomplish this..so i will listen.. I think it takes a crazy person to write the music for an orchestra and each instrament...and a genuis to play it!!!!
ITSKABIB 6 months ago
Bravo.
1969GibsonL5 2 years ago
Such a great performance!
iluvgtr45 2 years ago
Although Parkening is a great musician and deserves all the praises, people should keep in mind that these recordings are perhaps forty year old or so...
Curatica 2 years ago
My favorite guitarist ever. What I don't understand is, why is he soooo good yet his technique is not "textbook." His wrist is cocked, he is hunched over the guitar, his right hand looks tight, and his thumb looks like a little bananna. How is he so perfect!!?? Love it!!!
StephenAnthonyMusic 2 years ago 9
That sort of extra tension in the hands will catch up to yo eventually...causing problems later.
Rexicano 2 years ago
his right hand looks like that because he was a pretty huge follower of segovia's style. if you watch segovia's right hand you'll see the same huge bend at the wrist, banana thumb, etc. and yeah that kind of playing, for most people, will cause problems later.
ida33 2 years ago
Yes, and I don't understand how he is still able to play this way without problems. When he was younger he would even play through a piece upon rolling out of bed without a warm-up. That would give most people tendonitis, but not C.P.! I just can't get enough of his recordings, though.
StephenAnthonyMusic 2 years ago
@StephenAnthonyMusic Because textbook rules are only a starting place. Every musician - every person, is unique. His approach works for him, and him alone. We bring a personal history to everything we touch that is as unique as our fingerprints, otherwise all our accomplishments would become too homogenized, and therefore inseparable. CP certainly is a genius on the guitar, but also a very together, kind, spirit filled man. God bless him!
FlyingHorseKnuckles 1 year ago
@StephenAnthonyMusic
From what I've heard my teacher say about his right hand placement, I believe his nails are somewhat different than the average person's nails. I think that he just has to angle them that way to achieve a desired tone.
rygramoore 11 months ago
I've heard alot of people do this etude, but Parkening's arpeggios are the smoothest I have heard. I own a copy of the original album with him doing this and it stunned me when I heard it
daffydoug 2 years ago
I agree. And not only are his arpeggios completely smooth, but he remains smooth consistent even while changing dynamics, which is incredibly difficult.
gabeuop79 2 years ago
This is the first video I've watched of someone playing this etude. It's amazing that with such a constant flow of arpeggios he's using only three fingers.
spadalino 2 years ago
Parkening is my all-time favorite classical guitarist, and I don't think his religious beliefs should ever enter into a conversation about his playing, but I do think it's hilarious that when I first saw this video it had been viewed 666 previous times. Great performance by Chris as usual...
octaver 2 years ago
I was just thinking the same thing:)))
blackakres 2 years ago
wow I love this performance! I was shocked though I always thought Parkening used the A finger on the first string in his right hand. I have seen people finger the piece this way and it sounds more articulate.
BMDguitar 2 years ago
There's only a maximum speed you can do with the A on the first string. I did it with A for a while then switched to this fingering and can get it much faster.
In regards to this performance, Parkening just nails it. He is one of the few people out there who make this etude sound spooky and gloomy and menacing like it should be
BHayley 2 years ago