Adam Fulara - Goldberg Variation No. 2 (by J. S. Bach)

[dosergiobr]

I just missed the full repetitions he played half music in fact.

[MrRichardNoggin]

hes good...............

[V5Blanks]

Actually, to me, it sounds a bit like the style of the Wendy Carlos Bach performances.

[V5Blanks]

On another note I want to see an epic battle of the guitar faces between MrGuitarcat and AdamFulara

[V5Blanks]

I'm sure there are plenty of satisfactorily "faithful" versions of this piece already available, so I don't quite understand the problem. This is his take on the piece. It's perhaps different from the original notation but it's also on an instrument that Bach could probably never have even imagined. I see no problem with the player interpreting the music as he sees fit. In fact, it would be rather boring if everyone played strictly as written.

[MrGuitarcat]

This is not good interpretation of this variation. You play staccato and you destroy the three voices of the counterpoint. It is possible in the first to play like that but not here.

[AdamFulara]

@MrGuitarcat I recommend Rosalyn Tureck book "An introduction to Bach playing". Good for you.

[MrGuitarcat]

@AdamFulara Sorry but any interpret of variations don't keep the duration of the notes. The melody in semiquavers can be articulate staccato as you want, but the long notes must be sound all the duration. With a harpsichord it's a trouble sometimes....

It's very important to notice this point because this is one of the manner to bach and his contemporary to create a harmonique tension hard for the ear of the listeners of the 17/18 century.

[baconbag]

@MrGuitarcat You're just upset because your guitar looks like a cyclops Homer Simpson.

[MrStupidFaggot]

@MrGuitarcat

You are easily the most pompous douche to ever pick up a guitar. You come on to this guys video and talk shit for what? To prove that you know more about music than someone else? Or are you butthurt that this guy is way better than you? Learn how to be polite with your critique, moron. "you destroy the three voices of the counterpoint" hah. "destroy" is hardly the word to describe how he plays this. You are the saddest, rude son of a bitch I've ever seen. Seek attention elsewhere.

[Shredder665]

@MrGuitarcat Hey, guess what? This fool can play pretty much any fucking piece he wants in a way that you probably can't. Who's to say a piece is accurate when there was no tempo or standard of dynamics at the time if I'm not mistaken (probably am). You destroy me in finger picking, but this guy probably butt rapes you in finger picking.

[Shredder665]

@Shredder665 8 finger tapping, not finger picking.

[Tentfire]

sir, i take my imaginary hat off to you.

[aabhishek88]

I Wonder how you'd play with a pick...

[UnIXbLueStar]

you are so insane

[yuraaa1990]

people like you are the last hope for music to survive

[dronespace]

beautiful

[UACDOOM]

ok, tremendous, incredible. I take of my hat to you. but some1 be honest and tell me when is this going to ever make you money or be on radio or sale 1000s of sits in a concert? see my point...is not that you are the only1 that can play this is that no1 chooses to do this cause is too much effort to get you nowhere son.

[FabioSirnaMusic]

@UACDOOM still you and your stupid comments...it's official you envy to death adam.

[zagor1974]

pirates!

[drandreacali]

Fulara is a real virtuoso of the double-neck guitar. I love how this variation is interpreted.

[hellven89]

well, guy, you should try the piano, you can be a piano master

[camilocuesta]

This is an inspiration to me. This is the best performance of this 2 variation, on any instrument, ever. I haven't heard a pianist that plays it more pleasant than this version.

[joguitac]

It's very nice, congratuation.

Joguitac

[TaterGumfries]

Sure would like to hear Scarlatti on tappin guitar. Somethin like K 51 would be perfect for double necked guitar

[dumbimperialism]

bravo bravo bravo

[Chevisrockero]

U bastard! go to a circuss monster!!!! what fuck happen in ur face!!! 

[Puch007]

Wow wery good perfect I like it.

But can you play guitar-hero ?

[marcominoni]

oh, wow! have you paint home?

[Progrock101]

i have that same model only in the single neck, it is far better then any other brand i have played. well worth the price too. nice video you inspired me to pick up classical pieces on the guitar.

[CrepusculeDupont]

My my my, this guy really does justice to Bach. I usually think that all guitar players who do covers of classical music tend to show-off way too much but this guy plays even more technical stuff than them and make it sound natural. (sorry about my bad english)

[parquar]

You should play variation #5 and also some fugues as two takes edited together. Nice playing

[MasqueradeOfLies]

haha you look like you're about to sneeze at :10

either way, you are tremendously talented, man

[betochabal]

he is so good that at the tenth second he almost came, look at his face jaja. amazing guitar player

[xSlLENCEx]

His face shows pain... It hurts my brain even trying to keep up to see which hand is producing which sounds. Great job again, Adam.

[Darkboy2525]

hey that whas awsome !! :D !

[JRKDeSimone]

I'm incredibly curious, how well does that instrument balance? You basically have two necks worth of weight on a regularly sized body. I guess the upper horn is extended out fairly far for good strap-button placement though.

[AdamFulara]

This instrument is well balanced. Much better than some single neck Gibsons :). This is REK patent.

[thehatmill]

somebody get this man a "warr" guitar ASAFP

[AdamFulara]

Warr is a kind of bass ;). I prefer guitar sound and scale.

[jacosmith86]

@AdamFulara what about the 12 string chapman stick "Stick Guitar" in guitar scale?

[AdamFulara]

@jacosmith86 yes it is, but it desn't sound like guitar and doesn't look like guitar. ;) I'm a guitar player. After all this years doubleneck guitar was perfect choice for me, I couldn't make any better choice.

[skjoyner]

wow,he must be on LSD to do that. that's all i can figure

[xRayMarcx]

JIZZED IN MAH PANTS!!!!!!!

[vilchesxxbassura]

muy weno kompaa

[mars500]

wow that's amazing and looks like fun, where can I get one of those, really nice guitar skills keep it up!

[GoingAFK]

Wow. Just wow, everytime i see this guy he blows my mind. Mike Batio eat your heart out lol :) i wanna show him to all the shred maniacs

[NagualElias]

i think you got 1 up on gould here.

[max11dirt]

Not exactly.

[Dovemagician]

sick!!

[Mendigando]

Dude thats tetris soundtrack.

[Schneider10101]

It'd like to see him play a guitar normally, that would be cool too. I'd like to see him go for some Metal. He looks like likes a bit of Metal every now and then!

[napierdalacz102]

at the start of his playing he was a shreder but he decide go for 2h tapping.

[Schneider10101]

Fuck, I'd like to see that. >:] A bit of both would be nice, like. :P

[ramzahnY]

Very good. (very gouldian)

[ZsigaGerloczy]

Awesome!

[L3Gi0n5]

0:10

he "jizzed in his pants" ;P

[shivkm]

hahahha

[sabeloide666]

ahahahhahhahahahaha

[LucasRundblad]

hehe yeah he does that alot... and no wonder 'cause it sounds awesome!

[kadukhan]

Mr. Fulara, have you ever completed the entire series of Goldberg variations on the single or double neck? I would love to hear the entire piece tapped out just once, if possible!

[personwithaname123]

Hey, you have a nice appropriate tone and sensitivity towards the music. Most most importantly the music grooves, Bach was probably one of the grooviest composers ever.

[caranauba]

sounds baroque as fuck

[DaGuittarMan]

bcz it is lol

[caranauba]

no but it sounds like it was played on old instruments

[grimmenigma949]

are you implying that hes not playing the song

[gagiandjeo]

Awesome!

5 stars!

gagi

[dorak8]

dlaczego Pan nie gra na pianinie?

albo na klawesynie?

po co się tak męczyc stojac jak można siedziec przy wygodniejszym instrumencie i widziec klawisze ;)

[AdamFulara]

Na pianinie to ten utwór byłby karkołomny do zagrania, ponieważ był napisany na 2 manuały i pianiści muszą go kastrować nieznacznie by WG zagrać. Klawesyn z kolei nie ma możliwości dyanimcznych jakie lubię, ale w tym nagraniu to jest mało uwypuklone ze względu na jego wiekowość. Może Klawikord? To dobry instrument, ale z kolei cztery oktawy i jeden manuał znów stwarzają problem w TYM utworze.

[dorak8]

ale już tak jest, że się go tradycyjnie na pianinie wykonuje. chyba, że się wraca do korzeni.

To co pan robi jest bardzo.... hm... powiedziałabym... nowatorskie. Bo przecież w Baroku znowóż nie było prądu ;)

Tak czy siak podziwiam.

[jackeddemon]

petrucci > this guy

[risris1]

where does he find all of these colored walls?

[OlyDave]

seriously. he must live in brazil or something. pastel walls galore.

[wakeyskate]

haha! very good question... i was thinking, does he know there such thing as a piano that you can play instead of havin a specialist guitar built :p

[Furtive72]

I believe Adam started off playing piano before moving to guitar.

[Bialcon]

he was playing accordion ;)

[BassGK]

fantastyczny styl i umiejętności

[corndog1868]

Love your style,you sound great!!!!

Check out these guitar players'

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Enjoy!!!

[vivazapata74]

hell, man, thumbs up all the way! You're smoking, my respect! From a piano player

[UnforgivingCritic]

LOL, sarcasm.

[kilkennyfishblue]

sarcasm yes... a youtubers best tool if used properly

[UnforgivingCritic]

yes, indeed. i do sometimes use sarcastic passages.. and it's fun..

[kilkennyfishblue]

that's good

[Newpagan11]

You have a few videos of the Goldberg Variations, they're all great. Can you do the whole thing or did you just learn parts of it? I'm wondering if there are any videos of all of it.

[oceandwell]

Wow. Fantastic work! Keep it up.

[p0lyph0ny]

What's the point in trying to grade difficulty? Would this performance somehow be of less value to the listener if it turns out that it is in fact easier on guitar than on keyboard? The aesthetic value of music does not derive from the difficulty involved in creating it (if it did, Liszt's works would be the pinnacle of musical achievement...).

[DelendaEstCarthago1]

VERY well said. People in today's world are fixated on individualistic showmanship. Your name "polyphony" shows that you appreciate the monumental and glorious musical achievement of counterpoint. This is the antithesis of individualistic aesthetics and instead embraces the transcendental glory of that which is good, true and beautiful.

[AdamFulara]

It's not the point. :) It's easy, piano version is much harder. You keep the hands crossed from time to time ;), because it's not for piano.

[trevjr]

Wow! incredible, I am pianist first guitarist second, no way i could play it on guitar. I think the guitar looks much harder. Anyway, I REALLY enjoyed it. I could see your brain working to keep the thread.The greatness of Bach is that it doesnt matter what instrument. get the Goldbergs for string orch with Sitovetsky, you will like it. Yeah I hate the critics too, its like they cant stand that other people like something, they just have to act superior, forget them.

[camilocuesta]

I guess he is just trying to play the music he likes in the instrument he masters. You yourself seem to be focused too much on the technical and not on the musical.

[Jeff4Dahmer]

Critics can go to hell.  Every time I see something beautiful like this theres some idiot trying to find faults with it.

I enjoyed this, and think adam is great at what he does. Period.

[thetrueflesh]

Yes you bet, the classical "he made a mistake here, there", "I can do it better in X instrument", "he plays to fast or out of rhytm" and yet again I said the same to them, if you got the proof you can do it better, sends us the link to see it FFS!

[Rani9000]

this is great. Adam fulara should release something, it really works this way: nice tone and very expressive.

[Therapistishere]

guitar playing gives him pleasure...

[Klaudiusz1983]

Kozackie

[gomeloco]

!!Caramba. La guitarra se está volviendo como una nueva especie de piano!! Yo soy guitarrista veterano, y creo que no podría tocar así. Tendría que volver a empezar ese increíble estilo. Felicidades a Adam Fulara desde Baja California, México.

[ekogabalus]

eso es disfrutar y sentir la música y no chingaderas!!

Very nice piece of heaven,man. Keep on sharing bliss with us!

[5caudillos]

Nice job, Adam!

[Cipciopciap]

all of you forget that if you play this is music on piano or classic guitar or lute it is more difficoult that playng it on a double electric guitar beocuse the electric guitar give a lot of vantage becouse the volume help in an incredible way to do hammer onand pull of with one or two hands.

with lute, classic guitar ,piano or other acoustic instrument you must produce volume with your hands.

[Moonohol]

Yeah, but on those instruments you don't have to have two limb independence. Dipshit.

[MoonUnitLatina]

You're both wrong. Piano is as much two-hand independence as this is, but the "advantage" of volume is negligible, you still have to hit the notes decently.

[Achtelnote]

you are right.

[erasmvs42]

it's obvious, but classical players always think only keyboards can play on polyphony...especially if they play keyboards...

[urheadonastick]

Cipciopciap forget about music and find a fist grade spelling teacher.

[Cipciopciap]

The music of bach help a lot also becouse it

is so full of voices that you don't need to

take the sound of every single voice "up".

[Cipciopciap]

I am a teacher of renaissance and baroque lute and I am a teacher of electric guitar

also and I can grant you that this is not

that difficoult.

[Cipciopciap]

If milions of people use to play bach on piano or on cembal or lute or guitar it

is becouse they chose to do and love useful things and they don't like these unesufuls megalomaniacs things done just for see people call you "genius"....

[johnnyvee]

Your wrong there Cipciopciap. Playing two handed on guitar is much more difficult than on the piano. I agree that he would be better of playing piano though. But I think guitar has a nicer sound. PS. search for a guy named Ole Staveteig, he`s a great tapper.

[JackHammond]

Yes, it's like playing a tiny super-sensitive piano. I.e. much much harder to avoid mistakes and to get the interpretation you want. However, this difficulty limits the instrument, e.g. you could never arrange say Rachmaninov for guitar. The piano also has more scope for dynamics. It all depends what sound you want.

[napierdalacz102]

@JackHammond but piona definitly dont looks soooo badass

[Cipciopciap]

Ha ha ha ...... every person who play piano or cembal use to hands like him ..... he

just play to hands on guitar becouse the

others choose an instrument good for the

"two hands" tecnique ,like piano or cembal or

keyboards.

He is not a genius , he is just a piano player

who chose a piano shaped like a guitar.

[we3k]

Have u ever played on guitar? You are so pathetic...

[josiahgust]

I totally agree, that's why there are thousands, no probably millions of people who can play piano and a very small handful who can do this. He may not be a genius, but that was one of the most amazing things I've ever seen.

[HawaiianAndre]

I dont understand the faces but i love what youre doing. Keep it up!

[canniball666]

To peplo who says that this is easy - IS NOT!! Adam Fulara is the first man who plays like that, so don't say that this is easy. I think that only him can play just like that...

[Fiendin]

The first? Not quite. People like Stanly Jordan have been tapping everything for many years. Not to mention, ever heard of a Chapman Stick? Search it here. There's plenty of videos. Instead of two separate necks, it's one neck with both a bass side and guitar side. It was invented in 1969. So, although I agree that it's NOT easy (I'm a guitar player of 17 years and couldn't come close), he's far from being the first to ever play that way.

[psyleid]

+1.

[TooMoLeft]

He's amazing!

Bill Chase, Guitarist, Too Mothers Left

[blacksk4]

nice!!!!

[mosfet4u]

reminds of Steve Howe of Yes. Very classically influenced player. But the best always seem to be.

[powerslave71]

musical istruments aren't hard, physics is hard

music is the easiest of all sciences, and the funnest

[dolofonos]

Music is not science, it's art. Furthermore, becomming well-learned in science is far easier than art. Art requires accumulated skill and training of a nature entirely different and more difficult than science. One does not simply regurgitate art. There is an obvious reason why the equally valuable fields are categorized seperately. Finally, a mind like Bach's is easily parallelled in genius to a mind like Newton's--your opinion is simply idiotic.

[cworld0326]

you can just regurgitate art. he just did

[Fretburnt]

Your opinion is idiotic too. Music is governed by science. Everything is governed by science... including art.

[dolofonos]

Being able to point out that scientific elements are present in Art does not make Art Science. That's as absurd as stating that because oil and water are both liquids that they are the same substance. One clearly does not require the other: a caveman, with no scientific understanding, can still craft a bone flute and play music on it. An acoustician, with no musical ability, could still study music.

[dolofonos]

Also, Science is not a tangible thing, it cannot 'govern' anything. Science merely is a collection of knowledge about any specific, studyable field-not some kind of 'force' as you so stupidly suggest. Art and Science are specific terms with specific meanings and to use them interchangeably as you have is to degenerate Language into meaninglessness. Your clever little opinion isn't only idiotic and less forgivable than powerslave71's: it makes you an idiot, too.

[videophobic]

AHHHH! It's music... enjoy it!

[suitandtieguy]

wouldn't have been cheaper to take up stick instead? you'd have more of a bass range as well.

[willymaniac]

ariannahwichita: VETE A LA MIERDA!!!

[mxedrioni]

I'm sure if Glenn Gould had heared this he would turn to elctric guitar)

[No1Uzumaki]

O.O Cool!

[Sentinel4truth]

I sometimes fantasize about playing this well! I'm sure glad he pioneered this method of playing. Well done Adam!

[tomlewis1]

how would u be able to play that guitar like a normal twin-neck

[guywylde]

Your amazing and talented dont get me wrong, but why dont you play piano??

[zackypooofillinois]

he probably started on it i mean it kind of makes sense

[Millsytheshred]

cos hes original...

[guywylde]

He's really not in the slightest bit original, all the same technically talented.

[RustyRagnarok]

...Like you can do that. Yeah, you can't, and you never will, so shut up.

Only musicians and the like can fully appreciate how hard it is to play musical instruments, especially when it comes to this degree of difficulty, most would just believe its easy and within them to perform like that.

Please shut up and go sit in a corner.

[guybanez]

Actually i very much can play this, il get a video up for you. So im entitled to my opinion and think its probably more relavent and less ignorant than yours, can you play it then???

[LeonJaaLeonheart]

URE MY NEW HERO!

[Jessicametoplay]

nice face. lol but that was pretty

[niekdope]

xizombiex, you can also usetwo guitars, like zack kim, with one in a special stand and one round ur neck. check his stuff too on youtube, search zack kim

[commandercool069]

dam you are a beast

[baroque2]

so hard to play.. i would never even attempt it

[xizombiex]

awsome but like why?....

[AdamFulara]

to get guitar sound and articulation into Bach? :P

[xizombiex]

do u need a double necked guitar

[chadmuskabeatz]

The only one that play the guitar tap very well.

Good sound like an electric piano.

I have some friends from poland, very good people and very good musiciant!

continue adam

if you want to talk with me about music you can send me you hotmail-skype address.

CIAO

[Scrumptime]

Adam is beyond excellent ... please post more videos, I watch all of them!

[shreddingfast]

adam you're so awesome really awesome, you're better guitar player than many others that I have listened

[dtma24]

whats with the nuts on the guitar or is that some odd capo?

[bleuxbutterfly]

its string dampeners (i suck at spelling)

[bleedinfingers]

just a bunch of soft things (rags will work) so that no open strings are sounded

[PASZCZORSKI]

awensome keep on good work m8

[RomancyL]

god you're U G L Y

[LeonJaaLeonheart]

RomancyL,nothing else better to comment?

[kigawman]

Dude, do you give lessons on your style?

[AdamFulara]

sometimes -yes.

[kigawman]

Man. I wish you could be here in north america to teach your style. I love it!

By the way, You're great playing the Goldberg Variations. Do you have that in a whole album?

If so, I would like to buy a copy.

[AdamFulara]

Yes, I think it will be released soon ;)

[bobbyb0707]

great stuff mate, be cool if you could play some chords and then solo over it at the same time like a one man band!!

[therising1]

Adam, WE CAN'T WAIT!!!!

Good luck on recording and whatnot...!!!

[S0NNABEND]

great!!!

[tfinder]

That's amazing.

[nsl11a]

! can do that with four guitars!!!

oh.. um... nevermind.

[W4d5Y]

my gosh, it almost even has that flute sound as if played on a ,well, flute or organ!

[kadshah]

my boy you have talent. bravo!

[TitusPulloXIII]

Not only do I love Bach, I'm given faith in this thing we have called humanity - that we can create so much fricken amazin stuff. We need more Adams and less Parises.

[666667772]

holy crap u r amazing!

[natalieshd]

Amazing.

[f3lipi]

Amazing technique! Adam is a mutant or something, and I bet even Steve Vai would make such facial expressions playing this... Wonderful!

[z7z1z0]

great facial expressions make the guitarist

[RTVP]

respect mon! szacun!

[leperdantmagnifique]

Formilable

[shreddingfast]

very great awesome and beatiful Adam, I'm a guitarist and i have impress with your hablility I'm from Venezuela

[BetoMan85]

WOOOW!!! MAN!! grat sincronization!!!

[aribai]

this kid reminds me of jason becker

[deadwoodmountain]

Can CC DeVille from Poison do this? "I don't know if I should salivate or cringe!!!"

[AndanteLargo]

As a classical guitarist I'm really impressed!

[f15x28]

Same here. This guy must have two brains.