Beethoven, Symphony 6, 1st movement

[Radeir1]

A Pastoral colorida

numa primavera eterna

- Beethoven amaria!

[AnonymousJonny]

Wow you should watch these videos high. Amazing experience. LOL

[Edootjuh]

Where's the clarinet part?

[smalin]

@Edootjuh It's in there, kind of a blue-green color. It has a solo at 11:30.

[BoogiNan]

THANK YOU !

[HanStanwell]

any chance of doing tchaikovsky? please please...

[kevintillotsonpatter]

Are there any plans at all to do the fourth and fifth movements of Beethoven's sixth? I'm actually curious to see how that would turn out.

[smalin]

@kevintillotsonpatter My license for the audio covers all the movements, so I may eventually get around to do some of the others ... don't know which ones yet.

[HanStanwell]

this along with the third movement may be the most beautiful beethoven ever wrote.

[2257225722572257]

I love the tempo to this, I am used to a slower recording. The setting seems a bit prone to echoing, though.

[mzteachuh]

i just shared this on my blog mzteachuh.blogspot.com--classe­s would love it

[chentorrychelsea]

I'd really just like to thank you for all the great videos you've uploaded!

[abudeable]

The video makes smile and hypnotized ...°

[BoogiNan]

OUTSTANDING, THANK YOU !

[UsedHeartuser]

Just great!

And the animation fits perfectly!

While listening I thought I was in a forest, and when it was over I was pretty confused sitting in my flat...

[Andylong99]

This Song was used on Ren and stimpy Episode Called Nurse Stimpy

[musick2138]

Namasté, Ludwig van !

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& thanks for the anim. !

[Chefodeath]

Hey Smalin, I remember you mentioning awhile back that you were working on scripting a game that could help you practice your sheet reading. I'm curious if that ever came to fruition.

[smalin]

@Chefodeath It's still way in the future.

[PersicusMagus]

Great as usual. It's a real pleasure to look and listen together. Please when you can put something by Bruckner, he is the perfect composer for this kind of visualization. If you think that B. is a little bit hard try with Dukas' L' Apprenti Sorcier, it has a beautiful and complex orchestral texture.

[cpando]

bravo!

[alkiss5]

Графическая  партитура - очень интересно .

[Faure45]

Music is awesome! THanks for uploading. I'm a bit confused by the video score however... What was used to create such a graphic correspondance? the performance came first, right? Are you able to animate ANYthing? Sorry it's been a while since I've checked my subscriptions... :) Love it though! Rach 3? Brahms Double? OH! Kodaly Solo Cello Sonata? Hehehe, I'm rambling... love the videos! If you need performances, lemme know!

[smalin]

@Faure45 The animation is made separately from the recording, using a representation of the score that has been synchronized with the audio.

[Joost985]

Thanks for another symphony of Beethoven. +++

[OriginalBasaliskos]

Any plans on uploading the other movements or doing the third symphony?

[smalin]

@OriginalBasaliskos Eventually, all of Beethoven's symphonies, but probably not immediately.

[marialove40]

@OriginalBasaliskos yeah!

[3tgiac]

I can't tell you how happy I am you uploaded this. After the 7th, it is my favorite of the Beethoven symphonies.

[KFCVideos1]

Another masterpiece!  Thank you for sharing!

[joseramon1402]

¡Excelente! muy bien logrado. Gracias

[MagicDolphinGO]

this may be one example where the visualization hurts the listening experience. all those little cellular repetitions which sound so cool feel boring when you're looking at the same pattern taking up the whole screen

[makerofjam]

Thank you for doing this. By far my favourite piece of music ever.

[Fuzzy192006]

@nextgoodthing Hey, man, I met my wife in a bar !

[smalin]

@nextgoodthing  Sorry, no.

[buzzwaffle]

I was expecting to see bigger shapes for the higher volumes, it felt all little disconnected for that, but all the same, it is intricate, fascinating and enjoyable.

[RectumPilum]

I would really love if you did more Beethoven. Particulary his later symphonies and string quartets. Will you do the whole 6th Symphony by the way?

[smalin]

@RectumPilum I hope to do Beethoven's late quartets; I'm still looking for good recordings I can license. Later symphonies (and other movements of this one), perhaps.

[darknessofddougnut]

@smalin can u do the Double Concerto for Two Cellos by Antonio Vivaldi???

[smalin]

@darknessofddougnut I could, but I probably won't.

[DamianTheEm]

10:30 ...

[BLooDCoMPleX]

Please more Beethoven. He is just too good.

[snookerfan75]

amazing :) Thank u :*

[macaskill87]

Have you considered making a video for any of Beethoven's piano sonatas? My personal favourite is the hammerklavier, though a lot of them are amazing.

[smalin]

@macaskill87 I expect to do more of Beethoven's piano music, yes.

[kubikpt]

Sometimes I make study MIDI's for my students, and I change the notes based on the articulations of the notes, like changing stacatto quarter notes to eighth notes plus eighth rests so the MIDI plays more similar to how it should be performed. But it surely would be a very long work to do.

[smalin]

@kubikpt  I have done that to a certain extent in this video, but it got boring ...

[kubikpt]

@smalin I can imagine. It gets boring with a short choir piece already. Anyhow, keep up the good work :-)

[kubikpt]

Very enjoying, as usual. :-) Did you realize that with this notation it's difficult to see repeated notes in an instrument, like the triplets at 2:10, for example? Of course, you see them as they play because of the highlighting, but you cannot distinguish them very well otherwise. (continued on other post)

[gramps2matt]

Wonderful as always Steven but I was even more thrilled to see you included bar/measure lines to the graphic score this time it adds more realism to the fact you are watching a score.

[jaimecastroruiz]

Thanks for this new visual walk yesterday i was also playing learning using

your MAmachine last version

The 6ª of Bethoven is in my beeing since child

i walk confortable in it but with your ilustration i have now

litle stones like diamonds chaines thaht helps me so that

i can not lose me (sometimes i like to lose me but it is

confortable to have color signales)cushions

hugs

[ApolloWasReal]

Very interesting! I'm used to reading conventional score, but there's something very intuitive and intriguing about this format. Maybe it's because I'm also an EE and computer person?

[Astrobrant2]

OMG, my whole computer screen is drifting to the right now! LOL.

Anyway, again, thank you so much for this. I believe our cultural concept of "pastoral" is defined more by this piece than by any other.

[fangofangorama]

No es esté la Pastoral? wooo

[mrsandmanxj9]

I got 8 seconds into this and almost craped my pants because how awesome this is!

[Sakanakao]

This was a great one to do. That chord change at 5:43 always gets me.

[ApsisApocynthion]

<3

[Funkypotat0]

Wow. Usually I'm not a big fan of wet recordings, but after hearing this for so long in only dry soundstages, it feels reinvigorated, almost as if I were hearing it for the first time once again.

Having a good style about it and an excellent video to accompany it certainly do wonders as well, no doubt there.

[Josh1billion]

Ahh, another masterpiece.. and into the playlist it goes..

[Jp221292]

I have a doubt, Would you say the process of making these videos becomes easier as you make more of them?

[smalin]

@Jp221292 It gets easier in that I get a little faster at doing the steps; it gets harder in that it gets more boring (for the ones with animation styles I've used a lot, like this one). Imagine listening to this movement thirty or forty times, at half-speed, checking for missing or incorrect notes, correcting the timing synchronization, etc. Some of Beethoven's music is quite varied all the way through, but this piece is pretty repetitive, and at half-speed, it can make you crazy.

[Jp221292]

@smalin Thank you for your answer. Yes, I Imagine the process can be a little tedious, which makes me more grateful for your videos. I find the style you used in Bach's Preludio from the Partita in E Major to be quite interesting and appealing to a broader audience, I think you should keep heading in that direction. Anyway, Congratulations!

[IDontDoDrumCovers]

@smalin you animate it? i thought you just use a program that reads the notes and spat out the visuals XD

[ShogaNinja]

@smalin

But at that rate why not make your own music in FL Studio? It's basically the same process but YOU are the master, not Beethoven. It's a little trickier than it seems and if you want to hear what FL Studio can do come take a look at my channel. I'm a composer in my own right, but of course nothing compared to the masters that you reproduce in graphical form.Sure, there are a lot of people who do what I do, but few of them study music theory. They are technicians, not composers.It shows

[ikschrijflangenamen]

@smalin I didn't knew you had to do that? I thought you just had a kind of software, which you feed MIDI's, and then place the music in it. I thought the only reason you would have to listen it again is to check for synchronization.

[rleb09]

@Jp221292 Are you from India? :) "I have a doubt." lol

[CrossbowManD]

Did Beethoven do any more music like his GroBe Fuge or Great fugue I really enjoyed that fugue

[smalin]

@CrossbowManD No, Beethoven's Grosse Fuge is one of a kind.

[CrossbowManD]

@smalin Darn, it surely is one of a kind though. One more question did he actully hear that fugue diffrently because of his hard of hearing? And great job on your channel it is the pearl of the youtube oyster ha ha

[smalin]

@CrossbowManD He heard music differently because he was Beethoven. If you can imagine the difference between hearing somebody speak in your native language and hearing somebody speak in a language you have studied for a few months, that's the scale of difference between what he heard when he listened to music and what you or I would hear listening to the same music. His musical comprehension went very deep.

[CrossbowManD]

@smalin Wow, never thought of it that way that makes good sence thanks again

[practicepalace]

do you do this by ear?

[smalin]

@practicepalace Yes, somewhat, but not in the way you imagine. I had an audio recording, and a score in a notation program. I aligned the two by ear, and I corrected the score by ear. But I did not transcribe the notes by ear (there's no need, since I also have a printed version of the score to use as a reference).

[hindichucky]

Dear Smalin,

Last week i had term 1 finals in uni, and this music (channel) got me through it.

Bless you and your awesomeness.

Keep these up.

[Thejin2027]

Excellent video. I hope to see the other movements of this symphony in the nearby future.

[superazian10]

I love this piece :D. could you consider doing Reqium by Mozart (since it is so popular) or passacaglia by handel-halvorsen (i love this piece. i once attempted to play this with a friend but didnt get very far)

[Huddiethegreat]

Nice recording, you can almost see the lush trees and bright sunshine

[ThePenguinmassacre]

I love ur vids and have been waiting for this one!

Dont stop Smalin