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  • some of these harmonies have a tense quality about them, angular...and i liked some of the phrasing of the lines in the middle section, meandering lines that resolve at the end of a 'round'... 8 )

  • wow, fantastic arrangement!!! great work guys!!! bravoooooooooo

  • Frère Jacques

  • How are you today sir? How are you today sir?

  • whats the name of this song??:P

  • o wow, iv nvr heard it this way before,

    i love it lol

  • Amazing, i've never heard this arrangement before, i's quite interesting

  • WTF!

    guys theres a difference between playing frere jaques as a beginners piece where ur a kid (for all of you bashing this vid). The awsome thing here is the arrangement of the piece (which happens to be for 2 guitars). Its actually a very nice and unique arrangemnt and version

  • Finally, someone understand the arrangement!! That's great!!!!

  • They hold them the classical way which gives you better access.

  • A video on what playing the guitar is truely about: Feeling! I love the vibe from listening to this piece, i've watched it a few times over... 5/5 here

  • All that just to play Frère Jacques!?!? I could play this on a goddamn Vacuum Cleaner! XD

  • this is the MICROPIEZA N.5 of LEO BROUWER. Is based on the "FRA' MARTINO" theme!

  • Nice.

    Who is the player on the left? I think he is Wu You's teacher. Is that correct? I've seen him around at the Singapore and Tokyo guitar competitions.

  • the player on the left is 葉登民,my friend said he like to take advantage on the woman...don't be his student....what I said is true.who is Wu You?Never hear before

  • Thank you, but I can't read the chinese characters.

    Wu You is a 15yr old boy who won 2nd prize in the Singapore Guitar Competition in 2006 and 5th prize in the Tokyo Guitar Competition in 2007. He is a very good player.

  • love your music,love your work! i will surely subscribe

    5 star*****

    With Respect~~

    JESSE

  • All I can say is WOW! I love it!

  • I can play Fere Jacgues at the classic guitar ;)

  • Gooood !

  • Ohh my.. how deep can you sink.. that was the first song i learned... i still suck at guitar but still ??

  • If you suck at guitar, don't speak... This isn't a conventional version of the song if you listen... And it's not the ease of the song, but how well it is played...

  • Yeah, my siz is like 6 years old and she can play it! XD

    Still.. This is another version.. ;)

  • All that trouble just to play Frère Jacques ??

    That´s not Bartok-esque, Ericandroy. That´s quixote-esque.

  • Yeah great work...

  • so funny for musik!

  • I think we have to learn Brouwer from the beginning of his composition to understand his music. This Duet sounds good to me.

  • mr miagi??? see i thought the guy on the right was kim jung ill or however you spell it.. lol just kidding but seriously

  • MACHINES

  • officer doofy and mr miagi

  • Brouwer is a genious. But yeah, his pieces are srange. Strange good.

  • search for stanley jordan, and youll see whats guitar really about

  • you can´t compare wine with whiskey...

  • Very Bartok-esque, not for the most part my cup of tea but still very well executed

  • who are they?

  • Your fucked in your head.

  • O rly?

  • That's Leo Brouwer for you. I was actually surprised at how melodic this piece sounded when it first started out, but then the dissonance kicked in eventually.

  • Brouwer is crazy in a good but strange way.

  • man...that's awesome

  • that was really cool

  • These guys made a nice piece of music. Its not about if its hard to play or not, you see? Its a nice tune, even though its just a interpretation its STILL a nice piece of music. You others, keep listening to yngve malmsteen! see ya

  • you thikn it's easy to play this note for note , the way these guys did? I appeciate the concept, a simple piece can be a great tune but need you say this is easy to play ?

  • ha i sang that in chours when i was in like 3rd grade but not quite like that

  • this arrangement, while entertaining, has moments of dissidence that rob from the overall appeal of the piece

  • look, this is getting out of hand, you guys keep changing the argument. There just isn't any need for having music in front of your face while playing this song. they just play it through about 8 times, each time it's a little different. What about that guy Esteban, I don't like him but that's beside the matter, he can play a 15 minute version of House Of The Rising Sun without music. Not that that makes him special, anyone could in my opinion, but as an example.

  • There is a difference between extemporaneous variation and carefully written musical variation. This arrangement is a little more complicated than you're giving it credit for. You can reduce it to 'they're just playing Frere Jacques over and over, but there is a little more to it. Post a video, in the next week, of you playing this particular arrangement with a buddy if it's so terribly uncomplicated.

  • Please don't compare real classical guitarists to Esteban.

    kthxbye.

  • It's good, but can u play some other classicals

  • wow

  • People who perform guitar while reading music piss me off. There's absolutely no reason to have to read what you're performing, unless you're using it to learn a song, guitarists have no need for sheet music. I think they do it to look more like fancy classical musicians, not just two guys with guitars.

  • Unless you play classical guitar, I guess you wouldn't know but it's always nice to have a reference *just in case*.

  • You hit the nail on the head. Also if you are a professional musician you might be learning (up to hours of) complicated music with very limited rehersal time.

  • Woah, slow down there chief. Let's not stray from the subject here. This song lasts about 2 and a half minutes. That's about half the length of an average song. And limited rehearsal time? Now you're talking crazy. Ok, suppose they didn't have 10 minutes to learn the song. Let's also suppose that the real guitarists were killed in a tragic snowmobile accident and they had to hand the guitars to children. C'mon... limited rehearsal time... What, are they gigging? Sex, drugs, and classical guitar.

  • Today's average song is a pop song, which is just repeat repeat repeat.

    And did you factor in the fact that it's a duet. I played a lot of duets and that's much less obvious to keep track of where you are. I'd say that playing a duet is 10x more difficult than playing a solo piece.

  • You're right, there's nothing repetitive about Frère Jacques. What in the world was I thinking?

  • Really, tell me where the song repeats itself in that classical guitar version right here.

  • As I said, it's different each time, but the tune is the same. And it should stick in your head to the point where you could play it a hundred different ways without having to think about it.

  • Sorry, don't buy it. I do play guitar, and I just don't see the need for it. If you can't memorize a song as simple as Frère Jacques then shouldn't be performing it in the first place. Alright, you're right about one thing, you could have the music just in case... No wait, what am I saying, it's Frère Jacques for Christ sakes.

  • Alright, I await a video of you playing that song in a duet with another guitarist. :o If it's that simple. Don't let the name fool you, whatever song you do, you can make it as simple as you want or as difficult as you want.

  • have you ever tried playing complicated classical music? i admit i rarely use music to perfrom to but guitarists can be classical musician and playing a 16 page concerto (not that this is what these guys are doing) kinda need music

  • Leo Brouwer may be one of the most original guitar composers of the 20th century.

  • f34r hath no limits...evil...pure evil..

    nursey rhymes, so haunted..the evil..ahhh must run..

  • 2 grown man playing a song from a nursery rhyme.Dosent seem right...just me though

  • very nice

  • hahaha holly cow!

  • Kim Jong Il has skills!

  • funny, I've heard a similarly modern rendition of this lullaby by John Santos and Omar Sosa (latin Jazz).

  • i cant even hear it on my small little speakers T-T

  • Que Arte!!!!

  • It's damn good! I'm jealous of their skills but i think if a baby hears this he'll have nightmares for the rest of its life lol

  • LOLOLOL KIM JONG

  • O Egberto é o CARA !!!!

  • kim jong il play's guitar!?

  • STFU! hahahahahahahahahaha! beer spewed thru my nose.

  • i was just going to post the same comment... haha

  • HAHAHAHAHA

  • Nice version how can I get the scores of this "theme and variations from a classic classic child song" ?

  • Wow funkadelic

  • great dynamic guys, a lot of feelings coming from that piece man. Good job

  • Frere Jaques?... Hey, that way pretty cool :)

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