What do you mean, what Ave Maria means? It's "Hail, Mary", a prayer to the mother of Jesus. I'm not even religious and I couldn't escape learning that. "Ave" is Latin for "hello", basically (also check the gladiators' greeting "Ave, Caesar, morituri te salutant." - "Hail, Caesar, the ones about to die greet you.")
I could stay here all day being renewed with these melodious wonders here for Humanity to fill up their starving souls with such beauty. Love you Bobby and Yo-Yo Ma. Thanks for allowing us to partake of these beautiful gems on youtube without paying money to enjoy. <3<3<3
is that really yo yo ma playing? first it sounds like either a viola or a violin to me, and since i never heard yo yo ma play anything else than a cello, i'm a bit confused.
@DreamerSymphony1 yes it's Yo Yo Ma!!! he is just an incredible musician - just like Bobby is. Virtuosic is the word :) You should have a listen to the CD sometime if you're in doubt :) ..
Ah, suggesting seems to be a fine idea. Listen how yo yo ma plays Danza brasileira (written by Camargo Guarnieri). Yet another good option for you, fans of good music, would be i've got a feeling performed by Bobby McFerrin (in the best version he's wearing a blue sweater, watch it and you'll probably laugh a bit (or a lot)).
OH MY GOSH! I JUST REALIZED THAT! *spaz* I love playing that on my cello. But other than my spazziness this is amazing. Yo-Yo Ma and Bobby are really in harmony with each other.
wow i cant believe that with such beautiful music that you all still found it important to have an argument about something as miniscule and unimportant as spelling. i started reading the comments knowing that i would find some people that appreciates this type of music and maybe even some suggestions of other things to listen too, but instead i came across hatred. lol. none of you love music!
@Shanyet~Thank you! You couldn't have said it better. People have nothing better to do than focus their energy on the wrong things. That's not the way to live life.
after suffereing from 'atypical-depressive-disorde' my music helps me to get by each day. this one in particular is just so comforting. thank u for putting it n u tube.
No such thing a circular breathing while singing. You can only use circular breathing on a wind instrument, I am sure you don't know EXACTLY what circular breathing is. It is as follows:
1 Begin playing normally
2 Fill your mouth/cheeks with air.
3 Play the instrument by using your cheeks to push air into the instrument.
4 In haled deeply while using your cheeks to blow air through the instrument and repeat from step 2.
This technique is very difficult, even advanced players seldom use it.
let me correct you. it does exist. i myself have done it in college vocal classes. i was at a workshop with bobby mcferrin and he taught everyone there how to circular breathe. not only did bobby mcferin teach us but one of the members in his old band who also was very good at circular breathing did it and showed us his techniques too. im a music major in college and i have done extensive research on this and to make sure peoples theorys were correct, i took it upon myself to try it. it exists.
At what college are you a music major? Your grammar, punctuation, spelling, and general content make it a bit difficult to believe you as a potential PhD. It is hard to take anyone seriously who posts as if they were texting.
well DrSara i dont know if you know anything about technology, but this thing i u se is called a cell phone. so yes, technically speaking, i AM texting. SECONDLY, i also an very currious to know if you realize this is a friend based websight for sharing...not a novel... i dont focus my life around spelling and grammar like some loser do because i AM NOT an english major, nor will i ever be. i happen to be going into my masters program at University of Puget Sound.
if your going to try to be an english teacher do us all a favor and dont do it on a friend sight for blogging and sharing. cuz no one cares. its not a matter of having "time" for it. some people just have no lives and sit here and read the comments trying to fix and correct peoples spelling and grammar. this is not a novel being written, this is a sharing sight. if you dont like the way i type on a FRIENDLY SHARING SIGHT, then get the fuck off of it, or quit bitching.
Another thing DrSara, Music does not involve any form of spelling or grammar. it involves mathematical equations and science. but of course, you obviously have no knowledge of that or you wouldn't be making snide comments about my content. thanks for your input anyway!
obviously you must have no experience in vocals. it may not sound as pretty as a normal breathing exercise would but it does exist . do some research and try it ur self. easiest when done by whistling, do the same on a pitch of ur choice with the vowel o. i wouldnt reccomend circular breathing if you are trying to sound pretty unless you are highly trained and know how to controll your diaphragm and vocal chords. but it is possible people. this topic is what is going to get me my Ph.D. in music.
To label such a technique as circular breathing would be wildly inappropriate because there's really no circular exchange of air going on at all, in contrast to circular breathing with wind instruments.
akm5176, I think laurielovesyou is talking about singing normally until your air runs out, then singing while inhaling.
To call this circular breathing, however, is completely misleading.
yes. the term cirtular breathing is misleading by its name, but it is the "correct" terminology. thank you DrParkMD517. that is exactally what i am talking about and what akm5176 is talking about on a wins instrument. i have been with bobby mcferrin in one of his work shops in lionel hampton jazz festival and learned from him directly. its a very simple thing to do, it just takes practice, as using any instrument does. i do think they should come up with a more logical name for it though...
he does breathe, but its a technique known as circular breathing. excuse my language but i cant stand half of these idiots who have no idea what circular breathing is. the name is very misleading but i have learned from mcferrin myself at his workshops. try whistling while inhaling, keep whistling while inhaling. same concept with the voice. obviously a recording like this is altered to sound better. circular breathing does not sound that pretty. but is very possible :) (topic to get my Ph.D. )
Can you really circular breath for singing? It's my understanding that circular breathing works with instruments by using a reserve of air kept in the mouth. Seeing as tones of the voice are produced in the throat, I don't see how one can circular breathe while singing.
yes drumstyx you can. but alot of people cannot because its difficult. ive done it myself at a bobby mcferrin workshop in lionel hampton. you are 100% correct that the tones od the voice are produced in the throat however, air passes in, AND out through the throat. therefore making it all possible. however, its not a pretty sound. this recording was obviously altered to sound better. its a very rough sound. try it. you sound like you have some musical background, you can probably pull it off(:
Ah, I see what you mean now, interesting, I didn't know that was actually a technique, used to do that for fun when I was a kid lol. I do indeed have a musical background, 10 years alto sax, 7 years guitar and 6 years piano, sort of my backup plan if engineering doesn't pan out :P
@laurielovesyou HEy I wanna learn but how do I accomplish circular breathing I mean how do I breath in and exhale through my mouth at the same time?!?!?
@zkira1 Sorry. Just noticed you asked about this! Try whisteling normally (exhaling) now breath in (DO NOT MOVE YOUR LIPS) and adjust the tightness of the muscels in your lips. You may have in inhale quicker than usual and tighted your lips but you should hear a faint whistle. Thats the first sign you are doing it right! practice that A LOT! It takes lots of practice to be able to continuously sing the way Bobby does, but it can be accomplished :) Good luck!! Hope that helps you :)
bobby meets so many amazing and wonderful composers he is very lucky but he is also a very great composer in his own way i wish i could meet him. And this is coming from my 13 year old son please if you agree with him and me give this a thumb up but if you don't then you have no taste in music what so ever.
Well technically this is Ave maria by Charles Gounod. the melody line is written by him, but the part that bobby sings is J.S. Bach's C major preludium from the Wohltempiert klavier.
"Stifle"...no, not quite. They sought to carefully distinguish between sacred and forgery. If you want to call exempting the forgeries "stifling", fine.
hahha ya this is def. not shubert's ave maria. That goes much different tho they are both pretty. Im pretty sure this is bach prelude #1, but i could be wrong....
is Prelude and Fugue No. 1 in C major, BWV 846 by Johann Sebastian Bach, and later Charles Gounod put that beatiful melody it becomes the "Bach-Gounod Ave Maria",IN MY OPINION MUCH BETTER THAN THE SHUBERT VERSION, SORRY MY ENGLISH, AND HI FROM ARGENTINA !
The vocal part, performed by Bobby McFerrin, is the prelude in C major (BWV 846), the first of 24 pieces of the so-called Well-Tempered Clavier ("Das Wohltemperirte Clavier), Book I (1722) & Book II (1742), written by German Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750).
The string part, performed by cello player Yo-Yo Ma, is a popular and much-recorded setting of the Latin prayer "Ave Maria", composed in a melody which is superimposed over Bach's Prelude BWV 846 (see above) as "Méditation sur le 1er prélude de Bach". It was written in 1859 by French Romantic composer Charles F. Gounod (1818-1893).
Thus, the cello part is NOT "Ellens Gesang III" (D839, Op 52 no 6) - popularly also called "Ave Maria" - written in 1825 by German Romantic composer Franz Schubert.
until i stumbled across the videos by yo yo ma, i was under the impression that bobby mcferrin had dropped off the face of the musical world. This is fucking tight though. Anyone have an estimated date from when this happened?
Danny, this is was recorded in 1991. McFerrin is awesome (and Yo-Yo too) -- I would suggest going to McFerrin's website and see how active he still is in music. =) In my opinion, this rendition of the Ave Maria is one of the most stunning pieces of music that exists.
Simply sublime and beautiful, just close your eyes and let this fabulous melody wash all your cares away...I have... love it and all of Bobby's music, totally unique and brilliant.
Wow! When I saw the title, I imagined the opposite - Bobby singing the melody accompanied by Yo-Yo's cello - and went "Yeah it must be beautiful but kinda expected and banal." How wrong was I! Just amazing, both of them.
Actually, the first Bible was composed and cut down at the Council of Nicaea in 325 A.D. So youre wrong. And coventrygardens, I understand you point about that but Baptists, like most Protestant denominations (with the exception of the Calvinist type denominations) do not believe in pre-destination and believe in salvation through the Bible AND works of good faith. I'm a Baptist by the way. Thanks.
Just to nitpick, but the entirety of the canonical (and even the apocryphal) Bible was written far before 325. It was at the Council of Nicaea that the canon was simply formalized. By then, all of the books of the New Testament were well in circulation and already considered authoritative and God-inspired.
Also, proper Christian soteriology states that salvation is through faith alone, in Christ alone. (sola fide, sola Christus). Good works do not cause salvation, salvation causes good works.
Actually the council of Nicaea sought to stifle the books of the bible. the new testament has a lot more books than what the council ordained as the authoritative God-inspired books. If you are at all interested research it from the ethiopian books, via the library of congress. the ethiopians are the most authoritative and "true" keepers of all jewish/christian works i.e. queen of sheba and the solomic line, keepers of the arc of the covenant.
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great music
i liked "Ave Maria" long before i switched over to the Catholic Church. back when i was a baptist, i assumed that the Blessed Virgin Mary was a baptist. i broke from the baptists when i realized that the Bible cannot be the only source for Christian teaching. baptists and protestants and restorationists should focus on the fact that Christianity existed before the Bible existed.
there are some things so sublime that it is impossible to say how beautiful they are. how can you express how fully your heart opens up to allow joy to fill you up so that tears flow and your heart wants to burst?
This is amazing!! So beautiful!! Thanks for posting it!
sunniday49 1 month ago
a very interesting rendition for sure
ORYGUNLADY 1 month ago
Saw this in band class last friday. It's one of the best arrangements I've ever heard.
JacobJohnson64 1 month ago
Bobby is singing Bach's prelude in C, a keyboard piece.
They have combined it with the melody on the cello (Ave Maria? Not Schubert's, but somebody's) to make a new arrangement.
daviddylanharris 3 months ago
@daviddylanharris Gounod's Ave Maria
ladyvonkulp 1 month ago
@basement... What about all 3 together? That was really cool
Hokieson1 3 months ago
just shut the hell up
and listen to this song
if you're gonna hate on the song
then go to another video
BJack360 1 year ago 2
Bobby McFerrin is amazing... can't think of another human being with his vocal range and his ear.
Qwurky01 1 year ago
Soooo amazing
Absolutely GORGEOUS
Will we ever again see musicians with such sincerity, intent, and pure TALENT as Bobby McFerrin?
This music is pure beauty.
Does anyone know what Ave Maria means?
TheSoundOfMusic64 1 year ago
@TheSoundOfMusic64 hail mary
elbombero63 1 year ago
@TheSoundOfMusic64
What do you mean, what Ave Maria means? It's "Hail, Mary", a prayer to the mother of Jesus. I'm not even religious and I couldn't escape learning that. "Ave" is Latin for "hello", basically (also check the gladiators' greeting "Ave, Caesar, morituri te salutant." - "Hail, Caesar, the ones about to die greet you.")
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@gormarx I'm taking Latin in school and the only greeting I learned was "Salve" (SAHL-way). But thank you! :)
TheSoundOfMusic64 1 year ago
if you like bobby... check out Terry Callier.
Drspoots 1 year ago
I could stay here all day being renewed with these melodious wonders here for Humanity to fill up their starving souls with such beauty. Love you Bobby and Yo-Yo Ma. Thanks for allowing us to partake of these beautiful gems on youtube without paying money to enjoy. <3<3<3
nancyl2 1 year ago 3
youre wrong.
langitang 1 year ago
you should all be ashamed of yourselves starting pointless arguments when your ears are being blessed by something so beautiful...shame on you all
1stdannunu 1 year ago 7
Thia is so beautiful!
briakoralews 1 year ago
I see there are a few Wikipedia fans on here
arrondavidson 1 year ago 9
is that really yo yo ma playing? first it sounds like either a viola or a violin to me, and since i never heard yo yo ma play anything else than a cello, i'm a bit confused.
DreamerSymphony1 1 year ago
@DreamerSymphony1 hes playing it high on the a string cellos do indeed go that high lol
erikweldingmusician 1 year ago
@erikweldingmusician interesting... i never knew that. thanks for explaining!
DreamerSymphony1 1 year ago
@DreamerSymphony1 yes it's Yo Yo Ma!!! he is just an incredible musician - just like Bobby is. Virtuosic is the word :) You should have a listen to the CD sometime if you're in doubt :) ..
annakchambers 1 year ago
awesome!!!!
Evergreen990 1 year ago
Ah, suggesting seems to be a fine idea. Listen how yo yo ma plays Danza brasileira (written by Camargo Guarnieri). Yet another good option for you, fans of good music, would be i've got a feeling performed by Bobby McFerrin (in the best version he's wearing a blue sweater, watch it and you'll probably laugh a bit (or a lot)).
Lascaries1 1 year ago
And I was expecting the cello to play the arpeggios!! Gosh, he really knows how to control his vocal cords!
Kaffemoster71 1 year ago
GREAT¡¡¡
curuxa64 1 year ago
Both gentlemen are geniuses!!!!
vickieedean 1 year ago
The sound is OK, but the picture has vanished. How does one get it back.???
Environwords 1 year ago
bet he got really light headed
MegaFather123 2 years ago
Too bad the sound quality is poor.
MrMoto 2 years ago
just beautifal
dman201212 2 years ago
sounds like J.S Bachs praeludium.
puggle7882 2 years ago 3
youre right its the first prelude from j.s. bach taken from The Well Tempered Piano part 1 what bobby McFerrin is performing.
Yo-Yo Ma is Playing the Ave Maria - over it, thats how Bobby McFerrin mostly does it.
AvatarOfBlues 2 years ago 4
OH MY GOSH! I JUST REALIZED THAT! *spaz* I love playing that on my cello. But other than my spazziness this is amazing. Yo-Yo Ma and Bobby are really in harmony with each other.
LiztheCellist 2 years ago
@AvatarOfBlues Yea Bobby sings the Bach and Yo-Yo Ma the Gounod.
nino0057 1 year ago
thats exactly what it is...
Hectorix 2 years ago
@puggle7882 thats cuz it is!!
egg534 2 years ago
Five stars!
ariastoteles 2 years ago 3
Debby from fortwilliam.... this is what you could do. Check it out. Mr. Smith
LewisSmith 2 years ago
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Wait, Bobby's whistling or whatever sounds like Praeludi by Bach, not Ave Maria
puggle7882 2 years ago
A French composer called Charles Gounod actually wrote the part that Yo-Yo Ma is playing as a melody to be superimposed over Bach's piece. :]
Mawgbot 2 years ago
It is...Ave Maria was written as a 'vocal layover' to the prelude.
thetravelinghermit 2 years ago
to wich prelude? suite no. 1?
MegaFather123 2 years ago
Sorry to take so long, prelude in C major from The Well Tempered Clavier.
thetravelinghermit 2 years ago
it IS a prelude he's "singing." Ma's playing the Gounod Maria, whose accompaniment is Bach's piece.
BAKA.
khesed 2 years ago
yeah it sounds like cello suite no. 1
brellenismylife 2 years ago
jk theyre different now that i heard the two right in a row
brellenismylife 2 years ago
Whoah...I dont usually liek classically based music but this piece sent shivers through my entire body.
j2kool3816 2 years ago 4
legend
mp4lyf 2 years ago 5
wow that was amazing
MrNuts70 2 years ago 2
Uniquely beautiful!
OperaPilot 2 years ago 5
wow i cant believe that with such beautiful music that you all still found it important to have an argument about something as miniscule and unimportant as spelling. i started reading the comments knowing that i would find some people that appreciates this type of music and maybe even some suggestions of other things to listen too, but instead i came across hatred. lol. none of you love music!
Shanyet 2 years ago 60
thank you shanyet. you make a good point. if only others could tone it down also.
laurielovesyou 2 years ago 3
@Shanyet~Thank you! You couldn't have said it better. People have nothing better to do than focus their energy on the wrong things. That's not the way to live life.
need620 1 year ago
@Shanyet I love music. Whether it be Bach, Bobby or Yo-Yo all three never cease to amaze me.
Bazement258Studios 11 months ago
Geniale!!!
LChris89 2 years ago
woulda been cool if the underline and aboveilne intercrossed, w/ bobby above and ma below --love the way it is too, though
tackyacky 2 years ago
after suffereing from 'atypical-depressive-disorde' my music helps me to get by each day. this one in particular is just so comforting. thank u for putting it n u tube.
mummyblanche 2 years ago
Bobby , qué cool xDDDD y bueno Yo yo eres genial, eso todos lo sabemos xD! simplemente espectacular O.o
KingdomOfTheMusic 2 years ago
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laurielovesyou 2 years ago
wow! Absolutely Wow!
dieulinh275 2 years ago
a really beautiful version, but what is most surprising is the talent of these two musical geniuses. a delight listen
sandrinedusoleil 2 years ago 3
LOVE BOBBY MC FERRIN BRASIL!!!
vi0706996 2 years ago
The convination is amaizing!
roxymusic999 2 years ago
los amoooo!!
Karolmeji 2 years ago
What Bobby can do with his voice and what Yo Yo Ma can do on the strings is paralleled excellence. Beautiful
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sydmichaels 2 years ago
yoyoma couldn't be more pitch perfect. :|
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sydmichaels 3 years ago 3
hijos de su pinche cola apestosa
se la rifan.
mocoyoyomocoyoyo 3 years ago
bobby the bach yo yo the ave maria
stuntmanboots 3 years ago 4
all is the ave maria, bobby the bach, yo yo the gounod part XD
insolito03 3 years ago
clave bien temperado . JS Bach=?
mekemo666 3 years ago
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how awesome would it be to learn what bobby mcferrin is doing in this video on guitar?? thumbs up if you agree!
fartbender01 3 years ago
Mcferrin and Yo Yo Ma, both masters of their art, together in one place: Greatest idea ever conceived...
thevioloncellist 3 years ago 4
WoW.
When does this guy breath. This is impossible!!!!
mannewerk 3 years ago
Gods don't need to breathe lol
Masamuneblader 3 years ago 7
lol you're right
lovesmusik1 3 years ago
He probably employs a circular breathing technique.
aquaknot 3 years ago
circular breathing while singing? im afraid thats impossible. listen to him sing this piece live, you can definatley hear him breath.
Pluralum 3 years ago
No such thing a circular breathing while singing. You can only use circular breathing on a wind instrument, I am sure you don't know EXACTLY what circular breathing is. It is as follows:
1 Begin playing normally
2 Fill your mouth/cheeks with air.
3 Play the instrument by using your cheeks to push air into the instrument.
4 In haled deeply while using your cheeks to blow air through the instrument and repeat from step 2.
This technique is very difficult, even advanced players seldom use it.
akm5176 2 years ago 5
let me correct you. it does exist. i myself have done it in college vocal classes. i was at a workshop with bobby mcferrin and he taught everyone there how to circular breathe. not only did bobby mcferin teach us but one of the members in his old band who also was very good at circular breathing did it and showed us his techniques too. im a music major in college and i have done extensive research on this and to make sure peoples theorys were correct, i took it upon myself to try it. it exists.
laurielovesyou 2 years ago 5
At what college are you a music major? Your grammar, punctuation, spelling, and general content make it a bit difficult to believe you as a potential PhD. It is hard to take anyone seriously who posts as if they were texting.
DrSara1978 2 years ago
well DrSara i dont know if you know anything about technology, but this thing i u se is called a cell phone. so yes, technically speaking, i AM texting. SECONDLY, i also an very currious to know if you realize this is a friend based websight for sharing...not a novel... i dont focus my life around spelling and grammar like some loser do because i AM NOT an english major, nor will i ever be. i happen to be going into my masters program at University of Puget Sound.
laurielovesyou 2 years ago
There is always time for correct spelling and grammar.
maskedracoon2 2 years ago
if your going to try to be an english teacher do us all a favor and dont do it on a friend sight for blogging and sharing. cuz no one cares. its not a matter of having "time" for it. some people just have no lives and sit here and read the comments trying to fix and correct peoples spelling and grammar. this is not a novel being written, this is a sharing sight. if you dont like the way i type on a FRIENDLY SHARING SIGHT, then get the fuck off of it, or quit bitching.
have a nice day.
laurielovesyou 2 years ago
Another thing DrSara, Music does not involve any form of spelling or grammar. it involves mathematical equations and science. but of course, you obviously have no knowledge of that or you wouldn't be making snide comments about my content. thanks for your input anyway!
laurielovesyou 2 years ago
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Wow, what a pedantic asshole!
20gilbert20 2 years ago
I couldn't agree more.
Alephantiasis 2 years ago 2
obviously you must have no experience in vocals. it may not sound as pretty as a normal breathing exercise would but it does exist . do some research and try it ur self. easiest when done by whistling, do the same on a pitch of ur choice with the vowel o. i wouldnt reccomend circular breathing if you are trying to sound pretty unless you are highly trained and know how to controll your diaphragm and vocal chords. but it is possible people. this topic is what is going to get me my Ph.D. in music.
laurielovesyou 2 years ago 3
To label such a technique as circular breathing would be wildly inappropriate because there's really no circular exchange of air going on at all, in contrast to circular breathing with wind instruments.
akm5176, I think laurielovesyou is talking about singing normally until your air runs out, then singing while inhaling.
To call this circular breathing, however, is completely misleading.
DrParkMD517 2 years ago
yes. the term cirtular breathing is misleading by its name, but it is the "correct" terminology. thank you DrParkMD517. that is exactally what i am talking about and what akm5176 is talking about on a wins instrument. i have been with bobby mcferrin in one of his work shops in lionel hampton jazz festival and learned from him directly. its a very simple thing to do, it just takes practice, as using any instrument does. i do think they should come up with a more logical name for it though...
laurielovesyou 2 years ago
he does breathe, but its a technique known as circular breathing. excuse my language but i cant stand half of these idiots who have no idea what circular breathing is. the name is very misleading but i have learned from mcferrin myself at his workshops. try whistling while inhaling, keep whistling while inhaling. same concept with the voice. obviously a recording like this is altered to sound better. circular breathing does not sound that pretty. but is very possible :) (topic to get my Ph.D. )
laurielovesyou 2 years ago 17
Just don't call it circular breathing and it won't upset the brass players.
Flanning 2 years ago 2
Can you really circular breath for singing? It's my understanding that circular breathing works with instruments by using a reserve of air kept in the mouth. Seeing as tones of the voice are produced in the throat, I don't see how one can circular breathe while singing.
drumstyx6464 2 years ago
yes drumstyx you can. but alot of people cannot because its difficult. ive done it myself at a bobby mcferrin workshop in lionel hampton. you are 100% correct that the tones od the voice are produced in the throat however, air passes in, AND out through the throat. therefore making it all possible. however, its not a pretty sound. this recording was obviously altered to sound better. its a very rough sound. try it. you sound like you have some musical background, you can probably pull it off(:
laurielovesyou 2 years ago
Ah, I see what you mean now, interesting, I didn't know that was actually a technique, used to do that for fun when I was a kid lol. I do indeed have a musical background, 10 years alto sax, 7 years guitar and 6 years piano, sort of my backup plan if engineering doesn't pan out :P
drumstyx6464 2 years ago 2
thats great! the world obviously needs more people who are musically inclined after reading some of the posts on here! haha. thats really great tho!
laurielovesyou 2 years ago 6
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20gilbert20 2 years ago
@laurielovesyou HEy I wanna learn but how do I accomplish circular breathing I mean how do I breath in and exhale through my mouth at the same time?!?!?
zkira1 1 year ago
@zkira1 Sorry. Just noticed you asked about this! Try whisteling normally (exhaling) now breath in (DO NOT MOVE YOUR LIPS) and adjust the tightness of the muscels in your lips. You may have in inhale quicker than usual and tighted your lips but you should hear a faint whistle. Thats the first sign you are doing it right! practice that A LOT! It takes lots of practice to be able to continuously sing the way Bobby does, but it can be accomplished :) Good luck!! Hope that helps you :)
laurielovesyou 1 year ago
bobby meets so many amazing and wonderful composers he is very lucky but he is also a very great composer in his own way i wish i could meet him. And this is coming from my 13 year old son please if you agree with him and me give this a thumb up but if you don't then you have no taste in music what so ever.
cosmos131 3 years ago 16
this is bach prelude #1 yep...i just love yo yo ma and bobby mcferrin
Bonecollector84 3 years ago 4
Well technically this is Ave maria by Charles Gounod. the melody line is written by him, but the part that bobby sings is J.S. Bach's C major preludium from the Wohltempiert klavier.
N0tnant0N 3 years ago
in that prelude, gounod put the ave maria lyric, is fantastic, i love this ave maria, i really don't like shubert
insolito03 3 years ago
"Stifle"...no, not quite. They sought to carefully distinguish between sacred and forgery. If you want to call exempting the forgeries "stifling", fine.
brhodes625 3 years ago 4
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Eat my Shorts !!
Why the hell is it so quietly??!!!
I cant hear anything !!!!!!!
Crylex 3 years ago
I've heard that turning up the volume can help if something is too quiet.
BloodySerpent 3 years ago 37
this is the J.S. Bach Gounoud version of Ave Maria
cloudandchorus 3 years ago 4
i have a question. Is this Schubert's ave maria or is it something else? im really confused.
jiejingz 3 years ago
It is, indeed. But they only play the melody yet not cover the vocal part.
alvarezsosa 3 years ago
poo :( ah well, ave maria's an amazing aria, even without the lyrics :p
dd8630 3 years ago
It is Bach I believe, not Schubert o.0 Bobby's part is in my piano book as a prelude o.0
Ilikemycello 3 years ago 3
hahha ya this is def. not shubert's ave maria. That goes much different tho they are both pretty. Im pretty sure this is bach prelude #1, but i could be wrong....
1Hannah730 3 years ago 4
is Prelude and Fugue No. 1 in C major, BWV 846 by Johann Sebastian Bach, and later Charles Gounod put that beatiful melody it becomes the "Bach-Gounod Ave Maria",IN MY OPINION MUCH BETTER THAN THE SHUBERT VERSION, SORRY MY ENGLISH, AND HI FROM ARGENTINA !
insolito03 3 years ago 8
@alvarezsosa & @jiejingz (answer 1/2):
The vocal part, performed by Bobby McFerrin, is the prelude in C major (BWV 846), the first of 24 pieces of the so-called Well-Tempered Clavier ("Das Wohltemperirte Clavier), Book I (1722) & Book II (1742), written by German Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750).
samau77 1 year ago
@alvarezsosa & @jiejingz (answer 2/2):
The string part, performed by cello player Yo-Yo Ma, is a popular and much-recorded setting of the Latin prayer "Ave Maria", composed in a melody which is superimposed over Bach's Prelude BWV 846 (see above) as "Méditation sur le 1er prélude de Bach". It was written in 1859 by French Romantic composer Charles F. Gounod (1818-1893).
samau77 1 year ago
@alvarezsosa & @jiejingz:
Thus, the cello part is NOT "Ellens Gesang III" (D839, Op 52 no 6) - popularly also called "Ave Maria" - written in 1825 by German Romantic composer Franz Schubert.
samau77 1 year ago
Bach prelude no. 1. The cello portion is by Ground
dccheung678 3 years ago
@jiejingz i thought bach wrote this originally
erikweldingmusician 1 year ago
just heavenly! truely gifted both of them
eugita80 3 years ago 2
Ah, how does mcferrin produce that mesmerizing sine-like tone...
nadavnaz2 3 years ago 3
until i stumbled across the videos by yo yo ma, i was under the impression that bobby mcferrin had dropped off the face of the musical world. This is fucking tight though. Anyone have an estimated date from when this happened?
dannythedrone 3 years ago
Danny, this is was recorded in 1991. McFerrin is awesome (and Yo-Yo too) -- I would suggest going to McFerrin's website and see how active he still is in music. =) In my opinion, this rendition of the Ave Maria is one of the most stunning pieces of music that exists.
swauj 3 years ago
This piece is also known as 'The well tempered clavicord' luuv it and can play it.
zeMusicluver 3 years ago
so nice
0982955319 3 years ago
Wonderful!!!
vivian2nana 3 years ago
just amazing
JNiggels 3 years ago
klasyka...bravo!
sciemnia 3 years ago
Music transcends all cultural, religious, and political differences. It's simply the best form of communication amongst us all.
This combination is calming and sublime.
crazyazcordova 3 years ago 9
oiga increible ! jajaja ..bno si creible pero... es que entona tremendamente !
TheTearsOfAutumnDrea 3 years ago
the human voice, the most beautiful instrument of all. this is my favorite.
6233972 3 years ago 4
Simply sublime and beautiful, just close your eyes and let this fabulous melody wash all your cares away...I have... love it and all of Bobby's music, totally unique and brilliant.
wenglishsal 3 years ago
I'm in my happy place :-)
Yaddahoo 3 years ago 2
OH!! What a wonderful music, I forgot all my unhappy things with the music...I cry for this music...
tension44444 3 years ago 5
Lovely...
passjay 3 years ago 2
y' damned yanks and your religious spouts, just shut the fuck up and enjoy the music for *beep's* sake eh?
mrmanson101 3 years ago 3
Really just spine chilling. So beautiful. The infusing of two amazing talents... I adore it.
brightiis07 3 years ago 9
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Yes, it's not about being good, it's about believing what a church told you and a book.
FugginNorb 3 years ago
Wow! When I saw the title, I imagined the opposite - Bobby singing the melody accompanied by Yo-Yo's cello - and went "Yeah it must be beautiful but kinda expected and banal." How wrong was I! Just amazing, both of them.
littlebrit2007 3 years ago 6
BEAUTIFUL!
I saw Bobby in Norway, and sang with him on stage and all, he is just fantastic!
asfaltmilla 3 years ago
peaceful
hacarlos 3 years ago
that is the coolest thing I have EVER heard!
nadeboy7 3 years ago
Saw them perform this in NY.
Twas magical.
ileavelotsofcomments 3 years ago
coventrygardens, bible existed A LOT of time before the time that is believed that Jesus Christ came.
alvarezsosa 3 years ago
Actually, the first Bible was composed and cut down at the Council of Nicaea in 325 A.D. So youre wrong. And coventrygardens, I understand you point about that but Baptists, like most Protestant denominations (with the exception of the Calvinist type denominations) do not believe in pre-destination and believe in salvation through the Bible AND works of good faith. I'm a Baptist by the way. Thanks.
TNHayden 3 years ago 2
Just to nitpick, but the entirety of the canonical (and even the apocryphal) Bible was written far before 325. It was at the Council of Nicaea that the canon was simply formalized. By then, all of the books of the New Testament were well in circulation and already considered authoritative and God-inspired.
Also, proper Christian soteriology states that salvation is through faith alone, in Christ alone. (sola fide, sola Christus). Good works do not cause salvation, salvation causes good works.
discolando 3 years ago
well, bible wasn't copied from Babylon? :)
BucciniP 3 years ago
Actually the council of Nicaea sought to stifle the books of the bible. the new testament has a lot more books than what the council ordained as the authoritative God-inspired books. If you are at all interested research it from the ethiopian books, via the library of congress. the ethiopians are the most authoritative and "true" keepers of all jewish/christian works i.e. queen of sheba and the solomic line, keepers of the arc of the covenant.
shakaama 3 years ago 3
i clicked this and expected the cello suite to be played by Yo Yo Ma, it was a nice surprise
knightkeeper89 3 years ago 3
i'm not religious at all, but I still love this piece
evillttlimp 3 years ago 3
Agreed. You don't have to be a certain religion to like certain music.
SirNoobs 3 years ago 17
yes, you right
BucciniP 3 years ago
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great music
i liked "Ave Maria" long before i switched over to the Catholic Church. back when i was a baptist, i assumed that the Blessed Virgin Mary was a baptist. i broke from the baptists when i realized that the Bible cannot be the only source for Christian teaching. baptists and protestants and restorationists should focus on the fact that Christianity existed before the Bible existed.
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"baptists and protestants and restorationists should focus on the fact that Christianity existed before the Bible existed"
I think they should focus on the fact that God is imaginary, and the Bible is pure bullshit. But hey, so should you.
viharsarok 3 years ago
kakoFATus:
DUH.
xstatheam 3 years ago
My alltime favourite of Yoyo Ma and Bobby M. is definitely Vivaldi - Andante. If you appreciate this amazing duo, I suggest you check it out. Enjoy
wagonburnt 3 years ago
Who could not love this?
kaizer250 3 years ago 4
simply perfection...no other way to put it
BeatboxMasturz 3 years ago 2
My God........simply breathtaking!
cagekicker18 3 years ago 2
If you like this check out Celtic Womans version of this sung by Chloe Agnew.
DieHardCelticFan 4 years ago
these guys are amazing together!!!
FrolienAudrey 4 years ago 2
If your lucky enough to see him in concert, you will get to hear how splendid this sounds in person!
grandmagrumpy 4 years ago
Bobby or Yo-Yo?
nhgoodeatsguy 3 years ago
Both?
unibomber111 3 years ago
Instrumentally precise.
Fun247247 4 years ago
I have had the honor of briefly meeting Bobby Mcferrin (even got a hug!). His version of Ave Maria never fails to soothe and uplift.
1swirlgirl 4 years ago
Oh man I would love to talk to him. I'm so excited for you!
Musicgirl82 4 years ago 2
sublime
jAmguitar84 4 years ago
this is such an innovative take on this song... i love it! from a fellow cellist bravo!
cliffhanger9219 4 years ago
bobby mcferrin is teh god
chonllama 4 years ago
there are some things so sublime that it is impossible to say how beautiful they are. how can you express how fully your heart opens up to allow joy to fill you up so that tears flow and your heart wants to burst?
LeslieFieger 4 years ago 9
Funny that Bobby is doing the Cello part, and Yo Yo Ma is doing the vocal part.
RandomTask3000 4 years ago
that's awesome! love both yo yo and bobby, great stuff! please upload more of their collaboration material! =)
TheTradge 4 years ago
ok i was being totally ignorant (excuse me)...very beautiful piece anyhow
chibimaru8 4 years ago
ok my mistake...it is some form of ave maria...but the ave maria i had in mind is the composition by schubert
chibimaru8 4 years ago 2
There are bound to be more than a few pieces of that title, considering the origin of the subject matter.