@Ariavariata95 Most of them are for a single keyboard; a few are for two keyboards, and a few are composed in a way that makes them unsuitable for any "natural" performance by keyboard (e.g. three voices with notes too far apart to play with two hands on a keyboard, but with the bass part too active to work on an organ pedalboard).
I play piano, and people think I'm good. But when I see this, this encourges me to work to get this good. You are awesome and I want to play this sometime. right now I'm working on Bach's "Little Fuge" in a piano form. Smalin you are right about it. IT IS HARD!! Your still awesome
How Bach manages to take this wild melody as his subject and work it and rework it against itself in a way that melds together so perfectly into a contrapuntal whole is a feat little less in greatness than how God has taken good and evil and worked them together into the whole of man's soul.
@smalin I, however, can answer it: We're hearing the piano and the organ at once, and they sound different. This gives the impression of twice the notes! Which, had Bach written this piece with twice as many notes, would STILL be playable by an organ virtuoso using the foot pedals. It would, however, be a bitch.
A rather complex piece. Note the right hand starts the first few bars (lower melody line) and then shifts over and does the higher melody while the left continues the lower melody. I would do the first few bars with the left (more straightforward).
When arranged for an ensemble you would have the 2nd violin lead the first few bars and then the 1st violin comes in with the higher melody.
Many fugues work just as well as a piece for a small orchestra or ensemble...
Great piece have never heard this one well played, I have always preferred Bach to all the other classical composers toccata & fugue in D or toccata & fugue in G minor are both favorites and also his minuets
Imagine playing this with 4 trombone players, the best in the state in high school and getting a 1 + at state music festival. So exhilerating. and at 1:23 my nipples got hard. long live the bass line
I like this performance, though I am not sure if mixing piano with Silbermann organ is not too risky. Anyway, watching score, graphical elements and listening to the music gives me another pleasure, I can not name. Ewverything the best from Poland.
Bravo! I like your graphic rendering of music, and in this video i like the piano + pipe organ sound too.
By the way, how long did you take to learn this piece? The first bars are easy to play, but I'm in a spot because of the parallel figurations at about 0:40 etc. :( .
@orphan567 That's actually not entirely true. Some of the fugues in the Well-Tempered Clavier require pedal (e.g. the ending of the A minor fugue in the first book), and some of the Art of Fugue pieces require two performers (e.g. "Fuga a 2 Clav."). Still, most of what's in those collections can be played by one person on a single keyboard.
@smalin Sorry, an organ is a keyboard instrument (the pedals are keys for the feet) and two organs are two keyboard instruments, thereforeorphan567 was right.
@singer1924 majorhuman originally requested I recommend "similar keyboard fugues" to play. I took that to mean "playable by me on a single keyboard." When orphan567 said that all the fugues in the WTC and AoF could be played on keyboards, I wanted majorhuman to know that not absolutely every one of them could be played solo on a one-keyboard instrument.
damn impressive. i´ve played the piano for 6 years, but could never get past things like Mozarts D-minor phantasy. But this .. be assured of my admiration
I can't get over how kickass this is. I've been watching your videos for a few days now, and whilst I have seen some negative comments, I think that the graphics definitately are a great addition to the music. Maybe not if you want to relax to it - but they show perfectly how all the different parts combine into one amazing whole; you can use the graphics to concentrate on one of the voices and it's great.
was this fugue designed to be played on two instruments? a lot of Bach's fugues were designed for a single organ, but looking at this one I'm not sure if an organist would have enough hands and feet to play this by himself.
I was in a low brass ensemble last year, twelve tubas and six euphonium. Besides Contrapunctus IX, we played Mars from the Planets Suite, something by Dvorak, and the Huntsman's Chorus from an opera that I cannot remember the name of for the life of me! It was a blast.
@jeffamarie You'd be surprised... The band class I was in last quarter had seven tubas. My high school had fourteen sousaphones in the marching band the last two years I was there. In my opinion, the more low brass, the better. XD
I'm not surprised by how many tubas are in a concert band lol I've been in plenty of them... but there's a reason why most symphony orchestras have only one tuba, and 12 tubas playing three different parts, well, kicks up all kinds of overtones. They'd have to be PERFECTLY in tune lol
That's why we had the euphoniums. They played the other part. Twelve tubas and four - no, six euphoniums. Then again, I may have miscalculated... It may have only been three tubas on each part. It's been a while.
We may not have all been perfectly in tune, but it still sounded pretty good. Not spectacular, but pretty good.
Hoffman says it's important to remember that -- unlike the classic portrait showing Bach as "bewigged, bejowled, stout and stolid" old man -- the composer was once "a handsome, dashing guy." Much of Bach's best-loved music, including the Brandenburg Concertos and the pieces for solo violin and cello "were written when he was a young man in his 30s," Hoffman tells Edwards.
Hoffman makes that point in the following essay, appropriately titled "Johann Sebastian Bach Was Handsome Once":
OMG !!!! TenStarsplus !!!!! This is awesome !! Bach was born 300 years too soon!!!! If he was one of our peers he would wipe the ground up with ANY of todays so called composers !!! They couldn't hold a candle to him !!! Thank you and you are fantastic on that instrument!! BRAVO to Bach and YOU!!
This piece is so fucking awesome... Jesus... And what a great performance!! Bach was insane... This piece calms me down no matter what state I'm in. Thanks for upload.
oh and sorry for the double comment but I must thank you for the link to the score as we've been trying to look for this to play in the quartet!! haha
excellent playing!!! what sort of practicing must you do to enable you to play a 4 voiced fugue like that? as a violinist I look forward to playing the sonate e partite fugues someday.... imagine trinyg to play this on the violin, ahaha!
There isn't a simple answer to the "what sort of practicing" question, but if you're interested in the subject, go to my web site, to the site index, and look for "Music exercises and essays." Under the "Keyboard" section there are a few things that are relevant.
I didn't mean through any deliberate mendacity. I only meant that I was mistaken as to whether the video at the right of the screen does or does not in fact show you playing all four voices without overdubs -and fear I shall have to reverse myself again.
I'm a non-musician and can't so much as read sheet music (a deficiency I should move to repair).
The video at the right shows me playing the piece as written. However, to create the bar-graph scroll with a separate color for each voice, I played each voice individually while listening to the audio recording of the original performance. It's the audio (and MIDI for the organ) from that second phase that you're hearing.
Nah it must have been invented way earlier in Bach's life. The art of the fugue was like right before he died. Awesome had been well established by then
I love how you show us the 4 voices to show J.S. Bach's Genious! I was totally able to feel how he manage to mix them together! (they all make sense!)
Great performance! I love listening to fugues, they really challenge the listener! You've got to hear the whole fugue at once, how every voice somehow fits well with the others, even though it may seem seperate. They can be boring at times, but only when you're not trying to pay attention. I really like the 3 ways you visualised the music here.
I was going to ask if those hands were real, but then I read that they were yours. :) Thanks for these videos -- they're great, and the amount of work you put in is quite staggering. Now all that's left is for you to finish Contrapunctus XIV... :P
No, I'm pretty slow on the tenor clef, because I don't use it much. But I do read the alto clef (which is what's used here) pretty fluently, as long as it's not out of range of the notes that are in first position for viola.
It's all played in real time, but not all at once (at least, not in the version you're hearing). I've added an item to the FAQ about this to give you (and future viewers) a fuller answer.
BTW, if your fingers get tired, it's a sign that you should be trying to figure out an easier way to play the notes. The biggest effort should be in moving your arms around; you should get tired the way you get tired in a low-speed rally in tennis --- you are moving around, but not straining.
Yeah, same with cello. Well, if you have good technique. Which I don't... Its wonderful watching really great cellists, though, they put so much movement into it.
qe temazoooo
sergimineman 4 hours ago
Ugh...analyzing this for school.../facepalm.
cutemags101 5 days ago
Fantastic. I didn't know it was possible to play on keyboard without pedals.
Ariavariata95 3 weeks ago in playlist Bach, J. S.
@Ariavariata95 Most of them are for a single keyboard; a few are for two keyboards, and a few are composed in a way that makes them unsuitable for any "natural" performance by keyboard (e.g. three voices with notes too far apart to play with two hands on a keyboard, but with the bass part too active to work on an organ pedalboard).
smalin 3 weeks ago
the trill in the end made contrapanctus 9 awesome!
erikopalis 3 weeks ago
I like more the haripsichord version. (this version)
SmokyChannel 1 month ago
Superb performance!
beeble2003 3 months ago
good jod, I'm learning it
SmokyChannel 4 months ago
Cousin It on steroids right there man, good job.
devin0501 4 months ago
Keyboard players, how do they fucking work?
wiseman2131 5 months ago
I play piano, and people think I'm good. But when I see this, this encourges me to work to get this good. You are awesome and I want to play this sometime. right now I'm working on Bach's "Little Fuge" in a piano form. Smalin you are right about it. IT IS HARD!! Your still awesome
15aulor 5 months ago
very good played o:
Stebanick 5 months ago
shit you're good.
slaytesics 5 months ago
It just occurred to me... Bach was either a genius, or the most evil composer of all time :P
magnusrex0 6 months ago
お見事！
VERY Great
JINA1592007 6 months ago
yeah i would listen to this while bottling my beer!
pilmeni1 6 months ago
How Bach manages to take this wild melody as his subject and work it and rework it against itself in a way that melds together so perfectly into a contrapuntal whole is a feat little less in greatness than how God has taken good and evil and worked them together into the whole of man's soul.
Chefodeath 7 months ago
@Chefodeath What's more impressive is how the Art of Fugue main theme blends in so well with this contrapunctus's "wild melody" theme.
mtv565 6 months ago
Wasnt this done with a Harpsichord???? How were you able to get Bach's Fugues with a piano??
prayerw83 7 months ago
@prayerw83 Uh, I just played it on a piano.
smalin 7 months ago
@prayerw83 doesn't it sound more like an organ?
SVAFnemesis 7 months ago
@SVAFnemesis (you really should read the FAQ)
smalin 7 months ago
@smalin Can you explain why there were clavichords in this video? :D Just messin' with ya
GoreCrowVII 4 months ago
@prayerw83 Bach wrote for harpsichord... but in terms of playing the music its the same thing. Most everything can be played on the piano.
666NedFlanders 1 month ago
incredible!
camposi 7 months ago
It totally looks like 4 person playing...its just..unbelievable.
Bach is just...just...damn..have no words to describe.
TheBrunozxc 8 months ago
How in the world did you manage to play this with JUST two hands!?
cyndaquazy 8 months ago
@cyndaquazy I don't know how to answer that. I mean, you can see exactly how I did it in the video.
smalin 8 months ago
@smalin it was an exaggerated question with the inflection of praise.
erroll9621 5 months ago
@smalin I, however, can answer it: We're hearing the piano and the organ at once, and they sound different. This gives the impression of twice the notes! Which, had Bach written this piece with twice as many notes, would STILL be playable by an organ virtuoso using the foot pedals. It would, however, be a bitch.
GoreCrowVII 4 months ago
@smalin Wow I'm pretty sure he was just implying that it takes a lot of skill to do that.
r3b3l1n 3 months ago
Bach is the greatest. His fugues are INSANITY.
2015PSU 8 months ago
@2015PSU they're actually pretty rational ;)
yumeybaconcutout 8 months ago
I'm from Brazil and a I love this!
AlucardeBR 8 months ago
Amazing!
beccamesser 8 months ago
*****baroque eargasm*****
bruno280678 8 months ago
A rather complex piece. Note the right hand starts the first few bars (lower melody line) and then shifts over and does the higher melody while the left continues the lower melody. I would do the first few bars with the left (more straightforward).
When arranged for an ensemble you would have the 2nd violin lead the first few bars and then the 1st violin comes in with the higher melody.
Many fugues work just as well as a piece for a small orchestra or ensemble...
thepianoplayer416 9 months ago
too... much... happening!! *head explodes*
playerofbeans 9 months ago
@playerofbeans Feeble mind!... Can't.. Take It ..To.. Complex!...*shoop da woop* BLARRRRHHHHHGGGGGG!!!
MrTechnoAlex 8 months ago
J.Bach...Official Badass.
anilomd 9 months ago
Do you think the three way video split that you did with Adobe could be done with windows movie maker?
CantusMaximus 10 months ago
@CantusMaximus I don't know; I'm not familiar with that software.
smalin 10 months ago
@smalin That's OK Sir, This Adobe must be an expensive software!
CantusMaximus 10 months ago
@CantusMaximus
No that is impossible, unfortunately.
Killlz4fun 8 months ago
@CantusMaximus Windows movie maker are the worst edeting program in the world.
Answer: no
Meomi37 8 months ago
I just had an eargasm.
Thank you for all your Bach videos
KajiXD 11 months ago
I actually found it sort of funny how, when the third voice appeared, you had no hands left.
Dreadnoughtification 11 months ago
Great piece have never heard this one well played, I have always preferred Bach to all the other classical composers toccata & fugue in D or toccata & fugue in G minor are both favorites and also his minuets
clydespeed 1 year ago
1:44 wtf?
MangoPudding21 1 year ago
Precioso! Excelente maestro!
saltrid 1 year ago
I tthink even Bach would have liked this pipe organ sound where the bass sound has more depth and oomph
angelialvares 1 year ago
Thank you very much for posting these videos! It is so nice to watch the movents, almost intrancing.
PhaseLU 1 year ago
Still waiting for Contrapunctus XI.
AND the final piece!
robertgift 1 year ago
I liked the way you did the vid, it's just awesome for somone who plays piano...
Thanks a lot.
mrssobolevanna 1 year ago
My friends, we're in front a mankid's genius who composed this incredible fugue from the silence. Bach in music legend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
iguarni 1 year ago
Excellent!
I wonder me if the pattern of the graph can be writen in a formula that stands for a naturally harmonic.
SchachKunst 1 year ago
Imagine playing this with 4 trombone players, the best in the state in high school and getting a 1 + at state music festival. So exhilerating. and at 1:23 my nipples got hard. long live the bass line
musicmajor1993 1 year ago
can u also can play art of the fugue 14 ? that would be so awesome !@!!
thegoddescomposer 1 year ago
Wow!!!! I´m not a keyboard player but for this is played incredible. Five stars for smalin and .... for good old J.S. Bach!*****
camposi 1 year ago
You, sir, are the representative of all those who understand Bach on YouTube.
weixifan 1 year ago
@weixifan Hmm...there are two ways to interpret that. I meant the more complimentary one.
weixifan 1 year ago
I like this performance, though I am not sure if mixing piano with Silbermann organ is not too risky. Anyway, watching score, graphical elements and listening to the music gives me another pleasure, I can not name. Ewverything the best from Poland.
dreemer777 1 year ago
@dreemer777 synaesthesia?
ebutemetube 1 year ago
wow! it was amaizing
nanaye28 1 year ago
That's crazy
orphan567 1 year ago
Bravo! I like your graphic rendering of music, and in this video i like the piano + pipe organ sound too.
By the way, how long did you take to learn this piece? The first bars are easy to play, but I'm in a spot because of the parallel figurations at about 0:40 etc. :( .
(Excuse for my English.)
Anormalista89 1 year ago
@Anormalista89 I started trying to play this piece about thirty years ago.
smalin 1 year ago
brovo!
pianoplayerpro 1 year ago
I am awestruck by smalin's technique and his witty comebacks
roflmao
Xenogeek2 1 year ago
Hey, Smallin,
When you doin' contrapunctus XI?
My favorite.
Thanks.
robertgift 1 year ago
THAT WAS CRAZY!
orphan567 1 year ago
The main theme insertion at 2:00 is a very nice surprise and fits perfectly into the structure.
cristinelu13 1 year ago
I always like your videos @smalin , but I so hate how this sounds )':
even a piano would have been better
hopelesslyinlovedu 1 year ago
I'm learning this now. So much fun to play. Nice performance btw! Can you recommend any similar keyboard fugues?
majorhuman 1 year ago
@majorhuman Similar in what way?
smalin 1 year ago
@smalin Hi Smalin, Fugue 4 book 1.... and Fugue 14 and 24 book 2 to a lesser extent. Know what I mean??
Thanks
majorhuman 1 year ago
@majorhuman all of the fugues in Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier and Art of fugue are meant for keyboard instruments, or at least, can be played on them
orphan567 1 year ago
@orphan567 That's actually not entirely true. Some of the fugues in the Well-Tempered Clavier require pedal (e.g. the ending of the A minor fugue in the first book), and some of the Art of Fugue pieces require two performers (e.g. "Fuga a 2 Clav."). Still, most of what's in those collections can be played by one person on a single keyboard.
smalin 1 year ago
@smalin Sorry, an organ is a keyboard instrument (the pedals are keys for the feet) and two organs are two keyboard instruments, thereforeorphan567 was right.
singer1924 1 year ago
@singer1924 majorhuman originally requested I recommend "similar keyboard fugues" to play. I took that to mean "playable by me on a single keyboard." When orphan567 said that all the fugues in the WTC and AoF could be played on keyboards, I wanted majorhuman to know that not absolutely every one of them could be played solo on a one-keyboard instrument.
smalin 1 year ago
you must have 2 brains to play that
atila120 1 year ago
@atila120 Well, in fact, I do have two brains ... but one's in the closet in a jar of formaldehyde ...
smalin 1 year ago
@smalin ha ha ha
Averilli1 1 year ago
damn impressive. i´ve played the piano for 6 years, but could never get past things like Mozarts D-minor phantasy. But this .. be assured of my admiration
Zamjestnanec 1 year ago
I think bach made this before his death. I have the comic about him.
davonindonesia1 1 year ago
@davonindonesia1 Safe bet, since he didn't write much posthumously. Where did you get the comic? I'd like to see that ...
smalin 1 year ago
bravo!
bzeliotis 1 year ago
So skilled!!
Blindzer0 1 year ago
did u guys know that bach did knows his death date :S 30 years long
thegoddescomposer 1 year ago
Incredible, somptuous, magnificent.
flodebou1 1 year ago
Wow!
Excellent, exuberant playing.
Nice seeing the score, your hands, and multi-color visual portrayal!
Well done!
Please do Contrapunctus XI.
Thank you.
Oh, thank you also for all the information.
robertgift 1 year ago
I can't get over how kickass this is. I've been watching your videos for a few days now, and whilst I have seen some negative comments, I think that the graphics definitately are a great addition to the music. Maybe not if you want to relax to it - but they show perfectly how all the different parts combine into one amazing whole; you can use the graphics to concentrate on one of the voices and it's great.
Nizlopi2 1 year ago
This is what maths sounds like.
moppettshow 1 year ago
great performance!!
misn100 1 year ago
OMFG 2:02 u can hear the first motif of the first art of fugue :OOOOO
wow bach was really a genius master of music
thegoddescomposer 1 year ago
@thegoddescomposer It actually shows up several times if you listen (or look) closely
idantlol 1 year ago
@idantlol i know but the first time i watch it i click to the middle of the music so i did see the other first one , but thanks
Bach show us he is the best and the greatest composer ever
oigressestor 1 year ago
exquisite
parhhesia 1 year ago
was this fugue designed to be played on two instruments? a lot of Bach's fugues were designed for a single organ, but looking at this one I'm not sure if an organist would have enough hands and feet to play this by himself.
EpsilonEnsis 1 year ago
@EpsilonEnsis Can't you see that I'm playing it all with only two hands in the video?
smalin 1 year ago
@smalin hahaha
danielchong1234 1 year ago
this is a great representation of the form and complexity - thanks for putting it together!
bgatuga 1 year ago
is this played on a hammond organ
abluesman100 1 year ago
@abluesman100 See the FAQ.
smalin 1 year ago
I still listen to this, and it gives me the shivers for some reason. I like this too much, so I listen to it every now and then;)
Sylvscats 1 year ago
wow!
i'm in love in the three part inventions - will probably play them at my diploma.
i love it how - when you learn a piece - the fingers just run by their own.
fucken awesome :D
priMMoz 1 year ago
BRAVO!
johnnypicosso 1 year ago
I played this on a tuba. Whew, it's hard but fun!
LadyOfDragons08 1 year ago
Wow. I'm impressed. And a little envious.
smalin 1 year ago
I was in a low brass ensemble last year, twelve tubas and six euphonium. Besides Contrapunctus IX, we played Mars from the Planets Suite, something by Dvorak, and the Huntsman's Chorus from an opera that I cannot remember the name of for the life of me! It was a blast.
LadyOfDragons08 1 year ago
@LadyOfDragons08
Do you have the sheet music for it?
TheTanchongee 1 year ago
@ The Tanchongee
I unfortunately do not, as I had to return the music to the college I attend. I wish I did though.
LadyOfDragons08 1 year ago
@LadyOfDragons08
It's cool. Thanks anyway :)
TheTanchongee 1 year ago
hard is right, especially if you did all four voices by yourself? XP
jeffamarie 1 year ago
@ jeffamarie
Well, that's why we had twelve tubas! ^_^ Four tubas on each part.
LadyOfDragons08 1 year ago
12 tubas? Isn't that overdoing it a bit? XD by like, 11 tubas?
Brass quartet is nice, though - 2 trumpets, horn or trombone, and tuba (or bass trombone).
jeffamarie 1 year ago
@jeffamarie You'd be surprised... The band class I was in last quarter had seven tubas. My high school had fourteen sousaphones in the marching band the last two years I was there. In my opinion, the more low brass, the better. XD
LadyOfDragons08 1 year ago
I'm not surprised by how many tubas are in a concert band lol I've been in plenty of them... but there's a reason why most symphony orchestras have only one tuba, and 12 tubas playing three different parts, well, kicks up all kinds of overtones. They'd have to be PERFECTLY in tune lol
jeffamarie 1 year ago
and... four on each part would be 16 tubas. o.O
this is a four part fugue. lol
jeffamarie 1 year ago
@jeffamarie
That's why we had the euphoniums. They played the other part. Twelve tubas and four - no, six euphoniums. Then again, I may have miscalculated... It may have only been three tubas on each part. It's been a while.
We may not have all been perfectly in tune, but it still sounded pretty good. Not spectacular, but pretty good.
LadyOfDragons08 1 year ago
@LadyOfDragons08 now THAT sounds like a nightmare to me.
mrcndrn 1 year ago
@LadyOfDragons08 yeah, right. What part?
mrcndrn 1 year ago
Hoffman says it's important to remember that -- unlike the classic portrait showing Bach as "bewigged, bejowled, stout and stolid" old man -- the composer was once "a handsome, dashing guy." Much of Bach's best-loved music, including the Brandenburg Concertos and the pieces for solo violin and cello "were written when he was a young man in his 30s," Hoffman tells Edwards.
Hoffman makes that point in the following essay, appropriately titled "Johann Sebastian Bach Was Handsome Once":
chopinandliszt 1 year ago
CSM!
juanpalennon 1 year ago
CSM?
smalin 1 year ago
@smalin it's like wow! =)
whiteoutlight 1 year ago
do jaja!!!
leaderka 1 year ago
unglaubliche fähigkeit sich sowas ausdenken zu können
bludoriodellomaro 1 year ago
amazing piano playing!
ahonsyao 1 year ago
OMG !!!! TenStarsplus !!!!! This is awesome !! Bach was born 300 years too soon!!!! If he was one of our peers he would wipe the ground up with ANY of todays so called composers !!! They couldn't hold a candle to him !!! Thank you and you are fantastic on that instrument!! BRAVO to Bach and YOU!!
BigDuckKetterer 2 years ago
Awesome
musiczQT5 2 years ago
Ahhh the visuals are right! Thanks. Love this stuff.
Mike2008and2008 2 years ago
with te bar-graph you can call it a video-lesson about "what is a fugue" or what is a "contrapunctus"
tillo1995 2 years ago
no one can know what is realy in Bach's mind.
Bach is a combination of genius and insanity...
his the father of us all
benjosephcuyacot 2 years ago
I think it's really a combination of genius and more genius
parquar 2 years ago
@benjosephcuyacot
you cant have genius without insanity
truebrightdreamer 2 years ago
This piece is so fucking awesome... Jesus... And what a great performance!! Bach was insane... This piece calms me down no matter what state I'm in. Thanks for upload.
hanshenrik2 2 years ago
oh and sorry for the double comment but I must thank you for the link to the score as we've been trying to look for this to play in the quartet!! haha
Alduflo93 2 years ago
excellent playing!!! what sort of practicing must you do to enable you to play a 4 voiced fugue like that? as a violinist I look forward to playing the sonate e partite fugues someday.... imagine trinyg to play this on the violin, ahaha!
Alduflo93 2 years ago
There isn't a simple answer to the "what sort of practicing" question, but if you're interested in the subject, go to my web site, to the site index, and look for "Music exercises and essays." Under the "Keyboard" section there are a few things that are relevant.
smalin 2 years ago
its sped up though... but still nice.
jbweimar 2 years ago
respeto, respeto, eres genial, wow fuck you, you are awesome!
terceranoche 2 years ago
du bist ein wahrer Virtuose
Respekt man
Sozialismusdes21Jhd 2 years ago
I wonder how it feels to play like that.
anigz 2 years ago
Great!
smalin 2 years ago
ptft, piece of cake.
just kidding man! it's amazing! i thought you need 4 hands to play this. good job:-)
thwliwfic 2 years ago
LOL
insaneguitarfreak 2 years ago
guess, he wants to know what instrument that is...
keyboards or an organ...
what kind of keyboards etc...
Monstexitus 2 years ago
it says what instrument it is in the FAQ ...
smalin 2 years ago
Not long ago I heard someone insist that this piece *requires* two performers.
Evidently he was talking out of his hat?
polymath7 2 years ago
Oh, never mind. I was momentarily misled by the video.
polymath7 2 years ago
Misled? In what way?
smalin 2 years ago
(chuckle)
I didn't mean through any deliberate mendacity. I only meant that I was mistaken as to whether the video at the right of the screen does or does not in fact show you playing all four voices without overdubs -and fear I shall have to reverse myself again.
I'm a non-musician and can't so much as read sheet music (a deficiency I should move to repair).
polymath7 2 years ago
The video at the right shows me playing the piece as written. However, to create the bar-graph scroll with a separate color for each voice, I played each voice individually while listening to the audio recording of the original performance. It's the audio (and MIDI for the organ) from that second phase that you're hearing.
smalin 2 years ago
i love how you tie in the slurs and how amazind piano player you are
but my big question is what are you useing?
keel24 2 years ago
What am I using?
smalin 2 years ago
i think the word amazing was invented for this piece.
Calamaistr 2 years ago
Nah it must have been invented way earlier in Bach's life. The art of the fugue was like right before he died. Awesome had been well established by then
parquar 2 years ago
I love how you show us the 4 voices to show J.S. Bach's Genious! I was totally able to feel how he manage to mix them together! (they all make sense!)
kenenth84 2 years ago
great job love the peice!
thisthinginme 2 years ago
Great performance! I love listening to fugues, they really challenge the listener! You've got to hear the whole fugue at once, how every voice somehow fits well with the others, even though it may seem seperate. They can be boring at times, but only when you're not trying to pay attention. I really like the 3 ways you visualised the music here.
Stratopeter87 2 years ago
Do Invention 4 in d minor!
PLEASE!
ootspunter 2 years ago
I like the split screen
hankhonker 2 years ago
ahh the polyphonia
Wonderfull
Tigermantt 2 years ago
i have yet to see somebody play this in front of me... the day i do, i may feint.
b1llybrown 2 years ago
i like the fact that fugues can end properly, unlike the endings to canons which are always awkward.
vivace737 2 years ago
I was going to ask if those hands were real, but then I read that they were yours. :) Thanks for these videos -- they're great, and the amount of work you put in is quite staggering. Now all that's left is for you to finish Contrapunctus XIV... :P
diuscorvus 2 years ago
3 different ways of visualisation... that's FANTASTICO!
Marlenolomo 2 years ago
no flippin way :D those hands are awesome !
ScaryIntentions 2 years ago
do you actually sigtht read the tenor cleff
93msinclair 2 years ago
No, I'm pretty slow on the tenor clef, because I don't use it much. But I do read the alto clef (which is what's used here) pretty fluently, as long as it's not out of range of the notes that are in first position for viola.
smalin 2 years ago
You get loads of positive comments!
I still listen to your works when I do my homework
☺☻
Sylvscats 2 years ago
This fugue really sticks out from the Kunst Der Fuge! Thank you!
HerrWarja 2 years ago
those trinos are so perfect, do you play the video faster than real time played?
Whatever, I love your work.
rodstartube 2 years ago
It's all played in real time, but not all at once (at least, not in the version you're hearing). I've added an item to the FAQ about this to give you (and future viewers) a fuller answer.
smalin 2 years ago
Don't you get tired in your fingers?
cyperium 2 years ago
No. Mostly I get tired over my whole body.
smalin 2 years ago
Ok. I'm trying to learn some basic stuff on my synthesizer but nowhere near your skill ;) thank you for your great uploads!
cyperium 2 years ago
BTW, if your fingers get tired, it's a sign that you should be trying to figure out an easier way to play the notes. The biggest effort should be in moving your arms around; you should get tired the way you get tired in a low-speed rally in tennis --- you are moving around, but not straining.
smalin 2 years ago
Yeah, same with cello. Well, if you have good technique. Which I don't... Its wonderful watching really great cellists, though, they put so much movement into it.
AEFic 2 years ago
the plural of contrapunctus is contrapuncti right? ;) this is one of my favourite videos.
bachaddict 2 years ago
Latina vivit!
Str8jacketgirl 2 years ago
Sweet J