I wish it could have the same beauty with one guitar alone aswell, i just don't practise this because i know i will never find anyone that can be the 2nd and 3rd guitar
Such a beautiful piece on piano. It's nice to see it arranged on guitar. To think this song was only meant to test an organ. Now it's one of the most known classical pieces in the world. Bach, where would we be without you?
Classical guitarists are taken as a joke, but people think musicians (if they can even be called that, because they don't do anything...) like lady gaga are "deep".
Whatever i don't care anymore, ima just not worry about it anymore.
California grows a lot of good #*%&. Nice arrangement and playing. ole JS himself would have approved over 'cafe mit creme, und Linzertort'. Guitar as basic instrument takes some of the dirge out of it, brightens it up, makes it dance. Some one buy these guys a beer. Waited 48 years to hear this on guitar so thanks.
Is it just me, or does the guy to the far left with the smokin' awesome Breedlove guitar look like Stephen King? just saying. Beautiful piece, though.
Eeh... it was nice, but it simply doesn't give me the same breath-taking feeling as hearing it played on an organ. It's a composition that's meant to feel powerful and foreboding, and I didn't get that impression from this.
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Honestly......lose the acoustics. No one wants to hear semi muted notes and nasty fret noises. I have yet to see an amazing version of this on a guitar....maybe Lianto but still - same problems there.
Just go electric!!!!!!!!!! Save the classical for the campfires
@jssafford oh come on dont be so childlish...we all know that both acoutic and electric guitars are worthy of respect. besides, these guys here played amazing without the need of hiding errors with distortion!!!
no disrespect intended, I find funny how three pair of hands are needed to play what a single pair of hands can play, I know about the difference about playing strings and keys...so spare me of any lecture,please, I just found that fact funny
@cppnak10 , In the guitar pro default it is, or going to 911 tabs: w*.911tabs.com/search.php?search=Toccata+e+fugue&type=song I can´t write the complete link, so copy
This version is much better than the hyper-speed versions (Philip Hii comes to mind) versions that I've heard. They actually add creativity to some of the melodic lines while not blasting through it at five million miles an hour, like some virtuoso show offs. Let this be a lesson to transcribers: study the INTENT of the composer before burning through it at light speed in a pathetic attempt to impress your peers.
so beautiful...its amazing what people can do with the guitar instrument! i'd only like to hear it in a less hard sound...we would like to hear you in Greece you guyes!
@Ashitaka255 I totally agree with you but I also think that a guitar can sound better than this people's, and also they could be more expressive. Maybe it's impossible since they have to play sincronized...
@naerynom A guitar is a dynamically limited instrument; it basically has no dynamic range. It will never sound like a traditional orchestral instrument, thus no transcription in the world will compare to the great organ; or other orchestral instrument for that matter. And it is very hard to obtain expressive effects on the (classical) guitar other than basic harmonic modulation, i.e., changing keys, and various percussive effects.
@TheWNMan ...I don't see it the same way, though maybe they treat their acoustics like classical guitars. Even so, I think they are a bit too limited. For a start they use a pick instead of the fingers, and they don't even do many variations in the intensity of the picking... this two things restrict a lot what a guitar can achieve in terms of dynamics. In adition, they never do bendings, snap strings, etc I like the CGT, I only wish they'd be a little more expressive.
@naerynom Whether picking or using fingers, the lack of dynamic range is a limiting quality for the guitar. The only thing a guitar can do to increase expressiveness is to do what harpsichordists used to do: increase the use and variation of arpeggios to thicken the texture of the music. Since they are both "plucked" instruments (yes, the Harpsichord is a plucked instrument) the solutions would be similar.
@TheWNMan Anyway, the guitar (the acoustic one ) is able to get a great variations of timbres, which we don´t find in others harmonic instruments. And it is a very expressive instrument, take a look in "classical" music played by good players. So, saying acoustic guitar is not expressive, it is getting far from the truth.
@codonauta I disagree. The lack of dynamics on an acoustic guitar makes it more percussive than expressive. Timber variations are not vocal dynamics. Simply put, it does not have a vocal singing quality; it does not rise and fall like a voice or organ, violin or other orchestral instrument. This is why it is not as expressive. Don't get me wrong, for I myself am a guitar virtuoso and always have to find other ways to "express" but it never has the same effect as a "vocal-like" instrument.
@TheWNMan Well, it is true that in the guitar we don't have the control and the possibilities of dinamic we have in others instruments, but "some" dinamics we have. The guitar is a very peculiar instrument, it is very substantial in timbres, much more possibilities in changing timbres that the piano and harsichord for example.
@TheWNMan The guitar is very peculiar instrument, and it needs to be played in solo. With others instruments, even others guitars, the effect is lost. It is very "temperamental".
The relative lack in dinamics is compensated with the richness in timbres. Saying the guitar is not an expressive instrument , considering all its possibilities in my opinion is having a wrong perception. You really have heard some good players playing concert music in acoustic guitar solo?
@TheWNMan One more. Watch this watch?v=g3DCEcSlfhw&feature=related
This is not expressive? God, save us! :)
Pay atention in the timbres, and, yes, in the dinamics.
Anyway, it is true that not all composers sounds good in the guitar> for example, Mozart, beethoven, Brahms, Chopin usually don´t sound good in the guitar. The guitar is very peculiar.
@markoskapunk i appreciate your thoughts. however, playing it solo is one thing on ANY instrument. Conversely, coordinating with 3 musicians with the tightness they they do is exponentially more daunting of a task. and if you are musician, or even a logical thinking person, you can't argue that point. not to mention they arranged that themselves and werent just regurgitating notes from a page is even more to their credit.
@ markoskapunk i appreciate your thoughts. however, playing it solo is one thing on ANY instrument. Conversely, coordinating with 3 musicians with the tightness they they do is exponentially more daunting of a task. and if you are musician, or even a logical thinking person, you can't argue that point. not to mention they arranged that themselves and werent just regurgitating notes from a page is even more to their credit.
@ markoskapunk i appreciate your thoughts. however, playing it solo is one thing on ANY instrument. Conversely, coordinating with 3 musicians with the tightness they they do is exponentially more daunting of a task. and if you are musician, or even a logical thinking person, you can't argue that point. not to mention they arranged that themselves and werent just regurgitating notes from a page is even more to their credit.
@ markoskapunk i appreciate your thoughts. however, playing it solo is one thing on ANY instrument. Conversely, coordinating with 3 musicians with the tightness they they do is exponentially more daunting of a task. and if you are musician, or even a logical thinking person, you can't argue that point. not to mention they arranged that themselves and werent just regurgitating notes from a page is even more to their credit.
OK, so I am organist. The Toccata and Fugue are not necessarily more difficult on the organ (three manuals and foot pedals.) It's just different. I can play two parts in each hand and one part in the pedals. However, the guitarist must accomplish two motions for each note played while the organ must accomplish one -- that is, plucking the correct string with your fingers on the correct frets vs. pressing the correct key on the manual. Love this arrangement - sounds like the Renaissance.
QUIET EVERYONE, here is the explanation, this song is easy on guitar, bach played it in the organ which is harder... so most ppl expects a show from this song when played w the guitar, obviously they dnt kno shyt, tho its a good piece n well played in the guitar. nothin amazin, just another version of a masterpiece.
This is the best song that has ever been composed, and these guys give it justice like no other preformer can. Left me breathless, thats all I have to say.
impressive skills.. but why do awesome players always show off by playing it slightly too fast? we know youre good, you dont need to prove it by playing even faster than this piece already is =D
I don't see how anyone could dislike this video.. unless maybe you're a classically trained musician and this interpretation seems noobish or maybe not nylon stringy enough.
wow... to see this great peice played on guitars is actually really great. It dosen't compare to the original organ version of course but this is actually very good! Good Job.
@biglipdfool -- exactly the tone needed. I saw them at One World Theater in Austin just last night (24 Oct 2010), they finished with this. Awesome. Regarding the absence of sustained notes in this version versus a formal organ recital . . . yep, they did shorten those some, but not enough to bother me -- in fact, exactly right for this format and instrumentation -- and I tend to be a purist in such matters.
@curmudgeonNOT Why would they plug in acoustic guitars. If you want to hear what an acoustic guitar should sound like listen to Tony Rice, David Grier, or Bryan Sutton, just to name a few.
@biglipdfool: Like an organ has stops to change the tone, they used the various foot pedal controls (which I know nothing about, except to hear the differences as they are manipulated) to obtain a sound most appropriate to the music. They did a particularly edgy and avante guard number where those controls were essential parts of the "instrumentation." My opinion: For this piece, they chose quite right. (Actually, the youtube posting isn't quite as rich in tone as what I heard.)
@biglipdfool: BTW: I am a big fan of pure acoustic guitar. The International Guitar Festival was held in Austin this summer; I atttended 8 events in 5 days, ending with Pepe Romero with the Austin Symphony doing Rodrigo, Concierto de Aranjuez, and included Grisha (flamenco), many others -- all but one purely acoustic. But these guys did exactly what their interpretation called for.
@biglipdfool Just found your reply. They are not "plugged in" Those are microphones, not electronics. Re acoustic: I've heard, in person, Paco de Lucia, Al di Meola, John McLaughlin, Pepe Romero (in solo, and Concierto de Aranjuez with symphony), Leo Kottke (4 times), Tommy Emmanuel, Chet Atkins, Strunz & Farah . . . the list goes on and on. Was present at 8 (eight!) shows in 5 days at the last International Guitar Festival. Microphones to get a purity of recording . . fine by me.
@biglipdfool Just found your reply. They are not "plugged in" Those are microphones, not electronics. Re acoustic: I've heard, in person, Paco de Lucia, Al di Meola, John McLaughlin, Pepe Romero (in solo, and Concierto de Aranjuez with symphony), Leo Kottke (4 times), Tommy Emmanuel, Chet Atkins, Strunz & Farah . . . the list goes on and on. Was present at 8 (eight!) shows in 5 days at the last International Guitar Festival. Microphones to get a purity of recording . . fine,
this very awesome and your very good artists, however I believe that there are a lot of parts that deserve more sustain than the little time you gave them
@dissentrix "13 people just weren't born in the right world"
They are probably about 16 yrs old and think that Rap & Hip Hop are actually forms of music.
If we had a spay & neuter program for the morons that listen to that crap, the average IQ of the world would go up about 30 points within a generation or two.
I used to play this on the pipe organ and when I saw it listed as a guitar piece I went, "What ....??? Are they insane? You can't do that."
@MsgtSpook man shut up ay, i love this, both the traditional arr. and this one, and i love hip hop too. real hip hop. as well as drum n bass, jazz, house, blues etc etc etc. don't put hip hop and rap in the same boat, it's just plain ignorance. it's called music. what it comes down to is bad music and good music, if you can't see that you're as bad as the "16 year olds" you refer to. don't be a snob in a box.
All they need to do is plug their guitars into some heavy bass amps, turn the volume and distortion full, get at least 3 drummers doing only double bass peddles and witness the rebirth of classical music!
i dont need music for fucking,but if im gonna have it,then this is definately excellent fucking music !!&:@)&£FF$U&C=kkkkkan i really say that on TV???
well put together piece!!!
fallchildren25 3 weeks ago
I wish it could have the same beauty with one guitar alone aswell, i just don't practise this because i know i will never find anyone that can be the 2nd and 3rd guitar
Reatbuster 1 month ago
@Reatbuster , i can be your second guitar...it`s a lovely song for me and i think i can do it...
x3se7en 2 days ago
@x3se7en only thing left is the 3rd guitar then? whos up for it! XD
Reatbuster 2 days ago
one of my favorite pieces of all time. I will learn it just as these guys have!
odiumimbues 1 month ago
Such a beautiful piece on piano. It's nice to see it arranged on guitar. To think this song was only meant to test an organ. Now it's one of the most known classical pieces in the world. Bach, where would we be without you?
joshmoore85 1 month ago
Oops 3:35
theafi99000 1 month ago
Classical guitarists are taken as a joke, but people think musicians (if they can even be called that, because they don't do anything...) like lady gaga are "deep".
Whatever i don't care anymore, ima just not worry about it anymore.
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DealMartClassical 2 months ago
does anyone else think this sounds similar to bowser's castle?
cheepo888 3 months ago
@cheepo888 i think it's the other way... (-.-)
michaelthem3 2 months ago 2
simply amazing
RasBomboclan 3 months ago
California grows a lot of good #*%&. Nice arrangement and playing. ole JS himself would have approved over 'cafe mit creme, und Linzertort'. Guitar as basic instrument takes some of the dirge out of it, brightens it up, makes it dance. Some one buy these guys a beer. Waited 48 years to hear this on guitar so thanks.
SmileyGarrish 3 months ago
Brilliant!
sharecroppermike 3 months ago
Amazing!
A7Xguitarplayer0272 4 months ago
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
Guitar
AhmedEmamism 4 months ago
RESPECT Bravo.
merlinchanelle 4 months ago
this is great!
thepossessor 4 months ago
Tab and Sheet Music for this arrangement is now available on the California Guitar Trio web store at cgtrio.com
paulyrich 5 months ago
:)
gwooler 5 months ago
Is it just me, or does the guy to the far left with the smokin' awesome Breedlove guitar look like Stephen King? just saying. Beautiful piece, though.
sglp9000 5 months ago
It would be great to witness Steve Howe play this.
TomOwenM 5 months ago
Too fast for any sense grandeur to come across. Good effort though.
industrialapotheosis 5 months ago
Pretty amazing rendition, the accent could have been better though. And a plectrum on a classical guitar doesn't do it's tonal possibilities justice
tapaddtiiiii 5 months ago
@tapaddtiiiii Those are steel string guitars.
jrssjdca 4 months ago
Three students of King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp's "Guitar Craft" courses. That is a fine pedigree.
bloggulator 6 months ago
I prefer classical music played with nylon strings
GpJBRM 6 months ago
troooopppppooooo beeeellllooooo!!!!
ReDRoCketGuitarBoy 6 months ago
Eeh... it was nice, but it simply doesn't give me the same breath-taking feeling as hearing it played on an organ. It's a composition that's meant to feel powerful and foreboding, and I didn't get that impression from this.
AzureSepulchre 6 months ago 2
4:36
OK, seriously, why don't they show the OTHER GUY at this part???
Deenis17 7 months ago
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Honestly......lose the acoustics. No one wants to hear semi muted notes and nasty fret noises. I have yet to see an amazing version of this on a guitar....maybe Lianto but still - same problems there.
Just go electric!!!!!!!!!! Save the classical for the campfires
jssafford 7 months ago
@jssafford oh come on dont be so childlish...we all know that both acoutic and electric guitars are worthy of respect. besides, these guys here played amazing without the need of hiding errors with distortion!!!
jazzrockblues95 7 months ago
no disrespect intended, I find funny how three pair of hands are needed to play what a single pair of hands can play, I know about the difference about playing strings and keys...so spare me of any lecture,please, I just found that fact funny
Aaeternitade 7 months ago
@Aaeternitade It isn't necessary 0.o They just did it to add to sound quality.
OrgodemirDQ7 7 months ago
@Aaeternitade another fun facty...why dont you try playing it alone and uploading it!!!
jazzrockblues95 7 months ago
@jazzrockblues95 yet another fun fact...you take things to personal,chill dude!
Aaeternitade 6 months ago
@Aaeternitade uh, what a single pair of hands can play? I'd like to meet the guy that can play exactly this all by himself flawlessly.
oberhofedavi 6 months ago
why do my pants feel so tight right now....
mavrick45 8 months ago
the secret of his talent is in that shining bald, for the other two I have no explanation
diazconias 8 months ago
Please there has to be a tab of sheet music for this. I've looked EVERYWHERE
cppnak10 8 months ago
@cppnak10 , In the guitar pro default it is, or going to 911 tabs: w*.911tabs.com/search.php?search=Toccata+e+fugue&type=song I can´t write the complete link, so copy
diazconias 8 months ago
I DON'T KNOW WHY, SOME PARTS REMINDS ME OF NINJA GAIDEN
YWATTOTS 8 months ago
30 people disliked this? whaaaaaaaaat??
Jbibb14 8 months ago
They sounded like a harpsichord at times.
lenskap 8 months ago
That was a fantastic adaption. Well done guys . Just beautiful.
ilikezappa 8 months ago
I think I just came.
shawnkilledyou 8 months ago
Sounds 8-bit!
persiasand 9 months ago 31
@persiasand Holy crap...it does, it completely reminded me of some old NES rpgs I used to play.
PystophLudisfane 4 months ago
glad to see that society didn´t change all people to dumb consumers of shitty pop music
Malsch1990 9 months ago
i didn't know you could play this on guitar
blaktiger934 10 months ago
co za asy
keko4321 10 months ago
come across this video by mistake, while looking for something else;
opened it because I was curious;
and stayed because it is absolutely beautiful !!!!
Thank you for this wonderful piece!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-)
originalbignick 10 months ago 47
@originalbignick I feel ya bro, was pretty much the same for me! Love this kind of interpretation of classical music!
MrMoroes 9 months ago
this is so great
TheBigBADaZz 10 months ago
THIS has got to be THE greatest guitar performance I have EVER seen. Been thinking about learning this...
Decius541 11 months ago
165.000
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love this composition so much! and CGT & quintet as well, thanks for posting that composition!
tangotrance 11 months ago
love this composition so much! and CGT & qiuntet as well, thanks for posting that composition!
tangotrance 11 months ago
This is so beautiful!!!!!!!!
rogerpatro 11 months ago
thats pretty bad ass
digitor24 11 months ago
to all to dislike.... you don't have idea what the music is. lol.
machakokc 11 months ago
20 people don't even know how to read music...
TaipanTurtle 11 months ago
@TaipanTurtle Nor how to write!
ZabelLP 11 months ago
Amaizing! :D
Aleksej79ns 11 months ago
This version is much better than the hyper-speed versions (Philip Hii comes to mind) versions that I've heard. They actually add creativity to some of the melodic lines while not blasting through it at five million miles an hour, like some virtuoso show offs. Let this be a lesson to transcribers: study the INTENT of the composer before burning through it at light speed in a pathetic attempt to impress your peers.
TheWNMan 11 months ago
oo la la this is fantastich
liamskiner 1 year ago
so beautiful...its amazing what people can do with the guitar instrument! i'd only like to hear it in a less hard sound...we would like to hear you in Greece you guyes!
arnicibitsi 1 year ago
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arnicibitsi 1 year ago
That's fantastic. That progression at the end is one of my favorite bits of this piece; it seems epic.
rickshawsonson 1 year ago
Absolutlely brilliant!
malcolmcolemann 1 year ago
In my humble opinion a guitar can never sound as good as piano or harpsichord or organ but these guys did a great job.
And before some you go mental, I play guitar and I think its a great instrument.
Ashitaka255 1 year ago
@Ashitaka255 I totally agree with you but I also think that a guitar can sound better than this people's, and also they could be more expressive. Maybe it's impossible since they have to play sincronized...
naerynom 1 year ago
@naerynom A guitar is a dynamically limited instrument; it basically has no dynamic range. It will never sound like a traditional orchestral instrument, thus no transcription in the world will compare to the great organ; or other orchestral instrument for that matter. And it is very hard to obtain expressive effects on the (classical) guitar other than basic harmonic modulation, i.e., changing keys, and various percussive effects.
TheWNMan 11 months ago
@TheWNMan ...I don't see it the same way, though maybe they treat their acoustics like classical guitars. Even so, I think they are a bit too limited. For a start they use a pick instead of the fingers, and they don't even do many variations in the intensity of the picking... this two things restrict a lot what a guitar can achieve in terms of dynamics. In adition, they never do bendings, snap strings, etc I like the CGT, I only wish they'd be a little more expressive.
naerynom 11 months ago
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naerynom 11 months ago
@naerynom Whether picking or using fingers, the lack of dynamic range is a limiting quality for the guitar. The only thing a guitar can do to increase expressiveness is to do what harpsichordists used to do: increase the use and variation of arpeggios to thicken the texture of the music. Since they are both "plucked" instruments (yes, the Harpsichord is a plucked instrument) the solutions would be similar.
TheWNMan 11 months ago
@TheWNMan Anyway, the guitar (the acoustic one ) is able to get a great variations of timbres, which we don´t find in others harmonic instruments. And it is a very expressive instrument, take a look in "classical" music played by good players. So, saying acoustic guitar is not expressive, it is getting far from the truth.
codonauta 11 months ago
@codonauta I disagree. The lack of dynamics on an acoustic guitar makes it more percussive than expressive. Timber variations are not vocal dynamics. Simply put, it does not have a vocal singing quality; it does not rise and fall like a voice or organ, violin or other orchestral instrument. This is why it is not as expressive. Don't get me wrong, for I myself am a guitar virtuoso and always have to find other ways to "express" but it never has the same effect as a "vocal-like" instrument.
TheWNMan 11 months ago
@TheWNMan Well, it is true that in the guitar we don't have the control and the possibilities of dinamic we have in others instruments, but "some" dinamics we have. The guitar is a very peculiar instrument, it is very substantial in timbres, much more possibilities in changing timbres that the piano and harsichord for example.
codonauta 11 months ago
@TheWNMan The guitar is very peculiar instrument, and it needs to be played in solo. With others instruments, even others guitars, the effect is lost. It is very "temperamental".
The relative lack in dinamics is compensated with the richness in timbres. Saying the guitar is not an expressive instrument , considering all its possibilities in my opinion is having a wrong perception. You really have heard some good players playing concert music in acoustic guitar solo?
codonauta 11 months ago
@TheWNMan Take a look in this: watch?v=YF32tCrLgIA&feature=related
How can you say this is not expressive?
codonauta 11 months ago
@TheWNMan One more. Watch this watch?v=g3DCEcSlfhw&feature=related
This is not expressive? God, save us! :)
Pay atention in the timbres, and, yes, in the dinamics.
Anyway, it is true that not all composers sounds good in the guitar> for example, Mozart, beethoven, Brahms, Chopin usually don´t sound good in the guitar. The guitar is very peculiar.
codonauta 11 months ago
I think this is an excellent arrangement, beautifully and accurately played. It seems very much in the spirit of Bach's masterpiece.
Thank you for recording and posting this.
Hmnmn 1 year ago
This is unique!!! I love the guitar playing!!!
1979cl1 1 year ago
@markoskapunk i appreciate your thoughts. however, playing it solo is one thing on ANY instrument. Conversely, coordinating with 3 musicians with the tightness they they do is exponentially more daunting of a task. and if you are musician, or even a logical thinking person, you can't argue that point. not to mention they arranged that themselves and werent just regurgitating notes from a page is even more to their credit.
jgpbcjoe 1 year ago
@jgpbcjoe Well said. :)
TheWNMan 11 months ago
@ markoskapunk i appreciate your thoughts. however, playing it solo is one thing on ANY instrument. Conversely, coordinating with 3 musicians with the tightness they they do is exponentially more daunting of a task. and if you are musician, or even a logical thinking person, you can't argue that point. not to mention they arranged that themselves and werent just regurgitating notes from a page is even more to their credit.
jgpbcjoe 1 year ago
@ markoskapunk i appreciate your thoughts. however, playing it solo is one thing on ANY instrument. Conversely, coordinating with 3 musicians with the tightness they they do is exponentially more daunting of a task. and if you are musician, or even a logical thinking person, you can't argue that point. not to mention they arranged that themselves and werent just regurgitating notes from a page is even more to their credit.
jgpbcjoe 1 year ago
@ markoskapunk i appreciate your thoughts. however, playing it solo is one thing on ANY instrument. Conversely, coordinating with 3 musicians with the tightness they they do is exponentially more daunting of a task. and if you are musician, or even a logical thinking person, you can't argue that point. not to mention they arranged that themselves and werent just regurgitating notes from a page is even more to their credit.
jgpbcjoe 1 year ago
OK, so I am organist. The Toccata and Fugue are not necessarily more difficult on the organ (three manuals and foot pedals.) It's just different. I can play two parts in each hand and one part in the pedals. However, the guitarist must accomplish two motions for each note played while the organ must accomplish one -- that is, plucking the correct string with your fingers on the correct frets vs. pressing the correct key on the manual. Love this arrangement - sounds like the Renaissance.
simpiano 1 year ago
QUIET EVERYONE, here is the explanation, this song is easy on guitar, bach played it in the organ which is harder... so most ppl expects a show from this song when played w the guitar, obviously they dnt kno shyt, tho its a good piece n well played in the guitar. nothin amazin, just another version of a masterpiece.
markoskapunk 1 year ago
A wonderfully unique version of a masterpiece.
Grepple1234 1 year ago
They lost steam at 6:41. lol Still pretty cool though.
shmeet 1 year ago
Amazing!
binksterdude 1 year ago
The penis of those who dislike this video is small as the dislike bar !!!
adasfsafsafsa 1 year ago
Any purely "acoustic" recordings of this around?
snorked 1 year ago
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snorked 1 year ago
can anybody tell me where to find the tabs these guys are playin?
EvilToad9837 1 year ago
This makes metal guitar players look like pussies! :P
Erithlon 1 year ago
This is the best song that has ever been composed, and these guys give it justice like no other preformer can. Left me breathless, thats all I have to say.
Lieblingsfachful 1 year ago 2
Great Job!
Amazingly played
:D
hmpb88 1 year ago
impressive skills.. but why do awesome players always show off by playing it slightly too fast? we know youre good, you dont need to prove it by playing even faster than this piece already is =D
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bach is spinning in his grave............
to hide the erection this guys just gave him
Inframus 1 year ago 93
@Inframus i LOLed
largelysubatomic 1 year ago
@Inframus i LOLed
I don't see how anyone could dislike this video.. unless maybe you're a classically trained musician and this interpretation seems noobish or maybe not nylon stringy enough.
largelysubatomic 1 year ago 2
Very nice. This is one of my Favourite Bachs
zenzetra 1 year ago
Wow!
salm37 1 year ago
2:15 onwards is one of my favourite parts of classical music.
Sounds awesome on guitar.
Nameless742 1 year ago 2
Bach: the true father of heavy metal.
j0nj1 1 year ago
@j0nj1 not a bad idea^^
NaturalSelection9837 1 year ago
beautiful
NaturalSelection9837 1 year ago
saw these guys today, they were amazinggg.
emiilyerin 1 year ago
magnifique!!
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Maybe, if i had fingers that fast, i wouldn't have caught my wife with the plaumber... :l
nicktothediddlick 1 year ago
Maybe, if i had fingers that fast, i wouldn't have caught my wife with the plaumber... :l
nicktothediddlick 1 year ago
@nicktothediddlick :(
lewburger 1 year ago
for those who dont play an instrument... this took a very long time to write
alwaySXEdge 1 year ago
a little sketchy.. but very cool
alwaySXEdge 1 year ago
This reminds me of a great band SKY (1970s) who did awesome instrumental treatments of all the greats...where did those guys ever go?
smartteachermiami 1 year ago
@biglipdfool You're exactly that, a fool, if you think this sounds bad.
ScottishPrideable 1 year ago
@biglipdfool You don't play guitar do u"?
scabadash2005 1 year ago
wow... to see this great peice played on guitars is actually really great. It dosen't compare to the original organ version of course but this is actually very good! Good Job.
DsilverF 1 year ago
This is amazing!!!!Thumbs up!!! 100 stars
tzacapacatzactzac 1 year ago
@biglipdfool -- exactly the tone needed. I saw them at One World Theater in Austin just last night (24 Oct 2010), they finished with this. Awesome. Regarding the absence of sustained notes in this version versus a formal organ recital . . . yep, they did shorten those some, but not enough to bother me -- in fact, exactly right for this format and instrumentation -- and I tend to be a purist in such matters.
curmudgeonNOT 1 year ago
@curmudgeonNOT Why would they plug in acoustic guitars. If you want to hear what an acoustic guitar should sound like listen to Tony Rice, David Grier, or Bryan Sutton, just to name a few.
biglipdfool 1 year ago
@biglipdfool: Like an organ has stops to change the tone, they used the various foot pedal controls (which I know nothing about, except to hear the differences as they are manipulated) to obtain a sound most appropriate to the music. They did a particularly edgy and avante guard number where those controls were essential parts of the "instrumentation." My opinion: For this piece, they chose quite right. (Actually, the youtube posting isn't quite as rich in tone as what I heard.)
curmudgeonNOT 1 year ago
@biglipdfool: BTW: I am a big fan of pure acoustic guitar. The International Guitar Festival was held in Austin this summer; I atttended 8 events in 5 days, ending with Pepe Romero with the Austin Symphony doing Rodrigo, Concierto de Aranjuez, and included Grisha (flamenco), many others -- all but one purely acoustic. But these guys did exactly what their interpretation called for.
curmudgeonNOT 1 year ago
@biglipdfool Just found your reply. They are not "plugged in" Those are microphones, not electronics. Re acoustic: I've heard, in person, Paco de Lucia, Al di Meola, John McLaughlin, Pepe Romero (in solo, and Concierto de Aranjuez with symphony), Leo Kottke (4 times), Tommy Emmanuel, Chet Atkins, Strunz & Farah . . . the list goes on and on. Was present at 8 (eight!) shows in 5 days at the last International Guitar Festival. Microphones to get a purity of recording . . fine by me.
curmudgeonNOT 8 months ago
@biglipdfool Just found your reply. They are not "plugged in" Those are microphones, not electronics. Re acoustic: I've heard, in person, Paco de Lucia, Al di Meola, John McLaughlin, Pepe Romero (in solo, and Concierto de Aranjuez with symphony), Leo Kottke (4 times), Tommy Emmanuel, Chet Atkins, Strunz & Farah . . . the list goes on and on. Was present at 8 (eight!) shows in 5 days at the last International Guitar Festival. Microphones to get a purity of recording . . fine,
curmudgeonNOT 8 months ago
13 people (dislikes) play guitar hero to much then tried to play this on real guitar :X
ZachXDeath 1 year ago
this very awesome and your very good artists, however I believe that there are a lot of parts that deserve more sustain than the little time you gave them
1212MagicMan 1 year ago
This is so horribly epic I don't know how to express myself.
... win!
Jouwl 1 year ago
This is phenomenal! Anyone who can play this on guitar is badass in my book!
susumu07 1 year ago
...wow...
BiolabsExperiment00 1 year ago
How are there any unlikes ?!
This is one of the best things if not the best I've ever seen !
Rating: 10*
realmadridwebas 1 year ago
Fucking Magnifico!
Benj888 1 year ago
It sucks compare to the studio version.. But still, very good arrangement
Onn0110 1 year ago
You can gett this mp3 at ezmp3grab..com
violet52787 1 year ago
13 people just weren't born in the right world...
dissentrix 1 year ago 44
@dissentrix or def
Herfer 1 year ago
@Herfer right
dissentrix 1 year ago
@dissentrix "13 people just weren't born in the right world"
They are probably about 16 yrs old and think that Rap & Hip Hop are actually forms of music.
If we had a spay & neuter program for the morons that listen to that crap, the average IQ of the world would go up about 30 points within a generation or two.
I used to play this on the pipe organ and when I saw it listed as a guitar piece I went, "What ....??? Are they insane? You can't do that."
Well, yes you can. J.S.B. would approve.
MsgtSpook 1 year ago
@MsgtSpook Ha ha well said this piece defies the impossible !
dissentrix 1 year ago
@MsgtSpook man shut up ay, i love this, both the traditional arr. and this one, and i love hip hop too. real hip hop. as well as drum n bass, jazz, house, blues etc etc etc. don't put hip hop and rap in the same boat, it's just plain ignorance. it's called music. what it comes down to is bad music and good music, if you can't see that you're as bad as the "16 year olds" you refer to. don't be a snob in a box.
bassobeats 1 year ago
@dissentrix ... make that 17 idiots and counting. Unbelievable people can dislike this
enickma 1 year ago
Counterpoint at its finest
RandomGarbage420 1 year ago
Fantastic arrangement, I also like how the plugged in tone of guitars gives a sound a little reminiscent of a harpsichord.
katanamanatee 1 year ago 2
it rocks :-)
fiors73 1 year ago
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Omg we found Satch of the classical guitar :)
bloodydrinker0666 1 year ago
Omg we found Satch of the classical guitar :)
bloodydrinker0666 1 year ago
I didn't think this even existed, but it does and it's Marvelous.
Tribute to the versatility of JS Bach and of the acoustic guitar.
:D!
PandaMishima 1 year ago
Bach would be proud.
Masterdermillie 1 year ago
awesome!!!...this is great.......there's no words
Dialroller 1 year ago
need tabs now
aksmar18 1 year ago
@aksmar18 could you imagine what it would be like to tab that whole thing out? i go insane.
mikecarl88 1 year ago
@mikecarl88 yes because tabbing it out would make someone go insane to where as composing the original score would be a breeze?
GalagaKing 1 year ago
@GalagaKing well im not a musical genious
mikecarl88 1 year ago
To say "incredible talent" is a gross understatement. excellent work.
killtacular4 1 year ago
Makes me wish i knew where my copy of Fantasia was :(
ZachXDeath 1 year ago
superbe j adore la gratte amitié merci marcus ***************
patou344 1 year ago
very nice arrangement!
shaked02 1 year ago
i ish i could find people that ere this serious about this kind of music
distortme09 1 year ago
Amazing.
hedba 1 year ago
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Beautiful SONG and Video....
2626marko 1 year ago
this sounds so god damn metal, i love it.
fireiron123 1 year ago
jump straight to the fugue
rossiau 1 year ago
sweet *¬*
dukemoon619 1 year ago
Beautiful...perfection!
izabellakrisia 1 year ago
All they need to do is plug their guitars into some heavy bass amps, turn the volume and distortion full, get at least 3 drummers doing only double bass peddles and witness the rebirth of classical music!
Azzabajam 1 year ago
This is so inspiring to listen to and see. So much skill and musicianship all rolled into three guys.
bbjorna 1 year ago 4
OMG!! spettacolare!
dolphinman91 1 year ago
i dont need music for fucking,but if im gonna have it,then this is definately excellent fucking music !!&:@)&£FF$U&C=kkkkkan i really say that on TV???