JS Bach prelude in D minor (BWV 999) on guitar

[fenderstratdeluxe185]

Your right hand technique is kind of sloppy, but sounds good.

[guitarfan1979]

I don't know the piece but I bet ur playing too fast

[peteacher52]

Be proud! Bach himself was a great innovator, and would have loved your instrument and the "registration", to use an organ term, you chose. Your guitar rings with a gorgeous mature tone; regards to yourself and also to the luthier (or company) who made the instrument.

[TheTURKTUNES]

This is Beautiful!!!

[seraphlgabri]

Very good, but you played some bass notes wrongly.

[93Quake]

Is this in standard tuning?

[colimacon34]

@93Quake yes

[guitarninja86]

playing is great, though i would agree that perhaps chorus wasn't such a good idea. bach needs no effects, or even a spectacular instrument. bach speaks for himself.

well done :)

[Kingpin0072001uk]

@guitarninja86 Don't wanna come across like i'm advertising but, i have a heavy reverb on my Bach video, on an electric also, but I kinda think it sounds decent enough to listen to at least.

[centuriagotica]

muy bueno, un saludo!

[mdueri]

very nice - I actually like the chorus effect.

[Reverend0Locrian]

Also, you might expiriment with making the bass notes more thunderous and powerful, and contrasting this with the treble notes being more legato and subtle. Had a great classical guitar teacher suggest this to me when I was learning it.

[Reverend0Locrian]

good job dude

[rojinegrafer]

I say it's too fast, but rather good. Sexy effect XD.

[couerl]

Well you played the piece just fine, but if you ask me, bach does not need any chorus or other special effects. I do think it is a good thing to experiment though and if nothing else, it will show you the difference between what bach intended and what he did not and you will only appreciate him all the more.

Fine job.

[clearlynotstefan]

Yikes, Lower the Chorus!

[Spawn34]

I loved it. well done

[auditorystory]

i loved it.

[TheVester]

haven143 is an ass hole. At least you had the balls to post a video of this piece.

[billylikenoodles]

it didnt suck at all, how about u post a vid of yourself playing the song with the "proper" fingering. no? didnt think so because u probably cant even play it so u spend ur time going round talking shit on peoples vids who are better players than you. get a fucking life seriously

[notarapist69]

"proper" fingerings? he played the song and it sounded good. Did Bach ever come back to life and say "Hey, I transposed my Prelude In C Minor for Lute to D Minor so you can play it on guitar, and THESE are the fingerings you have to use!"?

No, he didn't. So gtfo.

[longwaydrifter]

what's after the prelude here?

[atsporty]

creative.....

[eadgbeguitarcdefgabc]

i love it....your interpretation  is very good.

[netmortube]

Lovely! Some people's comments are obnoxious...ignore the self-important critics.

[ilovemesomexaque]

i agree with classicBWV.. don't shake bach's dick after he's peed.

[classicBWV]

lose the chorus effect. Bach doesn't need help from anything or anyone

[Estonianwoodsman]

i don't think it's too fast. Actually, segovia played this piece a little bit faster. It is ultimately the player's choice though, as there is no specified tempo marking.

[elrojoJazz]

sounds great! the Chorus effects sound great too! Its more modern sounding with the effects! keep on rockin!

[caridooshi]

hmm, the sound isn't that bad, but, this is a classical piece and I think it would be better without the chorus , well, thats my opinion :) nice piece btw, nice job :)

[skatethemushrooms]

beautiful...love the chorus

[7brokenstring]

More effects!! It's been done a million times strate. Akways give a twist:)

[thejugglenaut91]

that's an interesting view on interpretation. Open your ears and you'll see that it's how he plays that notes, not the effects, that is the interpretation.

[Parvati78100]

The acoustic reminds me of "Clockwork orange".

Also it's too fast.

One word can describe azll this: terrible!

[ChickenIntestines]

Don't know why they thumbsed down you, lol. Clockwork Orange has alot of pieces like this.

[pissballs]

Something about the natural resonance of acoustic guitar strings ringing together that sound more luscious and deep than the depth of a chorus pedal. Like even a steel sting guitar falls short of the getting the right tone for classical. But perhaps if you made an original song around your chorus pedal you'd find the right sound to make it work accordingly. Like how the Police and U2 do it. :)

[riceboii101]

classical guitars are built much more lightly than thier steel string kin.tops arent as braced sooo the top vibrates more frreely.

[vonlubcke]

not a good idea

[LotBlind]

Oops, and the need to cut the bass notes is verily intensified by the amplified guitar, otherwise the notes would dampen better by themselves.

I admire this playing nevertheless!

[LotBlind]

The chorus effect doesn't disturb me at all. Agree with someone about how the middle bass note is often dampened and left too short, stopping the bass line from sounding legato, but have no thought how difficult it is to play what you are playing.

Concerning what HyeSungBen1 has said about the rest in the bass notes on the second beat (of every bar), I think it really is worthwhile looking into the idea of stopping the notes at the rest, just for the musical reason. Have a try if you haven't.

[BladeOrg]

it would have been a masterpiece if only the sound was better

[Akron162]

that sound is because there is an electroacustic guitar.

[MelkorNoir]

This is fucking fantastic. I love this piece

[sunaJH]

Nice effort, needs a little work  on sound quality/recording, you're almost there:)

[SUNNYD3322]

Tres jolie. Controlle les notes graves. Continue a poster des clips.

[JupiterIV]

- Beautiful! You've got a serious grasp over the melody! You really should post more like this.

- D'accord! Je me demande s'il peut faire le premier mouvement du clair de lune de Beethoven.

[shabi4353]

man behtar mizanam:((

[941254]

To ghalat kardi

[shabi4353]

khodet ghalat kardi....asan az koja midooni?? boozine:d

[941254]

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[shabi4353]

khodet zakhari :-L

[HyeSungBen1]

you know... There is a rest in the bass on every second beat of the entire piece. Another person played this for their exam and held out the bass? If I were the professor...

[nrodri10]

great performance man. I liked the lil chorus effect you put in.

[ellerby92]

well done, i had to play this for my guitar exam last year,

i would suggest holding the bass notes longer and playing them more legato

other than that it is well played

[colimacon34]

thx yes i think you're right it's too "rythmic" ( i don't how to say it in english :) )

[razvanilin]

@ellerby92 in contrary ... he has to stop the bas note ... check the sheet and you'll see that the bass note is a quaerter note and then is a quarter pause (where you stop the bass) .... and it's right to play rythmic when you play something written by bach ... maybe you think that way because the tempo is a bit fast

[straightener]

beautiful!

[AlsatianCousin]

A horrible performance.

[SUNNYD3322]

Can you do better?

[epic576]

This is good, I',m 14 and only just starting to learn it

[JUSDORAANGEx3]

me to! ^^

very nice!

[niqitoz]

great job,man!

[hhoh12]

you can use the open D for the first section, it will be easier and probably sound better... and I would drop the cheesy chorus, but alround good job!

[adagio27sostenuto]

Nice! I have to play this for lessons on piano, and I actually think it sounds better on guitar! But I think the title's mistaken. It's actually in C minor, unless you changed it. Anyway, sounds great!

[colimacon34]

thx

the first chord is Dm but im not sure it means that the piece is in Dm

perhaps on piano it's easier to play in Cm

[caleb222]

no its in d minor on the guitar, most of the things bach wrote for lute have to be transcribed to be played on the guitar. the original was in c minor.

[mikestoneiscool]

its in the key of f but the relative minor is dm because the first chord is dm which is kinda the rule of thumb for relative minors

[LaMusicaVaBene]

@adagio27sostenuto no it is in D minor hence the C# in the third chord of the progression. But yu can play it in any key. Im not sure which it was written in but my sheet music reads it as 1 flat. So D Minor

[DeimosGT]

@adagio27sostenuto Bach wrote this piece for the lute originally in C minor, but the guitar arrangement is always in D minor because the way a guitar is tuned.

[blurty16]

@adagio27sostenuto yes its originally written in c minor but the transcription usually played on the guitar is in d minor.

[jmurphify]

@adagio27sostenuto pretty much all guitar transcription of this song are in Dm but it does say on the bottom original key Cm its because of the way the guitar is set up

[FENDERHOTROD]

awesome job, i love the original posistioning, chord voicings and fingerings you used.. 5 star  peace

[MarcBolan3]

well done :)

liked it alot

[SaraVaughanfan]

Great! I love it!

[TMD2410]

Really beautiful. Great job!

[jangoud]

concerning the rather difficult technique it is hard to keep up the pace. you do very well

compliments !!!

[lucirello]

Great!! You play it very well, it's perfect!!

[Punkytom666]

I think that Bach is more beautifull played slowlier. But good work ;)

[Jettwang2004]

and i think "slowlier" is not a word.

[Punkytom666]

I'm not english and I'm 14 ^^

More slowly ? Is this right ?

[Rhys854]

yeh thats right.

dont worry bout that guy. hes just there to start arguments with people. lol.

[wogandmush]

Chorus...just as Mr Bach would have had it! :P

[toamaori]

a nice mic or pickup would do your playing more justice

[poppy77]

check julian bream

[burningtennis]

great song

[doublearejazz]

well, not bad ..but i heard this notes more than 100000000000000000 times ..

:-)

..you wonna see/hear something realy innovative - ..how to improvise bach or mozart ..?!

look for video : "bach sarabande jazz guitar"

or go to renatorozic dot com /audio/bach or audio/mozat..

..you ll astonish !

:-)

[ExecNight]

Aren't they called classical for a reason?

[dicktheripper]

haha you make this song sound like a metallica song,

pretty good though

[bulgarianlover]

very good!!

[stephenlukman]

Nice but uncommon tone and effect.

[musicfreak237]

I like it! I've played this piece on piano and I like the way you play it :)

[AndanteLargo]

Nice job! I really like your version. But you shouldn't use that chorus...

Great respect,

Peo

[jisaacgreene]

ditch the effects.

[CalebElijah]

Hey man, nice playing. That song is sweet. My favorite part is when the bass walks down over the same arpeggio,

yeah!

[glaoud]

Enfin une belle interprétation pas trop rapide. Bravo

[MrBoggles]

Use fx if you want but listen to it before you post it cas it sounds like the mic is in a tin can.

[NickyBR]

I liked it, very dreamy quality.

[GiveMeMoreVids]

don't use effects.