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WELCOME: This channel features my own performances, tutorials, arrangements & compositions, as well as special videos with "Charlie the Cat". Please see the playlists or the list of videos to see all my offerings. Sheet music for all my original compositions is planned sometime in 2012. Please have patience as the manuscripts are being prepared and BachScholar's new website (BachScholar Publishing, LLC) is being developed!
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ABOUT TEMPO IN BACH: Back in 1992 I discovered a very important "modus operandus" that Bach employed in about 90% of his works. I spent at least 10 years carefully analyzing his complete works and testing my theory, which verified the inital hypothesis. I have since named it "Bach's Secret Tempo Code" and plan on explaining it in a book hopefully sometime before my days are over. To summarize, Bach usually planned adjacent movements (like a prelude and fugue) to conform to whole-number "duration ratios", the most common being 1:1, 1:2, and 2:3 or their inverses. For example, 2:00 followed by 4:00 causes a 1:2 ratio while 4:00 followed by 2:40 causes a 3:2 ratio. Since such ratios occur with breathtaking accuracy in 90% of Bach's music while assuming a set number of standard tempos (about a dozen, all integers expressed in a matrix), this strongly suggests that Bach planned his music to conform to these tempo and ratio relationships. Thus, Bach apparently planned his tempos before composing the music so that he could calculate how many measures the movement should have to achieve the desired duration. In essence, Bach planned musical time ratios just as an architect plans physical measurement ratios. To put it in layman's terms, I know the precise tempos Bach planned for virtually all his works, which I attempt to demonstrate as accurately as possible in my performances. For more on Bach's tempos, visit:
http://www.lulu.com/spotlig...
COMPLETE MUSIC THEORY COURSE: http://ralkram.gidcmtc.hop....
LEARN WITH ROCKET PIANO:
http://ralkram.rpiano.hop.c...
BEST SHEET MUSIC STORE: http://www.sheetmusicplus.c...
JOIN FOR FREE AND EARN $$:
http://www.virtapay.com/r/m...
CORY HALL'S RECORDINGS:
http://www.cdbaby.com/Artis...
BACHSCHOLAR ON FACEBOOK:
http://www.facebook.com/pag...
WELCOME: This channel features my own performances, tutorials, arrangements & compositions, as well as special videos with "Charlie the Cat". Please see the playlists or the list of videos to see all my offerings. Sheet music for all my original compositions is planned sometime in 2012. Please have patience as the manuscripts are being prepared and BachScholar's new website (BachScholar Publishing, LLC) is being developed!
ABOUT COMMENTS: Unfortunately, with the number of videos and views I currently have, it is impossible for me to engage in blogging on all my videos since this would take eight hours a day. Please do not take the disabled comments personally.
ABOUT TEMPO IN BACH: Back in 1992 I discovered a very important "modus operandus" that Bach employed in about 90% of his works. I spent at least 10 years carefully analyzing his complete works and testing my theory, which verified the inital hypothesis. I have since named it "Bach's Secret Tempo Code" and plan on explaining it in a book hopefully sometime before my days are over. To summarize, Bach usually planned adjacent movements (like a prelude and fugue) to conform to whole-number "duration ratios", the most common being 1:1, 1:2, and 2:3 or their inverses. For example, 2:00 followed by 4:00 causes a 1:2 ratio while 4:00 followed by 2:40 causes a 3:2 ratio. Since such ratios occur with breathtaking accuracy in 90% of Bach's music while assuming a set number of standard tempos (about a dozen, all integers expressed in a matrix), this strongly suggests that Bach planned his music to conform to these tempo and ratio relationships. Thus, Bach apparently planned his tempos before composing the music so that he could calculate how many measures the movement should have to achieve the desired duration. In essence, Bach planned musical time ratios just as an architect plans physical measurement ratios. To put it in layman's terms, I know the precise tempos Bach planned for virtually all his works, which I attempt to demonstrate as accurately as possible in my performances. For more on Bach's tempos, visit:
http://www.lulu.com/spotlig...
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Hometown:
Florida, USA
Occupation:
Living Room Pianist
Schools:
Eastman School of Music (M.M.) University of Kansas (M.M. & D.M.A.)
What is your favorite Chopin piece, if you had to just pick one?
Mine is Scherzo 2, with Ballade 1 being very, very close behind.
I am not a fan of 90% of the etudes and do not plan on playing them myself. I feel like pianists should keep most etudes in the practice room--as a woodwind player who is just learning the piano. I understand that Chopin, Liszt and others wrote etudes, but they are not strong compositions and I feel like many pianists play them simply to try to impress other pianists. Scherzo 2 and Ballade 1 are masterpieces, in my humble opinion. I also find Cecile Chaminade's music vastly underrated. Can I get your thoughts?