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06-21-2007, 10:33 AM
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this is a bass forum, and of course i will ask you, who digs to play classical music? like bach !!!
Im really into studying music theory in my spear time, and one man that have inspired me more than anyone is of course Bach !!!
he is the God of all composers! love all his works...
So to the point. What is your favorite of Bach's work you like to play on you bass? 
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06-21-2007, 11:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Sacramento, CA | | | Bach is one of my favorites, period.
My faves are the Brandenberg Concertos and the Italian Concerto.
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06-21-2007, 11:21 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Santa Cruz, CA | | | I think this should be under Misc, but that's for the Mod's to handle now.
Bach is awesome. My personal favorites include Prelude in G Major(Cello Suite #1) and most all of his Chorales.
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06-21-2007, 11:28 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: New City, NY | | | I did once hear Bach's "This is in the wrong forum" in B Flat Major performed by the London Symphony Orchestra. They tuned to A 438. It was quite stunning, I must say.
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06-21-2007, 11:59 AM
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he was a great bass player in his time.
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06-21-2007, 12:07 PM
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Originally Posted by hauntedoak this is a bass forum, and of course i will ask you, who digs to play classical music? like bach !!!
Im really into studying music theory in my spear time, and one man that have inspired me more than anyone is of course Bach !!!
he is the God of all composers! love all his works...
So to the point. What is your favorite of Bach's work you like to play on you bass? | Classical music was my first love and I read his biography so long ago (4th grade) that I can only remember a little. His whole family was musical, he had something like 12 siblings and went blind pretty early. Whenever I get out my double bass or bass guitar I run it through a tuning warm up with "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" and at the rock gigs you can imagine the odd expressions! Procol Harem's "Whiter Shade of Pale" is almost a direct lift from Bach, as are many of those rapid fire triplet solos of Ritchie Blackmore on Machine Head. Some of my favorites are the famous Tacatta and Fugue for Organ, all of the Brandenburg Concerti, and many of the preludes.
Some Other Baroque and Classical composers I enjoy are Handel, Schubert, Beethoven (saw Ritchie Blackmore and Roger Glover cover the 9th Symphony at the Fox here once... Devastating!!!!!), Hayden, Mozart (I like his piano sonatas but not a whole lot else). Some people think it is snob music, but consider when Beethoven died, more than 20,000 people showed up at his funeral. He was like Elvis.
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06-21-2007, 12:11 PM
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he was a great bass player in his time. | Whats that?? Is he using a pick? And a fretted bass? I'd have had him figured fingerstyle on a fretless... Can you fix that????
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06-21-2007, 12:13 PM
| | Pat's the best! | | Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Northern Virginia, USA | | | The "Brilliant Classics" Bach box set is #1 on my most wanted CD list right now. I'm almost done the first go-roung on their Mozart box. |
06-21-2007, 12:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Philbiker The "Brilliant Classics" Bach box set is #1 on my most wanted CD list right now. I'm almost done the first go-roung on their Mozart box. | Ever try Best Bach 100? I picked it up at Borders for about 20 bucks. 6 CD's of pure Bach goodness.
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06-21-2007, 12:50 PM
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Proprietor, Helland Musikk Teknologi | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Norway | | J.S. Bach is pretty much #1 for me too, followed closely by "the others" meaning Buxtehude, Telemann, Händel etc. I love baroque music. Quote:
Originally Posted by Philbiker The "Brilliant Classics" Bach box set is #1 on my most wanted CD list right now. | That's the one I have, I think. 40 CDs, right? Lots and lots of good stuff. But I had to buy the Mass in B minor seperately, it wasn't in there.
As for my favourite Bach piece to play on bass, it used to be the preludio from partita #3 in E major... I tried to learn it on bass because I was so impressed hearing Béla Fleck play it on the banjo.
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06-21-2007, 03:22 PM
| | | | I studied classical guitar at one time. I sure wish I had stuck with it. Oh, I can still play, but you really have to stay on top of the practice and study or it leaves you.
I did two songs for my jury recital at college and one was J.S. Bach's Bouree In E Minor. Jethro Tull copped that one and called it simply, Bouree.
I like Bach, but Beethoven is more a favorite. Beethoven can almost put me into a trance-like state. Moonlight Sonata is arguably the prettiest piano piece of all time.
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06-21-2007, 03:55 PM
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06-21-2007, 05:11 PM
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Originally Posted by elros That's the one I have, I think. 40 CDs, right? Lots and lots of good stuff. But I had to buy the Mass in B minor seperately, it wasn't in there. | The "Brilliant Classics" set I want is the complete works. 155 CDs. The Mozart one is 170 CDs.
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06-21-2007, 05:18 PM
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he was a great bass player in his time. | Of course he was! And he played a Hanewinckel!! 
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06-21-2007, 05:26 PM
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Originally Posted by hauntedoak this is a bass forum, and of course i will ask you, who digs to play classical music? like bach !!! | Look for Dave Grossman on youtube.
Personally i like a lot of classical music, I don't think there is a style of music i don't like.
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06-21-2007, 08:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Indiana | | | Jack Bruce always said Bach was the best bassist. Perfect counterpoint in the things Ive heard. Jethro Tull's version of Bouree is pretty cool , nice walking bass line. |
06-22-2007, 11:03 AM
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Originally Posted by Philbiker The "Brilliant Classics" set I want is the complete works. 155 CDs. The Mozart one is 170 CDs. | Ah, that's the one I wanted to buy.... they had just recieved two of those and the clerc was unpacking one as I watched..... alas I couln't afford the whole shebang.
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06-22-2007, 04:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Finland | | | I'm currently learning Allemande from violin partita no.2 in d minor (on the violin). After playing the first few measures I'm already all "Wow, cool" shaking Beavis&Butthead style.
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06-22-2007, 09:42 PM
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06-23-2007, 03:39 AM
| | | | bach is very challenging on piano/ organ. My teacher is constantly saying how much my technique needs work when I pull out a bach piece we're working on, because I'm really tense and I shouldn't be.
However, my personal favorite composer would be sergei rachmaninoff. I'm playing prelude in c# minor at several recitals tomorrow.
I haven't made up my mind about beethoven, I don't really have him in my list of repertoire. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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