Tunnel Vision

[Grueber]

@Grueber is a master on this kind of music.

Thanks! I appreciate the shout out . Classical music, especially Bach, is so fun to learn and play on bass guitar. I hope to do a proper album eventually. @Dave Grossman was a big influence for me for how it can be done well on bass guitar

I usually just do separate tracks for the left & right hand of the keyboard, or to mimic however many instruments a piece was arranged for (quartet, etc).

I think my favorite part once I've decided on a piece to learn and start practicing, is doing a deep dive into all of its history/details, and also listening to different arrangements people have recorded.

 

[Kubicki Fan]

What's so funny?

Oh, you listen to the cello suites enough you'll want to learn them also. Listening to a lot of Bach or watching some of these well executed pieces won't help with focus, just sayin' ;-)

 

[Dr. Cheese]

Oh, you listen to the cello suites enough you'll want to learn them also. Listening to a lot of Bach or watching some of these well executed pieces won't help with focus, just sayin' ;-)

I get it. The Prelude #1 in C Major is hard enough to play, especially the way I would want to play it for an audience. I am not going to add another composition any time soon.

 

[Kubicki Fan]

For my first piano piece I picked the Aria from the Goldberg variations. Let me rephrase that, after listening to the piece and falling hard for it, it made me want to take up piano. I'll be the first to admit that it was an optimistic and arrogant choice for a greenhorn but I bought the book and memorized the piece, then worked on the technique until I could get through it without mistakes 30% of the time. I wish I had the brains to learn everything Bach wrote; it is hard for me to stay dedicated to one work when there are so many beautiful others out there.
Happy project for you DR!!!

 

[SteveCS]

For my first piano piece I picked the Aria from the Goldberg variations. Let me rephrase that, after listening to the piece and falling hard for it, it made me want to take up piano. I'll be the first to admit that it was an optimistic and arrogant choice for a greenhorn but I bought the book and memorized the piece, then worked on the technique until I could get through it without mistakes 30% of the time. I wish I had the brains to learn everything Bach wrote; it is hard for me to stay dedicated to one work when there are so many beautiful others out there.
Happy project for you DR!!!

It only took Glenn Gould 26 years to get that one right!

 

[Kubicki Fan]

It only took Glenn Gould 26 years to get that one right!

I like the faster version too. I am swine, them don't all need to be pearls ;-)

 

[SteveCS]

I like the faster version too. I am swine, them don't all need to be pearls ;-)

Yes, I like them both. I like the later rendition because of the coherence of pulse between all of the variations. Gould managed to find something that ties them all together as a single peice. But the vibrancy and energy in the earlier recording is highly infectious.