Absolutely brillinant!. This was the piece my wife and I also exited the church after our wedding in 1988 - and it still moves us. Very well done - thank you.
Ketil! This is outstanding. My wife and I were married in Gloucester Cathedral (UK) back in 1972 and like you, chose this piece of music. It was played as we made the long walk right from the High Altar of the cathedral and through the nave to the west door after the service. It has stayed in our memories ever since and this re-working of - to us - an iconic piece is simply stunning. Well done!
Ketil, i'm an organist and i know this piece by art. I'm not one of those purists ... Your play is great, original and very beautiful. WIdor would have loved that!
I love this piece of music - as an 11 year old I turned the pages for the visiting choirmaster / organist in Lincoln Cathedral, and I was hooked! The precision in your playing is immaculate - all you are missing is that 32’ pipe at the end! Congratulations!
Not sure exactly how I found this video, but I'm glad I did! That was a very interesting take on one of my favorite organ pieces... thoroughly enjoyed it!
Ketil, that was amazing!!! You just blew my mind. :) I got so much pleasure from hearing this. My father was a cathedral organist, and this piece was one of his favorites. I bet he would have loved this. I've been thinking that the electric guitar is so expressive, so powerful, and so versatile that it is the pipe organ of our day. You just proved the point, and then some!
P.S. Did you know that Steve Vai (my guitar hero) first studied organ before he studied guitar? I think it really shows in some of the intricate finger tapping he does. Cutting-edge guitarists like you and Steve are such an inspiration. Please keep pushing the envelope to show us what's possible!
WOW!!! Found this looking to see if any one had been crazy enough to try this on a chapman. but wow watching you finger dance. i totally missed you face untell u saw the comment.
I love it! I've been looking for recessionals for my wedding, and we're not getting married in a church, so the organ doesn't really fit to me (I've never been super-crazy about organ music anyway, it's very overpowering). I love what you've done with it on the guitar!
Pretty amazing. I, like a comment-er below, totally missed your face until I watched again and read your comment. Really fun to watch/listen to. Thanks!
I've a challenge for you...how about doing some of the chorales from Bach's 'St Matthew Passion' and 'St. John's Passion'? I'd love to hear an electric guitar transposition of some of the works displayed there. Some of the passages and runs that are featured in there are quite interesting. One of my favorite chorales from these works include the opening choruses such as 'Kommt, Ihr Tochter' and 'Herr, Unser Herrscher' as well as 'O Mensch, Beweine Deinen Sunden Gross!' I'd love to hear some hard rock interpretation of some of those, even if it came from some metal bands like Judas Priest or even Stryper. The way Karl Richter did these works in a classical format with an orchestra and choir really set the scene and tempo just right, I think. I've told some of my musician friends to see if they're up to doing this, but I haven't heard any more from them. I had befriended a bass-guitarist during Bike Week in Daytona whom I affectionately call, 'Bass Clef' because he has the symbol tattooed on his arm and suggested if he wanted to do some simple fingering or warm up exercises, try using the bass lines from either Pachelbel's 'Canon in D' (the theme from 'Ordinary People') to Bach's 'Air on the G String'. He smiled and said, "I know those guys well...How did you know of those works?" I told him my late parents were classically-trained musicians in their own right with dad as a first violinist for the Atlanta Symphony under the direction of Robert Shaw and my mother was a paid soprano soloist in a church choir, who also dabbled in operatic projects as well. Alas, I never truly followed in their footsteps, but I do some things about music since I heard all kinds of styles at home when I was young.
Amazing! I've found many versions of the Toccata on UA-cam, and this is the first one I've found for an electric guitar! It's brilliant, and I love how you found a way to play the pedal part! I really enjoyed this!
Fantastic! I was actually thinking of doing a similar guitar arrangement when I decided to look it up and see if anyone else had thought of it. Sure enough, here it is, and it's spot on! If I ever actually work up the chops to play it, I'll have to post it up and let you know.
Superb. I was thinking of learning it but I'm not even going to attempt it now. More complex than I thought.. try using using a guitar synth . I would like to hear that. 😃
Outstanding! I love to hear this Toccata on organ, but this was a very good rendition on an instrument that doesn't come to mind for this music. The 3 different voices are well done, and as for myself playing guitar (not so well, I wouldn't dare to try this) looking at your play gave me a better understanding of the structure of this music. Especialy the changes in octaves, often in 2 of the voices, were very clear this way. On an organ, where voices can change from one keyboard to another or even to the pedals it's not so obvious what is doing when, unless you're familiar with playing an organ..
How many takes? I’m taking nothing away from you at all, bloody fantastic playing indeed. Well done. Oh I was a euphonium player in my younger days, so I do have knowledge of music, and you are possibly the best guitarist I have ever listened to.
Ketil Strand. Well Ketil I think you should move on to The Flight Of The Bumblebee. Go on, tell me you’ve already done that lol. Again, very well done to you.
@@steveanderson9515 Haha, no, I guess I fiddled around a little with the Bumblebee in my younger days, but I never finished it.. And now as I get older, I don't feel the need to play that fast anymore.. ;-)
Ketil I know exactly what you mean. I’m 70 now and I gave up my banding days years ago. I still have the odd tootle on my euphonium, but I only play slow melodies nowadays. I was known for the tone I produced, so the fast tricky stuff isn’t for me anymore. All the best to you Ketil, and keep those fingers moving. 😬
I gather your doing this with version 10 ? as if that would help me ever play it... amazing Im Christians father chiming in here our jaws are on the floor. Really nice...
Thanks! No, I think it's actually v 9.0.. Lately I've been more concerned with practicing and recording than being fully updated on new firmware etc. at any time. For a while I was also very hung up on the latest news and "buzz" on the fractalaudio forum and so, but now I've become much more relaxed. I guess I would even still have been quite happy with my old Ultra if I hadn't known about the II.. ;-)
I've always loved this piece. First heard it played at my graduation ceremony in the Royal Albert Hall. I've actually been experimenting with the intersection of pipe organ and guitar through my own song writing, although it's gothic metal :) I'm convinced there is a lot to learn from these organ symphonies that could be modernized for rock/metal. I have a pipe organ where I'm staying so it's been fun playing bits of this piece on that. Trying to play that on the guitar is very difficult, so kudos to you. I'm curious, between your strat and gold top, which do you find easiest to play?
Thank you very much :-) Yes, it was quite difficult, I haven't played this for 10 years now, I'm not sure I would be able to play it now.. ;-) I don't have any of these guitars in the video anymore, but I have a similar Strat and a Les Paul (actually the exact same model..), and I like both, but if I had to choose one, I guess I would be the strat. :-)
The Axe-Fx can do A LOT, but not church organ, I'm afraid, so I had to use the Roland GR-55 guitar synth for that. Yes, I used some compression on the LP.
I would have figured that the organ effects would have come from the Axe Fx II! Sounds great! For the les paul part, did you use any compression? Thanks!
Oh.........................................My....................................................God! Unbelievable! Thank you very much! (Widor first...lol)
As a professional organist who plays this on solo organ. Awesome performance and great to hear how adaptable Widor’s organ music can be 🎶✊🏻😎
Thank you, that means a lot to me :-)
Absolutely brillinant!. This was the piece my wife and I also exited the church after our wedding in 1988 - and it still moves us. Very well done - thank you.
Thank you very much 😊
Ketil! This is outstanding. My wife and I were married in Gloucester Cathedral (UK) back in 1972 and like you, chose this piece of music. It was played as we made the long walk right from the High Altar of the cathedral and through the nave to the west door after the service. It has stayed in our memories ever since and this re-working of - to us - an iconic piece is simply stunning. Well done!
+LosMojaqueros Thank you very much, and thanks for sharing your story :-)
Ketil, i'm an organist and i know this piece by art. I'm not one of those purists ... Your play is great, original and very beautiful. WIdor would have loved that!
This sounds great. I could imagine Jason Becker would have shredded this song up like crazy in his heyday. Cleanly played, well done!
Thank you very much!
Charles-Marie would be happy! Congregulations for this performance.
I hope so.. Thank you 😊
Awesome.😀 I would pay for this guitar tab anytime, if you make one.
I love this piece of music - as an 11 year old I turned the pages for the visiting choirmaster / organist in Lincoln Cathedral, and I was hooked! The precision in your playing is immaculate - all you are missing is that 32’ pipe at the end! Congratulations!
Wow! And I thought it was tough to play on a keyboard! So good to hear the obbligato clearly!
Thank you!
Not sure exactly how I found this video, but I'm glad I did! That was a very interesting take on one of my favorite organ pieces... thoroughly enjoyed it!
Thanks!
Ketil, that was amazing!!! You just blew my mind. :) I got so much pleasure from hearing this. My father was a cathedral organist, and this piece was one of his favorites. I bet he would have loved this. I've been thinking that the electric guitar is so expressive, so powerful, and so versatile that it is the pipe organ of our day. You just proved the point, and then some!
P.S. Did you know that Steve Vai (my guitar hero) first studied organ before he studied guitar? I think it really shows in some of the intricate finger tapping he does. Cutting-edge guitarists like you and Steve are such an inspiration. Please keep pushing the envelope to show us what's possible!
Frederick W. Chapman Thank you so much, I really appreciate that :-) (and no, I didn't know about Vai studying organ..)
Fantastic performance and your tempo was perfect.
Thank you :-)
Here's another organist chiming in to say WELL DONE!!!
Thank you very much!
Sensational ! - can you please do an updated version of canon rock but using a single style only - thanks
Great idea. Congratulations.
Wow, hard to believe it's been 10 years since Ketil played this amazing piece of music.
I think it's hard to believe too.. Thank you :-)
WOW!!! Found this looking to see if any one had been crazy enough to try this on a chapman. but wow watching you finger dance. i totally missed you face untell u saw the comment.
Really great!
Fantastic!
This is amazing. Rock on!
Fantastic ✨
Very impressive...
Amazing
I love it! I've been looking for recessionals for my wedding, and we're not getting married in a church, so the organ doesn't really fit to me (I've never been super-crazy about organ music anyway, it's very overpowering). I love what you've done with it on the guitar!
Very well done- amazing!
Thank you!
Really good. More please.
ShakyShots Thanks :-)
Fantastic
Pretty amazing. I, like a comment-er below, totally missed your face until I watched again and read your comment. Really fun to watch/listen to. Thanks!
I'm in agreement with @TheNeCaster - Jaw-dropping performance, sound, composition & well presented. \m/ Cheers!
Incroyable! Merci beaucoup:-)
Thank you very much :-)
Wow!
great ! very tricky indeed , i wont even dare to play it :)
Love it. Very tricky.
Fantastic! My favourite piece of music played to perfection. Many thanks! Just excellent!
Thank you very much :-)
just amazing !
Thank you, I really appreciate that coming from an organist :-)
Beautifully done! Nice to hear that work on something different. Next request: Bach's Gigue Fugue (BWV 577).
I've a challenge for you...how about doing some of the chorales from Bach's 'St Matthew Passion' and 'St. John's Passion'? I'd love to hear an electric guitar transposition of some of the works displayed there. Some of the passages and runs that are featured in there are quite interesting. One of my favorite chorales from these works include the opening choruses such as 'Kommt, Ihr Tochter' and 'Herr, Unser Herrscher' as well as 'O Mensch, Beweine Deinen Sunden Gross!' I'd love to hear some hard rock interpretation of some of those, even if it came from some metal bands like Judas Priest or even Stryper. The way Karl Richter did these works in a classical format with an orchestra and choir really set the scene and tempo just right, I think. I've told some of my musician friends to see if they're up to doing this, but I haven't heard any more from them. I had befriended a bass-guitarist during Bike Week in Daytona whom I affectionately call, 'Bass Clef' because he has the symbol tattooed on his arm and suggested if he wanted to do some simple fingering or warm up exercises, try using the bass lines from either Pachelbel's 'Canon in D' (the theme from 'Ordinary People') to Bach's 'Air on the G String'. He smiled and said, "I know those guys well...How did you know of those works?" I told him my late parents were classically-trained musicians in their own right with dad as a first violinist for the Atlanta Symphony under the direction of Robert Shaw and my mother was a paid soprano soloist in a church choir, who also dabbled in operatic projects as well. Alas, I never truly followed in their footsteps, but I do some things about music since I heard all kinds of styles at home when I was young.
Great job on this, brother! Keep playing.
Magnificent
fantastic!!!!
This is silly good! Well done!
Amazing! I've found many versions of the Toccata on UA-cam, and this is the first one I've found for an electric guitar! It's brilliant, and I love how you found a way to play the pedal part! I really enjoyed this!
Thank you very much!
Jaw-dropping vid... This is what to work for!
You did a great job!! Wonderful music.
r3g3c8 Thank you!
Fantastisk Ketil :-)
Tusen takk!
Fantastic! I was actually thinking of doing a similar guitar arrangement when I decided to look it up and see if anyone else had thought of it. Sure enough, here it is, and it's spot on! If I ever actually work up the chops to play it, I'll have to post it up and let you know.
+Tim Cronin Thank you, and yes, please do :-)
Superb. I was thinking of learning it but I'm not even going to attempt it now. More complex than I thought.. try using using a guitar synth . I would like to hear that. 😃
This was incredible, thank you for sharing! Awesome work!
Thank you very much :-)
Incredible, really enjoyed this
Thanks!
Outstanding!
I love to hear this Toccata on organ, but this was a very good rendition on an instrument that doesn't come to mind for this music.
The 3 different voices are well done, and as for myself playing guitar (not so well, I wouldn't dare to try this) looking at your play gave me a better understanding of the structure of this music.
Especialy the changes in octaves, often in 2 of the voices, were very clear this way.
On an organ, where voices can change from one keyboard to another or even to the pedals it's not so obvious what is doing when, unless you're familiar with playing an organ..
Thank you :-)
haha... moody face FTW!! Seriously, your videos get sicker every time!! Loving it and keep it up! :)
Brilliant stuff as always, sounds absolutely amazing =)
Thanks!
I love your crazy ideas :-D
How many takes? I’m taking nothing away from you at all, bloody fantastic playing indeed. Well done.
Oh I was a euphonium player in my younger days, so I do have knowledge of music, and you are possibly the best guitarist I have ever listened to.
I can't remember exactly, but I believe I had to do a few takes before I was satisfied.. Thank you very much!
Ketil Strand. Well Ketil I think you should move on to The Flight Of The Bumblebee. Go on, tell me you’ve already done that lol. Again, very well done to you.
@@steveanderson9515 Haha, no, I guess I fiddled around a little with the Bumblebee in my younger days, but I never finished it.. And now as I get older, I don't feel the need to play that fast anymore.. ;-)
Ketil I know exactly what you mean. I’m 70 now and I gave up my banding days years ago. I still have the odd tootle on my euphonium, but I only play slow melodies nowadays. I was known for the tone I produced, so the fast tricky stuff isn’t for me anymore. All the best to you Ketil, and keep those fingers moving. 😬
I gather your doing this with version 10 ?
as if that would help me ever play it...
amazing Im Christians father chiming in here our jaws are on the floor.
Really nice...
Thanks for your understanding, and yes, definitely..;-)
excellent
Thank you very much, I appreciate that! And yes, I can confirm that it took a lot of hard work.. ;-)
very cool!!!))))
Thank you!
Tusen takk!
A real pro!
Ketil, I loe your videos - fellow Axe FX II Lover
Thank you, sir!
Thank you for the reply!
i cant even play this on the organ and you can play this on the guitar. wow
Interesting enough that the beginning main melody line is actually in the pedals.
You play this better on guitar than I play it on organ
Haha, thank you, but I can't play everything at once, like I guess you can :-)
Cool Ketil! How do you play the pedal part? :)
Thanks Marc ;-) It was played through the guitar synth as mentioned above, and I think I also added an octaver.
Thanks! No, I think it's actually v 9.0.. Lately I've been more concerned with practicing and recording than being fully updated on new firmware etc. at any time. For a while I was also very hung up on the latest news and "buzz" on the fractalaudio forum and so, but now I've become much more relaxed. I guess I would even still have been quite happy with my old Ultra if I hadn't known about the II.. ;-)
Cool!
:-)
Thank you, and good luck with your wedding :-)
I've always loved this piece. First heard it played at my graduation ceremony in the Royal Albert Hall. I've actually been experimenting with the intersection of pipe organ and guitar through my own song writing, although it's gothic metal :) I'm convinced there is a lot to learn from these organ symphonies that could be modernized for rock/metal. I have a pipe organ where I'm staying so it's been fun playing bits of this piece on that. Trying to play that on the guitar is very difficult, so kudos to you. I'm curious, between your strat and gold top, which do you find easiest to play?
Thank you very much :-) Yes, it was quite difficult, I haven't played this for 10 years now, I'm not sure I would be able to play it now.. ;-) I don't have any of these guitars in the video anymore, but I have a similar Strat and a Les Paul (actually the exact same model..), and I like both, but if I had to choose one, I guess I would be the strat. :-)
Thank you :-)
;-) Thanks very much!
The Axe-Fx can do A LOT, but not church organ, I'm afraid, so I had to use the Roland GR-55 guitar synth for that. Yes, I used some compression on the LP.
Thanks :-)
Yes :-) Gå inn på hjemmesida mi, og klikk på "II-nytt soloalbum" Det kommer også en promovideo her på youtube snart.
Jeg er stum av beundring av denne mannen
Holy fack, I heard this before in piano and now in guitar... Sound great, i don't play any instrument. Is this difficult to play ?
I would have figured that the organ effects would have come from the Axe Fx II! Sounds great! For the les paul part, did you use any compression? Thanks!
Hei :) har du lagt ut plata di for salg no?
wow
Thanks! - And no, sorry, I've had lots of similar requests, but I'm done with Canon Rock.. ;-)
Haha, thanks a lot! :-)
Makes me wonder if Chet Atkins ever played this....
Haha, I doubt it, but you never know.. ;-)
Haha.. Thanks ;-)
Oh.........................................My....................................................God!
Unbelievable!
Thank you very much! (Widor first...lol)
Thank you very much, too :-)
:) very nice :) kjempe bra
;-)
Love not loth
Niccolò Paganini.
Thanks!