Another great video. Thanks for sharing. My approach to this music is that Bach's pieces are for life, not just for Christmas. In other words, you can learn and memorise the fingering, etc., quite early in your playing career, and then spend the rest of your life refining your interpretation as your skills and appreciation improve with experience. It's also worth noting that there is never a single "correct" way to play this stuff, so we shouldn't be afraid to play it whatever level we're at. It's all good. Just enjoy it, and don't be intimidated.
Thanks for this fabulous channel. I have been away from my guitar for a few years after getting to about a mid-intermediate level and your sheet music and lessons are exactly what’s needed to get back in gear. Amazing resource! 🙏
My favorite Bach pieces for the guitar are his solo works for violin. You can often play them immediately as written for the violin with little or no modification. And they are very beautiful.
But violin has a poor resonance. You can't play more than one line of music at once. Contrast that with the guitar and you can get bass strings to ring out for ages.
@@stevensmith4752 Let's take Sonata III, Adagio as an example. One of my favorites. What you see are movements of up to 4 voices written as chords (notes sounding at the same time). The violin has limited possibilities to play that, so it cannot execute it exactly as written. Bach wrote this with the intention that the violinist approximated as good as possible the ideal polyphonic harmony of the piece. The difficult task of the cellist or violinist in playing such a solo piece is to suggest that kind of harmony while at the same time respecting the individual voices. Now take your guitar and you will experience that is much easier for us to follow the notation exactly. You will also note that this piece has a good bass line.
I would dedicate 10% of your practice session to starting from the beginning and reading the notes and seeing if you missed anything. The rest of your practice you can play your normal stuff or even read tab. Slowly you can increase that to 20% as you get more comfortable and on and on. My curriculum here: www.thisisclassicalguitar.com/sheet-music-for-classical-guitar/
Thanks so much for this valuable insights and counsel for playing Bach and other Baroque master's music. I struggle with correct tempo and timing. Not having a teacher, I'm an old dog learning new tricks!! Lol
Jesu joy of man's desiring... is one of my favorite Bach pieces and really not that difficult on guitar.. Bach was a musical genius as you all know and it's just fun to "try" to interrupt his thinking as he wrote his beautiful scores. As you can tell, I love music theory... Great video, Bradford...
Thanks again for the honest advice... play simpler pieces. Few instructors will have the courage to tell students to be realistic. I for one appreciate it, do it, and have greatly improved from it.
Ya, it's tough because with in-person lessons I can encourage students to play at a higher level by really isolating a section and getting them to work it over and over until it's great but many online folk are just going for it without any checks.
I have a question for you. I would like to be able to play pieces like this one. I played classical guitar decades ago, and just decided to get back into it, bought a Cordoba C12, and am watching your lessons. Before taking the classical lessons I was self taught on steel string guitars, I used the thumb for the bottom 2 strings and the fingers each got a remaining string. Should I re-learn the fingering so I don't use the smallest finger for picking?
Thanks for your Bach Q&A. Re difficulty of Bach on guitar "Everyone wants to go to heaven..." For those of us not quite up to the Koonz edition, there is an old book with some simple Bach arrangements by Jerry Snyder. Probably Gr 3 or so. Not a huge number of pieces, but playable and enjoyable. Thanks again for your considerable efforts to help the masses!
@@Thisisclassicalguitar I think we need to be part of the decision process. We have all been trying to imagine the finished project for what seems like years now. I'm a little bit upset.
Thank you so much 😍🥰
Thanks for watching!
Another great video. Thanks for sharing. My approach to this music is that Bach's pieces are for life, not just for Christmas. In other words, you can learn and memorise the fingering, etc., quite early in your playing career, and then spend the rest of your life refining your interpretation as your skills and appreciation improve with experience. It's also worth noting that there is never a single "correct" way to play this stuff, so we shouldn't be afraid to play it whatever level we're at. It's all good. Just enjoy it, and don't be intimidated.
Thanks for this fabulous channel. I have been away from my guitar for a few years after getting to about a mid-intermediate level and your sheet music and lessons are exactly what’s needed to get back in gear. Amazing resource! 🙏
Great to hear!
Thank you friend, just Jingle Bells practiced first time today.
Clear and neat
Thanks!
You are welcome. I appreciate the job you are doing.
My favorite Bach pieces for the guitar are his solo works for violin. You can often play them immediately as written for the violin with little or no modification. And they are very beautiful.
I completely agree.
But violin has a poor resonance. You can't play more than one line of music at once. Contrast that with the guitar and you can get bass strings to ring out for ages.
@@stevensmith4752 Let's take Sonata III, Adagio as an example. One of my favorites. What you see are movements of up to 4 voices written as chords (notes sounding at the same time). The violin has limited possibilities to play that, so it cannot execute it exactly as written. Bach wrote this with the intention that the violinist approximated as good as possible the ideal polyphonic harmony of the piece. The difficult task of the cellist or violinist in playing such a solo piece is to suggest that kind of harmony while at the same time respecting the individual voices. Now take your guitar and you will experience that is much easier for us to follow the notation exactly. You will also note that this piece has a good bass line.
Are there any classical versions of Chaconne. That is my favorite classical piece.
hello should i learn to read notes to start classical guitar ? im a guitarist who play blues and i want to start classical guitar
I would dedicate 10% of your practice session to starting from the beginning and reading the notes and seeing if you missed anything. The rest of your practice you can play your normal stuff or even read tab. Slowly you can increase that to 20% as you get more comfortable and on and on. My curriculum here: www.thisisclassicalguitar.com/sheet-music-for-classical-guitar/
@@Thisisclassicalguitar Thank you very much for your answer 😊
Thanks so much for this valuable insights and counsel for playing Bach and other Baroque master's music. I struggle with correct tempo and timing. Not having a teacher, I'm an old dog learning new tricks!! Lol
Hello scuse me do you know some Dioniso aguado's beautiful Song?
Whats the easiest Bach tune i could learn on the guitar?
Jesu joy of man's desiring... is one of my favorite Bach pieces and really not that difficult on guitar.. Bach was a musical genius as you all know and it's just fun to "try" to interrupt his thinking as he wrote his beautiful scores. As you can tell, I love music theory... Great video, Bradford...
Thanks again for the honest advice... play simpler pieces. Few instructors will have the courage to tell students to be realistic. I for one appreciate it, do it, and have greatly improved from it.
Ya, it's tough because with in-person lessons I can encourage students to play at a higher level by really isolating a section and getting them to work it over and over until it's great but many online folk are just going for it without any checks.
I have a question for you. I would like to be able to play pieces like this one. I played classical guitar decades ago, and just decided to get back into it, bought a Cordoba C12, and am watching your lessons. Before taking the classical lessons I was self taught on steel string guitars, I used the thumb for the bottom 2 strings and the fingers each got a remaining string. Should I re-learn the fingering so I don't use the smallest finger for picking?
Can you play Sarabande BWV 1006? It's a Largo at 50-56/quarter note. Want to see if I'm keeping the time correctly.
Thanks for your Bach Q&A. Re difficulty of Bach on guitar "Everyone wants to go to heaven..."
For those of us not quite up to the Koonz edition, there is an old book with some simple Bach arrangements by Jerry Snyder. Probably Gr 3 or so. Not a huge number of pieces, but playable and enjoyable. Thanks again for your considerable efforts to help the masses!
Brad, when you gonna finish your fireplace?
Haha, never! Capping that one. Who doesn't like a grey monolith ?
@@Thisisclassicalguitar I think we need to be part of the decision process. We have all been trying to imagine the finished project for what seems like years now. I'm a little bit upset.
Isn't it pronounced barock?