There's a dude that plays this song, Xavier I think is his name. Amazing play. He does it with no sheet music and I personally think the timing in his version is perfect. But it's a 12 minute play through.
@@jaredtandle2596 I completely agree with you Jared. He leaves these pauses after a sequence to let the reverberations die out, so in that sense he's playing the hall as much as the instrument. It's Xavier Varnus btw and he really varies the timing beautifully.
Awesome comment, haha. Deep Purple, Rainbow, Buffalo, and Angel Witch had some good proto-thrash songs throughout the 70's, but they were certainly beaten by a few hundred years with this one. Both Summer and Winter have movements that could be reinterpreted for Slayer.
Fun fact, this is one of Bach's lesser organ works (it's actually dated as among his juvenilia). It's a very catchy work but once you start delving into Bach's more beefier pieces (such as BWV 582, 543 and 538) the realization of his greatness just comes as a shock.
Yeah, the metalheads just shouldn't pretend it's metal. They shouldn't call neoclassical metal neoclassical music either because there already is a trend in classical music called neoclassicism (which was based on Stravinsky's music, not Bach's).
@@needlesinmyeyes7272 I didn't write that Bach's music is classical, I just wrote that neoclassical metal isn't necessarily the same as neoclassical music (which was a form of early 20th century classical music).
The resolution of the chord progression is so powerful and emotional. Bach is Math, his Pieces are designed to make eargasms🔥 absolutely a genius, plus this one is a great rendition to the piece💪🏼🔝
The Fantasia in g minor is even more extreme than the Toccata. Insane chromaticism, wailing solo lines, and an internal coherence that puts his earlier work in its place. The corresponding fugue is based on an Dutch dance tune, so it really can be made to move.
Man, you're the living proof of what I always have been saying: Metal musicians are the best! Love it how the first comment you made was about it being played in the wrong key just by hearing the notes, without trying it out on an instrument yourself, and you were spot on! I read up on the organ this was recorded on and it indeed is tuned one half-tone higher, a1 = 466 Hz so indeed the D comes out as an E flat. Kudos!
This is probably my all time favorite classical peice. Hard AF to play, amazing composition, incredible progression and just sound so creepy and dark and MWAH👌
Fun fact: It is very likely that Bach DID NOT compose this on organ, but on Bratsche (Viola) or Saitenclavier. I don't know the English word for Saitenclavier...it was THE instrument for organists to practice on. We also know from historical sources that Bach was nothing short of a beast on organ; his improvisation talent was legendary and he was considered the most virtuous organ player of his time, and is often regarded as the best organ player and organ composer of all times. He used his skills to give paid opinions on organs, and Bach was actually feared amongst pipe organ master builders (Orgelbaumeister). There are many reports of his contemporaries, that he often made the master builders sweat like apprentices: During his infamous paid pipe organ tests, especially when it was a commissioning/inauguration test, he pushed the instrument to its absolute limits, doing things nobody would dare. His son Carl Philipp Emanuel noted: *The father laughed merrily yet insidiously, and said for fun: "Above all things I must learn whether the organ has got good lungs!" - and to explore this the father pulled on [drew] all sounding registers [stops] and started to play as polyphonically as possible ...and the organ master builders stood in shock and turned pale, but then they heared an effect which left them astonished and deeply impressed.* Bach was known for his great ability to take a simple melody and quickly improvise it on organ into 4 voices or even 8 voices. Fan fact 2: Bach took the original composition for Bratsche or Saitenclavier and transposed/rewrote it for pipe organ, playing and creating it on the Arnstadt organ, most likely in 1704-1705, when he was 20 years old. This is it: The piece played on the organ it was composed hundreds of years earlier: ua-cam.com/video/HrOt-TNujHo/v-deo.html And here is the piece played on a Baroque organ with Baroque tuning as it was very common during Bach's lifetime: ua-cam.com/video/Nnuq9PXbywA/v-deo.html
Watching a master pipe organist at work is very similar to watching musicians working with the early Moog synths back in the day. So much going on. Your working the keys with your hands, the pedals with your feet and trying to find time to push/pull those levers off to the side and god forbid you don't have a page turner ;-) Not disimilar to having to move patch cables on the fly on a Moog. Also , great analysis of the theory.
I almost left this video because of the over-the-top opening. I figured what does this yahoo really know (judging the book by its cover thing) but I stayed. Now I am a subscriber. an awesome video with great info. Thanks
Thank you for the reintroduction to this fine piece of music. It was also cool seeing you apply your mad skills to show us how it works out in a guitar.
Bach, himself, was known to experiment with different tuning systems till he found one that he preferred the most, he was also known to reach in and retune harpsichords to his liking, he came across a tuning system that allowed him to modulate to other keys without having to retune his instruments and he composed two complete books of music, The Well Tempered Clavier and The Well Tempered Clavier II each book covered compositions in every key of the chromatic scale from C to B including all the sharps and flats, this new tuning system was the basis of our current equal-temperament tuning system we use now.
The final chords send shivers down my spine. I think that Brandenburg Concerto #5 falls in the category "first metal" too... The harpsicord does a spectacular solo.
Awesome lesson as always ! Any time you mention or talk about Randy Rhoads, My Guitar Hero and my musical inspiration , you have my full attention, Randy Rhoads Forever !!👍👍💪💪💪
@@ShredmasterScott Randy is and always will be the greatest in MY eyes and heart, if it wasn't for Randy I would never have picked up a guitar, especially a Jackson, and never put it down again 👍💪
Yes Shrek! I've heard people say Bach was writing Metal but didn't know it.. I say he knew. This very piece has so many badass metal riffs and harmonies. The creepy AF part is a super super exercise on guitar. Great job!
Your a beast!! Bach , Beethoven and Mozart are the best . There’s none better . They are the high priests of shred . Another great video. Keep them coming!!
Bach's an absolute genius and one of kind, there's actually a theme from trans-sibertian orchestra " Toccata-Carpimus Noctem" that's heavily inspired on bach's fugue, it could be interesting to hear it, thank you Shred !! Absolutly amazing job there! That Picardy 3rd it's always a very baroque touch , so gorgeous!!
Very cool, one of the most ancient organ and Cathedral in the world is Chartres,France known as the black church and the most Evil, or a portal to the unknown and obscure netherworlds
What about st. Matthew's passion?, it's just sublime. Perfection at its finest. Violent but at the same time heavenly. I'd love to see her on your channel. Greetings from México
Most metal pieceses: Bela Bartok's "music for string instruments, drums and celesta" (iirc), Penderecki's "polymorphia". Very satanic sounding. Bruckner's 9th Scherzi are also good runners up (he dedicated the Symphony to god but the scherzo is pure hell) Edit: and Mahler's 10th ... when we go into the darkness of hell and the music becomes static
Hy shred and greatins from Italy,on you tube i have seen many organ players on Dm fugue but they seem a little bit ‘cold” ...man, this one is an headbanger!!!🤟🤟🤟 ....zero dislikes🤔🤔 don t touch my Bach!!
Actually the reason why it sounds like Eb Minor is difference of tuning system back in the day. There is a book about characteristic feels of keys and in that book Eb mentioned as the saddest key due to tuning system. lf you want to learn more you can check out the video called "Which key is the saddest" by Adam Neely.
Mozart arrives in heaven and sees an old man playing the organ. Mozart asks the Metatron: "Who's that?" -- The Metatron annoyed: "Um, that's God. He thinks he is Bach."
I never expected a metal guitarist explaining a classical piece and breaking it down into very small parts... I used to play guitar for nearly 10 years but then I stopped and started to learn classical piano. Your videos gave me the feeling of picking up my guitar again, thank you very much for the hard work!
As a Boomer who first heard this in "Fantasia" decades ago and then became a classical music geek in high school (which is an awesome way to impress the girls, BTW [!]) I deeply enjoyed your characterisation of this piece as the First Metal (maybe "Proto-Metal?") and your breakdown of it. Well done, Sir. However, of course you know that Bach's intention was not to represent Evil, but to glorify the holy God and create a sense of overwhelming awe - which, seems to me, he delivers.
Shred, you rock, thank you for this. I love that you actually read our comments and take our suggestions for videos. This is my favorite piece ever. While I admire Leo's playing, Xaver Varnus gets the win for playing it from memory, no sheet music help whatsoever.
If you've never been in an old stone church with a good organ and a great organist in a sanctuary with good acoustics, I highly recommend it. Don't know how to look for one, exactly, but I grew up in one. That organ could make the room shake. Very cool of this channel to show the connection between metal rifs and JS Bach. Very nice of you to play the whole thing through. It made it sort of a reaction video, and I usually don't care for reaction videos. But you made your points and you managed not to step on JS Bach. Yeah. His études are very evocative and refreshing. I'm like them every bit as much as concertos.
Steven Seagal beautifully and thouroughly breaks down Bach and links it to MMMMmmmmetttaaalllll. Didn't expect this today from my UA-cam recommendations.
Just found out and suscribed!!! I think Chaconne from the second partita for solo violin is EVEN MORE METAL! Written in 1720 at the death of his wife. Nicht Bach, sondern Meer sollte er heißen!
Getting closer and closer to sell my soul... For me who is trying to get some understanding of theory & be able to play the guitar this is pure gold, reaction, analysis and some playing with explanation in perfect speed. I would love to see this with Wagners Tannhäuser, The Overture. Also love the explanation of all the terminology regarding classical music, the fugue etc. Soon maybe soon u own a soul in Sweden. Thanks for all your work.
i did appreciate the Spinal Tap reference, but also the tremendous analysis of this wonderful piece. Even just watching it in Fantasia as a kid who hadn't gotten into metal yet, i was immediately attracted to the music. there is just this visceral quality about it that i can't explain, but you can just feel it when you're in a big cathedral and the organ is playing this. you wouldn't expect it from The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, but their organist Richard Elliot does a fantastic performance of this piece, they even transformed the stage of the conference building into a grim and spooky graveyard in a forest vibe with smoke machines and lightning crashes, it's awesome.
Ok. I have to say, I'm not really knowledgable in music theory and history, and metal, and it's my first video from this channel, but I honestly found the intro really captivating, almost as if... Some otherworldly power forced me to keep watching on the video! Maybe I'm just easy to satisfy, but I give you a thumb up for that, and I give like, one thumb up every three months :p.
There were quite a few notable headbangers during that era. Let's not forget Vivald and the Four Seasons, particularly the shred in the Presto of the Summer movement.
Interesting - I’m an organist, and always thought it was metal. Listen to Messiaen or Langlais and you’ll get more closer to modern metal for sure. As for tuning - baroque tuning would bring “d” closer to a “c#”. Perhaps it is the tuning of this particular organ.
Wonderful! Thanks. This piece works in so many arrangements, from solo keyboard (any type) to string quartet; full orchestra (Stokowski, in 'Fantasia'); solo guitar, harp ... and metal guitar! Other pieces for Full Metal Treatment? Berlioz, in particular the 'tuba mirum' and 'dies irae' from his Requiem. The apocalypse like you've never heard it before! Also part of his 'Symphonie Fantastique', specially the March to the Scaffold. There. The scaffold alone should grab attention!
I love that you did this one. Amazing and so timeless. Goes without saying. What I love about Vivaldi is his use of evil notes in scarcity. When you have time you should dazzle the world with a Vivaldi study!!
Fun fact: rock and metal came about in large part due to the rise of home organs in American and British households, combined with the influence of delta blues from black musicians from the south moving to northern cities. Many of the OG rock people got their start on the organ/piano, and likely had experience playing this kind of music. You can hear the influence of a lot of classical and romantic repertoire in metal, many bands even borrow or modify licks from classical music. Anyone who's interested in metal should get familiar with classical if you want inspiration (or free material to steal or modify 🤫) Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Rachmaninoff and Liszt are all great sources for inspiration.
I don't know where you got your knowledge from Shred, but I'm hella glad you did. Been listening to this piece for years and you made me listen with new ears. Perfect :)
🔴 First METAL PIECE | BACH'S FUGUE IN Dm Tab:
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Wonder if Bach had groupies?
I love how you show where the roots originated in this video. If I had the cash, I'd donate to you man. Please don't stop making vids my evil dude!
@@AD1978leo 100%!! I'll bet the guy playing has some freaks his age after him lol
There's a dude that plays this song, Xavier I think is his name. Amazing play. He does it with no sheet music and I personally think the timing in his version is perfect. But it's a 12 minute play through.
@@jaredtandle2596 I completely agree with you Jared. He leaves these pauses after a sequence to let the reverberations die out, so in that sense he's playing the hall as much as the instrument. It's Xavier Varnus btw and he really varies the timing beautifully.
I would really like to see a analysis of Vivaldi's proto-thrash masterpiece Winter
Awesome comment, haha. Deep Purple, Rainbow, Buffalo, and Angel Witch had some good proto-thrash songs throughout the 70's, but they were certainly beaten by a few hundred years with this one. Both Summer and Winter have movements that could be reinterpreted for Slayer.
Vivaldi storm rules!
You should check out Curved Air's interpretation of Vivaldi: ua-cam.com/video/MFkreAv9aD4/v-deo.html
Is there no love for Uli Jon Roth's interpretation of Vivaldi?
Vivaldi wrote music for 6 electric guitars whether he knew it or not.
Fun fact, this is one of Bach's lesser organ works (it's actually dated as among his juvenilia). It's a very catchy work but once you start delving into Bach's more beefier pieces (such as BWV 582, 543 and 538) the realization of his greatness just comes as a shock.
Not including St Anne's fugue (552), tsk tsk.
throwing bwv 546, 547 and 548 in there
Crazy. He'd laugh at modern music.
It's not even by Bach
@@Vextrove yes it is. Unless there is proof otherwise.
This is a great piece to show metalheads who aren't familiar with classical music. It's beautiful, heavy, and complex all at once.
Definitely
Yeah, the metalheads just shouldn't pretend it's metal. They shouldn't call neoclassical metal neoclassical music either because there already is a trend in classical music called neoclassicism (which was based on Stravinsky's music, not Bach's).
@@JerehmiaBoaz to be precise, this isnt classical either. Bach is classified as baroque.
@@needlesinmyeyes7272 I didn't write that Bach's music is classical, I just wrote that neoclassical metal isn't necessarily the same as neoclassical music (which was a form of early 20th century classical music).
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I think Tchaikovsky is pretty metal. The 1812 Overture has cannons in it.
That's really metal if you ask me
His most metal song is Marche slave, you should hear that one, very powerful.
Check out Tchaikovsky's Serenade Melancolique . It work's great on guitar. Been playing it for 30+ years.
@@Pax3897 Thank you, I will.
Yeah Tchaikovsky is sick he is probably my second favorite composer
@@MuhDog He is one of mine favs too, but dang theres A LOT of Really good Classical/Metal music
That was so evil.... I expected to see King Diamond jump out from behind that pipe organ and sing: "GRAAAANDMAAAAAAA!"
King Diamond - wow there's a flashback, thanks !
I knew the song before seeing Clerks 2, but I'll never hear it again without thinking of that drive thru window
I‘ve been both a metal and a Bach Fan for several years. Now i know why.
If you're a Bach fan, you're a metal fan.
Bach is a gold mine for metal musicians. Both Mozart and Beethoven regarded Bach as a musical demi-god.
D minor is in my opinion the best key for metal composing. Maybe even the best key for acoustic guitar. And remember, D stands for D...😆
amazing key
Damnation!
D minor is definitely a great key for metal, and that's a big reason why I tune my guitar down to D Standard.
That's also how I remember to take my vitamin D. Without metal, I would be deficient.
@@ShredmasterScott I love the technical insight you have in terms of composition
"My foot fetish is growing stronger"
Shred continues to amaze me. It blew my mind when he played the Spanish guitar.
The resolution of the chord progression is so powerful and emotional. Bach is Math, his Pieces are designed to make eargasms🔥 absolutely a genius, plus this one is a great rendition to the piece💪🏼🔝
Looking forward to the master of EVIL reaching 100 k subs. well deserved!
He is almost there.
it's been a long road through hell
@@ShredmasterScott If it was easy.... everybody would do it.
Bach was 18 when he wrote the D minor. I'd love to hear your take on Fantasia and Fugue in G minor (The Great)
The Fantasia in g minor is even more extreme than the Toccata. Insane chromaticism, wailing solo lines, and an internal coherence that puts his earlier work in its place. The corresponding fugue is based on an Dutch dance tune, so it really can be made to move.
Beethoven's moonlight Sinatra, 3rd movement would be my choice of next topics. Love Bach btw. Is there any Mozart that's metal like?
@@jasongimello234 Don Giovanni and the Requiem come to mind
I've heard people say many things about this piece but,
"my foot fetish is growing stronger"
is a first
it's my favorite classical music piece of all time, there's an excellent version here on UA-cam played in a church in Germany
That last chord sequence always gives me chills. Love JS Bach.
9:18 it's almost like the call-response of gospel music. Bach was just way ahead of his time on so many fronts!
When the fugue section started I instantly heard the intro to Last Rites by Megadeth
Legoshi
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@@Draeus_Prime lmao
Man, you're the living proof of what I always have been saying: Metal musicians are the best! Love it how the first comment you made was about it being played in the wrong key just by hearing the notes, without trying it out on an instrument yourself, and you were spot on! I read up on the organ this was recorded on and it indeed is tuned one half-tone higher, a1 = 466 Hz so indeed the D comes out as an E flat. Kudos!
I'm glad you included the fugue section. It is a beautiful section, and often people never made it past the toccata.
This is probably my all time favorite classical peice. Hard AF to play, amazing composition, incredible progression and just sound so creepy and dark and MWAH👌
Fun fact: It is very likely that Bach DID NOT compose this on organ, but on Bratsche (Viola) or Saitenclavier. I don't know the English word for Saitenclavier...it was THE instrument for organists to practice on. We also know from historical sources that Bach was nothing short of a beast on organ; his improvisation talent was legendary and he was considered the most virtuous organ player of his time, and is often regarded as the best organ player and organ composer of all times. He used his skills to give paid opinions on organs, and Bach was actually feared amongst pipe organ master builders (Orgelbaumeister). There are many reports of his contemporaries, that he often made the master builders sweat like apprentices:
During his infamous paid pipe organ tests, especially when it was a commissioning/inauguration test, he pushed the instrument to its absolute limits, doing things nobody would dare.
His son Carl Philipp Emanuel noted: *The father laughed merrily yet insidiously, and said for fun: "Above all things I must learn whether the organ has got good lungs!" - and to explore this the father pulled on [drew] all sounding registers [stops] and started to play as polyphonically as possible ...and the organ master builders stood in shock and turned pale, but then they heared an effect which left them astonished and deeply impressed.*
Bach was known for his great ability to take a simple melody and quickly improvise it on organ into 4 voices or even 8 voices.
Fan fact 2: Bach took the original composition for Bratsche or Saitenclavier and transposed/rewrote it for pipe organ, playing and creating it on the Arnstadt organ, most likely in 1704-1705, when he was 20 years old.
This is it: The piece played on the organ it was composed hundreds of years earlier: ua-cam.com/video/HrOt-TNujHo/v-deo.html
And here is the piece played on a Baroque organ with Baroque tuning as it was very common during Bach's lifetime: ua-cam.com/video/Nnuq9PXbywA/v-deo.html
00:14
Best transition in history.
All jokes aside, this was an amazing video!
Shred cry is a true delight
Shred is the best!
Watching a master pipe organist at work is very similar to watching musicians working with the early Moog synths back in the day. So much going on. Your working the keys with your hands, the pedals with your feet and trying to find time to push/pull those levers off to the side and god forbid you don't have a page turner ;-) Not disimilar to having to move patch cables on the fly on a Moog. Also , great analysis of the theory.
11:30 made me laugh unexpectedly, it wasn't what I was expecting to hear 😅 Great video and examples 💛
3:05 I can't be the only one hearing thunderstruck here
I almost left this video because of the over-the-top opening. I figured what does this yahoo really know (judging the book by its cover thing) but I stayed. Now I am a subscriber. an awesome video with great info. Thanks
Thank you for the reintroduction to this fine piece of music. It was also cool seeing you apply your mad skills to show us how it works out in a guitar.
Bach, himself, was known to experiment with different tuning systems till he found one that he preferred the most, he was also known to reach in and retune harpsichords to his liking, he came across a tuning system that allowed him to modulate to other keys without having to retune his instruments and he composed two complete books of music, The Well Tempered Clavier and The Well Tempered Clavier II each book covered compositions in every key of the chromatic scale from C to B including all the sharps and flats, this new tuning system was the basis of our current equal-temperament tuning system we use now.
Do more Bach.
The final chords send shivers down my spine.
I think that Brandenburg Concerto #5 falls in the category "first metal" too... The harpsicord does a spectacular solo.
You picked my absolute favorite version of the piece. This massive organ and amazing pianists do it amazing jutice.
“…..It’s like a mathematical equation, that still sounds musical….”
🤘🏽
Amazing, I'm happy to have found someone enjoying Bach's flow that much. Thanks for the video!!
Awesome lesson as always ! Any time you mention or talk about Randy Rhoads, My Guitar Hero and my musical inspiration , you have my full attention, Randy Rhoads Forever !!👍👍💪💪💪
Father Rhoads is missed
@@ShredmasterScott Randy is and always will be the greatest in MY eyes and heart, if it wasn't for Randy I would never have picked up a guitar, especially a Jackson, and never put it down again 👍💪
Yes Shrek! I've heard people say Bach was writing Metal but didn't know it.. I say he knew.
This very piece has so many badass metal riffs and harmonies. The creepy AF part is a super super exercise on guitar. Great job!
Superb video. It ate my soul while watching. Congratulations
Handsdown the best breakdown of my favorite Bach piece!👏
Just 2 words : thank you !
I loved and watched the entire episode, Shred! Keep making your content! Great job!
Your a beast!! Bach , Beethoven and Mozart are the best . There’s none better . They are the high priests of shred . Another great video. Keep them coming!!
They are good. Amazing. Awesome. But the HIGH priest of shred is Paganini.
@@floodwatcher8623 Paganini is a lesser composer though.
Buxtehude, Vivaldi, Biber, Heinichen, Telemann, Rameau, Couperin, Alessandro & Domenico Scarlatti, Händel, Monteverdi, Locatelli, Hayden, Liszt, Chopin, Schubert, Verdi, Wagner, Bruch, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Purcell, Dowland, Elgar, Britten, Debussy...all priests and high priests to the SHRED!!!
Bach's an absolute genius and one of kind, there's actually a theme from trans-sibertian orchestra " Toccata-Carpimus Noctem" that's heavily inspired on bach's fugue, it could be interesting to hear it, thank you Shred !! Absolutly amazing job there! That Picardy 3rd it's always a very baroque touch , so gorgeous!!
Hey shred, how about make a reaction vid to megadeth feeding the ducks (by bradley hall)
And dream theater with lego passion🤣
@@Hadri_ART yeah
holy shit I just learned more about music in the first 4 min. of this video then in the other 39 years of my life
This is my new favorite channel.
Very cool, one of the most ancient organ and Cathedral in the world is Chartres,France known as the black church and the most Evil, or a portal to the unknown and obscure netherworlds
"I wish this church was my house".... totally agree!
Could you please make a reaction to Arvopart's "Credo"?
I love your videos!
Great video Shred. 100k wicked followers are coming soon to follow you and your fret board wizardry.
Just discovered this channel. Don't know how I missed it. Thank you UA-cam Algorithm. Definitely subscribed.
Not one dislike that’s the power of Bach
More, MUCH MORE Bach please, Mr. Shred.
What about st. Matthew's passion?, it's just sublime. Perfection at its finest. Violent but at the same time heavenly. I'd love to see her on your channel. Greetings from México
that was amazing, incredible sounds and organ
Thanks for sharing the knowledge..
Absolutely great.
Most metal pieceses: Bela Bartok's "music for string instruments, drums and celesta" (iirc), Penderecki's "polymorphia". Very satanic sounding. Bruckner's 9th Scherzi are also good runners up (he dedicated the Symphony to god but the scherzo is pure hell)
Edit: and Mahler's 10th ... when we go into the darkness of hell and the music becomes static
love that Bartok piece....it's in the Shining
@@ShredmasterScott actually the penderecki is too: when the blood comes out of the elevators
Bartok's Allegro Barbaro and 4-th String Quartet are quite powerful.
Hy shred and greatins from Italy,on you tube i have seen many organ players on Dm fugue but they seem a little bit ‘cold” ...man, this one is an headbanger!!!🤟🤟🤟 ....zero dislikes🤔🤔 don t touch my Bach!!
Very cool! Enjoyed that a much,
Actually the reason why it sounds like Eb Minor is difference of tuning system back in the day. There is a book about characteristic feels of keys and in that book Eb mentioned as the saddest key due to tuning system. lf you want to learn more you can check out the video called "Which key is the saddest" by Adam Neely.
some organ versions are in D though....any idea what's up with that?
@@ShredmasterScott lt is probably the tuning preference of the composers but l dont have a certain information about it.
By far the best breakdown of this piece for guitar. Not just another tab video
Before he passed away he said “I’ll be Bach”
Mozart arrives in heaven and sees an old man playing the organ. Mozart asks the Metatron: "Who's that?"
-- The Metatron annoyed: "Um, that's God. He thinks he is Bach."
I never expected a metal guitarist explaining a classical piece and breaking it down into very small parts... I used to play guitar for nearly 10 years but then I stopped and started to learn classical piano. Your videos gave me the feeling of picking up my guitar again, thank you very much for the hard work!
He was a genius - no doubt. I LOVE metal and I love Bach. ♪♪♫♪♪
Wow! I wasn't aware! That Bach sound is insane D: O: 😍
Super impressed I've always have had great amount of respect for this kind of music
As a Boomer who first heard this in "Fantasia" decades ago and then became a classical music geek in high school (which is an awesome way to impress the girls, BTW [!]) I deeply enjoyed your characterisation of this piece as the First Metal (maybe "Proto-Metal?") and your breakdown of it. Well done, Sir. However, of course you know that Bach's intention was not to represent Evil, but to glorify the holy God and create a sense of overwhelming awe - which, seems to me, he delivers.
Megadeth’s intro to Last Rites definitely came from this
Outstanding brother!
Thank you Shred, I asked you about this a while back, thanks for getting to it!
Shred, you rock, thank you for this. I love that you actually read our comments and take our suggestions for videos. This is my favorite piece ever. While I admire Leo's playing, Xaver Varnus gets the win for playing it from memory, no sheet music help whatsoever.
If you've never been in an old stone church with a good organ and a great organist in a sanctuary with good acoustics, I highly recommend it. Don't know how to look for one, exactly, but I grew up in one. That organ could make the room shake.
Very cool of this channel to show the connection between metal rifs and JS Bach.
Very nice of you to play the whole thing through. It made it sort of a reaction video, and I usually don't care for reaction videos. But you made your points and you managed not to step on JS Bach.
Yeah. His études are very evocative and refreshing. I'm like them every bit as much as concertos.
man i can swear this is the best channel ive found in the last couple of years! what a evil legend
Thanks for your time a dedication to the arts. And also for allowing us to see more deeply than we normally would.
Steven Seagal beautifully and thouroughly breaks down Bach and links it to MMMMmmmmetttaaalllll. Didn't expect this today from my UA-cam recommendations.
Dope video 🤘🏻
Just found out and suscribed!!! I think Chaconne from the second partita for solo violin is EVEN MORE METAL! Written in 1720 at the death of his wife. Nicht Bach, sondern Meer sollte er heißen!
Bernie Sanders playing the organ! 🤘🏽
Such a good channel!
Wow! What a fantastic peice. A caco-demoniacal dissonance of exquisite morbidity. Absolutely breathtaking!
Getting closer and closer to sell my soul... For me who is trying to get some understanding of theory & be able to play the guitar this is pure gold, reaction, analysis and some playing with explanation in perfect speed. I would love to see this with Wagners Tannhäuser, The Overture. Also love the explanation of all the terminology regarding classical music, the fugue etc. Soon maybe soon u own a soul in Sweden. Thanks for all your work.
i did appreciate the Spinal Tap reference, but also the tremendous analysis of this wonderful piece. Even just watching it in Fantasia as a kid who hadn't gotten into metal yet, i was immediately attracted to the music. there is just this visceral quality about it that i can't explain, but you can just feel it when you're in a big cathedral and the organ is playing this.
you wouldn't expect it from The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, but their organist Richard Elliot does a fantastic performance of this piece, they even transformed the stage of the conference building into a grim and spooky graveyard in a forest vibe with smoke machines and lightning crashes, it's awesome.
Ok. I have to say, I'm not really knowledgable in music theory and history, and metal, and it's my first video from this channel, but I honestly found the intro really captivating, almost as if... Some otherworldly power forced me to keep watching on the video! Maybe I'm just easy to satisfy, but I give you a thumb up for that, and I give like, one thumb up every three months :p.
There were quite a few notable headbangers during that era. Let's not forget Vivald and the Four Seasons, particularly the shred in the Presto of the Summer movement.
Absolutely amazing, brilliant and mind blowing. Just the foot work alone! Technically, musically, physically.
Interesting - I’m an organist, and always thought it was metal. Listen to Messiaen or Langlais and you’ll get more closer to modern metal for sure.
As for tuning - baroque tuning would bring “d” closer to a “c#”. Perhaps it is the tuning of this particular organ.
Wonderful! Thanks. This piece works in so many arrangements, from solo keyboard (any type) to string quartet; full orchestra (Stokowski, in 'Fantasia'); solo guitar, harp ... and metal guitar! Other pieces for Full Metal Treatment? Berlioz, in particular the 'tuba mirum' and 'dies irae' from his Requiem. The apocalypse like you've never heard it before! Also part of his 'Symphonie Fantastique', specially the March to the Scaffold. There. The scaffold alone should grab attention!
You know classical music was metal in its earliest form when the pipe organ player starts banging his head to the music
Very awesome dude! 🤘
Your understanding of music is outstanding.
This is such an amazing composition by Bach. A true . musical masterpiece. Thank you for acknowledging this
Great analysis. Long live the metal! RiP RR...
I love that you did this one. Amazing and so timeless. Goes without saying.
What I love about Vivaldi is his use of evil notes in scarcity. When you have time you should dazzle the world with a Vivaldi study!!
This was amazing, putting all the pieces together like this is really great!!
Fun fact: rock and metal came about in large part due to the rise of home organs in American and British households, combined with the influence of delta blues from black musicians from the south moving to northern cities. Many of the OG rock people got their start on the organ/piano, and likely had experience playing this kind of music. You can hear the influence of a lot of classical and romantic repertoire in metal, many bands even borrow or modify licks from classical music. Anyone who's interested in metal should get familiar with classical if you want inspiration (or free material to steal or modify 🤫) Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Rachmaninoff and Liszt are all great sources for inspiration.
The Metal tonnage of this recital is beyond measure!🤘🤯
Beautiful. Delightful commentary as well.
You crack me up, dude. Outstanding musical knowledge, too. Kudos to you.
Randy is my biggest influence. The man was so far ahead of his time. Remember, he was playing like he did in the mid 70’s! The man was unbelievable.
I don't know where you got your knowledge from Shred, but I'm hella glad you did.
Been listening to this piece for years and you made me listen with new ears. Perfect :)
lol when he was playing the guitar the mic was clipping
anyways great video man, i need to get into classical