Thank you for damping those bass notes, so everyone can hear what was actually written! VERY well played :)

That is the way you have to play this piece. Pause the bass and play the arpeggios note for note. Its Bach, Not Chopin :)

This is one of the best performances of this piece that I've ever seen. 👏

@gabrielbalogh3910

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, Lucas!

This way to play the prelude is quite eye-opener! Thanks for sharing!

That was beautiful

Very, very nice. Bravíssimo 👏👏👏👏

Bravo, best performance that I've seen. The finger replacement you do at 0:10 for E & C# is perfect and helpful. Will never be able to play as well as you do with damping the bass notes, but I'll be happy to just play the entire piece without making any mistakes. Cheers!

@gabrielbalogh3910

4 ай бұрын

Thanks Jimmy!

I close my eyes to see 🤩 👏

You are an amazing player Gabe,What they said. And thanks for talking about the rests I l love it!

That is beautiful Gabe!

Lovely!

Muito interessante sua abordagem desta música. Parabéns pela execução.

So lovely (& the new camera is awesome)

Специально продуманная аппликатура левой руки сделала возможной отличную артикуляцию. Большая редкость у гитаристов!

smashed it bruh

Interesting choice to play the arpeggios with no over-ringing. Can I ask your reasoning behind this choice? I ask because normally, in my opinion of course, this makes sense for melodic playing like you are doing in the bass line melody but the block chords chords on top represent one harmonic chord per bar. To hear that harmony, I would personally let the arpeggios over-ring to form a functional chord.

@gabrielbalogh3910

Жыл бұрын

Hi Brandon, nice to hear from you. This idea was a bit experimental; I enjoy feeling the rhythm in my left hand more than holding the chord would allow, and I also enjoy the sound of arpeggios played this way - as a keyboardist would do. To me it allows for more clarity in the voice leading. Thanks very much for watching! I appreciate your feedback.

@MikeFowlerguitars

Жыл бұрын

​@@gabrielbalogh3910 I've found that *stopping* over ringing, takes far more effort between the hands, than not doing it - credit it to you for pulling it off. It shows complete mastery of control. I was reading the other day and came across a quote attributed to both Debussy and Miles Davis, "Music is the space between the notes". It reminded me that in my own playing I have not being paying enough attention to actually stopping the notes once their function is complete. Well done. This piece is on my list of things to learn, I shall be coming back to it. 👍

I enjoyed that thank you 🍀

@gabrielbalogh3910

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

His inspirational performance is a paramount present for Bach lovers and guitar lovers My emotion is unfathomable depths FromTokyo

@gabrielbalogh3910

2 жыл бұрын

Wow thank you so much!

@shin-i-chikozima

2 жыл бұрын

@@gabrielbalogh3910 You are welcome I hope you are well

喜欢你的演奏！

@gabrielbalogh3910

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I get a little giddy every time you upload a video

Well played and good quality video! Which music do you have on your stand?

@gabrielbalogh3910

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Chris. That's the cello suites. Gonna record #6 soon

Beautifully done, Gabriel!! Nice looking video too - what camera did you use?

@gabrielbalogh3910

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Evan! I used a panasonic Lumix G85

Poco ortodoxa versión. Pero se oye muy bien. Me gusta la digitación.

Finally, someone who plays the bass notes like they're written (there's a video of Julian Bream here on KZread playing this piece at a party and even he doesn't play the bass notes correctly!). Regrettably, however, the piece is still not being performed as written. In bar 23 of the original score the E pedal note is raised a half step to an F. You can't play this on the guitar, but accomplished players will play the F an octave higher. That F note adds so much drama and suspense to the piece; I'm sure Bach would turn in his grave today if he heard any of these guitarists--actually, nearly all guitarists--just stubbornly repeat the E pedal note. Of course, this is due to the many incorrect guitar transcriptions of the piece that ignore the raised bass note in bar 23. But if you look at the original score that Bach wrote for the 'Lautenwerk,' you'll see the raised note in every edition. Bach had a very good reason to raise that note, which any trained musician can hear and appreciate. It's sad that so many guitarists--even those who play the bass notes correctly--don't observe it. Just listen to any pianist perform this piece. None of them, I repeat, no pianist, would ever just repeat the pedal note in bar 23! Just watch a few videos of pianists performing this piece and you'll immediately hear the difference.

@JaxonBurn

9 ай бұрын

I would disagree that the reason many guitarists play an E pedal there instead of an F is “due to the many incorrect guitar transcriptions”. It’s because of a technical problem. I would recommend that you in future give accomplished musicians the benefit of the doubt on matters like this, and not assume that the mistake is because they have not bothered to actually study the music, or because of some other form of negligence. The choice to play an E there rather than an F is a difficult choice every guitarist faces in this piece, and this particular performer, like many others, has decided that it is the lesser of evils. The alternative of playing the F an octave higher would maintain the original harmony of the piece, but it would be the only section in the piece where the bass suddenly jumps up like that, meaning that the bass as an independent line would be damaged. Other solutions include: playing the low F with the nose or chin; transposing the piece into an entirely different key; or having a friend nearby to fret the low F for us when it comes to that part. Indeed, all of these solutions have been used by many guitarists, while many others find these solutions to be inelegant. I’m also not sure your comment about Bach turning in his grave was warranted, though I appreciate your passion for this music!

@Hotsk

9 ай бұрын

@@JaxonBurn I appreciate your taking the time to comment. Let me explain a little: I too had played this piece for years--I'm sure you'd agree that it's a really fun piece to play!--in accordance with a transcription that simply repeated the E pedal tone. Then a few years ago I began learning to play the piano and BWV 999 came up. At first, when I saw the Eb in the bass of bar 23, I was convinced that it was a print error, but I investigated and found that it was actually my guitar transcription that was not correct! I now routinely play an F an octave higher in bar 23 (it easily fits perfectly in your fingers--no need to jump or stretch) and it sounds much more correct. Perhaps guitarists who don't also play this prelude on the piano find the pedal E bass note sounds better, but if you play the piano you'll feel that this one note is the most important, most dramatic note in the entire piece. Just listen to how the momentum and the forward drive pick up in bar 23 when a good pianist performs the piece (or better yet, if you play piano yourself, just play the D pedal note all the way through; you'll see that the piece is lacking something). Then look for the few guitarists here on KZread who play that F an octave higher rather than stubbornly repeating the E pedal tone. It works! Of course, every guitarist is free to play the piece however he wants. I prefer, however, to play it like Bach notated it. To me it just sounds boring when you repeat the open E string; it takes all the drive out. I would therefore at least urge you to try it; believe me, it sounds better (at least to a pianist's ear). Please give it a sincere try. Thank you, and thanks again for taking the time to comment; I appreciate it.

0:41 In the original text, in this particular bar the bass note should be one semitone higher, i. e. F instead of E (in С minor, E flat instead of D). Is it possible on the guitar?

@gabrielbalogh3910

Жыл бұрын

Hi there - yes I saw that, unfortunately it's not possible. It's an interesting choice by the composer to interrupt the long pedal on E. Some think it's a mistake, and I'm honestly not sure which version I prefer. Thanks for listening!

@BugrovAndrey

Жыл бұрын

@@gabrielbalogh3910 Имеет место коллизия правил. С одной стороны в органном пункте бас менять нельзя, с другой стороны ми и ми-бемоль в одной гармонии режет ухо. Во времена Баха резало, сейчас уже нет. Ваш вариант мне нравится больше

@Hotsk

Жыл бұрын

@@gabrielbalogh3910It is--somewhat--possible to play that F. You just need to play it an octave higher, which is no problem because your finger is already positioned there. Try it! It makes the whole piece sound more dramatic.

Why pause the bass notes?

@gabrielbalogh3910

2 жыл бұрын

Good question! Three big reasons: Firstly... becuase Bach wrote the rests. It's a lot more work, especially with a quill dipped in ink, to write rests in every bar than to write a half note, so we can assume that they were important to him. Secondly, because they add a rhythmic value that would otherwise be absent - with the rests, every rhythmic level from whole note to 16th can be heard. And lastly, the rests guide the ear from the bass to the upper voice and back again - they are a sort of musical-aural map. But most importantly, because I like the way they sound! Thanks for listening!

Great playing, what make of guitar?

@gabrielbalogh3910

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! That's a Steve Porter guitar from 2016

This is a C.P.E Bach song, not J.S Bach. CPE was his son

@gabrielbalogh3910

Жыл бұрын

Is that so? Every source I have seen says JS

@Hotsk

Жыл бұрын

It is not from CPE Bach. It is a guitar transcription of BWV 999, a piece JS Bach wrote for an instrument called the "Lautenwerk." (But you do raise an interesting point: I can't recall ever having heard a guitarist perform anything from CPE Bach--his idiosyncratic music doesn't really fit the guitar. I'll have to run a search...).

It sounds like you are racing to reach the end, not trying to entertain people with music

@gabrielbalogh3910

Жыл бұрын

Sorry you feel that way - this recording was a bit experimental. I tried different tempi and decided I liked the forward momentum. Different strokes I suppose! Anyway, thanks for listening.

To fast!