Been waiting for this since 1982. Thank you so much.

so is Philip Glass like a freak of nature genius master? Like how can this music hit so deep in my soul?

If anyone can't "get" the polyrhythm, try this. Learn the first bar (both hands separately) then play together/right/left/right/together/right/left/right/repeat. Just the first bar. Do that for a while, slowly speed up, and it'll suddenly click. Then immediately fall apart. But you've done it now, and a little while later it'll be with you forever.

@firstanama4573

4 ай бұрын

Yes I am having trouble . The second note in left hand throws me off when I play both hands together

@skelly790

4 ай бұрын

@@firstanama4573There's another method which will probably make piano teachers throw things, but for triplets I occasionally enter the notes into a midi sequencer - I use Atom 2 on an iPad, but other sequencers are available - then slow the tempo and play along to that. It's using the sequencer as a polyrhythmic metronome. You can play clicks, or notes on a piano plugin, whatever. Incorporate either method into practice sessions. A few minutes a day. You'll get it in the end. Might take a week or two. I struggled on and off for weeks on bars 47 - 49 of Wichita Vortex Sutra (writing the notes out, lowest common denominator and counting etc) but the sequencer method nailed it in an hour.

I don't play the piano (only guitar and bass, and poorly at that), but this was super interesting. Thanks for unweaving the rainbow for me a little bit :)

Vikingur Olaffson’s recording of this is the gold standard, imo. Absolutely stunning

Love Phillip Glass - Koyaanisquatsi pretty much changed my life!

Thanks!

@ImpliedMusic

Сағат бұрын

thank you!

An absolute masterpiece, changed my life! Rubric it´s when it really hits like a sledgehammer (after 100+ listenings)! Glass and Pärt really moves my soul! (says me a mere simple sheetmetal worker...)

@donovanjones4175

27 күн бұрын

Agreed, from a simple truck driver, sometimes hard to drive with tears in my eyes

I wish when I was young you where my music teacher love for music love your videos ❤️.

I first heard Glass' work when watching the original theater release of Koyaaniskatsi. What a revelation that experience was in my life. It was like a feeling of, "Are you even allowed to do this?"

Merci!

@ImpliedMusic

2 ай бұрын

merci!

I just heard a take on this - on a KZread video - by an Italian guitarist (elecritic jazz) who obviously recorded it in two takes. He was air-syncing the upper part in the video. His tone was lovely. He staged it inside an Italian chapel which bent it toward spirituality. It does have echoes of an Ave Maria or, as you said, a Bach Prelude. It’s becoming a Glass fave. It ‘s like floating down a stream; sometimes in sun, sometimes in shade, peaceful and serene. Very beautiful. Thanks for the introduction!

I like the modulation of the bar long bass notes too. Underneath the seemingly quick dancing polyrhythm is a slow pulse and its modulation, especially as it is played on the record, is slower still.

I bought it when it came out and I love it every bit as much today as I did way back when, even the fast and furious pieces

I've heard this piece before and I like it. Thanks for helping me to appreciate it more - especially the polyrhythm. I've only recently learned about such things, and I wouldn't have noticed it without somebody pointing it out.

Saved to my "Inspiring" YT folder. Rating on the analysis, presentation and of course the music, makes it "a watch again". I just wish I could play it. Thank you.

Great video! More like this please

Beautiful music, beautiful video. Thank you❤️✨

Love this analysis

It's an extraordinary piece - simple (in a way) and very moving. As you described the harmonies are very carefully chosen. I love that Eb7 against Ab - creates tension and then later the jump up to the Bb 2nd inversion and shift to Ab creates a more positive moment in what is quite a melancholic piece. In addition to Glass being influential, I think Reich is just as influential - possibly moreso. Loved the analysis and performance.

You play this piece beautifully !

Excellent video thank you 👍

Thanks for sharing your knowledge, you're wonderful to listen to.

@ImpliedMusic

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! That means a lot coming from you.

I know this beautiful piece of music has been used in many films - but I always associate it with 'Breathless' - the 1983 remake of 'A Bout De Souffle' starring Richard Gere and Valerie Kaprisky. Glass's evocative music features throughout the film and is so moving each time. But the scene where Valerie Kaprisky is swimming in the pool to Glass' deeply hypnotic music is amazing. The combination of Glass' beautiful music and a beautiful woman is simply stunning.

I for one love Glass's music. And all the more so because it is easy to understand. He uses a standard palate. Nothing fancy. The"mystery" is how he does so much with them. Thank you for shedding light on that. Listening to some of your videos it seems that a lot -- not all, but maybe 80%? -- of what Glass does can boil down to five or six innovations. It would be great if you could do a video on how to layer one innovation onto another to move from something standard to something that is Glass-like. (Which is more or less what I end up doing most of the time when I play around on my DAW.)

I kept thinking throughout this video that this sounds like beautifully written Game Music or even music for a Movie. It's always good to have my thoughts confirmed by a professional. I really liked this piece. Thanks for playing and explaining it. It's helpful, in my opinion, to have background on a song. I like to hear a piece through, then find out the background and see just how much that information influences my impressions and feelings when I hear it the second time through. Thank You!

Love this piece, nice analysis. I actually wrote out a chord chart for it just to try figure out what he's doing (still not sure at times, lol), such a wonderful mystery he weaves with these changes!

Yep. Nice.

I saw the Glassworks tour live in 83, was fucking amazing

@ImpliedMusic

8 ай бұрын

Awesome

@flightlessbird2281

8 ай бұрын

@@ImpliedMusic was super loud, like rock band level of volume. Made it surreal, like sci-fi music.

Burmecia - final fantasy 9 soundtrack 😮

To me Glass’ harmony is the melody. I know many of those cord progressions by heart. It just makes the melody very slow. Not much anxiety to the music even if the notes are fast.

@ImpliedMusic

10 ай бұрын

great way to put it. the harmonic 'rhythm' becomes its own melody.

thanks

5:00 Sounds a bit like the first prelude from the first book of the "Well tempered clavier" by J S BACH.

is this classical? i don’t know! but glass is one of the few composers outside of rock and pop, that i really like and this is his absolute masterpiece.

@ImpliedMusic

9 ай бұрын

I’d certainly call it classical. Glass has big crossover energy though, you’re right.

earned my subscription, ive been parcing out trying to learn this by ear from the record on guitar, i made a breakthrough last night with it. i want to try with these chords but its difficult in that key. can this be transpoosed so that first chord is an E minor

@ImpliedMusic

9 ай бұрын

what if you capo at the first fret?

@ivyisle

9 ай бұрын

@@ImpliedMusic but then what do the other chords become?

@ImpliedMusic

9 ай бұрын

okay. the progression of say, the first section in concert is: Fm Cm7/Eb and then a complicated Ebsus7/Db. if you transpose down a half step you'll get : Em Bm/D and "complicated" Dsus7/C. the shapes will be from your open string vocabulary, but if you capo, it'll sound as 4 flats. transposition is a time consuming process. my current favorite classical/contemporary youtube guitarist is Alan Mearns. highly recommend his channel for inspiration.@@ivyisle

92 to the quarter note

C'est passionnant de t'écouter parler de la musique. J'aimerai ton avis sur un francais des annees 70 qui s'appelle François de Roubaix. Et il a fait ca : 'Dernier domicile connu' c'est un ost. C'est cool en 2023 on peut chacun parler sa langue. Et aussi le 'closing' du meme Glass. Et puis encore un francais... Les gymnopedies.

@ImpliedMusic

11 ай бұрын

merci! je ne connais pas Fançois de Roubaix, mais je vais le chercher.

polyrhythm; time split up in a few different ways / 2 or more rhythms going on at the same time