I know people are joking about the percussionist (it _is_ funny), but, speaking as a percussionist myself, this is actually a very, very difficult piece of music to play for the percussionist. Imagine having to play the same rhythm for 18 minutes, all the while making it a perfectly even crescendo, all played with painstaking consistency. That is _really_ difficult.

3 жыл бұрын

so it's not like Pachelbel at all?

@jimvandemoter6961

2 жыл бұрын

You're absolutely right. Playing the same pattern over and over consistently is extremely difficult. I've played guitar almost 60 years and have played many styles from the classics to swing jazz and 60's, 70's and 80's rock.

@jasonulloa

Жыл бұрын

Or Music for Pieces of Wood

@JoeJackson-rq2fg

Жыл бұрын

I would imagine so! I've been listening to recordings of this obsessively and admiring how, despite the gradual crescendo, the percussionist is the one who holds the piece together and away from becoming a runaway train.

@martinvarela6133

6 ай бұрын

It is true. It's so hard.

You have a very good ear! Ravel knew that a piccolo Flute tended to get out of tune when it played higher notes. So in order to keep the audiance's "ear" entertained he scored the 2nd Piccolo Flute & 1st Horn to play the theme while the Celesta joined in at an interval of a Major 4th (in octaves) and the 1st Piccolo joined in at an interval of a Major 6th. (In other words: an 2nd inversion of a C chord). A bizarre treatment of a simple theme. Truly genius!

@quinn7894

2 жыл бұрын

I think that the instruments are actually playing the overtones/harmonics of the melody. The french horn plays the 1st harmonic, and the celesta plays the same melody one and two octaves up with each hand, playing the 2nd and 4th harmonics respectively. One of the piccolos plays the same melody an octave and a fifth above, playing the 3rd harmonic of the melody, and the other piccolo plays the melody two octaves and a major third above, playing the 5th harmonic of the melody. This part is particularly interesting because it's the only part with a celesta. The celesta plays no where else, not even at the end. This is also the only part with two piccolos playing at the same time as well.

Cellist in pachelbel's canon vs. drummer in Bolero

@Musicrafter12

6 жыл бұрын

But the cellist only has to endure 4 minutes, the drummer has to do 18

@bmort1313

6 жыл бұрын

Or cellist in both cases

@Passingman_

5 жыл бұрын

D-A-B-F-G-D-G-A- VS Ta TadadaTa TadadaTa Ta Ta TadadaTa Tadadadadadadadada

@hunterm8877

5 жыл бұрын

There's no vs if they both lose

@jacobtapianieto9655

5 жыл бұрын

Shostakovich's development of the 1st movement of the 7th Symphony (Leningrad) can compete as well for the drum part.

This was originally considered to be the main tune for the first Legend of Zelda. The tune which we know as the Zelda main theme only came to be because Bolero was still copyrighted.

@NoahSpencer008

8 жыл бұрын

I'm glad that it is copyrighted. The Zelda theme now is amazing!

@brooke221

8 жыл бұрын

+ContraZombie4 Honestly the first thing I thought when I heard this was that it sounded so like Zelda. This gives me such relief knowing that it actually was going to be included

@jasonulloa

Жыл бұрын

It's public domain in most countries, but it's still under copyright in the US until 2025.

@renatabrandao1796

Жыл бұрын

But they still used in Ocarina of Time in the Bolero of Fire theme!!

You can't imagine how much I would love to animate Holst's the planets but I'm afraid I can't do without funding. At the moment all of Bach's works are free but other composers / requests I'd have to charge for. It is a harsh reality but I'm trying to make a buck like everyone else and scrolling Bach is my way of presenting my skills to the world in order to get some kind of work. Please forgive me.

7:50 Ravel: **yeets functional harmony out the window** HERE HAVE A DOMINANT SEVENTH PARALLEL HARMONY FOR 18 MEASURES! Genius

@johannsebastianbach3411

4 жыл бұрын

It's because of the car crash lol

@lexer1231

4 жыл бұрын

I wish I could understand this slang

@pineapplewhatever5906

4 жыл бұрын

I think it's supposed to reinforce the 7th harmonic.

@PkrBarMovie

4 жыл бұрын

Music rules are not broken but discovered.

@thekathal

4 жыл бұрын

It’s imitating organ stops

This type of score visualization is perfect for understanding better how the music is written!

@CalebdGM

8 жыл бұрын

+Juan Bonnett I wish I didn't have to memorize which line was which instrument. I prefer regular scores where it has the parts divided by instrument, and it has initials for the instruments at the beginning of each line.

the drummer of this piece and the cellist of Pachelbel's canon must be good friends, sharing a beer at the feels bar

I love it how the flute's breathing technique in the beginning comes out as triads, so well fitting the rhythm

i saw this live when i was a little kid and i hummed it for weeks so now its ingrained in my brain and itll come back to me and get stuck in my head at random times its kinda nice that this piece has been with me through so many years in the back of my mind

6:58 the sopranino saxophone goes over a quarter-step sharp... ouch!

@TimeStrider

7 жыл бұрын

So that wasn't my imagination then!

@cerridwen20

5 жыл бұрын

yes, so much yes.

@pondwithducks3092

5 жыл бұрын

I noticed it but was not bothered

@darrenvegamusic

5 жыл бұрын

I'm bothered by it as well

@weng4197

3 жыл бұрын

It’s jazz

This is the perfect song to listen to while taking a math test. And the scrolling score adds a whole new visual dimension to it. I love it!

@duryi6399

6 ай бұрын

Piece not a song

Oh dear that saxophone is so very sharp...

This video was dedicated to Jabba, the Hut ( 17:20 ). May the force be with him.

This is is my first expeience with a scrolling score and I agree. Not only to folks with reading challenges. This type of display could be of inordinate value for any musician. The leadijng edge of the vertical pink bars is almost always synchronized to the beat. Outstanding!

My hat is off to you sir, a brilliant idea and your graphic realization was so precisely in sync with the music! When congratulated on the success of Bolero by one member of the press (reviewer, critic?) Ravel said "Yes, I seem to have a hit, too bad there is no music in it." This, for a work that is performed live every 15 minutes somewhere on this 3rd rock from the sun.

Yes! Ravel is a master indeed!

7:00 sopranino sax is sooooo sharp!!!!

@TheGymSavant

7 жыл бұрын

the cringe :/

@MrSuperflute

6 жыл бұрын

too sharp

@syruphi

4 жыл бұрын

I think it’s supposed to...

Performed on my birthday!! AWESOME!!

Well to put it simply: If Ravel's Bolero was a salad, the "out of tune" part that you heard was pretty much the "blue cheese" crumbs you tasted. Some people love those bitter blue cheese crumbs because if you just had cranberries, strawberries, walnuts and cherry tomatoes in your salad, it would be a boring salad! (I wonder if the Tenor Sax solo would have been the bacon bits?).

@ene4538

4 жыл бұрын

But I'm bluer than the blue cheese. And I'm also cute.

@segmentsAndCurves

2 жыл бұрын

@@ene4538 But you aren't cheese :/

This was almost the Zelda theme, but the copyright didn't expire in time.

A musical interval is simply the difference between two pitches. The 1st Horn plays the melody in the key of G and the Celesta plays it in the key of C. So the interval between G and C is called a Perfect 4th. The 1st Piccolo plays the melody in the key of E and the interval between G and E is a Major 6th.

Thank you for posting this. I enjoy Bolero very much and it's nice to be able to follow along with the score and see the intricacies of the music.

The 2 piccolos playing in unison literally sounded like satan.

@maggiepearson2084

9 жыл бұрын

It kind-of sounds like the Pipe organ stop "Nazard 22/3" and like other mutation stops.

@genericide8231

9 жыл бұрын

I'll be googling that.

@maggiepearson2084

9 жыл бұрын

Genericide Did you find out anything?

@genericide8231

9 жыл бұрын

nope

@maggiepearson2084

9 жыл бұрын

Genericide Too bad. :( Nothing came up?

Gerubach, thank you so much. For once, I can go along with huge scores with ease. You're the best!

This is a fantastic way to enjoy the music, thank you!

I love that analogy! Brilliant work you've done with this scrolling score project!

This must have been a nightmare to work out how to animate, given there are up to 36 different staves in use (17:01) simultaneously...

@MamboGuy914

4 жыл бұрын

only if you are noob

@flyingpenandpaper6119

4 жыл бұрын

I clicked on this with the volume still on high and died within a fraction of a second of eardrum rupture, thank you

I first heard Bolero when I went to see Blast! live as a kid. Loved this piece, and actually learned to play the main riff on trumpet by ear, which I often used to warm up before band class in high school. This is a highly impressive visualisation of the piece, and from your comments you seem to have an excellent knack for the intricacies of music. Excellent work :D

R.I.P Drummer

Great! I always wished to see the entire Boléro score, and now I had it! Very pleasant to listen to this piece - seems that something is winding up until explodes (6 last measures). Thanks, gerubach!

Thank you very much for the wonderful video. May Jabba rest forever beyond the rainbow !!!

¡Fanatástico! Exelente trabajo. Saludos desde Querétaro.

My first exposure to Rave's Bolero was in a Music History Class I took in college. I was an engineer and had to take an art class, this one was the only one available in my time slot. It changed my life and made me appreciate music and developed a very high respect for musicians. Ravel, like all the other composers blew my mind in ways that I had never known existed. I listen to this Bolero often and this Scrolling Score gets one involved with all the instruments. I love it.

Brilliant presentation. A glimpse into the future of the conductor's score!

The woodwinds,metals,strings, piccolos all in beautiful harmony, Ohhh Ravel.

One word: formidable!! Gerubach you simply don't seize to amaze me!!! Congratulations once again my fren!!!!

Fantastic scroll score of Bolero! Congratulations!

Thank you so much Gerubach. Your videos are amazing, and so helpful. :-)

@eldanidan503

7 жыл бұрын

Carmine DeStefano yes this is one of the best channels on KZread.

Aww poor kitty, may it rest in peace indeed!

You are welcome. Hope to post more that you'll enjoy.

Ravel said of Bolero, among other comments (unfortunately negative), "I issued a warning to the effect that I had written was a piece lasting seventeen minutes and consisting wholly of 'orchestral tissue without music' - of one very long, gradual crescendo." Nevertheless, I believe he vastly underestimated both orchestration and crescendo, the very reasons for its permanent place in time. And that sudden modulation, impossibly dramatizing and increasing the crescendo, is, in my opinion, unparalleled. Thank you to Gerubach's Scrolling Score. Introducing the entrances of the instruments by name is fabulous here. (And no, it's no polyphonic in the least.)

Große Arbeit von Ihnen, danke!

Visually this is sublime. thank you !

Many thanks for your work. Wonderful!

Thanks gerubach magnifique!!!!!!

I love that Ravel told Swiss composer Arthur Honegger, “I’ve written only one masterpiece - Boléro. Unfortunately, there’s no music in it."

@Gregorius24

3 жыл бұрын

I've always seen "Bolero" as outlining the harmonic overtone series -- but that's just me.

(watch?v=HlXDJhLeShg) The scrolling you see isn't done by only one particular software but five! Adobe Photoshop: Used for fine alignments to graphics. Adobe Fireworks: Used for graphics / secondary alignments. Adobe Flash: Used for scrolling graphics Sound Studio: Used for audio editing. Quicktime Pro 7.7: for the final video production to upload.

wow. teaching myself orchestration with piston's book but your run through and focus of solo and combinations during this piece with all of its repetitions teaches me more than a days lesson.Daphne and chloe is hard to read but you made bolero (which is also tricky) a fun enchanting lesson.Thankyou so much.i will be coming to this everyday.I thought i didnt need to buy this score now I want it desperately. what a good soul you have !

All instrumentation alternating 2 melodies. Brilliant!

"Romantic composers cannot repeat a motif." Ravel: "Hold my baton."

@ryacoli

3 жыл бұрын

Ravel wasn't romantic.

Best. Video. Ever.

I think the instruments that follow snare drum's rhythm should be displayed along with the snare drum.

Thank you very much! It is wonderful work! Music by M.Ravel it is magical!

fantastique une des plus belles musiques que j'ai jamais écouté:)

Soo happy I found this~

Oh God, so beautiful

hahahah :) now that cleared everything! thank you for your work and "double" explanation. cheers and warmth from istanbul.

Very good! I like that way to present the scores. It's a very clear method!

MERAVIGLIOSO

Still one of my favorite pieces to listen to. Something so hypnotic about the whole thing. Favorite moments...mine has always been @8:37 when Ravel has the 2nd violins and violas (cellos get a little as well) playing pizzicato arpeggios based on the snare rhythm. It's so subtle and barely anyone notices it, but it's pretty bold and only happens for one theme. I always sing those arpeggios when it happens. And those are some wide arpeggios! Follow that up with one the best trombone solos @9:37 with the accompaniment resetting and I'm completely sold. I know Ravel thought this piece was a joke, but it's a masterclass in orchestration and I love it!

@TheBlackbelair

6 ай бұрын

I think he said it was his "masterpiece, but unfortunately there's no music in it".

@ngmason

6 ай бұрын

@TheBlackbelair yes, and I think there's an account of a woman at the premiere complaining it was rubbish and Ravel saying "yeah, she gets it." Happy new year!

¡Si tan solo pudiera darle un millón de likes!

Love it!

So this is where all the experts spend their time

that's a very very good example, i never thought it that way before, thanks =)

Amusante video pour un Bolero toujours à redécouvrir..

@gindou4697

9 жыл бұрын

bonjour, pour moi, cette vidéo est plus q'amusante, elle est géniale .. il y a longtemps que je voulais jouer ce morceau , seul avec mon clavier, mais n'ayant jamais appris la musique, ne la lisant pas et ne jouant que d'oreille, il m'était impossible de faire quelque chose de correcte, vu la complexité du morceau... là, je vais arriver à me débrouiller je pense, en pouvant déjà comprendre qui joue quand et appréhender nettement mieux le morceau . :) cordialement

@catherinepellissier323

9 жыл бұрын

gindou46 Tant mieux ! Bonne chance !

It's very cool!!!!!!!!!!!! Many thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

very good never read score before thanks

The clarinet at 3:47 sounds a bit sharp. Ha, perfect pitch is wonderful. I would say that this is one of Ravel's best works. Great interpretation with your score!

maravilloso!!!

It was great !!

this song become so majestic after the half part :D feels like welcoming the King

Sensacional

I like the melody...

That's correct. But what gives it the flavor, is that the intervals are not adjusted to conform to C, they are not diatonic.. You therefore have an early example of polytonality, actually a form of polychordalism since the C tonality is never lost to the ear (hard to miss the tonality with a 15 minute pedal point). These harmonies also emphasize the overtone series.

for jabba! what beautiful!

9:37 Trombone solo

@eldanidan503

7 жыл бұрын

Kanrry Kang I was waiting it. Thanks.

@itme9365

6 жыл бұрын

Kanrry Kang do you know the clef for trombone solo?

@moseleych

6 жыл бұрын

Tenor clef

@dollbunni

6 жыл бұрын

thank you, I was actually trying to look for it.

@robbyburns5822

6 жыл бұрын

+moseleych The solo for bassoon is also in tenor clef and let me tell you that high d flat ain't easy to play

Best version. Most of the videos are a Lil bit fast. This is just perfect tempo

Cellist in pachabell's Canon= precussion in bolero

That sopornino is really sharp!

Q linda esa melodía me gusta mucho muchas bendiciones de Dios al país q sea un saludo desde Guatemala❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️💯💯💯🇬🇹🇬🇹🇬🇹👍😘🌹

Ranks with the theme from "Where Eagles Dare" for the coolest snaredrum part!

I might add that Ravel is using not a TONAL duplication of the melody at different intervals, but an EXACT one. The harmonies are therefore not of the same key, but follow the overtone series. Much easier to show on the piano. If you have a series of 3rds beginning on c and, using only white keys, go up to C,you will get Major,Minor, Minor,Major, Major, Minor and Minor intervals diatonic to C. If you keep the 3rds Major you must add 3 sharps at F G and C, which belong to A not C.

Excelente

thx

by far, ravels best piece

@nihilistlemon1995

8 жыл бұрын

no

I Like..

Thanks for Uploading this version. Call me archaic, but I prefer this orchestral version of this to the Syntheziser Moog or Midi Versions. A matter of taste that's all. Just learning about the Ravel and Debussy rivalry while studying Experssionism. Now THATS a movie or show I dare any actor or writer to tackle.

Microtonal music at 7:51

@sneddypie

3 жыл бұрын

no it's polytonal, utilizing the harmonic series, it's pretty cool

AT AROUND 17:05 THE SNARE PLAYS SOMETHING DIFFERENT!!!, wait, that’s the end of the song, r.i.p. snare.

I don't know how anyone can bare such repetition for so long.

@ivyssauro123

8 жыл бұрын

+Daniel Hartnett Some people listen to pop songs only for their whole life, i think that is more impressive

@SherwoodBotsford

7 жыл бұрын

Or worse: Country western.

@omniryx1

7 жыл бұрын

Daniel Hartnett Because we're getting paid. Very few symphony players would name it among their faves. The sopranino saxophone is a hateful instrument (yes, I've played it). Terribly hard to keep in tune, as several have noted here. I've seen members of the saxophone section draw straws to see who was going to have to play it.

@ivyssauro123

7 жыл бұрын

abc zyx how so?

@melutox

6 жыл бұрын

It's not about the repetition necessarily, although it is known among musicians and listeners alike to be a very repetitive piece, it's more about the buildup to the finale, at least in my opinion.

My Favorite song :D Thank you for scrolling -/\-

everybody interested into the story behind this, google "unraveling bolero", click on the radiolab link and listen to their podcast. They tell an amazing story.

8:38 when I gave up keeping track of what instruments were playing.

Maurice Ravel was an exceptional composer and arranger. Evidently clear from this score.

Brilliant fantastic clever yours peter kinsey

That's a cool tbn sound

this ending though

I don't know why but i think the part from 3:07 to 3:18 and later in the piece where it repeats is my favourite part of the whole piece

@itamarbar9580

3 жыл бұрын

Because it brings the "dark" Side of the circle of 5ths. It's a different sound to all the naturals and sharps, and the occasional B flat. There's E flat and D flat, where that sense of " C minor in a C major piece" really hits.

now play it backwards