Bach’s Partita, As Digested by a Funk Composer (in Homage to Nahre Sol)

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In this video I look at Bach's 3rd Violin Partita (in E major BWV 1006) and analyse how he handles rhythms, syncopation and more. The title is a joking reference to pianist and composer Nahre Sol who has a fabulous channel, linked below. In one video Nahre looks at Funk from the point of view of a Classical Musician. I often think of myself (only slightly tongue-in-cheek here) as a "funk composer", so in a way, this video is the reverse of Nahre's - Classical music from the point of view of a funk composer!
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Reading and Misreading: Schumann's Accompaniments
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@DBruce 5 лет назад

For those of you just coming to this video, the piece did get finished finally, you can hear it here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UwCo9JkDuuo.html

4 года назад

That's exactly wat I was about to ask! It sounds so fresh! Great job.

@adaltonvieirarodrigues9070 4 года назад

Aonde anda Sol???

@NahreSol 6 лет назад

I really enjoyed the video, sounds really cool!! 😊🙌 And nice thumbnail!! 😂

@aminjomaa99 6 лет назад

Nahre Sol he stole your format!

@DBruce 6 лет назад

Thanks Nahre! I had fun trying to imitate the thumbnail 😁 thanks for the inspiration!

@naught101 6 лет назад

Was there anything in the analysis or composition here that surprised you, Nahre?

@the_emmo 6 лет назад

Top 10 anime crossovers.

@cristobalcarrasco2160 4 года назад

@@DBruce this is so good :D thanks again for your amazing videos!

@Mick_Holland 6 лет назад

Fingers crossed that you get ten requests to complete your piece. Please count this as one of them 👍🏽

@ha-tsuneko 6 лет назад

Count this as the second request?

@DonCYHaute 6 лет назад

Then do a full orchestra one with counterpointing rhythms and unconventional chord textures. Pure neoclassical!

@GhostontheMoor 6 лет назад

That was exactly what I was going to ask for, too. Please give us a complete version of your arrangement, David!

@alicewyan 6 лет назад

Yes please :-D

@daniellbondad6670 6 лет назад

+Mick Aitch Right.It is an equally great addition to Bach's piece.

@DBruce 6 лет назад

Embarrassing oversight - as several people have pointed out, Bach made his own arrangement of this piece as an organ part in the Symphonia to his Cantata BWV 29 ("Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir"), and it seems I definitely owe Schumann an apology - if anything Bach's arrangement is even more 'square' than Schumann's! I guess it comes down to perception, and for me the ambiguity that's definitely built into the solo version makes it a far more interesting listen.

@TheStuF 6 лет назад

yes, your version is really brilliant. Like jamming with Bach. I would love to hear a full version, you should definitely complete it!

@AlgoFodder 6 лет назад

Kudos for highlighting this ambiguity! (Maybe Bach had to tie it down for church elders? :) ) I found lots to like about the video - great material, stimulating analysis, helpful witty visuals and an enjoyable performance of (half of!) a bold new arrangement (which you should really finish ;-p) On the "more like this?" question, fwiw, I really enjoy videos where you leverage your considerable knowledge and analytic skills to deliver insights wholesale, and I'd count this as one of those. Thanks!

@whycantiremainanonymous8091 6 лет назад

Could be a matter of context. BWV 29 was written for a City Council dedication ceremony, so, essentially, for Bach's direct employers. He might have preferred a tight dance opening to any ambiguities (it's way too fast for a saraband, though 😃)

@FernieCanto 6 лет назад

I believe the existence of that "square" arrangement doesn't mean that Bach had to "tie down" the rhythmic ambiguities of the solo version, but actually that those ambiguities wouldn't exist at all for a listener of his time. Since you mentioned yourself that the piece had the feel of a sarabande, I think listeners would know that through the power of convention, and therefore they were expected to follow the rhythm all the way through. I think those ambiguities only exist to modern ears, exactly because those conventions have been mostly lost. I can't shrug off the feeling that Bach would want to punch anyone who talked about rhythmic ambiguity in his pieces.

@darkwingscooter9637 6 лет назад

Did you listen to Dupre's organ reduction or the original orchestration by Bach? Bach really nails it, I have to say. Yours is also nice in a different way.

@Kolinu2 6 лет назад

Fabulous arrangement. Deserves to be completed.

@dwgalviniii 6 лет назад

Kolinu2 thoroughly agreed

@shtef2010 6 лет назад

As a non-musician, Bach's rhythmic ambiguity went completely over my head. I loved your interpretation of the piece! Never thought Baroque could hide so much sweet, juicy F U N K.

@GUIM1797 6 лет назад

You should peep game on Vulpeck's fugue. It's a funky track in the style of a fugue.

@sebskelly 6 лет назад

That rearrangement is wicked!

@DonCYHaute 6 лет назад

Loving the "cutouts on blackboard" format; emminently practical and elegant for communicating the information while also being unique and distinctive. Good way of setting your analyses apart from other youtubers. Very much enjoyed your arrangement and analysis too :)

@ryanmart5434 6 лет назад

I think the analytical approach in this video is great because it provides the viewer with specific compositional devices they can use in their own compositions if they so choose.

@kevinwingfield2007 6 лет назад

Brilliant video. As a Bach fan, the theoretical discussion was very enlightening and interesting and, as you say, the arrangement is great fun. Your analyses are very valuable. Many thanks. Definitely more like this please.

@lavidaViolin 6 лет назад

Sounds completely amazing! Looking forward to hear all of it! :)

@tjejojyj 6 лет назад

That was dense in ideas and sounds but even a rank amateur like myself could keep up with the excellent animation. The effort taken to make this is definitely appreciated. Top quality. 👏👏👏👏 Encore. Encore. (My only disappointment was the arrangement at the end ran out before concluding.)

@tjejojyj 6 лет назад

Patreon support from me just added.

@DBruce 6 лет назад

Thanks so much!

@qazwerspoil 6 лет назад

Very interesting video! Brings the delights of Bach to light in a very informative way.

@andrewshoemaker875 6 лет назад

As a violinist, I've performed this piece countless times from when I first learned it about 20 years ago! The ambiguity of the beat has always been something I've struggled with in this piece. I've looked at Schumann's arrangement and Bach's own BWV 29 and 120 through college. I'm excited to take another crack at this piece this morning. Thank you for this video.

@eamonrussell6890 6 лет назад

I think you've given me a whole new appreciation for this piece. I'll have to revisit it and pay extra attention to the rhythm next time. Great video!

@bmsmusician 6 лет назад

Very cool! Looking forward to more like this and will check out the dissertation as well.

@skrstic80 Год назад

Thank you for this lovely video! It was fun and inspirering🤠✨🤩⚡️

@minaondrums 4 года назад

Absolutely love the place you took this too. I could listen treatments like this all day! Great to have discovered your channel! 😊

@7177YT 5 лет назад

do more of those, had my ears tickled for years by this piece and never quite understood how the old man achieved those shifting rhythms. (: Cheers!

@fredfloyd693 6 лет назад

Really loved this video. Keep it up

@K1LL14N 6 лет назад

Omg I LOVE this!! (The video style as well as your Bach transformation!)

@arne__ 6 лет назад

Great analysis, enjoyed it very much! It really added a perspective to my enjoyment of these 16-runs Bach often has so thank you very much!

@SignalsMusicStudio 6 лет назад

Excellent info... I learn so much from this channel =D

@timli383 4 года назад

Very enlightening analysis Bruce, many thanks.

@CharlesAustin 3 года назад

This was great, thanks. That is notable about Schumann’s accompaniment. Loved your redo !! Awesome playing!

@casfighter34 6 лет назад

We need closure!! Please complete this :)

@DBruce 6 лет назад

you're the 2nd requester - shall we say I HAVE to finish it if I get 10 requests ? (-:

@YambamYambam2 6 лет назад

David Bruce Composer Yes please :)

@cys8964 6 лет назад

Finish it, David. Pleaasssse..........

@kevinwingfield2007 6 лет назад

I add my request, please, please, pretty please :-)

@pedromrls6 6 лет назад

David Bruce Composer May you, please?

@polka678 4 года назад

Great video, I have never really listened to much work by Bach but I’ve always admired his compositional technique, definitely will stick around for more videos like this.

@jonasdanielseneskeland3001 6 лет назад

David, this is really cool! Great video

@BillyBob-mn6kr 6 лет назад

This is an awesome video and that arrangement is just as awesome

@ccalvac18 6 лет назад

Awesome arrangement and definitely inspiring! (As all of your videos are) I love the piece analysis as well and definitely would look forward to more!

@yurivincentweber 6 лет назад

Definitely enjoyed the analysis, insights, visual presentation, and performance.

@dandurham1922 5 лет назад

Wow, very fun to watch. Thanks for going into the explanation before hand.

@lettersquash 2 года назад

Thanks, David, I'm blown away by this. I've listened to that partita for many decades and intuitively grasped some of what you analyse here, and I was thinking I'd comment on how difficult it is to keep the beat in that middle section, which you described exactly. I loved your half-finished even funkier version and look forward to seeing the completed piece, as well as checking out the "even squarer than Schumann" Cantata, BWV 29. Your presentation was, as ever, amazingly clear. It is quite staggering that Bach was so post-modern.

@michaelp4657 6 лет назад

Sarabande of G major cello suite is similar - maybe all sarabandes of cello suites... i think your analysis is spot on, and the arrangement is very satisfying! It seems to me that Bach’s violin/cello suites are all about rhyming rhythmic/melodic motives, with rhyme schemes that feel remarkably free and spontaneous. I can never tell where the bar lines are, listening. In baroque music bar lines frequently seem to have almost nothing to do with phrase... phrase games exist (to my knowledge) in Mozart Haydn Beethoven and Brahms, but in baroque music it doesn’t always seem to be a deliberate “trick”, rather a totally natural feature of the fortspinnung melody.

@ianbanghart6333 6 лет назад

I love the new format and I hope you finish your arrangement! I remember the first time I heard this piece, it felt like an endless stream of notes. Your arrangement makes it easier to follow the shifts across the piece.

@chantingscorpius 3 года назад

Your videos are brilliant and just a joy to listen to. Uberinteresting and inspirational... makes me want to learn more about music and experiment with my own creations. Thank you for your hard work. This is one of my favourite Bach pieces.

@paxwallacejazz 6 лет назад

Well finish and hire a literate hip jazz drummer to come up with a trap set part hell a bassist too maybe. Or remove the piano and so violin jazz bass and a suitible trap set player. A whole concert of similarly prepared Bach would be a big hit in London, Copenhagen, Berlin, NYC. I would go to that concert. Violin Partitas Solo Cello suites What else?

@meadish 6 лет назад

A collab with Adam Neely for the bass part would, in the parlance of recent times, be, 'amazeballs'.

@LazyBastard69 5 лет назад

@@meadish Please, don't say "amazeballs"

@meadish 5 лет назад

@@LazyBastard69 Why, I would never! I was merely paraphrasing, Sir. ;-)

@LazyBastard69 5 лет назад

@@meadish Thank you, that's greatskateboard

@philb4462 4 года назад

This has now happened! Check out his later video of the whole piece with bass and drums.

@victor29rc 6 лет назад

Damn good video! Finish the piece, please! Its quite awesome

@jorisbressan6412 5 лет назад

Wow, thanks i loved it! so clear and as a pianist and lvoer of bach i find your insight very interesting and helpful. GOOD JOB

@elliottmanley5182 6 лет назад

Fascinating. Definitely my favourite of your videos so far. Great to see someone doing for baroque and rhythm what 12tone does for rock and harmony.

@ViewtifulSam 6 лет назад

Lovely video, I would certainly like to see more of this type of thing! Also, I loved the homage to Nahre Sol :)

@shoelstadlen 5 лет назад

Really enjoyed both the analysis and the syncopated arrangement!

@multiinvisibleman 6 лет назад

Great theoretical analysis of Bach. I enjoyed it really much. Please continue doing analysis videos!!

@Kadetseniorplane 6 лет назад

The arrangement was great! Looking forward to hearing/watching the completed version.

@thegradgrinder 4 года назад

Always fantastic and a massive inspiration to me! Love the clear presentation, different video styles and sometimes super technical side to your vids . I’m right back into composing now after feeling a tad crushed by Studying music

@connorhalleck2895 5 лет назад

Love this style of video! Would also love to hear the rest of that song

@jeffreyfitzgerald8541 4 года назад

Thanks for the analysis. It’s a neat insight to what I was missing

@Jacksilver2 6 лет назад

Great video. Very interesting analysis. I've always felt that Bach had a groove to his music like no other composer. Thank you for that enlightening analysis!

@samgriffithsmusic 6 лет назад

The small thumbnail on my phone, I hadnt looked closely! I clicked thinking it was a nahre sol video!

@CPickswell 5 лет назад

really nice! It has a sort of clapping music vibe with the shifting rhythms and steady pulse

@PbPomper 4 года назад

Almost the same level of production quality as Nahre as well :) Very cool! I love these more detailed videos.

@zuratu5743 6 лет назад

I will never not want to see the finished version of your vision for the accompaniment on this piece. It plays into my own love for wonky beat emphasis and is so glorious. Absolutely had some goosebumps when it started getting into it.

@BharathKumarIyer 6 лет назад

Never thought I'd say this, but that partita is grooving hard!! This approach to rhythmic innovation is also reminiscent of Chic Corea. Great work. Love it! Keep 'em coming! ♥️

@Rohishimoto 6 лет назад

Haha I love both yours and Nahre's channel!

@apriljack3172 6 лет назад

Great video! I loved it

@ThePianoenergy 5 лет назад

Very interesting video, thank you very much. I am personally not so convinced about the "Sarabande"...I think the reason why he didn't start the piece on the first beat is simply because in this way, he gets the weight on the first beat of the second bar, which is actually nothing else than a turn on the note e, embellishing this note and therefor making it the heavy beat (e, f#, e, d#, e). You are supporting this idea in the beginning of your accompanied version 😊

@nolyspe 2 года назад

This video was actually incredibly helpful for me. I'm a (terrible) guitarist who decided to self-teach myself this piece and I was wondering about all those rythmic ambiguities you mentioned. This piece has a way of making me as the player feel like it has a rhythm of its own! This is part of the reason why I love Bach so much...

@caleb_sousa 6 лет назад

This deserves way more views

@wingflanagan 6 лет назад

Love this kind of analysis! I would like to see more.

@Stonesguitar 6 лет назад

Finally somebody is putting this into a video! Thank you!

@abexoxo Год назад

The rearrangement is a hotshot. It feels like modern music that has the minimalist beauty and a trapping sense. I really enjoyed your composition. :))

@nigelhaywood9753 6 лет назад

Superb! It sounds great and seems to go with Bach, not against him. Also, it made me think about how Bartók may have appropriated his studies of Baroque keyboard music in his own works, especially the sonata and piano concertos. They're also quite funky at times.

@bjornbeng 5 лет назад

Wonderful! Goosebumps! More!

@achenarmyst2156 5 лет назад

I played the E-major Partita during my amateur violin studies. The part starting at bar 17 is most fascinating in it‘s execution. The string pattern of every 4 note group is AEAD. The second note stays the empty E string during the whole section while you stepwise slide down with the harmonic notes on the A and D string. You are in a way dancing around the E string slowly crossing it on your harmonic way downstairs. Your bow arm executes a lying 8 movement which is a most unusual bowing pattern and needs a lot of training to convince your brain 😁 Thank you for your interesting rhythmic bass pattern. I think Bach is very often open for different rhythmic divisions. For me this was especially evident in the final movement of the first Solo Sonata (Presto). You can either feel 6 notes or 3 notes as a group, the first variant being a 3/8 rhythm, the second a 2 beat rhythm, each beat containing 3 16th. The first rhythm is an elegant quick „waltz“, the second more march like. Will you finish your version? Would be interesting.

@jamesmitchell6925 6 лет назад

This dude is the funkiest classical musician in the world! Fantastic analysis and rhythmic game in that left hand; you’re very sick!

@philb4462 4 года назад

I really like this analytical approach. I'd like to see more videos like this. I came to this after seeing the completed piece which I love.

@arcana830 5 лет назад

Enjoyed this very much!

@jamesmitchell6925 6 лет назад

Great video bro!

@KcDaugirdas 5 лет назад

I love the score-study-type vids!

@vidursury 2 года назад

Wow great video! Thanks a lot for discussing tonic accents and their significance in rhythmic patterns and composition. I think this very crucial aspect of rhythmic patterns often gets overlooked, beyond durations of notes and dynamic accents, and especially Baroque and Classical era classical music can't be truly appreciated for their rhythm, I think, without paying attention to this aspect. Also thanks for highlighting the influence of dance on musical rhythm, which is really so natural and brings the rhythm and music in general to life, and has historically been one of the biggest influences on Western classical music, and perhaps, even most styles of 'Western' musics in general.

@Kitsua 6 лет назад

Firstly, absolutely more content like this please. Really enjoyed it. Secondly, that arrangement is absolutely fantastic! For pete's sake finish it man, what are you waiting for?! I would legit like to have the sheet music and learn to play it, it's awesome!

@thomas_ad 5 лет назад

This is one of those contents that leaves me feeling that I’ve been bestowed beauty and insight. I love this

@Lynkevmusic 5 лет назад

really interesting video. Thank you!

@oaktadopbok665 4 года назад

Omg I have tears in my eyes. How amazing and mesmerizing your composition put a new spin on one of my favorite pieces of music. Somewhere Wendy Carlos and Bach are drinking absinthe and smiling.

@user-rp3jt4ik2l 6 лет назад

loving the thumbnail!

@paulmicou8892 6 лет назад

Fabulous video. This piece is works its magic on guitar as well.

@gordo64ful 6 лет назад

Wow, very cool arrangement!

@hegeliankid1226 5 лет назад

@david bruce composer You must finish it!! I have many pianists friends who would love to perform it!! We admire you so much. Thanks for the inspiration!

@jabelsjabels 5 лет назад

Yes! Absolutely complete this, I love it

@troubleboy 6 лет назад

I was really hoping for a reface keyboard in the park performance a la Nahre Sol, but this was really cool. I often get into arguments with my teacher about the strong-weak beats in Bachs music, I find her approach too stiff and formulaic, but i never thought it could get so funky.

@AlexRubenstein 5 лет назад

That was so lovely. Your funky arrangement reminded me of Steve Reich! Wonderful work, Mr Bruce. :)

@quintinpace2627 6 лет назад

This is one of my favorite peices of all time, both as just the prelude and as the whole set.

@alexandergadjiev3733 4 года назад

Amazing video really!! thanks!!

@felibio 5 лет назад

Loved it!

@freespiritkaro3414 4 года назад

This is SUCH brilliant work 👏👏👏 I am familiar with this piece so well from both my violinist father and my violin past as his child & student. I was oppressed by him and that didn’t end well... But what I heard in your take on it, was how AHEAD OF HIS TIME and multidimensional Bach was himself and unable to express that in full splendour being oppressed by the times he lived in, commissioned by the church mainly, etc...:(. Makes me appreciate the times we live in and all we have access to. Imagine his genius today, with access to every tool to manifest his ideas and audiences always curious and open to new stuff. Today one does not need to be commissioned by anyone and as long as they stick at it, they’ll find their audience eventually or the audience will find them. Wow... I have suddenly connected to who Bach truly was and how trapped he must have felt in his times, having the imagination he had. Thank You so much for this video and all your awesome work 🙏

@paulkneller1348 5 лет назад

Awesome work

@javierbenez7438 6 лет назад

This is your best video yet

@ili626 5 лет назад

Cool, i chose to learn this on guitar a couple years ago, because after exploring several Bach cello & violin pieces i thought this one had a pleasing funky quality. Definitely feel sympatico with your other musical ventures as well

@FirahFabe 6 лет назад

Awww man, those syncopations give such ASMR! I love it!!

@ryanfrederick3376 5 лет назад

I could listen to you analyze Bach all day. More please.

@Kam-xm6mm 6 лет назад

It's glorious, please finish it!

@sdrozo 6 лет назад

That arrangement At The end was awesome!

@Alan_Stinchcombe 6 лет назад

Yes please finish this, David! :)

@pamdemonia 5 лет назад

What a lovely analysis of Bach! When I was a 19 year old listener to both classical music (I think partly due to having played the flute for years) and punk rock (it being the early 80s in Washington, DC), I heard the Chaccone from the 2nd partita and was mesmerized. I am still mesmerized by these solo works, in particular the way he seems to create some interesting effects with the harmonics, which sort of hang like ghosts in the spaces around the played notes. Until the announcer came in, I was sure it was some contemporary composer. Needless to say, next Christmas saw a boxed set of all 6 solo violin works for me under the tree!

@yoshikimaicoimelb-c0261 6 лет назад

Great! it is really amazing!

@mencken8 4 года назад

This demonstrates that not only is there no end to Bach, perhaps there is no end to what may be done with Bach. Bravo.

@tonysouter8095 5 лет назад

Ah, I see. A reverse hommage from the sudden truncation of Bach's Art of Fugue! Very good. Love your work.

@johnnycockatoo1003 5 лет назад

the classical intro to "bad moon rising" - cover by the Reels . orig. by John Fogarty - just beautiful, and the whole cover ; sort of generally in the field of this video re Bach