How to Learn Bach's Fugues

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The fugues are some of the coolest, most interesting pieces ever written. Also they cause a lot of pianists tons of stress and headaches. So in this video I'm going to be giving you my step by step process for how you can learn the fugues (or inventions, or sinfonias). Enjoy
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@jasonmp85 Месяц назад

“Don’t sightread the fugues” Look, sometimes I just need to feel alive, ok?

@ryanabshier Месяц назад

Haha, some people jump out of airplanes, some deep ocean dive, we musicians sightread the fugues.

@sgut1947 Месяц назад

This is really excellent. One more thing I do, after identifying all entries of the subject and before trying to combine two or more voices, is to play through each voice from start to finish, just once. At this stage, the fingering and handing don't matter yet. The aim is to spot common ideas and motifs in the counter-subject(s) and episodes. It's part of understanding the piece as music -- technical issues come later.

@ryanabshier 26 дней назад

Yes, great idea to add to the list!

@MM-qy1tl 28 дней назад

If anyone was wondering, I believe the fugue in the thumbnail is the C major fugue from WTC 1

@alexandrafisher3614 29 дней назад

oh, soooo good!!! Where was RU-vid when I was in college? Great lesson.

@ryanabshier 29 дней назад

Thanks so much! Hope it helps your future fugues. Did you go to college for music?

@graeme011 10 дней назад

Great video! You have really shown how learning a fugue is quite different to learning your more typical piano piece with one melody at a time, plus accompaniment, and for effective performance, good habits in terms of analysis and voicing need to start early, since otherwise the result will be a complicated mess without focus! I would love it if you learnt the whole G major fugue and recorded it for RU-vid.

@commentor5479 Месяц назад

5 mins in and I am gonna already say that this is a good resource!

@ryanabshier Месяц назад

Thanks. Hope I don't disappoint in the next 14 minutes, haha.

@g0aty685 Месяц назад

Early squad! you're channel's awesome and definintly deserves more love

@ryanabshier Месяц назад

Thanks! I really hope so. Sometimes RU-vid is a very up and down thing, but it's super encouraging to hear people are getting a lot out of it.

@moy9022 Месяц назад

Thanks!

@moy9022 Месяц назад

Buy you a coffee, thanks for sharing your knowledge.

@ryanabshier Месяц назад

Thanks. My next cup of joe will be thanks to you 😀

@michaelasbury5473 Месяц назад

This is a great video! I’ve been looking for this exact type of thing. Thank you!

@ryanabshier Месяц назад

Awesome, hope it really helps and glad you found it!

@StanleyGrill 27 дней назад

Actually, if you make practicing sight reading of contrapuntal pieces part of your regular practice session, you’ll get better and better at it. Fugues are no more an obstacle than anything else.

@Ketoswammy 26 дней назад

It’s a superpower.

@DMajor402 Месяц назад

This was very helpful

@ryanabshier Месяц назад

Awesome, hope it provides a good starting point for these wonderful pieces. Are you working on any baroque music right now?

@DMajor402 Месяц назад

@@ryanabshier not right now but I'll start learning some three part inventons soon I don't know with which one to start I was thinking about the e minor one, which one do you think is the best to start?

@ryanabshier Месяц назад

@@DMajor402 I typically think of D minor and F Major as great starting ones. I also really like them, especially D Minor. Hey, there's another tierlist idea, haha.

@blesseddaysi4519 26 дней назад

👏👏👏👏👏

@ryanabshier 25 дней назад

Thanks!

@KaikhosruShapurjiMedtner Месяц назад

Next: how to learn Sorabji’s fugues.

@ryanabshier 28 дней назад

Step 1: See a counselor to determine if you are mentally fit for the challenge...

@KaikhosruShapurjiMedtner 28 дней назад

@@ryanabshier haha

@StanleyGrill 26 дней назад

Then there’s Shostakovich’s wonderful volume of preludes and fugues.

@KaikhosruShapurjiMedtner 25 дней назад

@@StanleyGrill I like those too

@moy9022 Месяц назад

Bach is my favorite composer, his musics drive me crazy. Thanks Ryan have a wonderful weekend. 💕

@ryanabshier Месяц назад

Bach is great. I enjoy playing his music even more than listening, however, it is a challenge 🤪

@moy9022 Месяц назад

@@ryanabshier l enjoy listening Bach's musics more than playing as well. Glenn Gould is one of my favorite performers.

@bjarne123123 26 дней назад

great video!

@bjarne123123 26 дней назад

I would love an update video

@ryanabshier 26 дней назад

@@bjarne123123 Thanks! Glad you liked it. Are you working on any Bach at the moment?

@bjarne123123 20 дней назад

@@ryanabshier BWV 924 atm, one of the little preludes, but going to move back to an invention soon, either 1 or 8. Looking forward to one day learn a prelude/fugue!

@rockychieng88 24 дня назад

Always finish on the Bach, never finish on the Debussy

@haydnschlinger6740 Месяц назад

Great video! Can you do one for the fugue in the toccata in c minor by Bach? I find it particularly more difficult than most of his other fugues.

@ryanabshier 28 дней назад

Oh man, I love love love that piece. Played it for a degree recital and yeah, it's was so hard to learn. It'd be a fun one to cover. I actually find that I like the toccatas more on average than the WTC. There are bunches of exceptions, but I enjoy the nature of them more. Again, on average, plenty of exceptions.

@haydnschlinger6740 28 дней назад

@@ryanabshier The fugues from the c minor, F# minor, and g minor toccatas are all so incredibly clever and catchy. I would love to see videos on any of those!

@FredChopin-vs4eu 26 дней назад

I dont want to touch again the no 15 fugue😂😂😂. It melts my brain from learning it

@ryanabshier 26 дней назад

🤣 Oh no, I knew some people would shudder at the mention of fugues. So you played this one, huh? Sounds super cool but also looks on the more complicated side.

@FredChopin-vs4eu 26 дней назад

@@ryanabshier It was my third prelude and fugue i played . Prelude was ok really solid. But i was struggling so bad with the fugue. Also my teacher gave me this piece. But i want to play no14

@ryanabshier 26 дней назад

That sometimes can be mentally difficult when you have another piece in mind. This seems like a tough fugue, so at least it means your teacher believes in you 😁