As a piano player who is transitioning to guitar, I am very glad to see a video about my favorite style of music! It sounds so wonderful on the guitar!
I like baroque music too . Not everything ,though ( not that much into Bach for example ) . I would not say it 's my favourite type of music, i have several ones . I also like things such as the Stray Cats , Whitesnake or Il Divo . But nowadays, my favourite singer among all is ...Philippe Jaroussky !
If you like baroque this much , i advise you to listen to my favourite singer and fellowcountryman Philippe Jaroussky. Hoping you like countertenor singing !
Really like your YT videos, Brandon, despite being an eartrained pro in a completely different genre for +45 yrs (Alternative rock). Not here to learn how to play but to enjoy your mini-lectures and your entusiasm. Keep up the good work! ✌️🎶😎
The analogy of the accent in language to the accent of a style of music is a very good one. When I first learned the Pavans and even when I play them today, I always visualize people dancing.
Domo arigato, Mr. Rubato! I'm a bit of a late comer to your channel, but I've gained a much bigger appreciation for what you do when I learned that your early of years of guitar playing was enveloped in metal. Classical music of almost every kind, can work so well with heavy music. Would to hear you combine the two.
_It is a joy when I tune in to your channel I not only enjoy your playing and especially your knowledge about the music histories and instruments. Thank you._
Okay I enjoyed this video but I am also anxiously awaiting the blindfold test part 2 video and was excited thinking we were getting that today :D (still looking forward to it)
@@brandonacker oh great !!! I 've loved this game very much !! 😁😁 Next game : music quizz ,please. You play a piece of music and we have 5 seconds to say what it is ! Okay ?
Im a novice when it comes to classical guitar(but master Acker, you are my biggest inspiration to learn a whole new set of languages), but to me, baroque SCREAMS harpsichord- so as you demonstrated, those trills are what give it the distinctive baroque flair.
People often say the harpsichord embodies the baroque sound but I can assure you that having spent years living in the baroque world and learning the style, the harpsichord does not represent the ideal baroque sound. It is simply one tool that was used at the time and in fact it is expressively handicapped. People wrote about it at the time and it seems clear that it is not to be imitated for its anti-musical nature. Rather, one should imitate the human voice or the violin.
I really love how you compare this Style to languages. A calming video as usual. I'm curious: would somebody be able to play Rennaisance style guitar on ukulele? (with a low G, of course)
Thanks! And absolutely. In fact, Renaissance guitar and ukulele are nearly the same instrument. So you can play directly from the tablature manuscripts at the time!
@@brandonacker I'm a bit rusty in Ancient Spanish but I'm sure there is some kind of modern transcription. Thank you! I'll take a look on what I can find 😁
I've seen tenor ukelele recommended as a go-to learning instrument for people who can't afford a lute or vihuela! The nylon strings, lower tension, and action are apparently more similar than a *modern guitar.
@@e.s.r5809 A tenor uke it's pretty cheap compare to one of those. And if you get an 8 string, you can get pretty close to the Rennaisance guitar. I only have a concert one, though. Still, with a low G, I'm gonna try to play some of this
Love how you tell the story , of course with you're awsome playing it makes this so awsome to follow !! Brandon , you're awsome mate !!! Edited part , thanks for the french exemple LOl We do what we can ; )
Looks like it’s going to be a great workshop. I must confess, though that I kept being distracted by that little folded piece of paper under the second string at the nut. I do hope that that was just an emergency repair of a string buzz, and you’ll have that nut fixed properly.
Thanks, I 'm excited for it! That is hilarious that you noticed the little paper. It's a common and useful trick for lutenists to quickly fix a buzzy string. I personally end up using them as the seasons change on all of my instruments and don't perceive any loss of sound quality. As wood constantly moves, your action will change and rather than constantly making a new nut, I just add paper shims when needed.
Haha you'll have to ask someone else who doesn't care about historicity. For me, the music sounds the best in the right style. I like to play Tarrega as I think he would have heard it and the same for Bach
Bonsoir Brandon ! Hé oui,c 'est la nuit chez moi 😊. Ta vidéo m 'a l 'air fort intéressante et instructive . Il est l 'heure pour moi d 'aller faire un gros dodo mais je te promets de la regarder dès que possible
Bravo Brandon ! Belle vidéo ! Rigolo ton " ouen frenche pipeul tray tou spik ingliche " 😂😂😂 Je ne parle pas anglais comme ça mais tu as raison, la plupart des Français, oui ! Et merci aussi pour l 'humour avec Bach qui dit " yes,please " ( ach ,ja danke !" aurait été plus juste 😋). Merci aussi d 'avoir inclus ces beaux tableaux .
Hi Brandon, I would be very curious to see you react to Ted Green’s mémoires about how to improve on Baroque music. It’s actually free on youtube and there is a website with plenty of videos and notes from him. Anyway, I would really like your take on it. Keep doing great guitar content. Cheers!
I just went back to watch the video on your instrument collection. And being Portuguese I wondered if you would ever look into looking at getting or playing Fado guitars. It's also an instrument with duel strings and I bet you probably enjoy it. Just a thought
I play them on acoustic steel string guitars and a jazz archtop. Works very well. Just the narrower string spacing requires some practice. Especially the jazz guitar sounds great, because of its warmer sound.
I have watched you for some time now and have taken a few liberties from your style in my own modern fingerstyle playing :). While watching your videos it always occurs to me, Do you ever break out the strat and just wail for a bit?
Thanks for watching! To answer your question, I used to do that but over the last 8 years or so, my favorite instruments are all acoustic so that is where I spent my time in my professional life and when I want to just jam.
I'm genuinely curious on your opinion (as a classical guitar player) on the use of nylon strings in the song Playing God by Polyphia. Edit: I just found the video of you covering it..... I should've looked first lol
Great insights! A lot to learn from your videos! Saw in some of your videos that you play other types of guitar, specific to certain styles. Have you tried playing the portuguese guitar? There is an amazing player, Carlos Paredes, who made somber but beautiful pieces with it. I am by no means a good guitar player, but I can see technique when I watch and hear someone play, just the positioning of your hands tell a lot (bass player btw), so in my mind, I see you pulling it off flawlessly! great vid!
This Bach's piece seems like an easy piece. But it's super hard to play it the speed that Brandon casually plays. I tried to learn it and eventually gave up. I'll get back to it a year or two. Hopefully I'll be able to play the prelude one too, which is even nicer than this in my opinion.
I have registered for this masterclass (thank you for organizing) but my receipt doesn't show the Zoom link? Will that be sent separately? Looking forward to it!
It changes from performance to performance. Part of it is developing the sense of where ornaments are possible and once you have the built in to your technique, you can add new ornaments for the first time even in a concert.
Baroque music is a world of its own. It takes time to digest it, just as for instance jazz. Even within baroque there are differences. Bach requires a specific, strict way of timing and many more other details. Not easy. I stopped trying to play some (parts of) his lute suites on a 6 string because imho it's simply not possible without harming the music. Many Bach performances on modern guitar just sound horrible. I think it's best to start with some other baroque compositions that are easier and not so heavy. Especially from composers who were lute/guitar players themselves.
I really prefer using the original instruments. If you are going to buy a special instrument that you'll need to learn to play, why learn one that is a modern invention with the wrong sound?
@@brandonacker thank you for your answer. As a guitarist myself, already accustomed to acoustic 7-strings, maybe the change to an 11-string guitar isn’t as large as to a 13-string lute. And tuning the lute is a huge pain in the behind, of course…
haha it's also important to say there is an old style and new style of rubato. There is an art of bending time expressively in the Baroque period within a predictable big beat (tactus).
PLEAAAAAAAAAAAAASE set me on SOME way xD. Idk what the hell I want to play on my guitar. I like rhythm and all that but I'd really love to play music that was meant for guitar. I thought baroque was it, but I guess not?
The video is at Arpeggiato.com in our e shop. It's inexpensive and I teach quite a lot of what to me years of lessons and research to understand. Let me know if you have any specific questions, Brandon
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C 'est quoi Rubato ? Un compositeur ou une technique musicale comme le staccato ou le pizzicato ? Pardonnez mon ignorance les guitaristes mais moi ,je n 'ai jamais pratiqué la guitare ! Eclairez moi !
I don’t care for “romantic Bach”. And I think learning about how the music was meant to be rendered in its period is good. But I have a problem with saying you “can’t” or “shouldn’t” play it a certain way. One of the great things about music is that we can interpret a work in ways the original composer would never have envisaged.
I completely agree with what you said, Robert! I should have emphasized that very point in the video. People CAN play however they want if they like it, of course. And I encourage purposeful style blending. I did a metal cover of Bach on my channel once and recently I covered a metal song on the lute :) However, if we are playing with the goal of sounding like they did at the time (which is what most classical musicians usually go for) then there are things you "shouldn't" do without sacrificing what we know is historical and what isn't. If you play a Gavotte with heavy rubato like I did in the video, it's not a "Gavotte" dance that anyone from the Baroque time would have recognized.
