The first thing is to believe that you can play it, can do it! Don't be afraid of seeming difficulty.
If a thing abounds in numerous legatoes, you shall not to play it on the first stage. Then, when your fingers get used to this intervals, you can enter legato gradually. If a thing requires fast and virtuoso passages full of semiquavers, take my advise - use strings with hard tension. I tell it from my own experience. The sound looses a bit of its richness but the speed becomes easier to reach!
You can organise your dayly exercises by learning a fixed quantity of measures per day. Such an approach helped me to finalise learning Fuga.
As regards famous Chaconne, I haven't even tried to start it yet. Hope everithing is ahead.
Well, hope my advises will be of any use for anybody...
Chaconne? I wish i could play it well,. I feel too hard to start playing,. the song, seems like,. mmm,,whats called, has a strong sense.. Its too glorious,for me, an amateur.. Would you please give me any advice?.. Thnx.. --- bachforguitar@yahoogroups.com <kcrayon@rambler.ru> wrote: > Dear Joseph, > > I have listened to Chaconne finally. It really strikes and takes you, espec > ially when you hear it on the guitar. It seems to be the very strong melody > to inspire. Do you really play the whole composition? I hardly can one lit > tle Minuet (originally written for piano/organ). At the moment I have been > trying to recover in my fingers the FUGA from violin sonata #5. There are a > lot of legatos, but my former guitar teacher advised to replace it with or > dinary sound making. Maybe it is because the legato is a rather difficult t > o play, if to play in workmanlike manner of course... Anyway, I can find th > e sound file nowhere excluding one midi file with ...doubtfully played inte > rvals... > As for the book, I listened the file: it is interesting, but my english pro > ves to be beter :-)) and I scarsely understood the text. Well, it would be > nice to have a book, but taking into account all post charges to ship it ov > erseas and the book price I can not take it. Sorry. > > Good luck! > Kirill > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: jmast > To: bachforguitar@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 3:13 AM > Subject: Re: [bachforguitar] Guitar playing... > > > I'm happy to introduce you to this wonderful composition. Yes, violin and > cello music are well suited to the guitar. I suspect if the guitar were av > ailable then, Bach may have created many of his works for our instrument. I > f you listen to the Chaconne on violin, and then on guitar you may find. as > I do, it is much more beautiful on guitar, because the bow has to skip acr > oss the strings with cords, and loses the richness and nuance of the harmon > ics. Of course, it requires very good technique to hold the melody in the d > ifferent voices, and to make them legato on guitar. After you have looked a > t the book site in more detail. If you want me to send a gift copy of the b > ook, please email a mailing address. > > Joseph > > Kcrayon wrote: > > Dear Joseph, > > Thanks for your quick reply! I visited your site at once even before I > finished reading the letter. It was very interesting to know new about Joha > nn Sebastian Bachs' privat life episodes. And the way they positively affec > ted on his creative work. I suppose I am eager to listen to this Chaconne n > ow because I have had no idea of it before. Frankly speaking, I know just a > few of his compositions, but they seem to be different from others with th > eir illusive easiness, but perfect melody. His things like Paganinis' suits > to guitar more than any others. Maybe it is because violin is a relative t > o a guitar... > Anyway, now I am beginning to read your site more closely... Thank you! > > Kirill > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: jmast > To: bachforguitar@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 7:43 PM > Subject: Re: [bachforguitar] Guitar playing... > > Hello Kirill, > I'm also a classical guitarist, non professional, and Bach lover. I wro > te a fiction novel about Bach's Chaconne. It tells the story of how the Cha > conne effects the life of the protagonist, and in alternating chapters, an > historically accurate, but fictional account of Bach's life, and how he cam > e to compose it. If you go to the book site: http://www.chaconne.us/ You ca > n listen to the music, see a book clip, and read sample chapters. If you fi > nd it interesting, I'd be happy to send you a complimentary copy, if you se > nd your address. If you enjoy reading it, perhaps you could recommend it to > others, and spread the word, in your country. > > Best regards, > > Joseph > === Message Truncated ===
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Hello, again! My name is Kirill. I live in Russia and fond of playing a guitar of all kinds: acoustic, electric, [classical]... to name but a few. Well, one of...
Kirill
kcrayon@...
Dec 21, 2006 4:18 pm
Hello Kirill, I'm also a classical guitarist, non professional, and Bach lover. I wrote a fiction novel about Bach's Chaconne. It tells the story of how the...
Dear Joseph, Thanks for your quick reply! I visited your site at once even before I finished reading the letter. It was very interesting to know new about...
Kcrayon
kcrayon@...
Dec 21, 2006 8:32 pm
I'm happy to introduce you to this wonderful composition. Yes, violin and cello music are well suited to the guitar. I suspect if the guitar were available...
Joseph, You are the man. That is a great composition. I agree that cello and violin music are great for the guitar. I am a huge fan of Luigi Boccherini....
Hi, I am working with Chaconne for a couple of week. This work is so wonderful! It begins with four measures and then turn to many variations of 257 measures....
I agree completely. Every time I play it, there is something more to learn, and hear in the music. I try to play it every day, like a meditation. Enjoy! Joseph...
Dear Joseph, I have listened to Chaconne finally. It really strikes and takes you, especially when you hear it on the guitar. It seems to be the very strong...
Kirill
kcrayon@...
Dec 25, 2006 2:00 pm
Chaconne? I wish i could play it well,. I feel too hard to start playing,. the song, seems like,. mmm,,whats called, has a strong sense.. Its too glorious,for...
Dear Nana, Since it isn't known why Bach wrote the Chaconne, in my book Chaconne The Novel, I wrote an historically accurate, but fictional account of Bach's...
Hello and Happy New Year, The first thing is to believe that you can play it, can do it! Don't be afraid of seeming difficulty. If a thing abounds in numerous...
Kcrayon
kcrayon@...
Jan 1, 2007 8:47 pm
I think you meant "soft" tension strings. They sacrifice some tone but require the least effort to fret. Personally, though, I hate them because they never...
Hard tension strings do have some desireable properties. But one thing to be aware of especially with classical guitars is that hard tension strings mean more...
Another word about playing the Chaconne... One of the Yates, (Stanley or Richard, I can't remember which) did an arrangemet of the Chaconne in E minor, which...
Stanley Yates removed his arrangement from the web. Several other online arrangements of the Chaconne are listed in my web guide (on the violin works guitar...
Well, as for "soft" tension strings, I've never used it, but I seem understand what you meant saying about its disobedience to hands. It is sure easier for...
Kcrayon
kcrayon@...
Jan 3, 2007 3:02 pm
Dear Viola! You are right. Is is especially true regarding expencive good-made classical guitars (not one they use in the streets and porches). Soon I will...
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