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Thank you Alessio. Perhaps writing a nice fugue with a boring subject might be a good challenge too :). Cheers!.

Muy gentil Alejandro, gracias por escucharlo!.

Gracias! Alejandro, Bach nos enseña todo sobre música ( al menos en occidente ).

Thanks a lot for listening !.

Hola, agradezco mucho tu interés . Esta fuga fue mi primer trabajo (y es bastante mejorable en varios sentidos ). La primera exposición la escribí en un día. Resolver el puzle que sigue y darle un desarrollo que fluya me tomó más tiempo y dedicación. Por otra parte, toda una vida de escuchar, digerir y tocar fugas de Bach, por lo que la pregunta del tiempo es difícil de responder. Sobre las cosas a tomar en cuenta, No soy profesor de contrapunto, sólo te puedo hablar desde mi experiencia autodidacta. Escuchar cientos de veces cada sección hasta que me sonara "creíble" y tuviera algún tipo de propulsión es en resumen lo que hice. Después de pasarse un tiempo desarrollando un gusto y oido contrapuntístico, estudiando y escuchando muchas maravillas de Bach y otros, quizás pero el primer desafío es encontrar un sujeto que funcione creíblemente en todas las voces, y te permita generar episodios, modular y hacer invenciones con el. Yo fui algo arrogante y ambicioso , y utilicé un tema cromático y con contra-sujeto, me metí en problemas e intenté salir. Un tema más simple ofrece más flexibilidad. ( El ejemplo supremo de esto es el "Arte de la Fuga BWV1080", con un sujeto simple y elegante, arcaico, conteniendo tantas posibilidades en la prodigiosa imaginación de Bach, como toda la energía en un átomo. ). Saludos!.

Hola, muchas gracias por tu mensaje!. Maravilloso que te guste Brahms!. Hay demasiada gente que tiene videos sobre El, muy bien explicados. Me considero más introvertido youtubisticamente y no planeo hacer un video educacional de ese tipo, lo siento. Esta pequeña humorada intenta transferir algo del estilo de Brahms en algo tan banal como el cumpleaños feliz. Probablemente las variaciones Handel op 24 son el mejor compendio de sus estilo (adulto). Your english is great by the way. Saludos.

@@SergioValenzuela Que tal amigo!? No te preocupes, por ejemplo a lo que te entiendo es agarrar por ejemplo las variaciones y como hacer lo mismo pero en el feliz cumpleaños?

That is very kind, thank You Brian ! , I hope that A.I won`t take away the fun and pains of making "A" fit into "B" by manually choosing each note, for self teaching composition.

@@SergioValenzuela Ha - me too. That has been very much on my mind, but although A.I. is a great tool for speeding up a lot of tedious tasks, it has no mind, no ideas of its own, no insights beyond the purely analytical. I don't fear A.I., but I fear people assigning its contributions more value than it merits, as if it was capable of creativity. It is not. It is simply an aggregator of the talents of human beings. I am hopeful that when the excitement wears off, that there will be a backlash against A.I.-generated "art," a craving for authenticity, an affirmation that the personality, mind, and process of the person behind a creative work matters as much as the work itself.

@@TheCuriousOtters "...I don't fear A.I., but I fear people assigning its contributions more value than it merits", Brian , exactly my feelings too !. What is scary is how the simplistic view of market minded technocrats will push optimization and cost reduction for the sake of it, including replacing artists by using cheap A.I . Also, It seems that every massive technological break-trough has diminished consciousness and downgraded the depth and nuance of experience. As a good NYT article said some time ago, a big part of Tech wants to make "easy" , what is intrinsically hard, and perhaps gives some existential meaning ( nurturing human relationships, creating art, etc...). The problem is the lack of subjective meaning beneath the glossiness of A.I generated Art. I`m with You that hopefully people in the end, will crave for art created , expressed and conceptualized by humans, and these tools being just tools, Cheers !!.

@@SergioValenzuela I'm banking on people's unquenchable desire for meaningful, authentic, creative human work, although I'm cognizant that we grow accustomed to our diets, however poor, and sometimes need a wake-up call to remind us that we should demand better and by doing so can help creatives feed us more substantive work. That is exactly my goal for this channel.

Que alegría saber de tí por este medio, me alegro mucho te gustó la historia! , pocos libros de niños hablan de la empatía ( este es un tema compuesto para este libro de Ekaré Sur, cuya directora es mi Pareja) . Si voy a Leipzig un día, te llevo un ejemplar feliz para Mia . Un gran abrazo !

@@SergioValenzuela Gracias y que les vaya muy bien en todo lo que emprendan! Un abrazo

Hola!, te contesté a tu gmail , sigue siendo el mismo ? avísame si lo recibiste. un abrazo.

Thank You Ernesto!!.This was an early attempt. Cheers!.

That is very kind, thank You for listening . Some Organists have requested it before, email me and i can share the pdf with You. ( Might publish it someday ).cheers.

Lyle´s wide-scope genius was sometimes overlooked under his role ; for many people he was the "Keyboardist" from Pat Metheny Group. For me he was the spirit of it, at least 50/50 with Pat. Glad that you enjoyed this magnificent work outside that realm.

Thank You for listening and commenting!. Cheers.

Thank You Ernesto!, and btw Happy New Year !!. I´m surprised You took the time to listen to this, was a fun project to work with . Cheers and best wishes for your 2023 🎼🎵

@@SergioValenzuela you shouldn't be surprised, i'm a veritable fan of your obvious talent, best in 2023, Sergio!

@@ernestoferreri Thank You Ernesto, I´m a fan of yours too. I was revisiting your Fugues, and stumble on Adagio and Fugue from your insomniac variations op.24. A Wonderful work where I can hear bits of Late Beethoven and Brahms ? in your very personal way....

So kind Kris!, Thank You for listening , ( I`m quite surprised that people keep commenting on this thing I made 6 years ago.) I have a much later work that explores a more "Bachian" approach to chromatic harmony in some spots , and i think it does a better job stylistically, even if the subject is a children song , not too Bachy per se. th-cam.com/video/_DuxgG0d0uM/w-d-xo.html I believe is always worth to try and write some counterpoint even if it´s a short two voice composition. These little attempts has been an education on itself. It takes patience and asking lots of questions but worth it!. Cheers!.

Thanks so much for taking the time to listen!.

@@SergioValenzuela i thank you Sergio for this version. Bach is for me always the jewel of music, goes straight to my soul.

​@@karennoble1076 I share the feeling, goes directly to mine too since 7 years old. His harmonies been a soundtrack all my life.

Thank You for listening and your kind comment. Absolutely, Bach´s music is a language on itself and even larger than music. It never ceases to amaze our minds and comfort our souls.

una de las mejores canciones del mundo, sin duda. estoy en chile, a ver si nos vemos, un gran abrazo!. (email)

Thanks again Ernesto for listening and commenting. Most of these ideas i obviously tried to borrow and distill a tiny bit from Bach. Never ceases to amaze me his infinite outpouring of ideas on how to harmonize a melody and how to use multiple viewpoints of the same material. Fugues seem perfect for this kind of searching.

BIG LOL. Congratulations on being the first commenter on my (proudly) less popular track ever!. Might use some of this as a subject for a stretto fugue some day ;). I´m amazed that you took the time to listen this entire thing, i really appreciate it, thanks Ernesto for you funny comment and good vibes!.

@@SergioValenzuela love weather report and Bach... seems like you do too. Yea, around the 5-6 mark minutes got quite developed, prior to the ending section which contains very nice things

@@ernestoferreri Same as you, Love good music no matter the genre. Crazy about Pat Metheny Group stuff . I used to work in a non music job, this was a very raw improvisation i played (with a tiny bit of rage ) after a month of almost not being able to play at all, the whole thing was like a trance up to the conclusion that hopefully leads to a calmer state of things. I took the midi data and orchestrated it, adding midi drums, inspired by what Lyle Mays did on his Solo record, but using a different take on it. Thanks so much for listening.

@@SergioValenzuela th-cam.com/video/ugkXddNm0hs/w-d-xo.html your work brings this to mind, pretty sure you must know it

Thanks so much for your kind words, and for listening.

Can’t wait to see it!

It´s a bit of an old work at this point, :) but thanks much for listening!.

@@SergioValenzuela I'm stunned by your talent, you have to compose your life through it's sooooooo urgent and valuable in our time and the future ahead of us. Thx!

@@norwalltino First : This is extremely kind, and thank you for your words, but i just love what i do and try to work hard , anyone learning for example contrapunctus XI by heart and obssessing over it for years could learn one or two things about harmony from god himself :). Second : I listened to your music, and i´m the one trasfixed by Your talent. It reminds me of parts of Lyle Mays, among others, Your piano piece or improvisation sounded like Scriabin, Rachmaninoff,Chopin, Bill evans but in a very personal and warm way. You are the one that the world needs!. Thank So Much from Chile. This is stunning ! th-cam.com/video/wN6njKrm_8I/w-d-xo.html

@@SergioValenzuela Thanks million of times Sergio, you are the real understanding listener, I really appreciate your comments, as I've alreday said , compose all the day long I'm a huge fan of your music and your skills, how nice to meet you, take care now, you are luckily long away from the war in Europe, as you're living in Chile, here in Norway, it's rather close. Now we have the music anyway :-) See you later

Thanks for listening🙂

Thank You.

Thanks for listening. To clarify , I really didn´t intend to "copy" Bach, but to celebrate, him and study some of his language.

Hi Britt, Thank You for listening !. I`m so glad you like it. Drop me an email (vale.sergio@gmail.com) if you want . Cheers !.

Your warm comment and appreciation is very kind. Thank You for listening. This is a humble recycle of every Bach harmony that moves me since i was 7 year old. Cheers!

Never realized this close connection, thanks for making me aware, and for hearing this little work.cheers!

I read somewhere that Lyle was exploring harmony based on fifths and sixths, a language "...not available to me before" in his own words. At least to me it´s hard to think this harmony with conventional chord tensions, b3 could be just an added quality,. (Far from being a theoretical geek) Lyle was very architectural and design oriented, so I can guess that he would think more of stacking structures over structures, in this case two open major triads of G and F# ( basically second inversions of this triads a whole step apart, in closed voicing). But , the beauty of this sound in his context is astonishing (So is the upcoming chord!). Ravel , Debussy and Alban Berg, some of his sources are full of this kind of stuff. cheers

@@SergioValenzuela Ah, of course! It’s funny how enharmonic spellings can trip us up. Had I been on a piano… I think you are right. Of course that one chord, and the one that follows it, are mere spices in his brilliant stew.