Improvising In the Style of Bach (First Steps)
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Practice Notes 44 | Improvising in the Style of Bach
Today I thought I would share with you a full play-through of one of my favorite pieces by J.S. Bach, his Prelude and Fugue in C Major from WTC Book II. I then show examples of how I would take a few measures of Bach and improvise in a way that mimics his style. This is a practice I have been doing recently to get more familiar with his language, and it's a neat way to get to know the harmonic progressions he uses.
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That is one of my favorite pieces and beautifully played! The kind of improvisation that you are doing is the way everyone should be taught to play classical music. It’s true to the tradition of the era and teaches people to understand that this music is alive and can be embellished upon. We need a new generation of performer composers on the keyboard. Keep going!
Rick Beato It took 6 months of at least 1 hour of daily practice of harmony on Beato’s channel to be able to hear and manipulate this type of vid.. Thanks guys.
Thank you Rick... It means a lot to me that you say this! I hope to keep making these baby steps with improv, and your channel helps me to do that!
You know it's a truly brilliant video if it has a Rick's encouragement!
Your agreement about the way of conveying musical knowledge really shows the skillful yet sensitive side of human nature.
Couldn't agree more, Rick. Once upon a time, there was basically no distinction between musical training as a player and training as a composer. As happy as I am to live in the 21st century, it's ironical that I need to go back hundreds of years to find an approach to learning music that is "forward thinking".
Bravo!
This is exactly the sort of thing that Bach intended the WTK for.
Thank you!! You can learn so much from Bach, it's truly amazing.
You played the Prelude and Fugue brilliantly! I also love the colour coding of the different voices in Bach. Thanks again for all your hard work and dedication in providing us with regular videos!
Thank you Nathaniel! Thank you for watching as well!!
The editing style of these videos are so damn a e s t h e t i c .
Thank you very much!!
@@NahreSol he was talking about me
This is one of the most inspiring videos on improvisation I’ve ever seen. I’m a Jazzer but recently have became rather obsessed with historical improvisation, partimento and rule of the octave. Your improvisations over Bach’s harmony are beautiful. I’d love to have lessons with you!
Wow. That is some like REALLY nice Bach playing, Nahre. It's a pleasure to hear you play a complete work from the repertoire. I understand it's not your main focus on this channel but please, from time to time, indulge us more in your fabulous playing!
This is the best piano channel in youtube! I just discovered your Channel yesterday and I subscribed! Your piano skills are out of this world!!
Wow, that is so nice of you, thank you!!
@Sirene, you are in for a treat when you discover all of Nahre’s other videos!
WE NEED A REVISION OF THIS VIDEO NAHRE!!!
Imagine implementing Bach with all the kwnolage that you have now!!! Hope that you can consider this!
I love how in the beginning you can hear a very similar figuration in the right hand to your good night I love you composition.
Thank you! Bach is a huge source of inspiration for me :)
@@NahreSol, And your tiny preludes and interludes are as inspiring as his. Great!
This channel ROCKS. I like how you mark up the scores and think about / display the harmonies.
Wow, thank you so much!! :)))
Hi Nahre,
To tell the truth I just came here to listen to your exquisite piano interpretations, but then as I was following the piano score as you played, (reminiscing the times I had to read scores of songs for my orchestration class in college) as if by magic your piano score turned into a chord chart for the song. AWESOME! As a singer piano player (slash everything else well at least in my mind) I constantly play songs reading the words, melody line, and chord cymbals (opps I mean symbols). (lightbulb above the head moment) Hey maybe I can play this along with her. I'm pretty good with chords and inversions. So my life's mission for the moment is to play along while reading the chords. This is so awesome and I get to hang out with one of my favorite piano players at the same time. Thank you for the many awesome videos, and a special thank you to your piano teacher. I heard you mention (not sure whether it's she or he) But I thought it was worth mentioning. You've sort of become my teacher, so I thought I'd give credit where credit is due. As always love seeing you, hearing your voice, and watching you play. Your loving fan (and new student).
Jesse alias Jestunes
Great video! This pattern (progression) is what scholar Dr. Gjerdingen refers to as Quiescenza!
Even though this is a video about improvization, I always come back to this video to hear a proper interpretation of the prelude and fugue. 😁
I love this prelude so much...Bach can just make me very emotional even in c major. Thank you Nahre, for playing in so nicely and appreciating its beauty...💜
This is so great! I agree with Rick this is the way we should all be taught music theory. So helpful and wonderful playing also! Brava!
I can just listen to this over and over
Wonderful performance and great method of practice.! It also extremely helpful in retaining the piece in ones repertoire when one knows the "chord changes" just like in popular music and jazz. I remember at the age of 15, my first jazz piano teacher, Sanford Gold, gave me Bach Inventions to learn and told me to put in the chord symbols. I was like "What chords?" He had me do the same to Chopin etudes. Great way to learn!
That is so cool! Thank you!!
Hi Nahre, your channel has become one of my favorites, thank you so much for your efforts!
This particurarly approach to improvisation reminded me of the practice of Partimento, which is a kind of figured bass used in the Naples conservatories for exercise. There's a study from Robert Gjerdingen called "Music in the Galant Style", which classify those partimenti into various schemata based on their function. For example, the I V/IV IV V I over the tonic pedal, is called "quiescenza", which means dormancy in italian.
What a superb book! An absolute gold mine of information! An improvisor's dream!
WHOA someone else who actually knows that book :O
I JUST REALISED THIS SOUNDS SO MUCH LIKE YOUR PRELUDE TO A FUTURE
I am constantly delighted to hear and see Nahre’s videos! Her understanding and analysis of classical (and other) music of all genres, combined with her gift as a pianist and creativity as a composer and historian makes me wonder if her talents will ever end! Wow!
I wish I had her as a teacher!…just realised she is a teacher with every video! 😊
4:48 This progression you have found at the start of the prelude would be called a “quiescenza” by schema theorists like Robert Gjerdingen. It is most frequently used as an appendix to the final cadence of a piece, because the tonic pedal helps to release energy, but it is also sometimes used as an opening gambit, as it is here 😊
Quiescenza- exactly what I thought when hearing it. I study under John Mortensen at Improv Planet.
I've never been a fan of major keys, but this was pleasant to listen to. Thank you, Nahre Sol.
Really wonderful style,
and a wonderful interpretation of a style too.
Great to see the musical explanation played visually.
Thank you for your reflection.
I totally agree with Rick Beato, the way you exercise for improvising is amazing and inspiring.. It sures inspire myself to try the same :) thanks!
Thank you so much!!
That's such an interesting approach to learning improvisation! Beautiful performance!
Thank you so much!! :)
Had to watch a couple times because I kept losing focus listening to your beautiful playing!!! Thank you so much!
Thank you!! That is so kind :))
Excellent! Great to see the progressions while you play the piece. I'm learning from your videos.
Thank you so much!! I'm so happy you find use in these videos :)
I loooove it. I really enjoy watching your videos and they also help me to stay motivated on playing the piano. Thank you Nahre!
Hi Nahre, I enjoy your videos; as a non-musician some of the technical stuff is over my head but it increases my appreciation of the music. (BTW, at 6:12 it looks as if Alice Sara Ott has been playing while you were explaining!) 😉
Hello Nahre!! Beutiful as usual! I love the use of colors, it is very creative and appropriate
please continue to share these great videos
. You are a genius
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Marvellous! Very inspiring! Thanks very much.
Hi Nahre, I just subscribed on your channel. How tremendous virtuosity you show. Very inspiring.
Found your channel from Rick Beato. Incredible playing. Love watching your left hand. It looks like a spider on the keys.
Thank you so much!! Rick is GREAT!! Thank you!
Thank you Nahre, you are so amazing, that was astonishing
Great idea and layout for improvisation! Thanks
Thank you!! :)))
There’s Bach and then literally everyone else. Dude was in a league of his own...
Bach said anyone can write like him if they work hard enough, I am carrying on his work you should too. Work and improvise 8 hours a day at the piano
@fruityeden. well I practice playing just step wise in the bass and freely with the right hand, or I switch it around and play stepwise in the right hand and freely with the left hand bass. That's just a practice exercise I do to take the pressure off one of the hands
@fruityeden. learn partimento. trust me, it's worth it. a month or so in a can improvise an invention, can't imagine where i'll be in a year... start with sanguinetti's book 'the art of partimento'. seriously amazing how fast you can learn improvisation with it.
@fruityeden. if you really want to get good at it quickly, get a teacher. contact teachers on the art of partimento facebook group.
@fruityeden. the partimenti.org site is where you can get all the free resources you want, but it can be hard to get started. start with fenaroli's cadences, rule of the octave, bass patterns, then go through his partimenti.
Those time Nahre Sol went beast mode (which, basically, it's every single time she plays!)
I really appreciate the colours on the music's sheet, to guide you through the fingering.
Your vids shows your skillful brilliance and never seem to break my balls (as the italian guy, playing jazz, said)
Keep up with the flawless job!
Beautiful sound my friend
Good way to start the day!
Thank you Joel!! :)
New fav channel
You are amazing! Keep doing these videos ;)
Thank you!! And thank you for watching!!
I'm learning that one ready for my audition at RCM in a a couple months. It's my favourite too and so complex harmonically (especially the prelude)
Love this. Brilliant playing and improvising.
Thank you so much!!
Thank you very much for these ideas. All the best
Thank you for watching!! :))
Nicely done!
Very nice :) I hope you do this with other composers.
I will for sure!! :)))
@@NahreSol, But also keep Him in mind, our master of masters. Like our language sounds - Bach mach iedere dach.
(Bach allowed each day -
Bay may every day).
Great proposals on that clear analysis's of his progressions. And great performance.
Thank you so much!
PS did you notice that subject starting in mes.21 out of a sustained major as if it was dissonant. So hidden. So genial. So Bach.
Wow!! You are my teacher! I will practice like this!
Super nicey ! Thank you.
Amazing work! Bach's and also yours ;-). I want to learn improvising fugue and this is really good idea, how to begin with practicing after theoretical reading some kilograms of books ;-).
very nice. it would be great to make a collection of bach pieces that as their first move stretch to the "subdominant". doesn't happy a lot and seems to be responsible for a lot of the warmth of this movement.
i have two suggestions for you: play bach on the harpsichord under the guidance of a true harpsichord player.
learn and use thorough bass theory for this music.
both might help incorporate bach style more as your own natural language.
keep up the good work and do more on bach! :)
omg you are so talented
Congratulations. I wish to know if you have studied partimenti to get at that awesome level of familiarity with classical improvisation.
Prelude in C Minor from WTC II is amazing also
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Your playing is so beautiful that you could of recorded this with a Yak Bak and it still would of sounded great!
Thank you.
I am studying Bachs music and I try to figure out , if there is a mathematical formula of a typical, characteristic Bach chord progressions. Is there any systematical harmonic structure?
I would be very thankful, if you will help me.
Zurab Bach.
J'adore complètement
yellow line kinda reminds me of "goodnight i love you bye" lol
Thank you!! I am very influenced by Bach, what can you say :)
very nice ... can you break some of these down further into exercises?
If someone wants to really learn how to compose from not only Bach style, but all boroque composers and many others from the classic and romantic era, then he must learn partimento and basso continuo. Stop thinking in chords and start thinking in the bass and intervals. Go study Giacomo Insanguine, Giovani Furno, Leonardo Leo, Fenaroli books and also go play and listen to Bach, Scarlatti, Vivaldi, Monteverdi, Pergolesi, Purcell, Corelli, Marchand, Jean Baptiste Lully, Carpentier, and others composer from Baroque era.
Alan Belkin has a good conterpoint lessons for free here in youtube. I learnd a lot with him.
I’d film smth like that with f-sharp minor, my favourite one.
Очень круто!!! Продолжайте еще!!
Hellooooo dear Great Nori . Excuse me if I disturb you. Please, can you make slow the music in video PEDAL VS TEMPO . I am so emotionated her your Splendids motive , expecially the 3third chords before the end . I count , from the last , One , two , and there are 2 Splendids chords . THANK YOU SO MUCH for your Splendid music . You are HENDRIX of the piano
Can you put subtitles, because is easier to read than to listen.
Good job!
Wish my school would hire you!
Thank you for saying that! :))
Una intérprete con alma
i'm a guitar player . i watch your videos because watching your hands is like watching a ballet. the playing is wonderful. ok.. i'll admit to some infatuation.
Amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When I saw the title of this video (Improvising in the style of...BACH) I was like, "Oh, shit"! :)
Santosificationable why?
How long does it take for you to learn for example this particular Bach's piece?
5:02 I don't understand, g dom7 means a g minor chord with a flat 7th right ? Why isn't there no g and no minor third ?
g dom 7 means, G dominant seventh (G B D F)
You make me think
:)
Beautiful, luar biasa, ce bon, WOW! Thank you for the internet so we could have Nahre Sol in billions of homes and offices (just in case you pass by Dharmawangsa Square please stop by The House of Piano there and try some those Steinways).
i love you....
Who has a grand piano in their bedroom?
I love Bach, but I don't really like it to be played on piano.
Could you do a video on harpsichord or keyboard?
😍😍
:)))
Sorry but I recognize that Bach piece but you didn't play the original melody line but immediately improvised on it which is a no no. Then, I could tell that you interjected dominant seventh all over in the wrong manner and flubbed the Bach style in many other ways to sound really odd.
Are you on the strong meds again Karen?