estebanana -> RE: FINE TUNING A GUITAR (Oct. 18 2013 11:42:38)
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The prelude of the 5th cello suite has a fugal section after about 25 measures of free wheeling it through c minor scale chord arggegios. Then it breaks into a great little fugue which is specific to that suite. The lute suite is totally different. The thing that is tricky to to make one line sound like a a multi voiced fugue. Your imagination fills in the empty parts when you hear a back an forth between bass and melody and inner voice and outer voice. His brilliance is that he weaves four lines in your head by giving you one line to play. He does that all over the violin partitas as well. Still not following you on how the toccata and fugue in D minor does not sound like Bach. It sure as hell does not sound like Buxtehude. Even thought Bach is known characteristically for tightly woven counter point that references the tonic center, he can also take you way outside the harmonic norms of his times. There are sections of Bach keyboards pieces that are quite dissonant, he understood that too. And the other thing to remember about Bach is that he was a kick booty improvisor, he could do tricks like construct fugues on a five or six note theme a challenger would give him and create a piece on the spot. The Toccata is like a calling in the spirit in a blues pice where the guitar player plays some outside bendy grace notes in free time and then launches into a groove with a beat. When Bach composed that toccata was just sitting at an organ thinking he was Lightnin' Hopkins starting a blues Then he sat on that big fat nasty D minor chord for along time an remembered he lived in the 17th century. Then guy who built the organ then looked up at him from where he sat in the pews and and said: "Dude that sounds bitchen, do it again." Sorry Tom to have to explain Bach in your thread. Hope you don't mind the diversion talking about classical music. Can I stop holding in this fart now? Speaking of farts, I think Spaniards and Gypsies are fart 'o' phobes. Anything below the belt is nasty and forbidden, it's bad manners to fart and bad manners to talk about farting. I get that, but I don't really care. I'm not Spanish. I'm not one of those flamenco enthusiasts that strive vainly to try to be Spanish and put on Spanish mannerisms. I'm a big ugly American who loves flamenco, but also farts and plays the cello. And I also burp. In Japan it's cool to Burp at the table. It means you like the food. So I fit in better here than trying to be a wanna-be Spaniard like so many flamencos. I think Spaniards secretly detest people trying to be Spanish, but since they are polite and strive never to fart, they are mute on the subject and suffer non farting Spanish posers. One of my best friends is a Spanish molecular biologist and he talks about farts all the time. He lived in the US for 18 years so perhaps some of our bad American manners rubbed of on him. However he used to say to me, "Condi, I hate it when Americans try to be Spanish, what are those fart knockers thinking?" He calls me Condi after Condoleeza Rice because she is so uptight and he thinks I am uptight so he named me Condi. He makes up nick names for people and when he does not like them he uses the word fart in the nick name. He made up this great word in Spanglish 'Fartknockero' A fartknocker. I really hate smoking, I can't stand being around smokers. It's one of the major things wrong, in my opinion, with flamenco. Besides killing off Moraito, which totally sucked, smoking stinks more than farts. When Spaniards ask me if I mind if they smoke, I say hey no problem, mind if I fart?
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