After listening to Japhlet’s album, I’ve become obsessed with Comptine D’un Autre Ete from Amelie, so I’ve started learning that.

Also started on Invention #1 on the SG12.

Actually Bach is the main reason I decided to buy a stick. Since I was a kid I've always been driven to counterpoint, to this bunch of different sounds, voices, all different, loud and equally important, combining not to bring chaos, but harmony.
The thing is, until the stick, none of the traditional instruments really appealed to me: I know my piano, I know my guitar, but... They just weren't my thing you know? I'm a double bass player, now that's an instrument that makes me dance... but how I'm I supposed to play a two/three/four part fugue on that?
So, along comes a video of Bob C. playing Beatles and all I can think of is: I could play some Bach on that... So I start this journey, practicing just because I love it, playing with my eyes closed cause I've learned it's the best way to keep track of both hands, just like when I listen to stuff like "the art of fugue" and suddenly I realize why I love it so much, why do I have this egocentric trip when I play it: It's the same feeling I get listening to Bach, even if that's not what I'm playing at that moment: I'm connected to everything, playing the stick, doing several different things at the same time, having the entire sound at my finger tips, interacting with each string during the duration of every single note, it's not about control or the need to do stuff alone, it has nothing to do with Ego: it's all about connectedness Anyway, just thought I'de share this with you guys - practice as gone well as you can imagine by this stupid things I just wrote... Hmm... Or maybe I should just stop smoking this funny cigarettes... LOL
Cheers everyone and thanks Scott, Kev, Stephen.. You know





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Bachdois, you might want to search this site for "mirrored fourths", and "Bach" together. Fourths are much more conducive to playing both counterpoint and four-part harmony.


Mad Monk.

Yep, been thinking about it... But I so love the inverted 5th... Maybe two instruments, different tunings? thanks Mad Monk


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Although I didn't get a Stick to do classical music, this was one of the videos that opened my eyes to the Stick's possibilities (my favorite Bach piece):

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3Ys5olyY2I[/youtube]

Awesome post, Claire, thanks!

Hey, don't have an I-love-Bach party without me!

Hi Claire, Guillermo is something isn't he?
Stephen: houldn't think of it!


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To answer the original question:
I've been, for a few weeks now, working every day on Beethoven's Missa Solemnis and Meeres Stille und Gluckliche Fahrt (Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, based on the pair of poems by Goethe). I'm singing bass and it's been tough work, but very rewarding and I'm starting to get a little comfortable with it all.
(There's nothing like joining a choral group singing some difficult stuff to whip your voice and reading chops - as well as your Latin and German - into shape.)

this week:
1) part two of the Ed Friedland Building Walking Bass Lines, re-doing the II-V-I bass line
2) one octave triads and seventh chords in bass, all inversions (major, minor, dom 7, minor 7, major 7), in a single key
3) Friend of the Devil by the Grateful Dead
4) Fields of Gold by Sting
5) Deportee by Woody Guthrie
6) 1-octave mixolydian mode, both hands simultaneously, four notes per string, add the ninth on top, in a single key
7) 1-octave major arpeggios, both hands simultaneously
8) While I Went out Walking by Bob Dylan
9) When I Was Young by The Animals
10) Ticket for an Aeroplane by The Boxtops
11) Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen

Yeah that's enough to choke a horse... losing sleep over it, or not getting it done at all...

R

Hey Rodan. (sorry, not sure of your real name)
David Tipton does a nice version of Fields of Gold, its on the utubes....

Boxtops made me think of a cool doc on Netflix called Bigstar (the band). Check it out if you haven't seen it. Alex Chilton did the lead vocal on "Ticket" (the letter). Neat thing is....he was 16 years old when they recorded that tune.

cheers,
kev