(Pre/Post-)Baroque + Rock Band Instruments - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Sorry, as my signature shows, I hold the Man from Eisenach in too much esteem to like when his music is trampled horrendously.

Though I won't deny the talent Emerson had to make less-than-atrocious classical-to-rock adaptations.

someone should do a metal instrumental version of the solo partitas might be fun

They flutter behind you your possible pasts,
Some bright-eyed and crazy, some frightened and lost.

Originally posted by menawati

someone should do a metal instrumental version of the solo partitas might be fun

Go for it !!

BWV 825-830 ? Quite much work if you rehearse /+ program each and every measure of those pieces.

Is there any part you're really into ...How would you play them (slower vs faster, ninja-like vs heavy, serious vs carefree )?

Jean-Marie, I quite like the tracks you posted. They are quite faithful to the spirit of Bach's music.

"Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood)

Originally posted by jayem

Is there any part you're really into ...How would you play them (slower vs faster, ninja-like vs heavy, serious vs carefree )?

a raw heavy brutal and fast version of the long 11 minute bit Partita 2 - Ciaccona, riffs galore

They flutter behind you your possible pasts,
Some bright-eyed and crazy, some frightened and lost.

Originally posted by lucas

Jean-Marie, I quite like the tracks you posted. They are quite faithful to the spirit of Bach's music.

Thanks for Morse, Tull, Loussier suggestions. Nice to meet you !

Maybe you're meaning that similar tracks qualify for "faithfulness to the spirit" when they don't sound like an exercise.

Bach would hardly get the point in boosting the recordings of his works to rock'n'roll dynamics, even jazz, should he abruptly wake up now, would he? In that regard the original "spirit" is lost.

I'd also say that the joy of being touched by music refering to societies of a remote past has a taste of "spiritual" transcendance, which can be kept even when we pretend to "fit" that music to our likenings into extending the ways of rendition with current musical gear.

Originally posted by menawati

a raw heavy brutal and fast version of the long 11 minute bit Partita 2 - Ciaccona, riffs galore

BWV 1004 you mean? If nobody has done it yet this one will probably tempt some melodic metal band sooner / later...

Edited by jayem - October 24 2012 at 12:55

How about the sexual thing in jazz

Nice to meet you !...

What you've linked is Beethoven's Sonate 8 2nd mov

Symphony X did play Bach indeed :

Hehe...Doesn't Beethoven deserve a thread for himself ?

Originally posted by FunkyHomoSapien

Bach was a REAL genius.

Actually I only like around 25 percent of all BWV's I've heard, and that's not saying he's anything else than an exceptionally gifted composer. But he doesn't move me and shake my guts more than several rock bands around. So how do we care if he's a genius ?

If you've skipped three classes in school like he did, have a good ear, and get a solid musical education + passion in music + curiosity for every style + taking time to compile, you're likely to be technically as good as he was.

Because he studied very diverse styles, rythmics and patterns, nearly everyone of us is fond of one bit or the other.

Few people take the time and dedicate themselves to learn how to write a solid fugue, and become proficient with instruments played in the XVIIIth ctry.

Perhaps people are impressed too easily.

What do you mean anyway...

1. Beethoven isn't a genius ?

2. This thread is pointless ?

3. The fact people are still revisiting his works 262 years after his death shows how great he was; furthermore I don't care about the very purpose of this thread ?

Edited by jayem - October 29 2012 at 18:46