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I've been looking at Adam Rogers' My Music Masterclass video and he recommends Bach Sonatas and Partitas as technical studies. He provides a copy of one of the "Doubles" in BWV 1002 in b minor (the one in 9 8).
I've really enjoyed playing and bought a copy of the Schrimer's "Sonatas and Partitas for Violin".
Can anyone recommend some of the other pieces from the book as good studies at about the same level of difficulty?
Thanks,
Josh
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10-03-2022 11:10 AM
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Barry Galbraith's Bach book is really good. Each piece is written for two guitars but you can play each on its own too.
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Originally Posted by josh74
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You can play the polyphonic bits with a pick. I’ve seen it done.
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The Bm partita has double for every movement. It's a wonderful suite.
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Originally Posted by Christian Miller
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Cool. Lately I’ve been using the Prelude to the Cello Suite No. 1 as a hybrid picking exercise. Love Bach!
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Bwv999 as a crosspicking etude
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Originally Posted by josh74
The whole collection of 2 part Inventions is a treasure trove of knowledge. Probably the single most important thing I’ve studied.
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Josh, you might be interested in my Famous Lute Solos for Plectrum Guitar. See the thread about it here:
Famous Lute Solos arranged for Plectrum/Pick Guitar
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Originally Posted by josh74
Ted also said to explore the Bach Chorales
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I've just downloaded the public domain solo violin sheet music from IMSLP
I've mainly used them as reading practise material. It's really ejoyable and satisfying.Last edited by orri; 10-04-2022 at 05:58 AM.
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One thing about doubles - they are usually variations on the preceding dance, so you can see how the harmonic structure relates and that's a useful thing for studying improvisation
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For those of us not quite up to the Bach challenge I highly recommend this book (Fernando Sor - The Sixteen Easiest Pieces) to get some sight reading practice and classical sounds going. There are many examples of folks playing these on YT. Our own Rob M. among them.
https://tecla.com/shop/books-and-mus...pieces-guitar/
If you want to dig into the Bach solo violin sonatas and partitas this particular publication is very cleanly notated.
Amazon.com
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I just download things on musescore. It’s quite useful having them in an easily editable format
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I’ve read through parts of several of the suites, but not to performance standards. I did some serious work on this Presto. Alternate picking, then economy picking attacking every note, then adding the slurs. Almost turned out to be more of a lesson in working out efficient and musical fingerings than anything else!
Here’s a pic I took at some stage of development, though I eventually completed notating the positions and fingering - the book is in storage right now.
I remember Jimmy Bruno told me - “Why do you want use those Leavitt books for reading, when you could play Bach or Kreutzer or Wohlfahrt and learn to read and listen to GOOD MUSIC at the same time!!??”
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A minor partita for flute BWV 1013
Also the flute sonatas 1030-1035
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Oh man. I'm so with Bruno on this...
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