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New appreciation for John Williams
Jun. 17th, 2005 12:41 pmIn an idle moment the other day, I went searching for tablatures for the classical guitar. I like playing the guitar, but I never learnt to read music, so tablature is sorta necessary for me.
I actually found some. One good site I found was here. One of the pieces available is J.S. Bach's Bourrée in E minor, BWV996 (PDF). It's only one page. It's only 1:15 as played by John Williams (as on this CD). It is also, I might add, a complete bugger to play. I can almost play the first section (once only) in the same time it takes John to play the entire piece. I haven't even started trying the second section.
John makes it sound so easy.
No, wait, that doesn't get across the depth of my feelings on this.
John makes it sound so fscking easy.
Most of the sites which rate the difficulty of the music give this as about 2/3 (ie., 6:10, or 4:6). Oh yeah, he thinks, it's only one page, how hard could it be?
Come back in twenty years, and I might be able to play it almost acceptably.
PS., I once played this album to a person who shall remain nameless, who taught music. He didn't think much of it, because you can hear the squeak of John's hands slipping on the strings every so often. This indicated, apparantly, that John wasn't professional enough. Having experienced what your left hand has to do for even the simplest part of the simplest piece, I am even more dumbfounded than I was at the time.
I actually found some. One good site I found was here. One of the pieces available is J.S. Bach's Bourrée in E minor, BWV996 (PDF). It's only one page. It's only 1:15 as played by John Williams (as on this CD). It is also, I might add, a complete bugger to play. I can almost play the first section (once only) in the same time it takes John to play the entire piece. I haven't even started trying the second section.
John makes it sound so easy.
No, wait, that doesn't get across the depth of my feelings on this.
John makes it sound so fscking easy.
Most of the sites which rate the difficulty of the music give this as about 2/3 (ie., 6:10, or 4:6). Oh yeah, he thinks, it's only one page, how hard could it be?
Come back in twenty years, and I might be able to play it almost acceptably.
PS., I once played this album to a person who shall remain nameless, who taught music. He didn't think much of it, because you can hear the squeak of John's hands slipping on the strings every so often. This indicated, apparantly, that John wasn't professional enough. Having experienced what your left hand has to do for even the simplest part of the simplest piece, I am even more dumbfounded than I was at the time.
