Hey shredlord, can you nail this?

[Spirits of the Deep Waters]

[youtube]ISXznwKgKR0[/youtube]



I've been practising it for acouple of weeks now, It's a damn hard piece!

[Jackson]

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[bob_here]

[quote name="Maze"][youtube]ISXznwKgKR0[/youtube]



I've been practising it for acouple of weeks now, It's a damn hard piece![/quote]





Damn Maze, I'd very much like to see that if you ever youtube it.

[Shredlord]

[quote name="Maze"]I've been practising it for acouple of weeks now, It's a damn hard piece![/quote]

I'm sure it is. Yes, I could probably play it, but I'm not a huge fan of Spanish music. I don't mind listening to it, but I don't like going to the trouble to learn it! I prefer Baroque (this Bach piece is almost unplayable!)

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or contemporary

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I'm working on that one...it's damn hard, too!

[bob_here]

[quote name="Shredlord"]
[quote name="Maze"]I've been practising it for acouple of weeks now, It's a damn hard piece![/quote]

I'm sure it is. Yes, I could probably play it, but I'm not a huge fan of Spanish music. I don't mind listening to it, but I don't like going to the trouble to learn it! I prefer Baroque (this Bach piece is almost unplayable!)





or contemporary





I'm working on that one...it's damn hard, too![/quote]



Great stuff, I have much love for the classics but I really get inspired by contemporary stuff. Stravinsky is my hero.



Shredlord, you have your own vid's?

[Shredlord]

[quote name="TranscendingMusic"]

Shredlord, you have your own vid's?[/quote]

No, I get too nervous. It's one thing to play through a 50,000 watt PA in front of a few thousand people, but it's scary as hell to sit down with a classical guitar in front of a video camera! Maybe someday...

The contemporary piece is by Russian composer/guitarist Nikita Koshkin, who is very much from the Stravinksy/Shostakovich/Prokofiev school. He tries to treat the guitar as a mini-orchestra, or at least a piano!

[bob_here]

[quote name="Shredlord"]
[quote name="TranscendingMusic"]

Shredlord, you have your own vid's?[/quote]

No, I get too nervous. It's one thing to play through a 50,000 watt PA in front of a few thousand people, but it's scary as hell to sit down with a classical guitar in front of a video camera! Maybe someday...

The contemporary piece is by Russian composer/guitarist Nikita Koshkin, who is very much from the Stravinksy/Shostakovich/Prokofiev school. He tries to treat the guitar as a mini-orchestra, or at least a piano![/quote]



Ahh, well I hope sooner than later...

Yea it's really evil stuff, so great. Those russian composers man

Ok I'm off to check out some more Nikita Koshkin

[Spirits of the Deep Waters]

[quote name="TranscendingMusic"]
[quote name="Shredlord"]
[quote name="TranscendingMusic"]

Shredlord, you have your own vid's?[/quote]

No, I get too nervous. It's one thing to play through a 50,000 watt PA in front of a few thousand people, but it's scary as hell to sit down with a classical guitar in front of a video camera! Maybe someday...

The contemporary piece is by Russian composer/guitarist Nikita Koshkin, who is very much from the Stravinksy/Shostakovich/Prokofiev school. He tries to treat the guitar as a mini-orchestra, or at least a piano![/quote]



Ahh, well I hope sooner than later...

Yea it's really evil stuff, so great. Those russian composers man

Ok I'm off to check out some more Nikita Koshkin[/quote]



Check out Iannis Xenakis if you like the evil stuff.



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[Shredlord]

It's too bad he didn't write any solo guitar pieces (I think one of his chamber pieces uses a guitar), but since he favored quarter-tones on string instruments, it probably wouldn't work to well--or he'd have had to change his approach.

[Spirits of the Deep Waters]

[quote name="Shredlord"]It's too bad he didn't write any solo guitar pieces (I think one of his chamber pieces uses a guitar), but since he favored quarter-tones on string instruments, it probably wouldn't work to well--or he'd have had to change his approach.[/quote]



Maybe it would work out if you tuned the guitar in 5ths

[Shredlord]

[quote name="Maze"]
[quote name="Shredlord"]It's too bad he didn't write any solo guitar pieces (I think one of his chamber pieces uses a guitar), but since he favored quarter-tones on string instruments, it probably wouldn't work to well--or he'd have had to change his approach.[/quote]



Maybe it would work out if you tuned the guitar in 5ths[/quote]

I doubt it. The only way we can achieve quarter tones is by slightly bending strings...quarter tone chords would be nearly impossible. (Quarter tones refer to pitches half way between a note and a half step up/down, such as the pitch between C and C#.) It would sound like shit even if it were playable!

[bob_here]

Iannis Xenakis, fantastic stuff, thanks for the reference man.



Grew up hearing quarter tones a lot, definitely awesome in the right context.

[Spirits of the Deep Waters]

[quote name="TranscendingMusic"]Iannis Xenakis, fantastic stuff, thanks for the reference man.



Grew up hearing quarter tones a lot, definitely awesome in the right context.[/quote]



It's something special about it, definatly. I remember some childmovies having alot of music like this actually. Check out Arnold Schoenberg also!

[Haunty]

[quote name="Maze"]
[quote name="TranscendingMusic"]Iannis Xenakis, fantastic stuff, thanks for the reference man.



Grew up hearing quarter tones a lot, definitely awesome in the right context.[/quote]



It's something special about it, definatly. I remember some childmovies having alot of music like this actually. Check out Arnold Schoenberg also![/quote]



My grandfather was a serialist composer, back in the day.

[Shredlord]

[quote name="hbw"]My grandfather was a serialist composer, back in the day. [/quote]

Very cool. Did he publish any pieces? What's his name?

[Haunty]

emperor baby fists H White. Yeah, he's published some pieces. Do I know what they are and how to find them? No

[Shredlord]

[quote name="hbw"]emperor baby fists H White. Yeah, he's published some pieces. Do I know what they are and how to find them? No [/quote]

Here's one! <!-- m -->http://www.musicroom.com/se/ID_No/0259688/details.html<!-- m -->

[Haunty]

I'm pretty sure I have a CD of low-fi recordings of some of his pieces around here somewhere I could potentially upload. He was the head of a music department at a liberal arts college in Indiana for most of his life after the War. Occasionally, he'd get some people together and actually record his music.