Hi all,
I have to reluctantly admit, although I'm a big fan of Bach music, at the same time it intimidates me! I'll hear one of his tunes and figure, hey, that sounds like a good one to try learn, that is until I look the piece over and see all those notes going up and down and all over the place, There's generally sharps and flats thrown in here and there, shifts from treble to bass and so on and it's just a bit too overwhelming for my less than proficient mostly self taught organ playing skills. In short, because of all of this, sad but true I generally avoid trying anything Bach, that is until I came across this little gem which got stuck in my head recently after hearing it again on a CD I hadn't listened to in a long time.
http://ks.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usim ... BWV533.pdf
Is this possibly one of the easier Bach pieces out there? So far in a matter of a few weeks I've managed to get through the prelude part, can't play it real accurately just yet and I have some flubs here and there but I have by far gotten further along with this one than any other I've generally thrown up my hands on and said to myself, this is way out of my league.
I do have a question on this one though and for some reason something does not sound right to me. On measure 14 on the bass (left hand) line, the first notes in the measure are E and G#, above in the treble line (right hand) is E and B, playing all these together sounds very odd like something isn't right. Can anyone tell me if there's something I'm missing in this spot? Otherwise I'm very much enjoying learning this piece!
Thanks,
Marc
I have to reluctantly admit, although I'm a big fan of Bach music, at the same time it intimidates me! I'll hear one of his tunes and figure, hey, that sounds like a good one to try learn, that is until I look the piece over and see all those notes going up and down and all over the place, There's generally sharps and flats thrown in here and there, shifts from treble to bass and so on and it's just a bit too overwhelming for my less than proficient mostly self taught organ playing skills. In short, because of all of this, sad but true I generally avoid trying anything Bach, that is until I came across this little gem which got stuck in my head recently after hearing it again on a CD I hadn't listened to in a long time.
http://ks.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usim ... BWV533.pdf
Is this possibly one of the easier Bach pieces out there? So far in a matter of a few weeks I've managed to get through the prelude part, can't play it real accurately just yet and I have some flubs here and there but I have by far gotten further along with this one than any other I've generally thrown up my hands on and said to myself, this is way out of my league.
I do have a question on this one though and for some reason something does not sound right to me. On measure 14 on the bass (left hand) line, the first notes in the measure are E and G#, above in the treble line (right hand) is E and B, playing all these together sounds very odd like something isn't right. Can anyone tell me if there's something I'm missing in this spot? Otherwise I'm very much enjoying learning this piece!
Thanks,
Marc