Air on a G String

Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields ^ | 1700's | Johann Sebastian Bach

[Ray76]

Enjoy this music, an outstanding achievement of human accomplishment and Western civilization.

[real saxophonist]

Here you go again.I love all these guys. It's jazz, man. Just get a bunch of guys together and play. And sometimes magic like this happens.

[right way right]

Question. Why is a saxophone classified a woodwind when it's made of Brass?
I am a string player, we ask a lot of questions. i Do you know why a Viola is better than a Violin? A Viola holds more beer.

[right way right]

That is really cool. I play Bass and I would like to know what effects the bass player is using. That is awesomely funky.

[right way right]

No vibrato, eerily beautiful tension. This is kind off opposite to that you linked where it has a lot of vibrato. I enjoy it. Its not commonly played in a quartet.
I listen to tons of music on Youtube, a lot of different types.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lKrxPTePXEQ

[real saxophonist]

That’s Mark Egan. Serious funkiness.

[dfwgator]

Mark Egan was great when he was with the Pat Metheny Group.

[real saxophonist]

A saxophone is a woodwind because it uses a reed. Simple as that.

I don't know why, but the joke at the University of Northern Colorado was that viola players needed handicap parking spaces.

I have no idea why that was, musta been a string thing...

[RegulatorCountry]

Odd that you’d post this, I’ve been enjoying 3-D visualizations of classical music of late, and just came across this one over the weekend:

https://youtu.be/8QD7Hgxwe44

The guy who’s making the best ones in my opinion, Andy Fillebrown, is responsible for this, he has a YouTube channel filled with years worth of his work, many different composers and many styles of visualization, all 3-D. Done using MIDI files in Blender with some custom programming in addition to that. I find it very relaxing to expand the window on a large monitor and just let go, getting absorbed into the sounds, shapes, color and motion.

Bach’s Air on the G String is one of his more unusual efforts, far more abstract but I think it’s fitting. Most are best described as a sort of tunnel ride though, I guess, the feeling of having gone somewhere with the music is almost palpable when those are done.

[real saxophonist]

If you have some time, check this thread out.

[right way right]

The low self esteem of the viola can be attributed to the fact that it often gets the least ‘important notes’ and sometimes it get ‘super easy parts’ because they “can’t play fast.” they are ‘neglected’ by composers.
It is a string thing.
I played viola through school, pretty girls play viola, I wish I had focused more on music and less on the girls.

[right way right]

The reed.
Of course, how reedarded of me.

[real saxophonist]

I had a good friend at UNC (Northern Colorado, NOT North Carolina) who was a viola player. I think she told me that joke.

[right way right]

I bet she was a pretty girl.

[Yardstick]

Ha! Getting bailed out by Max Roach. The Coz could sure tell a story.

I had forgotten that Cherokee is usually played at warp speed as a competitive sport.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FFa3JC41mrM

They are really tearing it up here. There’s some heat in the comments section after someone says Sonny Stitt is a Charlie Parker clone.

[Savage Beast]

In a way, Wagner is kind of opposite to Bach.

I don't think anyone has developed harmonic tension like Bach. But I do love Rachmaninov's tension.

I listen to youtube too. I like to play it on one internet page as I peruse other pages, such as FreeRepublic.

[real saxophonist]

I've heard people say Michael Brecker was a 'Coltrane clone' They don't know what they're talking about.

There is a lot of Parker in Sonny Stitt's alto playing, but he was an original voice on tenor.

It's funny how a different horn makes one play a different way. It's fun to wail on an alto, but I was mainly a tenor and baritone player.

[real saxophonist]

Okay, I just now watched your video. Richie Cole is a way underappreciated player. I love his piano guy, Bobby Enriquez:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV7UQDyjTIM

We totally hijacked this thread. Probably my fault. That's okay, that's how we learn things.

[Yardstick]

Just dang. I wonder if those latin lines the piano guy worked into his solo are quotes from the original song.