Bach Chorale 1/371
I have found the perfect practice regime in Bach. I’ve been talking about recording all of his chorales since March of last year in this post.
I play each chorale at the piano several times. Next, I move to the guitar and sight-read, playing both lines in the treble clef, then both lines in the bass clef. Then I record.
At first, I recorded this with four slide guitars. It seemed a good challenge, but proved incredibly difficult to plan the intonation of all four guitars– so I finished it, then deleted it. When I recorded it a second time, I limited myself to playing each line on one string, though the bass line is played on two strings for smoothness and balancing out some wacky intonation.
If I’m not a better sight reader at the end of this 371 chorales endeavor, I promise to burn my guitar.
The harmony in this first is very straight forward, but man, things get delightfully complex with color in the rest.
