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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2014 0:57:23 GMT -5
So who does it for you? Me, I'm a Johann Sebastian Bach guy. Currently working on his Bourree. Amazing, how this man wrote.
Here's a few things I've found on youtube that have blown me away. This first guy, I've NEVER seen anything like him before. The double stops while playing pizzicato, with both fingers and teeth, all at the same time. The man is insanely good. If you want to be amazed, please I beg you to watch this video. I'm humbled everytime.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2014 1:18:08 GMT -5
Oh, you started it!!! Excellent. I love Bach, Air on a G string is the best song ever.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2014 1:22:35 GMT -5
I like a lot of really headbanging, hardcore classical music. For some reason, people always think of classical music as "mellow," but there's a lot of badassery involved in classical music.
I saw Verdi's Requiem live a few years ago, and it was insane. The Youtube videos don't even do this music justice -- the walls and floor were shaking, and my eardrums were practically bleeding during "Dies Irae." It was easily the most headbanging live-music experience of my life, and I say that as someone who's been to a lot of heavy metal concerts.
Verdi's Dies Irae is the theme song from "That Metal Show" on VH1 classic.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2014 1:22:38 GMT -5
Air on the G String is a lot of fun to play but you have to remember that the time signature is so much slower than the usual 4/4 that most songs are in. But funnily enough when I go to look it up, because I'm lazy and don't feel like looking at my sheet music, it claims the song is in the 4/4 signature which I know isn't right. I think its more like 8 beats per measure instead of the four.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2014 1:24:29 GMT -5
We just got back from last month from going into New York to Carnegie Hall to see Jason's college choir perform Mozart's Requiem. It was a full choir, orchestra, and a soprano and alto soloist, and a bass and alto soloist, both male and female. It was absolutely amazing.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2014 1:25:27 GMT -5
This is one of my favorite flash mob videos. This song is absolutely indescribable to hear live.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2014 1:31:04 GMT -5
OOOhhhhI love that one!!!! When I was in college, we did Mozart's Requiem too, and kids in the audience cried during Dies Irae.
Well, we didn't do the entire thing, we just did selections - Requiem aeternam, the intro part - Kyrie Elesion - Dies Irae - Benedictus - Angus Dei - Lux aeterna
But yeah, that's seriously one of the greatest pieces of music in the history of Western Civilization. That's why Mozart is the biggest rock star EVER (I wonder what everyone will be saying about Aerosmith 230 years from now?)
I think this calls for a video:
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2014 1:33:47 GMT -5
That must've been pretty cool for him to have performed at Carnegie Hall.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2014 1:35:54 GMT -5
Oh Jason didn't perform. His college's choir did. Jason graduated over 10 years ago. We were invited to go because he's an alumni.
EDIT: Actually, he yells at me when I explain it as "his college's choir". It was the National Sacred Honor Choir. But the conductor/director/lead soprano/alto/bass/alto were all Houghton College alum or professors, plus a large part of the choir was from Houghton. But the choir is not all Houghton College. There, now if there is a slim chance he sees this post, I won't have to sit through another ten minute lecture on not listening to him.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2014 1:40:32 GMT -5
I used this video to learn how to play the water level song lol
Edit: Okay, apparently not this version. There is another one out there where he does the water level. But its late, I'm tired and I'm lazy. So take my word for it.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2014 1:45:19 GMT -5
In regards to Verdi's Requiem, I love watching conductors do their thing. He must be exhausted at the end of a performance. Its an art just watching them.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2014 1:52:24 GMT -5
That's awesome with the Super Mario song.
Yes! I noticed that they often have safety bars on the backs of the little platforms they stand on, because I guess a lot of conductors have accidentally toppled off backwards by getting way too intensely into it. It must be a good workout.
I like it when people combine classical-style music with heavy metal music. The Trans-Siberian Orchestra has a version of Toccata & Fugue that segues into a lot of excellent NWOBHM-style guitar riffing.
Glenn Tipton from Judas Priest also completely plagiarized the main riff from "Mars, Bringer of War" from Holt's 'The Planets,' for his solo record. I kind of like it when heavy metal people plagiarize famous classical music.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2014 1:53:59 GMT -5
That's TOTALLY the main riff from "Mars, Bringer of War," isn't it?
Oh, yeah, Yngwie Malmsteen, too.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2014 1:58:56 GMT -5
Speaking of which, Slash took from Bach for the song Anastasia. I think it said it was the Toccata in Fugue in D Minor that Slash plays in the bridge after the intro and the bridge prior to the guitar solo in Anastasia.
And yes, that is it.
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Post by AeroCooper on Apr 11, 2014 5:04:25 GMT -5
I used to listen to a lot of Beethoven, Bach and Chopin, but these days I only listen to the bastardized versions such as this, which are still beautiful.
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