Plenty more planned!

See last week’s video - we’re working on an organ social media site for that very purpose! The Steady and Patreon supporters are already testing it out for me! It’ll hopefully be ready to to public in a few weeks. Watch this space!

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Man, still watching the video and I'm already exhausted! LOL There is no such thing as easy Bach! Prelude #1 in C major from the Well-tempered Clavier volume 1 is a trap! :-D I'm with my keyboard, at the same time, and I'm hitting the pause key on the video more than the keys on the keyboard! This is depressing... :-P But I do love some Bach, sigh... Oh, crux! Back to bar 1! :-P

Thank you! Good luck to you - it is an exciting instrument to learn!

Greetings As I have heard, the great Helmut Walcha used to learn that way too. And he recorded all he considered was bach organ works with no doubt. The short preludes and fugues were not in that recording because there are studies that doesnt consider bach authorship of that collection. But well Bach or not Bach, those are great for the learning process.

Oh yeah, music by ear and not by sheets... :-) It's now surely over 20 years ago, that I have the fortune to sit on an organbank. A few years ahead the organist gave me the oppotunity to learn and and play the organ at sundaymorning in the time before the service starts and no one is nearby :-) Left hand three-finger-chords, right hand melody by ear and hopefully no great amont of black keys. And than the pedals for the bassline. Not quite the "real" organ music, but for a few pieces of music enough. - Unfortunatly since these days I haven't learnd to read the musical notes. Thanks to Fraser, jetzt gibts bei Startnext auch die signierte CD ohne Noten. Ich looke forward für die hoffentlich bald kommende CD. - Obwohl, auf Schallplatte gepresst wäre es noch schöner :-) Ich habe mich mal durch Bachs komplettes Orgelwerk auf Vinyl gehört.

It all depends on the instrument you're playing and so on. There are a great many theories and practices concerning Bach et al. They change every generation or so. As long as the player and listener are happy, go with what fits! Karl Richter definitely wasn't a toes-only sort of guy, even on original instruments. For many he's still one of the great Gurus of Bach.

​@@FraserGartshore Thank you for your response. I do understand about playing styles. I never cared much for Karl Richter’s style, but many others do, and as they say, there’s no accounting for taste!

Go for it!!

I love that song and, I too, realized it's more of a life goal than a weekend KZfaq grind! 😂😂😂 Amazing!

I learned the toccata from the toccata and fugue in about a year

But the fugue is still pretty hard

@@jnmusic9969 it’s really not horribly difficult. just allot 2-3 hours each time you go to practice it. take it really slow!

Thanks Bob! Good tips there for everyone! How’s the weather in Florida?

@@FraserGartshore Hello. At just before 3pm in Florida, we're at 88°F, windy (from tropical storm Humberto, way out in the Atlantic) and humid - definitely still summer. Enjoy your weekend.

Registration is a personal thing based on taste, style, instrument at hand and experience. There are no hard and fast rules. Purists will say otherwise, but who's listening to them anyway?! If it sounds good to you, go for it!

Thank you too! Check out earlier videos on the channel - I go through the organ and its capabilities in a few of them!

​@@FraserGartshore Thank you, Fraser - I've been through most of the videos and put together some answers from bits and pieces in them. I still have not found an explanation of how the two rows of switches above the stops work - I would love an explanation. I assume that the box of white buttons to the left may have to do with setting the pistons? Or would like to know what they do as well. You are consistently instructive and entertaining! - please keep it up ! It's completely refreshing to have your contemporary, lighthearted, yet high-quality approach to guiding many new / young / aspiring organists whom we might otherwise lose to some overly self-impressed and austere practitioners at large - ;-) I found the history of the instrument interesting - the present instrument seems to be versatile and well-voiced and suited to the room, which also has a substantial acoustic - I can foresee many suitable recordings forthcoming. I didn't find any reference to this instrument in the OHS data base - it would be nice to have an entry for this instrument there - pipeorgandatabase.org/ From the videos and a bit of research I have the following for starters: original instrument: builder: Johann Willhelm Schoeler , 1773 three manuals, 34 registers I see the following nameplates in the videos - but cannot make out the opus numbers or year: Carl Horn Peter Wagenbach The present stoplist from the videos I have so far is: Pedal: 1 Violonbass 16’ 2 Subbass 16’ 3 Dolcebass 16’ 4 Principal 8' 5 Posaune 16' 6 I - P 7 II - P Manual I 8 Bourdon 16’ 9 Principal 8’ 10 Gemshorn 8’ 11 Gamba 8' 12 Hohlflote 8' 13 Quintaton 8' 14 Octave 4’ 15 Rohrflote 4’ 16 Waldflote 2’ 17 Mixture 3-4f. 18 Trompette 8' 19 II - I 20 Super II - I 21 Super I Manual II 22 Geigenprincipal 8' 23 Gedeckt 8' 24 Flauto-amabile 8′' 25 Dolce 8’ 26 Salicional 8' 27 Vox-coeleste 8’ 28 Aeoline 8’ 29 Flauto-traverso 4’ 30 Harmonia-athera 3f. 31 Franz Oboe 8’ 32 Tremolo There seem to be a few other capabilities as well - I love that the "out-of-tune" reeds can be shut off!)

IMLSP -> imslp.org/wiki/8_Kleine_Pr%C3%A4ludien_und_Fugen,_BWV_553-560_(Bach,_Johann_Sebastian)

Quick question - how long do you deem that a person never touching a bagpipe will be able to learn it? Also which piece do you like most?

You pull different stops for each manual, so each produce a different sound. You then use which ever manual whose sound you want at the time. I’m not an organist, but as I understand it, it’s more or less a matter of personal taste, the size and acoustics of the room, and the general mood of the piece, and the only things you might get from the sheet music are the dynamics (forte, piano, etc.).

I always wished I had learned bagpipes instead of piano.

Bart Hiddema i have one for sale

Karl Gutwin yeah I would love a video on how to choose a registration.

@@JimCullen Yes please Fraser!

Yes, I'd say what makes sense artistically but also factor in the ambience of the building where the organ is located. You'd be better of with registrations that can be carried evenly about in the building.

It's all a matter of taste! It will depend on the organ in question, the room it speaks in and the situation... There are no rules for registration!

They allow for different registrations of stops.

Verso in e minor by Domenico Zipoli. Thats the very first organ work I learned, aside from exercises. It’s strictly manuals.

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@@FraserGartshore Thanks you maestro!

Hi Gordon - that would also be ok, just make sure you make it clear in the transaction description that you’re preordering a cd (or set of goodies, as found on the startnext project page!) PayPal link is in the video description. Thanks for supporting!

Order received and reserved! Thanks Gordon!

If you watch his last video he goes into it quite a bit. Mostly his jazzy improvisations and that sort of thing.

Grazie!

Not completely known. Some say Bach in fact wrote it but for pedal harpsichord.

for Mr. Gartshore: I haven't watched the entire video yet, but what you said about scales and learning the 'finger placement' for the notes of the Prelude and Fugue led me to think that perhaps a specific scale exercise tailored to the piece might help a student learn the piece faster. After all, all keyboard music could be considered as, or at least interpreted as a derivative of some scale, major or minor, harmonic or modal.

WHO said these were written by Krebs? Is there any evidence proving these were not written by Bach? Is it possible that Bach wrote these pieces for students? Or maybe for a different instrument? Speculation abounds, but oh so little proof!

@@gianlucabersanetti6454 In other words, it’s just speculation on the authorship of these pieces, with no actual proof of anything. And somehow, in spite of these being so _forgettable,_ they keep popping up all over. Rather popular for as bad as you say they are.

@@ethanlamoureux5306 Burden of proof lies on you, please prove your claim that bach wrote these pieces.

It trains your fingers to play smoothly. It also trains your ears to hear all of the parts. These basics are fundamental to "muscle memory" in both hands & feet. Once you learn these foundational movements the more complex music is easier to master.

Krešimir Cindrić can you prove that? 🙄

@@hiera1917 Are you asking me to prove a negative? Sorry, but the burden of proof is on those who make the outrageous claim that these Short Preludes and Fugues are compositions by Bach. And there is no such proof (of course). To illustrate how absurd your demand for proof of a negative is, consider the fact that you cannot prove that Bach did not write Für Elise, a century before Beethoven, yet if I called it "Bach's Für Elise", you'd probably be tempted to point out the nonsense.

Krešimir Cindrić That’s not how it works. That Bach composed these pieces is the currently accepted fact. You have to show what makes you think they were not written by Bach. I’m no expert on the topic, but I’m assuming whoever put them in the catalogue of Bach’s works had some reason to believe that they were by Bach, and didn’t just do it on a whim, even if that reason is just because someone told them. You have brought no evidence or arguments to the contrary, so even the scanty evidence that may exist in favor of the accepted truth is better than the utter lack of evidence you’ve brought against it.

Tbop3 Source?

Actually, the "currently accepted fact" (as if acceptance determines veracity), which has been accepted for the last 100 or so years, is that Bach is not the author of these pieces. The fact there are still people who think these pieces are by Bach, contrary to common sense, just tells you how silly myths like that refuse to die. Which was my point to begin with.

I think you have that Bachwards.

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