Bach Prelude and Fugue No.6 (Moderate Tempo) Well Tempered Clavier, Book 1 with Harmonic Pedal

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@leonardocoari678 2 жыл бұрын

0:10 prelude 1:40 fugue

@Zeina_Safkouny 3 жыл бұрын

The end of the prelude is so beautiful and weird

@flyingzone356 3 жыл бұрын

Bach "heard" sounds inside his head that were centuries ahead of his contemporaries.

@Brendon_Xu_The_Big_B 2 жыл бұрын

Because most preludes and fugues by back ends in a major chord

@leaalcheikh9724 2 жыл бұрын

hard to play tho lmao

@Assassunn 2 жыл бұрын

Bach almost always ends on a picardy third, towards light

@vajra2.016 4 жыл бұрын

Bach scares me.

@PhilJonesIII 4 жыл бұрын

Bach is scary but he can't bite you.

@michaeldudgeon265 3 жыл бұрын

His Bach is worse than his bite.

@slapmyfunkybass 3 жыл бұрын

Genius is scary.

@muffsmith1 3 жыл бұрын

WHY!! Vajra?

@lucardovillar2671 3 жыл бұрын

Okey

@francarter9289 3 жыл бұрын

Bach a genius his music is unique and he make the pianist's fingers goes in an-usual hand positions. Nice job.

@DanielSilva-gc4xz 3 жыл бұрын

@Daily Dose Of Stupitity Ok, you just used your monthly dose of stupidity. JUST KIDDING JUSKIDING

@junheecho9800 2 жыл бұрын

@Daily Dose Of Stupitity username checks out

@Trooman20 Жыл бұрын

@Daily Dose Of Stupitity true /s

@neo9560 10 ай бұрын

I find Bach to fit perfectly in my fingers which makes his pieces very fun to play

@CancerMage 3 жыл бұрын

That fugue is a beast. Well done!

@chantaltn7382 3 жыл бұрын

Du plaisir dès le matin. La musique réconcilie avec la vie... Merci

@PianoScenesMoviesandSeries 7 жыл бұрын

The first 10 seconds remind me someone riding a horse to deliver a letter to a castle in some medieval like time

@riptideone4161 6 жыл бұрын

Léon Ruhe I hear that too!!!!

@rafeverao4105 5 жыл бұрын

Have you heard Schubert's "Erlkonig"? He uses that exact feeling to tell the story.

@AndySaenz 5 жыл бұрын

Leon R Ooh, I like your imagination!

@jmitterii2 5 жыл бұрын

But not necessarily medieval time, but more Baroque (after medieval era) to match this music period style, so like a fancy pants palace of the enlightenment era or maybe a renovated medieval castle into Baroque fashion.

@JonatasMonte 4 жыл бұрын

Or some quick scene where lots of events are unfolding in silence with the music in the background.

@FerranLopezCarrasquerPianist 7 жыл бұрын

Congratulations, Paul! I,m 13, studying and playing piano since I was 8, and I find your videos absolutely useful and amazing. Thanks for sharing them, indeed!!!

@PaulBartonPiano 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Ferran, this means a lot to me. Good luck with all you are doing.

@FerranLopezCarrasquerPianist 7 жыл бұрын

you, re very welcome, PAUL, and thanks to you too!!

@davisatdavis1 4 жыл бұрын

@@FerranLopezCarrasquerPianist hey, I've also been studying and playing piano since I was 8, and I was also 13 at the time when you wrote that comment! And it's without a doubt, that Paul Barton's playing is some of the best on KZfaq.

@sophiazhang3973 3 жыл бұрын

Same

@mariavictoria5953 3 жыл бұрын

epa

@keithcitizen4855 6 жыл бұрын

Wonderfully performed, I aspire to play like this not my present standard of sounding like plundering elephants.

@pascal9532 Жыл бұрын

its been 5 years hows the progress? ;)

@keithcitizen4855 Жыл бұрын

@@pascal9532 still the same

@ThePainist Жыл бұрын

plundering elephants, I like that

@gaiang247 Жыл бұрын

@@keithcitizen4855 you’ll get it soon. Ive been doing it for ten and im just now starting to feel comfortable enough to express myself in front of others. Ive been able to do it by myself for a couple years now but getting over the stress of auditioning or even just playing in front of better pianists has been hard

@TacticalCombatExpert 11 ай бұрын

@@keithcitizen4855You are too hatd with you

@tarquin161234 9 ай бұрын

Wow so well played. Inspirational

@sofiabernal6983 4 жыл бұрын

I really love how silences make each hand seem independent but still they coordinate and there are even parts in which both melodies fit more than perfect!

@FerranLopezCarrasquerPianist 7 жыл бұрын

This is really great, Paul!!

@elisavetsofia 2 жыл бұрын

It's my lesson this year on piano, preludio and fuga 6 from Bach!!! 🤗❤😍☺

@chadiemargemorata1266 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Paul,,, this gives me an idea of how these pieces assigned to me would sound,,,,,I may not have the taste for Bach but its sure is a challenge,,, but once I start on any of his,,, I just can't stop actually, until mastered....

@niklandry3554 5 жыл бұрын

That was a great fugue, and great interpretation!

@worstpianist3985 Жыл бұрын

This prelude is so fun

@EmpyreanLightASMR 3 жыл бұрын

I went to your imslp link and downloaded the Busoni edition, and I love his footnotes. his recommended finger pattern differs in that he recommends not using your thumb in the triplets. I've never done this before and can't wait to experiment with it.

@muffsmith1 3 жыл бұрын

Paul Barton, your hands and mine are virtual twins, the likeness is uncanny. Alas mine do not perform to your high standards. really enjoy this series. Bravo!!

@meermattmusic 7 жыл бұрын

Always love the videos where you can follow along with the music while still seeing all the hand action. Wonderful job! Excited to check out more of your stuff.

@devchampeaux1864 2 жыл бұрын

Ur intonation is insane, im halfway through learning this and i have 0 idea how u keep the right so crisp the entire time

@forelectricstring8833 2 ай бұрын

EEhat you mean by intonation? Can you play untuned on tuned piano?

@fernandohidalgo5941 Жыл бұрын

Very beauty !!! Excelent !!!

@RichWoodwardMusic 7 жыл бұрын

very nice - I particularly like your rendition of the prelude

@EleanorHunter-jm9iz 3 жыл бұрын

his playing is so smooth wow

@Ootaa7 4 жыл бұрын

Que coisa mais linda! Bach é um Deus!

@user-em1cj1iu8h 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, is very good

@kyrieeleison7065 5 жыл бұрын

Good performance. Thanks for uploading

@okuznets Жыл бұрын

Amazing!

@robertoteixeira774 4 жыл бұрын

Magnifico !!!!!!!!!

@saracrismariu7047 4 жыл бұрын

This sounds perfect! Thank you!

@ianletbey 3 жыл бұрын

The cadence in the end of the prelude is just SO DRAMATIC. I love it

@rodterrell304 4 жыл бұрын

This is the best place to go for piano tutorials Thank you Paul for posting all these videos, they are entertaining and inspirational

@cloudylyrics5249 4 жыл бұрын

yea but this isnt a tutorial

@somehow3707 4 жыл бұрын

I love the end of the prelude.

@rlunger1 7 жыл бұрын

I'm raving to everyone about you! #6 .........hope to see all the 48 in this format someday. I struggle with these having no formal training but had a wonderful pianist brother who is no longer with us (and BACH) motivating me to push through! Wish everyone could enjoy these. Ross

@PaulBartonPiano 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Ross, what a great guy you are! I really appreciate your enthusiasm very much. Do you have a favorite Prelude and Fugue?

@rlunger1 7 жыл бұрын

That's impossible! St. Annes is great. My brother had a complete organ works album and would drink and listen.....decided to "rate" them....very funny....each following piece got more and more STARS as he got soused! I just noticed YOUR THE GUY WHO PLAYS KEYBOARD WITH ELEPHANTS. Next step: make a keyboard Peter can actually play with his trunk.....include very low octaves with enhanced bass??? There is a research group doing this with dolphins, monkeys, whales. They want to open up the internet to all capable animals. I once "bumped into a CA grey whale" while snorkeling and we hung out together for 20 minutes.....it really affected me for a year. Hoping for a "Peter composition". Ross

@BachFlip 2 жыл бұрын

I have almost lost count of the number references there are in this fugue to the B-A-C-H motif. The notes are often subtly woven into the music - sometimes forwards, sometimes backwards, sometimes transposed, sometimes together but often consistently spaced out (i.e. with the notes placed on similar consecutive parts of a beat or bar). They can't all be happy accidents! The levels that Bach's mind worked on is utterly mind-boggling!

@ianletbey Жыл бұрын

where

@BachFlip Жыл бұрын

@@ianletbey Quaerendo invenietis!

@BachFlip Жыл бұрын

@@ianletbey Okay, jokes aside...one of the more prominent examples is at bar 26, soprano (where Bach inverts a figure from the counter subject) - there is a very clear B flat A on the second half of beat one followed by a C B natural on the second half of beat two (the sequence actually also continues into the second half of beat 3 with D C sharp...) Take a look at bars 36-7 and you will see something similar going on, but this time in all three parts (allowing for transposition of the B-A-C-H motif). Coincidence? Maybe. Deliberate? A distinct possibility!

@ianletbey Жыл бұрын

indeed

@Piaanist_ 5 күн бұрын

Paul Bachton wow!🙀🙀

@thomasdastillung4097 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent

@amg_-5765 Ай бұрын

I love so much Bach..

@snxwflakes8190 3 жыл бұрын

I am playing this currently

@dimitrisefstratiou4240 3 жыл бұрын

Good luck!

@luxnox6134 3 жыл бұрын

This one is so horsy! I love the tempo. Thank you Paul.

@nessthine714 4 жыл бұрын

Ok faster than I anticipated. My love for piano started after hearing prelude I. I have worked my way through them since.

@simonlong4718 4 жыл бұрын

nikki murphy nice

@SharmaYelverton 7 жыл бұрын

I love this one!

@PaulBartonPiano 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Sharma, I hope to hear from the violinist soon.

@nicholas5160 5 жыл бұрын

BEAUTIFUL !

@j9dz2sf 7 жыл бұрын

Qu'est-ce que t'es fort ! En plus j'adore le clavier bien tempéré. Quel génie, ce Bach !

@PaulBartonPiano 7 жыл бұрын

Merci beaucoup!

@valoulenstein9020 6 жыл бұрын

roglo Ah je me sens moins seul, je ne suis pas le seul français abonné à Paul Barton !

@anoushkagib 4 жыл бұрын

@@valoulenstein9020 moi aussi je suis abonnée! Et j'adore! 😃

@tnia_pre 4 жыл бұрын

anoushkagib je suis en retard pour répondre, mais moi aussi ! 🥺☺️

@laguayquequeremos7035 7 жыл бұрын

Bravo

@PaulBartonPiano 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Rony!

@SpaceMoses_ 4 жыл бұрын

1:41 THE LICC??

@kareemaly7177 4 жыл бұрын

DecodedReality AHAHA

@SketchyTigers 4 жыл бұрын

lMAO yEAH

@yairalkon4944 4 жыл бұрын

I noticed it too! Many half liccs

@gorgolyt 4 жыл бұрын

No.

@davidbrant390 4 жыл бұрын

104 Neely clones disliked this video because he didn't finish the lick

@virginiaviola5097 3 жыл бұрын

My absolute favourite ❤️

@Zeina_Safkouny 3 жыл бұрын

It's not the best ~ {Beautiful but not a lot}

@virginiaviola5097 3 жыл бұрын

@@Zeina_Safkouny not the best perhaps, but my favourite to play.

@Zeina_Safkouny 3 жыл бұрын

Good

@virginiaviola5097 2 жыл бұрын

I play them all, I just love playing this one..although I play it faster. And #21..I love Czerny’s #13 from the School of Velocity too..there’s just something really satisfying about playing these.

@isabelruiz6446 3 жыл бұрын

Gracias ,Bach ,,me encanta ,,

@karajan1232 5 жыл бұрын

Great video. Sir. Thank you. From south korea.

@perfectbeat 4 жыл бұрын

Nice! Well done.

@liviamoreno4312 3 жыл бұрын

La estoy tocando ahora y no es muy fácil 😅 felicidades

@tnia_pre 4 жыл бұрын

Basically, I’m learning it and your video helps a lot. Thanks ^w^

@domenicogargiulo6218 5 жыл бұрын

Bravissimo! interpretazione nitida e calda.

@ondercebeci3954 3 жыл бұрын

Very interesting (unusual) fingering for the prelude.

@lynndavy1965 3 жыл бұрын

I thought that too!!

@roblastem2905 9 ай бұрын

This prelude sounds amazing on a Hammond B3 :)

@T-J-S Жыл бұрын

I will be playing this for my next exam. This video is really helping me in playing it correctly. Thanks for your videos!

@notslimbach6262 Жыл бұрын

How was your exam?

@T-J-S Жыл бұрын

@@notslimbach6262 I still didn't do it but I'm planning to do it this year. I still have 3 more pieces to learn

@notslimbach6262 Жыл бұрын

@@T-J-S Oh sorry I read it too fast so I thought you said next week😳

@T-J-S Жыл бұрын

@@notslimbach6262 don't worry 😅

@kalsaydn7635 6 жыл бұрын

bravo!!!🙋👏👏👏

@BigParadox 4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful!

@MullerSG 7 ай бұрын

3:07 i love this passage!

@Edallab 6 жыл бұрын

love it!

@gaudetjaja 3 жыл бұрын

I am currently trying to learn this piece but it's very difficult ! Remembering the right hand takes ages in and of itself. I love your execution at this high tempo, but I also like performances that play the prelude much more slowly. I am not going to start on the fugue until I can somewhat play the prelude though.

@cldavis33 4 ай бұрын

It is 10x easier to remember and play the right hand if you figure out the chord structures so you have context and not just endless individual notes to look at.

@juhyunkim3438 4 жыл бұрын

so beautiful

@davidburton3016 3 жыл бұрын

Very nice, Paul.

@user-eg8gw6yo9n 4 жыл бұрын

Incredible!!!

@marcusv7881 4 жыл бұрын

Bravo!!

@danzwku 6 жыл бұрын

Love it

@vsmihuseynli2579 7 жыл бұрын

Great! Thank you very much! :)

@Rombizio 4 жыл бұрын

Well done

@qenirezamanova2442 5 ай бұрын

Prefect🎉

@rubolf2153 3 жыл бұрын

Bravooo

@italianbutterfly217 3 жыл бұрын

Bravo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@italianbutterfly217 3 жыл бұрын

Zeina Alsafkouny Who? Me?! No.

@italianbutterfly217 3 жыл бұрын

Zeina Alsafkouny 1. You should understand what my nationality is. 2. Because the performance was perfect 3. I’ve studied this prelude for the exam with an organist.

@ekissin99 5 жыл бұрын

Very very nice playing :)

@hoangducanh4336 4 жыл бұрын

so smooth

@robertmcknightmusic Жыл бұрын

Hi Paul, very nice rendition, thanks for all the music, I love your videos. I'm curious if you have an opinion about the sixteenth note at the beginning? I feel like you play it here as a detached triplet (please correct me if I'm wrong), though I notice with some other performances the music feels like it's speeding up on beat 2. Just curious about your learned opinion. Have a good day!

@MagnusNykvistAlvdalenDalarna 3 жыл бұрын

Thery Good! 🙂👍

@sebastianhall3507 4 жыл бұрын

I am learning this piece and am astounded by its beauty!

@kkaburi 5 жыл бұрын

Good

@vladimirblagojevic5937 7 жыл бұрын

Dear Mr Paul, First of all, I love your videos, great job. I've been doing this exact piece and would like to ask you about learning the fugue: I have learnt by heart all three voices, with the fingering, dinamics etc, and Im wondering what to do next. Should I learn by heart all of voice combinations, or separate hands?

@marktabla5434 Жыл бұрын

I seem to recall this prelude was one of the backgr music choices on the Nintendo video game Tetris although it's not in any Tetris YT videos out there.

@jessehvieira 2 жыл бұрын

Wow!

@ChernobieffPiano 5 жыл бұрын

It would be kinda funny if you played the Addams Family Theme song, cause then it would look like "thing" playing!

@kimiawaytmalina3406 3 жыл бұрын

This is amazing. Ive been playing since I was 2 and I really love the prelude. The fugue was a little confusing with the voicing but it is really well played! Support!!

@jawnknee 7 жыл бұрын

go paul!

@PaulBartonPiano 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Jawnknee!

@annaz2349 4 жыл бұрын

I am now learning this. Great job!!!!

@skyzip4k171 3 жыл бұрын

Best version ive seen so far

@soobin-chan4162 6 жыл бұрын

I like this song and this tempo

@lollolloll2567 5 жыл бұрын

Soobin - chan are you korean

@ParkerTwin 7 жыл бұрын

Great job as always Paul! I was curious as to how long it takes you to learn pieces likes these? Like how many hours of practice do you play every day, and is it solely on this piece or on multiple? Either way, the results are fantastic!

@MegaMech 6 жыл бұрын

4-6 hours per day is recommended for grade 10 piano. Maybe more like 2-4 but increased to 4-6 once you can handle 2-4

@instyle4freestyle290 6 жыл бұрын

Ethan Parker I’m learning this in grade 11 piano from my Baroque period piece and we take 2hrs a day from now until March to learn this. By the time we start classes in September we must have our hands learned together so we can work on perfecting the details. We play 5 songs every year though. A study piece, and then one from each time period of music.

@korybant8409 5 жыл бұрын

@@MegaMech Chopin himself recommended a maximum of 3 hours per day.

@MegaMech 5 жыл бұрын

Only three? Wow.

@jamesrawlins735 5 жыл бұрын

@@MegaMech Hillary Hahn, who is one of the greatest violinist in the world, says she only practices 2 hours a day, although she spends time studying the pieces. Early on growing up she spent more time but she began to realize she also wanted a life, and being well rounded in her life made her happier and a better performer. Btw, this is one of the easiest of the WTC pieces, so it's not as difficult to master as the others (fairly easy left hand)

@BHAKTIBROPHY 5 жыл бұрын

Paul Gilbert turned the first four bars into a mighty fine instrumental guitar piece YEARS ago. (And co-opted several other sections. You can find it on the first album recorded by guitarists to aide in my friend, legendary composer prodigy and guitarist Jason Becker's medical aide fund). I think Bach would be proud.

@nicolassmith1278 2 жыл бұрын

Hi pretty lady. How are you doing today??

@InterestingStuff888 Жыл бұрын

Blackmore did it in 1981 with Rainbow

@orkithewhistler 3 жыл бұрын

Perlude: 0:00 Fugue: 1:41

@papapaaike4686 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the inspiration! Are you sure about the way you play the trills? I keep finding different interpetations and the notes in my (urtext-) version are unclear...

@chamberofficefurniture2744 5 жыл бұрын

I feel like how music was life and vivid.... baroque time is the best time for music.....

@thakill100 5 жыл бұрын

This is so truue

@cloudylyrics5249 4 жыл бұрын

there is no such thing as best time for music

@rjwohlman 4 жыл бұрын

Nice set of hemiolas!

@stanley_ann3441 2 жыл бұрын

Kocham 🥰🥰

@daborshy4089 3 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of Dancing Mad tier 3

@chrisandersen5635 3 жыл бұрын

Good. You achieved what you planned. To play the music as written. A tutorial as one of your web names suggests. This is a great lesson! Here are the roots laid out bare if you’re not sure. Played very well.

@charlesrobertspiano 6 жыл бұрын

m. 29 in the fugue - isn’t that a turn, not a trill? Also, I’d like to know some tips for improving the prelude? I am struggling with keeping the RH even in between the tricky hand position changes and I always slip or have one or two rushed notes in between. This is a great interpretation though. I love your style.

@dreamernaturallife5095 4 жыл бұрын

Do you know what grade is this piece???

@cloudylyrics5249 4 жыл бұрын

@@dreamernaturallife5095 grade 10 duhhh

@ericsonfrancisko5887 Жыл бұрын

Personally I'd start this piece with 3rd finger instead of 5th on the left hand (the D on the beginning). It is stronger finger and gives you more control in the opening. I think my music sheet also had mark for the 3rd finger there, not sure...

@user-gn5zc9zu9z 4 жыл бұрын

וואו

@giovannabazanez3769 9 ай бұрын

So, I have to play this in 3 weeks 😵‍💫

@forelectricstring8833 2 ай бұрын

First note it's noted as regular semicuaver but it's more reasonable to think about it as part of triplet (with 2 semicuaver rests)?

@Brendon_Xu_The_Big_B 2 жыл бұрын

There is just something about the key D minor that makes it sound very medieval alike

@Assassunn 2 жыл бұрын

@@richardlyman2961 What is the TET ? is it meantone temperament ? I think Bach used this one for the specific 24 colors (12 colors actually because it was tempered making C♯ and D♭ undistinguishable on a keyboard instrument), at least we know Bach didn't use the well temperament and it wasn't democratized at his time. Actually musicians had to wait until 1917 to have a total well temperament.