How To Play Baroque Music On Guitar (+ LIVE workshop this Saturday!)

[@brandonacker]

🎸You can watch a replay of my full Baroque workshop here. It is #13: arpeggiato.com/workshop-archive/

[@ianflurrance8438]

As a piano player who is transitioning to guitar, I am very glad to see a video about my favorite style of music! It sounds so wonderful on the guitar!

[@virginielafrench3921]

I like baroque music too . Not everything ,though ( not that much into Bach for example ) . I would not say it 's my favourite type of music, i have several ones . I also like things such as the Stray Cats , Whitesnake or Il Divo . But nowadays, my favourite singer among all is ...Philippe Jaroussky !

[@blackdragons95]

it's rare to find someone who is this passionate about Baroque! Great video!

[@virginielafrench3921]

If you like baroque this much , i advise you to listen to my favourite singer and fellowcountryman Philippe Jaroussky. Hoping you like countertenor singing !

[@displaychicken]

If it ain’t Baroque, don’t fix it

[@rediryou]

The analogy of the accent in language to the accent of a style of music is a very good one. When I first learned the Pavans and even when I play them today, I always visualize people dancing.

[@Lasse3]

I really enjoyed your Anachronism, it was beautiful! But then the baroque version at 6:54 was clearly superior!

[@catabol]

Wow I really dig the romantic Bach, too! Great video, as always! Enjoyed it a lot, thank you dear Brandon!

[@brandonacker]

Many thanks!

[@brandonacker]

🎸To learn how to make your playing sound more Baroque, join me on Zoom here: arpeggiato.com/events

[@JonasA]

Really like your YT videos, Brandon, despite being an eartrained pro in a completely different genre for +45 yrs (Alternative rock). Not here to learn how to play but to enjoy your mini-lectures and your entusiasm. Keep up the good work! ✌️🎶😎

[@brandonacker]

I appreciate that! 😊

[@pilotEJE]

May I just say you deserve more subscribers, you're really underated! Love the videos always!

[@e.s.r5809]

What a wonderful comparison between accents and playing styles! That's a really helpful idea to keep in mind!

[@Tonvanis75]

_It is a joy when I tune in to your channel I not only enjoy your playing and especially your knowledge about the music histories and instruments. Thank you._

[@Tonvanis75]

@Nicegram-Me-Brandon-Acker-Page : _you are the greatest, and thanks for the cookies._

[@plain_simple_garak]

The great composer Styx wrote an important piece that focused on rubato. In fact, some referred to him as Mister Rubato

[@danielrasoloarivony]

As a french speaker, that was a very accurate one when he says : Ze hair on my hed 🤣🤣

[@skrankle66]

Brandon is the MAN!!

[@arkafella1984]

Thanks Brandon!

[@CookyOfficial]

👀I just got home this is perfect timing! Thanks for the great content Brandon! Really enjoying it!

[@jansestak954]

Great points. Thank you for this.

[@Ntmoffi]

Man that really brought more life to an already great piece.

[@nickfoster9350]

Domo arigato, Mr. Rubato! I'm a bit of a late comer to your channel, but I've gained a much bigger appreciation for what you do when I learned that your early of years of guitar playing was enveloped in metal. Classical music of almost every kind, can work so well with heavy music. Would to hear you combine the two.

[@JohnCarty321]

I'm french and I love this video

[@davetuttle9701]

Excellent video! See you Saturday!

[@brandonacker]

Thanks! See you then :)

[@Johnny35550]

Lovely video as always Brandon!

[@brandonacker]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@ericlitts9917]

Im a novice when it comes to classical guitar(but master Acker, you are my biggest inspiration to learn a whole new set of languages), but to me, baroque SCREAMS harpsichord- so as you demonstrated, those trills are what give it the distinctive baroque flair.

[@brandonacker]

People often say the harpsichord embodies the baroque sound but I can assure you that having spent years living in the baroque world and learning the style, the harpsichord does not represent the ideal baroque sound. It is simply one tool that was used at the time and in fact it is expressively handicapped. People wrote about it at the time and it seems clear that it is not to be imitated for its anti-musical nature. Rather, one should imitate the human voice or the violin.

[@trebmaster]

@Brandon Acker, Domo arigato, Mister Rubato!

[@franciscordon9230]

Very insightful! Love it.

[@pharos8748]

You should make a playlist of every tarrega piece you can here on youtube! Would be wonderful to hear you play his wonderful pieces.

[@dorianb2070]

Okay I enjoyed this video but I am also anxiously awaiting the blindfold test part 2 video and was excited thinking we were getting that today :D (still looking forward to it)

[@brandonacker]

That is the next video! Thanks for your enthusiasm and interest :)

[@virginielafrench3921]

@@brandonacker oh great !!! I 've loved this game very much !! 😁😁 Next game : music quizz ,please. You play a piece of music and we have 5 seconds to say what it is ! Okay ?

[@virginielafrench3921]

@@brandonacker or you sing it with la la la la .

[@dorianb2070]

@@brandonacker Thanks for the fun content :)

[@shakeyourguitartutorials]

Love how you tell the story , of course with you're awsome playing it makes this so awsome to follow !! Brandon , you're awsome mate !!! Edited part , thanks for the french exemple LOl We do what we can ; )

[@kippsguitar6539]

boroak sounds a lot like baroque! beautiful channel and maestro guitarist

[@juancho5419]

I really love how you compare this Style to languages. A calming video as usual. I'm curious: would somebody be able to play Rennaisance style guitar on ukulele? (with a low G, of course)

[@brandonacker]

Thanks! And absolutely. In fact, Renaissance guitar and ukulele are nearly the same instrument. So you can play directly from the tablature manuscripts at the time!

[@juancho5419]

@@brandonacker I'm a bit rusty in Ancient Spanish but I'm sure there is some kind of modern transcription. Thank you! I'll take a look on what I can find 😁

[@e.s.r5809]

I've seen tenor ukelele recommended as a go-to learning instrument for people who can't afford a lute or vihuela! The nylon strings, lower tension, and action are apparently more similar than a *modern guitar.

[@juancho5419]

@@e.s.r5809 A tenor uke it's pretty cheap compare to one of those. And if you get an 8 string, you can get pretty close to the Rennaisance guitar. I only have a concert one, though. Still, with a low G, I'm gonna try to play some of this

[@virginielafrench3921]

@@brandonacker wow ! Really ? I would never have suspected that ! Renaissance guitar ....do you mean the theorbo ?

[@LifeCodeGame]

This is an amazing opportunity to learn how to play Baroque music on guitar! Don't miss out on this Saturday's workshop - sign up now!

[@yashveersingh1795]

Beautiful ✨

[@Tesla_Motors]

Beautiful tone❤

[@100031158]

It would be great to hace a video of Golberg’s aria sounding at the end 🙏

[@CT-gy6us]

You're funny imitating my French accent, but you do it pretty well 😊 More seriously, I like the idea of playing music beyond the original "frame".

[@virginielafrench3921]

Ah ! Ah ! Oui , i imitéte eusse razeur wel ay fink ,ay eugri wiz iou 😂😂😂

[@observant6953]

Thank you, I could never put into words what was bugging me about some classical guitar renditions: out of place rubato. 😞

[@sinjaja5836]

I'll be there!

[@brandonacker]

See you soon :)

[@davidfranom4359]

Beautiful explanation

[@donaldkershaw6371]

THANK YOU

[@samshidoesmusic]

Id love to see you try out a genre youre not familiar with at all. Its always a great video to see from a talented musician

[@account-pi3nj]

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[@ni1ix]

Everything I know about bach and baroque on guitar, which isnt much, is from ted greene videos. the guy was a master!

[@davidgpeterson]

Most people cant play an instrument like this. Most people dont have extraordinary hair like this. Brandon has both. It’s not fair.

[@rodrigofeitor1115]

I just went back to watch the video on your instrument collection. And being Portuguese I wondered if you would ever look into looking at getting or playing Fado guitars. It's also an instrument with duel strings and I bet you probably enjoy it. Just a thought

[@brandonacker]

I love that instrument and Fado. It's just a question of time but yes I hope to do a video on it someday :)

[@cfcasey.guitars-ukuleles]

Looks like it’s going to be a great workshop. I must confess, though that I kept being distracted by that little folded piece of paper under the second string at the nut. I do hope that that was just an emergency repair of a string buzz, and you’ll have that nut fixed properly.

[@brandonacker]

Thanks, I 'm excited for it! That is hilarious that you noticed the little paper. It's a common and useful trick for lutenists to quickly fix a buzzy string. I personally end up using them as the seasons change on all of my instruments and don't perceive any loss of sound quality. As wood constantly moves, your action will change and rather than constantly making a new nut, I just add paper shims when needed.

[@virginielafrench3921]

Bonsoir Brandon ! Hé oui,c 'est la nuit chez moi 😊. Ta vidéo m 'a l 'air fort intéressante et instructive . Il est l 'heure pour moi d 'aller faire un gros dodo mais je te promets de la regarder dès que possible

[@virginielafrench3921]

Bravo Brandon ! Belle vidéo ! Rigolo ton " ouen frenche pipeul tray tou spik ingliche " 😂😂😂 Je ne parle pas anglais comme ça mais tu as raison, la plupart des Français, oui ! Et merci aussi pour l 'humour avec Bach qui dit " yes,please " ( ach ,ja danke !" aurait été plus juste 😋). Merci aussi d 'avoir inclus ces beaux tableaux .

[@TheSummerCoast]

Brandon I hereby request a cover of Suspiro by Javier Reyes in the Lute

[@Ali_C.]

Brandon please channel your inner Tarrega even more while playing some Bach compositions, please. I'd listen a whole repertoire in one go.

[@brandonacker]

Haha you'll have to ask someone else who doesn't care about historicity. For me, the music sounds the best in the right style. I like to play Tarrega as I think he would have heard it and the same for Bach

[@etienneboucher4848]

Hi Brandon, I would be very curious to see you react to Ted Green’s mémoires about how to improve on Baroque music. It’s actually free on youtube and there is a website with plenty of videos and notes from him. Anyway, I would really like your take on it. Keep doing great guitar content. Cheers!

[@Raphael_790]

coincidence?😂 I'm learning this piece right now(gavotte)

[@brandonacker]

It's such an enjoyable piece to play!

[@Raphael_790]

@@brandonacker Yes❤️

[@charleso.8998]

I have watched you for some time now and have taken a few liberties from your style in my own modern fingerstyle playing :). While watching your videos it always occurs to me, Do you ever break out the strat and just wail for a bit?

[@brandonacker]

Thanks for watching! To answer your question, I used to do that but over the last 8 years or so, my favorite instruments are all acoustic so that is where I spent my time in my professional life and when I want to just jam.

[@mehurar]

Damn, Bach was cool!

[@ReinoutVrijhoef]

Thank you for this informative video. What are your thoughts about using a 10- or 11-string guitar for playing baroque music, especially lute music?

[@brandonacker]

I really prefer using the original instruments. If you are going to buy a special instrument that you'll need to learn to play, why learn one that is a modern invention with the wrong sound?

[@ReinoutVrijhoef]

@@brandonacker thank you for your answer. As a guitarist myself, already accustomed to acoustic 7-strings, maybe the change to an 11-string guitar isn’t as large as to a 13-string lute. And tuning the lute is a huge pain in the behind, of course…

[@becomingmyadonis]

New edeting? I really like it. Good Job, great memes

[@brandonacker]

I'm trying some new things out. Thanks!

[@RÅNÇIÐ]

I wonder what those pieces would sound on a western acoustic guitar?

[@mer1red]

I play them on acoustic steel string guitars and a jazz archtop. Works very well. Just the narrower string spacing requires some practice. Especially the jazz guitar sounds great, because of its warmer sound.

[@Chakallbitu]

Great insights! A lot to learn from your videos! Saw in some of your videos that you play other types of guitar, specific to certain styles. Have you tried playing the portuguese guitar? There is an amazing player, Carlos Paredes, who made somber but beautiful pieces with it. I am by no means a good guitar player, but I can see technique when I watch and hear someone play, just the positioning of your hands tell a lot (bass player btw), so in my mind, I see you pulling it off flawlessly! great vid!

[@Chakallbitu]

I searched a bit more about that author I suggested you, sorry... there's no way you can reproduce that :X

[@helendecruz1947]

I have registered for this masterclass (thank you for organizing) but my receipt doesn't show the Zoom link? Will that be sent separately? Looking forward to it!

[@brandonacker]

I'm glad you are coming, Helen! As the website describes, the Zoom link will be sent the day of the event. See you then :)

[@helendecruz1947]

@@brandonacker That's great! I'm so excited about this event!

[@lemonlifecinematic2564]

I wanna create music but stucked in very busy routine and i can't do so , but i'll someday

[@ww3032]

Do you improvise your ornamentations or plan and practice them from way before?

[@brandonacker]

It changes from performance to performance. Part of it is developing the sense of where ornaments are possible and once you have the built in to your technique, you can add new ornaments for the first time even in a concert.

[@ross5066]

I'm genuinely curious on your opinion (as a classical guitar player) on the use of nylon strings in the song Playing God by Polyphia. Edit: I just found the video of you covering it..... I should've looked first lol

[@Vesperteenytiny]

🤣You cracked me up at 3.50 !! Where did you get the inspiration for the French accent? 🙄

[@virginielafrench3921]

Ah ,ah ? Brandon qui parle français ? Je suis curieuse d 'entendre ça 😉 A demain, Brandon

[@taaha4532]

Hey

[@NickKouls]

I once played Bach's Fugue BWV 1000 with rubato and my guitar teacher almost had an aneurysm 😅

[@brandonacker]

haha it's also important to say there is an old style and new style of rubato. There is an art of bending time expressively in the Baroque period within a predictable big beat (tactus).

[@내일은기타왕]

hello! do you use any pickup for the classical guitar?

[@brandonacker]

I don't, no. I prefer to play purely acoustically.

[@ThisGuyRocksLikeCrazy]

This Bach's piece seems like an easy piece. But it's super hard to play it the speed that Brandon casually plays. I tried to learn it and eventually gave up. I'll get back to it a year or two. Hopefully I'll be able to play the prelude one too, which is even nicer than this in my opinion.

[@virginielafrench3921]

Goud nayte misteur Branedone .iou are veri feuni wen iou tray to imitéte eusse frenche pipeul wen oui spik inegliche ! Iou did eu goud djob ! Conegratioulaicheun ! 😂😂😂😂 iesse , ay wrayt ine franglish . It iz feuni

[@virginielafrench3921]

PS : iffe iou wante tou mec iour wayf laf eu lote , cho ite maille messedje 😅

[@virginielafrench3921]

Eur note ite ,sori

[@mikemadej]

Is that a flamenco blanca you're playing? It looks very blonde.

[@brandonacker]

It is a Torres copy by Saers Guitars. Not Flamenco.

[@scherzo0o]

sorry, bro but you made me curios about how Tarega would sound on your theorbo ... baroque style :)

[@stefanwild326]

👍

[@dibosh7405]

PLEAAAAAAAAAAAAASE set me on SOME way xD. Idk what the hell I want to play on my guitar. I like rhythm and all that but I'd really love to play music that was meant for guitar. I thought baroque was it, but I guess not?

[@christopherstanford5599]

🎶🎵🤗🤗🌹💐

[@mer1red]

Baroque music is a world of its own. It takes time to digest it, just as for instance jazz. Even within baroque there are differences. Bach requires a specific, strict way of timing and many more other details. Not easy. I stopped trying to play some (parts of) his lute suites on a 6 string because imho it's simply not possible without harming the music. Many Bach performances on modern guitar just sound horrible. I think it's best to start with some other baroque compositions that are easier and not so heavy. Especially from composers who were lute/guitar players themselves.

[@HelmetVanga]

What kind of guitar?

[@fuffy442]

I'm one of those people who hates romanticized Baroque interpretations. However, you seem to have the knack of walking the line elegantly. Well done.

[@RobertFisher1969]

I don’t care for “romantic Bach”. And I think learning about how the music was meant to be rendered in its period is good. But I have a problem with saying you “can’t” or “shouldn’t” play it a certain way. One of the great things about music is that we can interpret a work in ways the original composer would never have envisaged.

[@brandonacker]

I completely agree with what you said, Robert! I should have emphasized that very point in the video. People CAN play however they want if they like it, of course. And I encourage purposeful style blending. I did a metal cover of Bach on my channel once and recently I covered a metal song on the lute :) However, if we are playing with the goal of sounding like they did at the time (which is what most classical musicians usually go for) then there are things you "shouldn't" do without sacrificing what we know is historical and what isn't. If you play a Gavotte with heavy rubato like I did in the video, it's not a "Gavotte" dance that anyone from the Baroque time would have recognized.

[@joshk2181]

It's a nice ad or teaser but it doesn't really show what the course actually contains so I am hesitant

[@brandonacker]

The video is at Arpeggiato.com in our e shop. It's inexpensive and I teach quite a lot of what to me years of lessons and research to understand. Let me know if you have any specific questions, Brandon

[@Zeropadd]

💙💜💜🤎🖤

[@virginielafrench3921]

C 'est quoi Rubato ? Un compositeur ou une technique musicale comme le staccato ou le pizzicato ? Pardonnez mon ignorance les guitaristes mais moi ,je n 'ai jamais pratiqué la guitare ! Eclairez moi !

[@MM-zj5gv]

Vous pouvez faire une recherche sur google.

[@sethubaghs5551]

my dad always learend us 'Bach doesn't breathe'

[@brandonacker]

I think Bach does breath. Just not in the 19th century way.

[@banjoboy01]

BRANDON yes I holler in caps why do you have background music? I'm listening

[@minervameza2686]

If it ain’t Baroque, don’t fix it!!!

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

I'm not familiar with the baroque guitar. Heck, I can't even play properly the regular ones.

[@lerouzicmatthieu]

Thank you for us, poor french people who don't know how to pronounce the "h" of an english word 😂

[@taaha4532]

First?

[@jo_nil]

Firsteth

[@gordwrath6811]

Awww. I thought the workshop was free today. It's $15.00

[@FellowOfHammer]

What happens to a rennasiance lute player when people stop listening to their music? They go baroque 😂

[@RevoltingRudi]

vampire

[@insertnicknamehere]

Sidenote, rubato doesn't mean bended (time) but stealed (time). We understand what you mean but it's not the correct translation.

[@abettermousetrap]

If it's not baroque, don't fix it. I'm sorry. I'll see myself out

[@jansestak954]

Great points. Thank you for this.