J.S. Bach: Invention No. 6 in E Major (Teaching & Performance Video)

[@marysaraha1580]

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[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Mary, thank you for your wonderful and generous acknowledgements about the content and presentation of the charts and tutorials! I really appreciate hearing that these videos are helping you as you learn the Bach Inventions. I wish you the very best with your playing and with your musical journey! 🎵 P.S. Congratulations on your Mary Sarah video reels, too! 🦋

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[@laurieabby565]

What a wonderful analysis of an amazing piece!! Thank you for sharing with us!

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Laurie, thank you so much for your wonderful words! I appreciate hearing that you enjoyed the analysis of this amazing (yes!) piece. :-) You are welcome, it is my pleasure! Best wishes to you. 🎵

[@GenePerry]

I really appreciate the way you make it so easy to understand and learn - you're an inspiration. Thank you so much for this thoughtful and thorough video.

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Gene, thank you so much for your articulate and wonderful words about this tutorial! I'm very happy to know that it was helpful and made it easier to understand and learn this piece. 🙏 I wish you all the best and much joy with your playing! 🎶

[@josephososkie3029]

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[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Joseph, thank you for your lovely and thoughtful comment! Since the teaching videos are done "live" without edits, your words about the pacing are especially appreciated! I'm happy you like the playing as well. :-) Best wishes and blessings to you!

[@letiziayeti]

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[@SallyChristianMusic]

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[@letiziayeti]

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[@SallyChristianMusic]

This is so sweet! Thank you!

[@juanferestrada]

I just spent the last hour and a half listening to your words and playing, along with the score, and I have to say I’m happy I was able to receive such a wonderful, beautiful and touching class from you! Thank you.

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Juan, thank you so much for your wonderful message! I am delighted to hear that you took the time for a long and thorough lesson, and that you were also touched by the beauty and loveliness of this piece. All best wishes to you and with your playing!

[@suzannelebizarre5705]

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[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Suzanne, thank you for your wonderful comment! I love hearing your passion for Bach as well as your acknowledging words about these interpretations! All best wishes to you. :-)

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[@neildasilva8050]

I dont play piano or ever had a formal music education but I understand harmony and audiation. This is the best video ive found on YT on bach and such. I really like your way of teaching and speaking about the patterns and transcending the instrument and vocalizing the music.. its all there. Thank you so much for the lesson and what you do.

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Neil, I am so touched to read your thoughtful and generous acknowledgements about the lesson. You are very welcome, it is my privilege and pleasure to make these videos. Your words about "patterns, transcending the instrument, and vocalizing the music" are especially meaningful for me, and are guiding principles in teaching both players and non-players alike. Thank you for your wonderful comment which I will treasure always. 🙏

[@poochieAZ]

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[@SallyChristianMusic]

Thank you, John, for your articulate comment and words of acknowledgement! I especially appreciate your mentioning the element of music appreciation. It was my hope that these lessons would be helpful for those learning the pieces, as well as opening the hearts and minds of listeners in general to the wonders of this music. Best wishes to you!

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[@frankhill9463]

Happy to see your video today Sally. Your insights into the Bach pieces are very perceptive.

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Frank, thank you for your thoughtful comment which I very much appreciate hearing. All the best to you!

[@eugeniocastillo2424]

Excellent analysis!! Congratulations!!!

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Eugenio, thank you for your kind and much appreciated words about this analysis! Best wishes to you and with your music. BTW: I enjoyed your arrangement for strings of Moonlight Serenade. 🎶

[@maximilianocoria5576]

I love it!!! You're amazing Sally.. great pianist.

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Maximiliano, thank you so much for your wonderful words! All best wishes to you!

[@neildasilva8050]

"When you love something it whispers to you" ill remember that. I think when people sing from their heart it shares a glimpse of that whisper for all to hear.

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Neil, thank you for your beautiful words! You have eloquently expressed the profound impact music can have when it is authentically given and "whispered from the heart!" 💕

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Wonderfull teacher! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and passion.

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[@thehappypiano2985]

I’m struggling with looking for the scales in these beautiful peace’s this really helped me a lot I’ll try to practice to be able to finde the scale more quickly thank you very much ☺️

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[@derrik-bosse]

I cannot nearly play these well yet, but I guarantee that I cherish them as much as you do. Great stuff.

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Learn All Music, thank you for your lovely comment. It is wonderful to hear that you cherish this music! Loving the music is the start point for all of us. The careful, consistent, and accurate practice we then do will over time lead to playing these inventions well. I often say that "the joy is in the journey and in the daily work." I wish you all the best with your practicing and your musical journey! 🎵

[@JoelRossPiano]

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[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hi Joel, thank you very much for your enthusiasm about the videos. I really appreciate hearing your responses; it is my pleasure and privilege. All the best to you!

[@theviolinistinyourwalls]

Thank you! My piano teacher had me play this, and my mom even knows it is hard! My mom didn't even finish invention 3! Well, When I searched this up, I looked at one that was not your video. And then, I saw yours! I love all of your videos! I have to play this whole piece completely in one week!!

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Rachel, thank you for your lovely words about the videos. I'm really glad you like them, and I hope this lesson helps you learn Invention No. 6 in one week. That's not much time, but I think you can do it. I'm pulling for you, and wish all the best to you and with your playing!

[@nice2care]

Beautiful piece analysis. Thanks for sharing.

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello nice2care, thank you for your lovely message. I'm glad you liked the analysis, and all best wishes to you!

[@mutyolu]

It was one of my school concert pieces .. very nice presentation thank you ..

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[@MrDaytrack]

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[@SallyChristianMusic]

You are welcome, it is my pleasure to help! Thank you for your nice words, and very best wishes with your playing!

[@bec1038]

very inspiring!! Thanks a lot

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello be c, thank you so much for your wonderful and much appreciated words! You are welcome, it is my pleasure. 💕 Best wishes to you and with your playing. 🎵

[@christiansellenthin5433]

Playing the inventions on the saxophone I wanted to understand the structure of these little pieces by Bach. I found your videos and they helped me a lot. Very well explained with much passion. Thank you very much!

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Hello Christian, thank you so much for your very nice words about the videos! I appreciate hearing that they are helping you, and that you like the content and presentation. I would be very interested in hearing the transcriptions if you decide to make a video recording someday. :-) Best wishes and much joy to you on your musical journey!

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Hello musicavox, thank you for your generous and thoughtful words! I really appreciate your enthusiasm about the charts, analysis, and performance! :-) Very best wishes to you.

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Bach would have been pleased to hear you play his music. If he was still around I would like tell him how much I like his music, but sadly I cannot. I gladly compliment musicians like you who put their passion and expertise into bringing out the best in beautifully written music like this. The music of Bach, Mozart, Chopin, List, Schubert, and others can really be fascinating, like being lost in a beautiful and musical way. This piece is also a great exercise in paying attention to rests and reading notes correctly.

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Wade's siren videos, thank you for your very kind and thoughtful words. I appreciate you expressing that this music (and the other composers you mentioned) is like "being lost in a beautiful and musical way." I agree, and feel it is truly uplifting for our spirits! With all best wishes to you. 🎹

[@multipurse5956]

Im 15 and im learning this piece right now... i love it :D And i just finished playing Brahms Rhapsody :DD Someone got a hard prelude from Rachmaninoff to play? A bit harder than Fantasie Impromptu?

[@musicalintentions]

I've been playing a vocalise in E major on my trombone, so I feel right at home with this piece. Thank you as always for sharing your discoveries with us. Finding patterns is really a joy.

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello musicalintentions/James, how nice to hear from you, and thank you for your kind words! Yes, it is so true about the joys of finding patterns. Best wishes to you!

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Sally, I realy love your videos, I have been watching them and buying the charts that have really helped me a lot to have a better understanding of the music. It also did accelerate the process of learning. I have learned some nventions using your method and I am planning to learn a beethoven sonata (one of the op 49) or a mozart one (k282). It would be very helpful if you could do a chart that i can buy for one of those pieces.

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Ghassen, thank you so much for your wonderful comment! I really appreciate you letting me know that the charts and the lessons are helping you to better understand and more quickly learn the music. I am so happy to see that you have bought a few charts as well! :-) Thank you for your request for charts for the Mozart K. 282 and the Beethoven Op. 49. I have added these to my queue of future chart engravings I would like to make once I have finished the many charts that are now in process. As you can see, each chart has a companion teaching video and performance video for memory. While the videos are labors of love, they do take a long time to prepare and complete. I wish the very best to you and with your playing!

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@@SallyChristianMusic thank you for your response. I totally understand that it takes a lot of work and time to make those charts. Your charts are really somthing I did not know i needed them but one I started using them i am kinda of addicted to the method

[@SallyChristianMusic]

@@ghassenmaatoug5108 Thank you so much, Ghassen! I feel the same way. It truly changes our thinking, understanding, and work process for any piece seeing it and learning it this way. Once you've experienced the New Layout Chart format, it is really hard to go back to the "traditional" way music has always been type set. Your words are music to my ears. :-)

[@blogleftbanker]

So, Bach wrote these for his wife and kids. Either they were talented musicians or he hated them, using the Inventions as torture. It’s takes me forever to learn these (I can muddle through four so far) but with your guidance, I’m a bit closer on #6. Muchas gracias.

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Leftbanker, thank you for your kind words that this video is helping you! I'm glad you are working on a few of the Bach Inventions. While they are challenging to learn, it will be very satisfying when you can play them well. I recommend lots of separate hands practice to really learn the soprano and bass lines and also the fingerings. Please stay with it. I am pulling for you! 🎵

[@scottanderson6807]

Thank you for the very nice and informative video! I might request that you use a separate microphone for the voice and piano since the piano was three times louder than the voice.

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Scott, thank you for your very kind words! I'm glad you found the lesson informative. Yes, I agree with you about the volume levels between the voice and the piano. In my more recent teaching videos from around 2020 to the present, I have done just what you suggested and now use an auxiliary room microphone for the voice. Best wishes to you and with your music. 🎵

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Thank you for the lesson and the analysis. A point of attention for you is the audio-quality of your recordings. Listening with a PC with high-end headphones distortion is audible during peaks of the performance (also in recent recordings). Watch Ulrika A. Rosén for perfect sound and hear the difference. Update: What a nice piece of music! Very nice to play and to put energy and emotion in the performance! The next goal is mastering Sinfonia 3 and Sinfonia 9.

[@catw1858]

Wow!Thank you!

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Cat W, thank you so much! It is my pleasure, and you are welcome!

[@bec1038]

Sally, you mentioned to check out the 10th, and it have to be resolved. I don’t understand, because a 10th is literally a 3rd. Does a 3rd need to be resolved ?

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello be c, thank you for your question. You are correct that a 10th is the same as a 3rd, just separated by one octave. Are you asking about measure 16, around 7:50 minutes in the lesson where I talk about the 10th between the right hand A# and the left hand F# that signals a modulation? We are going somewhere else harmonically, and this unexpected A# does resolve to a new key, the dominant key of B Major. If this is not the place you are referring to, please give me a counter number in the lesson so I can better answer your question. Thank you!

[@bec1038]

@@SallyChristianMusic thank you so much, that is very kind of you. So, for is there any resolution for the 10th in bar 9,11,13, 46,53,55,58? Thanks

[@SallyChristianMusic]

@@bec1038 Hello be c, you are welcome, it is my pleasure! Since you have your chart already printed, please refer to the Color Structural Analysis as I respond to your questions. I will start with measure 46. Taking a look at the opening Subject and Counter-Subject in measure 4, you will see that the left hand has a 32nd note closing motive. Measure 46 has the identical left hand closing motive, but this time it is down an octave. Above it, the right hand Soprano Subject is adding a parallel part a 10th above. This makes a lovely duet as a variation of the opening measure 4. In answering the other measures you mention, it is very straightforward: This piece has a total of 3 Sequences, which are marked in your CSA. Sequence #1 begins with measure 9, and Sequence #3 begins with measure 51. As you probably already know, sequences have repeating musical patterns which repeat a step either up or down the scale degrees. Bach is using the 10ths between the hands/parts for both of these sequences. They are the "stepping stones" to follow that begin each repeating two-measure phrase. The 10ths here are not about resolutions, but about the repeating melodic patterns of the sequences. I hope this answers your questions about the function of these 10ths. Best wishes to you and with your playing. 🎵

[@bec1038]

@@SallyChristianMusic thank you so much for your explanation. I’ll keep on working it.

[@SallyChristianMusic]

@@bec1038 Excellent! You are welcome, and best wishes learning Invention No. 6! 🎵

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