My Take On - Villa Lobos Prelude 5 - Performance and Lesson

My Take On - Villa Lobos Prelude 5 - Performance and Lesson.
Some of you requested Villa Lobos, so here it is! This is my favourite prelude.
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[@taylfut1]

Videos like this are unique and of great value to me as a guitarist. I admire the work of the late, great Alan Holdsworth and was pleasantly surprised by your reference. I enjoyed your performance and explanation of this Lobos prelude and, if L had my way, you would do all the etudes and preludes similarly. Thanks for what you have done with Sagreras and others.

[@davidjaggs]

Thanks 👍 Allan was something else wasn't he?!

[@ChrisD11284]

I never thought I’d hear Alan Holdsworth’s name mentions in a vendor about Villa-Lobos. Both legends and both somewhat underrated.

[@davidjaggs]

I believe there will be a new documentary about Allan next year, maybe people might appreciate him more after that?!

[@ronrutstein3440]

Love Alan Holds worth! Did manage to see him live once.

[@davidjaggs]

Legend. Saw him 2x

[@userAA]

Nice! Looking forward to see prélude 2&3 too!

[@davidjaggs]

,👍👍

[@jeremypitsinger6470]

Very smooth and legato version of this difficult piece to play correctly. Enjoyed it very much. By the way, ever noticed at the 1:13 mark, a Ord generates at your right hand and moves up slowly? Very interesting! Then again maybe is just dust. But I like to think someone on the other side is peeking in to enjoy this wonderful piece, maybe even Villa Lobos himself.

[@davidjaggs]

I did notice the orb. Would be nice to think Dad was watching. Sadly I probably hoovered that day!

[@Nylon_and_Gut-MatteoLaurenzi]

Amazing!!

[@davidjaggs]

Thanks 👍😊

[@tasosdiaforetico7377]

Maestro everything you do is as I say to my son a gemstone.

[@davidjaggs]

Thanks 👍😊

[@ClassicalGuitarMusings]

Excellent 👌

[@davidjaggs]

Thanks 👍

[@StefanNiggl]

I love your version! You play the first part very calm. I like that! And thanks for the instructions!

[@davidjaggs]

Hope you get one or two useful tips from it. 👍

[@noddyslayer]

Thank you. This came at the best time as I was just attempting to learn this piece!

[@davidjaggs]

Excellent! Hope it helped!

[@zhengxie3944]

looking forward to more of this kind of videos!👍

[@davidjaggs]

Thanks for watching 👍😊

[@macleod41069]

Excellent playing and insight

[@davidjaggs]

Cheers!! Hope you are doing well 👍😊

[@birdman4274]

Great video lesson David. Always loved Lobos since I heard Bream playing Prelude 1,2 & 3 years ago. 👍

[@davidjaggs]

Me too!

[@fuffy442]

Absolutely brilliant. I'll save this for when I am ready to learn this prelude in about 200 years. 🙂

[@davidjaggs]

It'll be soon 🤞

[@fuffy442]

@@davidjaggs We'll see. lol. I'm still fighting my way through Carulli op 114. 🙂

[@davidjaggs]

Don't fight, enjoy it!!

[@fuffy442]

@@davidjaggs I love every second. :-)

[@davidjaggs]

Pleased to hear that!

[@3koningen]

Thank you very much. This is pure gold for me. Do a series for ToneBase and get paid for your work. I never heard an third string like that. Allan Holdsworth did some acoustic work with a group called Gong that inspired me tremendously some forty years ago.

[@davidjaggs]

Thanks for watching. I discovered the gong album only recently. I used to listen to Tony Williams lifetime, "believe it". Now my son does and he's a drummer!

[@ronrutstein3440]

Gong was a blast!

[@davidjaggs]

@ronrutstein3440 my favorite is believe it, tony Williams

[@ronrutstein3440]

@@davidjaggs The Tony Williams work is amazing. His late solo work is mind altering, just taking it to a new world of tonality. On a different note, have you every played John. Duarte's Nocturne?

[@davidjaggs]

No, just his English Suite. I can't go directly from thinking about Holdsworth to Duarte, it messes with the mind!!!

[@ridgewayclassicalguitar]

Both Inspirational and aspirational, currently I'm re working all 5 of these and looking at revisiting Suite populaire brésilienne, after watching and listening to this it is perhaps time to re work the re work on No. 5 😀 :-) . Always a pleasure receiving a notification of a new posting .

[@davidjaggs]

Thanks for watching 👍. I hope you can use a couple of the ideas.

[@ridgewayclassicalguitar]

@@davidjaggs Ideas finally being put into practice especially for the middle section bass lines , its always difficult changing established fingering but what you suggest seems to musically flow more easily .. Some other pieces worthy to add into the mix attention might be the Scarlatti sonatas K322/L483 and L352 🙂 I suspect you get loads of requests

[@davidjaggs]

If the series proves popular I'll try to cover lots of pieces! Thanks for watching 👍

[@ridgewayclassicalguitar]

@@davidjaggs Great.. let's hope they are... I'm enjoying both your books and working on them slowly as we start to approach xmas Yikes..... just enjoying you Sor study Playlist I decided i needed to revisit them l to get rid of bad bad habits and fill in some missing however what can is say other than gob smacked . each one so far sounds more like proper music rather than just studies LOL..

[@davidjaggs]

Thanks 👍😊

[@DenianArcoleo]

I love this performance. The beautiful legato you achieve in the cello-like melody in the central section is expertly done. I also appreciate the rolled and non-rolled chords, clearly the product of conscious decion and not unconscious reflex. Bravo. Have you recorded the others?

[@davidjaggs]

There's an album I did years ago called Recital. You'll find it on Spotify and it includes the 5 preludes. I think I've improved since the though! At least, I hope so!

[@ClaudioPallone]

Excellent lesson. I really enjoyed that. One of my requests would be Handel's Suite 7 - Overture. The ornaments there are quite hard and I was wondering if there is better waybto play them.

[@davidjaggs]

The David Russell arrangement?

[@ClaudioPallone]

@@davidjaggs Yes, that would be great

[@davidjaggs]

I think the ornamentation will be different for different performances. I'd recommend finding a video on how to play cross string trills.

[@Pissarrio]

Your book is great but would have made it unique and even better would have been if you had complemented it with a recorded video lesson of those songs.

[@davidjaggs]

We did talk about video but apparently there is a copyright issue. Nice idea though. The next book has 16 pages of helpful notes. 👍

[@ChrisD11284]

I’m learning this piece at the moment. Some of your suggested fingerings are the same as the ones I have arrived at. Especially in bar 1. Why would you play it in a way that makes the next chord more difficult? Excellent advice

[@davidjaggs]

Thanks! There are sometimes reasons for doing this, for example, if you want to hold certain notes to ring on etc. hope you enjoy playing it!

[@tony89718]

I like how you slow down the prelude instead at warp speed, like some of Allan Holdsworth’s solos! Can you send a link for the sheet music edition you are using?

[@davidjaggs]

Try this one, www.londonguitarstudio.com/p/villa-lobos-heitor-prelude-no-5 you get the first page for free online!!

[@tony89718]

@@davidjaggsI’m curious, have you made the transition to using digital sheet music and foot pedals (to aide in turning music)?

[@davidjaggs]

@@tony89718 No, I'm old fashioned but it's a good idea.