We can see it's not easy to play...congrats.

Alas, Alain, it should not "look" like it's hard.... I'll have to try again...

Ok. So that's what practicing one thing for several years will do for you...

Love how your super fluency is going to new levels Greg. It's what we all want to see the Stick do and keep on doing...

.....thats the look of Greg "feelin' it" man...

I'll ask what people ask me......how do you remember all those notes?? ehehe
Awesome btw Greg.

cheers,
kev

Hi Greg, sooo impressive. You showed me this part partly during our skype lesson (which was also very impressive as all the other lessons) and I was very impressed then but now you played the whole Piece I am stunned.... Now it is even more clear to me how important it is to search for the best possible handmotion and executing the lines. I am working on it as on all the other stuff you are teaching me. Maybe you are right about quiting my job and play for hours every day!
At least I am "happy" it takes also a long time for you to learn a piece like this! I will keeping things a bit easier for the moment .
I am looking Forward to our next lesson!!
Thanks for teaching me and sharing this beautiful Piece with us all!!
Greetings form Austria
Peter

Thanks Peter,

It's been a pleasure showing you this idea as it develops. Can't wait to hear where your playing goes next.

Bach's monophonic lines are spelling out the harmonic progressions as if the chords were being arpeggiated in various flowing ways. This melodic discipline works well on the cello's 5ths tuning, as Bach knew, and this particular piece works equally well on Stick bass 5ths, as Greg has discovered.

Greg enters deeply into each project (probably since he was a young kid) and makes it his own. We'll all benefit from his new 5ths fingering discovery here, and it's logical for the genre.

It's not like Greg is working so hard in the rendition of this Cello Suite, but it 's nevertheless intense and reminds me of the tennis match I watched last night with Nadal against Federer. Nadal won by sheer guts and cunning in a 5th set tie-breaker. He had done the same the night before in five sets against the wily Argentine Coria.

OK, so I draw my metaphors from far afield, but it's just to identify with what Greg is in the process of discovering.

There's a video of Rostropovich playing this that looks like an athletic contest to me:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU_QR_FTt3E[/youtube]

It would be cool to have a lifetime of classical playing to draw on. Hopefully the work that Bob and others of us are doing to open up the classical box will make it easier for beginners to get into it, and really develop the genre for The Stick....

There seem to be a wide range of interpretations of this music, with some highly rubato, and others more strict in the timing like this one...