I started playing electric guitar by ear in my early teens. After a few years I began to learn music theory and gravitated more and more towards classical music. Eventually I dropped electric guitar all together and went strictly classical. For a few years I completely focused on composition and didn’t play the guitar at all. I am now in the middle of a project that I believe truly combines strict classical music with electric guitar in a way that has never been done before. I am taking relatively unknown classical pieces and transcribing them, in their entirety, for multiple electric guitars with no additional instruments. I do not actually change the music in any way, other than playing every part on guitar with distortion and the articulation and transposition that comes with it. I am releasing each of the songs as I record them individually as singles.
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J.S. Bach’s (1685 – 1750) Duetto No.1 was originally written for solo Clavier (keyboard). The reason for the ambiguous title was to indicate that the music itself is in two parts; clearly separated between the left and right hands of a single keyboard player. This is the first of four “duets” by Bach, BWV 802-805, and I plan to record the complete set.
Claudio Monteverdi’s (c.1561 -1613) Lamento della ninfa (Lament of the nymph) was originally written for four voices, one female and three male, over a ground bass. There is clear separation in the music between the soprano and male voices. My transcription emphasizes this by lowering the male parts down an octave.
Carlo Gesualdo’s (c.1561 -1613) Aestimatus sum was originally written for a six-part choir. The Latin title is the first two words of the first sentence in the text. The English translation is: I am counted with them that go down into the pit.
Thomas Tallis’s (1505 -1581) Spem in alium was originally written for a forty-part choir, which is subdivided into eight, five-part choirs. The Latin title is the first three words of the first sentence in the text. The English translation is: I have never put my hope in any other but in you. My transcription does not combine any of the parts. I have recorded each part on forty separate tracks.
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The audio currently being played on this page is a sample of my newest release: Duetto No.1 - for 2 Guitars.
