I know that this web site is dedicated to my web projects etc... but I guess it is my blog and I can write about whatever I want to here. For those of you who know me I play guitar... have for a long time. For about the past year I have been playing Bach songs from a small song book that goes over his most famous songs. There are tabs and there are notes... I use the tabs for the fingering and the notes for the rythym... I can play pretty perfectly Bouree, and Air, and a few of the other Cannons. For some reason I find it really intuitive. Like I can just start playing one I've never played before and get the melody. Really I find these songs much easier to learn than, say even some pop songs. They are playable, really playable melodies and super complex... but the thing is... I could never write anything like this. I mean when I try I realize how complicated they are... the way the bass moves in comparison to the melody, and the way chords are added in is so ... masterful.

I looked online, but I can't find anything about how he composed these songs. I have a speculation it would be much easier to write them if I were playing them on piano... but if that is the case how did he know they would transpose so perfectly to cello or guitar even.

The closest hint I ever heard about how these songs were constructed was that he never wrote a parralel fifth, which basically means no to ascending bar chords.... at least that's how I understand it. I also read on that he started a style of music where he would play with the bass and treble harmony... meaning as the bass descends the treble ascends and vice versa and through that he would create these astounding melodies.

I also learned that music majors have to study bach more than anyone else.When learning how to compose he is like God in the classroom. I am starting to see why.

Anyhow if anyone know how the heck he did it feel free to leave me a comment I would love to understand how to write more like that.