Hey i'm not the biggest Bach fan, but as a classical music enthusiast, I appreciate influential and good shit when I hear. Pretty sure I'll be studying this piece for AP music theory later this year anyway.
This is the prelude to the first piece from Bach's 48 piece work known as "The Well Tempered Clavier" or more properly, "Das Wohltemperierte Klavier". Written to demonstrate the superiority of Bach's tuning system, each set of 2 pieces in the series shows off the full harmonic capabilities of a given key, starting with Cmaj and progressing through to Bmin. Considered to be ludicrously influential, little bits of of these pieces have wormed their way into almost every facet of western music. While transcribing this, I noticed at least 3 or 4 arpeggios and chord changes stolen almost note for note by modern artists (ahem, Paul Mcartney/George Harrison). Just wanted to do a little sound design and not worry about composition, JSB's got my back. Pop this one open and check out the voice leading and perfectley balanced harmonic structure, they don't call Bach a genius for no reason:)
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