I started playing music on the rock guitar, and was attracted to the appeal of J-pop composition and arrangement. While I dabbled in jazz, fusion, and classical music, I fell in love with Chopin. When I started practicing the piano, I became interested in ``combinations of chords and melodies'' that I couldn't notice on the guitar.
The way you play the chords with your left hand and the way you arrange the notes can create a completely different world.
Among them, what kind of sound will the right hand choose this time?
It was a very shocking discovery for me at the time, when all I could think about was strumming and playing fast on a distortion guitar on a rock guitar.
そこからボサノバギターや歌の伴奏、ピアノ、クラシック音楽を勉強し始め
長い音楽の旅が続いてきたけれど、、
今振り返ると自分にとっての音楽とは「和声」に尽きると思ってしまう
From there, I started studying bossa nova guitar, singing accompaniment, piano, and classical music, and it was a long musical journey.
Looking back now, I realize that music for me is all about harmony.
もちろん音楽はいろんなジャンルや楽しみ方があると思う
でも結局自分は何に一番惹かれていたかと思い返すと
学生の頃流れていたJ-popやBGM風のイージーリスニングなどの中に潜む
「コード進行」と「メロディ」の組み合わせだったように思う
少なくとも歌詞は聴いていなかった
Of course, I think there are many different genres and ways to enjoy music.
But in the end, when I think back on what I was most attracted to, I think it was a combination of "chord progression" and "melody" that was hidden in the J-pop and BGM-like easy listening that was playing when I was a student.
Back then, when idol songs came on, all I listened to was the intro, background instrumental performance, and chorus.
"Ah, this kind of melody comes in the background of the song" (I think he was referring to a melody, a countermelody)
and was interested in the ``strangeness of that combination.''
(こういう話はとても長くなってしまうので今回はここまでにしておきますが・・)
そしてそんな「和声」の勉強として当時一番すごいと感じた曲が
ヴィヴァルディの「四季」でした
昔は「春」の（みんなが知ってるであろう）例のあのメロディに興味を持っただけだったけど
のちにオーケストラの楽譜を見ながらギターで音を拾い分析？考察？していたら
とんでもなく奥が深いことを考えて作られているのだと痛感し、あらためてクラシック音楽の深さと
和声の重要性を感じた
（※あくまで当時速弾きしか考えてなかったロックギター弾きの自分としての見解です..）
・・そんなこともありました（という思い出話）
And the song that I felt was the most amazing at the time to study "harmony"
It was Vivaldi's ``The Four Seasons.''
In the past, I was just interested in that melody from ``Spring'' (which everyone probably knows), but later I picked up and analyzed the sounds on the guitar while looking at orchestral scores. Consideration? As I listened to it, I realized that it had been created with something incredibly profound in mind, and I was reminded once again of the depth of classical music and the importance of harmony.
(*This is just my opinion as a rock guitar player who was only thinking about fast playing at the time.)
...Something like that happened (that's what I remember)
※ちなみに「四季」という曲は正式には
「和声と創意への試み」「和声とインヴェンションへの試み」という曲集の中の一部だそうです
By the way, the song "Four Seasons" is officially part of a collection of songs called "Attempts at Harmony and Creativity" and "Attempts at Harmony and Invention."
When I hear the word "invention," I think of Bach, and then the Well-Tempered Clavier comes to mind.
At the time, I wasn't very interested in this song (as I was a beginner in classical music), and I wondered why it was so famous.
However, I have heard from people in the classical music field that when you listen to the music in light of the period in which it was composed (historical background) and the various trial-and-error attempts made by the composer during the early years of music, it turns into something deeply moving.
This is an analog sound source from when I copied and practiced a violin string quartet score on an electric guitar (around 1993)
Back then, there wasn't an environment like now, so I didn't have any videos of myself playing, and since 2015 I've been wanting to record videos and keep it as a record, but it's difficult and it's not easy to play like it was back then, so I haven't been able to do it yet.
せめてもと思いエレキギター用TAB譜動画は作りました
At least I made a TAB notation video for electric guitar.
～あまりむずかしくない曲は今でも（かろうじて？）弾けたのでyoutubeにUPしました
~I can still (barely?) play the not-so-difficult songs, so I uploaded them to YouTube.
A long time ago, when a guitarist named Yngwie Malmsteen, who played classical phrases very quickly, made his debut, guitar players all over the world started playing classical music on the guitar.
It was one of the songs that got a lot of attention at that time, but at that time there was no one who could play it exactly the same way as the original, and there was no transcribed guitar TAB score, so I made it for my own practice as well.
(However, the arrangement of notes is different from that of a guitar, so it's difficult to play, and it's also fast, so you can't play it in the same way.)
When I was a beginner rock guitarist, I was thinking about Chopin's "Fantasie Impromptu" and through it I was thinking about classical music and piano music, and I felt a lot of things, so I'm going to record them here.
左手の考察/Left Hand Consideration..
focus on the lowest note
lowest note only
Focus on the lowest and highest notes
Now, let's listen to what happens when all the notes are played at the same volume.
