Ravel's Bolero

[richardp69]

A group of you talented players should try something like this on one acoustic, maybe a Jumbo F 50. My cousin sent this to me, I hope it copies okay.

Four cellists play Ravel’s Bolero on one cello, in acrobatic classical masterpiece

An orchestral classic becomes an acrobatic masterpiece for four cellists, and a single instrument.

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[Midnight Toker]

Amazing!!!!

 

[GAD]

A group of you talented players should try something like this on one acoustic.

 

[richardp69]

Very cool. I really like that song and I really enjoy the guy playing percussion on the sounboard.

 

[Midnight Toker]

Really loved that second vid!!

 

[Rich Cohen]

When I was in college and and a fraternity pledge, I endured the night of horror perpetrated by the brothers of the fraternity. First, there was a quest for the cross of Jesus, which, of course we didn't find, outside the fraternity house around town. Then, upon returning to the frat house we were submitted to several terrifying ceremonies, the substance of which I have promised not to reveal. Then, in the early morning, as we prepared for the "graduation" ceremony, we were made to sit in chairs, with our knees tightly pressed together for hours (try doing that), listening to Ravel's "Bolero" over and over again. Just imagine.

 

[fronobulax]

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I always found Ravel's Bolero a difficult listen. I then found out that Ravel was a master of orchestration. Bolero was an example or test bed. The point was not the melody but the sound. Suddenly I was much more engaged with the music.

Think of GAD recording the same riff, as part of a review, with different tone and pickup combos. It's not the riff, but the sound that matters.

 

[sailingshoes72]

The second guitar video, playing the classical piece, was great. I was impressed with the sections where the artists switch up their picking hands and their fretting hands! That took some skill and practice.

 

[walrus]

The only version of Bolero I like:

"Beck's Bolero" from 1967.

Jeff Beck - electric guitar
Jimmy Page - 12 string electric guitar
Keith Moon - drums
John Paul Jones- bass
Nicky Hopkins - piano



walrus

 

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[Midnight Toker]

The Story Of Ravel's Boléro

Before he left for a triumphant tour of North America in January 1928, Maurice Ravel had agreed to write a Spanish-flavoured ballet score for his friend, the Russian dancer and actress Ida Rubinstein (1885-1960).

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I absolutely adore Ravel's Bolero, as it's haunting repedative melody and continuous build of tension transports me right to a remote Spanish Taverna, I, seated in a dark corner of the room when a gorgeous flamenco dancer takes the stage, she methodically moves around the room, slowly seducing table after table, now it's getting serious, and intense...until finally the spotlight is on her...and me...in a hypnotic dance just 2 ft in front of me! (Like Peter Sellers in the Pink Panther!!!)

I really love music that can paint a vivid picture...without the use of any words whatsoever! That is pure music at it's very finest IMHO.