<glacius:metadata>

    <title>Bach - Fugue in C Minor - Well-Tempered Clavier Book I</title>

    <description>

        I recorded myself playing Bach's C Minor Fugue from WTC Book I

    </description>

    <category>Music</category>

    <category>Music recording</category>

    <category>Piano</category>

    <category>Classical music</category>

    <category>Bach</category>

    <series order="35">2022 music project</series>

</glacius:metadata>

<p>

    I've recorded one <glacius:link page="music/projects/bach-prelude-no-3-csharp-major-recording">Bach 

    Prelude</glacius:link> and I guess now it was time for a fugue. I remember learning

    <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prelude_and_Fugue_in_C_minor,_BWV_847">this prelude and 

    fugue</a> in junior high and the photocopy my piano teacher gave me had the

    words "Amy Grant" circled in the margins. I didn't really care at the time

    as I did not celebrate <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Grant">Amy Grant</a>'s

    entire catalog, but later in life after YouTube was invented I was curious and discovered 

    that her totally subtly-titled song

    <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBr9hXa3fac">Sing Your Praise to the Lord</a> 

    prominently featured this fugue in the intro.

</p>

<p>

    And then 25 years later I'm just reminded of how difficult it is to memorize a Bach

    fugue.

</p>

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<p>

    Check out another stank face as I flub what is obviously the most difficult part 

    of the piece:

</p>

<glacius:figure glacius:src="35-bach-fugue-cminor-hard-part.png" type="image">

    <caption>I think we can all agree that this part is total bullshit.</caption>

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<p>

    I should have used a metronome since I vastly overestimated how fast 80 BPM

    is. Which is why I'm playing it at hyperspeed. It's honestly kinda fun to

    play at this speed, but it doesn't sound as good.

</p>

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    glacius:src="bach-fugue-cminor-480p.mp4" 

    glacius:thumbnail="bach-fugue-cminor-poster.jpeg" 

    type="video">

    <caption>

        Me performing Bach's <em>Fugue in C minor</em> from 

        <em>The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I</em> <small>(recorded on 

        <glacius:date value="2022-09-09" />)</small>

    </caption>

</glacius:figure>