Henri Grünbauer
Acoustic Sound Advice
This page features some original music performed entirely acoustically!
Caged in Time (H.M. Grünbauer ©1995 ℗2014
Originally written for the Doeofjethuisband in 1985 with some vocals added, this is an arrangement for classical guitar. Some of it's Thematics were also used for 'By Accident'. If You think this is weird stuff, You're probably right, it is. There's some odd time-signatures in it as well.
A Peine (Henri Grünbauer) ©2014
This version of 'A Peine' is an earlier take of this Guitar-tune, thought to be unusable because of some sync-problems occuring at the time of recording. However, since the playing was as good as, or even better than the original, an effort was made to better the synchronising of the video.
A Peine (Henri Grünbauer) ©2014
This version of 'A Peine' is an earlier take of this Guitar-tune, thought to be unusable because of some sync-problems occuring at the time of recording. However, since the playing was as good as, or even better than the original, an effort was made to better the synchronising of the video.
Animato (H.M. Grünbauer) ©1997
Animato is an Italian word used in classical music to indicate that a passage is to be played lively. It is however not usual to use it as a title for a whole piece of music. In classical guitar music tempo indications (like 'andante' or 'allegretto') are much more commonly used as titles. Giving it it's title, I wanted to give some sort of sign that this is a classical guitar-piece but not from the romantic period, and certainly not from '60s.
Sixty-Six (H.M. Grünbauer) ©1997 ℗2013
Sixty-Six was originally written for Guitar and Piano as a birthday-present for my Father who then turned 66 and began to retire from his musical life. I had one stave for the Guitar and left two blank staves for him to compose his own Piano-part, and he did. We actually played it together a few times but never bothered to record. Since he is no longer with us, I rearranged the piece to be played as guitar-solo, making it much more difficult to play. When I played it with my father, I didn't have to worry about the bass-notes and the double stops. This recording is far from perfect, containing hesitations and distortions but gives an idea how it is supposed to be played. I do not remember when I made this arrangement, probably some ten years ago.
Minuetto (H.M. Grünbauer) ©1999 2013
Dance in 3/4 time from the 17th century, especially in France, which is not popular any more. (The dance, not France of course)
Caprice 20 with Stringpad accompaniment ©1997
Every now and then, when I visited my father we discussed some music and I learned a great deal of him. So I showed him the score of the 24 Caprices when I finished them in 1996. He looked through and got especially interested in the chords of nr 20. He said he would like to make a keyboard-accompaniment for it which is quite unique since never wrote anything for keyboards, only church-organ, piano, recorder and choir arrangements. He had tried out the sounds on my keyboard and was very specifically about the patch to be used with it. I was to be Stringpad. When he finished the score we played it through several times and it sounded right on his organ too. Since I only took my Guitar with me and no keyboard or recording equipment, we didn't record anything. His score is the reason I had this Caprice on the repertoire at the time along with numbers 1, 4 and 19. Fortunately, when I experimented with midi, I put the whole score in my Atari-computer, including my fathers part and luckily I had the sequencer play it to make an mp3 of it. I synchronized my recent footage to it and added some pictures of my father and me to it. I hope You enjoy!