Joshua Young: Dominatus Fugue in C Minor
This is one of the most spectacular Bach-inspired pieces for bass guitar I’ve ever seen. Joshua Young wrote this extremely intricate and beautiful solo bass fugue in the style of the 18th century composer, complete with melody, counterpoint and bass line. If you weren’t looking, you’d think “Dominatus” was being performed by three different people.
Young takes his craft seriously and has deeply studied the fugue form.
“When it comes to the parameters of contrapuntal writing, harmonic functions and fugal technical devices are employed by one’s own particular reasoning and personal preferences,” Young explains. “That’s why Bach’s fugues sound very different from those of Hindemithe, Scarlatti, Handel, Beethoven, Mozart, Shostakovich, etc… It’s funny because some countrapuntal composers think counterpoint is the art of playing as MANY voices as possible, instead it should be about doing several musical things as CLEARLY as possible.”
He finishes the video with an inspiring quote from Bach: “I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results.”
In his time with No Treble, Kevin has met hundreds of amazing bassists and interviewed icons like Jack Casady, Victor Wooten, Les Claypool, Marcus Miller, and more. He's a gigging bassist performing jazz in Northern Virginia and bluegrass with The Plate Scrapers up and down the East Coast. Kevin appreciates all genres of music, from R&B to metal and everything in between. Connect with Kevin on Facebook and check his performance schedule on his website.
Brilliant! I could listen to him play all day.
Who-ee! Fantastic composition!
Beautiful piece of Bass goodness. The counterpoint lines are… uh… badass!!!
Simply amazing ! Certainly, a talent we will hear more about in the future .
My jaw will be on the floor for a while. This is spectacular!
Realmente lo disfrute, el tiempo paso sin darme cuenta. Felicitaciones Joshua.
Nice guitar player
It is actually a bass guitar…
And on a 4 string too!
An amazing and unique performance