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Originally Posted by Phoenix75
Playing these pieces really helped develop my composing skills and I'd love to try the same process with guitar.
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Must it be Bach? I always thought it should be Bach, but when I started making more transcriptions (some of them on IMSLP, but all in standard tuning) I discovered Händel, Corelli or Telemann translated pretty well to guitar too.
What really helped me with composing and arranging was making my own transcriptions, so you could do those in the tuning your guitar has. Fugues may be a bit to hard, but other contrapuntal pieces might be interesting. I found Händel's minuets good to start with.
If you need a refresher on counterpoint, I can recommend
Seth Monahan's videos on Youtube.
BTW. I find fugues difficult because the melodic lines should be copies and that's hard to do on an instrument where lines can never be completely independent. Let alone where fugues have more than 2 voices. But maybe that says more about me than about the fugues.