Hi! If you're coming down here to comment something along the lines of "Def Leppard? I think you mean Judas Priest!" then a) You should know that like a hundred people already have, and b) you should read this basic history of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal: ultimateclassicrock.com/new-wave-of-british-heavy-metal/
I think you mean Jud... only kidding. Just wanted to say that I really think your production skills have increased a lot! The subtle things like playing a bass note after referring to it really helps with following what you're saying.
Yeah, I tried to include them but fast trills on MIDI sound really, really bad and it didn't affect to the reduction so I decided to leave them off for simplicity. That's not to say they're not an important part of the orchestration, just not one that I had room to talk about.
I hear people complaining about the midi guitar tone, and I have no idea why. I can tell it's a guitar, the E sounds like an E, and it sounds vaguely like the guitar tone Iron Maiden uses. It's just a theory video, not a cover; the guitar snippets don't have to sound amazing, they just have to get the notes across.
blalo'u but the reverb and distortion is unnecessary and annoying. there's also plenty of much better electric guitar samples out there and these ones are garbage.
It's fine except for the riff between verses where the midi guitar doesn't have the hammer-on's and pullof's which make it sound quite bland compared to the real deal. It's one of the strongest parts of the song.
If people credit James Hetfield with inventing downpicking since he mastered it, does that mean we can credit Steve Harris with inventing the gallop for the same reason?
@@tylercady3985 maybe, if he downpicks a specific pattern in the majority of Metallica songs. Something signature to Lars would be how he often overplays his fills past the one. I'm a drummer and when I do it in my own music, I acknowledge that it is a Lars technique.
The Trooper is a great example showing that you do not need overly complicated elements to make good music. Sometimes a more basic approach is all you need.
As you mentioned the "galloping" effect & cavalry feel, its entirely appropriate as the song is based on the poem Charge of the Light Brigade .TY for this video,
Omg never clicked on a video so fast. The Trooper is one of my favourite songs and I've seen Iron Maiden play it live four times. Like all your other videos - by exploring the magic behind how the song is composed you've made me love it even more than I already did. ❤️
@@MrLump the trooper is their most mainstream song and it makes me sick when someone says:hey do you have any maiden song? Play the trooper man,but i never felt more hyped than the day i heard it live,i headbanged like never before! Song is awesome but i heard it billion times,they have more songs than just The Trooper. Don't get me wrong,i feel proud when i hear on street or bar somebody blasts the trooper but i want people to realize that is not the only song they have.
+WatuMeister It just means that standard guitar tuning has each next higher-pitched string tuned one fourth higher than the lower one (in pitch of course), except for the 'B', which is a third higher in pitch than 'G'. The reason is physical: You can play barre chords with 3rds in them, and then the low and high strings are the same note on the same fret. Of course, anyone is free to tune their guitar any way they like, but I'm not aware of anyone who actually tunes their 'B' string to 'C', making their logical choice of high 'E' an 'F' (although 6-string bassists will add a low B and a high C, preserving the series of forths across the whole instrument).
I can only think of Tom Quayle who tunes his guitar fully in 4ths, and plays it like that consistently. And maybe the guy from Coldplay on certain guitar parts (the Scientist comes to mind). The last case makes playing around in D minor really nice since for all the chords you only fret the last 4 strings and leave the thinnest strings to ring out.
I was just about to congratulate you on the advances in your sonified score (fade-ins, snappy single notes over the narration), scrolled down and saw loads of people bitching about it! Come on guys, if you want to listen to the music, play the album. Standard piano MIDI would have served the purpose, but 12tone went the extra mile with overdriven guitar and reverb. Sampling tiny snippets of the song would sound awful and very unclear. This was clear, metronomic, but still kept some of the feel of the music.
There's a 5 half notes interval between every two strings except between B and G so to make an octave you can go 2 strings away (10 half notes) and 2 frets away (10+2). A lot of powerchords add the (fifth?) to the mix by going 1 string 2 frets away. B messes it up by being 4 half notes away from G but it is necessary in order for the guitar to be E and E on both ends.
Thank you. I really enjoyed it. I've seen Maiden live last month. So you missed in your analysis that the main theme is accapellad by 25000 fans in the beginning in addition to the guitars.
I usually prefer my music on the more complicated side, but there's something awesome about Maiden...just enough to keep you thinking, but raw enough to really get you.
When the solo section progression shifts up a fourth, it doesn't follow the E minor key anymore since F doesn't belong in the E Aeolian key. It's now in E Phrygian or A minor.
Something is still in E minor if it includes accidentals, ie, the F. It's all about the tonal centre, which is still E. Most songs include accidentals (notes that don't fit into the original scale) LIKE ENTER SANDMAN
Adrian's solo is in Em, Dave's is in Am, although I would have liked to have seen a little blurb on the harmonized run in H's solo =D Most Maiden songs with consecutive guitar solos will have a key change between them (Fear Of The Dark), or over different riffs/chord progressions (Rime Of The Ancient Mariner). And most Iron Maiden songs (outside of solos or a passing tone in a vocal melody) rarely have accidentals.
I mean, Maiden is pretty proggy as far as NWOBHM goes. They certainly took a lot from Gabriel era Genesis and Jethro Tull. Plus they have a killer cover of Cross Eyed Mary on the b-side of The Trooper single. They also got a so-so cover of Hocus Pocus by Focus
I love this song it was one of the first songs I learned on the bass and the best part about it is that the part has a technical feel without being technical. Even though the bass has that galloping drive and anchor to the song, the chord progression has enough flare up make it feel like a song all of its own. That is what I love about iron maiden songs is that all of them have that feeling through their respected guitar parts.
Man, it just gets better and better. You always pick a huge hit, but at the same time it's something we didn't expect at all. Maiden's music is often regarded as "too simple". It is not. It's very well-written and performed, making such a juicy subject for analysis. Thank you so much and keep them coming!
I’ve been playing this song for years and knew none of this. I love how songs you play for seemingly your entire life can still teach you so much without you even recognizing.
I'd been ignoring your videos for months but now that I've actually watched one I realise that in 7 mins I have learned more theory than three years of music class in school (and about the same amount of practical lol)
I did some practice for the first time with an Iron Maiden cover band today and this goes up on the same day. And The Trooper was one of the THREE songs we played. This is some witchcraft right here.
Always lovely to see some Maiden covered! A question, would analysis of guitar solos be a bit outside of the scope of this channel or could it be something for the future? All the bits with keys, modes, notes, etc. The techniques themselves feels like they belong more on a guitar focused channel. Up the tones!
We've done a little bit of that at times but yeah, I tend to agree that the real, deep ins and outs of a guitar solo are probably best done by a guitarist. In fact, the times where I've looked at them I've usually asked my guitarist roommate to help walk me through them, because I don't have a lot of practice thinking about solos in the way a guitarist would and there's no sense reinventing the wheel.
There’s 2 ways to go about this - 1: completely over-analyze the song and find the tiniest details that many (even the writer) may overlook, or… 2: it sounds cool, les to wit dat
My mind is satisfied - like hearing Iron Maiden with a glass of wine, in your best dressing gown, with a pipe waiting next to you, and shelves filled with the oxford encyclopedia behind you. Reminds me of experiencing french fries in haute cuisine. But it's tasty nonetheless. I liked this. Good vid.
For you non-guitarists out there. They're tuned in 4ths, but the 3rd highest pitch to 2nd highest pitch strings are tuned a major third apart. So it fucks up scale shapes a wee bit when transcribing across strings, but it's not too big a deal all things considered.
Thanks for this video! I wish Iron Maiden would get more attention on the popular music youtube channels. They're one of the most influential bands in history and there's so much to discover in their music. The Trooper might be one of their most popular songs but it is also one of their simplest. I think Steve Harris wrote it in a day. They have many other amazing (and in my opinion more interesting) songs and are still putting out quality records. They have evolved a lot musically since the early 80s, but I think they have aged very gracefully and are today a lot more skillful than in their so-called 'prime', especially Bruce. Of all the big metal acts out there (Sabbath, Priest, Metallica etc), I think Maiden are still the best and as good as or better than in the early days.
If your wondering what he meant by "working around the existence of the b string" he means that all the other strings are seperated by perfect fourths, except for g and b which are seperated by a major third.
Iron maiden have this, almost a formula, where they'll play a static motiff. Say A-C-B-E-A-C-B-E notes (as an example), then underneath they'll go Bar of A, Bar of F, Bar of E, Bar of G on bass and MAYBE rhythm guitar or some variant of that, and together you end up with the classic iron maiden sound. They do it *everywhrere*. When I was a teenager in my first metal band in the 80s we shamelessly ripped this idea off, and usually the first thing people would say as "Woah that kinda sounds like Iron maiden". Fortunately by the time I made it to 18 I had figured out my own ideas, but even to this day I find myself wanting to shamelessly steal that idea, because its so damn good.
"I just have to say that or the guitarists will get mad" Dude, the struggle is real. Us guitarists are a very fussy community and I don't understand why.
I was just playing Jim Croce's Time In A Bottle this morning, and looking at the chords, melody, and even the key signature I couldn't figure out what it was doing and why. I immediately went to your channel, but you didn't have a video on it, so here's my friendly request!!
Theres a reason for the galloping bass and militaristic tone. The Trooper is explicitely about The Charge of the Light Brigade. Not the poem, but the actual event.
i might be drunk here, but did you fail to mention how the bass in the main riff changes the chordal function by way of movement? again, i been drinking, but the standout moment of this piece is the guitars being static against the bass' descending line. i love your work. please detail maiden's "infinite dreams" next. that tune is prog bliss, especially in its theme and variation and, get this, its tempo shifts, which isnt popular in classic/romantic era writing!!
Hey, thanks for making this video. I enjoyed watching it and will come back to it because of your style of getting to the point and teaching people things. Again, thank you
It's fairly common to mistake Harris's bass line as a gallop since almost everyone does. It's an easy thing to miss, but it's actually six sixteenths followed by an eighth after the D G D E motif.
I thought this would be little boring,but in fact it was so fun to watch and you can even learn something,when video ended i was surprised it was a whole 7 and a half minutes i thought it was like 4,i like the technique with drawing to make it more pictured and help to memorize all of this better and in global explain it with more ease,and i subscribed because you deserve it.Good Job man!
That A - G - E - F G A chord over a relatively static melody is kind an iron maiden trademark, they use it a lot and its lots of fun. Ive heard one other band use it well, surprisingly a non metal band, cardiacs in "gibber and twitch". In dact you'd almost want to accuse them of swiping it from maiden, cept the song was written late 70s.
This was very instructive.I especially like how it places one of my most favorite songs from one of my most favorite bands under the microscope. I can just imagine what you might have to say about Heart's' "Barracuda'.
Piece of Mind dropped 8 weeks before Kill 'Em All... And Maiden were the faster, sleeker, smarter metal band of the day. They never tried to be dark and heavy like Sabbath or raw and brutal like Venom or Motörhead.
@@Kylora2112 recall that kill 'em all was metallica's first album and they were relatively unknown on the east coast at that time. but we all knew a new maiden album was coming out before piece of mind was released.
Hi! If you're coming down here to comment something along the lines of "Def Leppard? I think you mean Judas Priest!" then a) You should know that like a hundred people already have, and b) you should read this basic history of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal: ultimateclassicrock.com/new-wave-of-british-heavy-metal/
12tone most people forget that def leppard had 2 albums before mutt lange made them radio stars.
I think you mean Jud... only kidding. Just wanted to say that I really think your production skills have increased a lot! The subtle things like playing a bass note after referring to it really helps with following what you're saying.
C pyromania was pretty metal too
Can you do one on Rush?
Yes! YYZ has a really cool story behind the intro (I won't spoil it), but they have many interesting songs!
So basically the trooper is Mary had a little lamb but angrier
Can't be a coincidence that Mary is an anagram for Army or the common association between lambs and slaughter, right?!
Yes if you analyze it like a classical or jazz musician like he did. We dont do that in rock
Yes. And don't forget the musket...
Mary had a very pissed off lamb,
You may take Mary's lamb but she'll take yours too
Not hearing the trills hurts my soul
Yeah, I tried to include them but fast trills on MIDI sound really, really bad and it didn't affect to the reduction so I decided to leave them off for simplicity. That's not to say they're not an important part of the orchestration, just not one that I had room to talk about.
12tone they actually do affect the reduction, since the relevant note is the upper one. The top guitar part basically plays g g g b g g g g e
12tone yeah that's fair. I just can't not hear it
It really really does.
First time in a long time that I laughed *really* hard at a comment.
YOU TAKE MY LIFE BUT I TAKE YOURS TOO!!!!!
YOU FIRE MUSKET BUT I RUN YOU THROUGH!!!!!
SO WHEN YOU'RE WAITING FOR YOUR NEXT ATTEMPT!!!!!
SO WHEN YOU'RE WAITING FOR THE NEXT ATTACK!!!!!
Till Hammer THE BUGLE SOUNDS THE CHARGE BEGINS
AS I PLUNGE ON INTO CERTAIN DEATH
I hear people complaining about the midi guitar tone, and I have no idea why. I can tell it's a guitar, the E sounds like an E, and it sounds vaguely like the guitar tone Iron Maiden uses. It's just a theory video, not a cover; the guitar snippets don't have to sound amazing, they just have to get the notes across.
blalo'u but the reverb and distortion is unnecessary and annoying. there's also plenty of much better electric guitar samples out there and these ones are garbage.
The samples aren't important. The message of the video would be exactly the same if he'd recorded and pitch corrected a fart for the samples.
Plus it wouldn't be better to avoid copyright jerks? I'm not even telling that they though of it, just saying it *might be* a fairly nice advantage
It's fine except for the riff between verses where the midi guitar doesn't have the hammer-on's and pullof's which make it sound quite bland compared to the real deal. It's one of the strongest parts of the song.
You're right but people guess you are a musician yourself and perhaps you could take the time to actualy record some proper guitar for this...?
You had me when you said The Trooper and Beethoven's Fifth Symphony in the same sentence.
Lol!
200 years Later they will be the same
3:00 "Keep an eye out for this riff, it's everywhere (in Iron Maiden's entire catalog) in this song".
basically
Galloped i bVI bVII riffs are literally 95% of Iron Maiden songs :) And I'm a die-hard Maiden fan.
Yeah, I was going to say that the galloping rhythm in the bass is classic Iron Maiden, but then I found this. Still an awesome song.
If people credit James Hetfield with inventing downpicking since he mastered it, does that mean we can credit Steve Harris with inventing the gallop for the same reason?
@@tylercady3985 maybe, if he downpicks a specific pattern in the majority of Metallica songs. Something signature to Lars would be how he often overplays his fills past the one. I'm a drummer and when I do it in my own music, I acknowledge that it is a Lars technique.
It’s kinda an analysis meme but you should do Master of Puppets. It’d be cool to hear your take on the missing note.
Isaac Twardowski what do you mean by the missing note?
I think he talks about the 4th bar of the main riff, which is mostly notated as a 11/16 signature
Marvyn Nadoll actually it’s 21/32
@@utterdisaster603 The destroyer of Dream Theater, as Jake would put it.
It's an added note tho
The Trooper is a great example showing that you do not need overly complicated elements to make good music. Sometimes a more basic approach is all you need.
As you mentioned the "galloping" effect & cavalry feel, its entirely appropriate as the song is based on the poem Charge of the Light Brigade .TY for this video,
Steve Harris is famous for his galloping bass style.
NEVER CLICKED SO FAST
Rudy?
Omg never clicked on a video so fast. The Trooper is one of my favourite songs and I've seen Iron Maiden play it live four times. Like all your other videos - by exploring the magic behind how the song is composed you've made me love it even more than I already did. ❤️
ARTiculations the trooper is the reason why I picked up the guitar, I can play the song without the solos. I love the song.
@@MrLump the trooper is their most mainstream song and it makes me sick when someone says:hey do you have any maiden song? Play the trooper man,but i never felt more hyped than the day i heard it live,i headbanged like never before! Song is awesome but i heard it billion times,they have more songs than just The Trooper. Don't get me wrong,i feel proud when i hear on street or bar somebody blasts the trooper but i want people to realize that is not the only song they have.
"I just needed to say it or the guitarists would get mad..."
Funny and true
what does it mean?
+WatuMeister It just means that standard guitar tuning has each next higher-pitched string tuned one fourth higher than the lower one (in pitch of course), except for the 'B', which is a third higher in pitch than 'G'. The reason is physical: You can play barre chords with 3rds in them, and then the low and high strings are the same note on the same fret. Of course, anyone is free to tune their guitar any way they like, but I'm not aware of anyone who actually tunes their 'B' string to 'C', making their logical choice of high 'E' an 'F' (although 6-string bassists will add a low B and a high C, preserving the series of forths across the whole instrument).
I can only think of Tom Quayle who tunes his guitar fully in 4ths, and plays it like that consistently. And maybe the guy from Coldplay on certain guitar parts (the Scientist comes to mind). The last case makes playing around in D minor really nice since for all the chords you only fret the last 4 strings and leave the thinnest strings to ring out.
The bass on this is one of my favorites.
The bass in any Maiden song is one of my favorites. It's Steve Harris's band after all, and he writes most of the songs.
6:45 I won't get mad, I have Peace of Mind
Jari Satta it's actually written as Piece of mind xd
Yes
Meanwhile, others have piss of mind.
Wow
That's true if you don't have Fear Of The Dark
I was just about to congratulate you on the advances in your sonified score (fade-ins, snappy single notes over the narration), scrolled down and saw loads of people bitching about it! Come on guys, if you want to listen to the music, play the album. Standard piano MIDI would have served the purpose, but 12tone went the extra mile with overdriven guitar and reverb. Sampling tiny snippets of the song would sound awful and very unclear. This was clear, metronomic, but still kept some of the feel of the music.
BUT WHAT ABOUT THE B STRI--oh, he said it. It's cool.
Same lol
I'd like to understand what you guys mean. It wouldn't go out of key. So what are you guys talking about?
There's a 5 half notes interval between every two strings except between B and G so to make an octave you can go 2 strings away (10 half notes) and 2 frets away (10+2). A lot of powerchords add the (fifth?) to the mix by going 1 string 2 frets away. B messes it up by being 4 half notes away from G but it is necessary in order for the guitar to be E and E on both ends.
@@M0rzone OOOOooh this... thank you for answering.
Thank you. I really enjoyed it. I've seen Maiden live last month. So you missed in your analysis that the main theme is accapellad by 25000 fans in the beginning in addition to the guitars.
Shardar 1 haha in 9 days im seeing them live. So pumped
Now I've gotta go listen to some Iron Maiden
Oh yes you do...
Always a good idea.
Liem Macneil you should listen hallowed be thy name= best metal song ever, just right amount of metal.
@@ankitacharya8993 The existence of Hallowed Be Thy Name is what will allow me to day happy.
I’ve seen them live 3 times. Sound the same every time.
I usually prefer my music on the more complicated side, but there's something awesome about Maiden...just enough to keep you thinking, but raw enough to really get you.
I just finished listening to this song when I got the notification for this video!
When the solo section progression shifts up a fourth, it doesn't follow the E minor key anymore since F doesn't belong in the E Aeolian key. It's now in E Phrygian or A minor.
Yeah, I debated talking about that, but I didn't really have room so I left it out. Thanks for bringing it up!
Something is still in E minor if it includes accidentals, ie, the F. It's all about the tonal centre, which is still E. Most songs include accidentals (notes that don't fit into the original scale) LIKE ENTER SANDMAN
Adrian's solo is in Em, Dave's is in Am, although I would have liked to have seen a little blurb on the harmonized run in H's solo =D Most Maiden songs with consecutive guitar solos will have a key change between them (Fear Of The Dark), or over different riffs/chord progressions (Rime Of The Ancient Mariner). And most Iron Maiden songs (outside of solos or a passing tone in a vocal melody) rarely have accidentals.
Can you do a series on prog rock?
I second this notion
AND I FUCKING THIRD IT
*A N D. I. F O U R T H. I T*
I mean, Maiden is pretty proggy as far as NWOBHM goes. They certainly took a lot from Gabriel era Genesis and Jethro Tull. Plus they have a killer cover of Cross Eyed Mary on the b-side of The Trooper single. They also got a so-so cover of Hocus Pocus by Focus
Big yes!!
I love this song it was one of the first songs I learned on the bass and the best part about it is that the part has a technical feel without being technical. Even though the bass has that galloping drive and anchor to the song, the chord progression has enough flare up make it feel like a song all of its own. That is what I love about iron maiden songs is that all of them have that feeling through their respected guitar parts.
Man, it just gets better and better. You always pick a huge hit, but at the same time it's something we didn't expect at all.
Maiden's music is often regarded as "too simple". It is not. It's very well-written and performed, making such a juicy subject for analysis.
Thank you so much and keep them coming!
The Trooper is a work of genius. Mastery of the genre imho.
I’ve been playing this song for years and knew none of this. I love how songs you play for seemingly your entire life can still teach you so much without you even recognizing.
This is the most awesome, most in-depth musical analysis that I have ever seen. Thanks!
1:14 This elephant should sport an afro
I just got casted on this for my junior headliners program at school of rock Cleveland! Wicked timing!
Please please please do an analysis of Zappa's It must be a camel
I'd been ignoring your videos for months but now that I've actually watched one I realise that in 7 mins I have learned more theory than three years of music class in school (and about the same amount of practical lol)
Man, I'd love to see you and Rick Beato break down songs together.
WHEN I LISTEN TO MAIDEN MY NEIGHBORS LISTEN TO MAIDEN!!
lolo.....people hate my Telecaster even more
C D E means metal to me ;D Damn I love Maiden. Great video as always!
the Common Desktop Environment means Metal :p
I smiled the entire video! Awsome analysis, legendary band!!!! (Cheers from a brazilian bassist)
I did some practice for the first time with an Iron Maiden cover band today and this goes up on the same day. And The Trooper was one of the THREE songs we played. This is some witchcraft right here.
Always lovely to see some Maiden covered!
A question, would analysis of guitar solos be a bit outside of the scope of this channel or could it be something for the future? All the bits with keys, modes, notes, etc. The techniques themselves feels like they belong more on a guitar focused channel.
Up the tones!
We've done a little bit of that at times but yeah, I tend to agree that the real, deep ins and outs of a guitar solo are probably best done by a guitarist. In fact, the times where I've looked at them I've usually asked my guitarist roommate to help walk me through them, because I don't have a lot of practice thinking about solos in the way a guitarist would and there's no sense reinventing the wheel.
There’s 2 ways to go about this -
1: completely over-analyze the song and find the tiniest details that many (even the writer) may overlook, or…
2: it sounds cool, les to wit dat
skip to 1:06 for Mary Had A Little Lamb
For someone that knows this song on guitar like me, this video is awesome to watch
This is probably how schools expects you to look essays about poems such stuff to look like. Very well explained^^
Out of everything you could be doing, you do this.
I love you man.
I feel like now I have to go back and listen to the trooper like 100 more times after watching this
Terrific great video, i've been playing this song over 2 decades and thanks to this video now i see it with fresh eyes again.
My mind is satisfied - like hearing Iron Maiden with a glass of wine, in your best dressing gown, with a pipe waiting next to you, and shelves filled with the oxford encyclopedia behind you. Reminds me of experiencing french fries in haute cuisine. But it's tasty nonetheless. I liked this. Good vid.
Wow...if been listening and playing the trooper for 35 years and haven't notice any of this.
3:02 the song is based on the famous calvary charge of the Crimean War called the Charge of the Light Brigade, so this makes even more sense.
For you non-guitarists out there.
They're tuned in 4ths, but the 3rd highest pitch to 2nd highest pitch strings are tuned a major third apart.
So it fucks up scale shapes a wee bit when transcribing across strings, but it's not too big a deal all things considered.
I'm seeing them live at June 20th for the first time. Couldn't be more pumped.
I came here by accident and now I have to go listen to The Trooper because it was one of my favorite songs during my teenage years... So... thanks?
This is an absolutely brilliant harmonic breakdown of The Trooper. I am extremely impressed.
Thanks for this video! I wish Iron Maiden would get more attention on the popular music youtube channels. They're one of the most influential bands in history and there's so much to discover in their music. The Trooper might be one of their most popular songs but it is also one of their simplest. I think Steve Harris wrote it in a day. They have many other amazing (and in my opinion more interesting) songs and are still putting out quality records. They have evolved a lot musically since the early 80s, but I think they have aged very gracefully and are today a lot more skillful than in their so-called 'prime', especially Bruce. Of all the big metal acts out there (Sabbath, Priest, Metallica etc), I think Maiden are still the best and as good as or better than in the early days.
I suck with music theory but still was able to understand most of this with your great explanation
Please do "Hallowed Be Thy Name" next.
Great analysis of a classic jam. You even got the midi bass to hit the fills in the solo section. Nice work, Lefty!
These videos are amazing therapy for my A-D-D
If your wondering what he meant by "working around the existence of the b string" he means that all the other strings are seperated by perfect fourths, except for g and b which are seperated by a major third.
Thanks
Iron maiden have this, almost a formula, where they'll play a static motiff. Say A-C-B-E-A-C-B-E notes (as an example), then underneath they'll go Bar of A, Bar of F, Bar of E, Bar of G on bass and MAYBE rhythm guitar or some variant of that, and together you end up with the classic iron maiden sound. They do it *everywhrere*. When I was a teenager in my first metal band in the 80s we shamelessly ripped this idea off, and usually the first thing people would say as "Woah that kinda sounds like Iron maiden". Fortunately by the time I made it to 18 I had figured out my own ideas, but even to this day I find myself wanting to shamelessly steal that idea, because its so damn good.
Well someone was awake during music theory class,well done sir,well done enjoyed the shit out of this and you picked a killer song to do.🤘🤘
Seeing them in 10 days in Zagreb!! Can't fucking wait!
Superb video!
Thanks for clarifying that bit about the B string on a guitar. I almost got mad.
A 12tone video without you drawing some stairs wouldn't be the same.
"I just have to say that or the guitarists will get mad"
Dude, the struggle is real. Us guitarists are a very fussy community and I don't understand why.
Wasn't what I was expecting when I clicked the video on the home page. Glad I did though.
This video is one of the best thing ever done on RUclips. Great work! Defenetly better then all those "reaction" (0 effort) video.
Wow, a channel that helps me understand why I love the songs that I listen to?
RUclips recommendations sometimes hit the spot
I was just playing Jim Croce's Time In A Bottle this morning, and looking at the chords, melody, and even the key signature I couldn't figure out what it was doing and why. I immediately went to your channel, but you didn't have a video on it, so here's my friendly request!!
Love your channel, love Iron Maiden....this is pure heaven for me right now!
This is the video I have been waiting for
The Gallop is everywhere in Iron Maiden's music. But it works, since they've kind of made it part of their signature sound...
Theres a reason for the galloping bass and militaristic tone. The Trooper is explicitely about The Charge of the Light Brigade. Not the poem, but the actual event.
The horse drawing is actually hilariously drawn
I love your art style😍
Considering that this song is inspired by the charge of the light brigade, the galloping bass line is totally appropriate.
*Sees title* you just made my day.
*Watches video* you just made my week
The head, body, and tail. Every guitar riff worth its weight has one.
i might be drunk here, but did you fail to mention how the bass in the main riff changes the chordal function by way of movement? again, i been drinking, but the standout moment of this piece is the guitars being static against the bass' descending line. i love your work. please detail maiden's "infinite dreams" next. that tune is prog bliss, especially in its theme and variation and, get this, its tempo shifts, which isnt popular in classic/romantic era writing!!
i correct myself, tempo and meter are prevalent in these forms, but less used. hear the band Divinity Destroyed for seamless use of both techniques
Saw em with Ghost in Nashville recently. They haven't lost a step. Bruce still runs around the stage and he hit every high note like it was 1987.
Hey, thanks for making this video. I enjoyed watching it and will come back to it because of your style of getting to the point and teaching people things. Again, thank you
It's fairly common to mistake Harris's bass line as a gallop since almost everyone does. It's an easy thing to miss, but it's actually six sixteenths followed by an eighth after the D G D E motif.
I’d love to hear your analysis of something from liquid tension experiment. Maybe acid rain or another dimension.
Keenan Bartlome Keep in mind much of both LTE albums was improvised.
Amazing video. Sometimes I don't like non stop talking but this stuff is interesting so you had me!
Do the boys are back in town by Thin Lizzy !
I thought this would be little boring,but in fact it was so fun to watch and you can even learn something,when video ended i was surprised it was a whole 7 and a half minutes i thought it was like 4,i like the technique with drawing to make it more pictured and help to memorize all of this better and in global explain it with more ease,and i subscribed because you deserve it.Good Job man!
Dude, ive learned to read music just by watch videos by you, thank you
The start motif is from Rush's Working Man's bridge.
Love this analysis especially bc it will help me with my own music notation ability that I am trying to improve. THANK YOU!
Thought this was gonna be some sort of lyrics breakdown but this is interesting too
..as I lay forgotten and alone... without a tear I draw my parting groan...
That A - G - E - F G A chord over a relatively static melody is kind an iron maiden trademark, they use it a lot and its lots of fun. Ive heard one other band use it well, surprisingly a non metal band, cardiacs in "gibber and twitch". In dact you'd almost want to accuse them of swiping it from maiden, cept the song was written late 70s.
This was very instructive.I especially like how it places one of my most favorite songs from one of my most favorite bands under the microscope. I can just imagine what you might have to say about Heart's' "Barracuda'.
This channel is becoming one of my favorites. Good stuff ✊🤘
The trooper was the heaviest thing we had until we got Kill 'Em All.
uhhh.... venom?
Listen to more music
ktfjulien seriously. Motörhead, sabbath, venom, budgie, etc. All heavier than maiden
Piece of Mind dropped 8 weeks before Kill 'Em All...
And Maiden were the faster, sleeker, smarter metal band of the day. They never tried to be dark and heavy like Sabbath or raw and brutal like Venom or Motörhead.
@@Kylora2112 recall that kill 'em all was metallica's first album and they were relatively unknown on the east coast at that time. but we all knew a new maiden album was coming out before piece of mind was released.
I know its mainstream, but this has to be my favorite Iron Maiden song! I cant believe I never found your channel though, it's really helpful!
I really enjoy your style and format. This the first on many videos I will watch from you. Great job!
Great video mate :)
Awesome approach my friend 👏🏻
Just stopping by to say there is an a cappella cover of this song and it's not awful. Great video!