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If you can do 1,000s of the greatest tunes like this and couple them into children's illustration books you will become one of the greatest inspirers of our lifetime. I could of used this as a very young child when I showed interest in guitar and music.
Could you please do "A quick one while he's away" by The Who? It's a "mini opera" that's made out of 6 different songs and it is absolutely brilliant.I think (if you do it) you'll have lots of fun with this one.
When are we gonna get a video on Elliott Smith? His songs are super ambivalent in terms of tonality. I've been transcribing his stuff all week, and there are wandering tonalities everywhere, parallel keys and stuff that has stomped me for a bit. His music is immense, so if anything else, I recommend listening to it.
Interestingly, though, I also found Black Hole Sun unnerving for some reason. I don't have perfect pitch, though pretty good relative pitch and I play guitar. Now, grunge was always a tricky genre to pin down since so many guitarists used alternate tunings, and often multiple guitar parts, creating some very rich textures. However, I can almost always pick out a guitar chord in standard tuning just from the timbre or structure of the chord...I'm just used to it (having played such a wide variety of chords and inversions of those chords in standard tuning on guitar.) But I'm also a bit of a tuning fanatic, and Black Hole Sun sounded...off. In a good (unnerving) way. It reminds me of how we slipped briefly back into enjoying out of tune / "tape speed" synthesizers giving songs a more "authentic" quality in new psychedelic rock (Tame Impala), or even the more experimental tunings and modalities of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. I think most people find something...off...about them, but can't put their fingers on it. Since that's novel for a whole new generation that hasn't yet been exposed to the sounds of the 70s or the temperament / tunings of Middle Eastern / Indian / Gamelan music, it sounds "fresh" and "exciting" after growing up with much more "standardized" sounds. Likewise, I think old timers find a nostalgia in it while rediscovering the sounds in a novel way. This might also be why we're slowly seeing the rise of microtonal music in electronica. Sevish and Xotla, for example.
I can also recommend checking Sevish out, his music really made me realize it's worth learning about alternate tunings for the kind of music I make. The main thing I just LOVE to do is create interesting and highly colorful harmony, changing those intervals is just mind blowing to me, especially when the composition really leans into the uniquely more dissonant and consonant intervals.
That backing vocal progression in The Otherside has always been my favorite aspect of the song. Cool to see an analysis that includes it, even if brief.
This song has been recurring in my thoughts lately and I stumbled upon your video. Although I have no musical training, I appreciate this level of analysis and want to applaud your honesty in correcting your initial judgements. Cornell had said the music (and his mood) inspired the lyrics. Exactly why I find "Black Hole Sun" so haunting.
Please do keep making these correction videos! It's always interesting to see different takes on the same concepts, and to see the content creators I like grow and learn. It's both informative and a bit inspirational for my own journey as a student of music :)
I saw another comment below and agree that all songs being corrected would serve well in the title as when I clicked I had assumed it was just a large number of errors within a single song rather than multiple and while a nice surprise it'd be nice to see them all in there or at least at the top of the description rather than the Read More section still a good video keep up the good work
I like this series, both the analysis and corrections. I know my analyses have changed over time, both from gaining a better understanding of music theory, and from developing new insights and perspective on specific songs. And 12tone has certainly helped with that.
These videos are great because for a lot of us who don’t have theory training, you are one of the few places we can get legit insight. Since people on RUclips don’t debate theory as often as I would like, it’s nice to have you “debunking” things because it’s a good example of how I should question my own understanding of music. Thanks for the vid.
Man as someone who plays music and understands functional music theory, this video is not going to help you recreate anything. He's really not giving a full lesson with any context to make sense of it. It sounds smart if you don't realize that a lot of what he's saying is unimportant, but he's also skipping really basic elements of song analysis, like just going over the chord degrees of the progression. This video is entertaining maybe and has some little factoid tidbjts here and there that COULD be useful, but if I was grading this as an assignment man he would be close to failing.
The reason many old metal bands detuned their guitars in-between pitches wasn’t anything fancy in terms of listener experience. It was to make it harder for bedroom guitarists to play along to their records and learn the songs, haha. Weird stuff.
Honestly, I don't care much for song analyses of songs I don't know, and I don't know a whole lot of popular music, so I generally watch everything on your channel except the song analysis videos. The correction videos, though, are a different story, because even though I haven't seen the original and don't know the songs, there's a lot to learn there! The best part is where you came to all these conclusions and then had to recant them -- that's a great way to add subtlety to the concepts we thought we were confident about.
I think this (second reprise) correction video thing, is a good idea. And I would even venture to say. That if you looked at this video again in 4 or 6 years. There would be a dozen more things you didn't catch the first 2 times. It only shows me that your mind is still elastic and learning. Things only stay the same once you get where you are going, and weigh anchor. And in art, there is no "home". So, cheerio. Even the original artist has more thoughts on how to take the thought further. And make another chapter. Sometime bearing the same original root title. Sometimes just another album. Until the retire, or knock off dead.
This song was written entirely by Chris Cornell. "If I write lyrics that are bleak or dark, it usually makes me feel better," the Soundgarden frontman said. This song is certainly bleak, with references to snakes, a dead sky, and the summer stench. It's one of the more morose songs to get consistent airplay, and it helped associate the grunge sound with depression and angst. Cornell, however, was simply expressing some dark thoughts in song - he was not suffering or crying for help in the manner of Kurt Cobain.
As far as the effects of the quarter tone detuning - I arranged this song for my college a capella group back in the day, and the soloist singing the melody would consistently sing in the key of the recording, rather than the key I arranged it in making him a quarter step off a lot of the time
I think it's super valid going through past things we did. Looking at something with new eyes can give us valuable new information, or at the very least a new apreciation for stuff we like. The more I learned about music the more I marvelled at those that I have been listening to my whole life, and even found new stuff to enjoy.
I'd love to see a video on funky time signatures. The section where Chris Cornell sings "won't you come", I count 12 beats and he starts singing "won't you come" on the 10. Kim Thayil's solo goes 9/8
My analysis, after watching how meticulous and detailed your song breakdowns usually are…. I love “Black Hole Sun” as one of the very best songs of the 1990’s, AND Chris Cornell wrote a absolute masterpiece in this song, akin to Mozart’s work, in his era.
6:54 Isn’t the name for that a Picardy Third? I think they used to do that back in the day because ending a song in minor was demonic or something, so they raised the third making the tonic major to brighten it up
A Picardy third was made waay back in Baroque days. The belief that the major chord was the most resolution you could get out of any song, so when the song ended regardless of key they always ended on a major chord, a 5-1 resolution to signify that the song is done. The song doesn’t feel like it’s stopping and starting again so I don’t think it’s really a Picardy third, more so going to major brightens up the song so it’s not all doom and gloom.
I would really love to see a breakdown of one of radioheads more obscure B sides like pyramid song 😁 P.S. love the content and the emphasis you put on education!!! Thank you so much!!!
The point I decided not to use standard pitch for my own songs was when I found out that the reason standard pitch is what it is, is a bunch of people did a bunch of research on what made something stick in your head whether you liked it or not, in terms of base pitch - and picked that. It's the most annoying set of pitches. That's great if you're trying to sell music. Not so great if you're trying to make it the best it can be to listen to. Since I've not gone down a path of career with my work, instead just having it be art, I figure a system like that's a thing to avoid. I'd much rather someone enjoys one of my songs than remembers it. Of course ideally I want both, like anyone. But the priority is the sound experience. All in all, I don't think it's gonna make a huge difference one way or another but as you say, we all have varying degrees of the suggestion of pitch memory, at the very least. So why not start on a good foundation, is my thinking.
Many many songs recorded, mixed and mastered on analog tape are not in standard tuning... and it has nothing to do with clever composition. It’s virtually always about vari-speeding the tape machine. Usually at mastering, but sometimes earlier in production (like mixing.) it’s the result of the producer &/or artist realizing that the song was preformed a little too slow, and the feel was better a little faster. With the technology and limitations of analog tape at te time this meant the pitch would also be affected. Also, am extra beat or two - in the form of a 2/4 bar or the last bar of a section (example: pre chorus) being a 5/4 or 6/4 bar, etc is to give a “breath,” inhale, space... before the chorus hits. Very common technique.
Since you mention Comfortably Numb, you might be interested to know that Pink Floyd have made the Pulse concert recording available on here. That live version of CN is my favourite, particularly the structure and dynamics of the solos.
12Tone! My music students and I watch your video and wanted to know what happens to your drawings? Do you keep them? Do people buy them? Cheers from Kansas.
This is awesome! However, I think it would be awesome if you also did stairway to heaven again, as a guitarist who loves that song I felt you ignored a few things such as the interlude before the solo and the "really makes me wonder part" if I'm remembering correctly. But hey it doesn't really matter as long as you keep on rocking which you totally are!
I feel like since Black Hole Sun isn't classical or jazz music, it makes more sense to view the Ab as modal interchange from the parallel phrygian instead of a neopolitan chord (which would be in first inversion) or a tritone sub which would have a 7th
hay @12Tone can you make a song analysis on the song "more than words" by Extreme? I love that song and the harmonies are really interesting and I would love to see your take on this song. I love your song analysis videos and they're how I found your channel originally.
Soundgarden occurred during a time where experimental Rock bands were liberated after the downfall of the Punk/New Wave empire (1976-1991). If the Punk/New Wave empire had gone on for much longer, we may never have seen bands like them and Tool enter the mainstream
Is it the Levitin effect when I'm tuning my guitar and when I get a string to standard tuning it seems to resonate more to my ears? I can't quite get the strings to the right note solely by ear but I can get close enough by tuning until the string feels like it is resonating where it should be.
Do you think the bridge of RHCP’a Otherside intentionally invokes the riff from Aerosmiths own Otherside? Whenever it comes on I always sing Steven Tyler’s “Loving you has got to be like the devil & the deep blue see/ Ahh-take me to the otherside…”
imo most of the unnerving quality in the track comes down to the use of a heavy chorus or vibrato effect on the main guitar, while the relative pitch may be spot-on those constant tuning fluctuations give you the impression they're not.
I think there is some credibility to the quarter tuning thing. I remember Black Hole Sun coming on TV and something just not sounding right when compared to songs before and after. Something about the sound mimics the creepy uncanny-valley video and I think the quarter tuning has at least some part to play in that.
I've had a similar experience. I feel like since most songs on the radio, VH1, your Spotify playlist, etc. are going to be in standard tuning, BHS might still benefit from this *off* feeling created by its tuning when you listen to it in a lot of circumstances.
it may be cultural conditioning... but another song you've analyzed - Sweet Child O Mine - only seems to sound good in the key of Db (and/or with the guitar tuned to Eb-standard)... even if you play it in D first to prime your ears for that key, the song sounds immediately better if you switch down to the key of Db and compare the two sounds. even a spot-on performance in D seems to sound and feel overly bright, and somehow "wrong"
It's probably pitch memory. If you've heard a song one way, you'll prefer hearing it that way. If you've ever listened to an arrangement of something you've heard before, and it was very similar, but with certain details altered, you might've felt like those small details sounded bad, or even amateurish. Songs are emotional, and emotions create strong memories, so you're bound to pick up on the details you don't pick up on.
Produce Like A Pro has a great video with the producer of the album going over Black Hole Sun: ruclips.net/video/ng4f_fj9Lfc/видео.html ... hearing each element individually is amazing to say the least. Also I think Chris Cornell played a lot of the rhythm guitar parts on that album.
John Frusciante? Anthony Kiedis? Did you forget what song you're talking about? Because you definitely forgot what band you're talking about. lol Great video otherwise. Thanks for making it!
Lol yeah that confused the hell out of me til I realised he'd actually switched to talking about Otherside by RHCP. I didn't expect multiple song corrections and wasn't paying full attention so my brain missed the segue.
Dude! Are you fucking trolling us normal people? Half way through the video you switch from describing blackhole sun to otherside by the RHCOP. WTF!!??
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If you can do 1,000s of the greatest tunes like this and couple them into children's illustration books you will become one of the greatest inspirers of our lifetime. I could of used this as a very young child when I showed interest in guitar and music.
Also, you got another thing wrong about Black Hole Sun. It's in G major, not G minor.
Could you please do "A quick one while he's away" by The Who?
It's a "mini opera" that's made out of 6 different songs and it is absolutely brilliant.I think (if you do it) you'll have lots of fun with this one.
When are we gonna get a video on Elliott Smith? His songs are super ambivalent in terms of tonality. I've been transcribing his stuff all week, and there are wandering tonalities everywhere, parallel keys and stuff that has stomped me for a bit. His music is immense, so if anything else, I recommend listening to it.
You're entirely correct about the tuning; they sped up the track about 1% to give the arpeggios some sparkle.
since you've already done Nirvana and Soundgarden I kinda want to see you look at an AiC song.
Muzik Bike down in a hole has some cool harmony
Would?
We Die Young
Join his patreon and it might happen
Rotten Apple has gnarly harmonies in the chorus
I like the correction videos, but I think it would be better to include all of the songs being corrected in the title.
Interestingly, though, I also found Black Hole Sun unnerving for some reason. I don't have perfect pitch, though pretty good relative pitch and I play guitar. Now, grunge was always a tricky genre to pin down since so many guitarists used alternate tunings, and often multiple guitar parts, creating some very rich textures.
However, I can almost always pick out a guitar chord in standard tuning just from the timbre or structure of the chord...I'm just used to it (having played such a wide variety of chords and inversions of those chords in standard tuning on guitar.) But I'm also a bit of a tuning fanatic, and Black Hole Sun sounded...off. In a good (unnerving) way. It reminds me of how we slipped briefly back into enjoying out of tune / "tape speed" synthesizers giving songs a more "authentic" quality in new psychedelic rock (Tame Impala), or even the more experimental tunings and modalities of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. I think most people find something...off...about them, but can't put their fingers on it.
Since that's novel for a whole new generation that hasn't yet been exposed to the sounds of the 70s or the temperament / tunings of Middle Eastern / Indian / Gamelan music, it sounds "fresh" and "exciting" after growing up with much more "standardized" sounds. Likewise, I think old timers find a nostalgia in it while rediscovering the sounds in a novel way. This might also be why we're slowly seeing the rise of microtonal music in electronica. Sevish and Xotla, for example.
Thats really interesting, like the next evolution in music across other genres
I can also recommend checking Sevish out, his music really made me realize it's worth learning about alternate tunings for the kind of music I make. The main thing I just LOVE to do is create interesting and highly colorful harmony, changing those intervals is just mind blowing to me, especially when the composition really leans into the uniquely more dissonant and consonant intervals.
Fun fact: there's only one song on Superunknown that's in standard tuning.
"Fell on Black Days", one of the best on that album.
That song isn't in 4/4 either lol. Everything about the album is unconventional
That backing vocal progression in The Otherside has always been my favorite aspect of the song. Cool to see an analysis that includes it, even if brief.
"Understanding 'Black Hole Sun'" was the first video by 12tone I ever watched -- nearly 3 years ago.
This song has been recurring in my thoughts lately and I stumbled upon your video. Although I have no musical training, I appreciate this level of analysis and want to applaud your honesty in correcting your initial judgements. Cornell had said the music (and his mood) inspired the lyrics. Exactly why I find "Black Hole Sun" so haunting.
Please do keep making these correction videos! It's always interesting to see different takes on the same concepts, and to see the content creators I like grow and learn. It's both informative and a bit inspirational for my own journey as a student of music :)
I saw another comment below and agree that all songs being corrected would serve well in the title as when I clicked I had assumed it was just a large number of errors within a single song rather than multiple and while a nice surprise it'd be nice to see them all in there or at least at the top of the description rather than the Read More section still a good video keep up the good work
I like this series, both the analysis and corrections. I know my analyses have changed over time, both from gaining a better understanding of music theory, and from developing new insights and perspective on specific songs. And 12tone has certainly helped with that.
These videos are great because for a lot of us who don’t have theory training, you are one of the few places we can get legit insight. Since people on RUclips don’t debate theory as often as I would like, it’s nice to have you “debunking” things because it’s a good example of how I should question my own understanding of music. Thanks for the vid.
Man as someone who plays music and understands functional music theory, this video is not going to help you recreate anything. He's really not giving a full lesson with any context to make sense of it. It sounds smart if you don't realize that a lot of what he's saying is unimportant, but he's also skipping really basic elements of song analysis, like just going over the chord degrees of the progression. This video is entertaining maybe and has some little factoid tidbjts here and there that COULD be useful, but if I was grading this as an assignment man he would be close to failing.
@@boots4snootin571heh, "snootin"
The reason many old metal bands detuned their guitars in-between pitches wasn’t anything fancy in terms of listener experience. It was to make it harder for bedroom guitarists to play along to their records and learn the songs, haha. Weird stuff.
Honestly, I don't care much for song analyses of songs I don't know, and I don't know a whole lot of popular music, so I generally watch everything on your channel except the song analysis videos. The correction videos, though, are a different story, because even though I haven't seen the original and don't know the songs, there's a lot to learn there! The best part is where you came to all these conclusions and then had to recant them -- that's a great way to add subtlety to the concepts we thought we were confident about.
Nice. I've been revisiting Soundgarden lately, for no apparent reason except that I'm an old fan, and it's still mind-blowing music.
On Linkin Park, I've really been enjoying Mike's livestreams on here recently. Dude's absolutely magic at composing.
I think this (second reprise) correction video thing, is a good idea. And I would even venture to say. That if you looked at this video again in 4 or 6 years. There would be a dozen more things you didn't catch the first 2 times. It only shows me that your mind is still elastic and learning. Things only stay the same once you get where you are going, and weigh anchor. And in art, there is no "home". So, cheerio. Even the original artist has more thoughts on how to take the thought further. And make another chapter. Sometime bearing the same original root title. Sometimes just another album. Until the retire, or knock off dead.
Yes please do make more of these videos!! I dare say it’s more impressive to listen to than your original videos of the song
That's funny you mentioned this was the beginning of your rise, Black Hole Sun was the first video I saw of yours. RUclips algorithm must've liked it.
This song was written entirely by Chris Cornell. "If I write lyrics that are bleak or dark, it usually makes me feel better," the Soundgarden frontman said.
This song is certainly bleak, with references to snakes, a dead sky, and the summer stench. It's one of the more morose songs to get consistent airplay, and it helped associate the grunge sound with depression and angst. Cornell, however, was simply expressing some dark thoughts in song - he was not suffering or crying for help in the manner of Kurt Cobain.
As far as the effects of the quarter tone detuning - I arranged this song for my college a capella group back in the day, and the soloist singing the melody would consistently sing in the key of the recording, rather than the key I arranged it in making him a quarter step off a lot of the time
I think it's super valid going through past things we did. Looking at something with new eyes can give us valuable new information, or at the very least a new apreciation for stuff we like.
The more I learned about music the more I marvelled at those that I have been listening to my whole life, and even found new stuff to enjoy.
I'd love to see a video on funky time signatures. The section where Chris Cornell sings "won't you come", I count 12 beats and he starts singing "won't you come" on the 10. Kim Thayil's solo goes 9/8
I like revision and more in depth views of your old stuff. More Chilis would be awesome, maybe to celebrate John's return ?
1:05 he has a Leslie amp which is why Black Hole Sun sounds so spooky but at the same time a phaser can produce a similar effect
I agree with some of what you said. Not necessarily the rhcp part. But i respect you
I am also a songwriter and I was hoping you could analysis it
RIP Chris Cornell
And Chester Bennington. Dang.
I'm enjoying these correction videos. It's nice to be able to go back and keep learning along with you.
A song I love talked about in a way I know nothing about....nice👍🏾
Yes! I love the drawing of the can of Jolt Cola, when you said energy.
My analysis, after watching how meticulous and detailed your song breakdowns usually are…. I love “Black Hole Sun” as one of the very best songs of the 1990’s, AND Chris Cornell wrote a absolute masterpiece in this song, akin to Mozart’s work, in his era.
6:54
Isn’t the name for that a Picardy Third? I think they used to do that back in the day because ending a song in minor was demonic or something, so they raised the third making the tonic major to brighten it up
A Picardy third was made waay back in Baroque days. The belief that the major chord was the most resolution you could get out of any song, so when the song ended regardless of key they always ended on a major chord, a 5-1 resolution to signify that the song is done. The song doesn’t feel like it’s stopping and starting again so I don’t think it’s really a Picardy third, more so going to major brightens up the song so it’s not all doom and gloom.
did anyone else notice the different intro? the metronome used to be 4 low clicks then a high one, and this one is only 3 low clicks
It's still 4 low clicks, he's just edited it sharper. The first click is actually exactly on the word 'more'.
@@DaedalusYoung ...Which really bugs me, because it always makes the word he's saying harder to parse out.
your analysis of black hole sun is how i found you. i'm glad i did cause i love your channel to this day
I would really love to see a breakdown of one of radioheads more obscure B sides like pyramid song 😁
P.S. love the content and the emphasis you put on education!!! Thank you so much!!!
The point I decided not to use standard pitch for my own songs was when I found out that the reason standard pitch is what it is, is a bunch of people did a bunch of research on what made something stick in your head whether you liked it or not, in terms of base pitch - and picked that. It's the most annoying set of pitches. That's great if you're trying to sell music. Not so great if you're trying to make it the best it can be to listen to. Since I've not gone down a path of career with my work, instead just having it be art, I figure a system like that's a thing to avoid. I'd much rather someone enjoys one of my songs than remembers it. Of course ideally I want both, like anyone. But the priority is the sound experience. All in all, I don't think it's gonna make a huge difference one way or another but as you say, we all have varying degrees of the suggestion of pitch memory, at the very least. So why not start on a good foundation, is my thinking.
Wow, these r three songs that I actually love so much. Didn't even realize you did otherside and what I've done. Thanks!
Many many songs recorded, mixed and mastered on analog tape are not in standard tuning... and it has nothing to do with clever composition. It’s virtually always about vari-speeding the tape machine. Usually at mastering, but sometimes earlier in production (like mixing.) it’s the result of the producer &/or artist realizing that the song was preformed a little too slow, and the feel was better a little faster. With the technology and limitations of analog tape at te time this meant the pitch would also be affected. Also, am extra beat or two - in the form of a 2/4 bar or the last bar of a section (example: pre chorus) being a 5/4 or 6/4 bar, etc is to give a “breath,” inhale, space... before the chorus hits. Very common technique.
Since you mention Comfortably Numb, you might be interested to know that Pink Floyd have made the Pulse concert recording available on here. That live version of CN is my favourite, particularly the structure and dynamics of the solos.
with recording - sometimes you speed up the tape, sometimes you slow it down. it's all about the feeling you want to create!
12Tone! My music students and I watch your video and wanted to know what happens to your drawings? Do you keep them? Do people buy them? Cheers from Kansas.
I actually think he has a patreon that he rewards the sheets to his fans.
It probably was a one time thing.
@@mokaza40
Cool, so it's like getting a band's set list.
This is awesome! However, I think it would be awesome if you also did stairway to heaven again, as a guitarist who loves that song I felt you ignored a few things such as the interlude before the solo and the "really makes me wonder part" if I'm remembering correctly. But hey it doesn't really matter as long as you keep on rocking which you totally are!
I really enjoyed the video; I think more like this would be a great idea if that's the direction you wanna go
I'd love if you analyzed a song by Chon!
Chon or Polyphia would be awesome, but there's so much to dissect lol
I feel like since Black Hole Sun isn't classical or jazz music, it makes more sense to view the Ab as modal interchange from the parallel phrygian instead of a neopolitan chord (which would be in first inversion) or a tritone sub which would have a 7th
hay @12Tone can you make a song analysis on the song "more than words" by Extreme? I love that song and the harmonies are really interesting and I would love to see your take on this song. I love your song analysis videos and they're how I found your channel originally.
please like and reply so he is more likely to see this comment :)
Soundgarden occurred during a time where experimental Rock bands were liberated after the downfall of the Punk/New Wave empire (1976-1991). If the Punk/New Wave empire had gone on for much longer, we may never have seen bands like them and Tool enter the mainstream
Love all these songs, thanks for your awesome videos. so interesting
Hey, 12Tone, I’d LOVE to see you do Slow Dancing in a Burning Room by John Mayer, as long as he isn’t a blocker.
Do "Like a Stone" because it's a great song. I wonder why it makes me cry sometimes.
I'd love see you do a breakdown of Master of Puppets by Metallica. There is so much to pull apart in thay song.
Thank you for doing more Soundgarden ❤️
Is it the Levitin effect when I'm tuning my guitar and when I get a string to standard tuning it seems to resonate more to my ears? I can't quite get the strings to the right note solely by ear but I can get close enough by tuning until the string feels like it is resonating where it should be.
Do you think the bridge of RHCP’a Otherside intentionally invokes the riff from Aerosmiths own Otherside?
Whenever it comes on I always sing Steven Tyler’s “Loving you has got to be like the devil & the deep blue see/ Ahh-take me to the otherside…”
I love music, but I can't understand half of the things you are saying, even thoe I really like your channel
You're not alone lol
Those quarter tones are really messing with my brain
imo most of the unnerving quality in the track comes down to the use of a heavy chorus or vibrato effect on the main guitar, while the relative pitch may be spot-on those constant tuning fluctuations give you the impression they're not.
I would like to see a correction video for your analysis of "Aqualung" or at least a better explanation for why you think that the song is atonal.
You should add all the songs to the tital, so that one would find both the original video and the correction video when searching for them.
Analyze Minecraft music! Wet hands/ Sweden
that'd actually be interesting
They use a lot of flat 2s. The relation between those notes make it seem darker
Yeah I stole that trick from them and a few metal bands (even though I don't really listen to Metal for enjoyment)
The music video deeply bothers me, so I came here to seek comfort in random knowledge
I think there is some credibility to the quarter tuning thing. I remember Black Hole Sun coming on TV and something just not sounding right when compared to songs before and after. Something about the sound mimics the creepy uncanny-valley video and I think the quarter tuning has at least some part to play in that.
I've had a similar experience. I feel like since most songs on the radio, VH1, your Spotify playlist, etc. are going to be in standard tuning, BHS might still benefit from this *off* feeling created by its tuning when you listen to it in a lot of circumstances.
I love it
Could you do one on When the Wild Wind Blows by Iron Maiden?
it may be cultural conditioning... but another song you've analyzed - Sweet Child O Mine - only seems to sound good in the key of Db (and/or with the guitar tuned to Eb-standard)... even if you play it in D first to prime your ears for that key, the song sounds immediately better if you switch down to the key of Db and compare the two sounds. even a spot-on performance in D seems to sound and feel overly bright, and somehow "wrong"
It's probably pitch memory. If you've heard a song one way, you'll prefer hearing it that way. If you've ever listened to an arrangement of something you've heard before, and it was very similar, but with certain details altered, you might've felt like those small details sounded bad, or even amateurish. Songs are emotional, and emotions create strong memories, so you're bound to pick up on the details you don't pick up on.
I have no idea what you are talking about,. But somewhat interesting nonetheless.
Can you break down "Soul Society" by Kamelot?
5:03 but the song is in G major, isn't it?
Where is the Somewhere video???
Yeah, I didn't see it anywhere in his recent videos list.
There isn't one
@@perhapsxarb7226 Maybe he made it Patreon only by accident and didn't realize it?
#noMistakesNoProgress
Aye, is a video on a song from Angra possible?
Hopefully he doesn't have Nothing To Say about them...
Produce Like A Pro has a great video with the producer of the album going over Black Hole Sun: ruclips.net/video/ng4f_fj9Lfc/видео.html ... hearing each element individually is amazing to say the least. Also I think Chris Cornell played a lot of the rhythm guitar parts on that album.
is he referencing RHCP rather than Soundgarden, or am i having a stroke?
he analyses multiple songs in the video
can you do like anythong by king gizz
pr00t!
I find the smell not unpleasant.
I know it’s not really in your taste of music, but you should analyze riptide.
John Frusciante? Anthony Kiedis? Did you forget what song you're talking about? Because you definitely forgot what band you're talking about. lol
Great video otherwise. Thanks for making it!
Black Hole Sun is my favorite Chili Peppers song lmao! Sorry, couldn't resist!!
Lol yeah that confused the hell out of me til I realised he'd actually switched to talking about Otherside by RHCP. I didn't expect multiple song corrections and wasn't paying full attention so my brain missed the segue.
Next video: What I Got Wrong About Holding A Pen
we have a name for people like you in german. we call them "ehrenmann"
BHS isn't about escaping a bad place to a better one, it's about wanting the world to end so you don't have to suffer anymore.
Dude! Are you fucking trolling us normal people? Half way through the video you switch from describing blackhole sun to otherside by the RHCOP. WTF!!??
I thing you need to redo the whole songs, this seems a bit out of context.
It’s all a lie. You have to be extremely high to believe in black holes . And you have to be really low to long for the day of the Lord
So do you practice analyzing songs 40 hours a day? Better get on it.
Cut your nasty thumb fingernail
First.
youre over intellectualizing what comes natural to some people - bla bla bla
You do realize that you're watching a music theory channel, don't you? By the way, correct spelling also comes naturally to some people.
Dude speaks in Wingdings.