Understanding Bohemian Rhapsody
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- So... Bohemian Rhapsody. Do I have to tell you what this song is? Probably not. It's one of the most well-known, beloved rock songs ever made, and a long time ago, I promised that if I ever reached 500,000 subscribers, I'd turn my analytical lens on it. We finally made it, so... here it is. Analyzing this song was a daunting task, but it's hard to imagine a song more deserving. I hope you enjoy this one, 'cause it was a lot of work.
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Some additional thoughts/corrections:
1) Thanks to Rohin from Medlife Crisis and Henry from minutephysics for lending me their voices as Freddie Mercury and Brian May respectively! Check out their work if you haven't, it's very good:
Medlife Crisis: ruclips.net/user/MedlifeCrisis
minutephysics: ruclips.net/user/minutephysics
2) On the intro, I just had to pick one voice to notate as the lead 'cause doing all four notes in every voicing with a sharpie would've been extremely hard to read. I went with the second voice from the top, the one that starts on G, mostly because that's the one I tend to naturally sing to when I listen to this song, but as I mentioned it's kinda arbitrary. Any of them would've worked.
3) One cool thing about the intro that I didn't really have enough to say about but wanted to mention somewhere is that, because the texture is so sparse, they can get away with just adding in extra beats whenever they want to to make the lines fit. If you count carefully, you'll find a couple random bars of 5/4 in there, but they really don't stick out unless you go digging for them.
4) The rhythm I notated on the "doesn't really matter" might seem wrong, but actually Mercury's lead part sings it like that, it's just the choir hangs on "matter" for longer. No idea why but having listened to the stems it's definitely true.
5) One thing I forgot to mention about that Cmi in the Eb section is it's also where the "any way the wind blows" counterline comes in. Wish I'd remembered that, but anyway it does kinda the same thing, tying back to the gentler intro.
6) On the solo, to be clear, I don't believe May wrote it note-for-note in advance. He may have, but the interviews I've seen imply that he went in with a clear shape in mind. The details were likely ad libbed, It's just the specific ideas were already there, but those specific ideas are the parts that interest me most.
Awesome analysis. Strong request:
Do "Tout Petit Moineau" By Igorrr. Link: ruclips.net/video/MKp30C3MwVk/видео.html
This track is super complex sonically and has a ton of stuff going on, and is also really beautiful and ugly at the same time.
If you're not familiar with their work, as a someone who is into music nerdiness you really should get familiar. Try to imagine Mr Bungle/Captain Beefheart with modern music tech but also the ability to construct through lines and pretty sounding and ultra aggressive stuff with modern tech.
I don't think this is their best song but it's one of the most accessible.
Thanks for having me! Fun to contribute to and learn so much from this video. Freddie is a real hero of mine...and randomly I was at school with Brian May's son! (we didn't know each other)
That’s a collab I would’ve never expected
@@kjl3080 ikr
I recognized Rohin immediately, but it took a few times for me to catch on to Henry. Nice crossovers!
One tiiiiny detail I really like about the "open your eyes" line that you didn't quite mention... The lead vocal line that emerges on that line still feels like part of the choir on those words specifically, and over the course of the words "look up to the skies and see", it almost blends out of the choir and gradually comes into prominence. I couldn't have told you that the "open your eyes" part of that line was descending like that without the stems, but as the line progresses, you as the listener open your metaphorical "eyes" (...ears?), and gradually become more aware of the lead line until on the word "see", it's very clearly the most prominent line. And the whole thing is so smooth and gradual that it adds to the dreamlike quality of the section. Very cool detail I wouldn't have noticed without this video! Congratulations on 500k, can't wait for the second half!
I had this exact revelation listening to this!
Yes I never noticed that until this video as well. I always perceived the melody line of "open your eyes" as three D notes, not D-Eb-D-Bb like Mercury actually does in the lead vocal here.
Yep, me too. I had NEVER heard that "open your eyes" melody clearly before, and just heard it as staying on the the D.
Yes, came here to comment on the same thing. Perhaps I won't be able to unhear the descending melody now I've heard it, but I just hear the melody as staying on D, and would never have sung along in that descending way.
I also always heard it as a drone in “open your eyes”.
Me when I clicked on the video: A 12tone video about bohemian rhapsody that’s only 22 minutes long?
Me 21 minutes in: Ahhh, that makes sense.
It does make sense to be his first two part analysis video, doesn't it?
@@possible-realities lol I’d say
I just want to recognize your really amazing talent with a sharpie, (without diminishing any part of your amazing analysis of course).
Yes, he’s good with both 😍
12tone can do with a sharpie what most people couldn't do with professional editing software.
Unbelievable breakdown of my favourite song! True masterpiece! Thanks for making this great video!
Hey, you're that famous person!
This seems like a contender for "most paper used in a 12tone video"
Fantastic analysis. I appreciate the commitment to not sticking to one interpretation.
Worth
*beings unconsciously headbanging in car while my friend is about to spew in the back*
I was a 1970s fan of Queen through A Night at the Opera before I was a 1990s Queen fan via Wayne's World, and this was all before I was a 2010s fan of Bohemian Rhapsody because of the movie. I have enjoyed this song many times, and very thoroughly, through car stereo speakers, through headphones and with movie theater surround sound. I was quite sure I had squeezed every possible drop of enjoyment from the song into my ears, mind, and soul.
Your analysis somehow brought me to an even deeper appreciation of it. It's like seeing magic done in slow motion, and realizing that it's actual magic. Thank you for what you do here 12Tone. I genuinely didn't know how much fun music analysis could be until I discovered your channel.
Huh, I guess that song really comes around every two decades. Wonder what'll happen in the 2030s.
"like seeing magic done in slow motion, and realizing that it's actual magic." Well said, sir.
Good songs never stop giving.
As someone who is tone deaf (I sing like a cat in heat being put in a blender) I love your channel because it helps me appreciate music more than I already do.
Can you do one on hip hop? Kendrick Lamar and MF Doom have very interesting sounds and it would be amazing to learn about the musicality behind hip-hop/rap.
There are a few clips up on 12 Tones channel. Well worth watching them being turned into elephants and learning more about rhyming structures.
I dont think ive ever been so glad a video got split i looked at the time after the solo breakdown and im like... ummm theres not enough time left
I look forward to part 2 love this channel its fun and i learn cool things about music
Love these breakdowns. One song I'd love to see broken down is Rush's Spirit of Radio. One of their most iconic songs.
unfortunately, I learned the soprano line to this entire song in my high school choir, so when I’m singing this song at max volume in my car, I’m singing the top line. great video - it’s hard to say just how much this song means to all the musicians out there. thanks for adding to my understanding of it, and HOLY HELL CONGRATS ON 500k.
Well done drawing Hollow Knight on the word “hard” 🥳
He got tired of drawing battletoads and wanted to mix things up.
9:08
was about to comment that
Noob
I was wondering how you could analyze Bohemian Rhapaody in just 20 minutes. This song is so much packed into so much into a mere 6 minutes. It's timeless, it's legendary, it's everything that can be remembered long after the original artists have left us.
Can't wait for Part 2!
same reaction, I was expecting a video almost an hour long, so seeing the timestamp I'm just like "wa, how?"
Was that a cracking the cryptic logo?? lets go 12tone
Oh yes - loved that - I guess there are at least 2 people subscribed to both channels :) Didn't a puzzle from Polyphonic appear on CtC a while back??
Yep, loved that.
When you said “we just passed half a million” it caught me so off guard. In my mind, you’re in the same realm as Adam Neely or the realm that Wirtual is in for Trackmania. 500k seems so weirdly low for how excited I am to watch these and how good the quality is.
Plot twist: Saves the second half for when they get 1,000,000 subs...
I liked the "A lot of notes" during the solo breakdown, lol
Because really, that's probably all it is, even with May's preparation.
I saw him write that and went ah, yes, I too have used guitar tab websites.
6:00 I'd say most sing the hybrid of two, starting with the first and then continuing the second. I have never heard anyone sing D-Eb-D
I agree, I was actually surprised to hear the main line go so low in the first bar.
i definitely sing it static before going up high, i never really noticed that dip down before watching this
If Queen tried to explain what Bohemian Rhapsody was about, it would loose it's ability to tie us all together on to common emotion of struggle. Because we don't have a clear explanation, we all feel we can be apart of it. A serious emotional song that doesn't care to have a specific audience, is something revolutionary and powerful, Bohemian Rhapsody succeeded at that!
“True poetry is for the listener.”
Rami Malek - 2018
The best explanation I have heard is that it is about Freddy coming to terms with being gay. Then everything about the song makes sense ( "killed a man" is his own old self, the man he was expected to be).
These videos always make me appreciate songs that I otherwise wouldn’t have given much more thought to. I’ve heard Bohemian Rhapsody so many times that I’ve actually felt like I never need to hear it again, so this breathes new life into it.
When I was a kid me and my sister made characters from paper one day when we were on vacation cause somehow we did not take much toys with us. At that time period we were watching thundercats on tv, so with thick paper, felt tip pens and we made the characters from Thundercats, which were basically 2 dimensional flat characters. In the years that followed me started making characters from all our favourite cartoons and video games in such a way, because it was very cheap we could have them all interact together in one big story when we played. We played with like this for years. However, when she was 15 she got health issues which progressed so badly that a few years ago she took her own life.
Today I went to our basement to find something and I found the Snarf character from thundercats which was in some storage box, and it reminded me of the good times we had together as a kid. However, then i got up and saw this video where in 5:37 he draws Snarf from Thundercats (or at least, I think it is).
I had not thought about Snarf for ages and suddenly I randomly see him 2 totally unrelated times on the same day!
16:52 Always love your style of analysis; outlining what an artist or musical moment makes you feel in broad strokes where it's important, and bringing in detail where necessary.
2:38 "cryptic..." I love the sheer number of different things, people, and ideas the sketches reference
Goratsulatuib on 500k. And doing this song lol I love this. I’m in for a great time hearing this.
12tone must have been watching Dune, leading us halfway into the movie then stopping.
i am SO ready for the first ever 12tone two-parter. this song definitely deserves it
here early for 12tone’s first ever two-parter 💖 fantastic analysis so far!!!
This video alone makes 2022 a better year than 2021, anyway the wind blows.
Thanks 12note! You made my day!
Love & respect
IMMEDIATELY clicked
Hahahaha i almost catch you! Congrats fpr beeing the first
same
Same
Top shelf content. I can't play a doorbell in tune, so this is fascinating to me
Ive been WAITING for this thank you so much!
This became my favorite song of all time in about 7th or 8th grade and has stayed that way ever since. I'm 23 now. The thing that's so interesting to me is the song, the band, and Freddie all seem to have absolutely ballooned in popularity since I discovered them and decided they were my favorites all those years ago. Of course they were never unpopular--how obscure of a favorite song could middle class 12 year old possibly choose?--but even before the movie a few years ago, I was noticing more and more instances of people paying Queen, and Freddie, and especially Bohemian Rhapsody the kind of unparalleled respect I thought most people only reserved for The Beatles. I think we've finally reached the point in the past few years where it's not just another great song from a great period of music, but truly one of the primary defining works of the art form. It's not even just that Mercury was a supernatural talent and a musical genius, there are plenty of those out there if you know where to look. It's that, shock and awe at the complexity and difficulty aside, the music fundamentally connects with people, regardless of any boundaries. It's dressed up in the most brilliant colors imaginable in 1975, but at the heart of it it's one of those very rare and honest works that seem to scoff at analysis.
Excellent video.
I am extremely content (get it? ;D) that you made the choice to do this song justice with a two-parter. Looking forward to next week, indeed! :D
Fun fact: I used to absolutely despise this song because, when I was younger and still in university, I worked front desk and equipment rentals for a summer at the fitness center, and the music there was the same 1-2 hour long playlist featuring this song I had no clue what it was but could only ever hear "MAMAAAAAAA, OOOO-OO-OO-OOOOOO!!!!" and it became SO GRATING by the end of that summer I couldn't stand to hear it anymore for years thereafter. . . . That playlist also had Green Day's "Holiday" which was a song that I absolutely LOVED at the time because I'd just discovered Green Day, and didn't get sick of it. Funny how weird that works.
I've since fallen back in love with what is quite honestly one of the absolute greatest songs ever in the entirety of rock and roll canon.
12:05
12: This becomes easier to explain if we just listen to John Deacon's bass
My laptop speakers: (nothing at all)
Great video! This is one of those songs that I've heard so many times that all of it feels very obvious and I don't notice any of the nuances anymore. Listening back to the song while watching this video makes me appreciate all the subtleties again. Thanks 12tone, can't wait till next week!
Queen is one of my all time favorites! And I love Bohemian Rapsody my favorite by them, well, and Somebody to Love! Great video, and I subbed.
Hot take on the opening: I've always heard it as a Gm7/D, purely because it creates the familiar V-I with the C7 that follows and sets up a nice circle of fifths progression ultimately ending on Bb.
Edit: Huh, I never noticed that "Open your eyes" moved around so much. I always thought it just chilled on the D until the second bit. The more you know.
Oh, good, I thought I was the only one who sang the first line from the chorus and the second from the lead. Apparently (and thankfully?), I'm not.
@@weepingscorpion8739 The thankfulness? is mutual, my friend
I thought it was D Eb D D lol
@@insertchannelnamehere632 Man music really is subjective huh haha
i thought that was the chord too
and i also thought open your eyes was just D D D D
you know, brian may said in an interview that while yes, freddie was an incredible singer, he was ALSO an absolutely genius songwriter. i mean, you can see that here on bohemian rhapsody, but you can also see that on early songs like "my fairy king", "the march of the black queen" and "white queen (as it began)", or a song like "innuendo"...like the only thing i dont like about these songs is that its not very easy to play them yourself like a green day or blink 182 song TT__TT
That's the reason why the band wrote 'we are the champions' and 'we will rock you' IIRC, they realised in live performances that audience wanted tracks which they could sing along to and so wrote those two songs with that specifically in mind.
@@td1559 yeah, brian wrote watc bc of that☺️
@@td1559 Lol actually We Are Champions is another very complex song, search for an analysis of the song by Signals Music.
Look at you! 500M+ subs! You chose to break down THIS song like a GOAT! And I'm anticipating PART TWO of this! Congratulations! I have enough understanding in music theory to not be totally lost on you, enough to follow along. And enough to be thrilled when your notepad goes into another musical universe that I don't know about. Thank you so much from a good musician that needs a poke from people like you to keep me playin.
This was awesome... Thank you! 🙌
I appreciate that this'll be a two-parter, but come on, this feels like you just paused the song halfway through.
I knew this song was good, I just didn't realise it was for so many complex reasons. Thanks!
The part where he talks about panning in the "Little high, little low" part is really funny for me cause I have a broken left speaker
You should do one about Steely Dan :DD
I like how he describes the intro choir part ending as "they slowly disassemble the choir". Makes it sound more profound and important. Than it is. Lang-wij!
6:00 My singalong line is much closer to the choir than to the "lead" you've described.
Yeah, I sing a combination of the two. I have never noticed that step down he does in the beginning of that melody.
I've been waiting for this and feared it may never come due to the size of the project lol
Congrats on 500k! 💖
That’s a sneaky Cracking the Cryptic logo in there. Nice.
18:51 - Two notes: First, that's the first hammer-on I remember from rock music (though it's probably not the first one ever, and I didn't even notice it until I saw the music video, which shows him doing it) and second, it's sort of a bookend to the piano crosshand Freddie does early in the piece, since (IIRC) Brian does it with his *pick* hand.
2 part? Sure. I'm on board
Smart to break this beast up. You could go deeper with this on analyzing it, but that would be a long video. I don’t agree with some light points on the video but overall it’s good and this song leaves some things open to interpretation as you’ve said before, I think both musically and definitely lyrically. Looking forward to part 2
Voltron is a good analogy for this song!
This song really touched me deeply when I first heard it. I even remember where I was: 8th grade history class. The teacher was very odd, compared to the other teachers. He had a radio in the classroom, and it we did good work and we're done before the end of the period, he'd put on music. That day, it was WLS music radio in Chicago, probably Larry Lujack's show. That song started, and the whole class went silent. We were all rapt, totally enthralled by that song. A lot of copies of "A Night At The Opera" were sold that weekend by nearly everyone in the class, including me
A Rhapsody is such a bitch to write, the fact that I'll never be able to write one, allows me to enjoy them even more.
so much care goes into them, because so much care needs to go into them, and its just, so amazing hearing them.
I dont understand most of this, but this is super fascinating
Really well made video on one of the bests songs of the century. Would love to see an analysis on Prayer of the Refugee by Rise Against
Dana Carvey and Mike Myers gave me a lot of happiness but, as a child of the second half of the 80s, they also gave me this song, which I had never heard before.
Gotta love when the sheet is blank and you just concentrate on 12tone's voice, after a few seconds, you come back to life and see tons of doodles on the sheet XD
Until the page is full and the next empty page is displayed.
@@Inverse_to_Chaos And then more doodles!
UGH....I gotta wait another week!!! ;)
Hey, this is great....thank you. While the next week will seem a month....I'm glad you're doing this song justice.
This is just SO entertaining.....thank you!
That high c in the guitar solo got all of my cats’ attention, haha
man i never expected to see a she-ra reference here. great vid, excited for part 2
Thanks
killer freddie impression 3:07
This video is great on multiple levels, thank you
oooohh I've been hoping to see you cover this song since I started watching you !! VERY excited for part II :D
Except they didn't change anything but whatever, very good video as always!
I can't believe you left us on a CLIFFHANGER!! 😆
Dammit, a cliffhanger ending?! Can't wait for Part 2!
These days it's become a contrarian position to say this song is overrated, overcomplicated, etc. it's pitiful.
It's honestly amazing how three concepts put together, and worked on for weeks over several studios, the final project all being in Fred's head, came out to this masterpiece.
Do an Understanding Through the Fire and Flames next, not only because I wanna see a 2-hour video explaining the 3-minute 200bpm solo, but... Ok, that's why.
He always says he doesn't like to analyse solos
Is that ... Entrapta at 9:38? because if so, wow, I did not expect that
"What is it about?" is a question that we might consider never asking. A song writer has to choose lyrics that sound cool and not overly sappy. And when you do that you don't always have a clear subject in mind. Sometimes you're just playing with images and concepts. You're writing about thoughts that run through your mind or certain phrases or scenes that just sound cool. When you try to write a song about something, it tends to come out cheesy unless your a super great poet.
Also, not to be too contrary but Pink Floyd released Echoes 4 years earlier. 70's rock is filled with long epic songs with no clear chorus.
Echoes has not had the cultural impact that BR did. Still an awesome composition though
@@kumoyuki I suppose that's true. I just meant it wasn't exactly rare at the time.
The best explanation I have heard is that it is about Freddy coming to terms with being gay. Then everything about the song makes sense ( "killed a man" is his own old self, the man he was expected to be).
Yay my favourite band ❤️❤️❤️❤️
got me. Subscribed.
6:10 - That's not the vocal melody I attempt when I sing along with this record. I aim for the high notes, because I seem to enjoy writing cheques I can't cash.
Dr Brian May's solo in this song really encapsulates what I love about his playing. Of the guitarists I love and admire, he has the most melodic and lyrical solos (Dave Gilmour is another who does this brilliantly) - they're the perfect match for one of the greatest singers of the 20th century.
Looking forward to part 2
One of my favorite songs of all time!!! You are awesome!
Rick Beato also did an analysis of this song, but I like this one more. Rick's video doesn't have cute cartoon elephants in it.
Also, if you haven't already, PLEASE try a video on March of the Black Queen. It is more than just a precursor to Bohemian Rhapsody.
Or even, do a video on either: Innuendo or The Miracle, two very complex late Queen songs that are wholly underrated today.
I am with Freddy on this, art is meant to expand your mind and make you think. It exercises your imagination. Hotel California also comes to mind this way.
Have more youtubers to read quotes in the futur is a great touch
Fantastico!
9:38 - Wait, is that... Entrapta? Are you a She-Ra fan?!
I was about to say that Freddie Mercury sounded a lot like Medlife Crisis. Thank god the comment clarified.
After the second part you should do “Louise” by NOFX with the drawings and stuff.
I've known this song for… ages… and still I learned a lot. Thanks for that. Looking forward to the next episode!
What i find interesting about Bohemian Rhapsody is how it sounds incredible even when you invert the harmonies completely.
6:00 "that's not what you sing in the car, you sing this"
Me: ...Wtf is that? I've never sung that. I literally sing what you say we don't sing. And so does everyone I know. 😶
I'M SO CONFUSED
Me too, I would have sworn that lead vocal line is wrong... I definitely don't hit those notes
I think I sing the backing part for the first half and the lead part for the second half.
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 I'm exactly the same, and it threw me so much that I had to immediately pause the video and go back to the original song! On relistening, I think I do maybe agree with the analysis of what the "lead" voice is in that bar? But I'd never heard it that way. And certainly won't be changing how I sing it... Fascinating to be hearing new things in a song after surely hundreds, if not thousands, of listens!
I was wondering why you never did Bohemian Rhapsody. It was worth the wait. Honestly even 2 parts might not be enough to analyze this masterpiece.
Mercury's writing in this song is incredible. I've watched several videos breaking it down and analysing it (each with their own perspective, of course) and STILL there are points that are entirely new to me. The depth and complexity he and the band put into it is outstanding.
Thank you so much for covering the song. can't wait to find out what new points I learn in the second half!
Thank you for analyzing one of the greatest songs of all time!
Me at the beginning: only 20 Minutes and no "Part 1"? How is he going to do that?!
Me at the ending: ah, it IS Part 1 :'D
I love your little Entrapta representing deconstruction :))) I love She-Ra
Personally I know nothing about music, and these videos are really cool to watch. How ever Bohemian Rhapsody is a song I have listened so many times its insane and I havent run into anything similar to it.... I personally like to think that the reason for that is that Bohemian Rhapsody did that so perfectly, that doing something similar would just sound awful in comparison so nobody has even bothered to try (or it has failed when they have). and yes yes I know there is a very high chance Im just uneducated but still
Paranoid Android by Radiohead is similar, but it still pales in comparison to Bohemian Rhapsody
Hey 12Tone I just had a curious thought, can you do a breakdown of Cliff Burton’s “Anesthesia - Pulling teeth”? 🙏🏻
There is a cover on RUclips in its original Klingon. I highly suggest everyone watch it after this. Qapla'
Thanks for mentioning John Deacon's bass line (even if you were only referencing 6 notes specifically in 2 bars)
If anything was ever gonna require two parts I'm glad this god-like song is the first...
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“To create something far more than the sum of its parts” *draws Voltron*
I appreciate you, 12tone
Opening chord feels like Gm cuz of the 4ths