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Slash: "What was that Izzy"? Izzy: "Let's skip the five chord to avoid any implied resolution" Slash: "No idea what that means" and pulls out a screaming solo 😂🤣
there's a lot to learn! Chances are you already know a fair bit from what you think sounds good and what doesn't. Never hurts to do some light research though. There's an awesome website musictheory.net thats got really quick, but very good lessons on music theory that will get you right up to scratch in no time
Also this song was made by itself. Slash says in an interview that when Guns N' Roses were in a small house. He just came up with that riff out of now where and Izzy and Duff just made up the chords. Meanwhile, Axl was upstairs and overheard them and just wrote lyrics without any notice or warning. Then a few days later Axl asked them to play the riff again and he sung the lyrics, and that's how the actual song was made. Then when they encountered MTV they had to make music videos. So Axl just put the main focus of the music video on one of his girlfriends. And they made the song. Hope I made sense, correct me if I'm wrong.
Saul "Slash" Hudson, also known as Vünter Slauche, is known as an English-American musician and songwriter born in Great Britain and raised in the USA. He is best known as the former lead guitarist of the American hard rock band Guns N' Roses, who was later revealed to be a fictional character from a Dutch legend. So you might ask yourself: "Who played at my eighth birthday party?" - one of our parents. "But then, who was the guitar player for Guns N' Roses?" - one of our parents.
I have an idea for a video series: instead of songs, why dont you try to analyze a unique element of different musicians and explain what makes their sound unique, from the vocal harmonies and melodies of Alice in Chains, Queen, The Beach Boys and The Beatles, to the guitar harmonies and melodies of pre black album Metallica, and Deafheaven. Or maybe just analyze how they handle harmony and melody? Cool idea?
IntrovertedLoner idk, i think something else like Would, Shame in You or Them Bones are better. Its so harf to choose. AiC is so influencial to music, yet no one acknowledge it.
In this case you're absolutely right. As he said, it was just a string skipping exercise he liked to practice. It was really the rest of the band that turned it into a great song. However, all you have to do is listen to hear that Duff put some thought into that bassline.
Well... Slash and Duff put a lot of time into their parts on this song. Both have stated in their books. Both Slash and Duff initially hated, like HATED, the song and tried to butcher it. They both attempted to ruin the song by playing really weird shit over top of the words by riffing over top of it instead of playing chords. Axl and Izzy liked it and the final song was created. Unlike most songs on Appetite, it was not written in less than 3 hours.
Whether or not he thought about all of this, this is still a decent explanation as to why it worked so well. Theory explains intuition and instinct just as well as it does construction and craft.
Kashmir is in DADGAD tuning, which goes a ways towards explaining how Page came up with those odd chord shapes. Once you realize how the guitar is tuned, it's a very easy song to play!
I remember hearing Slash talk about this riff. He said the main riff was a joke, he was playing a circus type tune and Axl really, really liked the doofy thing.
Thanks! If you'd like to learn more, we've got a series called Building Blocks that covers everything from the bottom up: ruclips.net/p/PLMvVESrbjBWplAcg3pG0TesncGT7qvO06
Man, I love your channel and what you do in general. I started this video ~3 hours ago and in that time I watched about 10 videos from you, look up my lecture notes, played some weird chord progression(just to hear what it is all about) to fully know what you're talking here. Now I know more then ever and you made me clear some concepts what i've learn from my teacher but I couldn't be able put the pieces together.
2:32 The bassline makes it bi-modal as well when it plays the natural 4th suspension of the Cb chord (F flat) while the guitar keeps it's F natural of Db mixolydian.
Thanks for watching! If you'd like to learn more, we have a series called Building Blocks that looks at music theory from the bottom up: ruclips.net/p/PLMvVESrbjBWplAcg3pG0TesncGT7qvO06
I would say there is none cooler than Steely Dan. I mean their songs are catchy enough to appeal to the casual pop fan yet intricate enough for the jazz and classical set and even metal heads would have a hard time hating on them. I bet even some of the rap crowd can dig the grooves they are laying down. How can you get cooler than that?
Dude. This is amazing. I love this analysis. It's very different than how an actual guitarist looks at it though. It makes perfect sense that slash was playing that as an exercise though. The opening riff is the most difficult "simple sounding" riff on the planet. It's not fast but it's hard as HELL. I can play almost anything by Led Zeppelin but I REALLY have to concentrate hard to play that riff even decently. Great video. Great animations. I love it. Keep it up bro. I'm addicted to these videos now...especially because I'm a theory geek!
Both! They're tuning down, but that makes it so the notes they're playing are full of flats. But yeah, on the guitar, it's probably best to think about it in the key of D.
Lots of bands play in a different tunings. Dropping a half step makes strings easier to bend. Black Sabbath used to tune down a whole step to a step and a half (Db) because Tony Iommi's prosthetic fingertips would pop off otherwise. Led Zeppelin experimented with different tunings all the time.
Most all of GnR is tuned down a half step. Same with Van Halen, Kiss. Motley tuned down a full step most of the time. If it were me I'd not done this is flats. yes those are the pitches, but Guitarists tuned down wouldn't think in flats (most wouldnt)
Really interesting stuff, I remember learning this song as a teenager and had no idea how musically complicated it could be. For future suggestions, anything by Tool or Machine Head 👍😊
Hey there, I’ve just discovered your videos recently and I love all of the stuff you are doing. As a music education graduate with a love for theory this is like my favorite stuff. I have a question for you though: what software/hardware do you use to record the music heard in your videos?
Thanks! Those are mostly made in Reason, which is a MIDI program. I don't tend to work with live instruments unless I have a compelling reason to because I'm talking about structures, not specific sounds, so the additional hassle of recording doesn't really add much to the point I'm making.
the key is Gb (ionian) which would be the indicated key by number of flats on a music sheet,(piano players mostly would benefit) from which Db mixolydian belongs in its 5th degree. great video! i love explaining this song. LOVE YOUR VIDEOS
Another great analysis, and another great song choice. Some stuff I already realized, plenty of stuff I didn't, and I understood it all. Can't wait for the next song analysis! :)
Thanks! These are always fun 'cause I feel like I know the song pretty well going in, and then there's always just so many things I hadn't realized before. It's like hearing the song for the first time all over again.
Wow, I didn't realise how much I have my dad attached to any thought of this song until watching this. He's fine, the thought just hit me now. Great video, as with all your others!
I thoroughly enjoyed this! I remember learning this song for the first time and noticing the seeming lack of a resolution. Although, at the time, I didn't know the name for it. Now I have to read all about backdoor resolutions and plagal candences. Lol I'd like to see a video on a Babymetal song. Say, "Tales of the Destines" or "Akumu no Rondo".
I'm totally enjoying your videos. I loved music theory in school and I try to get my students to like it, too. "But, Mr. Saraga, I just wanna play some tunes!" "Yeah, kid, I know, but you gotta understand some of what makes those tunes so great!" :)
As overplayed as it is, this song truly is brilliant. It's pretty much the missing link between '80s hard rock and '90s alt-rock; it could've come out a decade later without sounding remotely dated.
Recently I've been trying to broaden my musical horizons and your analyses of popular songs have been very helpful in building a deeper appreciation for the music. I was inspired by some of Adam Neely's videos and like you, he's an extremely talented musician that sees the value in popular music even if he has the skills to play and understand a lot of difficult jazz and classical repertoire. If really talented musicians that I respect have this attitude, maybe the music has a lot to teach me, an amateur, if I'm willing to listen. Thank you for helping me towards that end with this and your other breakdowns of popular songs.
I know this is 4 years old, but dude Adam Neely is a super toxic, gatekeeping musician. He is very narrow-minded, & I would highly recommend sticking with 12Tone & staying far away from any advice Adam has to give.
@@jojoversus1100 there are things he's done lately that I don't like, especially pertaining to identity politics stuff, but I don't think he is gatekeeping or toxic or any of that and I'm curious why you think so. I also think you can't deny that he is a talented and knowledgeable musician and he has a lot of valuable information to convey. I think it is worth following anyone that can be described that way, whether you agree with their opinions or not.
A channel dedicated to musicians (the only ones that will actually understand any of this). Cool. Just gotta love RUclips. Keep up the good work fella.
Another great analysis, although I'd need to watch at quarter speed to really hang on here, as usual. Question: to what extent was this song really composed with all that mixolydian, modulating, and above all, resolution-avoiding stuff deliberately in mind? With Paul McCartney I can envision such a cerebral, music-theory driven approach to composing, but with this song...
Good question! I'd be pretty shocked if they were thinking about much of this at all, to be honest. The song was mostly just them goofing around. The resolution-avoiding thing is kind of a trope of the genre, so it's likely that they weren't thinking about it purposefully, just doing the things they were used to doing. It just turned out Axl Rose had a poem he wanted to sing over it all, and the rest is history!
AMAZING video!! Have you ever considered doing the Beatles' (actually only Paul's) Martha My Dear? Another song which originally started as a practice exercise, then evolved into a wonderful, harmonically weird little song.
Thanks, and thanks for the suggestion! At this point, though, we receive so many song requests that we can really only focus on the ones from our Patreon patrons. We just don't have the time to look at every song that comes in, unfortunately. There's a link to our Patreon in the video description if you're interested, though!
These videos you do are MIND blowing! I mean.... Fantastic observations and really good explanations! Love them :) While at the question, what song would I personally like to be "dissected", is any song from Dimebag Darrell. He had SO many intriguing moments that it is hard to say which one song would it be... Keep the great work up! Cheers!
Thanks, and thanks for the suggestion! At this point, though, we receive so many song requests that we can really only focus on the ones from our Patreon patrons. We just don't have the time to look at every song that comes in, unfortunately. There's a link to our Patreon in the video description if you're interested, though!
i wanna dig deep into this. i got some ideas and info though it was kinda complicated for me. thanks anyway, ive been trying to analyze this song for ages. my first problem really is, what key is this in?!
In music that switches between a standard diatonic 7 tone scale, and the chromatic scale, what is the norm for notation; To stay in the key signature for the chromatic sections, or to go to A Aeolian / C Ionian / Open signature? I find it much easier to read chromatic sheet music if there is no tricky key signature, so I prefer to remove the key signature for that part of the music, but I still want to know what the conventions are, in case other people will have to read my notes. You seem like a man who would know the answer.
It's actually not something I've done much of, but I think it'd depend on how long the chromatic section is. If it's just a couple bars then I'd keep the key signature, whereas if it's really long then I'd probably switch to an open one. As you say, it can be hard to track which things are "supposed" to be altered when you're not really in a key, so the key signature winds up making things more confusing instead of less, and that's never good. It's certainly not "wrong" to remove it, but I don't think it comes up often enough to have really well-defined conventions so I'd just go with whatever feels right to you based on the context.
I don’t think you’re looking at the harmony the right way. The second half of each bar is 5, and your inference of a minor Vii chord doesn’t really make sense without a Cb. I think it’s better to view the melody in terms of its contrapuntal nature, it could be viewed through the scale degrees of each register to determine the harmonic motion, in which case the bottom voice would be ^1/2/4^ ^5^4^5^1 and the top would be ^1^4^3 all quite diatonic and rooted in V-I motion.
A small question about notation. I am pretty sure they are tuning down a half step, so... I wonder if it's not more correct to write it as D major? If you don't you would logically have to rewrite all of baroque music (for example) in similarly tricky keys, since they were also tuning a half step lower. No criticism: just wondering. As some one who plays the guitar I would never think of tunes like these as having 5 flats :)
Yeah, I went back and forth on that question here. I decided that, as a theorist, it's more important which notes they're actually playing than which frets on the guitar they're using, but it could've made sense to notate it in D as well. I'm not entirely sure I made the right decision here, but I think either way works.
It's a bit of a catch 22 I guess. Or you'd have to put in a whole extra explanaition of guitar tunings. But, yes: either way works. Good practice to think in different keys. I notice you vary the keys of your examples quite a lot. I think that's a good idea. I do that with my students as well. Anyway. Good works as always.
Great! Just one thing, the first part of the solo is harmonic minor, even if they are power chords you can hear the sound implied in the whole section ;)
Fair point! I tend to think of harmonic minor as mostly a variation of minor, so even though he is using the leading tone a lot I think the comparison is still fair, but you're definitely right that it's a different thing. Good catch!
Awesome analysis. Also, very clear with the notes played! I don't get most of it yet, but this is a great way to learn. (sound engineer here that does not know how to play an instrument ;))
Thanks! We generally try to keep things as clear as possible, but yeah, once you start diving into actual songs there's always gonna be confusing bits. If you have any questions, feel free to ask!
I've been binge watching your stuff and it's fascinating, as a guitarist who's getting deeper into theory it's useful to see it in practice. I know you've discussed modal stuff before but, do you think you could do something on Early Summer by Ryo Fukui?
Thanks, and thanks for the suggestion! At this point, though, we receive so many song requests that we can really only focus on the ones from our Patreon patrons. We just don't have the time to look at every song that comes in, unfortunately. There's a link to our Patreon in the description if you're interested in checking it out, though!
Cool, I really hate this song but your explanation for the nuts and bolts behind it was very interesting. I like how you play examples of the notes you mention; it helps me understand the terminology better.
Thanks, and thanks for the suggestion! At this point, though, we receive so many song requests that we can really only focus on the ones from our Patreon patrons. We just don't have the time to look at every song that comes in. There's a link to our Patreon in the description if you're interested in checking it out, though!
Thanks for the suggestion! At this point, though, we receive so many song requests that we can really only focus on the ones from our Patreon patrons. We just don't have the time to look at every song that comes in, unfortunately. There's a link to our Patreon in the video description if you're interested, though!
Hey, folks! These analysis videos are based on suggestions from our Patreon patrons, so if you have a song you'd like to suggest, just head on over to www.patreon.com/12tonevideos and pledge at any level!
Slash: "What was that Izzy"?
Izzy: "Let's skip the five chord to avoid any implied resolution"
Slash: "No idea what that means" and pulls out a screaming solo 😂🤣
i really wonder if bands ever think of this stuff when writing songs or they just hear something and go 'huh that sounds cool lol'
Some do, some don't. Depends on the band!
backspace3111 I'm definitely in the latter there, I want to learn music theory but I'm lazy 😭
there's a lot to learn! Chances are you already know a fair bit from what you think sounds good and what doesn't. Never hurts to do some light research though. There's an awesome website musictheory.net thats got really quick, but very good lessons on music theory that will get you right up to scratch in no time
backspace3111 yeah when I write stuff, it's kinda focused around a scale, but then I go out of the scale and I think "Oh that sounds nice"
I would bet it's a combination of both
"Where do we go now" ; Musics version of breaking the 4th wall. Like Alice Cooper's "We can't even think of a word that rhymes"
^_^
Or tøp “I wish I found some chords in an order that is new, I wish I didn’t have to rhyme every time I sang”
Robbie Willams: "Take it to the bridge"
Carewolf JT does that too on sexy back
@@slightlokii3191 Right, it was sexy back I was thinking of.
Sad that GNR hit this video for DMCA. I am glad they "changed their tune".
what the fuck is happening
Music theory is happening!
Probably magic
Adam Neely was giving you some serious shout outs on his live stream a few days ago. This channel kept coming up.
Wow, that's awesome! I have a lot of respect for Adam's work, it's great to hear he appreciates what we're doing too!
one more sub here straight from Adam's channel, nice work! Keep doing it, it's awesome.
You kind of tickle the same itch, thank you for bringing more quality theory to RUclips
Also this song was made by itself. Slash says in an interview that when Guns N' Roses were in a small house. He just came up with that riff out of now where and Izzy and Duff just made up the chords. Meanwhile, Axl was upstairs and overheard them and just wrote lyrics without any notice or warning. Then a few days later Axl asked them to play the riff again and he sung the lyrics, and that's how the actual song was made. Then when they encountered MTV they had to make music videos. So Axl just put the main focus of the music video on one of his girlfriends. And they made the song. Hope I made sense, correct me if I'm wrong.
Saul "Slash" Hudson, also known as Vünter Slauche, is known as an English-American musician and songwriter born in Great Britain and raised in the USA. He is best known as the former lead guitarist of the American hard rock band Guns N' Roses, who was later revealed to be a fictional character from a Dutch legend.
So you might ask yourself: "Who played at my eighth birthday party?" - one of our parents. "But then, who was the guitar player for Guns N' Roses?" - one of our parents.
Greg Robinson not former tho
Tomas Azevedo not anymore :D
Greg Robinson
The South Park reference is strong
Little Wing - Hendrix...
I'll add it to the list!
Thank you! :)
that would be amazing!
12tone Please please please do it
12tone Check out Little Wing by Stevie Ray Vaughan (studio version). It's the most beautiful piece of music that I have ever heard.
I have an idea for a video series: instead of songs, why dont you try to analyze a unique element of different musicians and explain what makes their sound unique, from the vocal harmonies and melodies of Alice in Chains, Queen, The Beach Boys and The Beatles, to the guitar harmonies and melodies of pre black album Metallica, and Deafheaven. Or maybe just analyze how they handle harmony and melody? Cool idea?
Definitely a cool idea, I'll add it to the list!
Lee Torry I think Alice in chains "what the hell have I" would be a cool song to put on here.
IntrovertedLoner idk, i think something else like Would, Shame in You or Them Bones are better. Its so harf to choose. AiC is so influencial to music, yet no one acknowledge it.
2 of those are the simple radio hits. What the hell have I is alot more interesting musically and vocally. Shame in you would be cool tho.
Or maybe Junkhead or Sludgefactory.
For one minute I doubt Slash thought about the riff this much.
Probably not, but it's still fun!
In this case you're absolutely right. As he said, it was just a string skipping exercise he liked to practice. It was really the rest of the band that turned it into a great song. However, all you have to do is listen to hear that Duff put some thought into that bassline.
Well... Slash and Duff put a lot of time into their parts on this song. Both have stated in their books. Both Slash and Duff initially hated, like HATED, the song and tried to butcher it. They both attempted to ruin the song by playing really weird shit over top of the words by riffing over top of it instead of playing chords. Axl and Izzy liked it and the final song was created. Unlike most songs on Appetite, it was not written in less than 3 hours.
Obviously not, it was a exercise he used
Whether or not he thought about all of this, this is still a decent explanation as to why it worked so well. Theory explains intuition and instinct just as well as it does construction and craft.
I will never listen to this song the same again after hearing about the "where do we go" part lmao😂😂😂
Yeah, it's one of my favorite song anecdotes!
How dare you draw a Flying V in representing a guitar solo from Slash! Love the channel, btw.
Fair! It's, like, the only electric guitar that I can sort of draw, and I definitely wasn't gonna do an acoustic one!
this is awesome! Would love to see something like Kashmir by Led Zeppelin analyzed next. Some pretty weird chords going on there!
Kashmir is in DADGAD tuning, which goes a ways towards explaining how Page came up with those odd chord shapes. Once you realize how the guitar is tuned, it's a very easy song to play!
Kashmir? I think you mean Welcome Home.
After all these years, the "where do we go now" finally makes sense. Thank you.
I remember hearing Slash talk about this riff. He said the main riff was a joke, he was playing a circus type tune and Axl really, really liked the doofy thing.
How about something by Radiohead, like Paranoid Android or Weird Fishes/Arpeggi?
I'll add them to the list!
paranoid android would be amazing, I'm sure there's a lot to explain here!
YES PLEASE PARANOID ANDROID
Great suggestion, man! Please, do Paranoid Android!!!
JIGSAW PLEASE
"backdoor resolution" hurhurhur
Nice.
I understood nothing yet I loved all of it
Thanks! If you'd like to learn more, we've got a series called Building Blocks that covers everything from the bottom up: ruclips.net/p/PLMvVESrbjBWplAcg3pG0TesncGT7qvO06
"Unexpected places."
probably from lsd trips
Man, I love your channel and what you do in general. I started this video ~3 hours ago and in that time I watched about 10 videos from you, look up my lecture notes, played some weird chord progression(just to hear what it is all about) to fully know what you're talking here.
Now I know more then ever and you made me clear some concepts what i've learn from my teacher but I couldn't be able put the pieces together.
Only commenting for the algorithms to pick up. Sick video. Glad its back.
2:32 The bassline makes it bi-modal as well when it plays the natural 4th suspension of the Cb chord (F flat) while the guitar keeps it's F natural of Db mixolydian.
I watched the entire thing pretending like i understood whats going on but i srsly have absolutely zero idea wtf is going on
Thanks for watching! If you'd like to learn more, we have a series called Building Blocks that looks at music theory from the bottom up: ruclips.net/p/PLMvVESrbjBWplAcg3pG0TesncGT7qvO06
One of the most interesting videos of this channel
"Where do we go now?" :O
Excellent ! You just made this song even better !
Thanks!
There are some cool things to look at in Steely Dan or Donald Fagan's solo stuff.
Cool, I'll look into it!
Yeah, Steely Dan has some interesting progressions.
I would say there is none cooler than Steely Dan. I mean their songs are catchy enough to appeal to the casual pop fan yet intricate enough for the jazz and classical set and even metal heads would have a hard time hating on them. I bet even some of the rap crowd can dig the grooves they are laying down. How can you get cooler than that?
Dude. This is amazing. I love this analysis. It's very different than how an actual guitarist looks at it though. It makes perfect sense that slash was playing that as an exercise though. The opening riff is the most difficult "simple sounding" riff on the planet. It's not fast but it's hard as HELL. I can play almost anything by Led Zeppelin but I REALLY have to concentrate hard to play that riff even decently. Great video. Great animations. I love it. Keep it up bro. I'm addicted to these videos now...especially because I'm a theory geek!
Thanks! Yeah, it's a really surprising hard riff, even though it seems relatively straightforward. Sounds great, though!
Thanks you so much for the videos! They are awesome!
Glad to see this analysis is back up.
Do they actually play in these flatted keys or do they just drop tuning by 1/2 step?
Gary Hewitt
they drop tuning
Both! They're tuning down, but that makes it so the notes they're playing are full of flats. But yeah, on the guitar, it's probably best to think about it in the key of D.
Lots of bands play in a different tunings. Dropping a half step makes strings easier to bend. Black Sabbath used to tune down a whole step to a step and a half (Db) because Tony Iommi's prosthetic fingertips would pop off otherwise. Led Zeppelin experimented with different tunings all the time.
Most all of GnR is tuned down a half step. Same with Van Halen, Kiss. Motley tuned down a full step most of the time. If it were me I'd not done this is flats. yes those are the pitches, but Guitarists tuned down wouldn't think in flats (most wouldnt)
Really interesting stuff, I remember learning this song as a teenager and had no idea how musically complicated it could be. For future suggestions, anything by Tool or Machine Head 👍😊
I played this at a funeral on the piano with a soul/gospel vocalist. We turned it into a questing lullaby.
Hey there, I’ve just discovered your videos recently and I love all of the stuff you are doing. As a music education graduate with a love for theory this is like my favorite stuff. I have a question for you though: what software/hardware do you use to record the music heard in your videos?
Thanks! Those are mostly made in Reason, which is a MIDI program. I don't tend to work with live instruments unless I have a compelling reason to because I'm talking about structures, not specific sounds, so the additional hassle of recording doesn't really add much to the point I'm making.
the key is Gb (ionian) which would be the indicated key by number of flats on a music sheet,(piano players mostly would benefit)
from which Db mixolydian belongs in its 5th degree. great video! i love explaining this song. LOVE YOUR VIDEOS
Another great analysis, and another great song choice. Some stuff I already realized, plenty of stuff I didn't, and I understood it all. Can't wait for the next song analysis! :)
Thanks! These are always fun 'cause I feel like I know the song pretty well going in, and then there's always just so many things I hadn't realized before. It's like hearing the song for the first time all over again.
Does mixolydian lack dominant function because it lack a leading tone?
Basically, yeah. Without the leading tone, it doesn't have the tools it needs to drive a real resolution to its own tonic.
Wow, I didn't realise how much I have my dad attached to any thought of this song until watching this.
He's fine, the thought just hit me now.
Great video, as with all your others!
Hope he's still fine :)
That was a fantastic analysis right there!
Thanks!
Cemetery gates by pantera
A truly excellent video. I have a good understanding of music but this is really high level stuff - rare on RUclips! Keep it up!
Thanks!
as a guitar geek and huge GNR fan I absolutely loved this and checked in with a sub, great video.
Aw, thanks!
I have no clue what half of this stuff means, but something about the drawings and his voice are hypnotic.
Great stuff! Have you ever considered talking a bit about Schenkerian analysis? Would love to hear a bit about that! Cheers.
Thanks! I keep meaning to look more into Schenkerian analysis, but I haven't quite found the time yet. It's definitely on my list, though!
I thoroughly enjoyed this! I remember learning this song for the first time and noticing the seeming lack of a resolution. Although, at the time, I didn't know the name for it. Now I have to read all about backdoor resolutions and plagal candences. Lol
I'd like to see a video on a Babymetal song. Say, "Tales of the Destines" or "Akumu no Rondo".
Glad it's back!
I'm totally enjoying your videos. I loved music theory in school and I try to get my students to like it, too. "But, Mr. Saraga, I just wanna play some tunes!" "Yeah, kid, I know, but you gotta understand some of what makes those tunes so great!" :)
Thanks! Yeah, it can be a hard sell sometimes, but it's worth it!
Over The Hills And Far Away by Gary Moore!
Dude I was just looking for a video exactly like this one... instant new sub
Thats amazing! You deserve way more subscribers, keep it up.
Thanks!
As overplayed as it is, this song truly is brilliant. It's pretty much the missing link between '80s hard rock and '90s alt-rock; it could've come out a decade later without sounding remotely dated.
The first part of the solo is not all power chords. There's a clean guitar playing arpeggios as well.
Recently I've been trying to broaden my musical horizons and your analyses of popular songs have been very helpful in building a deeper appreciation for the music. I was inspired by some of Adam Neely's videos and like you, he's an extremely talented musician that sees the value in popular music even if he has the skills to play and understand a lot of difficult jazz and classical repertoire. If really talented musicians that I respect have this attitude, maybe the music has a lot to teach me, an amateur, if I'm willing to listen. Thank you for helping me towards that end with this and your other breakdowns of popular songs.
I know this is 4 years old, but dude Adam Neely is a super toxic, gatekeeping musician. He is very narrow-minded, & I would highly recommend sticking with 12Tone & staying far away from any advice Adam has to give.
@@jojoversus1100 there are things he's done lately that I don't like, especially pertaining to identity politics stuff, but I don't think he is gatekeeping or toxic or any of that and I'm curious why you think so. I also think you can't deny that he is a talented and knowledgeable musician and he has a lot of valuable information to convey. I think it is worth following anyone that can be described that way, whether you agree with their opinions or not.
A channel dedicated to musicians (the only ones that will actually understand any of this). Cool. Just gotta love RUclips. Keep up the good work fella.
Thanks!
it's 2 am and i want to understand but i can't but it's not you, it's me. amazing video
Another great analysis, although I'd need to watch at quarter speed to really hang on here, as usual. Question: to what extent was this song really composed with all that mixolydian, modulating, and above all, resolution-avoiding stuff deliberately in mind? With Paul McCartney I can envision such a cerebral, music-theory driven approach to composing, but with this song...
Good question! I'd be pretty shocked if they were thinking about much of this at all, to be honest. The song was mostly just them goofing around. The resolution-avoiding thing is kind of a trope of the genre, so it's likely that they weren't thinking about it purposefully, just doing the things they were used to doing. It just turned out Axl Rose had a poem he wanted to sing over it all, and the rest is history!
Just amazing man!!!
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AMAZING video!! Have you ever considered doing the Beatles' (actually only Paul's) Martha My Dear? Another song which originally started as a practice exercise, then evolved into a wonderful, harmonically weird little song.
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These videos you do are MIND blowing! I mean.... Fantastic observations and really good explanations! Love them :)
While at the question, what song would I personally like to be "dissected", is any song from Dimebag Darrell. He had SO many intriguing moments that it is hard to say which one song would it be...
Keep the great work up! Cheers!
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i wanna dig deep into this. i got some ideas and info though it was kinda complicated for me. thanks anyway, ive been trying to analyze this song for ages. my first problem really is, what key is this in?!
Do welcome to the jungle please? It has so much going on with all the sections of the song. Would really like to know whats happening.
In music that switches between a standard diatonic 7 tone scale, and the chromatic scale, what is the norm for notation;
To stay in the key signature for the chromatic sections, or to go to A Aeolian / C Ionian / Open signature?
I find it much easier to read chromatic sheet music if there is no tricky key signature, so I prefer to remove the key signature for that part of the music, but I still want to know what the conventions are, in case other people will have to read my notes.
You seem like a man who would know the answer.
It's actually not something I've done much of, but I think it'd depend on how long the chromatic section is. If it's just a couple bars then I'd keep the key signature, whereas if it's really long then I'd probably switch to an open one. As you say, it can be hard to track which things are "supposed" to be altered when you're not really in a key, so the key signature winds up making things more confusing instead of less, and that's never good. It's certainly not "wrong" to remove it, but I don't think it comes up often enough to have really well-defined conventions so I'd just go with whatever feels right to you based on the context.
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Brilliant!
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So many songs started out as warm-up excercises. Hotel California, Dust in the the wind
I don’t think you’re looking at the harmony the right way. The second half of each bar is 5, and your inference of a minor Vii chord doesn’t really make sense without a Cb. I think it’s better to view the melody in terms of its contrapuntal nature, it could be viewed through the scale degrees of each register to determine the harmonic motion, in which case the bottom voice would be ^1/2/4^ ^5^4^5^1 and the top would be ^1^4^3 all quite diatonic and rooted in V-I motion.
Wonderful, thank you!
Wow, cool video. I like your videos very much even although I don't really understand half of it :D Keep it up.
Thanks, I appreciate that! If you have any questions, feel free to ask and I'll do my best to make things clearer!
Great video! I always love theory.
Aw, thanks, me too!
A small question about notation. I am pretty sure they are tuning down a half step, so... I wonder if it's not more correct to write it as D major? If you don't you would logically have to rewrite all of baroque music (for example) in similarly tricky keys, since they were also tuning a half step lower. No criticism: just wondering. As some one who plays the guitar I would never think of tunes like these as having 5 flats :)
Yeah, I went back and forth on that question here. I decided that, as a theorist, it's more important which notes they're actually playing than which frets on the guitar they're using, but it could've made sense to notate it in D as well. I'm not entirely sure I made the right decision here, but I think either way works.
It's a bit of a catch 22 I guess. Or you'd have to put in a whole extra explanaition of guitar tunings. But, yes: either way works. Good practice to think in different keys. I notice you vary the keys of your examples quite a lot. I think that's a good idea. I do that with my students as well. Anyway. Good works as always.
Interesting. I wish I knew what a resolution is. Maybe you could have examplified what it would have sounded like in this particular song.
Great! Just one thing, the first part of the solo is harmonic minor, even if they are power chords you can hear the sound implied in the whole section ;)
Fair point! I tend to think of harmonic minor as mostly a variation of minor, so even though he is using the leading tone a lot I think the comparison is still fair, but you're definitely right that it's a different thing. Good catch!
Awesome analysis. Also, very clear with the notes played! I don't get most of it yet, but this is a great way to learn. (sound engineer here that does not know how to play an instrument ;))
Thanks! We generally try to keep things as clear as possible, but yeah, once you start diving into actual songs there's always gonna be confusing bits. If you have any questions, feel free to ask!
me volaste la cabeza hermano. Muy Bueno!
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It's back \o/ \o/ \o/ !!!! Where do we go now?
I've been binge watching your stuff and it's fascinating, as a guitarist who's getting deeper into theory it's useful to see it in practice. I know you've discussed modal stuff before but, do you think you could do something on Early Summer by Ryo Fukui?
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Cool, I really hate this song but your explanation for the nuts and bolts behind it was very interesting.
I like how you play examples of the notes you mention; it helps me understand the terminology better.
Thanks! Yeah, not every song is gonna be for everyone, but it's still fun to see what's going on anyway!
Great video and channel! Subscribed without hesitation. Keep up the good work! :)
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First-time watcher.. im mind blown dude
12tone: This chord is unique, because........
Slash: I just think it's cool
the rhythm guitar in the solo actually plays clean arpeggios of em - c - b7 - am. its not power chords, u can clearly hear it
very interesting, thanks
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great videos! can you study something from metallica? preferably older stuff like master of puppets or sth like that
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okey, I will! I understand that this kind of videos are very time consuming
knockin on heavens door, or... Estranged, or November Rain by GnR, that would eb great!!
I love the key the song is in.
When he sings "Where do we go now?" He was honestly just asking his band where do they go?
Brilliant.
Where do we go now?!
I’m gonna go on Patreon and ask for sappy by Nirvana.
04:37 - wait a minute... That's the opening from Tschaikowsky Piano-Concerto... It SOUNDS like it... Puzzled.
So, so over my head!!!
Now I wanna listen to GNR. Thank for steering me to good music!!!
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Do you know in what key Axl sang this song?
Ancient vid, but I would love a breakdown of a good Rush Track, like maybe La Villa Strangiato, would fit right in IMO.
2:46 the Triforce
Id love to see your take on punk music like green day or against me
first time on your channel. blown away :)
Aw, thanks!
i lost my virginity to it tbh :)
Any chance you'll explain Sultans of Swing, by Dire Straits?
My new favorite theory based RUclips channel.
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Can you please do a music theory analysis of One by Metallica?
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