I'm glad you commented this because it reminded me to "keep" the chords, which I'd forgotten about - so I'll go write something new with these THANK YOU V MUCH! 🐈
I didn't know anything about Radiohead but I heard Paranoid Android on the radio and ordered OK Computer online. What I received was the Kid A disc in an OK Computer CD case and listening to it felt like the music opened a crack in my mind and let some new coloured light in that I'd never seen before. I like both albums but Kid A has always felt special to me in a way that is beyond words.
I hated the MTV buzz that surrounded radiohead during the Creep days but OK Computer sucked me right in. Although OK Computer is an obvious masterpiece that inhabits the same space as Pet Sounds, the real magic only started for me when I listened to Amnesiac and then Kid A. It was that time that I truly started to love this group of musicians.
I remember there was some wrong batch of kid A CDs as well and my mate accidentally bought one. Not sure if it was the same problem but I think it had to do something with the audio as well. (hard to remember after > 20 years :D) I think he kept it in the hope it would turn into some collector's item. Didn't see this guy for years though so I wonder if he ever sold it :D My sister had OK computer but I never really liked it much. But after hearing Pyramid song on MTV I was sold as well 😃
A new era has begun. Nin and radiohead have always been my top 2. You have such depth and I've seen some 'syncopated' analysis of many pieces by radiohead, but I am so excited to see you dipping into radiohead. Thank you.
replying to myself cause now ive finished the vid. I LOVE your appreciation for the beauty of the chords and just...idk while nin is the troubling and roaring thunder of the damages of life i feel like radiohead is the comprehension of the pain after. Still bruised, and looking outwards towards the things wrong in life rather than struggling with it internally. Its external now but that gap allows us to see the beauty and seeing your face light up highlights that. Great vid as always.
I agree. Same top 2 for sure. I've always thought that a Trent-Thom collab would be the greatest thing in the history of music. But the more I think about it, the more I think that a Trent-Jonny collab would just blow the shit out of peoples' minds.
Yesss...I always thought the line "there are 2 colors in my head" and the fact that it keeps bouncing back and forth between C and F tonal centers was sweet but I've never seen anyone else point that out ❤
Hellllllllll yes. Kid A and OK Computer are two of my favourite albums. Radiohead is such a unique band that just operates on a completely different level than anyone else. Between their compositions and lyrics, there is so much thought and depth in their music. I hope you do either or both of these records like you did with NIN; How to disappear completely, The Tourist, In Limbo, etc really all beg for your analysis.
I fucking love this channel so much. It makes me even more emotional when I hear you talk about how different parts affect you emotionally. It's like experiencing the songs for the first time all over again ❤️
Great video. As an "ear" guitar player, I never learned the music vocabulary, so appreciate your articulate breakdown. I think of this riff as a "barber pole" - type progression, that is always winding upward, with the C holding the base, and tension as the chords move away from it. Brilliant.
Today I was talking to my 7 year old daughter about this song. I told her that this is my favorite song. I've considered this my favorite song for around 20 years, I've always made the self teste for "what's my favorite song?" . It was time for her to sleep, than it was time for me to look for something new about that song. And I found this! What an amazing vídeo, with all that feeling! It's só good tô understand why, theoretically, I feel só good listening to it. Thank you so much!
I love this song… I love Radiohead and I loved to hear you say ‘you always well up’ at a certain part of Everything In It’s Right Place… I can relate, every time I listen to “Weird Fishes”/In Rainbows, I cry. Every. Damn. Time (especially after “Everyone leaves, when they get the chance.” No other song comes close to evoking this emotion in me, it’s actually a tad embarrassing. PS: learned a lot from this video. Kudos! PPS: going to see The Smile in November. Can’t wait.
This song and album was my introduction to Radiohead (and more experimental music in general) and boy was it intense. I wasn’t sure I liked it, but I knew right from the get-go that it was something worth pursuing
I will always remember the day I bought Kid A. I was working as a library page. This library had a Best Buy nearby. So during one of my breaks, I went straight to Best Buy, bought the CD, and went back to work. When I started driving home, I started playing it. I still had a ways to go when I arrived home, so I resumed the rest when I got to my room. I then listened to it once through again. I knew right then and there that this album would be very special.
A friend of mine at work lent me the cd to listen to on my headphones. "EIIRP" and the title track didn't make a big impression the first time through, but when I got to the free jazz freakouts on "National Anthem", I was like, "Holy sh**..."
I remember buying this cd the day it came out. After this song I was actually angry. I wanted it to have this killer euphoric release. And it eventually got there, but I felt so much anxiety until that point that it didn’t resolve all my anxiety. It took me several years to actually appreciate the song, and I love it now. In the opening, as soon as you mentioned the mysterious key I had a eureka moment and went, “Ahhhh! It’s actually in F and that’s why I had so much anxiety on that first listen!” I can understand the reasoning for it to be in C, but after that realization I had I don’t think I ever felt it resolve on C. F all the way! 😊 Amazing video. Thank you!
As soon as you said there was a part that makes your eyes well up, I knew which part you meant. And as the video went on, I knew that we'd agree that the chord that breaks the tension would be the key the song is in.
Straight from the off, the chord changes are absolutely obviously happening, yet there's a couple of notes that just continue throughout... Great Radiohead song to begin this new journey 😍
I love this entire album, and I'll go on and say it: *I* truly believe that this is the best opening song on about ANY album....and that's coming from someone who is one of the biggest TOOL fans ever as well!!!
Excellent analysis. Like many Radiohead songs, it sounds deceptively simple. Just a few cords....steady beat. Then you try to play it and it’s, “ummm, what’s the key?” “Wait, that’s not 4/4.” It’s like a movie that has special effects so good you don’t think about special effects. They disappear into the story. I can still remember the moment when I heard that first bar roll out of the speakers and thought, “hang on........” and walked over to the piano.
I'm a huge fan of Radiohead. I have no musical background and do not play any instruments but I find your videos fascinating. You're so spot on! You are a joy to watch. I was wondering if you have a ranking on their albums. Mine is: 1. Ok Computer 2. Kid A 3. In Rainbows 4. A Moon Shaped Pool 5. The Bends 6. Hail to the Thief 7. Amnesiac 8.Pablo Honey 9. King of Limbs Keep up the great work.
I love how you describe the feeling of the chords and notes in emotional terms like "tense" and "satisfying" and not just "dominant 7th resolving to I." As a non-trained musician this is so "yes"!
I just recently found your channel and I'm SO glad the algorithm brought you to me. Your passion for music really makes your analysis shine. And I love the vibes of your room!
I feel like mixolydian w/ a flat 6 is relatively common throughout their discography (in addition to making the tonic ambiguous, major vs minor, etc) a few of the many things that makes their music so cool!
See, I'm a language gal (I speak three fluently and know bits and pieces of a few more) who also happens to be a) autistic and b) a music lover. The way you interpreted the language that is the music of this song makes it all click in my brain. I love "Everything in Its Right Place" because it's what it feels to be misunderstood because of the differences my autistic brain makes (the discordant tunes in the climax) and what it feels to be _seemingly_ understood when I mask (the cheerful resolution at the end that still traces the chord progression). I may just be projecting here, but it helped me understand the song in a way I never had before. Thank you.
I especially love this song and Pyramid Song because it's almost as if they have no tonal center and I don't think it's unintentional. Yorke stated that Radiohead was trying to distance themselves from other up-and-coming bands that were trying to copy their style. Hence, there's very little guitar throughout Kid A, save for the ebow on Treefingers and Optimistic. I love that in Everything in It's Right Place is very ambivalent, both tonally and lyrically. The odd time signature, the use of melodic minor although one would think it is in the key of C since it starts on it. Yet it strays from that deceptive chord to a Dbmaj9, Ebmaj and then comes F, as if it were in the key of F the whole time. I'd like to think of it as technically in the key of F minor, starting on the perfect fifth, C, and rising up the scale. Also, the lyrics are so telling and expresses a lot with very little. An exercise in minimalism. Everything is said to be 'in it's right place', but it's not. It's like someone is telling you they're happy but you can garner from their facial expression that they clearly aren't.
Majority do have a guitar, its just a bit...non-guitary. But In Limbo and Morning Bell obviously do. I'd say i can't find one EIIRP, Kid A, National Anthem and Motion Picture Soundtrack. Things like how to disappear have an Ebow doubling Ondes and the clear acoustic guitar strum. And Idioteque has what is clearly an ambient guitar loop in the 'drop'.
Flamenco Heart. ixi superb analysis. I feel in the first part The C, the feel implies a flamenco style root. Implied. the last chors sequence dropping from Dbmaj7 to the top. If one were to play Dbma7/C. or Cb9 sus4 aug5...very flamencoish. Afeel that it never is but is always there.. Flameco I and the b9. such a comfort place for Flamenco. Great work. Highly recommended!!
I loved your NiN study, but I'm bursting with urgent crunchy anticipation and baited breath wondering how deep you're going to swan dive into the sea of incredible tapestries that the boys of the heady radio have weaved, and keep weaving. (This is coming from that guy who has waked up every morning for the last two years to the ringtone of Radiohead's "Daydreaming"). I know you won't disappoint. Even if you don't go further into their catalog, I always look forward to your next video.
Yes yes yes!!!! Omg you are making my dreams come true!!! Edit: those interval graphics were really helpful! Did you make them? Any way you could link to them please?
The ones with the colors/shapes? I just made them for this video but I'll see about making a sheet. When I teach, I like to help the student associate their own colors/shapes/textures to help recall the intervals when they hear them.
I was thinking the same. Looking at the shapes really helps turn very complex and diverse information to a simple graphic. A bit like sparklines. Loved it
I subscribe to very few channels, but after watching your Tori Amos video I was pretty sure I was going to subscribe...hearing you sing "There are two tonics in my head..." made me hit the button :) Great vids, thanks!
@@iximusic you are the best! your music taste is awesome; I've listened to a LOT of Nine Inch Nails's The Downward Spiral and Broken on my teenage years, but stoped....only until I found your videos, since then, I listen to Downward Spiral at least once every day, understand this songs made me listen to them like is was the first time; Thank your for that and for making top tier free musical education content; I hope you know that you help a lot of people from third world countries, like me, who have almost nothing like this in the native language!
Best thing about music is the memories. This song is my son’s influence on me. I thank my mama for her love of music that has trickled through our entire family.
Holy shit yes! I remember getting it on release day and hoping it was going to be a big departure from OK Computer, and that's exactly what I got. A couple of my friends who came with me to the store were also fans of Radiohead, although not as nuts as I was, and they were definitely confused at first. This album hit me in exactly the right spot.
I don't know if anyone has so succinctly and clearly explained to me why I feel the range of emotions when listening to a piece of music. Moved to tears; incredible video.
this might be the best analysis of a song for intermediate level players i've seen on youtube. usually you get chords progressions, key changes and scales handed to you without the details on how they came to the conclusion.
That was so great! Kid A is one of my favorite Radiohead albums and I never quite put my finger on why, but this video helped a lot. It takes a lot to get this drummer to fall off the pulse of the song, but this song does it. Excellent work!
I know absolutely nothing about the theory and contruction of music but, your breakdown was really fascintating. This song has always elicited an intense reaction in me and to know a little bit more as to why was really interesting.
If there was one song I could have wished for you to analyze, it would be this one, truly. Thank you, maestra! I am immediately pulled back to 2001 whenever I hear this song, and whatever substances I had in my system while listening to this on repeat. Magic.
Late to the party on this one but what a great analysis of a great piece of music. I admire your talent so much, but the genius it takes to actually create it in the first place is astounding to me. I never knew why this song affected me the way it does and now I know. Burn the Witch elicits a similar response and I’m now curious if there are similarities in the chord progressions or tonic ambiguities?
Burn The Witch also seems to bounce between 2 tonal centers so that could be what you're feeling! I believe the music Radiohead makes feels like magic (obviously) and is totally genius at times but I also don't want my crazy deep analysis of it to make it seem like you have to be superhuman to make something like this! The short version of this video would be me saying "it's 4 chords with a jazzy rhythm" and that would also be accurate ;)
thank you so much for doing these videos. they shed light on some questions Ive had about these beloved songs for as long s Ive heard them. as you describe the emotional quality that comes from these moments its funny how I have always felt the same way too. it amazes me how universal the clarity of communication through music can be.
this is interesting because, the lyrics are saying exactly how you're describing the harmony. music noob here, i love hearing someone talk about harmony haha!
I love your passion coming through as you explain the music. Amazing that just a single chord can produce such a stirring in our soul. Music is so powerful! Thank you for this.
Thank you for such impressive insights on the song that embodied the peaking of modern music. It is the ultimate expressionist song: lyrics will tell you that everything is in its right place, but music convinces you of the opposite. Samples and other effects add so much emotion to the tune that you realize that machines are making the song more human. Similar to many other RH songs, this one is ultimately Orwellian: like the main character in 1984, you only reach inner peace when you finally give in to the pressure that is crushing you.
You have such great metaphors for explaining the feel of intervals! This often seems like something you either just get or not intuitively, but I think your explanations do a nice job of trying to explain these feelings for people who don’t grasp them intuitively.
I love your way to talk about my favourite music !! You're also the only one who can correlate the music and lyrics like that... Very original. I never saw it that way before
I love this video. I feel like another “unheard” tonic is G# major especially in the part that keeps going to that Db chord. It sounds to me like the Db is functioning as the IV of something…and it builds up to F major as it would to Fminor (A common chord progression w modal mixture of minor and major). So if one did that Db major7 chord , it almost sounds like it wants to go to that unheard I of g#
I feel like C is the key Thom feels drawn to through most of the song and can't get away from, but F is where everything is truly in its right place.
Yeah, his whole melody is definitely in C Phrygian but the instrumental is trying to pull him away from that scale he's holding onto
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@@Spectre0799 lmao I don’t even know how many times it’s been now
The song is "officially" notated with 4 flats...
"I messed those chords up, but I like them, so I'm gonna keep them". Words to live by.
I'm glad you commented this because it reminded me to "keep" the chords, which I'd forgotten about - so I'll go write something new with these THANK YOU V MUCH! 🐈
@@iximusic Haha, awesome! 🙂
"No mistakes, just happy accidents".
Wiser words were never spoken.
I didn't know anything about Radiohead but I heard Paranoid Android on the radio and ordered OK Computer online. What I received was the Kid A disc in an OK Computer CD case and listening to it felt like the music opened a crack in my mind and let some new coloured light in that I'd never seen before. I like both albums but Kid A has always felt special to me in a way that is beyond words.
its like it chose you 😫😫😫
I hated the MTV buzz that surrounded radiohead during the Creep days but OK Computer sucked me right in. Although OK Computer is an obvious masterpiece that inhabits the same space as Pet Sounds, the real magic only started for me when I listened to Amnesiac and then Kid A. It was that time that I truly started to love this group of musicians.
I remember there was some wrong batch of kid A CDs as well and my mate accidentally bought one. Not sure if it was the same problem but I think it had to do something with the audio as well. (hard to remember after > 20 years :D)
I think he kept it in the hope it would turn into some collector's item. Didn't see this guy for years though so I wonder if he ever sold it :D
My sister had OK computer but I never really liked it much. But after hearing Pyramid song on MTV I was sold as well 😃
a blessing in disguise
A new era has begun. Nin and radiohead have always been my top 2. You have such depth and I've seen some 'syncopated' analysis of many pieces by radiohead, but I am so excited to see you dipping into radiohead. Thank you.
replying to myself cause now ive finished the vid. I LOVE your appreciation for the beauty of the chords and just...idk while nin is the troubling and roaring thunder of the damages of life i feel like radiohead is the comprehension of the pain after. Still bruised, and looking outwards towards the things wrong in life rather than struggling with it internally. Its external now but that gap allows us to see the beauty and seeing your face light up highlights that. Great vid as always.
Both Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails appeal to the same parts of the brain. If someone likes one but not the other, they probably need an introduction.
I agree. Same top 2 for sure. I've always thought that a Trent-Thom collab would be the greatest thing in the history of music. But the more I think about it, the more I think that a Trent-Jonny collab would just blow the shit out of peoples' minds.
@@sagittated throw bjork in and we got a party!
Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails and Pink Floyd are my top 3
Urgh… The chord progressions in this song. I can’t. Just stunning.
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I can’t get enough Radiohead analysis. Lovely to hear yours which is so informative. Beautiful playing and vocals thanks
It’s so satisfying to here some explanation as to why I love this song so much. There are two understandings in my head.
Yesss...I always thought the line "there are 2 colors in my head" and the fact that it keeps bouncing back and forth between C and F tonal centers was sweet but I've never seen anyone else point that out ❤
I love how even when you don't post about NIN, you still manage to hit the nail on the head on other music I love.
Hellllllllll yes. Kid A and OK Computer are two of my favourite albums. Radiohead is such a unique band that just operates on a completely different level than anyone else. Between their compositions and lyrics, there is so much thought and depth in their music. I hope you do either or both of these records like you did with NIN; How to disappear completely, The Tourist, In Limbo, etc really all beg for your analysis.
Did you like Amnesiac?
I fucking love this channel so much. It makes me even more emotional when I hear you talk about how different parts affect you emotionally. It's like experiencing the songs for the first time all over again ❤️
Great video. As an "ear" guitar player, I never learned the music vocabulary, so appreciate your articulate breakdown. I think of this riff as a "barber pole" - type progression, that is always winding upward, with the C holding the base, and tension as the chords move away from it. Brilliant.
Today I was talking to my 7 year old daughter about this song. I told her that this is my favorite song. I've considered this my favorite song for around 20 years, I've always made the self teste for "what's my favorite song?" . It was time for her to sleep, than it was time for me to look for something new about that song. And I found this! What an amazing vídeo, with all that feeling! It's só good tô understand why, theoretically, I feel só good listening to it. Thank you so much!
I love this song… I love Radiohead and I loved to hear you say ‘you always well up’ at a certain part of Everything In It’s Right Place… I can relate, every time I listen to “Weird Fishes”/In Rainbows, I cry.
Every. Damn. Time (especially after “Everyone leaves, when they get the chance.”
No other song comes close to evoking this emotion in me, it’s actually a tad embarrassing. PS: learned a lot from this video. Kudos!
PPS: going to see The Smile in November. Can’t wait.
I get emotional at that same moment! Lyrics can really push things over the edge.
LOVED The Smile's record. Have a great time!
On this topic - I'd love to see you discuss why Motion Picture Soundtrack seems to elicit such an emotional response from so many people@@iximusic
This song and album was my introduction to Radiohead (and more experimental music in general) and boy was it intense. I wasn’t sure I liked it, but I knew right from the get-go that it was something worth pursuing
I will always remember the day I bought Kid A. I was working as a library page. This library had a Best Buy nearby. So during one of my breaks, I went straight to Best Buy, bought the CD, and went back to work. When I started driving home, I started playing it. I still had a ways to go when I arrived home, so I resumed the rest when I got to my room. I then listened to it once through again. I knew right then and there that this album would be very special.
A friend of mine at work lent me the cd to listen to on my headphones. "EIIRP" and the title track didn't make a big impression the first time through, but when I got to the free jazz freakouts on "National Anthem", I was like, "Holy sh**..."
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You made me literally laugh out loud. Thank you muchly for covering this song, it’s one of my favourite Radiohead tracks.
You are very good at describing how music theory creates specific emotional responses!
I remember buying this cd the day it came out. After this song I was actually angry. I wanted it to have this killer euphoric release. And it eventually got there, but I felt so much anxiety until that point that it didn’t resolve all my anxiety.
It took me several years to actually appreciate the song, and I love it now.
In the opening, as soon as you mentioned the mysterious key I had a eureka moment and went, “Ahhhh! It’s actually in F and that’s why I had so much anxiety on that first listen!”
I can understand the reasoning for it to be in C, but after that realization I had I don’t think I ever felt it resolve on C.
F all the way! 😊
Amazing video. Thank you!
As soon as you said there was a part that makes your eyes well up, I knew which part you meant. And as the video went on, I knew that we'd agree that the chord that breaks the tension would be the key the song is in.
Your emotional reaction at 13:00 (which I feel as well).....dayum! Totally fell in love with you right there. ❤ You are a gorgeous person.
Straight from the off, the chord changes are absolutely obviously happening, yet there's a couple of notes that just continue throughout...
Great Radiohead song to begin this new journey 😍
I love this entire album, and I'll go on and say it: *I* truly believe that this is the best opening song on about ANY album....and that's coming from someone who is one of the biggest TOOL fans ever as well!!!
Excellent analysis. Like many Radiohead songs, it sounds deceptively simple. Just a few cords....steady beat. Then you try to play it and it’s, “ummm, what’s the key?” “Wait, that’s not 4/4.” It’s like a movie that has special effects so good you don’t think about special effects. They disappear into the story. I can still remember the moment when I heard that first bar roll out of the speakers and thought, “hang on........” and walked over to the piano.
The way you articulate every minute detail exactly right, I can't even. It's a thing.
Last time I saw Radiohead in concert (the year A Moon Shaped pool came out) they played this song, it was awesome.
I'm a huge fan of Radiohead.
I have no musical background and do not play any instruments but I find your videos fascinating. You're so spot on! You are a joy to watch. I was wondering if you have a ranking on their albums.
Mine is:
1. Ok Computer
2. Kid A
3. In Rainbows
4. A Moon Shaped Pool
5. The Bends
6. Hail to the Thief
7. Amnesiac
8.Pablo Honey
9. King of Limbs
Keep up the great work.
Wow, that was an impeccable breakdown that really did justice to the song. A bit emotional watching how similarly it's touched you too!
There are some fascinating chords in Radiohead, very mysterious.
I love how you describe the feeling of the chords and notes in emotional terms like "tense" and "satisfying" and not just "dominant 7th resolving to I." As a non-trained musician this is so "yes"!
holy crap, this is legit the one radiohead track i absolutely needed you to break down!
I just recently found your channel and I'm SO glad the algorithm brought you to me. Your passion for music really makes your analysis shine. And I love the vibes of your room!
I'd say it's in F considering bVI - bVII - I is one of the most common modal mixture progressions, it just doesn't resolve every time
I feel like mixolydian w/ a flat 6 is relatively common throughout their discography (in addition to making the tonic ambiguous, major vs minor, etc) a few of the many things that makes their music so cool!
You're probably right! I'm hoping to find out soon some of these "trends" by studying more of their songs.
Love it. Looking forward to more videos. These are great so thank you for making them!
This is so interesting to watch. I love Radiohead, especially the piano intro in Spectre.
See, I'm a language gal (I speak three fluently and know bits and pieces of a few more) who also happens to be a) autistic and b) a music lover. The way you interpreted the language that is the music of this song makes it all click in my brain. I love "Everything in Its Right Place" because it's what it feels to be misunderstood because of the differences my autistic brain makes (the discordant tunes in the climax) and what it feels to be _seemingly_ understood when I mask (the cheerful resolution at the end that still traces the chord progression). I may just be projecting here, but it helped me understand the song in a way I never had before. Thank you.
I especially love this song and Pyramid Song because it's almost as if they have no tonal center and I don't think it's unintentional. Yorke stated that Radiohead was trying to distance themselves from other up-and-coming bands that were trying to copy their style. Hence, there's very little guitar throughout Kid A, save for the ebow on Treefingers and Optimistic. I love that in Everything in It's Right Place is very ambivalent, both tonally and lyrically. The odd time signature, the use of melodic minor although one would think it is in the key of C since it starts on it. Yet it strays from that deceptive chord to a Dbmaj9, Ebmaj and then comes F, as if it were in the key of F the whole time. I'd like to think of it as technically in the key of F minor, starting on the perfect fifth, C, and rising up the scale. Also, the lyrics are so telling and expresses a lot with very little. An exercise in minimalism. Everything is said to be 'in it's right place', but it's not. It's like someone is telling you they're happy but you can garner from their facial expression that they clearly aren't.
Majority do have a guitar, its just a bit...non-guitary. But In Limbo and Morning Bell obviously do. I'd say i can't find one EIIRP, Kid A, National Anthem and Motion Picture Soundtrack. Things like how to disappear have an Ebow doubling Ondes and the clear acoustic guitar strum. And Idioteque has what is clearly an ambient guitar loop in the 'drop'.
YESS one of my all time favorite songs ever honestly! So mystical and hypnotizing!
One of the songs that made me pick back up piano when I was in high school, along with the Still stuff and Linkin Park. 😁
Flamenco Heart. ixi superb analysis. I feel in the first part The C, the feel implies a flamenco style root. Implied. the last chors sequence dropping from Dbmaj7 to the top. If one were to play Dbma7/C. or Cb9 sus4 aug5...very flamencoish. Afeel that it never is but is always there.. Flameco I and the b9. such a comfort place for Flamenco. Great work. Highly recommended!!
I loved your NiN study, but I'm bursting with urgent crunchy anticipation and baited breath wondering how deep you're going to swan dive into the sea of incredible tapestries that the boys of the heady radio have weaved, and keep weaving. (This is coming from that guy who has waked up every morning for the last two years to the ringtone of Radiohead's "Daydreaming"). I know you won't disappoint. Even if you don't go further into their catalog, I always look forward to your next video.
I Will.
Yes yes yes!!!!
Omg you are making my dreams come true!!!
Edit: those interval graphics were really helpful! Did you make them? Any way you could link to them please?
The ones with the colors/shapes? I just made them for this video but I'll see about making a sheet. When I teach, I like to help the student associate their own colors/shapes/textures to help recall the intervals when they hear them.
I was thinking the same. Looking at the shapes really helps turn very complex and diverse information to a simple graphic. A bit like sparklines. Loved it
@@astrolopitekos helpful for memorization, it's vague and nebulous enough to leave an impression to recall instead of something to try and remember.
@@iximusic yessss. Maybe include a few seconds of the chord shapes used in each vid at the end?
I subscribe to very few channels, but after watching your Tori Amos video I was pretty sure I was going to subscribe...hearing you sing "There are two tonics in my head..." made me hit the button :) Great vids, thanks!
I'm SO happy that you attended for my suggestion on your post
Can I tell you a secret? I knew I'd analyze this song from the day I was born.
@@iximusic you are the best! your music taste is awesome;
I've listened to a LOT of Nine Inch Nails's The Downward Spiral and Broken on my teenage years, but stoped....only until I found your videos, since then, I listen to Downward Spiral at least once every day, understand this songs made me listen to them like is was the first time;
Thank your for that and for making top tier free musical education content; I hope you know that you help a lot of people from third world countries, like me, who have almost nothing like this in the native language!
Best thing about music is the memories. This song is my son’s influence on me. I thank my mama for her love of music that has trickled through our entire family.
I really like the little drawings of the different intervals. Visualizing sounds like that really helps synesthesia folks. Fantastic work
Great initiative
The first time i heard this song i was absolutely floored. Really interesting to see what makes the song feel the way it does
Holy shit yes! I remember getting it on release day and hoping it was going to be a big departure from OK Computer, and that's exactly what I got. A couple of my friends who came with me to the store were also fans of Radiohead, although not as nuts as I was, and they were definitely confused at first. This album hit me in exactly the right spot.
13:26 Technically the chord is an Eb add 9 if you added the major 7 (D) then it would be a Ebmaj9
I don't know if anyone has so succinctly and clearly explained to me why I feel the range of emotions when listening to a piece of music. Moved to tears; incredible video.
Not only are the chord progressions brilliant, but the minimalist vocal melody and amazing analogish synth sound makes the song achingly irresistible.
0:05 "Olé!" 😁
For me a great example of that resolution is Warmest regards by Half Moon Run. That ascension gets me every time...
OH SHIT you already are doing Radiohead!!!! Thank you!!!
this might be the best analysis of a song for intermediate level players i've seen on youtube.
usually you get chords progressions, key changes and scales handed to you without the details on how they came to the conclusion.
God, I love the fist pump at 13:56
I was right there with ya 👏
That was so great! Kid A is one of my favorite Radiohead albums and I never quite put my finger on why, but this video helped a lot. It takes a lot to get this drummer to fall off the pulse of the song, but this song does it. Excellent work!
I know absolutely nothing about the theory and contruction of music but, your breakdown was really fascintating. This song has always elicited an intense reaction in me and to know a little bit more as to why was really interesting.
WTF! Dude, this is my new favourite channel! Amazing work
If there was one song I could have wished for you to analyze, it would be this one, truly. Thank you, maestra! I am immediately pulled back to 2001 whenever I hear this song, and whatever substances I had in my system while listening to this on repeat. Magic.
Late to the party on this one but what a great analysis of a great piece of music. I admire your talent so much, but the genius it takes to actually create it in the first place is astounding to me. I never knew why this song affected me the way it does and now I know. Burn the Witch elicits a similar response and I’m now curious if there are similarities in the chord progressions or tonic ambiguities?
Burn The Witch also seems to bounce between 2 tonal centers so that could be what you're feeling! I believe the music Radiohead makes feels like magic (obviously) and is totally genius at times but I also don't want my crazy deep analysis of it to make it seem like you have to be superhuman to make something like this! The short version of this video would be me saying "it's 4 chords with a jazzy rhythm" and that would also be accurate ;)
Brilliant video. I watched the Airbag one first and I’d even send that to Radiohead fans who aren’t musicians!
You get better and better and better. Thank you!
thank you so much for doing these videos. they shed light on some questions Ive had about these beloved songs for as long s Ive heard them. as you describe the emotional quality that comes from these moments its funny how I have always felt the same way too. it amazes me how universal the clarity of communication through music can be.
great ! thank you , you are so good at this analizing songs , piano is so much fun , I love your approch and fun attitude , merci
I just found your channel and I gotta say these videos are giving me life in this cold and dreary northwest winter.
hmm now i'm hoping for some Bjork...! been a while since i listened to this album- thanks for reminding me it's great!
yas Björk!
There you go, after everything you've already done for us, making life on this earth with these artists just THAT MUCH BETTER STILL.
That makes life worth living.
hell yes! smartest musician teaching me more about some of the greatest stuff
thank you Ixi! you rule!
Radiohead ON DECK!!!
Here I am again, catching up on ixi and yes, I love this song SO much
I watch all of your videos in front of the piano
9ths are why I love my jazz voicings
This was great, thank you.
this is interesting because, the lyrics are saying exactly how you're describing the harmony. music noob here, i love hearing someone talk about harmony haha!
Keep em coming. I love you.
YES! ixi is back and she's tackling Radiohead! Thank you ixi, and I hope you're doing great. :)
I love your passion coming through as you explain the music. Amazing that just a single chord can produce such a stirring in our soul. Music is so powerful! Thank you for this.
I love your shirt, and the videotape riff knocked my socks off, thank-you!
Thank you for such impressive insights on the song that embodied the peaking of modern music. It is the ultimate expressionist song: lyrics will tell you that everything is in its right place, but music convinces you of the opposite. Samples and other effects add so much emotion to the tune that you realize that machines are making the song more human. Similar to many other RH songs, this one is ultimately Orwellian: like the main character in 1984, you only reach inner peace when you finally give in to the pressure that is crushing you.
Your personality and how much you love music is super fun and engaging. Great teacher, thanks!
Love this song and video! Makes me think of winter.
Oh my goodness x I’m so so glad i happened across this xxx THANK YOU ❤❤
Gr8 video 😘 as always xx
You have such great metaphors for explaining the feel of intervals! This often seems like something you either just get or not intuitively, but I think your explanations do a nice job of trying to explain these feelings for people who don’t grasp them intuitively.
I'm really glad to hear that! I'm hoping to bridge that gap. :)
WHAT. OH I am SOOO excited about this.
I love your way to talk about my favourite music !! You're also the only one who can correlate the music and lyrics like that... Very original. I never saw it that way before
Wow! Brilliant explanation of this masterpiece. So informative to an always learning non musician. Thanks.
Amazing in-depth analysis. Would love to see you play a cover if it!
You're back! Also, there are new tricks on the editing, like a different font.
your channel is amazing
I love this video. I feel like another “unheard” tonic is G# major especially in the part that keeps going to that Db chord. It sounds to me like the Db is functioning as the IV of something…and it builds up to F major as it would to Fminor (A common chord progression w modal mixture of minor and major). So if one did that Db major7 chord , it almost sounds like it wants to go to that unheard I of g#
You just got a new subscriber, this is pure gold!! ❤
Hell yeah! This is my favorite Radiohead song. So glad you decided to analyze it!!😁😁
My all time fave Radiohead song! Great analysis.
'It's just being dissonant for kicks' 😄
I LOVE this type of analisys. THANK YOUU
Such a beautiful video ixi
Love this song, absolutely love this breakdown!
Wonderful analysis Ixi! Imagine a collab between Trent Reznor and Thom Yorke. What delicious music would come out