Wanna know the Band-Maid formula? It's honestly kinda wild how simple it is once it clicked for me. It's a pop-punk framework; 2-3 verses to highlight lyrics/vocals, upbeat catchy chorus, short punchy solo if it's there. Thing is, where most pop-punk bands will just reinforce the framework, Band-Maid fills it completely. Dope riff-heavy intro> verse 1 splits into 2 distinct parts> ascending/descending pre-chorus> upbeat catchy chorus ALSO broken into 2 distinct parts> dope intro riff returns> verse 2 - same, but different> pre-chorus gets a small change> chorus parts get small changes> someone shreds our faces off> bridge is a huge drop for the band so Saiki can belt it> chorus parts again> Dope intro riff now dope outro riff. 80% of their songs follow the same pattern. Thing is, the pattern's absolute 🔥🔥🔥 and they always keep it fresh and different, so I ain't mad.
@@dicodec Yeah, you're gonna have trouble unhearing it now. It's the musical equivalent of handing in math homework and your teacher going "That's the right answer... I'm pretty certain you accidentally re-proved half of calculus on your way to it, but that is the correct answer 🤣"
@@payko5262 I think the only thing you missed is: Something different for the last chorus (whether new lyrics or a new part altogether, and, An abrupt finish, usually (if not always) on the fourth beat (as opposed to the first beat with a sustained note like pretty much every other band).
On the recordings, Kanami plays the keyboards and all of the guitar parts on some songs (e.g., Miku's parts on Different are played by Kanami on the recording). She then trains Miku to play the parts. They discussed that in a recent interview. Obviously, when live, the keyboards are on a backing track. Thus, for those songs, they play to a click track.
In that interview they also told that the sole purpose of their instrumental 'dont be long' (awesome bside to 'different' and also on spotify btw 😉) was to train miku to play those fast and complex chords that she has to do to deliver her part on 'different' when played/performed live. Kanami is such an awesome sensei to kobato. 🖤✌️🕊️
Only just .. soon be tomorrow in Tokyo. I think she’s the oldest with the rest to follow. Akane is said to be proficient in piano and trombone - classically trained; wonder if that can ever be incorporated into Band Maid. Still a dream for a drum battle between Akane and Nao.
Guys, I told you months ago, the best music from Band-Maid is always the next one, "After Life" is now available on Spotify, it's a taste of what's coming, peace out.
you got it. they start with heavy minor chords, then switch to an upbeat/anthemic melody come chorus, tweak the verse riffs the second time around just to make it a bit fresh to the ears, use a dropped bridge that builds up to an almost all-out final chorus, and cap it with a hard ending to keep the listener hanging and feel like wanting again and some more. the structure has served them well, and it will continue to do so because their level of musicianship elicits paying close attention and makes it a working formula. as mincho succinctly puts it, there needs to be an emotional response.
And its literally every other sound effect. I even think it was her who 'played' (triggered) those ambient jungle soundscapes during their online show yesterday. 😋
D you have to react to BAND-MAID's new single "After Life". "Different" was great but "After Life" blows it out of the water with depth charges then hits it with Exocet missiles.
That was super-fun, and shows that there doesn't have to be a video for reactions to be great! Loved it, and kudos to the person that requested this, too!
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They're such talented musicians, and they've been slipping little weird bits into all of their songs, so this time they're just laying it all down. You think you know where this song is going and the, whoops. Awesome.
The Band-Maid Formula: Step 1 - Be freakin' amazing. This song has become one of my favorites. On top of all the other elements, the vocal harmonies are downright angelic. Your fist-to-heart gesture on the chorus should become a traditional audience participation move!
LMAOOO...........You guys crack me up. Good stuff. BAND-MAID RULES!!! Ooh, they just released another new song, After Life. It's on Spotify. Don't know if they will release a video.
Can I assume you guys have watched Miku and Kanami review on "Different" + for youngguitar magazine? Kanami even talks about how she helps Miku advance her guitar skills. Having seen so many rock bands crater over the years, the warmth and closeness of them considering aside from MISA and Akane they were pretty much strangers. Early Miku stepped back and let MISA and Akane audition Saiki and rehearse with her. Showed up the day before their 1st gig with Saiki to meet her and give her, her maid outfit. Saiki stayed, even thought she has said in interviews they tricked her. I'm soooo glad they did!!
Kanami sequenced the keyboard parts. She started out on piano then picked up guitar some years later. So, Alan, you're saying that their "formula" is the use of dynamics, and not having a static mix? Mate, that's just songwriting 101. Take your listener on a journey! Have your instruments pop in and out periodically throughout the song. That's how you get the goosebumps out of your audience it also adds an element of the unexpected in a way that doesn't completely change the character of the song, or seem too jarring with a random left turn. This approach to songwriting is something that a lot of bands could learn from these ladies!
Oh yea I know, I was just explaining it for everyone. Well I thought I was 😂 When you listen to a lot from a band you start to focus on other things. I was like whoa I see what they are doing.
Did you catch the livestream concert yesterday? Amazing stuff. 2 hours, 22 + 1 songs... Akane’s birthday fun... quirky kindergarten kid behavior during breaks and then switch flipped in one second and they turn back into beasts.
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The keyboards are more than likely to be recorded by Kanami. If not her, then some studio musician. Could also be MISA or Akane as they are both piano players as well. That goofy discordant jazz riff was pretty cool.
this song is so killer - my 2nd favorite from domination right behind dice. the usual band maid changes that really makes them special. love the piped in keyboards in this.
Did you get it with the Etude piano opening. Because some of the videos of Swan song don't have the piano opening. The version with it is so much better.
Yes my trifecta, my #1 spot songs Moratorium, One and Only and the song Tora and Tora from Band-Maiko, not even kidding they are really my favorites :) Bando-Maid for Life!
I really liked this song the first time I heard it and then it just continued to grow on me. I love Kanami’s solos and was expecting your typical solo, but to her credit she knew a solo would have been really good but not really added to the song and if a solo doesn’t add anything to the song then what’s the point? So instead of playing one of her typical brief buy shredding solos, she composes the “anti-shred-solo” instead and the song is distinct and much better for it. Every time I hear it I love it more and more and it elevates the last of the song.
@@dicodec I thought the noisy one was Alain. However, recently Eric has become as noisy as he can, so it's hard to tell the difference between the two. LOL.
@@dicodec I thought the noisy one was Alain. However, recently Eric has become as noisy as he can, so it's hard to tell the difference between the two. LOL.
Check Flying High and Honey if you want to react to other songs without official videos, they're very good too...freezer is an awesome song too, to be honest every song of them is so good 😎😎😎😎
@@dicodec you can buy ticket to see archive. only 1500 yen plus maybe 2XX yen if you use paypal credit for payment. USD2x for 2 hours! I am sure you have seen many people praising it, Although it's NOT a live gig but it's worth the money, seriously!
Akane stole the song from the beginning. I've never heard her play anything like this before (or at least I've never noticed it). Kanami centers the base of the song so perfectly where the rest of the members have room to shine on anyone they wish (though it feels like a democracy on who's going to shine or share the spotlight withing each song). Each song as beautiful as the women playing them. I heard the drums on this track and wanted to see what other people thought about it, but apparently no drummers have reacted to this song sadly enough. Glad you guys covered it.
@@dicodec My impression is a lot of their guitar riffs are classic shredding. Great technical skill but lacking in some way. Basically the various groups sound very similar.
Nice song...love the jazzy vibes. But Alan, damn...no offense but you look not healthy in this..makes me wanna give you a cuddly blanket and a big mug of cammomile tea..
Wanna know the Band-Maid formula? It's honestly kinda wild how simple it is once it clicked for me.
It's a pop-punk framework; 2-3 verses to highlight lyrics/vocals, upbeat catchy chorus, short punchy solo if it's there.
Thing is, where most pop-punk bands will just reinforce the framework, Band-Maid fills it completely.
Dope riff-heavy intro> verse 1 splits into 2 distinct parts> ascending/descending pre-chorus> upbeat catchy chorus ALSO broken into 2 distinct parts> dope intro riff returns> verse 2 - same, but different> pre-chorus gets a small change> chorus parts get small changes> someone shreds our faces off> bridge is a huge drop for the band so Saiki can belt it> chorus parts again> Dope intro riff now dope outro riff.
80% of their songs follow the same pattern. Thing is, the pattern's absolute 🔥🔥🔥 and they always keep it fresh and different, so I ain't mad.
Woah i think yours is far more accurate
@@dicodec Yeah, you're gonna have trouble unhearing it now. It's the musical equivalent of handing in math homework and your teacher going "That's the right answer... I'm pretty certain you accidentally re-proved half of calculus on your way to it, but that is the correct answer 🤣"
@@payko5262 hahahhahahaha
@@payko5262 I think the only thing you missed is: Something different for the last chorus (whether new lyrics or a new part altogether, and, An abrupt finish, usually (if not always) on the fourth beat (as opposed to the first beat with a sustained note like pretty much every other band).
On the recordings, Kanami plays the keyboards and all of the guitar parts on some songs (e.g., Miku's parts on Different are played by Kanami on the recording). She then trains Miku to play the parts. They discussed that in a recent interview. Obviously, when live, the keyboards are on a backing track. Thus, for those songs, they play to a click track.
Oh wow, thanks so much for the insight! So amazing to see that Kanami is such a boss!
In that interview they also told that the sole purpose of their instrumental 'dont be long' (awesome bside to 'different' and also on spotify btw 😉) was to train miku to play those fast and complex chords that she has to do to deliver her part on 'different' when played/performed live. Kanami is such an awesome sensei to kobato. 🖤✌️🕊️
Akane Hirose 30 years young this very day❤🎊🎉🎆
YUP! 🎊🥳🎉
Only just .. soon be tomorrow in Tokyo. I think she’s the oldest with the rest to follow. Akane is said to be proficient in piano and trombone - classically trained; wonder if that can ever be incorporated into Band Maid. Still a dream for a drum battle between Akane and Nao.
@@keithsowerby8179
She says she can’t play trombone anymore.
Embouchure needs to be maintained.
@@powbobs just the piano then .. the lost art of tromboning
Yeah when i first listened to this song i had to rewind the jazzy section like 10 times lol
I don't blame you haha
Guys, I told you months ago, the best music from Band-Maid is always the next one, "After Life" is now available on Spotify, it's a taste of what's coming, peace out.
We are getting to it on wednesday! We record in batches 😁
@@dicodec Good news, Wednesday scheduled.
you got it. they start with heavy minor chords, then switch to an upbeat/anthemic melody come chorus, tweak the verse riffs the second time around just to make it a bit fresh to the ears, use a dropped bridge that builds up to an almost all-out final chorus, and cap it with a hard ending to keep the listener hanging and feel like wanting again and some more. the structure has served them well, and it will continue to do so because their level of musicianship elicits paying close attention and makes it a working formula. as mincho succinctly puts it, there needs to be an emotional response.
Yup yup!
Whenever you hear any keyboard or other sound effects, it’s all played and recorded by Kanami.
True! Ah Kanami she is such a beast! 😍😍
@@dicodec Although both MISA and Akane can also play keyboards as well, having studied them from pre-school days to high school.
And its literally every other sound effect. I even think it was her who 'played' (triggered) those ambient jungle soundscapes during their online show yesterday. 😋
@@mintomacco she created / recorded them, but I’m quite sure it’s Akane who has the PC and controls all the triggers on stage.
@@mintomacco nice!
This isn’t in my top favorite band maid songs but GODDAMIT ITS CATCHY AF!!!!
For sure!
Yup, Band Maid is a Band Maid and they are doing Band Maid stuff.
Hell yeeeaaaaaa!!!
The backing vocals thooooo
True!
Miku's sexy voice
Ahhhh This is one of my favorite song from World domination album. 2018 zepp tokyo live footage is so beautiful.
This is such a dope song
I LOVE this chorus ! think I saw a live one somewhere.
Oh really? That is awesome!
Yes it was on the 2018 zepp tokyo show
@@dicodec
Yah, guys, and that jazzy solo is actually BOTH Miku and Kanami bouncing riffs back and forth during that Zepp Tokyo performance!💪🏻🤘🏻
Kanami and her keyboard. This girl is a genius. And that jazzy bridge... nobody writes music like this nowadays. Except Band Maid.
True, Kanami is on her way to becoming a legend!
AWESOME song, I've heard it before but never really paid attention, so thanks I HEARD IT FOR SURE this time.
Heck yea!!! Good song!
D you have to react to BAND-MAID's new single "After Life". "Different" was great but "After Life" blows it out of the water with depth charges then hits it with Exocet missiles.
Wednesday we will be recording it after our Band-Maid live stream!
@@dicodec Also suggest listening to Don't Be Long. Its on Spotify along with Different
@@dicodec BAND MAID LIVE STREAM???
Lol. 🚢🌊 💣💣💣🌊 the best I got 😉
@@kasabianiks SWEEEEETTTT!
Eric's disappointment when Alan pauses the song lmao
Every time! Haha
@@dicodec Wouldn't it be great if thought bubbles existed in real life
The addition of Eric's thought balloons is right on!
Hmmmm 🤔
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Thank you!!!!!
They're such talented musicians, and they've been slipping little weird bits into all of their songs, so this time they're just laying it all down. You think you know where this song is going and the, whoops. Awesome.
Very very true!! Could not agree more!
The Band-Maid Formula:
Step 1 - Be freakin' amazing.
This song has become one of my favorites. On top of all the other elements, the vocal harmonies are downright angelic. Your fist-to-heart gesture on the chorus should become a traditional audience participation move!
Well said! 👌
LMAOOO...........You guys crack me up. Good stuff. BAND-MAID RULES!!! Ooh, they just released another new song, After Life. It's on Spotify. Don't know if they will release a video.
Who will be the first to react to this new song???
We’re on it!!
We can’t until Wednesday....
Can I assume you guys have watched Miku and Kanami review on "Different" + for youngguitar magazine? Kanami even talks about how she helps Miku advance her guitar skills. Having seen so many rock bands crater over the years, the warmth and closeness of them considering aside from MISA and Akane they were pretty much strangers. Early Miku stepped back and let MISA and Akane audition Saiki and rehearse with her. Showed up the day before their 1st gig with Saiki to meet her and give her, her maid outfit. Saiki stayed, even thought she has said in interviews they tricked her. I'm soooo glad they did!!
Oh man, that we did not know that but that is awesome!
Check out "Anemone" the album version from the same album as "One and Only"
Ok we got it down!
Anemone might be the feelziest
Yes! The keys here are fantastic, courtesy of my goddess Kanami!
One of the most catchy Band Maid song, so dope!
Stay safe.
Ah that makes a lot of sense. Kanami! 😍😍
This song is one of their hidden gems. Definitely in my top 10 songs from them when I first heard it 🤟🏼
Dope dope! A hidden gem for sure
Kanami sequenced the keyboard parts. She started out on piano then picked up guitar some years later.
So, Alan, you're saying that their "formula" is the use of dynamics, and not having a static mix? Mate, that's just songwriting 101. Take your listener on a journey! Have your instruments pop in and out periodically throughout the song. That's how you get the goosebumps out of your audience it also adds an element of the unexpected in a way that doesn't completely change the character of the song, or seem too jarring with a random left turn. This approach to songwriting is something that a lot of bands could learn from these ladies!
Oh yea I know, I was just explaining it for everyone. Well I thought I was 😂 When you listen to a lot from a band you start to focus on other things. I was like whoa I see what they are doing.
You guys are way too energetic for a Monday morning, lol!
Well luckily this was not recorded on Monday 😂
@@dicodec well its band maid the dayis not important to be honest
There's a live version of this where MISA opens the song with some funky bass stuff. You can find it on Facebook.
Dope gotta love MISA
Ow, ye, last night they released after life if I'm not mistaken,
We are going to record it on Wednesday!
@@dicodec sweet, that was rad, the instrumental that comes with Different also dope,
@@RudiTheMan nice!
"They do whatever the fuck they want...in order." That might be the quote of 2020.
😀
Did you catch the livestream concert yesterday? Amazing stuff. 2 hours, 22 + 1 songs... Akane’s birthday fun... quirky kindergarten kid behavior during breaks and then switch flipped in one second and they turn back into beasts.
Sadly we didn't but it sound like we missed out hardcore.
Live version, Zepp Tokyo 2018. It has an extended intro and you hear Miku's backing better in the mix.
Ohhhh nice!!! We will get on it!!!
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all right boys dont make me turn this car around!
Wait what? Why? Hahaha
Yes father
The keyboards are more than likely to be recorded by Kanami. If not her, then some studio musician. Could also be MISA or Akane as they are both piano players as well. That goofy discordant jazz riff was pretty cool.
I think our viewers are saying it was Kanami. She is such a beast 😍
i like this song that circus muzik sound was kool
It was very cool!
It is a dope song for sure!
You should listen to the Band-Maiko version of this song called Tora and Tora. It's got one of my favorite little moments from them.
Sure thing! 👍
@@dicodec Oh wait, if you're gonna do Band-Maiko, you should do either Gion-cho or secret MAIKO lips first to get the full Band-Maiko experience.
fun fact about Kinami, she also plays piano.
Oh wow, she is a beast!! 😍
Check out Afterlife, their new single, its awesome!
We definitely will!
this song is so killer - my 2nd favorite from domination right behind dice. the usual band maid changes that really makes them special. love the piped in keyboards in this.
This song is dope for sure!
One day a little pigeon had a dream......
That she would one day start an epic band that would dominate the world. That pigeon's dream came true!
Lots of good songs in the album.😆😆😆👍
Hell yea!!! 🤘 I just love that Jazz section
Next please react to Lovebites - Swan Song or Edge Of The World
We got it down!
Did you get it with the Etude piano opening. Because some of the videos of Swan song don't have the piano opening. The version with it is so much better.
Fuck yeah, youtube just got online and this is the first notification after the shutdown,
Woah that's wild!
Эта группа вам явно нравится! Девчонки звучали хорошо. Спасибо за реакцию!
🙏
Finally someone is delving deeper into their catalog, Freezer or Shake That please.
For sure!
Yes my trifecta, my #1 spot songs Moratorium, One and Only and the song Tora and Tora from Band-Maiko, not even kidding they are really my favorites :) Bando-Maid for Life!
Awesome! Haven't heard Tora and Tora yet but we know it's gonna be dope haha! I second your Bando-Maid for life!! 🤘
MISA!!! MISA!!!! MISA!!!!!! 🥃🥃🥃
Can't forget MISA! 😍😍
You know I'm giving you a like for this ×100👍
@@GaryHolloway-810 lol
@@GaryHolloway-810 🥃🥃🥃x💯
MISA MISA MISA!
MISA MISA MISA by the way love her instagram post too hahaha
I've always thought (and hoped) that the breakdown at 3:38 is Kanami's homage to Yes, with a Steve Howe-type guitar solo :-)
Perhaps it is!
Stock in Alan is going up.
Hahahahahhahahahaha
I really liked this song the first time I heard it and then it just continued to grow on me. I love Kanami’s solos and was expecting your typical solo, but to her credit she knew a solo would have been really good but not really added to the song and if a solo doesn’t add anything to the song then what’s the point? So instead of playing one of her typical brief buy shredding solos, she composes the “anti-shred-solo” instead and the song is distinct and much better for it. Every time I hear it I love it more and more and it elevates the last of the song.
Thanks for the reaction, whats going on with that young Santa face hair, Its outta control !
I am growing it until 100k subs
@@dicodec So hoping to chop it before you look like bigfoot ? OK I give in , have subbed
I’m guessing Akane did the keyboard. She can play it too
Truuue forgot about that!
So can Kanami. Her first instrument was piano (before guitar).
Kanami made most of their SE.
MISA also played piano starting at three years old.
Check out Fate, Honey and Turn Me On on the World Domination album
We will do it!
In Band Maiko Album, this song's name is TORA and TORA
Oh wow, we gotta check it out then.
Even though it wasn't the reaction of "Maximum the Hormone", both of them were noisy, so I didn't know which one was Eric. LOL.
What do you mean?
@@dicodec
I thought the noisy one was Alain. However, recently Eric has become as noisy as he can, so it's hard to tell the difference between the two. LOL.
@@satocalbee8857 Ahhh ok. I get it now hahahahah
@@dicodec
I thought the noisy one was Alain. However, recently Eric has become as noisy as he can, so it's hard to tell the difference between the two. LOL.
@@dicodec Thank you for your reply. I decided to remember Eric as the person wearing glasses, so don't take off your glasses! LOL.
can you imagine a live version?
Nope hahahah but we know there is one out there!
No, no, you guys have glasses metal and a beard metal 🤘🦊🤘
kidding
😭
I wish you do this live version. Much much better. You have the link already
In the email?? We will do it on twitch!
Check Flying High and Honey if you want to react to other songs without official videos, they're very good too...freezer is an awesome song too, to be honest every song of them is so good 😎😎😎😎
We are open to songs without videos because then we are the unofficial music video 😂🤘🔥
@@dicodec Then you'll be the unofficial manager or sponsor of BAND-MAID 😂
@@IamStrangreen Right hahahahaha
The keyboards are played by Kanami.
Oh wow!
Have you guys watched the live stream yesterday?
Sadly we did not 😥
@@dicodec you can buy ticket to see archive. only 1500 yen plus maybe 2XX yen if you use paypal credit for payment. USD2x for 2 hours!
I am sure you have seen many people praising it, Although it's NOT a live gig but it's worth the money, seriously!
The show was fire!
Akane stole the song from the beginning. I've never heard her play anything like this before (or at least I've never noticed it). Kanami centers the base of the song so perfectly where the rest of the members have room to shine on anyone they wish (though it feels like a democracy on who's going to shine or share the spotlight withing each song). Each song as beautiful as the women playing them. I heard the drums on this track and wanted to see what other people thought about it, but apparently no drummers have reacted to this song sadly enough. Glad you guys covered it.
it would be super sick if yall did more dir en grey
like the song uroko
Got it down! We will definitely get to some dir en grey soon!
If you doing no video songs..Listen to band maid screaming thats a good song
For sure! We plan to do as much Band-Maid as we can!
For sure we got it down!!
New subber
Welcome!!
Band-Maid - Clang should be the next...
Perhaps 🤔
Not a bad song on the album.
So far we haven’t heard one yet!
You guys should react to Faouzia in one of her stripped performances :)
We will definitely check it out!!!
Kanami can play piano
Ah I see, that makes a lot of sense
You must do react to babymetal "catch me if you can ".
We have somewhere on the channel! 🤘🦊🤘
There is no comparison to the other J-girl groups. Band-Maid has much more interesting composition creativity.
Idk about that. There is so much we have yet to hear from everywhere haha
We love a lot of the J girl groups they all have unique compositions for the most part
@@dicodec My impression is a lot of their guitar riffs are classic shredding. Great technical skill but lacking in some way. Basically the various groups sound very similar.
Nice song...love the jazzy vibes.
But Alan, damn...no offense but you look not healthy in this..makes me wanna give you a cuddly blanket and a big mug of cammomile tea..
I am just working working!
I should probably shower ..... hahaha
That might help..also you could use cucumbers on your eyes, too...they are very versatile