@@Sanctifiers Ben Mason Hey thanks, man! I'm €50k deep into my education, but boy did you manage to convince me all of it is wrong.. All jokes aside, you might want to look deeper into what the word "theory" means and how it's applied in a scientific context..
Absolutely nuts to think that a dude wrote a piece of music in a clay table, and his tune would end up being transmitted to 500k random people all across the globe, by a Canadian samurai with a bun, through a communication platform he couldn't even conceive by that time, 3400 fucking years after
Dude we all think they played light hearted type stuff or yk etc. But what if (since they had 9 string stuff etc. Djent) what if they were really metalheads?! I mean alot of old civilizations were cannibals and stuff. Is it really that far fetched to believe that they could have invented metal
Sammy G uses a time machine to bring the writer of this song to the present. He then starts pouring his soul into his guitar, trying to do the song justice, to impress this kindred spirit, this brother in music. The song writer watches on, transfixed. Sammy G finally finishes, a single bead of sweat rolling down to his brow, brought on by the sheer musical energy he poured into playing. He then looks up at the song writer, hoping their souls understood eachother through the millennia. The song writer starts screaming in sheer terror of Sammy G's magic noise box. I'm going to bed now.
Just think about the fact that who ever wrote that song probably wasn't expecting that thousands of years later his piece would be featured on something called a youtube.
That was really deeply touching to connect with a totally different old human culture and honour them & their music by sharing it with our current ears and passing on their legacy.
As we wonder what exactly they heard on the lyre, we can now wonder what they would think of sammy g’s Strat with the delay on it. Probably blow their mind a bit.
If you believe that humans go somewhere after we die, then it's impossible not to imagine that whoever wrote this song 3400 years ago, is overjoyed that their song is remembered and replayed even today. I think the message here, is that you should never be afraid to express yourself creatively, you don't know if the archaeologists and historians of the future will uncover something you made.
If history has taught me anything, is that the invidual who wrote the melody most certainly got told how the music of the older times was much more real and emotional than this new crap
Selene Moon One of my favorite quotes talks about the upcoming generation lacks morals, taste and responsibility. It’s my favorite because it’s from Socrates and from thousands of years ago but sounds exactly like how middle aged folks talk about the youth today.
Several thousand years from now, a team of musicologists and archaeologists finds out that this was exactly how it was supposed to played. Down to the model of guitar and amp.
More interesting than instruments with more strings on it than what is typically on said instrument? I dont think so, this dude didn't even acknowledge that memes exist.
Imagine how the author of this melody would have felt if he/she would have known their music would have been played thousands of years later. How awesome! Great video.
The total world human population at the time the tablet was made was around 50 million people spread out everywhere. The city of Ugarit was 7500 people. The largest cities in the world were Uruk and Thebes with only 10x that population. This video has more views than a person of that time could possibly conceive of.
As a history nerd & aspiring archaeologist/museum curator, thanks for showcasing this! Michael Levy & Ensemble de Organographia have also "covered" (reconstructed) this song. PS. FEAR THE SEA PEOPLE!
They wouldnt like the old sumerian laws... An eye for an eye.... So what would the modern day equivelant be? "You stole my music, now I have the right to steal yours"...?
You say it was the goddess of orchards? Well, riddle me this- since playing that corrupted version of the hymn, have you received even a single ancient apple from an ancient apple orchard? I thought not.
@Chuck Wettish i was making a joke, yeah. He said in the video he didn't think he'd been cursed by any ancient goddesses, and i was just pointing out that a goddess of orchards probably wouldn't do much to affect him in everyday life
Wow! Your rendition of the hymn is simply beautiful! The goddess will surely bless you for your loving recreation of her sacred music. Thanks for sharing your composition/performance talent with all of us who are only gifted with the ability to hear deeply.
Tired Bro there is no godess nikkal there was fallen angels who led to deception the REAL GOD JESUS GOT ANGRY AND THEN FLOODED THE WHOLE EARTH in 1557 100 years after this tune was written and played! YHVH JESUS IS A JEALOUS GOD HIS FIRST COMMAND THOU SHALL HAVE NO OTHER GOD BEFORE ME !
if I'm not mistaken, the twelve tone scale hadn't even been invented at that time. They would have been using a 10 tone scale, or something even stranger, which would make it barely recognizable as music to our modern ears, and harmonies would be almost impossible.
I think they knew of it just to change chords they would have to retune the strings of their instruments. Being able to play different octaves without tuning didnt come about until the medieval renaissance 14 or 15 hundreds with the piano.
Syria (Mesopotamia, more broadly) is one of the cradles of civilisation, with so much history and culture to be proud of. I truly hope that Syria and all of Mesopotamia finds peace and can forge a new identity which embraces its tremendous historical legacy whilst being diverse and inclusive of all faiths and ethnic groups.
i used to listen to this piece when it first came out, my granddad used to say that no one will care about this music now, 3400 years later and we are still jamming to this
What a wonderful thought that an artist can be given new life through reinterpretation of their art after so many years! Of course, they'd think you were a witch or a god...but still...super cool.
samuraiguitarist turns sumerianguitarist
Funny.
Hahahaha Good one!
It's a Hurrian inscription, not a Sumerian one.
@@ratatatuff HurrianGuitarist
@@relyksdjoser6429 Now that you say it, I guess the OP just used "sumerian" to make it an alliteration to "samurai". But well ^^
PLEASE: Do more videos like this!
This piece is beautiful and you play it with such passion. The Goddess would be appease.
You did that hymn justice, I believe that the gods are pleased
My dog likes to sing when I play guitar. A few weeks ago, I noticed during a song she knows, she was changing pitch a bit with the melody!!!
*This is a great video- You Rock!! #KeepItUp
Excellent video.
I really want this song to listen to now
4:49 the beginning of this song kind of sounds like the intro to Fight Fire With Fire
amazing and inspiring, the goddess would be pleased.
This was really freakin cool
Damn kids and their hurrian hymns.
Cave-chillpop
That sounds pretty!
Another instant hit!
Thanks, really interesting.
Imagine if the tablet was inscribed "Here's wonderwall"
And during Wonderwall the Full House theme plays during the middle of it
A Neil Ciecierega fan - a man of culture
Well thank you
or through the fire and the flames
It's then accompanied by the intro of "Smoke on Water"
Imagine him getting copyright stricken by Sony for some fricking reason
Already happened
@@Laeshen what?
@@byazura9824 sony copywrote a 1500 year old melody
@@Laeshen please tell me you have a source?
That would suck
Imagine finding out how it was supposed to sound and it turns out to be the melody of never gonna give you up
Max Goß a 3,400 year old Rick Roll would be quite the achievement.
@@KMA-sm4oh i dont think anyone would be mad
The actual tune goes:
"I like you! You like me! Here's some crop, please don't eat me!"
Best rock roll
How does that one go
As an archaeology student, i'll make sure to use "monkey human" in any future papers i write haha. Great video!
just fyi, Darwinian evolution is a theory. Change of kinds evolution has never been empirically observed. Only adaptation has been observed.
@@Sanctifiers look up the difference between Theory and Hypothesis.
@@Sanctifiers Ben Mason Hey thanks, man! I'm €50k deep into my education, but boy did you manage to convince me all of it is wrong..
All jokes aside, you might want to look deeper into what the word "theory" means and how it's applied in a scientific context..
Ben Mason also it has been observed with bacteria, and even fish.
Good luck with your shovel bumming for CRM ;)
can you imagine how many Amorite-Canaanite girls you could have by playing that song at the Agarit Acropolis? dudeee!!!
Omg those Canaanite girls are craaazy😎
@@JaMeshuggah sorry yall minoa is where its attt. we on an island and shit
??! What are these words...
They would lay with you so hard
Forgetful y’all got a minotaur, you have bigger problems than anyone
The generation before the person who wrote this original piece of music, are going to complain and say that their cavemen music was better than this
Soooo true
Hey i have seen you somewhere.
The chest beating and grunting was much better back in the cave I grew up in.
Just not enough feel as there was in the caves man
Filthy Frank has a great caveman tune.
I’m surprised that the earliest known melody wasn’t 0-3-5
It was around. They just weren't allowed to chisel it onto tablets or people would come by and break their stone.
Smoke on the Water is in G, Bruiser! I'm getting so sick of seeing ppl drop this shorthand all over the comments like they're clever.🙄
@@lueysixty-six7300 oh no, I think that went 0-3-3-5-5-8-7-8-7-5-5-3-3 ;-)
@@tommytomthms5 HAHAHAHAHA!! 👏You're so clever, and funny too!
@@lueysixty-six7300 don't know what you mean, I regularly tune to G Standard
"I am a big harp"
"You are not a big harp"
"Are you calling me a Lyre"
Jan Brüggemann this comment is my life now
If this were reddit I'd give you a gold
This is too good
why does this sound like a line from hot fuzz?!
Hmm I've always pronounced it "lee-ruh". How is it actually pronounced?
It’s a lot easier for me to sacrifice sheep nowadays.
Kids these days don’t know how easy they have it when sacrificing goats
Today, we can just buy sheep from the supermarket.
*somewhere in Indonesia*
Yo wtf is that giant eyeball in the sky
😂
I don't get the joke.
can someone please explain the joke? i don’t get it...
They're suggesting it's some ancient ritual to summon an otherworldly creature, e.g. the eye of cthulu from terraria
No pussy music in the blue torpedo
Absolutely nuts to think that a dude wrote a piece of music in a clay table, and his tune would end up being transmitted to 500k random people all across the globe, by a Canadian samurai with a bun, through a communication platform he couldn't even conceive by that time, 3400 fucking years after
People still playing your music 3400 years later
Talk about a timeless classic
Heh
More than likely it's the original Stairway To Heaven...
Or Jimmy Page stole Stairway from here
jimmy page really copied off this iconic piece 😔
WRONG! first lick kinda~ ROUNDABOUT!!!
Ironically, the Mesopotamian ziggurat was a stairway to heaven.
@@lryoung3655 An inspired reply...Awesome !!!
9 string instruments in the first human civilizations? Djent really is the oldest art form.
But could they play Smoke on the water?
Steevie T lived more than nine lives.
Little did we know, the world’s oldest melody is
0-00-0-000-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-00-0-000-00
Dude we all think they played light hearted type stuff or yk etc. But what if (since they had 9 string stuff etc. Djent) what if they were really metalheads?! I mean alot of old civilizations were cannibals and stuff. Is it really that far fetched to believe that they could have invented metal
"art form"
Sammy G uses a time machine to bring the writer of this song to the present. He then starts pouring his soul into his guitar, trying to do the song justice, to impress this kindred spirit, this brother in music.
The song writer watches on, transfixed.
Sammy G finally finishes, a single bead of sweat rolling down to his brow, brought on by the sheer musical energy he poured into playing. He then looks up at the song writer, hoping their souls understood eachother through the millennia.
The song writer starts screaming in sheer terror of Sammy G's magic noise box.
I'm going to bed now.
underated fanfic
Hurrian #1: How many lyre players does it take to change a light bulb?
Hurrian #2: A what?
Milbrandt underrated joke
Hurrian #3: he said “a light bulb”. LISTEN
Hurrian #4 *in Sumerian: wtf are these weirdos saying? IS THAT THE LANGUAGE OF GODS?!
cool I was 1k like and I'm a high af so it's even more
😂😂😂 a good laugh!!!!
I remember those guys playing in Pompeii
It was fire.
I heard Van Halen performed Eruption at that show.
They really brought the house down
That night was LIT
Ha
I think was there actually. It was a while ago tho so idk
As a historian: yes!
As a musician: also yes!
As a person: I love your humor.
I’d like to think that historians and musicians are also people
@@user-pi8fn6wm9j please tell my government that in a way they'd understand! 🙏
Imagine what the guy who wrote Hurrian Hymn no. 6 would have felt if he knew people were still playing his song 5400 years in the future
5400 years in the future, the piece was writtien in 3400 BC
Evermore Shores Give or take. I reckon his first question would be, “Where are my back royalties?”
"damn, they old as hell"
@@donquesewilliamswilliams3497 .......dude....0 AD Till now has been 2020 years right? give or take, 3400 + 2000 is whaat?? riiight...5400
@@FUBARGunpla no scientist dated it wrong
Only c. 1400 B.C.E. kids know this slapping track
Boomer bassists.
What a bop
ruclips.net/video/JcmylxQ0ma4/видео.html
@@Aya_02571 Classic
@@Aya_02571 Basically a jumpscare.
Imagine the composer materializing out of thin air, saying "You're playing it wrong, peasant" and disappearing
"nice phrasing..asshole"
*de-composer
Like an SCP lmao
😂
It's rumored that Hurrian sold his soul to Zoser at the crossroad of the Tigris and Euphrates.
...so, Basra?
@@E4439Qv5 maybe..
But the Hurrians are a group of people not a specific person
Just think about the fact that who ever wrote that song probably wasn't expecting that thousands of years later his piece would be featured on something called a youtube.
That was really deeply touching to connect with a totally different old human culture and honour them & their music by sharing it with our current ears and passing on their legacy.
its almost 100% guaranteed not the correct melody lol
@@dankhill6851considering its played on a 6 string guitar it's pretty obvious it's not but still sounds good
@@dankhill6851 Either way it is still an interpretation of a song written so damn long ago.
As we wonder what exactly they heard on the lyre, we can now wonder what they would think of sammy g’s Strat with the delay on it. Probably blow their mind a bit.
Sorcery!!!
Salty Dog exactly isn’t that funny
Absolutely lost it when he said “Bronze Age banger”
Samurai Neely
That was gorgeous man.
You're gorgeous, Mike❤️
Where are the "I was born in the wrong "generation kids now ??
2090, complaining that they were born in the wrong generation
Right here buddy
If you believe that humans go somewhere after we die, then it's impossible not to imagine that whoever wrote this song 3400 years ago, is overjoyed that their song is remembered and replayed even today. I think the message here, is that you should never be afraid to express yourself creatively, you don't know if the archaeologists and historians of the future will uncover something you made.
If history has taught me anything, is that the invidual who wrote the melody most certainly got told how the music of the older times was much more real and emotional than this new crap
Selene Moon One of my favorite quotes talks about the upcoming generation lacks morals, taste and responsibility. It’s my favorite because it’s from Socrates and from thousands of years ago but sounds exactly like how middle aged folks talk about the youth today.
Couldn't agree more, Selene Moon
Just Some Guy without a Mustache THERE U ARE AGAIN
I’m sure Hurrian Hymn no. 5 was way better!
Bruh
We dont know the tempo either, so that means it could be wayyyy faster than this.
i suppose play it in the spring outside over your garden, when things start growing like gangbusters you'll know you have the right variation
2:53 Jethro Tull, of course
What a laugh!
Rouverius
Time travel?
@@AB-ou8ve No, everyone knows Jethro Tull is timeless. ;)
OH MAN, this is incredible. Please consider the Delphic Paean, the one that's "only" 2200 years old or so!
F'in Delphins and their war hymns...
That was actually one of the greatest songs I have ever heard. I don't quite know why, but there's something about it that is just so beautiful.
Check out the Durutti Column. Similar sound and feel. Hopefully you'll like it.
Several thousand years from now, a team of musicologists and archaeologists finds out that this was exactly how it was supposed to played. Down to the model of guitar and amp.
Dude you have some of the most interesting concepts for videos! Lol. Hilarious but also legitimately fascinating.
More interesting than instruments with more strings on it than what is typically on said instrument? I dont think so, this dude didn't even acknowledge that memes exist.
Bilb Ono. Whatever you say. I’m not even sure how that’s relevant but it sounded negative.
I really really REALLY wanna hear the synthwave version.
this could be a song in the next Zelda game
It sounds quite nice but like all covers, it doesn't beat the original.
Music consortium mafiosa: Attempts copyright claim
Sammmy G: Hold my Sumarian beer
Imagine how the author of this melody would have felt if he/she would have known their music would have been played thousands of years later. How awesome! Great video.
"The Moon Goddess is appeased."
The total world human population at the time the tablet was made was around 50 million people spread out everywhere. The city of Ugarit was 7500 people. The largest cities in the world were Uruk and Thebes with only 10x that population. This video has more views than a person of that time could possibly conceive of.
Covers are never as good as the original. :D
As a history nerd & aspiring archaeologist/museum curator, thanks for showcasing this! Michael Levy & Ensemble de Organographia have also "covered" (reconstructed) this song. PS. FEAR THE SEA PEOPLE!
Swedish House Mafia - One uses that melody exactly. Sounds like we've got ourselves another lawsuit boys!
They wouldnt like the old sumerian laws... An eye for an eye.... So what would the modern day equivelant be? "You stole my music, now I have the right to steal yours"...?
@@sparklingshadows2200 Not trying to be rude but read what he wrote again
"One of the more interesting cases in copyright law was the 2020 case of Hurrian Hymnn Mafia vs Swedish House Mafia"
Your arrangement sounds like something Animals As Leaders could turn into a full-fledged multiinstrumental track.
As Dave from Boyinaband said a few years ago, in the oldest piece of music ever composed, people wanted Nickel back
Music comes from the same aliens that taught us farming, language and architecture back in Sumeria and Babylon.
This is a really prolific video. As a musical historian, I salute ye for this one!
You say it was the goddess of orchards? Well, riddle me this- since playing that corrupted version of the hymn, have you received even a single ancient apple from an ancient apple orchard? I thought not.
Chuck Wettish I think your reply is a lot more negative than his comment which was clearly a joke (which I thought was pretty funny btw)
@Chuck Wettish i was making a joke, yeah. He said in the video he didn't think he'd been cursed by any ancient goddesses, and i was just pointing out that a goddess of orchards probably wouldn't do much to affect him in everyday life
@Chuck Wettish no worries :) it's hard to read tone and sarcasm and that on the internet, i understand
Wow! Your rendition of the hymn is simply beautiful! The goddess will surely bless you for your loving recreation of her sacred music. Thanks for sharing your composition/performance talent with all of us who are only gifted with the ability to hear deeply.
I like tha Bronze Age Banger man.. they should throw-back on this sound.. I know it will work with the right beat
I thought you were gonna finish with roundabout I'm sorry
It turns out that he now slowly loses 1/4 mm of his fingers every year.....
The Gods back then were brutal...
How to modernize it. “Copyright claimed”
"Hopefully that appeaisis the goddess."
The goddess niccal: this human....
I like him.
Tired Bro there is no godess nikkal there was fallen angels who led to deception the REAL GOD JESUS GOT ANGRY AND THEN FLOODED THE WHOLE EARTH in 1557 100 years after this tune was written and played! YHVH JESUS IS A JEALOUS GOD HIS FIRST COMMAND THOU SHALL HAVE NO OTHER GOD BEFORE ME !
That was hypnotic; I almost crashed my car listening to it; amazing!!!!where can I download
Sheet Music please. Thank you. It was beautiful.
I've been so stressed lately and that piece felt like it cut my heart rate in half. Very nice.
Sounds like something Radiohead would put out.
if I'm not mistaken, the twelve tone scale hadn't even been invented at that time. They would have been using a 10 tone scale, or something even stranger, which would make it barely recognizable as music to our modern ears, and harmonies would be almost impossible.
I think they knew of it just to change chords they would have to retune the strings of their instruments. Being able to play different octaves without tuning didnt come about until the medieval renaissance 14 or 15 hundreds with the piano.
@@danielnuckolls2416 Medieval and Renaissance are different periods. Also the Piano wasn't invented till the late Baroque period
I am Syrian and I'm proud that my old grandfathers used to make music, glad you made it remembered by making a video about it, thank you.
Syria (Mesopotamia, more broadly) is one of the cradles of civilisation, with so much history and culture to be proud of. I truly hope that Syria and all of Mesopotamia finds peace and can forge a new identity which embraces its tremendous historical legacy whilst being diverse and inclusive of all faiths and ethnic groups.
@@bjfincher773 I hope so to bro
I think Syria was ruled by the Indo-Aryan Mitanni back then
@@pabslondon I really don't really know about it that much, but good info to know anyways about my old ancesters, thanks
@@hadiiiiii6_9iiiiiiiii45 they're not your ancestors
Recorded on a tablet and I listen to it on a tablet. My my! Times have changed 😎
i used to listen to this piece when it first came out, my granddad used to say that no one will care about this music
now, 3400 years later and we are still jamming to this
Everyone gangsta till they play this alone and accidentally summon Kāmunah the Hurrian sun god
Yes ! I need that type of movie made !
Honestly, might as well at this point in life.
I love how the chords fit with the electric guitar
it almost sounds like a modern rock
to me
Radiohead
It's an ancient rock tho...
NordVPN.... :/
What a wonderful thought that an artist can be given new life through reinterpretation of their art after so many years! Of course, they'd think you were a witch or a god...but still...super cool.
Ancient dead guy in 2020:
That's my banger boy!
OK i'm 4 years late seeing this. Learnig the Greek lyre currently. Now check out the Epitaph of Seikilos
someone has been watching too much adam neely
I hear a lot of Led Zeppelin’s “ The rain song” in that!! I wonder if Jimmy Page was influenced by this at all?!
Some teenagers: “OH MY GOD OLD MUSIC WAS BETTER I WISH I COULD LIVE 3400 YEARS AGO!!”
I'm not a guitarist; I nevertheless have come to very much enjoy this channel. Nice work, Sammy G!
I wonder if they had boomers complaining about their hippidty hoppity music back then too.
Finds NordVPN ad on Guitar channel..What's next?! Raid shadow legends?😂😂
Please don't wish it upon us
I shall wish it out of existence.😂
Stevie t was sponsored by raid shadow legends one time
@@drewraudenbush1904 and rudy ayoub
I think I want to memorize the notes, and make a metal song, using different interval interpretations as different parts of the song.
I'd love to hear that reggea dub version
I feel like it's a familiar tune, but I'm sure I never heard it before.
Almost enough to make one believe in past lives... almost. :)
Damn that sounds gorgeous, I thought you were just going to make it Djent
The simplest version sounds like a basic "folk" melody. But what you did with it is beautiful! I hope your orchards are fruitful!
disliked due to nord vpn hardcore ad from samuraiguitarist for 2 straight mins with 282k views lmao
That digitally recreated clay tablet looks like the note Gary the snail left Spongebob when he ran away from home
This is so good! I was born in the wrong dimension smh :(