The level of musicianship found in these three guys is mind boggling. Every time I listen to Jonah’s solo stuff and DL tracks I hear something new. My husband doesn’t understand my obsession with these guys…lol. I grew up playing classical piano and listening to jazz with my dad before making music my career teaching orchestration, music history, analysis, etc. Like you, Jeff, I grew bored with music and changed careers after 20 years. So happy to have found this group and this channel!
Thank you so much Suzanne! I understand about others not quite getting it but believe me there is a huge number of people (like me) who do! Hahaha. You have found a home here as well! 😃
@@StrateleStudios The one thing I regret, every time I listen to them, is that my Dad never heard their music. He would have LOVED them! (He played bass, piano and violin). When I hear something cool I still want to pick up the phone to call him, even though he’s been gone for 10 years. I’m certain he would have listened to their music louder than I do lol.
@@suzannedaigle9255 I’m so sorry Suzanne I know how that feels. I lost my brother last year and he is the reason I became a musician. I wish he could have seen this channel he would have gotten a kick out if it.
You are the perfect man for the job... your "knighthood" is not a gift, it's earned through musical understanding thanks to 40 years of musicianship. I loved your talk with Jonah, it was like two good friends catching up! As a representative for swedish Dirty Loops fans.....I dub thee...🤴😃👍
Every second packs a punch- a complete masterpiece….the playing (and singing) of all three of them absolutely insane! Thanks once more, Jeff, for letting us listen with you 💛
@@StrateleStudios it’s a great little community of Dirty Loops and other-great-music-fans here on your channel, Jeff. I so enjoy everyone’s comments, too. All thanks to your sharing your insightful, honest and heartfelt reactions and analyses with all of us. 🙏
This is probably my favorite song from Loopified. The energy of the song, combined with the technical and rhythmical details that just makes everything pop. It’s so good!
@@StrateleStudios Oh man Jerry Hey and his horn section are legendary on the LA studio scene. Jerry Hey is often the main arranger. They have played on thousand of big selling albums, including Micheal Jackson, EW & F, Al Jarreau and you name it. Jerry Hey always add value to the songs by awesome melodic lines and rhythmic placements. His arrangements often become an integral part of the song. Here is a AL Jarreau song, Step by step, produced my hero Jay Graydon ! ruclips.net/video/bKnwDMW8jcY/видео.html
Jeff, have you heard of Yebba? After watching countless reaction videos, this is the first time I've recommended an artist to a reactor, but you and Yebba are worthy! Her writing and voice is so special, I've had to do it! The purity of Evergreen, her exquisite PBS Tiny Desk session including Stand, the heart-wrenching My Mind....
Excellent as always, Jeff - THANK YOU! Here's a question I hope you can answer: when Jonah talks about "Loopifying" an arrangement, is there a "usual" set of modulations or progressions that you're hearing? Their arrangements are immediately recognizable to me, but apparently "decoding" them requires somewhat more music theory than my passing knowledge. Thanks!
This is my favorite comment of the week, Ralph. Great question! OK, so here's what I'm hearing... There are some similarities in what ends up making the final cut with these tunes. SOMETIMES, I can hear progressions and melodies I've heard in some of their other songs but not often. I mentioned to Jonah in the interview that I could hear him quoting himself in his Coffee Break solo but he didn't even seem aware that he did that. I believe that they guys are not consciously thinking about what they are doing but rather letting their ear and imagination dictate what's added. As any musician who writes music we can only write from the vocabulary we have acquired over the years but I would have to say in Jonah's case he is ALWAYS striving to do something new and different and not rest on things he's done before (when it's evident to him). I got that from him in the interview as well. As far as how would you or I do what they do we would have to download Jonah's brain into ours to enable us to make the musical decisions he makes. They all have a tremendous education in Jazz and other styles of music so they have many colors in their palette from which to choose!
This must be my most neglected song of them. Jonas range and singing/playing is fantastic and Arons drums the drive the fills just outstandning. What gets me back for more is Henrik though he got me mesmerized with his gost notes his slap and pop his chords and technicality and fabulouse feel. He is just the number one for me right now even though I like alot of other bass players he right now is the one. Thank you for your as usual on point analysis and smile, good job.
Jeff, love your creativity and feeling. What you've done putting the Dirty Loops logo on things (you've invented product lines for them 😉), the refreshingly conducted interviews, how you react (getting across what you think and feel *without interrupting* the flow of the piece) and first class engagement with your audience. In your lifetime dedication to good music, especially DIrty Loops, the acolade Sir Jeff is well deserved!
Parts of this one give me Earth, Wind, & Fire vibes, which is awesome. The horns, I guess? I don't know enough about the intricacies of the music to determine why exactly, but I love it! Hey, you gave me an idea. Ask Jonah if he would pick whatever song he wants, to do another breakdown on a video sometime. Like where you can hear each vocal part or instrumental part etc. Or some behind the scenes studio footage! There's an old video where you can hear Brian Wilson singing each Beach Boys part one at a time, followed by the final cut. I find that fascinating. Some people can hear all those interwoven parts in the final mix, separately, but my ear can't always pick them all up, which drives me crazy. I'd love to have that skill. Kind of like I sometimes have "partial" photographic memory, which isn't really helpful AT ALL, lol!
Something about that ride cymbal in the chorus. Bass line is sick also... Well everything is always great with these guys. Thanks again Jeff. I need to get some merch. I was hoping my wife was going to surprise me at Christmas. She didn't.. I should have left some hints
It is one thing to aim to the top. Another thing to reach it, and then defend it all the way. The next path is to stay there. That is the whole difference. And that you can implement to any other creative situation. It is a rollercoaster.
First....Titanium Henrik is bulletproof and a marksman from the opening and throughout. Yeah, the other guys are good TOO...LOL! Jonah, Aron, Henrik and, Master of Ceremonies, Jeff, thanks for another one for me to replay a dozen more times.
Just speaking the truth! These gentleman learned the traditional basics of being trained from a strict school and saw how to explore something like AMEN ending or the traditional 1,3, 4, 5, 1 storyline (even though Choruses, Jazz and even us grunts made money doing that progression in some version). These three were meant to be creating something. Their key changes are a unique quality and a great treat to appreciate although I dislike strong minor or discordant 7's.......LOL They are great
@@StrateleStudios Shoot Jeff, that takes me back to my High School and College music composition days. You stretched my memory a bit and I had to listen to a few hymns until my HS conducting and chorus teacher Mr. Householder's voice popped in my head and said "This is what what they named the 'Plagal Amen''". Don't remember much beyond that expect I remember learning the subdominant in every key....hated it because I suck at the keyboard. Is that what you were looking for?
There are parts in there that are very close in feel and melody to Finesse by Bruno Mars, which is a hugely impressive tune in itself. Brilliant musicianship and arrangement. Not my favourite of Dirty Loops by far, but impressive compared to other bands. Great reaction and analysis as usual!
@@StrateleStudios Jeff, the outstanding track for me is the complete musical masterpiece "Next to You" which for me is the best, most musical piece of contemporary music ever written and performed. But your question made me go back and relisten with pleasure to a whole bunch of DIrty Loops tunes to work out what was 2nd, 3rd,.. etc and it's impossible, they are all brilliant...like trying to rank the dishes at a Michelin 3 Star restaurant 😉
Mr C.Where did the DL merch come from? The DL website does not seem to carry what you were proudly waving about at the begining of this post. Another good post by the way.
Hey John! I’m a baaaaaad boy as I made that Merch myself 😬 I DID mention it to Jonah in the interview with him hahaha. Ya I have my own shop for the channel and I just grabbed their logo off the internet and chose the products to stick it in and bought it! Believe me I’d hook you up if it could but I’d get clobbered if it did. ☺️
They sell their own merch at crowdmade now though. You can find the link in the descriptions of their newer video. For some reason youtuibe keeps auto-deleting my comment when I Include the link directly here, so you'll have to go there and click the link. :)
John, you can go here and find the links to their books and their merch in the description. The only thing, it seems, that he has that they don't sell is the pillow. ruclips.net/video/IBsEgVG3Uqw/видео.html
@@mittsilly7686 Thanks! Of course that's the solution to the problem. Wish I had thought a step further myself when youtube deleted my webshop link, hahaha. *facepalm*
Oops, I got my arithmetic wrong, what I've noticed is approx 1:20 not 1:100. Lower ratios show higher emotional engagement with the RUclipsr I guess! Do the inbuilt stats tell you this kind of info?
Great music from from Sweden! Check out Valeriy Stepanov The Sun, great stuff from Russia. You gonna love it if you are in Jazz Fusion! Melodic and tight are the words
The level of musicianship found in these three guys is mind boggling. Every time I listen to Jonah’s solo stuff and DL tracks I hear something new. My husband doesn’t understand my obsession with these guys…lol. I grew up playing classical piano and listening to jazz with my dad before making music my career teaching orchestration, music history, analysis, etc. Like you, Jeff, I grew bored with music and changed careers after 20 years. So happy to have found this group and this channel!
Thank you so much Suzanne! I understand about others not quite getting it but believe me there is a huge number of people (like me) who do! Hahaha. You have found a home here as well! 😃
@@StrateleStudios The one thing I regret, every time I listen to them, is that my Dad never heard their music. He would have LOVED them! (He played bass, piano and violin). When I hear something cool I still want to pick up the phone to call him, even though he’s been gone for 10 years. I’m certain he would have listened to their music louder than I do lol.
@@suzannedaigle9255 I’m so sorry Suzanne I know how that feels. I lost my brother last year and he is the reason I became a musician. I wish he could have seen this channel he would have gotten a kick out if it.
@@StrateleStudios I’m so sorry for your loss. I also became a musician because of my Dad. No regrets!
You are the perfect man for the job... your "knighthood" is not a gift, it's earned through musical understanding thanks to 40 years of musicianship. I loved your talk with Jonah, it was like two good friends catching up! As a representative for swedish Dirty Loops fans.....I dub thee...🤴😃👍
I absolutely LOVE this comment! Give me a link and I’ll do a video for you, my friend. ❤️
Every second packs a punch- a complete masterpiece….the playing (and singing) of all three of them absolutely insane! Thanks once more, Jeff, for letting us listen with you 💛
Thank you my friend. I really enjoy having you here in the channel! 😊
@@StrateleStudios it’s a great little community of Dirty Loops and other-great-music-fans here on your channel, Jeff. I so enjoy everyone’s comments, too. All thanks to your sharing your insightful, honest and heartfelt reactions and analyses with all of us. 🙏
This is probably my favorite song from Loopified. The energy of the song, combined with the technical and rhythmical details that just makes everything pop. It’s so good!
It grooves so hard!!!
Really, really dig your stuff , Jeff🙏 Great analysis and comments. Just need to add Jerry Heys brass arrangment here ( if I recollect correctly).
Thank you! Ooooo tell me more about Jerry Heys!
@@StrateleStudios Oh man Jerry Hey and his horn section are legendary on the LA studio scene. Jerry Hey is often the main arranger. They have played on thousand of big selling albums, including Micheal Jackson, EW & F, Al Jarreau and you name it. Jerry Hey always add value to the songs by awesome melodic lines and rhythmic placements. His arrangements often become an integral part of the song. Here is a AL Jarreau song, Step by step, produced my hero Jay Graydon ! ruclips.net/video/bKnwDMW8jcY/видео.html
Jeff, have you heard of Yebba? After watching countless reaction videos, this is the first time I've recommended an artist to a reactor, but you and Yebba are worthy! Her writing and voice is so special, I've had to do it! The purity of Evergreen, her exquisite PBS Tiny Desk session including Stand, the heart-wrenching My Mind....
Yes! I actually did a reaction to her on my Patreon a little while back. She’s amazing!
Excellent as always, Jeff - THANK YOU!
Here's a question I hope you can answer: when Jonah talks about "Loopifying" an arrangement, is there a "usual" set of modulations or progressions that you're hearing? Their arrangements are immediately recognizable to me, but apparently "decoding" them requires somewhat more music theory than my passing knowledge. Thanks!
This is my favorite comment of the week, Ralph. Great question! OK, so here's what I'm hearing...
There are some similarities in what ends up making the final cut with these tunes. SOMETIMES, I can hear progressions and melodies I've heard in some of their other songs but not often. I mentioned to Jonah in the interview that I could hear him quoting himself in his Coffee Break solo but he didn't even seem aware that he did that. I believe that they guys are not consciously thinking about what they are doing but rather letting their ear and imagination dictate what's added. As any musician who writes music we can only write from the vocabulary we have acquired over the years but I would have to say in Jonah's case he is ALWAYS striving to do something new and different and not rest on things he's done before (when it's evident to him). I got that from him in the interview as well. As far as how would you or I do what they do we would have to download Jonah's brain into ours to enable us to make the musical decisions he makes. They all have a tremendous education in Jazz and other styles of music so they have many colors in their palette from which to choose!
Imagine Jonah struggling late at night - "should I go with a sharp 9/flat 13 on beat 3 of measure 47?? . . .I just don't know. .. ."
😂🤣😂 yes!
I love them for their great arrangements. Thanks again, Jeff! 😘
Thank YOU for watching, Andrea! ☺️
This must be my most neglected song of them. Jonas range and singing/playing is fantastic and Arons drums the drive the fills just outstandning. What gets me back for more is Henrik though he got me mesmerized with his gost notes his slap and pop his chords and technicality and fabulouse feel. He is just the number one for me right now even though I like alot of other bass players he right now is the one. Thank you for your as usual on point analysis and smile, good job.
Thank you Lyset! Ya, the bass REALLY gets me in this one! So MASTERFULLY done!
Jeff, love your creativity and feeling. What you've done putting the Dirty Loops logo on things (you've invented product lines for them 😉), the refreshingly conducted interviews, how you react (getting across what you think and feel *without interrupting* the flow of the piece) and first class engagement with your audience. In your lifetime dedication to good music, especially DIrty Loops, the acolade Sir Jeff is well deserved!
....and this track is growing on me 😉
Thank you so much! This comment deserves a reaction video, my friend. Hit me with a link and I'll do one just for you! :)
Parts of this one give me Earth, Wind, & Fire vibes, which is awesome. The horns, I guess? I don't know enough about the intricacies of the music to determine why exactly, but I love it! Hey, you gave me an idea. Ask Jonah if he would pick whatever song he wants, to do another breakdown on a video sometime. Like where you can hear each vocal part or instrumental part etc. Or some behind the scenes studio footage! There's an old video where you can hear Brian Wilson singing each Beach Boys part one at a time, followed by the final cut. I find that fascinating. Some people can hear all those interwoven parts in the final mix, separately, but my ear can't always pick them all up, which drives me crazy. I'd love to have that skill. Kind of like I sometimes have "partial" photographic memory, which isn't really helpful AT ALL, lol!
Wouldn’t that be great? My guess is right now he’s frantically trying to get that new album out. These guys have already set up some live dates too!
Something about that ride cymbal in the chorus. Bass line is sick also... Well everything is always great with these guys. Thanks again Jeff. I need to get some merch. I was hoping my wife was going to surprise me at Christmas. She didn't.. I should have left some hints
Gotta get some merch Kevin! 😃😄😄
another one of them to be impressed 😁. I have faith that one day Geoge Duke Trio Its On's React will come out🙌🏽
It is one thing to aim to the top. Another thing to reach it, and then defend it all the way. The next path is to stay there. That is the whole difference. And that you can implement to any other creative situation. It is a rollercoaster.
Yes yes yes! 👏👏👏
A strong, bold tricoloured cocktail served as only they can!❤❤❤ glad you did this one Jeff!
Love the picture, Annie 🍹❤️💙💚
Hahahaha yes, Annie! 🤣
Loe this song (and Henrik's bass mastery which really carries the song).
Agree 💯
First....Titanium Henrik is bulletproof and a marksman from the opening and throughout. Yeah, the other guys are good TOO...LOL! Jonah, Aron, Henrik and, Master of Ceremonies, Jeff, thanks for another one for me to replay a dozen more times.
This song is PURE excitement and groooooooove. I like "Titanium Henrik" hahahaha
🔥, as always
😁😁😁
So tight they could launch into space. Henrik is a boss on this track.
Henrik KILLS this tune! 😃
Just speaking the truth! These gentleman learned the traditional basics of being trained from a strict school and saw how to explore something like AMEN ending or the traditional 1,3, 4, 5, 1 storyline (even though Choruses, Jazz and even us grunts made money doing that progression in some version). These three were meant to be creating something. Their key changes are a unique quality and a great treat to appreciate although I dislike strong minor or discordant 7's.......LOL They are great
For extra points what is the official term for the AMEN cadence? 😂
@@StrateleStudios Shoot Jeff, that takes me back to my High School and College music composition days. You stretched my memory a bit and I had to listen to a few hymns until my HS conducting and chorus teacher Mr. Householder's voice popped in my head and said "This is what what they named the 'Plagal Amen''". Don't remember much beyond that expect I remember learning the subdominant in every key....hated it because I suck at the keyboard. Is that what you were looking for?
There are parts in there that are very close in feel and melody to Finesse by Bruno Mars, which is a hugely impressive tune in itself. Brilliant musicianship and arrangement. Not my favourite of Dirty Loops by far, but impressive compared to other bands. Great reaction and analysis as usual!
Thank you Kiat! What is among you favorites from the DL catalogs?
@@StrateleStudios Jeff, the outstanding track for me is the complete musical masterpiece "Next to You" which for me is the best, most musical piece of contemporary music ever written and performed. But your question made me go back and relisten with pleasure to a whole bunch of DIrty Loops tunes to work out what was 2nd, 3rd,.. etc and it's impossible, they are all brilliant...like trying to rank the dishes at a Michelin 3 Star restaurant 😉
@@KiatHuang Completely agree with regards to Next to you. An epic masterpiece.
Mr C.Where did the DL merch come from?
The DL website does not seem to carry what you were proudly waving about at the begining of this post.
Another good post by the way.
Hey John! I’m a baaaaaad boy as I made that Merch myself 😬 I DID mention it to Jonah in the interview with him hahaha. Ya I have my own shop for the channel and I just grabbed their logo off the internet and chose the products to stick it in and bought it! Believe me I’d hook you up if it could but I’d get clobbered if it did. ☺️
They sell their own merch at crowdmade now though. You can find the link in the descriptions of their newer video. For some reason youtuibe keeps auto-deleting my comment when I Include the link directly here, so you'll have to go there and click the link. :)
John, you can go here and find the links to their books and their merch in the description. The only thing, it seems, that he has that they don't sell is the pillow. ruclips.net/video/IBsEgVG3Uqw/видео.html
@@mittsilly7686 Thanks! Of course that's the solution to the problem. Wish I had thought a step further myself when youtube deleted my webshop link, hahaha. *facepalm*
@@lottawiklund8606 no problem. It would be great if people could be directed to where they can actually get the stuff. Good on John to mention it.
btw 17 likes for 89 views? that's a crazy good percentage (often I see 1:100 is a decent average when views get to the thousands)
Aw man thank you so much for catching that! I really am blessed by all these people! Including you.
Oops, I got my arithmetic wrong, what I've noticed is approx 1:20 not 1:100. Lower ratios show higher emotional engagement with the RUclipsr I guess! Do the inbuilt stats tell you this kind of info?
So much going on, Hard to take it all in.
I hope you head did not explode! 🤯
Some music I’ve seen recently caused me to pick up some pieces! 😄
Check out Jack & Owayne "UTFF" featuring Henrik Linder
ruclips.net/video/RJ8ENVWwQCY/видео.html
@@StrateleStudiosSorry brother, I spotted it right after I posted!
The original version is so, so lame. And they turned it totally around. Bravo -- AGAIN! -- to Dirty Loops.
Amen.
Great music from from Sweden! Check out Valeriy Stepanov The Sun, great stuff from Russia. You gonna love it if you are in Jazz Fusion! Melodic and tight are the words
I’ll check that out! 😃😊😊😊
@@StrateleStudios YES! You need more Valeriy on your channel!
wow so cool that justin bieber ended up doing a cover of this song! dirty loops are bigger than i thought i guess! (lol)
😄
Please do a video on Sing To The Moon By Snarky Puppy!
ruclips.net/video/JJ7H_7A8nnw/видео.html
You gotta do Borrowed Time from Jonah's album. Beau. Ti. Ful. Song.
Ya…that’s still on my list 😊😊😊
Ken you to make a reaccion to "nueva Vida" to res q band.
That's not the Ohio Players.
😂🥲😂