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@SargentoBonzo

6 жыл бұрын

Please, do an analysis about the Soviet / Russian Anthem ¿WHY ITS SOOOO EPIC???

@ThomasWinget

6 жыл бұрын

Did you have a look at Carolan's Dream when making this? It's a few centuries old, but the same melody.

@KunkyFong

6 жыл бұрын

12tone Have you ever noticed how well stairway and "while my guitar gently weeps" go together?

@Braglemaster123

6 жыл бұрын

12tone The genius of Jimmy Page 👍👍👍😎

@canadiancrafter5100

5 жыл бұрын

please bohemian please

I think people are missing the fact that Jimmy Paige was probably stoned outta his mind while he wrote this

@12tone

7 жыл бұрын

Probably, but the chemicals in his system don't change the notes he was playing!

@CaioPeixoto1

6 жыл бұрын

maybe that´s what helped him , moron ...

@williamwallace5857

6 жыл бұрын

Page not Paige.

@kitpalmer1583

5 жыл бұрын

nah he was watching Spirit from the side of the stage and taking notes ;)

@matejebach5487

5 жыл бұрын

No, his heroin episode begin much later. It was written at '71. It is just talent+knowledge.

"Someone sings over the chords for a while and then the song ends." - Most music

Yeah I have no idea what you're saying

@12tone

7 жыл бұрын

Me neither!

@Nyquilliss

7 жыл бұрын

set video speed to .75 so you have a chance to process what hes saying

@vincemagowan3975

6 жыл бұрын

Just study some music theory.

@ciararavenblaze

6 жыл бұрын

don't you have some bad guys to be cleverly insulting and destroying?

@cactus9277

6 жыл бұрын

he took apart a 8 minute song in 6 minutes, thatll happen.

Pretty much how I watch this: Hmm... "Intresting. Ah elephants, that's what makes this sound so melancolic. Oh, an Apple! Very Expensive!"

@12tone

7 жыл бұрын

Elephants make everything melancholic!

@JewishFatherzzzz

7 жыл бұрын

Riku Falck almost melancholy hill....

@inthemiddle1-226

5 жыл бұрын

Jewish Father hehe good one

@Ketoswammy

3 жыл бұрын

Apple? Cheap in the long term, compared to the crap derived from it.

Wow this video blew my mind. Your ability to explain stuff like this really shocked me. I play piano and would never have thought to break down arpeggios the way you did in the beginning and say the chords were masked that way. I was also shocked by how engaging your cute little drawings make this explanation. I really like your style :) You are obviously very passionate about what you do.

@12tone

7 жыл бұрын

Aw, thanks! That means a lot coming from a fellow creator!

@johnnyRandomadness

7 жыл бұрын

joe satriani always with me always with you. Simple sounding. But a lot of tricky timing and nuances going on.

@Shmo3u57

7 жыл бұрын

Matteo Allegra Exactly this.

@ajaypoudel9659

7 жыл бұрын

and i loved the way you comment...

@mnbgt101

6 жыл бұрын

I always go to a chorale reduction the first time I look at something I'm analyzing

this cleared up some of the bustle in my hedgerow!

@12tone

7 жыл бұрын

^_^

I’m a drummer. None of this makes sense😂😂

@12tone

7 жыл бұрын

Sorry!

@nysveryown4527

7 жыл бұрын

You stay in the back

@1944107802

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah stay in the back, however lays down the backbone that keeps the musicians together and in time.

@civercras

7 жыл бұрын

I know what you feel, bro

@maddmikey0301

6 жыл бұрын

hang around some people that have taken theory and it'll make some sense in relation to the drum parts!

"Life on mars" by David Bowie would be pretty cool to break down I think. Lots of chords in that.

@12tone

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the suggestion! At this point, though, we receive so many song requests that we can really only focus on the ones from our Patreon patrons. We just don't have the time to look at every song that comes in, unfortunately. There's a link to our Patreon in the video description if you're interested, though!

@chris2656

6 жыл бұрын

Tom Milley Music Give it 7 months

@amycrunch3812

2 жыл бұрын

Hardly.

not flutes but recorders

@12tone

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I wasn't sure on that... I saw different sources call it different things, and it sounded to me like a flute with some effects on it but I could totally be wrong there.

@fonzimendoza1979

7 жыл бұрын

12tone anyway you can do Deacon blues?

@razors98

7 жыл бұрын

Mellotrone maybe?

@dylanw.8428

7 жыл бұрын

12tone Jimmy Page did say it was recorders and that Jonesy came up with it and he played them.

@grass1503

7 жыл бұрын

four33 damnit, you beat me by 5 months

Your ability to synthesis musical theory concepts into an actual functional analysis is impeccable.

I have arpeggios so ingrained in me as an harmonic tool that I was actually confused when you said that no one is playing any chord.

Sweet video! Would love an Bohemian Rhapsody analysis! :)

@12tone

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Rhapsody's on our list, but it'd be a pretty herculean task to analyze the whole thing... Maybe some day for like a big milestone or something. Don't get me wrong, I'd absolutely love to do it, it's just kinda insane, you know? But hopefully one day we'll get around to it!

@andrearieta8291

7 жыл бұрын

12tone I was just thinking the same thing as soon as I saw the video title. Hope you get to do it someday. Just subbed, great content on the channel.

@dimiaraujo90

7 жыл бұрын

12tone You guys could break it (Bohemian Rhapsody) into many parts (videos).

@gabep3132

6 жыл бұрын

12tone You guys should do it now because of the movie ^~^

@chilecayenne

5 жыл бұрын

Feel free to break Rhapsody up into 2-3 episodes please!! Its a long and I guess complex song, so would do good with multi-episode treatment. Thank you, these are very interesting!! I've only dabbled very lightly on theory (notes that make chords, etc)....but I'm learning interesting terms and ideas here....that make other explanations of music make a touch more sense.

It is "SO" relaxing to hear your logic on the songs I've already listened to for years and years. I always knew this song was pretty deep. But I never understood that the music was telling a story three fold more deep than the words were. cheerio.

Absolutely love your presentation style for this. It's quirky and adorable yet gives a lot of interesting information and analysis.

I can't believe how well and how efficiently you explain this stuff! Really cool.

@12tone

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

gosh you were Just what I was looking for on KZread! I love the way you blend visuals with complex subjects. keep rockin!

@12tone

7 жыл бұрын

Aw, thanks!

I'm so, so glad I stumbled upon your channel. It's the first channel I find which digs as deep as I wanted to go with A LOT of music theory topics. The pace it's kind of insane for me, but I understand the difficulties in making videos and the time restraints of such a job. I guess I'll have to watch each video dozens of time, because they contain VERY, VERY useful information. I've been studying theory for a while and even your "building blocks" series, which is supposed to be very basic contains some new details that fill a lot of blanks for me. Can't thank you enough! I sincerely hope to be able to contribute in the near future. Cheers from Brazil!

@12tone

7 жыл бұрын

Aw, thanks, that's really great to hear!

The intro has a lament bassline, which is when the bass moves down in half-steps and eberything above it is harmonized. The chords at the begining are can actually be interpreted as Amin, Ab augmented, Cmaj. This is a pretty common in many beatles song if you listen carefully, and it's much more simple to understand. I hope this clears out any ambiguity that arpeggio has! EDIT: wrong term

@12tone

7 жыл бұрын

I saw the Ab+ analysis while researching thigs, and it's definitely reasonable, but I think it makes more sense as E for a couple reasons beyond the ones in the video. There's the fact that the C is the last note played in the arpeggio so you hear G#, B, and E first, which biases toward perceiving those as chord tones, and then there's the chromatic mediant relationship between E and C, which mirrors the obsession with D to F that we see all over the song. Ab+ is a fine analysis, and you can totally explain it that way too, but I prefer the E analysis.

@EpiGuitar2012

7 жыл бұрын

12tone i think its e bc thats what happens when you pick up the guitar to write that song (thats what i guess, iwasn't there tho😉) you play a minor then dont change your fingers just put down the shape one string... and go with the e major. Re-naming it afterwards with some sophisticated music theory would not do justice to the heart of popular music in that case i think. If you understand what i mean.

@launder0

7 жыл бұрын

@epicguitar2012 underrated. This is a very specific moment where we kinda can look inside the composer's mind and guess what HE was thinking when wrote it, and so it's interesting to analyse in this way. Good call!

@flatfingertuning727

6 жыл бұрын

How about interpreting that chord as )C+M7/G#? To my mind the tension created by an augmented chord is a key part of what makes that part of the progression work. Given that the second repetition has the recorders playing (enharmonic) C+E over that chord I don't think it's reasonable to pretend the note played as C isn't part of the "real" chord. While it would seem strange to have a C chord resolve into another C chord, the G# and B are both unstable notes with a very strong desire to resolve in opposite directions which is, of course, what they do.

3:18 Do you really like this one particular animal? I know my question is irrelephant, but I am just wondering...

Great choice of song, and great analysis!

@12tone

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks! As soon as we opened up suggestions we got multiple requests for this one, so we figured we sort of had to. It wound up a little long (Although not as long as the actual song...) but it was a really fun challenge!

such wholesome content. Thank you!

As always, excellent stuff - I really enjoy your song analysis! :) I found this fascinating - and is something I'd never really thought about before!

@12tone

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks! This one, as you may have picked up from my twitter feed, took way longer than normal 'cause it's almost 7 minutes, but I'm really happy with how it turned out. Except for when the page drifted up, but that's my brother's fault so it doesn't count.

I only recently discovered your channel and I love it. That this song entered my mind for the first time in ages and one of my first thoughts was wondering if you'd covered it yet is one thing; but to find it sitting here like "yeahhh, where tf you been?" just makes me really grateful, bro. I've got some catching up to do. 🤘🏻😎🎸

I’ve always thought of those 1st arpeggios as chromatic elaboration of static harmony- all a minor chords with chromatically descending bass (Am Am9/G# Am/G Am/F#). The actual progression varies slightly... no A in the third chord, and a D major chord for the fourth... but I’ve always felt that’s the sound they were emulating. The D major is a nice touch, giving it a kind of Am-DM Dorian-type resolution. In the end, it can probably be summed up in two words: linear chromaticism

I don't have the first clue what you're talking about but its fascinating! I will definitely be considering donating!

Love it! You should do some King Crimson! Three of a Perfect Pair would be unreal!

@12tone

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks, and thanks for the suggestion! At this point, though, we receive so many song requests that we can really only focus on the ones from our Patreon patrons. We just don't have the time to look at every song that comes in. There's a link to our Patreon in the description if you're interested in checking it out, though!

@johnnygotgrowls

7 жыл бұрын

Will do! Cheers!

Yeeeeessss!! I love it! I never noticed the half step decrements in the intro :D great job. Glad I found your channel

@12tone

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Yeah, those half steps are awesome. They're pretty much all that's holding the section together I think, but they do a great job at it!

@slash58anilyo

7 жыл бұрын

I think the same. It also gives it its melancholich touch that it has.

@longevitee

6 жыл бұрын

slash58anilyo If I am correct, the descending chromatic motion in the bass is known as the lament bass due to its use in Dido's Lament.

Love your content!!!! Keep it up man!!!

great content. you could make longer videos, people who look for this kind of information would just keep watching, specially when its high quality like this

@12tone

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I'd love to do longer stuff, but I just don't really have the time right now: Every minute of final footage can represent around 2 hours of work, so there's a lot of incentive for me to keep things as short as I can.

Awesome video ! Great work guys :D

From a musician - Thank you so much for these videos, I love them. keep it up!

@12tone

7 жыл бұрын

Aw, thanks!

Thank you for doing this series. You gave me something to watch intently and take my mind off the world for minutes.

@12tone

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

I know this is old and will be buried, but I owe a comment. Every time I watch a 12tone breakdown, I stop every 3 minutes to listen to the song in full. It’s just proven for me at this point

An explanation of the song that is very close to the heart, pretty much taught me all i know about guitar, given it took me ~4 years to learn the whole song. Mind you i couldn't play chords properly back then. Much appreciated effort, you've just earned a subscriber! Cheers!

@12tone

7 жыл бұрын

Aw, thanks!

I am learning so much from your videos. Thanks! :D

@12tone

7 жыл бұрын

Aw, thanks!

HOLY SLAM this had to have taken a long time for you to produce!

@12tone

7 жыл бұрын

Aw, thanks! A good rule of thumb is that one minute of final video is about 2 hours of work so... Yeah, this one was intense.

This is amazing my friend, probably the best music tutorial I've seen, and I've seen a lot

@12tone

7 жыл бұрын

Aw, thanks!

one of your best videos. I need to see this again but for now thanks.

@12tone

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks! We were really happy with how it came out!

oh my head hurts so bad now

@12tone

7 жыл бұрын

Sorry!

@jeffrey322

5 жыл бұрын

I remember when music theory used to make me feel that way; but it's a good thing bc it's actually pushing back the wall of your mind and expanding your skills and reasoning.

Awesome analysis, thanks so much!

@12tone

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Very interesting and helpful! Never heard of your channel, but ill subcribe i love this video

@12tone

7 жыл бұрын

Aw, thanks!

This channel is SO FREAKING GOOD!!!!

@12tone

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Awesome stuff, educational, funny and well presented. I learned a lot about music I cant get anywhere,

That is a really great video. In times when almost everybody in KZread is making videos about the same empty stuff I find this. Keep doing this kind of videos plesse

"And then it just suddenly ends..." then you cut to the outro. Genius!

I just discovered this channel, and you are a goddamn genius. I’m entering the “watch ever one of your videos” wormhole

I don't always get it all,but I love this channel!

How many people have a grandma that lists Stairway to Heaven as her favorite song? (raises hand) An instrumental version was played at her funeral when she passed back in '94.

@douglasanderson9084

5 жыл бұрын

That's awesome.

Thank you x

That solo deserves a video on its own!

Great video.

@12tone

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Love the iconic duck/rabbit picture for uncertainty

This video helped me understand why I play stairway the way I do. Astounding.

Here's to the Nile Red of music! I might not have much of an idea what you're on about yet, but I'm slowly learning!

Man, I love your channel. As a self-taught guitar player now I can sound a lot smarter!

I love that the video analyzing the song is shorter then the song

To me, the second chord represents a and sounds like an Ammaj9 chord. Seems the easiest way to name it as well. Just a classic descending bassnote progression similar to be found in George Harrison's 'Something'. Great video though!

@12tone

7 жыл бұрын

That's certainly reasonable. I like the E major analysis partly because it gives you the E-C chromatic mediant, which fits with the D-F one you hear later on, but that means calling the C (And, the second time through, the A from the recorders) a non-harmonic tone which is unideal. It's a complex chord either way.

When I read the title I thought, that this video is about how expensive a stairway to heaven would be. I am not sure if this is clickbait... awesome video though.

@12tone

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Yeah, I'm not sure how much that stairway would cost, depends on how high up heaven is, I suppose.

I just fell in love with this channel

@12tone

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

In the first phrase, I believe the jump down from the C to the lower voiced D is just because Jimmy could not easily keep the motion going in opposite directions on the guitar (bass descending, melody ascending). So, to keep the bass line he jumped down the position, giving us the D/F#. I love your analysis. Great stuff.

As a classical music student, writing with pen on manuscript paper makes my soul crumple... I understand though you have to use it to make the writing easier to see

"...and then the song just ends.. Suddenly..." I was thinking the same thing about this analysis!

I do not quite understand what you said, but, you said it well and were rather educational

I'd love to see any Rush song. I suggest Tom Sawyer, 2112 or YYZ. Great video!

@samuelvenzi

7 жыл бұрын

Cool! Thank you for the reply! I'll check that out!

@InfluxDecline

3 жыл бұрын

2112, Natural Science, Cygnus X-1: Book One, La Villa Strangiato, or any of the other long ones would be incredible. I'd also like to see Circumstances, YYZ, something from Fear, or something off of Grace Under Pressure or Signals.

This just shows sometimes you dont have too look too deep into music or how it was written

@12tone

7 жыл бұрын

You certainly don't have to, but it's still fun!

A good mix of chromatic voice leading, modal interchange and functional harmony.

The title really got me.. i immediately pressed... And i didnt regret it

Nice channel. Good luck!

@12tone

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Thw world needs more of this!

@12tone

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

i honestly didn't understand anything you said, but i subbed!

@12tone

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks! If you'd like to learn more, we've got a series called Building Blocks that covers everything from the bottom up: kzread.info/head/PLMvVESrbjBWplAcg3pG0TesncGT7qvO06

the second chord in the intro is a Aflat aug(add#9)

love that E chord in the opening, everyone who thinks they know theory can't really pin that one down yet the chord sounds perfect

@12tone

7 жыл бұрын

I know, right? Like, I'm settling on E, but it takes a lot of bending over backwards to reach anything resembling a coherent chord. It sounds exactly right for the line, though!

Hey 12 tone. I'd love for you to read this. I always wanted to find some sort of .. anything like your channel on the internet. I love theoretical analyses of music. I got seriously into theory around 4 years ago (12 years a guitar player now, 5 years bass) and its enriched my life so much, really man. I love listening to my favorite artists and figuring out what happens there or what evokes that really cool sound or emotion, and i've always wanted to find something that lends itself to analyzing music that is famous and already existing, not just talk about secondary dominants and modal interchange in a vacuum. So thank you dearly for doing this. I'm sure it can be tedious and hard, theorizing the music and then editing the videos, but we really do appreciate it. If you ever have the time to analyze anything by snarky puppy, i'd blow my shit man forreal. Looked everywhere on the internet and can't find anything. (Young Stuff is a great one. Beautiful bass solo and deeply powerful ending / chord progression) Cheers from Cairo!

Could you do a part 2 as an analysis of the solo?

thank you for blowing my mind

@12tone

6 жыл бұрын

^_^

Hi Cory, at 1:28, where you describe the “non-standard” chord progression, amongst the scale degrees are a few chords with small 6s before them. Can you tell me what that represents please? Thanks!

20 seconds in and I'm lost... yet I still watch all his videos to procrastinate on studying or doing homework

Brillant and so entertaining 👍🎉

@12tone

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

I liked it&subbed

@12tone

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

This is absolutely incredible. I love it so much. Btw, can you put it to original speed? It sounds like the video is under 1.5x speed.

@12tone

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks! That's odd, it should be at normal speed. Maybe check your video settings? It might have gotten left on 1.5 from something else you were watching. Otherwise, not sure why that would be happening.

MY GOD! I just met this page, its beautiful

Hi 12Tone, a friend recently turned me onto your channel and I have to ask, why do you hold your pen like that?

Diary of a Madman would be a great one to do

Dam I just found your channel. I have 2 requests. Tools, wings for Marie. And the mars Volta. Cicatras esp.

Brilliant

excellent job, thank you for sharing. I almost feel like I understand. ha!

@12tone

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

My favorite song of all time

I am entirely musically illiterate - I'm a drummer - but I managed to understand the majority of this. I say kudos for the impressive explanation! May I also request something by Steely Dan? I'm sure that, with mu chords and other fancy stuff, something by the Dan - Deacon Blues, Aja, or perhaps I Got the News - would be a treat to analyse!

the second chord can be interpreted as a III+64 to a i42 to a IV6

One of the greatest episodes yet. Having a familiar song as the subject really helps.

@12tone

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Yeah, we opened up suggestions and then immediately got this one from multiple people, so we knew we had to do it!

Man. I'm glad I didn't think about allthat as I learned it on the guitar lol, I would have never gotten it

Hey man, I had a mediocre music teacher in Highschool, so I understand almost nothing of music theory, but I love your videos :D

@12tone

6 жыл бұрын

Aw, thanks! Have you checked out our Building Blocks series? It looks at music theory from the bottom up, maybe it'll help! kzread.info/head/PLMvVESrbjBWplAcg3pG0TesncGT7qvO06

@CelsoGomezc

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks I will check it out :D

Isn't the solo progression Am G Fmaj7? I don't hear a Gmaj7. Also I hear the second chord of the intro as like a 3rd inversion Ammaj7 (with a 9 so I guess Ammaj9?). Correct me if I'm wrong, also, great videos.

@12tone

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that was a mistake on my part! I think it'a actually G6, but I screwed up in reading my transcription. Sorry!

@ashamael

6 жыл бұрын

I've always thought the solo progression was Am7 - C/G - Fmaj7/C, then it changes into the straight i-VII-VI for the final vocal session, but then you do tend to learn the wrong chords from guitar magazines/books. Still, that's 20 years of playing the wrong chords if so.

@freshnigiri

6 жыл бұрын

what?

And people say Math is complicated. Loved the way you explained it, by the way.

@12tone

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Wow, for once KZread recommandations are good ! Even though I can't understand half of what you're saying, I find it really interesting, nice video !

@12tone

7 жыл бұрын

Aw, thanks! If you'd like to learn more we have a series called Building Blocks that dives into the basics: kzread.info/head/PLMvVESrbjBWplAcg3pG0TesncGT7qvO06

Two points I want to make. The second chord arpeggiated in the intro sounds more like a Cmaj7 than an E chord. The G# does not obfuscate this fact -- it's just a color tone in that particular context. G# is also the leading tone in A minor, so the descending bass line is sort of setting up an expectation of resolution. My other point is that at 5:04 you say that the progression from A- to D sounds dorian, but it actually sounds more like mixolydian to me. That's because of the cross-relation of the tritone (C to F#) between the two chords, which forms the third and seventh tones of a dom7 chord in G. It just feels like a dominant. That's why I say the song briefly passes through the key of G -- not exactly a modulation, but you get the point.

@12tone

7 жыл бұрын

Interesting! I'm not sure I agree on the Cma7 analysis, especially since it moves to C right after and that feels like a chord change to me, but it's ambiguous as heck so you could certainly be right! On the second point, I see what you mean. I still hear it as Dorian 'cause I don't really feel the tonic changing, but A dorian and D mixolydian are obviously very similar keys, so I could certainly see some ambiguity there too. Thanks for sharing!

@johnknox91

7 жыл бұрын

12tone Yes, well I suppose it could also be a Cmaj7 with an augmented fifth, a chord commonly used in jazz for "emotional amiguity." That would make it a III7 in A harmonic minor?? Idk, just an interesting thought. A lot of Bach's music had rapidly modulating lines, as well. Speaking of which, I would love to see you do a video about one of the Bach chorales! Before I started studying music theory, I could not appreciate the hidden layers of complexity within them. In fact, they kind of seemed simple and boring at face value. People must know the truth!

these videos are great, I was wondering what the origin behind all the elephants is?

@12tone

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Mostly, they're just cute and easy to draw, and I didn't feel like just doing stick figures, ya know?

Please analyze *Supper's Ready* !

@TheWood005

6 жыл бұрын

That would be great but also a long video! Although there are definitely some themes that recur.

@user-om9jl5jv5y

6 жыл бұрын

Prady Jr. Hello, baby, your supper's waiting for you-u...

With one chord we will mess with their heads for all eternity