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@hatim4790

3 жыл бұрын

Please talk about the incredible elvis feeling in the song"surrender" and how he expresses every single word meaning.he pronounces " fire"and differently "disire" the pride of "story "and "glory" the continuity of"forever" the immediacy of" tonight" and the supply of " please" twice in the song really big lesson from that big singer.long live the king.

@nacoran

3 жыл бұрын

It's not word painting, but the Ben Folds example made me think of one of my favorite examples of sneaking some dirty language in... in Lou Reed's Take a Walk on the Wild Side there is that great line "Holly came from Miami, FLA" were most people seem to take it as just the state code and miss the dig at Los Angeles.

@LilCalebW

3 жыл бұрын

Yay luv u bro

@klaxoncow

3 жыл бұрын

A nice one that I like is Kate Bush's "Watching Me Without You": kzread.info/dash/bejne/jINsqdWyXai9e7Q.html The backing vocals are mumbled and indistinct. But if you listen carefully, she's singing "you don't hear me, you don't hear what I'm saying, do you?". So, indeed, if you're not paying attention - as I didn't on the first few hearings of this song, until I stopped to truly listen - then you don't hear it and she's calling you out on that (but it, of course, plays into the theme of the song about being ignored, isolated and alienated by another person. The notion that she's a ghost in her own home). There's also a few "you can't hear me" backwards in the background. An "SOS" in morse code. There's a backwards message that I don't think anyone's worked out how to decode (because she's not saying English words - some kind of code? But all still playing into the "no communication" theme). And, at the end, her appeals to be heard are all broken up and staccato.

@soner818

3 жыл бұрын

Sound of music, "Do Re Mi"

"Stop, wait a minute" *song pauses for an entire minute*

@kimishou

4 жыл бұрын

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@NeviTheLettyFan

4 жыл бұрын

I needed this comment

@callumsylvester9921

4 жыл бұрын

Letto Same lmao

@steveempiremantra2120

4 жыл бұрын

@@kimishou thx

@WolfiePH

4 жыл бұрын

Then everyone in the audience claps in mute and did a backflip. I tell you guys, bruno mars concerts are something.

shorty got low low low low low low low low

@darionbuck2715

4 жыл бұрын

He didn't mention this particular piece, because it's simply too complicated to analyze.

@KaizerMan

4 жыл бұрын

really he shouldve said lower since his vocals were only relatively low but were objectively lower. still a classic song tho and im not cussing musical legends T-Pain and the state of FloRida

@CoolFellaProductions

4 жыл бұрын

*shawty

@vampirerev7577

4 жыл бұрын

T h a n k y o u

@raleighroberts3969

4 жыл бұрын

The definition of lyrical genius!

"I wanna teach the kids how to cuss and what notes they can cuss from" such a great goal

@LRM12o8

3 жыл бұрын

I mean, it only makes sense to combine musical education with sex ed, since that's why most kids start doing music in the first place! 😂 (... if popular TV shows are to believed)

@JudeCooper

3 жыл бұрын

May we all strive to such goals.

@DMSProduktions

2 жыл бұрын

@@LRM12o8 It's a LIE!

@rico4939

2 жыл бұрын

when sex ed meets music ed

@humboldthammer

2 жыл бұрын

I hope you find ha piness with a newd irection.

In Puccini's "Tosca", when she's asked for a sex trade, the music plays the notes B A C, which in italian are Si La Do. "Sì, la do" means "Yes, I will give it to you", subtly meaning that she agreed with the trade.

@Kai_On_Paws_4298

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha

@stefanonecchi-composer3924

2 жыл бұрын

Non ci avevo mai pensato 🤔

@cynthiaschmidt1235

2 жыл бұрын

: o

@Greenballoffire

Жыл бұрын

genius

@afreen5058

Жыл бұрын

Ooooo nice!!

Word paint me like one of your French girls.

@tonyt987

4 жыл бұрын

Word paint Em like 1 of your F Girls.

@DavidBennettPiano

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe I should make that a Patreon perk! 👨🏻‍🎨

@ApoLk_

4 жыл бұрын

@@tonyt987 F minor girls i'm sorry

@omgbence676

4 жыл бұрын

I once had a girl.. or should I say... she once had me

@AdrianChazz

4 жыл бұрын

@@tonyt987 Word Paint Em like 1 of your F-Gs

Seems like "word painting" largely consists of musical puns

@lvl32entertainment94

4 жыл бұрын

Someone alert TheDooo

@pandabeargaming3349

4 жыл бұрын

Hits a chord with a lot of people

@KingJellyfishII

4 жыл бұрын

I tried to cross the road without my glasses on, I couldn't C# so I'm probably going to Bb

@stechapo4009

4 жыл бұрын

Prog rock is full of them (probably). Puns & noodles!!

@ommzi6428

4 жыл бұрын

*all dads approve*

Never gonna give you up (high pitch) Never gonna let you down (low pitch) This is something I always noticed even before watching this video.

@aha8599

Жыл бұрын

LMAO

@crispusattucks4007

Жыл бұрын

Was I just technically rickrolled?

@MultiFireflie

Жыл бұрын

@@crispusattucks4007 Yes, yes, you were

@james_crawford

Жыл бұрын

Also the next line "Never gonna run ArOuNd" has an up and down pitch on the around word

@Zachyshows

Жыл бұрын

​@@james_crawford And desert you has a short pause after itr

I really like how in Queens Don't stop me now, the song technically never ends. If just fades out

@Greenballoffire

Жыл бұрын

oh that's amazing

@wyattstevens8574

Жыл бұрын

Not only does it "don't stop, " but it does so with the exact chord progression as the verse!

Me who knows jackshit about music: ah yes indeed music does that

@rosalemön

4 жыл бұрын

Same lmaooo

@Aenetroy

4 жыл бұрын

Samee

@penguinlord2343

4 жыл бұрын

Not same 😂

@princessevangeline410

4 жыл бұрын

never same

@hawktalon7890

4 жыл бұрын

Me too. :D

little high, little low in bohemian rhapsody

@vacaura

4 жыл бұрын

but the lyrics are opposite to the melody

@MetalliBucket

4 жыл бұрын

ethans reloading they aren’t, high is sung higher than low

@dimitripf

4 жыл бұрын

@@MetalliBucket they are the same note, but the "littles" are different

@SuperAronGamerMNO

4 жыл бұрын

@@dimitripf Well. It's still not opposite to the melody.

@raulhuapaya

4 жыл бұрын

SuperAronGamer well little high is going low and little low is going high so...

7:23 legend has it, she's still singing "rise rise rise..."

@tomhzzz

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂

@udonthavetoknowmyname

3 жыл бұрын

*R I S E E E*

@princeofcats258

2 жыл бұрын

@@udonthavetoknowmyname *(Long, deep inhale)* *RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISE!*

@josemaderas7724

Ай бұрын

RĪĮÎÌÏÍIŠĘ

In "Somebody to Love" by Queen there are verses "I feel like i've got no rhythm" and "I just keep loosing my beat", where Freddie respectively sings without rhytm and off-beat

@trudyannbuckley

Жыл бұрын

Reminds me of: "Maybe I sing off key but you still love this song" in I Like Myself Most of the Time by K. Flay

@AlphaGeekgirl

Жыл бұрын

Losing

@babscabs1987

Жыл бұрын

​@@AlphaGeekgirl thank you

@wyattstevens8574

Жыл бұрын

I never noticed that!

@antomcmanus1775

10 ай бұрын

I loved this part too!

I believe the most obvious one has to be "Do-Re-Mi" from The Sound of Music

@DavidBennettPiano

4 жыл бұрын

Good suggestion - I’ve actually just covered that one in my new word painting video 🙂

@Daniel-kr1vy

4 жыл бұрын

@@DavidBennettPiano I haven't seen it yet, will check it out right now :D

@DavidBennettPiano

4 жыл бұрын

weedeater thanks!

@sisidiam1096

3 жыл бұрын

and so us Greece's Eurovision entry in 1977

@clarav.7937

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂 dying!

Screaming the word "scream" is a really common one

@DavidBennettPiano

4 жыл бұрын

good idea! Maybe the sequel will start with a 'scream' compilation

@savannahkrystall2698

4 жыл бұрын

Oooooh high school musical three!!

@vgsinger27

4 жыл бұрын

Foxey Lady.

@MLBFCollection

4 жыл бұрын

Judas Priest - Burn In Hell

@genwt3916

4 жыл бұрын

AC/DC's Jailbreak immediately comes to mind, good spot sir

A recent example I love is in Bo Burnham's song "Goodbye." When he sings the word "diminish" on a dimineshed chord. Its so cool

@LovelyAngel.

Жыл бұрын

He's also got "Beating off in A minor" but let's not talk about that 😅

Another great example of this is the pre-chorus in Smells Like Teen Spirit: _"Hello, hello, hello, how low"_ I love how it gets the lowest at "low", and how with "hello" the "-LO" is LOwer part

In “Don’t Stop Me Now” by Queen, during the second verse: “...Like an atom bomb, I’m about to oh oh [tension building] oh oh OH EXPLODE [tension explodes into energy]...”

@benh1496

4 жыл бұрын

I’m burning through the sky

@seanh9882

4 жыл бұрын

@@benh1496 proceeds to catch fire

@theyellowdarkness1837

4 жыл бұрын

Great example

@buhpoi8085

4 жыл бұрын

Ben H 200 degrees

@brainwormyy

4 жыл бұрын

that's why they call me mr Fahrenheit

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody: After Freddie sings ”Shivers down my spine” Brian plays a little arpeggio with the strings behind the guitar bridge, creating a musical representation of a shiver down the spine. Pretty interesting stuff.

@veronikafedorova4493

4 жыл бұрын

stekaren1337 surfplatta wow, I haven’t noticed that

@metalzonemt-2

4 жыл бұрын

@@veronikafedorova4493 Me neither, until I saw a video where Brian mentioned it.

@charlottevanslooten899

4 жыл бұрын

stekaren1337 surfplatta yeah ive always noticed that wow!!!

@sidarthur8706

4 жыл бұрын

in sold to the highest buddha by gong after the line 'my codpiece is starting to tremble' the guitarist makes wobbly trembly noises

@chrissichris1428

4 жыл бұрын

stekaren1337 surfplatta when they sing “landslide” at the beginning, it slightly slides down and when he sings “anywhere the wind blows” you can hear a long kind of “wushhh” sound just like a wind. The song is fill of this stuff, just keep listening to background sounds and interesting melodies and you’ll find a lot more. The song is pure art

Word painting is used really well in the chorus of "Into the Unknown" from Frozen 2. The song is about a character overcoming the urge to stay in safe stability and go out on an adventure. The chorus' first line jumps by a simple octave, representing safety. The second line jumps by an octave plus a step, just a little bit out of comfort before coming back to the octave. The third and final line goes all in with an octave plus three steps and ends one degree above the octave, returning to a place that is not the original safety but a triumphant note nonetheless.

@wyattstevens8574

10 ай бұрын

The music goes further "into the unknown!" Howard Ho has a video (How Elsa Finds Herself [Musically]) about how this (and Show Yourself) both came from Let It Go.

"Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup, they slither while they pass, they slip away across the universe" has that perfect stream-of-consciousness delivery to the lyrics, rambling for ages without pausing to take a breath... before halting and letting them drift off.

"Hey do you know how to play Hallelujah" *me*: uhhhh, yeah, I think it goes like this.... the fourth. The fifth. The minor fall, and the major lift.

@mal9369

4 жыл бұрын

you know? the baffled king composing? hallelujah?

@zrkled5645

4 жыл бұрын

The baffled king composing Waluigi

@felipevasconcelos6736

4 жыл бұрын

Zrkled wah

@TRFAD

3 жыл бұрын

wagga wagga wagga waggaaaaa

@jookie4207

2 жыл бұрын

@@mal9369 hallelujah…. Hallelujah… hallelujah…. Halleluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuujah. OoOh…

Bohemian Rhapsody "Caught in a landsliiiide....no escape from reality" The note slides down,like, half a scale after the word "landslide" 😂

@benjaminhankinson4749

4 жыл бұрын

Always loved that slide

@mariposadelaire5390

3 жыл бұрын

Also "look up to the skies and see" goes up and there's a C at "see".

@lucasg.5534

3 жыл бұрын

@@mariposadelaire5390 Uh, no, there isn't.

@jonathanlee6660

3 жыл бұрын

@@lucasg.5534 There is....

@mridhulml9238

3 жыл бұрын

True..and now that i think of it maybe they did that high octave autotune like sound in the intro to do that drop after 'landslide'?

''And I'm gonna be high as a kite by then'' Elton John (Rocket Man)

Pink Floyd - Time comes to mind. When he says "Home, home again", the song goes back to how Breathe sounded

in beetlejuice the musical a character sings “maybe seventy-eight” and the time signature changes to 7/8

@nidhis1289

4 жыл бұрын

Katatles that’s really clever

@polyrhythm7236

4 жыл бұрын

What song?

@ciara9369

4 жыл бұрын

@@polyrhythm7236 ready set not yet

@quietkoala4827

4 жыл бұрын

it's adam who say it

@rancidprince3133

4 жыл бұрын

I’ve heard that song so many times and I never realized lol

in Mary Poppins, during A Spoonful of Sugar, Julie Andrews says, “A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. The medicine go do-own, the medicine go down.” But on the first and last “downs” the melody goes up. The people who wrote this song said that they had the melody go up because Mary Poppins wasn’t “normal”, so naturally, down would be up.

@awesomesauce754

4 жыл бұрын

Teddy Rose I love that

@yukisoba8888

4 жыл бұрын

Rachel Muckerman same

@DustyStarrs

4 жыл бұрын

AHH I WAS GONNA SAY THAT I first learned that when watching Saving Mr Banks, highly recommend

@amritas2400

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah! I watched that in a movie.

@bleckybob

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome, you watched saving mr Banks

A great example of ABBA using word painting is in their early song, People Need Love. In the line, "it takes a man to get matrimonial harmony", Agnetha and Frida harmonise together on the word "harmony".

My favourite case of word painting is in Bo Burnham's "pandering" where he says "y'all motherfuckers want a key change" then he changes the key. True musical genius.

Lin-Manuel Miranda used reverse text-painting in “You’ll be Back” when it says “oceans *rise, [melody leaps down] empires *fall [melody leaps up]”

@Clarintheclarineter

4 жыл бұрын

Same thing happens in Mary Poppins. "Just a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down". But there is an octave leap up.

@lostmelodyy

4 жыл бұрын

@@Clarintheclarineter but the second time she sings it, the notes slide down

@TeaMMatE11

4 жыл бұрын

same thing in My Shot "When are these colonies gonna rise UP? When are these colonies gonna rise UP?" Not only does it go up but the ending part gets louder as more voices join in at the end of the song.

@princessadrychannel3464

4 жыл бұрын

MORE LIN MANUEL MIRANDA/HAMILTON FANS

@graceriley2500

4 жыл бұрын

Though, at least in the recording, there is a small fall off the note in "fall", and it does go up within the word "oceans"

English teachers: I analyse _everything_ This guy: hold my beer

@imblasted6306

4 жыл бұрын

I really thought everyone did this tbh

@chaccostan

4 жыл бұрын

He’s almost head to head with BTS’ fans.

@catriziacat1756

4 жыл бұрын

Fan theorists: are you challenging me

@lunapeters4593

4 жыл бұрын

If I hadn't left college for medical reasons, I probably would have been that English teacher.

@taviacharles3364

4 жыл бұрын

My English teacher gave me a baked potato today

In "To Be a Princess" from Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper, the characters sing about harmonizing in thirds, and while singing they actually harmonize in thirds.

My favourite example of word painting is in "Instant Crush" by Daft Punk where they say "I don't wanna sing anymore" right before an instrumental break. It's like the "Stop" example you gave but more unique

My favourite is in “I Got A Boy” by SNSD, when Jessica sings “don’t stop, let’s bring it back to 1:40” which not only brings back the instrumental used at 1:40 in the song, but also brings the bpm back to 140

@arijeanz

4 жыл бұрын

Iconic

@thedead073

4 жыл бұрын

That was wild

@octo-pops

4 жыл бұрын

Didn't expect to see Kpop in this comments section but YES!!

@thedead073

4 жыл бұрын

@@octo-pops TBH SNSD is an exception. They're everywhere. Even though they're dead now.

@luvi4091

4 жыл бұрын

Hardcorepro-Cycloid That sounds morbid-

The Story of Us by Taylor Swift, she raises her voice as she sings “I’ve never heard silence quite this loud” while the instruments all go quiet.

@JMemski

4 жыл бұрын

omg my favourite, if word painting were actual paintings I'd have it framed.

@anaduds

4 жыл бұрын

When she sings "when it all broke down" it goes down.

@blameitoncapitalism

4 жыл бұрын

yaass queen genius lyricist of our generationhad to be pointed out

@DragonFreaktheGreat

4 жыл бұрын

That's also probably my favorite Taylor Swift lyric

@angeloflightsaber4687

4 жыл бұрын

And when she says "miscommunications lead to fall out" the notes fall

I think into the unknown from frozen 2 is also a cool example of word painting because each time Elsa says “unknown,” the interval she sings get bigger representing her going further away from what she knows and going into the unknown.

"I wanna teach kids how to cuss, and I wanna teach kids what notes they can cuss from." LMAO 6:12

In All Star when they say " we could all use a little _change_ " there is a key change.

@i_so_late

4 жыл бұрын

what? no there isn't

@karlg5697

4 жыл бұрын

there isnt

@susellinares8920

4 жыл бұрын

KarlG there definitely is. “We all need a little chaaaaAAANGEEE well the years stop coming and they don’t stop coming...” the last chorus.

@raffaaeeel_

4 жыл бұрын

im the 666th like 😏

@temple_123

4 жыл бұрын

No there isn't it's just an augmented chord

"little high, little low" Bohemian Rhapsody-Queen

@TheCoolRaven

4 жыл бұрын

was just gonna comment that

@lisaskywalker8419

4 жыл бұрын

Same thought

@justarandomarmy115

4 жыл бұрын

Uriah Shamosh high and low are both sung on the same note tho

@LixiumXaef

4 жыл бұрын

@@justarandomarmy115 they are, but the preceding words are higher and lower respectfully.

@TheCoolRaven

4 жыл бұрын

Just a random ARMY I have ears too you know

Mate I've just found your channel and it's like a gold mine of music content I never knew I needed until now.

@DavidBennettPiano

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! 😃

Old Fashioned Love Song is another good example, the verses and pre chorus describe the sensation trying to remember an old love song, and then the chorus becomes a familiar optimistic release of recognizing a familiar tune, but also splits into a 3 part harmony during the line “coming down in a 3 part harmony”

"I wish I found some chords, in an order that is new" "I wish I didn't have to rhyme, every time I sang"

@hannahking9004

4 жыл бұрын

I love that part in that song

@weirdo66636

4 жыл бұрын

Kevin Ball 🙈🙈

@cheeseisjar3058

4 жыл бұрын

I don’t really like that song but that lyric is totally cool

@caseyscott7881

4 жыл бұрын

Cheese is Jar but it’s so gooodddd

@electricv564

4 жыл бұрын

400th like

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody "little high, little low"

@dani3645

3 жыл бұрын

Also on bohemian rhapsody: "Sends shivers down my spine" *sound of sweeping chimes*

@alexreid1173

3 жыл бұрын

Kinda upset this wasn’t an example lol it was the first thing that came to mind

@tiyenin

3 жыл бұрын

You people realize that "high" and "low" are sung on the same melodic note AND chord, yes? It's literally the antithesis of word painting.

@MariaLopez-jd4tt

3 жыл бұрын

@@tiyenin word painting doesn’t necessarily have to be the exact words. The pitch changes in the words “little” yea the word high and low are played on the same note but the two “littles” are different. The first “little” is higher and the second little goes lower. Before correcting people, saying this isn’t word painting, I suggest you consider the whole phrase like an actual musician.

@holachicos320

3 жыл бұрын

When using some headphones, you can hear "little high" coming from your left ear from a higher place and "little low" coming from your right ear from a lower place

One example I love is in Hamilton's "You'll Be Back" where it's the opposite in the line "Oceans rise (⬇️), empires fall (⬆️)"

Tool - lateralus, as the full song talks about growing like a spiral and the verse are writen in Fibonacci secuence

"I'm too sexy for this song." [song ends]

@paranormalactivity763

4 жыл бұрын

Fed in the A with a big fat D. Lololol

@misaamane6528

4 жыл бұрын

yes

@Lily-xq1em

4 жыл бұрын

LMAO

How about , “I like the make my self believe that planet earth turns *SLOOOOOWWLLLLY*

@RehannahB

4 жыл бұрын

Cat 😊classic

@ffb8691

4 жыл бұрын

Fireflies is a good song

@maxtitanium223

4 жыл бұрын

YEEEEESSSSS

@ryancarter2959

4 жыл бұрын

My childhood favorite

@binupdhungana3889

4 жыл бұрын

"Everything is never as it seeeeeeeems, when I fall asleep.."

I'd never heard the prosody in Somewhere Over The Rainbow before but if that was by design and not just coincidence then it is absolutely brilliant.

Thanks for putting these set of examples together, David. It's very useful for the classroom. Consider including "Do-Re-Mi" from The Sound of Music. It's hard to find a clearer match between lyrics and pitch.

How about the chords A-C-D-C in AC-DC's High Voltage.

@junipermcburnie7691

4 жыл бұрын

It's not a pop example, but this reminds me of how J.S. Bach used to hide B-A-C-H as a motif in his pieces (in Germany 'B' is what we call Bb and 'H' is what we call B)

@jackconklin919

4 жыл бұрын

@@junipermcburnie7691 or shostakovich's DSCH motif

@DavidBennettPiano

4 жыл бұрын

clever! I didn't know that

@MaggaraMarine

4 жыл бұрын

It does use those chords, but not in that order. The chorus is A C D A x2, C D C D C G D A.

@David-cu1xy

4 жыл бұрын

Whole Lotta Rosie also has the chords A-C-A-D-A-C-A

My favourite world painting is from Hamilton in "You'll be back" "Oceans rise, empires fall" But jokes on you, the melody goes down with "rise" and rises with "fall" because it's funny

@benny569

4 жыл бұрын

YES

@ntellaS2

4 жыл бұрын

Ok but can we talk about how there is Hamilton everywhere I go?

@elisejackson2854

4 жыл бұрын

@@ntellaS2 as it should be.

@samham8596

4 жыл бұрын

@@ntellaS2 You can't escape the Ham

@alissawilliams3435

4 жыл бұрын

Lisa Harbers YES

When I first learned about chords I honestly thought that hallelujah went “the minor fourth and the major fifth” until we learned about how they aren’t named as such. Really confused me for a couple of years until I properly listened to the sont

My favorite example of this is the bridge in For Forever from Dear Evan Hansen, where he's singing about climbing and falling out of a tree. The melody keeps getting higher until the climax of the song, the highest note, when he's at the top. And then gracefully comes back down both notewise and intensity with the line "And I suddenly feel the branch give way." Then the next few lines are low, and fairly stagenet, as he's describing being on the ground, and changes with the line "and everything's okay," when Connor finds him. I think about that all the time.

“Oceans rise, Empires fallllllll” Edit: for people who don’t get it I mean it’s IRONIC.

@JerusalemStrayCat

3 жыл бұрын

I noticed that too...a little ironic but I guess it fits because King George is predicting things that won't happen

@gjk-arts5855

3 жыл бұрын

Book Butterfly ever since I’ve got obsessed with Hamilton I’ve seen hamilton comments and it makes me happy

@giovata

3 жыл бұрын

"Don't modulate the key then not debate with me" is the main example that comes to my mind of word painting

@haxincorporated1663

3 жыл бұрын

Rise up...

@trentonheyn413

3 жыл бұрын

We have seen each other through it all!

“I want to teach kids to cuss, and which notes to cuss from” That- can my music teacher be like this please?

@keytheghostknight9796

4 жыл бұрын

My music teacher yells at the wood winds to show her their " nasty finger" if the forget to put it down while playing WE LITERALLY GET TO FLIP OFF THE TEACHER AND SHE'S OKAY WITH IT.

@alexanderholzer7392

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds degenerate.

@patlrampros

4 жыл бұрын

No. Bigly Sad.

Ray Manzarek is such a legend. I love listening to his interviews breaking down those timeless songs.

One that I discovered this morning: In “We are Young” by fun. the lyrics go “So if by the time the bar closes and you feel like falling down, I’ll carry you home tonight”. Up to “falling down”, the melody descends, and at “I’ll carry you home tonight”, it ascends.

“Over the rainbow” the notes look like a rainbow

@DavidNorthMusic

4 жыл бұрын

Also "up high" are both up high.

@anoushanarayanan9973

4 жыл бұрын

Idk why but that song creeps me out

@CraftAero

4 жыл бұрын

When he showed the clip my first thought was No, that's "Great Gig in the Sky" followed by "Money". I've watched it too many times with Dark Side of the Moon playing. 👌

@ptf19_

4 жыл бұрын

also, the pentagram represents a rainbow and some of the notes go over it

@chaccostan

4 жыл бұрын

that’s what i noticed even before he started to explain lmaoooo

Bach actually wrote a whole sonata around “C A F F E E” the German word for coffee

@gurrrn1102

3 жыл бұрын

*cantata

@arbeez4827

2 жыл бұрын

Uh, the German word for coffee starts with a "k" dude. "Kaffee", not "caffee"

@evanmisejka4062

2 жыл бұрын

@@arbeez4827 yeah the one take away from three years of German classes was there are almost no words that start with "C" in German.

@blacksandthecity8999

2 жыл бұрын

@@evanmisejka4062 when Beethoven lived it was actually spelled with a "c". The spelling was totally different from now :)

@evanmisejka4062

2 жыл бұрын

@@blacksandthecity8999 really? I didn't know that, cool!

Some of the writer and composer may not aware the connection between their lyrics to the notes..but as it became famous and people love to hear that song..it shows us how people actually can automatically connect themselves to the song..make a connection to the lyrics and the notes..

It's curious because i saw a version of the famous "stop, wait a minute" when you literally have to wait minute.

"I wanna teach the kids how to cuss." We need more people like Ben Folds in this world.

@featherozone

4 жыл бұрын

In a way that's theoretically correct

@confidential5743

4 жыл бұрын

Idk, it sounded like an excuse for an embarrassing piece. I'm sure he's written good songs, but that one was just weird and not at all for kids

@atlasmonkeyleon

4 жыл бұрын

Con Fidential "not at all for kids" Ok boomer.

@demonindenim

4 жыл бұрын

Con Fidential lol its amazing tho

@confidential5743

4 жыл бұрын

Leon K Wait no... AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

In My Head by Ariana Grande. “But it was all in my he-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-ad” she goes from chest voice to head voice. :))

@thesensur6214

4 жыл бұрын

I would’ve never noticed that

@tsu_den__.tw_g

4 жыл бұрын

Chest to head? Please explain :'/

@invasiveowl

4 жыл бұрын

twigx when singing there is something know as a head voice and a chest voice depending on where the singing is coming from. I don’t know the exact difference but I know it’s significant enough that the sound will vary depending on head voice/chest voice and that if done wrong a head voice can be nasally 🙌🙌

@d0llf4ce-n3ko

4 жыл бұрын

twigx okay so there is this thing called voices in singers. You have head, mixed, and chest. Those are the three basics. So a chest voice is where you engage your core and a note is fully supported. You can hear the absolute power behind it. A mixed voice is a supported note but it also starts to slowly lose power. It’s supported but it might not be as powerful. A head voice is typically used when trying to get outside of the vocal range and hit higher notes. You can hear in that song that as she sings “head” her voice gets softer and softer. My explanation isn’t completely accurate but it will give you an idea. Hope thag helped. :))

I have an overreliance on the watch later button and I subscribe to a bunch of video essays so, I put playback on 1.5 to get through them faster. Usually, I switch it back to normal for music videos like this one so I can hear the music correctly, but tonight, I was doing the dishes and wasn't able to. All of that being said, at 1.5 speed, Judy Garland's vibrato is insane!

I'm so glad you mentioned the Ben Folds song. I love that one. XD

in “you’ll be back” from hamilton, the pitch lowers when the king says “oceans rise” and goes up when he says “empires fall.” reverse prosody!

@MossyMozart

3 жыл бұрын

@zauwolf - I believe that happens in places in the kite song in the Disney film, "Mary Poppins".

@rfresa

3 жыл бұрын

Also in Mary Poppins with "makes the medicine go down".

@DMSProduktions

2 жыл бұрын

@@rfresa OR your mum! ;oP

@jookie4207

2 жыл бұрын

We have seen each other through it all…

@massive.nerd.potential

2 жыл бұрын

@@jookie4207 And when push comes to shove (Idk if shove is the right word at least what's I've understood)

"Four out of five" by the Artic Monkeys when the lyric says : "I can lift you up another semitone"

@lostmyedge_

4 жыл бұрын

Ooh good pick up

@ec4202

4 жыл бұрын

i was thinking that !!

@malofaure6474

4 жыл бұрын

I was about to say it !! Fantastic example !

@WhiteTrash2993

4 жыл бұрын

TAKE IT EASY FOR A LITTLE WHIIIILE

@juancruzciacci1262

4 жыл бұрын

HEY! THAT'S TRUE!

Growing up, I always though that "Friends In Low Places" was clever with that low note in the chorus, then "She's So High" by Tal Bachman from my high school days. Turns out its much more common than I knew.

"Far over the misty mountains cold" is a line that goes up to a point, then comes down...like a mountain...

Bo Burnham’s “oh Bo” has a part where he get’s the runs and starts singing them as well.

@joyrys486

4 жыл бұрын

i think “y’all motherfuckers want a key change?” in country song would also work

@parkchimmin7913

4 жыл бұрын

Does beating off in A minor count?

@thatoneotheridiot3361

4 жыл бұрын

@@parkchimmin7913 Why wouldn't it?

@Bluuu3

4 жыл бұрын

"It was wrong on so many levels" right before the key change as well

@parkchimmin7913

4 жыл бұрын

Gordon Ramsay I don’t know what A minor sounds like ;n; (sorry, I lack knowledge on the subject of music)

The whole song “Take Five” was written in 5/4 time signature, that’s using the rhythm to paint the word.

@adammiller8133

4 жыл бұрын

The song sounds like it could’ve as easily been written in 6/4 or 6/8 but the pun was too good to pass up not writing a 5-beat song

@lexzwanenberg9130

4 жыл бұрын

We once played the song "take five four" with my band. It started out in 5/4 time signature but ended in 4/4. Was a cool song to play.

@bikechainimmortalis6923

4 жыл бұрын

As a musician, I'd hate that. Anything in 5 is the most uncomfortable time signature to play in

@delycan4912

4 жыл бұрын

Take Five by Atlantic five Jazz band?

@ian_edits_

4 жыл бұрын

@@bikechainimmortalis6923 Since everyone knows the melody to Take 5, it's actually really fun to play! That's from a violinist's perspective though. And I agree. It's rather odd to sight-read.

riders on the storm does that very well. heavy rain (when it's warm enough) is my favourite weather, and that song captures it beautifully.

I really appreciated this!!! It makes me happy that you, Adam Neely, and Rick Beato are helping me brush up on my musical training. I'm remembering what I'd forgotten.

@DavidBennettPiano

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

In twenty one pilot's "car radio“: And no I just sit in silence" and the song gets quiet.

@rosalemön

4 жыл бұрын

Omg yess

@peysonj.phillips7600

4 жыл бұрын

YES THATS WHAT I WAS THINKING ABOUT!!

@monicaraybrandt

4 жыл бұрын

"all my friends are heathens, take it s l o w"

@AshHill

4 жыл бұрын

And in Twenty one pilot's "Stressed out" in the second verse he says Latter, which sounds like ladder and the beat continues with 3 bumps that get louder and louder illustrating going up a ladder

@azula2399

4 жыл бұрын

Wow, people are way too crazy for top

In Rick Astley's "Never gonna give you up: Never gonna give you up (goes up) Never gonna let you down (goes down)

@lovinpeacestfm6357

4 жыл бұрын

when he says "up" it goes down

@another-person-on-youtube

4 жыл бұрын

@@lovinpeacestfm6357 True. But the "dowwwwn" is definitely intentional.

@GaryLucasMusic

4 жыл бұрын

@@lovinpeacestfm6357 But the overall feel of the first line is up and the 2nd line is down, so while this time it might not fall on the exact word, I still think it counts.

@ethancrandall6748

4 жыл бұрын

I got rick rolled in the comments section 😔

@stamrowbitbud895

4 жыл бұрын

I just got rickrolled haha lol xD so funny

My favorite of all time is an obscure one from the Cradle of Filth song Beneath the Howling Stars from the album Cruelty and The Beast. It’s a concept album about Elizabeth Bathory’s (fictionalized) life. Each song is a literal story, and Beneath the Howling Stars is about Elizabeth meeting Ferenc Nadasdy, her future husband, at a ball she’s holding. In the part of the song where she’s described as entering the ballroom, the lyrics go “the waltz wound down, transfixed...” All the loud metal music stops, a little pipe organ cadenza plays, and after a few more very quiet, whispered lines about Elizabeth’s beauty (as if the music stops when she enters and the guests are whispering to each other about how hypnotizing she is), the title of the song, “Beneath the Howling Stars” is screamed and the song, in 4/4 time up until this moment, breaks into a 3/4 waltz as Elizabeth begins to waltz around the room (“she danced so macabre, men entranced divined from her gait, that this angel stepped from a pedestal had won remission from fate”) with her intended, Ferenc Nadasdy. It really just puts you exactly where the band wants you, it’s amazing. The entire album goes through pains to tell not only a lyrical story, but to make sure the music reflects what’s happening at that point in the narrative. Beneath the Howling Stars is the best example imo but there’s lots of other great moments like that littered throughout the album which I highly fucking recommend if you like metal even a tiny bit.

I know this is late, but in Deja Vu by Olivia Rodrigo when she says “singing in harmony” it’s a harmony

Also with somewhere over the rainbow, the notes actually form “rainbows” from when it goes up and down

@andrewsparkes8829

4 жыл бұрын

Speaking of weather, I love the instrumentation of Raining In My Heart sounding like raindrops. Simple but effective.

@unlocktornado

4 жыл бұрын

Wym

@liaurrecoechea5367

4 жыл бұрын

Jean Lucas as the notes go up and down it creates an arch shape like a rainbow O O O O. O O. O

Me: *Learns what word-painting means Me in my head: SHE HIT THE FLOOR, NEXT THING YOU KNOW, SHAWTY GOT LOW LOW LOW LOW LOW LOW LOW LOW

@rishabjaju7950

4 жыл бұрын

exactly happened with me

@keeratisatian

4 жыл бұрын

Lol

Great videos! Clear explanations, plenty of familiar examples, and you quickly drive the point home. Loved it

"backbeat the word is on the street that the fire in your heart is out"

@DavidBennettPiano

3 жыл бұрын

Nice example!

@anierrn6935

3 жыл бұрын

Could you please explain this?

“Your lifestyle’s HIGH, but your funds are l o w” - Dr. Facillier from Princess and the Frog

@meking1808

4 жыл бұрын

This is the best example of word painting 😂

@brittanymartinez8276

4 жыл бұрын

Dig a Little Deeper does it too! "You got to dig a little deeper| (followed by lower note) Ooh its gonna be tough"

@neongray7959

4 жыл бұрын

That's what I was thinking (I watched the movie yesterday)

@angeloflightsaber4687

4 жыл бұрын

"You young man are from across the sea" ends on a C

@neongray7959

4 жыл бұрын

@@angeloflightsaber4687 bro I didn't even notice that one

In All-Star, on the 3rd verse, he sings "We all need a little change" and then changes the melody.

@PschocatIII

4 жыл бұрын

Tylo Ren key*

@Herghun

4 жыл бұрын

Well, the years start coming and they don't stop coming

@millerramsey8442

4 жыл бұрын

Doesn’t make sense not to live for fun

@nickronca1562

4 жыл бұрын

Your brain gets smart, but your head gets dumb

@samueleproiettimicozzi8134

4 жыл бұрын

So much to do, so much to see

The Strokes - The Modern Age In the chorus when Julian sings "tomorrow will be different", the melody distinctly changes on the word "different".

"Your lifestyle's HIGH, but your funds are LOW" -Friends on the Other Side from the Princess and the Frog

@heydiddlediddlegal9001

4 жыл бұрын

Ayyyyyy!!!!!

@nadiakeaton5680

4 жыл бұрын

yES

@amphibiangoddess

4 жыл бұрын

Good one!

@laylamars9700

4 жыл бұрын

That’s the first one I thought of too lol

@connormell1916

4 жыл бұрын

YOU NEED TO MARRY A LITTLE HONEY WHO'S DADDY'S GOT DOUGH

"The baffled king composing" The chord on "king" is a D. In Italian the D chord is called Re, which happens to be the same word for "king". I don't think that Cohen knew this, but it helped me remembering how to play that song.

@nerady

4 жыл бұрын

But there's no D in the song? G is played on "king"

@giovanniventurelli852

4 жыл бұрын

@@nerady, eheh I've always played it in the key of G, I never thought about checking the original key :D

@giovanniventurelli852

4 жыл бұрын

However the note of king is actually a D, if you play the song in the key of C.

@azearaazymoto461

4 жыл бұрын

The key doesn’t change notes like that. The key is the difference between G and G#

@FresoVODs

4 жыл бұрын

@@azearaazymoto461 No… the key is the set of notes used to play a tune. If you transpose a song from D major to B♭ major, you will be playing different notes. E.g., if the first note is a D, you will now be playing B♭ instead for the first note. (Also, G and G♯ are just as much different notes that, say, E and F is. Don’t let the ♯ and ♭’s fool you into thinking they’re really the same notes…)

I love videos like these as I learn so many new things and it makes me excited to used what I learn while listening to my favorite songs in a new way just makes me love music so much more

Beatles 'Help me if you can I'm feeling down.' Followed by three descending notes.

Eminem's Without Me: "Ever since Prince turned himself into a SYMBOL" then a cymbal plays.

@RoyDontHugMeImScared

4 жыл бұрын

Too soon

@shadowrayTV

4 жыл бұрын

That's just what em does

@shadowrayTV

4 жыл бұрын

Double entendres

In Janelle Monáe’s “I Like That,” when she says “I’m the random minor note you hear in major songs,” she switches to a minor note at “minor note”

@Mohammed8778

4 жыл бұрын

Whats a minor note? You mean a note in some minor scale?

@Catmomila

4 жыл бұрын

@@Mohammed8778 Probably singing the minor third of the chord

@vegjeezy17

4 жыл бұрын

lizaliz who cares

@mogedude

4 жыл бұрын

@@vegjeezy17 Apperantly, at the time of me writing this, 682 people do.

YYZ by RUSH: there is a two note, tritone riff at the beginning and the end of the song, and the rhythm of the notes is literally the morse code for “YYZ,” the airport code for Toronto Pearson International Airport. The band heard it over the radio as the guitarist flew them into Toronto on a private plane. “DAH doo DAT DAT DAH doo DAT DAT DAT DAH doo doo,” DASH-dot-DASH-DASH, DASH-dot-DASH-DASH, DASH-DASH-dot-dot.

@JamesSmith-kb6fz

2 жыл бұрын

I have listened to this song a million times and never knew this, thank you!

A good example of anti-word painting is in "A Spoonful of Sugar" because the melody goes up on the first "down." And then it goes down on the second "down" which is regular word painting.

I can't believe this video doesn't feature Mariah Carey's _"emotions"_ "You make me feel so... *_hiii-iii-IIII-IIIII-IIIIIIIIIIIIIGH_*

@flightsimjeronimo

4 жыл бұрын

lawnmower flying meme plays

@canadianTorchic

4 жыл бұрын

Neither can I believe it doesn't contain Kurt Nilsen's "She's So High", where at each "she's so HIIIIIIIIGH", he sings it in an incredibly high pitch (which I cannot even reach XD), too

@canadianTorchic

4 жыл бұрын

@Daver G ikr but where I live (what an ironic username I have!), Kurt Nilsen's cover made it to the radio more often somehow 🤔

David Bowie sings in Ashes to ashes "hitting an all time low" as he hits the lowest note in the song

@NorthernRealmJackal

4 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure he actually goes up an octave *on* that line. But it would have been, if he'd stayed.. I always thought it was a play on how the 'heavens high' right before is low, and 'all time low' is high (because the "getting high" is the lowpoint).

@durumclapclap

4 жыл бұрын

@@NorthernRealmJackal there's a live version on youtube where he goes an octave up, but he stays on the low octave in the studio version if I hear correctly

I always keep coming back to this video. In Robbie Williams - Strong. He sings "and thats a good line to take it to the bridge~" and then the brige begins!!

Great video. Loved the many examples. Going to subscribe right now and looking forward to more fine content like this.

"Four out of five" by Arctic Monkeys, at the bridge Alex says "i can lift you up another semitone" and then lifts up another semitone

@cherryred11

3 жыл бұрын

woah that's cool!!!

@jacobmillen751

3 жыл бұрын

love that part of the song

@wingodingo5467

3 жыл бұрын

and there’s also the key change when he says “key changes” in She Looks Like Fun

How about hum hallelujah by fall out boy: The lyrics are “just off the key of reason”. The key of reason is c major, which is also the key hallelujah by Leonard Cohen is in, and hum hallelujah is played in D major so it’s literally “just off the key of reason”

@hopoffmydick9574

4 жыл бұрын

yeeees I love when people mention the little details put into FOB songs

@bruabbatrash8917

4 жыл бұрын

oh YES THAT WAS AWESOME someone actually listens to fob i'm touched ❤️

@junatan25

4 жыл бұрын

And also “are you ready for another bad poem one more OFF KEY anthem” they ever so slightly had an off key note in there

@bikechainimmortalis6923

4 жыл бұрын

@@junatan25 Which song is that from? I need to listen to it now

@reneliz

4 жыл бұрын

Chad Michael it's rat a tat ft courtney love

Alceu Valença has a song recorded live on the album Vivo, where he sings: I scream in affliction in the street of calmness. Then, he repeats the word "calmness" with a loud, pained cry. I love this. The song os called Pot-Pourri: Punhal de Prata/O Medo/Quanto É Grande o Autor da Natureza/Cabelos Longos/Índio Quer Apito.

I am learning a lot about music thanks to your channel ! Great Work !