If you enjoyed this, check out my other video on Word Painting kzread.info/dash/bejne/gIGDr7KGqrWcn7w.html Thanks! 🎶🎵🎨

@aislingoda6026

4 жыл бұрын

Someone may already have pointed this out, but I just thought I'd say there's a typo in one of these transcriptions. Should be 'I before E except after C', not accept

@DavidBennettPiano

4 жыл бұрын

@@aislingoda6026 yeah... my mistake. Afraid I can't fix it 😅

@jithinrangani866

3 жыл бұрын

@@aislingoda6026 btw you surname is cool mcghee sounds like maggi and ghee

@fredashay

3 жыл бұрын

How about Wintergatan's Marble Machine song?

@LilCalebW

3 жыл бұрын

Luv u bro lol

Once again, the most sophisticated use of word painting in musical history: "She hit the floor (she hit the floor), next thing you know/ Shawty got low low low low low low low low"

@cheeseballpie2685

4 жыл бұрын

Alex M. Shawty got low just like the melody

@starsoullove1026

3 жыл бұрын

mozart is quaking

@Memerath

3 жыл бұрын

@@starsoullove1026 shawty got LOW and mozart is QUAKING

@foxandbarrettshow6916

2 жыл бұрын

Lyrical genius pure wordsmith shit rite Der. Yall got Shakespeare QUAKING achin and Shakin.. it's the thesaurus was never invented

@alankent

2 жыл бұрын

"Ev'ry valley shall be exalted" from Handel's Messiah is a far superior example from music history

Rush's drummer Neil Peart tapping out the title of the instrumental track, "YYZ" in Morse Code.

@jadengaskell1051

3 жыл бұрын

That's actually pretty cool. I never noticed

@CANnickhughes

3 жыл бұрын

The whole band actually joins in on playing YYZ in various forms throughout the intro

@atomiccritter6492

3 жыл бұрын

Interesting. Also in the opening music to the detective series Morse apparently the name of the killer is done in musical version of the morse code

"The first note in the scale is DO, the second RE, the third MI, the fourth FA, and SO on..." Very smooth haha, kudos

@DavidBennettPiano

4 жыл бұрын

😉😉😉😉

@KingoftheJuice18

3 жыл бұрын

But the sheet music calls it "Sol"!

@R_-qs4fo

3 жыл бұрын

@@KingoftheJuice18 its pronounced 'so' rather than 'sol'

@KingoftheJuice18

3 жыл бұрын

@@R_-qs4fo Do you know why it's written "sol"?

@pedrovassallo8406

3 жыл бұрын

@@KingoftheJuice18 that’s how it is pronounced in other languages.

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

@SarahElisabethJoyal

3 жыл бұрын

You've just reminded me - when Stevie Nicks sings "the landslide brought me down" the melody actually goes up

In portuguese, Spanish and other latin languages, the world "Sun" is "Sol" So, there's a lot (And really a lot) of songs that every time the word sun is being sung, they play the G chord like Segundo sol by Cassia Eller or Sol Major by piedropedra

@lakrids-pibe

4 жыл бұрын

Sol = sun in danish, swedish, norwegian, icelandic. But the german word is "sonne". Maybe it's just a coincidence?

@guitaristssuck8979

4 жыл бұрын

@@lakrids-pibe it's all about language families

@AndroidsReview

4 жыл бұрын

@@lakrids-pibe in russian solntse

@fairekennings2347

4 жыл бұрын

In Russian, “sol” means salt. “Fa” and “Sol” together gives you “pea” or “bean”. Dunno if you need to know this

@SamStormsKBD

4 жыл бұрын

Damn, I never noticed that there's this G in Segundo Sol

Awesome video! My favourtie example is in Michael Jacksons „Man in the Mirror“ where the key changes on the word „(make a) change“

@DavidBennettPiano

4 жыл бұрын

Great example!

@davasg96

4 жыл бұрын

I imagined this with the sparkly key change animation

@DavidBennettPiano

4 жыл бұрын

@@davasg96 Yeah! I featured the "man in the mirror" key change in my previous word painting video, along with the infamous "sparkly" animation 😉

@fedsavi

4 жыл бұрын

Ei ci sono altri italiani

@Uber_Versace

4 жыл бұрын

I always found the key change in that song so comical because it just pops up with no warning or hinting

I found another example: in Immortals by Fall Out Boy, they sing "I'm still comparing your past to my future", and the "my future" part has some sort of autotune filter thingy on it, making it sound 'futuristic' :)

@joshu518

3 жыл бұрын

Thought of Fall Out Boy when he got to the "knocking" part of the video. In one of the choruses of "West Coast Smoker," the drums stop and only come in for 1, 2, and then 3 times on the words "*Knock* once for the father, *twice for* the son, *three times for* the holy ghost."

@joshu518

3 жыл бұрын

I thought of Fall Out Boy when he got to the "knocking" part of this video. In "West Coast Smoker," there's one chorus where the music stops except for the drums coming in 1, 2, and then 3 times on these lyrics: *Knock* once for the father, *twice for* the son, *three times for* the holy ghost.

@wyattstevens8574

10 ай бұрын

When I think Fall Out Boy, I almost always think of "[Remember me for] Centuries," which I'm *convinced* Dude Perfect has used as background music before- just sounds like the sort of thing they'd use!

I always wondered why "Ring of Fire" does the exact opposite and goes up on "I went down, down, down" and down on "and the flames went up higher".

@JiveDadson

2 жыл бұрын

As not to be trite or clichéd?

@robertgerow670

2 жыл бұрын

To subvert expectations maybe?

@wyattstevens8574

10 ай бұрын

The same thing happens with Oceans *rise* Empires *fall* from "You'll Be Back."

Not sure if this counts, but in “Farmer Refuted” from Hamilton two characters are arguing then one of them sings a high note and bends it up to a higher pitch - the music modulates with him. Later Hamilton says “don’t modulate the key then not debate with me”

@misanthropicmusings4596

4 жыл бұрын

Ha, good one - I was listening to this the other day and caught the music reference.

Well if we’re going to talk about the obvious sound effects used for word painting, “time” and “money” by Pink Floyd use percussion of either a cash register or a clock. A less known example is in “tiny love” by mika. He sings a really high note on the line “you get me high,” but this section of the song is notably quieter as he says the words “tiny love.” Other parts of the song are louder and faster, but he uses those sections to show that it’s the little things in love that are huge. It’s a great song honestly.

@DavidBennettPiano

4 жыл бұрын

Hydrogen thanks for your comment. There is a fine line between sound effects and word painting in my opinion and a lot of crossover. For me, a sound effect needs to be worked rhythmically or tonally into the music to be called word painting. For example, the sound effects at the start of “Money” have a rhythm to them making them musical and thus word painting. But on “Time”, the sound effects are more decorative and not worked into the music, so perhaps not word painting. At the end of the day though, whether they are word painting or not, they act to illustrate the song’s themes and build an atmosphere.

@freyprevett8000

4 жыл бұрын

Yess a Mika shoutout in the comments! Tiny Love is a wonderful song. Stay High on the same album also uses the same thing

@za012345678998765432

3 жыл бұрын

also in the intro to Pink Floyd's Time, if you listen closely, you can hear both the rhythm of a ticking clock and of a beating heart, the latter also being very related to the song as it's about wasting the limited time you have in your life

The most common one I’ve seen is the “stop” thing, where everything stops on the word stop

@AntjedePantje

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, he showed a lot of examples of those in his last video :)

@NotHereBoi

4 жыл бұрын

wait a minute

@walesforaunitedkingdom2556

4 жыл бұрын

Stop. Hammer time.

@depstein3847

3 жыл бұрын

Billy Joel - All For Leyna

@TheMister123

3 жыл бұрын

That happens - or something like it - in Karn Evil 9 First Impression by ELP: "We've got thrills and SHOCKS!"

What is it called in Hamilton’s “You’ll Be Back” when the melody goes down on the lyric “Oceans rise,” and goes up on “empires fall”? Ironic word painting, maybe?

@walesforaunitedkingdom2556

4 жыл бұрын

Literally can’t get George III’s song out of my head :D And also Speechless

@Cherri_Stars

4 жыл бұрын

This happens in Mary Poppins too! I remember them making a point of it in Saving Mr. Banks, that in the lyric "A spoon full of sugar makes the medicine go down", the sing a high note on the "down" to be counter-intuitive and grab your attention

@shadowjinkus1070

4 жыл бұрын

Everytime they say rise up in Hamilton.

@moo4boy

3 жыл бұрын

In farmer refuted hamilton says "don't modulate the key and not debate with me" referring to the key change that Seabury did a few bars earlier. The line there is "for shame (for the revolution) for shaAAME (FOR THE REVOLUTION)" with the key change where I switched to capital letters.

@bv-swifty7704

3 жыл бұрын

My thoughts exactly!!!!

One of my favorite examples is sort of a reverse one: in “You’ll Be Back”, one of King George’s songs in the musical Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda, on the line “oceans rise, empires fall” the word rise is on the lowest note and the word fall is on the highest note!

@samanthabudrik7462

4 жыл бұрын

I like this example as well, I loved when I realised that for the first time.

@angi4912

3 жыл бұрын

Hamilton has quite a bit of word painting!

@liv97497

3 жыл бұрын

Like spoonful of sugar in mary poppins haha

Maxwell's silver hammer by The Beatles used repeated strikes of a hammer on an anvil as the lyrics go "bang bang Maxwell's silver hammer". Great video by the way

@DavidBennettPiano

4 жыл бұрын

Good suggestion. The anvil was “played” on that song by The Beatles assistant/body guard Mal Evans

@bazicuber1037

4 жыл бұрын

@@DavidBennettPiano Something interesting about Mel Evans, it's said that he helped on many lyrics that the beatles did, and was on they way to get a writers credit for sergeants peppers. He struggled finiacially afterwards leading up to his death in the 70s.

@thechief00

4 жыл бұрын

@@bazicuber1037 Mal is also responsible for playing many of the weird effects heard in Yellow Submarine.

@AGeekyGirl18

3 жыл бұрын

In a similar way, I always think of ‘Knock three times’ and the use of knocking on wood and metal

@primemeow

3 жыл бұрын

@@DavidBennettPiano That's actually disputed, with some saying that Ringo played it.

Here's a nice example 💜💜 In the song "Funny Honey" from the musical Chicago, the first line goes: "Sometimes I'm right, sometimes I'm wrong" And "right" is sung on the note D, which is part of the scale of G major, which the song is in. Instead, "wrong" is sung on D#, which is in fact off-key (wrong). The second verse repeates the same melody, on the words "Sometimes I'm down, sometimes I'm up", and D is in fact lower (down) compared to D# (up) 😊😊

In the song “this is gospel” by Panic! At The Disco, the main singer sings “this is the best of my heart” twice whilst the bass drum in the drum kit plays a heart beat.

@sadmac356

3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking that throughout the video! (Also assuming that was a typo and you meant "beat")

@joshu518

3 жыл бұрын

My favourite Panic! At The Disco one is "Pas de Cheval," which translates to "steps of the horse." The clopping drum beat sounds like a horse galloping, and the muted guitar that ends the song sounds like a horse blowing/brrrring its lips.

"It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall, the major lift" - Hallelujah.

@clarinethro1695

4 жыл бұрын

That was covered in the last word painting video

@justineddy5306

4 жыл бұрын

@@clarinethro1695 I didn't realize

@ScaramoucheFandango

4 жыл бұрын

@@justineddy5306 🤷

@DavidBennettPiano

4 жыл бұрын

Perfect example... like JC said, I covered it in my previous video kzread.info/dash/bejne/gIGDr7KGqrWcn7w.html 😊😊

ABBA’s Dancing Queen could count with “Night is young and the music’s high”

@krnkrp

4 жыл бұрын

Although it's a low note, probably not coincidental.

@conorkelly4902

4 жыл бұрын

Actually they ment high as in loud

@j_0anna

3 жыл бұрын

it's the opposite, and i was thinking about it the whole time! you actually notice it more because it's low on the note high :)

Both the usage of a clock and a heartbeat made me think of Time by Pink Floyd, and actually the entire Dark Side of the Moon album, where especially the heartbeat is used a lot throughout the music.

@unacuentadeyoutube13

2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking about the same song. I even thought about the "four sections' it has. The intro, where everything is calm and no one's worrying about time passing away. The first verse section until the solo starts has the same aura of lazyness, until the realization takes place and gilmour sings "no one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun" just before that desperate and desolate solo is played. Later, that desperation ends in the last drastic change where gilmour plays some "breathe" type chords and you accept the sun is gone, time is over, and you wish there was something more to say

One of my favourites that I thought might have been mentioned already is in Dire Straits 'Sultans of Swing'. Where Knopfler sings 'he hears the time bell ring' the drummer switches over to the bell of his ride cymbal to mimic a bell ringing. Very clever, in fact there are also some other examples of word painting within the same song.

@SarahElisabethJoyal

2 жыл бұрын

Mark: "he's strictly rhythm, he doesn't wanna make it cry or sing" Also Mark: *proceeds to make his guitar do exactly that*

In bohemian rhapsody, "Little high" note going down "Little low" note going up

@tigerlight430

4 жыл бұрын

Not only that, they are the same note :-)

@knower1514

4 жыл бұрын

It’s in the video

@RobyMBeki

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah that's some genius word painting right there...

@santibescho3122

4 жыл бұрын

The "painting" is in the word "Little". It's a 3 note motif with the higher or lower note being in the first part. So when he sings "Little high" he starts on a higher note going down, and in "Little low" a lower note going up.

@HaniffMohd21

4 жыл бұрын

@@santibescho3122 they wanted the latter words rhymes with "easy come, easy go" If they use "Little low, little high" ...afterwards, then can be considered as word painting, sacrificing the rhyme at the end.

I love the use of a typewriter in dolly Parton 9 to 5, it fits perfectly with the pace and subject matter

@brandonbuchner1771

2 жыл бұрын

Here's a fun fact about that... that's not a typewriter. That's Dolly "playing" her acrylic nails to mimic the sound of a typewriter 😁

I fought the law - The Clash The lyrics say: "Robbing people with a six-gun" then the drums hit 6 times the snare.

@RickMason-yj7pv

4 жыл бұрын

Bobby Fuller 4 was 4x...6 got 3 and gun got 1

@mikemb123

4 жыл бұрын

That was a cover.

What about Yellow Submarine. After the line “And the band begins to play.”

@wyattstevens8574

10 ай бұрын

What happens there that has to do with word painting?

@katyyork934

10 ай бұрын

@@wyattstevens8574well a band begins to play

One example that comes to my mind is "Too Much Time on my Hands" - Styx; not just with a clock metronome but also talking about the "12 o' clock news blues" with the vocals hitting some blues notes.

@DavidBennettPiano

4 жыл бұрын

Nice! I'll check it out

@tracyzimmerman7912

4 жыл бұрын

Hey you took my suggestion...😏

@loganressler9173

4 жыл бұрын

@@DavidBennettPiano Also Lake's "Time Bomb"!

@junelogalbo9740

4 жыл бұрын

If we want to keep on clocks, The Night Chicago Died by Paper Lace used a clock ticking to show the tense hours passing while the characters in the song wait for word that their loved one didn’t get killed in the shootout.

Talking Heads - Psycho Killer "Say something once, why say it again?" right before repeating the chorus *if only the "fa fa fa far better" part was in F tho...*

Olivia Rodrigo does word-painting on the song "Deja vu". She sings "Being annoying, singing in harmony" and the word "harmony" is sung in harmony with herself. Also, on the verse "Now I bet you even tell her How you love her In between the chorus and the verse" you can hear a very subtle "I love you"

I loved vocal band Home Free’s cover of “All About That Bass”. The bass singer Tim sang “about me” instead of the word bass. While everyone sang all about that bass, Tim sang, No treble, going up an octave 3 times! His five octave range is amazing!

Another thing talked about in the last video for word painting, on Somewhere Over The Rainbow, it does symbolize the story of going up and down and all that stuff, but the notes themselves are shown to make their own little "rainbows"

1:56 yeah but the letter "I" isn't sung on the note "I"...

@lextatertotsfromhell7673

4 жыл бұрын

He he

@viggos.n.5864

4 жыл бұрын

Hehe

@XistoKente

4 жыл бұрын

Hehe

@lextatertotsfromhell7673

4 жыл бұрын

XistoKente grr

@viggos.n.5864

4 жыл бұрын

@@lextatertotsfromhell7673 grr

In Hamilton the song “Ten Dual Commandments” has a part where there is counting 1-9 and the upper voices ascend up while the lower voices descend. They do so in a split manner as well. Every two numbers the melody splits notes. It’s really quite genius. I’m pretty sure there is more word painting in many many musicals but that’s the only one I can think of currently

The Beatles use the word "painting", here: "I'm painting my room in the colourful way"

@minahshaktisatya780

2 жыл бұрын

Such an underrated comment

@CutieWolf-359

3 ай бұрын

Word "painting" sounds like a weird innuendo with those quotes.

You are unbelievable man, your work is so high quality and I’ve learned things from your channel I would have never known. You’re much appreciated

@DavidBennettPiano

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! That's very kind!

@walesforaunitedkingdom2556

4 жыл бұрын

The weird thing is that I’ve always noticed this in music but almost unconsciously until you start pointing them out

in the same album of arctic monkeys, alex sings "key changes" at the start of a key change, and sounds super silly and fun, match the aesthetic of the song so well

In "Stay Alive (Reprise)" from Hamilton, not only does the percussion mimic Philip's heartbeat throughout the song, but Alexander's comforting "I know, I know"'s also do that, although at a faster tempo, like he's trying in vain to will Philip to survive.

The song "a small victory" by Faith No More ends with "if I speak at one constant volume, in one constant pitch, right into your ear"... Which is sang... At one constant volume, in one constant pitch... Well you get the idea! Thanks for another great video!

@Honey-BeeWitched

3 жыл бұрын

I was really hoping he would mention Faith No More. Mike Patton is a genius!

For the percussion examples, I always really like Ed Sheeran's song Don't, where, after the second chorus, we hear three knocks and he continues to sing "on my hotel door".

@pinkajou656

3 жыл бұрын

Yes! I was thinking of this!

"Woke up, fell out out of bed, Dragged a comb acrosss my head"

@cakemartyr5794

4 жыл бұрын

Apparently that's Vladimir Putin's favourite line from any song, ever...

@marivg8948

4 жыл бұрын

@@cakemartyr5794 How on Earth do you know this?

@Pandamasque

4 жыл бұрын

@@marivg8948 Have you seen his hair?

Pink Floyd has plenty pf exanples!! Especially in Dark Side of the Moon

Wordpainting is one of my favorite songwriting tricks.

"All Summer Long" by Johnny Rivers features the lyric, "and the jukebox playing Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" followed by a brief guitar riff quoted from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

@tedswanson2115

4 жыл бұрын

That was "Summer Rain."

There's a constructed language called Solresol that only uses the seven syllables of solfege, so naturally, any statement can be spoken by making the tones. Among many other systems for representing it... for example, the seven colours of the rainbow can also be used.

@atomiccritter6492

3 жыл бұрын

interesting

In Space Oddity, the guitar mimicks a cardiac arrest on a heart monitor at the end as the Major Tom overdoses on heroin

@sadmac356

3 жыл бұрын

I need to listen to that song again, I never noticed that

@bread1882

3 жыл бұрын

He overdosed on heroin?

@anierrn6935

3 жыл бұрын

Major Tom does what now?

A Disney example: "Your lifestyle's high but your funds are low" from "Friends on the Other Side".

@germyw

3 жыл бұрын

FIRST one I thought of.

Since you’re big on Radiohead (I am too), on there, there the lyrics “there’s always a siren, singing you to shipwreck” are followed by those beautiful backing vocals

@DavidBennettPiano

4 жыл бұрын

Good suggestion! Perhaps my next word painting video needs a Radiohead section!

@anirudh_iyer

4 жыл бұрын

@@DavidBennettPiano Would the music on The Staircase be a word painting example too?

@ieuanphillips4963

3 жыл бұрын

@@anirudh_iyer yes

In the chorus of "Helplessly hoping" by Crosby, Stills & Nash, they sing the numbers one, two, three and four. When "one" is sung, there is only 1 singer, when "two" is sung, there are 2 singers etc.

@fenestrapain

3 жыл бұрын

Wow thank you. I love that song and that example. And then the pun of “they are for each other”, not with four voices necessarily (unless Neil young was playing with them).

@commonsensecat6555

3 жыл бұрын

Yes! I have always loved that. Wish I could have been a fly on the wall the night Graham Nash joined Stills and Cros for the first time. Stills played at the wedding of a mutual friend. My jaw dropped when he launched into Love the One You're With. Can't imagine what the bride thought. I wonder how long the marriage lasted!

Linkin park crawling when Chester sings “against my will I stand beside my own reflection” the lyric “my own reflection” repeats to make it seem as though his reflection is repeating his own words in a delayed manner

@fenestrapain

3 жыл бұрын

Rip Chester xx

@LRM12o8

3 жыл бұрын

Nice catch! My favorite example from Linkin Park is Mike rapping "coke heads couldn't do my lines" while rapping really fast and difficult lines in Reading My Eyes. Also in The Catalyst Chester does this incredible crescendo on: "like memories in cold decay /transmissions echoing away / far from the world of you and I / where oceans blead into the SKY" Where each line is higher than the previous one and it all builds up to the word sky which is even a big step higher than the rest of the line. Even a female pro singer struggled to hit that high note in the Linkin Park and friends celebrate Chester Bennington live stream!

In Coldplay's "Adventure of a Lifetime", Chris Martin sings "I feel my heart beating" while the bass is playing alone, sounding like a heartbeat.

how about when the melody does the opposite of the lyrics? i can think of a lyric from "you'll be back" by lin miranda where the melody in "oceans rise, empires fall" falls on "rise" and rises on "fall"

@TatsuChi

3 жыл бұрын

it doesnt though.. when an ocean rises it gets deeper like the note does, and when an empire falls it gets smaller again like the associated note

"Knock Three Times" by Tony Orlando and Dawn, where the words are sung staccato to sound like knocking.

@SarahElisabethJoyal

3 жыл бұрын

Now there's a song I haven't heard in a while. And now that I think about it, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense 🤔

@Ea-Nasir_Copper_Co

3 жыл бұрын

@@SarahElisabethJoyal If you were living in a New York City tenement where the steam heat pipes ran up the walls inside the units, it would make more sense.

@SarahElisabethJoyal

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ea-Nasir_Copper_Co I forgot about those, but I don't think I'd like to be touching a pipe full of steam anyway 😂

@OhJodi69

3 жыл бұрын

"twice on the pipes" *clink-clink* "if the answer is no"

In Nightwish's The Poet And The Pendulum near the end there's a lyrical part where it is said "I have only 3 minutes and counting" and then, 3 minutes later, we hear the sound of a guillotine and a heart beating slower until it stops. I dunno if this counts as word painting but it's quite an easter egg

@DavidBennettPiano

4 жыл бұрын

Nice!

The best one for me will always be Hot for Teacher by Van Halen. The drums so perfectly mimicking a car pulling up to the school and then the clash of the school as he walks in to see his teacher followed by the hectic pace and jumping heartbeat rhythm is so satisfyingly well done.

With a little help from my friends-the beatles. The lyric "sang out of tune" is sung out of tune. likewise with "i'll try not sing out of key". George and Paul join Ringo on the lyric "by with a little help from my friends" as he literally gets help from his 'friends'.

@SarahElisabethJoyal

3 жыл бұрын

That's kind of genius honestly. "Oh, he can't sing on key? Never mind, we'll just make that part of the song."

@LRM12o8

3 жыл бұрын

Lol, I just thought It'd be funny if someone started singing out of key after they sang something about losing/not finding their key(s). Didn't think any successful artist would dare do that though. 😂

@JiveDadson

2 жыл бұрын

Mmmmm. I don't think so.

@pup64hcp

2 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure he sings in tune the entire time; not sure what you're talking about here

Surprised the "gunshots" in Another One Bites the Dust weren't mentioned in the Queen part.

@LRM12o8

3 жыл бұрын

Or the breakdown in One by Metallica, which starts by repeating short bursts of 16ths on the kick drum, mimicking the rapid burst fire from a machine gun. But in both songs the shots aren't mentioned in the lyrics when they appear, so does that count as word painting?

@atomiccritter6492

3 жыл бұрын

I would describe those sort of things as thematic effects rather than relating to the music the notes the chords etc

One of the smoothest examples of rhythmic word painting I've seen is Tony Orlando and Dawn's "Knock Three Times." Not only do they sing "knock three times" with the snare hits when the chorus starts up, but the second part of the chorus cuts the lyrics entirely, leaving only the drum, after which Tony Orlando sings "...means you'll meet me in the hallway." More obviously, they add a percussive ding after "twice on the pipe" the second time around, in order to make both options have the sound effect.

Excellent. You caught "I bought a flat guitar tutor". I didn't realize until I started playing along. A real mind blower.

I noticed a few examples of this in metal, most recently in "Isolation" by Sepultura, where the song starts with drum hits that sound particularly like banging on a cell door, which connects to the lyrics about imprisonment.

@LRM12o8

3 жыл бұрын

And the bass drum at the beginning of Black Sabbath's Iron Man sound like the footsteps of a man made of iron. I think the most common example of word painting in metal would be what Metallica does with the bursts of 16ths on the kick in One: mimicking a machine gun with the kick drum.

"The Song That Goes Like This" from Spamalot has a few, they sing about changing the key... Which fails because the male singer can't sing in E, "that's awfully high for me" so the female sings "we should have stayed in D" in D.

In the song 'All Star' by Smashmouth, there is a brilliant example of text painting on the word 'change' in the lyric, "I could use a little fuel myself, And we could all use a little change". Check it out.

Two more candidates: Elton John Circle of Life in which “circle of life” in the chorus forms a melodic circle, and Chicago Stronger Every Day in which the words “stronger”, “every”, and “day” are really hammered ... strongly.

Actually, in Bohemian Rhapsody, the line "little high, little low" goes the other way around :D

@leobster

4 жыл бұрын

thanks for this, i thought i was going crazy

@DavidBennettPiano

4 жыл бұрын

I should have made that clearer, yes! The melodic phrase does go up "a little" and then down "a little"... i.e. "little high, little low"

@samanthabudrik7462

4 жыл бұрын

@@DavidBennettPiano but the melody goes down first then up, "little low little high"? 🤷‍♀️

@Jayvee4635

4 жыл бұрын

@@samanthabudrik7462 Actually he's speaking relative to the Bohemian motif. Both the words high and low are natural but the words little are sharp and flat respectively.

@leobster

4 жыл бұрын

@@DavidBennettPiano I see what you mean! Still, the visuals with the arrows really had an effect on the way I perceived what was high and and low - it's crazy!

One of my favorite examples of this is in Pink Floyd’s _The Wall._ Particularly, a few lines in “Comfortably Numb” use it beautifully. When waters sings “Just a little pinprick,” it is followed by a high chord to represent the shine of a sharp syringe in the light. This is immediately followed by “There’ll be no more AHHH!” in which a long, drawn out high note is overlaid with one of the band members screaming. And of course, one of the most recognizable lyrical elements of the song are the echo effects that start off each verse to give the listener an experience akin to listening to the song while under the influence of mind-altering drugs, much like the character which the song is focused around.

"Backbeat the word is on the street that the fire in your heart is out." Absolutely classic example.

@phoenixinthetrees1446

2 жыл бұрын

'Pick up the bass' from 'Go Let it Out', to new bass player Andy Bell.

The song one true colour by Enter Shikari finishes the song by not saying the word dead but the last 4 notes/chords are D-E-A-D so clever!

Hey David! How about a video on Vivaldi's Four Seasons? It obviously didn't include any words, but the music made you imagine all of the natura changes a season of the year brings. Truly a work of art!

@ameliag.2290

4 жыл бұрын

That was very intentional, actually! Since there are no words to make it word painting, Vivaldi's Four Seasons is a very good example of what's called 'program music.' Program music is music that represents a thought, idea, memory, or anything like that. The name comes from the fact that most often a listener needs to refer to the title of the piece or the description in the program to fully understand what it represents. Another good example of this is The Great Gates of Kiev by Mussorgsky. Hope you found that interesting! :)

My favourite example of word painting in Queen songs is A Kind of Magic with its lyrics about 'perfect harmony' followed by Brian playing a harmonised lick

Elvis in In the Ghetto slows the tempo for "as the snow falls" and other lines. Also, "I think we're alone now" has a heart beating sound effect.

"Do, Re, Mi, Fa, and SO on..." I see what you did there ;)

@DavidBennettPiano

4 жыл бұрын

😉😉😉😉

I hope David Dieffenderfer never quits his sponsorship. I love hearing David B pronounce David D's last name. It's nothing like how we say it in PA German-land! 💖

“And sol on...” Smooth 👌🏼😉

@DavidBennettPiano

4 жыл бұрын

I’m glad that somebody spotted that 😄

@omnipop4936

3 жыл бұрын

@@DavidBennettPiano We all sol what you did there.

Huey Lewis & The News are perhaps the single most underrated band in the history of popular music!

@DavidBennettPiano

4 жыл бұрын

They always remind me of my second favourite film (Back to the Future!)

@creamydistortion

4 жыл бұрын

@@DavidBennettPiano Heck Yeah!! Like many people, I first heard them via that film. Right away, I thought: "Wow, these guys are great! Time to get their albums & see them live!" Been a devoted fan ever since. Huey, sadly has a rare disease that distorts his hearing so he can't sing live at the moment. He's devoting a lot of his fortune to audio-disease research...

Homemade Dynamite for the ticking word painting: “Blowing sh*t up like homemade d-d-d-dynamite” where the stuttering d’s sounds like a ticking time bomb!

"Don't talk (put your head on my shoulder)" by the Beach Boys mentions a heartbeat which is mimicked by bass first and timpani later

@TheJayson8899

4 жыл бұрын

Good pick up. Heard that album a ton and never noticed

i commented about the beatles’ she’s leaving home on the last video i find it so interesting!!

@DavidBennettPiano

4 жыл бұрын

A great bit of arrangement!

One of the most influential is Hendrix’s Star Spangled Banner. He wasn’t the first but he helped bring musical modernity into the 20th century in that performance.

I'm late but a good example I have noticed is in We Didn't Start The Fire by Billy Joel, when he mentions Psycho, the music mimics the Psycho theme song. Also when he says "British Beatlemania" the drums mimic Ringo's drumming style. When he says "Brooklyn's got a winning team" the sound of cheering can be heard in the background. When he says "JFK blown away" something happens in the background and I can't quite tell if it is supposed to sound like a gunshot or what, but something happens. When he says "Terror on the airline" a jet engine can be heard. Thats all I could find in the song but there may be more.

3:13 Good, now do it one syllable off.

@DavidBennettPiano

4 жыл бұрын

Have you ever watched/listened to Jay Foreman? Singing lyrics one syllable off their normal placement is one of his many party tricks!

@oliversutton7592

4 жыл бұрын

@@DavidBennettPiano that's exactly what I was referencing :D. Great to know that you also aware of him.

@DavidBennettPiano

4 жыл бұрын

@@oliversutton7592 Jay Foreman actually watches these videos on occasion! I love his work!

@oliversutton7592

4 жыл бұрын

@@DavidBennettPiano oh wow! I didn't know that, maybe you should collaborate with him.

@nanamacapagal8342

4 жыл бұрын

-HELP-

"I Think We're Alone Now" by Tommy James and the Shondells...also covered by Tiffany...(e.g., 'The beating of our hearts is the only sound'...followed by drums beating like a heart)

In Queen's "Heaven for Everyone" there is the word "reflection" which gets repeated/reflected by a flangy chorus - I've always loved that part! :)

@lumpenharald

4 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/q31sztSve6_gl5M.html ... :)

In Comfortably Numb, David Gilmour plays a "pin prick" sound on the guitar when that lyric is sung.

Prince's *"Electric Chair"* "It took my mind out like a G flat major with an E in the bass" then plays the stated chord

I've become so used to hearing David Dieffenderfer among your Patreon supporters, I feel like I'm getting to know him.

In the song “i think we’re alone now”, after they sing “beating of our hearts is the only sound”, the base drum plays a heart beat

@DavidBennettPiano

4 жыл бұрын

Great suggestion!

I love the lyrics in Close to the Edge by Yes. The part where he says "Now that it's all over and done / Now that you find, now that you're whole". It's like he's saying just as everything seems to be going fine...then all of a sudden the music takes a more serious turn. Like the drama isn't over yet.

"Hold me now" by Thomson Twins, after the line "Please don't cry anymore" the piano do a series of rolls mimicking a cry.

Ed Sheeran's Don't: *knock knock knock (on the wood of the guitar)* on my hotel door

@walesforaunitedkingdom2556

4 жыл бұрын

Damn it I just gave that example -_-

"friends on the other side" from the princess and the frog uses the "high/low" trick really well back to back

Heroin - The Velvet Underground The whole song describes a heroin trip both lyrically and musically

@jan_Travis

4 жыл бұрын

Love the VU. If you like VU, check out a song called called "It's a Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl" by Faust.

@lilTwigLP

4 жыл бұрын

So does happiness is a warm gun, lyrically and musically

@gabrielhernandez-bt7kh

4 жыл бұрын

@@jan_Travis i heard that song. I like Faust but need to relisten again. Love their first album tho

@jan_Travis

4 жыл бұрын

@@gabrielhernandez-bt7kh they're awesome! Faust, Faust So Far, the Faust Tapes and Faust IV are all amazing albums. Glad to see someone who enjoys Faust.

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in the song "komm süsser tod" from the end of evangelion, the lyrics "it all comes tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling down" are sung as the notes descend. when they are sung a second time later in the song, it changes from "it all comes" to "it just keeps."

I like Ben Folds’ “Time” as an example. He sings “start the drums, band against the enemy.” And after the word “drums,” he hits the snare in a way that sounds like a military march.

One of my absolute favorite examples of this is Kendrick Lamar's "Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst" where at the end of the first verse, which is centered around the speaker's fears of dying before their time due to gun violence, the verse is abruptly cut short by gunshots. Always loved the way that piece and the entire song was put together.

Sly and the Family Stone's "Dance to the Music" is also a highly "meta" example of word painting. Almost every instrument in the song is introduced directly in the lyrics first. "You might like to hear my organ..." etc. etc.

@DavidBennettPiano

4 жыл бұрын

Nice!

@MyXAHOB

4 жыл бұрын

Very great example

@doctormojo

4 жыл бұрын

And Mama Don't by J. J. Cale. kzread.info/dash/bejne/c32AvJh-lbHLcqg.html

In Hamilton's "You'll Be Back" they do a sort of reverse word painting in the line "Oceans rise, empires fall"; on 'rise' the note goes down, and on 'fall' the note goes up

Reba McEntire's 1980 breakout hit "(You Lift Me) Up To Heaven" is another great example of this, painting the word "up" as it's sung repeatedly in the chorus.

This is such a great channel, just amazing work all around.

@DavidBennettPiano

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

2:49 "Do...Re...Mi...Fa...and So on"....Well played Mr Bennett!

@DavidBennettPiano

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you spotted it 😁😁

moments of pleasure, by kate bush: when she sings "on a balcony in new york / it's just started to snow", the piano "paints" the snowflakes falling. it's so beautiful

In "Grease" there's a song called "those magic changes" ("what's that playing on the radio") that includes the chords and notes in the lyrics, "C C C C C C, A a a a minor, F F F F F F, G G G G seven". An amazing classical example is Glenn Gould's "so you want to write a fugue". Mozart wrote a song about coffee that starts with the lyrics and notes "C A F F E E, trink nicht so viel Kaffee" (don't drink so much coffee).