Thank you! More Steely Dan or other artist’s ‘Guess the 10’?
@aldoaguirre4572
Ай бұрын
Great video! I see you have some great full-song tutorials. Very good and clear explanations! Thanks so much
@PianoDanny
Ай бұрын
Thanks - by all means let me know any suggestions for similarly themed videos 👍🏼
@tonyrapa-tonyrapa
Ай бұрын
Really enjoyed that - thank you. Steely Dan were definitely musically cerebral for pop. They are in my top 10 artists of all time - I don't know where I'd be without them.
@PianoDanny
Ай бұрын
I feel the same way. They occupy a unique place for me. Not just streets ahead songwriting but also timeless in an age where genuine musicality is undervalued.
@Tristram_Gen
Ай бұрын
Nice explanations of the harmonic structure and the melodic relationships. Took a few seconds to nail them all down, but each song is quite distinctive. I was surprised by the curious layout of CF and delighted with the 6/8 meter of GT I. Keep going.
@PianoDanny
Ай бұрын
Thanks - Charlie Freak is quite traditional in terms of Bach / baroque harmony - yet also highly unusual in term of non prog 70s rock genre. So it stand apart. There’ll be more SD breakdown so do sub if you haven’t already 👍🏼
@mcknottee
Ай бұрын
I got all ten. But then Dan has been among my main music for 40 years. Rarely a week goes by without playing at least a couple of their albums, and their solo stuff too. I also never get tired of it. 🎶🙂 Like the video on The Second Arrangement too. Subscribed. 👍
@PianoDanny
Ай бұрын
Right - well you’ve now given me incentive to try out a few more obscure Everything Must Go Middle 8s!
@janvanhoyk8375
Ай бұрын
Dude, this is fantastic. Very great understanding of the music and the cultural milieu around steely dan. Found you from the steelydan subreddit. Would love to see this kind of thing with other artists, maybe Tom Lehrer. Spoilers: 1. Midnight Cruiser 2. Home at Last 3. Your Gold Teeth II (the better one lol, the time signature switch is heaven) 4. Third World Man (sort of a royal scam type song that had to replace the second arrangement after it was erased) 5. Sign In Stranger (one of my all time SD favorites, so unrelenting, very underrated for SD) simultaneously haunting yet exhilarating, just like a song about a new planet should be 6. Almost Gothic 7. Gaucho 8. Charlie Freak, another song about addiction (see also, "monkey in your soul" and "the bear") wonder if walter's addiction influenced it. you can hear a lot of this theme in walter's work 9. Bad Sneakers (makes me nostalgic for a time and place i've never been, feels like autumn lol) 10. Reelin' in the years
@PianoDanny
Ай бұрын
So pleased you enjoyed it. Great feedback too from someone who clearly shares that all things-SD passion. Do sub the channel too - there’s another one which goes in deep on the Second Arrangement. That track would have gone a long way to brightening your the whole vibe of Gaucho…a minor/major musical tragedy. I always felt that Charlie Freak was mainly a portrait of the hopeless homeless but come to think of it may have presaged the strain in the relationship with Walt. Will look into Tom Lehrer. Any other similarly-themed video ideas gratefully received.
@janvanhoyk8375
Ай бұрын
@@PianoDanny subscribed and watched a few others already as well! always loved the keyboard players but never got much beyond childhood piano lessons so very fun to see a bit more detail
@PianoDanny
Ай бұрын
Hopefully this’ll make you reconnect to the piano, no pressure. Just to be curious and try things out 👍🏼
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