Some additional thoughts/corrections: 1) So, full disclosure: I'm not actually 100% sure all the guitar parts I described were Joe Perry. Aerosmith has two guitarists, so some of them could've been Brad Whitford too. I couldn't find any definitive documentation on who played what, but Perry's generally the lead guitarist and most of the parts I was referencing were lead guitar parts so I think it was him. Apologies to Whitford if I was wrong, though. 2) Ok technically that run at the end of the intro includes both E and Eb so it's not quite F harmonic minor but the Eb is really fast and I decided it didn't matter enough to be worth explaining. 3) To be clear I don't think Tyler was _actually_ confused in the prechorus. It's just a good way of framing the changes, but if I don't say this here I'm gonna get a bunch of comments accusing me of underestimating Steven Tyler or whatever. 4) Another detail on that anecdote: When I sang this back in college, the arrangement we used was for an all-girl group and was pitched up a half-step, so when I did did the high part I was hitting A5, not Ab5 like Tyler does. That was pretty much the literal top of my range: On a good day I could warm up to around the Bb, and with coaching I could make it a little higher than that, but A5 was basically the top. (And I definitely can't hit it anymore, in case you were wondering.)
@spiderine1prime
3 жыл бұрын
I have been watching your channel for years. I love the light hearted ways teach music theory, and I follow your little doodles with glee. But I give up - that one drawing you use repeatedly is an ant? Is that right? What does that mean? I've been trying to decipher for years but I can't figure it out. Please help me out of my misery?
@loganstrong5426
3 жыл бұрын
@@spiderine1prime He does regularly draw an ant, so I'm assuming you're right in that's what you're referring to. Usually he uses it to talk about something small, or something that follows a group.
@mundolibertario1127
3 жыл бұрын
Could you please make a video understanding "Every breath you Take"? It is one of my favorite songs and I'd like to know how, despite the creepy lyrics, they were able to create a romance vibe with the melody (Sorry for my english. It is not my native language)
@Kiaulen
3 жыл бұрын
It's okay, Corey (Cory? I don't think I've ever seen your name written), I couldn't hit that A5 today either, and I can't claim to have ever been able to in the past. Anything above middle C is tiring for my voice. My soprano wife might be able to though :P I'm glad both that you had a life before and that I get to watch elephants and gummy bears now. :) You got me onto nebula just so I can keep up with ghost notes.
@LynnHermione
3 жыл бұрын
Its missing the bass sounds or is my yt weird
@Iwasbornin74
3 жыл бұрын
That feeling when you voted for Welcome to the Black Parade for the millionth time in a row but you’re always basking in the glory of how well this song was explained.
@NotSomeone68
3 жыл бұрын
Generic comment to increase engagement statistics.
@matthewdhewlett
3 жыл бұрын
I would love to hear your analysis of "Sultans of Swing" by Dire Straits. The rock song about a jazz band, where the instruments are often used as sound effects to reflect the lyrics.
@Kylora2112
3 жыл бұрын
The guitar fills alone could be a video on their own. Holy crap I love that song.
@colinsmith5879
3 жыл бұрын
Sultans is a straight masterpiece
@adriatic.vineyards
3 жыл бұрын
Hell yeah
@Osric24
3 жыл бұрын
A great song about a shitty little jazz band.
@you_were_the_chosen_one
3 жыл бұрын
I really love that idea. Dire Straits is such a great band, and Sultans of Swing is one of their best songs.
@benjamink7105
10 ай бұрын
This is the song I always point to if anyone asks "was Aerosmith even any good?" Such an exceptionally well written song. The first few seconds DESERVED those 1,000 words!
@sxywyka
3 жыл бұрын
My favorite band getting an analysis by 12tone? Hell ya!! As a bass player, nobody gets why I love Tom Hamilton and consider him one of the bests! Other bassists like Geddy Lee, Flea, Victor Wooten and more legends just blow me away when I learn those ridiculously hard lines, but bassists like Justin Chancellor and Tom Hamilton just know how to make the most out of the least!!!
@Kyle-gw6qp
3 жыл бұрын
No mention of Steve Harris?
@SachinShukla
3 жыл бұрын
4:25 in classical parlance, this is a bassline commonly called a “morte” and is often used to signify tragedy. it is related to a common opening gambit called a “lamento” (1 b7 b6 5).
@Steveofthejungle8
3 жыл бұрын
I loved the Perry the Platypus 😂
@patricksommer3971
3 жыл бұрын
Damn spoiler!
@yuothineyesasian
3 жыл бұрын
Has your thumbnail always been a lethal weapon or am I just noticing this for the first time?
@gunnaryoung
3 жыл бұрын
I was wondering that myself. It would explain why he's holding his pen so awkwardly...
@Hardjaxl
3 жыл бұрын
That nail scares me
@croatoansounds
3 жыл бұрын
Haha I noticed this starting a few months back, it’s become a legit sword since. Impressive.
@carlberry191
3 жыл бұрын
Wondering the same. That nail is somehow disturbing.
@dripstein6130
3 жыл бұрын
Probably for playing guitar or cocaine, either or
@Daplin1
3 жыл бұрын
When you finally realise these comments mean the nail on his thumb
@p.g.v.3765
3 жыл бұрын
fr i thought they were talking about the thumbnail of the video
@patricksommer3971
3 жыл бұрын
Ooooohh!! Thanks for clearing that up!
@JeighNeither
3 жыл бұрын
I thought they were talking about the video thumbnail myself, because that's proper grammar.
@jessehammer123
3 жыл бұрын
I thought the part of “Dream On” everyone remembers is when Tyler screamingly hits that high note, not the bridge. But I guess everyone experiences it differently.
@cbring458
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah same
@tompw3141
3 жыл бұрын
For me it's the times he's singing "dream on" *not* up the octave. :-)
@GlaceonStudios
3 жыл бұрын
...That is part of the bridge...
@jessehammer123
3 жыл бұрын
@@GlaceonStudios Oh. Yeah, I’m not a music theorist or even musician, so that’s kind of an expected mistake on my part. I just assumed it was a different part because Cory talks about the scream minutes after “the bridge”, so I assumed it was a different part.
@hinney827
3 жыл бұрын
@@jessehammer123 all the "Dream On" bits are the bridges. Songs don't always only have one bridge, though they can. The bridge is just the intermediate bit between the verse and chorus. It's a repeated part, so it's not part of the verse, but it's not technically the chorus proper. The bits beginning with "sing with me" are the chorus. The high, screaming "dream on" is just an extended, more exciting bridge to lead into the final chorus.
@treyslider6954
3 жыл бұрын
To me, the back-and-forth bits always sound like alarms. It's most noticable at the end of the song as everything else fades away and you're just left with the sound of ambulance sirens fading into the distance...
@johnnyRandomadness
3 жыл бұрын
I love how you bring a broken down music theory analysis into songs that were written and played out of pure natural chemistry.
@cameronblanchette6687
3 жыл бұрын
Damn that did not feel like 18 mins, that felt like 5. Great work my dude
@sethandseth2
2 жыл бұрын
One thing I also love is the song ending on a really muted cymbal crash and that guitar trill droning onward after the last chorus. There's no big climax it just kinda of goes until the song arbitrarily ends. There's something very haunting about the song and I think the majority of that comes from there being no resolution at the end.
@tylerphillips503
3 жыл бұрын
I appreciate the coke nail in honor of Aerosmith
@adriatic.vineyards
3 жыл бұрын
Lmao. Usually it's the pinky finger though 🤔
@rjr6912
Жыл бұрын
@@adriatic.vineyards hey man who are we to tell a man what nail to do his coke from?
@seandpizzle
5 ай бұрын
C'mon now. Everyone knows it's your pinky, not your thumb
@liorzaphir5358
2 жыл бұрын
I really have to thank you. I came back to this channel after a while and it really reignited my love for music. I feel like we rarely really listen to music while focusing on it, and it transforms into such an emotional experience for me. Thanks a lot for all the good work :)
@managingbusiness141
3 жыл бұрын
Great video, as always! On top of your expert analysis and lovely drawings, you're just witty as heck and a joy to listen to. Sorry, that's probably laying it on too thick, but I keep forgetting to comment about how much I appreciate what you do! Looking forward to the next video!
@boomerdell
3 жыл бұрын
Absolutely BRILLIANT! Dang. You are just so very good at this.
@wardkoole745
3 жыл бұрын
aerosmith has a giant collection of underrated bangers imo
@katherineheasley6196
3 жыл бұрын
Seriously. I keep my radio tuned to classic rock, and whenever an Aerosmith song comes on, it's a guaranteed good time.
@SaulHernandez-vh2rw
9 ай бұрын
You just got a new subscriber and oh man, you are amazing, I'll definately be watching all your videos, lots to learn here, thanks for the content man
@viniciussaito7514
3 жыл бұрын
This is the song of my life, thanks for analyzing it with such detail! Amazing video, keep it up!!
@markusszelbracikowski956
2 жыл бұрын
I love this channel! And do Brothers in Arms, please!
@megdrew4345
2 жыл бұрын
I appreciate music but know nothing about anything technical. It's nice to learn with modern songs and I love this format
@rorysparshott4223
3 жыл бұрын
Love your stuff always but this was one of my favourite ones you've done yet
@danielx40
2 жыл бұрын
Sing with me~ sing for the year~ sing for the laughter sing for the tears~
@evolancer211
3 ай бұрын
That's a powerful thumbnail you've got there on your thumb. Bet it picks really well hah
@jgwire
3 жыл бұрын
great stuff - music theory and reading is so important/ however i doubt Aerosmith sat down and discussed these ideas and wrote scores for main Rock instruments- not that you said they did! lol it it’d important for me to remember several things when studying this: It has this written score- and so did orchestration /. But song was actually written based on music intsinct, intuition/ and above all Talent- these guys didn’t know they were doing classic music forms- they just wrote a song, based on their influences But they were influenced by songs that just naturally do what you explain so they soaked it up and can do it but not name it You are a great music theory expert and musicologist/ hearing this explanation is fantastic- But i’m sure you would agree that most classic rock and modern rock even is just born of playing - not writing on music- but, as I said, the greats either instinctively knew this or absorbed it somewhere else without even knowing it / if they did they’d be stealing!!! lol LOVE UR channel/ fascinating 🤨
@ChrisPreece
3 жыл бұрын
The Ab5 of Dream On was basically my party trick for a while. Still kind of is, though I've thankfully found another couple of songs with Ab5 or A5s I like. I guess for most people seeing an overweight male baritone who can consistently hit and hold a note like that is something unusual.
@Merennulli
Жыл бұрын
I'd love to see a breakdown of what PMJ did to this song. Obviously, theirs was accommodating insane vocals and translating it to a lounge feel, but they took it in a whole other direction, still powerful (though Morgan James' vocal performance may be the defining factor in that, but they definitely gave an environment for her voice to shine in), but with a completely different feel.
@zackf1929
3 жыл бұрын
One of the earliest riff i ever learned
@jonnuanez2843
3 жыл бұрын
I loved this. Thank you.
@iamjimgroth
3 жыл бұрын
This was an enjoyable analysis. :)
@mauriciohernandez7966
3 жыл бұрын
Wow. Crazy beautiful analysis
@random-potato9803
3 жыл бұрын
Does anyone else enjoy watching/listening to this, while understanding nothing?
@rct3isepic
3 жыл бұрын
At some point I hope you deconstruct the vocals of Harder Better Faster Stronger. The instrumental while great, doesn’t do all that much but the vocals are fantastic and crazy
@SiWeeMann
3 жыл бұрын
My favourite Aerosmith track. Thanks for the analysis.
@kutluaycelik5376
3 жыл бұрын
Great video man!
@Hawking1969
3 жыл бұрын
5:39 Was there a bass part there? I didn't hear anything
@skotdude
3 жыл бұрын
I feel like the gummy bears are some kind of reference I’m missing. Of all the things you said and did, that’s what I’m mentally stuck on the most. That and Midna, but... you know, nostalgia.
@rickwoods5274
3 жыл бұрын
OKAY so I know you said at the beginning that the chord names don't matter, but I can't help but think about them anyway. (Besides, even though the individual lines provide most of the interest, the relationships between the notes *do* matter and contribute to the feeling. Especially that minor second.) The biggest thing for me in trying to understand the relationships between the notes (and therefore name the chords) is the fact that in the first bar, the C "feels like" it's part of the chord, and in the second bar it doesn't. In the first bar, the notes "feel" like a semi-arpeggiated minor triad. But in the second bar, they feel like stepping back and forth between two mini-tonalities. Because of this, in trying to name the chords, I'm tempted to leave the C out entirely (and then "/C" it to complete the name). Put another way: It's there as a drone throughout both bars, but it also serves a secondary role. In the first bar it's serving a reinforcing role, while in the second bar it's serving a deliberately contrasting role. What this leaves is parallel tritones (D-Ab, then Db-G). A tritone is *usually* either the 3-b7 relationship in a dominant chord, or one of two tritones in a diminished chord. Imagining a root of E (Ab = G#, G# + D is 3 + b7 in E) is extremely strange, but Bb7 feels like a reasonable label here. It could also be Bdim7, but I think in context Bb7 makes more sense to me, mostly because I think the next chord is a Dbdim and the movement feels more natural. So, in my completely unimportant opinion: Fm/C Cm Bb7/C Dbdim/C.
@CMM5300
3 жыл бұрын
So Bb7/9 then Dbmin7b5 Interesting. Here's what I come up with: i Fm v Cm vi D min7d5 (borrow dorian vi°) bVIb5 Dbmaj7b5 (hidden lydian) i | v | vi° | bVIb5 The D half dim or min7b5 (in this case it's resolving down not up. I believe that means it's a min7b5. Half dim resolves up. Is borrowed from Dorian. The 6 chord in Dorian is Half dim The Dbmaj7b5 (13b57 or 13#47) Is a hidden Lydian chord on the root of Lydian. Which is the bvi chord in minor. Borrow the hidden chord. bVIb5 (#4 might be more appropriate but that assumes using the 5th also.) It makes perfect sense to the minor key. It's a very complicated chord progression to figure out. I also came up with Gsusb5 for the last chord. It resolves nicely to Fm. That's 1 4 b5 Fm| Cm| Dmin7b5 |Gsusb5 I liked your idea also. I was searching to see if anyone else came up with anything good. Thanks!
@CMM5300
3 жыл бұрын
Your Db dim maj7 works as a harmonic minor hidden bvi chords. the Bb7 could be a secondary dom. That could really work! Nice find!
@ganjiblobflankis6581
3 жыл бұрын
6:05 🎵And I'm feelin' good🎵
@allengoodwin7043
3 жыл бұрын
I'm going to start keeping gummy bears around so i can randomly toss some while saying to keep rocking...lol!
@johncu7101
3 жыл бұрын
Steven Tyler watching this: *Interesting*
@shan_ma
2 жыл бұрын
Do you sing along while drawing the notes so you know how to sync the video later?
@tscardinal
3 жыл бұрын
Great analysis, doubt a fraction of all this was even considered when writing the song
@DJCosmicLatte
3 жыл бұрын
Nice to see someone else using Guitar Hero stems in combination with Spleeter AI to pick out instruments there aren't stems for lol
@augiegirl1
2 жыл бұрын
So, how much impact do you think “Lost in the Woods” from Frozen 2 had on bringing power ballads back into the public’s consciousness?
@RikenzuPlays
2 жыл бұрын
Id love to see you analyze Kings and Queens, another Aerosmith classic 😏 it was always a song that fascinated me due to the tonal shift and pace change it underwent midsong Id love to hear your thoughts as you dissect it, should you ever make a video on it 😁
@michaelfitzurka5659
3 жыл бұрын
Excellent ty
@robertcampbell7662
2 жыл бұрын
Lol before the elephants took over… that was hilarious
@cashkromsupernerd1193
3 жыл бұрын
I never realized how much Dream On sounds like Lavender Town
@tjzx3432
3 жыл бұрын
@12tone you're a left handed guitarist who favors fingerpicking as well as keyboardist aren't you?
@mitodrumisra8972
3 жыл бұрын
Hey there 12tone! As always an awesome video!! Later on, can you do the explanation of the Dutch composer, Peter Schat's 'Tone Clock' theory? I would love to hear your interpretation of it...
@jojoversus1100
2 жыл бұрын
I would pay $100 USD for you to do a video on Orion - Metallica. I know it's an easy video but please
@HappyBeezerStudios
3 жыл бұрын
Nice one
@Stone15656
3 жыл бұрын
My top 5 power ballads Scorpions - Wind of change REO Speedwagon - Keep on loving you Aerosmith - Dream on Nirvana - Polly Guns n'Roses - November Rain I really think Yngwie and Dio did better at covering Dream on
@wadecrawford8627
3 жыл бұрын
Please stab me to death with your thumbnail? Inject me with musical knowledge!
@michaelogden1968
3 жыл бұрын
I've played enough Beethoven to know that hammering on the 5th scale degree of a minor key is definitely a thing, and that just boosts the harmonic ambiguity here, especially when playing the tonic chord in 2nd inversion, which you could argue is happening at the beginning of the song and at several other points (it's really hard to hear the bass in this song). Edit: I would call that weird C-Db-G chord a Cm(b9) in the context of the song.
@CMM5300
3 жыл бұрын
C susb2 (Phrygian triad 1b25) Gsusb5 (locrian triad from dorian 14b5) i |v |vi°| bVIb5 | Fm |Cm| Dmin7b5| Dbmaj7b5 That's the best I come up with D half dim is the 6 chord of Dorian (borrowed from dorian) Db maj7b5 is a hidden chord borrowed from Lydian. It fights to the minor key as a hidden bVIb5 chord. Let me know what you think. Someone else pointed out Bb7 as a secondary dom chord and Db dim maj7 as a harmonic minor hidden vi chord... could work Fm| Cm| Bb7| Db dim maj7
@heavygtrst
3 жыл бұрын
Some audio clips playing only through my left headphone hurts so much I'm contemplating not watching the rest of the video
@jasperrocks9967
2 жыл бұрын
I’d PAY for you to covered Epitaph by King Crimson. Issue is I don’t have money.
@jawnsolo0
2 жыл бұрын
I neeeeeeeed an analysis of Oceandeep by Beast in Black.
@jawnsolo0
2 жыл бұрын
I just heard you say you have a metal background and I think the singer of Beast in Black, Yannis Papadopoulos, is one of the best to ever do it.
@edmundau-yeung9598
3 жыл бұрын
Without you - Badfingers/ Harry Nilsson/ Mariah Carey. How can you beat this?
@zykotec
3 жыл бұрын
For me some of the best power ballads are the ones that aren't straight up love songs. And I prefer the ones made by metal bands who wouldn't usually make ballads, because that makes it seem more sincere , like they made this song because they felt something, not just to sell albums. Metallicas older ballads tend to be some of my favourite, and watching this video it suddenly occured to me that the much later, kinda overlooked 'No leaf clover' somehow sounds a lot like 'dream on' and I can't really put my finger on why it does that. Someone with more musical training than me could maybe explain that. (unless it's just so simple that it's just the rising vocals in the end that makes it sound similar ?) I think it's a bit ironic that Aerosmith made one of the best power ballads early on, and then later ruined the category (for me at least ,ymmv) in the 90's with a bunch of powerballads that sounded so similar to each other I can barely tell them apart.
@andrewpyck9104
Жыл бұрын
Would you say the anecdote about singing that high note was... irrelephant? Sorry, I'll show myself out
@kibe2134
3 жыл бұрын
It would have made sense to analyze the intro in C.
@CMM5300
3 жыл бұрын
Interesting
@wesleywheeler7891
3 жыл бұрын
I'm not an Aerosmith fan...but this song was always incredible to me
@EnmaDarei
3 жыл бұрын
All I hear is Lavender Town
@bazzfromthebackground3696
3 жыл бұрын
Geem Ahn.
@blindteo5808
3 жыл бұрын
I think you should check out the way the jazz pianist Berry Harris interprets music theory. I think it would blow your mind and better understand this room honey type and gypsy jazz sound.
@AmandaKaymusic
3 жыл бұрын
Possibly Barry Harris? I am sure they (12Tone) know a bit about Barry. I would like to hear more about what the elephants think of a jazz tune or two. Still, I get plenty of knowledge and humour in all their clips. There are other channels that go into jazz guitar chord theory. Jazz Guitar Scrapbook has included some of Barrys voicing techniques on his KZitem channel and I enjoy his teaching style too. I love 12Tones clips for the new (to me) compositional reasoning behind existing composers choices and strange things I learn like details about the treaty of Versailles and Mandelbrots. If Cory decided they wanted to explore a Barry composition which well known song he wrote would you choose for 12Tone to explore?
@blindteo5808
3 жыл бұрын
@@AmandaKaymusic it's not a specific jazz tune I'm talking about, but a different way of looking at chords, not the way we are taught in music school. The harmony of 18th century European musicians really has little bearing on a lot of Harmony from the romantic era on, and fully understanding Barry's method is actually a better way to analyze pieces from Chopin and rachmaninoff. It is understanding that this method doesn't really use static chords, but movements in order to produce harmonies. It is very involved, and I have been a music theory nerd most of my life, and even now at 45 studying this stuff for about 8 years, I am just scratching the surface on understanding the full context.
@TheeGrumpy
Жыл бұрын
No disrespect to "Dream On," but if there's one perfect power ballad, it's "Just Begin Again."
@Skip6235
3 жыл бұрын
Am I the only one where some of the demonstration music is missing?
@AmandaKaymusic
3 жыл бұрын
KZitem has some problems regarding prompt resolutions in regards to possible copyright breaches. This doesn't breach the regulations but bots and flags can take an excessively long time to resolve with the current ineffective (unless you are a giant corporation) copyright breach resolution process. I wish there was a functional and swift process for resolving KZitem mistakes, or they were financially penalised for making those mistakes. Till then I'll just play those missing notes on 12tone clips in my head and dream of the day my music can be seperated from the other Amanda Kay on automated created by KZitem channel. There is a completely different song writer with my name who sings music I have no desire to promote but KZitem dispute resolution is arduous task. 😟
@elafimilo8199
2 жыл бұрын
I thought those figures were mice
@ImYourOverlord
10 ай бұрын
They realized how goofy they were when the drugs went away.
@afronprime51
2 жыл бұрын
I only have one question. What is up with that thumb nail?
@mr.carter7747
2 жыл бұрын
He probably uses it to pluck strings on guitar. It like a built in guitar pick
@CrisSelene
Жыл бұрын
Before the elephants took over 🤣
@corwin32
3 жыл бұрын
What happened to most of the bass? Getting most of the instrumentation, but not the bass.
@benparsons4979
3 жыл бұрын
it's just quiet, turn up. the volume
@braumm1476
3 жыл бұрын
"Before the Elephants took over." It's not possible for me to express how much I love that sentence. I am stealing it to use out of context as much as I can.
@jlfrandsen
3 жыл бұрын
I lol'd at that as well. And want it in my vocal arsenal
@arnoldwardenaar127
3 жыл бұрын
It truly had me in stitches
@1972LittleC
3 жыл бұрын
It's right besides Dominique Noble's "one by one, the penguins stole my sanity" shirt.
@Merennulli
Жыл бұрын
@@1972LittleC That used to be all over Linux in the late 90s with "Tux" (the penguin mascot of Linux). The origin is allegedly a lot darker, though.
@BradyPostma
Жыл бұрын
That line plus that doodle of the elephant holding a flag should be on a T-shirt. If you want, you can put the 12tone logo on the flag.
@RubyRoks
3 жыл бұрын
"Before the elephants took over" Very ominous
@T3sl4
3 жыл бұрын
An elephant, never, forgets. *Switchblade goes shink*
@scully5860
3 жыл бұрын
I think he's lying - there is no life before the elephants, for any of us!
@LouisWritingSomethingCrazy
3 жыл бұрын
Joey Kramer and Tom Hamilton don't get NEARLY enough credit for all the work they do in Aerosmith. Those drums and that bass is what brings emotional weight!
@drac3650
2 жыл бұрын
Love in an Elevator is a great example of this, hearing it with little bass is basically musical murder.
@DavidMacDonald
3 жыл бұрын
"It’s not really a chord thing at all. It’s a voice-leading thing." - ONCE MORE FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!
@happyron
3 жыл бұрын
Power ballad balances emotional sincerity and over the top drama. Wow
@andrew_oid
3 жыл бұрын
2:56 I had my left earphone off and I was so confused why there was an awkward silence.
@Vague05
3 жыл бұрын
Me too, I read your comment about a second after I realised 😂
@kwarrtzorau7203
3 жыл бұрын
This is a surprisingly dissonant song when you actually take it apart!
@thetoxbloxer503
3 жыл бұрын
“before the elephants took over” *the 12Tone cinematic universe now has lore*
@mundolibertario1127
3 жыл бұрын
Could you please make a video understanding "Every breath you Take"? It is one of my favorite songs and I'd like to know how, despite the creepy lyrics, they were able to create a romance vibe with the melody (Sorry for my english. It is not my native language)
@danielhayun304
3 жыл бұрын
great request! also don't apologize. I don't think you had grammar errors, but I am also not a native english speaker so what do I know🙃 a lot of us aren't native speakers and using a second language regularly in conversations on the internet is the best thing you can do to learn and get better
@mitodrumisra8972
3 жыл бұрын
@@danielhayun304 well said 😃😃
@p.g.v.3765
3 жыл бұрын
song request are done through patreon, only patreon supporters can request and vote for songs to analyze
@grimdarkartist9176
3 жыл бұрын
As an overly pedantic native speaker, your grammar is almost perfect (better than most native speakers I see on the internet) and the couple of errors you do have don’t make it difficult to understand what you’re saying. The only one that I find noteworthy is saying romance instead of romantic. You’re describing the vibe of the song, so you want to use the adjective (romantic) instead of the noun (romance). When in doubt, remember that -(t)ic and -al are used on the end of nouns to make them into adjectives.
@mundolibertario1127
3 жыл бұрын
@@p.g.v.3765 Oh.... I didn't know that.... Are you a patreon supporter? If yes, could you request him to analyze this song please?
@launder0
3 жыл бұрын
"Before the elephants took over..." that delivery was just so perfect hahaha
@Nightfire613
3 жыл бұрын
Gonna take a hot second to brag. My sister and brother-in-law were both audio technicians, and my BIL worked with Aerosmith once upon a time. He was pretty friendly with Tom Hamilton, and ended up getting a bass from Hamilton as a gift. My BIL was grateful, but didn't really play bass, so guess who he gave it to when he found out she played bass (hint: not my sister)! The fact that I own one of Tom Hamilton's basses is literally the only cool thing about me, but goddamn is it cool
@MadassAlex
2 жыл бұрын
That's sick! My claim to anything similar is that my Gibson SG was signed by Marty Friedman, long time guitarist of Megadeth and Japanese game show host.
@shaman9
3 жыл бұрын
"...before the elephants took over" **thousand-yard stare**
@413ThatGuy
3 жыл бұрын
I may have missed it somewhere, but if you made a sold a shirt that used one (or all) of your drawings of the elephants with the phrase "...Before the Elephants Took Over!" I would buy the crap out of it, maybe a poster & stickers too. Just saying. Love watching & can't wait to see what you do next!
@ba45f723
3 жыл бұрын
Wow thanks for the analysis
@Wildefire42
3 жыл бұрын
"Before the elephants took over.." The delivery on that line was absolutely perfect and so surprising. Well done!
@maria.garavaglia
3 жыл бұрын
Re: the verse melody: It's interesting to me how you mentioned that swapping the two phrases wouldn't really work. To me the swapped phrases sound a lot like just an antecedent/consequent setup...
@macsnafu
3 жыл бұрын
I've always loved this song, and I'm not an Aerosmith fan. But I never really thought of it as a power ballad, because it's doing all this unusual movement, which doesn't seem typical of power ballads. Also, I see the elephants closing in on me, ever so slowly...
@wiesorix
3 жыл бұрын
As always, great analysis. In particular I love that enough time is spent on the voice leading part because too often I watch analysis videos by other people who just label the chords when much more seems to be going on.
@gabe_s_videos
3 жыл бұрын
The fact that Steven Tyler wrote this when he was 14 makes absolute sense. Who else believes beyond a shadow of a doubt that they've lived many lives and learned so much about the world in their time on earth more than teenagers?
@MadassAlex
2 жыл бұрын
Chill
@gabe_s_videos
2 жыл бұрын
@@MadassAlex no
@JamesOKeefe-US
3 жыл бұрын
Let me just say the editing in time at 13:45 was amazing. How long did that take? It was perfect 🤘🤘🤘 This whole episode was a master class in musical decomposition. Incredible as always.
@JeighNeither
3 жыл бұрын
I remember the first time I heard this; I thought to myself, what is this unbelievably beautiful dramabomb of a song? I even remember feeling some of the exact same reactions that 12tone points to in his analysis.
@JeighNeither
3 жыл бұрын
@Soy Orbison At one point in my early twenties I got tired of it, but I'm a musician/composer & have sometimes foolishly turned away from older music in an effort to chart new territory, but I've always come back to the good stuff. Writing that song at their age, was a really spectacular achievement, that still gives me a cinematic experience
@elizabethpemberton8445
2 жыл бұрын
Speaking to the power of the song, I was in junior high and high school in rural Ohio between 1981-1987. We had multiple dances each year, and the last song at each alternated between "Stairway to Heaven" and "Dream On," neither of which is actually relevant to young infatuation in the ways we wanted them to be, but each of which allowed one last slow dance. I remember thinking they were old songs. "Stairway" was all of 10 years old and "Dream On" was 8...Anyway, "Dream On" felt the same way as "Stairway" - epic and timeless and profound and full of melancholy, and boy, my teen girl heart ate that up. My old lady heart still does.
@KennethWestervelt
3 жыл бұрын
It's a shame that older Opeth songs are so long, because I think that a video covering some of the structural choices they made in Still Life & Blackwater Park were absolutely 💯. They tended to meander from riff to riff back then, but cycling back to a prior riff let you know the piece was nearing its end. For 7+ minute songs, the repetition is a pretty good choice. So yeah, if you want to cover song structures more than chord choices... They could be a good reference to use?
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