I remember the days when David Bennett Piano didn't often play the piano. Now he does and we should all be glad :)
@DavidBennettPiano
Жыл бұрын
😊😊😊
@alec4010
Жыл бұрын
@@DavidBennettPiano David, does the four chord progressions apply all throughout these songs? If so, how do they apply? If not, what formula does apply throughout these songs? These songs seem to have chord progressions that don’t correspond to the 12 bar blues or the four chord progressions.
@Skelterbane69
Жыл бұрын
Rare footage of David Bennett Piano playing a piano.
@GamerStickslol
Жыл бұрын
Underrated
@shan_ma
Жыл бұрын
The high contrast makes it look like chroma key though 😂
@ombrenightcores4153
Жыл бұрын
10:37
@davehall8584
Жыл бұрын
You're fantastic David......I've learned so much from you.....one of THE BEST youtube channels for musicians...
@jenmarks
Жыл бұрын
you continue to be such a great help to me, and i'm grateful for you. thank you very much, david! ☺️✌🏻
@Ron-go8cf
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for answering my question right in the beginning! 08:59 It would be great to see a video about bridges that are well composed/arranged. First songs that come into my mind are Fields of Gold and Every Breathe You Take.
@ChasMusic
Жыл бұрын
Nice variety of questions and great answers. Thank you for the intro to Rina Sawayama and Phoebe Bridgers, neither of who I'd ever heard of and now enjoying their music.
@PianoVampire
Жыл бұрын
Here's the thing about the state of modern music - it's VERY hard to name a single band that are world famous that was formed in the last 10 years. From the 1950's to the 2000's you could never say that.
@n8pls543
Жыл бұрын
Wagakki Band. I think a big deal in Japan and also well-known across the Internet probably counts as "world famous," but other than that, there are many many many more musicians now than there used to be, and the Internet has made it so you don't have the 1960s phenomenon of "This is one of the six bands that exist, everyone buys their records" simply because there's a much greater variety available now. This is partially due to the decline of radio, but also due to the decline of physical music stores.
@msalas5963
9 ай бұрын
The REAL STATE OF MODERN MUSIC other then bands will never reached the world-wide notoriety like Beatles are ... AI Music will make Intellectual Property Lawyer SUPER RICH... because AI technically INCAPABLE of creating original song. Anyone who touched AI is literally guilty of being accessories to the crime of Intellectual Theft!!! 😂😆😛😜😝🤣 if the song writer, instrumentalists, producer & their "family & friends" listen only to the SAME CRAPPY SONG over & over again the 24/7 365 days... That SAME CRAPPY SONG I spotify can get Trillions viewers & be in the year-end top songs list WITHOUT ANYONE EVER KNOWING!!! 😂😆😛😜😝🤣
@lululovescatsverymuch
Жыл бұрын
Congrats on 700k subscribers! 🎉🎊
@DavidBennettPiano
Жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@Nicenigel14
Жыл бұрын
For real though, that unique piece of music at around 10:30 sounded really cool! Gave me haunted whimsical carnival vibes. I think part of the reason it worked so well in my mind is because rhythmically it was solid and interesting.
@efficiencygaming3494
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for answering my question! I agree that "The Daily Mail" is an absolutely fantastic song, and "Cry Baby Cry" is good too! On the topic of pop music, I always thought the reason why radio stations today tend to play the same songs over and over is because radio is no longer as important for discovering new artists as it once was. We didn't have streaming services in the days of "Bohemian Rhapsody" or even "Paranoid Android". It's gotten to the point where if you want to discover great new music, the Internet is your best bet.
@DavidBennettPiano
Жыл бұрын
Agreed 😊
@alec4010
Жыл бұрын
@@DavidBennettPiano when you are studying blues and rock n roll it is my understanding that you learn several different four chord progressions. Particularly the 12 bar blues. However, I would like to learn the theory behind rock n roll and pop songs taking chord progressions to the next level as you see all throughout rock and roll and pop music. I notice they use several different chord progressions as well as playing a melodies over the chords/main riff.
@anyemarouthna1033
Жыл бұрын
That 'b III' as a Major 7th thing was great. It set me about trying to find different ways to resolve it. New territory for me! Thanks David.
@alejandroc4960
Жыл бұрын
I immensely love Ringo's drums on Cry Baby Cry and hearing it evolve over each verse. Fantastic song.
@rosettag7292
Жыл бұрын
I immensely love this song.
@attitw
Жыл бұрын
Makes me think of how I’ve learned to play “like someone in love”, the first section is nearly all maj7 chords, and nearly all descending. It’s fun to see the motions when you’re playing it on the piano.
@nabila1379
Жыл бұрын
I love how your Q&A video gives off the Wired's "answers questions from Twitter" vibe. 👍
@whycantiremainanonymous8091
Жыл бұрын
I once wrote a whole song made up entirely of maj7 chords. It's definitely one of my favourite chord sounds.
@hifijohn
Жыл бұрын
That's a major accomplishment.
@edzielinski
Жыл бұрын
@@hifijohn I second that. Far be it from me to diminish such an achievement.
@X-UP-and-DOWN-X
Жыл бұрын
A dominant choice of puns
@htm4106
Жыл бұрын
@@X-UP-and-DOWN-X not even a minor flaw in these answers
@pesosgouda8223
Жыл бұрын
Really augments the original comment
@davidthepangolin
Жыл бұрын
Pop music right now is so varied, there is no one consensus for mainstream sound or genre. Some of the biggest hits this year (in the US) have been house, hiphop, neodisco, hyperpop, r&b, bedroom pop, rock, and piano ballads. Independent artists and non-mainstream artists like Steve Lacy, Kim Petras, Joji, and so many others are currently doing absolutely great on the charts (all of the artists i listed made it to number one on Spotify and subsequently top 5 on Billboard Hot 100, the first two reaching number one) which is great that people who wouldn’t usually get promoted are actually getting popular for the music they make and not what the industry wants to be big.
@OMGitshimitis
Жыл бұрын
Yeah pop in the last 5 years has gone from something that I found borderline unlistenable to something that I regularly find really interesting. The production is so much more creative. I listened to Taylor Swift's new album and was so shocked to hear baselines that 20 years ago would have been experimental hip hop. Digital effects have also opened the door on really creative vocal processing, stuff that wasn't possible in the era of chipmunk vocals is now common place. Pop is actually having a renaissance imo.
@hpatss4966
Жыл бұрын
@@OMGitshimitis pop is having a renaissance in redundancy. I would like to hear pop music that isn’t the same music I’ve heard for 50 years. It’s all the same mindset. When someone starts creating something NEW I’ll be impressed
@crstudios4457
Жыл бұрын
Was a surprise to hear your voice on BBC Radio 2 the other day, although not a surprise that you tried your hand at Popmaster!
@ShaharHarshuv
Жыл бұрын
Alternative analysis - F/G is actually a G7sus4sus2. To me the feeling of it is a feeling of suspensions, and it usually used in music before a regular G chord, which enforces this analysis.
@heywally2739
Жыл бұрын
I’m 70 and so grew up with pop music from about 59’ on. What a progression. The pop music I’ve loved was either melodic and/or expertly played on instruments. So it went from early pop radio hits to heavier rock stuff in the 60’s and 70’s. Eventually, I learned to love standards and straight ahead jazz. Some classical too. It’s obviously not easy writing great melodic songs and eventually the melodies get used up. To compensate for that, bands and performers use/used their version of style over substance and it just got carried to the extreme. Eventually, computerization watered down the musicality further. One of the several reasons I don’t like hip hop or rap is the monotonous computerized percussion. The one great thing going now that somewhat compensates for the lack of good new songs is KZitem and all of the great small band musicians that show up there, along with all of the informative music related “videos”.
@joedurantguitar1447
Жыл бұрын
29:00 A good indicator of what key a song is in is to see what chord sounds right to end it. I was playing Rebel Rebel by David Bowie recently with a couple of friends and we couldn't figure out if it should end on D or E - the two chords the hook revolves around. Eventually we discovered that the only chord that sounds right to end it was A, which was bizarre because it barely comes up in the song!
@Roikat
Жыл бұрын
I’ve always considered the main riff to be E Mixolydian, so resolving to A makes sense. Also, the point where it goes to A in the song is very satisfying, but you don’t necessarily feel it’s the tonic at that point.
@lululovescatsverymuch
Жыл бұрын
10:36 Musical Masterpiece by David Bennett 🎶
@DavidBennettPiano
Жыл бұрын
It will be out on Spotify soon
@robster7316
Жыл бұрын
Really enjoyed this segment, David! Thanks for covering my question regarding the role of arrangements. Excellent answer! Your remarks about Sir George Martin were on the mark. I would offer that his interpersonal skills and keen understanding of the musicians he worked with also played a big role in his success.
@tiddlypom2097
Жыл бұрын
6:00 The AI topic is a very interesting one, glad you showed Dall-e for art. One point though: digital processing like quantisation and auto-tune aren't AI. They are powerful tools, but they use set algorithms designed by humans rather than machine learning (ML, which is what people usually mean by AI).
@onursahin7970
Жыл бұрын
Yeah not all computer programs are AI.
@msalas5963
9 ай бұрын
AI Music will make Intellectual Property Lawyer SUPER RICH... because just like what David said, AI technically INCAPABLE of creating original song. Anyone who touched AI is literally guilty of being accessories to the crime of Intellectual Theft!!! 😂😆😛😜😝🤣
@mirandak3273
Жыл бұрын
I think you blew it on the question about sheet music in different keys. There are plenty of charts that are different not just what you said. I’ve been told some publishers change keys to fit standard vocal ranges for Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass.
@pheeble29
Жыл бұрын
Loved this video! Also I was wondering, if you haven't already, could you maybe make a 'music theory for dummies' video? I've just been practicing a lot and trying to develop my skill that way but I don't take formal music lessons anymore, so I don't know that much about terminology and types of chords. Like when you call chords 'thirds' is that because that chord is a triad? Anyway I've been looking for a video like this and haven't found any ones that explain it very well (always terminology like modal interchange that I don't really need to know yet). Just an idea because I know you'd explain it all really well haha
@Jpanda16
Жыл бұрын
I find that the major thing that makes music "good" is the purpose it serves. Is it a headphone song? Or radio song? Party jam? Break up anthem? Bedroom music? Lullaby? Study and focus? Workout? Bragging? Moral lesson? Story telling? Etc... But also any music that is so synthesized, computer generated, and bog standard. Puts it further into the "bad" category. Where as music that is experimental, revolutionary, ground breaking, and more "hand made" with real instruments. Pushes it until the "good" category.
@11panithilopas9
Жыл бұрын
That's just not true. Just because the sound was made by computer doesn't make it bad, a lot of interesting/experimental and ground breaking/revolutionary records are 100% electronics.
@n8pls543
Жыл бұрын
The human standard of "good" in music comes heavily from familiarity. Things sound "good" because they're similar to other comfortable things we've heard before, otherwise "Jackhammer Sonata in Microtonal D-adjacent-Minor-but-also-sort-of-Major with Arrhythmia and a Dying Elephant" by B. F. Weck would be the new standard of music. Anything too ground-breaking goes over like noise, but things that build on the same development of thousands of derivative years of musical tradition but with a little fascinating twist go over much better.
@SoleaGalilei
Жыл бұрын
I find it surprising that anyone would ask you what effect arrangement has on a song, since you have so many videos comparing songs with the same progression that sound wildly different in large part because of the arrangement!
@CoolDudeClem
Жыл бұрын
Yes there was some bad music in the past ... BUT, even the no. 1 stinkers of the old days, even those are still better than the mainstream garbage music of today. We need more musicians and artists to do stuff like Michael Jackson, The Beatles and Queen again.
@cienciadedados
Жыл бұрын
Your take on AI is very insightful for a non-expert. I’d just add that your predictions are very good for the near future. But given enough time (be it 10 years or 10 centuries), theoretically AI can do anything. Anyway, always impressed by your knowledge and didacticism.
@pooroldnostradamus
Жыл бұрын
There’s an argument to be made that perhaps at that point of singularity, we’ll have greater issues than AI music-making to reckon with. So, only such a shorter term prediction may be relevant
@cienciadedados
Жыл бұрын
@@pooroldnostradamus yes, indeed. But I think AI music creation will be indistinguishable from human creation way before AGI.
@MyMy-tv7fd
Жыл бұрын
'Gruppen' by Karlheinz Stockhausen is pretty unique, and it sets my teeth on edge just to think about it. Unique and listenable are overlapping categories, but not the same thing at all.
@Alsike
7 ай бұрын
so glad to hear recognition for radiohead's the daily mail. my favourite song of all time
@tymime
Жыл бұрын
Hey now, I really like "Windy"...
@edzielinski
Жыл бұрын
"Is David Bennett still making good videos about music theory and related topics? Is David Bennett actually an AI?" Yes to the first. "Maybe" to the second.
@GizzyDillespee
Жыл бұрын
I haven't seen him glitch out yet...
@robbietelfer2919
Жыл бұрын
Was rooting for you on pop master the other day
@DavidBennettPiano
Жыл бұрын
Thanks! Pretty horrid questions on that occasion but happy to get double figures!
@DanSchaumann
Жыл бұрын
I had this on in the background while I was making breakfast and my ears pricked up at 10:36 thinking “what was this incredible outburst of avant-jazz”? Skipped back to see it was an example of something awful
@DavidBennettPiano
Жыл бұрын
😂😂😂😂
@wavesofeuphoria2493
Жыл бұрын
Totally agree about cry baby cry. Recently started appreciating it a lot more. With it being so late on a long album I think I naturally never heard it as often. I can hear oasis in it a lot
@themovieandmusiclover6390
4 ай бұрын
Hey David, thanks 4 answering my question!!! Sorry that I took so long 2 say thank u!!!!! I luv ur videos!!!!! I would luv 2 ask u in the next Q&A: Do u think The Beatles would carry on making good music if they haven't split up in 1970 or do u think their music would've gotten worse?!?!
@bareknuckles2u
Жыл бұрын
I thought AI already replaced songwriters about 10 years ago! Excellent channel BTW!
@quailstudios
Жыл бұрын
LOL Good observation!
@nikkothegoblin
Жыл бұрын
People also respect musicians more than they do visual artists. That's just the way it is, so if AI has a strong or negative impact on music people will actually care Meanwhile AI is another step in a long line of attempts to undermine and "cheaply replace" visual artists
@tyroil3078
Жыл бұрын
The images generated by Dall-E are in fact not composite. Yes, the network has been trained on real art and images and so on, but the output images are not generated by lifting parts here and there from existing images and then somehow smoothing the connections between the different parts. A youtube comment is probably not the best place to explain the details of how it works, but there are plenty of resources for that for those who are interested :)
@zebravox
Жыл бұрын
Your best video to date. I was glued to the screen from start to finish. Keep up the good work and have a great weekend.
@DavidBennettPiano
Жыл бұрын
Thank you!!
@dancoroian1
Жыл бұрын
AI is very much already at the point that it could be composing original works, and judging them via a "discriminator" which is trained by learning successful patterns from existing songs -- using a generative adversarial network, the same technology behind Dall-E.
@AJBlueJay
Жыл бұрын
Music nowadays is marketed towards children and teens, so the music is simple and childish and repetitive to make it catchty. Most music nowadays is really just background noise so people can dance. Simple repetitive syncopated music in 4/4 at around 100 to 115 bpm is the easiest to dance to, so that's why almost all pop music and rap is made made that way, because that is what sells to children, teens, bars, clubs, DJs, etc. Most music nowadays is also made to be very easy to sing, so that way people can sing along easily and get the songs stuck in their heads. So vocal parts mostly just move in stepwise motion with small skips, and melismas and long notes are unpopular today, and the range for vocal parts is also small to make them easy to sing.
@lindadee2053
Жыл бұрын
I saw a video that stated that autotune is now used in virtually all commercial music production these days. The main problem with that, the video explained, is that human variations in singing and even playing music has been pushed aside causing much recorded music to lose those little variations or differences that used to make music actually more exciting or simply more interesting.
@jitiu4l926
Жыл бұрын
This is accurate.
@andremourapassos319
Жыл бұрын
Previous pop music is more creative than actual pop music. The current music industry stinks. Today to be successful it has to be 30 second songs to fit on tiktok, it's a real nightmare
@MenelionFR
Жыл бұрын
10:36 Well, that's how the vast majority of the so-called classic or academical music from 1950s till now sounds like, unfortunately. Thank you, David! Speaking of cleverly written music, do you know The Alan Parsons project? If not for some reason, listen to "Silence and I", for example. It's extremely sad, sorrowful and even gloomy I'd say, but the instrumentation is gorgeous and the music itself is outstanding. For instance, its main part is written in B-flat minor and it starts like this: D-flat Major - C minor - C-flat major over D-flat - B-flat Minor. It also has minor dominant chords in places where we'd expect normal, i.e., major dominant chords. And also there are quite elaborate modulations.
@Yawnyaman
Жыл бұрын
Big fan of their music generally.
@AJBlueJay
Жыл бұрын
10:36 sounds like the 7th Guest 😂
@ustedtubo
Жыл бұрын
On the AI topic, I think you should take a look at iOS apps like Riffler (for guitar), Piano Motifs (for piano), or Beatly Pro. They aren’t expensive and they can produce some really cool music. Will they replace songwriters, not yet, but they can be great idea starters or sources of inspiration.
@douglassloan6831
Жыл бұрын
There are so many reasons why today's pop doesn't seem as good. For me, it comes down to groove, or vibe or whatever you want to call it. This was something that happened in the studio when there were a bunch of great players doing what they do feeling what was coming from the other guy and vice versa. It was hard to record music back in the day when it was done analog to tape. You HAD to play it right. There was no "fixing it". On the other hand, human error was a part of the joy and the feel of music that was recorded live to a tape machine. Singers rarely sang 100% on key. Tempos were varied throughout songs and the songs were the better for it. Every try quantizing a Bonham drum part? It kills the feel completely. Mixing was an art form. I remember being in the studio and having 5 of us on the board moving faders at exactly the right point in the song. (Before automation of course) It was a performance in and of itself. In the end, I think the music of the 70's, etc. had that human element. Albums were listened to as entire works, every song serving a purpose. I truly believe with all my heart that "Night at the Opera", deserves to be in the Smithsonian museum, maybe the original 2 inch or something. It is a masterpiece in every sense of the word. There will never be another like it, especially with the way music is made today. Listen to the Foo Fighters record they did in Dave's garage some time. It has the vibe, the groove..that thing. Anyway, that's my 2 cents. Love the channel!
@MrXyzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Жыл бұрын
There are so many "plus ones" on this video but a "plus 10" definitely for playing "things we said today". That's a great Beatles Song that is often overlooked.
@thesuncollective1475
Жыл бұрын
22:28 I do believe Europe's Final countdown began life on the recorder 🤣🤣
@andywoollard
Жыл бұрын
Great stuff, although I do love a bit of cheese like Captain &Tennille and silly love songs by Macca
@FromGroundToMud
Жыл бұрын
You should check "Her's", british duo. Sadly both members passed away 3 years ago in a car accident. Band of the decade for me.
@cdprince768
Жыл бұрын
You're underestimating AI. It has a vast capacity for learning and will produce music on par with humans. It will also be able to develop new ideas and innovations. I'm not saying I'm happy about it, but it's happening.
@MrRazNZ
Жыл бұрын
yeah, I was quite surprised just how... well.... wrong he is about AI - but I suppose just because I consume both DBP and cutting edge AI creation content, doesn't mean DBP consumes cutting eddge AI creation content!
@jorisvoorndj
Жыл бұрын
That Black Legend track is amazing though!!
@shadowclaw878
Жыл бұрын
10:30 "Let's Spend The Night Together" cover by David Bowie
@davidjairala69
Жыл бұрын
I don't really agree with your AI take. I'm not an "AI is the future" or "brains are just fancy computers" kind of guy, but the AI art generator really isn't that different from what people do. It's really hard to be 100% original, most of the time what we do is pull from what inspires us to create something (hopefully) brand new. Even art that relies on novelty and the subversion of expectation depends on some reference point, even if the reference point is the thing your art seeks to subvert. Of course, people can infuse their art with a kind of emotional perspective that AI can only imitate. There's definitely something to be said for that.
@mta1864
Жыл бұрын
A few of the songs in your "naff" list are songs that I remember quite fondly (Peter Cetera and Amy Grant! C'mon! :D) I bring that up because, in the question of old vs. new songs, it's not so much that people compare new songs to the "greatest songs of all time" because that's always a debatable list. Rather, people will compare new songs to the songs they remember, songs they have chosen to be part of their personal "good" songs list. These songs will be the songs that get replayed the most by them and become part of a person's personality. As people age, they invariably grow their list to a point where new songs will have a tougher time competing with the stacks of old favorites. So new songs will, in that sense, always be "worse" regardless of any inherent quality they might have.
@jamescastelli
Жыл бұрын
I know the bias you refer to exists, but I have to say you chose a few "naff" songs which are actually good, or at least better than most of what comes out today, that it undermines that point. Windy, Next Time I Fall, Do That To Me.... sure, some are a bit cheesy or have their hearts too much on their sleeve, but you can't tell me there is anything at the top of the charts today that is more harmonically sophisticated (at least two know how to use a secondary dominant) or unique in their arrangement. Not to mention none of them used auto tune. So, you were saying?
@martinda7446
Жыл бұрын
The culture has to nurture and offer a place where art can thrive. We are obviously not in that place now. Many would be artists went into banking instead of picking up a guitar, I believe too, the West has been in freefall since the 1960s and peaked in creativity then. We landed on the moon in 1969. The 60s and 70s was truly an exceptional time for music - and much else. There simply isn't any way you could argue today's music has a even a hint of those times. The reason is more existential (of Western influence) than we think.
@BryTee
Жыл бұрын
"best song of last 60 years" - I guessed either "Day in the Life" or "Bohemian Rhapsody" I'm glad you agreed with Bohemian Rhapsody, but what would be the second best song?
@GizzyDillespee
Жыл бұрын
Great advices so far. I'm up to "rate the progression". The E minor is uncertain there... there should be a "2nd half" of that progression... it's not made for a 4 chord loop... IMO obviously🤣
@machoprotegido5607
Жыл бұрын
10:36 actually it sounded awesome!
@lrvogt1257
Жыл бұрын
There are certainly differences and I'm not defending new music per se but we naturally compare all of today's music with the greatest hits of the past. That isn't a reasonable comparison and lots of old hits had simple changes and instrumentation. Streaming services present what people choose. The biggest thing for me is that there is no shared experience since people can bury themselves in a niche. That began when FM began playing more specific genres.
@jea559
Жыл бұрын
Just heard you on Popmaster. Bad luck with the questions. Quite hard. I was lucky last year to get through and win with 30 points and get the top prize.
@DavidBennettPiano
Жыл бұрын
Nice one! Yeah those questions were annoying! The two rounds later that week I got 30 each time 😅😅
@jea559
Жыл бұрын
@@DavidBennettPiano always the way!
@vicsardou9654
Жыл бұрын
AI is far more complex than your description and, even now, it can create very, likable complex music.
@alantaylor2694
Жыл бұрын
Have a day off will ya! You're making the rest of us look bad! My dad says 'You're the professor of music!'
@RedlikMusic
Жыл бұрын
22:27 is that a David504 reference!?
@frankfrank7921
Жыл бұрын
Traditionally though the songwriting credit went to whoever wrote the melody (as it would appear on a lead sheet) and/or the lyrics, not a producer/arranger nor band members who created their own "parts" on the song. To suggest George Martin should get a song writing credit is to cheapen, by lessening the credit of those who actually wrote the song, the creations of Lennon/McCartney and Harrison. That being said, in today's music world he probably would get a songwriting credit and perhaps Geoff Emerick would too though in my mind I still maintain that melody and lyrics are the "song" the rest is the arrangement..
@Gregorovitch144
Жыл бұрын
It's not just that people compare random songs off Spotify or the radio to the best of the best from past, it's also that people get the sounds of the music of their early teens imprinted in their heads and find it difficult to accept anything subsequently as equally good or better, the first cut is always the deepest. A third issue is that the 60's was turbo-charged by the emergence of amps by Fender, Vox and Marshal, the 70's by 32 and 64 track consoles (Beatles only had four), and the 80's by a whole series of classic drum machines, analogue synths, sequencers and samplers. An important side chain to all this was the development of the Jamaican reggae sound systems which were largely responsible for the development of Techno, Hip Hop, House and rave/dance music culture. Each of these dramatically changed the sound of new music. We haven't actually had anything like that happen since the 90's really. The DAW has arrived big time, yes, but that is just a substitute for a big console and vehicle for playing virtual instruments that are mainly copies of analogue originals from the 80's and before. The point being when musicians get their hands on new instruments and equipment that make completely new sounds you always get an explosion of creativity leading to much music now considered "classic". Plugging a Strat or Les Paul into a Marshal Plexi or getting your hands on a Rhodes was a super-major big deal back in the 60's. It's a long time since musicians have had something new like that suddenly available to them.
@cakemartyr5794
Жыл бұрын
For a superb arrangement, I suggest Jealous Guy by Roxy Music, covering John Lennon's original.
@StevenStJohn-kj9eb
Жыл бұрын
@22:37 - what a great challenge. Please someone, try and create an epic-sounding cover of Final Countdown using only recorders and vocals.
@KlausSgroi
Жыл бұрын
I don't know why today's music being worse would be a matter for contention and controversy. It's kinda obvious, really. I guess people saying "well, they're only different" are merely being politically correct not to offend anyone.
@peterhughes8699
Жыл бұрын
Having lived through all those eras my opinion is that in the 80s, 90s, early 2000s "pop" music was 80% crap with the occasional gem in top 100 charts. Now it's 99.999999% total crap. Now, if the song is good, and they're playing real instruments well, it's guaranteed never to make a top 100 anywhere.
@harrr53
Жыл бұрын
Windy by The Association is NOT naff.
@garyhillman4993
Жыл бұрын
Would be funny if in bladerunner they all suddenly started composing music
@phatato
Жыл бұрын
How dare you hate on a Windy lol that song is the jam! And probably still better than half of pop music today :)
@gfrancocsa
Жыл бұрын
Windy has an amazing arrangement!
@mike_valenza
Жыл бұрын
The slam against the Association is uncalled for. While "Windy" is personally not my favorite Association song---maybe even my least favorite among all their hits--it is better than 90% of the crap that is popular today, and it did feature the excellent vocal harmonies that characterized all their better hits like "Everything that Touches You".
@stuartcampbell2107
Жыл бұрын
I don't think pop music is necessarily worse, I think given how easily music can be distributed via the internet maybe we get more exposure to the worse stuff - but it's always been there. And you can't say the highs are any less high either with the likes of the Weeknd on the scene!
@cjh0751
Жыл бұрын
I blame Stock Aitken and Waterman
@jonathanosborn4800
Жыл бұрын
So I actually like the type of sound of top 40 music the last ten years, the EDM ish mainstream, processed and produced, relatively simple harmonically, synth bass…but, there are NO tunes from the last decade that I really care about
@richarddoan9172
Жыл бұрын
A good epic example in major would be Beethoven's Ode to Joy, when the big choir comes in.
@Couldntve
Жыл бұрын
Just a correction for the explanation of how AI image generators work. They don't actually take pre-existing images and composite them together. In the piano-guitar in space example, the AI is not taking a image of a guitar and an image of a piano and merging them together in front of an image of space. The AI is actually trained to generate completely new images, its shown a dataset of images of guitars and pianos and from that it learns what those objects look like so that it can generate completely new images of guitars and pianos. A theoretical music generator could probably be trained on thousands of songs to learn what different musical techniques and instruments sound like and create something new and original.
@AthleticDesign
Жыл бұрын
AI music generators for midi have been around forever - both consumer products and academic stuff. But I am pretty confident there will be competent audio-based ones around very soon. If the music industry doesn't fight them on collecting commercial music for the datasets, I just can't see AI music failing.
@Couldntve
Жыл бұрын
@@AthleticDesign Personally I feel that art has more value if its made by a human. Maybe cheap background music might all be ai one day but people like listening to music when they know the artist.
@AthleticDesign
Жыл бұрын
@@Couldntve I don't like it either. Still, I am afraid AI will take over much more than cheap background music. There will be so much new music and no one will know who or what created it.
@hoagy_ytfc
Жыл бұрын
Woah, All Kinds of Everything isn't naff! Beautiful lyrics too. Check out the wonderful cover by Sinéad O'Connor and Tery Hall.
@brain-thomas
Жыл бұрын
My opinion on "making something really unique" is: just make music. Every time you write a song that's not a cover, it's unique. Is the song good or bad? No one knows. But the worst song you can write is still better than anything you don't do because you're too terrified.
@sylvanwroe1213
Жыл бұрын
Congrats on 700 subscribers 😂
@tvdan1043
Жыл бұрын
Okay, now I NEED to see a video of a middle-school music class playing "Final Countdown" on recorders. It would be epic for all the wrong reasons, but epic nonetheless.
@StratsRUs
Жыл бұрын
All it has to say is the Key, then just indicate the note or chord around which it is centred.That way yr never lost. Modes are to drones. Keys are to chords.
@jameriles
Жыл бұрын
I have to bring a point here: AI image generation is not a just "pre-existing images composition". It works pretty much like artist create their works, learning from work from other artists to synthesize a new style or even an original trend. It is not "programmed". It take choices that tries to produce what we told it that it is actually a work of art that matches whatever the prompt is. They are basically improving at a very fast pace on how to fool our brains and let us think that their work is actually a dog, a cat, a person, or, let's say, a perfectly competent music composition or arrangement.
@user-cj4fu8qq9b
Жыл бұрын
for me i think what makes a song epic is actually the modal mixture of minor and major keys
@GianniBosio
Жыл бұрын
Is that you, Elton? 😉
@sophianazzaro636
Жыл бұрын
you should listen to Michel Polnareff. He has very interesting songs in many different styles. His music sounds very different from American/British music, especially the early songs. What it sounds most like is maybe folk? And he seems to write melodies as if it's a language for his emotions. It would be interesting to hear you analyze his songs.
@gregoryp203
Жыл бұрын
I vaguely remember in the 90s microsoft had a project where they generated music with ai . the sample was not bad, but not great.
@jaakkot5440
Жыл бұрын
0:06 Ah yes, the "seven hundred" subscriber special :)
@jeremywills104
Жыл бұрын
I'd like to know your opinion on ambient music and where you draw the line between music and sound art. Can any recording be considered music based on its emotional impact?
@althealligator1467
Жыл бұрын
28:40 Those are exactly the two songs / videos about those songs I was thinking about when asking that question, they're the examples I always go to. The thing is that I don't hear them either in Em or Am, or D or G, but both at once: it just depends on where I shift my focus.
@MelanieMaguire
3 ай бұрын
You talk about a bridge in the way I have always used the words middle 8. I use the word bridge for a section that comes between the main verse and the chorus that bridges between the 2 and leads into the chorus. For example, in Waterloo, Abba. The "My, my, I tried to hld you" is the main part of the verse. The "the history book on the shelf" is the bridge. I've never heard the middle 8 being called a bridge before. If the middle 8 is correctly called a bridge, what's a middle 8 and what is my idea of a bridge called? Anyone?
@whycantiremainanonymous8091
Жыл бұрын
Third question: The question, though, is whether there is enough of a market for music that seriously breaks boundaries, or will flooding the distribution cnannels with low-cost and derivative AI-generated stuff will be more economically viable. I mean, 99% of commercial pop might as well have been generated by AI already now.
@williamshears9953
Жыл бұрын
The hybrid ai composition is the concept of the software Synfire by Cognitone. It's a bit awkward sometimes but pretty neat.
@Pinko-Diamond
Жыл бұрын
use it every day, but I'd hardly compare it. the ai only changes the "language" of the music to allow for a bit conceptual form of editing similar to a composer coming up with an idea and telling his assistant to write the notation according to those directions. it doesn't do any composing at all! Things like Rapid Composer do, and people use them together.
@spindriftdrinker
Жыл бұрын
I've been around a while - even though most pop music from any decade is garbage - there were still thousands of good songs in the second half of the twentieth century. That's simply not true nowadays. When I listen to today's "hits" it doesn't even sound like they are trying to create a good song - or even if they care if they are creating something good or not. It's just a mass produced, immediately forgettable product, quickly designed to sound exactly like everything else. By the way, what David said about "the only way to consume music in the 1960s was the mainstream" - that's a very silly thing to say. Record stores were full of hundreds of records of all kinds of obscure bands as well as mainstream records. And you could also see those obscure bands live playing in some small club, too.
@ShaharHarshuv
Жыл бұрын
Quantizing and auto-tune is not "AI". It's a very straight forward, mathematically define process. Bu I do get what you mean
@briancunning423
Жыл бұрын
Black Legend's "You see the trouble with me" is a great tune!!
@PowerRedBullTypology
Жыл бұрын
AI could look at the pattern in the progression of music and then push it futher. So if the trend is that the snaredrum becomes more high pitched over the years, it can push tha further making the snaredrum even moore high pitched.
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