Perhaps still searching for the lost chord?
Posted on 06/24/2021 7:46:31 AM PDT by grundle
Rick Beato is very tedious. Found him fascinating, for about 2 days.
Watched it last evening - I couldn’t play that song even with the simplified lead sheet (where 5th’s, 9th’s 11th’s, etc. get boiled down to 7th’s)
Add 7th. You can do it.
Perhaps still searching for the lost chord?
I always thought it was Louie Louie.
The Story of One Chord - Mojo Nixon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z7QVtU1lX8
Sounds like a straight ripoff of “After the Love Is Gone” by Earth Wind and Fire (1978, Maurice White)
Interesting set of chord changes in that song.
I looked up that song and found the music was written by Barry Mann. I had heard of that guy before and now I know why because he wrote a bunch of pop hit songs — We got to get out of this place & Kicks (paul revere), You’ve lost that loving feeling, Sometimes when we touch, etc.
Barry Mann wrote those chord changes. Dionne Warwick recorded it before Sergio but her version did not take off like Sergio’s did.
I would argue for Double Dutch Bus by Frankie Smith. Shuuuuuuuuuugar!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK9hK82r-AM&ab_channel=UnidiscMusic
I knew a person whose mother wrote and sold two songs to Madonna (Dress you Up and I can’t remember the other) back in the early 80s
what really stuck in my memory was that she recd some ridiculously low amount, like $500 bucks, for them.
If 10 words would do Rick uses 1000.
This is a growing problem with a lot of youtubers. Their videos get padded more and more, longer and longer.
THE PRIMITIVES (LOU REED & JOHN CALE)- The Ostrich
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r998weOUiM
the longer it is the less likely someone watches the whole thing which reduces the view count.
I know more ads can be crammed into longer videos but does youtube look at them any differently?
I enjoy Rick’s videos, but he’s got a definite bias towards Boston, Frampton and Toto, mostly because of his friendship with Lukather. Surprised he mined this song. Most everyone forgot about it 40 years ago.
I’m not sure why but it’s probably ad revenue. Some youtubers have a lot more ad breaks than others. Be that as it may I don’t watch 15 minute videos on a subject that can be covered in 5.
I mainly watch guitar tutorials. Those are usually concise and to the point.
When I was 11 my neighbor had that album on repeat while I was reading a story about the University of Michigan killer John Norman Collins. It had an eerie (complex) feeling that corresponded to the article, thanks for explaining why. It evokes a mysterious feeling in me, today not entirely positive. When I read about serial killers that song comes to mind.
I don’t know why I got this mixed up with Rick Astley and “Never Gonna Give You Up”?
I love Rick Beato and watch at least one of his videos every day.
Another awesome Music-Theory teacher is David Bennet.
I listened to Dark Side one memorable night on a Detroit radio station as soon as it was released. Probably WABX, WRIF. Was so intrigued, and it took me many listens to figure out why I couldn’t replicate the song in my head, I kept trying to add notes to fit it into 4/4.
If you watch the video, he actually calls it the “most complex chord progression in a hit song”. So he’s not talking technical difficulty for playing it, and he’s discounting percussion, rhythm, and time signature changes. It is just a very unusual/complex chord progression, and if you think that it is just a pop song you can play by ear without charting the song, you’re going to embarrass yourself.
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