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Rick Beato says “Never Gonna Let You Go” by Sérgio Mendes is “The Most COMPLEX Pop Song of All Time”
YouTube ^ | June 23, 2021 | Rick Beato

Posted on 06/24/2021 7:46:31 AM PDT by grundle

Rick's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnRxTW8GxT8

The song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ_NAXaiI2Q

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KEYWORDS: nevergonnaletyougo; rickbeato; sergiomendes
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To: grundle

Rick Beato is very tedious. Found him fascinating, for about 2 days.


21 posted on 06/24/2021 8:11:06 AM PDT by montag813 ("Fallen, fallen, is Babylon the Great")
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To: grundle

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)


22 posted on 06/24/2021 8:12:29 AM PDT by Quality_Not_Quantity ("...for the sake of His name." Psalm 23:3)
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To: dsrtsage

Add 7th. You can do it.


23 posted on 06/24/2021 8:12:35 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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To: dsrtsage
Did they add a 5th cord?

Perhaps still searching for the lost chord?


24 posted on 06/24/2021 8:13:25 AM PDT by newfreep (“Leftism, under all of its brand names, is a severe, violent & evil mental disorder.”)
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To: Red Badger

I always thought it was Louie Louie.


25 posted on 06/24/2021 8:16:36 AM PDT by JaguarXKE (Liberalism is a cancer on our nation.)
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To: newfreep

The Story of One Chord - Mojo Nixon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z7QVtU1lX8


26 posted on 06/24/2021 8:16:47 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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To: grundle

Sounds like a straight ripoff of “After the Love Is Gone” by Earth Wind and Fire (1978, Maurice White)


27 posted on 06/24/2021 8:16:51 AM PDT by montag813 ("Fallen, fallen, is Babylon the Great")
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To: grundle

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.


28 posted on 06/24/2021 8:17:51 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: grundle

I would argue for Double Dutch Bus by Frankie Smith. Shuuuuuuuuuugar!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK9hK82r-AM&ab_channel=UnidiscMusic


29 posted on 06/24/2021 8:18:06 AM PDT by The Unknown Republican
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To: grundle

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.


30 posted on 06/24/2021 8:18:07 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: montag813

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.


31 posted on 06/24/2021 8:18:19 AM PDT by Seruzawa (The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: newfreep

THE PRIMITIVES (LOU REED & JOHN CALE)- The Ostrich
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r998weOUiM


32 posted on 06/24/2021 8:19:19 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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To: Seruzawa
do youtube videos pay more for longer content?

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?

33 posted on 06/24/2021 8:22:08 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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To: grundle

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.


34 posted on 06/24/2021 8:24:15 AM PDT by usafa92 (Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America! )
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To: a fool in paradise

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.


35 posted on 06/24/2021 8:27:00 AM PDT by Seruzawa (The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: ArtDodger

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.


36 posted on 06/24/2021 8:27:41 AM PDT by F450-V10
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To: grundle

I don’t know why I got this mixed up with Rick Astley and “Never Gonna Give You Up”?


37 posted on 06/24/2021 8:28:10 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: grundle

I love Rick Beato and watch at least one of his videos every day.

Another awesome Music-Theory teacher is David Bennet.


38 posted on 06/24/2021 8:30:06 AM PDT by left that other site (If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all. (Isaiah 7:9))
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To: ScubaDiver

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.


39 posted on 06/24/2021 8:31:33 AM PDT by F450-V10
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To: grundle

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.


40 posted on 06/24/2021 8:33:56 AM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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