Posted on 06/24/2021 7:46:31 AM PDT by grundle
Rick Beato’s YouTube channel is a treasure for music lovers
I only watch a few that can run 25 minutes or so but I do skip a bit.
And I see (but do not watch) 2 hour discussions of 90 minute movies (and we aren’t talking “classics” that are analyzed).
I also see 45 minute album reviews (with no actual full songs being played).
In short, I can take in the whole work in shorter time than the “review” I tried to watch before deciding to see a movie or hear an album.
FWIW, I don’t believe the number of ad-breaks is determined by the YouTuber and instead, is determined by the algorithm. What drives the algorithm? How the song is monitized.
What’s weird with Beato’s videos - and I agree, they’re sometimes very ad-heavy - he almost never receives ANY ad revenue for his vids, instead making money from his tutorial materials he sells on the side.
As soon has he plays more than a bar or two of copyrighted music, the copyright hawks claim his video, stripping every single penny of ad revenue from it for themselves. And yet, YouTube still puts ad in heavy rotation on his channel.
He’s told people more than once to use ad-block software because he’s not making a dime from it.
Yeah, that whole album is very complicated, musically.
The 70s were kind of the highwater mark for musical complexity in rock and pop music.
Beato is right that “Never Let You Go” is complex; so I am glad for the post and the demonstration of interesting progressions and modulations. Yeah, you’d better use charts when performing it.
But I’ve got that one beat for complexity: “Introduction”, by Chicago. That song beats everything for complexity, not only in chordations, but also in moods but especially in rhythms.
This thing goes from Rock to blues, to jazz seamlessly, and I think there are something like two dozen or more rhythm changes (good luck dancing to it)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19gCLq-Zmnw
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I have watched over 60 of his videos and really enjoy his walking through the production artistry.
It makes you appreciate the art of musical production. It don't come easy, You know it don't come easy as Ringo would say.
This one is the most complex song.
Listen for the deeper meaning.
The Archies - Sugar, Sugar
https://youtu.be/h9nE2spOw_o?t=2
Also (from the same era) Strawberry Alarm Clock's Incense and Peppermints and Jimmy Webb's MacArthur Park.
Whenever I think of that song I remember a short-run comedy variety show in 1969 called “The Music Scene.” It was short lived and very strange as it ran 45 minutes. (It was paired with another 45 minute show called The New People. Pure late 60s hippy vibe version of Lord of the Flies.)
Anyway, on one episode of The Music Scene comedian David Steinberg did a one man skit. He’s listening to the radio and contemplating suicide by leaping out his window. The radio news person alternates bad and good news as he alternately considers jumping with the bad, then reconsiders with the good news.
After a few back and fourths the news guy announces that, after already topping the charts for 4 weeks, Sugar Sugar by the Archies remains atop the Billboard singles chart for a 5th consecutive week.
At which point Steinberg runs, leaping, throwing himself out the window.
Did you see how many views that Rick Astey tune has had over 900 million!!!!!!
I got some music education with that first video. Thanks. Enjoyed it.
Rick Beato is great. Will have to check this out later.
Beato bump
Ha! Rick-rolling will do that.
OK, so now that I’ve listened to him, he definitely has a valid point. That song has super crazy chord progressions.
Kinda like the Sound of Silence?
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