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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’s YouTube channel is a treasure for music lovers


41 posted on 06/24/2021 8:34:37 AM PDT by LRoggy (Peter's Son's Business )
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To: Seruzawa

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.


42 posted on 06/24/2021 8:35:43 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

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.


43 posted on 06/24/2021 8:38:31 AM PDT by ScubaDiver (Reddit refugee.)
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To: grundle

No.
Like a Rolling Stone
Bob Dylan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwOfCgkyEj0


44 posted on 06/24/2021 8:40:27 AM PDT by Fai Mao (I don't think we have enough telephone poles.)
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To: F450-V10

Yeah, that whole album is very complicated, musically.

The 70s were kind of the highwater mark for musical complexity in rock and pop music.


45 posted on 06/24/2021 8:41:22 AM PDT by ScubaDiver (Reddit refugee.)
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To: grundle

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


46 posted on 06/24/2021 8:42:19 AM PDT by Migraine
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To: OriginalChristian

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47 posted on 06/24/2021 8:43:45 AM PDT by OriginalChristian (The end of the American Republic as founded, began when the first Career Politician was elected...)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin
Props to Rick for describing the complexities without losing people like me with only a rudimentary understanding of musical theory.

I have watched over 60 of his videos and really enjoy his walking through the production artistry.

48 posted on 06/24/2021 8:46:39 AM PDT by corkoman
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To: corkoman
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.

49 posted on 06/24/2021 8:48:32 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: montag813
Speaking of EWF and Maurice White, this gets my vote for most complex arrangement. Word has it that under pressure to have it ready in time for the Sgt Pepper movie soundtrack, Maurice came up with the arrangement and the band recorded it in two days. Maurice was a genius.

Got To Get You Into My Life - Earth, Wind, and Fire

50 posted on 06/24/2021 8:59:05 AM PDT by fidelis (Defeatism and despair are like poison to men's souls. If you can't be positive, at least be quiet.)
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To: grundle

This one is the most complex song.
Listen for the deeper meaning.

The Archies - Sugar, Sugar
https://youtu.be/h9nE2spOw_o?t=2


51 posted on 06/24/2021 9:03:10 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: ArtDodger; grundle
Lazy Day is a great suggestion. I agree it is very complex.

Also (from the same era) Strawberry Alarm Clock's Incense and Peppermints and Jimmy Webb's MacArthur Park.

52 posted on 06/24/2021 9:12:44 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: minnesota_bound

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.


53 posted on 06/24/2021 9:23:29 AM PDT by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food. )
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To: Sgt_Schultze

Did you see how many views that Rick Astey tune has had over 900 million!!!!!!


54 posted on 06/24/2021 9:40:35 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: grundle

I got some music education with that first video. Thanks. Enjoyed it.


55 posted on 06/24/2021 9:41:31 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: grundle

Rick Beato is great. Will have to check this out later.


56 posted on 06/24/2021 10:06:00 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: grundle

Beato bump


57 posted on 06/24/2021 10:08:16 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life :o)
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To: Wuli

Ha! Rick-rolling will do that.


58 posted on 06/24/2021 10:16:17 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
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To: grundle

OK, so now that I’ve listened to him, he definitely has a valid point. That song has super crazy chord progressions.


59 posted on 06/24/2021 10:30:00 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Kinda like the Sound of Silence?


60 posted on 06/24/2021 10:31:49 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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