Genesis - "Apocalypse in 9/8" Organ Solo Analysis/Tutorial 

I’m not a musician and have never studied music nor ever played an instrument. But I am a listener. In my mind I know all of Suppers Ready (and lots of other pieces) from start to finish, inside out. I’ve heard it on vinyl record and cassette tape and CD and digitally, hundreds of times. I just loved watching your break down here. WhiIe I don’t understand stuff about chords and triplets and things, I do understand the complexity and the difficulty. Well done sir!👍

Probably my all time favorite keyboard solo. You can keep your flashy Wakemans and Emersons. I'll take Banks somehow playing a brilliant story of brilliant motifs in a totally different time signature than the rest of the band while never actually losing track of time or getting off beat. I can imagine being Hackett or Rutherford and just having to keep counting out 9 over and over again till you get out of the Apocolypse section, cuz darn if listening to whatever Tony's doing isn't going to confuse you. What I can't imagine is being Phil Collins, somehow having to constantly split the difference between the riff and the solo while still throwing in good fills and complimenting the solo. The whole section is pure madness, and I had no idea Tony played a tritone right before Gabriel came in singing 666! Epic.

Banks said that Collins had to figure out a rhythm he could count. For non musicians such as I, it goes: boom boom ting, boom ting, boom boom boom ting. So 2/1, 1/1, 3/1- adds up to nine of course. Banks is playing in divisible time for a bit, but goes into 4/4... I don't know how Collins and Rutherford kept from getting confused, I can't can't keep it up. There's a RU-vid of Hackett and his people doing it. Watching the singer wiggle and look around, I knew he didn't know where the 666! lyric came in and sure enough, missed it. Ha! I know it better... You, Mr. Neutron, are rather brilliant. Happy birthday- and to Tony Banks as well.

That was an excellent analysis, I know Tony's compositions can be complex but blimey that was something else!

Really enjoyed that. I'm a novice, novice piano player of 3 weeks. Been reading and watching lots of music theory stuff and sort of getting my head around it before I bought a keyboard. A long time Genesis fan and this is my favourite song of all time. I understood a fair bit of what you were saying. For me Tony Banks is a genius which makes me think that the 666 couldn't possibly be a coincidence or the work of the Devil! 😂😂 Pure genius, thanks for posting

This section is burnt into my brain from the day I first heard it when the album came out.Nothing better.

I started following Rick Beato when he started his YT channel. IMHO, you are the Rick Beato of keyboards! I have subscribed and have an intuition you're on the way to simular success - not because of slick marketing; but, valuable content. Cheers from San Francisco.

my D was sharpened as soon as i heard the first notes from this most terrific composition

I would like to congratulate to you on the excellent analysis, and also send my regards to whoever mentored you when you were growing up and introduced you to this music.

Don’t want to disrespect a classically trained pianist? But- you know your shit bro! Holy crap if that 666 lyric thing was by chance but you spotted it that in itself is totally amazing! Very very interesting video, I also love Yes & ELP but I personally think Keith Emerson is a fantastic key board player but some of his solos are a bit indulgent, but Mr Banks in my mind is the best! Thank you for a fantastic video.

I’m a drummer and most music theory is a mystery to me but I loved your video. Thanks and happy birthday!

this is one of the best videos i've ever seen

That's excellent. Really interesting to see the use of sequences and not just a load of notes & scales. So cleverly put together. And so brilliantly explained (and played). Thank you

Listen to the representation of the drum/bass rhythm his machine the moment it starts. There's you proof, he's got it right.

Shows how groundbreaking this was at the time.

Outstanding - well done sir.

Wow! That was amazing! Thank you! I'm going to ring that bell as hard as I can

Nice to see someone young enjoying the best music ever

Hello, I'm genuinely impressed by your tutorial ! But well, l'm, also, unashamedly interrested in the pdf containing the analysis of the organ's solo from the 'Apocalypse in 9/8'. Thanks, Eric Fagnoul

That was great. I agree 666 was a coincidence since the first time Tony heard it was when Gabriel sang it on the already finished bed track. He was miffed at first as he wanted it to be instrumental but he then realized the vocal sounded excellent.

Great tutorial and analyse! I like your explanation of the 666 moment!!!

Thank you for this, I have just joined a Genesis tribute band and you Have saved me a lot of time. You also explained this very well as a tutorial, I need to do Dukes travels next If you have anything on that please let me know😃

Happy birthday to both of you. 🕺😁

Wow😳😅 A very different but useful and comprehensive tutorial ~ thank you so much! I’ll be practicing 👍 Liking & subscribing 👌

Thanks man. Legendary explaination.

Absolutely the best analysis I watched ever... totally at the point. ☝️

That was fantastic! I have most of the solo down but I’m still struggling with some parts. Looking forward to using this as an aid in perfecting the last few sections. Great work!!

So appreciated your cool and complete Tony Banks Solo musical construction analysis Thanks I will now watch for your new tips on Web

I'd love to hear your analysis of Martin Orford's solo in IQ's Headlong.

Fantastic analysis!

enjoyed this very much! thank you!!

This whole section was ment to be an instrumental. Then Gabriel showes up in the studio with a melody Line and lyrics and Banks was pissed. But eventually he had to admit it worked great!

Like the Bible says: Everybody loves themselves some Supper's Ready. It is a bit like Finnegans Wake or Close to the Edge or Siddhartha or Firth of Fifth. One never stops learning new things about them, and they seem to end, in at least one sense, with river dissolving into sea. "Can't you feel our souls ignite...shedding ever-changing colors in the darkness of the fading night. Like the river joins the ocean, as the germ in a seed grows, we have finally been freed to get back home." Death a mere ascension into the clouds, to return, to fall, to flow, to fin again, and again, and again.

:-D my birthday is on the same day as Michael Rutherford - and Sting .. Xavier Naidoo .. Groucho Marx .. Graham Greene .. Annie Leibovitz .. AND : "Bapu" Mahatma Gandhi 😍 - and I'm a multiinstrumentalist on drums, bass, keyboards and now learning guitar 8-)

Thank you very much for posting. Very well taught demonstration. Do you teach at university? Appreciated this so much. Now, time for me to work on what you've taught. Thanks again.

Wonderful.

Very very cool video. Nice work. Wonder how long it took you to break all that down. Awesome…

Thanks man! Really helpful!

Happy B-Day..,.brilliant playing and analysis…

This is a very good helpful video, thanks so much for making this

Great work!

Great job, impeccable!

wonderful!! Great lesson!!!

Would you be interested in doing a tutorial on Rick Wakeman's keyboard solo from " Awaken " ? Thanks ; and great work on THIS piece , by the way .

Fantastic mate. Well done. Brings a whole new perspective to the listening experience.

Tkx a lot

U the man thx ima jam this

Amazing analysis and you make it look so easy when you perform it. Happy Belated Birthday !!!!

Awesome !!

You do an amazing job explainig that. Thank you! I will have a go at it.

that was great. thanks for your work on this and for sharing.

Brilliant! Thanks so much

1:24 just a marker so I can practice this weird thing I swear to God they were just playing that electronic ‘Simon’ game and they got that pattern and were like “okay”

Was man sich so alles als Keyboarder selbst gern antuht,dabei ist es schoenes kopieren der grossen Vorbilder,liebe ich auch,mir reicht oft kaschieren oder freche In oder Outros❤😂😂😂 dazu zu mogeln😂😂😂❤

And it is also my birthday! Wow haha

I'd like to hear a break down of Tony's keys on *All In A Mouse's Night* please!

Pretty much exactly what Driver2616 said.

Thank you!

I am pretty sure Peter Gabriel did this on purpose. This is an amazing breakdown of this great piece of music. Thank you for spending the time and sharing this!!

I've never touched a keyboard, but I'm pretty sure I could play Supper's Ready after watching this. Well at least Apocalypse in 9/8.

666, from Peter and Tony, fuck yeah!

Não entendi nada mas gostei, obrigado, sou fã da música e do Tony.

Terrific!

Got all that?

Very nice

Good work!

Jump to 16:40.

I do appreciate your tutorial of apocalypse it’s very interesting yet done parts are to fast Home you could make it slower so it would easier to catch 🙏🙏

Great analysis!!! Thank you very much. You missed a D chord on 8:43, before A and Am

It’s boom boom boom tic Boom boom tic Boom tic

Awesome insight, thanks alot for sharing this. On a side note, I'm a bit tired of hearing about the "Devil's" tritone, which is a whole bunch of crap, liturgical music never deemed any sound as "devilish", and people just called it that out Black Sabbath using it in the 70's. Learn your history folk.

Nice analysis...but they did this off the top of there head...the lyrics were spontaneous according to rutherford..it just came together as a jam..as alot of bands do

EARTHLINGS Mmm

3 tritones! six....six....six.......coincidence, my ass. Dem Brits are more clever than ya think. Hah! 😈

Thank you!!