Nightwish - Storytime Reactionalysis (Reaction) - Music Teacher Analyses Wacken 2013 setlist 

Please never feel the need to apologize for sharing specialist knowledge and perspective with us. It's what makes your reactionalysis videos gold.

I'm always blown away by the fact that in few seconds you can recreate all the melodies of the songs! Thanks for all you reactions!

I had to smile when you said you think this is your new favourite Nightwish song. ;-) A common trait amongst Nightwish reactors. Just goes to show how versatile and fresh each composition is from Tuomas.

Thanks for the reaction and analysis. I know almost nothing about music theory but as i'm trying to teach myself piano I really enjoy seeing you explain how these compositions are built, so thanks for taking the time to create and share this.

This is such a beautiful and powerful song. Soul food.😊

Always look forward to your detailed musical analysis - great stuff!

In the documentary Making of new album Endless Forms Most Beautiful Tuomas was telling about his songwriting method. He always starts with a story, he has to have at least a good idea what the song is about, (not that he would have the lyrics yet), when he stars composing. He has not written a song jamming, just playing something and then afterwards thinking what the song could be about. When he has composed a whole song, he goes through it, detail by detail, to try and make it better, the instrumentation for example. When he is done, he makes a demo, including vocal melodies with the piano one finger style, for the rest of the band. Band members are given time to listen to the demo, each one on his/her own. Then it's time for rehearsals, during which some changes are made. Tuomas said that when he came up with the chorus for Storytime he immediately knew, This is it!, and it's the best feeling ever when that happens.

Probably the smartest most intelligent analysis on RU-vid! Please don't stop going down the Nightwish/Floor rabbit hole! So many banal reviews and reactions, .... Its fun and inspiring to watch someone so learned get so jazzed watching these and explaining them musically. THANK YOU, ..... seriously

That face in 11:44 is priceless. 😂 I love your videos, they teach a lot about music theory and that helps us to enjoy music even more. By the way, would you try a reaction/analysis of "The greatest show on Earth"? It's one of Nightwish's best songs (if that's even possible).

If I want to listen to anyone deep dive into chords and chord progression and what means, it's you, it's what I watch for! 😊

I’m a lifelong Nightwish fan and Storytime has never been one of my favorites. I don’t know anything about music theory, but watching your discovery of this song has honestly given me a new appreciation of it! Love what you do.

Thanks for another great analysis. The music science mostly goes over my head but I love hearing it anyway.

We love it when you nerd out on an aspect of a song. Feedback from someone who understands what is happening is Great. If we did not want that there are tons of "A nail saloon worker reacts to" channels to watch.

What an incredibly interesting breakdown and reaction to one of the best Nightwish performances, Storytime @Wacken. This was enjoyable, refreshing and informative, especially for a music composition layman like myself. Thank you so much and please keep up the great content, you're one of the very best out there. Have a great evening.

I am always intrigued and interested in hearing your commentary regarding Tuomas' writing style. I find myself wanting to understand harmony, tension and release, and dissonance when it comes to vocal melodies and compositional techniques. You always have something to say regarding these details. I know you need to keep it on a less wonky theory direction. However, I do crave more of the technicalities involved. Thanks Mike!

Don’t apologize for the analysis. While we always love focusing on Our Valkyrie Goddess, the music, and the science behind the music, is just as important. And helps to understand why I tear up whenever I hear this song. Also, I’d like to note that you are the SECOND music analyst that I’ve listened to (Daily Doug is the other) that cannot help to improv with the band going into the last section. And that warms my heart.

Wow you're really good at this. I know nothing about music, but I find your videos fascinating. I don't think you have a lot of direct competition either, so keep going.

Your analysis is always so spot on, you always explain the WHY and it makes so much sense. We are discussing the greatest composer of my lifetime and you give us a peek inside his head. Please stop apologizing ... you are giving us valuable information to help us understand why we love it, I ALWAYS link to your Ghost Love Score "why" video when people talk about "the note!" It is easily the most brilliant explanation of why a song is so emotional in a technical, yet easily understood manner. I have ridiculous respect and appreciation of your music knowledge. Having not studied music theory, though I wish I had, you explain it in such a way that it makes total sense. Thank you, my friend, you are wonderfully wise.

Great pics! ❤️ Thank you! So glad you get to add this one! My neighbors crack up at me because I crank this one up when I do yard work. I don’t even care who hears me! 🤣😂❤️🙏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🥰

I love these classes. It enhances the musical experience for me. Thanks.

Loved that so so interesting and entertaining at the same time Thankyou for sharing

Thank you for this review, i really enjoy it.

Greetings from UK Another fantastic reaction, thank you 😊

Great reaction! Don't apologize for analysis. It's reactions from professionals that are the best, bringing some kind of insight to the music, composition, vocals, that we might not otherwise hear. Those are my favorite music reactors. This is my favorite Nightwish song. One of my favorite chorus of all time, musically and also the lyrics and the way Floor sings it. It's amazing. It's really cool to see you pick it up right away. This is the song that made me fall in love with Nightwish and go see them live. It's unreal. Please check out some Lovebites live. I'd enjoy your reaction to them, as they are my other favorite band. They're power/thrash metal, very fast, with some beautiful metal ballads and progressive things. Amazing solos. If you're into that. They do have some pieces with piano, as one of their lead guitarists is also a fully trained classical pianist. I'm trying to be as vague as possible to heighten the surprise. Holy War, live from Zepp is straight up power metal and usually is the first thing anyone reacts to from them. If you want to go straight over to something with piano and classical influence I would recommend Swan Song (with the Chopin intro) or Frozen Serenade. I haven't seen your channel before, so I subscribed. I appreciate music professional reaction channels with some analysis. More Nightwish would be great. More anything really.

Just found you, fellow Aussie!! Glad you have so much Nightwish already done. These will keep me occupied for a while! 😁

@The Muser Resolute (MTR): Hey brother! Just thought I would let you know, you actually taught me something today! What that was is, you actually showed me the differences in the vocalists that Nightwish has had: Tarja, Annette, and Floor. And the differences between the three isn't what people think: Rather than style, it's actually a fundamental baseline of sound. What I mean is, Tarja, being an operatic voice, has a very musically major sound (think B-major, D-major, F-major). Annette's voice is musically natural, from a baseline perspective, where her base sound isn't flat or sharp, but is a natural sound. Floor, I've realized, has a minor sound, baseline: D-minor, F-minor, A-minor. And this is why Floor's voice seems to "fit in" with Tuomas' compositions so well! It's because with Floor, her voice is naturally more in the keys that he writes in, which naturally leads to Floor's vocals matching with or fitting the melodic lines he writes. At least, that's what I've heard for the last few years, but I never could explain the "why" of it musically, until now -- so thanks for showing me the various keys in Storytime, as it led me to this revelation about Floor's voice and vocal abilities, and why she seems to be a better fit for the music than Tarja or Annette was.

always love your analysis

Great reaction, thank you💜

I always like your Nightwish analysis, although I don't understand much of the technical stuff (maybe I'll learn some day because I really love music). After the Wacken setlist, maybe check the first albums of Nightwish and try to find some differences in the composition or maybe an evolution in his way of writing. Greetings from Portugal! PS: Miss the space bar smash. 😛

Thanks for the masterclass. 👍🏼

Huh. So to use a Visual Arts analogy : Tuomas has kind of done a japanese 'ma' (use of blank space/white space) in the early part of the song....he plays those glockenspeil-like ornamentations as if they are the gnarled little tree branches on the edges of a watercolor panel. They aren't the image, but they are the framework (carrying the Fmin key) And he uses another typical Nightwish trick (aka "Get the **** outta the way of the singer.. strip it down to bass and drums") in the first line of the verse. THEN introduce the guitar, but more as a percussive than a melodic instrument. And just as soon as the listener gets the whole minor/metal feel going, bump it to the major and give that uplift that SOOoooo fits the lyrical content. (I mean, damn, he just freed us up with imagery of chimneys, kites and Peter Pan references...Come On !! I haven't been there since I was a little kid, learning how fun it was to read !!) Lather. Rinse. Toss In A Little Opera. Repeat. Fun stuff. Thanks for showing a music theory dropout how much he is missing.

Hi there so glad ur back!

very interesting your comments. Thanks for explanations. Greetings.

yet another excellent explanation of music theory in NW,bravo!

i really looking forward to your analyses of 'Song of Myself' (remains the change from G to E minor) but it's the 14th song of the set-list. i'm hopeful you'll get to it by years end. 🤞

lol great product plug. very nice locale.

Next is I Want My Tears Back, another departure into something different (and lots of Marco - hurrah!!). Good series - Buenos Aires 2018 next series?

I know pretty much zero about music theory, but im always fascinated in hearing musicians like yourself and Doug Helvering giving insight into how certain chord changes fit with the narratives of songs. For instance the minor into major in this song may reflect the obstacles/problems resolving into positive outcomes in the stories we are told in childhood. At the very start you can hear that melody which is a simple semi-tone eother side of the key (i think!?) which gives a very uncertain and unpredictable feeling.... "where is this going to go" kinda thing. By the way, Nightwish use minor to major quite a lot, e.g. Poet and the Pendulum, Devil and the Deep Dark Ocean to name two

excellent analysis of another NW masterpiece

I love this! You're the Rick Beato of Nightwish music! Keep it up!!

Hi, I loved your reaction! Since you mentioned Phantom of the opera, I looked your previous reactions on NW and could't find the epic version from 2005 Helsinki End of an era concert. Could you please react to that master piece?

It's emotional manipulation but on a more basic level it's nervous system manipulation. Consider that your nervous system is really the instrument and the music is plucking your strings,

Ever Dream is my favorite from NW and Music is next in the line. I didn''t realise that someone could get this much from a simple song like Storytime. Thanks for this one Teach! But... I'm still waiting for your input on Tuomas' you know what. Come on, there's nothing to be afraid for "A Lifetime of Adventure". Please... ;)

And so jealous of your holiday location! 😅

I don’t think anyone’s done it before, but I’d love for you to listen to the orchestral versions of their songs. This orchestral is a completely different song within a song. It would be right up your alley.

The counter melody of the choir in this reminds me of a reference another reactor made to ELOs Telephone Line. Can you please cover counter melodies at some point Thank you

🤗🍒🤘🏻 welcome back

love you

Please take the time(100 minutes) to watch the movie Imaginaerum, (Free with ads, on RU-vid), written by Tuomas and a close friend, that this album is all about. Back when Anette was the singer in the band. All of the band members have parts in the movie. It is about an old music composer, fighting to hold on to his memories as he spirals down into the depths of Dementia. Tuomas researched the disease and the movie is a text book look at what happens to the mind. I think you will enjoy a different look into the brilliance of the mind of Tuomas.

Thanks again! This may be my new NW favourite, somehow more approachable than many others. And there's no need to apologise for the analysis part of the video! That for me (and many others based on the comments) is the best value your channel offers. I mean, anyone can listen to a song and sound their opinions, but most others don't go into details or have any knowledge to add. Also pausing the song to do that feels like the most organic way, less repetition needed, but not talking over the song either like some reactors do.

🇬🇧 Norfolk strapped in for a story 😊

Almost right: Metal [lica]- Riff! But it fits/ who cares!!!?❤

Have you watched the film this track is from? Great analysis thank you for doing this :)

Try listening to this song when driving through the towering Rocky Mountains, near Canmore Alberta, during a lightening storm. Yah, talk about raw emotions!!

Thank you for your reaction to Floor performing a song originally written for the pop style second singer Anette Olzon who couldn't sing the operatic middle section and relied on a recording which Floor didn't need.

Welcome in the World OF NO AUTOTUNE!❤

Dont be shy, play the song, you want too much

That is the thing with Nightwish. The last song you heard usually will be your favourite. You might as well getting used to it by now.

The Fnotes can singFloor for 2h and more! Gnotes are for Pleasure!/// She can also crowling/ you wouldndt recognize her+ Have a look what she does only singing 1song when she is bored!!!

I have always felt Tuomas’s “Metal Mozart” nickname is mostly for his use of fairly simple melodies and making them sound either grandiose and so catchy you can’t get them out of your head. Reminds me of the scene in Amadeus when Salieri is discussing Mozart and he plays several pieces of his own music that were popular in their own right but the gentleman did not know them then he plays a simple Mozart piece and the man immediately recognized it and asked if he (Salieri) had written that …he paused and then stated That… is Mozart.

That's a cool word. #trustmeimacopywriter

😁🇫🇮💙🪄🎼✨💯🤘 Audio sound is so bad & low....😳

Sooo I don't know if you have checked out Tommee Proffitt's video on how he made HOPE yet but if not I really think it'll interest you... No need to react to it (even though I would like to watch it) , just check it out on ur own if you can. 🙃 Also... There are a couple songs on Hope that I was really...😏hoping you would react to. Being.. PANDEMONIUM. ------properly titled SUFFICE (strange mid-song change up) GONE -----interesting new beat choice (May even be new to you) ***DISCLAIMER: These songs are not by any means my favorites on this album. My heart still belongs to Happy, Mama, Mistake & Running. These songs choices were thoughtfully made with the intended audience in mind. As well as intrigue for his reaction and enjoyment.*****

The chorus is like a plagal cadence, I think?

1 thing I took out of starwars is DO or DO NOT

There’s something off with the sound of the music video, doesn’t sound quite right.

3 Islands for 3 months? 3 sides to a triangle? You've clearly been indoctrinated and replaced with a corporate shill (glad your back!)

you seem talented on keyboards. now write some lyrics and compose music for them and have a drummer like Jukka, a singer like floor and guitarist like Emppu and Marko. easy peasy

not great sound quality, too bad...and the lyrics are really consequential when listening to Nightwish. Very rewarding commentary

really do not care about tonalityof music. just know what is superior music and NW is it

Something wrong with your sound on this one, everything is very bassy and distorted

Very bad audio...

Sorry man, like you said...jargon. I don't know what you are talking about. I don't play any instrument other than air guitar. So, all the stops are kind of annoying to me. I know you are a musician and can play it on your keyboard, but you don't have to stop the music just to show you can. How about you just watch the video and give your reaction. After that you can go with all your music 'stuff' that I know nothing about. That way I can bug out and not waste any time on your musician speak. I am sure the listeners that know music appreciate your knowledge. Those of us who don't, feel like you butcher the song with all the information that is meaningless to us. I am a subscriber and will be back for more of your Nightwish reactions. But bro, this one was much too heavy on the technical 'jargon', in my humble opinion. Semper Fi 🤘🤘