The Most COMPLEX Pop Song of All Time 

Hey Rick, is the beato book good for learning this kind of stuff? I would like to learn this stuff, as a musician.

I always thought that "Cherish" by The Association was pretty complex for it's era

Rick can you please make a video explaining all those weird chord shapes you had in this video.. or at least principles on how we can construct it

There is a story about Jerome Kern. The day after the play opened for which he wrote 'All The Things You Are' he had lunch with a theater critic for the New York Times. The critic asked him if he thought the song would ever really become popular. Jerome answered "No, the melody is just too complicated for that. People just won't remember it." They finished their lunch and as they walked out of the restaurant a stranger walked by whistling the melody.

Rick, for all of us non musicians, could you play what could be the vanilla version of this song, without over modulation, please? 🙂👍

yes, a great guy. But as Rick stated, the merit of composing goes to Weil & Mann. May they all rest in peace.

Rest in Peace for Sergio Mendes, an examplar Brazilian musician that inspired generations from the hole world...

Mendes was not the composer, nor was he the first to record this song (this was Dionne Warwick).

@@mattmobile7882 Umm so? :) Making a cover your own is an art in and of itself

Beth your vocals are great in this complex song

Wow! So glad you two reunited on this AWESOME video! :-)

How fun!!! You automatically awesome in my book!

She was the female vocalist in the cover band with Rick. She wasn't the female singer of the recording.

Awesome!! I wish I could have been there to see the band crumbling and laughing. So cool that Beth found this! This song is like trying to solve a rubric’s cube on stage!

difficult to play and sing at the same time, if you are accompanying a singer then a competent guitarist should be able to handle it. Happy Talk also sounds a simple song but wait till you see the chord changes!

You still have that playlist? I'm always happy to expand my 80s horizon :)

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thats funny

Nailed it! Lmao

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

"Gonna try and make up for all the times they bored ya so. Gon-na hold your ear close to mine. From this day on we're confused together. Oh I swear this time I'm never gonna change the key."

No lie there!!!

"Just hit the fretboard, something will fit"

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"how many chords?" "YES"

This needs 'Guitar George' to play it! :D

I bet they wrote the melody first and got as tricky as they could with the chords after

I think a simpler way to arrive at such a song is to start with humming a melody, pivoting it across keys whenever you feel like. Or, in other words, neglecting the key and just trying to make passages move somewhere - jumping to an off-key tone here and there, and seeing where it leads. I don't see the chord sequences having a structure of their own in this song, they're just short tension and release cycles made to fit the melody. Resolutions that occur every other measure lead to apparent "normalcy", no matter how harmonically distant the start of every following cadence is.

Yeah, I wonder if it started as a regular pop song, then someone decided to entertain themself by making the chords as complex as possible while still going with the melody.

@@BellXllebMusic My thoughts exactly.

@@george474747 Not really, the chords follow the modulations of the melody in this song. A "jazzified" chord scheme looks very different!

Ahaha

Im going to request this at every wedding I attend that has a band, then stand where the band can see me laugh.

@@harrysachs2274 Absolute madlad

It could have been their last dance. 🤣🤣🤣

Maybe play it later, after everyones had a couple drinks they wont notice if youve made it simpler

I tried self-learning guitar in the late 80s and early 90s. I didn't even understand 1% of what Rick was talking about.

The thing you can surely understand about it is that as one of the musicians, there is a certain divine comfort in knowing that no matter how badly you completely obliterate a tune, even in front of people, in 3 minutes it will be over and nobody is gonna have any broken bones or even flesh wounds. Yes, extremely awkward at the time. But it's like...you know *in advance* that you are automatically guaranteed forgiven for any sort of mistake you can make. All you have to do is to go on to the next tune which you know you are gonna do anyway. Which is why between Rick & the bass player it is/was so double-over hilarious.

No I love this and I’m not a musician. I am a regular.

Count me in. I love this channel even though I understand almost none of the technical aspects of music.

Sign Up for His Courses. Learn How to Play.

I had a Brazilian keyboardist play an amazing passage once. When I asked him what it was, he said, "I don't know" He was serious

most musicians here in brazil actually did learn most things from the streets because it was where samba and pagode were presented, i think after the 90's that culture kinda ended tho

That's so badass

Try a song called ""Corsario" from the singer "João Bosco".

Funny thing is: A lot of Brazilian youngsters don't even know who Sérgio Mendes is, and half of those who kno, know him only as they guy that had his studio built by Harrison Ford (before he was famous).

But it wasn't written by Mendes. It was written by Barry Mann and his wife Cynthia Weil. Both born and raised in New York City.

listen in at 8:35. although i get your point

Did you know Sergio Mendes also has a cult following? Can't even walk down the street in South America.

@@petedavis7970 I'm going to explain something you might not know about music production: music is divided into 2 distinct parts, lyrics and harmony. The objective of this video is not to analyze the lyrics of the song but rather the harmony, especially the chosen chords.

@@petedavis7970 You're talking about the lyrics, not the song itself.

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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Dude!!!!!!!

If it was no. 1 the kids wouldn't have batted an eyelid. People accept what they're exposed to. You hear something enough at that age, it'll probably grow on you. Edit: Bohemian Rhapsody is the ultimate example. I was 12 when that came out and at first it sounded like a mess. Two weeks later I was buying it. And of course I'm now sick and tired of it 😉

Hahaha! :D I was like; "Wait . . . What? 8-10-12 year olds"? :P

@@mvunit3 I was four or five when this song came out and 100% remember hearing it on the radio.

He's strictly rhythm he doesn't want to make it cry or sing!

They said an old guitar is all, he can afford

When he gets up under the lights to play his thing

And Harry doesn't mind if he doesn't make the scene.

He’s got a daytime job, he’s doing alright

96% for me lol

The case when it's no matter if you speak English or Russian - you still don't understand 95% of what is said 😃

Same lmao

I know nothing except you are great

And I thought I was the only "non initiated" having fun with those videos. They are awesome!

Although he did not compose this song.

Yep. Honestly if I wasn't told this is the original I would assume this is like a modern day Jazz band doing a reharmonization but then on those the singers themselves never modulate this much. It's like a Giant Steps lost track that was retrofitted with a nice, romantic melody and lyrics yet it still works as both.

@@IncredibleGoliath It feels like standard pop, because it is written as standard pop. Despite the modulations the song is written pretty generically and that is why it is not remembered, not because of the modulations. Modulations can actually help a song make it more memorable, you have Bohemian Rhapsody, one of the most memorable and recognizable songs ever and it has several modulations. So you can attribute that to the writing and not the modulations themselves.

Genius level melody writing.

@@IncredibleGoliath Oh ok, I thought you were making a point as to how the modulations in itself were a detriment to the composition, my bad.

The vocals by Joe Pizzulo and Leeza Miller are STUNNING! Don’t hear too many pop singers like those anymore in today’s music. Another great song sung by Pizzulo is Alibis from the Sérgio Mendes album Confetti - there’s a great live video of it here on RU-vid

"... no need for chart.." Then comes first line "I was as wrong as i could be..."

No truer word ever said! Lol

Im not a musician and basically know nothing about music production, but oh boy can i relate to that mentality backfiring. Im in movie production, and holy, backfires EVERY time indeed!

"Now we're in uncharted territory." Literally.

A friend of mine once said a winning pop song is the most difficult to write.

@@neilslade Bro, it's a targeted pop song, what are you expecting? The cool thing about this channel is that Rick never turns down any genre of music merely based on the lyrics, vocals, or whatever.. I'd imagine very few of us here would actually listen to this song or album in our spare time.. doesn't stop us from analyzing it from a musical perspective, though. It's not a song I'd rock out to, but props where they are due: within the genre, for what it wants to do, it's masterfully crafted, and far more ambitious than just about anything else you could hear in the genre. That to me is what makes it worth the praise, not necessarily meaning that I'm in love with it :D

I am pretty sure the melody was not made to match those chords. It was the other way around. About all successful songwriters start with the melody. After that, there are a million ways to do the chords. It's called chord substitution. Guitarist Joe Pass did it with standards.

@@WorldWarThree I remember, "back in the day", reading "Guitar Player" mag, and almost every interviewee indicated this, "melody first/chords after" approach to songwriting....I was composing music, but always chord progs alone, I thought, "I will never be able to write songs!", or maybe just instrumental music; but, about a decade ago, I consciously decided to see if I could just compose a melody "cold turkey" and chord it, after, and I (thankfully!) found out that I can!

Hmmm, (deep sigh) not convinced. Even if our 'Guru on high' vouches for it! 😫

Producer: How many chords are there in your song? Composer: Yes

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"We'll just tell you the chords that AREN'T in the song. It's easier that way."

Artist: All of them Producer: Okay so we're going to add a few tritone substituations... Artist: ALL OF THEM!

Deservedly so. Kudos, Rick!!!

Rick has become a “star music teacher” and rightly so.

Lol that’s awesome!

I subscribed to this channel after seeing this video!

Wow

Good one

@ape kaspank lol

Best comment of the night

Can't copyright chord changes anyway. Although melodies on the other hand... Sounds not unlike The Greatest Love of All..

Actually bits of it remind me of Could it be Magic which in turn rips off Chopin

Quincy Jones can do that when he has access to many gifted musicians and arrangers all over the world.

Are you sure? Natural? Beautiful? What is that bar, then?

hahahhahah

Niiiice, LOL!

key Metallica clip: "Sad but true!!!!"

Sadly, YES

trueeeeeeeee

Right. Back there like "Good luck with that, y'all" 😂

And the singer is like... what’s wrong with you guys 😂😂😂😂

Until the singer wants to play a rush song…

Agrees in 4/4

@@davidboyer7706 that's when the drummer sez "yaaay" let's wake these people up!

You have nothing to apologize for my friend. Nothing at all.

Your written English is above and beyond that of most English speakers found in youtube comments, please, no more apologies for that! I am looking forward to being able to learn more about the sound of Brasil, I have always had a fascination since I read Jorge Amado’s Tent of Miracles, what a fabulous meeting of cultures, especially mesmerising for the young white Australian girl I was, and guess I still am even though getting a little long in the tooth.

Hola hermano Charrua!Esta cancion es una de mis favoritas nunca pense que era tan dificil para tocar.Saludos desde Australia

Interesting 💜🎶 Makes sense tho

@@michaelsorchantte3857 Hola Michael, igual me pasó. Creo que al estar acostumbrados a escuchar la música producida por Sergio Mendes, damos por sentado estos acordes y recién viendo a Rick romperse la cabeza y detener la canción cada 10 segundos nos damos real cuenta de la genialidad de esta melodía . Saludos desde Perú.

"Gucci Gang Gucci Gang"

Fucking WAP

@@ogmakefirefiregood Blurred Lines

@@chcknpie04 sorry, I don’t get it. What’s is “wap”?

@@souldreamer9056 heh-heh…don’t ask. If you really want to know, look up Cardi B. It will make you sad, I think.

Me neither, cause I always changed the station immediately.

and Rick hacked it... sort of 😅

Just about sums it up! ^_^

Actually people used to do stunts like that all the time.

@@redrick8900: Actually it's funnier if you don't explain it.

@@deusexaethera It wasn't funny to begin with.

I know to which one I’d rather listen, tho.

not too hard tbh

I was hoping it had the two chords A/C and D/C but unfortunately the closest is Ab/c and D/C

@@donalmaguire6099 LOL. We used to joke that AC/DC named their band after the only chords they knew. Just joking of course - we loved their hard hitting, down-to-earth sound. I'm a firm believer that complicated harmony doesn't always equate to likeable, memorable, soul-stirring music.

The intro itself does.

Yes indeed. I play the piano and I can hear it all but don't know my way round a guitar. Love these videos. You hear the songs with new ears.

Right there with you 😁

I’m a drummer so I just smile and bop along 😆.

Haha i understand all the terms cuz I’ve study music for years but the speed at which he understands is insane. Like I need to pause and work it through but he just does it lol.

Like that.

100% I've always loved the vocal melody but never really noticed how complex the chords were.

That's sort of the goal of "music appreciation" classes. You don't necessarily break down every song you hear mathematically as you listen, but you get more out of it.

No doubt. Never did I look at it like this, like at all whatsoever... Cool beans!

Rest in Peace for Sergio Mendes, an examplar Brazilian musician that inspired generations from all of the world...

Not too tough for us drummers!

I grew up in The Bean. They LOOOVED this song back in the day!

And even some so-called "musicians."

You reminded me of a video I saw some time ago. At the end, the fellow said "if you like this video give it a thumbs-up." And with a straight face he added, "If you didn't like it, tap the thumbs down ... twice." I had to try it, and sure enough, hitting it the second time removes the thumbs-down. Brilliant!

You’re right. I would never realise the complexity in this song. Ricks videos are brilliant as he shows the technical side of the songs. To me this sounded like many other songs, particularly Arthur’s Theme but clearly there is a lot more in it!

Pop is not always simple. This song is uninteresting, because it just sounds bad. The changes and melody don't produce a very pleasing response. The song may have been #1, but primarily for its sickening sweet lyrical content that resonated with sixteen-year-old girls. Compare with a pop song like Henry Mancini's theme from Pink panther. Its complexity comes not from chord changes and modulation per se but from orchestration and use of chromaticisn. No lyrics.

@@isohumulone pink panther is pop???? How do we define "pop"

For a classical musician, there is nothing particularly complicated about this, except that it's more that, say, two harmonies. I mean, try Shostakovich or Strawinski, for example....

Exactly Quit being so judgmental Ppl need to relax If you know yourself you don’t need to worry so much

They put a lot of thought into the song, but in the end it's still a schmaltzy song that has no appeal for me. Interesting only from a theory nerd point of view. Good video.

@@RCAvhstape Agreed, despite all this chord and key complexity it still sounds like generic melodramatic '80s pop. Quantity of chords and modulations does not define quality of a song

Why not both? Stunningly complex throw away pop song gem. :D

@@RCAvhstape that’s the sentiment I’m going with too. Smaltzy: it has that in spades! 110%.

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😂 😂 Ikr?

That is so on the money - Rick is so watchable, so enthusiastic, he just carries you away on a tide of delightful ignorance

What Oniguma said.

Same here, lol. I couldn't stop watching, and i used to play a guitar a bit, and i still didn't get almost any of it yet I'm absolutely fascinated. Don't know if it's more the fact he can figure out and play all of this chords and chord changes with such ease or his facial expression and absolute enthusiasm about it - after already knowing it for 40 fricking years. 🙂

Exactly the same for me. I don't know why I look that video, I did not understand a single thing, but it has been a pleasant moment.

Keep watching his videos and learning, one day you'll wake up and realize you do know something about music. You'll surprise yourself.

Same. And I’ll take that one step further. I see the last name Pizzulo and I think “there’s a lot of Pizzulos where I live (Youngstown, OH area). I look it up on Wikipedia and sure as hell, he’s from Youngstown.

I've been playing and writing for 45 years and it often sounds like a foreign language to me. Music theory is insanely complex, but most of us doing it this long PRACTICE it without knowing what we're doing, technically.

Me too, I just love to watch his face full of excitement, wonder, smiling with his eyes, enjoying himself. I don’t know much about the theory, but couldn’t live without music.

Likewise, I know nothing when it comes to playing music, but it's great watching Rick unwrap every last nuance. Tbh this song's not really my cup of tea, but I never would thought it was so technically difficult. Definitely brings on a newfound sense of respect for what I thought was throwaway pop

Yes. It’s insane that is shifting keys and modulations as much as it is but it flows.

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I laughed way too hard at this. Best comment of the day!

Despite its simplicity, Mustang Sally is a much better, more memorable song, that holds up indefinitely, as opposed to this dated, saccharine (though impressively composed) schmaltz. That electric keyboard is awful.

@@c.j.rogers2422 Schmaltz. Yes, exactly!!!

@@c.j.rogers2422 Couldn't agree with you more. Just because this song has lots of complicated chords in it, it doesn't make it memorable. It's a complete yawn-fest of a song if you ask me.

I got these 100. Whaddaya think of THEM?

Literally laughed out loud at this 😂

I legit laughed out loud

How every Jazz tune was written... 😉

PALPATINE VOICE: All of them...

@@marktilley7222 nobody noticed. i made it thru it ok, and having the keys there helped a ton, but it was more just an earbending thing and me being shocked I had never noticed how weird the harmony was when i'd heard it on the radio so many times.

the « normal guitarist » fled the country

Remove a few notes, Mozart!

Thats my favourite kind of song!!!

Or none of them which would make 4 better listening

And will sadistically relish in it. 😎

Me. You just described exactly how I reacted to his passing away. I've been listening to his songs for a few hours, then suddenly thought of going back to this clip by Rick.

Why do I feel like Kenny G would be on the other side smiling at me, creepily?

Love that!

​@MattsCrazyArt niceee

The music was done more than a year ago. Since it's complicated, people assume it's a Brazilian thing. Not really. As you can see it in that Wikipedia article.

Goddamnit it’s pissing me off how peoples keep attributing this to Sergio Mendes. He obviously didn’t write this. It was written by married couple Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil. None of his other works are remotely similar to this

Like a cat with a laser pointer dot he can't quite catch!

I think this is standard Rick Beato. I wish I loved anything as much as Rick loves music. :)

That's funny. I've always thought the drummer had the hardest job in every band I've been in, but song would contradict that.

@@funkmike And you would be correct in that but mainly due to the packing and lugging around of a drum kit from gig to gig to gig. I did that throughout the early to mid 80s in a 1970 Mustang Mach1 which incidentally I still own, only now I don't dare pack drums or anything else in it.

It sounds completely logical until Rick dissects it...

that’s when you know they are doing it because it works and not because they are trying to show off their technical ability. I never would’ve suspected that song of even being complicated. Certainly not compared to something like Steely Dan -which almost always works- or the absurdities that you sometimes run into with other composers who pride themselves on inserting a measure of 15/18 timing rather randomly ina song.

10:46

@@GiacomodellaSvezia lol

@@GiacomodellaSvezia This is the best comment in a comment of the year.

@@GiacomodellaSvezia youre genius man LOL

Jesus?

wait. "varying" success?

The only good part of wedding gigs is drunken brides maids. LOL

A F*** it lets just do it in C major guys…

@@shanewoolsey940 the best part of going to or being in a wedding is drunken brides maids. Me and my buddies in college used to suit up and go down to the local Holiday Inn complex and wedding crash throughout the spring and summer months. Oh glorious times.

Simple bloody chords... D# E7b5 F E 2-6 aFb#6 C.... That's it... Not so complicated

"like NASA's formula for moon orbit, and that's just the intro and first verse" Hilarious. What a shame though that it's so complicated but that doesn't make it sound any better than a syrupy love song. All that effort just to produce a syrupy-sounding love song.

@@100pcRenewables whats so bad about a syrupy love song? I love 80s syrupy love songs!

the entire purpose of music is the expression of emotion. This composition uses modulation perfectly to express the emotion of the lyrics. It may b =e syrupy but it's a superb composition. Syrupy love songs are much preferred to all the angst material out there. the question I have to ask is are you a mechanic or a musician?

@@pattunes1 exactly

Roll the VCR! 😍

Mash up incoming?

Ahhh! The Master of Mashups is in the house!

Very interesting. Not a musician, but really enjoyed this.

Theory🤯

me too... tnx to Sir Rick didn't know this song was this complex omg

Haha, lol ^^

Just brilliant!

LMAO 🤣

Now I want a Weird Al parody of this song with those lyrics, just talking about how complex this song is, lol.

And the end frase on the chorus "I'm never gonna learn the choooooords"

Jajaj

Frank zappa did this hhh

In this specific case, that will not come true. As generations pass, the kids get even more focused in crap music.

Ok Marty

@@josie1776 It's a joke/movie reference. :-)

Up until today I just heard a bunch of circle-of-fifth progressions, if I even stopped to think of it. It just passes over you so effortlessly that you don't notice what's happening.

Nerd

I love this. I’m the same way. My wife and I love watching these with our jaws dropped.

its just like knowing what lol means ... my grandma doesnt understand lol but she uses it .. i have 2 choices ... accept or attack discuss

But he knows all the chords! Shouldn’t be a problem for him

But Harry doesn't mind, if he doesn't, make the scene.

@@NE0MAS I know, he's strictly rhythm

why did I laugh so hard at this joke

This song made him cry and sing

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Aside from that, vocalists in that era were pushing for vocals that require godly levels of vocal range. Some songs are literally unsingable unless you can sing beyond a normal person's range.

80s. Bigger, more, larger......

Well said

I remember figuring out Eternal Flame for a wedding and being pretty blown away by the chord changes!

Sergio Mendez: Mas que nada. Menos que todos.

Sergio Mendes: “I don’t know because I didn’t have any part in composing the music of this song. “

Same

same here

I just saw this and agree. The music is brilliant. Made me realize how little about music I know.Awesome vid.

and yet so watchable.

I could not put it better myself.

It was written by Barry Mann though

@@Steffschenko A lot of Mendes' songs were covers, but his arrangements were perfection.

+ 1 I totally agree with your words.

Been there, buddy.

Well said!

Good point about how effortless his playing is. Didn't he say that he basically taught himself guitar again from scratch after not having played it for a long time? His mastery of the instrument is astonishing. I can only bash out about 4 chords on a guitar and I can't even do a barre (?) chord, my hand and fingers are too small. It actually looks like Rick is playing on a smallish guitar - or is it just that his hands are ginormous?

wow that was fast!

Now try getting Wikipedia to admit that the Warren Commission report was pure BS. Lesson for today: Never even consider using Wikipedia for information on anything remotely debatable.

@@ole555 unless you agree with them... ha

Well, at least the CIA let something on Wikipedia that matters.

That is Krazy! Now, just in... Trump *may have* lost the election🙄

How strongly does a melody imply its harmony?

​@@NewMusicWeekly when one is singing, if the harmony goes up more than half a step and the singer repeats the previous verse or a chorus a whole step higher you notice the key change.

@@NewMusicWeekly Very strongly if you want to play it right as opposed to the Ultimate Guitar version or fake book. It sounds to me like the 2 writers are both musicians who were playing keyboards together and sort of melded their ideas for the movements (wow, that sounds great together) while some of the chords that resulted were those quartal harmony/steely dan-sounding. It's certainly inventive and probably a challenge for all but the most seasoned wedding band player.

Those sorts of changes are called Enharmonic key changes.

Honestly think there’s a higher chance the melody came first then they put chords around it. I can’t see how you could get to these chord decisions without the melody and knowing what chords tones they’d be before hand

@Bobb Grimley If you're referring to Miles Davis, he dropped out after spending three semesters at Julliard, and later in his life frequently criticized the school for its focus on classical European (i.e. "white") repertoire. Your claim that he "was trained in classical at Julliard" is dubious at best.

Been to a jazz show?

@@franklewis6943 Miles was mostly right though. During his time there was a heavy, heavy influence on teaching 20th century classical music as the primary, or ONLY form of music valued for education. Heavy courses in counterpoint, 12-tone, deep orchestration. Analyzing composers like Stravinski, Schoenberg, Penderecki, to the nth degree. This did somewhat abate, and some jazz, bits of blues, and fusion was taught at some schools. Even into recent years, the primary alternative to getting a music degree learning classical music, is some form of jazz guitar or jazz piano (not including courses like music engineering). That was about it. I'm not sure how things are in the 2010's to present. Hopefully more dynamic. Would be wonderful to see classes teaching songwriting by people like Weill & Mann, Joni Mitchell, etc. My fear is the music education establishment is too entrenched, too coveting what they have. The "I did it, so you have to do it" mentality, leaving few students with much of any hope for a career, other than attaining the same PhD they did, and a career teaching as they have. Food for a very, very long conversation.

I got blistas on me fingas!!!! Those are Steely Dan mods all day!! Love it Rick!!! Ala " When Josie Comes Home"

I was a drummer at the beginning of the video... I finished a rythm guitarist. 😎

@@jouleskelvin 😅😅😅

Jesse Strobel , Come on now... you will have people thinking that musicians are RATIONAL PEOPLE! ? !

I've found that many metal songs are completely composed in an ''out of the box'' way, and sure, there's no academic.level arranging but, oh those unexpected nonsense changes! That's what I love from metal genre. It's a punk thing or something, I don't know but they're catchy. Just listen early albums of fear factory or Sepultura (among million bands) and they're plenty of WTH of melodic and rhytmic modulations.

@@VeronicaGorositoMusic Yep. In metal we do the filthiest modulations, just because they sound, well, filthy. Most of us have no idea what the theory behind it is : )

Does metal die?

@@brahmburgers metal is dead shave your head oi oi oi oi oi

epic comment...I agree LOL

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Same xD

I'd never remember the progression

You could say that about even simpler songs than that!

that about sums it up. Normal diatonic harmony then what the hell? Where did that come from?

Barry says..all of them, lol!

"It shall be in the key of 3....yes....well. . . at least 3 , certainly no more than 5. . . .

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@@tiltingatentropy1215 Maybe 5 and a half.. in case of any accidents!

Ha ha!!

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Interesting point. I'd also add that this song is beautiful and endures.

Right on point!!!

Cool commentary. Well done.

Very nice point! As a philosopher, I enjoy sharp observations like this!

Great observation!

From what record??? I have all of Sergio's records !!!

Congrats on being part of such a fine band. He was/is the best. I can now honestly say I do not have all of his records. This song was from 84. My sincerest apologies, and all best to you.

TBH I guess the complexity shifted into electronic realm. Sound engineering, mastering, sampling, effects, synthesizing, etc etc

Musical interludes are all but history now, too.

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Cocaine

@@nickwodka8080 🤣