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First time I heard The Police the drums really stood out as Copeland really is a monster. Now I realise Andy was the true musician in the band: he made the others sound good as he did not step on their toes and gave their overall sound space. This is just a masterclass.
One would think with only three band members a seasoned rock guitarist would be power chording, shredding and generally whipping out some fancy fingering techniques. The general order ushering in the 1980s. Nope. Just simplicity and clarity, at a low volume. Andy Summers. Amazing restraint. It worked!
Brilliant guitar work , some strange minor chord changes in the chorus that I never knew were there with the overdubs , you don’t notice with the bass, vocal melody and harmonies playing together with the drums in the full mix , it’s very clever
One of the best songs ever. For 42 years, I’ve been wondering who came up with that outstanding chord progression in the chorus. Particularly the last chord? It all fits so well.
I agree, but he may be using the Electric Mistress flanger here and i know he used a Roland guitar synth for the woosh sounds in the bridge/guitar solo, of this song. He makes it all sound so good and i have copied his playing from these isolated tracks. I need to get a Walking on the Moon flanger pedal with Andy's name on it.
I think Andy never quite got that really thick sound on the verse riff live. I always thought that was amazing on the record. I seem to have trouble with it myself but if even Andy didn't quite get that sound live, maybe it was the way it was processed in the studio. As for what I can tell it's chorus, compression, and tube amps. And of course how he plays. If anyone knows of anything else that he may have used, let me know.
I agree on that Andy never got that particular sound and this song always sounded weak live unfortunately. Well, aside from the chorus and compression, the track is very layered which is what gives it that "thick" characteristic. You can try adding a ping pong delay; it should fill the space and made the tone considerably thicker and dynamic.
There is an interview where he is talking about using his guitar synth recording this track and that he added a fifth to it using the synth. It is an off-handed comment (the interview is on YT somewhere), but he also used his synth guitar when playing this live in the 80s. I think it was for more than duplicating the break in the middle of the song. It layered something else into the single notes he was playing in the verse.
right, tabs are wrong and stuff. But consider that the studio arrangement is mostly overdubs. They neither do play it the same way live, it's not possible.
@@QBtracksandstuff Hi on the chorus there are two heavily processed tracks , a melody picked track , and a downstroke strummed chord progression, live it looks as though he just plays the downnstroked rthythm chords, ie the very last chords u heard on this isolated version
