Vocal Coach reacts to Iron Maiden - Fear Of The Dark (Live At Rock In Rio) Bruce Dickinson 

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We did it boys, we have finally turned Beth into a metalhead!

Ive seen Iron Maiden 31 times, never...NEVER!.... have they or the fans let me down. Truly one of the most loyal and passionate fans in the world, and we welcome all.

I saw them live in 2016. I was pregnant with my daughter and that was the first time I felt her kick. Bruce, the man who told throat cancer to sod off, still sounds as amazing as he always had, and still runs on the stage like maniac. How can you not love Maiden?

The audience even sings along to the guitar solo! Now that's devotion to a band!

Gotta be honest, I am not even here for the analysis anymore. At this point its just the pure, contagious enjoyment of it all ... when they pick up around 4:00 and you just so visibly love it, made me bounce in my chair after a dreary, tired day.

Metal - the genre that no one gives credit to. Metal fans - we'll pack a 100,000 people into any venue.

Wow... I remember this concert, I was there... simply amazing! Greetings from Brazil!!

Bruce Dickinson is an outstanding fencer, so I'm sure that helps keep him fit.

Bruce is one of the best frontmen to ever take to the stage. And considering his age, I’m pretty sure they still play their songs in the original keys. So many other bands have had to drop down a couple of steps to compensate for their vocalist.

Seeing someone enjoy Maiden as a relatively new listener like this brings me such genuine joy

Iron Maiden is and has been my all time favorite band ever for over thirty years. I was around seven years old when I first listened to Hallowed Be Thy Name and it changed my life forever!! I love every era from Iron Maiden. The Paul Dianno era, the first Bruce Dickinson era, the Blaze Bayley era, and the second Bruce Dickinson era in my opinion are all PHENOMENAL!!! Steve Harris in my eyes is the greatest songwriter ever. He has always surrounded himself with amazing musicians. I have been to hundreds of concerts these past twenty five years, and Iron Maiden is easily the greatest live band I have ever seen. There are still as amazing as they were 25 years ago when I first saw them . They are still having fun performing on stage because they love what they are doing. There is a reason why Iron Maiden has the fan base that it does. My second all time favorite band does not even come close to how amazing Iron Maiden is. Iron Maiden has never failed me ever. I even love the albums The X Factor and Virtual 11 which many fans don't care for. The X Factor to me is a MASTERPIECE! I love how dark it is. UP THE IRONS!!!!!

I was there, close to the stage, smashing myself against the fences, almost dying. But it was incredible. 🤘🏻😆

I never really appreciated Maiden until I saw them live a few years ago. They are so good, and their community is amazing \m/

Saw Maiden in the early 2000s with Ronnie James Dio and Motorhead-- best show ever, these guys are incredible.

"The Talisman", Live in Chile. This perfomance was unbelieveble

Been in the audience twice (in the pit once) for Maiden when they did this song. I get goose bumps watching the crowd reliving my time experiencing it. Bruce trains by singing the entire set for the tour, front to back, while rollerblading around.

This is 20 years old next month.

Iron maidens song are such beautifully written stories. That’s what appeals so much. As you said. He is a story teller. That’s what is so amazing

Iron Maiden - The Talisman live at en vivo. One of the best performances in my opinion.

Beth your love for singing and music explodes from you as you enjoy every minute of your presentation. Your a joy to watch.

This is my favorite live recording of Iron Maiden, big props to the engineers for the live album. In so many cases the audio is muddy and the crowd is overbearing, but this album knocks it out of the park.

The bass is so amazing because Steve Harris is one of the best bassists of all time

I love how the Teacher teaches about the voice, the notes, the melody, the execution of the music. You are beautiful, Teacher.

Crowd participation 1000%, Iron Maiden have the biggest family!

Mom: what do you wanna be when you grow up? Bruce: Certified pilot, Historian, and Metal icon idk

In an interview after he recovered from Throat cancer, he said the way he builds up his stamina is to rollerblade and start singing the set.

I'm Japanese. Thanks to these English subtitles, I can understand what she says. Thank you!!!!🔥

OMG!!!! This is my favorite version of Fear of the Dark, I love it! Dave Murray (second guitar solo) has a beautiful tone live. If you liked the theatrical aspect of this, you should check out The Sign of the Cross (also by Maiden). Idk of any other live versions but the one from this Rock In Rio a delight.

Iron Maiden "The Clansman" Rock in Rio, up next?

Please thank Uncle Mark for us again. We appreciate his wise guidance and influence on your reaction choices.

This is one of my all time favorite live performances. If a person doesn’t get those goosebumps every time they listen to this especially with the crowd of hundreds of thousands all humming along to the instrumentals you can’t trust them! Great choice! Doesn’t hurt these guys are my favorite band!

One part Bruce Dickinson + one part Iron Maiden crowd + one part South American crowd = SONIC PARADISE. I will listen to EVERY live recording of a Maiden show. On their worst night, they put everyone else to shame on their BEST nights.

Iron maiden are one of the only bands that can take 100k people and make them another instrument in the band. There arent many bands half their age who have anywhere near this energy. These guys are all in their 60s. This has to be my favourite maiden song. First saw them tour with it in 93.

You haven't experienced Maiden till you've seen them live. My daughters took me along twice to be in the seated area with my grand-daughter. Bruce had the audience in the palm of his hand, and the fans are such an amazing bunch too. The best band I have seen live!

Singer, stage performer, fencer, airline pilot. A true Renaissance man.

From what I have seen, Rio has THE BEST audiences. They have UNLIMITED energy and they sing along and just love it.

Love this performance, goose bumps every time with the crowd joining in at the start also Bruce does workout to help his breathing, he's an international fencer

I am glad you used the Rock In Rio, most of their songs live are the best on that album if you ask me. First live album with Iron Maiden for me, but still the best versions of the songs

Beth, I’ve been a Maiden fan since I was 15 in 1984 when I first heard “The Number Of The Beast” album. Bruce’s vocal range floored me along with Dave and Adrian’s guitar abilities. So excited to see your age group along with my 15 year old son appreciate their talent. Maiden’s appeal to me is that it’s like a metal opera and most of the songs have a mythological or historical basis. Thank You!!!

I love that you can see they joy on her face when she lisen to Maiden 🤘

love the pure joy on your face whenever you listen to music you really enjoy, i so rarely see such joy on people's faces nowadays

I've played in bands most of my life. I couldn't imagine playing in front of a crowd that size. The South American audiences are insane.

Every time the crowd joins in it gives me chills down my spine. I am glad I was part of such an experience on three different occasions.

love Iron Maiden.. been listening to them since the 80's... great video and analysis Beth.

This has been my favorite song ever for as long as I can remember. And this version, with the Rock in Rio's crowd, is one of the best.

Best crowds: ACDC - Argentina Iron Maiden - Brazil Metallica - Mexico

Maiden is hands down THE best live performance I’ve ever seen. I love when Bruce says “or just a FEAR....” and the crowd goes absolutely fuckin nuts

I love how you explained it in technical terms. You made me aporeciate them even more. You are awsome !!!

I've only recently found the various "vocal reaction" videos. And I gotta say I love how much Beth seems to get so much pleasure listening to these. You can see her lose herself in the music. Always funny to see these more traditional vocal coaches find themselves headbanging away going "what have I been missing all these years"

Loved your reaction to this! Could see your joy! And great points about the varied techniques used by Bruce! Thank you!

Awesome reaction as always :) This is one of my top 3 Iron Maiden songs and this performance is absolutely epic. Love it :) Thank you so much for doing this

I was in this concert watching live, 2001, Rock in Rio, it was my first Iron Maiden concert, since then I've being in two more.

I really don't have much else to say other than I find your channel, fascinating. Keep doing what you do, Beth!

I’ve been privileged to see the band live and the iron maiden hooks are incredible, the melody after you spoke about ‘hooks’ happens every single time and it is magical.

I love your take on this, very well done!

I think something that's overlooked about these guys is that they still carry this energy onstage. These are men in their 40s, now in their 60s and they are EXACTLY as good now as they were here, it's unbelievable.

What a treat. Thanks Beth!

This has to be in the top 5 best ever live performances, any category! I'm not a huge Maiden fan, they aren't my favorite band, but this live concert is just insanity! Great stuff!

Growing up, this was easily one of my most listened records, so this was a real treat! Thank you!

Any iron maiden you do warms my heart. Your reaction is so heartfelt and puts some more nuance on what us metal heads feel, but can’t explain haha. I love this

My absolute favorite moment is Bruce lying through his teeth yelling "I can't hear you!" at all the screaming people :D

Love your channel Beth. Keep up the good work!

Brazilian crowd/audience is unmatch. Southamerica is awesome! Greetings from São Paulo, most amazin city worldwide.

It´s a curious thing that i can be one of those guys t comment "I was on that concert, it was amazing!" I was on that concert, it was amazing!

One thing that's useful to look at for the guitarists and writers: over the quiet intro the guitars are doing picked out bits, so there's always some motion and complexity in the sound, even though there's not much going on. Meanwhile, the vocal line is comparatively simple. When the tempo really kicks in the drums do a lot of the work carrying the complexity and the guitars drop back to just playing chords, without even strumming. Just hit the chord and hold it till you get to the next one (with touches of ornamentation now and then). They get more complex again at the chorus (adding the galloping rhythm that's so associated with Iron Maiden), and when they do this the vocal becomes much simpler, repeating the same lyric over and over again. The additional complexity in the guitars is counteracted by the reduced complexity of the vocals. When Bruce stops singing, the guitars come back playing more complex lines again. Once everyone has heard the various lines in the guitars and the vocals, then they start combining them. This is how they get more mileage out of the music and keep the interesting for longer, but also they can have musical complexity without it overloading the listener. Lots of Iron Maiden songs work this way, and it's a really good technique to take into your writing and guitar playing.

Loved the respect you have for the singers! Keep doing it! :)

Student of the great Don Lawrence here. This is my single favorite live performance ever, and your rocking out/breakdown made me so happy. Excellent job.

Your face when just the first riff starts is so epic. And I completely understand why. :-)

Maiden was the last concert I saw before covid. 🤘🤘

Its kind of fascinating to see such analytic videos about the music i listen to for over three decades. Its a pleasure even to watch those, if the analyst is obviously enjoying the music so much.

It is great to see you having fun.

I saw them live last year for their Legacy of the Beast tour! It looked to me like they had more fun than the audience did, which is something because I know me and my friends had an amazing time! This song was in the line up and it was great.

Bruce is great singer. But more importantly, he's an amazing frontman.

His head voice is his whole cranium! It explodes everywhere!

Can't wait to see these guys live again I love iron maiden seen them at download festival !

Also you got to love how the intro has its own intro 🤤

From watching Live Maiden shows (I have yet to actually see them in concert, hopefully someday), but from watching their live videos, looking at the audience, I feel like Iron Maiden is a religion. Bands like them and Metallica, people will travel all over the world to see them.

yay one of my favourite live versions (behind the ones I've seen in person of course)

Your videos help me to get a deeper appreciation of music that I already loved!

You really took the best version to react to. I was there. It was just as impressive live. :)

It's about time Beth reacts to some of Bruce's solo stuff. Tears of the Dragon perhaps?

The pure joy on your face is the best thing to see in this covered world. Your positivity is a greatly needed now, more than ever. Up the Irons 🤘🤘✌💚

If an entire body could smile-- It would look like Beth... Great energy! Iron Maiden is amazing because they have always done what ever they wanted to do-- Talent meets Freedom. I grew up listening to Maiden, and could hardly wait for new albums to come out-- They will always be a part of my life.

Gotta love them "Uncle Mark"s" teaching the misguided youths about real music!!!

I love her eyes 😁

This episode made me so happy. Love the joy their music brings.

Teacher, this year the Festival completes 40 years of existence. it would be a time to have your presence in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Bruce's vowel placement is spot on. His diction and elocution is great. He controls every aspect of his singing with methodical thought, down to how he stands to allow maximum control. Cool vid. Metal forever! 🤘🏻

2:01 That's the cutest "heh" i ever heard

I really miss going into a concert...and even more, i really miss watching iron Maiden live, hope we get over this pandemic soon Nice reaction!!!! loved your explanation

Thank you, thank you a million times thank you! This is my absolute favourite Iron Maiden song... Especially live!!!!

I love how open you are to music that probably isn't your thing and it shows that you really enjoy it. Before they call it a day, you'll have to see Maiden live once with your Uncle. Oh, and that comment you made about the 'sweet spot' between the British accents and American accents? It's known as 'Australian'..

*right after the end of this song... "Scrrrrream for me Brazil! SCREEEEEAM FOR ME BRAZIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIL... THE IRON MAIDEN"

This is not only one of my favourite ‘Maiden songs of all time and one of my favourite songs of all time period, but this is absolutely my favourite recording of this song. To have been there...wow.

I love the way you explain things!!!!!

I think “Blood Brothers” from the same show would be a great reaction. If you haven’t already.

At the end as he’s going down the stairs, that is a mic drop moment lol It’s like you just heard an awesome story and now you know you shouldn’t walk through the park alone

Thanks Beth, metal has some of the most powerful singers. I'm glad you recognize it! Cheers

Seen these live. It truly is an experience