What Makes The Never Meant Riff Special? - American Football 

The Ultimate Guitarist's Guide To FACGCE: lets-talk-about-math-rock.thinkific.com/courses/facgce-super-system

This is definitely the song that got me into Midwest emo and math rock

Sometimes we have to ask ourselves is Steve is doing well? Hope he is.

Haha funny emo house

Glad I finally found the emo Rick Beato

this was the first math rock song i ever listened to and hearing a complete breakdown makes me super happy! lovely explanation

this was awesome, thanks Steve. could you do an analysis for "Welcome to..." by Origami Angel? I'm always impressed by their song writing. lots of interesting harmonic choices throughout their songs that keep the momentum up and the rhythm change ups give room for several awesome grooves in one track

Would love to see you break down Algernon Cadwaller spit fountain, cause there is a lot going on there

that font you used for the chord names is really cool! Wonder what font that is

OMG You have a new tele! It is sooooo nice

This is a really good video, I'd like some more like this!

that new guitar is gorgeous

I really love these analysis type videos! More like this brother

Hey Steve, delta sleep just re-released afterimage as a single. And they turned a very folky acoustic that could very well be a big thief song into something much more in math rock. My suggestion is making a video about how they did that, it might be very interesting

These videos are the best, always excited to see another

I think one of these episodes would be really well done with Hot Mulligan's Green Squirrel in Prettyy Bad Shape, the intro has a really fun part that outlines its progression and has a fun melody, and then later gets brought back with a 2nd guitar on top. Great video as always!

I personally really like the idea of a series with the title what makes this chord progression great, it would be a really nice way to introduce your audience to more math rock songs, i have started playing math rock in my guitar and i would like to discover some songs ( also my fav chord progresion is IV I vi V)

steve made such a killing off of that "structured math rock guide" ad he could afford another telecaster.

Hey I know this isn't the video subject but could you do a video about "Jardín de la croix"? They're a spanish band and I've never seen you talking about them. Thanks for all the awesome videos and lessons.

Good stuff! How about 'Rabbit' by TTNG next?

Well done!

Love this channel, keep it up

I thought this was a David Bennet Piano video about Math Rock for a second😅 Very similar thumbnails

love this

what's that tele? it looks so nice. that fretboard is well loved

Which is the right way to play the rhythm guitar? I play the rhythm in FACGCE, same tuning as the lead

where'd you get your tabs, because im trying to learn the song, but can't find any good tabs anywhere..

TL;DR:i personally consider this to be a I-II-iii-V in F lydian, rather than a IV-V-vi-I in C major because the C/G at the end sounds like it's setting up the loop rather than resolving it to me. it's basically a major version of all along the watchtower prefacing this by saying i'm pretty sure the bass is just mimicking the low note in mike's riff. when mike is playing a low F, the bass plays F. when mike is playing a low G, the bass plays G, etc. while mike is playing that F in the bass, steve holmes is playing an A minor pentatonic run that emphasizes the E, C, and A, in that order. yes, he's plays a D and a G, but those are both passing tones and don't mean much by themselves, meanwhile the C major arpeggio mike is playing is, to my ear, more harmonizing this run that steve is doing. next we have a G in the bass, and mike plays a G and D over it, while steve starts on a very tense voice of a CMaj7 chord, before moving onto a cluster chord voiced as C-D-E. this is super amiguous, truthfully, and i think the ambiguity is where this riff gets a lot of its power. until the A minor, none of these chords really have a defined major/minor quality for too terribly long. both of these first chords are only getting their third for a moment, F getting its third, A, very late(just before the chord change) and G getting its third, B, only for a moment at the start before leaving it behind. the next chord is an A minor and the most defined by its quality in that regard in the entire riff. sure, mike is playing an F, and maybe steve is too for a second, but these are both passing tones. they aren't around very long and don't serve much harmonic purpose, meanwhile the riff is constantly rocking back and forth from C to E over an A, and you can't get much more A minor than that. i think the reason why this chord is so tense and draws our attention so well is specifically because it's so emphatically a minor chord. before, we were getting a lot of upper extensions, some conflicting information, but now everyone's playing A minor, and it suddenly grounds us from this otherwise suspended, floaty sound we're accustomed to. this riff ends with a C/G, and while it does kind of sound resolved with holmes alone, it's clearer with mike's part what's happening. the thing about steve's part is that it's based around this sort of ostinato figure which'll work over pretty much anything. it's not that it's not contributing any harmonic information, it's just that the ear gets so accustomed to it that you could really resolve it anywhere if you wanted to, between the pedal tone and the constant C-E alternation over top. what i think is really telling is that mike is only playing the G below, no other notes. this is the only time he's just playing a bass note, so it's pretty clear he's trying to draw your attention to this G, which really wants to go back to F as fast as possible to my ear. this is as far as i can get without having to give a primer on functional harmony

Muy finos sus tutoriales plebe. Slds cordiales.

Can you please make a video about “Waltz for Lily” by 3nd, that’s a math rock band I feel is underrated and I think it would be really cool... Great video btw :D

Another telecaster!!!! HAHAHAHA

Bring The Livestreams Back~ :D

I would think think the 2nd verse progression is even more special

New telecaster ? What type is it ?

nice tele

Never Meant, the pinnacle of emo/math

What are the details of your blue telecaster?

meme song but so good

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You're sooo difficult to watch. Try to say what you have to say with less words