Breaking Bad’s Finale Song by Badfinger

hey everybody happy Saturday uh I'm a little bit out of the screen here I'm gonna bend down a little bit because I'm gonna be playing my guitar in this because we're gonna do a little song breakdown of one of my favorite songs from one of my favorite TV shows ever Breaking Bad uh quick announcement here I'm gonna run my biato book ultimate bundle again for one more week here basically I'm running it through the end of the month and then it won't be anymore so if you're gonna you're planning on buying any of my my uh educational products my biato ear training my Beatle book interactive the ear training has 50 videos it's got uh hundreds of interactive training modules teach you how to figure out songs by ear like we're doing I actually just figured this song out a second ago 20 27 page booklet and that might be audible interactive has videos now it's got the book plus videos it's all online uh it's got insta video lessons video lectures all this stuff audio examples and my quick lessons Pro guitar course all of its 99 bucks it's 178 dollar savings if you want to support the channel and improve yourself as your musician boom there you go okay now so when I was talking about this so so Badfinger is one of my favorite bands uh I I drive my kids nuts where I get on these kicks of watching uh or of listening to stuff and uh so so I I I will typically take a band or maybe just even a couple songs by a band and just listen to them over and over and over and so baby blue is one of these songs okay so baby blue was um uh from the 1971 record that uh entitled straight up bad fingers a British band that was signed by the Beatles and on Apple records matter of fact they had a song Come and Get it that was their first hit that Paul McCartney uh wrote for them and uh they have the song called day after day which is one of my absolute all-time favorite songs which I I might talk about if we have enough time uh which was produced by uh by George Harrison and has one of the finest slide guitar solos and parts ever and I still have never figured out how George Harrison get gets that slide sound no gain but it it and he plays the most perfect absolutely perfect lines in between every phrase It's got the most amazing solo I had it one of my top 20 videos I forget which one it was as one of the best guitar solos of all time it's just absolutely phenomenally brilliant but uh baby blue was written by Pete Hamm who's a singer a very tragic story about uh about the band a couple suicides of members of the band I want to get into that uh here but the song was produ this record and song was produced by Todd Rundgren who actually um he I want to say on on the song um day after day uh that George Harrison produced the track but didn't finish it because he was doing the concert for Bangladesh I believe and Todd Rundgren came in to finish it but maybe he came in to finish that just that song or he produced Soul record I can't remember exactly on that uh but uh Todd Rundgren produced this song Baby Blue now uh any of you that saw the finale of Breaking Bad this is the song they decided to use when Walt dies okay and baby blue refers to the the the blue meth of the of the show if you've seen the show if you haven't seen the show it's not going to have any context but um it's a brilliant choice the the absolutely brilliant choice of a song to close this show it's literally on the very last scene and I've watched that that ending I watched a series a number of times and and it just it always blows me away so um so this song is definitely played with a capo and I'm gonna refer to it as if it's uh in G mixolydian okay because it really the song's in G it's really in B but it's Out Of Tune if you were to play on a keyboard I've got the Capo of the fourth fret so this chord would be B major but it's not even in tune and Aaron was asking me Aaron who's in the chats was asking me earlier he's like why are these songs not in tune because day after day is a little bit Out Of Tune as well and I said well this song is played with a capo uh it sounds like and a lot of times when you put the Capo on it makes the guitar go sharp and then if you have a two guitar band they just tune to each other so you didn't have to really uh you didn't uh you just had to kind of be in tune with each other in terms of a little bit Out Of Tune this but I think gives the gives the a thing it's charm but I have the Capo on the fourth fret I'm gonna play along with it but I want you to think of this as starting on the one chord but in mixolydian so if you're thinking so it's really like the five chord but the five chord becomes the one chord we'll talk about that here but let me let me play along with the track it's uh and it starts out it's got a lot of great riffs in it listen [Music] as I got what I deserved [Music] my love all that time without work [Music] I don't really think that I forget I love this [Music] okay okay so let's talk about this here so if so we're thinking about this this is the tonic chord right this is how you know that it's played with a capo right you use your ear and you say okay if I play this in the key of B if I took the Capo off which I don't want to do because it'll really make the guitar Out Of Tune you'd have to play a bar here but when you have these walk down licks it makes it obvious this it makes it obvious that it's a capo all you have to do is start listening for these kind of things use your ear and listen for open strings and if an open string uh some licks are just so obviously played uh in a certain position that you have to be you just develop this by being able to recognize these kind of lines like that uh so you got [Music] now that line too you know that there's those open strings okay it's a very interesting choice going to F major there so if you think of this as one one foreign G chord would be the four over one five chord to G mixolydian all this stuff's in my beat auto book how to you know when songs are in are in modes like Norwegian wood is in E mixolydian it's with a capo these a lot of rock songs are in mixolydian but this is really an obvious so the V chord in a major key becomes the one chord and then every other chord just shifts over from there so so you got five to four chord and the walk down then you go to this flat seven chord which is really fresh to the ear I love this chord four chord to the one chord it's just such a surprise [Music] okay then it goes this uh a minor chords is a two chord [Music] he goes a minor to a minor seven then um that particular lick there that happens before the chorus the build up into the chorus is another way that you tell you could never really play this you could but it would be so awkward it makes so much sense let's play with it [Music] right that uh just so obvious it's there [Music] you can even hear that chord is played right there listen to it it's definitely there it's you hear it hear that that top note that's definitely a D shape right right there that's how you know it's a capo too [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] okay this is great right so it goes to the three chord a real surprise when you go to the bridge and you go into a minor key it switches the mood up it's a great songwriting uh thing that that uh that is really Pro right so what can I do and it's like uh E minor E minor major seven then a minor so it's really like a three chord to a six minor six minor major seven to the two minor I love they use three minor chords away in a row [Music] [Music] what can I do what can I say [Music] don't you know [Music] okay so there and somebody said how do you how do you play the solo with a capo on well the guy's playing with the Capo is not playing the solo it's an overdub so um so the bridge the second half it's a dude then I'm sorry um let me play along with it because I think I'm [Music] cheating [Music] okay also let's talk about the drumming and the and the production is phenomenal incredible drum fills my God this is unbelievable right uh every drum fill in this song is amazing this is this is really just First Rate performing everything about this song is so good all the um uh it's just so Tastefully done all the moving lines and the guitar parts all the um uh uh the all the key changes so when it goes to B flat and the solo [Music] so it'd be like a flat three to um uh to Flat seven to the four chord to the one chord if you're still analyzing it in mixolydium he's obviously a key change there uh which is really strong [Music] love that movement is just so so beautiful and the guitar so does all those thirds [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] [Music] happy [Music] let me know [Music] [Applause] when it goes to the after to see um [Music] right so they're they're so many thirds in this guitar so in these guitar lines is beautiful [Music] [Applause] [Music] absolutely brilliant what is one of my favorite songs of all time um spoiler alert if you haven't watched Breaking Bad the spoiler alert um come on if you ever watch Breaking Bad by now you're not going to watch Breaking Bad but you should watch it because one of the best uh best TV shows ever made it's it is uh absolutely brilliant this is very being alask they were on the Beatles label Apple um the other song of theirs that is uh you know which I mentioned earlier is day after day and um this is George Harrison produced and when you think about this okay I remember okay first of all how do you get a how do you get a sound like that that's the perfect slide sound it hardly has any Distortion in it but it has so much sustain and it is so obviously George Harrison I mean it's just it's absolutely brilliant and he produced the track [Music] in there every day my mind is all around oh beautiful [Music] and then the lift [Music] s [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] songs that had piano hooks like that um it just um I think it's Leon Russell that played let me see played on that let me see if if that's so p.m wrote this it was produced by George Harrison personality who's on this here Leon Russell Piano George Harrison slide guitar so um uh yeah these guys are just doing this stuff in in just you know they probably recorded this in a day they're probably just playing this hey hey um this is your this is uh here's how the track goes here's a chart or whatever or maybe it's just they just sit around for a minute and they play and people they had such good years back then they could learn a song so quickly that it was that it was just you oh is oh is this where it goes okay great yeah and George Harrison I guarantee he's just making the stuff up he's just you know because these guys had such good ears if you watch The Beatles documentary get back every time that you're that John Lennon and Paul McCartney break into a song they never make a mistake when John Lennon sits down at the Oregon oh should I play Oregon on this okay say it at some Lowry organ they open up and John doesn't say I've mentioned this before John doesn't say to Paul hey what are the chords he just starts playing and he doesn't play any wrong notes it's unbelievable and they they these guys developed their ears by transcribing songs off records when they were in Berlin they learned a they had a thousand song thing well people it's people don't have record players and you don't learn things in the same way which is why I built up giving it a little plug for my ear training course my ear draining course my piano ear training which you can get my entire bundle everything that I make for one price 99 bucks um look at that Bert says Rick all of your products 99 bucks together is this right yes also how long do I have to take advantage of this I'm going to run the sale through the end of this month through Halloween okay um and uh what what are we on the 20 seconds so for a week it's gonna run for for the for through the rest of this week and then I'm gonna break everything apart again uh but I wanted to make available it has my my music theory uh a book interactive book with videos and audio my Beatle book is in there my quick lessons Pro guitar course so go with my YouTube shorts that I do on here and then my ear training course but the the ability to figure these things out this was what ear training is it's kind of too it's ear training in theory are two of the same things right uh Pro people that I when I was growing up people that I saw as Pros the music teachers at the stores for example I always was like oh my God these guys are so great at figuring things out because I could figure them out and then they then I learned what the Roman numerals were I learned the theory behind the things that I could already figure out by ear but how did I get good at figuring out by ear I practiced all the time I don't have perfect pitch like my son Dylan where he can just hear the stuff and knows what it is you know I did it by trial and error over and over over and over and over and over and over thank you Mitch I missed some super chats here Mitch thank you so much Bert thank you so much um I um thank you everybody for your time for your super chats I don't know how to get back to those ones I don't know if I can but um it's you know to to uh the the thing Jah thank you so much uh PJ uh uh who is it P I can't read that without my glasses um but thank you uh for that Super Chat uh PG P jizzman's Jasmine's P Jasmine's um and then Joe B never seen anyone teach it with a cable before learned it straight sounds fine definitely a rich risk killer in standard well that's because it's definitely not played in standard uh you see it's always like when you're listening to songs and learning things by ear always think of well is this the most the obvious most obvious way to play is this if it's too weird to play look for things like capos this is how I learn this stuff myself like I can figure things out by ear but it's like God this is really awkward how did I do that walk down line well the thing was that back then you didn't know this stuff and before I knew what a capo was I would I would actually play this stuff and instead of going like this right instead of going um which is so obviously simple right I would play um all right so here it's hard to hold it you try to see but that's just so yeah of course you you can play it yeah you need to play it like that too right so I it doesn't matter I can play it in any key right because I'm just using uh what I what my ear training course teaches I'm just using the intervals here and I'm like right so so I it it doesn't matter if I'm playing it with a cape or without a capo it's just so much more logically played with the Capo and the thing about developing your ears you have to listen for things like open strings if you're learning guitar parts um because this first this with a capo right if I put the Capo at that fourth fret everything becomes easy because that you can hear these play in the room that's such an obvious move and when I hearing that lick I'm hearing those open strings and then on that chord you can obviously hear that note now yeah could be playing it there but it doesn't sound like it's there it sounds like it's there and then of course you get to see [Music] I don't have a I don't have a strap on it's really awkward holding the guitar like this um uh so so anyways these are the the things that over the years I taught myself to hear the differences what strange things are played on um I remember when I interviewed Larry Carlton uh and and I first met him and I he had watched my Kid Charlemagne video and he told me that I played the solo right where he played it and I took that as such a compliment um that thank you Kevin appreciate it Mitch Mitchell fan club uh I really appreciated Larry saying that because I'm listening for all those things like is it is it in this position does it sound like a thin string a thicker string does it sound kind of throaty so it's played up on a low string in a high position because all those things have different Sonic characteristics to it when you're learning things by ear you want to always experiment as much as possible were you not you don't have to use tab this is what when my when my ear training course teaches uh intervals and things like that you can learn these things and you see you're learning relationships so that's why um I can take the Capo off I never played this before uh before five minutes before I came on here never played this song as soon as I heard I was like oh there's definitely a cable one what fret is it at and then I was I hear it and then it was then I had to tune my guitar to the track because it's really out of tune with the track okay uh it's sharp because the cable is just not on when they did it in the studio it's like they tighten it and they sound too tight and it raises the strings and it's like uh okay all right just tune to me and everybody just Tunes to each other and that's kind of how it how it went back then right and so then I take the cable off and I'm just like okay well it's in B and I know it goes here and it goes the four is and I'm just doing the the the Roman numerals that might be auto book teaches right all these things you can get for 99 bucks is 178 savings there's my pitch you want to learn to figure out stuff by ear and understand and understand the theory behind it so you can play these songs in any key because a lot of times you work with singers hey do you um uh can you do this in a different key and my God I used to get on gigs all the time or it's a singer's like oh can we do it up a half step can we do a dentist you're scheduling an e can we do a down a half step and the other guys are looking at each other uh uh and I'm like yeah let's do it you know um Scott says tab is a hindrance to gaining a good year that's that's really true in a lot of ways okay uh Alfonso thank you these two guitar leads are Perfection they really are you refer to the piano book all the time boom love that love that these things really are Perfection the solos in this song Thank You Louise the solos in this song are absolutely Stellar uh uh examples of how to use chord tones and how to play melodic solo you want to learn great solos and be a great soloist learn these solos because they are absolutely perfect brilliant brilliant solos so that's my that's my uh bad fingers thing I love Breaking Bad I love baby blue and day after day is one of my all-time favorite songs uh hopefully the video doesn't get taken down you never know whatever we'll see if it does it does uh but thank you all for watching have a great rest of your weekend go to the biato go to rickbiato.com now if you want to get a good deal only last for the rest of this week so go there we'll see you guys take care

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Length: 30min 12sec (1812 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 22 2022