Tool "Pushit" REACTION & ANALYSIS by Vocal Coach / Opera Singer

welcome back to the charismatic voice today is a special day and we're going to be celebrating kirk's birthday by listening to some more tool to push it specifically now version wise there really are two different versions we had an option of one is a studio album version and one is a live performance in the survival tour both versions are very different they had sort of a different take during this live performance that's on the survival tour so we decided to do the studio album version this is because kirk really appreciated the eloquence of the anger and the expression really the vocal expression he said was good in this version i haven't heard it yet so this will be my first introduction to it i did take a look at the lyrics and they are strong we're probably gonna have some profanity here so uh if you've got really delicate ears i totally understand if you're like gonna skip this one and also if you're not sure who kirk is kirk is my husband and partner with all things regarding the channel so uh if you're like oh no what about all of those marriage proposals i've sent her uh thank you so much for the compliments i appreciate you let's listen to some good music so [Music] makes me [Music] uh this this intro has a lot of really interesting sounds in it the uh just that very first part with the strings was particularly interesting to me remind me a little bit of uh trinity i think strandedy restrains your authority for the victims of hiroshima very intense extensive technique on string instruments this beginning it had uh sort of had some tremolo going on in the strings where they were going back really fast lots of pitch bending and playing on different parts of the bow for sure and the way that that had the bending and a half step as well half steps are just full of lots of tension and then the way that expanded the orchestra so you had lots of overlap uh just it's wrought with tension tons of it was very interesting build up and then i was really interested when you had some of essentially the amplified sounds come in um even those they had like these stuttering sounds that sort of mimicked the um the tremolo that had happened in the strings as well so it was very interesting and then the voice is mixed really far back in this meaning it's kind of hard to hear what words he's saying i have the lyrics pulled up here so we can do some analysis on them um so i know what he was saying but i hearing him at first i actually wasn't even sure that he was saying words or maybe he was just mumbling but he's mixed so far back that i i think it's a really interesting choice it's almost like the person isn't quite present yet i'm really curious where it's going to go though let's go back to the moment that made me jump at this point [Music] whoops there we go [Music] what is this [Music] [Music] uh wow it's interesting maynard's playing with sounds here in a lot of ways sometimes more than he's actually playing with the words and delivering lyrics so he's really accenting the sh that pushing me and shoving me or the words he's saying it's but you're pushing me shoving me repeating over and over there and the sh in there is coming through really loudly and clearly sh is often considered a harsher sound as well so it's very interesting to hear that um that play and the way that that of course cuts through other instruments because it's a very very high frequency and i thought it was also interesting to hear that beginning vocal section it had the setting further back in the mix maybe a little bit of drive added to the voice and then when you got to the next section it sounds much more personal it sounds like maynard is closer to the mic or just closer to us in general so they brought him more forward in the mix um i'm going to go back just a little bit so you can listen to that that sh play there it's really [Music] interesting [Music] really cool crescendo there as well where you get more lines in the vowels a lot of times singers think about carrying their line in a vowel and in this he lets the consonants peek through it first and then it raises the volume of the overall phonation so you're not just hearing that sh let's go back catch that transition [Music] [Music] it's interesting to me it sounds like it's just been hanging out in a minor all the time so rather than having a lot of harmony that's evolving which often will drive a piece forward it seems to keep coming back to a minor and i can't help but think that there's a reason for this tool typically they have a lot of thought that goes into their music they're very analytical and this is essentially from my reading of it it seems like it's about a relationship that is very difficult to exit maybe probably a co-dependent relationship um where this pushing and shoving is maybe about one person who knows that they need to leave the relationship maybe both people know i don't know but they feel like they can't get out of it because there's somebody that's drawing them back in so in order to get out of the relationship they they have to push back against the other person more and maybe do some more harm to be released from it so it seems like there's a certain staticness and it's an unhappy staticness so minor is often related to sadness or anger frustration so i it makes sense that this will be set in a minor key and it also makes sense you hear the the bass will often move and try and go around to a couple different notes but keeps coming back to a minor and the harmony's not evolving so that would be indicative to me of something that just refuses to evolve and become something new or something better let's go back a little bit and keep [Music] going [Music] fingers [Music] i gotta say i lost the time signature there for a bit i had like a really clear uh triple time signature back let's go back here three one two three one two three one two three one two one two three one two three one two three one two three one two three one i don't know i think it stops doing one two three uh this is another one of the reasons why i think tool is really amazing danny carrie their drummer is able to move so fluidly between different time signatures and even carry different time signatures carry huh yeah anyhow you can carry different time signatures like you have one going in one hand one and another hand and i feel like he can carry like two more in both of his feet he's very very impressive he just is a time signature genius one of the best that i think exists today so this moment it almost sounded like they went from a 3 4 to a 4 4 but it really was so very fluid that i would want to take a lot more time to analyze it and be sure but let's go back a little bit because i was listening so much to that time signature glory that i missed what maynard was saying [Music] here [Music] if [Music] wow uh i i that again hearing that pushing me shoving me part and the build on that is so cool and the fact that he highlights the consonants first uh it's just very very effective i really dig that part uh the lyrics before let's talk a little bit about these lyrics um rest your trigger on my finger bang my head upon the fault line you'd better take care not to make me enter because if i do we both may disappear and it just really clearly talks to me about a relationship that is harmful to both people but it seems like someone is trying to not let the other person leave um and i understand like sometimes it's really scary to let go of someone and so it seems like there's this need and scare scariness maybe of being alone or something new that's causing somebody to hurt the other person but the person that's there if they get pulled back in and they really just get consumed and the person that's wanting them to stay that they're going to disappear so yeah it definitely sounds like some codependency there to me [Music] let's go back [Music] [Music] me [Music] that's really interesting i i love the anger and maynard's voice at this point we're gonna listen to this section one more time too there's some grit that's coming up in there he's able to really he has so much cleanliness that he can put into his voice just have these really pure notes that almost sound instrumental in their uh this pure even sometimes an almost bell-like sound it's it's crazy but then in this section you really hear uh some some harsh vocals coming in and this uh rage building up in his voice i like that uh very very expressive also he just has a great pitch he's got amazing pitch uh so this is interesting to me because it says you still love me you still love me she didn't mean to push it on me you're then you're pushing me showing me so earlier oh here's the profanity uh oh um so it said you didn't need to on me essentially and i was looking at push it on me sometimes when relationships are ending like somebody will push the blame onto the other person i don't know if that's what they intended but that could be one interpretation of it but push it i'm realizing it feels like it's an amalgamation of push on me and i think that also goes with that earlier line if you didn't need to on me wow that's probably the most i've ever cussed on this channel definitely check in that box in the youtube this contains profanity but anyhow i think that's really cool that they put the words together here and it has that vagueness so you can interpret it how you would like to very very interesting let's go back let's check out that rage again it's very interesting the expression and then listen for that cool word sure [Music] sorry we're gonna go back by the way it's i think 12 8 right now but wow i love this entrance here from maynard [Music] [Music] me down [Music] [Applause] [Music] whoa that was that was a nice held out a dirty dirty vocal there um that his entrance at that one spot is just glorious the way he was like it sounded like it started inside but had this rage built up because you could hear some vibrato going at the same time wow very expressive what's he saying there peace of mind it's like sounds anything like not peace of mind the whole the whole word but i trade it all for just a little peace of mind oh yeah basically saying that and holding out mind to show the the torment that's there um and what an interesting one to elongate to specifically make a contrast between what would be peaceful and what isn't back one more time [Music] wow keep my feet [Music] the section everything push it on me uh i just felt this well of emotion come up in there that's that's really great it uh well it's not a great emotion it feels like major sympathy for what this person is going through um basically welcoming the other person maybe to take all of the blame and push it on them so that they can use that to exit and honestly the emotion and the voice felt like it became it got to such a crest where it couldn't go further and then the instrumental came up and it helped it to bubble over that was very effective it's very ominous now the texture here has entirely changed we've had a lot a lot more things that had higher drive and frequency and now you have almost echoes every now and then i like i said ominous it feels just deeper in tone quality overall um doesn't have as much aggression in the sound i'm not really sure why that's happened but i just wanted to note it hmm i really love the pitch bending toms i think that are happening in here or maybe not tongs oh it's a very cool percussion [Music] so [Music] huh almost feels like a trance now it's very it's just so very different um it's still though it's still hanging out around a minor uh that's that's super curious to me it it has evolved but has not changed key signatures so home is still this minor unhappy place um yeah very very interesting the it pushed me somewhere i don't want to be i think it's what he's saying here yeah i'm somewhere i don't wanna be ah started off right away by saying i am somewhere i don't wanna be i don't know if maybe this person got sucked back in um that it feels like it's uh a dark almost creepy just very unhappy place still [Music] pitch pinning there mimics some of the strings at the beginning [Music] hmm [Music] i often feel like in a cappella music you have all of these ear candy moments essentially where you're like oh that was a really cool part that was that cool part um and i feel like the percussion equivalent is danny carey i love the way he's utilizing so many different sounds of percussion i can't name them all there's just so many where i'm like oh that was a cool sound oh that was a really cool sound oh that was a cool sound they're everywhere it's really really um catching to the ear and it's like almost like shinies for the ear essentially it's [Music] wonderful [Music] um [Music] [Music] the distortion on the guitar here almost sounds similar to the symbol it gets so um noisy at times that it has that same higher frequencies uh that the symbol is which are also similar to the sh that you were hearing him pushing me shoving me so all of those things sit really high in uh in a frequency spectrum and so you might think like 440 440 hertz is a concert a meaning that it vibrates the air at 440 times per second um this is this is much much much higher this is in like the thousands probably uh probably above 10 000. i need to check that again um but the that area of frequency can be very just disturbing to our ears we do interpret it as feeling somewhat agitating so it's interesting that they really are leaning on that sound and at that really high frequency so much [Music] [Music] that sound was so disturbing oh that screeching sound that like bends down i feel like it's like part of a horror film [Music] oh hey mirrors let's see again um pitch bending is often something that people will put in horror films that's one of the things that our ears just don't like very very interesting to me that you have sounds that are reminiscent of horror films in this uh it it sounds like this relationship is a terrifying place to be uh very much not just in the expression of the voice but in all the ways that they have added music behind it as well [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] that's interesting the the harmony shifted a little bit more there and it goes with the words which were right before which they uh saw that gap again today while you were begging me to say managed to push myself away so we have movement here and you as well my dear so it's interesting that it has shifted ah very very i love the subtleties in their composition so cool uh listen to this shift when he right after he says as you and you as well my dear then he says if when i say i might fade like a sigh if i stay there's just a different feeling to it you can tell that there has been harmonic movement oh right [Music] so it's interesting uh right there while he's singing you have d major hanging out underneath it's a d major chord that's hanging out underneath when he says uh if when i say i might fade like a sci if i stay that's so we've gone from a minor which is like ah scary to d major which feels uh just vastly different harmonic it is happier still sounds like there's some pain in there but that's not harmonic pain anymore let's go back one more time and listen to that switch [Music] another way [Music] there's [Music] oh this is such a good line there's no love in fear when i was reading through the lyrics before watching this i was wondering how that would be set because it stood out to me as one of the strongest lines in the entire song there's no love in fear and i i just yeah i love the way that they've said it here it needs to be set apart it needs to be shout out loud and sustained uh a lot of times people are scared to leave a bad situation and that's that's not left that's not it that's not a good place to be so i love that they set it apart like this with this huge vocal uh really uh crest and energy it's great [Music] [Music] oh interesting uh it sounds like it's because we're starting to hang out in a minor key again as this is going on and i was like wait i don't think we're back to a minor again but it's definitely sitting on a different uh different key signature right now so and his words here are staring down the hole again uh so they're actually hanging out in d minor now so we were at this d major like we got out but now it sounds like they're back in it so they've gone to the new d area but it's a d minor instead of d major [Music] wow that's intense um wow it sounds like they got pulled back in uh to the relationship from this uh but it's different from before because it's not a minor it's d minor now um and they're saying remember i will always love you so of course this person still loves the other um but as i claw your throat away oh that's that's awful it sounds like the only way that they can figure out how to leave is to really hurt the other person ugh it will in no other way like that's the only way that they can get out that's so unfortunate um man man uh guys communication is so important in relationships just saying please communicate everything transparency and communication is wonderful okay got off my soapbox for a bit this sounds like it just sucks the situation is awful for them and it is so clear from the anger and the music and his vocal expression here and the lyrics everything that's going together creates this dreadful feeling inside of me [Music] ugh that was very intense then very intense in the music and the lyrics and the voice all of it combined together that really left me with the feels wow it's hard to have so much dread after listening to music i love music but this this song made me feel um i had just lots of very intense emotions inside wow um i i grow more and more in awe and respect for what tool does i think that they're brilliant in the way that they write lyrics that they um that they choose certain harmonies or sounds to express those lyrics and express the message and story it's very interesting and it also is always a journey they don't take many typical song structures that we would see today and instead they're really continuing to progress through something it's very interesting uh very fun to analyze and also all of the musicians in this group are just top level musicians i love the combination too of how they bring all of their sounds together it seems like such an amazing collaboration of people really really cool uh thank you kirk for recommending this and also everybody say happy birthday cook tool is a fantastic band and i hope that all of us will listen more to tool i don't know that kirk could listen more to tool that's like one of the only bands that he listens to i would say that at least 75 percent of the time he's listening to music he's listening to tool and he's taking great care to not play this song for me so i'd be able to have a first-time reaction so thank you once again and if 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Channel: The Charismatic Voice

Views: 178,372

Rating: 4.9205179 out of 5

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Id: NCgYaFIsCmk

Length: 35min 49sec (2149 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 06 2021

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