Vocal ANALYSIS of RUSH's "Tom Sawyer" with AMAZING DRUM SOLOS!!!

welcome back to the charismatic voice the adventures of tom sawyer is required reading for many high schoolers and apparently also require listening for someone who wants to dig into rush further because you all recommended this song more than any other as the one i absolutely had to listen to next i dig that the first line describes russia's version of tom sawyer as a modern day warrior and i'm very intrigued by what kind of music that modern day warrior rocks out to so let's get to it [Music] a monday warrior mean mean pride [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] i love their energy there's something about rush that just has there's such a great vibe and uh has an uplifting essence to it while still being fairly complicated i dig it i really dig it i'm going to go back to the beginning we're going to talk a little bit about some of these awesome awesome moments from getty lee i was originally told that people thought i wouldn't like getty lee very much and that was wrong i feel he's so perfect for their sound you don't have to be singing at a huge wide range he sings high though he's got some really really great support for those high notes too but he's so perfect in so many ways what they're doing i want to talk about each of those moments um and what makes them so great so back to the beginning oh oh oh okay just one more time i was told that there are different eras of rush too and i get that uh a little bit now i really take the weight this one essentially has a synthesizer like a filter that's coming across it it's so cool [Music] a monday worry of me means dry today's time so you mean boom right there at the very beginning his enunciation is killer the way he sings to his consonants is just spectacular there's an m and an n and mean and both on an m and an n you close your mouth you go right you feel that closure in the front of your mouth that closure is going to restrict some of the sound energy from flowing out so with this m and n he gives extra buzz and like a little extra rhythmic impulse too it makes it so the whole line is more continuous you don't feel as much of the dip in energy it keeps a really nice phrase going and then it also gives it this fun um like extra rhythmic energy it's great [Music] a monday warrior mean it's mean good [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] and he supports so well as he's going up to these higher notes it's in his body you don't see a whole lot of extraneous facial movement the little facial movements he makes are more associated with expression of the lyrics rather than vocal production and that's that's a good thing and you don't also see him trying to sing with his shoulders your shoulders really don't do a thing to help you out go back one more time check out his his body movements as he's supporting these really great high notes [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] what do you say i just want to shout out to all of you who told me that these guys were multi-instrumentalists i didn't realize at first that this was all made by three people i thought they must have more people making these sounds with them and it's just these three guys they're incredible they can play so many instruments and i love the layers of complexity this is so fun to hear in this instrumental interlude we're gonna go back just a little bit and i'll keep going [Music] i love that they've taken yeah [Music] [Applause] [Music] i want to go back and see that one more time it's like he's um he's extending that top up still in full voice not flipping over to falsetto or anything like that and he's able to get it sounds like almost like a tenor squealo which is uh like this uh extra focus in the sound that keeps it in that full voice instead of flipping over that i've heard a lot of times in opera it's very cool [Applause] [Music] [Applause] i like the way you part spoke that too [Applause] [Music] the world is the world is [Music] [Applause] oh we have to go back to that section one more time listen to his consonants he lingers on some and just continues to send tons of extra energy through them and then he does a really clear fast diphthong landing on the second part of the diphthong vowel on white so i'm saying instead of singing white he goes white and i think he's doing that because his voice in particular is aiming for tons of cut through so that you can hear it clearly through all of the extra instrumental sounds happening [Music] he's closing those constants very quickly and sending tons of energy through them [Music] [Applause] [Music] whoa [Music] this was so smooth i felt something jar me off of this 4-4 tempo that we were on for a while i thought what just happened and i kept trying to count four and it wasn't working so i thought okay we must have shifted time signatures but that was so smoothly done i'm i'm having problems reconciling that we've shifted time signatures this is one of the things i think that neil piert is really good at thank you youtube community for correcting me telling me it was neil pierce and not neil pert i apologize for the previous mispronunciation uh and i thank you very much for correcting me on that one neil piert he's so good at navigating time signatures without necessarily indicating that there's been a huge change it's just so smooth it's ridiculous i'm gonna go back i don't i don't even know exactly where that happened [Music] it was right there so it's the moment we get that synthesizer sound coming in one more time i'll go back just a little bit more so i can count it out six seven one two three four five six seven one two three four five six seven one two three four five six seven it's so cool [Music] so [Music] hahaha [Music] oh my gosh okay we're going to go back in this because this instrumental section is killer i love the build up on it there i think there was a three-fourth time signature maybe throw it in there a couple of times kind of as a fun extra build um and they took that original motif like that the one that you heard on the synthesizer first and they they switched it around and even like switched a couple notes up in different instruments it was so cool uh here yeah [Music] [Music] i love that it sounds like somebody with a really really wide and out of control vibrato that is being shaken uh progressively fast higher it's so good it's such a fun wobble sound [Music] oh yeah there was that little uh break i was talking about you get one two one two one two one two and it goes back in [Music] that's cool [Music] and there once again [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh that was such a little good a cry on permanent cries um a specific kind of often associated with pop styling um you give a little essential little extra oomph in the in the full voice and ah it's almost like a teen like you introduce a very tiny break [Music] [Applause] [Music] right there i've heard i love that [Applause] [Music] for someone who apparently hated this song when they first recorded it he sings it so well one more time i love that little just that little tiny details [Applause] [Music] wow [Music] [Applause] [Music] and what do you say about his company is [Music] [Music] i want to go back one more time to that i'm really digging how every now and then he interweaves that spoken with the sung word there it's really it's writing a fine line and i think he does just the right amount to get extra expression in while not totally abandoning pitch and then catch the winds i think i or catch the mist catch the he's singing a couple of catching various things and he's so uh he's so clear with his constant placement how this adds to the rhythm of the song a lot of singers think i can depend on the band to keep the beat for me that's not the case i guess it you can let them keep the beat for you but a singer needs to instigate rhythm as well that's where your consonants come into work and he uses his constants as if you were another rhythmic instrument this isn't just it isn't just legato and lyric like a violin right no he's really accenting various things to create more rhythmic content [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] hmm [Applause] the world is [Music] [Applause] [Music] the energy [Music] [Applause] [Music] that was so cool the synthesizer line there calls back to the amazing instrumental soul we had earlier but it stops early and then resolves what a cool um like a little taste of that amazing dessert that we had you know we should always have dessert part way through dinner or before dinner because life is too short to have dinner or dessert after dinner but it's like it gives you a little reminder of how delicious that was [Applause] [Music] i love it [Music] and a little flare on it again [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh no is it no no don't be over i i need songs to be longer i feel like i'm spoiled by metal because i often just feel like a song is too short if it's anything less than seven or eight minutes long so we're gonna go back a little more catch this uh i guess i guess this is technically dessert at this point so it's like okay i left two or three extra bites so i could enjoy them after after the main course [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] ah i love it sometimes i get a little bit grumpy because i've discovered a new band through your amazing recommendations and i can't dive in full speed to all of their albums and all of their work because it would ruin a first-time reaction it is just so constraining so i need to know i need to know which rush song i should do next please let me know in those comments down below and hey if you haven't already seen it that first time discovering rush was so much fun the talking hands the music video everything about it it was delightful so you can check that out over here and i will see you in another video soon [Music]

Channel: The Charismatic Voice

Views: 1,146,070

Keywords: tom sawyer, rush reaction, neil peart, the charismatic voice, rush tom sawyer, rush tom sawyer reaction, tom sawyer reaction, geddy lee

Id: BZbzz47vjbk

Length: 19min 22sec (1162 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 29 2022

Reddit Comments

[u/TheMuser1966]

Geddy isn't too bad for a Jewish boy from Toronto... /s

Love her energy, enthusiasm and knowledge of music. She's kind of cute, too!

[u/Ash__Williams]

She's so cute that hurts, and the reaction was top tier quality.

[u/Plane-Phrase4015]

Been a Rush fan since Permanent Waves and wish I could relive all my "firsts" like that again. She has some great reactions.

[u/[deleted]]

Shes a fun watch. Love the trained singers perspective.

[u/sundogmooinpuppy]

How come these reaction -always- like what they are hearing? Has anyone ever seen a reaction video where they hate the music. Seems like statistically it would happen sometimes…. or are these things purely fake?

[u/mistergeeky]

She. Is. So. High.