What Makes This Song Great? Ep.112 TEARS FOR FEARS

hey everybody i'm rick piatto and today's everything music it's what makes the song great episode 112. the band is tears for fears and the song is everybody wants to rule the world coming up next everybody who wants to rule the world is off tier for fear's record entitles songs from the big chair it was released on february 25th 1985 produced by chris hughes and the song was written by roland orzabal ian stanley and chris hughes but kurt smith sings it okay so right at the top of the song it begins with this d major arpeggio so it starts on d d a d f sharp a d listen [Music] and then the guitar comes in with this signature lick that goes throughout the song [Music] now the song is actually tuned sharp probably because when they mixed it they wanted to speed the tempo up so if you're trying to play along with it make sure that you either tune your instrument up on the master tune of the keyboard or tune your guitar sharp i mean it's pretty sharp here's my open d if you want to play along to tune to so this is on the top again you're the hyatt going and then it crescendos [Music] the first thing to notice beyond the crescendo in the guitars is the drums so it's got a triplet feel but it's really in four four two three four one two three four and then the bass is a synth bass let's hear it here's the base by itself let me play the bass and drums again tight groove [Music] i mean for program drums and a program base it sounds great [Music] so obviously we have a keyboard in there right [Music] so what we have there is two chords based on a d bass note so you have a over d going to g over d two three four [Music] really long intro nowadays they'd say uh yo get to the song one thing i want to point out here that's cool is it's what i call a non-fill before the verse [Music] quick snare fill with the open hat programmed in there then the boys [Music] [Music] this is what i would call an a b melody so the first part of the melody goes the second half goes the b part [Music] listen [Music] so a welcome [Music] chorus now what i love about this song is that it's so basic because it really just has an a a b a b chorus structure to it there's no pre-chorus so it gets right to the hook and what's cool about the hook so you're in d but the thing that makes the verse fresh is that it's not just a straight d major it's really d major 7 or d major 9 right and then that g over d it's really a second inversion g major chord so you're really going like having that d in the bass m i think makes it sound way cooler and then the chorus e minor f sharp minor g major two three four f sharp minor then completes e f sharp g a and then back now one of the hidden layers that's in there is the keyboard there's a keyboard line that goes right along with the melody and reinforces it let me play the vocals and the keyboard [Music] [Applause] [Music] now you'd think that that would be an obvious thing to do but you rarely actually hear the melody doubled with a single note instrument like that it makes it way more powerful let's listen with the guitar and the keyboard though because the guitar [Music] just diamonds and then the muted guitar [Applause] so you have two different elements of this you have the held diamonds as we call it beautiful chorus guitar and then just the power chords [Music] that's really a keyboard playing that i think then it comes back to that really short d staccato part another thing about the chord progression in the chorus is that the harmonic rhythm doubles on the second half in the first half you have one chord per bar one two three four two two three four three two three four four two three four then we go to two chords per bar one two three four two two three four that's what makes the second half of the chorus move is that you increase the rate of chord changes it's a very basic arrangement [Music] single note strum chord music guitar bass and drums [Music] after the first chorus we have the interlude which has this guitar hook [Music] this becomes a lot more complex here with this after the first chorus we have this interlude where this guitar part comes in [Music] in the second verse we have a different rhythmic figure in the keyboard part that propels that da da da da da da da da da listen [Music] did it let's just do it in context [Music] same melody that syncopated guitar figure in the second chorus gives it a completely different feel listen over the keys [Music] let's check it with the vocals and then bridge in the bridge you really don't notice that the guitars actually become kind of heavy here's the guitar solo listen [Music] and then the vocals here that's the first time we have the harmonies enter listen there's a room where the light won't find right here [Applause] when they do i'll be right behind you so glad we've almost made it let's hear it in context [Music] [Music] and then it goes to the instrumental bridge part so we have kind of two different bridges here we have the one bridge part that happens with the power cords and then we have the instrumental bridge that uses the intro figure then [Music] then it changes here with this single line on the second half of this instrumental section we actually have a new set of chord changes check it out [Music] right here b [Music] and that leads to this guitar solo part [Music] notice the bass changes here there's some longer notes in it and some breaks [Music] let's hear that in context [Music] it's really a long bridge beautiful [Music] and then chorus now you never have instrumental bridges that go on this line because there's already a vocal bridge and then really long instrumental section that lets the song breathe and develop this is what really differentiates songs from that era from songs today there is no space for the instruments to breathe it just it can't hold the attention of people but i actually think that that's not true i just think that people don't put those things in there because when people listen this song they just accept that there's an instrumental section in it right so then after that we get back to this to the chorus [Music] you can hear that guitar then pie guitar let's check out this guitar figure that makes this last chorus really sound killer [Music] [Music] that's the same lick as this transposed up here guitar solo again [Music] that's one of the few times the drums change there so this little guitar solo that happens a lot of you don't even notice this [Music] tasty [Music] hey [Music] this is what's happening on the fade [Music] great beautiful [Music] that's all for now don't forget to subscribe ring the bell and leave a comment check out my new quick lessons pro guitar course that just came out also the biato book if you want to learn about music theory that's how you do it and check out my beato ear training course at beautiertraining.com and don't forget if you want to support the channel even more think about becoming a member of the biato club thanks so much for watching [Music] you

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Id: 6bU4R04fH4U

Length: 15min 55sec (955 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 28 2022