Thank you much! 🎹

Much appreciated; thanks, Will. For some reason I just love making up theories about songs!

Yeeess! Ah the New Romantics...wonderful..

Yes!!!! Me too! Thanks Frank!

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You're so kind, thank you Allison! 🙏 😄

🤗 🎹 Thank you!

Hi Daniel! Great question and great answer too: "one can do anything." I'm no scholar at all the names of things, but what you're proposing, in my view, would be arpeggiated one note of the chord, and then playing the other two as a *dyad.* This is another great way to stay within a given chord's sounds, but mix it up. You'll also find different pitches and effects if you create dyads with the 1-3 or 1-5 or 3-5. My fave is a 1-5, which I believe we can also call "open voicing." With your example of C [GE], C [GE], [CG] E, you'd be playing these notes from the chord: 1 [3,5], 1 [3,5], [15]3. I bring up this last bit because it's really helpful to start thinking of notes as numbers-all about the number of "steps" or notes they are apart. That becomes really helpful later since musical impacts are largely about relations between notes or chords, vs just about the notes or chords individually. :) Thanks for your question!!

Thank you so much!

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Thank you!

It's a beautiful and melancholic melody!

Thank you so much, @Tylergoated28!

Great idea, thank you!

Ooo yes those are passionate ones! Thanks for your comment, Elena! :)

Hey there Louis! You nailed it the first time!

Same here Louis, and you got it! Thanks! Occasionally, I have to force myself to take a break from the album and recover emotionally. It is SO GOOD!

You are not alone! 💜 🎶

Hi Scott! Great point, thank you! I'm now realizing: It seems like a-ha is pretty atmospheric. That song just creates it whole own scene, and I feel like Manhattan Skyline does too, as well as Hunting High and Low, October, Blue Sky (mixing albums here...). Thanks for pointing that out! :)

@ Hi Erin, yeah I hear you, both Hunting High & Low and Scoundrel Days both have their own special atmospheres. Definitely my ‘go to’ A-ha albums. Speaking of Manhattan Skykine you reminded me of this and had to share 😂 Hope you don’t mind but it’s too funny - he’s a local comedian… hope you can understand the accents! kzbin.info/www/bejne/fX-wfHpnf5qaf7ssi=I6pPj4eLpkyoeQH7

Hahaha this is so funny! No one can help rocking out when some of these a-ha songs come on. A friend of mine and I have made this same argument to people. It's like, You gotta hear more a-ha! Which of the guys is your local comedian, the one with the Iron Maiden shirt?? Thank you for sharing!!

⁠​⁠@@newishwavemusichahaha you’re welcome, I’m just glad you understood it! Yeah Limmy is the guy in the Iron Maiden shirt 😂

Thank you! And I completely agree-it’s great listening again and again and moving through different favorites and song discoveries! ❤

Hi Hudson, thanks so much for writing in! This is a great story. "Doot Doot" will have such a thoughtful and meaningful vibe for your song's montage. What a coincidence that we both interacted with this song around the same time! And is your bday coming up? I'll be 51 Friday. (Note to self: make a Newish Wave video!) Anyhow isn't it just a beautiful song? If you do want to share how you encountered it, I would be very curious to know!

Yay! You got it, thank you!! I just LOVE that song and it is also a major earworm!

Wow, what a discovery; you must've been psyched to hear it! Gosh, I didn't know they were in Underworld! See? I learn sooooooo much from the comments on this channel! Have a great day and thanks for your comment, Louis!

Yes great job it is Oh L’amour!! 🎉 Thank you Marvin! Is this one of your faves or do you have others by Erasure that you like best? 😃

Yay! It's such a great song because it's simultaneously fun and sweet/melodic.

Yup

⁠Kinda works for all occasions - from dancing to heartbreak!

There is some bounciness! This is a tough one - super brief and sort of a mash-up of different synth moments! Next up, Erasure! ❤️

It's a little bit obscure, not sure if it was on the radio everywhere... Thanks for your comment!

Nailed it! Good one. I think it sounded a little different on acoustic like that!

Hi Louis! Thanks so much and I'm glad you're enjoying it. Yes, I was excited to bring in little bits of structure and theory info because so many of my music buff friends (who know waaaaay more than me in terms of bands and history, etc.) expressed wanting to get that "inside access" too. I think it's a fun way to appreciate music! Thanks so much for the Bootblacks reference! I honestly had not heard of them, just looked them up, and very excited to listen! New band (for me) alert!!!

Hi again! Listening to Thin Skies 2020 now - love it! Thanks for the reference. I hear lots of overlaps with The Foreign Resort. Another of my current faves is The Twilight Sad. Hoping to do a vid on one of their songs soon! And then maybe Bootblacks, loving it!

@@newishwavemusic I love The Twilight Sad! I saw them when they opened up for The Cure.

@@newishwavemusic I also recommend Twin Shadow's album "Confess". It's been out for a decade or so. Definitely influenced by 80's music.

Hi there! Thanks for sharing! Which "Passport" song are you thinking of? So cool when they use ostinato!!

@newishwavemusic The song's name is Ostinato, actually😀

@@silverfunnel6819 Oh haha thank you! German jazz fusion? How interesting, I'll check it out!!

Right It's hard not to just want to jam on The Cure all the time right now!

What a great idea; thanks so much, Callum! I'll start adding those to the notes. Yes-RH does EEDDBBCC at first, later DDBBGGEE. And LH is doing Am Em and F on that rotation. For folks who use sheet music, I also took a picture of my own notes (who knows how accurate they are haha) and posted it here: kzbin.info/door/Nvd7gZBFz2c3kqcypFne0Acommunity?lb=UgkxHxT_2ZTBL3cEF3M0-kJcrMGXoOMvVA8K

Yes to all those! There's a Duran Duran short (below) and I have so many fuuuun ideas about Erasure songs and videos, yay! Thanks for your comment and ideas! kzbin.info9xTkbzJyrYU

Yes I did, thank you! :)

Me too! The whole album is wonderful. Thanks for your comment!

What an unforgettable underlying riff right? :)

Yep absolutely, you play it well too

Thank you so much!

What!!?? 🤩 Wow! 🤩 That must've been amazing. I LOVED seeing that footage! So what was it like? Did people know it was part of a future doc and that some special guests had been invited?

⁠we knew it was being filmed as a gig but only rumours of a fan doc. The atmosphere both nights was very special. Plus in between we got to party at Hansa studios! An amazing few days in the sun

Thanks, Scott! TBH I am obsessed with this album right now! Have you heard it yet? Any favorite tracks?

Yep I got the white vinyl and the Assai obi edition here in Scotland 😊. It’s a solid album and will only get better with each listen, every track has substance 🖤

Hey Daniel! Thanks so much for these insights! Yes I totally agree about the tempo and continuing PRESSURE build-up! So true, that any amount of time can feel like SO MUCH WAITING.

Yeesss!! 🎉🎉 Nice one, thank you! Do you remember where you first heard that song? 😀 🎶

@@newishwavemusic Not specifically, but I grew up listening to KROQ in Southern California and probably heard it on there. I remember having a friend in my junior year (1985) who loved this song and played it all the time.

Oh that's cool, Shane, I remember everyone in SoCal loving KROQ and I was kind of jealous. In NorCal we did have AWESOME college radio stations and that's how I learned about this song and so many others. That's cool about your friend just playing this all the time! 🤩

Hi there, thanks so much for your comment! This is an old one from the 80s - a hint is that the band name starts with B! Thank you!😄

GREAT guess, thank you! This is actually a different one, though I feel like they have really similar beginnings... Hint: Band name starts with B! 🤩

Hi Laura, thank you so much for writing in and great to "meet" you! I am so happy and excited to meet another woman my age getting into new instruments and songs! You are so right about the importance of The Cure's bass style. Have you heard their new album yet? I was just thinking that "Drone: No Drone" and a couple others have AMAZING bass that would be so fun to play.

Oh wow what a great way to start playing! Was New Order a big part of what motivated you to get into playing bass? I have always loved the way they use their bass lines as melodic pieces as well as to harmonize. Just the couple of notes in Ceremony's intro create a mood I just love. Thanks for your comment!

@ yep. peter hook was the reason i wanted to play the long guitar. it started with ceremony, then to temptation and disorder. never was a full timer but i can play a few songs still

Yes it is so cool how he uses the bass as a lead instrument sometimes too. I think a lot of why I loved New Order (and Joy Division) so much then (and still do) is because the bass really has something to say. I love how it can work to harmonize and then go off on its own melody. That's cool you still play some New Order now and then! Thanks for your comment. :)

Yes!! Nailed it again. This one was "Souvenir," I think it's so pretty.

Thanks, Rodolfo! I'm really excited about these new Cure tracks. Have you heard the album yet?

Hi Omar! It's an exciting moment for Cure fans! :)

It's so exciting to have something new from them, and I love the mood of this one! Do you have any favorite tracks?

@ I Can Never Say Goodbye would probably be my favorite

Yes!! Yay, you got it!! My tempo was a bit on the slow side with that one but I love that part of the song! Thanks! 🌸

Hi @bearclawgirl6866, that's so cool you are recognizing all of these! It was a different tune (from Black Celebration...) but now I see how they're very similar and I think using an acoustic piano made it sound like Somebody too. "oh god it's raining..."