Wonderful work on such a difficult piece. Thank you.
@addyd.3140Күн бұрын
YOu got it!
@f-ingstupid44083 күн бұрын
Watching this makes me realize how this album really could have been written on a piano
@tomdyer1844 күн бұрын
I very much enjoy your playing of these. I wish you would consider making a piano-only version of the album, or perhaps oiano with a singer.
@addyd.31404 күн бұрын
Thank you! That could be very beautiful. Do you know about the A Capella version by David Minnick?
@bamboosa9 күн бұрын
I play guitar since 1969. I have a talent for taking complex chord passages and simplifying them. Complex chords can be suggested in clever ways without twisting the fingers into painful shapes. I have never owned a piano but I can get an original sound out of one. Where I live the neighbors call the cops if they hear one note sung or played.
@bamboosa9 күн бұрын
This is the best Beefheart breakdown I have ever seen. Thank you. Winged Eel Fingerling (Elliot) lived in this 1930 apartment building (where I type) in Hollywood for 20 years. He didn't remember me from 1969. He was evicted, with a dozen other residents, in 2017. The new slumlords (owners) took me to court for 7 months to evict me so that they could double the rent. Court costs for them was about $10,000.00. The judge saw through them. Winged Eel simply didn't want to go to court for months on end, neither did I but I did.
@addyd.3140Күн бұрын
Thanks for writing and sharing you stories! Glad you dug this lil video.
@bamboosa2 сағат бұрын
@@addyd.3140 - Elliot (Winged Eel) joined the touring Magic Band after Trout Mask and he learned all of the songs. He transited on January 22, ten days ago. I still have some of his mail, including a check from Warner's Music, saved from the bin by me after he moved out in 2017. I couldn't find his address and when I was searching for it again I found out he joined the non-physical realm. We were telephone partners for years and when psycho neighbors started blasting Elliot and I would call the cops in relay because L.A.P.D. would not respond to one call. We both rode bicycles in the 80s in West Hollywood and always noticed one another. He gave up the bicycle in the 90s, me in 2018 (seven concussions in 9 years from cars). When he moved in here I was shocked. Was he following me? Don gave me 6 of his paintings in 1969. Your piano interpretations are beautiful, Trout Mask in essence. I once asked Elliot to jam and he snorted and walked away, he don' know me and my guitar. There is a Winged Eel interview somewhere in YT and I recognized his apartment on the 4th floor.
@bamboosa9 күн бұрын
Don Van Vleit took me to his kitchen in the Woodland Hill's house in 1969. He pointed to a jar lid on the kitchen floor, next to the wall, with a lump of brown sugar in the middle of the jar lid. "The ants go directly to the sugar and leave the rest of the kitchen alone!" he said. Oh, Captain, my Captain.
@bamboosa9 күн бұрын
Don's name is pronounced "Vleet" (Dutch). He gave me 6 of his paintings in 1969. Long story.
@mistymoscow9 күн бұрын
I’m writing my dissertation on TMR and these transcriptions and analysis are super helpful! Thank you so much for making this vid!
@addyd.31408 күн бұрын
Hell yeah! That is awesome and a worthy endeavor. You're welcome, good luck!
@superdeluxified11 күн бұрын
Nice vid! When played on piano, Moonlight reminds me of Moondog.
@addyd.314010 күн бұрын
Thank you! Hell yeah, love Moondog
@_Ramen-Vac_12 күн бұрын
Rockette Morton ~listen to his bass in Fallin' Ditch, that you're not going to beat out of that piano. Cool video. There are so many strange turns and such controlled chaos free jazz on the record, it never gets old. But! it's still just rock -n -roll. It's 70's rock! Freedom rock. Mainly, without Frank to lend his ear, it would have sounded too produced instead of like a roomy old house. Woulda sounded Like Husker Du lol
@addyd.314011 күн бұрын
Yes, this approach certainly has its limitations! Similarly when trying to work out Bill's Corpse, the guitars playing a step apart, it was totally impractical, yet you can see us try it at then ending "outtakes." Thanks for watching and for your thoughts!
@frankperry-singer.guitarist13 күн бұрын
Addy D is an idiot.
@coldwaveful14 күн бұрын
this video was amazing, it's great to see people enjoy TMR and hear the beautiful snippets throughout the album
@projektgrudge15 күн бұрын
People don't talk about the beauty of TMR enough....they talk about the supposed 'ugliness' of it but it's also jam packed with some of the most beautiful melodies ever created
@Monetize_This16 күн бұрын
Love this song. The arrangement is beautiful.
@Monetize_This16 күн бұрын
This was really nice. Love hearing the piano renderings at different speeds. Sweet. Uncovering the actual musical ideas lurking within and beneath the cacophony. I think the album is incredibly poetic and the sequencing thanks to FZ (more than likely) is perfect.
@plasticbag6718 күн бұрын
We need the sheet music in PDFs!
@angelgutierrez990919 күн бұрын
A mí también me hace feliz. Algún día escucharemos que Captain Beefheart and his magic band fueron la fuerza musical más importante del siglo XX
@randycreasi21 күн бұрын
Way cool.
@thechastenedson21 күн бұрын
really enjoyed this one!
@addyd.314019 күн бұрын
Thanks! so glad you dig.
@grimsontube21 күн бұрын
You're amazing! Thank you.
@frullmusic26 күн бұрын
These videos are a huge blessing, and you are really good at not only the analysis itself but also explaining things concisely so even someone like myself (whose theory is pretty shaky) can understand. The bit about the variable area using how jazz musicians shake up the 12 bar blues as an example was especially clear and useful!
@addyd.314025 күн бұрын
Thank you kindly for writing! And really glad that they are helpful.
@frullmusic25 күн бұрын
@addyd.3140 No problem! Thank you for all the videos!
@WTNB-film.official27 күн бұрын
great cover! I like your hand-written score
@dickiebobradio1304Ай бұрын
Thank you for your wonderful analysis of this incredible song. For me Judee Sill is a towering artist. There is an almost unbearable beauty and vulnerability in her music and a plainspoken yet poetic honesty. In this regard, she reminds me of my favorite classical composer, Franz Schubert.
@ing_atАй бұрын
Yay :)
@erictseitzАй бұрын
Really nice work. You've got a great feel for the inner lines of this song. Subscribed.
@addyd.3140Ай бұрын
Thank you so much! I hope you'll also check out the companion video about this song, (Beach Boys "Don't Talk" Analysis/Journal/Daydreams) it was really fun to make and my favorite thing I've done. Take care!
@AndyMaag-o4zАй бұрын
This is amazing! Haven't found a better transcription anywhere. Thank you, and thank you for sharing freely.
@addyd.3140Ай бұрын
Hey, I'm glad you appreciate it, and you're welcome!
@Alix777.Ай бұрын
Bill's corpse
@AprilBaumАй бұрын
Love this video! excitedly awaiting more ES videos is the future!
@Limb0docАй бұрын
lovely analysis <3 When music and words go well together like this song, tears follow my heart.
@tallieke10Ай бұрын
this video is mind expanding for me rn thank you so much bro
@cannyvalleyАй бұрын
Brilliant analysis! I discovered this through the Fleet Foxes version and my first thought was: what are the odds someone analyzed this amazing song? So thank you! This compositional sophistication of Brian Wilson with the vocal prowess of Karen Carpenter. Astonishing
@addyd.3140Ай бұрын
Oh! I didn't know Robin covered it, though I could've guessed he'd be a fan. I'll have to check that out. Thanks for writing. Yes, I always find something clever and unexpected to latch on to in Sill's songwriting, truly a gift.
@cannyvalleyАй бұрын
It’s on the live at Boston Harbor album. Totally agree - she is right up Robin’s alley!
@iDeathhАй бұрын
i love your videos thank you for making them! they’re super informative and enjoyable. thank you!
@addyd.3140Ай бұрын
Thanks for sayin' that!
@lululongmizzlegardenАй бұрын
Wow, this is incredible! Thank you, loved it.
@addyd.3140Ай бұрын
Thank you for your kind words!
@achablaАй бұрын
I really like their album Fe, swampy grooves and you can really hear the reggae influence in the bass playing. thanks for giving them some recognition!
@addyd.3140Ай бұрын
Heck yeah! All of their albums are solid.
@HermitTheFraud2 ай бұрын
What a joy to listen to! I went through so many similar thought processes when I was making a cover of this song. I'd love it if you'd check it out and let me know what you think. The video just shows me lip syncing while playing an acoustic guitar, but the audio is a track by track recreation of the song.
@JamesCamienMcGuiggan2 ай бұрын
Buddy please tune that piano. The frame's gonna get all warped and it'll never sound in tune again. (That's probably already happened actually, but it'll get worse!) More positively, I really like this analysis and transcription. I particularly like the reading of the C as a maj7 of an implied D♭maj7. But I'm not sure why you think there's a D♭-G progression going on there when the bassline seems to be D♭-C? Wouldn't you call that D♭-Csus2sus4-G? D♭-G implies a tritone progression that I don't hear.
@addyd.31402 ай бұрын
Correct, on the second line of A the bassline tends to the C on the downbeat of what I'm calling Gsus to G. I see it as a clever inversion that adheres to the logic of voiceleading. I wouldn't blame a guy for avoiding a direct tritone leap in the bass, and creating a (favorable) chromatic stepwise movement. Also, you're more than welcome to call that some type of C chord when you play it, I just prefer simplicity in analysis. (Csus4add9 and G7sus are the same chord) Adding more chord names where they are not needed clouds up the motivations of the progression, and makes more work for everyone IMO. And like I said in the introduction "it isn't until the 2nd verse that we get to hear these chords plainly and with proper bass notes," so you can refer to the root position chords in that verse if you don't agree. The 70s Baldwin Acrosonic was tuned in August, and as you noted it doesn't hold super well! Found it free on craigslist 2 yrs ago and have it tuned every 6 months. But thanks for the tip. Currently saving up the cash to consider my options, but I hope my deficient tool didn't detract from the clarity of the information I was attempting to convey on it. Thanks for writing and for your feedback! Be well!
@JamesCamienMcGuiggan2 ай бұрын
@@addyd.3140 I just realised there's no sus4 if you take that chord to be a C. Hallucinating! It'd just be a C5add9. In any event a double-altered chord and I take your point about simplicity. But a Gsus4/C is also doubly altered if you treat inversion as an alteration! But I won't fight you about it. I can see both sides. It's a funny chord progression. I'm listening to it now again... you could almost read that D♭maj7 as a continuation of the previous tonic minor with the bass continuing its step-ish-wise descent via an extended passing note, and so(ish) as an Fm6/D♭. I think I'm now advocating the approach to naming that you take re the G (or C)! I'm sorry to hear about the piano. Every six months is some expense. Maybe what I'm hearing just is the warped frame: it messes up the overtones of the strings, I understand, and so makes it sound out of tune even when it isn't. (Like the dissonance that arises if two singers play the same note but one sings an 'ah' and the other an 'ooh'). The piano is kind of charming in the context of the video, though.
@MegYoung02 ай бұрын
I love this so much
@PaulSchuster-yj4zb2 ай бұрын
My feelings are perfectly described in your intro.
@EliShane2 ай бұрын
Great analysis! Love the mention of the obscuring of time in the C-section, ties into the greater themes of the album so well. Joanna is such a genius. Would love to see one of these for Soft as Chalk.
@addyd.31402 ай бұрын
Thanks so much for writing! Yes, that's one of my favorites on HOOM as well, love her tunes that have a bit of blues injection.
@msjoanofthearc2 ай бұрын
Still have the album, and LOVE IT! A most brilliant analysis, you do the album right!!!
@felixtkm2 ай бұрын
i love you and ur vids, keep going
@felixtkm2 ай бұрын
i love this and all your theory analysis vids
@addyd.31402 ай бұрын
Thanks, you are so kind!
@quienesgeronimo2 ай бұрын
Mesmerizing
@yoavakiva61322 ай бұрын
this was calming and interesting and made me appreciate the song even more than i already did. please, more joanna!
@addyd.31402 ай бұрын
Thank for your kind words!
@OrlandoDelRey2 ай бұрын
Awesome video! 🤠 I love this song so much!
@addyd.31402 ай бұрын
Now offering lessons in...anything you think you can learn from me! Email in the description. 😸
@kayleighbutcher11532 ай бұрын
This is fantastic, I really hope you can do more of her works. Monkey and Bear is one that I would love to know more about in theoretical terms. Well done and thank you so much!