Deconstructing The Police - Can't Stand Losing You (Isolated Tracks)

[@user-dc7um4pr3f]

Man Stewart plays pretty close to perfect.

[@OldStreetDoc]

Perfect… and VARIED. He has such a different sound, largely because he utilizes so many different percussion elements. Even in relatively ‘simple’ songs. Simple by Copeland standards that is.

[@jongreenhalgh]

wouldn't it be aweful if it was 'perfect' like tunes nowadays

[@OldStreetDoc]

@@jongreenhalgh Most everything produced since 2000… well maybe even 1990… IS awful. Everything to a grid, and ‘perfect’. No humanity. You’re absolutely right.

[@ThrowingItAway]

He would laugh at you so hard for this because he classically didn't give a shit about his recordings as long as they were good enough

[@OldStreetDoc]

@@ThrowingItAway Why SHOULD he care what ‘I’ like or think?

[@Joshuadgog]

for the life of me i never remember organs/keyboards in the song lol but it must have added atmosphere and never noticed

[@endangdkijakarta1111]

The Police Top world

[@Musicman3832]

I have a musical ear so always noticed. Though it’s buried in the mix so don’t blame you.

[@sambakery2006]

There is a few keyboards not credited on their first few albums I've noticed. There is synthesizer in Walking on the Moon which I didn't have a clue about until Rick Beatos video.

[@kelvinleitch]

Love it at 13:40 where Sting quickly pitch tests his voice before he leaps in with his harmony…and it’s only Sting doing the BV’s

[@BlueBeeMCMLXI]

Stewart loves skin overtones, and sybillant short-ring cymbals. That's the meat of his signature sound. Growing up an Arab helps that feel. He's always busy taking you places, and has 7 children. Love that.

[@JobbityGifford]

Andy Summers….that man is a machine, or at least his fretting hand is

[@noahstrodtman6121]

dude a fuckin maniac and we're here for it, all hail mr summers

[@noahstrodtman6121]

dude a fuckin maniac and we're here for it, all hail mr summers

[@glyntaylor49]

Not big hands but i still don't know how he plays those stretches, Andy is a walking chord dictionary , i love his solo on bring on the night, simple yet brilliant.

[@whisper2441]

Thanks - this is pure genius! Sting's voice is a miracle of music : )

[@demonicsweaters]

when stewart plays the straight 8ths on the kick, it's really dynamic. He's laying into the one, but easing back on all the other beats, gives it a real flow

[@stratboy518]

The musicianship of all three members of The Police is under-appreciated. Thank you for this video. 🤙🏼

[@incargeek]

Under-appreciated by whom?!

[@jumpinjojo]

How is one of best and widely known 3 piece bands in the world under appreciated??

[@endangdkijakarta1111]

Opa Deaf Endyadi . Asal kampung Bojong Kulur Bogor Jawa Barat . Indonesian 🇮🇩🙏🌹👍

[@endangdkijakarta1111]

Deaf Endyadi jadi Hobby The Police king world .

[@matiasmoulin2126]

if there is one band that is under-appreciated, then it's certainly the Police: too bad no one ever recognised their talent - especially the bass player - I wonder what happened to him after they kicked him out...

[@chronicon5616]

I love it! No auto tune. No million takes or digital editing to achieve "perfection". Brilliant. It sounded great then, it sounds great today.

[@charlesabboud1613]

Spot on, this has long been a benchmark for me, all my favourite music sounds so fresh that it could have been ‘recorded yesterday’, I’m thinking stuff like the Clash’s Safe European Home, or Stay Free tracks that to me always sound spontaneous and timeless…and of course The Police who are and always were superb live musicians

[@matiasmoulin2126]

I just recently heard from Stewart that the drums often were commited to tape very early on. While Sting and Andy could change things on top, Stewart had to live with his initial takes for ever.

[@attilabori4734]

@@chronicon5616 ...it will sound great FOREVER....☺️

[@BlueBeeMCMLXI]

The vocal arrangement for the harmonies on the chorus blew my tiny mind.

[@ibassnote]

Incredible to hear this. I never heard organ after thousands of times hearing this song.

[@_6079SMITH]

That tone on Andy's guitar is totally amazing. Man, and Sting's vocals, shit their awesome. And as for Stewart 🙏🙏🙏

[@hihats]

Stewart turned rock drumming on it's head back then...mega props to him

[@ukok8177]

Love it... Basic stuff, but Gold. Please do message in a bottle

[@edwardmeade9439]

I could listen to this all day!

[@FatDave2112]

Stewart is a master of understated virtuosity. Also I've been singing it wrong ("I'm too *bold* to swallow my pride') for 35 years. "I'm too full" is way better.

[@nickgeorgiakakis7249]

thank you, listening to the tracks individually it seems like it shoud'nt work, but thankfully it did and we now have this as our history.

[@moondogaudiojones1146]

A very entertaining drummer! One of the best!

[@水上香里-w4p]

Andy’s guitar is really cool!

[@moacirdesouza1783]

SHOW!!! TRIO PERFEITO

[@jools182]

Even more respect for Stewart after listening to this

[@wladimirfernandez1487]

Can you bring more Police songs please👏🏼, awesome work

[@tachikaze222]

crazy this song made them more money than I'll see in my life but it's just 3 guys doing their respective things in the studio for a day

[@alandunne6467]

Great to hear this, many thanks for posting. Pretty sure it's only Sting on backing vocals, Stewart and Andy did occasionlly do backing vocals in the early days (at gigs) but their voices never really blended with Sting's. I hadn't heard the organ before either. Would be great to hear more isolated track songs from The Police.

[@parsak.sadjadi3763]

Both did backing vocals on stage throughout the band’s original run. By the Synchronicity tour (with the female vocalists), only Andy seemed willing to still do some backing vocals while Stu mostly receded from it (save for “Walking on the Moon” and “So Lonely”). On the reunion tour, they relied on prerecorded samples for backing vocals.

[@chronicon5616]

Yeah, backing vocals all sound like Sting to me.

[@bryede]

There are others out there. Somewhere I have Synchronicity II which has more going on than you'd think.

[@jdc6681]

Lead and BG vocals on Police records were all Sting. Andy and Stewart did their best to cover some parts live in the early years only to fill out the sound.

[@eltorpedo67]

So cool. I have never noticed the Hammond organ in the mix before! Also - the pic is a bit misleading in that part, since the backing vocals were all Sting. ;)

[@thomaspkratz]

Astonishing, they are only 3 playing, very few overdups and each of them is actually doing very little. And still it is such a full sound.

[@mrBDeye]

This is the Eureka moment. Now we understand everything there is to know.

[@chriss2295]

No other band like the police. 3 unique artists.

[@vincerozkres5731]

What a vocal!!!!!

[@belectronix]

What a gem, thanks for posting this!

[@Joshuadgog]

great post! its cool to see how they made the song and stewart's drumming is perfect!

[@CraigHollabaugh]

Like I've never heard it before. Thanks!

[@jaimeriquelme5525]

ESPECTACULAR...!!!

[@DiceBaseballDigest]

Genius.

[@kmm2442]

More please.

[@Mat_Gallusman]

Thank you for sharing !

[@paulstevens640]

Outstanding work by Stuart, and by you MPF sub earned

[@jumpinjojo]

*Stewart

[@dancarter482]

AWESOME! ALL RHYTHM !

[@sash7551]

Andy seems to be perfect

[@steveaustin6467]

amazing insight

[@brianwood7237]

This is really cool✌️

[@miekgenklefin9616]

Wow.

[@tizmon]

I’ve never seen this photo before. Japanese alphabets on toms are three out of four letter word that means pussy in Japanese. Stewart is, … impressive.

[@theswime945]

Thank you for this, absolutely fascinating to hear the constituent parts, made me reappraise the whole song. I'm a musician old enough to have been a teenager when this was released, and a lifelong fan of Police songs. On a technical note, how on earth did you seperate the tracks? (Remember I'm old so may be missing something everyone else knows about...). Cheers.

[@eddievhfan1984]

For a lot of these breakdowns, often the video maker will be using stems from video games like Rock Band or Guitar Hero, then using audio plugins to try and dynamically filter out all but the parts in question (in case you have more than one track on a stem). Considering how clean this is, though, it is likely from a multitrack master-as I learned from a Pro Tools instructor a few years ago, many engineers and producers will have bootleg multitracks in their archives for academic/research/practice purposes, with no intent of commercial release. If you look hard enough, you can find them.

[@theswime945]

@@eddievhfan1984 Thanks very much Kyle for taking the time to explain that. Makes perfect sense. Cheers.

[@ef7480]

Gold

[@JesusChrist5000]

crazy!

[@wmhhealth2018]

Sting resembles David Lee Roth but in gentile form. LOL

[@BlueBeeMCMLXI]

You need to not go gentile into that good knight.

[@Mortizul]

Wow!

[@MARIOBARROS1]

Uau!!! Don't stop!

[@Dannob]

all the BGVs have gotta be sting??

[@localbod]

Definitely.

[@filmusikchannel7596]

Copeland above everything!

[@josemiguelcarrizo7373]

A Hammond!

[@cameroncooper4175]

Yeah, never really noticed it before.

[@michaelc.bergau8043]

Me too

[@BlueBeeMCMLXI]

He likes his organ.

[@michaelchadwick6424]

No Autotune required.

[@danmontgomery6172]

At 13.20 a touch of massake tanga. Last song on the 2nd album. Ska on.

[@samirait-kaci-gf3bn]

First album.

[@GlennJimenez]

How interesting how sting does the rhythmic stuff PERFECTLY but the straight 8th notes seem to be more of a challenge

[@ErnieDouglas]

I'm sure Sting will blame that on Stewart's meter issues and always speeding up tempo. Haha.

[@MrRezRising]

He was a jazz guy before the police. The feels are different, and that arguably helped them.

[@MrRezRising]

@Blue Bee Agreed.

[@BlueBeeMCMLXI]

@@MrRezRising Cheers, and peace to a native son.

[@glyntaylor49]

I've been a fan since 1978 and the organ and vocal harmonies must be buried deep in the mix, never heard the organ before and only a few vocal harmonies on the outro.

[@xjhintonx]

Feels like maybe in the studio Sting was doing all the backing vocals himself

[@thetr00per30]

All three of the guys in The Police are superb musicians. Stewart and Andy are in their own league of playing and Sting is in his own league as far as writing and singing. What a trifecta of a band, all-time great writer/singer/front man with all-time great musicians. They really should have never called it quits but I understand why.

[@jaimeverdugo5398]

Muy bueno solo la batería,siii,y de la mejor banda, THE POLICE group

[@erikwouwenaar5964]

Like it 👍

[@TheEleatic]

Drums, then bass, then the rest.

[@lucatn]

How do you achive this? I mean do you use special software to isolate every single instruments or do you have access in some way to the original master tapes? I'm just curious to know....

[@storiesreadaloud5635]

AI possibly

[@lucatn]

@@storiesreadaloud5635 nah....i don't think...

[@Snandra66]

@@storiesreadaloud5635AI separation has gotten far lately but still nowhere near this clean, definitely ripped from Guitar Hero/Rock Band or some site where you license stems for remixing purposes

[@localbod]

You can hear headphone bleed. It sounds like the stems to me. Just my opinion.

[@attilabori4734]

@@localbodit's very fascinating to read every technical details of the recird(s). I do appreciate everybody's expert comments... ...what is a "stem" here? Thanks for everyone!

[@radiozelaza]

Sting didn't play fretless on that album

[@JasonLambert-qh6hp]

Gnarly

[@zoltannemeth8864]

Interesting, it doesn’t really sound like a fretless bass to me, but if that’s what it is, then that’s what it is…

[@giuseppecasa3574]

excuse the question with which drums did Stewart record his songs with?

[@jumpinjojo]

Tama with a Pearl snare

[@matiasmoulin2126]

Are these the actual studio tracks or separated with AI?

[@michaelc.bergau8043]

And now: a boxset with an atmos bluray, unreleased songs and performances. Marbles and scarf if really necessary

[@_matsubokkuri]

こ

[@windyhillbomber]

Sting is sloppy as hell on the bass but it works given the precision of Stewart and Andy’s playing.

[@urbangorilla33]

I thought it was just me but his timing is off here and there.

[@MM-rr1kp]

sloppy? no. human. and it works perfectly with the band. youre also one who likes to call out Jimmy Page's "mistakes"? its a joke. how about you write and release just one song that anyone gices a crap about

[@windyhillbomber]

It’s sloppy. Little like you anger.

[@urbangorilla33]

@@MM-rr1kp I actually find it reassuring that even a musician of Sting's calibre was not perfect, so maybe I don't have to be either.

[@gigisdad]

You're mistaking sloppy for feel. The perfection of digital age has ruined people's appreciation for the human touch in music.

[@paulwilk69]

How rubbish does the bass sound out of context .

[@moekirby2613]

Oof, Sting misses notes.

[@eveningcharlatans9743]

What else is he going to sing over that minor chord? The dissonance adds tension as a minor chord should in a major progression.

[@cameroncooper4175]

Which notes would those be, sire?

[@wmhhealth2018]

I think Sting is playing the Ibanez Musician bass on this track.

[@gigisdad]

Can you point out where? I've listened closely and I don't hear any omitted or off notes.

[@patosomon724]

@@wmhhealth2018Maybe, but it sound like a fretted jazz bass with both pickups on

[@matthewpeers1705]

Do more of these.Police ..Rush ..