Deconstructing The Police - Every Breath You Take (Isolated Tracks)

Synchronicity 1983
00:00 Drums and Oberheim DMX
04:12 Bass
08:22 Guitars
12:34 Synths and Piano
16:45 Vocals
20:42 Thanks!!!
Personnel
Drums (Vintage Tama Imperialstar): Stewart Copeland
Drum Machine (Oberheim DMX): Stewart Copeland
Bass (Fender Jazz Bass and Steinberger Bass): Sting
Guitars ("Fender 1961 Stratocaster Electric Guitar", "Fender 1963 Telecaster Custom" and "Gibson ES-335 with Bigsby Hollowbody"): Andy Summers
Keyboard (Roland SH-2): Andy Summers
Piano: Sting
Lead Vocals: Sting
Backing Vocals: Sting and Andy Summers
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Synchronicity 1983 00:00​ Drums and Oberheim DMX 04:12​ Bass 08:22​ Guitars 12:34​ Synths and Piano 16:45​ Vocals 20:42​ Thanks!!! Personnel Drums (Vintage Tama Imperialstar): Stewart Copeland Drum Machine (Oberheim DMX): Stewart Copeland Bass (Fender Jazz Bass and Steinberger Bass): Sting Guitars ("Fender 1961 Stratocaster Electric Guitar", "Fender 1963 Telecaster Custom" and "Gibson ES-335 with Bigsby Hollowbody"): Andy Summers Keyboard (Roland SH-2): Andy Summers Piano: Sting Lead Vocals: Sting Backing Vocals: Sting and Andy Summers _______________________________________________________________________ Patreon: www.patreon.com/dld2music​ Instagram: instagram.com/dld2.music/​​ www.paypal.com/paypalme/DLD2Music

[@_6079SMITH]

Can you just imagine what the studio would have been like when Andy sat down and played this riff ???

[@featherinthewind333]

Feeling like watching a spaceship land. Incredible riff, should of got a credit, the tension and appeal of the songs. would not have been the same without that guitar voicing arpeggio, it made the song

[@jaggass]

Andy is considering legal action against Sting.

[@Antonivs]

@@jaggass nope, it was a joke from Andy

[@joeyyc8515]

Andy is a total genius. Those notes he’s playing sound like they’re from the heavens.

[@a-1151]

He did didn’t he?

[@xTheFly]

I remember hearing this in the back of a friend's car on the radio when it was first released. I was 13, this song engraved itself into my mind. After it ended I was amazed by what I had just heard. What an incredible masterpiece.

[@cagethefoxtrick3852]

The synth Pad is awesome

[@griffinnovie4921]

I love how guitar part sounds so simple but it's actually quite difficult to play!

[@DLD2Music]

Sounds easy but when you play it you get arthritis

[@brendanbrown3100]

It’s a good stretch - especially the minor chord!

[@jonesrbd1]

It's actually WAY easier to play if you don't bar the whole fret with the length of your pointer. Instead, move your pointer back and forth from the E and G strings as each note comes, while keeping your middle finger on the A string and the pinky on the D string. I believe this is how Andy does it.

[@whatspadethinks]

Sting's vocal timbre is so good here; Producer Hugh Padgham compressed the hell out of it which gives it that mouth next to your ear quality. Sting is like most songwriters with big catalogs where he almost downplays "Every Breath You Take" as "just" a pop song, but this song is like the textbook hit song: brilliant melody, simple & complex simultaneously, strong verse, chorus & middle eight and a lyric that says something. A great work of art.

[@wayneparilla3192]

the song brought back to life when sting asked Andy to do something about this song he wrote and make it as if it was his song coz this song was already in the trash bin!!!! Sting intended was a guitarless one and some weird stuff far from the atmosphere of Andy's guitar. When Andy showed his guitar version in his guitar they knew it will be a big hit.

[@buschovski1]

that guitar is beautiful. Without it, itd still be a great song, but that guitar is the bomb

[@theclash181]

THAT PIANO SOUND

[@mr.ottoman1371]

I never picked it up in the original song

[@ggghhhbbnjjjbb2330]

Ha - Andy killing it on the keyboards.

[@Captain2Pig]

the synth string arrangements and sound is the bogs dollocks

[@csaunders516]

13:59-14:18 this is a stress relief worthy vibe right here🤧

[@pinballdan]

Love how the video highlights those "cords" on the piano when it was a synth that made the sound....

[@purehxzelnut3605]

7:13 my fav part

[@nates.9744]

No one really talks about the synths here. And it’s a monophonic one at that! I can only imagine multiple overdubs were made to get that sound.

[@thomasnelson5758]

Andy should have gotten a writing credit for that brilliant riff (that HE wrote and arranged, make no mistake. Sting did NOT write the riff as most would assume). Stewart has voiced the same. That riff makes the song

[@enricobarchi8892]

Probably because the riff of "Every Breath" uses the same ninth chord from “Message in a Bottle" (by Sting) as a basis and therefore it was considered as already part of the Police heritage. 🎸

[@robbiefellows2200]

Sting did financially “reward” Andy eventually, once it was obvious that Andy’s part was significant to the song.

[@VeeeeryyyFaaaastSlooooth]

Absolutely, when Sting brought the song to the band it was only him singing over chords on a Hammond organ, no appregios or anything.

[@speabody]

@@robbiefellows2200 How so? Why is reward in quotation marks?

[@robbiefellows2200]

@@speabodyit was settled out of court I believe, Andy got a one off payment from Sting

[@katiabueno9042]

I love The Police! I grew up listening to them, they are amazing. The first lyric that I translated to my mother tongue was Every Breath You Take. These guys are fantastic. I love Sting, Stewart and Andy!

[@attilabori4734]

This has happened to me too but, I wrote what I thought and felt without knowing anything in English. I wrote it to my girlfriend in a love letter around 1989 at the age of 18. In 2023 she is still my loving wife for 29 years now... ❤️

[@frankjamesbonarrigo7162]

It’s the synths and piano that made this song. Never realized that it even had synths

[@789Moonlight]

14:18 my favorite

[@krisscanlon4051]

That Andy synth underpins it all then that heavenly swell

[@buschovski1]

these isolated tracks vids are an absolute treat. Thank you

[@riquelmedesousa5848]

Andy should receive more credit and have credit in this song,just sting has the name on it.Andy made this icone riff and saved this song,and also playing the keyboard.Andy its just amazing really should have more credit

[@spidigong2907]

Im so glad this song exist❤️

[@mortenkirkensgaard3070]

Fantastic. So many things I did not know. Thanks

[@tloadin1]

Generous as always for doing this. Thank you DLD2!

[@platonecoplus4026]

Amazing work men !

[@YusefIsAGod]

Great choice. The rhythm section of The Police is often overlooked, they're amazing musicians.

[@radiozelaza]

nobody overlooks Stewart Copeland

[@andresolano5888]

Thats not true for this band

[@mick5137]

When you see the mindless and monotonous "underrated" comment getting shot down often, you start looking for a synonym .

[@juliosanchez95]

overlooked???? Not at all. Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers are always regarded as great and essential.

[@mrbungle7586]

Yeah, you sure got that wrong. 👍

[@MalcaratMartinez]

The bass track is actually 2 bass tracks !! One playing stacatto 16th notes and another one playing a different pattern. At times I would even say it's 3 bass tracks.....love this isolated tracks !!

[@radiozelaza]

the staccato 16th notes are played with a guitar. Sting very often doubled his bass tracks with his old Fender Strat for the "click". I also hear a double bass playing only the quarter and two eights per beat, with the drums

[@thewomble1509]

@@radiozelaza I think he's picking his Spector ns 2 with an overdub of his Van Zalinge upright "Brian".

[@scottysloan17]

It's obvious he added the staccato bass take after Andy laud down his iconic track. This bass track is fascinating as he fills out bottom notes so matter factly while simultaneously reinforcing and staying out of the way of Andy's guitar

[@JamesMartinBass]

@@radiozelaza He might have done that on other tracks. But, on this one, it's clearly two basses. One has a steady 8th note pulse, played with a pick and a lot of palm muting. The other bass is much quieter and plays a different rhythm (mostly the 1, the and of the 2, and the 3). That sounds like his electric upright, played pizzicato. Sometimes, one line goes high while the other goes low or one has some rhythmic accents that the other lacks. But it's two basses, not a "tic tac" bass.

[@radiozelaza]

@@JamesMartinBass I am sure I remember reading an interview in which he explained that he also overdubbed the electric bass part with his Fender Strat - as he always did in The Police.

[@dsassanio4352]

14:18 marx is by far beautiful to my ears, God I can listen to that forever!!

[@peterauricchio8871]

100%!

[@trapitosensual8161]

just what i was looking for a few days ago

[@MinnoqWV]

You can hear a lot of the menace of the song in Sting's bass

[@KM-zr1eq]

Thank you! I am awaiting for Message In A Bottle and Don’t Stand So Close To Me!

[@jacquescousteau217]

Sting is playing with a pick. Similar to McCartney’s tone, albeit a Fender jazz bass. Which Paul used on much of the White Album.

[@radiozelaza]

Sting also double tracked his bass parts with a Fender Strat for the additional "click"

[@enricobarchi8892]

If you listen well the bass used here is a semi-acoustic fretless bass called by him Brian (same bass used in the Don’t Stand video). So no pick but it’s played with fingers!! 😮

[@jacquescousteau217]

@@enricobarchi8892the Fender P bass - not Jazz I suspect - is definitely played with a pick …

[@victoriabrrs]

Ninguém toca igual o Andy ❤❤❤

[@pearsonk1931]

thanks

[@LightningJackFlash]

11:24 I'm mesmerized............

[@Kevinb1821]

Copelands drums where programmed in this song. However they did that in the early 80s. Sting hated Copelands drums so much in this song that he made the producer delete it. Copeland and sting wouldn’t even be in the studio at the same time during synchronicity because they hated each other so much at the time

[@bcoady100]

No what sting deleted was a high hat add on that Stewart added when sting was out of the studio. Otherwise the drum track was laid by Stewart

[@3hooks781]

@@bcoady100 Exactly. Also, Stewart played to a programmed kick and he recorded the snare live. He explains it in his very recent interview on the RIck Beato channel.

[@TheSlowBallBoy]

the syncopation at 14:52 genius level

[@emanuelsanchez9849]

More the police , please 😍💖

[@Ozybiusz]

It's just a masterpiece ...

[@quogir1]

Stewart Copelands best song😊 really

[@osbezouros1]

Good

[@marcoantonioorozco1137]

FINE

[@MrLonewolf5150]

I can see why Stranger Things used this song to the end of Season 2. For the synth/keyboard.

[@mariagraziac.8793]

Love This pic

[@speabody]

7:09 ah that bend....

[@ybodzardo]

That feeling when you are a guitarist and I will create a riff from which it will draw other generations because they played like children in a room.

[@gang6009]

I need every piece of this song im so sad i need to wallow in it

[@existentialhumanbeing7299]

One question, where do you get these studio tracks?

[@javiceres]

👌🏼

[@moistgrass79]

13:23

[@jamesheath7601]

I ❤️ The Police

[@paolo-1283]

Does anybody know what's the delay setting on the guitar?

[@miroslavbondarev2604]

8:42 best part in guitar

[@samd6644]

Love to hear stings piano only filler version if it exists

[@jsomething2559]

AHH MAN! Andy's false harmonic note just after @10:07 = **chef's kiss**

[@alanidron2133]

Hey..thanks for the content. I don't doubt that the Keyboard (you mean Pad right? ) is Andy since you wrote it, but I'm surprised that in that era that Sting let him play on the song that much from how I hear they got on at that point. When you get the tracks, how do you know who played what? is it engineers on the session that labeled them?

[@EmiPianoMX]

Very synthy drums, who would know it.

[@danfuerthgillis4483]

Without the $200,000 mixer, another $250,000 in outboard gear, then send off to mastering studios these tracks are great but they sound like they were recorded in a garage. It is the hardware that made it sound great, these stems clearly prove anyone decent with good music skills will sound great if enough money is tossed at them. If you record these tracks at home in 2021 you will get the same sound as they do here, only problem is the hardware after to mix them in order to get the "Studio" sound.

[@Matthew_Eitzman]

4:11 bass

[@_6079SMITH]

Man, listening to Sting's vocals they are just as good in comparison to the guitar part.

[@lardtarts]

Stalker Anthem

[@matttaylor4618]

Astonished to hear how dry the vocal actually is

[@scottbiggs8894]

Does anyone else hear a high-pitched sound in the background to Andy's part? Say around 9:12? It almost sounds like something on the tape wasn't completely erased before recording his track.

[@thebookofeli849]

13:57 for me 14:19 for me

[@mugrex]

Are you sure the bass track isn't bass guitar + double bass? it sounds uprighty to me. Thx for finding this!

[@mugrex]

exactly what it sounds to me like. Muted picked bass guitar + upright on longer notes.

[@MariaChavez-kl7rk]

​@@mugrex Did you just replied to your own comment?

[@mugrex]

@@MariaChavez-kl7rkit does look like that LOL in my defence I might have been commenting late at night, so my brain wasnt functioning too well :D

[@nome5123]

​@@MariaChavez-kl7rklol

[@jasonsumner8482]

Are these the only Synchronicity demos or are there any others out there that have yet to be released?

[@miroslavbondarev2604]

you can make an introumental without drums and vocals?

[@conorsmith8551]

Sting looks like Kurt Cobain at 13:45

[@GreatWaster]

Yeah, same as one of Kurt's iconic haircuts

[@Tolbens]

Jazz bass sound comes from a skillet... I still wonder why this bass became so famous. Keyboard reminds me the mini casio and Stewart plays almost nothing regarding his ability on drums. After all, this song made a great success!!!

[@krisscanlon4051]

Yep Stew in backbeat mode.

[@MalcaratMartinez]

What you hear is a real snare and an Oberheim DMX bass drum. Apparently he wasn't too happy about it 😃

[@LazerBrendan]

this is great, thank you! hey how can I get in touch with you? cheers man

[@DLD2Music]

By mail?

[@LazerBrendan]

@@DLD2Music what’s a good email address for you?

[@DLD2Music]

@@LazerBrendan [e-mail]

[@johnconk]

I don’t hear Andy singing. I hear Sting singing all the parts..

[@MsAussie83]

I don't either. I just hear Sting's voice.

[@amplifier2]

@@MsAussie83At the very end together with sting.

[@MsAussie83]

@@amplifier2 That's strange, because all I hear is Sting singing harmony with himself.

[@urkelofficial]

In which part of the song does Andy play each of those guitars?

[@MongerOfStrings8222]

He plays the Telecaster for most of the song and then the distorted one at the end is the Gibson presumably

[@urkelofficial]

@@MongerOfStrings8222 maybe. Thanks!

[@MongerOfStrings8222]

@@urkelofficial Also there is a little harmonic at around 10:07

[@urkelofficial]

@@MongerOfStrings8222 yessss

[@pedrocarrizo5742]

Chorus effects has the guitar?

[@JamesMartinBass]

Yes, and a shit-ton of compression. This was the 80s. Maybe a tiny bit of delay as well, to thicken it up. And there's actually several guitars on it. Lots of doubled bits.

[@elirosen1391]

Is it Andy and Sting singing together at the end?

[@DLD2Music]

yes

[@elirosen1391]

@@DLD2Music Sting lower, Andy higher?

[@DLD2Music]

Yes, i think

[@kjohnstin]

Noooooo Sting overdubbed his vocals. There’s no way he would let Andy sing in this song. Andy wasn’t a good singer.

[@aebhosor4835]

I don't remember there being a Synth at the start... 🤔

[@MongerOfStrings8222]

It's buried in the along with the bass so that's probably why

[@thewomble1509]

When Sting brought his demo to the studio it had no guitar on it , just a very distinct, huge sounding synth riff.

[@jeremyjeanguenin162]

I can only hear Sting's backing vocals.

[@DLD2Music]

Andy is there too

[@robertreuss9653]

Distorted guitar 11:32 - 12:31. Anybody know what notes are being played?

[@goodjohnnyclub]

Sounds like Asus2 man

[@kevinrazban8906]

Andy Summers says watch the press in 2024 for news of some legal issues regarding songwriting credits for this song.

[@javiceres]

Sounds like the bass was actually 2 tracks

[@DLD2Music]

yes

[@a-1151]

It’s literally listed in the comments

[@elirosen1391]

I don't know how anybody could consider this romantic. The line "I'll be watching you" at the end of every phrase is a giveaway of the singer's ill-intent. Anyway, I used to do this song with my old music program, the Rock Garden. I used to hate doing it because of how much I had to stretch my ring finger.

[@DLD2Music]

the toxic boy's song haha, the guitar of this song is very complex (Rip Fingers)

[@HarryJoiner]

18:15 - 18:23 incredible lung capacity

[@juliosanchez95]

never realized the basic beat is just a computerized drum beat rather than actual playing

[@figidor9771]

Bass is very important in this song 😂

[@pinball-wizard]

You need to deconstruct a Hendrix song

[@DLD2Music]

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[@pinball-wizard]

@@DLD2Music yeeeeaaaaaahhhhhhh

[@Alex-yp5oo]

Can you please hurry up and Do Derek And The Dominos Layla/???

[@GarethThomasTunes]

Wow. No groove at all coming from the rhythm section. I see why the band was falling apart. One of the world’s best drummers being reduced to a metronome - There would’ve been tension in the studio! It’s worth it though. This song is all about the vocal and guitar melody. So different from their early recordings..!

[@Captain2Pig]

that snare sounds deliberately lazy on most beats

[@airattoz]

Is it only me that always thought that drums are intentionally limping

[@Joao-id4dn]

for any hardcore Police fan, Every Breath you Take sucks

[@humanchannel7825]

Bullshit