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
@joeyyc85152 жыл бұрын
Andy is a total genius. Those notes he’s playing sound like they’re from the heavens.
@a-1151 Жыл бұрын
He did didn’t he?
@xTheFly6 ай бұрын
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.
@griffinnovie49212 жыл бұрын
I love how guitar part sounds so simple but it's actually quite difficult to play!
@DLD2Music2 жыл бұрын
Sounds easy but when you play it you get arthritis
@brendanbrown3100 Жыл бұрын
It’s a good stretch - especially the minor chord!
@jonesrbd19 ай бұрын
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.
@cagethefoxtrick38523 жыл бұрын
The synth Pad is awesome
@whatspadethinks3 жыл бұрын
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.
@wayneparilla31927 ай бұрын
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.
@buschovski17 ай бұрын
that guitar is beautiful. Without it, itd still be a great song, but that guitar is the bomb
@csaunders5163 жыл бұрын
13:59-14:18 this is a stress relief worthy vibe right here🤧
@pinballdan Жыл бұрын
Love how the video highlights those "cords" on the piano when it was a synth that made the sound....
@xGoldriever2 жыл бұрын
THAT PIANO SOUND
@mr.ottoman13715 ай бұрын
I never picked it up in the original song
@ggghhhbbnjjjbb23305 ай бұрын
Ha - Andy killing it on the keyboards.
@Captain2Pig5 ай бұрын
the synth string arrangements and sound is the bogs dollocks
@katiabueno90423 жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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... ❤️
@thomasnelson5758 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
Sting did financially “reward” Andy eventually, once it was obvious that Andy’s part was significant to the song.
@VeeeeryyyFaaaastSlooooth9 ай бұрын
Absolutely, when Sting brought the song to the band it was only him singing over chords on a Hammond organ, no appregios or anything.
@speabody6 ай бұрын
@@robbiefellows2200 How so? Why is reward in quotation marks?
@robbiefellows22006 ай бұрын
@@speabodyit was settled out of court I believe, Andy got a one off payment from Sting
@nates.97442 жыл бұрын
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.
@YusefIsAGod3 жыл бұрын
Great choice. The rhythm section of The Police is often overlooked, they're amazing musicians.
@radiozelaza2 жыл бұрын
nobody overlooks Stewart Copeland
@andresolano58882 жыл бұрын
Thats not true for this band
@mick5137 Жыл бұрын
When you see the mindless and monotonous "underrated" comment getting shot down often, you start looking for a synonym .
@juliosanchez95 Жыл бұрын
overlooked???? Not at all. Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers are always regarded as great and essential.
@mrbungle7586 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, you sure got that wrong. 👍
@MalcaratMartinez3 жыл бұрын
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 !!
@radiozelaza2 жыл бұрын
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
@thewomble15092 жыл бұрын
@@radiozelaza I think he's picking his Spector ns 2 with an overdub of his Van Zalinge upright "Brian".
@scottysloan172 жыл бұрын
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
@JamesMartinBass2 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@radiozelaza2 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@buschovski17 ай бұрын
these isolated tracks vids are an absolute treat. Thank you
@marinhoalvesdasilva520Ай бұрын
OMG! Sting uses only downstrokes throughout the entire song! What a beast! 👏🏼😮👏🏼😮👏🏼😮
@kelvinleitchАй бұрын
Not only that, but a lot of it is double tracked with him playing a ‘dum, dum dum’ rhythm over the top
@riquelmedesousa5848 Жыл бұрын
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
@dsassanio4352 Жыл бұрын
14:18 marx is by far beautiful to my ears, God I can listen to that forever!!
@peterauricchio88714 ай бұрын
100%!
@tloadin13 жыл бұрын
Generous as always for doing this. Thank you DLD2!
@frankjamesbonarrigo7162 Жыл бұрын
It’s the synths and piano that made this song. Never realized that it even had synths
@krisscanlon40519 ай бұрын
That Andy synth underpins it all then that heavenly swell
@spidigong29073 жыл бұрын
Im so glad this song exist❤️
@789Moonlight3 жыл бұрын
14:18 my favorite
@KM-zr1eq3 жыл бұрын
Thank you! I am awaiting for Message In A Bottle and Don’t Stand So Close To Me!
@purehxzelnut36052 жыл бұрын
7:13 my fav part
@jacquescousteau2173 жыл бұрын
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.
@radiozelaza2 жыл бұрын
Sting also double tracked his bass parts with a Fender Strat for the additional "click"
@enricobarchi8892 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
@@enricobarchi8892the Fender P bass - not Jazz I suspect - is definitely played with a pick …
@platonecoplus40263 жыл бұрын
Amazing work men !
@JohnnyBeaneАй бұрын
Andy Summers rules! 🎸
@trapitosensual81613 жыл бұрын
just what i was looking for a few days ago
@emanuelsanchez98493 жыл бұрын
More the police , please 😍💖
@Kevinb18213 жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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
@3hooks7816 ай бұрын
@@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.
@mortenkirkensgaard30702 жыл бұрын
Fantastic. So many things I did not know. Thanks
@rustedhero8882 ай бұрын
I never knew there were toms in the drums track, 2 bass tracks, guitar overdubs at the end, synths during the whole song and backing vocals from Andy.
@existentialhumanbeing72992 жыл бұрын
One question, where do you get these studio tracks?
@MinnoqWV10 ай бұрын
You can hear a lot of the menace of the song in Sting's bass
@victoriabrrs Жыл бұрын
Ninguém toca igual o Andy ❤❤❤
@Ozybiusz10 ай бұрын
It's just a masterpiece ...
@ekathe852 ай бұрын
That section at 13:58 could easily replace Vangelis' track on Blade Runner's 'Tears in rain' scene.
@jsomething25593 жыл бұрын
AHH MAN! Andy's false harmonic note just after @10:07 = **chef's kiss**
@alanidron2133 Жыл бұрын
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?
@LightningJackFlash2 жыл бұрын
11:24 I'm mesmerized............
@ybodzardo2 жыл бұрын
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.
@MrLonewolf51507 ай бұрын
I can see why Stranger Things used this song to the end of Season 2. For the synth/keyboard.
@mugrex10 ай бұрын
Are you sure the bass track isn't bass guitar + double bass? it sounds uprighty to me. Thx for finding this!
@mugrex9 ай бұрын
exactly what it sounds to me like. Muted picked bass guitar + upright on longer notes.
@MariaChavez-kl7rk6 ай бұрын
@@mugrex Did you just replied to your own comment?
@mugrex6 ай бұрын
@@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
@nome51232 ай бұрын
@@MariaChavez-kl7rklol
@TheSlowBallBoy5 ай бұрын
the syncopation at 14:52 genius level
@francescogreenslade77932 күн бұрын
I can't hear anything
@gang6009 Жыл бұрын
I need every piece of this song im so sad i need to wallow in it
@danfuerthgillis44832 жыл бұрын
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.
@quogir14 ай бұрын
Stewart Copelands best song😊 really
@pearsonk19312 жыл бұрын
thanks
@rrruuby2 ай бұрын
im crying dude
@EmiPianoMX Жыл бұрын
Very synthy drums, who would know it.
@marcoantonioorozco11373 жыл бұрын
FINE
@jasonsumner8482 Жыл бұрын
Are these the only Synchronicity demos or are there any others out there that have yet to be released?
@Tolbens3 жыл бұрын
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!!!
@krisscanlon40513 жыл бұрын
Yep Stew in backbeat mode.
@MalcaratMartinez3 жыл бұрын
What you hear is a real snare and an Oberheim DMX bass drum. Apparently he wasn't too happy about it 😃
@miroslavbondarev26047 ай бұрын
you can make an introumental without drums and vocals?
@speabody6 ай бұрын
7:09 ah that bend....
@jimw66592 ай бұрын
I never realised it was a drum machine bass drum.
@samd66445 ай бұрын
Love to hear stings piano only filler version if it exists
@miroslavbondarev26047 ай бұрын
8:42 best part in guitar
@mariagraziac.87932 жыл бұрын
Love This pic
@lardtarts3 жыл бұрын
Stalker Anthem
@osbezouros13 жыл бұрын
Good
@johnconk2 жыл бұрын
I don’t hear Andy singing. I hear Sting singing all the parts..
@MsAussie832 жыл бұрын
I don't either. I just hear Sting's voice.
@amplifier2 Жыл бұрын
@@MsAussie83At the very end together with sting.
@MsAussie83 Жыл бұрын
@@amplifier2 That's strange, because all I hear is Sting singing harmony with himself.
@juliosanchez959 ай бұрын
never realized the basic beat is just a computerized drum beat rather than actual playing
@matttaylor46182 жыл бұрын
Astonished to hear how dry the vocal actually is
@scottbiggs88947 ай бұрын
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.
@moistgrass792 жыл бұрын
13:23
@danepetersenvoice2 ай бұрын
I don't think backing vocals are anyone else but Sting
@javiceres3 жыл бұрын
👌🏼
@conorsmith85513 жыл бұрын
Sting looks like Kurt Cobain at 13:45
@GreatWaster Жыл бұрын
Yeah, same as one of Kurt's iconic haircuts
@thebookofeli849 Жыл бұрын
13:57 for me 14:19 for me
@LazerBrendan Жыл бұрын
this is great, thank you! hey how can I get in touch with you? cheers man
@DLD2Music Жыл бұрын
By mail?
@LazerBrendan Жыл бұрын
@@DLD2Music what’s a good email address for you?
@DLD2Music Жыл бұрын
@@LazerBrendan Valentinosa2310@gmail.com
@jamesheath76013 жыл бұрын
I ❤️ The Police
@kevinrazban89068 ай бұрын
Andy Summers says watch the press in 2024 for news of some legal issues regarding songwriting credits for this song.
@HarryJoiner Жыл бұрын
18:15 - 18:23 incredible lung capacity
@elirosen13913 жыл бұрын
Is it Andy and Sting singing together at the end?
@DLD2Music3 жыл бұрын
yes
@elirosen13913 жыл бұрын
@@DLD2Music Sting lower, Andy higher?
@DLD2Music3 жыл бұрын
Yes, i think
@kjohnstin2 жыл бұрын
Noooooo Sting overdubbed his vocals. There’s no way he would let Andy sing in this song. Andy wasn’t a good singer.
@paolo-1283 Жыл бұрын
Does anybody know what's the delay setting on the guitar?
@elirosen13913 жыл бұрын
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.
@DLD2Music3 жыл бұрын
the toxic boy's song haha, the guitar of this song is very complex (Rip Fingers)
@javiceres3 жыл бұрын
Sounds like the bass was actually 2 tracks
@DLD2Music3 жыл бұрын
yes
@a-11512 жыл бұрын
It’s literally listed in the comments
@garethde-witt6433Ай бұрын
And I’m sure that they all thank you for the royalties you are providing them with. You did ask for permission to use didn’t you?
@DLD2MusicАй бұрын
@@garethde-witt6433 I don't force anyone to donate to me. I make these videos so that people like you can learn things and learn the parts... I don't make money from KZbin with this.If KZbin lets me upload it and doesn't take it down, ok
@urkelofficial2 жыл бұрын
In which part of the song does Andy play each of those guitars?
@MongerOfStrings82222 жыл бұрын
He plays the Telecaster for most of the song and then the distorted one at the end is the Gibson presumably
@urkelofficial2 жыл бұрын
@@MongerOfStrings8222 maybe. Thanks!
@MongerOfStrings82222 жыл бұрын
@@urkelofficial Also there is a little harmonic at around 10:07
@urkelofficial2 жыл бұрын
@@MongerOfStrings8222 yessss
@hailmary728318 күн бұрын
Why is there no guitar, synths or piano?
@francescogreenslade77932 күн бұрын
I don't understand why most of the synths is completely silent for me
@DLD2Music2 күн бұрын
@@francescogreenslade7793 They were unfortunately muted due to copyright claims :'/
@aebhosor48353 жыл бұрын
I don't remember there being a Synth at the start... 🤔
@MongerOfStrings82222 жыл бұрын
It's buried in the along with the bass so that's probably why
@thewomble15092 жыл бұрын
When Sting brought his demo to the studio it had no guitar on it , just a very distinct, huge sounding synth riff.
@jeremyjeanguenin1622 жыл бұрын
I can only hear Sting's backing vocals.
@DLD2Music2 жыл бұрын
Andy is there too
@pedrocarrizo57422 жыл бұрын
Chorus effects has the guitar?
@JamesMartinBass2 жыл бұрын
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.
@tone99302 ай бұрын
Some phasing but thats inevitable with doubling /overdubbing. IntereSting in every aspect.
@Matthew_Eitzman5 ай бұрын
4:11 bass
@robertreuss96533 жыл бұрын
Distorted guitar 11:32 - 12:31. Anybody know what notes are being played?
@goodjohnnyclub3 жыл бұрын
Sounds like Asus2 man
@figidor9771 Жыл бұрын
Bass is very important in this song 😂
@GarethThomasTunes Жыл бұрын
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..!
@pinball-wizard3 жыл бұрын
You need to deconstruct a Hendrix song
@DLD2Music3 жыл бұрын
kzbin.info/www/bejne/e6a5eoGLp5WUkJo
@pinball-wizard3 жыл бұрын
@@DLD2Music yeeeeaaaaaahhhhhhh
@Captain2Pig5 ай бұрын
that snare sounds deliberately lazy on most beats
@airattoz5 ай бұрын
Is it only me that always thought that drums are intentionally limping
@thisisobviouslynotmyrealname Жыл бұрын
for any hardcore Police fan, Every Breath you Take sucks
@humanchannel7825 Жыл бұрын
Bullshit
@alex_luke3 жыл бұрын
Can you please hurry up and Do Derek And The Dominos Layla/???