Dominic Miller On Playing The Police's Music With Sting

[@RMoore-zt7zs]

Every vocalist should be so lucky to have such a superb guitarist and friend backing them up.

[@fretwiz1]

Amen!

[@jakubborczuch7543]

True that!

[@BoutYoungAnnaLee]

Any musician should be lucky so to have such a superb songwriter and legend even look twice at them

[@bartoszuczak5730]

trust me not every ;)

[@aaronhumphreys842]

My Daughter and I randomly ran into him last week in Detroit. He's so kind and amazing ❤

[@sturgeonslawyer]

"Better to be present with a bad note than absent with a good note." -- R. Fripp

[@brokl26]

I love that quote. Thank you for posting it because it actually fits every facet of life. Once again, thank you.

[@agustinmarioquiroga3776]

What about tardy with either note? 😅

[@matan.saster]

⁠@@agustinmarioquiroga3776I don’t feel tardy…

[@jodo985]

The rockstars behind the rockstars. These Dominic miller interviews (and pretty much all your interviews) have been fantastic. I like this avenue you’re going down.

[@russellpinkie9775]

Good on him for taking nothing away from Andy's riffs, Andy was a genius with his guitar riffs 👌🍻

[@richardfairlamb9728]

Definitely. His unusual chord choices and sophisticated lines and Melodie’s are genius.

[@shawnmcvey7789]

Andy Summers composed those parts so perfectly you have to play them. It's like Beatles parts, integral to the songs.

[@holmesketrick7]

Dominic is one of my favorite guitarists of all time, with Andy summers. So I love that he honors the song.

[@JLJameson]

Can't get enough of Dominic! Please bring him back for more.

[@juliejordan3090]

I alway hear the medieval / renaissance sound in the ballads, they seem like 1,000 year old works of art, so beautiful!

[@jeffreysalzman1497]

Yeah I think that is what Rick meant, that they sound like a song that was not so much written but a song that always was.

[@wuodbonde]

the great example of this style of medieval sound is the song You Will Be My Ain True Love. Sung by the wonderful Allison Kraus, it's Sting's ear for melody and harmony that makes that song sound so haunting.

[@achimwitcoustic9585]

Dominic is such a humble and genuine soul. And on top a great guitarist. I feel sorry for sleeping so long on his art and guitar playing (his solo stuff is in parts fantastic), and not gave him much attention. Wonderful musician and composer.

[@josegallegosdds]

Dominic Miller is a genius! What a well rounded fantastic guitar player.👍🏼

[@WysteriaGuitar]

This cat Miller is a real artist, so enjoyable to listen to his craft.

[@derekmooney2771]

Stuart Smith with the Eagles is another example I'd love to see interviewed - he's obviously so trusted and adored by them for very good reasons.

[@theTruthLifeNWay]

That guitar he's playing sounds lovely

[@jeffreysalzman1497]

I think it's his hands.

[@theTruthLifeNWay]

@@jeffreysalzman1497 it's jacked into an amp, the sound through the amp is ultimately what I'm referring to, of course his playing is stellar

[@latitude48design]

What kind of guitar is it? I like how small and playable it looks.

[@ColonelJedburgh]

Well you probably won’t get bad sound on a Beato channel, and, yes, Miller is Miller, but…still. That little white guitar sounds quite remarkable! Would love to know the make, too…

[@theTruthLifeNWay]

It's a K Yairi CYTM custom and north of $4,000

[@guybeauregard]

A remarkable conversation.

[@davejones81]

I LOVE the hounds of winter. They're are some insane chords in it. Great watch

[@a22fc]

Mr Beato is on a roll! Awesome guests! Love it man.

[@svgitana2499]

I absolutely love listening to this gentleman talk. Great guitarists and a great interviewer and personality!! 🙌🏻

[@jasonbain1301]

How nice did that little guitar sound.. Absolutely beautiful

[@davidsummerville351]

Some beautiful chords.

[@ethantanatsiwasesedza8305]

Absolutely love these 📝❤️💯

[@ljcor1899]

Fantastic interview brief. Dominic is a masterful and extremely gifted guitarist

[@camphill]

Love these short takes.

[@RichSad45]

Love your interviews Rick but have really enjoyed Dominic and the three members of the Police.

[@albklang1272]

Dominic Miller. 👏👏👏.

[@twostep919]

Sting surrounded by kind, humble, incredible guitarists.

[@jurgen-erisongsfromthelast5139]

humble 😂

[@sunnyseacat6857]

"Changing key changes the character of the song." - Dominic Miller TRUE!

[@marksextonmarkeaux4181]

Dominic is just an incredible musical dude! Period!

[@a22fc]

Saw Sting live and this man’s guitar tone stands out. ❤

[@giuliolepri596]

I bet if Rick and Dom have a music tv show together, it would be the greatest music show ever.

[@mynameisnotyours888]

The trick is to find the right energy…this man is a genius n I’m in apassionado

[@CaesarDarias]

Jeffrey Lee Campbell, the guitarist who toured with Sting during the marathon Nothing Like the Sun tour, wrote a detailed, brutally honest and very entertaining book about his experience. He wrote about the time Sting absolutely ripped into the band because they weren’t present, moaning about the grueling schedule and basically mailing it in. Sting wasn’t having it.

[@TK-xo2mf]

So stimulating and inspirational!

[@therealnotanerd_account2]

I read "Stingmulating", not joking.

[@Kenny-et1qc]

❤❤❤ I RESPECT DOMINIC'S ATTITUDE AND RESPECT FOR OTHERS ORIGINAL MUSIC ( STAYING TRUE TO THEM)

[@weewillywanka5904]

What a great guy. Sting picked the right guitarist for his band

[@henrycaruana3145]

Mr Dominic Miller you are great 🎸👍kiku 🇲🇹

[@kennethlambert]

Beato2 has the best interviews.

[@Slotsessions]

Dominic is phenomenal. 🙏👍

[@CHlEFFIN]

What an utterly incredible MUSICIAN…👏🏼👏🏼

[@Dwoed]

Great guitar sound and chord voicings❤

[@elizabethbottroff1218]

"Happy Accidents," are what my family calls those moments when the unexpected is discovered while the original planning goes awry.😊 Edit: He dropped me into serious flashbacks with the, "35 years." I immediately was in the back seat of a tiny little compact car. My friend's older brother is driving. We're going over a two lane curvy mountain pass on our way home from the high school. It's gruesomely hot out. No air conditioning. The windows are all rolled down. The car is overloaded. And he's shifting up and down through the gears as he's racing and braking through these crazy dips and turns, as fast as he can go. It became even more surreal with, "Murder by Numbers," blasting at high decibels with everyone screaming and screeching along with the lyrics. 😂 It was the one and only time that I hitched a ride home with him. I have no idea how I survived that trip.😳🤭😂🤣🙃 123ABC

[@treystone1993]

But you'll never forget it... Great memories often come from the edge of the envelope.

[@robertailman5092]

Oh yeah! the ages catch up to you and the half steps start slip sliding away....,and he's so right - when you change the key of a song - it basically demands you re-think the song...,I do this all the time because most rock singers have a higher range than I do...,so I have experimented with alt tunings which allow me to "interpret" a song rather than copy it...,I think it's very similar to what Dominic is talking about. Dropping a key a perfect fourth is drastic - a real challenge. But even dropping a half step demands a lot of the guitar and the arranger (ie the guitarist)...,

[@ColonelJedburgh]

The …SOUND on that li’l white guitar, tho’…?!? Whew! 👏👏

[@tomaszprzetacznik7802]

Dominic Miller is truly the employee of the decade!!! Asked: Aren't you bored with playing same stuff over and over? Answered: "Nope. Who am I to think for myself, to propose anything. I won't come up with anything better. My boss (Sting) is a genius and his work is perfection! My role is to do what I am told to do. Sting decides about any changes, as prodigy, author it is his natural, birth right. I don't have any input, don't have my own spin on anything."... "Sting comes up with such unusual chords, it's lateral music, amazing, splendid, marvelous that is why I find it always interesting!". I wonder if Dominic had to ask Sting for permission, "I was asked for an interview can I go?" Sting "Why not, but don't say anything stupid, like you often do Don, go have a fun". Are you guys laughing? I am not. Remember when Bruce Springsteen fired Ban Zandt because he became too popular? Stars don't like in their bands guys who have their own ambitions. That is why such Dominic is perfect choice- this guy is obviously very proficient, good guitarist and same time absolutely Beta guy, used to follow the leader!

[@GES8215]

Hounds of winter sounds like shape of my heart.

[@williamstanford7994]

I've been a fan of Dominic Miller for quite some time. I would love to ask him about the effects he used on Chris Botti's album "Night Sessions."

[@gregtthomas]

I think this guy knows all the chords.

[@alrivers2297]

He has a daytime job, he's doing alright

[@m22110]

Check out guitar George

[@m22110]

@@alrivers2297 He can play the Honky Tonk like anything

[@kristinbostad]

Dominic Miller 🎶💯❤

[@nimamoradi2660]

I love how youtube suggests dominic millers's videos these days😂❤

[@niguel4438]

I could listen to this guy all day. A la Tom Bukavak

[@johnglenn30csardas]

John Dowland for the last bit. Sting does it on Deutsche Grammophone.

[@sixstringemotion]

Tryna give this a thumbs-up, but it ain't workin. Another great interview, Rick... gimme more! Try to get Dirk & Lerxst! Thank you in advance... and for right now.

[@achimwitcoustic9585]

Dominic seems like a total definition of a british gentleman to me.

[@terrat3048]

Sting can write songs than nobody else can. Everybody Laughed (But You), Hounds of Winter.

[@Ronno4691]

Mr Miller did a very funny interview once for a UK guitar magazine where he recommended learning Bossa Nova but hiding the book you're learning Girl From Ipanema under the mattress like it was a porn mag!

[@whymewhynot2002]

Great work! Have you had Billy Joel on?

[@rodneynorfolk9737]

thnx

[@nikkoutsoukos1866]

I love sting and Dominic however, the police song riffs and drum arrangement are not stings. He wrote the song but the riffs and drum beats are Andy's and Stewart's. Roxanne was written as a bosa nova by sting. It's Stewart and Andy that turned it into the song it became. These guys just don't get the credit they deserve for the Police songs

[@allanargamer5812]

Rick I noticed the same thing on the Secret Policemens Other Ball with the low E

[@raybassman7536]

Rick, Are you going to do anything about Dickey Betts?

[@nickelarcade6934]

I listened to sting doing Roxanne live recently and wondered how he was still able to sing the high notes. Interested he dropped a key

[@jamessmith5748]

Very professional

[@jgmusic81]

I remember when Mercury Falling came out in pre-internet times. I was 15, learning guitar for a year and decided to learn Hounds of Winter by ear knowing only basic major and minor chords🤦 And I was like "WTF, why does not a single chord fit this song?"🤣🤣🤣

[@mackmaloney3776]

Coolest sounding six-string ever

[@WhyTheHorseface]

Did that Dom guitar hit the market?

[@Eric-steele]

You know Rick you have great guests on your show have u thought about seeing if they could play one song at the end of the show?

[@jeremiahlyleseditor437]

Gret Video. What Guitar brand is Dominc playing?

[@_fig.8]

captivated

[@alukuhito]

For a second I thought that was Bob Geldof.

[@Lancecarrguitar]

🔥🎸

[@PaoloC.]

that guitar has an amazing sound what is it?

[@sixstringhans-tone5574]

Isn’t a half step down from standard 432hrz? Or don’t I have a clue what I’m talking about?😅😂

[@Doones51]

Googling it says that E-flat above middle C is 311 hertz. 330 hertz is E. I think you are confusing A (440 hertz usually but sometimes slightly different) with E.

[@tomaszprzetacznik7802]

Fact is that they just had to change key of some of the The Police songs not because it makes em more interesting or cool but plainly because Sting doesn't have same voice as he had 30-40 years ago! His voice has just aged, it didn't age well, and since he had a very high pitch, he lost it over time as his vocal cords naturally thicken and the voice deepens with age. Additionally, as can be heard at the end of many of his tours, Sting would strain his voice. You can hear it on live recordings where he often struggles with his vocals. It’s so common that I don’t know why he doesn’t admit it. Clearly, Sting is such a megalomaniac that Dominic is afraid to say anything that could undermine Sting's image.

[@mattmarkus4868]

why the other channel? ads..

[@TeSp00kie1]

This guy is so talented. It's such a shame he can't afford an adult-sized guitar. Just imagine what he could do. We should pool together some money for him and get him a proper guitar.

[@DazotzwaZuma]

Please tell me what guitar Dom is playing in this interview?

[@Doones51]

It's a 6-string mini classical-type guitar with nylon strings but obviously no clear brand on it.

[@fm7319]

Dominic is funny!

[@splashesin8]

😃🙌🏻

[@genx60five]

Like someone playing a lute.

[@tomaszprzetacznik7802]

After Dominic Miller was asked if he ever gets bored of playing Sting and The Police hits over and over, and he responded - that he doesn't, because Sting’s songs are so amazing that he wouldn’t have written anything like that himself, I felt kind of sorry for the guy. I was also disgusted when, in the other montage (easy to find on KZbin), they were sitting together and Sting was clearly mocking Dominic, throwing out with a malicious smile, “You have to show them your version of The Beatles… c'mon play them your version of ‘Yesterday’…” Dominic hesitated, but in the end, he played like a well-trained monkey. Seems kind of sad. On one hand he travels all over a world playing at huge gigs, & maybe I am projecting on him my feelings but the way he talks about Sting feels like stuff I have seen in corporations with people who had toxic bosses. And I have worked a lot as freelancer with various organizations and I have seen all versions of it and believe me when I say some where so similar to stuff Miller says.

[@ExileonBrockSt]

🇨🇦👽🎸👍🏼

[@davedecker1725]

Me and Vinny Coliuta (kinda young kinda wow) would play the WRONG chords!😅

[@dronepilotflyby9481]

Sub'd

[@BrentHiggins01]

Medieval/ Renaissance ....hey what's 1000 years between friends.

[@neanderthalsnavel7411]

Copeland's crack about Sting's 'hirelings' wasn't fair.

[@BoutYoungAnnaLee]

What did he say?

[@chrisplese9293]

Lol..what a GAS 😂

[@tonykeith76]

I'm desperate.. I've been playing 60s - 70s - 80s rock for more than 50 years and I love the Police but.. I really don't like "Roxanne".. What's wrong with me? 🤣

[@ImpartiallySpeaking]

I wonder whether Andy Summers gets royalties every time Stings band performs Andy’s guitar riff from Every Breath You Take? One thing that’s sure is that Sting performing police songs in a lower key often sounds really awful.

[@melrupinski88]

I believe there’s an ongoing law suit over that issue.

[@AV-cx7ob]

Stud

[@ytnsanw]

How dare he have hair like that at 64? Ought to be a law....

[@shawnmcvey7789]

Dominic is the caliber of guitarist that *can* change keys and retain the magic. I am not😂

[@J.C.Vleugel]

Subscribe? Don't you have enough important guests? Little annoying that special edited in subscribe request.

[@danielthomas8507]

It's strange when artists change the key it almost never sounds right to my ears to play or listen to..as a police fan since 78 message didn't sound right when he played it?????

[@BoutYoungAnnaLee]

Defo agree with this. The original recorded version of “So lonely” defo relied on a frenetic punk energy and crazy high throat ripping vocal from sting. Now when Sting plays it live it’s in a lower key it barely works at all