How Agent Fresco Wrote Dark Water

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[@WestseedGroove]

There's a very clear pattern for the drummer's right hand, so "the formula is there is no formula" is very misleading. The right hand has a very leading role for the left and the kick, where it basicly plays right before every kick. It's a two bar pattern, playing (one eight, one quarter, one dotted quarter, one quarter) (two dotted quarters, one quarter) and on the first quarter of every second bar the right hand plays a bell. This pattern is the core pattern for the right both in the chorus and verse. The only change is when the righ plays on the china, where it plays the same notes as the kick. Really good video overall, Agent Fresco are one of the most competent bands today when it comes to songwriting!

[@mastod0n1]

As a former drummer the right hand pattern did seem almost natural to me in a sense so I was a little confused about his interpretation of it. Granted, this style of drumming is what I gravitated towards so I realize while it might have clicked right away with me that it might seem foreign to non-drummers or even drummers whose internal pulses don't naturally align with the style.

[@Holistic-songwriting]

Super interesting, thanks for sharing!

[@theguy4361]

@@mastod0n1 yeah I realized the exact same thing with this song. It seemed to me pretty obvious to play when I first took a look at it and it went pretty well ans for the same reason as you. But looking back at it, I see how much it can be disturbing and hard to understand when you're not used to it. It's the kind of pattern that are easy once you've broke everything down. The kick and snare hits basically drive the whole thing and then it's often just a matter of placing a hit hat before the kick (often with a ghost note in beetween) and filling the blancks with ghost notes on the snare.

[@amjan]

Exactly. The drums here are very simple and logical: he knew where he needed to place the kicks and how he wanted the snare to interract with the kicks. And the empty spaces in-between he filled in with the hi-hats or cymbals creating linear grooves. Just looke at the score - it's all linear beats. And as a drummer you fill those empty spaces without even thinking about it, 'cause it's all about the body triangle motion, the triangle of R hand, L hand and R foot.

[@agentfresco]

Such an honour to be featured on your channel. Thank you Friedemann!

[@Holistic-songwriting]

My pleasure my friend! :)

[@linalisful]

We, the listeners, have such an honor of you being featured on our planet.

[@alegiddings]

I CANT BELIEVE YOU KNOW ABOUT AGENT FRESCO I LOVE YOU SO MUCH

[@erlings]

Oh wow! Did not expect to see Agent Fresco here! Really happy to see a great channel talk about this incredible band!

[@musicman700]

Let's see if more "surprises" are about to come :P I would not mind having Leprous, Periphery, Plini, etc ;)

[@Golegator]

Holy hell I never thought I'd see Agent Fresco here. Huge respect!

[@Crgs0510]

Fuuuuuuck! I love this band!!!! The band I listened the most this year!!

[@Holistic-songwriting]

Same! :)

[@warumnur90210]

Agent Fresco is one of my favorite bands. I wish a new album in 2020 for a good year And a concert in 🇦🇹

[@nilsxvx]

Never clicked this fast on one of your videos Friedman Huge respect for talking about a smaller band like this!!

[@TheSentinel909]

What a band, what a song!

[@DrTacoPHD665]

Always makes me happy when bands openly share their music through sheet music, stems, etc, instead of getting hell bent over removing all tabs from the internet.

[@runaromarsson3655]

Such an incredible band, love it, thanks for diving into this song!

[@mfC0RD]

One of my favorite bands of all time for sure. It is awesome to see them here!

[@calamari3707]

So happy to see agent fresco on here! I’m going to have to really examine this one later.

[@NiklasBlumenthaler]

I once shared the stage with agent fresco as the Keyboarder of the support band in Weinheim, Germany. I am super excited to watch this 😋

[@exebor7824]

Amazing song, great analysis, thank you!

[@FuerUndVon]

I notice you in all the good places. Now that! Good boy! :)

[@CesareAugustoGiorgini]

Such a great band! Thanks!

[@franciscogomes3459]

I love Agent Fresco! So glad you did this video about them

[@tingkagol]

I always thought the drums (right hand) followed a pattern. The closed hats especially sound distinct but you'll find they also follow a pattern across the stanzas.

[@WestseedGroove]

You're right, there's a simple pattern to it, so I'm surprised he said there is none.

[@krizzi666]

Polyrythms, enough said.

[@amjan]

@@krizzi666 No. That has nothing to do with it. The real answer is: playing drums. You have to know it to understand it. There's not just the musical level, but even more importantly - the body movement level that non-drummers don't know anything about. The pattern was very natural and almost obvious to play.

[@Mariel351]

Hello! I fucking loved this video. Thank you so much for creating this. 💜

[@alexkairis3927]

This deserves more likes!

[@hogblockula9335]

I love you so much for this

[@AronStandley]

Could you do an analysis of Ratatat? Love the songwriter breakdowns and exercises videos! Great channel 😊

[@Skoopyghost]

The song starts with G Emx2, then goes intob G Em Bm F#m. Simple, but affective chord progression. As a multi instrumentalist Dark Water makes me gitty.

[@sharpphilip]

I'm almost afraid to ask, but I've never been able to sort out exactly what's going on in "Angst," also off Destrier. To use Arnór's words, I feel like a Level 2 magician trying to sort out a Level 30 spell.

[@sharpphilip]

Also, someone please let me know if Arnór ever does a vocal workshop.

[@Mariel351]

Hipe you're doing well on this hard times. Mr! Is there any possibility I could get the transcription? I'ld love to analyze it ): Thank you so much, any answer will be well received (: greetings From Latin America

[@olenaandrosiuk1531]

Admire you for score transcription of the whole song!

[@volvoxfraktalion5225]

Wow

[@brianbp4f]

Where the bridge tho?

[@dimospapadim1878]

I want to propose a greek composer; Mimis Plessas, he has written many songs and most of them has been successful (he has compose the greek most popular disk; o dromos)

[@shagyy7449]

I would like to see a video about Arctic Monkeys, especialy "Do I wanna know"

[@napalonemamuskiztwojejokol3946]

Please make something about Depeche Mode

[@timonesjoaquin4610]

I have a question? I do sincerely believe that I have a voice. I do covers and yes I do gigs. I'm not saying this to brag okay? I just wanna give you details of me. Anyways I really wanna right my own songs but why does my voice doesn't fit my own songs?? I seriously don't like it. People say it's good but I personally don't like it. Is this just a psychological thinking?

[@angelo585]

can you analyze rex orange county?

[@Andy-lb5ub]

Please analyze Pearl Jam 🙏🏻

[@azzabmemories]

Do daft punk

[@tunestar]

Are you getting paid now to analyze crappy songs?

[@tingkagol]

ok buddy. move along now.

[@tunestar]

@@tingkagol I dont think so. I'm here for the top 100 songs of all time. And this crap is not.

[@tingkagol]

@@tunestar i'm sure you are

[@albertarason4502]

Some people just can't understand that people have different tastes in music.