MASSIVE ATTACK - Protection - How Was It Made? Ep 5

[@k00k]

If only you had Tracey Thorn on speed dial. Her voice is like liquid gold.

[@spacetrucker2196]

Came for the wood paneling, enjoyed the song dissection too.

[@GyuBeats]

😂😂😂👍

[@danwalker2110]

Loving the content, that second chord with the E on top is a B sus4, so it sounds ambiguous as it doesn’t have the third in it, then the next one is Bmin with the 7th (A) in the bass or Bm/A. Such a smooth progression - I’ve loved this track for ages!

[@GyuBeats]

Ah thanks! Great to get more info about the theory :)

[@ultrajayme]

i had music theory engrained in me at a very young age, then i completely let it go after i got to high school and started playing in bands. i've made music since the earl 90s and in the last couple years, I have been putting a lot of emphasis on trying to relearn my music theory. it is absolutely the difference between "a cool idea" of a track and "that all works perfectly."

[@alexandermccarthy]

I've been a huge fan of Massive Attack for many years, and fell in love with their music precisely because they took the time to create these deep harmonic and arpeggiated layers mixed with haunting vocals. Your recreation does an awesome job of capturing their original magic.

[@GyuBeats]

Thank you 🙏

[@CptGlassback]

This is great! This song was my 1st dance when I got married.

[@SecretSun-Music]

One of the best songs ever written

[@HashPram]

Chord progression is: B F# A# D# - BMaj7 B F# B E - BSus4 A F# B E - B7Sus4/A G F# B E - Em Add9/G The last two chords are a bit open to interpretation. The most natural way to think about it would be say it's a held chord over a descending bass (BSus4, BSus4/A, BSus4/G). But there's a definite feeling that when you land on the last chord it's a change of chord rather than being just a continuation of the previous chord. If you interpret the last two chords as a variation of B7 and Em you get a V7 i chord progression in Em, which (given the rest of the progression sounds solidly in B) would be an applied dominant on Em.

[@GyuBeats]

Wow thanks! :) I doff my cap to your music theory knowledge - genuinely 🙏

[@RachaelSA]

Thank you so much. This song was in the movie Hackers, but was not on the sound track CD. I

[@antonisglikos]

Wonderful recreation. My God the vocals of Tracey Thorn in this song is from outter space.

[@DjNikGnashers]

Tracy has written and sung some of the best vocals to ever come out of the UK imo.

[@gyrethclemman923]

How about some Fluke. Surely a challenge to figure out what kit they've used.

[@buffalorevolver6473]

Absolutely loving your channel buddy literally every track your covering is from favourite Albums of all time of me.. also been trying to make my own music for a short while so really appreciate what works going in. Keep it up mate 👍 thankyou

[@GyuBeats]

Ah thanks :) You have good taste!

[@PeterJoslynHarris]

My thoughts exactly. Every one of your selections is a home run.

[@skinwalker_]

I love these videos. Fascinating for someone who loves this music but doesn’t really understand how it’s created and put together. Love it.

[@Hakucho64]

Yeah, fascinating that they sampled James Brown playing one guitar note!

[@druckerman247]

Love it mate. The sounds of my youth, and the music of life.

[@DroneShots_UK]

Recent subscriber here thanks to the youtube algorithm, I say this with the utmost respect & love, you remind me of an accountant who sits at their desk quietly just getting on with their job saying nothing to anyone. Yet out of the office they're cool as f**k with a talent that just keeps on giving. You totally deserve 100's of 000's more subscribers than you have.

[@GyuBeats]

Awesome comment :) Thank you!!

[@pattardn]

Here by accident, but I love what I'm hearing. The E over B is the (neither major nor minor) Bsus4. Beautiful song.

[@TheSteviebitaly]

I'm really enjoying this series, thanks very much and keep up the excellent work

[@jonaskarlsson4599]

Brilliant! Love this era of Massive Attack and now i appreciate it even more. Good work.

[@GyuBeats]

Great to hear :)

[@krepes8685]

Pretty sure the drums are from the sample as well as the guitar. Great video, love classic Trip Hop.

[@richardlocke8057]

Have you somehow hacked my Spotify Playlist? Loving this, thanks!

[@GyuBeats]

😂👍❤️

[@juliekovich-recordingartist]

Thanks!

[@akinsa]

Gotta say a DJ shadow entroducing would be amazing

[@frankcunkstein3281]

This guy is working his way through them and doing a great job. kzbin.infovideos

[@GyuBeats]

It's one of my favourite albums. I'd love to but I could never.....hang on.....:checks Whosampled: woah maybe I could!!

[@GyuBeats]

😂😂😂

[@RunOfTheHind]

Nah, man. That's one curtain too sacred to look behind!

[@hazybrain7]

About 3.42 into the song there's a weird very high pitched metallic like loop (Like a backward metallic synth/squeaky gate, kinda atonal) over 1 beat that loops for maybe 16 bars, never heard it before but listening to the song it jumps out at me now.. and of course the rain at the end. Spying Glass is my favourite off this album behind Karmacoma. The production on Spying Glass is still a reference for me to this day when listening to new speakers etc. What a track. The mix engineer was on fire ! Great series, great fun especially with music I love just as much and formed a huge part of my life, great job !

[@GyuBeats]

Ah good spot! I'll listen out for it 🙂

[@pokolfiu]

@@GyuBeats sounds like the lead from the Orbital Belfast

[@Jimantronic]

Awesome breakdown, thank you 👍 I've heard this song so many times I know all these sounds intimately, but without realising. Fascinating to hear them uncovered

[@elcasho]

One of my favourites! And the doorway into EDM

[@Kieezo]

I love this series. I’d like to see, one day, how they make Fatalism

[@auditdb7433]

This series is absolutely amazing, easy subscribe, you have a winning formula! Please breakdown Skylined by The Prodigy :) Pretty please with everything you like on top!!!

[@DenGaleBager]

It have ben a dream for me for years to break down this track and try to understand it. This song have been close to my heart since i saw it on MTV many years ago. And this was the track that made me a huge Massive fan. What an amasing peace of music. This made my day. Thank you !!

[@GyuBeats]

So glad to hear it!

[@wakefieldsteven]

Thanks for doing this one, absolutely love this song to death!

[@allgood6760]

Thanks for this mate👍🇳🇿

[@thedudeabides3138]

Just like Buffalo Revolver below, I’ve become a big fan of your channel, and literally every track you’re doing is either one of my favourites or from one of my favourite albums. Thank you SO much for taking the initiative and hoping that people out there might like to discover what you’re showing us, it’s brilliant and fascinating at the same time. I love the length of time you take to show us how a track was compiled, it’s never “too much”, always just right, and if you can’t figure it out yourself, you openly acknowledge where you had to improvise. Please keep it up, can’t wait to see what you’ll be covering next.

[@GyuBeats]

Ah that's a lovely comment. Thank you very much 🙂👍

[@easytoassemble54321]

Nice work as always. A lot of people's favourite is Unfinished Sympathy, but Protection was always my favourite MA track. I could be wrong, but I think the keys etc were done by Craig Armstrong (which is why the progressions end up sounding so nice). And of course Tracy Thorn, who pretty much carries this already great track. Would be great to see you do Orbital "Insides". Or 'Halcyon On and On' as that's probably their best known track.

[@GyuBeats]

Ah nice info! I'm just looking at Halcyon and on and on...

[@MarkusAudio]

My most Loved M A track from my most Loved M A album :-)

[@AirArtStudiosOfficial]

Love your channel dude. Been at it for 30 years myself and learn heaps from you

[@MrVoicemailGuy]

The most enjoyable remake of a timeless masterpiece Gyu! What a brilliant video this is!!! Oh my days... The movie Hackers had such a timeless OST with so many hidden gems but this track was the ultimate one! It just takes you to a place so far away, so abstract, so heavenly...

[@willybobo8846]

that whole record is top ten all time..

[@Natalie-es3dc]

You’re excellent, man! And “Protection” is perfection.

[@diond1333]

Beautiful song and equally beautiful and iconic music video to go with it. I can never make my mind up between this or Teardrop.

[@spudvarr]

Awesome man! Love this track. I'd love to see you do some Prodigy, Liam is a master when it comes to sneaky little sample snippets. The stuff he takes, you'd never have any idea it was a sample.

[@MYEVILTWIIN]

That’s the art in sampling , Liam finds stuff you’d never even think of sampling and making it work

[@obbekjaer]

Jim Pavloff did some great Prodigy recreations from 12 years ago up to a year ago, very detailed work and I highly recommend his channel as well. But yeah, wouldn't mind some of their stuff being processed here either :)

[@spudvarr]

@@obbekjaer Cool, I'll check those out.

[@krz9000]

Jim did great doing them

[@frankcunkstein3281]

There are some decent ones here. kzbin.infovideos

[@barryhalper]

Great track choice and vid and am loving your channel in general. Please keep them coming :-)

[@secretsunofficial]

FANTASTIC my man!!!

[@GyuBeats]

Much appreciated!

[@penguin0075]

Utterly wonderful and insightful breakdown once again. Absolutely loved this video as I do all your videos. Keep doing what you do, you should have so many more subs.

[@PendelSteven]

4:54 Bsus4 11:22 Bmaj7(no5). As you can hear basicly a jazzchord.

[@brianbonifacio7536]

Such a great deep dive! Thank you!

[@GyuBeats]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@jeanpierreviergever1417]

Shows that everything of this song can be redone except for the magical voice of Tracey Thorn.

[@juandenz2008]

Quality breakdown !

[@braddeeley]

Mint! Another favorite deconstructed - Keep it up good sir

[@ClubWisdom8]

Love it - Massive Attack, Incognito... love all of it!!! GYU's album is great too!

[@repsen_nanso]

That's great. I like the original song, but the reproduction is wonderful.

[@Quarker]

My favourite MA track ever. Thanks for the breakdown! You forgot about the natural rain sound towards the end of the track - it's a subtle but lovely touch

[@GyuBeats]

Good call! You're right, I love that bit too :)

[@soerenraudonis]

The most influential LP for me:)

[@BombillaShooter]

Wow. I’m really digging your channel! You’re breaking down all the songs that I loved from the Golden Age of Techno. Have you considered breaking down Young American Primitive’s “Sunrise” or anything by Fluke? You’re awesome man. Gotta subscribe to your Patreon.

[@Sonmz]

Fluke would be great!

[@bristol_manor]

Yes Fluke please! Anything off Risotto!

[@mistapeper1283]

im glad i found this

[@danielpearne2379]

Immense respect for these videos. Each track is amazingly explained and recreated with great care.

[@tunnocks]

Great choice, top video. How about some Irresistible Force?

[@daveparsons6956]

Another fantastic deconstruction. Great work.

[@AL573]

Superb re-creation❤

[@oggeeboggee]

Great choice! Your channel is outstanding! And your music as well! Greetings!

[@tanoi242]

excellent!

[@johnfloydman7735]

Great track... Thanks for sharing the ins and outs of it 🙏👍

[@melankolikfilms]

Fascinating. Gyu beats? This guy beats.

[@alessandroosandrini7090]

Masterpiece!!!!

[@adrianwright448]

Wonderful, you bring a whole other layer of clear happy knowledge, cheers mate

[@alexandrebonhomme]

Thanks for your job, this very educating and inspiring 🙏

[@ultrajayme]

i like how you're apologizing for using the sounds from the track for demonstration purposes meanwhile this genre of music is heavily based on lifting other artists sounds haha. thanks for this video. it's great!

[@bluefilmsltd]

Nice! Would love to know how Group Four was made!!! That track is a mystery...

[@ecsantana]

this one got my Like even before I see it. this tune is... "ba-dum-tss": MASSIVE!

[@rcecil88]

My favourite band! So awesome you’ve picked this track 🔥

[@beautifulcaramelman]

One of my favorite things about many massive attack songs is how the vocals cuts through the mix like a popping hot knife.

[@GyuBeats]

Yes definitely, but they're not overpowering. Great mixing :)

[@thcdenton]

Excellent series dude. I'm hooked. Any chance we can get one on a BOC tune?

[@GyuBeats]

Thanks :) Hopefully... ;)

[@nicoantuna1454]

Loving the content! Massive Attack is my favorite

[@pierreduvellaut2023]

You’re an amazing guy 😃👍 I share your opinion about this song… I love particulary this title for the beauty of the music and effects !!

[@dumafuji]

Great job. Great song choice. God so good

[@GyuBeats]

❤️

[@warringtonruncorn]

Cheers man, I am *adoring* these videos.

[@kevheg3966]

Started watching these a few days ago. Really interesting. Consider me subscribed!

[@matthewj7800]

One of my favorite all time tracks. Thank you thank you for this video!

[@rabmccudden683]

Another great video sir

[@scottfarrell1906]

These breakdowns are brilliant, looking forward to many more. Thank you.

[@marcusdekker]

Great track, one of my favourites.

[@leemurphy6581]

Wonderful!

[@MrBENESKI]

Awesome stuff, nice one

[@Laukiepaukie]

Very nice again. Thank you. I wonder how they made this back in the day?

[@peterfusco5585]

Would love to see an early Aphex Twin !

[@Battledrone]

Alberto Balsalm would be great, such a deep tune.

[@alexandermccarthy]

@@Battledrone I was thinking exactly the same thing!

[@TheAuteurist23]

@@Battledrone Yes, I second Alberto Balsam

[@hazybrain7]

Ha ha - would love to see you tackle Aphex Twin - Tha. The bassline keeps moving on and off the beat making the kick and loop seem out of time but in a great way - I've never fully figured that one out, but one of my fav early electronic tunes of all time...

[@marcpec11]

I'm also keen to see Alberto Balsalm recreated!!

[@glennskinner9564]

Nice job. Have you tried Rip X to extract cleaner vocals

[@zwerker]

Soooooooo good!

[@tomstickland]

The keys are so good in this track.

[@RachaelSA]

If you ever looking for songs to do, have a look at Out of body experience by Rabbit in the moon, it "borrows" a lot from precious things by Tori Amos and the vocals are easy to get from Ingrid Chavez's Whispering Dandelions.

[@RunOfTheHind]

Love this tune, but love Radiation Ruling The Nation, the Mad Prof dub remix, even more.

[@3lullabies]

This channel is just what I have been looking for. Do you dive into older electro? Would love to hear breakdown of some DEVO from Oh No! era. Speedracer maybe..its a weird one. And going way back to primitive pioneers, Silver Apples, Lovefingers. Every beat lover should hear that classic cut.

[@SanxionMusic]

Great breakdown as always. Classic tune!

[@GyuBeats]

Thanks for watching :)

[@EvanToutz]

Would love to see you do a version of “age of love”

[@arvidberg1530]

Super interesting as always!

[@PendelSteven]

9:24 *Bmaj7 --> Bmin7 That helps And well, the D, D# & E thing is basicly bluesscale. As a guitarist I'm used to this, because well... Erm. Gotta know blues if you play (electric) guitar!

[@GyuBeats]

Thank you!

[@simonrhys-phillips3037]

Really enjoying the insights these videos provide :) Great for folks like me who are OK on the music theory side, but not on the production side of things. A modulation is a change of key, where the music is based on a new “family” of chords (some chords are in both the old and new key, but have different “functions”). I probably wouldn’t see this a change from a major to minor key (a modulation), more the use of a borrowed chord (modal interchange). The change isn’t substantial enough for the former. It’s essentially in the same key, just being a bit cheeky, and borrowing elsewhere for a brief moment here and there! A well-known example (not a fan, but it’s famous!) would be Oasis - Don’t Look Back in Anger. The very last time he sings “Back”, when it’s just him and his guitar, the chord changes from Fmaj to Fminor (a slightly unusual version of, IIRC). The Fmin is not in the key of the song (C), but it’s just one brief “borrowing”, rather than a definite change to a new key. Didn’t mean that as a critique of your excellent video - they rightly focus on the sound, not the minutiae of theory! I just started mulling it over, and decided to commit my mental ramblings to YT :).

[@GyuBeats]

Ah thanks for sharing your thoughts, it's really interesting to me. So it's modal interchange rather than a modulation, right? 🙂

[@simonrhys-phillips3037]

Ha - I think the theory experts would probably call it a modal interchange. A key change/modulation is usually more than that it terms of a shift in the music - think something like Penny Lane, where the chorus is in A major after the verse in B major (A major is lower - most modulations go up in pitch). For me, I guess I’d think “modulation” if there’s a clear sense of change - an upward/downward shift in the music, with new chords, or chords we’d heard earlier having a new function e.g. a Gmaj being the Dominant chord (V) in a song that starts out in C major, but then the Sub-Dominant chord (IV) after a modulation to D major. I think the Fmaj - Fmin - C maj example in the last post is a good example. It’s a very common set of chords that provide a satisfying resolution to the root chord of Cmaj. Fmin is not in Cmaj - it’s one “borrowed” chord, not a modulation to a new idea in a new key.

[@travelmusic1113]

I love this series!

[@MartinBaldock]

I particularly love the Brian Eno remix...

[@itslordquas]

another banger! give it time and your videos will have 10k views easy 💪💪💪

[@jeffpapangue1839]

Absolutely wonderful, what about « the good, the bad and the dread » by Dreadzone ? 😇

[@thedudeabides3138]

Awwww yes please!

[@earlsfield]

Their hats ar so obviously from Akai samplers, so recognisable that whole line. I tll use S3200 since I love what it does to the sample. Also that elec piano pad chords, that so staple Massive Attack keys vs bass, later to be heard across the entire Mezzanine.