Music That Sounds Like The Lyrics

[@DavidBennettPiano]

🎨🎼Part 2 of this video is out now: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gp6cgauOqLBmnbs 🎶

[@hatim4790]

Please talk about the incredible elvis feeling in the song"surrender" and how he expresses every single word meaning.he pronounces " fire"and differently "disire" the pride of "story "and "glory" the continuity of"forever" the immediacy of" tonight" and the supply of " please" twice in the song really big lesson from that big singer.long live the king.

[@nacoran]

It's not word painting, but the Ben Folds example made me think of one of my favorite examples of sneaking some dirty language in... in Lou Reed's Take a Walk on the Wild Side there is that great line "Holly came from Miami, FLA" were most people seem to take it as just the state code and miss the dig at Los Angeles.

[@LilCalebW]

Yay luv u bro

[@klaxoncow]

A nice one that I like is Kate Bush's "Watching Me Without You": kzbin.info/www/bejne/kICbeKavYqqKgbM The backing vocals are mumbled and indistinct. But if you listen carefully, she's singing "you don't hear me, you don't hear what I'm saying, do you?". So, indeed, if you're not paying attention - as I didn't on the first few hearings of this song, until I stopped to truly listen - then you don't hear it and she's calling you out on that (but it, of course, plays into the theme of the song about being ignored, isolated and alienated by another person. The notion that she's a ghost in her own home). There's also a few "you can't hear me" backwards in the background. An "SOS" in morse code. There's a backwards message that I don't think anyone's worked out how to decode (because she's not saying English words - some kind of code? But all still playing into the "no communication" theme). And, at the end, her appeals to be heard are all broken up and staccato.

[@soner818]

Sound of music, "Do Re Mi"

[@bwcbiz]

Seems like "word painting" largely consists of musical puns

[@lvl32entertainment94]

Someone alert TheDooo

[@pandabeargaming3349]

Hits a chord with a lot of people

[@KingJellyfishII]

I tried to cross the road without my glasses on, I couldn't C# so I'm probably going to Bb

[@stechapo4009]

Prog rock is full of them (probably). Puns & noodles!!

[@ommzi6428]

*all dads approve*

[@Ian07_]

"Stop, wait a minute" *song pauses for an entire minute*

[@kimishou]

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[@NeviTheLettyFan]

I needed this comment

[@callumsylvester9921]

Letto Same lmao

[@steveempiremantra2120]

@@kimishou thx

[@WolfiePH]

Then everyone in the audience claps in mute and did a backflip. I tell you guys, bruno mars concerts are something.

[@Daniel-kr1vy]

I believe the most obvious one has to be "Do-Re-Mi" from The Sound of Music

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Good suggestion - I’ve actually just covered that one in my new word painting video 🙂

[@Daniel-kr1vy]

@@DavidBennettPiano I haven't seen it yet, will check it out right now :D

[@DavidBennettPiano]

weedeater thanks!

[@sisidiam1096]

and so us Greece's Eurovision entry in 1977

[@clarav.7937]

😂😂😂 dying!

[@ohnoherewegoagain5819]

"I wanna teach the kids how to cuss and what notes they can cuss from" such a great goal

[@LRM12o8]

I mean, it only makes sense to combine musical education with sex ed, since that's why most kids start doing music in the first place! 😂 (... if popular TV shows are to believed)

[@JudeCooper]

May we all strive to such goals.

[@DMSProduktions]

@@LRM12o8 It's a LIE!

[@rico4939]

when sex ed meets music ed

[@humboldthammer]

I hope you find ha piness with a newd irection.

[@SteveBluescemi]

Screaming the word "scream" is a really common one

[@DavidBennettPiano]

good idea! Maybe the sequel will start with a 'scream' compilation

[@savannahkrystall2698]

Oooooh high school musical three!!

[@vgsinger27]

Foxey Lady.

[@MLBFCollection]

Judas Priest - Burn In Hell

[@genwt3916]

AC/DC's Jailbreak immediately comes to mind, good spot sir

[@stekarensurfplatta]

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody: After Freddie sings ”Shivers down my spine” Brian plays a little arpeggio with the strings behind the guitar bridge, creating a musical representation of a shiver down the spine. Pretty interesting stuff.

[@veronikafedorova4493]

stekaren1337 surfplatta wow, I haven’t noticed that

[@metalzonemt-2]

@@veronikafedorova4493 Me neither, until I saw a video where Brian mentioned it.

[@charlottevanslooten899]

stekaren1337 surfplatta yeah ive always noticed that wow!!!

[@sidarthur8706]

in sold to the highest buddha by gong after the line 'my codpiece is starting to tremble' the guitarist makes wobbly trembly noises

[@chrissichris1428]

stekaren1337 surfplatta when they sing “landslide” at the beginning, it slightly slides down and when he sings “anywhere the wind blows” you can hear a long kind of “wushhh” sound just like a wind. The song is fill of this stuff, just keep listening to background sounds and interesting melodies and you’ll find a lot more. The song is pure art

[@DJH3ARTL3SS]

Word paint me like one of your French girls.

[@tonyt987]

Word paint Em like 1 of your F Girls.

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Maybe I should make that a Patreon perk! 👨🏻‍🎨

[@ApoLk_]

@@tonyt987 F minor girls i'm sorry

[@omgbence676]

I once had a girl.. or should I say... she once had me

[@AdrianChazz]

@@tonyt987 Word Paint Em like 1 of your F-Gs

[@Origamitricks]

I really like how in Queens Don't stop me now, the song technically never ends. If just fades out

[@Greenballoffire]

oh that's amazing

[@wyattstevens8574]

Not only does it "don't stop, " but it does so with the exact chord progression as the verse!

[@CyMations]

Me who knows jackshit about music: ah yes indeed music does that

[@rosalemön]

Same lmaooo

[@Aenetroy]

Samee

[@penguinlord2343]

Not same 😂

[@princessevangeline410]

never same

[@hawktalon7890]

Me too. :D

[@mary-mx8sw]

in Mary Poppins, during A Spoonful of Sugar, Julie Andrews says, “A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. The medicine go do-own, the medicine go down.” But on the first and last “downs” the melody goes up. The people who wrote this song said that they had the melody go up because Mary Poppins wasn’t “normal”, so naturally, down would be up.

[@awesomesauce754]

Teddy Rose I love that

[@yukisoba8888]

Rachel Muckerman same

[@DustyStarrs]

AHH I WAS GONNA SAY THAT I first learned that when watching Saving Mr Banks, highly recommend

[@amritas2400]

Yeah! I watched that in a movie.

[@bleckybob]

Awesome, you watched saving mr Banks

[@ARMYStrongHOOAH17]

"Hey do you know how to play Hallelujah" *me*: uhhhh, yeah, I think it goes like this.... the fourth. The fifth. The minor fall, and the major lift.

[@mal9369]

you know? the baffled king composing? hallelujah?

[@zrkled5645]

The baffled king composing Waluigi

[@felipevasconcelos6736]

Zrkled wah

[@TRFAD]

wagga wagga wagga waggaaaaa

[@jookie4207]

@@mal9369 hallelujah…. Hallelujah… hallelujah…. Halleluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuujah. OoOh…

[@x-mighty7602]

Never gonna give you up (high pitch) Never gonna let you down (low pitch) This is something I always noticed even before watching this video.

[@aha8599]

LMAO

[@crispusattucks4007]

Was I just technically rickrolled?

[@MultiFireflie]

@@crispusattucks4007 Yes, yes, you were

[@james_crawford]

Also the next line "Never gonna run ArOuNd" has an up and down pitch on the around word

[@Zachyshows]

​@@james_crawford And desert you has a short pause after itr

[@bookbutterfly6613]

“Oceans rise, Empires fallllllll” Edit: for people who don’t get it I mean it’s IRONIC.

[@JerusalemStrayCat]

I noticed that too...a little ironic but I guess it fits because King George is predicting things that won't happen

[@gjk-arts5855]

Book Butterfly ever since I’ve got obsessed with Hamilton I’ve seen hamilton comments and it makes me happy

[@giovata]

"Don't modulate the key then not debate with me" is the main example that comes to my mind of word painting

[@haxincorporated1663]

Rise up...

[@trentonheyn413]

We have seen each other through it all!

[@azula2399]

How about , “I like the make my self believe that planet earth turns *SLOOOOOWWLLLLY*

[@RehannahB]

Cat 😊classic

[@ffb8691]

Fireflies is a good song

[@maxtitanium223]

YEEEEESSSSS

[@ryancarter2959]

My childhood favorite

[@binupdhungana3889]

"Everything is never as it seeeeeeeems, when I fall asleep.."

[@yoda752]

In “Don’t Stop Me Now” by Queen, during the second verse: “...Like an atom bomb, I’m about to oh oh [tension building] oh oh OH EXPLODE [tension explodes into energy]...”

[@benh1496]

I’m burning through the sky

[@seanh9882]

@@benh1496 proceeds to catch fire

[@theyellowdarkness1837]

Great example

[@buhpoi8085]

Ben H 200 degrees

[@brainwormyy]

that's why they call me mr Fahrenheit

[@FancyMrFinn]

A recent example I love is in Bo Burnham's song "Goodbye." When he sings the word "diminish" on a dimineshed chord. Its so cool

[@LovelyAngel.]

He's also got "Beating off in A minor" but let's not talk about that 😅

[@benedekbencz4138]

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody "little high, little low"

[@dani3645]

Also on bohemian rhapsody: "Sends shivers down my spine" *sound of sweeping chimes*

[@alexreid1173]

Kinda upset this wasn’t an example lol it was the first thing that came to mind

[@tiyenin]

You people realize that "high" and "low" are sung on the same melodic note AND chord, yes? It's literally the antithesis of word painting.

[@MariaLopez-jd4tt]

@@tiyenin word painting doesn’t necessarily have to be the exact words. The pitch changes in the words “little” yea the word high and low are played on the same note but the two “littles” are different. The first “little” is higher and the second little goes lower. Before correcting people, saying this isn’t word painting, I suggest you consider the whole phrase like an actual musician.

[@holachicos320]

When using some headphones, you can hear "little high" coming from your left ear from a higher place and "little low" coming from your right ear from a lower place

[@dessertstorm7476]

shorty got low low low low low low low low

[@darionbuck2715]

He didn't mention this particular piece, because it's simply too complicated to analyze.

[@KaizerMan]

really he shouldve said lower since his vocals were only relatively low but were objectively lower. still a classic song tho and im not cussing musical legends T-Pain and the state of FloRida

[@CoolFellaProductions]

*shawty

[@vampirerev7577]

T h a n k y o u

[@raleighroberts3969]

The definition of lyrical genius!

[@TheGnussa]

In Puccini's "Tosca", when she's asked for a sex trade, the music plays the notes B A C, which in italian are Si La Do. "Sì, la do" means "Yes, I will give it to you", subtly meaning that she agreed with the trade.

[@Kai_On_Paws_4298]

Hahaha

[@stefanonecchi-composer3924]

Non ci avevo mai pensato 🤔

[@cynthiaschmidt1235]

: o

[@Greenballoffire]

genius

[@afreen5058]

Ooooo nice!!

[@majaonska4304]

In "Somebody to Love" by Queen there are verses "I feel like i've got no rhythm" and "I just keep loosing my beat", where Freddie respectively sings without rhytm and off-beat

[@trudyannbuckley]

Reminds me of: "Maybe I sing off key but you still love this song" in I Like Myself Most of the Time by K. Flay

[@AlphaGeekgirl]

Losing

[@babscabs1987]

​@@AlphaGeekgirl thank you

[@wyattstevens8574]

I never noticed that!

[@antomcmanus1775]

I loved this part too!

[@fishfoods2622]

in beetlejuice the musical a character sings “maybe seventy-eight” and the time signature changes to 7/8

[@nidhis1289]

Katatles that’s really clever

[@polyrhythm7236]

What song?

[@ciara9369]

@@polyrhythm7236 ready set not yet

[@quietkoala4827]

it's adam who say it

[@rancidprince3133]

I’ve heard that song so many times and I never realized lol

[@ahmiraoffthewall]

“Your lifestyle’s HIGH, but your funds are l o w” - Dr. Facillier from Princess and the Frog

[@meking1808]

This is the best example of word painting 😂

[@brittanymartinez8276]

Dig a Little Deeper does it too! "You got to dig a little deeper| (followed by lower note) Ooh its gonna be tough"

[@neongray7959]

That's what I was thinking (I watched the movie yesterday)

[@angeloflightsaber4687]

"You young man are from across the sea" ends on a C

[@neongray7959]

@@angeloflightsaber4687 bro I didn't even notice that one

[@syahfirizkimeutuah5698]

"little high, little low" Bohemian Rhapsody-Queen

[@TheCoolRaven]

was just gonna comment that

[@lisaskywalker8419]

Same thought

[@justarandomarmy115]

Uriah Shamosh high and low are both sung on the same note tho

[@LixiumXaef]

@@justarandomarmy115 they are, but the preceding words are higher and lower respectfully.

[@TheCoolRaven]

Just a random ARMY I have ears too you know

[@jemesmemes9026]

Another great example of this is the pre-chorus in Smells Like Teen Spirit: _"Hello, hello, hello, how low"_ I love how it gets the lowest at "low", and how with "hello" the "-LO" is LOwer part

[@AlexandreMeloArtista]

little high, little low in bohemian rhapsody

[@vacaura]

but the lyrics are opposite to the melody

[@MetalliBucket]

ethans reloading they aren’t, high is sung higher than low

[@dimitripf]

@@MetalliBucket they are the same note, but the "littles" are different

[@SuperAronGamerMNO]

@@dimitripf Well. It's still not opposite to the melody.

[@raulhuapaya]

SuperAronGamer well little high is going low and little low is going high so...

[@thegoldenagegirl4807]

That analysis of Over The Rainbow was the most wholesome thing i’ve ever heard thank you

[@baileyharrison1030]

Are you sure you don’t mean the song after?

[@fiend-off-the-grid]

@@baileyharrison1030 no. no they don't. Not wholesome, just silly

[@lc1715]

You'd like grad school.

[@fiend-off-the-grid]

@@lc1715 may I ask what you are trying to imply by that?

[@lc1715]

@@fiend-off-the-grid I was replying to the original comment. The person would like studying music in grad school because you have to do a lot of that sort of analysis; creating a theory and explaining it in detail, even if it wasn't necessarily related to the composer's intent. It helps to expand critical thinking skills.

[@Rosenrot0eme]

The Story of Us by Taylor Swift, she raises her voice as she sings “I’ve never heard silence quite this loud” while the instruments all go quiet.

[@JMemski]

omg my favourite, if word painting were actual paintings I'd have it framed.

[@anaduds]

When she sings "when it all broke down" it goes down.

[@blameitoncapitalism]

yaass queen genius lyricist of our generationhad to be pointed out

[@DragonFreaktheGreat]

That's also probably my favorite Taylor Swift lyric

[@angeloflightsaber4687]

And when she says "miscommunications lead to fall out" the notes fall

[@ealadubh4800]

"Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup, they slither while they pass, they slip away across the universe" has that perfect stream-of-consciousness delivery to the lyrics, rambling for ages without pausing to take a breath... before halting and letting them drift off.

[@MrBrewer7736]

How about the chords A-C-D-C in AC-DC's High Voltage.

[@jackconklin919]

@Georgie McBurnie or shostakovich's DSCH motif

[@DavidBennettPiano]

clever! I didn't know that

[@MaggaraMarine]

It does use those chords, but not in that order. The chorus is A C D A x2, C D C D C G D A.

[@David-cu1xy]

Whole Lotta Rosie also has the chords A-C-A-D-A-C-A

[@egilsandnes9637]

@@David-cu1xy That's so cool! (I must admit that I learned the "native" way of pronouncing AC/DC just recently)

[@shauryae478]

Bohemian Rhapsody "Caught in a landsliiiide....no escape from reality" The note slides down,like, half a scale after the word "landslide" 😂

[@benjaminhankinson4749]

Always loved that slide

[@mariposadelaire5390]

Also "look up to the skies and see" goes up and there's a C at "see".

[@lucasg.5534]

@@mariposadelaire5390 Uh, no, there isn't.

[@jonathanlee6660]

@@lucasg.5534 There is....

[@mridhulml9238]

True..and now that i think of it maybe they did that high octave autotune like sound in the intro to do that drop after 'landslide'?

[@sweetyeojinnie1435]

My favourite is in “I Got A Boy” by SNSD, when Jessica sings “don’t stop, let’s bring it back to 1:40” which not only brings back the instrumental used at 1:40 in the song, but also brings the bpm back to 140

[@arijeanz]

Iconic

[@thedead073]

That was wild

[@octo-pops]

Didn't expect to see Kpop in this comments section but YES!!

[@thedead073]

@@octo-pops TBH SNSD is an exception. They're everywhere. Even though they're dead now.

[@luvi4091]

Hardcorepro-Cycloid That sounds morbid-

[@auracle6184]

Word painting is used really well in the chorus of "Into the Unknown" from Frozen 2. The song is about a character overcoming the urge to stay in safe stability and go out on an adventure. The chorus' first line jumps by a simple octave, representing safety. The second line jumps by an octave plus a step, just a little bit out of comfort before coming back to the octave. The third and final line goes all in with an octave plus three steps and ends one degree above the octave, returning to a place that is not the original safety but a triumphant note nonetheless.

[@wyattstevens8574]

The music goes further "into the unknown!" Howard Ho has a video (How Elsa Finds Herself [Musically]) about how this (and Show Yourself) both came from Let It Go.

[@geodrein402]

Bach actually wrote a whole sonata around “C A F F E E” the German word for coffee

[@gurrrn1102]

*cantata

[@arbeez4827]

Uh, the German word for coffee starts with a "k" dude. "Kaffee", not "caffee"

[@evanmisejka4062]

@@arbeez4827 yeah the one take away from three years of German classes was there are almost no words that start with "C" in German.

[@blacksandthecity8999]

@@evanmisejka4062 when Beethoven lived it was actually spelled with a "c". The spelling was totally different from now :)

[@evanmisejka4062]

@@blacksandthecity8999 really? I didn't know that, cool!

[@aryansingh2199]

In All Star when they say " we could all use a little _change_ " there is a key change.

[@i_so_late]

what? no there isn't

[@karlg5697]

there isnt

[@susellinares8920]

KarlG there definitely is. “We all need a little chaaaaAAANGEEE well the years stop coming and they don’t stop coming...” the last chorus.

[@raffaaeeel_]

im the 666th like 😏

[@temple_123]

No there isn't it's just an augmented chord

[@MlpLoverAllTheWay]

Bo Burnham’s “oh Bo” has a part where he get’s the runs and starts singing them as well.

[@joyrys486]

i think “y’all motherfuckers want a key change?” in country song would also work

[@parkchimmin7913]

Does beating off in A minor count?

[@thatoneotheridiot3361]

@@parkchimmin7913 Why wouldn't it?

[@Bluuu3]

"It was wrong on so many levels" right before the key change as well

[@parkchimmin7913]

Gordon Ramsay I don’t know what A minor sounds like ;n; (sorry, I lack knowledge on the subject of music)

[@tesscrelli783]

Mate I've just found your channel and it's like a gold mine of music content I never knew I needed until now.

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Thank you! 😃

[@tyloren5502]

In All-Star, on the 3rd verse, he sings "We all need a little change" and then changes the melody.

[@PschocatIII]

Tylo Ren key*

[@Herghun]

Well, the years start coming and they don't stop coming

[@millerramsey8442]

Doesn’t make sense not to live for fun

[@nickronca1562]

Your brain gets smart, but your head gets dumb

[@samueleproiettimicozzi8134]

So much to do, so much to see

[@lizzybeth1ify]

In Janelle Monáe’s “I Like That,” when she says “I’m the random minor note you hear in major songs,” she switches to a minor note at “minor note”

[@Mohammed8778]

Whats a minor note? You mean a note in some minor scale?

[@Catmomila]

@@Mohammed8778 Probably singing the minor third of the chord

[@vegjeezy17]

lizaliz who cares

[@mogedude]

@@vegjeezy17 Apperantly, at the time of me writing this, 682 people do.

[@clarine3057]

Also with somewhere over the rainbow, the notes actually form “rainbows” from when it goes up and down

[@andrewsparkes8829]

Speaking of weather, I love the instrumentation of Raining In My Heart sounding like raindrops. Simple but effective.

[@unlocktornado]

Wym

[@liaurrecoechea5367]

Jean Lucas as the notes go up and down it creates an arch shape like a rainbow O O O O. O O. O

[@bartholomeusjgunspy]

''And I'm gonna be high as a kite by then'' Elton John (Rocket Man)

[@keziahjose5906]

“Over the rainbow” the notes look like a rainbow

[@DavidNorthMusic]

Also "up high" are both up high.

[@anoushanarayanan9973]

Idk why but that song creeps me out

[@CraftAero]

When he showed the clip my first thought was No, that's "Great Gig in the Sky" followed by "Money". I've watched it too many times with Dark Side of the Moon playing. 👌

[@ptf19_]

also, the pentagram represents a rainbow and some of the notes go over it

[@chaccostan]

that’s what i noticed even before he started to explain lmaoooo

[@codalong]

in “you’ll be back” from hamilton, the pitch lowers when the king says “oceans rise” and goes up when he says “empires fall.” reverse prosody!

[@MossyMozart]

@zauwolf - I believe that happens in places in the kite song in the Disney film, "Mary Poppins".

[@rfresa]

Also in Mary Poppins with "makes the medicine go down".

[@DMSProduktions]

@@rfresa OR your mum! ;oP

[@jookie4207]

We have seen each other through it all…

[@massive.nerd.potential]

@@jookie4207 And when push comes to shove (Idk if shove is the right word at least what's I've understood)

[@giovanniventurelli852]

"The baffled king composing" The chord on "king" is a D. In Italian the D chord is called Re, which happens to be the same word for "king". I don't think that Cohen knew this, but it helped me remembering how to play that song.

[@nerady]

But there's no D in the song? G is played on "king"

[@giovanniventurelli852]

@@nerady, eheh I've always played it in the key of G, I never thought about checking the original key :D

[@giovanniventurelli852]

However the note of king is actually a D, if you play the song in the key of C.

[@azearaazymoto461]

The key doesn’t change notes like that. The key is the difference between G and G#

[@FresoVODs]

@@azearaazymoto461 No… the key is the set of notes used to play a tune. If you transpose a song from D major to B♭ major, you will be playing different notes. E.g., if the first note is a D, you will now be playing B♭ instead for the first note. (Also, G and G♯ are just as much different notes that, say, E and F is. Don’t let the ♯ and ♭’s fool you into thinking they’re really the same notes…)

[@juanobarano]

Thanks for putting these set of examples together, David. It's very useful for the classroom. Consider including "Do-Re-Mi" from The Sound of Music. It's hard to find a clearer match between lyrics and pitch.

[@victormunhozzz]

I can't believe this video doesn't feature Mariah Carey's _"emotions"_ "You make me feel so... *_hiii-iii-IIII-IIIII-IIIIIIIIIIIIIGH_*

[@flightsimjeronimo]

lawnmower flying meme plays

[@canadianTorchic]

Neither can I believe it doesn't contain Kurt Nilsen's "She's So High", where at each "she's so HIIIIIIIIGH", he sings it in an incredibly high pitch (which I cannot even reach XD), too

[@canadianTorchic]

@Daver G ikr but where I live (what an ironic username I have!), Kurt Nilsen's cover made it to the radio more often somehow 🤔

[@Zach2003]

My favourite world painting is from Hamilton in "You'll be back" "Oceans rise, empires fall" But jokes on you, the melody goes down with "rise" and rises with "fall" because it's funny

[@benny569]

YES

[@ntellaS2]

Ok but can we talk about how there is Hamilton everywhere I go?

[@elisejackson2854]

@@ntellaS2 as it should be.

[@samham8596]

@@ntellaS2 You can't escape the Ham

[@alissawilliams3435]

Lisa Harbers YES

[@CRU22]

"Your lifestyle's HIGH, but your funds are LOW" -Friends on the Other Side from the Princess and the Frog

[@heydiddlediddlegal9001]

Ayyyyyy!!!!!

[@nadiakeaton5680]

yES

[@amphibiangoddess]

Good one!

[@laylamars9700]

That’s the first one I thought of too lol

[@connormell1916]

YOU NEED TO MARRY A LITTLE HONEY WHO'S DADDY'S GOT DOUGH

[@lyannabraxton2247]

I think into the unknown from frozen 2 is also a cool example of word painting because each time Elsa says “unknown,” the interval she sings get bigger representing her going further away from what she knows and going into the unknown.

[@kviiiie]

How about hum hallelujah by fall out boy: The lyrics are “just off the key of reason”. The key of reason is c major, which is also the key hallelujah by Leonard Cohen is in, and hum hallelujah is played in D major so it’s literally “just off the key of reason”

[@hopoffmydick9574]

yeeees I love when people mention the little details put into FOB songs

[@bruabbatrash8917]

oh YES THAT WAS AWESOME someone actually listens to fob i'm touched ❤️

[@junatan25]

And also “are you ready for another bad poem one more OFF KEY anthem” they ever so slightly had an off key note in there

[@bikechainimmortalis6923]

@@junatan25 Which song is that from? I need to listen to it now

[@reneliz]

Chad Michael it's rat a tat ft courtney love

[@mattweiman5144]

How has no one mentioned "I wanna hit that high" in Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go?

[@daniellarusso9897]

HAHA that’s perfect

[@Joseph-nh6in]

@@CandiceGoddard Wake me up before you go-go is still legendary to Americans in the last two decades because it was featured in a classic scene of Zoolander

[@pickupthelantern6395]

even just the "up" in "wake me up" is sung higher

[@pay9397]

P. Candice Goddard they mentioned many old old songs, wake me up before you go-go is definitely a valid song to put in this video

[@dazaimaru5799]

Or She's So High Above Me

[@missbeccaanne5640]

Lin-Manuel Miranda used reverse text-painting in “You’ll be Back” when it says “oceans *rise, [melody leaps down] empires *fall [melody leaps up]”

[@Clarintheclarineter]

Same thing happens in Mary Poppins. "Just a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down". But there is an octave leap up.

[@lostmelodyy]

@@Clarintheclarineter but the second time she sings it, the notes slide down

[@TeaMMatE11]

same thing in My Shot "When are these colonies gonna rise UP? When are these colonies gonna rise UP?" Not only does it go up but the ending part gets louder as more voices join in at the end of the song.

[@princessadrychannel3464]

MORE LIN MANUEL MIRANDA/HAMILTON FANS

[@graceriley2500]

Though, at least in the recording, there is a small fall off the note in "fall", and it does go up within the word "oceans"

[@turquoisemama33]

This was an eye opener....didn't know the term "word painting"......thought doing that in music was just a foundational function/action......kind of like musical analogies......didn't know it had an official vocab to it........AWESOME !!! Thanks for posting.....

[@KeelyBurnMusic]

What kills me about "F10-D-A" is how it's on the same album as a 3-movement piano concerto. Ben Folds is a brilliant composer and THAT'S how he chooses to use his talent. I love it.

[@mypetblackie108]

Wake Me Up (Before you Go-Go) literally has a line that says: "I'm gonna hit that hiiiiiigh" and it's a high note. (Idk if that line is speaking literally or metaphorically, I just realized it)

[@jameer8225]

I danced that

[@pinkajou656]

Yes I was thinking of that

[@LRM12o8]

Nothing But Thieves - If I Get High also does that: "If I get [high falsetto:] hiiiigh, If I get [even higher falsetto:] hiiiiiiiigh enough, will I see you again?" I didn't know what word painting is when I first heard that song, but I found that absolutely hilarious! It's like the singer's saying "don't know if I'll hit that high note", while he hits that high note XD

[@braydencoversbeatles4029]

I think it does that in I want to hold your hand by the beatles

[@aydrieyan]

love that opening 40 seconds of STOP

[@facundosimonetti5203]

You should check out New York City Cops by The Strokes (around 1:50) , it features that same resource, the band stops and only the drums go on. It's really awesome

[@ze_rubenator]

Even with all of that, he missed "STOP... HAMMERTIME" and the transition into "Stop" by Pink Floyd. And probably another hundred examples.

[@drewdavis2392]

@@ze_rubenator "U Can't Touch This" is his very first example. See 0:17 in the video; compare the images (if the bit of music isn't recognizable) to kzbin.info/www/bejne/paWmoXakZdFnjdE . Perhaps edited short to avoiding KZbin copyright detection bots -- or just because it's a pretty short word.

[@furcornmanwiththemasterpla8380]

My favourite example of word painting is in "Instant Crush" by Daft Punk where they say "I don't wanna sing anymore" right before an instrumental break. It's like the "Stop" example you gave but more unique

[@uhhmeow8055]

“Everything that kills meeeeeee... makes me feel alive” the beat and the background music slows down until after he says “alive.” The music basically “dies” and comes back on, fast and lively or “alive” 😳😳😳

[@1anubhav]

Someone is counting stars

[@heyimdanielle8693]

You've probably been losing sleep over this

[@uhhmeow8055]

@@heyimdanielle8693 lmfaooo nah just after I watched the video it made me wonder of any other songs that had that and I’m like 😳😳 oO dat song wow

[@starRushi]

... or dreamin' about the things that we could be

[@Emmiejuliaa]

These comments are genius omg

[@kevinball4637]

"I wish I found some chords, in an order that is new" "I wish I didn't have to rhyme, every time I sang"

[@hannahking9004]

I love that part in that song

[@guitaria66636]

Kevin Ball 🙈🙈

[@cheeseisjar3058]

I don’t really like that song but that lyric is totally cool

[@caseyscott7881]

Cheese is Jar but it’s so gooodddd

[@electricv564]

400th like

[@d0llf4ce-n3ko]

In My Head by Ariana Grande. “But it was all in my he-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-ad” she goes from chest voice to head voice. :))

[@thesensur6214]

I would’ve never noticed that

[@twigtoyoulater]

Chest to head? Please explain :'/

[@invasiveowl]

twigx when singing there is something know as a head voice and a chest voice depending on where the singing is coming from. I don’t know the exact difference but I know it’s significant enough that the sound will vary depending on head voice/chest voice and that if done wrong a head voice can be nasally 🙌🙌

[@d0llf4ce-n3ko]

twigx okay so there is this thing called voices in singers. You have head, mixed, and chest. Those are the three basics. So a chest voice is where you engage your core and a note is fully supported. You can hear the absolute power behind it. A mixed voice is a supported note but it also starts to slowly lose power. It’s supported but it might not be as powerful. A head voice is typically used when trying to get outside of the vocal range and hit higher notes. You can hear in that song that as she sings “head” her voice gets softer and softer. My explanation isn’t completely accurate but it will give you an idea. Hope thag helped. :))

[@michelel.egerton6369]

I really appreciated this!!! It makes me happy that you, Adam Neely, and Rick Beato are helping me brush up on my musical training. I'm remembering what I'd forgotten.

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Thank you!

[@Cloctis]

Twenty One Pilots’ “Ride” has word paint during the “falling” lyric when it drops to a lower note. It also does the most unique thing I’ve seen which is when the lyric “ride” is sang, the pitch jumps up and down consistently as if the listener is on a rollercoaster. Wow, word painting can be found in almost any song, it’s crazy.

[@Tiago-ij5ru]

they also extend the word ride, literally taking more time to sing it

[@petersonmontez40]

At the beginning too I wish I found some chords in an order that was new I wish I didn't have to rhyme every time I sang The verses don't rhyme

[@Jisatsu]

Peterson Montez that’s stressed out

[@ThePhantomSafetyPin]

It very much works like that. "oh-ee-oh-ee oh oh, oh-ee-oh-ee-oh i'm" going up, and then "falling" have that feeling in the music of tripping and stumbling into a fall.

[@jillmarshall4941]

don’t forget in message man “They rip it, flip it, but these are just triplets, Wrote this in three minutes, three words to a line. It's just poetry divided” talking about the rhythm

[@interestedbystander196]

"I'm too sexy for this song." [song ends]

[@paranormalactivity763]

Fed in the A with a big fat D. Lololol

[@misaamane6528]

yes

[@Lily-xq1em]

LMAO

[@cadenziegler1468]

"take that money, watch it burn" Each time the line is said, more background singers come in, signifying the spread of the fire - Counting Stars

[@peterpansplayground]

🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

[@pinkajou656]

Woah

[@craig1538]

A great example of ABBA using word painting is in their early song, People Need Love. In the line, "it takes a man to get matrimonial harmony", Agnetha and Frida harmonise together on the word "harmony".

[@a1s2d3fg5h6j7k8l9]

The whole song “Take Five” was written in 5/4 time signature, that’s using the rhythm to paint the word.

[@adammiller8133]

The song sounds like it could’ve as easily been written in 6/4 or 6/8 but the pun was too good to pass up not writing a 5-beat song

[@lexzwanenberg9130]

We once played the song "take five four" with my band. It started out in 5/4 time signature but ended in 4/4. Was a cool song to play.

[@bikechainimmortalis6923]

As a musician, I'd hate that. Anything in 5 is the most uncomfortable time signature to play in

[@delycan4912]

Take Five by Atlantic five Jazz band?

[@ian_edits_]

@@bikechainimmortalis6923 Since everyone knows the melody to Take 5, it's actually really fun to play! That's from a violinist's perspective though. And I agree. It's rather odd to sight-read.

[@durumclapclap]

David Bowie sings in Ashes to ashes "hitting an all time low" as he hits the lowest note in the song

[@NorthernRealmJackal]

Pretty sure he actually goes up an octave *on* that line. But it would have been, if he'd stayed.. I always thought it was a play on how the 'heavens high' right before is low, and 'all time low' is high (because the "getting high" is the lowpoint).

[@durumclapclap]

@@NorthernRealmJackal there's a live version on youtube where he goes an octave up, but he stays on the low octave in the studio version if I hear correctly

[@deejaysilver9]

This one’s from “Friends on the Other Side”: “Your lifestyles *HIGH* , but your funds are _low_ .

[@NicoNeoX]

Yay some Disney!!! I’ve been searching the comments for Disney

[@reptiii]

YESSSSS I love that song

[@SunshineMix101]

I'd never heard the prosody in Somewhere Over The Rainbow before but if that was by design and not just coincidence then it is absolutely brilliant.

[@zeka2255]

Eminem's Without Me: "Ever since Prince turned himself into a SYMBOL" then a cymbal plays.

[@RoyDontHugMeImScared]

Too soon

[@shadowrayTV]

That's just what em does

[@shadowrayTV]

Double entendres

[@monchime]

"Four out of five" by Arctic Monkeys, at the bridge Alex says "i can lift you up another semitone" and then lifts up another semitone

[@cherryred11]

woah that's cool!!!

[@jacobmillen751]

love that part of the song

[@wingodingo5467]

and there’s also the key change when he says “key changes” in She Looks Like Fun

[@HorseloverFat1984]

Wow, that explanation quadrupled my appreciation for "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"!

[@NB_703]

Theres a great video that you should look up called « why over the rain ow takes us to a magical, musical place » by pbs. Honestly the most beautiful explanation that it made me tear.

[@clarinethro1695]

Plus when you look at the notes themselves in the score, they themselves make little rainbows

[@donaldbarry5074]

Palmer Eldritch - I was wrong apparently - always thought the tune was from Chopin’s Fantasy Impromptu. Actually I still believe it does; can’t think how anyone would think otherwise?

[@kal9728]

One example I love is in Hamilton's "You'll Be Back" where it's the opposite in the line "Oceans rise (⬇️), empires fall (⬆️)"

[@agustinbarrios9]

"Four out of five" by the Artic Monkeys when the lyric says : "I can lift you up another semitone"

[@lostmyedge_]

Ooh good pick up

[@ec4202]

i was thinking that !!

[@malofaure6474]

I was about to say it !! Fantastic example !

[@WhiteTrash2993]

TAKE IT EASY FOR A LITTLE WHIIIILE

[@juancruzciacci1262]

HEY! THAT'S TRUE!

[@sleezyyeezy8636]

English teachers: I analyse _everything_ This guy: hold my beer

[@imblasted6306]

I really thought everyone did this tbh

[@chaccostan]

He’s almost head to head with BTS’ fans.

[@catriziacat1756]

Fan theorists: are you challenging me

[@lunapeters4593]

If I hadn't left college for medical reasons, I probably would have been that English teacher.

[@tapiocapudding8]

My English teacher gave me a baked potato today

[@camilamoyac]

What about “do, a deer, a female deer, re, a drop of golden sun...” or is that one too obvious? Haha

[@harlows.journey]

Camila Moya wow

[@Amandanumnum]

let's not do a deer

[@Andy-lm2zp]

@@Amandanumnum doh !LOL

[@alexritch6747]

That's a mnemonic; a way to remember the names of the notes using things that sound like the note names. Do = doe, re = ray, etc.

[@camilamoyac]

Alex Ritch yes! But they also say the names of the notes while they are singing that note so it counts

[@adlox2t]

this makes me so unbelievably happy thank you for making me discover about word painting

[@matankraiztman2225]

"I'm breaking down, DOWN, DOWN" also, "The only thing that's breaking UP is my family"

[@cannacae]

literally just listened to this song this morning, i love this musical so much. it's genius.

[@tyrakristiansen7188]

THE ONLY THING THAT'S BREAKING UP IS MY FAMILY BUT ME! IM BREAKING DOOOOOWWWWNNN!!!!!!

[@e-linamarie]

y E S

[@coleen9278]

FALSETTOS YES LOVE IT

[@STVRSTUDS]

We stan falsettos in this house

[@ryanb1388]

“Don’t modulate the key then not debate with me” is what I immediately thought of (From Hamilton, Hamilton sings that lyric right after a key change in a song where he’s debating with someone else)

[@ashleynoble2880]

Saw it (listened to it) for the first time ever and I cracked up at this line

[@thomasbreeden1340]

Another favorite from Hamilton: “Let’s have another round tonight” in The Story of Tonight is repeated in a [musical] round! And of course they’re all drinking.

[@meeperdudeify]

Ironically, the melody falls and then rises when king george sings "Oceans rise, empires fall"

[@gemfyre855]

You could do a whole video just on the word painting in Hamilton alone.

[@pinkajou656]

@@gemfyre855 I WOULD WATCH THAT A MILLION TIMES OVER

[@davidqvarford1566]

"Tomorrow gets me higher, higher, high" - Under pressure by Queen ft. David Bowie

[@joserobertolopez5481]

Tool - lateralus, as the full song talks about growing like a spiral and the verse are writen in Fibonacci secuence

[@foreign_objective2855]

AURORA has a song called Running With The Wolves where when she sings "wolves" she sings it with a prolonged "ooooo" while using a falsetto voice which makes it sounds like she's howling.

[@Laurelin70]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/jauzpaWeZqZ1hck

[@patiencen1280]

i love AURORA ♥️

[@corarose3228]

i love that song ahh

[@taawesome2949]

Ohh I know that song

[@jayren4043]

This is exactly what i thought when I watched this video lol

[@aimeecosgrove3471]

she’s leaving home by the beatles has loads of word painting like a descending cello (i think) line when she’s going down the stairs

[@macyg3467]

Aimee Cosgrove yes such a great song too, probably the must underrated Beatles song.

[@jjOive]

Only a Northern Song is a better example from that band perhaps

[@abigail-tn5ds]

I heard the remastered version today Such a thought out song with many layers

[@reinemst]

in fall out boy's hum hallelujah, there's a lyric that says "just off the key of reason"; the key of reason is apparently in C and hum hallelujah is in D which is just off C 🎶

[@sidekicklx2009]

That's what I said! So glad to see another FOB fan here in the wild!

[@cat_clawz9473]

I was looking for this comment xD

[@emmawilson4526]

In "To Be a Princess" from Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper, the characters sing about harmonizing in thirds, and while singing they actually harmonize in thirds.

[@wolfsisterhowls]

Ah, a true connoisseur!

[@rjmontgomery2079]

"I was soaring ever higher, but I flew too high" - In Kansas' "Carry On My Wayward Son," the "high" drops dramatically, musically illustrating that the singer had a fall from grace and alluding to the story where Icarus flew too close to the sun, melting his wings, and then fell to his death. So even if you don't know the reference to Icarus, the music tells you what happened.

[@aliabdullah9964]

I watched supernatural since the beginning and they used that song for every season and I have never notice that ! Amazing

[@teemusid]

On the album that preceded Leftoverture, Kansas(same songwriter/lyricist for both songs) had a song, "Icarus: Borne on Wings of Steel." He used the same technique with the line, "I've climbed the mountains of the sky."

[@bookbutterfly6613]

RJ Montgomery SCREAMS IN SUPERNATURAL

[@lra1095]

One thematic one I love is in The Beatles 'For No One' Where the whole song is about feeling incomplete after a break up, and it ends on a hanging chord, not being resolved to the root.

[@louispacetime1576]

Very nice example

[@alias3660]

Cool to hear a Beatles one - I'm a fan of them but didn't really expect to hear many deep examples of word painting from them considering they weren't trained or knew how to read sheet music. But of course they always surprise you

[@facubozzi7395]

@@alias3660 they weren't trained but still had the most interesting progressions/key changes/other musical techniques. this channel has some interesting beatles stuff

[@Jekkyboi]

@@alias3660 Actually they did it all time. I dont know if this phenomenon was something to learn at the time, but you dont need to learn ot to do it. I think they simply did what feels right

[@alias3660]

Jek Oh they did? I can only really think of 3 examples right now (For No One, Baby You're a Rich Man, and Only a Northern Song), do you know any more?

[@SleepSoul]

My favourite example of this is a pretty subtle one, Between the Bars by Elliott Smith. The entire song is a parallel for alcoholism, with the dark undertone that while you can rely on alcohol to help you ignore your problems and regrets it won't fix or get rid of them. This is communicated in the lyrics of the chorus, which ends "I'll keep them still". Behind that line, he plays Eb followed by Ebm, a IV-iv movement in the relative major of the song's native G minor. This is of course a common cadence used to resolve in a bittersweet manner down to I. However, both times he plays this, the cadence is cut off. The first time it goes straight back to Gm, which just sounds intentionally jarring, and the second time, the song completely ends on the iv chord. A song about alcoholism and how it won't resolve your problems, ends unresolved.

[@tonybates7870]

Between The Bars is a masterful song. 2 mins 20 secs of intimate melancholy.

[@baznama]

Such an insightful comment.

[@robbievalentine8239]

Excellent observation!!

[@chloemchll3774]

Was going to mention this one because more people should go back and listen to Elliott’s work. He was a master song crafter.

[@zachabsher5528]

Thank you sm for this song lmfao

[@FairButNotReally]

"I wanna teach kids how to cuss, and I wanna teach kids what notes they can cuss from." LMAO 6:12

[@SarahM-lw2gd]

Green Day's Wake Me Up When September Ends has this line: "here comes the rain again, falling from the stars..." the word "falling" starts higher, then gets lower, like it's falling.

[@nuhuhuhhhhhhh]

True. Also, in the line “Seven years has gone so fast” I feel like it speeds up a little bit at the end

[@wendyheatherwood]

Misery has the lyric "He's gonna get high, high, high when he's low, low, low" and yes it goes exactly like you're thinking.

[@ipsurvivor]

“Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive” By Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer “Anticipation” by Carly Simon

[@vaporman442]

Even more so with the antici Pation in Richard O’Brien’s “Sweet Transvestite” from Rocky Horror Picture Show. Tim Curry holds that so long it gets me every time I hear it.

[@mattlivingston2192]

"Inar- inar- inar- inar- tic-u-late" in Queen's Sheer Heart Attack

[@xxIluvyouguysxx]

Yesss love Carly Simon

[@alejandrocorona1766]

@@mattlivingston2192 genius

[@sammichmanjr]

Has anyone mentioned when Elton John was "gonna be hiiiIIIIiigh as a kite by then" in Rocket Man?

[@alexandermcclure6185]

I already knew about the "stop, wait a minute" being related and "the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall, the major lift" being connected but I didn't know there were so many examples for it, or that there was another name for it! This was amazing!

[@logankandel846]

Me: *Learns what word-painting means Me in my head: SHE HIT THE FLOOR, NEXT THING YOU KNOW, SHAWTY GOT LOW LOW LOW LOW LOW LOW LOW LOW

[@rishabjaju7950]

exactly happened with me

[@keeratisatian]

Lol

[@SARUBI_OK]

"Don't modulate the key!" phrase in Hamilton song "Farmed refuted"

[@kekleon-Gamer]

"Don't modulate the key and not debate with me!"

[@aidanharris6566]

Also "ocean's rise (fall in melody), empires fall (rise in melody)" in you'll be back

[@SawmansCreswayProduc]

"when are these colonies gonna rise up"

[@SawmansCreswayProduc]

"enter me" "he says in parenthesises"

[@TJStellmach]

Not to mention the multiple melodic pauses in "Wait for It."

[@soulubilityofficial6635]

The bridge from “Everybody Wants to Be a Cat” from Aristocats does this a lot.

[@ruby8065]

My favourite case of word painting is in Bo Burnham's "pandering" where he says "y'all motherfuckers want a key change" then he changes the key. True musical genius.

[@ukar69]

Siouxsie and the Banshees - Spellbound. There’s the line “Don’t forget when your elders forget to say their prayers, take them by the legs and throw them down the stairs” and then the drums sound like someone falling down stairs.

[@meganacree9588]

Paul Osborne Best example ever!

[@KlouyKhmer]

7:23 legend has it, she's still singing "rise rise rise..."

[@tomhzzz]

😂😂

[@udonthavetoknowmyname]

*R I S E E E*

[@princeofcats258]

@@udonthavetoknowmyname *(Long, deep inhale)* *RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISE!*

[@josemaderas7724]

RĪĮÎÌÏÍIŠĘ

[@lucamcardle729]

Bohemian Rapsody; "send shivers down my spine" as chimes vibrate

[@shanekayat3217]

True, but I feel like the chimes would have been added because of the line? Don't think the lyrics are mimicking the song per se

[@lucamcardle729]

@@shanekayat3217 the words arent mimicking the music. The music is mimicking the words

[@luciagianneschi6700]

Also the melody goes down to emulate the shivers’ movement

[@jonathandintner8849]

Actually Brian May said he did this with his guitar somehow

[@clthzapparel9981]

Jonathan Dintner it could be by playing the string past the top of the neck. there’s a part before the neck, by the tuning pegs, where if you play the strings, it’s very high pitched as there is a lot of tension