The BEST song writing tricks by Kate Bush, The Beatles, Pink Floyd & ABBA

[@ronstallcup]

Caroline, you are a double bucket of sunshine !!!

[@rome8180]

I really enjoyed this video and hope you do more videos in this style. I'm guessing that they don't get as many views as your reaction videos, so I just thought I'd let you know that they're appreciated.

[@MelTuly]

Oh my thank you so much . Really useful information 🙏💚🐾Xx

[@TTM9691]

1:08 LOL!! ("Who am I?" LOL) You caught me off guard with that one, I'm happy I wasn't drinking liquid when that came on!/ Thanks for the fascinating little video! Like a lot of rock people, I write from instinct and don't always know my music theory. What you said at the very end is actually great for a second reason: not only is it good to know what you've got in your toolbox, you can also spot if you're relying on something over and over again, and you can make a conscious choice to go down the road less traveled. "Oh, I'm doing parallel fifths again", etc etc. THANKS, SIS! If not only just for that big laugh you gave me; I'm sure they could hear me next door!

[@queenofdaydreams3825]

You explain music theory in such a kind and helpful way 💜

[@sjbang5764]

Rick Beato couldn't have explained these chords and writing tricks better. Wonderful video.

[@hhauffe]

I watch you discuss the stuff… And it often makes me smile :-)

[@keathp2744]

Glad to see your mention of Kate Bush. I have always hope to see your reaction to one of her albums. Obviously you are familiar with Withering Heights and I assume the album ,The Kick Inside. If you're not already familiar with it, Hounds of Love might be a good reaction video. Cheers for Memphis, TN.

[@JohnJames-kw5de]

Thanks

[@instadc]

This video was so interesting! While My Guitar Gently Weeps has always been a favorite of mine, even before I got into the Beatles. Hearing the minor to major switch really brought home how the feel of the song changes. Since it’s a favorite of yours, I’d highly recommend you listen to the While My Guitar Gently Weeps remix on the Beatles’ LOVE album. It was made by George and Giles Martin for the Cirque de Soleil show, and features George Martin’s final string arrangement for the Beatles, prior to his passing. The song is based on an earlier acoustic demo of While My Guitar, and it’ll take your breath away.

[@tatjbere]

I agree, I love the Love version even more 🤩

[@tatjbere]

"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is George's "Yesterday"

[@instadc]

I love the original, but I also think the LOVE one is even better. @@tatjbere

[@TheWickedEnd2012]

Great video as always, thanks Caroline!

[@andrew.9423]

like your programme Caroline

[@markhodge7]

Are you a frickin' witch? Gently, my favorite Beatles' song. Wuthering again my favorite of Kate, with several runners up. Floyd's most iconic and again near my top. ABBA was not in my usual fandom zone, but admit I owned a few albums by them. You really have explained to me why I primordially am drawn to these songs, and why so many others may be too. You one sharp cookie!

[@Hartlor_Tayley]

That was very illuminating and fun. Thank you.

[@phila3884]

Always fascinating to hear the theory behind why something just "works" and is musically satisfying, if not outright genius.

[@alanclayton9277]

Yes that is interesting, I certainly don't have the skills to do this. Pulling songs apart and seeing how the building blocks work doesn't destroy the magic, it adds another later to our appreciation.

[@TheMister123]

0:52 - "And a shift back to the monarchy!"

[@buddyneher9359]

oh, those capricious captions! My jury is out on whether AI is genuinely stupid or is lulling us into a false sense of superiority.... 🤔

[@coraldude]

Thanks for the lesson Caroline, now I've already learned something new today and it's not even noon!!! 👏🙂

[@armandoparedes5639]

I'm loving these videos! So informative and dynamic!

[@BalefulBunyip]

Thanks Caroline, I'm very much an amateur muso. This was a great introduction to some simple music theory using some very well known popular songs. I both really enjoyed it and was enlightened. Thanks again, you are a good teacher who explains things well.

[@CallMeCaroline]

You're very welcome!😊

[@boogie2266]

I don't know if it was intentional but you explained important and helpful technical knowledge and combined it with the even more important emotional relation...and you did it very well. Thank you very much!

[@rogershore3128]

Enjoyed that. Didn't understand one word of it but enjoyable all the same....

[@jvblhc]

Very interesting. Good to see you again!

[@alecspeight5200]

I have waited a long time to hear your views on pretty much anything by Kate Bush and it was worth the wait, you are very perceptive and you have excellent musical taste and though you have an excellent grasp of music theory the quality that absolutely delights me every time is the way you let the music animate you. Who are you? A genuine music lover sharing that love with the world, that's who. Please keep in doing that and we will all keep on sharing that love.

[@G-MAN1958]

This was really interesting! Thanks much!😊

[@Charles12]

In the situation you would want to listen to any foreign music, I suggest any album by the French rock band Dionysos. They have an album that's been adapted into a movie with and English dub so that would be a good place to start so you're not lost in just French that needs to be translated

[@tiggerpoohist]

@1:08 - 1:12 Oh my, how I laughed!! A long belly laugh!! I needed that....Thank you! Before that @ .09 - the "thanks wiki - ....longhaired man, etc....". haha. Your music knowledge impresses me. I'm totally clueless regarding all that. But I found this interesting: Parallel Keys, Chromatic Mediants, SUS Chords and so on. Very cool to be enlightened with this info. What I know of music is, well, I know what I like and don't like. I know that music moves me deeply. And I need it in my daily life. Cheers

[@jamesbaluarte3]

All musicians and composers should know these tricks - and study Beatles songs also.

[@gregoryantoniono3673]

Brilliant analysis. Thank you.

[@rogermuenger]

Thanks!

[@CallMeCaroline]

Thank you Roger! 🙌🏻😊

[@musopleb]

Kate Bush - Discovered and promoted by some guy called David Gilmour.... nice connection to the recent videos.

[@TootlinGeoff]

Authentic cadence is also called Perfect Cadence. That's how I learnt it.

[@Adrian_Marmy]

Bless the KZbin Algorhithm for bringing you into my feed. I am a bit angry with it though since it took it so long 😅 However, such a great topic to talk about and it was really interesting to watch. And on top if it I'm really happy with all the songs you picked for this video. 🤓 🎵🎶

[@tatjbere]

Thank you for this video, very informative and helpful 🤗 also love that of all the Beatles songs you could have picked you chose "While my guitar gently weeps" because it's definitely one of my favorites 🤩

[@gualdimpaisgrandemestre3362]

Todo muy bien explicado 👌💙💙💙

[@ATOMIKDOG23]

You have picked a lot of my favorite songs in your analysis :)...one of which I have covered myself..the Floyd song "Comfortably numb".... but you cant beat ABBA, Kate Bush and the Beatles....all of which I found hard to do a cover of, though I did try Imagine. Keep up the good work Caroline

[@KNOPFLERSGOD]

Very well explained Caroline. I would love to hear your thoughts on Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits.

[@johnwarren6211]

Hi Caroline, I followed your journey through all the Beatles Albums and Singles with great interest and enjoyment.... but what about "Now And Then"??? Probably the last ever Beatles song.

[@gingerfreak01]

Best example of sus chords to explain them to someone I can think of is the intro and verse of Pinball Wizard.

[@some_phantom2599]

Behind Blue Eyes comes close, but I was thinking the same 😊

[@enntha7824]

this video is ACE!

[@captainshakesbeard2453]

I will call your Caroline. Have you listened to the 'Grace' album by Jeff Buckley, would be good for a video reaction

[@tove8719]

Cool video! Are you a big fan of Kate Bush? She's one of my favourite artists and I love her chord progressions! Also I was confused at first because in Swedish a relative key is called a parallel key, and I didn't know that parallel key was something different in English (which is so confusing lol), but now I know!

[@tommydevlin702]

Thanks a lot for this. I really enjoyed it and it is great to get the take of someone who actually knows music. Now a Call me Caroline deep dive on the Kate Bush discography (obviously including your take on her completely ridiculous, utterly fake [but I love it anyway] Aussie Accent on 'The Dreaming'), now that would be cool.

[@randalmoore4704]

keep doing this, Caroline ! You are fun with a smile and pleasant to look at but mostly trained to understand what music is doing and why. I could be your Dad so make sure you treat me extra nice and keep making me proud of your diverse videos.

[@gewatzig123]

Listen to "Blood on the Tracks" by Bob Dylan... it's the greatest bluesy folk rock album ever made!!

[@ababilashari9970]

subbed !

[@OtherLetter]

Are you in, like, Mensa? How do you unravel these songs sheet music, without the sheet music.

[@usurysuspect826]

Im surprised this hasn’t been recommended already but you should definitely give “ok computer” by radiohead a listen if you haven’t heard it yet

[@PogieJoe]

I'm still blown away that Kate Bush wrote Wuthering Heights at 19

[@leslieturner8276]

Yes at 18, however Kate wrote one of the tracks on her debut album, when she was just 13. It was released as the 2nd single from the album in the UK and the song won a songwriting award.

[@PogieJoe]

@@leslieturner8276 Wow!!

[@leslieturner8276]

@@PogieJoe Kate actually started writing songs from age 11, adding more complex lyrics from 13 onwards. By the time that she got to her late teens she had written about 200 songs. BTW Wow was the title of a track on "Lionheart" her 2nd album (released in the same year 1978 as her very successful debut album "The Kick Inside"). Wow was the 2nd single release from Lionheart and reached number 14 in the UK charts.

[@kiiiiiiingd]

hello what happened to caroline? cant find her on instagram

[@musopleb]

See my recent comment, she not doing public stuff at the moment.

[@musopleb]

❗Everyone - Caroline has responded on Patreon that she's stopping doing videos for now, maybe stuff in the future, maybe not.😢

[@phillipwylie7327]

Can you copy the message for us to see? Thanks

[@jamesbaluarte3]

She said she might put out a few videos a year - this is good news. I do hope that one of those videos is a reaction and analysis to the Beatles' recent "Now and Then" and their last two singles "Free As A Bird" and "Real Love" - a video like this would garner a lot of views and will cause a rise in the number of views for her other videos (especially the Beatles ones).

[@musopleb]

@@phillipwylie7327Relevant bit: "I just don't see myself as a regular creator anymore. I might put out a few videos a year... but I just don't have anything to really share anymore." They say its the hope that gets you... so I'm assuming "might" means "won't get around to it" and it will be a bonus if anything appears.

[@musopleb]

@@jamesbaluarte3 Don't agree about Now and Then.. it's been done to death by everyone, and this is a Musician's channel not a Beatles Fan channel. I don't agree with Caroline that she doesn't have anything left to offer, there's still a whole world of other music to explore.

[@jamesbaluarte3]

@@musopleb I think that a lot of Beatles and music fans want to hear specifically what Caroline has to say about the last three Beatles singles after seeing and hearing her analysis of all the other Beatles songs. Not many KZbinrs can say that they have several videos with six-figure views - in Caroline's case these videos happen to be the Beatles videos. She already has a built-in audience for such a video which would also increase the views for her other videos.

[@TheMister123]

The ABBA one seems a bit obvious though... V7-Root is everywhere, and not one I would refer to as a "trick" by any means.

[@CallMeCaroline]

It’s everywhere!! But legit I didn’t know it was a ‘thing’ until like a year ago, never heard of cadences. Sometimes you don’t realise your using a songwriting technique, so I thought it was cool to point out

[@thetragicyouth]

As a non-muso, I found this really fascinating and insightful. Now let's have an overview of Bowie's albums like you did with ABBA a while back... 😉☺👍

[@Mediawatcher2023]

Wuthering Hights reached number one on the Australian Top 20 on 29th of May 1978 it it stayed at that position for two weeks and stayed on the Top 20 for thirteen weeks

[@vannikuhs674]

'Promosm' 😕

[@OtherLetter]

That's why songs are catchy. Complementing, and contrasting sound? Geez, are you a musical prodigy?

[@Tenderado]

What a pitty. I can't relax and hear you clearly with the underground music.