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[@stelvak]

I think Matt Ballamy said somewhere that a lot of his guitar parts are written on piano first and then transferred over to guitar, which (in my opinion) leads to a lot of his unique parts. It makes it really easy for a piano player like me to fall in love with Muse’s music.

[@AaronCarrington]

That's a good point. Older tracks like Sunburn and Screenager sometimes got played on piano as well as guitar, makes total sense 👌

[@MemoriesLP]

one example.... kinda... is Cave being a guitar version of Prelude in G Minor from Rach. Micro Cuts verse also is, but I dont remember from which classical song

[@nighpaw4651]

@@AaronCarrington some of the broken chords you were talking about is exactly what happens with the intro to new born aswell, except it stayed on piano

[@AaronCarrington]

@@MemoriesLP Yea, I can hear how Cave sounds similar to that Prelude in Gm. And he used to play the start of it live too, before Screenager.

[@AaronCarrington]

@@nighpaw4651 True, those New Born intro chords are broken chords. They sound good on guitar too.

[@BradVonEsdras]

Wow (I speak spanish) With this video i learn how to pronounce “Citizen Erased” correctly. 🙌🏻😂 My previous pronunciation was: “Saitacen eraysed” Nice Video Man! 😎 🤜🏻

[@AaronCarrington]

😅 Glad to help you with your pronunciation!

[@griffin8062]

City of delusion is a great example of his spanish style guitar playing

[@AaronCarrington]

It is indeed, good point!

[@bryson_jernigan7760]

And hoodoo

[@AaronCarrington]

@@bryson_jernigan7760 Yeah, very good example there.

[@Davidman3976]

Those two examples are as spanish as Gordon Ramsay's paella. Altough I love those songs.

[@james159ish]

Loved this 😌 loved matts work for years . Used to play bass in a covers band and I talked the rest of the guys into adding Hysteria to the set list - great success 👍 one gig we were performing Hysteria when our Guitarist had his Amp head blow ..smoke and stink ..so rather than stop at that point , me and the drummer finished the tune , our guitarist came over to my side of the stage and increased my volume for the rest of the tune (just after the guitar soLo ) and it ROCKED. Bassists don’t traditionally have centre stage , especially playing with such an amazing guitar player as my mate Sarge is ...so I ate the moment with all my might . Even got dirty looks off the bar staff and security dudes because the sound level was so amazingly high 🤣 but they let me finish as they kinda knew that ,that was gonna be it ... in case you thinking it must have sounded awful I must add I was using my GK head into a Mesa Boogie 1516 mega awesome bass cab through a Big Muff Pie ehx from my hand made sei bass jaz five , so no I sounded marvellous 🙂 just wish we had it on video 🙄 Thanks Mr Carrington , you stirred up a nice memory for me ! Dear Santa , please send me a pitch shifter 😋

[@AaronCarrington]

What a story! At least the guitarist got to finish his solo before the amp blew 😆 I had no idea what that bass was either, I just checked it out and it looks awesome :O - which colour do you have? Ah yes, good ol' pitch shifter, always a winner.

[@james159ish]

@@AaronCarrington thx Aaron , it was a memorable gig . St Albans oneils which is sadly now a steak house lol. I have my sei bass jaz in good old tobacco sunburst with matching headstock . She needs to go back to Camden and for a second time have her neck adjusted as the action is awful again and I can’t adjust any further but that’s another story ... funny further story is the next gig we did was a day later in Barnet and we were playing best song in the world by Tenacious D and during the quiet part the sound guy turned on the smoke machine and our drummer thought this was a new amp failure so he promptly got up and wandered off to light a fag .... we were all death looks at him and he sussed it eventually 🤤 fun times crazy daze 😊🤘

[@AaronCarrington]

@@james159ish Classic gig shananigans 🤘

[@m1s3ry97]

Dude, you deserve way more subs. Keep on keeping on, the quality of this content is amazing.

[@AaronCarrington]

Thanks man, glad you enjoyed it 😎

[@AudioHaze]

Amazing content dude, production value is way way above normal for this size!

[@AaronCarrington]

Thanks a lot man, really appreciate that comment, just doing my best to make stuff worth watching and hoping people dig it 🙂

[@redhotbeatle4172]

I love the way you end this video with FALLING DOWN. And i also love you know the complete discography! So you know exactly what you're talking about. Excellent video!

[@AaronCarrington]

Thanks man, been a Muse fan for about 20 years now I guess. And yes, gotta love falling down 🤘

[@evilcowboy]

This is literally the first video I have ever finished watching the outro, the reason I watched the entire thing was simply because you ended with the riff from "Falling Down" which I still think is pretty underrated. The feel of that song is excellent and it is very well written. I will always consider Matt Bellamy a great guitarist because he uses every bit of what he has learned and incorporates just about any sound into songs. They are good at turning even an ugly sound into something beautiful. There are a lot of sounds they use where someone would just not try and use it, MUSE is literally one of the only bands I have seen opt for an ugly sound, I believe it cuts more through the songs because it grabs your attention. There were a lot of MUSE songs I thought "WTF sound is that" And it all works very well together. Even the song I mentioned "Falling Down" the last phrase he does vocally in a falsetto........its a broken falsetto where he actually allowed the voice crack to happen. Thats what I mean by "ugly sounds", if anyone else heard their voice do that they would re-record that part. He intentionally put it in there. probably

[@AaronCarrington]

You make a very good point about using ugly sounds, sometimes having a sense of uniqueness is of more value than everything sounding amazing, the fuzzy distortion from SMBH is a good example but somehow I've grown to like it because I associate it with that song (they also tend to use it on Plug in Baby live). That voice crack in Falling Down is awesome too, again reverting to uniqueness and emotional quality over perfection. Thanks for watching the whole thing man!

[@nighpaw4651]

Another great example of an ugly sound is the intro to hyper music, which is just a massive mess of scraping the strings and discordant sounds

[@AaronCarrington]

@@nighpaw4651 For sure, and it sounds even more awesome on the newly remixed version of Origin of Symmetry 👌

[@asdf9890]

Awesome man, you just stirred my memory of great Muse songs (haven't really listened to them in a while). Although I will say, I havent heard some of their earlier stuff, and I remember that "Screenager" made me stop while I was driving to see who it was that was being casted on my car stereo at that time. So that's one I will be delving into.

[@AaronCarrington]

Glad that it jogged your memory, those early Muse tracks are so raw and original. If you haven't already, definitely give Origin of Symmetry a listen, such a fantastic album.

[@normanblake9729]

Matt Bellamy is a musical god

[@gilesturner756]

Another great video, cheers 👍🤘

[@AaronCarrington]

Thanks man 👍

[@magnusocksen]

I remember from an early 2000 interviewed he said having spent several months playing guitar in Spain

[@AaronCarrington]

Really? Didn't know that, thanks.

[@minidragonl6954]

Wonderful video, love the Muse stuff, keep it up!

[@AaronCarrington]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it 👍

[@mXOnique]

Great video man❤

[@AaronCarrington]

Thank you 🙏

[@Musesaur]

Good analysis!

[@AaronCarrington]

Thanks!

[@georgios.marinoudis]

Excellent analysis Aaron. Thank you.

[@AaronCarrington]

Thanks Georgios 👍😁

[@nickadams1992]

Wonderful video.

[@AaronCarrington]

Thanks a lot Nick 👍

[@herokidoa]

What a way to end it with falling down. Amazing video!

[@AaronCarrington]

Yes! That's always been one of my favourie songs, so raw and emotional 😁

[@herokidoa]

@@AaronCarrington 100%! I love how you play it though, I play it the exact same way too 👏🏻👏🏻

[@AaronCarrington]

@@herokidoa That's awesome. I like adding in those extra bass notes and using slides too hehe

[@herokidoa]

@@AaronCarrington Oohhh! Thanks I’ll try that 🙌🏼

[@fouadbelmahi8233]

Such a great video i hope you will do more, especially about muse

[@AaronCarrington]

Thank you!

[@luisgerena1227]

HOW DO YOU NOT HAVE OVER A MILLION SUBSCRIBERS

[@AaronCarrington]

Thanks Luis, really nice of you to say 😁

[@doctorandywho3273]

A God among men, Matthew James Bellamy!

[@matthewbanda816]

I dig the demonstrations

[@AaronCarrington]

Thanks man 👍

[@erickmoreta8287]

other pincha shifted song is Recess. And other unique thing about Matt and muse is the ability to sound like Gods in concerts and to always vary parts of the songs. They do perform. Here's a like for this awesome video

[@AaronCarrington]

Recess, what a tune 🤘 I still remember buying Hullabaloo and loving the B sides. Yes, they are awesome live for sure. Thanks Erick!

[@cole3053]

Amazing.

[@AaronCarrington]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@cole3053]

Love that outro.

[@AaronCarrington]

Name that tune?

[@tris7am625]

@@AaronCarrington falling down

[@FionaMisty]

You should do Lari Basilio on your show. She's absolutely fantastic 😊

[@AaronCarrington]

Aaaah she's an awesome player, I'll keep that in mind, thanks 🙂

[@Divuar]

Great video, but I didn't get what you meant by Broken Chords :/

[@AaronCarrington]

Broken chords are where you hold a particular chord and then pick notes out of that chord 👍

[@Divuar]

@@AaronCarrington Oh, I see. Thanks a lot for this clarification!!

[@cole3053]

You're also a great guitar player!

[@AaronCarrington]

Thanks man!

[@fm2187_]

Haha, I remember learning some of these songs with you. Feels like ages ago! How’s it going?

[@AaronCarrington]

Hey Finlay! Yea it was a couple of years ago now, time flies. Things are good thanks, playing put in Dubai atm. How are you pal?

[@fm2187_]

@@AaronCarrington Dubai wow! I’m doing great thanks! Just finished GCSEs and am on holidays now!

[@cryptojohndoe4923]

Pitch shifted solos are so cool and he dose it on kill or be killed in the break down 😍👍

[@AaronCarrington]

Yes they are and yes he does! Another killer solo 😁

[@doctorandywho3273]

Do Jonny Greenwood...

[@evasanchezsaez8685]

Nice video. Thanks! I'm Spanish, from Spain. 😉 You say that he plays flamenco music and it isn't completely true. Flamenco music is a kind of Spanish music. Not all the Spanish music is flamenco. For example, " Recuerdos de la Alhambra" Francisco Tárrega. It isn't flamenco. It belongs to the Romantic Spanish music of the XIX century. I suggest you "Asturias", Albéniz. It's one of my favourite pieces of Spanish music.

[@AaronCarrington]

Thanks for the suggestion, Recuerdos isn't Spanish flamenco you're correct but the tremolo technique is used in flamenco guitar and if you Google 'Matt Bellamy flamenco guitar The Guardian', you'll see that he took 6 months of flamenco lessons as a teenager. I'd argue that early influence went on to have a a sizable impact on Muse's sound 🙏 I'm also familiar with Asturias, it's a lovely piece 👌

[@evasanchezsaez8685]

@@AaronCarrington Thanks! Regards.

[@eliasvandenbroeck4577]

MUSE it reminds me of Arabic gitare too

[@AaronCarrington]

That's the harmonic minor scale at work 🤘

[@eliasvandenbroeck4577]

@@AaronCarrington Super x

[@LeniTV]

Your face is a lot like his, has anyone commented this before?

[@AaronCarrington]

Hey Leni! Yea I used to get that a lot when I was younger. Still occasionally do these days. I met him once and in the pic we look a bit like brothers 😂

[@Amirthegod]

Found you too late man. Great vid.

[@AaronCarrington]

Thank you👍

[@ladymuse4558]

I like how you look like Matt ...facestructure,ur hands en how u speak.. 😉

[@AaronCarrington]

Yea I used to get that a lot, especially when I was younger.

[@pukseli2270]

Pitch shifted guitar riffs? Gojira - -Stranded!

[@AaronCarrington]

Just had a listen to this, so good!

[@carpediem4413]

Jack White’s been using a whammy forever.

[@pablodp99]

Sorry to correct but 'Recuerdos de la Alhambra' is not flamenco.

[@AaronCarrington]

Correct you are, my description was a little vague! But I hope the wider point got across 😎

[@jesusrodriguez3697]

son los p t s amos !!!!!

[@dominiksipos7836]

Tremolo without nails with no mistake.... Yep, totally human

[@AaronCarrington]

And on a steel string. It's doable if the technique is there but it'd take some work for sure.

[@nerea4327]

Matt studied classical guitar in high school before he found rock. I believe that and his previous interest for classical and jazz music is what gives Muse that unconventional sound.

[@mohdshah5821]

why your face like matt? hahaha

[@AaronCarrington]

Haven't heard that for a while 😂 used to get it a lot when I was younger.