Exploring the mythical chords of "God Only Knows".....
.....is exactly what this pianist does in this great video:
https://youtu.be/I2PHOt9_fGc?si=4hnadI6NrfewOUK0
Yes; I realize that! I’m not a Classical music fan and from my perspective, she’s like someone from another planet who’s been set down on earth and is sort of stumbling around trying to make sense of the (to her) alien landscape in terms of her familiar frame of reference, which doesn’t necessarily "translate" that well, in my opinion. I'm sure her many fans would disagree. |
"Well, she comes up with some odd interpretations and conclusions due to her overall ignorance of popular genres " Virgin Rock is an accomplished CLASSICAL musician. It's not uncommon that level to be uninformed OUTSIDE of the Classical world. She made a comment how the song reminded her of the Beatles-suggesting she is unaware of the timeline and how it influenced Maca's path. Beato's interpretations are another view-she provides different insight in other areas of song analysis.
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Well, she comes up with some odd interpretations and conclusions due to her overall ignorance of popular genres (as does the opera singer who has the Charismatic Voice channel) that can definitely be humorous but personally, I prefer Beato's hipper, Jazz-informed approach. Each to his/her own.
Can you please expand upon what you mean by "as good" ?
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@tablejockey: I love the Virgin Rock woman, I’ve watched a lot of her videos (though I missed the one you posted a link to. Thanks!). A classically trained musician’s reaction to Pop music can be very interesting. From one of the comments to her video I learned that George Martin cited "God Only Knows" as his favorite non-Beatles Pop song of the 1960’s. I’ll up him one by including The Beatles. I don’t think John, Paul, or George wrote a song as good as GOK. Or many other Brian Wilson songs for that matter.
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Good one. Note/chord analysis videos are always interesting to me. Song analysis by a Classical Harpist/Pianist The Beach Boys Make God Only Knows ALL About YOU - YouTube Bigger mystery-why was the guy wearing a puffy down jacket?
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