13 Songs Based On Classical Music

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The fantastic cover of "Damage, Inc." that I used in this video can be found here:.

SOURCES:.
Wall, M. (2010) Go into night: Metallica, the bio, p206.
Ritchie Blackmore on and 'Highway Star':.
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0:00 Intro.
0:43 Metallica.
1:52 ZAYN.
2:38 Deep Purple.
4:16 Evanescence.
4:45 Neil Diamond.
5:12 Julian Casablancas.
6:11 APPLE MUSIC CLASSICAL.
7:25 's Requiem.
8:02 Brahm's Lullaby.
9:03 Alicia Keys.
11:00 Outro/Patreon.

13 Classical Music

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31 Comments

  1. Love your videos, David! Keep ’em coming, from another Bennett.

    I think Freda Payne’s “Band of Gold” is also based on a classical piece, isn’t it? Does anyone know which one?

    Or am I just thinking of “A Lover’s Concerto” by The Toys?

  2. You identify Mozart as influence on Highway Star when Jon Lord quoted Bach as the influence. I’m probably wrong in some part, but Jon definitely attributed Bach as the main influence, including on the DP track Burn.

    1. Well I was just taking Ritchie Blackmore’s word for it… but admittedly he was being quite tongue in cheek!

  3. hey David can you do a video on the “The Last Night on Earth” chord progression (I I+ I6 I7 IV iv) because In my opinion it is a unique progression that I never heard before.

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      It also appears in Isolation by John Lennon I believe.

  4. Not sure Bach would like the parallel octaves in the Metallica piece. 😀

    Beethoven’s 7th Symphony is great–glad it got a mention!

    1. As long as it’s not parallel fifth, “ça passe” as we say in french.

  5. I firmly believe that, had Cliff Burton not died when did, Metallica would have been a symphonic metal band by 1995

  6. The track Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath was inspired by Mars (Holst). Geezer Butler was trying to figure out the riff and Tony Iommi fleshed it out.

  7. I can’t believe Billy Joel’s “This Night” wasn’t included! He uses the second movement of Beethoven Sonata No 8 for the chorus!

    1. He credited Ludwig for that. I’ve always wondered if he borrowed the verse of Through the Long Night from some classical piece, because it sort of sounds like it. But then, Joel is no slouch as a composer himself!.

  8. I like that the first example is Metallica, Cliff was known for being a big fan of classical music and a lot of stuff he composed was inspired by it with one of the earliest examples being the acoustic intro of Fight Fire With Fire from Ride the Lightning, which I believe lifts from Mozart (if I remember correctly) and was actually played by Cliff on the album, but a lot of classic metal was inspired by classical music with one of the best known examples being Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath, which in turn was inspired by the Mars section of the Planets Suite by Gustav Holst

    1. Also, Orion by Metallica. Cliff was the prime songwriter for that song and it goes hard.

  9. Pete Waterman admitted that many of his songs were based on famous classical pieces. He did a pretty good job of transforming them into something new, many people hadn’t noticed.

  10. When talking about cliff burton’s classical influence it is important to mention the song “anesthesia (pulling teeth)” which is a 4 minute l9ng bass solo full of classical influences.

  11. One group taking inspiration from classical music of all periods, from Renaissance to Contemporary is Gentle Giant. The piece On Reflection is a great example of that.

  12. I think piano section of Butterflies and Hurricanes by Muse with all these sweeping arpeggios sounds shockingly similar to a part from Rachmaninov’s 2nd or 3rd piano concerto (I don’t remember which exactly). The first time I heard this song I thought it was direct quotation, but turns out Muse’s pianist was just mimicking, and he did a good job.

  13. “Snakeskin” by Rina Sawayama is based on Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13

  14. Geek Down by J Dilla (The Shining one, not the one on Donuts) features a sample of Beathoven’s 5th as well Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumblebees

  15. Love this video series; would love to see the opposite — ways that modern classical or jazz has been influenced by popular rock and pop. I don’t know modern classical very well but would love to know if all of a sudden the 1-4-5 chord progression is dominating. I doubt it… but would love to learn more.
    Also: I never knew Ritchie Blackmore was so droll. He has always seemed too angry to be funny, but he’s funny.

  16. Another highway star moment to point out is the second guitar solo, which features a kind of a repeating circle of fifth chord progression, which really gives this baroque vibe

  17. Hey David love your stuff. Would love to see a video about the music in succession!

  18. The flute-like synth melody in the intro to Supertramp’s “Fool’s Overture” is taken from Gustav Holst’s “Venus, the Bringer Of Peace”.

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