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Take a look at my previous video on tunes with confusing intros:.
The outro music to this video is my track "Clap" which you can hear completely on Spotify:.
This is the cover of Beetlebum I utilized in this video:.
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0:00 What is a Confusing Introduction?
0:33 Style by David Bowie.
1:24 Veridis Quo by Daft Punk.
3:20 Cars And Truck Wash by Rose Royce.
5:58 Hooktheory.
6:40 Beetlebum by Blur.
9:30 Patreon.
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Another great example is “The Red Baron” by Sabaton, or “No More Tears” By Ozzy Osbourne
Not first, but i’m the real downbeat!
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Nice
I love verdis quo! Could be a Bach song!
One of my favorite examples of a misleading intro is “La Mer” by Nine Inch Nails. The piano plays a 3/4 riff to start off the song. The drums come in playing 4/4 and the bass follows the piano in 3/4. It’s a really cool song!
I’ve listened to Beetlebum approximately a billion times probably and I’ve never noticed this lol
I hate when this happens lol you are bopping your head then all of sudden a different count comes in lol
I kinda love it. For me it has the same impact as syncopation; it feels lively and unexpected in a sort of satisfying way
Another example of a song with a confusing intro (at least for me anyway) is Locust by Machine Head. It starts right on beat 1, but I always hear it as if it were on the and of 4.
Locust is an awesome song.
I’ve always loved this effect. I’m not sure if you mentioned in your previous video, but I think I’ve heard a term for this in the past, either it’s something like implied metric modulation, or rhythmic displacement, or metric displacement? Whatever it’s called, it’s a great trick!
Yeah as a drummer myself Car Wash doesn’t throw me, I immediately think of claps on the 2 & 4. When the kick comes in layered with it, I hear that as that kind of reggae style rhythm where kick is often on the upbeat too.
First time I’ve felt the right beat right in one of these, the blur track felt really wrong the way you initially counted it. Subjective indeed
My favourite example of this is “Much against everyones advice” by Soulwax. Probably not well known, but definitely worth a listen
Interestingly, I remember a time when Veridis Quo and Car Wash were new to me and I heard them the wrong way, but after listening to them so many times, I basically trained my brain to hear them correctly.
Not an intro, but the middle 8 section of Lean On Me by Bill Withers is very metrically confusing, since I’ve never heard a single cover that does it the same as the original.
I find a lot of genres where syncopation is a big component can be hard to count along to in the beginning. My favorite example is “The Impression That I Get” by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones. A Ska punk song where the first 4 bars are just the guitar and the rest of the band (minus the drums) is the next 4 bars. Then the drums come in and finally anchors the rhythm to the correct place.
On the last one I felt the right beat, on the Car Wash one I felt the wrong beat. Cool stuff.
Paul Davids did a great video years ago about “S*x on Fire” by Kings of Leon and how cover bands almost always muck the beat up.
i think because claps are so commonly used on beats 2 and 4, that even with no other elements to provide context it still feels like its supposed to be on beats 2 and 4.
This. Anyone who hears claps as being 1 and 3 needs to check themselves!
Yeah, it’s how you separate the musicians from the non-musicians.
Claps, snares and other “white noise” goes on the 2 and the 4. Bass goes on the 1 and 3. Obviously.
I’ve always heard “Veridis Quo” the intended way, but that’s probably because I was already used to that kind of arpeggio in classical music, and I subconsciously ignored the offset bass notes.
The song Veridis Quo is actually very smart play on words. It means ‘Where are you going’ in latin, but it also sounds like ‘Very Disco’ which is a pangram for ‘Discovery’ the name of the album ;). Clever, just like the intro
I’m surprised you found Beetlebum’s intro confusing. If not for this video, I would not have known that was even a possibility!
I need a part 4 of this great series.