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0:00 What is pedal point?
1:41 Everybody Wants To Guideline The World.
3:02 Eye Of The Tiger.
4:35 Indiana Jones.
5:18 Why is it called "Pedal point"?
6:02 Pianote.
6:54 Elton John.
9:55 Pink Floyd.
10:34 Dominant pedal.
12:09 Hurt by Johnny Cash.
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Stevie Nicks, Edge of Seventeen comes to mind as a great example.
Another few iconic examples I can think of are pinball wizard by the who and the bass in a view to a kill pedalling on C to build tension.
Good example!
Genesis uses pedal point in almost all its songs. They pretty much let it define their sound.
In the later years, yes. Abacab springs to mind.
@@cakemartyr5794 in later years yes, but in early years even more so. Its harder to think of an early song where they DON’T use it.
it’s true. It’s from that time between Anthony Phillips standing down and being replaced by Steve Hackett when they were doing gigs, since Mike Rutherford had to cover both rhythm guitar AND bass and ended up using bass pedals. (Meanwhile Tony Banks had to use distortion to turn his piano into something that sounded like a lead guitar tone). Even after Steve got there, it had become such a part of the Genesis sound that they continued to use it all the time. (The distorted piano being phased out after Nursery Cryme for synths)
When steve left again, turning them into the three piece, the bass pedals came back, along with Mike getting custom built guitars which had two or three necks, one for guitar and one for bass. Eventually he got one where he could literally swap the neck out for a different one depending on the song!
Very good point, evh was influenced by genesis, listen to I’ll wait on van halens album 1984
What are your favorite examples?
The intro to Jackson Browne’s “Running On Empty” does this to great effect. Thanks for another great video helping us understand what’s going on when we hear these techniques.
Great example and great song!
The beginning of “Doctor My Eyes” has it as well. 👍
@@mantistoboggan4967 I was thinking that too!
📌3:55 there’s a small typo where I’ve put the Ab/C and Bb/C chords the wrong way around. Sorry for any confusion caused and thanks to the commenter who brought the error to my attention!
Oh I didn’t see this comment, I just commented that lol
Dude. You’re videos are just stellar. Great discussions of single concepts with great examples. Mad props.
@@cameronpeterson1175 thank you!
Here’s a slightly unexpected one: the old Chili’s baby-back ribs commercial: “I want my baby-back, baby-back…”
Aimee mentions that in her “could a commercial be a perfect pitch jam” video at right around 4 minutes.
But what about “Within You Without You” or “Tomorrow Never Knows?” Would those even count?
W/The Supremes’ I always thought is was a communique’; Western Union style, Truly learned a great lesson. Thanks.@@DavidBennettPiano
I love when the bass plays tonic notes of a chord progression while a guitar plays the same chord all over again. A pedal chord instead of a pedal note!
It’s one of the best ways to get a prominent melodic bass part into a song.
Thunderstruck (AC/DC) comes to mind – they run a good 2 and a half minutes into the song before they unleash the tension. Cliff Williams (their long time bassist) had a habit of using pedal point in many of their songs.
Almost all of AC/DC. It’s in their style. I especially like the use of the pedal in the refrain to Back in Black.
I love how at 10:38, when David tells us that till this point we had only listened to examples of tonic pedals, the “ding” that we hear is in D and then, when he introduces the dominant pedal at 10:51, the “ding” has changed pitch to an A to become the dominant of the first one. Nice touch!
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One thing about the organ is that when you press a key it will sound for however long you hold it down for. It can sound for seconds or even hours if you have the stamina and patience. With the piano the note dissipates a few moments after you press down on a note. This is a big reason the pedal note concept originated with organs.
The piano I play has a sostunado pedal that sustains any note below the G under middle C, and leaves the upper notes unaffected.
It’s really the only piano I’ve ever played. I don’t know what the middle pedal does on other pianos.
I just wanted to say thank you for all of your videos. I play guitar but you have helped me understand so much more theory than I ever imagined. I have tried learning more about music theory before but have always struggled. The way you explain things, and the use of your piano, makes it easier for me to understand these concepts. I look forward to your videos. Keep up the great work!
Supper’s Ready by Genesis has a 9/8 solo part that has a single pedal point throughout! But Genesis uses lots of pedal points in their music in general
Behind The Lines is B-pedal for most of the first half of the song
Goodbye Blue Sky by Pink Floyd is a good example of a guitar piece that uses pedal points to produce tension and uneasiness.
I think a great example of a type of pedal point would be in ethnic instruments such as bagpippe and sitar where the melody plays over a static drone note or notes. Actually I’d love to hear you do a discussion on that subject!
I think “Tomorrow Never Knows” and “Within You, Without You” by the Beatles both make use of a pedal point.
agree !
norwegian wood too
The pedal point in Hurt is present even in the version by Nine Inch Nails in the later part of the song. It wasn’t added by Johnny Cash. He just extended to a larger part of the song.
I think The Edge of U2 makes a frequent use of inverted pedal point, most often coupled with his delay effect. The chorus and final part of “One” works a bit like what David explain for “Hurt by Johnny Cash. “With ou Without You” also has a single treble note repeating all through the different chords.
Pete Townsend uses this technique in many of his songs including Substitute, Quadraphenia, and Pure and Easy to name a few.
The theme of “chariots of fire” immediately comes to my mind. The sketch bit for the london olympics ceremony is based around this pedal point.
I was about to mention that Tears for Fears song, but you beat me to it. Some other examples of pedal point is “Subdivisions” by Rush, where the synth bass pedals F# under a V-I vamp in the right hand. The lead guitar in the bridge of Fleetwood Mac’s “The Chain” is another iconic example of pedal point, hammering away at a high E double stop.
When the video introduced the concept of inverted pedal point, “Fake plastic trees” by Radiohead came to my mind. All chords throughout the entire song are strummed with the high E string in open position (yielding repeat appearances of F#m7, Dsus2 and Bm11 chords).
I always felt that the never-resolved harmonic unease this creates in the music superbly captures and complements the persistent existential tension the characters from the lyrics are experiencing (“it wears me out”).