Amen. I can play it at 60% speed right now on Rocksmith. You can't just move the chords somewhere easier either. If you don't get that sweet acoustic squeak from sliding positions, it just doesn't sound the same.
I read Andy Summers autobiography One Train Later, and he wrote that he had the guitar part to Every Breath worked out and rehearsed before he came to the studio, but he nailed it in one take, and every person in the studio broke into applause after he was done.
Sorry, but the chord progression is simple. The verse is a rip-off from "stand by me"! Sting even made that point. The guitar parts for the verses are difficult because of the added 9th notes. As a straight rhythm guitar with chords it is easy.
hate it? hate it?? I'd like to know who could possibly hate this???????????? man. some people hate this?? The Police??? actually, my Brother. man. some people, man.
I'm a huge, huge fan of isolated tracks such as this. Obviously the whole song is a masterpiece, but as a musician it's great to be able to hear the individual band members work their magic. Thanks for posting!
Paul Quast no he didn't, they were stuck, sting said to summers "go make it your own", and a while later summers came up with the iconic added 9th riff
@@1171karl Its not that band if you root your pinky and middle finger through each chord pair and then just move you index finger. I initially did it the hard way until I found an easier way to play it.
@@taotuhao5969 Since I have small hands I prefer to do the full stretch and keep the index finger bar planted so this way I do not miss any chord changes and lose track of the palm muting pick attacks. I know Andy uses the index finger move mode but it does not work for everyone.
One of the most underrated guitarists of all time. edit: everyone so angry that I call him underrated lmao. Does he get mentioned in the same sentence every time by everyday people as Hendrix, Fripp, Clapton, Page, etc? He doesn't and he should. That's underrated.
and to add on to your edit, he is highly overshadowed by Sting and Copeland in terms of popularity. He doesn't get as much praise as he should in terms of his contribution to the band.
@@Sorrocasharked Kind of like how Alex Lifeson of Rush is overshadowed by Neil Peart and Geddy Lee. 3 piece bands always have that one underrated guitarist
Even at the height of all the tensions and fallings out between the band members apparently when Andy Summers finished the first take of this riff he got a standing ovation led by Sting
Love the fret noise! Perfect for this song. All three of the members are freaking amazing, master musicians. Stewart Copeland is one of the reasons I play drums and love to beat the hell out of the snare. This is so good!
Love how the sounds from position changes on the strings get caught by the effects... sounds like whispering. Keeping the arpeggiated sequence at tempo all the way through is a bigger challenge than players may think.
@@Ricardo-cl3vs I was still learning to play it al the time, lol. That was five years ago, the stacked fifth chords took a little getting used to at the time.
this is just perfect. this is the best riff from the 1980s. bam. my favorite, anyway. I don't know or really care about defining what's "best". who's to say. not I. but this is . . . this is perfect. he made a great song something else. this is the reason the song's got a billion views. okay, that's not true. this is the reason the song got, like, 200 million of those views. how's that. this is the reason Puff Daddy owned the year 1997. so much here.
Tim Gueguen Not even close. He tracked with his Marshalls... and used A Roland analog chorus. Why use the effect on an amp when you have a pedal board full of killer effects?
Tim Gueguen I confirm, Andy Summers use a Roland JazzChorus JC120 for records sessions of Synchronocity album. www.mixonline.com/news/profiles/polices-every-breath-you-take/365310
Do you know how to set the delay to get the doubling sound? i know there's a slight chorus but what about the delay setting? a lot of people cover this but wasn't able to mimick the doubling sound.
@@paolo-1283 Unfortunately I do not. And agreed, that delay is incredibly hard to mimic. It repeats once but almost sounds like reverb, it’s very subtle and doesn’t immediately sound like another note. Wonder if Andy has said how he set it in an interview or something similar
From what I can hear, Summers tracked about two or three different guitars or patches from the same guitar on this recording. All three were added here on this mix.
Yeah. There's three 3 tracks of guitar. (The main riff was played on two guitars, 1 and 2, heard in the left and right channels) Guitar 1 also played the distorted chords at the chorus. There's another guitar heard here (3) playing the same chords which ends playing at 1:46. There's a harmonic played at 1:47, played by guitar 1. Guitar 2 plays the riff occuring after the chorus. You can hear guitar 1 join guitar 2 at 1:49-1:50. Guitar 3 joins again at 3:11. And so the song wraps to a close. Beautiful arrangement overall!
Think about it for a second. They are almost at the point of throwing this song in the bin as it wasn't working, then Sting turns to Andy and says "go on then make it your own" then Andy lays down this and the studio errupts. Now that's synchronicity for you. Genius.
Cool stuff. Thanks. On a sidenote: I don't know why or if it's really just my perception but there seems to be an overabundance of photos showing Andy playing that stretchy root/5th/add9 chord from Message In A Bottle. It's omnipresent when people are having to pick a photo of Andy playing the guitar.
Jean Rene is correct...the real meat of the sound is in the doubling. The delay, reverb and the compression with chorus is icing on the cake, but the doubling is the absolute key. The main track is obviously one take, but the outro overdubs and the bridge overdubs are obviously seperate passes.
You mean he doubles the whole riff since the beginning? Or you refer to minute 3:11? I think the whole riff is doubled: once with palm muting and then with a softer sound
I mean that there is Automatic Double Tracking and and a delay where the repeat is almost the same level as the original note throughout the whole song.
You are very welcome...I hope I explained it accurately. This is what my ears tell me and it isn't 100% fact, but that is my take on what I hear in the recording...
garbeaj You explained it perfectly. I was looking for a answer like that long time ago. This is one of my favourite riffs from my favourite band and i've always wondered why it sounds so good. So thanks again.
Thank you so much Michael for sharing this isolated track. I've been practicing the notes carefully and has been very helpful for me. Indeed, i noticed some specific notes that i couldn't listen to before because of the original mix of the whole song. Two thumbs up!!. Regards from Santiago, Chile.
@@leewhitworth9142 Watch him live on things like this. Guitar players are not doing the things most think, they make it easy then people think oh theyre Gods they do these stretches. Andy Summers is a very basic but smart guitar player. He is not doing that stretch.
Espectacular,debe ser la grabación de estudio de la banda xq se puede notar el audio de la canción de fondo. Quizás sea el auricular 🎧🎧 del guitarrista...me encantó..
Does anybody know how to set the delay to get the doubling sound? i know there's a slight chorus but what about the delay setting? a lot of people cover this but wasn't able to mimick the doubling sound.
Hello, great isolated guitar track!!! Does anyone know the exact delay settings to nail the sound (time, feedback, mix and right-left offset time)? Also, is the chorus in mono or stereo (and, then, one side no chorus other side full chorus / or chorus with different phase on one side and another? Any other tips as to compression, chorus and reverb settings? Thank you!!!
According to some forums if you play it at 105 bpm, use 300 ms delay (you won't get a note above the other like a perfect 1/4, but a 1/4 with a slight slapback). Chorus is stereo, from the amp, if i recall correctly. You should check the rick beato's video about this song mix, in which he listens to all the different tracks and explains some effects and techniques used.
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One of the hardest easy-sounding riffs ever written.
played with a capo it's much easier
Amen. I can play it at 60% speed right now on Rocksmith. You can't just move the chords somewhere easier either. If you don't get that sweet acoustic squeak from sliding positions, it just doesn't sound the same.
Message in a Bottle fits that bill, too. It seems easy to play, and then you go to try it, and it's like the gym for your fingers.
@@tashaffin tune the d string up a whole step, should be able to play it im power chord positions
@@vinniesmyyth334 but in the picture he's actually doing the stretch
The song doesn't exist without this riff.
Shows how selfish some people are. The fact that Sting took all the credit is a real crime. Sting and Mick Jones should write together.
I read Andy Summers autobiography One Train Later, and he wrote that he had the guitar part to Every Breath worked out and rehearsed before he came to the studio, but he nailed it in one take, and every person in the studio broke into applause after he was done.
Such a great haunting ambiance. You don't have to play a hundred notes a second to make a legendary track, kids.
Just look at Gilmour, one of the greatest players of all time
Yes but the Add9 stretches are also not that easy to play
yea, except this chord progression is fucking nuts... even crazier to play on the guitar
Sorry, but the chord progression is simple. The verse is a rip-off from "stand by me"! Sting even made that point. The guitar parts for the verses are difficult because of the added 9th notes. As a straight rhythm guitar with chords it is easy.
Absolutely. A legendary song and riff with 4 chords. A genius.
There is something udescribable to me when the second guitar line comes in at 3:12 it gives me chills.... Amazing...
I love that main riff to death. It's so beautiful and eerie at the same time. Even without the lyrics, it somehow gives off a creepy, stalker-y vibe
IKR
Fits the lyrics perfectly.
@@85geoffm right, the lyrics are also stalker-y
"I'll be watching you"
The slide sounds like whispers. This is beautiful beyond words.
I've always felt like his guitar was the secret weapon of the band. Hate it or love it, it sounds like nothing else
Anyone who hates Andy's playing in The Police can go #%$@ themselves.
hate it? hate it??
I'd like to know who could possibly hate this????????????
man. some people hate this?? The Police??? actually, my Brother. man. some people, man.
@@bijibadness I wanna make this clear, I love it, however there are always people who hate something for the sake of hating it, that's a shame
I totally agree! His playing was the main reason i got into Police music. Such ambient, haunting, and original chords.😊
I'm a huge, huge fan of isolated tracks such as this.
Obviously the whole song is a masterpiece, but as a musician it's great to be able to hear the individual band members work their magic.
Thanks for posting!
Same
Is the song played the same length time??
You can't do that in your head from the ARRANGEMENT?
This truly brings out Summer's technical genius, i think i may enjoy this isolation more than the complete song.
Best guitar riff of all times, i'm a Punker, a Headbanger, but Andy Summers was The man with this Masterpiece.
The man deserves co-writing credit for this one.
No.
Al Dentay why not? The guitar work on this song is just as iconic as the vocals
Sting wrote guitar part as well.
Andy came up with this sound to what Sting had so he does deserve some credit for it.
Paul Quast no he didn't, they were stuck, sting said to summers "go make it your own", and a while later summers came up with the iconic added 9th riff
The riff fits the vibe of the lyrics so perfectly.
andy summers is a genius and prodigy of guitar good song forever andy
And has big hands. Have you tried playing Police songs? Ouch!
Yes i know play every breath you take
@@1171karl Its not that band if you root your pinky and middle finger through each chord pair and then just move you index finger. I initially did it the hard way until I found an easier way to play it.
@@taotuhao5969 Since I have small hands I prefer to do the full stretch and keep the index finger bar planted so this way I do not miss any chord changes and lose track of the palm muting pick attacks. I know Andy uses the index finger move mode but it does not work for everyone.
One of the most underrated guitarists of all time.
edit: everyone so angry that I call him underrated lmao. Does he get mentioned in the same sentence every time by everyday people as Hendrix, Fripp, Clapton, Page, etc? He doesn't and he should. That's underrated.
Stop with the underrated crap. He isn’t at all underrated. He is highly respected and copied.
He is worth millions, and beloved by people the globe over. If that's under-rated ...
and to add on to your edit, he is highly overshadowed by Sting and Copeland in terms of popularity. He doesn't get as much praise as he should in terms of his contribution to the band.
@@Sorrocasharked Kind of like how Alex Lifeson of Rush is overshadowed by Neil Peart and Geddy Lee. 3 piece bands always have that one underrated guitarist
it's beautiful just how clean this sounds all by itself. thanks again man for sharing this.
I wonder if he used ADX Trax Pro from Audionamix. Or did he perhaps obtain the master track?
I wonder how he did it too...
Not only does this sound clean, but you need fingers like Stretch Armstrong to play this.
And that´s how you get the inspiration to write "Titanium"
Another fantastic song
Even the tone is the same
Andy Summers came up with the riff. Try and imagine the song without it. It's still a cool song, but my guess is it wouldn't have had such an impact.
it would sound really creepy
I can't
Andy didn't write this riff sting did
@@sujalgautam9761 Andy wrote this riff.The riff Sting wrote was message in a bottle.
Love the echoey feel. Adds enormously to the onimous atmosphere.
Even at the height of all the tensions and fallings out between the band members apparently when Andy Summers finished the first take of this riff he got a standing ovation led by Sting
Stright up: Andy Summers is a genius!
Funfact : Was actually sting that wrote the guitar for this one I'm fairly sure
@@conorsmith8551 Not true. Sting wrote the riff for message in a bottle. Andy wrote the riff for Every Breath You Take.
@@tfchin23 oh apologies, thought he wrote this
@@conorsmith8551 no problemo !! Either way, it is an amazing riff.
He did this on the first take...brilliant.
Yes, Ben. He did it in one take.
Andy tells the story in his book, "One Train Later," which is really a great read.
Love the fret noise! Perfect for this song. All three of the members are freaking amazing, master musicians. Stewart Copeland is one of the reasons I play drums and love to beat the hell out of the snare. This is so good!
Must be one of, if not the best known guitar backings there is and really fantastic, well done Andy, a most memorable sound.
A forever riff. So unique and beautiful people that will be listening to (and playing) it forever.
Veri nice and rich chorus sound, slapback delay plus repeat delay (3 to 4 time), compression and doubling, i forgot it!
and palm muting
3:15. I never noticed in the complete song.
I did
I dit it... It's in the mix
Love how the sounds from position changes on the strings get caught by the effects... sounds like whispering. Keeping the arpeggiated sequence at tempo all the way through is a bigger challenge than players may think.
Andy is an incredible very talented player
When he hits that bridge... whoa.
Andy is such a badass.
So so so beautiful
most hooking riff ever
Have you heard Message in a Bottle? Sorry, I don't mean anything by it.
Andy Summers cemented his position as one of the greatest guitarists! Eternal stuff!
This just goes to show that a masterpiece isn’t necessarily a thousand overdubs and blazing solos!! So simple but yet so good!
This song completely wrecks my hand every time I play it :)
seriously! I can only practice it for 5-10 minutes at a time
Andy has big hand 😊
Why? Those are simple chords.
@@Ricardo-cl3vs I was still learning to play it al the time, lol. That was five years ago, the stacked fifth chords took a little getting used to at the time.
@@carlosmatos9848
Okay, fair enough, I completely missed that your comment was five years old.. 😉
Timeless masterpiece
this is just perfect. this is the best riff from the 1980s. bam. my favorite, anyway. I don't know or really care about defining what's "best". who's to say. not I.
but this is . . . this is perfect. he made a great song something else. this is the reason the song's got a billion views.
okay, that's not true. this is the reason the song got, like, 200 million of those views. how's that.
this is the reason Puff Daddy owned the year 1997. so much here.
Andy Summers grande, Bela Bartok esta detras de este riff inolvidable! De un gran musico a otro! Gracias por compartir!
when ever i heard this song..I close my eyes & it tooks me to a dreamy world....really love this song till death...
The amp here is all but certainly a Roland JC120. The chorus on my circa 1980 JC60 makes a similar sort of white noise.
Tim Gueguen Not even close. He tracked with his Marshalls... and used A Roland analog chorus. Why use the effect on an amp when you have a pedal board full of killer effects?
Tim Gueguen I confirm, Andy Summers use a Roland JazzChorus JC120 for records sessions of Synchronocity album. www.mixonline.com/news/profiles/polices-every-breath-you-take/365310
There is nothing quite like the chorus on a JC 120, particularly when the amp is turned op loud.
Andy Summers did this in one take, got a standing ovation from everyone in the studio. He is a genius
a legendary song , andys summers best guitarist forever
This is a real gem! Thank yo so much for uploading!
Oh wow, it sounds more beautiful isolated.
That fade in at the end is really nice
My favorite part are the dynamics. The slight alterations in the palm muting and the slides make it sound beautiful
Do you know how to set the delay to get the doubling sound? i know there's a slight chorus but what about the delay setting? a lot of people cover this but wasn't able to mimick the doubling sound.
@@paolo-1283 Unfortunately I do not. And agreed, that delay is incredibly hard to mimic. It repeats once but almost sounds like reverb, it’s very subtle and doesn’t immediately sound like another note. Wonder if Andy has said how he set it in an interview or something similar
@@mutt8553 I think he just make some Overdubs and the parts were selected for create this feeling (ambience).
From what I can hear, Summers tracked about two or three different guitars or patches from the same guitar on this recording. All three were added here on this mix.
Yeah. There's three 3 tracks of guitar. (The main riff was played on two guitars, 1 and 2, heard in the left and right channels)
Guitar 1 also played the distorted chords at the chorus. There's another guitar heard here (3) playing the same chords which ends playing at 1:46. There's a harmonic played at 1:47, played by guitar 1. Guitar 2 plays the riff occuring after the chorus. You can hear guitar 1 join guitar 2 at 1:49-1:50. Guitar 3 joins again at 3:11. And so the song wraps to a close.
Beautiful arrangement overall!
@@JesperSalama Indeed, ALL your observations are pretty right on.
BCRadio
Think about it for a second. They are almost at the point of throwing this song in the bin as it wasn't working, then Sting turns to Andy and says "go on then make it your own" then Andy lays down this and the studio errupts. Now that's synchronicity for you. Genius.
Dude is a straight up genius. This track alone made him a millionaire.
I could listen to that outro forever, so beautiful
Cool stuff. Thanks.
On a sidenote: I don't know why or if it's really just my perception but there seems to be an overabundance of photos showing Andy playing that stretchy root/5th/add9 chord from Message In A Bottle. It's omnipresent when people are having to pick a photo of Andy playing the guitar.
That's why he is Andy Summers.
Jean Rene is correct...the real meat of the sound is in the doubling. The delay, reverb and the compression with chorus is icing on the cake, but the doubling is the absolute key. The main track is obviously one take, but the outro overdubs and the bridge overdubs are obviously seperate passes.
You mean he doubles the whole riff since the beginning? Or you refer to minute 3:11?
I think the whole riff is doubled: once with palm muting and then with a softer sound
I mean that there is Automatic Double Tracking and and a delay where the repeat is almost the same level as the original note throughout the whole song.
***** Thank you
You are very welcome...I hope I explained it accurately. This is what my ears tell me and it isn't 100% fact, but that is my take on what I hear in the recording...
garbeaj You explained it perfectly. I was looking for a answer like that long time ago. This is one of my favourite riffs from my favourite band and i've always wondered why it sounds so good. So thanks again.
1:25 this gives me chills every time 😍😍😍😍😍
All three hit their parts so dead on. The most perfect record since Yesterday.
Nah you’re goated for this thank you, from 10 years later😫🙌
absolutely sublime xx
This is the first song I learned on guitar and it was hard and took a while but I damn sure love this song. Now I know the whole song by heart.
Thanks so much for isolating this; it's great for teaching!
Thank you so much Michael for sharing this isolated track. I've been practicing the notes carefully and has been very helpful for me. Indeed, i noticed some specific notes that i couldn't listen to before because of the original mix of the whole song. Two thumbs up!!. Regards from Santiago, Chile.
This is beautiful, I’ve been hooked all day
El tema es de Sting pero sin duda el sonido POLICE lo crea Andy Summers. Inconmensurable musico.
Amazing!!!
He is one of the most underrated players. He’s amazing
That slide sound is so amazing
sounds like he got mad and threw the guitar through the window (1:22)
Believe me, while learning this song I was close to doing that, lol. Damn stretch between strings is unbelievable.
@@leewhitworth9142 I play this with a capo, cos I hate the stretches
@@leewhitworth9142 Watch him live on things like this. Guitar players are not doing the things most think, they make it easy then people think oh theyre Gods they do these stretches. Andy Summers is a very basic but smart guitar player. He is not doing that stretch.
Andy is the man!
superb musicianship
Awesomeness! Saw your post on reddit.
This sounds like heaven.
Espectacular,debe ser la grabación de estudio de la banda xq se puede notar el audio de la canción de fondo.
Quizás sea el auricular 🎧🎧 del guitarrista...me encantó..
Andy Summers was the narrow but important difference between great songwriting and songs that are impossible to forget.
Thanks for sharing, the doubling is the key here
So simple but beautiful
Bring me back to the 80s
Does anybody know how to set the delay to get the doubling sound? i know there's a slight chorus but what about the delay setting? a lot of people cover this but wasn't able to mimick the doubling sound.
That arpeggio riff made the track iconic.
my favorite parts are accidental slides when chord changes
Its not very accidental, Its just callused fingers moving on the strings when transitioning to the next chord.
Ciao Andy. Ovunque tu sia, sei nelle mie cuffie, nel mio cuore, ✨✨✨✨❤️
Coolest guitar riff ever. One my favourite to play. Soon as I can afford a fender Jaguar I'll be picking up guitar again
1:24 Wow, i wasn't ready
Didn't Andy do this in 1 take?
yes
Wow super clean then
Awesome guitar 🎸👍🎶
absolutely great...!!!
How can this Sound so perfect
Beautiful just beautiful😢
I can't take this riff out of my head
Such a beautiful guitar intro
Essa guitarra não toca ela fala. Sensacional. 🎸🔊
Hello, great isolated guitar track!!! Does anyone know the exact delay settings to nail the sound (time, feedback, mix and right-left offset time)? Also, is the chorus in mono or stereo (and, then, one side no chorus other side full chorus / or chorus with different phase on one side and another? Any other tips as to compression, chorus and reverb settings? Thank you!!!
According to some forums if you play it at 105 bpm, use 300 ms delay (you won't get a note above the other like a perfect 1/4, but a 1/4 with a slight slapback). Chorus is stereo, from the amp, if i recall correctly. You should check the rick beato's video about this song mix, in which he listens to all the different tracks and explains some effects and techniques used.
Absolute genius
Great song by a great band.
Is that just a modulated delay or is it chorus into 8th note delays?
Lord...the B section.....unreal hugeness. Hugh Padham at the board.
How does he make that noise at 1:46?
Does some know what fx he was using for this song?
What can I say? No words.
Thanks so much for sharing this. It's so dope. Do you have anymore?
Those little squeaks are the real MVP.