SUCH DIFFERENT PERSONALITIES // Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Take A Pebble // Composer Reaction
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- Опубліковано 18 чер 2024
- Bryan reacts to and talks about his thoughts on Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Take A Pebble (Official Audio)
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0:00 Intro
01:20 Reaction
14:10 Analysis - General Structure
18:03 Analysis - Interesting Atmospheric Sections
22:53 Analysis - Full Band 'A' Sections
24:37 Analysis - Extended Solos
28:19 Analysis - A Sparse Guitar Lead
30:00 Analysis - Contrast With Piano Focus
33:04 Analysis - Tasteful Spice
37:56 Analysis - It's Dense In Some Ways
43:13 Analysis - Lyrical Dive
51:08 Outro
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All three are the best in what they do from their 70’s decade. Truly gifted guys
Emerson is playing on the piano strings like harp in the beginning.
Carl Palmer was a big band jazz drummer, touring with Big Bands, at age 14. He was that good. Crossing over to rock and classical music was easy for him. As for Kieth (piano) and Greg (vocal, bass and guitar), they were masters of both Classical and Rock, and in being able to combine both genres of music together.
I'm a big ELP fan (as you might guess from my username), and I think this is one of their absolute greatest masterpieces, so it was a pleasure to see someone I really respect react and break it down. Thanks! 👍🤟
He may not know what Tarkus signifies. But he should!
Also one of the first prog rock bands (or maybe the only? probably not) to not have the E-guitar as their main instrument but instead a keyboard and a bunch of synthesizers all played by Emerson.
I gotta recommend checking out "Knife Edge live at beat club" it really shows Emersons experimentation.
May I recommend U.K.?
They did start off with Alan Holdsworth's mastery on guitar - not as the main lead instrument though. On their second and last studio album (Danger Money), Eddie Jobson (the band leader) was doing all leads on keyboards and electric violin.
Anyone who doesn't think Keith Emerson was the greatest keyboardist of the Progressive Rock Era needs to listen to Emerson's skill on Take A Pebble.
It is steel brushes on a snare drum. Well miked and very well played!
I'm a watcher and subscriber. Might I suggest you turn the volume of your voice lower; or the music louder it would greatly improve your videos, not a criticism, just a preference and opinion. Always enjoy your breakdowns
As usual, you do catch REALLY much at first listen and do quite some accurate analysis on the things that caught your attention. Here's some notes on stuff I thought of through the reaction and analysis:
The first sound is actually strummed piano strings.
I belive there's no timpany but malleted bass timbal.
On the "solos": The guitar parts are def composed like most from the piano. Some piano (especially the "jazz" bit) was improvised as he alters it in different live performances. Using a solo instrument doesn't mean it's a "solo" except it's a solo part like a piano sonata would be "soloing. I did miss some commenting/analysis on piano/bass counterparts, but like you said, there's much to take in and digest....
"The guitarist" is actually also the bassist and singer (Greg Lake). Even though the pianist (Keith Emerson) do often take the spotlight (with piano/keyboards being the main melodic instrument), there's lots of "flourishes", and even counterpoint, from the bassist Greg Lake as well.
I'm glad you enjoyed the melodic drumming. The drummer Carl Palmer was considered a beast behind the kit. Here, he really shows his sensitive qualities, with e.g. jazz and even classical drumming. That tamber you weren't sure of, was most certainly steel brushes. Possibly not fully pushed out of the handle, thus making the straws more collected, delivering a harder stroke/hit.
I don't regard this a verse/chorus/long bridge/verse/chorus song. Especially since there isn't a chorus.... The sung parts are structurally more like much folk in that way. The instrumental parts are, to me, very much divided into movements - with very different styles/moods.
I encourage you to go listen to it again. I think it might be rewarding 😊
Thanks for clearing up some of those details and filling me in on those aspects that I didn't pick up on. This group is even more diverse than I initially thought and I appreciate their versatility. I gave it a second listen and between that and your extra info heard some new stuff that I didn't on the first, so thanks for the detailed comment.
@@CriticalReactions Their diversity is gobsmacking. This is a mind-blowing rabbit hole of a band. They do a lot of rock interpretations of classical and modern compositions: Janacek, Bach (a two-part invention was excerpted in this one), Bartok, Prokofiev, Copland, Mancini. They are all three top-tier virtuosos on their instruments, including that glorious voice.
If you were of the impression that the opening sounds were percussion you would be wrong. That's Keith Emerson reaching inside the piano and running his hand across the strings manually without using the keys and hammers
He is using the keys too, just silently pressing them down for the chord. You can watch him do it in the live shows from 1970.
@@Silviola824Using the keys is at least more "percussive" than strumming the strings 😉
(But Bryan might have thought of a hammered dulcimer for percussive - makes sence)
Give a listen to the original mix
This guy besides being woefully naive, is really annoying
Absolute MASTERPIECE .