Hey VG my idols FOREVER on UA-cam 📺🎹🎧🎤 talking to Depeche Mode 💟♥️Wooooooooow🙀😱🤗🥱😁😄🙆🤦 It's really amazing, impressive, talent 👌👍💪 It's so the total top with you and the magnificent music of Depeche Mode 🎇🎆🌌🌠⭐🌟 Too Cooooooooool with shine 🎉🎊💥🔥😻🥳🤩😍🥰😘 WELL DONE 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 Perfect perfectly perfect 👊👊👊👊👊👊👊✊✊✊✋✋🤜🤛🤜🤜🤛🤜🤛 Wonderfull 🤓🤓🤠💯❤️♥️💖💝 Thank you very much talking to Depeche Mode 💟❤️♥️ You are the Best for us FOREVER 🥳🥳 Especially VG never changes anything and never even 😺😸😽😼😉😘🧡❤️
It’s so inspiring to hear how their sound developed through that period of their career. I still wonder how Alan and Flood made the sound at 14:40. It’s so beautiful, melancholic and catchy at the same time.
This one isolated from the track blew me away too, the little flourishes etc As I told Alan when meeting him as a sound designer his later sounds are the only ones I listen to and am completely stumped as to how they were created. Just wow.
My uncle was a musician in the 60s, and he overheard me listening to Some Great Reward back when it was a relatively new release. He commented that if he had come up with the symphonic assault that is Master and Servant he would be a millionaire. Such a strange comment coming from an old hippie, but there you had it. My favorite riffs are in Shake the Disease and am glad you highlighted several. Such a sophisticated, stood-the-test-of-time track. Many iconic riffs for sure! Great idea for a video.
Such a fun video, full of surprises! Never let me down again is my all-time favourite Depeche song and I especially LOVE that opening riff. I once heard Alan Wilder ❤️ explain in an interview how they created that which was very interesting. I was gobsmacked to see that the whole thing is programmed onto just one key!
I never get bored of this stuff, my playlist is funnily enough 101 tracks (It's true 😂) but that does include concerts as well. I only have music pre 2000, not a lot suits me after that. Between depeche mode, Duran Duran, ultravox and crowded house, not much goes through my earholes. That era for me is like baked beans, never get tired of them and it makes me think of my younger years. Hope you're well Vaughn, how's the long covid?.............. Alan Wilder
@@VaughnGeorge I listen to depeche mode at least once every week, I never get bored and I'm never disappointed. You've got it, same as me and most on this channel. It's in your blood, it's in your soul. I'm sure this channel proves to you that you're not alone, we've got the bug. Everything you do is relevant, interesting, and informative. I thank my lucky stars you're not analysing coldplan, I think that's how you spell it 🤔......... Alan Wilder
Thank you for these. Halo was my fave, lol. But seriously, these riffs make you realise how deep and layered those DM tracks are. One could make full ambient soundscape albums just based on each track.
1981/1993 il periodo di massimo splendore dei Depeche Mode che però arriva anche al '97 con l'album "Ultra" secondo me! Ma li amo ugualmente anche oggi!!! Depechemodiano a vita!
It's amazing how they merge major and minor that gives the songs 🎵 a kinda sad/ darkness about them, also demonstrates how a simple riff can make a wonderful song, I remember Martin's demo of 'Silence' so simple yet complicated at the same time (do you know what I mean) and also hat's off to yourself for demonstrating 50 riffs perhaps beginners or people who have a synth but find it difficult you've gave them some great ways to play some Depeche tunes, stay safe, Mr VG.
A riff can't be "iconic," nor can any Sound at all, for that matter. Only Imagery is iconic - i.e., a person or thing whose Image is famous, often with the connotation that is has become emblematic. (The word Icon, in orginal Greek, Means image.) In addition to being the most overused word on UA-cam, "iconic" is also the most MISused. Misusers seem to think the word means simply "widely known," "instantly recognizable," "memorable," etc. But just as flavors, scents, ideas, emotions, bodily sensations, et al. can't be iconic, neither can Sounds (songs, beats, guitar tones, riffs, etc.). No one (hopefully) would ever think to speak of "iconic ice cream flavors," the "iconic smell of sulfur," Marx's "iconic theories," the "iconic bliss of first love," or the "iconic pain of a toothache." Misusers do seem to understand intuitively that Iconic has some inherent relation to the human sense of sight - to the exclusion of the other senses referenced above. For some reason, though, misusers appear to unconsciously stipulate a special exception for the sense of Hearing - so that, in their minds, "iconic' can properly apply to the products of precisely Two human senses, namely sights AND Sounds. This error has become rampant due to the UA-cam Feedback Loop, wherein video-makers parrot and propagate eachother's mistakes. Indeed, if the word meant what misusers seem to think it means, we could call this common case of misuse an Iconic Linguistic Error.
Thank you for this ! I appreciate all the time and detail that has gone into your posting and thanks for educating me on this - It's fascinating how we go through lives not really understanding the real meaning of words . I appreciate this . Cheers. VG 😎👍🎹
Can we get the follow up please ? "50 non-iconic Depeche Mode riffs/absence of melodies 1997-2017" ? 😁 Only half joking, there's somes through the later years, particulary in 1997-1998, but let's be honest : The richest period of classic melodies is 81-93. After that their music has shifted to 'micro-melodies'. This is not a bad thing, it's just different. Some of the 'recent' songs I like a lot : Suffer well, (that guitar riff!) In sympathy (I treasure my LHN recording from that era where they played live this song only the two first nights then dropped it. An aspect of the band that would be interesting to talk about), Should be higher (a try to the classic 80's melodies?), Fail (who's surprisingly the best "Spirit" track, to me).
Great compilation Vaughn! I played this 3 times. I miss songs from A Broken Frame though. My Secret Garden, Nothing To Fear, See You and The Sun and The Rainfall has some great keyboard melodies. Maybe another time. 😊
Porque no estaba wilder. Es un canal que rinde pleistesia a Alan. Por eso son los riffs hasta el 93. Cuando el creador de casi todas las melodias siempre ha sido el genio Martin.
I find it very soothing to play the 'riffs and hooks' from Sun & The Rainfall, Nothing, Bkack Celebration, Fly On The Windscreen, Lie to Me, Things You Said. Plus many more. And I heard a rumour a press conference is planned in Berlin for 4th October. Fingers crossed 🤞
Vaugh... please put this recording on YT in version 2 with better angle at keyboard - just like you did with Pimpf. Some (like me... ) could use your video for learning these riffs but with the current angle all these black keys are barely visible. Thanks for video - I'll be looping this few time per day for sure :D:D:D
About Pipeline: I clearly remember I tried to recreate the sound of the pingpong ball (for me it sounded like a pingpong ball) with my brand new Ensoniq EPS... My EPS isn't new anymore. Me neither.😉 I don't define myself as a "fan" but actualy I know by heart all those pieces you partialy played, I know the following notes and sound effects, the next verse, the lyrics, all... Maydbe I'm a DM fan, after all! 😁
The impact of Depeche Mode music on a person is simply amazing. Even a short fragment of a melody you played evokes such feelings as if I listened to the whole song. Incredible! My favorite riffs are in Shake the Disease, Stripped, Master and Servant, Never Let Me Down Again, Behind The Wheel and many more! Probably almost everything! Thanks for the great video, you are gorgeous as always, Vaughn!
Great video upload here! It was really cool to see and hear all these part demonstrations. You really nailed the tones, in my opinion. As a fan of Gary Numan, could you *_MAYBE_* do something like this for some of his songs? Last, are you a fan of bands like Asylum Party, Clan Of Xymox, A Flock Of Seagulls, The Fixx, Severed Heads? If so, could you make a video/videos on them sometime? I would love to hear your views and opinions on their music _(maybe even some keyboard demos like this on their music, as well.. please?)!_ P.S. Awesome studio setup! Looks like the cockpit of some cool starfighter, haha!
Such a good video idea Vaughn - i’ve seen (and searched for) some type of top 50 like this on UA-cam, but you’re the first one to hit it just right! Love how you did this, especially teasing us with those sounds from 1993.. CAN’T WAIT FOR THE NEXT REVIEW SERIES!!
Dear Vaughn, Every time I see a new video of yours I am happy like a little boy 😀 because I love to listen to you and I find your thoughts and analyses about Depeche Mode so interesting. Greetings from Germany, Manu
Aha takes me back, in my youth I could sit for hours with a depeche mode casette tape in a casette player and a yamaha pss toy keyboard going Play Pause Play Pause trying to work out their melodies and riffs. Their music just had a magical even spiritual essence for me. Thanks I enjoyed that.
Great video. Very pleasant to get so close to the original sounds. Thank you for the 50 demonstrations (Pimpf so great). A lot of futur work for me on my piano with this video as tutorial. Thx Vaughn
Great, thanks! It is amazing watching how the sounds I have for decades deep inside my mind and heart are played. BTW, where can we get this sound bank. I know it was spreat after AW's auction. Thnx.
Nice choice, I think get the balance right and nothing to fear also deserve to be at that list. I have a question to you - how do get this iconic Policy of Truth sample? If you recreate it, is it slide from F to C? Or it’s other notes? Great video as usual
So, I’m on UA-cam once a day, late in my evening for about an hour, and that means I don’t get out enough? Haha. Nice try, Vaughan. As Depeche Mode said….”Dream on…..” 😆
@@VaughnGeorge ...And "Dream On" being what Dave conveyed in his latest interview, when asked the "Alan Wilder question" by a Slovak interviewer. I must note, Dave said Alan was in the band the first 10 years instead of over 13 years. Either way.. Check it out, because it looks like fans have to put all hopes to rest: ua-cam.com/video/mMr-H76bBKM/v-deo.html
Evenin’ Vaughn As usual, you “nailed it again with your finger tips💯👌🏻 So interesting to hear these riffs without the voice content. Riff Nothing #31, does this not sound so similar to Save A Prayer by Duran Duran? On a different note, I’ve meaning to ask this special request & hoping a lot of your subscribers agree to my sentiment. Some time in the future, would it be possible to discuss the instrumentals that DM produced over the years? l feel they played such an important role & part to their albums & B side tracks to the 7” & 12” singles they released.
I love the fact in the title of this of 1981-1993 (disregarding everything after Alan Wilder left) Admittedly after Alan Wilder left so did Depeche die for me. Amazingly I didn't buy anything from the Violator era (I know I will be flogged and stoned in the streets by the die hard (Work Hard) fans).. It didn't appeal to me (the analogue side) Erasure were funnily doing the same at the same time. I don't know.. Maybe from the heavily sampled and digital days of The Berlin Trilogy and Music For The Masses.. I had got used to that. But when Songs Of Faith And Devotion came out .. Jings .... Now that was something else.. Brilliant...The sound of Depeche Mode without Wilder production post Wilder to me (my opinion) is pish
PERFECT, I say it again and again, these days their songs are missing those bold melodic riffs, which were the best, 80' s and first half of 90's were full of these, strong melodies are everything for me
I always thought the same. I wonder if Martin perceives this lack of melodies as an evolution of his own music, or it's due to Alan absence, or it's just the level of inspiration degrading over decades.
@@Electromozart I feel like they became afraid of bold melodies and they started to prefer chord changes only - because they started to think (wrongly), that melodic riffs are too "naive" or something like that :D like less melodies = more mature music, which is total nonsense in my book, look at movie soundtracks, lots of them are full of endless melodic lines, f.e. Conan by Basil Poledouris, which I believe is the most advanced production on this planet - melody wise, absolutely incredible main melodies and lots of sub-layer melodies running in harmony. As I said, melodies are EVERYTHING, the more DM realize this, the better their music becomes - again
@@RobinPM100 Getting rid of the melodies seems more generally like a modern trend. Unfortunately, I believe that we have already witnessed their best. We are missing the enthusiasm and the willingness to explore new paths and experiment an innovative sound of the 80s albums, thanks to Gareth Jones. We are missing the internal contrasts and the bands' members self--destruction path, which led to albums like SOFAD, which to me represents their most intense and communicative album. And, of course, we are missing Alan, his work, his soundscapes, and his brilliance.
@@Electromozart well, not all is lost it seems, judging by the song teaser from the press conference, it had cool melody riff of old DM! they are back in form
@@RobinPM100 I honestly hope you are right 👌🏻 cause that's what I felt the minute I heard the first notes and the way they both blended with their beautiful ❤️ Voices!!!
It really shows off the layers and complexity of each sound. A bass teacher I had was Rick May who also is a session player and worked briefly with Depeche during the Only When I Lose Myself period. He mentioned they sampled him playing and then did all kinds of work on the sound. Not sure which track but it might be like these just one part of a layered sound.
This might be an interesting watch for some, but as someone who has all the same banks and knows these songs extremely well, the abundance of mistakes made in this video make it a little hard to watch. Learning these parts accurately takes a lot of time and care, which is sorely missed in this video. I've compiled a list of all the mistakes I noted while watching, so you may create an updated version of this video with corrections, if you choose to. #20 - Alan's bell melody during the middle 8 of Shake The Disease has a different rhythm and one less note at the end than what's played here. You can find an example of it on my channel, when I performed the song recently(not a perfect performance, by the way, but I am confident in that part) #21 - In Alan's Black Celebration middle 8 melody, the first note is a D, not a C. The first time you play it, you only play the second half of the melody. The second time you play it, you miss the last note. #23 - The lead melody of A Question Of Time is played with a pitch bend on the first note, as opposed to the G-F-G shown here. The only time it's played as shown is during the second half of the outro in live performances, when Alan has to use his left hand for melody #22 and as such can't use the pitch bend wheel. #28 - The left hand bass hits in the Strangelove middle 8 are played twice in the 2nd and 4th bars of each repetition. Here they are only played once. The release value of the right hand melody is also way too high, I don't know what happened to your Emax bank. #37 - In Alan's Never Let Me Down Again piano part the left hand is entirely missed. #41 - I'm honestly not sure where this melody came from, that's not what's played with the bells. Listen to the 1990 soundboard recordings to hear it more clearly #43 - Martin has two guitar samples that he plays with his left hand on Policy Of Truth, and they alternate. One slides down from the 5th to the 3rd, the other from the 5th to the 1st of the scale. #44 - You missed half the samples in Alan's Mercy In You Piano chords. Use the octave up and down keys to reach the remaining samples, which are lower on the keyboard #48 - The In Your Room looped vocal sample melody played by Martin is missing about half the notes, there's a bunch skipped in the middle. It also starts on the B. #49 - In the Rush distorted synth melody, Martin plays with with 2 hands across multiple octaves, but here you played the entire melody in the left hand octave. #50 - This melody is quite tricky and you're very close, so I don't blame you for the mistakes. A little more listening and practice should get you there.
@@Dafjo That's what I thought for a long time, but then I found this performance: ua-cam.com/video/aqfJ_8_C9H0/v-deo.html. You can see that Alan plays the left hand part at the end. In 101 and other performances, you can also hear the Alan's pitch bend goes away after the high synth comes in, but Martin continues pitch bending, so he can't be the one playing it. It was a tough one to figure out, and I'm still not sure why Martin has the high synth in his bank.
Many thanks to you for this upload! Very inspirating. I think the most memorable part in the song of Shake the disease is "Understand me" part. That's what I missed a little bit. I wish you a succesful life in the music you love.
50 Iconic Depeche Mode riffs and melodies demonstrated on the keyboards, using the original sound banks where possible.
This is great staff!!!
@@victormarchenko819 thank you Sir!! VG :-)
Thank you very very much! So sentimental, but valuable
@@gobiobi5030 you are welcome brother !! VG 🎹👍😎
Hey VG my idols FOREVER on UA-cam 📺🎹🎧🎤 talking to Depeche Mode 💟♥️Wooooooooow🙀😱🤗🥱😁😄🙆🤦 It's really amazing, impressive, talent 👌👍💪 It's so the total top with you and the magnificent music of Depeche Mode 🎇🎆🌌🌠⭐🌟 Too Cooooooooool with shine 🎉🎊💥🔥😻🥳🤩😍🥰😘 WELL DONE 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 Perfect perfectly perfect 👊👊👊👊👊👊👊✊✊✊✋✋🤜🤛🤜🤜🤛🤜🤛 Wonderfull 🤓🤓🤠💯❤️♥️💖💝 Thank you very much talking to Depeche Mode 💟❤️♥️ You are the Best for us FOREVER 🥳🥳 Especially VG never changes anything and never even 😺😸😽😼😉😘🧡❤️
The riff of Tora Tora Tora! is underrated
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Isn't "Nothing" such an underrated song. Amazing to listen to that and "Sacred" with some top quality headphones
100% agree. I consider those the two most underrated songs on the album. Never heard anyone else zero in on those two like that!
It’s so inspiring to hear how their sound developed through that period of their career. I still wonder how Alan and Flood made the sound at 14:40. It’s so beautiful, melancholic and catchy at the same time.
It reminds me of a similar sound and note sequence used on an Alan Parsons Project song.
This one isolated from the track blew me away too, the little flourishes etc As I told Alan when meeting him as a sound designer his later sounds are the only ones I listen to and am completely stumped as to how they were created. Just wow.
Love it especially Rush a very underrated song
My uncle was a musician in the 60s, and he overheard me listening to Some Great Reward back when it was a relatively new release. He commented that if he had come up with the symphonic assault that is Master and Servant he would be a millionaire. Such a strange comment coming from an old hippie, but there you had it.
My favorite riffs are in Shake the Disease and am glad you highlighted several. Such a sophisticated, stood-the-test-of-time track.
Many iconic riffs for sure! Great idea for a video.
Great story Greg and thank you for your kind words!! VG :-)
It definitely helped them become millionaires! Lol
It's kind of you to refresh Alan's memory! After seeing your video, he's now ready for the next DM tour 😁 🤚👋🐔
Never let me down again - it was long time my main ringtone theme
Good choice!! VG :-)
Yeah, Shake the Disease was my midi ringtone back in 1999-2003.
I could listen to the guitar loop for Never Let Me Down @ 10:00 for ever. It never gets old.
Who knew that the opening riff to Never Let Me Down Again was just a low G?! Jokes aside, this was very insightful. Stellar job! 💯
BLESS YOU Lars !! Glad you enjoyed it !! VG :-)
This is great! But what happened to post Alan era??? Will we see a part II with 50 riffs from 1994-2017???
I think "50 riffs" is a god start. Impossible to please everyone with such a huge catalogue!! VG :-) :-)
Man, once you get to Violator and SFAD the layering and attention to detail is breathtaking. AW is King.
Indeed !!VG :-)
Pimpf: what a great concert intro it was !!
Yes !! The ULTIMATE INTRO!!
Love those fateful bell sounds(#47) in "in your room".
Such a fun video, full of surprises!
Never let me down again is my all-time favourite Depeche song and I especially LOVE that opening riff. I once heard Alan Wilder ❤️ explain in an interview how they created that which was very interesting. I was gobsmacked to see that the whole thing is programmed onto just one key!
I never get bored of this stuff, my playlist is funnily enough 101 tracks (It's true 😂) but that does include concerts as well. I only have music pre 2000, not a lot suits me after that. Between depeche mode, Duran Duran, ultravox and crowded house, not much goes through my earholes. That era for me is like baked beans, never get tired of them and it makes me think of my younger years. Hope you're well Vaughn, how's the long covid?..............
Alan Wilder
Always goof to hear from you mu friend !! Thank you !! VG ;-)
@@VaughnGeorge I listen to depeche mode at least once every week, I never get bored and I'm never disappointed. You've got it, same as me and most on this channel. It's in your blood, it's in your soul. I'm sure this channel proves to you that you're not alone, we've got the bug. Everything you do is relevant, interesting, and informative. I thank my lucky stars you're not analysing coldplan, I think that's how you spell it 🤔.........
Alan Wilder
Thank you for these. Halo was my fave, lol. But seriously, these riffs make you realise how deep and layered those DM tracks are. One could make full ambient soundscape albums just based on each track.
Right you are my friend !! There is such depth and complexity in these sounds. VG :-)
1981/1993 il periodo di massimo splendore dei Depeche Mode che però arriva anche al '97 con l'album "Ultra" secondo me! Ma li amo ugualmente anche oggi!!! Depechemodiano a vita!
It's amazing how they merge major and minor that gives the songs 🎵 a kinda sad/ darkness about them, also demonstrates how a simple riff can make a wonderful song, I remember Martin's demo of 'Silence' so simple yet complicated at the same time (do you know what I mean) and also hat's off to yourself for demonstrating 50 riffs perhaps beginners or people who have a synth but find it difficult you've gave them some great ways to play some Depeche tunes, stay safe, Mr VG.
It's worth noticing how each of these samples is a masterpiece by itself in terms of sound design.
Right you are !!
A riff can't be "iconic," nor can any Sound at all, for that matter. Only Imagery is iconic - i.e., a person or thing whose Image is famous, often with the connotation that is has become emblematic. (The word Icon, in orginal Greek, Means image.)
In addition to being the most overused word on UA-cam, "iconic" is also the most MISused. Misusers seem to think the word means simply "widely known," "instantly recognizable," "memorable," etc. But just as flavors, scents, ideas, emotions, bodily sensations, et al. can't be iconic, neither can Sounds (songs, beats, guitar tones, riffs, etc.).
No one (hopefully) would ever think to speak of "iconic ice cream flavors," the "iconic smell of sulfur," Marx's "iconic theories," the "iconic bliss of first love," or the "iconic pain of a toothache."
Misusers do seem to understand intuitively that Iconic has some inherent relation to the human sense of sight - to the exclusion of the other senses referenced above. For some reason, though, misusers appear to unconsciously stipulate a special exception for the sense of Hearing - so that, in their minds, "iconic' can properly apply to the products of precisely Two human senses, namely sights AND Sounds.
This error has become rampant due to the UA-cam Feedback Loop, wherein video-makers parrot and propagate eachother's mistakes. Indeed, if the word meant what misusers seem to think it means, we could call this common case of misuse an Iconic Linguistic Error.
Thank you for this ! I appreciate all the time and detail that has gone into your posting and thanks for educating me on this - It's fascinating how we go through lives not really understanding the real meaning of words . I appreciate this . Cheers. VG 😎👍🎹
Can we get the follow up please ? "50 non-iconic Depeche Mode riffs/absence of melodies 1997-2017" ? 😁 Only half joking, there's somes through the later years, particulary in 1997-1998, but let's be honest : The richest period of classic melodies is 81-93. After that their music has shifted to 'micro-melodies'. This is not a bad thing, it's just different. Some of the 'recent' songs I like a lot : Suffer well, (that guitar riff!) In sympathy (I treasure my LHN recording from that era where they played live this song only the two first nights then dropped it. An aspect of the band that would be interesting to talk about), Should be higher (a try to the classic 80's melodies?), Fail (who's surprisingly the best "Spirit" track, to me).
Great work. Could you possibly do a 2nd Depeche riff vid of their newer stuff? THANK YOU!
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Great compilation Vaughn! I played this 3 times. I miss songs from A Broken Frame though. My Secret Garden, Nothing To Fear, See You and The Sun and The Rainfall has some great keyboard melodies. Maybe another time. 😊
Porque no estaba wilder. Es un canal que rinde pleistesia a Alan. Por eso son los riffs hasta el 93. Cuando el creador de casi todas las melodias siempre ha sido el genio Martin.
What a fabulous video :D I especially liked Pipeline, Shake the Disease, Nothing and Rush.
I find it very soothing to play the 'riffs and hooks' from Sun & The Rainfall, Nothing, Bkack Celebration, Fly On The Windscreen, Lie to Me, Things You Said. Plus many more.
And I heard a rumour a press conference is planned in Berlin for 4th October. Fingers crossed 🤞
This is just great!
I watched three times in a row.
Tks for sharing it with us, Vaughn.
You are welcome !! VG
Thank you for the great ringtones library 😁
Wonderful, video Vaughn. I would really enjoy seeing you do a concert event playing your music, DM, and other songs you enjoy playing.
Vaugh... please put this recording on YT in version 2 with better angle at keyboard - just like you did with Pimpf.
Some (like me... ) could use your video for learning these riffs but with the current angle all these black keys are barely visible.
Thanks for video - I'll be looping this few time per day for sure :D:D:D
About Pipeline: I clearly remember I tried to recreate the sound of the pingpong ball (for me it sounded like a pingpong ball) with my brand new Ensoniq EPS... My EPS isn't new anymore. Me neither.😉
I don't define myself as a "fan" but actualy I know by heart all those pieces you partialy played, I know the following notes and sound effects, the next verse, the lyrics, all... Maydbe I'm a DM fan, after all! 😁
or "just" a person with a good taste ;-)
@@ToHaveAndToHold I should say both 👌🏻💯% Definitely is a Fan and has a great taste in music 🎶🎵🎶❣️❣️
The impact of Depeche Mode music on a person is simply amazing. Even a short fragment of a melody you played evokes such feelings as if I listened to the whole song. Incredible!
My favorite riffs are in Shake the Disease, Stripped, Master and Servant, Never Let Me Down Again, Behind The Wheel and many more! Probably almost everything!
Thanks for the great video, you are gorgeous as always, Vaughn!
15:23 that rif is in the next eighth 😅 (you missed many)
Bad camera angle. Need to be looking down more.
Nice video! Love Depeche Mode.
Now i get it! The resemblance between Puppets and Robots from Kraftwerk. 🎉 also a simular title😅
Thank you my friend! Glad you enjoyed it!! VG :-)
The Emu emax synthesizer the same synthesizer used during the Violator tour. Great video thank you
amazing, exciting…thank you very much!
You are very Welcome!! VG 🎹👍😎
Got goosebumps listening to these, absolutely amazing 👏
This is brilliant!! Thanks for sharing! This should be the setlist for the next DM tour.
Wonderful Iconic Masterpieces Memories
Great video upload here! It was really cool to see and hear all these part demonstrations. You really nailed the tones, in my opinion. As a fan of Gary Numan, could you *_MAYBE_* do something like this for some of his songs?
Last, are you a fan of bands like Asylum Party, Clan Of Xymox, A Flock Of Seagulls, The Fixx, Severed Heads? If so, could you make a video/videos on them sometime? I would love to hear your views and opinions on their music _(maybe even some keyboard demos like this on their music, as well.. please?)!_
P.S. Awesome studio setup! Looks like the cockpit of some cool starfighter, haha!
So enjoyable!, I can play these rifts as well, but we shockingly didn't here their #1 rift, enjoy the silence!, Was it forgotten?
Vaughn where is The sun and the rainfall melody?! 😲 That's one of the best they have ever made! EDIT: where is Walking In My Shoes main melody? 😲
Every video I've ever wanted in one! 😂 Well, you nearly lost me at #1 and #43 but definitely a fave vid from a self tuition perspective.... 👍🏼👍🏼
Such a good video idea Vaughn - i’ve seen (and searched for) some type of top 50 like this on UA-cam, but you’re the first one to hit it just right! Love how you did this, especially teasing us with those sounds from 1993.. CAN’T WAIT FOR THE NEXT REVIEW SERIES!!
Yes, I did enjoy this!
Thank you Tyler!! VG 😎👍🎹
That was interesting. Please show us next time Higher Love, Enjoy the Silence and Personal Jesus.
Dear Vaughn, Every time I see a new video of yours I am happy like a little boy 😀 because I love to listen to you and I find your thoughts and analyses about Depeche Mode so interesting. Greetings from Germany, Manu
Thank you so much Manuel!! VG :-)
Aha takes me back, in my youth I could sit for hours with a depeche mode casette tape in a casette player and a yamaha pss toy keyboard going Play Pause Play Pause trying to work out their melodies and riffs. Their music just had a magical even spiritual essence for me. Thanks I enjoyed that.
Great video! So much knowledge and inspiration to get from these when it comes to melody and harmony.
Great video. Very pleasant to get so close to the original sounds. Thank you for the 50 demonstrations (Pimpf so great). A lot of futur work for me on my piano with this video as tutorial. Thx Vaughn
My pleasure! VG :-)
Great, thanks! It is amazing watching how the sounds I have for decades deep inside my mind and heart are played. BTW, where can we get this sound bank. I know it was spreat after AW's auction. Thnx.
Nice choice, I think get the balance right and nothing to fear also deserve to be at that list. I have a question to you - how do get this iconic Policy of Truth sample? If you recreate it, is it slide from F to C? Or it’s other notes?
Great video as usual
These samples are lifted from Martin's Devotional bank for Policy Of Truth.
Vaughan... You skipped a note or missed a minor note here and there in some of the riffs. Noble effort, though!
You need to get out more!! VG 🤣🤣🎹
So, I’m on UA-cam once a day, late in my evening for about an hour, and that means I don’t get out enough? Haha. Nice try, Vaughan. As Depeche Mode said….”Dream on…..” 😆
@@mhoroky Yep, "Dream on" being their worst single to date. VG :-)
@@VaughnGeorge ...And "Dream On" being what Dave conveyed in his latest interview, when asked the "Alan Wilder question" by a Slovak interviewer. I must note, Dave said Alan was in the band the first 10 years instead of over 13 years. Either way.. Check it out, because it looks like fans have to put all hopes to rest: ua-cam.com/video/mMr-H76bBKM/v-deo.html
Thanks and Moar! PS: Did you buy Alan's Emu with the patches still in it that he auctioned off?
Evenin’ Vaughn
As usual, you “nailed it again with your finger tips💯👌🏻
So interesting to hear these riffs without the voice content.
Riff Nothing #31, does this not sound so similar to Save A Prayer by Duran Duran?
On a different note, I’ve meaning to ask this special request & hoping a lot of your subscribers agree to my sentiment.
Some time in the future, would it be possible to discuss the instrumentals that DM produced over the years?
l feel they played such an important role & part to their albums & B side tracks to the 7” & 12” singles they released.
Save a Prayer's riff was made with Roland SH-2, square and triangular waves combined for that distinct synthetic sound.
The best notes on the planet!!!!
Can you buy those samples? I am hoping to purchase an E-Max II soon and would love to get those samples!
I love the fact in the title of this of 1981-1993 (disregarding everything after Alan Wilder left) Admittedly after Alan Wilder left so did Depeche die for me. Amazingly I didn't buy anything from the Violator era (I know I will be flogged and stoned in the streets by the die hard (Work Hard) fans).. It didn't appeal to me (the analogue side) Erasure were funnily doing the same at the same time. I don't know.. Maybe from the heavily sampled and digital days of The Berlin Trilogy and Music For The Masses.. I had got used to that. But when Songs Of Faith And Devotion came out .. Jings .... Now that was something else.. Brilliant...The sound of Depeche Mode without Wilder production post Wilder to me (my opinion) is pish
This made me very happy...thank you👌💓👌
You're welcome !! VG 🎹😎👍
A looot of Ringtones. 😉
Superb video Vaughn! Any chance you would make another video like this from the modern DM records?
PERFECT, I say it again and again, these days their songs are missing those bold melodic riffs, which were the best, 80' s and first half of 90's were full of these, strong melodies are everything for me
I always thought the same. I wonder if Martin perceives this lack of melodies as an evolution of his own music, or it's due to Alan absence, or it's just the level of inspiration degrading over decades.
@@Electromozart I feel like they became afraid of bold melodies and they started to prefer chord changes only - because they started to think (wrongly), that melodic riffs are too "naive" or something like that :D like less melodies = more mature music, which is total nonsense in my book, look at movie soundtracks, lots of them are full of endless melodic lines, f.e. Conan by Basil Poledouris, which I believe is the most advanced production on this planet - melody wise, absolutely incredible main melodies and lots of sub-layer melodies running in harmony. As I said, melodies are EVERYTHING, the more DM realize this, the better their music becomes - again
@@RobinPM100 Getting rid of the melodies seems more generally like a modern trend. Unfortunately, I believe that we have already witnessed their best. We are missing the enthusiasm and the willingness to explore new paths and experiment an innovative sound of the 80s albums, thanks to Gareth Jones. We are missing the internal contrasts and the bands' members self--destruction path, which led to albums like SOFAD, which to me represents their most intense and communicative album. And, of course, we are missing Alan, his work, his soundscapes, and his brilliance.
@@Electromozart well, not all is lost it seems, judging by the song teaser from the press conference, it had cool melody riff of old DM! they are back in form
@@RobinPM100 I honestly hope you are right 👌🏻 cause that's what I felt the minute I heard the first notes and the way they both blended with their beautiful ❤️ Voices!!!
It really shows off the layers and complexity of each sound. A bass teacher I had was Rick May who also is a session player and worked briefly with Depeche during the Only When I Lose Myself period. He mentioned they sampled him playing and then did all kinds of work on the sound. Not sure which track but it might be like these just one part of a layered sound.
Hi Tom!! That is a very interesting story !! Thank you for sharing it my friend!! VG :-)
Great. Are you using samples or patches? Anymore info would be great.
Awesome 😎
I loved the video!! But you skipped sacred and something to do 😢
This might be an interesting watch for some, but as someone who has all the same banks and knows these songs extremely well, the abundance of mistakes made in this video make it a little hard to watch. Learning these parts accurately takes a lot of time and care, which is sorely missed in this video. I've compiled a list of all the mistakes I noted while watching, so you may create an updated version of this video with corrections, if you choose to.
#20 - Alan's bell melody during the middle 8 of Shake The Disease has a different rhythm and one less note at the end than what's played here. You can find an example of it on my channel, when I performed the song recently(not a perfect performance, by the way, but I am confident in that part)
#21 - In Alan's Black Celebration middle 8 melody, the first note is a D, not a C. The first time you play it, you only play the second half of the melody. The second time you play it, you miss the last note.
#23 - The lead melody of A Question Of Time is played with a pitch bend on the first note, as opposed to the G-F-G shown here. The only time it's played as shown is during the second half of the outro in live performances, when Alan has to use his left hand for melody #22 and as such can't use the pitch bend wheel.
#28 - The left hand bass hits in the Strangelove middle 8 are played twice in the 2nd and 4th bars of each repetition. Here they are only played once. The release value of the right hand melody is also way too high, I don't know what happened to your Emax bank.
#37 - In Alan's Never Let Me Down Again piano part the left hand is entirely missed.
#41 - I'm honestly not sure where this melody came from, that's not what's played with the bells. Listen to the 1990 soundboard recordings to hear it more clearly
#43 - Martin has two guitar samples that he plays with his left hand on Policy Of Truth, and they alternate. One slides down from the 5th to the 3rd, the other from the 5th to the 1st of the scale.
#44 - You missed half the samples in Alan's Mercy In You Piano chords. Use the octave up and down keys to reach the remaining samples, which are lower on the keyboard
#48 - The In Your Room looped vocal sample melody played by Martin is missing about half the notes, there's a bunch skipped in the middle. It also starts on the B.
#49 - In the Rush distorted synth melody, Martin plays with with 2 hands across multiple octaves, but here you played the entire melody in the left hand octave.
#50 - This melody is quite tricky and you're very close, so I don't blame you for the mistakes. A little more listening and practice should get you there.
You need to get out more !! haha !! Just kidding !! I really appreciate your passion and attention to detail!! Thank you!! VG :-)
@@VaughnGeorge lmao
Wow
Doesn’t Martin play #22 while Alan plays #23 at the end of “A Question Of Time”? That’s my guess as #22 is present on both Alan’s and Martin’s bank
@@Dafjo That's what I thought for a long time, but then I found this performance: ua-cam.com/video/aqfJ_8_C9H0/v-deo.html.
You can see that Alan plays the left hand part at the end. In 101 and other performances, you can also hear the Alan's pitch bend goes away after the high synth comes in, but Martin continues pitch bending, so he can't be the one playing it. It was a tough one to figure out, and I'm still not sure why Martin has the high synth in his bank.
Hi dear friend. Is there any chance to get the Rush samples? Thank you.
Everytime i hear SOMEBODY I melt! Vaughn you got to play that whole song for us one day and post it. ❤
Cool!!!!
Cheers Nina!! VG :-)
I know these are iconic so not many b-sides but you did include "I sometimes wish I was dead'. So, if you go there, you have to do Fools.
I was hoping for the bass riff in Stripped that Alan taught us all in 101 😂
I wonder why the song. Sometimes I wish I was dead was not released on the speaking spell album for the US
What to you mean, keyboard beginner? This is where I am at, at 52 🤪
Great vid 🖤🌹
Rock on! Cheers Anders !! VG :-)
DM, masters of the melancholy earworm.
0:43 You should have played lower keys to reveal more details
What is that keyboard you are playing please?.
Dm forever! Magic to the ears
A different video compared to the others. But also a very nice surprise 🙂
Glad you liked it! Thank you , VG :-)
Can you make a tutorial for your keyboard sound ?
This is just brilliant, made an old guy feel 21 again, god bless you for this video 🤩👋👋💚
I am glad to hear that brother!! VG :-)
Great selection my friend
Thank you kindly!! VG :-)
Thanks for sharing these! They sound great!
Conrad you are very welcome my friend!! VG :-)
@@VaughnGeorge You are welcome. You have an email from me! ;-)
I missed some riffs from A broken frame album...
where can I download them?
Where is 'Enjoy the Silence' ?
Alen Wilder is genius!
Where is but not tonight😢
Clean also has its good riffs
Nice!!🖤🌹 Could you do 1997-2017? Thx🙏
You deserve to be watched more
Bless you my friend !! I really appreciate that ! VG 🎹👍😎❤️
@@VaughnGeorge really u r the best in the videos i watched about DM. Hi from amazing city İstanbul
Can you do this again, but with a camera above the keyboard? I'm an absolutely appalling keyboard player so I need all the help I can get :-)
Cheers Viktor!! I may just do that some time!! VG :-)
Great video!
You really missed the Get The Balance Right riff
Not possible to play them all of course . 😎
These riffs are like food to my soul
What's the keyboard you're using?
The keyboard is an Emu Emax. The same model which Depeche Mode used on the 1988 Music for the Masses tour. VG 😎🎹👍
Oh my, it a fire
This reverse engineer job is incredible George!
@@DemoniacYouth thank you 🙏
Many thanks to you for this upload! Very inspirating. I think the most memorable part in the song of Shake the disease is "Understand me" part. That's what I missed a little bit. I wish you a succesful life in the music you love.