With Or Without You // U2 musical breakdown
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3:09 is magic!
There's a synth, but Edge is using an e-bow on his guitar also.
Also, your cat knows exactly what he's doing. He's practically your teaching assistant.
Those atmospherics you hear are not synths but layered guitar effects from the Edge. He uses an infinite guitar at the start for those high pitch notes. This guitar sustains the note, and added in shimmer etc to give that lovely haunting ethereal feel. Nobody else was doing this on guitar in the mid 1980s! He’s so unique.
yep, totally makes sense
I kind of wonder if there wasn't some influence from Michael Brook, like maybe Eno and Lanois gave the Edge some pointers after working with Brook on "Hybrid."
@@LiminalVegas The infinite guitar Edge is playing was indeed invented and built by Michael Brook. There were only three made - one for Edge, one for master producer/musician Daniel Lanois, and for MB himself. The Ebow can only sustain one string at a time, while the infinite guitar can do all six simultaneously.
@@bk-ew1ny Thanks for the info! Had no idea that was the case.
the cat was on point!! 3:09
ok but how about 26:50
@@Michael_Dominic superbest!
Yes amazing. :-) (also the one at the end)
cat looks like hes sleeping but hes actually learning and listening to everything 😂
damn, I was literally waiting for this one. more from Brian Eno, please. I love Slowdive
I would love to see her do here come the warm jets or another green world or his ambient works. Or even some Roxy music.
@@07BSPtC hell yeah. the first 2 albums w/ brian eno are awesome.
Loved your analysis. Nice to appreciate this great song again and its construction. No one does those jangly guitars like U2. One of the few bands
I’ve seen live
I especially liked this song when it was featured in the blown away movie (1994).
Some 34 years back, this was one of 8 tracks I tried to program on Sinclair ZX Spectrum with 3-channel AY sound chip. 🙂
That track happened to be “on the burner” the day that the Infinite Guitar Michael Brook had built for Edge arrived at the studio. After unpacking the instrument-and following Brook's intricate instruction on setting it up-Edge plugged it in.
I love all your films, but every element of this one is beautiful. So many happy and sad memories are mixed up in this perfect song. Thank you.
Adam / U2 always get a good bass sound.
In the end, the cat too!
Ixi !
you have no idea how you brighten my life !
Rock on
The Edge’s infinite guitar is what builds the magic in this song. Also the clap you mentioned isn’t the clap it’s Edge on the guitar dampening the notes and sliding them down the neck quickly.
I beg to differ, Sir. It is Larry’s tom hit. It is there on live performances as well. I cannot imagine Eno and U2 leaving string noise on such a masterpiece.
@@AtAlCost you could be right…. I should listen again on the headphones. But if you’ve seen them do it live then I guess that answers the question!
Sounds to me like single coil pick-ups, dampened strings and reverb. I couldn’t believe it would be by accident. It’s a real thing, but having said that, it could be a rimshot on a tom, or maybe a drum pad? I don’t know if Larry uses them…
Nice breakdown...thanks and bring on the 9ths.
The snare is combined with a tambourine in the beginning and, as the build happens, the floor tom and hihat hits are added.
Ixi THANK YOU Sooo Much for your breakdown on this wonderful U2 song 🎸 , others that it would be lovely if you could check out 🤗are : Lighs Of Home ( St Peter’s String Version), Drowning Man, The Unforgettable Fire, Tomorrow, Acrobat, Every Breaking Wave, City of Blinding Light, Iris ( Hold Me Close) New Year’s Day, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Raised By Wolves, Bullet the Blue Sky, Exit, Bad ( Live from Wide Awake in America) , The Fly, A Sort Of Homecoming, Mothers of the Disappeared, Cedarwood Road, to name ‘a few’ 😆 he he. Love You Kitty cat btw he knew the Right Note 🎵AWESOMETACULAR! But then being around your awesomeness how could he not pick that up 🤘
Awesome another video
It’s not a synth, it’s what at the time was called an infinite guitar. Today you would use a guitar with a Fernandes Sustainer such as the Ed O’Brien signature Stratocaster. There are several With Or Without You covers on UA-cam using the sustainer guitar.
I am obsessed with the live version of this beautiful song. From ZooTV live from Washington DC. The best ever in my opinion. ❤❤❤
hallelujah!!! 🕺NICEEEEEE!
I was waiting for this one!
this, is understanding a piece of music
an ebow hes using to create that high pitched sound but later on his friend invented the infinity guitar that does it automatically without the use of the ebow. by the way he also uses a shimmer effect on the guitar to give it the syth sound
kitty provides the best overdubs.
5:00 I have long this chord progression the "GDMC" or G, D E minor, C, which are its chords in the key of G. And G is a super easy tonic key to learn on both piano and guitar, hence the progression's ubiquity.
I tend to find this progression (and most of its phase shifts like Em,C,G,D) kind of annoying due to their overuse, but U2 use it masterfully in _With or Without You._ The guitar are synth tones remind me a lot of sounds found on the Byrne/Eno record _My Life in the Bush of Ghosts,_ especially on the track _The Carrier._
Many U2 songs actually have a underrated bassplaying. Because what Adam many times did/do is that he finds an bassmelody (without overworking it) that works playing over many, if not all, chords they have in the song. AND also is an melody that one can play/hear for so long without growing tired of it.
not a huge u2 fan but this is a great song of course
i always enjoy your analysis
8:12 and 11:52 the thing you think is a clap/snare is the guitar muted maybe w/distortion being used as a percussive instrument here (i think)
18:59 the whole section on the depth of the the repeating 'give' 10/10
I'm more of a Achtung Baby person but I'd say With Or Without You is a perfect pop song.
27:23 “very few half-steps…. that’s not true”
Actually, it is true. The only notes that appear in the entire song (melody AND harmony) are D, E, F#, G, A and B, so the interplay between F# and G is really the only source of significant dissonance in the song (unless you count the preponderance of major seconds). That half-step dissonance is what gives us the Gmaj7.
The three notes of a D major triad continuing throughout the song in one form or another (apart from the F# alternating with a G from time to time) turn the A into an A6sus4 (and an A7sus4 when the F# becomes a G), the Bminor into a Bm7, and the G into a Gmaj9. I don’t think we ever hear a C#, so we never hear the A chord in its resolved form - it’s always a sus4.
7:45 I can’t believe you didn’t comment on your cat’s impeccable sense of pitch. He/she played the root of the D chord, while adding a tasteful ninth, and then proceeded to do the same to the A chord.
The intro part - sounds like a drum machine, doubled by the acoustic drums
😸🎹
1:28 , 2:27 cat needs thought bubbles
Got to say it in 90’sese. Dude’s using the kind of guitar that Ed O’Brien uses to prolong the feedback from the pickups much like an ebow
Ok finally the best song of U2.🎉
7:10, there’s no third (C#) in the chord. What you’re calling an eleventh is just a suspended fourth. Pretty sure we never hear a C# in the entire song, so the V chord is always suspended.
Show your dad the new Gavin Friday record if he likes U2
Weber Corner
Love this album and has been a part of most of my life. U2 was so great through Joshua tree and even rattle and bum isn’t bad but after I just can’t get into most of their work from achtung baby on.
Isnt the unforgettable fire the way in for passengers achtung baby , zooropa and pop?
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