"Beat It" is one of Michael Jackson's best songs (in my humble opinion), and "Dreams" is an excellent Fleetwood Mac song. It's delightful how well they mesh together when you overlayed the vocals from each one on the music of the other. When these combinations work really well, I am reminded of an old Reece's Peanut Butter Cups commercial about mixing chocolate and peanut butter. (Yes, I'm very strange! 😂 )
@Agnarrdottir I'm thinking of a couple of old commercials from the late 70s/early 80s where someone eating a chocolate bar while walking down the street bumps into someone eating peanut butter out of a jar. The chocolate bar falls into the peanut butter jar and the two people exclaim, "You got your chocolate in my peanut butter," "You got your peanut butter on my chocolate." Then they each try a bite of the bar and realize that chocolate and peanut butter taste great together.
Just after watching this video, I picked my guitar to try the Cher's "Believe" chord progression and I just found it might too work well to mash it with The Cure's "Just Like Heaven".
David - Your demonstrations of RIpX inspired me to get it. I mostly use it for separating tracks so I can understand them better and do transcriptions. Sure would be great if you could do a tutorial on how you do mashups like this and how you change tempos, keys, and individual notes as needed to get it to work.
You know what would be a great idea? Take a mash-up-friendly voice track and match it to more than one different instrumental tracks! Or one instrumental track to back up more than one different voice tracks.
I love these, those are better than most of the mashups you’ll find elsewhere. My favorite example of chord sharing is „Stand by me“ by Ben E. King over the Police‘s „Every breath you take“. These two sound so incredible mashed up
Because he has an ear to find pairing that work well together. Others mostly clash songs because of their popularity, no matter how much these songs don't want to be together :-)
Power Dreams! ;-) I Just Called To Say That I'm Running Up That Hill! But maybe you should do a few examples where the switching doesn't work very well, just to show that you can't do this with just any two songs!
Just bought Rip X for "Sinterklaas." It's sort of black magic. And you could have transposed Chris Martin using Rip X, just grab the notes...as I said, black magic.
Michael Mac - Dream it Steve Bush - I Just Ranb up That Hill to Say I Love You uPlay - With or Without The Scientist Jay Chergson - Believe in The Office
Back on the topic of songs with the same chords, please do Creep and Vampire! Even try both the regular and acoustic versions of Creep, i think it would sound really cool😁 Also maybe some Taylor Swift, since you did another video about how she reuses chord progressions
Bono's articulation is fascinating when you hear it a bit slower. All those breath noises, the start and end of a phrase and the build-up of his modulation can be heard much better, because you have a little bit more time to hear it.
I saw the covers of Rumours and Thriller and this mashup instantly started playing in my mind before I even clicked, it's like they were meant for each other :)
Really interesting experiment! I have a suggestion: Make a video about the Brazilian samba genre including rhythm and instrumentation. As a Brazilian I like the complexity of this genre and a video explaining it further with your deep dive in the theory behind it would be very nice!
I don't know if you ever saw any videos on Jon Sudano's channel. He got super popular for singing Smash Mouth's "All-Star" over various other songs. I believe the first one he did was over John Lennon's "Imagine." The gimmick was that he would title the video so it seemed like a legitimate cover. For example, the first video was called "John Lennon - Imagine Vocal Cover" or something to to that effect. At any rate, the principles that you talked about here applied to what he was doing. Because the vocal melody in "All Star" is mostly pentatonic, as long as he picked songs that primarily stayed within one key, the melody of "All-Star" worked very well over them. If the "cover" song was in a minor key, he simply sang the All-Star melody in the relative major. This is a fun game I like to play with songs in the car sometimes. I pick a song with a simple, diatonic melody and see how many other songs I can make it work over. Anyway, I recommend checking out his channel. The early videos are hilarious. Later, he got more into uploading his own more serious music.
I discovered the other day that Jealousy by Olivia Rodrigo and Blasphemy by Bring me the horizon are in the same key, id love to see you put one over the other vis versa
I've got surprised to see someone mentioning Blasphemy, because even the band seems not to remember the song's existence. That's a pitty, because it's my favourite... The solo is beautiful, and so is all the stuff in Blasphemy
I saw a video once that mashed up "A Day in the Life" by the Beatles with the Office theme song, claiming they had the same chord progression. One of the comments claimed they weren't actually the same progression, just the same key, but the mashup still worked extremely well.
David, can you do some videos on arrangement, or how chords are deployed. It's easy enough to recognize a piano or strummed acoustic guitar of a pop song, but genres with more voices, action, irregular meters/phrases can be a challenge...
My secondary school music teacher (and choirmaster) used to reharmonise for us when we were struggling with a harmony line - sometimes stuff makes much more sense that way! More generally I absolutely hate when a version of a track has the wrong chords underneath, because it changes the feeling so enormously. That is, they work vertically but not horizontally.
You can switch the choruses of "Heaven is a place on Earth" by Belinda Carlisle and "Living on a Prayer" Bon Jovi. You can also switch the songs chorus of "Different Story (Lust and Crime)" by Peter Schilling and "True Faith" by New Order. Not only are these the same chord progression but they are the same melody. It seems like tunes and progressions become popular and get used multiple times by different bands in the same year. Music is like fashion and food. Go where the money is.
It's a bit poetic that the one line that has dissonance in the scientist is the lyric "hard", it's a bit of word painting, at least I think so; like saying "change" during a key change or hitting a high note on a "high"
Oh my goodness... This is one of my favourite channels, and the rules of thumb here were fascinating and new for me. But.. listening to the mash ups made my skin crawl 😅 If i may paraphrase, I guess dissecting art could be like dissecting a frog - you learn a lot, but the frog dies in the process.
I'm wondering if Radiohead's "Creep" and Pulp's "Bar Italia" would work. Similarities: Both go through their entirety on just the same four-chord loop. Bar Italia's progression is is I-III-vi-iv, so it fits the "chords that don't match up are a third apart" paradigm, seeing as Creep's progression is I-III-IV-iv. (Shocking, I know!) Differences: They're a fifth apart. Creep changes chords every two measures, but Bar Italia changes every measure. Still, I've always thought the two songs could potentially be mashed up. I know you already did a video on songs that use the Creep progression, but I don't think you mentioned "Bar Italia," since it's not a perfect match. Darn close though!
This is fun. Bono's voice jarred (more than usual) against that harmony at times though. Doubt you will get the chance to use a tritone substitution without discord elsewhere, unless the chord sequence is especially unusual.
The U2 singing over the scientist is interesting because it sounds kind of sad but then sounds happy to me around the end even though the scientist is a sad song
Not sure I understand why it's guaranteed that a pentatonic melody doesn't clash with chords taken from the major scale. I can see that the pentatonic melody won't clash with itself (if you played the melody on the piano with the sustain pedal down, there will be no half steps to clash), but couldn't it clash with certain chords, like if the pentatonic melody had a long note on first note of a scale while the harmony was on a V chord--in C, this would be a clash between the C in the melody and the B in the G(V) chord. Or on the third note of a scale while the harmony was on a IV or ii chord? Those are semitone clashes with the supporting scale.
Given the array of new features in DAWs and VST plugins, I’m curious if it would be feasible to craft a piece that incorporates both original and selectively chosen vocal phrases-altered in formants and accents-to produce numerous “hit-making moments,” all while ensuring the final product is distinct enough to sidestep any copyright issues.
The vocal to “Running up that Hill” over the instrumental to “I Just Called to Say I Love You” doesn’t sound much different than Kate Bush’s original, because her bell-like vocal is so powerful.
This music did somthing weird to me. And I like it. Really lovely. I sped up the 2nd Coldplay/U2 mix to 1.2 as I found it was too slow for me and this was more pleasant. I really love these and the theory behind it all. Thank you - and also for naming the software. I have two songs that I've wanted to mix for years but coudn't find how to do it. I'm going to try this in the morning. 🙂
With the pentatonic scale, there is already a major seventh possible already against the bass notes -- 3 over IV. That should always sound good. The minor 9ths however..
U2 and Coldplay??? What a shocking combo 😂😂😂 But also, super cool that you’re now doing this with songs that do NOT have the same chords!!! Much more interesting in a lot of ways
I have five goldfish named Major, Minor, Dorian, Mixolydian, and Pentatonic. The only way I can tell them apart is by their scales.
Take my upvote sir
I assume you'll see yourself out? :P
I'm pretty good at dad jokes but on a scale of A to G, I think you win. A minor sadness on my part you could say
Ha . . . ha . . . ha . . .
I feel like there’s something else there but I can’t quite put my finger on it
Incredible how music can sound the same even when it doesn't
I really enjoy this new series
Great!!
I agree with the stranger. Really fun
Same ❤
Some of these really mess up with your mind.
Yeah me too, you're really helping Rip X Daw with this stuff
Stevie wonder over Running up that hill sounds so melancholic
Interesting to think that Kate Bush wrote "Sat in your lap" after seeing Stevie Wonder in concert.
I just ran up that hill to say I love you!
One of my favorite songs to pair up with Beat It is the Pokémon theme song. There’s just something about those two that works so well together
lol yes
Real
"Beat It" is one of Michael Jackson's best songs (in my humble opinion), and "Dreams" is an excellent Fleetwood Mac song. It's delightful how well they mesh together when you overlayed the vocals from each one on the music of the other.
When these combinations work really well, I am reminded of an old Reece's Peanut Butter Cups commercial about mixing chocolate and peanut butter. (Yes, I'm very strange! 😂 )
Is that the commercial where they globbed PB on a chocolate bar and drew a happy face on it? Because I quote that one ALL the time xD
@Agnarrdottir
I'm thinking of a couple of old commercials from the late 70s/early 80s where someone eating a chocolate bar while walking down the street bumps into someone eating peanut butter out of a jar. The chocolate bar falls into the peanut butter jar and the two people exclaim, "You got your chocolate in my peanut butter," "You got your peanut butter on my chocolate." Then they each try a bite of the bar and realize that chocolate and peanut butter taste great together.
My dad is a HUGE Fleetwood Mac fan going way back. I'm DEFINITELY using this to mess with him when I visit for Christmas this year. 😆
One other observation - the YT copyright thing is clearly not triggered by mash-ups!
Now, don't wake up the almighty algorithm.
Not entirely true. Some really good Mashups have been removed from YT
These mashups have some alterations in tempo and/or pitch so it's not all that peachy
Mashup tend to have stretches without any vocals which become easy targets for copyright detection.
As someone who makes mashups, this is definitely nice!
"...And I could get him to swap our places...", well, her wish was finally granted xD
😂
"I just called..." over "Running up that hill" ... that one hurt, although I like both songs.
3:20 sounds like a 80's Lost Wave song
Squealing like a kid witnessing magic tricks 😭 Thank you, sir🛐
😊😊😊😊😊😊
These are fun, but also still educational! Keep it coming!
Substituting with the pentatonic scale is super easy barely an inconvenience
Oh really?
This needs more likes 😂 I see what you did there ↔️
@@cookicha seeing what I did there is TIGHT
At last Coldplay achieves their dream of being U2.
Just after watching this video, I picked my guitar to try the Cher's "Believe" chord progression and I just found it might too work well to mash it with The Cure's "Just Like Heaven".
That coldplay u2 mashup was so awsome
David - Your demonstrations of RIpX inspired me to get it. I mostly use it for separating tracks so I can understand them better and do transcriptions. Sure would be great if you could do a tutorial on how you do mashups like this and how you change tempos, keys, and individual notes as needed to get it to work.
Love these videos. But can I suggest using the title: "These songs have different chords... let's COMBINE them!"
I love these! I’m waiting for the one where you put “All Star” over every song… ever. 😂
You know what would be a great idea?
Take a mash-up-friendly voice track and match it to more than one different instrumental tracks! Or one instrumental track to back up more than one different voice tracks.
I love these, those are better than most of the mashups you’ll find elsewhere. My favorite example of chord sharing is „Stand by me“ by Ben E. King over the Police‘s „Every breath you take“. These two sound so incredible mashed up
Because he has an ear to find pairing that work well together. Others mostly clash songs because of their popularity, no matter how much these songs don't want to be together :-)
The vocal to “The Scientist” over U2’s instrumental makes one wonder what Coldplay might have achieved had they used electric guitar.
wdym cos coldplay uses electric guitar extensively throughout their discography
Makes you wonder what Coldplay could’ve achieved if they had the talent level of U2
They use it plenty
Coldplay: what U2 would sound like if the Edge's digital delay packed up.
Power Dreams! ;-)
I Just Called To Say That I'm Running Up That Hill!
But maybe you should do a few examples where the switching doesn't work very well, just to show that you can't do this with just any two songs!
6:36 Not convinced: that was a bit Jeremy Hardy. 9:08 Ah! Perhaps that's what I was hearing.
I pay a set in the Key of A but using D works on top because it's a 5th so the A and D sounds like a power chord.
Now put the lyrics for the Office over the backing track for Believe.
Believe in the Office...
Ha!
Thank you Dave for all the wonderful things you teach us!
There's just something about mashups that tickles my brain! Keep this series up ❤️
Just bought Rip X for "Sinterklaas." It's sort of black magic. And you could have transposed Chris Martin using Rip X, just grab the notes...as I said, black magic.
Michael Mac - Dream it
Steve Bush - I Just Ranb up That Hill to Say I Love You
uPlay - With or Without The Scientist
Jay Chergson - Believe in The Office
Coldplay instruments vs U2 vocals is hysterical. Boring backing kills Bono.
Much like the UA-camr, there I ruined it, some of these I find better than the originals
14:10 That is crazy how well that works!
Back on the topic of songs with the same chords, please do Creep and Vampire! Even try both the regular and acoustic versions of Creep, i think it would sound really cool😁 Also maybe some Taylor Swift, since you did another video about how she reuses chord progressions
Taylor Swift has built a bigger career recycling her old songs than even AC/DC.. 🤣
Bono's articulation is fascinating when you hear it a bit slower. All those breath noises, the start and end of a phrase and the build-up of his modulation can be heard much better, because you have a little bit more time to hear it.
I saw the covers of Rumours and Thriller and this mashup instantly started playing in my mind before I even clicked, it's like they were meant for each other :)
thanks, these videos about reharmonizing melodies help me in my amateur songwriting/composing
Really interesting experiment! I have a suggestion: Make a video about the Brazilian samba genre including rhythm and instrumentation. As a Brazilian I like the complexity of this genre and a video explaining it further with your deep dive in the theory behind it would be very nice!
I don't know if you ever saw any videos on Jon Sudano's channel. He got super popular for singing Smash Mouth's "All-Star" over various other songs. I believe the first one he did was over John Lennon's "Imagine." The gimmick was that he would title the video so it seemed like a legitimate cover. For example, the first video was called "John Lennon - Imagine Vocal Cover" or something to to that effect. At any rate, the principles that you talked about here applied to what he was doing. Because the vocal melody in "All Star" is mostly pentatonic, as long as he picked songs that primarily stayed within one key, the melody of "All-Star" worked very well over them. If the "cover" song was in a minor key, he simply sang the All-Star melody in the relative major. This is a fun game I like to play with songs in the car sometimes. I pick a song with a simple, diatonic melody and see how many other songs I can make it work over.
Anyway, I recommend checking out his channel. The early videos are hilarious. Later, he got more into uploading his own more serious music.
Thanks
The new series is a gold mine.
I discovered the other day that Jealousy by Olivia Rodrigo and Blasphemy by Bring me the horizon are in the same key, id love to see you put one over the other vis versa
I've got surprised to see someone mentioning Blasphemy, because even the band seems not to remember the song's existence. That's a pitty, because it's my favourite... The solo is beautiful, and so is all the stuff in Blasphemy
@thiagofigueiredo2976 I love the song alot
I want to hear a Lindsey Buckingham guitar solo to Beat it.
Foster the People - "Sit next to me" and the vocals of Oasis - "Wonderwall"
The Scientist vocals over the WOWY instrumental was fantastic!
It’s amazing how music sound the same even when it clearly doesn’t
U2 singing over Coldplay sounds like a Muse song. Who knew?
That Believe by Cher sounds so good! So fresh!
Bono sounding a bit drunken there over The Scientist.
I saw a video once that mashed up "A Day in the Life" by the Beatles with the Office theme song, claiming they had the same chord progression. One of the comments claimed they weren't actually the same progression, just the same key, but the mashup still worked extremely well.
David, can you do some videos on arrangement, or how chords are deployed. It's easy enough to recognize a piano or strummed acoustic guitar of a pop song, but genres with more voices, action, irregular meters/phrases can be a challenge...
2:10 whelp, I already know some cover shenanigans I have to get up to
My secondary school music teacher (and choirmaster) used to reharmonise for us when we were struggling with a harmony line - sometimes stuff makes much more sense that way!
More generally I absolutely hate when a version of a track has the wrong chords underneath, because it changes the feeling so enormously. That is, they work vertically but not horizontally.
I actually cackled when I heard Beat It over the Dreams backing track. There's no way that should work so well.
Thanks for teaching us how this stuff works!
Lyrics are also important. The Cher 3rd bar is the end of the big question the song is asking, so having it suspended a bit makes sense.
J'aime bien le melange de Jackson.
Clever stuff, as always, from DBP
Space Jam goes with everything! great video
Really loving these videos
Thank you!
Both With Or without over the scientist and the scientist over with Or without deserve being a full song
You can switch the choruses of "Heaven is a place on Earth" by Belinda Carlisle and "Living on a Prayer" Bon Jovi.
You can also switch the songs chorus of "Different Story (Lust and Crime)" by Peter Schilling and "True Faith" by New Order.
Not only are these the same chord progression but they are the same melody. It seems like tunes and progressions become popular and get used multiple times by different bands in the same year. Music is like fashion and food. Go where the money is.
It's a bit poetic that the one line that has dissonance in the scientist is the lyric "hard", it's a bit of word painting, at least I think so; like saying "change" during a key change or hitting a high note on a "high"
okay i need a full mashup of dreams vocals over beat it now lol
great video as always!
wait all of these are fantastic
Oh my goodness... This is one of my favourite channels, and the rules of thumb here were fascinating and new for me. But.. listening to the mash ups made my skin crawl 😅
If i may paraphrase, I guess dissecting art could be like dissecting a frog - you learn a lot, but the frog dies in the process.
And this is where David’s channel transitions into a mashup channel 🤌
Coldplay / U2: at least one of them is a real singer.
Bono is a better singer, but the vocals of the Scientist still works over “With or without You
I'm wondering if Radiohead's "Creep" and Pulp's "Bar Italia" would work.
Similarities: Both go through their entirety on just the same four-chord loop. Bar Italia's progression is is I-III-vi-iv, so it fits the "chords that don't match up are a third apart" paradigm, seeing as Creep's progression is I-III-IV-iv. (Shocking, I know!)
Differences: They're a fifth apart. Creep changes chords every two measures, but Bar Italia changes every measure.
Still, I've always thought the two songs could potentially be mashed up. I know you already did a video on songs that use the Creep progression, but I don't think you mentioned "Bar Italia," since it's not a perfect match. Darn close though!
This is fun. Bono's voice jarred (more than usual) against that harmony at times though.
Doubt you will get the chance to use a tritone substitution without discord elsewhere, unless the chord sequence is especially unusual.
The U2 singing over the scientist is interesting because it sounds kind of sad but then sounds happy to me around the end even though the scientist is a sad song
PLEEEEEEASE do an longer (or full length) version of the Celine Dion/Phil Collins mashup. That was absolutely insane.
Also just thinking as I keep watching....what about Running Up That Hill and My Heart Will Go On? Will that work?
Not sure I understand why it's guaranteed that a pentatonic melody doesn't clash with chords taken from the major scale. I can see that the pentatonic melody won't clash with itself (if you played the melody on the piano with the sustain pedal down, there will be no half steps to clash), but couldn't it clash with certain chords, like if the pentatonic melody had a long note on first note of a scale while the harmony was on a V chord--in C, this would be a clash between the C in the melody and the B in the G(V) chord. Or on the third note of a scale while the harmony was on a IV or ii chord? Those are semitone clashes with the supporting scale.
Given the array of new features in DAWs and VST plugins, I’m curious if it would be feasible to craft a piece that incorporates both original and selectively chosen vocal phrases-altered in formants and accents-to produce numerous “hit-making moments,” all while ensuring the final product is distinct enough to sidestep any copyright issues.
That's next level mashup.
In a way, these swaps are what make remixes by those like Neil Cicierega, Viclis, and Ph0ton do. And yes, I love that.
Neil Cicierega does this times a thousand. He gets matching chords but somehow he gets lyrical and melodic matches too
Very nice video. Thank you.
The vocal to “Running up that Hill” over the instrumental to “I Just Called to Say I Love You” doesn’t sound much different than Kate Bush’s original, because her bell-like vocal is so powerful.
I really like this, can you next time show an example of something that doesn't really work and why it doesn't.
This music did somthing weird to me.
And I like it. Really lovely.
I sped up the 2nd Coldplay/U2 mix to 1.2 as I found it was too slow for me and this was more pleasant.
I really love these and the theory behind it all.
Thank you - and also for naming the software.
I have two songs that I've wanted to mix for years but coudn't find how to do it.
I'm going to try this in the morning. 🙂
(Ok not so much with Cher and the US Office. Lmao.
But it still worked.)
Holy shit Cher over The Office theme SLAPS
Do you believe in life after The Office?
Steve Carrell does.
coldplay and u2 just makes total sense
Wow, that really does some thing quite amazing to With or Without You, not sure how to describe it, maybe it makes it more of a song
Oh, this is good! thanks.
Blackbird Melody over Isn't it a Pity, that does work really good !
Awesome! xD
It'd be also interesting to see when it definitely does not work. :P
Seems a bit like rhythm plays a bigger part on that, perhaps?
With the pentatonic scale, there is already a major seventh possible already against the bass notes -- 3 over IV. That should always sound good. The minor 9ths however..
Great lesson
Thanks!
I just called to say I’m running up that hill!😂
watahecc, why is this so good!
I wish you you would post the full songs in individual videos
Surely if the note is the absent note in the new chord which is a 3rd apart then the chord this interval apart will ‘not work’
9:14 a very happy green circle
Green? That's a yellow circle there.
If you're not already aware, then you might need to do a colourblindness test, perhaps.
@@klaxoncow Oh, I'm aware. Was hoping for a lucky guess.
U2 and Coldplay??? What a shocking combo 😂😂😂
But also, super cool that you’re now doing this with songs that do NOT have the same chords!!! Much more interesting in a lot of ways
Just start a mashup channel already
i have a suggestion: you should try the weight by the band mashed up with wonderwall
I Just Called To Say I Love You is almost bearable now 😂