i’ll try to explain the armenian aspect as much as i can and as i see it. First of all, not all ethnic influences in their music are strictly armenian, they can be balkan, arabic or anything from this broad region. for example, the bridge of nüguns is very arabic while the whole radio/video sounds very balkan to my ears. But it’s still something that can be played at a modern armenian wedding (if people are into metal too). some examples on the influences/instruments: chop suey second chorus: tar-like part wanna-be, also played a bit out of rhythm which gives the vibe deer dance bridge: oud-like part jet pilot and bubbles bridge percussion parts sound like dhol quiet parts of psycho have something like oud or any similar lute choruses in soldier side: tar or saz like parts chants in the bridge of science arto is a reimagination of an armenian church hymn and clearly has duduk which is everywhere in armenian music some on melody choices: solo parts in hypnotize and psycho. in psycho i think Daron is trying to give the part some microtonal feel with all these bends. Even though guitar bends are a usual thing in metal, combined with this melody they give it this eastern feeling to me i also think that the fact that Daron throws in quite a lot of tremolo picking is because he subconsciously tries to imitate the way all these national string instrument are played which is almost a constant tremolo picking. examples: quiet parts in u-fig, solo in lonely day, the whole soldier side also their gallops. when played in 4/4 they usually give it a 2/4 feel, which adds to the eastern vibe. examples: verses in chic’n’stu, whole sugar or ddevil. also using similar patterns quite often played on dhol or kaval in tom drum parts. example: choruses in i-e-a-i-a-i-o not to mention their voices. the way they position their vocals is bright and a bit nasal and exaggerated which is also a very common thing in our singing anyway, i tried my best😄
This is awesome! Thanks, Annette! When I was trying to find the connections myself I found parts that were clearly ethnic in origin. To definitively say what points where doesn't seem like an easy task, especially without an education into this style of music. Thanks for taking the time to comment!
i’ll try to explain the armenian aspect as much as i can and as i see it. First of all, not all ethnic influences in their music are strictly armenian, they can be balkan, arabic or anything from this broad region. for example, the bridge of nüguns is very arabic while the whole radio/video sounds very balkan to my ears. But it’s still something that can be played at a modern armenian wedding (if people are into metal too).
some examples on the influences/instruments:
chop suey second chorus: tar-like part wanna-be, also played a bit out of rhythm which gives the vibe
deer dance bridge: oud-like part
jet pilot and bubbles bridge percussion parts sound like dhol
quiet parts of psycho have something like oud or any similar lute
choruses in soldier side: tar or saz like parts
chants in the bridge of science
arto is a reimagination of an armenian church hymn and clearly has duduk which is everywhere in armenian music
some on melody choices:
solo parts in hypnotize and psycho. in psycho i think Daron is trying to give the part some microtonal feel with all these bends. Even though guitar bends are a usual thing in metal, combined with this melody they give it this eastern feeling to me
i also think that the fact that Daron throws in quite a lot of tremolo picking is because he subconsciously tries to imitate the way all these national string instrument are played which is almost a constant tremolo picking. examples: quiet parts in u-fig, solo in lonely day, the whole soldier side
also their gallops. when played in 4/4 they usually give it a 2/4 feel, which adds to the eastern vibe. examples: verses in chic’n’stu, whole sugar or ddevil. also using similar patterns quite often played on dhol or kaval in tom drum parts. example: choruses in i-e-a-i-a-i-o
not to mention their voices. the way they position their vocals is bright and a bit nasal and exaggerated which is also a very common thing in our singing
anyway, i tried my best😄
This is awesome! Thanks, Annette!
When I was trying to find the connections myself I found parts that were clearly ethnic in origin. To definitively say what points where doesn't seem like an easy task, especially without an education into this style of music. Thanks for taking the time to comment!
@@writemetalmusic and thank you for making awesome videos! you help a lot so i’m happy to help back a little!
@@annetteswitchassembly Glad to hear that you like them!
The only thing that would make these videos better would be to actually write a short song and play it.
Another nice analysis! Seeing you create a song from scratch would be great as well
Great video
It would be interesting if you make a video like this about Mudvayne
@@abysswatcherparabellum2960 they're on the list! Shouldn't be too long before i make that video
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