The Day Before You Came - analysis by Aaron Wilde
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- Опубліковано 8 січ 2020
- Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus wrote one of the best songs of all time. I decided to dust off my old piano and analyse it for my fans. I hope I do this amazing song justice!
That's was absolutely fantastic I've never ever heard anybody get this song so much as you have. I always knew there were so many emotional layers to this song however I look at this song in even more depth now. Benny and Bjorn were masters of melody and songwriting. Just wanted to say thank you for giving that emotional and detailed analysis of The Day Before You Came 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
After watching this entire video, and coming back to rewatch, I’m realising your similarities in appearance to Bjorn Ulvaeus! Love this video, can’t stop coming back to it!
Excellent analysis of this song! Such musical expression in this song by the careful manipulation of major and minor keys! How brilliantly you pointed this out in your analysis. I have always loved this song and do so even more now.
Absolutely fascinating
I thought I knew it all by listening to the Song so many times, but boy you gave it another whole new dimension! (Saying this with their new Songs coming out - so incredible right?) Yes you do justice to the Song! I also thought I am romantic, but you surely are. A sweet soul. Thank you for this great interpretation, coming from your heart.
This was rather fascinating. Thank you. It’s one of my fave songs of all time
What a brilliant analysis of one of my favourite songs. Thank you.
An excellent analysis of this enigmatic song. In this, their last ABBA composition, Andersson and Ulvaeus demonstrated great depth and skill. It is interesting how there are so many different interpretations of what the song is actually about. Thank you for shedding considerable light on the subject.
At last !!!!! The kind of reaction I’ve been searching for. Absolutely fantastic ! Thank you so much. 😀
You should now do The Winner Takes it All… absolute tear-jerker!
wow I watched the whole thing! Fantastic analysis! you decoded the meaning of this incredible song, you are very talented
I cannot read a note of music save my life, but I do like what I hear; so I just loved and understood your analysis of this song. I have loved ABBA since Eurovision and over the years accumulated all their record albums, then cassettes to play in the car, then moved on to CDs because there is not a week that goes by that I do not play one of their albums either at home or in the car. Thank you, I will now have a greater understanding of this song, which it has haunted me with a sense of foreboding of their disbanding.
The piano riff, played as a synth-"flute" in the original, is inspired by the sound of a bird, as Andersson told. The working-title was "Den lidande fågeln" (The Suffering Bird)... That's the secret behind that flute-sound!
Thank you, that really fits and adds to my enjoyment.
Hauntingly Beautiful Masterpiece by ABBA. THE DAY BEFORE YOU CAME.
The whole thing is perfect but the bit that really gets the shivers going for me are the instrumental breaks with Frida's solo operatic part. What a song. What a talented group of individuals
Very very good!
A wonderful analysis of what must be one of the very beautiful songs written. Thank you Aaron. WWG1WGA.
This has long been one of my favourite ABBA songs. The underlying melancholy spoke to me in some subliminal way. Watching your analysis explains my attachment to and fondness for this masterpiece. Thank you.
Brilliant analysis of this absolutely beautiful song! It's my second favorite ABBA song.💕 First favourite - The winner takes it all.
Thanks, Aaron. I join those who miss your take on the Albinoni-sounding lament. I would also like to add that the riff may sound like a bird, but also like the flute riffs of marching bands. That and the relentless beat speak to me of a robotic existence (not unlike The Piper or I’m a Marionette)
Excellent analysis!
I had a lot of fun and admire your vision
Excellent analysis of a very underated Abba song. The melancholy, the depression, all came out in this song at the end of Abba when they all went their separate ways. Can you do The Winner Takes It All?
The Winner Takes It All is one of my all time favourites, so it's high on the list. Watch this space!
@@aaronwildeofficial have you done it already? I would be very interested too!
Yo man, thank you so much. Honest thoughtful. And thought-provoking.
Brilliant. Also touching...
Very interesting, thank you!
I find the instrumental interludes to be the most heart-wrenching and haunting parts. Almost the highlights of the song. Too bad you didn't touch on them.
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A great job on one of the biggest mystery's in music ..Did she die and is she now a Sprit looking at her past, or was it by " YOU " ?
This is a very early 'rap' record in the pioneering era of the likes of Blondie getting on board before the rules were established, or whether such an endeavour would even make for a commercially viable enterprise. Your interpretation Aaron has made my day, but I think while the musicality is sophisticated and complex as you'd expect from Bjorn and Benny, I believe the successor to this is 'West End Girls' (the original 1984 version) by the Pet Shop Boys, containing a 'rap' (a story) in a way that doesn't deviate from a prescribed musical scale in the way you've demonstrated here. To my mind, this is truly one of the "the singer doesn't need to sing their words" songs ever released.. I'm proposing it was conceived as such but it had to be a hit so they bottled out from ABBA releasing a 'rap' single ;-)
A minor....then bring it to C major...then ends A minor...F minor....D minor....Aaron is spot on...very good analysis....👍
I liked your very personal and kind dissection of this, but had hoped to hear a little about the synth-strings theme. It has been haunting me for several years, as I believe that it is some kind of copy of a classical theme that I´ve heard before.. Any comments anyone?
I enjoyed this, very interesting. Do you know what the original key was, the version I’ve got is 3 flats (so the song starts Cm, Ab,G). You missed the best chord progression (in my opinion) the coda! The chords in it sound amazing: Cm, Bdim, Abdim, G, Cm, Adim, Cm/G, Gsus4, G, Cm. Maybe you could do a follow up!
TDBYC is my favorite song
Thank you for the deep analysis,but I miss the instrumental part in the middle and at the end with Frida vocals
Sad❤
Merci ! Music box too in "like a angel passing through my room" again of abba.
A lot of the special melody and lyrics are origin in the Swedish language. Swedish is composed of a somewhat different vocal rhythm and a different stress in part of words and the melody of a sentence. What seems amazing to foreign ears sounds just very nice to Swedish ears. B t w the stress deference in some Swedish words are almost impossible for a non swede to learn.
That being said, (you can't ever speak perfect Swedish), I will never, ever, learn more than a fraction of the English language.
Interesting stuff, Aaron. It's good that you recognize that her life didn't get better after 'he' came, but in fact got worse! It's a shame though that you didn't include the instrumental at the end, as that is one of the mournful, existential highlights of the song!
Actually that's not quite my reading of the words. To me the song is revealing in the final lines that he has actually left her, that she is alone, just as she was before they met, but that now her life is empty. The whole song then suddenly retrospectively shifts into an ironic memory of how the trivial reminders of solitude she "must have" noticed (and therefore didn't even note at the time) are now the very poignant reminders of emptiness that she didn't know they would become. And that is the lyrical genius of the song in my opinion. The way the exact same experience has become desperate because in between times she had him for a while. So in the beginning of the song we feel like she is singing to someone who is still in her life, but by the end we realise that he isn't. For me this total shift makes it the greatest love song ever written, because we experience the shock of her loss as we realise that actually he has gone.
"The emptiness I feel without him, how on earth did I not realise how deep this emptiness was before he came?"
The fact that we accompany her on her journey, the song leading us to believe in the beginning that he is still there is a stroke of genius. Then the faltering (Faltskog!) delivery gives us clues that something is not quite right.
@@aaronwildeofficial I don't know if it is from a Bjorn lyric, but I read it the other day in connnection with him; 'Love is just a long goodbye.' This wasn't my favourite ABBA song and then I watched your extraordinary analysis.......
Balls!
I was about to get really into this but you lost me at the first comment. This song is C minor, not A minor.
A song that is in *A minor* can be _written_ in *C major.* I think that's what you mean. *A minor* is the related minor of *C major.* I have never seen a written version of the song; I just work from exactly what I hear in the track. I do make small errors sometimes in my analysis, but this isn't one of them. Hope this clarifies why I say the song is in *A minor.* The final word will be with Benny and Bjorn, and they may well have _written_ it in *C major,* but this doesn't change the notes I would be playing.
@@aaronwildeofficial No I mean you say that they key of the song is A minor but it was recorded in C minor.
I do agree. The song, as recorded and as available on the official UA-cam channel, is in C minor. If you think it's not in C minor, you've left your keyboard in transposed mode :-)
There are plenty of UA-cam channels playing c minor chords and backing tracks. Search and listen. Then listen to TDBYC. You'll notice they're the same, whatever your synthesiser is telling you :-)
Am E, is alo how benny plays it himself
Whatever key they wrote it in, the recording is in C Minor - with the relative major being Eb major.
No need to analyse anything. Who has the gift to feel and generate the music ( not only tones) has the own understanding of this excellent melody. For others => Do sport and enjoy this great music.