Surprise Notes – Source of Chills

what's up everyone okay I'm back to my regular camera I tried that other camera and it looked bad
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uh happy Saturday a couple announcements before we start
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talking about some Fleetwood Mac today um I have a show here in Atlanta on the
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28th of next month it's my uh Hometown show you know it's
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funny I mentioned Hometown show I mean I'm from Rochester New York but I've lived here for basically half of my life almost 30 years
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and we have some special guests and um there's tickets remaining for it
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um I've got a show on the uh 17th of of uh October in New York City
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at The Gramercy theater there's some tickets left for that my show in Berlin is pretty much sold out there's maybe a
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few tickets left probably less than 10 tickets if it's not sold out already so um and then I I've mentioned this
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before my other live stream I may be retiring from from touring uh touring I'm not really touring right
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from doing these live shows um it's just it's um takes so much time away uh from
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making videos which is my favorite thing to do and then um
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um we have a sale my biato bundle is on
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sale we're talking about some music theory today when we talk about these songs off rumors
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get they're all video courses all for 99 bucks total so I find the channel
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uh and keep doing these interviews I just came back from New York where I interviewed Kirk Hammett saw Metallica
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had an amazing time working on getting that interview out
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um and uh that's that was absolutely fascinating
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um so rumors let's talk about rumors now I have made a number of videos about
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rumors okay so I did a what makes this song great on go your own way we're going to talk about what the best song
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of rumors is which is one of the best maybe the best record of the 70s because
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it's one of the greatest records ever made um I made a video on dreams when it was
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a just enormous hit again it's their only video that has over a billion views on
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um or a billion spins on Spotify I don't know how many it has on Apple because you can't tell and um
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and then uh I made a video when Christine McPhee died I made a video
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with a songbird and you make love and fun or both in the video so um so that's
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four songs off this record
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so I'm starting to think of it I mean there are no bad songs off here right
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um Second Hand news uh you know a classic right
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[Music]
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[Music] I want you to listen to the difference
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of the uh how every song has its own character you know how records kind of
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have their own uh some records have their own sound like Back in Black has its own sound or Boston's first record
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this song is this record is actually really varied if you listen to this listen to just to the tonality of of
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second-hand news listen [Music]
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kind of the pluck the plugness of the bass right it's great it's a killer song but it's got a really Plucky bass now
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listen to dreams dreams is more of a
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fat Kick Drum much more open
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more of a headphone thing mid-tempo Groove beautiful song
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[Music] Reverb with echo on The Voice
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[Music] it really stereo the guitars are kind of
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moving around and stuff it's a great great great sound very different from
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secondhand news okay sonically it's it's a it's in a complete different Universe
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then never going back again Listen to Stereo field
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one of the greatest finger picking parts right [Music]
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and then Lindsay's voice presentation check it out it's
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[Music] this is a complete different vibe listen
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totally simple production on this really Bare Bones uh uh guitar
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the double track vocal has very little in effects on it it's a different
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Universe then you get into don't stop right very Grand right off the bat
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foreign [Music]
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it's like a shuffle right right off the bat this is one of these songs that from the first chord if I
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said okay uh name us how many songs can you name hearing the first
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one second of it by the way Jack White does a video that you should look at where he names Beatles songs
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accurately one second a piece that's it they just they played 90 I don't even
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think a second and he's just instantly names them any Beatles song Jack White
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can name with one one second which is pretty amazing okay but let's listen to the first chord listen right here
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come on tell me you don't know right there that that's don't that's all you need to hear one listen
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you don't even have to hear the second chord you just hear the strings you hear that piano chord it's a really Grand sounding
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then thank you [Music]
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[Music] incredible vocal performance on this song too this is a has a a killer chorus
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[Music] is that it has a chorus with a tag the
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tag is yesterday's gun yesterday's gone that goes into a the kind of a boogie woogie feel on it
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right so that is a uh kind of a classic uh chorus as a chorus with a tag at the
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end of it which I love about that song amazing sign let me go back to dreams just for one second because I um
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um I had this in one of my videos when Mary spender was here we did this this is in my greatest two chord songs of all
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times now some people said there's a third chord that happens in
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the bridge [Music] okay um
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yeah but this is uh an amazing that but
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basically it's a two two Chord song Dreams unbelievable okay uh and then we
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have this [Music] oh [Music]
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that I feel okay one of the most amazing drum Parts
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beautiful guitar part um right uh um
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[Music]
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now when I did my breakdown by what makes us sound great on this I talked about and it was blocked for years
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and it got then it got demonetized it just got unblocked and everything it was one of the early ones that I did it's
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the first one that ever got blocked it was it it was the only blocked song on
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my channel there are no blocked songs on out of my 1200 videos none are blocked this was the last one this is the only
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what makes this song great that got blocked um and I explain on this song and this
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is to me I think my second I think it's the second strongest song on the record okay
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I'm already giving it up um and the most amazing thing about this to
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me is the verse the chorus is phenomenal it's a killer chorus but when he goes [Music]
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and he goes up to that [Music] [Applause] right [Music]
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thing to do when he goes to that note that's the
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fourth against that this is really an F major chord okay when he sings that
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dissonance it grabs your ear this is why it's important to know these things
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these are songwriting techniques that you hear me talk about over and over and
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over when I interviewed sting I called it I said upper extension then I said
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haunting tone and he sting was still listening then I said surprise note
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boom a light went off and sting said I like the way that you use the word surprise
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uh these dissonant notes here are what gives that song it gives the verse power
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listen to when he goes is it the right when he hits that no listen
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I missed it here we go it's a dissonance against the chord listen
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[Music]
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here we go [Applause]
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[Music] all right I get chills every time I hear that doesn't matter I've heard that song
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a million times but when he does that [Music]
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wow and it's just amazing amazing and the
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drum the the drum part in this if you compare this to secondhand news the drum
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sound listen just listen to Drums we're talking about production we're talking about music theory the theory part of
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this is very important though being able to recognize when it goes to you know
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it's like why is that Melody sound so good I always I'm just one of these people that as a
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kid I was like why did why does that note give me chills loving you is
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[Music]
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why though why are those notes important why is it important to know what those notes even are because it will make you
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first of all it'll teach you how to hear things when you hear this
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to know that that's a sus2 chord okay this is what my ear training course and
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my biato theory interactive music theory interactive course these teaches you the
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theory to this stuff why are these things why do they actually have impact on on people and it
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it is um it is not there's no mystery in this
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there you can point to these things this is what makes people uh uh like these
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things and want to come back to hear people want to hear dissonances Vernon says Rick this just convinced me I'm
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learning ear training is this included in your bundle want to recognize this stuff
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Vernon this is in my ear training bundle so I said at the beginning so this so my ear training course my um be out of book
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interactive my beginner guitar course and my um my uh quick lessons Pro are
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all 99 bucks most people sell their courses I always say this most people sell their courses for like 150 bucks
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for one I saw all four for uh for 99 bucks and they're they're just license
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codes that you get you go in and they're all video courses they have they have um uh with downloadable things with them
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and everything but they're they're um they're video courses with with video lectures and things like that and there
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are tons of demonstrations and the ear training course has hundreds of modules so that when you hear these things
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you're like oh I know what that is oh I know what that is oh that's that's a that's a sus2 chord that's this that's
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that that's a one four five you learn to recognize progressions all these things it's important to do that so you can
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learn how to play songs ultimately that's what you want to learn how to do you want to learn how to play
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songs you want to learn how to improvise okay um Okay so uh but I have a I have a saying about
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dissonances dissonance equals emotion as a matter of fact I made a video a long
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time ago you can look it up on my channel I want to say it's called dissonance
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equals emotion I don't know but look it up it's funny because it's made it was
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like seven years old I think I was at the park down the street making it some of it was done and I think that I and I
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explain what I mean because dissonant notes or surprise tones or haunting tones as I called them
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just to sting these things that just grab your ear and all the songs that you
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love use these things okay Songbird I talked about this on my
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Christine mcvieve thing I love this this is absolutely stunningly beautiful song
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um you make lots of fun
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[Music]
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I mean come on okay so you hear Lindsay's guitar in the right speaker
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this is headphone music listen this wow
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[Music]
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[Music] wow space
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Christine McPhee amazing present [Music]
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me wherever I go [Music]
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I can't believe Okay this may be as good this may be as
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good as Go Your Own Way two totally different Vibes these two songs totally different vibes
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one of the best songs on here um uh
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Oh Daddy of total Vibe song
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[Music]
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Oh Daddy you know you make me cry
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how can you love me
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there's so many songs in um
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there's so many songs in D Minor on this record what do we know about D Minor let's see
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in the comments here [Music] the saddest key ever
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right um that is a beautiful song
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[Music]
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the saddest of all keys Mr baz 1968 that was the exact quote
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the saddest of all keys that's right it's the saddest key it is a Gold Dust
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Woman [Music]
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[Music] okay
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Little D Minor again let us go down
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you notice that the the Reverb tail on that note that's put in afterward you're
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right that's that's a mixing thing right there listen right there right the trailing Reverb
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oh listen again listen [Music]
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oh [Music]
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come on that's unbelievable right these are the things you this is why
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records that used to be um when I was a kid and I wasn't distracted
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by anything else other than the music um I would just sit there and listen over
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and over and over and I was talking to Aaron who's in the
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comments here earlier and he says were you were was were you really big into
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Fleetwood Mac and I said I was so into Fleetwood Mac that Lindsey Buckingham
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on the cover on the inside sleeve is playing this guitar and this is not a
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green screen right this isn't the exact guitar Lindsay
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Buckingham played but I played when I was in high school I
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from from working in a grocery store I saved up the money to buy a white Les
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Paul Custom like Lindsey Buckingham is playing on the sleeve of rumors because
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he looked amazing and it looked incredible and he had his beard and his afro oh he was
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ridiculous here we go Tom um so
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uh that is I just love that when uh
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forget okay now I left something off here to me this is the finest song
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on um this is the finest song on the record I
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think [Music]
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thank you foreign
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[Music] I think this is the only song written by
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the whole band
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[Music]
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God it's so good [Music]
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damn your life
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[Applause] [Music] okay
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so and everything is great about this the harmony vocals the the the
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swampy feel of the dobro guitar everything and you know what's weird
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this was not a single but it's the second most played song on Spotify
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of of uh Fleetwood Mac why
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because it's amazing is why it's an incredibly great song
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um and um it's
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first of all the the I just love the arrangement of it the way that those guitars kind of play off each other I
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love the the the harmony vocals I love the arrangement of it the uh the the way
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that the um when [Music]
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and then I love Mick fleetwood's uh um what I call Caveman fills okay this is
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kind of where I got so I always said I always use this term early in my channel I don't haven't used it a lot lately
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um where I call cavemanfels right a caveman uh would be any anything
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and I'm a massive fan of cavemanfels if they're dead right they don't get in the way of
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everything they make the drums sound huge when in doubt either just play
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or play or play
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those are like no overplaying who said that broken Prophet said No overplaying
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at all exactly exactly that's really really amazing
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um so uh so back 20 some odd years ago I did a
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cover of this for fun with my buddy Jason now Jason uh for
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those of you that come to to my show in Atlanta if any of you want to travel down here I'm pretty sure we're going to
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do a billionaire reunion by the way um I probably shouldn't have said that but
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we're actually going to rehearse uh coming up here soon uh but my buddy Jason's going to be on
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the show he's going to go up there and sing he's in one of my biggest videos he sings When we did the uh Arena rock
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songs it's one of my biggest videos Jason sings all these different styles of songs so he we did this version of the chain
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like a rock version I was like let's do a rock version of the chain kind of with heavy guitars right and um
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and with uh with Carmen who was a singer of the band I9 so I brought him in and
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um and we just made this in a few hours or so I never played this before but I
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think I found it on the drive before this and I was like I'll play this here I think it's pretty cool check this out
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it's me playing everything and um I think that uh yeah Darren from my from
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billionaire he plays drums on it but it was just a kind of a thrown together thing
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[Applause] [Music] don't miss
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thank you listen to the wind blowing down Comes the Night
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so I I always thought it was cool Lego [Music]
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um
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I went to this court
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I just love that [Music] I feel like after sus2
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c c over East I see C5 over e
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[Music] thank you [Applause]
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dog down the line [Applause] I
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don't know
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so I thought I thought what did we go in the chorus um uh you know
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[Music]
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I just thought that was a cool
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I thought that was kind of a cool um a cool change for that
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was one of those things when it's like let's um let's try some I had actually
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just met Carmen from I-9 and I was working on on recording with Jason I was
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like oh let's get Carmen to come up and sing on this so she just I threw this together
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and um and her and Jason sang it together so um
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so this entire record though I thought about this I was like what am I going to do thank you John really appreciate that
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wow that's so nice I thought I was thinking like am I going to call this this
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stream the um I thought about is this the greatest
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record of the 70s it's one of them definitely one of them
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maybe the best record of the 70s there's a lot of great records of the 70s
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uh but this is this entire record every single song
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is unbelievable somebody says Rumors in Boston now they
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came out a year apart Boston first record 76ers came out in 77. you know
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this was this was a big album these records that came out right when I started playing
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you know uh I mean look I started out learning Jimi Hendrix
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Then I then I was learning songs that came out from Night At the Opera had
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just come out Frampton Comes Alive had just come out Boston's first record had just come out
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um you know Steely Dan a royal scam came out uh rumors came out so I was Leonard
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Skinner these were all the things that I was learning Zeppelin uh you know I was learning that whole
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catalog I was just going one song to the next to the next and next to the next there's so many great songs songs in the
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key of life there are so many great Records full records in the 70s Freddie
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oh my gosh thank you so much appreciate that so many great records in the 70s that it's really hard to say this is the
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best record but you got to put rumors is uh that's on the wood that's that's you
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know that's in one that's in the top five if not I'm just saying you know
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you got Queen you got Pink Floyd you got jeez
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yeah it's it's tough man it's tough it was it was
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a uh you know I just interviewed Bjorn from ABBA
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they made some great records right we I made a video that made some amazing
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records I made a video on the year 1978 Van Halen won the police first record Dire Straits first record
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uh yeah I mean there's just so many big records came out in the 70s
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right um yes
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uh yeah right I'm everybody's putting all these in there anyhow
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something to think about right you know what what what is the greatest record of the 70s uh
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I'm gonna put out a poll I'm gonna do that you guys ever fill out polls on when you do them on uh on the thing air
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I'm gonna I'm gonna do a poll on that I'd love to hear your your greatest songs of the deck I wonder if how we can
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do that I'm gonna figure out a way to do that I'll post it in here um so anyhow let me just uh
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reiterate while everybody's on here I have a show here in Atlanta on the 28th of next month
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uh and um if you're gonna travel to a show that's the one show that's going to
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be different than any of the other ones I've only have three shows left my show in Berlin is pretty much sold out I have
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a show on October 17th in New York City um at The Gramercy theater
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and then that's pretty much it for me um for my live show career
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um I love doing them but um anyhow and I'm running the sale through
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the weekend of my biato bundle so all my my video courses for 99 bucks that's why
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I fund the channel uh you know I'm able to do these interviews I don't have any sponsors or
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anything my sponsors are when I make up when I talk about my courses I sell on here those are my sponsors
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I made courses to make you better musicians and to learn about all the things that
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I've discussed on my channel for my 1200 1300 I might be near 1300 videos over
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the last seven years but I I mentioned a video earlier on dissonance equals emotion I want to say that was a I know
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that was on a thumbnail at least if you want to see what my early videos looked like
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um somebody said hemispheres I say farewell to Kings
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21-12 my God it's really too hard to uh
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really too hard to do that but you gotta you gotta think that rumors is way way
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up there okay that's all you guys are amazing check out my uh interview with
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Bjorn from ABBA um and uh I have my Kirkham video coming
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out probably this week so have a great rest of your weekend you guys we'll see you later go to my store
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beatto bundle see ya