00:00 Intro 00:34 A Look at Pop Song Intros 00:45 Vanessa Carlton / A Thousand Miles 02:42 Made-up Intro #1 03:22 Adele / Someone Like You 04:27 …
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Pop, As Digested by a Classical Musician
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Sorry it's been a while! Feels great to get back into the "As Digested by…" videos. All year I've been working on my (debut) album of original works for keyboard titled "Alice in Wonderland." It's out on Bandcamp: https://nahresol.bandcamp.com/releases
sounds perfect for an EDM-pop-future bass type of song… huge saw chords with the wobbling filters etc. etc … imo
Pop music is generally simplistic so people can quickly cover it. There is also two directions you want to go with modern pop. Take the chords and strike them in the pattern light light light heavy (then repeat). That's the modern hip hop beat. The other pattern is light heavy light heavy (repeat) and that's the dance beat. The chords, notes and vocals follow the beat and don't flow around the beat.
Pop is Prince.
I think your piece feels more like a score…a "pop-score". Your piece pearls instead of "glitters". Rich tones of beauty instead of the beauty of convenience. Lots of depth and dynamics even when simple, instead of exploring a 2d scape. Still a good piece on its on.
I was wondering about “catchiness vs accessibility” relationships in arts.
There is this pianist in Brazil (LordVinheteiro) who made a video showing the “evolution” of music from classic to recent days. By his face you might see the irony, but, to be accessible, seems people with different backgrounds can’t start right away with Nam June Paik or John Cage, but some classics, event though still complex, are still ok (doesn’t sound like experimental). Does this explains reincarnation? How something might sound classical or experimental to someone who never had listened to both genres?
This is not a pop song or pop-ish song. I love the song, though. What she is doing on her youtube channel (as a classically trained musician, she applies her expertise on every genre of music) is brilliant. I hope she gathers enough followers to do this as a main job. I love what she puts out.
It sounds more New Age to me than Pop. But very good! You are very talented.
Intro: 30 seconds of the song without verse?
Hook: something that is addictive and has a distinct sound and loops. e.g. a basso ostinato, an opening distorted guitar, a drum-kit fill.
are these intros or opening hooks?
is there a difference?
The song you made screams self discovery. I love it, however it's a little complexed for a pop piece. It most definitely have a lot of Sol.
too many notes for pop, be more repetitive
After the bridge and the higher verse I wanted to hear it smash back to the full chorus and then fade that full version out.
Nahre I'd love to see you do "house digested by a classical musician"
Everything just sounds like Einaudi to me lol!
I discovered your channel today. Did your childhood piano teacher encourage you to improvise? Mine did not, and now as an older adult I am starting to practice improvisation.
"Dubstep, As Digested by a Classical Musician" please 🙂
Oh God, you did it again!!
Awesome as usual ?.
The chopin variation was beautiful, especially the very high notes at the end.
Your end piece is very beautiful and really make me think of Thomas Newman ?.
Love it
"Pop" is short for Popular. Even though the genre is not the most popular music out there, it somehow has the name "Pop"
Pop music reminds me of minimalist art. It is music boiled down to the most fundamental ideas and then polished so much that it can still be enjoyed. Because it is so fundamental, it can be enjoyed by a much wider audience.
Ok serious comment now 🙂 Your piece is lovely. As I a songwriter (indie/ pop/ folk mostly) your chorus sounds to me, more like a build up- as though the chorus has not yet arrived. I would agree with others who have said it feels more cinematic than pop xx
The Adele rework sounded like Eienaudi
So sweet how she talks about these songs as though she's never heard them before 😉
The piece me of Ludovico Einaudi
Any plans to release your original tracks for purchase? I need them in my life.
Will, it is catchy and beautiful
Relly I love you ??
I'd say adding a vocal, and extending the parts could really makes this into a full pop song, although on the more melodic or emotional side. In my head, pop songs tend to be more "overly optimistic happy".
When you played "the piece", I could imagine someone singing over it. Great work, keep it up!
Can you make this as background music with your traveling vlogs? haha I like the clarity of your composition.
I found that very interesting, has a classical musician I feel like finally someone understand me
Your composition at the end kind of sounds like Tori Amos, which I respect
This style sounds VERY Tori Amos to me, i.e. it would chart but definitely be in the realm of 'smart pop'.
As a folk/pop songwriter I always take it as an encouragement in my writing process if I have to question if this song has already been written, it means I'm on to something resonant. If you need to change something to make it your own, it's still valid. Or give credit. It's kind of the same thing as sampling.
the first knocko- I mean "intuitive interpretation" had some major anime romcom soundtrack vibes to it
Why is jazz the inbetween lol
The bridge/end gave me some Digimon 02 Ending vibes. I tried to learn this on piano years ago but have forgotten about it until I heard your song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI8_BNg8ZNU
Pop music = shortest distance to the heart
Your final creation sounds a little like Ryuichi Sakamoto, a composer for the piano and quite a number of film scores (Babel; Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence; the revenant?)
Nahre I love you!!! This video is just so much fun. Whenever you have time come say hi to us we will be always happy to see you!
This was so interesting to watch!
I noticed that your sense of simplicity is still complex to mine. I’d say your rhythmic pattern and harmonies still include elements that’d be irritating / hard to follow / hard to set in musical context for a less musical trained ear.
This might make it less accessible for “the average ear” and therefore less of a pop song – since it’s intentionally made for a bride spectrum of people.
I’d place the song more in the yellowish-greenish section of the Pop Meter. Which just shows how we as listeners can understand music on different levels, which is fascinating!
I really loved watching you experiment with these different parameters and approaches of understanding music.
And also you just proofed how complex and impressive your understanding of music is in the sweetest way possible!
Fascinating, as always! Reminded me in spots of Bill Evans, at least as filtered through the Windham Hill players like Liz Story and George Winston.
The end result here is criminally underrated. I immediately felt that the intersection between sophistication and accessibility had been achieved when I heard the small pivots in your melody and harmony. I was bobbing my head and anticipating the flourishes.
Repetition legitimizes as they say, but it seems to be the pieces that repeat sophistication to legitimize it that have that “it” thing we’re all looking for. Bonus points if you then breakout the constituent parts into unexpected orchestration, like synth pads, lower register strings, etc?
honestly i enjoyed the process more than the final piece. pop needs a real square beat. this rendition retains sensibilities that bely your awesome talent. lovely but not pop, sorry.
I was trying to figure out why your piece doesn't sound so much like pop to me, and I realized that another thing that could define pop is largely the lack of dynamics. Pop music is so compressed that it doesn't really play with expression through changing dynamics. Your piece, and classical music, packs a lot more expression into the piece using dynamics.
It's way too solemn for a pop song
Your original composition sounded like Gary Jules' version of Mad World to me. "All around me are familiar faces". Probably because they both have that Dorian sound, with the major 6th.