it's the daily dog
hello everyone welcome back to the daily
doug thanks for being here
today we are going to do uh my
second uh reaction video so
uh a couple days ago i did my very first
reaction video to
iron maiden's fear of the dark it was
a suggestion by my brother and i had a
good time doing it put it out on youtube
and to my surprise there were a lot of
iron maiden fans that
found this and were quite supportive so
so thank you guys
for the easy initiation into
listenership
and appreciation of iron maiden and
a bunch of folks uh messaged and
commented and said that
you should if you're gonna listen to
iron maiden you should really listen to
uh rhyme of the ancient mariner which is
i guess one of their very famous songs
and my inclination was just to go and
and listen to it and see what the hubbub
was all about but
um i thought no i'll i'll just wait so
this is going to be a true reaction i
have not heard the song before
i have not listened to it i do know a
little bit
about the poem that it's based on uh
it's by samuel coleridge
uh and i think it was written in the
late 1700s like
right before we get to the year 1800.
and uh it's a very long
poem uh so i know this is a relatively
long song i'm looking at the
the uh the track listing here it's 13
minutes and 50 seconds
so buckle in but um
i'm going to be curious to see how the
band
approaches this long of a poem
from a standpoint of form like how do
they
arrange the pieces musically to make it
fit
as a narrative it's gonna have to be a
narrative
approach to this because there's a lot
of words
i don't know if they adapted the poem
just as it is
or if it's uh if there's bits that are
that are kind of picked and chosen
um so that's what i'll be looking for
i'll also be listening to see like what
they do with
with tempo and key changes that was what
was most interesting
to me the last time so let's uh
let's dive right in so this is rhyme of
the ancient mariner by
iron maiden this is from i think it says
flight 666
dvd all right let's get it going let's
see what we got
rhyme with the intramural oh they're in
new jersey that's where i'm from
that's right let's introduce this song
the same way that i did
in a slightly lighter more vulgar tone
that i did
at long beach arena 1984 this is what
not to do
if your bird shits on you
the rhyme and the ancient marina
bird meaning a girl i'm guessing
okay off the bat that's a very common
rhythmic
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it's a very common rhythmic thing we do
in music to signify a journey
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it's a very common musical trope
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rhythmically
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another step higher so those high notes
are high b's
parallel nerds nice dueling guitars
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that little motive that they're playing
can work over all of those tours that's
why it really
sounds nice
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he's got a great command
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i'm waiting for a change so they
presented a couple of
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verses
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is
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i tried to grow my hair long one time it
didn't really work
same driving rhythmic
okay the repetition
yeah the repetition of that made me
think they were getting ready to change
something
so it sounds like we did a large triplet
to the old tempo and then that became
the big beat
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which is also a variation of that same
rhythm
from before that track going on a
journey
they're nice and socially distanced for
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them
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she's
okay change
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that rhythmic motive in the face
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the only thing i don't like about it
sometimes doubles the lead guitars
i think there's something different
music that you can do to make that a
little bit more interesting
but maybe the point is to make it
driving and assertive
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there's slow down there's a gong every
drummer needs
a gong
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okay now that's interesting y'all
augmented chords
yeah it's like a augmented
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like g augmented parallel augmented
quartz those don't happen very often
especially in heavy metal
this is very cool and the sound effect
of the creaking on the ship that's
is the drummer hitting like bells
one after one by the star duggar moon
too quick for groan or sigh
each turned his face with a ghastly bang
and cursed me with his eye okay now
that's cool
four times fifteen living men
and i heard no sign or glow
with
this is really cool if you're going to
use them these are symmetrical cords
that really don't have a grounding
so the musical effect is to give a sense
of
of we're not sure where it's going to go
next or uneasiness or
uncenteredness
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okay now it's minor over that same a
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c minor over g
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they needed they needed this section i
think as
a big central section that's quite
different musically from the beginning
i expect the beginning stuff to be
coming back at some point
from a formal standpoint
this is a very effective way to also
break up a very long poem
so that you don't have a ton of words
all happening all the time
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okay that's interesting
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to d minor
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all of them
then the spell starts to break
all these people just really interested
in story time
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to get that
okay they received now over the minor
five hey now this is
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and now
okay that's interesting so they went
from a down to e
that's the same way they went from b
down to a
right and then from a down to e now
they're back where they came from
so the beginning section might be
starting to come back
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we've done this before
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well that's interesting does that have
much playback
okay yeah that's how they rhythmically
get themselves
back into the slower straight
tempos
the sophisticated compositional tools
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ideas
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i know that we have the contrast in the
middle of the sauce
but he's pumped above the staff on those
high jesus
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wherever it goes
the other thing that i'm noticing is
there's not a lot of pyrotechnics
and extra shows
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well that was fun rhyme of the ancient
mariner
yeah i get a little bit of it now i get
a little bit more of a sense of how they
might
be a little uh about how they might put
together a longer song or a
more narrative involved song i really
enjoyed the middle part
i hate to say it more than the rest of
it
i might steal that for one of my classes
to show
my students how you might use
augmented triads as the basis for a
section of music it's it's kind of fun
um just one little aside
one of the main reasons historically why
i have not
been extremely into
metal is because i find the
the actual sound of these
power guitar chords uh that are
distorted through the amps to be very
uh overpowering and almost um
uh burdensome it normally after a couple
minutes or maybe a song or two and then
like my ear just gets tired of hearing
it
uh as as a musical timbre a musical
color
uh but uh popping in and and really
taking a peek
at the music that bands like this
uh make is illuminating
um to to look at it from a fresh
perspective so
thank all y'all uh iron maiden fandom
for uh tolerating me and and taking a
listen
and uh thanks for letting me be a part
of the uh
the new uh listenership iron maiden who
would have thunk it
all right thanks everybody we will see
you next time on
the daily dog
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