remember this song
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this is called epic by faith no more a
mike patton project who is a brilliant
musician and singer i remember hearing
this song all the time on the radio and
it's a pretty cool and weird song
it's kind of rock but it's also kind of
hip hop what is it what is it and guess
what you never find out what it is i've
talked about this song a little bit in
my flat 6 video because i'm a
huge nerd but today i want to talk about
the piano outro because i remember the
first time i heard it i was a kid and i
was like what is it
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that is the last thing i expected at the
end of this song so not only that it was
beautiful really really beautiful and i
remember being particularly struck by
this one chord
that one
now that i'm listening to the song in
headphones it's actually two pianos and
one of them is just accenting some of
the notes by hitting it with this very
bright sounding piano doubling things in
octaves
one thing that makes this piano outro so
beautiful is
basically the chord progression which we
hear in the left hand
if you've been watching my videos then
you know i'm obsessed with a certain
type of functional chord called the flat
six chord and guess what so that's half
of it right there
but the other half is what's happening
in the right hand
so before i even get into the harmony i
want to talk about the rhythm i think
that the intended rhythm
is like this
the way that it's played at least in the
right hand is a little bit relaxed or
flexible and what happens is it starts
to sound almost like it's triplets which
would sound like this
that's kind of how i've always heard it
but when i listen to it in more detail
it's kind of in between these two
rhythms
so this is kind of romantic and a little
bit dramatic the way that the the rhythm
is being kind of pushed and pulled and
it's a little bit ambiguous it's very
expressive and i think that's part of
what makes it so beautiful but now on to
the harmony
so the first chord is this kind of
arpeggio all the way up a e minor
seventh chord and that chord has tension
in it
courtesy of that very top note so
do you hear that without it
it's just a beautiful minor chord
but
so
i'm already into this i just love
seventh chords so much
but to make it even more beautiful
the second piano which we can do just
with our two hands comes along and hits
an f sharp
and so that note is even more tense and
listen to what that does
oh it's magic if i play all those notes
together
oh my god by adding the f sharp they're
doing two things that i really like one
is that that's adding a ninth onto the
chord so it's like it's like we just
kept going one
three
five
seven
nine okay it just happens that the nine
is voiced down here
so it's really close
clustered
once again though this is arpeggiated
which is like playing a chord over time
instead of vertically so we're not
having to deal with uh
that although i love that
like this the other thing that i like is
that it creates this sixth minor sixth
between the f sharp and the d and six
are cool in fact adam neely uh just did
a little video about them and saying hey
they're really cool voice things in
sixths more
sixth sub and i fully agree i love sixth
sixths it's an inversion of a third
but the timbre between the two notes is
really different because one's quite a
bit lower than the other because they're
more spread out and they tend to have
this sort of yearning quality like these
two want to be together
but they're not
god that's
gorgeous i can't stand it
also that tension is accented
rhythmically so
right so we can't we can't ignore it
then
a little resolution
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and these are kind of these passing
tones that are bringing us to the next
chord and this next chord
in contrast to this one
which kind of has an icy
almost like
wistful quality this next chord is sassy
now just using my ear i can hear there's
a diminished triad in there which sounds
like this
there's a tritone around it just very
very unstable so already it sounds
completely different than the other
chord
this is an interesting
situation oh and the root of the chord
is c so
so it's actually a dominant seventh
chord which i always feel has some kind
of sass it's a little bit spicy
and it's just got an attitude
in any
genre and they added a ninth on top of
that
now coming down though the sassiness of
this dominant seventh ninth chord is
kind of uh softened because the b flat
is what's making things so spicy
and that's
replaced by a b natural okay
when i play it like that it sounds like
the neverending story so this is really
really pretty we've kind of touched on
this high d on both of these chords
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that sounds like an add-9 to me so so
beautiful
yes
so that cord just has a lot of tension
also
so after this
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this is kind of this beautiful little
tumbling down that leads us very
gracefully back to the beginning where
we can repeat the whole thing over again
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there we go so it kind of cycles and
loops very organically now there's one
variation that i absolutely love it's in
a substitution of the b-flat we get this
dramatic high e which is doubled
okay
the very ending just kind of runs up the
e minor seventh chord
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ending on e how this evolves out of the
rock song the song is vamping between e
minor and c major
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anyway so those are my thoughts on the
outro of epic and i gotta say it's
pretty epic are there any other outros
of songs that you think are worthy of
having a video if so let me know in the
comments i'll tell you one right now
the actually the intro and outro of the
streets have no name by you two is
sublime the adjective not the band thank
you so much for watching and thank you
so so much to my patrons for making
videos like this possible more coming
stay tuned
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if you
son
don't do it don't come out just stay
behind that cloud
just
just please
what is this
no
oh my god it's getting brighter oh god
it's okay it's fine whatever
it's going away
thank you