Oh, you're a master of the butt pets. Is
Day Man a real song? Hell yes, it's a
real song. It's as real as it gets, and
it's good. Before you go thinking that
this is a first time reaction by a
classical musician. You'd be wrong about
that last part. But more importantly,
this is not my first time listening to
this piece of art. I have consumed it
more times than I can count, but I've
never sat down to actually figure out
the chords or why I think it's so good.
It was originally created, doesn't say
written, by Scott Marker and Rob Russell
Russell. If you don't know what day man
is, you might want to wear a onesie cuz
you're going to be you're going to be
getting up and
doing karate
and friendship for everyone.
>> Damon. Day man,
>> fighter of the night, man.
Champion of the sun.
>> Son,
>> you're a master of karate
>> and friendship for everyone.
>> A day man. That's it. Man,
>> fighter of the night man,
>> champion of the sun.
>> You're a master of karate and friendship
for everyone.
>> Nice. We'll get this.
>> Fighter of the night.
Champion of the sun.
They took you night and you don't belong
to them.
>> They left me in a world of darkness
without your sexy hands and I
This is going to be hard. First of all,
um pretty dramatic intro here. Lots of
uh like diminished chords. Let's
minor.
Okay.
What what is actually what is Charlie
playing?
>> They took you nightmare and you don't
belong to them.
>> I think what's happening is a a line
cliche which is when like there's one
note that's moving by step like it's
going down like every note on the piano
or it's going down like a scale and it
creates new chords each time that one
note moves. So it's very schmaltzy and
yeah it's dramatic. So I think it's like
you they took your
to an augmented chord and then if it
keeps going it'll go like this and then
so let's see if it really does that.
>> They took you night and you don't belong
to them.
They left me in a world of darkness
without your sexy hands.
So that's that's what's happening.
This chord is kind of a transition to
this one, which is a nice major chord,
but then there's another sort of tense
chord with a trionee in it.
>> I miss you night so bad.
>> Ah, and that last one was like a a
cluster chord, you know, good old
maybe a maybe a called It's called a
slappity slap is what it's called.
>> Uh, what's with your outfit, man?
>> Why don't we put the gardens back on?
>> No. No.
[Music]
>> Yeah, I like that.
>> Damon.
>> Okay, let's talk about the time
signature of this piece of music. So,
he's probably playing like, I don't
know, a Casio keyboard of some type and
it's got some beats on it. So he picked
one of the beats that's in a 68. It goes
one and a two and a one and a two and a
one and a two and a one and a two. So it
has this really casual fluid sound to
it. Everything's everything's in threes
which has just a more uh dancelike
quality, you know.
Okay.
>> Day man,
>> fighter of the night man.
Champion of the
>> son.
>> Son,
>> you're a master of karate and friendship
for everyone.
>> A day man. That's it.
>> All right. The chord progression is is
quite genius because uh they are using
some sort of you know pre-made uh chord
pattern in on the Casio and it's playing
kind of these arpeggiated major chords.
So when he presses a key, it starts a
major chord on that on that note. So
he's restricted to only major chords,
which you might think, "Oh, that sounds
really easy." No. If you only use major
chords, there is a chance that you will
have to pull in sounds and notes and
chords from outside of your major key.
So that's what's happening here. There
is something called modal interchange
going on in day man. And you could think
of it like some of these chords come
from the major key, the sun, the warmth,
uplifting, friendship. And then some of
these chords are coming from the minor
key, the night, the darkness,
insecurity, mystery, danger.
And it's going to go to
probably just rolling up and down the
chord like
day man. Sorry. Fuck. See, that was the
night man coming in side of him. If you
know, you know. This chord is from D
major. Day major.
Day man. Okay.
And then this chord is from the D minor
key. Night man. Cannot believe how well
that worked out. Let's see if it keeps
going. No, it doesn't. Champion of the
sun. This is a chord from D minor.
Minister and friendship for everyone is
a chord from D major, day major and D
nighter.
This chord is home.
This is the flat 7 chord which is sassy.
It's strong. It's confident and it
creates some tension. It makes it feel
like we have to now move somewhere. So,
it's kind of the catalyst for the rest
of the chord progression. a surprisingly
warm and kind of confident sounding F
major chord at the bottom which then
assists pushes up uplifts into a G major
which is the four chord and four likes
to go back to home. So it's a beautiful
little cycle but I'm telling you the
mode mixture the modal interchange
between the day and the night keys is
part of what makes this so exciting. Now
let's look at the melody and how it
interacts with the chords which is
always my favorite part. So
Dan,
this is uh he's singing into the chord
here. He's singing these two notes that
are in the chord day. So it's a great
way to start. It's very establishing
that everything is like the exposition
day. Right? But then he sings the same
two notes over the C chord, the flat 7,
the sassy one, which creates dissonance
because these two notes are in this
chord, but neither of them are in this
chord. So
fighter of the night man tension
sorry.
See now see these notes are right next
to each other.
It's so good. Oh, and these ones are
next to each other, too. So, I love
that. Repeating a motif, different
chord. Now, it's tense night man. And it
makes it feel even more like it's got a
move. Champion of the sun. Same two
notes, but that this one is in the
chord, but this one isn't. It's pretty.
I like that. I like landing there.
Champion of the sun
like a sixth chord. You're a master of
karate and friendship for everyone. Now
this run down.
I think he actually does a little modal
interchange thing with his voice and he
goes to a minor karate and friendship
for everyone.
So here he's borrowing from the minor
scale and it does sound really good.
And it works because at the time there's
no major third to conflict
and it sounds bluesy sassy
karate and friendship for everyone
man. And then the light comes back on.
Okay. Now to uh Dennis's incredible
contribution the Oz. He goes
very oporadic and it's an octave and
then he nestles and settles on that flat
seven note, the sassy note again, the
one with the attitude. And it's great.
So on this chord,
this note that he adds makes the so
makes makes the chord go like this. All
right.
And I literally call this the sassy
seventh chord. This is also called a
dominant seventh chord, but it just has
this chord wears sunglasses for sure.
What a great contribution is that. And
also just the octave is so exciting that
it's so great and the rhythm. We'll go
over the rhythms in a second, but it's
partly that
it's syncopated
d that last note, the sassy note is like
anticipating the beat. So it's got all
this attitude.
Champ fighter of the night man.
Now, here's what's cool about this. Just
like Charlie, Dennis sings the same
exact notes and everything on that
second chord, this C chord. And so, what
used to be dissonant with the first
chord, sorry, this note is now
consonant. It fits in with the chord.
And the opposite is true. What used to
be consonant with this chord, the D's
are now
dissonant.
So either way, you get a feeling of push
and pull.
The other thing it does is there's
something called a pedal point. And I
wouldn't say that's exactly what's
happening here, but the effect is
similar. If I were to just keep a D
going on the bottom here and just change
the chords with my right hand here,
down through the night
for everyone.
It sounds really great, right? And it
kind of keeps it kind of keeps you stuck
in some ways. You're and the chords are
like now moving against this pedal
point. So, because the melody is just
repeating everything as if it were still
on this D chord, which is kind of a
home, it has a similar feeling of of
anchoring you to home. And that makes
the flat seven chord even more exciting.
>> Check this out.
>> You're a master of karate and friendship
for everyone. Amen. So, this is like a
fun stupid little thing I noticed is
that they don't start the you're a
master of karate at the right beat. They
they wait until like the next bar. So,
they run out of time and they have to
like rush to make it work. They're like
son,
you're a master of karate and friendship
for every one day man. But they pull it
off perfectly. It doesn't matter. the
night
champion of the sun.
>> You know what else makes this song good?
It's catchy as heck. What makes
something catchy? Uh, usually it's
interesting syncopated rhythms and
repetition, repetition, repetition. Day
man,
fighter of the night,
champion of the sun.
Oh, you're a master of karate and
friendship for everyone
man.