When Sting Sat On The Piano
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- When Sting accidentally sat on the piano during the recording of Roxanne, he knew it sounded cool...but did he know what it was called? Let's butt right in there and figure it out!
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@Aimee : I've extracted the chord for you to listen to without any other instruments. The best part is the laugh that you can distinclty hear in the song : th-cam.com/video/JtM3Zu0UuDo/w-d-xo.html
Hopes this helps ;p
There’s a lower F!!! I shot a whole take of my video with that lower F being in there but then I wasn’t 💯 sure so I re-shot the video without it! Dang!!! Thanks for doing that. Very helpful!
Yeah, I was gonna add that there is something in the bass as well, indeed a low F :)
So what part of The Sting hit THAT note??
this is fun - kind of like musical CSI !
@@dillipphunbar7924 his Sting-er
Fascinating analysis.(no pun intended).
Amazing how the butt, normally a wind instrument, can also be used to play the keyboard.
😂
Thanks, I was eating and somehow managed to shoot food out of my nose reading this comment
:)
“There are no mistakes, only happy accidents.”
― Bob Ross
"OK, so... my butt isn't as tight as Sting's"
I laughed so hard.
Brilliant Aimee!
Thanks, Rick!
Men
Great video! Thanks for getting to the bottom of this song.
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Good one! 😂
What I've always liked about this chord is that it just sounds like an eight note chromatic lead-in to the main bass riff. To me, it actually fits
A bum note?!
Best comment on TH-cam today, well done sir.
More like a STUNG note. STING stung the piano with his rear-end like a bee. This is clearly a joke which Sting played on people, and all you guys fell for it, hahahaha (I'm not laughing at you guys - I'm laughing at stings joke).
A-hole tone scale based chord.
Oh snap.
Now hold on a moment,
In order to best replicate that moment of buttock-magic, you'll need to cast a ballistic mold of Sting's butt, then apply *that* to the keys, right?
For science!
To be honest, the very first time I heard this, I thought that was some weird chromatic chord (which technically is). I've never thought about how dissonant it was. Really nice trivia!
To most people, what's equally strange besides that chord, is why he was laughing right afterward. A casual listener might not even notice the chord, all they'll hear is him laughing, which makes no sense in connection to the opening lyrics. Mystery solved!
He's laughing because Sting stung the piano with his rear-end (like a bee). A bee STING from STING. It's clearly a joke (not an accident), and that is why he is laughing in it. I expect he had a bet with someone about how long it would take for the public to realize it was a joke done on purpose.
As good as the chord is, the timing is what makes it
This video brought me joy- been trying to figure this out- thank you!
For whatever reason, I hear an Eb. You're right. I heard it before you brought it up.
When I watched the first minutes, I was going to comment "the only way to know is to actually sit on the piano". Then I found out that's precisely what you did. 😊
To me it's like resolving a cadence - i get a sense of motion - it sounds so in place to me.
I always thought it was just some random synth patch that they threw in there. Love this analysis
Well...I certainly wasn't expecting THAT this morning! I'd heard that chord before, but had forgotten about it. This video was a short but sweet pleasure.
It can be considered an approach chromatic chord given it's offbeat to the actual chord. It sounds great! And really sharp of you to notice that, great ears and videos🤘
Excellent detective work. Sting's butt chooses better chords than my brain
I'm still crying from laughing so hard at the face you make @3:43. You remind me of every child, ever.
Oh, and the Bob Ross at the end. Thank you. He's one of my heros.
"I'd been up all night for some reason."
I think we can all guess why that was. 😂
I did enjoy this breakdown.
😎👍
As for how he hit the notes, my guess is he went hands first behind his back and the combination of his hand(s) and cheeks made that chord, also your analysis was great! Always wondered what that chord was, since it sounded like a chromatic slide up in the context of the guitar part.
What an achievement as a musician when someone tries to transcribe even the chords you played randomly with your bottom
Great job Aimee! This kind of ear training , I find very interesting and helpful.
The laugh..... you gotta mention the laugh.
Interesting, thank you!
Thank you very much Amy for a very interesting video and for answering my inquiry about what noters were played when Sting sat on the keyboard!
This is so so so awesome.... The Police = greatest band in the history of rock n' roll. Great job!
This was one of the more important videos I've seen in my life. 😜
And this is why I love your channel!
Well,thanks for your analysis!
This video really cracked me up. I love your high tech experiment!! The best!
Dang! I’ve always wondered about that piano thing on Roxanne! Thanks!
My friend was mixing something with a childrens choir for his dad, and at the end of one phrase there was a delicious "yep" from his dad, wich we tok out and put after the end of the song :)
I always thought it was on purpose... The riff on the guitar ends with a F, and slide to th G... So playing a F "just before" the G, really fills like the slide of the "looping" riff...
Hah, I always wondered what happened there. I've been listening to that chord and the following laugh (not in this video) for years but never bothered to look up the story. I always imagined them being weirdos and using the palm of their hand to grab a chunk of notes. Thanks for the story!
Incredible! This is exactly what I was looking for.
You’re a weird dude then 😂
Because people know I have a lot of keyboards (and a piano) I get asked, or told, "Oh, you're a musician?!" To which I reply - "no, I just own keyboards." Because the difference between me and an actual musician is that a musician can make music with anything anywhere. I've got friends who can make entrancing tunes with half empty peanut butter jars and bananas. I've no doubt someone with Sting's talent could do an entire "alternate body part" sonata on any instrument and it would make sense, musically. Somehow I suspect you have that same ability (I don't advise the banana/peanut butter jar route. Messy.) . Though, no need to play the harpsichord with your elbows, Aimee - we're quite enraptured with your fingers on the ivories.
I like it when musicians incorporate accidents into their music, so I loved this from a trivia standpoint. But in this case, I think it neither adds nor detracts from the song. Truth is, I never noticed it before! One of rock’s happiest accidents? Roger Daltrey stuttering while singing My Generation. The band decided to keep it in, and it truly adds to the angry, frenetic vibe of the song. Trivia fact: The BBC initially refused to play it, feeling that it was offensive to stutterers!
i never would've noticed if you hadn't pointed it out lol
Amazing how a B hind chord would be G major. I'll never understand music.
LOL Love the Buttocks move....I think I will try that out! Great Video, I always learn something from you Aimee, thanks for sharing. Keep doing what you do, you have AMAZING talent!!!
3:33 - "I'm gonna need to do a little science experiment..." ROFL! Hey, nobody told me there would be science on this channel!
Well...I guess it makes sense that they were all black keys...
Speaking of happy accidents - I just learned from Rick Beato's latest What Makes This Song Great where the little pre-echo on the vocals of Whole Lotta Love came from. (wo-man...WO-MAN...you need...YOU NEED...)
and it sounds like gated reverb was used also
Turns out Sting's butt is a better piano player than I am...
So funny. Good lesson here to boot!
Why does everything in my life make more sense now that I've watched this video?
I've heard of Mythbusters. I guess we could call this Butbusters? 🎹🎶
I really like your tips, your perfect pitch is really cool and i saw you had it from the first videos i watched of you. I have perfect pitch too, and i play the accordion!
Just started studying jazz in my local town's jazz school and i'm hoping to see some cool tips from another person who sees music like me.
Everything good to you!!! :)
Excellent ANALysis. I've always thought of it as an F sharp, but now I know it's a G flatulent, although there might be a BUM note in there.
THANKS for the hard laugh...that was Great! I like your style
In a minor tune I love playing a major triad a semitone below the root, especially at the end of a song. It sounds so jazzy! :)
It sounds like there was a very similar weird chord on the last verse of Let It Be over the lyric “mother.” Would be very interesting to dissect that one too. Great video!!
Geoff Emerick's book "Here, There and Everywhere" is a goldmine for answers to this kind of thing.
This was worth checking out just for all the bad buns^Wpuns.
Definitely should ask Rick beatos son if you're correct ;) Thanks for the fun video, I learned some, and laughed some!
I laughed my ass off at this, brilliant!
Fantastic video!
All of my recordings are happy mistakes. It's always an experiment.
if only we could corporate the ass more into music theory...
Science!
You should do more of these science experiments! 😉
Did Sting use that in the beginning of his song Moonlight?
Aimee, you have a fantastic ear to do what many can’t. I wish I had your gift. How do you work these chords out? I wish I could, By the way I love your jazz scats you are also a very talented singer. If you ever come to England I would to hear you.
3:30 in I realized this wasn't about "The Entertainer". LOL
Are you going to accept my challenge?
Priceless
here before new roxxane comments
Thank you..😂
Yay! I guessed correctly.
Aimee Nolte Detective of music badge number #G7 Sting would be proud of you Aimee! ok here's a plaque my dad got one year, " my Doctor told me to give up wine, music and singing, but to keep on singing, Aimee, you delight the world with your detective work, keep busting those tunes! Great job!
Get Dylan Beato to verify this. His ear is impeccable and we know that his dad is a fan of the Police having devoted two episodes of What Makes This Song Great to their work (although Roxanne was not one of them). As you may already know, Dylan's ability with perfect pitch borders on the scary.
Hilarious. Thanks. I’ll tell my butt about that new chord! 🤪
I can also hear a low F natural.
I did an acoustic guitar recording for a student and a few days later he said "what's with the barks?" I had accidentally left my window open and the neighbours dog had been barking all the way through the recording 😂 I'm pretty deaf so I wear hearing aids and totally didn't notice it during recording haha.
DeanoPiano check out “the universal” by Small Faces. same thing happened. Actually, I think it was Steve Marriotts own dogs, but...
When Sting Sat In on the piano
Cheeky musicians!
My happy mistakes happen when I actually record the whole thing, with the right notes and tempo and everything
Of course you've heard about the gal who sat her piano keys then said, "Hmmm, 2 octaves. I need to go on a diet!"
You should give your butt more credit Aimee!!!!
You’re right!! 😂
I was recording a song I'd written and during the process of singing each part, and playing each part, my parakeet chimed in to add it's part. I left that in there. :) even though it didn't really belong in there.
This might need a Fourier spectrum analyzer to decipher. If you listen to the title track, Regatta de Blanc, you can faintly hear Sting yell, "Where's my f@*king echo!" Then a slapback echo is on his vocals. Lol
Reminds me of a Zappa tune I learned years ago called "Penis Dimension" - about halfway through the tune, there's a direction in the score that calls for the performer to "sit on the piano (both buttocks)" (The Frank Zappa Songbook Vol. 1)
Glad I found your channel :)
Another fun musical history investigation. If the errant upright piano keylid was partially closed, that would be the way to duplicate the experiment as well. For example, perhaps the keylid was only 1/2 closed, and so the edge of the keylid was left resting on the black keys. That might explain the result you deduced. I am not sure with the pressure distribution via the keylid surface area that the size of the striking rump is significant.
Likely hypothesis!!!
A butt- minor 7? A crappy chord? His hands are in tune but his butt is playin “out”! Ok I’ll stop now. Another great Aimee video. Now I’ll go and practice this chord on a sturdy piano.
Most random kont-end on your channel so far, love it!
(Kont means buttocks in Dutch, hurray for puns)
you mean German?
Nope! But it could be the same word in German.
Great vid - but I think the point is: WHY does this chord fit in so well? In my opinion the two distinct notes you detected - C# and F# can be seen as chromatic approaches to the 5th and the root of the given chord Gm, the Bb being already part of Gm. Also, as they rhythmically 'sit' on the 'and of 4', the sound works as a lower chromatic shift or lead-in. By the way: I love your work on utube, Aimee
Hehe.... dongles, dimples and butt chords. Lol. Now transpose it with 7 sharps. Hehe
Well that came out of the blue. :-)
Science experiment 😭
Ask Rick Beato! I'll bet he could figure it out? or Dylan for sure!
Free Dylan
lol
Is that Bob Dylan or Dylan Beato? :-)
@@kylemulqueen6155 free Dylan from Sting's butt
5:07 - Gb6 and Gm7 share the same 'third' note (Bb)!
Also, I'm guessing the Ab should also be included. From what I see, Sting sat on a pentatonic scale of 5 black notes!
A flabbier ass would've hit some white notes first :)
well Aimee - that's definitely a bad-ass video(...)
I thought you were going to share *why* it sounds good - it's leading/slips into the key perfectly with that rhythm & all.
Lol Idk if I agree with that! 😂
@@AimeeNolte why?! :D
Either way I'm glad you shared this, as now all of those Police cover bands can now truly replicate the sound :P
I have longed for decades to slow down recordings. I believed that if I ever gained that power that I could conquer every chord, every note, every fingering. But I concluded that the only tape units that could do that were unattainably expensive commercial models.
But now you just charge the speed with he little button on the bottom right of the TH-cam video!
Yet the slow speed playbacks are distorted (higher speeds are not). And the presets are not ideal; variable would be great. I'm surprised that you got that clarity just from reducing the speed button.
Naw I used logic
That's funny - I thought they just hit some really atonal chord a half step down right before that first bass note. (and assumed it was on purpose) Andy Summers is a jazz player, so it seemed in line with something he might think up.
It's as if STING stung the piano like a bee. That a bit too convenient for me. A bee STINGs with its' rear-end, so it's likely that STING stung the piano (with his rear-end) on purpose. You guys fell for it, but it's a very funny joke he played on people, hahahahaha.
Certainly a nice leading tone - or a "leading chord" for this case - to the G minor where they begin. I probably wouldn't label it as a slash chord, but that's just me.
Wasn't the record sped up? So the notes that he played might have been lower?
I've always kinda wondered what was going on with the beginning of this song.
I read in an interview once that due to his Yoga practise, Sting can sustain a Gb6/Gm7 chord on a piano with his butt for up to 8 hours.
Sounds like a minor seventh chord (in inversion) to me from the get go ... that doesn't mean Aimee is wrong. It's just that what she calls 'G flat major sixth' I would call 'E flat minor seventh in first inversion'; (Gb Bb Db Eb). Neither is wrong per se, but I would argue that the 'bum chord' functions as a minor chord rather than a major chord here and therefore would prefer to label it that way.
Yes yes...valid point!