Rick Beato - The Weirdest And Most Brilliant Elton John Song

[highplainsdem]

Also one of my favorite Elton John songs.

[MuseRider]

1. Oh wow!

I have never seen this guy and he looks really happy doing this . I am a retired classical orchestral musician and I tried not to need to pay attention to that part of things. I could never do math and chord structure and analysis fell right in there with math. My 2 boys are both jazz musicians and they live with chords so ......this is interesting to me partly because the guy doing this seems really excited by this, I love Elton John, love this song and I feel like I want to know about this. Hmmmmm, cool and it seems about time even though I am done with all this (I could have lost an arm and a leg easier than retiring from my music). Thanks for this. When I get back I am going to see if I can pick all this up.

[highplainsdem]

2. Rick Beato is a treasure. You should check out his other videos, too.

[MuseRider]

3. I will.

I LOVE musicians who come across with big smiles and excited, really excited about the music. He looked like he was having a blast. Thank you. I will try to get to that tonight. Things are so grim that this will be fun to watch. Again, thank you.

[ProfessorGAC]

4. Watched It A Few Days Ago

Rick & I disagree on this one.
It's a fine tune & I understand why people love it.
But, I don't concur that the song is as unusual in it's construction as Rick seems to think.
I don't hear the "weird". For a guy as into Soundgarden as Rick is, I'm surprised he finds these chord changes anything special. The chords are just following the descending bass line. It's pretty consistent with diatonic theory, like many Beatles & Yes tunes.
I think he's overanalyzing it.