British guitarist analyses Nightwish performing Ghost Love Score in 2013!

Hello Phil from Wings of Pegasus and welcome to another analysis video. If you liked this video, give it a like and subscribe to tonight's agenda. We'll go back to

2013

. We'll take a look at Nightwish and them. We're hosting Ghost Love Score, so let's put these guys on the screen and see how they do. I'm going to go into it here because it's a mix of genres and influences that we have so many in there, obviously it's going to be called symphonic metal as a genre, but we have classical elements, of course, with the vocals, we have heavy metal, especially those more advanced heavy metal techniques. with alternative selection when you listen to more Night Wishes material. so having technical skill has to be an absolute given when you are covering so many different genres and you have to have the technical skill of those genres, so if you are going to have classical singing there you have to have a singer who is a world class classical singer, otherwise it just won't work because of the way we're looking at the most successful band to ever come out of Finland with over 9 million albums, a massive hit founded in 1996, so it's been a while, they've had line-up changes, obviously I'm just going to focus on the line-up that we're hearing with this particular performance, but speaking of the singing, the classical nature of the singing as well and how the vowels are manipulated. that classical style, for example, what we just heard in this chorus is my downfall, it will be for you in blue memory, but deciphering it in terms of hearing those lyrics is going to be very difficult because of the way the vowels are manipulated and the vocal modifications you go through with classical singing, but the interesting thing about music is that the language is irrelevant because of the combination of underlying melody and chords and the connection with the singer, the emotion is still there even if you have no idea what . the words are what are sung and to me that is music in a nutshell, you can connect something on such a deep level as a neighbor that you don't even need to know what the words are being said, you just connect. and that's certainly the case here, even though the lyrics to this song are in English and not Finnish, not that you'll need it, but let me draw your attention to Floor Yangsun on lead vocals.

I said here that you need a world class classical singer to be able to do this kind of thing live and she certainly is, she has control of every part of her voice, her lead voice, which she can reach so easily, but she can also sing those same notes. with a chest voice and you can add some grit and harshness to your voice if you want and there are many different ways you can sing and you can also get very heavy with your voice for that heavy metal side of things, so "I have someone who is so universal vocally which means you can dynamically take that sound wherever you want and this is a great example of that, like I said, these guys are from Finland, so if I get any pronunciation wrong I apologize, But we".

I have Thomas Holub Heinen, who wrote this song in the first place and to have the ability to write something that is so classical in nature and takes such an interesting journey from the composition and lasts more than ten minutes, as you can see in this video. Having that journey to go to so many different places and keep it interesting is a talent in itself let alone bringing together so many different influences and putting them all together and seeing how it's going to work to have a very distorted guitar with classically influenced vocals. There's a lot to talk about here, it's funny because when watching this particular video, all I have on the right side of my screen here on YouTube are reaction videos to this particular performance and song, and it's just one after another , After another. after the next one, but what I want to bring up in this particular analysis is how do they do it in this life, how do they achieve this life because as a performer, everyone who watches this will have the same questions that I have in terms of when are you watching? the keys of this particular performance, you think about how they are achieving the sound of the orchestra because this was originally recorded in 2004 on the album that was called Once and that album was recorded with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and getting that same sonic life, not there is orchestra here.

So you immediately think, as a musician and someone who's been playing live for years, how are they going to pull this off and it's really interesting and really well done, so let's dive into how Nightwish pull this off live night after night and get such a great sound so with that being said let me draw your attention to euchre never Leinen because he is on drums here and everything about this performance is in his hands because the way this works is you could have a track of Click on your ears and we'll see that you're wearing in-ear monitors here, so you'll receive a click track that has the exact tempo for each section of this song.

It will be mapped, so that means for the entire 10 minutes you won't be able to listen. a mistake on that drum set because during the whole performance the original orchestra was on the backing track which is along with that click track so it also means that no one can mess up this track is so long that it depends on a backing track and Your drummer is right, but the only reason they can pull this off is because they are top-notch musicians across the board and something I've done I don't know if you would have done at home unless you really like this .

The kind of thing is to set up different Ghosts Love Score live performances and start them all at exactly the same time because then when you set up three performances out of four, you'll find that those three speakers are synced to Perth for the whole 10 minutes. And that's the key to

performing

something like this live and making the epicness of the recorded version reach the audience. Obviously, you must first have the ability to do this; otherwise you can have the backing track, but if you can. You don't sing live if you can't play live you'll never be able to match the quality of the backing track.

That's the dilemma that every band experiences when they go live is that they will be in the studio and in a particular location. The section will need strings or it needs a bit of thickening so you put it in the studio version and then when you play it live you don't have a string section and everyone who is in a band, the keyboard player, would have experienced this . you'll have your keyboard and you'll say give me a string sound for this section and the string sound you get from that keyboard, the default sound is always horrible and there's no way to hide it through a PA, how horrible is that string sound. you have to remove it and it means that the live sound you get is not a great representation of the recording because you couldn't get the same orchestral sound, so you faced that dilemma live and Nightwish certainly would have had this when they are going to play a

score

of such an epic movie of a song.

If they just used a default string sound on a keyboard, it would suck if you lost all the epicness of the sound. Plus, we have so many layered voices here. Also, they were sung for that original recording, so without them it would just fall flat and you wouldn't get even half the same sound that we're getting here, so they decided to have this combination of backing track and live. To get the epic sound when playing a song like this, hiring a live orchestra is simply not feasible because, in the beginning, the salaries of each member of that orchestra will want to pay and it makes much more sense to combine what was recorded. element with life, if you have the ability to do it and you have the other argument of people saying that fans today can't do it live, this is a perfect representation that they can do it live and they can achieve it live. exactly the same way night after night after night vocally that's so impressive because Floor is nailing the exact same nose like I said you can schedule multiple performances of this and Floor never fails and no she's right there can be little changes in the way he phrases a particular line, but that just shows that it's live, it doesn't mean he's miming the backing track, you don't want to compromise the epicness of this song and how it can move people just because you want to. . keeping it completely live and just playing some strings on a keyboard that's just going to be a keyboard is going to be a huge disappointment to everyone who comes to hear this before getting back to the video.

I think this will be one of those that I can't watch the whole thing because it's over ten minutes long and there's a lot to talk about. I'm going to leave the link to this in the description below so you can check it out if you want and check it out. all the acting, but another thing I

love

about this style of music and the combination of genres is the non-discrimination between those genres because some people will see a band and I'm sure others will listen to Nightwish and think, oh, I'm not doing it I'm going to like this because it's going to be too heavy, but when you listen to it, people who have a background in classical music will be able to appreciate the quality on display here, not only with the orchestral arrangement but also with the live vocals. right and with such control, guys who like hard rock metal, heavy metal, will be able to get into the guitar techniques and how technically proficient the whole band is, other guys who might be interested in keyboards and that's your instrument, you can get into the The technical skill shown on the keyboards and the same with the drums.

I've mentioned how important the drums are to this particular performance, it's decisive, which is why by playing the drums you can gain such a deep level of appreciation and respect for what's happening. Here, this is a great example of when you bring together the best techniques from different genres, the kind of things that come to mind. If you discriminated against other genres, you would never get this because you would think, Oh, classical singing. I don't like that, I just like heavy metal, but let's get back to the performance, I'm just going to come in here, listen to the atmosphere, you can't really hear the atmosphere, but you appreciate what it feels like to have an orchestra playing. and I

love

that take on rock trumpets basically with a classical arrangement because of the different genres that come together here.

It's great to see that people here in the audience aren't booing because it's not heavy, they're just appreciating the mood. that's being created with the orchestral elements that we have here just rewinding because the other thing about the guitar solo when I first heard this song I was praying that the

guitarist

wouldn't destroy the guitar solo because it's the last thing that would have fit because of the mood and where the writing was at that time, so the fact that we get a really melodic solo that doesn't have anything fast just shows how much depth we have in the writing here. and the appreciation of the overall melody of the track because empu when he plays this guitar solo again so controlled that he will play exactly the same way night after night with the same expression that is so important for this track that I just played.

Continue towards the end of the presentation just so we can get an idea of ​​when they come back out, but let's look at the last part of this presentation and there we have a classic example, right at the end, of the head transition. voice to chest voice the way the floor sings in that head voice, but then starts singing it in the chest and keeps the chest voice until the end of the song to get that last note, which is much more because it's in chest voice, you get such a dramatic change from going into that light voice quality to singing it at the top of your chest range, you just can't get over it as a crescendo for the end of your song and this It's a fantastic performance throughout, thinking back to how this could have sounded live without the backing track, it's the perfect argument for combining technology with life and I know people will say: I just want to hear a band completely live without any backing track elements. but the only reason the band can achieve this live with this backing track is because of their instrumental skill and their overall ability as a band because they can't make a single mistake here for more than ten minutes, they have to get it right every time. . and every performance that you will see from this track they achieve it because of their professionalism and by having that skill, they can do it live, they don't have to rely on not being very good and therefore they need those elements of the backing track, it is that perfect combination of those two recorded elements and a perfect live performance and this is what you get, an absolutely epic live performance.

It must have been amazing to be there and hear this with all those elements just coming together and getting that live appreciation of that voice as well. per floor but anyway guys thank you so much for suggesting this video for me to watch and keep your suggestions in the comments below let me know what you think and if you enjoyed this video please like and subscribe. and I will see you in the next rock