Synchronicity 1983 00:00 Drums and Oberheim DMX 04:12 Bass 08:22 Guitars 12:34 Synths and Piano 16:45 Vocals 20:42 Thanks!!! Personnel Drums (Vintage Tama Imperialstar): Stewart Copeland Drum Machine (Oberheim DMX): Stewart Copeland Bass (Fender Jazz Bass and Steinberger Bass): Sting Guitars ("Fender 1961 Stratocaster Electric Guitar", "Fender 1963 Telecaster Custom" and "Gibson ES-335 with Bigsby Hollowbody"): Andy Summers Keyboard (Roland SH-2): Andy Summers Piano: Sting Lead Vocals: Sting Backing Vocals: Sting and Andy Summers _______________________________________________________________________ Patreon: www.patreon.com/dld2music Instagram: instagram.com/dld2.music/ www.paypal.com/paypalme/DLD2Music
@buschovski15 ай бұрын
that guitar is beautiful. Without it, itd still be a great song, but that guitar is the bomb
@_6079SMITH Жыл бұрын
Can you just imagine what the studio would have been like when Andy sat down and played this riff ???
@featherinthewind333 Жыл бұрын
Feeling like watching a spaceship land. Incredible riff, should of got a credit, the tension and appeal of the songs. would not have been the same without that guitar voicing arpeggio, it made the song
@jaggass8 ай бұрын
Andy is considering legal action against Sting.
@Antonivs2 ай бұрын
@@jaggass nope, it was a joke from Andy
@ekathe858 күн бұрын
I can picture Sting and Stewart at each other's throats next door
@joeyyc85152 жыл бұрын
Andy is a total genius. Those notes he’s playing sound like they’re from the heavens.
@a-1151 Жыл бұрын
He did didn’t he?
@griffinnovie4921 Жыл бұрын
I love how guitar part sounds so simple but it's actually quite difficult to play!
@DLD2Music Жыл бұрын
Sounds easy but when you play it you get arthritis
@brendanbrown3100 Жыл бұрын
It’s a good stretch - especially the minor chord!
@jonesrbd17 ай бұрын
It's actually WAY easier to play if you don't bar the whole fret with the length of your pointer. Instead, move your pointer back and forth from the E and G strings as each note comes, while keeping your middle finger on the A string and the pinky on the D string. I believe this is how Andy does it.
@thomasnelson5758 Жыл бұрын
Andy should have gotten a writing credit for that brilliant riff (that HE wrote and arranged, make no mistake. Sting did NOT write the riff as most would assume). Stewart has voiced the same. That riff makes the song
@enricobarchi8892 Жыл бұрын
Probably because the riff of "Every Breath" uses the same ninth chord from “Message in a Bottle" (by Sting) as a basis and therefore it was considered as already part of the Police heritage. 🎸
@robbiefellows220011 ай бұрын
Sting did financially “reward” Andy eventually, once it was obvious that Andy’s part was significant to the song.
@VeeeeryyyFaaaastSlooooth7 ай бұрын
Absolutely, when Sting brought the song to the band it was only him singing over chords on a Hammond organ, no appregios or anything.
@speabody4 ай бұрын
@@robbiefellows2200 How so? Why is reward in quotation marks?
@robbiefellows22004 ай бұрын
@@speabodyit was settled out of court I believe, Andy got a one off payment from Sting
@xTheFly4 ай бұрын
I remember hearing this in the back of a friend's car on the radio when it was first released. I was 13, this song engraved itself into my mind. After it ended I was amazed by what I had just heard. What an incredible masterpiece.
@theclash181 Жыл бұрын
THAT PIANO SOUND
@mr.ottoman13713 ай бұрын
I never picked it up in the original song
@ggghhhbbnjjjbb23303 ай бұрын
Ha - Andy killing it on the keyboards.
@Captain2Pig3 ай бұрын
the synth string arrangements and sound is the bogs dollocks
@whatspadethinks3 жыл бұрын
Sting's vocal timbre is so good here; Producer Hugh Padgham compressed the hell out of it which gives it that mouth next to your ear quality. Sting is like most songwriters with big catalogs where he almost downplays "Every Breath You Take" as "just" a pop song, but this song is like the textbook hit song: brilliant melody, simple & complex simultaneously, strong verse, chorus & middle eight and a lyric that says something. A great work of art.
@wayneparilla31925 ай бұрын
the song brought back to life when sting asked Andy to do something about this song he wrote and make it as if it was his song coz this song was already in the trash bin!!!! Sting intended was a guitarless one and some weird stuff far from the atmosphere of Andy's guitar. When Andy showed his guitar version in his guitar they knew it will be a big hit.
@csaunders5163 жыл бұрын
13:59-14:18 this is a stress relief worthy vibe right here🤧
@pinballdan Жыл бұрын
Love how the video highlights those "cords" on the piano when it was a synth that made the sound....
@cagethefoxtrick38523 жыл бұрын
The synth Pad is awesome
@nates.9744 Жыл бұрын
No one really talks about the synths here. And it’s a monophonic one at that! I can only imagine multiple overdubs were made to get that sound.
@frankjamesbonarrigo716211 ай бұрын
It’s the synths and piano that made this song. Never realized that it even had synths
@purehxzelnut36052 жыл бұрын
7:13 my fav part
@MalcaratMartinez3 жыл бұрын
The bass track is actually 2 bass tracks !! One playing stacatto 16th notes and another one playing a different pattern. At times I would even say it's 3 bass tracks.....love this isolated tracks !!
@radiozelaza2 жыл бұрын
the staccato 16th notes are played with a guitar. Sting very often doubled his bass tracks with his old Fender Strat for the "click". I also hear a double bass playing only the quarter and two eights per beat, with the drums
@thewomble15092 жыл бұрын
@@radiozelaza I think he's picking his Spector ns 2 with an overdub of his Van Zalinge upright "Brian".
@scottysloan172 жыл бұрын
It's obvious he added the staccato bass take after Andy laud down his iconic track. This bass track is fascinating as he fills out bottom notes so matter factly while simultaneously reinforcing and staying out of the way of Andy's guitar
@JamesMartinBass2 жыл бұрын
@@radiozelaza He might have done that on other tracks. But, on this one, it's clearly two basses. One has a steady 8th note pulse, played with a pick and a lot of palm muting. The other bass is much quieter and plays a different rhythm (mostly the 1, the and of the 2, and the 3). That sounds like his electric upright, played pizzicato. Sometimes, one line goes high while the other goes low or one has some rhythmic accents that the other lacks. But it's two basses, not a "tic tac" bass.
@radiozelaza2 жыл бұрын
@@JamesMartinBass I am sure I remember reading an interview in which he explained that he also overdubbed the electric bass part with his Fender Strat - as he always did in The Police.
@katiabueno90422 жыл бұрын
I love The Police! I grew up listening to them, they are amazing. The first lyric that I translated to my mother tongue was Every Breath You Take. These guys are fantastic. I love Sting, Stewart and Andy!
@attilabori4734 Жыл бұрын
This has happened to me too but, I wrote what I thought and felt without knowing anything in English. I wrote it to my girlfriend in a love letter around 1989 at the age of 18. In 2023 she is still my loving wife for 29 years now... ❤️
@789Moonlight3 жыл бұрын
14:18 my favorite
@riquelmedesousa584811 ай бұрын
Andy should receive more credit and have credit in this song,just sting has the name on it.Andy made this icone riff and saved this song,and also playing the keyboard.Andy its just amazing really should have more credit
@krisscanlon40517 ай бұрын
That Andy synth underpins it all then that heavenly swell
@jacquescousteau2173 жыл бұрын
Sting is playing with a pick. Similar to McCartney’s tone, albeit a Fender jazz bass. Which Paul used on much of the White Album.
@radiozelaza2 жыл бұрын
Sting also double tracked his bass parts with a Fender Strat for the additional "click"
@enricobarchi8892 Жыл бұрын
If you listen well the bass used here is a semi-acoustic fretless bass called by him Brian (same bass used in the Don’t Stand video). So no pick but it’s played with fingers!! 😮
@jacquescousteau217 Жыл бұрын
@@enricobarchi8892the Fender P bass - not Jazz I suspect - is definitely played with a pick …
@spidigong29072 жыл бұрын
Im so glad this song exist❤️
@YusefIsAGod3 жыл бұрын
Great choice. The rhythm section of The Police is often overlooked, they're amazing musicians.
@radiozelaza2 жыл бұрын
nobody overlooks Stewart Copeland
@andresolano58882 жыл бұрын
Thats not true for this band
@mick5137 Жыл бұрын
When you see the mindless and monotonous "underrated" comment getting shot down often, you start looking for a synonym .
@juliosanchez95 Жыл бұрын
overlooked???? Not at all. Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers are always regarded as great and essential.
@mrbungle7586 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, you sure got that wrong. 👍
@buschovski15 ай бұрын
these isolated tracks vids are an absolute treat. Thank you
@rustedhero88817 күн бұрын
I never knew there were toms in the drums track, 2 bass tracks, guitar overdubs at the end, synths during the whole song and backing vocals from Andy.
@dsassanio4352 Жыл бұрын
14:18 marx is by far beautiful to my ears, God I can listen to that forever!!
@peterauricchio88712 ай бұрын
100%!
@KM-zr1eq3 жыл бұрын
Thank you! I am awaiting for Message In A Bottle and Don’t Stand So Close To Me!
@MinnoqWV8 ай бұрын
You can hear a lot of the menace of the song in Sting's bass
@Kevinb18213 жыл бұрын
Copelands drums where programmed in this song. However they did that in the early 80s. Sting hated Copelands drums so much in this song that he made the producer delete it. Copeland and sting wouldn’t even be in the studio at the same time during synchronicity because they hated each other so much at the time
@bcoady100 Жыл бұрын
No what sting deleted was a high hat add on that Stewart added when sting was out of the studio. Otherwise the drum track was laid by Stewart
@3hooks7814 ай бұрын
@@bcoady100 Exactly. Also, Stewart played to a programmed kick and he recorded the snare live. He explains it in his very recent interview on the RIck Beato channel.
@TheSlowBallBoy3 ай бұрын
the syncopation at 14:52 genius level
@MrLonewolf51505 ай бұрын
I can see why Stranger Things used this song to the end of Season 2. For the synth/keyboard.
@tloadin13 жыл бұрын
Generous as always for doing this. Thank you DLD2!
@LightningJackFlash Жыл бұрын
11:24 I'm mesmerized............
@emanuelsanchez98493 жыл бұрын
More the police , please 😍💖
@trapitosensual81613 жыл бұрын
just what i was looking for a few days ago
@quogir12 ай бұрын
Stewart Copelands best song😊 really
@muurda10 күн бұрын
im crying dude
@platonecoplus40263 жыл бұрын
Amazing work men !
@jsomething25592 жыл бұрын
AHH MAN! Andy's false harmonic note just after @10:07 = **chef's kiss**
@Ozybiusz8 ай бұрын
It's just a masterpiece ...
@ekathe858 күн бұрын
That section at 13:58 could easily replace Vangelis' track on Blade Runner's 'Tears in rain' scene.
@speabody4 ай бұрын
7:09 ah that bend....
@ybodzardo2 жыл бұрын
That feeling when you are a guitarist and I will create a riff from which it will draw other generations because they played like children in a room.
@danfuerthgillis44832 жыл бұрын
Without the $200,000 mixer, another $250,000 in outboard gear, then send off to mastering studios these tracks are great but they sound like they were recorded in a garage. It is the hardware that made it sound great, these stems clearly prove anyone decent with good music skills will sound great if enough money is tossed at them. If you record these tracks at home in 2021 you will get the same sound as they do here, only problem is the hardware after to mix them in order to get the "Studio" sound.
@gang600911 ай бұрын
I need every piece of this song im so sad i need to wallow in it
@victoriabrrs Жыл бұрын
Ninguém toca igual o Andy ❤❤❤
@mortenkirkensgaard30702 жыл бұрын
Fantastic. So many things I did not know. Thanks
@jimw665917 күн бұрын
I never realised it was a drum machine bass drum.
@_6079SMITHАй бұрын
Man, listening to Sting's vocals they are just as good in comparison to the guitar part.
@miroslavbondarev26045 ай бұрын
8:42 best part in guitar
@marcoantonioorozco11373 жыл бұрын
FINE
@EmiPianoMX Жыл бұрын
Very synthy drums, who would know it.
@pearsonk19312 жыл бұрын
thanks
@Tolbens3 жыл бұрын
Jazz bass sound comes from a skillet... I still wonder why this bass became so famous. Keyboard reminds me the mini casio and Stewart plays almost nothing regarding his ability on drums. After all, this song made a great success!!!
@krisscanlon40513 жыл бұрын
Yep Stew in backbeat mode.
@MalcaratMartinez3 жыл бұрын
What you hear is a real snare and an Oberheim DMX bass drum. Apparently he wasn't too happy about it 😃
@mariagraziac.87932 жыл бұрын
Love This pic
@danepetersenvoice21 күн бұрын
I don't think backing vocals are anyone else but Sting
@samd66443 ай бұрын
Love to hear stings piano only filler version if it exists
@lardtarts3 жыл бұрын
Stalker Anthem
@jamesheath76013 жыл бұрын
I ❤️ The Police
@mugrex8 ай бұрын
Are you sure the bass track isn't bass guitar + double bass? it sounds uprighty to me. Thx for finding this!
@mugrex7 ай бұрын
exactly what it sounds to me like. Muted picked bass guitar + upright on longer notes.
@MariaChavez-kl7rk4 ай бұрын
@@mugrex Did you just replied to your own comment?
@mugrex4 ай бұрын
@@MariaChavez-kl7rkit does look like that LOL in my defence I might have been commenting late at night, so my brain wasnt functioning too well :D
@nome512329 күн бұрын
@@MariaChavez-kl7rklol
@matttaylor4618 Жыл бұрын
Astonished to hear how dry the vocal actually is
@moistgrass792 жыл бұрын
13:23
@osbezouros13 жыл бұрын
Good
@existentialhumanbeing7299 Жыл бұрын
One question, where do you get these studio tracks?
@Matthew_Eitzman3 ай бұрын
4:11 bass
@conorsmith85513 жыл бұрын
Sting looks like Kurt Cobain at 13:45
@GreatWaster Жыл бұрын
Yeah, same as one of Kurt's iconic haircuts
@alanidron2133 Жыл бұрын
Hey..thanks for the content. I don't doubt that the Keyboard (you mean Pad right? ) is Andy since you wrote it, but I'm surprised that in that era that Sting let him play on the song that much from how I hear they got on at that point. When you get the tracks, how do you know who played what? is it engineers on the session that labeled them?
@johnconk2 жыл бұрын
I don’t hear Andy singing. I hear Sting singing all the parts..
@MsAussie83 Жыл бұрын
I don't either. I just hear Sting's voice.
@amplifier2 Жыл бұрын
@@MsAussie83At the very end together with sting.
@MsAussie83 Жыл бұрын
@@amplifier2 That's strange, because all I hear is Sting singing harmony with himself.
@kevinrazban89067 ай бұрын
Andy Summers says watch the press in 2024 for news of some legal issues regarding songwriting credits for this song.
@thebookofeli849 Жыл бұрын
13:57 for me 14:19 for me
@tone993021 күн бұрын
Some phasing but thats inevitable with doubling /overdubbing. IntereSting in every aspect.
@javiceres2 жыл бұрын
👌🏼
@scottbiggs88945 ай бұрын
Does anyone else hear a high-pitched sound in the background to Andy's part? Say around 9:12? It almost sounds like something on the tape wasn't completely erased before recording his track.
@javiceres2 жыл бұрын
Sounds like the bass was actually 2 tracks
@DLD2Music2 жыл бұрын
yes
@a-11512 жыл бұрын
It’s literally listed in the comments
@juliosanchez958 ай бұрын
never realized the basic beat is just a computerized drum beat rather than actual playing
@elirosen13913 жыл бұрын
I don't know how anybody could consider this romantic. The line "I'll be watching you" at the end of every phrase is a giveaway of the singer's ill-intent. Anyway, I used to do this song with my old music program, the Rock Garden. I used to hate doing it because of how much I had to stretch my ring finger.
@DLD2Music3 жыл бұрын
the toxic boy's song haha, the guitar of this song is very complex (Rip Fingers)
@miroslavbondarev26045 ай бұрын
you can make an introumental without drums and vocals?
@jeremyjeanguenin1622 жыл бұрын
I can only hear Sting's backing vocals.
@DLD2Music2 жыл бұрын
Andy is there too
@HarryJoiner10 ай бұрын
18:15 - 18:23 incredible lung capacity
@elirosen13913 жыл бұрын
Is it Andy and Sting singing together at the end?
@DLD2Music3 жыл бұрын
yes
@elirosen13913 жыл бұрын
@@DLD2Music Sting lower, Andy higher?
@DLD2Music3 жыл бұрын
Yes, i think
@kjohnstin2 жыл бұрын
Noooooo Sting overdubbed his vocals. There’s no way he would let Andy sing in this song. Andy wasn’t a good singer.
@figidor977110 ай бұрын
Bass is very important in this song 😂
@aebhosor48352 жыл бұрын
I don't remember there being a Synth at the start... 🤔
@MongerOfStrings82222 жыл бұрын
It's buried in the along with the bass so that's probably why
@thewomble15092 жыл бұрын
When Sting brought his demo to the studio it had no guitar on it , just a very distinct, huge sounding synth riff.
@robertreuss96532 жыл бұрын
Distorted guitar 11:32 - 12:31. Anybody know what notes are being played?
@goodjohnnyclub2 жыл бұрын
Sounds like Asus2 man
@jasonsumner8482 Жыл бұрын
Are these the only Synchronicity demos or are there any others out there that have yet to be released?
@LazerBrendan Жыл бұрын
this is great, thank you! hey how can I get in touch with you? cheers man
@DLD2Music Жыл бұрын
By mail?
@LazerBrendan Жыл бұрын
@@DLD2Music what’s a good email address for you?
@DLD2Music Жыл бұрын
@@LazerBrendan Valentinosa2310@gmail.com
@paolo-1283 Жыл бұрын
Does anybody know what's the delay setting on the guitar?
@GarethThomasTunes10 ай бұрын
Wow. No groove at all coming from the rhythm section. I see why the band was falling apart. One of the world’s best drummers being reduced to a metronome - There would’ve been tension in the studio! It’s worth it though. This song is all about the vocal and guitar melody. So different from their early recordings..!
@pinball-wizard3 жыл бұрын
You need to deconstruct a Hendrix song
@DLD2Music3 жыл бұрын
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@pinball-wizard3 жыл бұрын
@@DLD2Music yeeeeaaaaaahhhhhhh
@pedrocarrizo57422 жыл бұрын
Chorus effects has the guitar?
@JamesMartinBass2 жыл бұрын
Yes, and a shit-ton of compression. This was the 80s. Maybe a tiny bit of delay as well, to thicken it up. And there's actually several guitars on it. Lots of doubled bits.
@urkelofficial2 жыл бұрын
In which part of the song does Andy play each of those guitars?
@MongerOfStrings82222 жыл бұрын
He plays the Telecaster for most of the song and then the distorted one at the end is the Gibson presumably
@urkelofficial2 жыл бұрын
@@MongerOfStrings8222 maybe. Thanks!
@MongerOfStrings82222 жыл бұрын
@@urkelofficial Also there is a little harmonic at around 10:07
@urkelofficial2 жыл бұрын
@@MongerOfStrings8222 yessss
@Captain2Pig3 ай бұрын
that snare sounds deliberately lazy on most beats
@airattoz3 ай бұрын
Is it only me that always thought that drums are intentionally limping
@Alex-yp5oo3 жыл бұрын
Can you please hurry up and Do Derek And The Dominos Layla/???
@thisisobviouslynotmyrealname10 ай бұрын
for any hardcore Police fan, Every Breath you Take sucks