Why is Spaghetti Western Music So Cool?

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Note from Joe: "Sorry Friends - In the video I say that Spaghetti Westerns had their origins in Northern Spain - I did mean Southern Italy and Spain. Sorry for the slip!"
Spaghetti Western music (such as Ennio Morricone's scores in Sergio Leone's trilogy of film classics: 'A Fistful of Dollars', 'For a Few Dollars More,' 'The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly') has an effortlessly cool and gritty feel. But what is it about these scores that made them so evocative? Joe investigates the song structures and helps us understand what makes them so good (but never bad or ugly.)

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@kurtdewittphoto 4 жыл бұрын

I love that those low budget spaghetti westerns ended up being more memorable over time than the traditional westerns of that time.

@MegaSuperCritic 4 жыл бұрын

Kurt D. They were certainly a lot more intense! Those long holding shots, like the finale of The Good... Ugly.

@lukecarroll4052 4 жыл бұрын

Well tbh the spaghetti Western movies were still huge despite the low budget

@theshadowlands14 4 жыл бұрын

Theyve certainly aged better since many techniques are still used today, and no pun intended, these films pioneered and created revolutionary techniques due to their low budget

@FedericoLucchi 4 жыл бұрын

Hollywood Westerns, no matter how expensive, were way too shallow and emotionless.

@Bass.sick.b1tch 4 жыл бұрын

It helps that they are objectively better made stories

@ekirasche6284 6 жыл бұрын

Ennio Morricone is the reason why it sounds so great, the guy is a musical genius.

@sgtpepper1138 5 жыл бұрын

No doubt.

@olpossum5186 5 жыл бұрын

his score for the movie "the mission" is fantastic....the tune 'gabriel's oboe' from it is haunting

@logofilm8644 5 жыл бұрын

Better than TB.

@owenthunderguns3608 5 жыл бұрын

He's top 3-5 ALL TIME movie score composers. Under rated: 'ORCA'

@AriKona 5 жыл бұрын

Ennio - absolutely! Also love the work of Sante Maria Romitelli.

@MrIceman001 5 жыл бұрын

Just because Ennio Morricone.

@THERAWCHIEF 3 жыл бұрын

❤️ RIP

@fbi4189 3 жыл бұрын

Yup! R.I.P. to the legend!

@robertturtle 3 жыл бұрын

Yes!

@stefanom5756 3 жыл бұрын

Right

@Justin-yc1ig 4 жыл бұрын

Surf music with long pauses in between riffs. Soul surf music.

@itsss_gage4306 4 жыл бұрын

exactly what i was thinking.

@DanThomasUK 4 жыл бұрын

@Stephen j so did Surf - but they were the first to put words to it

@loveseat-honey 4 ай бұрын

And punk is fast surf that swaps reverb for drive

@andylatham4277 6 жыл бұрын

I think the sense of isolation in these films is underscored well by the simplicity in the instrumentation. One guitar surrounded by reverb / one small town surrounded by nothing.

@Code9 6 жыл бұрын

Indeed. Well said.

@chrishall2594 6 жыл бұрын

Better than this whole video. He's just talking and making noise he doesn't really get it.

@_metal_militia773 6 жыл бұрын

and one man ,with no name, to save them. :)

@remotegod255 6 жыл бұрын

well put. our brains and psyches make these connections below the surface, and the most powerful art is *felt* subconsciously, even when it can be "explained" logically.

@kennethcarvalho3684 6 жыл бұрын

Wow...well captured in words.

@rogerjuniorchabot 5 жыл бұрын

"They are not spaghetti westerns! You don't eat them! They are Sergio Leone westerns." - Ennio Morricone

@devindraco3594 5 жыл бұрын

I will no longer call them spaghetti westerns

@Professicchio 4 жыл бұрын

Probably "Morricone Westerns" is more appropriate, Leone only directed 5 westerns, Morricone scored over 30, though there's more than 500 made just between 1964 and the mid 1970s.

@williamsherman1089 4 жыл бұрын

.......uh dude, I hate to burst your bubble, .........but!

@UberLummox 4 жыл бұрын

@@williamsherman1089 Who you callin' "bubble but"?

@robcochran6213 4 жыл бұрын

I eat them while I drink your milkshake

@ClashClash89 4 жыл бұрын

This question can be solved in 2 words. Ennio Morricone. That guy is a fuggin genius. 'Nuff said

@NULL-ug7ve 4 жыл бұрын

You can swear on the internet.

@AusyG 4 жыл бұрын

Agreed!!

@TimTringleJr 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, Morricone is indeed the master of this sound. Plus the Thing soundtrack is so good Tarantino used a track from it in the hateful eight.

@blakedavis2447 4 жыл бұрын

Doesn’t explain WHY though

@Jim_Thomas_Draper 4 жыл бұрын

RIP

@1x93cm 4 жыл бұрын

Ennio Morricone single handledly created the genre of the Spaghetti western sound. Tarantino uses it, its been used in mostly every big western since

@ivanbajovic3476 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, but influenced by Mexican music

@indomiepanggang4258 4 жыл бұрын

@@jasonteqja7262 explain how he sucks?

@shadowcat0201 4 жыл бұрын

@@indomiepanggang4258 He sucks with his outrageous effects. That's why Sergio Leone's westerns are good. Low budget, but more quality.

@alien_666 4 жыл бұрын

White Tiger if you're watching a Tarantino western expecting a Leone western you're doing it wrong

@OriginalKingRichTv 3 жыл бұрын

@@ivanbajovic3476 actually not really. It's from Italian music combined with surf and with a blues attitude.

@AlexBallMusic 6 жыл бұрын

I guess most of these great spaghetti western musicians have since pasta way.

@wolleyreikivalley 6 жыл бұрын

a fistful of pennes

@AlexBallMusic 6 жыл бұрын

Holmes, Spencer Jacob Genius

@AlexBallMusic 6 жыл бұрын

The good, the bad and the bigoli.

@Kylora2112 6 жыл бұрын

You never sausage a tragedy as that.

@Kaylee1138 6 жыл бұрын

BOOOOO :p

@akechijubeimitsuhide 4 жыл бұрын

Morricone is the real successor of the great Italian composers. He isn't afraid of melody and unusual intruments/noises.

@mint-flavouredsand8943 4 жыл бұрын

or scary rhythms. The sheet music for some of the trumpet lines in the Dollars Trilogy is downright brutal. semiquaver triplets starting on offbeats? yep. semiquaver septuplets? yep

@pheunithpsychic-watertype9881 4 жыл бұрын

Even when hes purposely playing out of key i.e. some of the harmonica parts in once upon a time in the west he just makes it work. Heck even when hes not using instruments he can make an establishing sound, like the use of the natural acoustics in the opening of once upon a time in the west

@elansleazebaganno 3 жыл бұрын

@@mint-flavouredsand8943 What does quaver mean? That's English terms for 8th notes right? That doesn't sound scary at all

@williamsamuel7085 7 ай бұрын

Because Ennio Morricone. End of the video

@RodrigoDigoJunho 2 жыл бұрын

Ennio Morricone is Innovative for his Time, totally different from the Old West Songs of the 50s: he mixed touches of Rock, Jazz, Mexican Music, Classical Music and additional sounds with Exotic Instruments and Specific Objects, in addition to the already Traditional and Striking Whistles. This man created a New Musical Genre that was later vastly imitated and influenced dozens of Composers in the Future. King of Western Music.

@fender 6 жыл бұрын

Awesome work as always Joe! Loved this one.

@Reverb 6 жыл бұрын

The best thing about this video is that we got to listen to Joe rock out some Morricone, AND we decided what we wanted to eat for dinner tonight. #readyforspaghetti

@fender 6 жыл бұрын

Save us some!

@joegeorge1002 6 жыл бұрын

Thank ya! This was tons of fun, and my goodness...that Coronado!

@chicktapus463 6 жыл бұрын

bring back antigua!

@glimmertwin1977 6 жыл бұрын

Is that tone really just Coronado into the Magnatone? Surely there is some pedal or EQ in the chain to get that sound.

@RCAvhstape 6 жыл бұрын

Ennio Morricone is awesome! It's ironic that the music which best invokes the atmosphere of the Old West relies on a instrument, the electric guitar, which hadn't been invented yet.

@greatfelixo 6 жыл бұрын

I know I find it strange how spaghetti western music even happened. Normally the style of music is very obvious for the style of film, usually related to the time period. But spaghetti western music is completely made up but somehow just fits so perfectly, it is a genre within itself that had nothing to do with the wild west or civil war america but fits the film better than any other kind of film music.

@JoeMode213 6 жыл бұрын

I think you could probably thank hank Marvin of the shadows for that.

@jonrossi5110 6 жыл бұрын

Always thought this

@parttroll1 6 жыл бұрын

I love the Spaghetti Westerns the raw & visceral feeling. I always found the American big budget ones just don't do it for me

@legostudios6017 6 жыл бұрын

Well if you want to know the truth, most western, spaghetti or Hollywood, extend the truth about the west too far. The west wasn’t nearly as violent and a threatening place to live. So really, the film and it’s music are both pretty fake. It’s still one of my favorite genres, I just like to think of it as not occurring in any real historical time periods

@MacDaddyTito 5 жыл бұрын

My dad is a classic western nut so I grew up watching these films. I ended up becoming an orchestra violist and have always recalled this style of music that initially inspired an interest in music. Thank you for digging deep here. You really struck a nostalgic vein with me and learning about this was deeply meaningful. Again, thank you.

@navajodoll6320 4 жыл бұрын

I’m from Arizona ! Imma play some of this type of music on a long drive to feel like I’m in a old western😂😂

@heartbreakkid5757 4 жыл бұрын

Me to im a 22 yo southeast asian boy love this drenched reverb surf spagethi music , check out "Dirty Diary" on youtube he play lot of badass spagethi western guitarslinger

@ernststavroblofeld2109 4 жыл бұрын

It’s awesome driving through New Mexico with Ennio Morricone on the radio 📻

@davidparker1342 4 жыл бұрын

I am also in Arizona and play at Old Tucson studios. I would play spaghetti westerns in sound check or after a break. It would reach the audience more than a 2-step or waltz. People at those shows were from all over the world and want that western experience. I loved playing out there pay was great and the BBQ too!

@paulpugh5315 4 жыл бұрын

I,m not from Arizona....but just had a plate of paste (with orange pumpkin pesto) made from durum wheat which is the same wheat used to make spaghetti.....enjoy.

@eatmusic16 2 жыл бұрын

Check out the band Lord Huron. All their albums are great for that purpose

@Bill_Woo 6 жыл бұрын

Morricone is just a god. He's *still alive* and makes appearances. He even scored Tarantino's Hateful Eight in 2015.

@gabrielepaglia721 6 жыл бұрын

Bill Woo he is my friend's grandpa

@parttroll1 6 жыл бұрын

He also penned the score to John Carpenter's The Thing another cult classic

@Bm23CC 6 жыл бұрын

I had an interview for music college and they asked me what my favorite composer was and I said ennio Morricone and they were bowled over by that.

@RetroDrew 5 жыл бұрын

@@parttroll1 and unused parts of Tue Thing score show up in the Hateful Eight

@parttroll1 5 жыл бұрын

@@RetroDrew never knew that!

@PedalboardoftheDay 6 жыл бұрын

I was distracted the whole time by how beautiful that guitar is

@theHumanBryno 6 жыл бұрын

I'm not familiar with that model, but I love the look of it.

@BarnacleButtock 6 жыл бұрын

bryan macneil fender Coronado semi-hollow, Antigua burst

@theHumanBryno 6 жыл бұрын

Cool, thanks

@jacobbarber3131 6 жыл бұрын

Antigua finish is gross i will accept nothing other than your complete agreement

@generalkenobi6869 6 жыл бұрын

Jacob Barber Fr I can’t stand it. Looks like a dirty camode

@dontshredonme 4 жыл бұрын

"Ghost Riders in the Sky" (written 1948 and covered by artists including Johnny Cash) is the source of all Spaghetti Western music. Same galloping beat, same chord changes as "For a Few Dollars More".

@sgd5k292 4 жыл бұрын

I was just ready to write the same thing. I play at guitar, and Ghost Riders in the Sky is one of my favorites songs to play.

@abrahemsamander3967 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve always loved spaghetti western music, as well as ghost riders in the sky. I never noticed the similarities with the galloping beat, but I always felt the same spirit from both, so maybe I noticed subconsciously. I’d love to learn guitar, just to learn ghost riders and morricone pieces.

@rustyrussell818 Ай бұрын

@@sgd5k292 It was the first song I think I wanted to learn....To this day, if you sit in a guitar store and play it......heads turn to see you play it...... more than the riffs of the pop songs today.

@sgd5k292 Ай бұрын

@@rustyrussell818 Yeah, it is very addictive....once I start playing it, I have a hard time stopping...there are so many ways to make it sound different and so cool!

@MrBobberino01 4 жыл бұрын

Keep in mind the influence of Spanish/Mexican music. I hear a lot of Mariachi riffs in those licks.

@carlosmante 4 жыл бұрын

Yes. They are playing the brass section of the mariachi.

@martijnbodde2481 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah combine that with Surf guitar and you've got Spaghetti Western :)

@joaoferreira7091 4 жыл бұрын

The music that plays in the Final Duel of A Fistful Of Dollars is a good example.

@coronelsakura2841 4 жыл бұрын

Yes and trumpets

@chutneyferret3569 4 жыл бұрын

Can you recommend any specific tunes to research so I can see what you’re referring too? :)

@whitemothvisual2030 6 жыл бұрын

Do one on 70's porno grooves. Please.

@buddyollie7400 6 жыл бұрын

White Moth Visual yesss!!

@IAmKillEveryone 6 жыл бұрын

THIS

@soyroos626 6 жыл бұрын

Good idea!! Lol

@MEGAMIGA 6 жыл бұрын

Oh yes!

@jonesyfromtheblock9635 6 жыл бұрын

This!

@tomseiple3280 6 жыл бұрын

The surf rock explanation is arguably the best part here! Amazing how two incredibly iconic styles of music share such similuar roots... all delineated by the swing and beat.

@old_romans 6 жыл бұрын

if he didn't mentioned surf music I would have shit all over the comments section.

@chikolocallo 6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I was anxiously awaiting the mention of the surf music and its relationship to the genre. He nailed it.

@SavageGreywolf 6 жыл бұрын

The really funny connection is that when Tarantino started making movies which drew in parts upon the spaghetti western, he chose Miserlou, a famous surf hit, to be in Pulp Fiction because it reminded him of the music of spaghetti westerns... when really the music of Morricone was inspired by music like Dick Dale's.

@theFORZA66 4 жыл бұрын

As someone who doesnt know much about music this is what i got from this : gotta have that gallopin twang

@renzoqu 4 жыл бұрын

Big big big hug to Ennio, wherever he is ❤️

@PCMESS 6 жыл бұрын

These videos are what KZfaq is really for. Learning about what you love.

@uhhhhyourmom 6 жыл бұрын

It’s a video game not a movie, but Red Dead Redemption has one of the greatest western soundtracks of all time in my opinion

@newmoonsamesun 5 жыл бұрын

Trav in the Box agreed man. Classic

@neoasura 5 жыл бұрын

You should really check out the Wild Arms games series soundtracks then, those are almost identical to Spaghetti Westerns.

@protojager 5 жыл бұрын

That's because it uses Far Away by Jose Gonzales.

@bbb462cid 5 жыл бұрын

Clint Bajakian's interpretation of Leone's style in the old game 'Outlaws'

@PACKERMAN2077 5 жыл бұрын

Not to detract how amazing it could be but it might always be derivative of the classics that predated it.

@wozniakowski1217 4 жыл бұрын

I would love to see a discussion about the influence of the mission impossible theme in pop-culture's idea of spy movies. Since they used 5/4 as opposed to any common sense in filmmaking, that rhythm turned out to be incredibly memorable. Because mainstream music never reaches beyond common time or 3/4, just the time signature alone quickly became a staple of that spy vibe in pop culture, even though it's explicitly used in jazz.

@leventeszabo3091 5 жыл бұрын

Dear Reverb Site, I loved this discussion. What About the spy music like the James Bond or the typical italian ones? The guitar sound is similar.

@painiscupcake5433 4 жыл бұрын

Both are Fenders. Probably Stratocaster on James Bond (but could be Tele) and probably Jazzmaster on Good/Bad/Ugly theme. Very modern sounds at the time, and probably more influenced by The Shadows, since surf music didn't really catch on outside California to begin with

@stick-itproductions.3307 4 жыл бұрын

Maybe that speaks to westerns being inspirations behind spy films, how they're cowboys/gunfighters in their own way.

@painiscupcake5433 4 жыл бұрын

@Toby Johnson Cool, didn't know. The lack of vibrato arm-sounds should probably have rung a bell

@wozniakowski1217 4 жыл бұрын

@1968ANTman 3 жыл бұрын

@@painiscupcake5433 Vic Flick played a Clifford Essex Paragon Deluxe acoustic guitar with a DeArmond Pickup going through a Vox AC15 amplifier on the James Bond theme.

@stephenhawkingsfootballboo7885 6 жыл бұрын

Fantastic video! I can remember as a kid watching 'The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly' on some UHF station back in the 70s and hearing that music for the first time. Between the reverb-drenched guitar, the sound affects, the whistling, and the weird chanting ("Hep! Ho!"), it blew my mind!

@jmalmsten 5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I had a similar experience. I had heard for years about what cool westerns could be. But all I saw was dreary stale american westerns. Then... Suddenly... On TV they showed Good Bad Ugly... And my jaw was firmly on the ground for the close to full 3 hr runtime... THAT was how westerns should look, sound and feel like... Of course, I later read up on how Leone modeled his westerns to both commemt on the westerns he had seen and also to incorporate the european mythology that had grown up around the wild west and even his own extensive research he did on the subject. Whenever he wasquestioned about where he got a certain idea he usually could throw in a movie reference or piece of historical research...

@petercarlson811 5 жыл бұрын

Oh that whistle theme. I saw the movie in a real movie theater in the late 70's, the way movies should be watched, and it was amaaaazing.

@rudyschwab7709 4 жыл бұрын

I thought it was all the hallucinogenic drugs they did back then. A lot of movies made back in the late 60s and early 70s had a really weird vibe to them.

@pedterson 6 жыл бұрын

De Rosa: _The melody whistled by Alessandroni is being repeated by the electric guitar of D'Amario: another very characteristic timbre, which some people associated with the sound of The Shadows._ Morricone: I haven't heard of that band back then. I started to utilize the electric guitar in my arrangements and then in a documentary film by Paolo Cavara: I Malamondo ('64) ... When A Fistful of Dollars came out, many people declared it an invention, but the truth is, that I had employed the electric guitar already for years, but not as a solo instrument. Its tough and cutting timbre seemed perfect for the atmosphere of the film. Makeshift translation from Morricone's autobiography "Inseguendo quel suono". Highly recommended, if you're into his music.

@AndreaAustoni 6 жыл бұрын

Amazing composer but he always comes across as insufferably arrogant. Never meet your heroes...

@despicabledog 6 жыл бұрын

he deserves to be arrogant if he wants to

@jmalmsten 5 жыл бұрын

When you say "makeshift translation"... Does that mean the book is not available in english? :(

@Engel1916 5 жыл бұрын

jmalmsten the official English translation of the book will be available in May next year. Source: Amazon.

@Dsalazar917K 4 жыл бұрын

RIP to the great, Ennio Morricone.

@Vidar.m 4 жыл бұрын

Its cool becaus thought went into it. Made by geniouses just like the films.

@Edward_Black_Rose 6 жыл бұрын

Spaghetti western music it's so cool, because Ennio Morricone is a genius :)

@ericblasse6335 6 жыл бұрын

It’s the ultimate outlaw music

@televinv8062 5 жыл бұрын

"... D Minor which I always found to be the saddest key, I don't know why but it just makes people weep, instantly...." N. Tufnel : )

@tree267 4 жыл бұрын

Lick My Love Pump

@greggeverman5578 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting.

@DoctorZisIN 4 жыл бұрын

1948's "Ghost Riders in The Sky", an American western country song was clearly the main influence of the Spaghetti western sound.

@NULL-ug7ve 4 жыл бұрын

Yippie yi ayyyyyye...

@MilkyKilky 4 жыл бұрын

Yippie yi oohhhh...

@Lord_of_the_Pies 6 жыл бұрын

I love that bright sound of the fender

@redjetfirebird 6 жыл бұрын

This is probably one of my favorite videos of this nature you've done. Don't get me wrong they're all really good but I have a special love for Surf and spaghetti western because when I was a kid my dad played a lot of it and I basically cut my teeth on it. Nothing sounds better than a twangy guitar through a clean Reverb drenched amp with a big slow Bigsby Bend.

@alphonsostudebeker 6 жыл бұрын

redjetfirebird щщщ

@raymaersdosch2753 5 жыл бұрын

Can you recommend some artists?

@TheNinetySecond 5 жыл бұрын

If you don't know them all ready, the Danish band 'The good The bad' makes really intense flamenco/spaghetti/noise/surf inspired rock with baritone guitars and what can only be described as a coke fueled rage. Not really very twangy, but cool none the less.

@irrefudiate 4 жыл бұрын

If Leone didn't have a music budget for the "dollar" series, he certainly did for "Once Upon a Time In the West". In that film, each character had his own theme. The music and cinematography was great, the story was great, the script could have used editing. To be fair, I think I have only seen butchered versions of the original.

@joaoferreira7091 4 жыл бұрын

The cast was somehow great too.

@irrefudiate 4 жыл бұрын

@@joaoferreira7091 - I knew what you were responding to before I even opened it. Crazy, huh? Yes, an amazing cast. Henry Fonda as the evil one, and he was damn good at it, set up the best "gun-fight" I've seen. And, within that gun-fight, Leone revealed 'the secret'. Wow!

@giulianoilfilosofo7927 3 жыл бұрын

I think you saw the US version whitout Director's cut MADE by Sergio Leone. I noticed the Italian and European versions of the movie are much Superior because they dont flow in chronological order but rather trough a series of flashbacks and time regressions. In the Us, it was decided to show the movie in chronological order, Which makes it pretty unwatchable to be honest. But maybe you saw the uncut version and you just found plotholes, mine is just an hypotesis.

@reidflemming8458 4 жыл бұрын

I’d just like to throw out a really cool western themed album - “Eyes Like The Sky” by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. Also, speaking of that band, Joe really looks like the lead drummer, Michael Cavanaugh. Check em out!

@froge721 4 жыл бұрын

great album

@SKATE87410 4 жыл бұрын

Forgot about it for a minute, thanks for reminding me!

@loganholt7180 4 жыл бұрын

I just listened to their album Nonagon Infinity and it blew my mind clean off. You have no idea how excited this comment just made me

@thomasramirez6956 4 жыл бұрын

Just discovered this album bc of you and love that it exists, thank you tons

@MattDearing 4 жыл бұрын

I've listened to King Gizz for almost a year but never knew about this album. Played it three times today, thanks!!

@tamidon40 6 жыл бұрын

Some indie filmmaker needs to hire Joe to score his or her film. He'd kill it.

@Thespeedrap 11 ай бұрын

That would be awesome to contact him for my biblical epics I want to make.

@godofgore6667 6 жыл бұрын

Hell yes, do more. Film noir if possible would even be cool. Great video!

@JQBMusicandTutorials 5 жыл бұрын

Apache by The Shadows caught my ear. Johnny Marr and later 90's acts have it too!

@johntatum1951 4 жыл бұрын

I agree with Eki...Ennio is such a great composer...you could go for a spaghetti western just to hear his score.

@ZepIV 6 жыл бұрын

Do spy movie music next!

@Frostbitex5 6 жыл бұрын

It seems like spaghetti western and spy movie music are both connected through a reverb filled surf rock approach, but spy movies tend to take it in a more big-band approach.

@MisterAppleEsq 5 жыл бұрын

i bVI II7

@1959Berre 6 жыл бұрын

Why? Because Morricone is a genius.

@ernststavroblofeld2109 4 жыл бұрын

The guitar in the actual film sounds like it’s coming through a little glass tube. That sound is golden.

@foolspeedahead 4 жыл бұрын

Never knew Chris D’Elia is so talented with a guitar!

@heyitsDevriss 6 жыл бұрын

Absolutely one of the coolest videos I've seen from reverb. I'll definitely be messing around with my vibrolux this weekend.

@antioche6276 6 жыл бұрын

I love this video on a physiological level. I bond with it. I grew up witg Spaghetti Westerns, and I grew up with music, to end up in rock. So this is like mixing some of the things I stand for, making them even more enjoyable.

@rickthomas393 4 жыл бұрын

Great job Joe. A fun mini education. Nice production with clips, imagery, dust, danger & sweat included.

@joegeorge1002 4 жыл бұрын

Thank ya! Subscribe to my channel for many more lessons and tutorials, and original music! Cheers

@joshuathered1100 5 жыл бұрын

I love that you love Spaghetti Westerns too. They are, by far, the coolest thing. They have inspired me to become a filmmaker. Thanks for sharing!

@RotoSphere 6 жыл бұрын

Yeeaaahhh! All we need now is a pedal whit whip, whistle and gunshot sounds.

@MrMorelloJr 6 жыл бұрын

Roto Sphere just get the drummer to do the real thing

@deezynar 5 жыл бұрын

Careful, someone will call the cops.

@sparkimedia 6 жыл бұрын

One of the very best Reverb.com vids!

@billcarson9402 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks and RIP Ennio Morricone real master of music composition, a composer able to touch the soul with his incomparable music gifted to the world .

@cameronschwalbach9716 4 жыл бұрын

I enjoy your focus on the feeling and emotion behind the music and the setting it provides.

@ValentinTeodorTamas 6 жыл бұрын

Morricone loved the fat, springy sound of the Stratocaster. I suspect he was heavily influenced by Italian folk, (Sardinian/mainland Italian) As well as American blues, Central/South American music, (Peruvian & Mexican specifically) He pulled from the same artistic culture as surf bands did. They all shared American and Spanish influences. Except Morricone took things way further, making it complex and atmospheric. If you want to talk about him, reply!

@eladbari 5 жыл бұрын

Italian folk? Any links?

@xbird532 5 жыл бұрын

Klaus Ebner The video has a Gretsch, but the original music I think is a strat

@heartofmama8430 4 жыл бұрын

@@eladbari Fabrizio De André - Zirichiltaggia... probably.

@eladbari 4 жыл бұрын

@@heartofmama8430 wow! that's like american country almost. Search "putumayo cajun" and you hear similar folk...only french! so italian, french, american folk...they're connected somehow..even though it first makes me feel like the origin is american.

@heartofmama8430 4 жыл бұрын

@@eladbari I'm listening to it now and I like it. If you liked Zirichiltaggia you should listen the entire albums by Fabrizio De André: Arrangiamenti PFM and Arrangiamenti PFM 2. Fabrizio De André was probably the most known italian songwriter (I know it because I'm italian too) and PFM is an italian progressive band and they made those live concerts together. By the way, the language used in Zirichittalgia wasn't italian, but gallurese: a sardinian dialect. P.S. Thank you for let me listen to Putamayo. P.P.S. Probably the origin of all country music is american. P.P.P.S. Tintamare (canadian I think) and The Freak Fandango Orchestra (Spanish)

@schizpate 6 жыл бұрын

Great video! The guitar play maybe the most important part in Ennio Morricone's spaghetti western soundtracks. But I also think its important to mention the use of vocals and especially the outstanding use of orchestra which I think is one of the trademarks of Ennio Morricone. I think the combination of all the elements he uses in the Dollar trilogy is what makes the soundtrack so unique and wonderful.

@arod919721 4 жыл бұрын

For a Few Dollars More is still one of my favorites. The pocket watch show down is great.

@arod919721 4 жыл бұрын

@Phil McCrevice Adds to the anticipation and suspense. Made you wait even though you wanted it to happen which probably tormented the impatient. Did the job as a finally in my opinion.

@kenwilliams3208 4 жыл бұрын

@@arod919721 Absolutely Alex, high drama on the High Plains......vindication time for Colonel Mortimer....with a much needed assist from Clint.......he remembered the Colonel's request "Leave Indio to Me".

@user-jt5ot4hy9q 5 жыл бұрын

It's good to hear a musical analysis that starts with the feelings provoked (since that's really what it's all about) and then explains how they're created.

@scarlettepunk2087 6 жыл бұрын

Electric guitar in a western...WHO DOES THAT...ITS INSANE!!! Thank you EM...forever

@StamatisStabos 6 жыл бұрын

The Surfing Spaghetti Experience

@eladbari 5 жыл бұрын

What an amazing analysis, man. As if the instrumental choices+ minor major chords= all tell the actual plot within their subtext. Frikkin' poetic!

@ThinWhiteAxe 5 жыл бұрын

I love this type of music so much, this was really cool to see. Also, I feel like that kind of spaghetti-Western chord progression crops up a lot in Muse's discography, albeit usually with a very different rhythm so it doesn't sound as Western but more generally dark and heroic. (Knights of Cydonîa is obviously a complete spaghetti-Western homage with that type of galloping rhythm.)

@GoCeltics734 6 жыл бұрын

the songs were also great heralds. they perfectly played with and amped the emotions of the scene. that and Ennio Morricone is a damn genius

@machia0705 5 жыл бұрын

Tube amps , minors and a Fender , with a little spaghettini... Absolutely gorgeous guitar .

@richardrichard5409 4 жыл бұрын

Tutto Bene!!!! 😎😎😎😎Wow, what a simply fantastic upload, thanks for taking the time out to do this👍👍👍👌👌👌👌

@jupitorious7925 2 жыл бұрын

Just bought an old chapel house apartment in a village in northern italy and my saloon/ lounge just hums spaghetti western.. now getting into a new style of guitar playing, grazie your video tutorial helped a lot .

@BrianFunkMusic 6 жыл бұрын

I really enjoyed this episode! Lots of great tone and explanation of how the genre works. It's also quite apparent how much Joe enjoys the topic too. Thanks!

@MrMongo321 6 жыл бұрын

Very informative and well explained. Thank you!

@noproblem1528 4 жыл бұрын

Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone toghether...how can it be possible such a miracle..?

@ThatWhatIsNot 2 жыл бұрын

This may be my favorite video on KZfaq. Well performed, well produced. Just fun to watch over and over again. This kind of music never gets old.

@ThinDreamer30 6 жыл бұрын

Yes, do more of these types of videos. Make it a series!

@johnr7279 5 жыл бұрын

This was REALLY good and was fun to watch. Love that spaghetti western AND instrumental surf sound. It makes sense that it caught on even though instrumental surf was pretty much a big deal but only for a couple of years in the early 60s. Great playing too of course! It's got to feel really cool to make those sounds.

@EmileFedeczko 4 жыл бұрын

This was such a fantastic video to stumble upon! I've been listening to loads of incredible spaghetti weston songs recently that got spurred on by a Fontaines DC gig I went to in December. Love it.

@redjakOfficial 4 жыл бұрын

Ennio Morricone is on of the best and most influencial movie composer of all time. Up there with John Williams. And he's not even mentionned. All the "spaghetti western" music shown here are his.

@Raklarpt 6 жыл бұрын

Great breakdown of the genre. I'd love to see more of these for other genres

@jjorjj 6 жыл бұрын

Raklar please

@bkbland1626 6 жыл бұрын

My favorite guitar style. Digging it!

@TB-bn8pg 4 жыл бұрын

Joe, I really enjoyed your comments. Those westerns were works of art. Incredibly good music, great story lines and the characters were awesome. Lee Van Cleef was fabulous. Thanks for the reminder of how good those films were.

@ButthurtNinja 2 ай бұрын

I like the way the boots sound walking across the hardwood floor. Everything has that big reverbed sound

@Smokeyislandman 6 жыл бұрын

More film music stuff! Love it!

@matthewhackett3429 6 жыл бұрын

Really enjoyed this one! Excellent analysis please do more jingle and film composition breakdowns

@joegeorge1002 6 жыл бұрын

Thank ya..will do!

@pfitz9346 4 жыл бұрын

Spaghetti western music gives me such nostalgia. I'm not super old by any means but my dad grew up on those westerns from the 60s and onwards so I've seen plenty of them and heard that music a lot.

@louispconstant6624 4 жыл бұрын

That was one of the coolest vids I've seen in a long time. Great job with the explanation! x

@thermalfix-z9c 4 жыл бұрын

I have to say that the first film of the famous Sergio Leone trilogy: A fistful of dollars, wasn't filmed in Southern Italy nor Southern Spain. It was filmed mainly in Central Spain, not too far from the city of Madrid itself! In fact, I live in the outskirts of Madrid and I can see everyday the mountain that appears behind the small town where most of the story is located.

@jacal4333 6 жыл бұрын

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard: Eyes Like the Sky.. thats all I'm sayin'

@TheRealFogger 5 жыл бұрын

thats what i scrolled down for.. thank you.

@cappuccino04 5 жыл бұрын

T H A N K S

@e32b61 5 жыл бұрын

Danger Mouse: Rome

@rudiger86 5 жыл бұрын

Up the giz!

@seekeroftheprofound1524 5 жыл бұрын

Just got my repress

@ranchero9367 5 жыл бұрын

Great lesson! Been a fan of these tones and melodies way before I knew how to play. Little known fact: The tree with the hang rope in Good Bad and Ugly was stolen off some guys lawn in town while getting supplies because there were no trees in that land where the scene was shot. They needed an old creepy tree and so they pretended (the directors) they were city officials and told the guy at the house they had to remove it.

@duane8620 4 жыл бұрын

GREAT video! Really loved hearing the breakdown of some of the most coolest riffs in Westerns! Awesome job explaining it too!

@andrewpreston4127 5 жыл бұрын

Riff at around 4.40 sounds almost exactly like 'Ghost Riders in the Sky' from about 10 years earlier.

@hippiekarl7 5 жыл бұрын

Frankie Laine released that in 1946 (according to my Army buddy who told me the 3rd and 4th verses...his grandpa would sing it to him when he was a little boy)... GRitS is actually still a huge bar-band request where I live (southern NV).

@BruceBurger 6 жыл бұрын

I wished my knees sounded like a drum set 😭😴😍🍔

@butsukete1806 6 жыл бұрын

Just give it a couple decades, you'll get there.

@j.b.n.1492 5 жыл бұрын

Don't forget the wrist whip, invisible face flute and actual finger guns

@AtZero138 4 жыл бұрын

Reverb............ is the Answer... Your welcome.. grew up watching these movies and just loved the Music since always.. thanks for the Post. Great channel

@toddstayin5002 4 жыл бұрын

Such a great video. Awesome content and delivery. Nice job.

@co.agmusic 6 жыл бұрын

Brilliant video and incredible music

@JimmyJammy97 6 жыл бұрын

shout out to the Master Ennio Moricone !

@omarboulah1228 3 жыл бұрын

Smart lesson. Just give a genius composer I.e. Ennio Morricone what all that is owing him !

@cucurulo1945 3 жыл бұрын

Joe you are great explaining and transmitting the feeling of spaghetti western music !. Great job! and the sound of your guitar transported me to the time I was 15 years old watching those great movies.Thank you!

@thekeywitness 5 жыл бұрын

Cool video. It's a fun genre with many many soundtracks beyond the 3 you mentioned. Morricone was a major figure, of course, but there were many others. Moreover, Morricone was incredibly versatile - most people associate him with spaghetti westerns, but he also did incredible scores in horror, crime thrillers, dramas, etc.