It's nice to see a musician appreciating mainstream music and not just saying that it's uninspiring bs that anybody could do. Yes, anybody could. But only they actually do it. It's not easy.

if anybody's wondering, the name for that sustained note in the chords is called a pedal point or pedal note. it creates a lot of harmonic tension that resolves nicely back to the tonic, especially if the pedal point is the tonic or dominant (as mentioned in the vid)

Nice to see someone actually dive into the creativity of The Chainsmokers instead of just jump on the hate train and pass! Great video

love the chainsmokers stuff,simplicity at its best.

"I could never be coldplay, but i could write a melody with a horn" -alex rome 2023 Im dying rn 😂

Glad to see this. To me it seems like many music producers are kind of neglecting the composing aspect. It's really cool to see how in this song both worlds came together to form something.

Love your analysis videos, super interesting, useful and entertaining

Your videos are so good, they make me wanna keep producing no matter what! I quite literally started livestreaming me making songs because of your channel.

Great stuff Alex. Thanks for the Free Chord Building Blueprint! Gianni

great balance of educational, entertaining and interesting. awesome video man

This song is pure gold! Thanks for the explanation, awesome to see it in depth.

I've always noticed that the drop had one common note in each chord, good to finally see the musical theory behind it and actually made me realise that it's a common theme throughout the song

avicii did it first in silhouettes

Really great video. Educational, entertaining, and explained well to all skill levels. You gained a fan today!

The best part is when they add in ANOTHER top melody, those harmonics are insane

Gold. All of these are gold. Thank you Alex. Adds so much depth and appreciation

Sometimes, instead of throwing in everything we know, what we need to do is just add a pinch of simplicity,. and we are good to go :D Btw, Can you do analysis on Illenium's music too? and how he keep his signature consistently? That will be much appreciated

Please do more breakdowns like this.. They're fantastic! I'm always amazing how Calvin Harris makes his chords and melodies and switches them up with simple (yet genius) techniques like that.

Brilliant work! Great video! Thank You!

Amazing short informative video, this is why I love this channel.

Your freaking amazing man! Love what you do!

Being able to not only label these concepts (drone, major and minor scales, and how they fit in as themes) but recognize them in a song and notice how they are standard setting in the industry… I am blown away. Will definitely change how I listen to seemingly mainstream electronic music from now on.

"nobody before did that" yes alex that exact idea has been used in tens of thousands of songs of so many genres. Stacking 5ths is incredibly common. This chord progression is in every other song basically.

I love this type of analysis! Thanks for making

so simple yet so sophisticated

love this! wish you replicated the beautiful guitar melody/solo towards the end of the song

that drop was exactly what fascinated me everytime I listened to the song thanks for explaining the magic 🤩🤩🤩

I really liked this video. Please do more analysis for songs like this

thanks for the guide mr.rome chainsmokers is one of my favorite song in my list instead of playing online games,i focused myself to create and mix the song using fl studio and so this time im going to read the 7 step chord building blueprint in my laptop............... keep up the good work bro im always wacthing your videos

This remake is so accurate. Thank you for this video!

You're the best, Alex. Still slowly applying my bootcamp training.

Loved it, please make more videos like this 😃

Awesome video! I love the chainsmokers so it's fascinating to see the breakdown like this. Keep up the great work 🙏

That was a great deconstruction - thank you!

this song is still one of my favorites! thanks for the explanation...

Super cool video thanks dude! I feel like I always am over complicating my composition trying to make it unique and interesting, but rarely ever try to make just a simple aspect of the composition interesting in itself. Mainstream/pop has so many things to learn from in making a song listenable and marketable

love your enthusiasm man haha great content as always

That's really very interesting! Great video ❤️

Well done... oftentimes the simple ideas are the best ideas!

Great video. Amazing explanation.

my favourite song of all time! the drop makes me float every time. thanks for making this - a wonderful deconstruction :)

Great video really enjoyed it.

Great breakdown Alex!

As someone who actually liked SJLT, i really appreciate those simple yet creative techniques

Thank you Alex! This is great knowledge.

I like how I could tell it was about Something Just Like This from how the rhythm looks on the MIDI.

I remember when i used to hear that song come on a lot in 2017 even whenever i was in Middle School.

So simple yet so beautiful

i always enjoy your content very much!

I did a remake of something just like this a few years back. Still love the song. Coldplay really gave it a vibe

That's it I'm doing music this summer. (Your content is inspirational, bud)

I would like you to do a breakdown video of their song "Roses". I believe it is their most overlooked song. The drop on that song is a thing of beauty.

Спасибо!

Love the hat/cap you are wearing. I can't stop just only focusing on it through out the video. FYI, Love your videos. I watch them all.

You're amazing man 🔥

so talent you

Most useful channel for music production on KZfaq

East or west Sir Alex Rome is the best !🤩

I've watched a handful of your videos and could not get over your HEAVY Delco accent. Hat and Jersey confirms it

=as Always ! Just Amazing, thanks a lot Alex

these are the best freaking videos ever

Man that was a great video

Fantastic breakdown and go birds!🦅

Usually I think your videos are a little click-baity but this one is great

Great breakdown

Damn i was waiting for that last melody at the end of song (it is sooooooo emotional)😂, great work tho man. nice breakdown

What’s really amazing is classical composers doing stuff like this in their head hundreds of years ago.

i wanna see full process of making song by chord progression to mastering do it man plz, so freaking interesting

as a producer, I WANT SOMETHING JUST LIKE THIS

I love this man

thank you so much for your analysis of this song -- I learned so much and you made the learning very enjoyable!

When you chop out the notes to give it a syncopated feel, the downbeat of the second chord changes to the second bar instead of a quarter note after This probably confused a lot of viewers. Your videos are great none-the-less. The little details used to drive me nuts when I was beginning. You are as thorough as anyone else! I never took your Bootcamp but I have taken a few of your competitors and I can tell you they all leave out a lot more stuff than you. All the best stuff is resampled and they tell you to just pull it into the project. It never fails. I'm like, wait, hold on, darn it, that's why I paid more than $100 to take your course to learn how you made that rolling baseline in your song or that "Big Reverb Lead" that sold me on your course. I don't want no stinking sample. Lol. Anyway, you provide a hell of a lot more than others and anyone could see by the visuals in this video exactly where the A major chord fell. I must give the Chainsmokers credit for that minor tweak because it changes the feel completely. Very glad I learned that trick from you, Alex! Thanks!

Take it easy Alex, their music isn't all that, it's just corporate pop with a team of producers but it is cool that you analyzed it. A theorical breakdown is always good to see for the independent. Peace.

This is a good video. Really

Nice vid

is that drone note within the chord progression cau i saw that D is written just half a note above C#

4:28 its a GOLDMINE from here on

3:54 what a poetic line.

Fascinating somthing like this is a favorite......!!!♍♍👍🏾👍🏾

Hey I noticed an issue on the document you provided in the description. The A major and A flat major chords are mixed up.

This is fire🔥❤️❤️💕

Nice!

so cute how you're feeling it so hard every time haha ♥

It’s crazy🤯

Thanks man

hey! love the video! would you (or anyone that knows) mind sharing what guitar vst was used? thank you!

Very entertaining and helpful Video. That sounds amazing. Thank you Alex

Amazing explanation my guy! You’ve definitely proven that you got some cool analysis talent that’ll help you understand the theory behind it. Btw, don’t feel discouraged if someone makes better music than you do, music takes time and effort (which The Chainsmokers had plenty of, specifically the effort part because the song was written by 5 people!) Anyways, great job explaining everything in such a short amount of time and I’ll see you on the flip side! 💪

I love this

Now I know why I loved the song

Isn’t it using the 456 progression in d major? And the drone is just using the tonic note of d major? I’m still a noob, help plz. So confused when Alex said it was using the relative D in the key of B minor

So good

this video made me want to remix that song

What also makes that song amazing is Chris Martin's vocal s.

You are gem sir 💎

what piano were you using in the beginning for the chords it was so warm

This guy is dope!

Thx for the video ! That is a real good headphone that can keep you warm, even if it is -10 degrees celsius outside right ?

Music is life

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