Rick Beato: What Makes This Song Great? "Comfortably Numb"

[proggy_jazzer]

Surprised no one has posted this yet. Nice analysis/appreciation of the classic track:



I smiled through the whole thing!

[Dana5140]

Very nice analysis.

[TheLoony]

Really cool. Taking thirty plus minutes to analyse a five minute song, I'm so down for that.

I agree with him, I can't quite figure out that cymbal at the end. Seems like a China Boy, but not quite.

Also never new how much orchestration was in the album, I always thought there were some keyboards used but now that I think of it, Rick was persona non gratis with Roger, so it has to be orchestration. Don't know why I was so stupid to realize that.

I did get that there was orchestration, just stupidly thought Rick had something to do with it. Thanks for this, I'll have to look up some more of his analysis.

ETA: Just watched his top 20 drum intros. What, no Ian Paice for Pictures Of Home? Most of his intros were one bar, if that. Pretty weak, IMO.