Isaac: wow Kevin: wOw
Umu: ay okay Elizabeth: we stan
Umu: Yes, we do! you are now reacting to the solo artist Lee Dong Woo
and his song 'Wanna Be Your Guitar' released on his second album Walking.
the lyrics of 'Wanna Be Your Guitar' talk about how a guitar is beautiful
even if it is beaten and scratched.
A guitar gives happiness helps us express our emotions
and can be sexier than Beyoncé
Aaron: *big doubt* [tbh me too] Umu: Lee Dong Woo says in the song "I want to be a guitar. I want to be in your arms. I want to live"
Aaron: I don't know if a guitar can be sexier than Beyoncé Nick: have you heard... have you heard Tommy Emmanuel????
Fiona: strum the guitar, baby~
Daniel: Wow, whole tone (scale)
Daniel: ooooooo
Fiona: Spooky
Daniel: and then resolves (lands on the dominant)
Nick: I was absolutely expecting like a little walking bass, and I am not disappointed
Isaac: it sounds like a.... a stroll
through a garden! *proud*
Henry: I love the timbre of his voice
Cloud: i like the timbre of everything so far henry: it's so...
warm
it's so warm
Cloud: Is that oh
Aaron: Getting all the michael buble and the fact that I want to pina colada
both: ehehehheheheh
Nick: I love the vocalizations
Isaac: wow kevin: wOW
Isaac: some......fast....... fingerings there
Henry: His scat is really natural too
Good trades with the guitar
Oh, that's some organ
Kevin: Nice
that's a lot in a two minute song
Fiona: just something about this sounds like the 50s
or like
I can imagine my grandparents going on a date
Daniel: aw this is so cute Fiona: and dancing
Fiona: chromaticism yeeeaaaaahhhh~
Daniel: Oh
Fiona: oh that was such a jazz ending
Kevin: That's a sharp 11 chord.
Oh my god, I can't believe I picked that out that's actually a tricky one
Henry: Dude that was really good. That was that was solid. That was a solid standard. I would listen to that during christmas time
Henry: Because it's like that's like Jazz time Cloud: I'd listen to that at any time
Henry: oh, yeah Yeah, but like I always listen to like the most vocal jazz when it around christmas.
Aaron: It was cute Nick: short
Nick: Sweet, Aaron: that's fun. I like that. I feel like
You could
What is it when you have a cane and a hat (a little top hat?) Yeah
Aaron: you can do some like nick: some tap dancing
Aaron: you can tap dance to that it's fun
*jazz*
Nick: I feel like a lot of the jazz people will have more to say about that than us, though
[this is so sad......]
[alexa play apple by gfriend]
Isaac: I really enjoyed whenever it goes into a sequence it slows down because all the te- slows down. I wouldn't say
Tempo?
Umu: like the ry- the vocal rhythm? Isaac: It sounds like it's going it's slowing down. So for instance
the instruments drop out and it's just him and then
I think one instrument
and for some reason that that gave the illusion of
Slowing down for me and I thought it was very very very effective and when it wandered down
In terms of volume. I guess it's more how much sound is coming out of the
Kevin: well for a two minute song
There's a lot going on. It feels like a very rich and full experience
Umu: I think um, the guitar player might have been Andreas on this
Daniel: Who? Fiona: *OML*
Fiona: it was awesome loved how it was mostly strings. (yeah) It was such an exciting texture
and it worked really well with his thick, luscious voice
Daniel: Yeah, yeah exactly. It's like Frank Sinatra kind of (yeah) vibes
Yeah, what was interesting for myself personally, is that when I listen to kpop it's actually hard for me or like contemporary
Korean pop music it's hard for me to hear what people are saying
When they're saying, but this guy is like one of the first it's like I think it's like with the older generation of singing
This style like I hear everything I understand everything that he said so it's like the pronunciation enunciation, you know
Like the diction is just so clear. I thought that was amazing
Henry: I really love the quality of his voice. It's not that low, but he has the color I think
There's a lot of formants that are kind of back so it sounds warmer and kind of darker
But it's it seems like it's a healthy sound
Um, and it's really nice to listen to it's it is it does go pretty high, but it's such a warm tone
there's like that clarity that comes with pruning, of course because you don't have to project and it's
Henry: It's really nice. I really like it. Cloud: if I had one complaint one single complaint
I wish that there was like a bigger scat section. Like I wish that we just had like a longer section of him
Just scanning because I thought-
Henry: I thought it was okay.
Cloud: I thought no I thought his scatting was wonderful Henry: it was natural
Cloud: i wanted MORE of it henry: oh ok ok
Well, maybe he'll step it up
i love his scatting
Cloud: Yeah Henry: yeah
Umu: Now you'll be comparing step it up to wanna be your guitar
Which is also released on walking album step it up is a song of encouragement
Sometimes we make excuses not to do the things we want to do but lee dongwoo is telling us to step it up
keep pushing forward
sometimes life is hard and it's easy to stand still but if you believe in yourself and keep moving you can achieve your
Goals
Andreas Oberg is the soloing guitarist.
Kevin: It's a good message
Nick: Are you ready to step it up? Aron: What?
Nick: ARE YOU READY TO STEP IT UP? Aaron: yeah
Fiona: Sounds like i'm in an old creepy movie. Daniel: It's like a waltz.
Fiona: It's a black and white film
Cloud: Thank you,
Henry: oh this is sexy Cloud: *emotional bass player* this is great
Henry: Oh the vibe, yeah, this is awesome
AHHhahhaha
Cloud: when they double <3 henry: yes!
yes!
Daniel: his diction is actually so good
Aaron: i'm also getting like James Bond vibes
Aaron: like..
Nick: it's the trumpets
Nick: the trumpets with the mutes Aaron: smokey.... smokey room
Owen: This sounds so much different because the bass isn't playing....
The same thing as the voice and that's actually like holding it down with the walking line
Fiona: *showing the different accents* one and two and three and four and-
Daniel: Wow, this is so smooth. I feel like i'm at a cafe
Kevin: Whoa, the piano kind of was displaced but it still sounded like everyone was together. I like that
Also, I like the message of this song and it's in english- OH MY GOODNESS
Daniel: oh Fiona: his soloing
Fiona: it's so good daniel: w o w
so good yeah
Fiona: nice jazz chops like
Daniel: Yeah
Henry: oh my gosh
These are the kind of licks that make you want to learn how to play guitar
Cloud: This is the kind of music that makes me wish I did more jazz bass.
Henry: Yeah,
Owen: ah back to a dominant, but I don't know how
We went to like six and then five and then we just did nuts
Elizabeth: I like that like holding the high and then having the guitar like doing all these crazy runs under it. That was really cool
Owen: that's the snaps
Elizabeth: Oh, okay, I get it it's like step it up. So there's a lot of like stepping up with the piano
And with the like instrumentation, it's like a lot based on stepwise motion
I get it
Kevin: Does it resolve? Isaac: James Bond
Kevin: nice with the single bass note on the piano
Fiona: I love the ostinato it started with and it ended with it. Like just when that played I was like
I'm gonna like this song.
Daniel: Yeah yeah Yeah
Fiona: So instrumental-based his voice is so smooth and articulate
Umu: thoughts on this song
And did you like this one or you wanna be your guitar better?
Owen: I mean the solo on this was
Fantastic.
Elizabeth: Yeah, I would say that would qualify this as (O:makes it) my favorite
Umu: ANDREASSS
Elizabeth: woot WOOT
Owen: and also the baseline is cool, too
Like that half approaching it like half steps that's fun,
Henry: I like the this guy a lot Cloud: that bass is really good too because like that
*singing bass line*
Like that's a lot of shifting to do that fast
and like I don't know how recording these things works
henry: it's right there cloud: and I also don't play a lot bass or like
hits a lot but henry: was that andreas playing?
Umu: the guitar. Henry: the guitars Cloud: the guitar Yeah,
Henry: that guitar look was so good, too
wioooof
cloud: But it was like so clean I I know I know that you're shifting
but It's kind of fast i'm i'm happy i'm just very happy.
Elizabeth: Yeah, it's cool because the base is one of the like most like
Flexible
Line of the whole thing because a lot of the like vocals and the piano or sorry organ
and like a lot of the and like the vibraphone like a lot of that is like
A whole step or like a half step motion all like going up and down because like step it up
Like a whole step half step
*Owen sings*
Yeah
And so like to have like a really like mobile baseline underneath that keeps it really interesting and fresh.
Owen: He's just free too. (E:Yeah)
It's not locked in and there was such a contrast to between when the bass was playing with the vocal line in the beginning
And then that boom boom
But don't when you actually get into a walking line
Like brings it back and then it got so much more expansive when the bass was allowed to play around again
Isaac: Step it up sounded more like a yo-yo
The movements of a yo-yo because it comes back
*isaac singing*
Kevin and Umu: Oh *shookth*
Kevin: I dig this Isaac: so it comes back and yeah,
Kevin: I don't understand all of your analogies, but that was a good one
Isaac: the tonic center just keeps
going going going going and just sometimes I found it very difficult to pinpoint what it was but having the motif be the
The one that is the center and the building block or the staple you're able to come back and say oh, yeah, I know this
*sings*
[kinda sounds like a night in tunisia]
And it sounds very similar to
Wanna be your guitar with excitement and also having the bass line
Kevin: both songs definitely play in front of the beat
They feel like they're very
exuberant
Isaac: well I thought step it up was more on the back
Kevin: really Isaac: but then just having the walking-
Kevin: i think the tempo is on the back
But whenever the base is doing it solo. It feels like it's pushing it a little forward not in like an
antagonistic or like a hostile way but in a way where everyone's just having fun and eager to play the music that they're
That they're playing which I really like.
Umu: Do you want to compare step it up to?
I wanna be your guitar?
Nick: I mean he shows a whole bunch of versatility between these two songs. (A: i like them) They're really quite different
Aaron: a lot
Nick: He's really good. Um, I thought his voice works better with um, step it up
because he's really got the like, uh, robust type of
Almost I don't know every i'm sure everyone will say
Aaron: it's like Frank Sinatra Nick: everyone will say michael buble
Nick: at least once in their reactions Aaron: it's like...
Sinatra-y
Nick: yeah but he's got such a sweet voice and and really open and and like kind of woody
Nick: that yeah, Aaron: mmm yeah, it's like like
Aaron: Dark, Nick: like yeah
Kevin: I thought there was a way we could put it into the camera angle but alas
Umu: Wait, why? Oh, is it because you want to show the fans?
Kevin: Yes
The little easter egg NO PUN INTENDED [e g g]