First Time Hearing Alex Warren - Ordinary | Guitar Breakdown

Added: 2026-06-04

[00:00:00]Alex Warren ordinary official video.

[00:00:07]One, two, three. They say the holy  water [singing and music] downst.

[00:00:18][music] His voice sounds older than he  looks. Do a little laundry action.

[00:00:24]Oh my. [singing] Oh my my love. I take  one look at you. You're taking me out of the ordinary. I want you laying [music]  me down to the dead and buried on the edge of your knife. Staying drunken by the angels  [music] up in the clouds are jealous. No we only so we'll be [music] ordinary. You got  me kissing the crowd. sanctuary. [music] Shadow me with your touch. Oh, return me to  dust. The angels up [music] in the clouds.

[00:01:11]Objectively good song.

[00:01:14]Objectively good jacket. Here's the chords. So  the beginning has got that B minor, D major.

[00:01:28]I don't know if that's the exact notes. We'll  get it because I'm sure verse two will have more of that maybe. I love a good simple  chord progression. This song shines through its production and it builds, right? It builds  up through the verse, pre chorus, and chorus instead of like moving, changing chords all the  time like some other songs do, which I love, but also I love this even more because it makes this  part of the video a lot easier. It's just two very simple, very basic chords. I heard it right away.  All I have to do, I don't have perfect pitch, so I I do have to find the note. And luckily, I  started with E because it's that guitar song, so I was like, "Okay, it's probably an  E, right?" I don't know. E minor that is.

[00:02:03]So, we were right there. E minor. And then I  know it went down a whole step to D major. I could hear that. That's a very common simple  thing you you hear a lot. But then the chorus, up to G, [music] up to B minor.

[00:02:20]I think it's a [music] A major. So, [music] not as basic as you'd think. That'd make it uh for  you modal nerds. That's an E Dorian vibe. I would just call it E minor because Dorian is minor,  Frien's minor, Aolon's minor. I don't like using the terms other than just to use the terms, right?  It's it's fun to to use modal terms, but it's not necessarily that helpful. What's more helpful is  saying the chords E minor to a D major, [music] but it's in first inversion, meaning the  third of the chords on the bottom. So before we played the D, [music] the D was on the  bottom. This time the third was on the bottom, right? That third wants to go to G, which  is where it goes. So that was when the note was up higher. If we're doing it like this  song does it, the notes down lower. [music] And I was thinking it was a minor. As soon as  I play the A minor, it sounded wrong. So, my ear was telling me one thing, but then when  I checked my work, right, you can find your your you still have to use your ear, but you can  see that, oh, whoops, it's not a minor. A minor would be in the key of E natural minor. But since  it's [music] a major, what did I say? E, A minor would be in the key of E minor, natural minor,  aolon, if you will. But since it's an A major, that puts us in a different key. Technically, I  think that kind of puts us in like a B minor vibe.

[00:03:58]All that's just to say that it's  very basic, but not as basic as it could be. It's got a nice little twist. It  sounds natural to the ear, though. [music] Hopeless hallelujah. [singing] Homeless side of heaven. [singing] Oh my life, I'll [music] do breathing. Take my  breath [music] away. At your altar, I will pray. You're the sculptor of the clay.  Oh my my, [music] you're taking me out of the ordinary. I want you laying me down. So [music]  dead and buried on the edge of your night. [music] The angels up in the clouds. [music] The angel in the clouds.

[00:04:57]that resolves [music] to a B minor. So  the melody's kind of in B minor there.

[00:05:02]So that's why I wouldn't say E  dorian because while E Dorian is D major and D major is B minor, those are  all the same key signatures. I would say [music] it's in B minor because that's where  the melody resolves. Now let's see.

[00:05:25]Very cool. Uh, what did I want to say there?  There's the rhythms he's doing is sweet, too.

[00:05:29]This is in what's called 68. 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4  5 6. That means there's six eighth notes before things repeat. 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6. It could  be in 44, which is four quarter notes. 1 2 3 4, right? I guess technically you could do 44 with a  tuplet feel, with a shuffle, with a with a swing, with a another fancy word, but what we're hearing  is a very natural sounding song. Oh my. [music] that. So, if we're going 1 2 3 4  5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 Oh my my my [singing and music] very cool [music] subdivisions. Let's listen.

[00:06:21]already [music] minor all day. [music] You got me kissing the ground [music] with you. Glor [music] angels up in the clouds know we [music] same chords but now we're on a bridge [music] or an extended chorus in black and  white until I saw your [music] light so of the ordinary. How are  you laying me down to a death?

[00:07:11]Cool. So, that was either an extended  chorus or a bridge. I'm not sure yet.

[00:07:14]Probably a bridge. If they only do it once,  I would call it a bridge. If they do it at the end of the next chorus, I would call it just  the extended chorus, right? It's twice as long.

[00:07:20]Same chords, different melody, different  words. Welcome to my first official episode of How to Dress Badassery. Badassy. How to dress  properly for music. Look at his jacket here.

[00:07:36]Got it open. It's a modern vibe, right? Look at  this thing. It's got a nice strong collar, but underneath, dude, he's got that Henley, the two  button Henley, right? It's basically a t-shirt, but one step fancier, which makes you  look a little better, right? Also, that bottom half, dude, baggier jeans. Not  totally baggy, but it's not skinny jeans anymore, right? So, if you're on stage and you're  rocking the skinny jeans, you best hope you're playing 80s metal, right? I say that as  someone who used to straighten his hair and wear women's jeans, the skinniest ones I could find.  And boy, did I feel badass. So, I think this is a cool look. If you're playing this kind of  music, I think I'm going to do that a lot more because what I found um I'm going to do a lot more  like visual analysis, too, because what I find is putting a package together, putting a brand  together is equally as important as the music.

[00:08:23]And I know people argue it's about the music  and stuff. It's like, yeah, you could say that, which I've said for 20 years, but the truth is  you if you look like the music you play with some, you know, you don't have to be cookie cutter, but  if you look correct, like this guy does, nothing fancy here. He could walk down the street in  that, but he could also perform in that. In fact, we should look up live videos and see what he  actually performs in. It might have a little bit more bling, a little more jewly joury, [laughter]  longer than his shirt. That's a big thing right there. Say is I I think it's very important  to dress the part right. But like for me, playing live music, it's like you work the heck  out of the songs and eventually it's like, well, what else can I do to get more like I could get  the guitar part that much more in time and that much more in tune to add 1% to the entertainment  value to the people in the crowd. Or I could, you know, wear some nice high-rise button-up wool  trousers and a button-down black shirt with white buttons and no pockets and a skinny slimmer  fit and and and focus on the fit is what I'm saying. I just wore that at a live show and I felt  pretty good about it. Um, instead of just wearing my normal clothes saying, "Oh, it's all about  the music people get." It's like, "No, put on a put on a show." At least that's my opinion right  now. It could change as it was different before and everybody's entitled to their own thoughts on  that topic. But the main reason I bring it up is because it's fun, right? I could wear different  things and add 50% more value to the show because it looks right. It looks fun. It looks cool. The  whole band has their own look and it makes people in the crowd go like, "Heck yeah, dude. This  is cool. So, it's not just a bar band anymore, right? All right, I've rambled. Let's  Let's I might cut all that out. Let's harmonize. [music and singing] Oh, they switched to this riff.

[00:10:19][music] Oh, they're flying, dude.

[00:10:24]Clean. Did you see that bandana action? That's  clean. That's the little pop of action. Look at he's got some bracelets and a watch on.  He's got his bl He's got his Adidas on his feet. me with your touch. [music] Oh, turn me to  the angels up in the clouds. My daddy's [music] also look his jacket. When  did that happen? [music] It [music] looks like looks like he's got  this is like a sweater. It's more like a quarter zip, but it's button style. Look. [music] Boom.

[00:11:04]It's got the buttons instead of the zipper  and it's more it's a thicker thing. I thought it was like a Anyway, let's let's let's run  through this thing real quick. So, this part the way to figure that out and I figured out,  you know, I heard it was an E minor chord. Then I heard it was a D uh major chord and I'm hearing  the roots, right? [music] And then once I hear the roots, then I try to listen to the high notes.  So, I heard on the top. So, I guessed triad here.

[00:11:33]And luckily, that was right. Now, if that  wasn't right, I might have had to like mess around with some notes, right? You  might hear a song that sounds like that, which is the E minor, but without the third.  So, it could be an E major or an E minor, right? It could be major or minor. But  since it leaves a third out, it's just 1 5 1 or in rock music, we call that a power chord.  So, I've talked a lot about the peripheries of this song. There's plenty of channels, I'm sure,  that talk about the lyrics and the actual like final product, which is great, but I like to  dissect and go in deep with with each little part of the song, the video sometimes, sometimes the  lyrics if you're if you catch me on the right day.

[00:12:15]But my favorite part about this song  was definitely that chorus, just melody.

[00:12:19]And that B that it ends on is a note that's in the  E minor chord. [music] So even though we're going and you'd want that to resolve to B minor  sometimes, right? But you could also [music] Ah, it's so much better, right? So it's congruent.  Thank you so much for watching. If you're new to the channel, my name is Taylor. I play guitar  and I like to analyze the songs that you love and figure out what makes them great. If  you enjoy that, please subscribe. Thank you.