Finding The Warning - My First Encounter | Show Me The Light - Dakota Bar | Reaction/Analysis

[00:00:01]Hello everyone. Uh I am New Reactor and uh welcome to my channel. Um today I'll be talking about the warning uh a Mexican band of three sisters. Um that I uh was exposed to during the pandemic. Um first thing that I saw by them uh was um evolve over here. Uh but I saw only the intro in introduction. Um I didn't actually s see the the whole video. Um I must say I wasn't um uh I like the music actually. The music caught my uh caught my attention but the video um I would say it's not the best introduction probably for people at least not people like me. And I uh I love the video now, but uh then I I just didn't go back and and watch the rest of it. Um, and I didn't run into uh the warning until maybe a month or two later uh when I was searching for um uh some information on a warning light [laughter] in a certain context and and I ended up with show me the light by the warning. So there you go. Um, and uh um I loved what I saw. Um, so I'll be uh let's take a look at it. I'll be adding some uh information maybe a little bit of analysis um my uh my first impression that uh that I recall and uh uh if you have any information additional information or um anything I'm saying is not correct. Um I'm more than happy to read your comments. Please do comment and uh um yeah, I've been around for a little bit. So I you know with uh TWWA um so I seen probably most of their content uh including um fan-made stuff and interviews and things like that, but there's always new information. there's always stuff that can be uh corrected or or um um is interesting. Um and I love sharing uh just generally music with people even if I know the music already.

[00:02:47]Uh if you listen to it with somebody else, it always feels different a little bit. And maybe uh also when you're selecting for example a music to show to somebody uh then you start thinking about the music in a completely different way. So so that's for the intro here. Um, if you would like to um support me, uh, you can do so on, uh, Kofi or, um, buy me a coffee. Um, the links are below in the description.

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[00:03:59][music] Take my pain [music and singing] and despair and throw it away.

[00:04:09]Let them starve by themselves. Let empty [music] them many [singing] more.

[00:04:20][music] When we crumble to the ground, we'll build [singing] ourselves up. [music] When we're lost, we'll be found. Please don't give up on the things [singing] that we will have.

[00:04:37]>> [music] [singing] >> So this was practically the first thing that I saw here and uh so I saw uh a a very clean stage with three performers um um a very clean guitar uh bass that sounds like it's probably fretless. Uh, and a lead singer in the corner, which was a little strange. Um, I also noticed uh there was a a a drum kit with uh the band's logo, so probably not something that um was uh from the band before or after. Um, so I'm thinking, okay, so they that's actually their gig. Uh, they uh both the guitar player and bass player seem to be in their own universe. Uh, and the, um, the lead singer is singing her heart out. Um, so yeah, I was amazed at the at the sound. It's very professional, everything.

[00:05:59]Um, one thing that I notice is that the stage is very clean and has no wedge monitors, meaning they would probably have inear monitors, which is also something that uh uh a professional band would have.

[00:06:20]Um they uh and you can actually see um the bass player I know her name's Ali now Ali.

[00:06:31]Uh but um I didn't know that then and I saw the the inear monitor there and uh um so that's great because um uh there's three things that the the inear monitors will do for you. Uh, one, you can probably select what you want to hear.

[00:06:56]Um, and people probably think I you want to mostly hear yourself. That's not necessarily the case. You probably want to hear um you probably would be playing with a click. So, you want to hear the click very clearly, and you probably want to hear um yourself plus uh another instrument that you're you're locking in uh soundwise with. So, let's say the the drummer would be and bass player would be listening to each other and so on. Um that's one thing. That's the monitoring part. Uh the other part is a time sync where uh over over a distance about u I don't know 20 25 feet uh if you're in a larger scale uh you start hearing a delay between uh the sound sources. So if if you're listening to a bass amp that's on the other uh end of the stage, you'll start dragging and you everything everybody starts slowing down and so on.

[00:08:02]And it gets just worse the bigger the stage. You know, in the stadium it's it's just a a mayhem if you don't have in ears. And uh if they don't have compensation actually they probably have sound systems that will uh uh will compensate for the time delay um otherwise when you're sitting on the other end you probably hear just uh um you're um everything is out of sync that you see and what that you hear. Uh but anyway that's that's a that's a tangent here. Um the third function of it is ear protection as well because um um they don't have too much gear on there and probably it's not it can get loud in there but uh um especially for practicing and so on. Uh you want to be practicing with the in ears that you get used to using them and you can protect your hearing as well. Right? So it is something to get used to because um you may feel a little claustrophobic or like underwater or something because you don't hear um you don't hear your environment. On some cases you can have mics that pick up the room or the the stage, right? So that's usually done on on large stages where you hear actually the the the audience. Um, but anyway, so that's that's a tangent. So, right there, professional gear, professional uh professional uh performance, right?

[00:09:41]Uh yeah, the guitar sound is gorgeous. The bass is is amazing.

[00:09:50]Uh the uh um the singing is is great. Uh the piano is very very percussive. It's very uh uh rhythm setting along with the with the bass sort of with the uh and and syncing with the guitar. So it's all very locked in.

[00:10:14]Um so that was my first impression. Uh let's listen some more.

[00:10:28]>> [music] >> Tell me how it feels like. [singing] Take off your disguise. Show me the love. I [singing] break me down into [music] your level. They be your [singing] rebel. The sealer of your heart.

[00:10:54]Stop the [music] tears. Try not to look back. Let's be free. Show the world [music] turn right while we [singing] is what we have.

[00:11:12]The two of us. It's enough. Let's make our way. Let's forget yesterday. Start over.

[00:11:21][singing] >> So here I'm just interrupting it for a second here. Um uh so in the previous section I uh I sort of uh it's a funny funny little story. I I overheard it as let's spaghetti yesterday which uh is materally not the text and the lyrics that they are singing. Uh it says uh let's forget yesterday but ever since whenever I hear it I hear it there. So hopefully I don't spoil it for you if you now starts hearing it there as well.

[00:12:01]So it's somewhere [music and singing] it's enough. Let's make our way. Let's forget yesterday. Start over again. Take me far. [singing] Don't think it twice.

[00:12:30]Tell [music] me how it feels like.

[00:12:33][singing] Take off your disguise. Show me the love. I break me down [singing] into your [music] level. Make me your [singing] hold me please never leave. [music] I need a daily voice [singing] adding your words so deep cut into [singing] me. Whispers so loud [music] and deafening.

[00:13:05]Hold me please never leave.

[00:13:09][music and singing] I hear the daily voice.

[00:13:14]Your words so deep.

[00:13:17][singing] Whisper so loud.

[00:13:23][music] >> So I interrupted before the solo starts.

[00:13:29]Um yeah, it's just the the vocals are amazing, the the harmonies there, and it's just like you Yeah. Um I may have already mentioned that uh they seem to be each in their own world and and sort of just uh going with the ethereal nature of the song and and that's what you want. You want the whatever the mood of the song is. want the the musicians to just um concentrate on that and not on uh the technical stuff. Uh so they must have practiced like you see like years and years and years of of hard work there.

[00:14:18]Um, and so, uh, I was, uh, talking about, uh, uh, I was mentioning the, um, amplifier there. And so, let's take a, a brief look at, uh, uh, what Danny's doing there. And, uh, so her Rick tune uh, Spearfish. Um, I didn't know that then. I just saw a funky looking guitar with uh four pegs up top and two down uh and fan frets on the six string which was a little strange to me. Um but uh so uh uh and the reason why it was strange is that typically you would have it with the guitars that you tune down a lot or they have a lot of strings. So there are low strings and high strings.

[00:15:17]Uh then the the fret distances are kind of that don't match. Um it's a long story with uh tension uh length of the string and thickness or more specifically mass like the weight for length. So if you have uh all the strings in the uh from the same material then you can talk about thickness but uh um so uh bottom line is that yeah it's a it's a it's a fancy guitar. Um, a little surprising uh that you would go into trouble of learning to use one uh on a six string because it it does take a little bit of of getting used to because the fingering is different and your your stretches may be quite different as well because you are reaching um yeah, you're just reaching different distances.

[00:16:18]Um, uh, she's got quite a like she's got a gorgeous sound.

[00:16:24]Uh, so the pedals must be doing something. Um, there's quite a quite a few of those. Um that orange kind of little bit piqu my uh um curiosity there because um typically you would use that if you're just plugging straight plugging up uh plugging in straight up. Uh because that's got one channel probably just a distorted one.

[00:16:52]You probably want to make it, you know, crunchy.

[00:16:56]uh the typical sound like the tube over uh uh so practically high gain and so on that you get uh uh the specific kind of distortion on it. Uh so when you have a pedal board in front of it uh and you feed that into it, you probably that's that's like you can't get a clean sound out of it. So uh you probably don't want any distortion uh um uh at the amplifier stage if you have a pedal board, right?

[00:17:30]So, when you're selecting amplifiers, you probably want to think about that.

[00:17:35]Now, she uh Danny's now using something called Pedal Baby, which is just a power amp, and it's pretty neutral. Um she plugs plugs in the um um the pedal board and, you know, plays it on stage just for her uh to feel the uh um uh the sound it's not for real a audio uh going from uh from the stage um for that she plugs in to uh the front of the house to the PA right so um the same as the mics and and and the keyword and so on would right so uh yeah that's that's just an observation I suspect It's because she's got the amp and that's what she has, right? So, she set it up at home and yeah, take takes it with her on stage.

[00:18:39]So, at this at this point in time, right? So, that's what she's doing.

[00:18:45]Um but probably later on she um uh she also got a digital uh um timber or something like that. I know she was playing with uh um with the line six uh um as well for uh in terms of uh uh the base. So, that's a a Mustang uh that's a Fender Mustang. Uh short scale base that is perfect for for alley that looks like 11 12 years old, right? And uh um she's um you can see that relaxed hand there.

[00:19:33]uh a beautiful kind of uh uh posture that every classical uh uh music teacher would would be would be pleased uh about. Um and that's practically the um what you do when first few years of classical training, if you will. Uh you would get the foundations, right? you would get a posture and a routine and and you know uh site reading like things like that.

[00:20:12]Uh so I you know like you could see that they had some training if not directly classical then some uh um comparable training.

[00:20:26]Um so uh and Uh the piano is is played really really well. Uh uh very rhythmical uh percussive sound.

[00:20:39]Uh but not over uh overwhelming, not not uh standing out but keeping keeping time with the base like in sync. Uh which makes complete sense that uh those two sisters must be locked in 100%, right?

[00:21:00]for years and years. So, um yeah. No, that's uh um I was smitten right there, right? Like I was like, "Oh." And and then the solo came [music] I [music] love you.

[00:21:54]Tell me [singing and music] how it feels like.

[00:22:03]Tell me how it feels [singing] like.

[00:22:09][music] Tell me how it [singing] feels [music] like. Take off your disguise. Show me the love.

[00:22:21]Break me down into your [singing and music] level. Make me your rece.

[00:22:29][music] [music] Your heart [singing] so deep.

[00:22:42]Whisper [music] so loud. [singing] >> [cheering] >> So this uh is uh um quite the this is quite uh uh the solo is amazing.

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[00:23:33]Um, so what I was saying is that um yeah, the solo is is uh like you see every tone uh has a meaning. Uh, and you know, she didn't count how many tones she can play per uh measure of time, like [laughter] seems to be the trend, you know. Um, but uh uh uh you know, you make them count and that's definitely what she did like.

[00:24:06]Um just beautiful. Um and then uh towards the end the uh they start singing and that's something different, right? You can feel the the sister kind of uh connection there.

[00:24:24]Um sort of like a sort of polyonic um composition there where um they're overlapping melodies um that so I I particularly like uh Alli's voice uh stood out from uh uh from uh from the harmonies in that it was sort of grounding. Um where um you had the the passion uh uh power voice and then the the strong sort of uh uh uh Danny voice and and Alli's voice was like a just a different different texture that was perfect. Um I love the lyrics. The lyrics are very poetic and and one of the few sort of uplifting songs that they had they they had more like a more of a a darker uh darker repertoire in those days that um but this this was definitely showing me the light uh so to speak. Yeah. Um in terms of the the composition um I'm not a composer. I have some uh basic um I have foundations in music and in composition but I'm no no expert. The same with the technical stuff. I am no um no gizma guru. Uh but uh I you know I have some background in electrical engineering and in different things in music production and stuff like that that none of that is professional. Uh but uh it sort of uh tickles my brain. all these things, right? That's just uh something and I like talking about it. Uh so if I say something wrong, uh please let me know. Um what was I about to say? Um I with the composition. Um so they are they are uh uh starting with minor to minor key to uh to set the mood uh to be sort of romantic melancholic and then uh it goes into the um the motivational bit that and that switches to to major scale.

[00:27:32]But they are both uh they're both using the same tones like I was saying. So it's practically uh um it's called relative uh relative major minor scales.

[00:27:47]Uh the uh the real names are these are actually modes that were adopted maybe in the 16th century by uh like western composers um would be probably mostly the church.

[00:28:06]Uh before that there were different modes that the modes mean uh you're playing uh practically you would be playing the the same notes but you start from uh from a a different point. So for example like for the Dorian scale if you have like a C major and then uh Dorian u from that would be starting at D and you just play to the next D right and the same so when you picture piano and white keys so you start from a different key and play an octave and that's that's a different scale, right? So, here you start from C um and you play up to C and that's the major scale. And if you start from A and you play up to A um on the next octave, you're playing a minor scale because the third step is half step.

[00:29:06]And uh um one of the key aspects of if somebody asked me about like western music like describe western music in two words. I would probably say uh leading tone.

[00:29:22]Um leading tone is the the tone between the seventh and eighth. to the octave um um in a major scale. And that's practically resolving uh tension um and a lot of harmony and practically the um uh some of the modifications to the uh the minor scales uh like the melodic and harmonic scales practically are all centered around the tone that And uh they're very cleverly uh um playing minor scale and then you they do the the the resolution to uh from as in you know the the leading tone resolution to major to like C. Um I think they are dropped maybe a half tone. So it would be like their tuning would be like E flat, right?

[00:30:31]And the scale would be C flat, I think, or something like that.

[00:30:40]Um but anyway the um yeah like I said I'm no professional so uh um and I haven't really researched it. So that's what I think that's my understanding of the world. So please feel free to uh let me know if that makes any sense. Um anyway, I think I will uh there's there's tons and tons of stuff that I could be talking about here. Um I just love that song and then I went and started looking at their um at their current stuff and um I don't know if I went back to um to see evolved or if maybe I don't know if choke was already out but anyway uh yeah it was no contest I I just went and looked at at everything I could and um I've done so ever since.

[00:31:53]So I hope this wasn't too um too crazy here. Um, I I ramble a little bit, but um um let me know uh um how you uh first um um got exposed to to the band. And uh um if you if you're a long-term supporter, there are those who practically funded their their first couple of albums, straight. So, uh this is from their first album, I believe.

[00:32:34]Uh so, so thank you very much to those people. Uh we wouldn't have them. So um thank you and uh like I was saying if you want to support me there is a Kofi and uh buy me a coffee link uh down in the description and you can uh click on the like and um if you want to subscribe I will be posting probably once a week or so right Now I just started. I have no idea what my capacity is going to be. So with the requests, I would probably not commit to anything.

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[00:33:51]So uh uh thank you very much and see you next time.