Analyzing "Operation: Evolution" by Dimrain47 (Geometry Dash) | Basterd's LFA

Added: 2026-05-09

[00:00:00]Next up, we have Operation Evolution by Dimra 47. This is featured in Geometry Dash is my understanding. Once again, everybody, this is a bastard ZFA, a layman friendly analysis. I'm a professionally trained musician, composer, and my objective here is to explain things in a way so that you don't have to be, excuse me, to understand what is happening here musically. So, if you like the sound of a lot, make sure you're following the channel, subscribe to the channel, whatever you use, like like the video, share the video, comment, turn on notifications, become a member. Once again everybody, don't forget to join the Discord server, join the Patreon, subscribe to the gaming channel, how to request songs if you're not on the live stream members getting early access to the content. I have a spiel for this and a bunch of other things later down this video, so stick around for that.

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[00:00:50]With that, let's go ahead and do this operation evolution. Let's go.

[00:01:02]>> [music] >> Okay, so we start with this in this first synth giving us this really really cool initial melody which contains our initial motif. Really really fun to see.

[00:01:16]Very high energy kind of thing. Let's see. I give a lot of care to everyone but then there's a special child. I hate that.

[00:01:26]Love is favoritism.

[00:01:29]You favor people over other people. The only place where it's wrong is when it's a mother having its parents having multiple children. But after that, yes, you're allowed to have favorites.

[00:01:38]Anyway, let's see where this goes.

[00:01:42]Moving the multiv.

[00:01:49]Okay. So we bring in uh two more elements and then we bring in a variation of the motif. So we have this vocal sample going yeah kind of thing.

[00:02:02]We bring in the um the bass drum kind of the bass drum slowly there. And then we are bringing a we bringing part of the motif the most active part of the motif which is now being sequenced. Sequencing being a way that it can develop your material in which you repeat a musical idea, usually a melody from a new starting point. So, for example, if I bring a simple melody like this one, and if I then sequence it, I'm going to repeat that same shape just from a different starting point. [music] So, we're doing something like that, except a lot faster because this is a way faster uh melody going on. But on principle, this is what we're doing.

[00:02:44]We're sequencing, bringing that melody down as we are going. We're probably going to bring a bad cup. Let's see here. This goes prefer to children is where you're rejecting one's child growth over another. Uh you're supposed to be raising both of them, all of them, without favorism. Yes. Yes. But me as a guy, yes, I am going to play favorites with the women in my life. Wife number one, mother number like wife number one until there's the little baby girl like the the baby girls like the daughters.

[00:03:11]Then they're number one, then wife, then mother, then mother Mary. That's it. So yeah, then then grandma, then like aunt or whatever or like other women that you get along with. But yeah, there the the the hierarchy has to be mother like wife [snorts] has to be number one competing only with the children in terms of that and that's it. Anyway, let's see where it goes.

[00:03:39]There we go. Now we bring it upwards.

[00:03:42]See?

[00:03:55]Okay, we bring in this is so much fun.

[00:03:57]So, we bring in the full drum beat and now we bring in an elongation of the motif. Elongation being when another way that you can develop a material in which you are playing a slower version of something you've done before. You're not submitting. Hell yeah. No. Hell yeah.

[00:04:13]There you go. There you go. Don't comply. Yep. Don't comply. Don't comply.

[00:04:17]Only only the only one you maybe you maybe submit to is your husband and God, but that's different. So, uh, [laughter] don't miss that. There you go, M. So, yeah, we're having an elongation. We are slowly doing the the melody on on the beat. We're doing a slower version of something we've done before. This way, we can now focus on the rest of the ensemble. So, very high energy. I like it. Let's see where it goes.

[00:04:48]Nice.

[00:04:53]Nice. Letting it play through.

[00:05:05][music] And we bring in a guitar solo with some tapping. So when you're making music, you want to keep a careful balance between what is familiar and what is new. Excuse me. Too much familiarity, too much repetition, too much of the same thing, you risk boring the listener, they do not. Too much new material too quickly, you risk overwhelming the listener, they do not.

[00:05:24]There is one universal exception, no matter the style or genre, which is solos. Electronic music does have an additional one, which is dropping the beat. Uh, but the principle is the same, right? When you bring in a solo, you bring in a dropping of the beat. As long as it sounds cool enough and it fits enough, you can get away with almost anything. Meaning the principle of familiarity and new material becomes more relaxed. Meaning that you can get away with more just not with everything.

[00:05:47]You can get away with almost anything as I said. So we bring in a guitar and we are having a really cool solo over here playing this really cool melody and doing some tapping. You're a child in the family. I mean pretty much all of us wear. Yes. Uh tapping is a technique in the guitar where let me just bring you a an image of a guitar. You take your strumming hat. So in in the guitar when you play the guitar you have two hands.

[00:06:13]You have one hand on the fretboard playing the notes and then you have the other hand that is usually going to be strumming the notes, picking the notes or uh something in between. So tapping is when you take the strumming hand and you tap the note that you're trying to do on the fretboard with that. So yeah, I think this is MIDI but it sounds so sick. No, the it could be MIDI. It could be MIDI. It could be a virtual instrument, but it is emulating tapping at the very very least. So yeah, let's see.

[00:06:43]God damn it. I just want this goes variations. That's reminiscent of the motif.

[00:06:56]Yeah, there over here you can really tell it's um it's a synth. It's a keyboard playing the sound of a guitar.

[00:07:02]So yeah, we're having um we're having that going on. And we have another synth coming in and um playing another melody under it. Let's see where this goes.

[00:07:14]Makes sense. Yeah, the mix is Yeah.

[00:07:21]Okay. So, we bring back uh this other synth over here giving some variation.

[00:07:25]We bring back this sound. Sounds like a like a pipe organ sample. It sounds like a pipe organ sample. So, we're having there this happening. Let's see where this goes.

[00:07:40]Okay, I see what is going on. So the organ over here is doing a doubling to the main melody that is happening on the top. Doubling being when you have more than one instrument, more than one layer doing the same thing at the same time.

[00:07:51]So yeah, it took a moment like the mix.

[00:07:52]You can tell this is one of the one of the older songs from from Dimra. Um like 2007 2007, man. Yeah, that's uh that's a while ago. That's That is 19 years ago.

[00:08:08]That is almost 19 years ago. This is nearly a 20year-old song. So yeah, the mix is a little bit rough here and there. You can tell it's from the earlier era. I can't mix for [ __ ] So I'm not going to hold it against him.

[00:08:22]Let's hear it goes.

[00:08:25][music] And we bring in we bring in a brief call and response over there. You can hear the two sins going back and forth. So maybe a super solid.

[00:08:37]That could be I don't know too many of these. All right. All right. Thanks for hanging out, Nosh. Have a good one. Hope [music] you'll return. Hell yeah. All right. So yeah, off the ramp we go. And yes, Nosh, you go and do what you got to do. Have a have a good you you you're my sweet sweet salt. So um we're having this. And yes, have a have a go do what you got to do. We're bring this. We are going h not quite off the ramp, but we bring in back the the temperature. We tone down the temperature. We're bringing back the guitar sample. Let's see where this goes.

[00:09:10]All right.

[00:09:14][music] Okay. That's sounds like a Okay. So, we bring in now a piano and what sounds like another synth. Maybe some variation of a a violin or something like that. And most importantly, we are also engaging in a call and response. Call and response being a musical conversation. And right now, you can hear it. I'm going to call it violins just for the sake of simplicity, right? So, we can hear the piano playing. And then what the piano is done, the violins are playing something else in response. Colum response musical conversation. Pretty straightforward. Let's see where this goes.

[00:09:50][music] Developing that.

[00:09:56]Now, off the ramp we go. Off the ramp being a colloquial term that I use.

[00:10:01]Colloquial by that I mean there's no official academic definition for this or at least I'm choosing not to use it for the sake of simplicity. And off the ramp is what I like to call a particular type of transition or feel suspended up in the air at the mercy of inertia waiting to see where you land. Can I what how do you do this? Remove the drums maybe the bass as well. Kind of like going off a ramp. So yeah, we're bringing in now this new version of the motif or this new version of the melody. Let's see where it goes.

[00:10:24]There you go. Back we go. And we [music] have one more synth now. Slowly playing off the ramp.

[00:10:32]And we hit the reset button. We now bring back just the um just [laughter] sorry. Sorry. I just keep seeing what says. [snorts] So we now bring back the bass drum doing its thing. We have this other synth going up and down really really uh really really quick. um basically giving us a a variation of the motif really. And we're gonna see where it goes. Very good way of um of building things up. And speaking of building things up, I built up the Patreon. Once again, everybody, if you want to support this channel more than you already are, consider joining the Patreon today.

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[00:12:07]New version. That's part of the motif.

[00:12:10]elongation from the piano. All right, thanks for catching up. Oh, there we go.

[00:12:18]Switching the S around. New bass.

[00:12:23]The synth now is going higher. We switch it to a higher one.

[00:12:27]There's the piano. Some accents from the percussion there. Nice.

[00:12:32]Nice.

[00:12:35]Nice.

[00:12:37]And break there from the bass.

[00:12:43]All right, we get this uh synth going back and forth between the two um between the two ears. Doing some panning over here and we're having a run. We're doing a reduction, I think, uh of the motif.

[00:12:59]We're doing what we were doing the sequencing from before. Um but this one, no, I think it's the same the same speed. Reduction is when you do a uh faster version of something you've done before, right? So, we're having that.

[00:13:09]We're doing that in this other synth and is panning back and forth between the ears. Panning being when you prioritize one ear over another, at least in audio, right? So, yeah. Let's see where this goes.

[00:13:23]Oh, it's the synth that has been going.

[00:13:25]Yeah. This whole time it's just no longer in the middle ground. Now, it's doing the variations of the motif. There you go.

[00:13:34]There we go. Now, it sounds a little bit more obvious.

[00:13:38]Nice.

[00:13:40]There you go. Now we focus on it doing variations.

[00:13:44]So right now we are doing variations of the motif. How is this variation? We are just repeating some of the notes. So we're having the same overall shape but we are postponing some of the motif by just repeating some of the notes and along with the rhythm. But here it goes.

[00:14:01]arpeggios nice with the melody playing from a violin synth back there. This one's kind of playing what the guitar was doing earlier. Let's see. A lot of changes here. Nice. And guitar solo similar to what we had before this time.

[00:14:23]Nice.

[00:14:27]Oh, this is really cool. So, we bring in this over here, giving us a new variation of this motif, focusing in just one part. This is really cool. This is a really cool way of developing this motif because it was a very long motif that we had at the start, and now we're focusing on little aspects of it and just making completely new stuff out of it. This is so cool. Let's see where it goes.

[00:14:53]Nice. [music] There you go. Guitar solo. Let's go.

[00:14:58]Woo. Yeah, you can really tell that this is a uh keyboard solo. It kind of sounds like a distorted guitar, but not really.

[00:15:06]So, yeah, there you go. Oh my god, this is awesome.

[00:15:13]Oh, and it's panning.

[00:15:15]And and run version.

[00:15:22]Nice.

[00:15:24]Doing runs over here.

[00:15:27]and and we modulate. We switch over to a new set of chords completely shifting things around bringing a completely new paradigm in what what we call direct modulation. So modulation is when you sh when you switch from one set of chords to a different set of chords. Usually you want to use some sort of um like uh smoothening process to it. Excuse me. Oh wow. Excuse me. I I ate a gyros earlier.

[00:16:00]So yeah. So this can be common chord, common note, uh peaker. There's a bunch of different modulations that the point of them is to make the the change smoother. But the one we're talking about is direct modulation as we heard it just now. Usually it's going up. This one went down, which was we had one chord progression, one set of chords, and before anything else happened, now we're in the second one. Just giving you this sense of the rug moves from under your feet kind of thing. Let's see where this goes.

[00:16:33]Full on solo.

[00:16:36]See?

[00:16:39]Huh?

[00:16:43]We switch over to this synth over here.

[00:16:47]Elongation of the motive. It's slower than before. No, it's solo modulation again.

[00:16:56]Nice.

[00:16:59]Oh, this is really cool. So, now we are having the the guitar giving us this really cool melody above. We're having the other synth doing the solo in between. Man, this is so cool.

[00:17:12]And one more run of the arpeggios.

[00:17:17]And we go for that one last run. We take that high note and we break down that note. And there you have it. That was awesome, dude. Like, yeah, the mix is a little bit rough. Who cares? The rest of it, man, that was so much fun. That was so much fun. There you have it. That was Operation Evolution by Dim Rain 47. That was so much fun, dude. Once again everybody, this has been a bastard Zelfe, a layman friendly analysis. I'm a professionally trained musician, composer, and my objective here has been to explain things in a way so that you don't have to be one to understand what's happened here musically. So, if you're watching this on the YouTube video archive thing, thank you for watching. Make sure you're following the channel, subscribe to the channel, whatever use, like the video, share the video, comment, turn on notifications, become a member. Once again, everybody, don't forget to join the Discord server. That's where everything gets announced first. Whether it's the streams going live, the videos going up, the channels, updates, projects, giveaways, everything gets announced there first. Of course, we have the community there. We hang out, we chat, we steal memes, really beautiful servers, claim them as our own, and where I host the vintage story.

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