I imagine musicians who accidently develop it when they're young and never really use it, eventually lose it. (classical musicians). I'd be very surprised if actual play-by-ear musicians and composers like myself actually lose it. More studying needs to be done on how perfect pitch is developed and potentially lost though.
Spatial Audio is also an important part of classical music, especially with extended ensembles. One cool example is “The Unanswered Question” by Charles Ives, where the strings are meant to be back stage and the brass and woodwind are meant to be in the rafters of the concert hall. This gives the piece a really ethereal sound. It’s a super cool topic, I bet Adam could do a fab video on it, similar to his “RUclipsrs react to Experimental Music” video.
I think Adam has actually mentioned that particular piece before (can't remember the exact video sorry) so it would be awesome if he did a whole video essay on it!
There's a whole field of psycho-acoustics around placement of sound in space. This dude in San Francisco does "sound sculpture" in an environment of 176 audio speakers en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audium_(theater)
Why does finding out Adam is a coaster nerd make me smile so much? Just hearing coaster manufacturers named on this channel made me giggle immediately!
I never once thought I would meet another coaster enthusiast in this area of RUclips, but it turns out there is a surprising amount of overlap. It's friggin' dope as heck.
11:25 as a child I always connected certain chords and songs with certain colors. When I tried to discuss it, people thought I was strange. Its feels good to know I'm not the only one
Agree with the Musician v RUclips question. As someone who’s been doing RUclips on a weekly basis for almost 5 months now I’m just putting out videos because something musical excited me and I wanted to share it. Hoping the channel takes off like yours😁🤘
1:04 is the coolest transition i have ever seen in my many years on the internet ever even months later. Transition flawless achieved kudos to you for such an amazing bit of editing and thank you for the hard work it must have taken to procure it for us all to enjoy.
There are some songs that use binaural audio quite brilliantly in their conception, like Chrome Sparks' "Marijuana" by having the intro fade in and swirl around, gradually speeding up. The effect is brilliantly psychedelic.
Haha, fellow rollercoaster nerd here too! I'm from the UK but I've been to the USA and quite a few different parks. I had the privilege of riding Millennium Force first thing in the morning when it was foggy, and the bottom of the first drop was INVISIBLE from the top of the lift. It was like being thrown into nothingness. I'll never forget that :)
@@hugobouma I don’t like calling it jazz theory tbh because it’s just music theory. Classical musicians use the same stuff, like Ravel and Debussy. Ravel being the master of the 9ths and augmented chords. And Debussy using extended harmony which is a fundamental concept of jazz. Despite that people like to distinguish the two theories even though they are one. Jazz ain’t nothin special to be categorized into its own genre.
learning adam is a coaster enthusiast is the best part of my day
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Your synesthesia crashes so hard with mine: Yellow = E ; Blue = C ; Bb/D is like mint ice cream on a bed of lettuce. We should do something like "5 synesthetes compose over the same painting (or any colorful visual thing)".
I think that the more you practice and the more you work on your craft, the quicker and more easily you can enter a flow state. I once wrote a very long novel. I worked on it every day. In the beginning, I would only enter this flow state occasionally. But after several months, it happened just a few minutes after I sat down. And it happened almost every day.
Dude not even thirty seconds in when you played the original chord progression, chills with each chord change. And I've literally never heard of this song before. Like FUCK
Yeah, since the E of the sample sounds like it's lower pitched than the 440hz, and thus not actually being played at all. In the examples when the rate at which the samples are being played back is less than the pitch of the E (presumably ~330hz), it should sound less sawtoothy, though it still should have sudden discontinuities, so maybe it still should sound sort of sawtoothy.
That Brando insert made me LOL so much. 😂 This is a great chapter in your series, really liking it. PS, the composer of "Stella by Starlight" was Victor Young
Do people with audio-visual synesthesia actually *see* colours when hearing sounds? Like when you mentioned yellow and blue, do you get the 'feeling' of those colours? Or do you actually like... see them somehow?
I think Adam was more so talking about the actual letters like C and B, so a letter-color synesthesia. Idk if audio-visual is a thing but it probably is
I'd imagine it's like thinking about (or imagining) a colour. You don't see it overlayed on your visual field. But you still can kind of see it in your mind. Or like if I imagine my house. I don't see it in the same way that I see what is actually in front of me but I can see it in my mind and visually focus in on details etc. I'd say it's analagous to imagining a song in your head. And in fact smells and tastes often have sound to me and it's very much the same sort of thing as how I would usually imagine sounds.
I like when we get cool snippets of you playing something more technically complex. I'm very used to watching videos where you describe theory and play in a demonstrative way to reinforce learning concepts, I almost forget that you're a very talented performer!
It's actually pretty easy training getting into and staying in the zone. But it's quite time consuming. And if you have build up that ability for e.g. playing music it wont help you with the zone for e.g. creating visual art. Eventhough both are creative outputs thet're different skill sets. And that kinda sucks!
"Zones" are kinda terrible for playing music in groups, tbh. They're self- isolating. Being in the zone is great if you're pole-vaulting; but making great music with others requires your attention and "presence" with the other musicians, as well as the setting and "mood". That's incompatible with the mental focus-space of "the zone", as I understand it.
I joined a blues-rock band a month before they were scheduled to go to the studio. I can tell you that- while I could have probably been more elaborate with more time to prepare- I never got more creative than I did figuring out parts for those eight songs.
Does your a synesthesia change over time, or in context? Like “blue” is C now, it was more purple before? Or is the color consistent? If C is blue, is it always blue regardless of the mood of the piece (like sad, or thumping) or might it change for you living inside a piece of music vs in isolation? That’s a lot. I’ll take your answer off the air. I really like your channel.
As a synesthete, my experience is that, generally speaking, notes remain the colours that they've always been, but personally, I started on an instrument where you play in a lot of sharps keys, and when I began to play jazz piano (where you run into a lot more pieces in flat keys), found that reading (for example) a Db instead of C# would be different colours. My run down is C= white/cerise (this seems to be the only key which changes, and it is dependant on the mood of the piece) D= mid blue E= yellow F= blue-green G= mid green A= red B= pale blue
I don't have music/colour synaesthesia, but I thought you might be interested in this anyway! Mine is colour/grapheme, so every letter and number and some other things have colours for me. The colours have been completely consistent throughout my life, and a select few do change slightly in circumstances. 2 for example is red for me, but when paired with yellow numbers (like 4), it looks pink. Font, emotional connection to the words, etc, don't affect it at all. If anyone is reading this and has music/colour, I'd love to know what it sounds like to hear microtones. When I see non-letter/numbers in text, like &, %, ~ etc, they have no associated colour. @ takes on the colour of "a", though. I'd also love to know if music/colour synaesthesia works effectively like perfect pitch. Either way, always been super jealous of this type, it seems utterly magical :)
On the Flow State: I gave myself a deadline of 9 songs in 10 days and man i flow stated the shit out of those 10 days, i could feel it waning towards the end but it was powerful
Flow state is real. I had to complete 12 projects in 12 days to submit porfolio to enter into art college. I completed the task and earned a scholarship. My first art work ever. Never had instruction. I call it a God thing.
6:17 Oh man, I gotta talk about the speedcore thing again. So speedcore is a variant of hardcore electronic that plays with elevated tempos, generally above 250bpm. When it starts to *really* get up there, you stop hearing the separation between the kick drum (referred to as "extratone") But down at "really fast but still kinda sane" land, it's pretty common to play notes and in some cases, melody, using really fast drums, played more often than the kick. Check out this bit from "SLEEPY EYES AGAIN" by The Quick Brown Fox: ruclips.net/video/u6T346JeBNU/видео.html I love this technique, it's a great example of all the fun psychoacoustic things you can do at the threshold of perception. :)
re: Flow, per Csikszentmihalyi, flow happens when your short-term attention buffer is filled with a currently performed task. Stress & anxiety will only result in flow IF one is also able to complete the task. check out his TED talk if you don't wanna read the book. there's a pretty good diagram of how the attitudes have to interact.
PSA: "notoriety" is not a synonym for fame. I think people associate it with "noteworthy" and therefore think of it as a fancier way to say famous. But it comes from "notorious." Notoriety is INfamy. Alex Jones got his "notoriety" from youtube. You my friend are not notorious. You're a national treasure!
@@dsnodgrass4843 the point is he said "before I got notoriety from RUclips. He misspoke there. Notoriety is infamy. It comes from the word notorious.it is a common mistake and something of a pet peeve. Besides Adam is amazing and not notorious
@@YourFavouriteColor if you bring up the Merriam-Webster dictionary you can see "celebrity" or "notability" (among others) as synonyms. So no, Adam was totally fine using it as a synonym for famous.
@@tima6044 the definition is the stste of bring famous for a bad or evil deed. That is the definition of the word. Notability or fame...for doing something bad or evil. Synonym: infamy.
Way to make music so textbook-beautiful! LOVE your channel. Your appreciation for music is obvious, and it makes me want to be a more educated musician.
Slightly nerdy/pedantic point: pitch *isn't* just about how many times per second something happens. That's what frequency is. Frequency and pitch are closely related, but they're not the same. For example, notes with exactly the same frequency, but played at different volumes, may be perceived as different pitches. It's a subtle effect, but it's there. I think it's probably the reason why you sometimes get different perceptions of what's in tune if you listen to an instrument (e.g. a guitar that's mic'd) on headphones, versus listening just acoustically.
You mentioned Jim McNeely being your mentor. I drove from Humber college in Toronto to NYC to study a bit with him in the late 80’s. He really blew my mind at the time with the diminished stuff he showed me. I doubt he’d remember me but do let him know that he was significant to me as well. 😊
A line of poetry that has an extra, unaccented syllable after what "should" be the last, emphasised syllable is also called feminine. In Rudyard Kipling's "If" he goes feminine, masculine, feminine, masculine, to create a sense of open-ended "call" (on in the lines beginning with "If...") followed by more assertive "response".
My HS marching band from western NC went to Ceder Point back in '09! Millennium Force and Maverick were the favorites for sure. Top Thrill was fun but it happened so fast lol
My old piano teacher is something like 82 and she still has perfect pitch. She says it's a bit shifted early in the morning but it corrects itself once she's a bit more awake she says.
"hearing colors" like you do, could be nice a video (or an exercize with other musicians, maybe) of you making music based on paintings, or any other type of really visual(colorfull) art
There's a lot more to say about fading an E in and out at 440 Hz. A piano note would probably have non-harmonic components in the attack part, so you could be just playing random harmonics at a 440 Hz rate, which would just sound like an A with some unknown overtones. A more general description of what happens is that you're multiplying the amplitudes of two signals. Amplitude modulation (that's 'AM' on your radio) makes "side bands" in the spectrum. In the case of A and E sine tones, if E is the E4 below at 3/4 * 440 Hz = 330 Hz, the output will be a tone with the difference and the sum of the frequences, 440-330=110 Hz and 440+330=770 Hz, . That is an A2 at 110 Hz with the 7th harmonic added.
If you think about the wave form, there will be basically nothing left of the original E, because the amount of time each E plays for is so short, it can’t really be said to have a frequency at all any more - it’s just a pulse.
Could you make a series on your channel on deconstructing/understanding/music school concepts or something. I love watching your videos, but I don’t understand some concepts. I really want understand music, however, I didn’t grow up with privilege to make such endeavor. I feel like this series could explore non-western music traditions that you really want to be explored in music theory/music school.
About the flow-state: I think just setting up your space and make time to be in flow helps. This, and priming your brain (so like, "looking forward to") to being in flow in a pre decided space of time. It's like looking forward to taco Friday when it's only Wednesday afternoon.
New subscriber. 1st video I saw was your take on CCM music, that you kinda hate, and as a Christian and a gospel musician, let me give you a piece of my mind......that was a really good video. It was a well thought out, balanced review, and I appreciated your opinion and for the most part, I completely agree. Great content man, keep up the good work. Oh and also, that version of Oceans was killer.
4:33 if you're looking for straight up "fading a thing in and out at 440Hz" the thing you're probably looking for is amplitude modulation. it actually does produce some kinda cool results with "sideband frequencies", look into ring modulation too it's nearly the same thing. more synthesis territory than music theory but of course synthesis theory is a form of music theory innit you don't get the same effect by just playing a piano sample back 440 times per second because you're just repeating the exact same waveform, your "E" sound is being re-started 440 times per second whereas if it's just going on at its 329.62Hz or whatever and being brought in and out 440 times per second each time it's brought in it'll be starting at a different point in its cycle. also i think adam has a video that talks about sideband frequencies?
The song Yellow, by Coldplay had the following chord progression:
C,C,C,C,C,C,C,C,C,C,C,C,C,C,C
it's all yellow
Its actually in B
@@umaroxp5207 yeah, but why let a fact ruin a good joke, eh?
@@umaroxp5207 It's in C if you play it fast enough
@@violetcitizen Excellent.
@@umaroxp5207 ok, nerd
Band instructor: "Everyone play a C"
Me: Frantically increasing tempo in Ableton on my laptop
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@@Kayuk no
yes!
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If you can't train yourself to press the piano key several hundreds of times per second to produce the note, you're not a real musician
Someone with perfect pitch: "Please comfort me about losing perfect pitch."
Adam Neely: "Don't worry, you're going to die anyway."
Hahahahahaha
So true
E.H. agreed.
Welp... He is not wrong tbh...
Incidentally we call chopin Choppers up here.He suggests you master instrument. He says zzzzz
I imagine musicians who accidently develop it when they're young and never really use it, eventually lose it. (classical musicians). I'd be very surprised if actual play-by-ear musicians and composers like myself actually lose it. More studying needs to be done on how perfect pitch is developed and potentially lost though.
I love how at 5:45, when he plays the E at 64hz, you can hear the major third with the low C
And in a stroke of musical genius, the explanation of how you change an E note to an A note begins at…4:40.
Bravo…
that chord progression is so beautiful man
im literally tearing up
Spatial Audio is also an important part of classical music, especially with extended ensembles. One cool example is “The Unanswered Question” by Charles Ives, where the strings are meant to be back stage and the brass and woodwind are meant to be in the rafters of the concert hall. This gives the piece a really ethereal sound. It’s a super cool topic, I bet Adam could do a fab video on it, similar to his “RUclipsrs react to Experimental Music” video.
I think Adam has actually mentioned that particular piece before (can't remember the exact video sorry) so it would be awesome if he did a whole video essay on it!
Henry Brant wrote a lot of spatial music, for example: ruclips.net/video/0bWeDkfBp8U/видео.html score: issuu.com/theodorepresser/docs/wwcf_score
Nice! I’ll give it a listen.
There's a whole field of psycho-acoustics around placement of sound in space. This dude in San Francisco does "sound sculpture" in an environment of 176 audio speakers en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audium_(theater)
but it's not really a huge part of classical music...
Why does finding out Adam is a coaster nerd make me smile so much? Just hearing coaster manufacturers named on this channel made me giggle immediately!
Why did I first think this comment was about coasters for drinks?
@@int0x80 same here
coaster nerd LMFAO... iykyk
I never once thought I would meet another coaster enthusiast in this area of RUclips, but it turns out there is a surprising amount of overlap. It's friggin' dope as heck.
@@MinkyBoodle44 lmao same
That experiment on frequency was fascinating! I guess I knew that the E would turn into an A but I've never seen that demonstrated.
I miss the old theme "Question and answer time with Adam Neeeelyyyyy"
Yah!
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bass
I appreciate your enthusiasm, makes everything more fun.
Damn, I knew you loved music, but a whole video on the physical attraction of this one chord? I am shocked
Oh look a checkmark
This feels like a fantano comment
Yo Brad Taste, didn’t expect you here love your videos man.
wait you watch Adam?
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11:25 as a child I always connected certain chords and songs with certain colors. When I tried to discuss it, people thought I was strange. Its feels good to know I'm not the only one
Are you really a musician first, or do you just want to avoid boxing matches against the Paul brothers?
This comment is great!
don't we all?
Let's be honest: all sane humans want to avoid those mooks as much as possible, at all times.
@@fhqwhgads1670 I’d fight them for millions tho. Pretty good shot at not having long-term damage for 10 minutes of “work”
@@johnfrenette I'd fight them for $20
Love the camera effects where you are on screen within screen and then back out again!
Agree with the Musician v RUclips question.
As someone who’s been doing RUclips on a weekly basis for almost 5 months now I’m just putting out videos because something musical excited me and I wanted to share it. Hoping the channel takes off like yours😁🤘
That opening cadence to Prelude no 20 is one of my favourite things. Those old critiques really didnt know anything.
I’m happy he got my request on this series
(256/60) • 103 = 439.46 Yep! checks out :)
Great video as usual 👍
Damn u can watch fast
Naw he's a prophet. He knows the video will be good even during the first minute
@@kirjian you know the truth
Playing bass with/for good people (in a room) is one of the best things! All the instruments are beautiful and wonderful but bass stole my heart
1:04 is the coolest transition i have ever seen in my many years on the internet ever even months later. Transition flawless achieved kudos to you for such an amazing bit of editing and thank you for the hard work it must have taken to procure it for us all to enjoy.
There are some songs that use binaural audio quite brilliantly in their conception, like Chrome Sparks' "Marijuana" by having the intro fade in and swirl around, gradually speeding up. The effect is brilliantly psychedelic.
Haha, fellow rollercoaster nerd here too! I'm from the UK but I've been to the USA and quite a few different parks. I had the privilege of riding Millennium Force first thing in the morning when it was foggy, and the bottom of the first drop was INVISIBLE from the top of the lift. It was like being thrown into nothingness. I'll never forget that :)
0:58: But is a jazz-based analysis really appropriate? It's clearly inspired by late Romantic symphonic music. Sounds like a Rachmaninoff.
The guy is a jazz musician... He's going to compare it to jazz theory, even if it isn't appropriate.
@@wolfgangamadeusmozart6457 and why wouldn't it be appropriate? The tune ended up in the Real Book, after all.
@@hugobouma I don’t like calling it jazz theory tbh because it’s just music theory. Classical musicians use the same stuff, like Ravel and Debussy. Ravel being the master of the 9ths and augmented chords. And Debussy using extended harmony which is a fundamental concept of jazz. Despite that people like to distinguish the two theories even though they are one. Jazz ain’t nothin special to be categorized into its own genre.
learning adam is a coaster enthusiast is the best part of my day
Your synesthesia crashes so hard with mine: Yellow = E ; Blue = C ; Bb/D is like mint ice cream on a bed of lettuce. We should do something like "5 synesthetes compose over the same painting (or any colorful visual thing)".
To me yellow = 5th degree (shines like gold aka dominates), blue = 2nd degree
Tonic is white obviously
D is yellow for me lol (the note and the scale)
@@ZachMcCordProg E is the yellowest yellow for me
YOURS MATCHES MINE. We're besties now
@@shadowbunny7892 oh yeah!
I think that the more you practice and the more you work on your craft, the quicker and more easily you can enter a flow state. I once wrote a very long novel. I worked on it every day. In the beginning, I would only enter this flow state occasionally. But after several months, it happened just a few minutes after I sat down. And it happened almost every day.
E 440 times per second sounds like A. That was insane. Living
WOAH I've never really understood why pitch changes if you speed up or slow down sound but THERE IT IS.
Musician + Coaster Enthusiast = God tier person
Absolutely
You delight and inspire me even though I don't understand half of what you're saying.
Such is the power of music.
I love deadlines, I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Dude not even thirty seconds in when you played the original chord progression, chills with each chord change. And I've literally never heard of this song before. Like FUCK
Notably the waveform of the E at 440 Hz will look like a chopped up wave with a jump every 1/440 seconds. Hence the sawtoothy sound?
Yeah, since the E of the sample sounds like it's lower pitched than the 440hz, and thus not actually being played at all. In the examples when the rate at which the samples are being played back is less than the pitch of the E (presumably ~330hz), it should sound less sawtoothy, though it still should have sudden discontinuities, so maybe it still should sound sort of sawtoothy.
That Brando insert made me LOL so much. 😂 This is a great chapter in your series, really liking it. PS, the composer of "Stella by Starlight" was Victor Young
You blew my mind with the 440Hz demo
Adam. Thanks. You're awesome and you share with others. Thoughtful person. Best wishes. Dan.
Do people with audio-visual synesthesia actually *see* colours when hearing sounds? Like when you mentioned yellow and blue, do you get the 'feeling' of those colours? Or do you actually like... see them somehow?
I think Adam was more so talking about the actual letters like C and B, so a letter-color synesthesia. Idk if audio-visual is a thing but it probably is
I'd imagine it's like thinking about (or imagining) a colour. You don't see it overlayed on your visual field. But you still can kind of see it in your mind.
Or like if I imagine my house. I don't see it in the same way that I see what is actually in front of me but I can see it in my mind and visually focus in on details etc.
I'd say it's analagous to imagining a song in your head. And in fact smells and tastes often have sound to me and it's very much the same sort of thing as how I would usually imagine sounds.
I played horn for 15+ years, and therefore of course I always can appreciate good horn parts. Thanks Adam!
I can handle dying but the thought of becoming anymore tone-deaf than I already am is terrifying
Happy you’re back!!
"Like that, right there, that's C major as f***" -Adam Neely, 2021
Isn't that too obvious to C?
I like when we get cool snippets of you playing something more technically complex. I'm very used to watching videos where you describe theory and play in a demonstrative way to reinforce learning concepts, I almost forget that you're a very talented performer!
It's actually pretty easy training getting into and staying in the zone. But it's quite time consuming. And if you have build up that ability for e.g. playing music it wont help you with the zone for e.g. creating visual art. Eventhough both are creative outputs thet're different skill sets. And that kinda sucks!
"Zones" are kinda terrible for playing music in groups, tbh. They're self- isolating. Being in the zone is great if you're pole-vaulting; but making great music with others requires your attention and "presence" with the other musicians, as well as the setting and "mood". That's incompatible with the mental focus-space of "the zone", as I understand it.
I joined a blues-rock band a month before they were scheduled to go to the studio. I can tell you that- while I could have probably been more elaborate with more time to prepare- I never got more creative than I did figuring out parts for those eight songs.
Adam's way of sharing his passion for music is SO beautiful
Thank you for mentioning Cedar Point, that was so nostalgic for me
Does your a synesthesia change over time, or in context? Like “blue” is C now, it was more purple before? Or is the color consistent?
If C is blue, is it always blue regardless of the mood of the piece (like sad, or thumping) or might it change for you living inside a piece of music vs in isolation? That’s a lot. I’ll take your answer off the air. I really like your channel.
As a synesthete, my experience is that, generally speaking, notes remain the colours that they've always been, but personally, I started on an instrument where you play in a lot of sharps keys, and when I began to play jazz piano (where you run into a lot more pieces in flat keys), found that reading (for example) a Db instead of C# would be different colours. My run down is C= white/cerise (this seems to be the only key which changes, and it is dependant on the mood of the piece) D= mid blue E= yellow F= blue-green G= mid green A= red B= pale blue
I don't have music/colour synaesthesia, but I thought you might be interested in this anyway! Mine is colour/grapheme, so every letter and number and some other things have colours for me. The colours have been completely consistent throughout my life, and a select few do change slightly in circumstances. 2 for example is red for me, but when paired with yellow numbers (like 4), it looks pink. Font, emotional connection to the words, etc, don't affect it at all.
If anyone is reading this and has music/colour, I'd love to know what it sounds like to hear microtones. When I see non-letter/numbers in text, like &, %, ~ etc, they have no associated colour. @ takes on the colour of "a", though.
I'd also love to know if music/colour synaesthesia works effectively like perfect pitch. Either way, always been super jealous of this type, it seems utterly magical :)
On the Flow State:
I gave myself a deadline of 9 songs in 10 days and man i flow stated the shit out of those 10 days, i could feel it waning towards the end but it was powerful
Flow state is real. I had to complete 12 projects in 12 days to submit porfolio to enter into art college. I completed the task and earned a scholarship. My first art work ever. Never had instruction. I call it a God thing.
Absolutely. You get the same horn counter melody in the orchestration of the amazing original Star Trek theme. Perfection!
omg a coaster geek I didn't expect that! Just made you more awesome
Watched on Nebula. Came here just to comment. I have loved Machaut a long time and love seeing him get some attention. Great stuff.
That experiment with the frequency of the E note was enlightening. Thanks for that!
It's amazing Abletons MIDI processing works up to audio rates, resulting in a stable pitch.
6:17
Oh man, I gotta talk about the speedcore thing again.
So speedcore is a variant of hardcore electronic that plays with elevated tempos, generally above 250bpm. When it starts to *really* get up there, you stop hearing the separation between the kick drum (referred to as "extratone")
But down at "really fast but still kinda sane" land, it's pretty common to play notes and in some cases, melody, using really fast drums, played more often than the kick.
Check out this bit from "SLEEPY EYES AGAIN" by The Quick Brown Fox:
ruclips.net/video/u6T346JeBNU/видео.html
I love this technique, it's a great example of all the fun psychoacoustic things you can do at the threshold of perception. :)
excellent video and format Adam, well done
re: Flow, per Csikszentmihalyi, flow happens when your short-term attention buffer is filled with a currently performed task. Stress & anxiety will only result in flow IF one is also able to complete the task. check out his TED talk if you don't wanna read the book. there's a pretty good diagram of how the attitudes have to interact.
The 440hz demo was sick. Even when I knew what was going to happen it was still pretty cool to see.
I have to say, this was so entertaining, enlightening, educational, but just really thoughtfully compiled. thanks.
I love learning this stuff from someone so adorable!
Adam Neely's mentor is Mr.McNeely. Seems appropriate.
Hey Adam, just want to say thank you for the awesome work. Finally subscribed.
6:06 everything in it’s right place immediately started playing in my head after hearing that note with that timbre
PSA: "notoriety" is not a synonym for fame. I think people associate it with "noteworthy" and therefore think of it as a fancier way to say famous. But it comes from "notorious." Notoriety is INfamy. Alex Jones got his "notoriety" from youtube. You my friend are not notorious. You're a national treasure!
There's a pretty big difference between notoriety (of either sort), and significance. Adam's definitely on the side of significance.
@@dsnodgrass4843 the point is he said "before I got notoriety from RUclips. He misspoke there. Notoriety is infamy. It comes from the word notorious.it is a common mistake and something of a pet peeve. Besides Adam is amazing and not notorious
I think he's being modest or self-deprecating, trying not to use terms like "famous" or "well known", although, of course, he is those things.
@@YourFavouriteColor if you bring up the Merriam-Webster dictionary you can see "celebrity" or "notability" (among others) as synonyms.
So no, Adam was totally fine using it as a synonym for famous.
@@tima6044 the definition is the stste of bring famous for a bad or evil deed. That is the definition of the word. Notability or fame...for doing something bad or evil. Synonym: infamy.
Way to make music so textbook-beautiful! LOVE your channel. Your appreciation for music is obvious, and it makes me want to be a more educated musician.
Slightly nerdy/pedantic point: pitch *isn't* just about how many times per second something happens. That's what frequency is. Frequency and pitch are closely related, but they're not the same. For example, notes with exactly the same frequency, but played at different volumes, may be perceived as different pitches. It's a subtle effect, but it's there. I think it's probably the reason why you sometimes get different perceptions of what's in tune if you listen to an instrument (e.g. a guitar that's mic'd) on headphones, versus listening just acoustically.
Question for the next Q&A:
What would a complex time signature like i/4 sound like?
Does it even make sense as a concept?
the thing about the 24 hours album is what i needed to hear today. thanks
You mentioned Jim McNeely being your mentor. I drove from Humber college in Toronto to NYC to study a bit with him in the late 80’s. He really blew my mind at the time with the diminished stuff he showed me. I doubt he’d remember me but do let him know that he was significant to me as well. 😊
A line of poetry that has an extra, unaccented syllable after what "should" be the last, emphasised syllable is also called feminine. In Rudyard Kipling's "If" he goes feminine, masculine, feminine, masculine, to create a sense of open-ended "call" (on in the lines beginning with "If...") followed by more assertive "response".
“music and pitch is just how fast sth is happening” ily
I don't know anything about music theory, but I love watching videos like this.
Pro-tip: Make sure the intro and the intro music are in the same key.
That part of the E turning into an A was so impressive. Great video at all points thank you!!
Hey, you should really make an ENTIRE video on Johnny Costa.
Painfully underrated.
My HS marching band from western NC went to Ceder Point back in '09! Millennium Force and Maverick were the favorites for sure. Top Thrill was fun but it happened so fast lol
My old piano teacher is something like 82 and she still has perfect pitch. She says it's a bit shifted early in the morning but it corrects itself once she's a bit more awake she says.
"hearing colors" like you do, could be nice a video (or an exercize with other musicians, maybe) of you making music based on paintings, or any other type of really visual(colorfull) art
You got me man. This is great!
You sending the audio in a circle around me was kind of an intimate experience
Amazing lesson on Stella by Starlight
Femboy Chopin confirmed
Excellent video, Adam.
There's a lot more to say about fading an E in and out at 440 Hz. A piano note would probably have non-harmonic components in the attack part, so you could be just playing random harmonics at a 440 Hz rate, which would just sound like an A with some unknown overtones. A more general description of what happens is that you're multiplying the amplitudes of two signals. Amplitude modulation (that's 'AM' on your radio) makes "side bands" in the spectrum. In the case of A and E sine tones, if E is the E4 below at 3/4 * 440 Hz = 330 Hz, the output will be a tone with the difference and the sum of the frequences, 440-330=110 Hz and 440+330=770 Hz, . That is an A2 at 110 Hz with the 7th harmonic added.
If you think about the wave form, there will be basically nothing left of the original E, because the amount of time each E plays for is so short, it can’t really be said to have a frequency at all any more - it’s just a pulse.
Very slick editing!
Jim McNeely being Adam's mentor implies the existence of my mentor with the McCarlile surname. And now I'm seeking him/her. :)
FYI, the term "feminine" here comes from prosody. A feminine ending has an unstressed, extra syllable at the end of the line.
Could you make a series on your channel on deconstructing/understanding/music school concepts or something. I love watching your videos, but I don’t understand some concepts. I really want understand music, however, I didn’t grow up with privilege to make such endeavor. I feel like this series could explore non-western music traditions that you really want to be explored in music theory/music school.
So that’s how Hz works, I learn something new today. Thanks 😁
As a dude who played F horn in concert band and BASS in jazz band, I also love horn countermelodies.
About the flow-state: I think just setting up your space and make time to be in flow helps. This, and priming your brain (so like, "looking forward to") to being in flow in a pre decided space of time. It's like looking forward to taco Friday when it's only Wednesday afternoon.
0:53 Adam:Yeahhh... Sunday mornin' rain is fallin..
New subscriber. 1st video I saw was your take on CCM music, that you kinda hate, and as a Christian and a gospel musician, let me give you a piece of my mind......that was a really good video. It was a well thought out, balanced review, and I appreciated your opinion and for the most part, I completely agree. Great content man, keep up the good work.
Oh and also, that version of Oceans was killer.
4:37 this actually blew my mind I didn’t know this is how it worked🤯🤯
I love this mix of lessons/questions you deal with in this video! Somehow some relevant content mix for me. Thanks Adam.
Did this guy make a video where he explains what he means by "resolving" a chord? I'd really like to know and this guy explains harmony really well
4:33 if you're looking for straight up "fading a thing in and out at 440Hz" the thing you're probably looking for is amplitude modulation. it actually does produce some kinda cool results with "sideband frequencies", look into ring modulation too it's nearly the same thing. more synthesis territory than music theory but of course synthesis theory is a form of music theory innit
you don't get the same effect by just playing a piano sample back 440 times per second because you're just repeating the exact same waveform, your "E" sound is being re-started 440 times per second whereas if it's just going on at its 329.62Hz or whatever and being brought in and out 440 times per second each time it's brought in it'll be starting at a different point in its cycle.
also i think adam has a video that talks about sideband frequencies?
Also, humans can’t hear below 20 hertz, so does that mean an elephant hears those first iterations differently that we do? This is hurting my brain