Hey y'all! Go check out Aimee Nolte's class over on 🚀Nebula Classes! $10/month. nebulaclasses.com/adamneely Also go check us out on tour. www.songkick.com/artists/8469503-sungazer
How you doing Adam, got a question seen an article written by a Dr. Diamond years ago he talked about an “anapestic beat destroying the cerebrum of the brain”, making muscle weak in one of his studies. What is an anapestic beat from your knowledge, is it just in Rock music, and are you familiar with this Doctor’s studies?
I think it took me more than a month to learn the left side against the right side thing for "Bird on the wing" and could not play it as tight as I wanted ^^ ruclips.net/video/Li1G3EogGj0/видео.html
Paul Rennick with Santa Clara Vanguard has put similar minded stuff on the field. Also, Boston Area Crusaders put a crazy tuplet-filled book on the field this year. Those two could definitely pull that off if it's possible. ruclips.net/video/bILFblpwYig/видео.html
thank you guys so much for sharing my threshold battery etude!! had a ton of fun exploring the boundaries of writing to such a unique and interesting piece. might have to get a vid of me playing through it when i get back from drum corps in a few weeks :)
Blue Knights alumni here, it's honestly surreal hearing you shout out my drum corps! The drummers over at Blue Knights / Broken City could absolutely give that etude a shot, they're some of the best in the world! MFBK 💙
@@scvkurt03 I did not skip that part. It sounded like a computer performed that section. Good luck getting a fucking drum corp to not try out compensate (for their dick sizes) one another and actually play it correctly when unison. The fuck am I responding for.
11:59 OMG that's me!!!! I cannot express the honor and happiness i'm feeling to be in this video. Thank you so much for the advice! I'm a beginner drummer and as soon as the song Macchina came out I started listening to it non-stop and trying to figure out the groove and the displacements (this was before Shawn's video on Meinl RUclips page). Hope to one day be as good as he is; certainly a top 5 drummer in my list.
This is cool. One thing that comes to mind is a guitarist from one of my favorite bands was talking about watching someone on RUclips covering their song play one of his riffs differently than he did when he recorded it and he liked it that way better and started playing it like that live ever since.
I saw you guys live in Denver at the start of April. Seeing you guys was a dream come true, and I wanna thank you again for signing that drum head. I hope to see you guys again at some point.
Speaking of learning note-for-note what was originally improvised, the Guess Who originally improvised "American Woman" on the spot. They later decided that they wanted to record it, but they couldn't reproduce it in the studio. By an extreme bit of luck, someone in the audience had recorded the song on a very early portable casette recorder, and they were able to find it. In this case, their efforts at improvising the song again fell short, and they wound up learning what they had done before in order to be able to record it (although I am sure they made some further modifications to the song for the recording).
The Glynn Johns mic technique is an interesting one,that only requires 3 mics but man, it's nuts the way it works,so many big names have used it, it's definitely tried and true, also it would be very handy in a live set up where mics are at a premium,either way it's a good technique and it works very well!
@@zachdrumfield Well fark mate that was just downright nuttier than squirrel shit, VERY impressive,my head still hurts from reading it, awesome stuff, now Play it!😂🎼🎵🎶🎹🎚️🎛️
Blue Knights are some solid players, but I'd go with Bluecoats as they have Thank You Scientist in their repertoire. Santa Clara Vanguard are also ridiculously good at utilizing songs you wouldn't expect. I think some of it may be too crazy to play but they would get pretty darn close.
Question for your next Q&A: How do you think instruments should be classified into their respective groups? i.e. strings, wind, percussion and so on. The commonly accepted method is to classify the instrument based on the way they produce their sound i.e. saxophone is a woodwind because the sound come from the reed, piano is a string/percussion instrument because a hammer strikes the string. I believe that this works but is confusing for some instruments like how a pipe organ is a wind instrument because of the pipes, yet is played through a keyboard like a piano. I believe that instruments should be classified by how they are played rather than how they produce sound. Your thoughts on this?.
The bass split is something that I know that in high school I did, but the 6/7 and just general 19/16 time is something I know would take quite a bit for me to even parse fully
This time I got it! Just bought 5 tickets to see you guys in Paris (yeah I take a lot of space). It's gonna be more convenient than flying to Berlin like we did in June (I would do it again though).
This really demonstrates that no matter how incredible you are on your instrument, some kid on the internet can copy you perfectly. Which could be disheartening but to me just reinforces that the important part is the composition and performance, not your crazy solo chops.
@@wingracer1614 Find the sheet music, then give them to the guitar robot guy (Morusque), if you sleep next to it, it will endlessly restart the songs, but once you get up and it finishes, you can only make it play the songs once you found all 8 sheet music. Some good vibes in this game, I love it
Adam, if you want to impress the locals on tour, remember that Toronto only has one T in it :) See you in Turonno! (Or Tronno, or Chrawno if you really want to knock 'em dead)
Hartford MIGHT be close enough. Wish I was closer to a city. That should be a good stretch of shows for y'all - no need to get on an airplane, and guests might be willing to ride between the NY, Hartford and Boston shows. It'll be getting into flu season here by then, so I'll cross my fingers that this tour won't be impacted much, in that way. Good luck.
About the drum line sound in mainstream music; Tyler the creator uses (I believe samples of) drum line sounds in a few of his tracks like the opening to his album, wolf!
i used to trasncribe a lot of solos of dave weckl and DeJohnette, they were improvizing through bars and i would take little pieces of solo but also the grooves; put them in a chart and learn them as a new shit
Dude, you're going all the way to europe but not west of the mississippi? :-P I kid, but also not really, I would totally turn up if you made it to utah. Stoked on the project, good on you for making rich interesting music with a pop sound to combat the constant opposite trend that is pop music itself.
Nice to see a little plug to time motion wine, that little EP doesn't get nearly as much love from Adam as it should..maybe Sungazer could play that stuff too?
Hey y'all! Go check out Aimee Nolte's class over on 🚀Nebula Classes! $10/month.
nebulaclasses.com/adamneely
Also go check us out on tour.
www.songkick.com/artists/8469503-sungazer
"Raising Arizona" theme... in Quints.
...uhh, I mean, quintuplets. ✌💗🤘
That was a pretty abrupt cut at the end of the video friend x.x
Can you attach a link for Aimee's class? Thanks!
YAY YOU FEATURED BASS DRUM IN ONE OF YOUR VIDEOS THIS IS A WIN
How you doing Adam, got a question seen an article written by a Dr. Diamond years ago he talked about an “anapestic beat destroying the cerebrum of the brain”, making muscle weak in one of his studies. What is an anapestic beat from your knowledge, is it just in Rock music, and are you familiar with this Doctor’s studies?
That anyone would take the time to learn my drum parts is the biggest compliment ever. Thanks y’all and great performances from everyone!
Trust us, you *are* worthy
got you mistaken for B-front
I'm literally Worthy
I think it took me more than a month to learn the left side against the right side thing for "Bird on the wing" and could not play it as tight as I wanted ^^ ruclips.net/video/Li1G3EogGj0/видео.html
Paul Rennick with Santa Clara Vanguard has put similar minded stuff on the field. Also, Boston Area Crusaders put a crazy tuplet-filled book on the field this year. Those two could definitely pull that off if it's possible. ruclips.net/video/bILFblpwYig/видео.html
thank you guys so much for sharing my threshold battery etude!! had a ton of fun exploring the boundaries of writing to such a unique and interesting piece. might have to get a vid of me playing through it when i get back from drum corps in a few weeks :)
you marched broken city right? threshold is the most broken city thing ever lol
@@jordanmiller1759 i did! glad you enjoyed the arrangement :)
Congrats, man. Very well done 👍
Where are you marching this year?
@@braydengarland7502 i’m finishing up my ageout summer with the bluecoats!
Blue Knights alumni here, it's honestly surreal hearing you shout out my drum corps! The drummers over at Blue Knights / Broken City could absolutely give that etude a shot, they're some of the best in the world!
MFBK 💙
Hello fellow BK alum
Too late, Infinity already put threshold in their show this year lol, not the same arrangement tho
I would kill to hear Sungazer's music arranged for marching band/drum corps.
Please don't kill.
Why ruin music?
@@mss11235 Sounds like you skipped that whole section.
@@scvkurt03 I did not skip that part. It sounded like a computer performed that section. Good luck getting a fucking drum corp to not try out compensate (for their dick sizes) one another and actually play it correctly when unison. The fuck am I responding for.
Dci sungazer would be awesome
Love seeing some drumline/drum corps appreciation and representation!
Appropriate that it's during the season too
FTR
yes!
11:59 OMG that's me!!!! I cannot express the honor and happiness i'm feeling to be in this video. Thank you so much for the advice!
I'm a beginner drummer and as soon as the song Macchina came out I started listening to it non-stop and trying to figure out the groove and the displacements (this was before Shawn's video on Meinl RUclips page). Hope to one day be as good as he is; certainly a top 5 drummer in my list.
14:07 it's not often we see Adam Neely dip into the marching arts music world really live to see it
I challenge EMCProductions and the most talented WGI and DCI percussion ensembles to do it. I think they can totally pull it off.
@blue devils
ruclips.net/video/qVjag3uIlPY/видео.html
@@iceborg05 :/
Now you know how the "old guard" like 'Trane and Bird must have felt when their improv solos were transcribed note for note.
Get EMCProductions in here. He might be able to pull that Threshold cover off, at least the tenor part since tenor drums are his main instrument.
He did today
This comment aged well
Hah, ruclips.net/video/qVjag3uIlPY/видео.html
All the drumline stuff is certainly playable by the top groups today. Cleaning it is another story ha
Love seeing the appreciation for Mike Mangini and Virgil Donati. Both are crazy when it comes to drumming.
If you want to see a drumline etude with some interesting time signatures executed irl, check out the Boston Crusaders playing Red's Rhumba.
This is cool. One thing that comes to mind is a guitarist from one of my favorite bands was talking about watching someone on RUclips covering their song play one of his riffs differently than he did when he recorded it and he liked it that way better and started playing it like that live ever since.
Out of interest, who is that artist? That’s really cool!
I remember Dean Lamb of Archspire mentioning this
The MIDI piece is doing my head in, there's just so much going on 🤯
Maybe @EMCProductions would take you up on the drumlins challenge?
please give us a video of shawn and yourself reacting to DCI/WGI videos, I love hearing different musical opinions on the art.
Maybe to a 2022 Bluecoats drumline video since one of their snares wrote the etude featured???
@@melissabrumfield6122 i think they would appreciate the bluecoats this year lol
Would be super cool to get more eyes on the activity to grow all the programs after the hit they took from the covid season
@EMCProductions 19:00 challenge accepted?
I saw you guys live in Denver at the start of April. Seeing you guys was a dream come true, and I wanna thank you again for signing that drum head.
I hope to see you guys again at some point.
I expect the drumline cover of Threshold to show up in my recommended in about 3 months
the battery arrangement is so sick
15:35 this is indeed possible. And for a dci group? On par with the difficulty they're used to
Blue devils could probably get it down within a week and have it perfect within a month
@@lucasalfonso3546 fr tho
Loved the analogy that learning something someone else improv'd is like learning their manner of speech
That BK call-out was so drum corps. Did not expect that on this channel 😂
Speaking of learning note-for-note what was originally improvised, the Guess Who originally improvised "American Woman" on the spot. They later decided that they wanted to record it, but they couldn't reproduce it in the studio. By an extreme bit of luck, someone in the audience had recorded the song on a very early portable casette recorder, and they were able to find it. In this case, their efforts at improvising the song again fell short, and they wound up learning what they had done before in order to be able to record it (although I am sure they made some further modifications to the song for the recording).
Watch as @EMC does the drumline transcription
Can we get @emcproductions playing that drum line arrangement?
The Glynn Johns mic technique is an interesting one,that only requires 3 mics but man, it's nuts the way it works,so many big names have used it, it's definitely tried and true, also it would be very handy in a live set up where mics are at a premium,either way it's a good technique and it works very well!
Give the Drumline thing to EMC Productions
EMC Productions has to try and play that drumline arrangement!
Waiting for the Blue Knights response video!
EMC better do this
After that drum line cover I now want to see Sungazer and Meute get together.
16:30 i absolutely love Time, the drums give it such an awesome feel
This was a really respectful way to review covers, really nice. (And OMG that is some heady music, I was not quite awake enough 🤣)
19:05 sounds like a challenge for @emcproductions
Highly recommend catching Sungazer live. The Oslo concert was epic. Especially playing Drunk for a room full of sober people.
That MIDI piece was LIT,God knows how long that would have taken 🤯🎵🎶🎼
not too long haha! i think i wrote it over the course of a few days. glad you enjoyed! :)
@@zachdrumfield Well fark mate that was just downright nuttier than squirrel shit, VERY impressive,my head still hurts from reading it, awesome stuff, now Play it!😂🎼🎵🎶🎹🎚️🎛️
It’s so cool that they decided to film this video in a nursing home!
omg that Velvet Audio cover was insane
OMGOSH that’s us at 0:17 WOW thank you guys
Howd you write all the music in the video??
come to Montreal for the jazz fest next year guys, would love to see you live!, it's not far, you got no excuse
Blue Knights are some solid players, but I'd go with Bluecoats as they have Thank You Scientist in their repertoire. Santa Clara Vanguard are also ridiculously good at utilizing songs you wouldn't expect. I think some of it may be too crazy to play but they would get pretty darn close.
Awesome video, what an awesome community, tres bien Adam.
Question for your next Q&A:
How do you think instruments should be classified into their respective groups? i.e. strings, wind, percussion and so on. The commonly accepted method is to classify the instrument based on the way they produce their sound i.e. saxophone is a woodwind because the sound come from the reed, piano is a string/percussion instrument because a hammer strikes the string. I believe that this works but is confusing for some instruments like how a pipe organ is a wind instrument because of the pipes, yet is played through a keyboard like a piano. I believe that instruments should be classified by how they are played rather than how they produce sound. Your thoughts on this?.
14:09 "That's not possible"
Call EMC right now. I believe he can do this.
I think it would be so cool if you guys did a reaction/analysis of a DCI show
The bass split is something that I know that in high school I did, but the 6/7 and just general 19/16 time is something I know would take quite a bit for me to even parse fully
i can't imagine how great it feels to be told that something you learned to perform "wasn't meant to be played by a human"
Adam, you have gotten much better looking over the years!
This time I got it!
Just bought 5 tickets to see you guys in Paris (yeah I take a lot of space).
It's gonna be more convenient than flying to Berlin like we did in June (I would do it again though).
Check out FXMDLR by Thank You Scientist feat. Bluecoats. Same idea as Sungazer + drum corps
This really demonstrates that no matter how incredible you are on your instrument, some kid on the internet can copy you perfectly. Which could be disheartening but to me just reinforces that the important part is the composition and performance, not your crazy solo chops.
this video is so affirming and inspiring and motivating
Can't wait to hear a whole line dut in 19/16
14:11 that tempo was made to trigger Adam
19:04 oh you cheeky bastards! xD If I were a drummer, I'd find it impossible to resist this challenge
Sungazer is the first music I added to my favorites list^^
19:10 man they REALLY want some drumline to play it.
i do too.
@EMCproductions do your thing
16:00 - that went full Peter Gabriel!
In the game Stray, I heard the lick played, in a song called Ballad of the Lonely Robot
Sweet, I'm playing Stray now, I'll keep an ear open for it.
@@wingracer1614 Find the sheet music, then give them to the guitar robot guy (Morusque), if you sleep next to it, it will endlessly restart the songs, but once you get up and it finishes, you can only make it play the songs once you found all 8 sheet music. Some good vibes in this game, I love it
Adam, if you want to impress the locals on tour, remember that Toronto only has one T in it :) See you in Turonno! (Or Tronno, or Chrawno if you really want to knock 'em dead)
You guys have got to get a drum corps
Sungazer in dci would be crazy
Hope to see you in DC! Looks like a cool venue.
What do you think of math rock? Have you heard Uchu Conbini's "Piramid" song? It reminds me of some of Sungazer's music.
that’s insane!!!!! I taught the guy that wrote the last one in middle school as a student teacher!!!!!!
side note if you see this Zach, Chris is fine 😁 no need to use mr last name as an adult
That first one was rad
It sounds very crypt of the necrodancer.
Sungazer Drum Corps Combo when?!?!?!?!?!?!
Threshold would actually be perfect for Rhythm X.
Hartford MIGHT be close enough. Wish I was closer to a city. That should be a good stretch of shows for y'all - no need to get on an airplane, and guests might be willing to ride between the NY, Hartford and Boston shows. It'll be getting into flu season here by then, so I'll cross my fingers that this tour won't be impacted much, in that way. Good luck.
Please god Adam talk about drum corps it would be so cool to hear your opinions
Love the Sungazer content !
I still frequently bop to Time/motion/wine, one of your strongest EPs IMO.
About the drum line sound in mainstream music; Tyler the creator uses (I believe samples of) drum line sounds in a few of his tracks like the opening to his album, wolf!
Beyoncé has her own drumline called ‘The Bzzz’ 😎
No dates in Ireland, which is a bit unfortunate. Some day, hopefully!
i used to trasncribe a lot of solos of dave weckl and DeJohnette, they were improvizing through bars and i would take little pieces of solo but also the grooves; put them in a chart and learn them as a new shit
19:06 now watch as EMCProductions makes a video of him playing it
Glad you guys are coming out to play in CLE! Can't wait to see you guys!
Someone has to show EMC productions that drum line music
EMC Productions!!! He will do this.
This video is great on youtube, even better on Nebula
I challenge EMC productions to do the drum line transcription in this video.
18:17 for that sweet sweet @Shawn crowder whistle mmph
hi i know how grueling tours are and its gonna be crazy and im so excited for you but also come to minneapolis please !
o fuq
Sungazer + drum corps WHEN
😅🙏
Damn it come to Seattle!
bass spits are dope
Dude, you're going all the way to europe but not west of the mississippi? :-P I kid, but also not really, I would totally turn up if you made it to utah. Stoked on the project, good on you for making rich interesting music with a pop sound to combat the constant opposite trend that is pop music itself.
That was fun. These work because your music is amazing. I need to buy all the records. 🙏
Nice to see a little plug to time motion wine, that little EP doesn't get nearly as much love from Adam as it should..maybe Sungazer could play that stuff too?
YES they gotta
Sungazer's music is so good man ❤️
I doubt it will ever happen, but if Sungazer ever comes to a town near me I would absolutely be there, front row centre
If you will do some marching percussion on a song, please make it a colab with EMC
@EMCproductions 19:02
6:20 Just kills me
No Montreal for the tour :(
No florida tour?
4:28 a true drummer moment.