What is Polytonality? | Q+A

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  • Опубликовано: 11 июл 2024
  • Exploring Polytonality, musical memes, and picardy thirds! Answering all of your questions about bass and music in general. BASS
    Many thanks to Brendan Hayes, Jeff T, Ike Zhang, Craig Smith, Jack Mahlmann, Emma and James Weidner for their insightful questions.
    0:11 What is Polytonality?
    6:40 Stop treating music like a meme!
    9:05 What is a Picardy Third?
    10:30 How do you keep your wrist straight in the lower registers of Bass Guitar?
    11:50 How was music a “lingua franca” when you were on tour in Mongolia?
    13:18 Aren’t you a cultural imperialist touring for America?
    15:08 Why didn’t you go to the University of Maryland?
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Комментарии • 2,4 тыс.

  • @AdamNeely
    @AdamNeely  5 лет назад +3196

    all licks in todays episode are in 17-tone equal temperament.

  • @dysonjb688
    @dysonjb688 3 года назад +903

    “Two keys at once?!”
    My big brain: C# and Db

    • @kent631420
      @kent631420 3 года назад +12

      C# and Db are enharmonic, meaning they sound the same, so it's really just one key

    • @andypantz8919
      @andypantz8919 3 года назад +188

      @@kent631420 pretty sure that is the joke

    • @kent631420
      @kent631420 3 года назад +13

      @@andypantz8919 r/wooosh

    • @beckst3r
      @beckst3r 3 года назад +112

      @@kent631420 dude you were the one who got r/wooshed

    • @andypantz8919
      @andypantz8919 3 года назад +13

      @@beckst3r for sure haha

  • @tonyhakston536
    @tonyhakston536 5 лет назад +3494

    People always ask, “what is jazz?”
    but never, “how is jazz?”
    How is jazz, Adam?

    • @10mimu
      @10mimu 5 лет назад +115

      dying

    • @tonyhakston536
      @tonyhakston536 5 лет назад +72

      Human Effigy Maybe, but like.
      What isn’t dying?

    • @jreynoldswrap
      @jreynoldswrap 5 лет назад +219

      @@10mimu "Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny." - Frank Zappa

    • @jamesha175
      @jamesha175 5 лет назад +25

      jazz is doing just fine, thank you

    • @Bushwhacker-so4yk
      @Bushwhacker-so4yk 5 лет назад +19

      Why is jazz?

  • @emotionalagliophilic8623
    @emotionalagliophilic8623 4 года назад +372

    The part about “Happy Birthday” always becoming polytonal is so true

    • @edwardgivenscomposer
      @edwardgivenscomposer 3 года назад +13

      didn't used to be. this is what happens when people are no longer encouraged to sing or play an instrument.

    • @lonelittlejerry917
      @lonelittlejerry917 2 года назад +2

      @@edwardgivenscomposer lmao shut up

    • @wolfetteplays8894
      @wolfetteplays8894 Год назад +1

      @@edwardgivenscomposer truee

    • @kreeperkiller4423
      @kreeperkiller4423 Год назад +5

      polytonal AND the different keys they're singing in are microtonal as well!

    • @YourAverageLink
      @YourAverageLink Год назад

      You often hear about the birthday paradox in terms of how likely two people share a birthday. The real birthday paradox is how many people do you think need to be in a room to have all twelve keys covered?

  • @MathematicianDr
    @MathematicianDr 5 лет назад +6376

    I never sing out of key. My singing is polytonal with respect to the music.

    • @MisterAppleEsq
      @MisterAppleEsq 5 лет назад +89

      Reminds me of Adam's Elton John story.

    • @paulvanmaldegem6315
      @paulvanmaldegem6315 5 лет назад +296

      I never sing dissonant. I just sing microtonal

    • @joemca7917
      @joemca7917 5 лет назад +5

      Mister Apple oh yeah!

    • @accipiterignitus5123
      @accipiterignitus5123 5 лет назад +58

      The singing could be also polymicrotonal

    • @swissarmyknight4306
      @swissarmyknight4306 5 лет назад +83

      If you know enough music theory you never make mistakes. Its all just chromaticism and polyrhythms.

  • @quistyquistsounds4841
    @quistyquistsounds4841 5 лет назад +2193

    Can we talk about how hard it is to purposefully sing in a different key than the accompaniment?? That might be the most impressive segment I've seen from you.

    • @luukwoudstra8903
      @luukwoudstra8903 4 года назад +42

      Yeahh! I was also wondering how he does that.

    • @user-qn9pr3kq3o
      @user-qn9pr3kq3o 4 года назад +111

      while he is also the one playing the accompaniment

    • @EMan753
      @EMan753 4 года назад +5

      Right!!!!

    • @paulumoh7546
      @paulumoh7546 4 года назад +4

      Not quite difficult sir/madam.

    • @AFN2750
      @AFN2750 4 года назад +23

      Be as tone deaf as I am

  • @instinctbrosgaming9699
    @instinctbrosgaming9699 5 лет назад +540

    I like how Ives also wrote "actual notes" in the trumpet for The Unanswered Question. Like, no we didn't write this wrong.

    • @hengsikai2862
      @hengsikai2862 4 года назад +82

      Lmao I think the "actual notes" refers to notating in concert pitch, as opposed to traditional notation where a written C would sound as a concert B-flat on the trumpet. I dont think Ives was reassuring anyone that he didn't make a mistake when writing the melody.

    • @seabassthegamer6644
      @seabassthegamer6644 4 года назад +103

      @@hengsikai2862 But that interpretation isn't as funny

  • @KuraSourTakanHour
    @KuraSourTakanHour 5 лет назад +349

    Music can be a joke if it wants, we dont progress at anything if we're stifled over convention

  • @niamhoconnor8986
    @niamhoconnor8986 5 лет назад +1014

    Fun fact: ADAM NYLEE'S WORST TRAINWRECK WAS A POLYTONAL ELTON JOHN COVER AT A WEDDIN

    • @AlasdairGR
      @AlasdairGR 5 лет назад +7

      Niamh O'Connor Underrated comment

    • @jjamesjams
      @jjamesjams 5 лет назад +16

      Polytonality DESTROYED

    • @gilliangilliangillian
      @gilliangilliangillian 5 лет назад +37

      i'm going to write out a quadritonal Elton John cover to be played at my wedding

    • @niamhoconnor8986
      @niamhoconnor8986 5 лет назад +5

      @@gilliangilliangillian that's the spirit!

    • @niamhoconnor8986
      @niamhoconnor8986 5 лет назад +1

      @@AlasdairGR thanks!

  • @rohiogerv22
    @rohiogerv22 5 лет назад +351

    WHEN I WAS
    A YOUNG BOY
    MY FATHER
    TOOK ME INTO THE CITY
    TO SEE 2 MARCHING BANDS AT THE SAME TIME

  • @irmaakesson3421
    @irmaakesson3421 Год назад +15

    The fact that you can sing happy birthday in f# while accompanying yourself in c. You are truly incredible

  • @gustavosperling
    @gustavosperling 4 года назад +65

    The unanswered question from Charles Ives is a genius masterpiece.

  • @secretmilo
    @secretmilo 5 лет назад +564

    Music has always been a meme. Mozart wrote a song called "lick my ass" that he liked so much that he even wrote a sequal.

    • @TAP7a
      @TAP7a 5 лет назад +133

      Mozart was a massive scatophile. And one of the greatest composers who ever lived. And also died young.
      What a dude

    • @ingwerschorle_
      @ingwerschorle_ 5 лет назад +34

      @@lifeontheledgerlines8394 he also wrote lyrics like: "sleep well and stretch your ass to the mouth" :D
      ps. It's actually leck mich im arsch
      pps. mozart karaoke is a BASSing great idea😂

    • @lifeontheledgerlines8394
      @lifeontheledgerlines8394 5 лет назад +2

      @@ingwerschorle_ Dammit, I was so close!

    • @lifeontheledgerlines8394
      @lifeontheledgerlines8394 5 лет назад +1

      @@ingwerschorle_ I'd edit my comment, but it's RUclips isn't letting me edit my comment. Argh, what is happening with this platform?

    • @lifeontheledgerlines8394
      @lifeontheledgerlines8394 5 лет назад +1

      @@ingwerschorle_ Okay, thanks for the correction! I can finally fix it (edit is now working again).

  • @georgealbert6562
    @georgealbert6562 5 лет назад +279

    "Q+A" to "New Horizons in Music" is the same as how "Michaels Toys" is to "Vsauce"

  • @LJMadrigalMusic
    @LJMadrigalMusic 4 года назад +87

    Compose a piece with polytonality. The treble clef will play in F# major scale while the bass cle will play in the key of Gb major. Let's see if that'll annoy the pianist. 🤣🤣

    • @shorty-music-123
      @shorty-music-123 4 года назад +17

      Composer: *hands pianist sheet music* Here's the new piece for the concert.
      Pianist: *starts visibly shaking at seeing that its in Gb and F# at the same time*
      C: What's wrong?
      P: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

    • @emmetharrigan5234
      @emmetharrigan5234 3 года назад +4

      Prokofiev kind of did that with the third piece of Sarcasms (1912). Right hand starts in f# and left hand in f. Three sharps on the top staff and five flats on the bottom

    • @merrybeans3029
      @merrybeans3029 3 года назад

      @@emmetharrigan5234 don't know that piece,, but f#/f is *actual* polytonality, as opposed to F#/Gb which is the same thing just written differently, not two entirely different keys, and wouldn't throw a professional much because both hands have the same muscle memory of that sound (F#/Gb)...it's more just a visual irritation that you can get around by knowing the sound that's supposed to happen.

  • @earlleonard
    @earlleonard 5 лет назад +42

    I used the picardy third ending in a thrash mental song about a wizard (written with a bunch of elementary school grade 4 kids for an engagement program I ran), because the suddenly happy ending sounded medieval to me. They dug it

  • @yuvalne
    @yuvalne 5 лет назад +186

    Mozart had a lot of memes in his music (a musical joke, and of course, the classic leck mich im arsch). Haydn in his 6th symphony gives the horn a two-bar solo, most likely as an inside joke with his horn player. Bach inserted folk songs into his Goldberg Variations. Bold of you to assume musicians ever did treat music seriously, Jeff T.

    • @gypsytabor1675
      @gypsytabor1675 5 лет назад +21

      Yep. And sometimes they even added easter eggs and references in their pieces. Like tristan chord in Debussy's opera before phrase 'je suis triste'.

    • @RobertMilesAI
      @RobertMilesAI 5 лет назад +4

      Right! And in fact A Musical Joke was one of the first big examples of polytonality too

    • @dishwasherdetergent3366
      @dishwasherdetergent3366 5 лет назад

      @@gypsytabor1675 wasn't the Tristan chord Wagner?

    • @Choinkus
      @Choinkus 5 лет назад +4

      The more you learn about mozart, the more you realize he was pretty much a living meme

    • @gypsytabor1675
      @gypsytabor1675 5 лет назад

      Yes, that's the point.
      Debussy used it right before phrase "je suis triste" which sounds a bit like Tristan. So he cleverly referenced Wagner in his piece. Kind of inner joke. These nerds ))

  • @DBruce
    @DBruce 5 лет назад +326

    I'm actually taking a certain musical meme very seriously in my next musical composition. I must be the future (-:

  • @brennam5596
    @brennam5596 4 года назад +73

    No, I'm not tone deaf! I just sing with
    ✨ *P o l y t o n a l i t y* ✨

  • @nathankulp4275
    @nathankulp4275 4 года назад +89

    “ A trumpet playing some weird stuff.” Welcome to 4th grade trumpet lessons

    • @merrybeans3029
      @merrybeans3029 3 года назад +1

      Beats the hell outta 3rd grade recorder class. Lol

  • @samdenomme5431
    @samdenomme5431 5 лет назад +90

    “We get the woodwinds coming at you with… some more weird stuff” sounds like my highschool concert band lol😂

  • @DrLenardChurch
    @DrLenardChurch 5 лет назад +188

    With all this spice you'll need to start your own version of Hot Ones where you expose people to denser and denser polytonality until they cry.

  • @BarryPiper
    @BarryPiper 4 года назад +58

    What is lost in translation is often regained through interpretation.

  • @sya8002
    @sya8002 5 лет назад +67

    Hey Adam, question for your next Q+A:
    Musical storytelling is heavily influenced by the notions of tension and release, which in academical music are realized by harmonic tools (chords, progressions, etc). But as you mentioned in some of your videos, other styles of music use other devices: EDM has buildups and drops, extreme metal has breakdowns and so on.
    If harmony creates tensions/releases because of dissonant and consonant sounds, what is explanation behind drops and breakdowns? Does our ear prefer slower parts, or is it because of passing from dense parts to more saturated ones?
    As usual, great content!

  • @kadourimdou43
    @kadourimdou43 5 лет назад +552

    Q. How the hell did you sing in a different key?

    • @clintmclintock
      @clintmclintock 5 лет назад +21

      ruclips.net/video/5Ju8Wxmrk3s/видео.html

    • @mullhaupt4977
      @mullhaupt4977 5 лет назад +3

      Same question here

    • @larrymm1963
      @larrymm1963 5 лет назад +18

      Practice vocal lessons to get familiar with he scale and notes

    • @mullhaupt4977
      @mullhaupt4977 5 лет назад +34

      @@larrymm1963 I've actually just tried it and it definitely sounds a lot harder than it is. As long as you can listen to the whole thing out in both keys ahead of time it's easy to not get mixed up.

    • @larrymm1963
      @larrymm1963 5 лет назад

      @@mullhaupt4977 What if you have headphones on and go directly into the board with the instrument as to be able to lower either volume also read the instrument lines

  • @PBrrtrn
    @PBrrtrn 5 лет назад +112

    I just want to say the thumbnail is not clickbaity enough. May I recommend something more along the lines of "TWO keys at ONCE? Experiment gone WRONG (I DIED)"

    • @Theraot
      @Theraot 5 лет назад +11

      Add "Red hot spicy, hydraulic press"

  • @zaynemaddox2508
    @zaynemaddox2508 5 лет назад +615

    Gets copyrighted for happy bday*

    • @wiseausrs
      @wiseausrs 5 лет назад +5

      Should have came in with the claps and the sparklers!

    • @JackTheGamingGuy4REALZ
      @JackTheGamingGuy4REALZ 5 лет назад +32

      Can't, it entered the public domain recently

    • @PaulSharrock
      @PaulSharrock 5 лет назад +15

      @@JackTheGamingGuy4REALZ Happy Birthday has always being in the public domain, it just took a bit of money to prove that in court.. The original copyright was for one piano arrangement of the song, nothing more.

    • @benhawkes7503
      @benhawkes7503 5 лет назад +2

      @@JackTheGamingGuy4REALZ and its just a joke

    • @A_29886
      @A_29886 4 года назад +1

      @@benhawkes7503 yes and the joke wasn't logical

  • @calebgeary3890
    @calebgeary3890 5 лет назад +236

    During worship rehearsals, I've gotten pretty good at throwing off the lead vocalist by harmonizing the melody a half step below.
    I'm now better at that than actually singing a melody

    • @SmokeyG69
      @SmokeyG69 4 года назад +25

      I do this in school band ensembles to see if the director notices

    • @shorty-music-123
      @shorty-music-123 4 года назад +12

      absolute madlad

  • @MattLeGroulx
    @MattLeGroulx 5 лет назад +51

    An interesting theory about the Picardy third is that because the major 3rd occurs so strongly in the overtone series that when choral music was sung in a cathedral, say the Amiens cathedral in Picardy, France, that when you ended a piece on a minor chord the minor third would clash with the overtone major 3rd of the fundamental. The Picardy 3rd was the solution to that and it kind of stuck.

  • @alexshih3747
    @alexshih3747 5 лет назад +35

    8:17 For real tho, Mozart and Haydn are the two memelords of the classical music canon. After listening to their music you get the feeling that neither of them took life that seriously. No wonder they were best friends.

  • @DavidMcCoul
    @DavidMcCoul 4 года назад +141

    Polytonality: “A musical joke” - W.A. Mozart

    • @ajarofnutella
      @ajarofnutella 4 года назад +19

      not nearly as good as "lick my ass", also by mozart

  • @TavinhoPowers
    @TavinhoPowers 5 лет назад +18

    man, that interpretation of the trumpet asking the question gave me the chills! Thank you opening my mind to this beautiful and intriguing kind of music

    • @jkb1O5
      @jkb1O5 3 года назад

      Same. Awesomely Inspired

  • @kyrla
    @kyrla 5 лет назад +506

    Alright, which tuning system are you doing the lick on today

    • @stefan1024
      @stefan1024 5 лет назад +25

      Yes.

    • @ingwerschorle_
      @ingwerschorle_ 5 лет назад +42

      A= 420 BLAZE IT

    • @Almanildo
      @Almanildo 5 лет назад +5

      I'm guessing the timbres are messed up, warping the overtones to be off the harmonic series

    • @AdamNeely
      @AdamNeely  5 лет назад +142

      17-tet

    • @GigglebunsUV
      @GigglebunsUV 5 лет назад +1

      a = 378

  • @harrisonglenn6204
    @harrisonglenn6204 5 лет назад +189

    Nobody:
    14-year olds who know more than one Nirvana song: 6:47

    • @abcrx32j
      @abcrx32j 5 лет назад +1

      Even if Nirvana is a meme

    • @theknifesedge57
      @theknifesedge57 5 лет назад

      @@abcrx32j ur a meme

    • @abcrx32j
      @abcrx32j 5 лет назад

      @@theknifesedge57 Yeah, maybe memes are too relevant to compare them to Nirvana, my bad. The are more like an old shitty movie that a lot of people make references of

    • @theknifesedge57
      @theknifesedge57 5 лет назад +2

      @@abcrx32j i kinda like them but i see where you're coming from

    • @dead_kennedys7870
      @dead_kennedys7870 4 года назад +1

      Ricardo Rodríguez Edgy CONTRARIAN 14 year old who knows one Nirvana song.

  • @jamestreanor4361
    @jamestreanor4361 5 лет назад +72

    Sounds like how you would sing Happy Birthday at a funeral.

  • @YoutubePizzer
    @YoutubePizzer 5 лет назад +474

    you could’ve used a song that isn’t happy birthday
    one’s ears are trained to accept happy birthday being sung in all 12 keys
    Edit: nevermind he made fun of it in the video

    • @trigon7015
      @trigon7015 4 года назад +2

      And Warner Chappell have probably claimed him now

    • @notsogreatsword1607
      @notsogreatsword1607 4 года назад +18

      This is why you watch the whole video before commenting. A rule which I'm breaking right now.

    • @johnwiese6760
      @johnwiese6760 4 года назад +33

      You act like its only sung in 12 keys, not counting microtonal music

    • @plexquared1877
      @plexquared1877 3 года назад +8

      @@johnwiese6760 Yeah I was singing it this one time in class and I swear that one guy was singing in some sort of e half sharp key or something

    • @forbiddenfursona
      @forbiddenfursona 3 года назад +1

      @@plexquared1877 X e n h a r m o n i c

  • @picolete
    @picolete 5 лет назад +338

    House of cards, holding A minor on your left hand feels kind of wrong, hmmmmm

    • @fjrjdjjjcdjjdj7282
      @fjrjdjjjcdjjdj7282 5 лет назад +7

      😂😂😂

    • @LotharLive
      @LotharLive 5 лет назад +65

      "but I thought, that's just Frank"

    • @mihajlostojanov7311
      @mihajlostojanov7311 5 лет назад

      It's the best comment, You made me laugh so hard. Thank you !!! :))))

    • @brij4174
      @brij4174 5 лет назад +5

      You win the internet for today.

    • @j_freed
      @j_freed 5 лет назад

      (Implicitly saying) *...I mean yeah, she's a hot piece of ass, but it's just agonist the law!*

  • @bigweld4328
    @bigweld4328 5 лет назад +285

    PROTIP make sure the synth and the vocals are in the SAME KEY

    • @perplexingpantheon
      @perplexingpantheon 5 лет назад +11

      I love that meme

    • @safwannizam2932
      @safwannizam2932 5 лет назад +4

      Diego Rodriguez that comment was from 7 years ago lol

    • @gabethebabe8187
      @gabethebabe8187 5 лет назад +6

      Holy shit this comment is so funny oh my fucking god nice one dude!

    • @dr.jekyllproject7172
      @dr.jekyllproject7172 5 лет назад +2

      Close enough for jazz

    • @musicdev
      @musicdev 5 лет назад

      This is the comment we all knew was somewhere around here 😉

  • @nibblrrr7124
    @nibblrrr7124 5 лет назад +266

    6:42
    > transhumanism avatar
    > disgusted at playful experimentation with weird ideas to achieve new sensations
    pshhhhhh

    • @luigivercotti6410
      @luigivercotti6410 4 года назад +4

      Trans-what? That looks more like the hewlett packard logo to me

    • @areadenial2343
      @areadenial2343 4 года назад +13

      @@luigivercotti6410 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumanism
      It's a philosophical movement which believes humans will reach the next stage in evolution through technology and exploring new ideas. The h+ logo is one of its symbols, as I recall.

    • @forbiddenfursona
      @forbiddenfursona 3 года назад

      fakie lol

  • @Riurelia
    @Riurelia 3 года назад +11

    Yesterday, I converted one of my melodies into a polytonal one. Originally, it was in E major, but I made a version in F major and C sharp major. When I first heard it, I thought "This sounds ugly but I like it". Since then, I've listened to it several times and I've gotten desensitized to it so it doesn't actually sound bad anymore.

  • @gijsclement1496
    @gijsclement1496 5 лет назад +15

    I quite like the fact that today is my birthday and Adam just played this amazingly spicy 'happy birthday'🌶😂

  • @timbretimbre1442
    @timbretimbre1442 4 года назад +30

    Diaghilev: How much longer will it go on like that?
    Stravisnky: Till the end, my dear fellow

  • @sebstins
    @sebstins 5 лет назад +15

    Multiple Adam Neely's singing Happy Birthday polytonically is one of my favourite clips now.

  • @werepuffin
    @werepuffin 3 года назад

    Thank you so much for these videos, Adam. My school background in (English) composition and teaching, not music-But the pandemic has me spending a lot of time with my guitar now, trying to understand music from the building-blocks up.
    I’ve had trouble finding references that do this-but you are always willing to go deep and explain things to the root. I’ve so much appreciation for your knowledge, experience, perspective, humor and morals. Thank you for continuing to share

  • @TheStuF
    @TheStuF 5 лет назад +47

    question for q and a - "is 1/1 the best time signature?"
    Thanks for great videos, adam :)

  • @Codeaholic1
    @Codeaholic1 5 лет назад +5

    I truly learn a lot from your videos. I love cramming all the musical brain food in to my face holes. Thanks for being a crazy awesome human being.

  • @timothygilman3010
    @timothygilman3010 2 года назад +1

    Adam Excellent content again. Thanks for highlighting "The Unanswered Question" from Charles Ives. I had never heard it. I like haunting music and the dissonance from the trumpets and woodwinds in this piece definitely invoke a strong emotional response. Pure gold thanks...

  • @rickkeam
    @rickkeam 2 года назад

    A simple fan comment. Adam your stuff is great. Keep up the good work!

  • @andersridder1125
    @andersridder1125 5 лет назад +56

    Hi Adam!
    I keep hearing the question: "does it djent?", but I have yet to discover HOW something djents. Could you elucidate how a monotonic, syncopated, percussive guitar riff can be so intriguing?
    Here, I am not referring to the origin of the term, which is, as far as I know, essentially just an onomatopoeia misheard by an interviewer of Fredrik Thordendal.
    Thank you!

    • @eliasmg9144
      @eliasmg9144 5 лет назад +6

      Can't tell if you're fucking around, you are making a sincere question or both

    • @TheStuF
      @TheStuF 5 лет назад +3

      @@eliasmg9144 can you tell if does he djent?

    • @eliasmg9144
      @eliasmg9144 5 лет назад

      @@TheStuF no

    • @xxXthekevXxx
      @xxXthekevXxx 5 лет назад +1

      If it makes your head bob, it djents

  • @ionwyns
    @ionwyns 5 лет назад +15

    I was hoping you’d say Happy Birthday, Canada on the happy birthday song!

  • @superhardgameplays
    @superhardgameplays 4 года назад

    I cannot describe how much I love ur channel... Thank u

  • @thejellyfish206
    @thejellyfish206 5 лет назад +2

    This video is pure gold with the Amadeus edit and the fact that the lick transitions are all polytonal

  • @davidgustavsson4000
    @davidgustavsson4000 5 лет назад +27

    You might mention it, but I might forget to write, so.
    I'm thinking about "F sharp" by Tim Minchin.

  • @mikislives
    @mikislives 5 лет назад +18

    Question for your next Q & A: Is there a way of accurately transcribing ambient and glitch music? The artists like William Basinski or Tim Hecker are amongst my favorites and it makes me curious about the theory behind it all.

    • @wolfetteplays8894
      @wolfetteplays8894 Год назад

      Yes, it is, but you would certainly need software more advanced than MuseScore

  • @lesly9101
    @lesly9101 2 года назад

    Fantastic Teacher guides his students literally thru the entire Cosmos of Music.
    This Dude is an extremely talented high performing VJ and content creator blessed with a beautiful, perfectly modulating maskulin kind of voice, which but only to listen to is a already a perfect treat….!

  • @jackjackson7537
    @jackjackson7537 5 лет назад

    More on polytonality. I need more.
    Great video as per usual Adam.

  • @landmo6481
    @landmo6481 5 лет назад +45

    I didn't know my life was missing a Djent form of the lick but now I do. Stevie T, where you at?

    • @jessecrans
      @jessecrans 5 лет назад +3

      The solo in periphery's graveless, check it out

  • @taeojohnston
    @taeojohnston 5 лет назад +50

    Question for your next Q&A;
    Hello Adam, What do you think about playing chords on bass as a 'flavor enhancer"? As someone who plays prog-rock and alternative, I like to throw chords in sometimes, but these are genres were this is more acceptable. I know that bass "is not supposed to do that", but, I feel that they could have some really nice effects on traditional pop and or Jazz music. Thoughts :)

    • @tcampbell1314
      @tcampbell1314 5 лет назад +10

      Not Adam, but might have a bit of an answer! I think one of the reasons bass chords are frowned upon is more a scientific thing than a genre thing.Because the notes on a bass all have a fairly low frequency, when chords on the bass are played those frequencies are a lot closer together then if you played a chord on a guitar. As harmonies begin to have smaller distance between frequencies, the overall quality of the harmony starts to get a lot muddier and less distinct. A major triad on a guitar for example, sounds much cleaner and richer than a bass as well due to this, while a triad at the high end of a piano sounds overly bright and empty. The clashy, muddy sound of a bass chord struggles to find a place in very 'clean' genres like pop music, while genres like metal and prog embrace the clash a lot more. Hope this brings some light to things.

    • @jasper24601
      @jasper24601 5 лет назад

      Taeo Life yes

    • @XENOGOD
      @XENOGOD 5 лет назад +2

      i love bringing in major thirds on the A and D string while slapping, it's super spicy and funky and works fairly well, fifths and minor thirds too, whole chords are problematic though

    • @wingracer1614
      @wingracer1614 5 лет назад +4

      @@XENOGOD Yeah I'm not a fan of full triads on bass but man 5ths and octaves can be KILLER when used well.

    • @XENOGOD
      @XENOGOD 5 лет назад +1

      @@wingracer1614 they can be used in a mellow setting, like cliff burton in "Orion", I really recommend you try it out because it's soooo fun

  • @RaistlanCE
    @RaistlanCE 4 года назад

    The first thing I thought of was Petrushka, a favourite of mine. Thanks for putting some in, and the link to the live performance.

  • @quaraeasaurustex1823
    @quaraeasaurustex1823 5 лет назад

    I've been trying to figure out how people get this sound for sooooooo long. Thank you so much Adam this is now my favorite video of yours because now I can finally express myself with the sounds I've always wanted to achieve. Hello pollytonality!

  • @BenjaminStaern
    @BenjaminStaern 4 года назад +6

    Bartok uses a lot of polytonality in many of his seminal works like Dance Suite, Wooden Prince, The Miraculous Mandarin, Concerto for Orchestra and some of his chamber music.

  • @gpeddino
    @gpeddino 5 лет назад +8

    "The Unanswered Question" is one of the eeriest things I've ever heard.

  • @davekrochenski
    @davekrochenski 5 лет назад

    I'm gonna have to take these video's one day at a time, I'm afraid it's gonna short the wiring in my head if I marathon em... no matter, awesome work.

  • @TyronDeakin
    @TyronDeakin 5 лет назад

    Love your channel Adam! thank you!

  • @sashalyubashevsky
    @sashalyubashevsky 5 лет назад +10

    for your next Q&A:
    what makes good free jazz?

  • @benbisaillon7488
    @benbisaillon7488 5 лет назад +26

    Question for the next QnA: Im curious, because your band makes EDM, what are some interesting bits of music theory that appear in the genre?

    • @arielyemini4221
      @arielyemini4221 5 лет назад

      Sounds interesting!

    • @red13emerald
      @red13emerald 5 лет назад

      I can immediately think of the 3:4 polyrhythms, ratchets, frequency modulation, non-diatonic basslines. There’s probably more.

    • @nuberiffic
      @nuberiffic 5 лет назад

      @@red13emerald but all of those things happen outside EDM...

    • @ace-smith
      @ace-smith 5 лет назад

      and?

    • @nuberiffic
      @nuberiffic 5 лет назад

      @@ace-smith so it wouldn't be a video about music theory in EDM, it would just be a video about theory.
      Which is all of his videos

  • @arneluebbertyguitar5980
    @arneluebbertyguitar5980 4 года назад

    Great videos and topics Adam!!!!

  • @calebrobinson3144
    @calebrobinson3144 4 года назад

    You are literally talking about really deep melodic music theory mostly in the context of classical music. I am a trap producer who only knows the real basics. Music is awesome, so diverse and different yet so similar at the same time. I love your stuff Adam :)

  • @thejrfanclub628
    @thejrfanclub628 5 лет назад +40

    "a djent version of the lick" Now that needs to happen like rn

  • @solidgroundmusic
    @solidgroundmusic 4 года назад +5

    I used to use the piccardy third to end "breaking the girl" in a band I had back in the day. fun way to spice up a song that had a minor fade out

  • @Chaosdude341
    @Chaosdude341 5 лет назад

    You do a really good job with those diplomacy questions. Bravo.

  • @FelixJacominoEdTech
    @FelixJacominoEdTech 5 лет назад +1

    I feel like I deserve another music degree after watching all your videos. You rock!! (and roll ;) And, I reeeeally appreciate your food analogies. They work very well for me as a musician and complete foodie.

  • @Brillemeister
    @Brillemeister 4 года назад +3

    Just adding to the Bernard Hermann lovefest: his last and most violent-sounding score, due to its lack of strings, Taxi Driver. It's one of the best accompaniments to a dramatic story I've ever heard. RIP

  • @jakegearhart
    @jakegearhart 5 лет назад +6

    Bernard Herrmann's theme for the Twilight Zone was only used in season one; the theme you played in the video was composed by Marius Constant and was used for the rest of the series.

    • @ffaudio5520
      @ffaudio5520 5 лет назад +1

      That explains a lot, was looking it up now... that sounds more like him. Even though the Bernard Hermann one is also using polytonality, maybe even better than the later one.

  • @restlessboar5863
    @restlessboar5863 4 года назад +1

    Question for your next Q&A: How familiar are you with the music theory behind Ska as a genre, and more specifically behind Streetlight Manifesto? I haven't been able to find a lot of in depth conversation about their music that really gets into the theory, and I'm still very much beginning so I don't know exactly what to be looking for. Thanks for all the great content!

  • @Slim-Richard
    @Slim-Richard 5 лет назад

    Your channel is awesome. I love topics you cover. I think it is first time ever I hit like even before video really started.

  • @afp_bass
    @afp_bass 5 лет назад +3

    Hey Adam!
    You made clear to us many times that straight wrists are important in regards to preventing injury. As I am transitioning to 6 string bass I am finding it a lot more difficult keeping a straight left wrist especially when playing lower strings. What tips can you recommend for people on 6 string in regards to preventing any injury playing?

  • @ronanmcintyre
    @ronanmcintyre 5 лет назад +106

    Does the happy birthday polytonality example have anything to do with Nahre Sol's wired video that was uploaded like 3 hours before this video?

    • @Octambulism
      @Octambulism 5 лет назад +8

      My birthday is tomorrow. Missed the Neely Polytonal Happy Birthday by one day :c

    • @khalidalzouma9656
      @khalidalzouma9656 5 лет назад +12

      this coincedence is literally insane

    • @stefan1024
      @stefan1024 5 лет назад +8

      Happy Birthday has been public domain for a few years now. Before that you had to pay royalities to use it in media. That's why in movies and tv shows published before the 2010s every birthday scene just has the last two words "... tooo youuuuu!!". It might be one of the best known musical pieces on earth and has a very easy to understand musical structure, so it's perfect for musical examples. Almost everybody can (kind of sing it). It's like a children song or a folk song, but not just for just one language/region/country but all of them.

    • @alvaro.2c
      @alvaro.2c 5 лет назад +2

      Adam going straight to level 14!

    • @francoisrd
      @francoisrd 5 лет назад

      Rónán McIntyre my question exactly

  • @hampaslupangpotograper
    @hampaslupangpotograper 3 года назад +1

    I really love this channel in explaing hard stuff in easy way

  • @scottabroughton
    @scottabroughton 3 года назад

    Great video! I live in rural Honduras where often at church services the person leading the singing starts in one key and the accompanying keyboardist has to play the song in several keys until he finds the vocalist's key (who may or may not have modulated to another key) or just settles into whatever key he's most comfortable with. The rest of us get to pick whether we want to follow the vocalist with the microphone or the keyboard.
    Also muy picante.

  • @koschanothere
    @koschanothere 5 лет назад +5

    Question for your next Q&A what can you say on music before the classical era? I was wondering what kind of music there was before classical

  • @n-determineyoutube4981
    @n-determineyoutube4981 5 лет назад +6

    It actually amazes me how you can sing in another key. I would just now physically be able to :D

  • @chrislarry05
    @chrislarry05 5 лет назад

    I love that intro so much!!!

  • @juicebox86
    @juicebox86 5 лет назад

    Daaaamn, dude. Really cool to know you were at UMD for a bit.

  • @Fannywikstrom95
    @Fannywikstrom95 5 лет назад +59

    July 1st is Sufjan Stevens’ birthday and I take the fact that you didn’t mention him personally

    • @CugnoBrasso
      @CugnoBrasso 5 лет назад +3

      Come on, the fourth of July is only three days away and I'm already crying!

    • @o.steinman3855
      @o.steinman3855 5 лет назад +1

      Fanny Evelina Poor Subaru’s probably gonna write a song about it now

    • @ivyssauro123
      @ivyssauro123 5 лет назад

      He's shit anyway

  • @javixo1997
    @javixo1997 5 лет назад +40

    Adam: "muy picante!"
    Me: *cries in spanish*

  • @Olifant0
    @Olifant0 4 года назад

    Adam Neely
    Hi,
    I’m an a level music student at the moment and I’m struggling quite a bit with essays and understanding terms (still struggling with essays they are so confusing and complicated). However, thanks to your videos I feel like I understand a bit better now. Which is really amazing because I would really like to be better at the subject I want to spend (and have spent) all my life on.
    Thanks a lot,
    Ethan

  • @jclcrow2621
    @jclcrow2621 3 года назад

    Lots of Charles Ives influence in the ZODIAC score by David Shire. Thanks for the vids, mon! These are excellent.

  • @BATTIS94
    @BATTIS94 5 лет назад +5

    Heinrich Biber

  • @seanmclaughlin4055
    @seanmclaughlin4055 5 лет назад +33

    Hey Adam, so I’ve noticed while listening to instrumental arrangements of songs that vocal melodies can often sound kinda lame when played on an instrument. A particularly good example of this is on the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s arrangement of 21st Century Schizoid Man by King Crimson. The song starts with a loud and powerful intro and leads to an almost comically underwhelming clarinet solo of the vocal melody. I found this strange because on the original track the vocals are so powerful. I assume it has something to do with the vocal inflections that an instrument can’t reproduce, but maybe you can shed some more light on it.
    TL;DR why do certain vocal melodies sound lame when played on instruments?

    • @certifiedpossum8655
      @certifiedpossum8655 5 лет назад +10

      I think I've got an explanation on that. Vocal melodies (at least in contemporary music) tend to have less intervals between notes and some words are sang in unison. This isn't a problem with vocals as you sing different words per note. However all acoustic instruments can only produce one sound per note. So it sounds quite and very boring.

    • @evan-moore22
      @evan-moore22 5 лет назад +3

      I blame them for soloing a clarinet to do vocals. In my experience, an instrumental version of vocals (for most male singers) is best on violas or French horns.

    • @oldvlognewtricks
      @oldvlognewtricks 5 лет назад +2

      Sean McLaughlin I always understood this in terms of how vocal lines are designed to work with lyrical information. If a melody is complete in itself it can be syrupy and over-the-top when you add words. On the other hand, an excellent vocal line can seem trite and incomplete when you take away the words.
      (The words are also often pretty trite when you take away the music)
      That’s how it makes sense to me, anyhow.

  • @k.louismusic
    @k.louismusic 3 года назад

    I love your channel. Your videos are humorous, educational, and just fun to watch. Also what is that painting that makes an appearance in every one of your videos? It looks like an unfinished portrait😂

  • @JoesFavoritesUno
    @JoesFavoritesUno 5 лет назад

    Good sir, you have absolutely relit a fire in me for musical theory. It's amazing to here you go on so passionately about all of the "to do" in composition. Where or what resources might one look into in regards to learning about all of the scales that you refer to? (Like the Dorian and the phygian scales, and so on)

  • @arroraseliant8482
    @arroraseliant8482 5 лет назад +6

    Hey Adam! I notice you quite often talk about music as it relates to language. In your juggling polyrhythms video you quickly explain the various polyrhythms uding english phrases and you've previously made a whole video on speech-rhythms in hip-hop.
    So I wonder, do you know of any writing on the relationship between prosodic/poetic metre and musical rhythms? Maybe as some sort of bridge between music theory and poetry theory. I'm thinking it might be of use in lyric writing and as a sort of rhythmic solfege akin to the takadimi-system, but closer to regular language.

  • @Rob-pq1bk
    @Rob-pq1bk 5 лет назад +35

    All dislikes are people who got their favorite song ruined by a meme.

  • @CatFish107
    @CatFish107 2 года назад

    Hahahaha! JUST LOVELY oops sorry bout yelling. The multi Adam polychoir singing happybd was spot on! You've replicated every time I've attempted singing.

  • @tracik1277
    @tracik1277 5 лет назад +1

    Those first examples of happy birthday sound like the usual renditions you get from your mates down the pub!
    But, Mr Neely, massive kudos to you for being able to sing and play like that on purpose! 👍👏

  • @Flyght023
    @Flyght023 5 лет назад +28

    *NEW FAVE TOON 2k19*: Happy Birthday in C/F# by Adam Neely #yay
    Melon review it already

  • @dakotacortez4334
    @dakotacortez4334 5 лет назад +6

    Hi Adam! I was reading a musical acoustics text book, and the author stated that the pitch of a sound wave can be affected by the intensity of the sound wave. Could you explain this phenomenon?

  • @Edgelordess
    @Edgelordess 5 лет назад

    I must say, I don't know that much about music theory (I am taking a beginning course next semester) but your videos always blow my mind. I'm starting to get into classical music and I'm starting to realize a lot of the peices I like are very polytonal.

  • @Loeil22
    @Loeil22 5 лет назад

    You just answer why i like so much Bernard Hermann... Mega well explain my friend. Cheers