When asked about the profitability of jazz guitar, my advisor always told his students about one legendary night in a local bar: "I absolutely killed that night, the audience loved me, we were all vibing on stage, we played some of our best stuff yet, and I made DOZENS of dollars"
6:55 This is what jazz does to me. I wasn't looking at the screen and you played that. I thought "Oh that's a cool jazzy-like chord" I rewatched the scene and it's literally you hitting the piano. Great.
Technically it could be, but in reality most rhythm game inputs would not be described by most observers as "dancing." Like would you consider pushing buttons and flapping the strum bar of a guitar hero controller to be a dance, really? What about timed button presses on a normal console controller? Even the classic arcade-style rhythm games where you literally step on giant pads tends to not really resemble "actual dancing" even though it's literally meant to depict dancing and requires moving your entire body with various limb contortions. At the end of the day dancing can basically be summed up as "movements that people consider to be dancing" in the same way that music is "sounds that people consider to be music," but I don't know if experimental dance has progressed far enough for you to be able to actually find real people who honestly consider these finger movements to be dancing. Even in music it's rare to find people that truly consider 4:33 to be music and that's a widely known landmark work.
Yeah I wouldn't quite call kodt rhythm games "dancing". Except for some of the newer ones because of VR becoming a thing. It's more like most of them are timing games, pressing a button at an exact time and doing it over and over. And some of them are just crazy complicated. It doesn't train you to play an actual instrument but it's probably invaluable for improving your timing and ability to focus on a lot of things at once, which for something like the drums is great, seeing as how drums can be the most complicated instrument to play and being able to count time while everyone is playing not on the beat and stuff like that is such a hard thing to learn. I have a question though, is that Donkey Kong country game where you move forward by using a conga drum to control it, a rhythm game?
Bad advice for me because I love learning music, but I'm missing this apparent drive "real" musicians should have. Makes me feel like this isn't for me, despite that absolutely not being the case.
I’m Greek and I’ve grown up dancing Greek dances. I 110% appreciate what you said about Greek music. Not until I started to really play drum set did I even realize the music I had been dancing to my whole life was in odd time signatures. Just goes to show how natural it felt my whole life...
4:33 , This statement is my entire approach to over 30 years of playing Music. It feel good to have a respected , educated and professional Musician say it. Thank you.
The hardest part is when the flam is really noticeable, like really stops being tight and just sorta floats there... ... I call it the *FLAM BOYANT* /releases confetti/
As someone with perfect pitch, I absolutely LOVE your microtonal stuff. It's such a weird effect after years of clearly identified pitch to be lost in a sea of harmony.
The stupid h in place of b in German music had been a copy error committed by a stupid monk in medieval times after some tried to cultivate two different b (higher and lower, „b durum“ and „b molle“) Sigh. Medieval bikeshedding. The lower b is the minor 7 and thus an entry point for jazz harmonics, among other stuff.
Im german and geeez this "h" instead of "b" is awful and cinfusing. Especially because most of the videos about music and music theory I watch in english, so I'm used to the english system but have to switch every time I am in my music class or something. Its annoying.
@S Interesting, thanks! They de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Musiklehre:_Das_Problem_mit_dem_Notennamen_H say that they didn't have the appropriate letter for the "B quadratum" as printing letter so they took the H instead... which looks similar :) Human life is messy :)
This was my first introduction to this man. He is incredibly well articulated. I can tell he has an inherent ability to compose and convey his concepts through any language. Also, the metaphor between with learning japanese was spot on. Excellent content sir. I appreciate the understanding you have of the many possible backgrounds in your audience.
Suggestion for 1M subscriber celebration: have a live stream where you and friends compose and record a song. But not just a "song in 10 minutes" type of exercise, something earnest. Have you seen clips of Esperanza Spalding's write-and-record-an-album-in-77-hours project? Something like that, but just one song. I think having an end product would be a much better use of your talents and time than something like, oh, playing the lick 1M times, or practicing major scales for 5 hours.
It’s so cool watching this channel as I go through college learning theory. remember watching as a junior in high school and wanting to understand everything you were saying so bad, and wanting to be able to analyze chords and melodies just by listening. You’ve helped me a lot in my journey through learning theory and improving my improvisation!
As a full-time musician I play solo acoustic bar gigs at least 4 nights/wk and it can be difficult to stay focused on playing good music and playing it well. My new trick is to imagine Adam Neely sitting across from me in the booth. Really makes me step up my game. Thanks Adam!
Christian McCoy If you really are interested in jazz bagpipes, you’ll probably stumble across the work of Rufus Harley. If so, you should probably seek out the jazz-funk albums he did in the seventies, as his earlier attempts to incorporate the bagpipes into traditional jazz were decidedly “meh” by comparison.
Nice. I'm guessing that the problem with traditional great pipes was that natural drones will quickly de-tune from each other when outdoors. Also conical bore pipes sound nicer.
@@charleslambert3368 I mean if it's the GHBs, I find that it took a lot of playing and time outside to detune. That is, as long as you have a spit trap
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Just found your channel yesterday. Absolutely mindboggling. Been binge watching ever since. As a life long pro guitarist, at 75 yrs old, I find your channel simply awesome. Best channel on youtube. Thank you so much.
Hey Adam! I'm an instructor at a very large music store chain, and our production lessons are pretty popular! They're definitely not as popular as traditional drums/piano/etc, but they're getting there.
@1:42 as someone with perfect pitch, listening to microtonal music is like watching a David Lynch movie - the experience is submitting to the fear that washes over you
Re: “we let our bodies do the thinking for us,” yes, but only the nuts and bolts of *how* something musical happens. But the improvisation itself, just like conversation, is from the mind.
I have perfect pitch but the microtonal stuff is fine, actually it's even relieving because I don't have to concentrate on the frequencies and it's sometimes easy to hear this new relationships
Having perfect pitch, I loved it. Imagine if you hated colors like teal, magenta, or insert any other in-between colors, because they weren't the standard. I feel the same way about the 12 notes.
I would expect that it's only annoying if you know a song perfectly and then someone plays it in a tuning that is just slightly off. And you can't help but notice that above the actual quality of the performance. But, since enjoying the tuning is part of the microtonal thing, there's nothing for it to get in the way of.
Oh, and do you notice when people intentionally tune their thirds to be more accurate so they'll ring better? Choirs and horn bands do this all the time--or, at least, I was always taught to do so in high school band and choir.
I liked it as well, but sometimes microtonal stuff can be overkill for my brain. Adam Neely or Jacob Collier are pretty good at using it in a tasteful balanced way. That stuff I appreciate
When I first checked out microtonal music I was like ''Ohh yeah that's neat'', then I saw your Sevish recommendation and my mind was blown with colors and cadences I never knew were out there. Highly recommend ''In The Zoon'', ''So Thankful'' and everything else.
I recently watched a Carly Rae Jepson performance on NPR's Tiny Desk, where she and her band performed acoustic versions of three of her songs, and it was actually really good.
it's kind of insane that a music theory channel talking about such a niche subject is so close to 1mil, not that it isn't deserved, it's just that I wouldn't have expected it to happen. good job man!
Hey Adam, here's another question for your next Q&A : Music is a vector of emotions such happiness, sadness, etc. These emotions we feel can partly be explained by the used of certain chords or even key. But what would be the equivalent for feelings like vertigo (or the feeling you can have reading Lovecraft or BLAME!) ?
ECBG I have a little big idea about listening 1st to the subjective content then 2nd to the objective content. So, the descending arpeggio is; 1. What you wordlessly experience it to be - that is its effect (this is one step more direct than finding descriptors like, ‘mysterious’ or ‘inconclusive’ but might contain that range of meaning). 2. The objective description (named intervals, or as Adam says a “descending Cmaj7 in 2nd inversion). The big idea is to be primarily conversant with music’s effects and secondarily conversant with objective descriptors. To give just one interesting example of why this might be practical, if this same phrase were moved to a vibraphone in a large hall, the subjective effect might alter significantly while the objective description would be identical. The idea is that the subjective read takes in “all” of the effect (as an interaction between human and sound) whereas the objective description tells what is measurably true irrespective of a present listener and as a simplification of the felt event. Everlasting ❤
On quintuplets; Not the most universal method but for electric guitar, I simply practised continuous quintuplets and the cue I kept in mind was whether each set of tuplets started on an up or down stroke. Even less universal, theres a section in SikTh's "Bland Street Bloom" which is in quintuplets on the rhythm (so guitar, bass and kick drum), first time it appears is around 3:58 in the track. I know I'm commenting on an older video but hope it helps anyone who sees it.
13:52 - Additional Bernstein musicals for your amusement and reference: Wonderful Town and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue - one success and one flop. Lots to enjoy from Wonderful Town - I imagine you might have a fun time with the Wrong Note Rag. Whether Candide is a musical or an opera is up for debate (and perhaps depends on the production), so no shame in not mentioning it. Edit: and I forgot about his Peter Pan... The shame is mine.
@@declanwilcox9445 It's a Bernstein :) Seems to me that the majority of his works straddle a genre boundary or two. Marin Alsop called it "a multi disciplinary theater work". It was subtitled 'a theatre piece' and it was co-written with Stephen Schwartz... All clues. Perhaps more generally 'music theatre' rather than something following the conventions of 'the Broadway Musical' if such a thing can be said to exist. On the other hand, it's never been produced in a commercial theatre context, as far as I know. Your guess is as good as mine - there's probably a thesis in it. Or two.
Re DAW lessons. I am Currently writing a masters Thesis on the under representation of DAW studies in High school music curriculum. Totally agree with you!
Agreed. Carly Rae Jepsen seems to have so much fun with music, and pushes out into more interesting but danceable stuff with people like Charlie XCX and AG Cook in the pop-meets-noise world.
Actually I think it's h and b just about everywhere outside english speaking world. But since english language rules the world B is becoming the standard.
@@olvinjanoisin2255 I think that's right, except that there are also many languages (Spanish, French, Italian) that use a system of note names based on do, re, mi, etc., rather than letters.
Hey if you’re young and you love music, a great mobile digital audio workstation is Caustic 3. It’s 15 dollars, but I fell deeply in love with it because it was my first exposure to music-making and sound-making. It lets you use synthesizers and all kinds of bells and whistles that can let you make whatever music is floating around in your brain, as well as experimenting with all kinds of tools. I think there’s a demo too, it just doesn’t let you save your songs.
lol. I love watching your videos, in part for the music theory, in part for your "gate's open, come on in" approach, and in a much larger part for your dry humor and visual punchlines. Thanks!
Question for the next Q/A: Hey Adam, just subscribed, have been binge watching your content. I'm not sure if this question has been asked, but do you enjoy 'classical' music as a 'jazz' musician? If so are there any particular styles/periods you like? Why or why not? I know this question is very cliché, but I'm justed interested to hear your thoughts on 'classical' music
3:50 On this subject I had a weeb friend that was SUPER into DDR and more specifically some kind of free and open source knockoff of DDR that I can't remember the name of now. He knew next to nothing about playing music, writing music, etc, but through those games he extrapolated this bizarre dance game centric sense of rhythm that over time evolved into him literally having this savant level system in his head for rhythm that made absolutely no sense to me but seemed water tight on his end. He eventually (like a decade later) took up playing drums because his church band was missing a drummer and he was like "how hard could it be, you're just hitting pads instead of pushing buttons" and for him that observation was 100% correct. He plays in several bands now and has since learned traditional rhythm notation but he claims in his head he still thinks with his weird DDR centered system that I still do not understand. Maybe one day I'll demand he translate it on paper into traditional rhythmic notation.
So the DDR game is Stepmania, and as someone who plays both rhythm games and percussion this is absolutely accurate, but I've never heard of translating the notes on the page into a rhythm game chart you visualize yourself.
How I learned music theory: Watching Adam Neely and looking up everything I dont understand. Yep it was a nightmare... Edit: That “only half kidding” killed me xD
Kinda how we learn vocabulary in most contexts. You just start and then look up what you didn't understand. Soon enough you'll seldom be googling anything during your studies.
Bro that’s totally “a Scanner Darkly” reference in the beginning and I appreciate it. Even if you didn’t mean that, it instantly reminded me of it lol.
So I'm a senior in highschool and I just made the marine band early this school year and your explanation on why you should go in into music just completely validified my decision and I thank you for that😊👍🏻
You know, I hope you'll revisit this Adam. I think that there are some incredibly gifted multi instrumentalists and musicians out there who do make lofi hip hop. Laziness and low effort isn't tied to any one genre. Yes are a good bunch low effort, sure, but I think there is a lot of good quality and well thought out lofi hip hop tracks out there like Chillhop.
Kind of. The analogy doesn't quite work because Japanese anime is a special kind of slang-spoken Japanese that you would never hear real Japanese speak in public because the form is too rude. There's not really a way to compare it to English because Japan's hierarchical social structure is baked into the language with different expressions, lengthening or shortening your sentences, depending on who you talk to and their social position compared to yours in society. Anime Japanese is a unique slang form that is normally too rude to speak to just about anyone in Japan. It's different enough that Japanese people will recognize you speaking Japanese as if you were in an anime (provided they watch anime. A lot of Japanese don't) as opposed to real life.
@@caladbolg777 As for your first point, some anime does have very realistic dialogue, so not completely incorrect. Although I will admit most shounen or action oriented series will give an experience similar to what you mentioned. It'd be like trying to watch a Deadpool movie to learn how to talk to people, or Pulp Fiction. Many a cuss word and a disrespect those characters have. As for the hierarchical structure and talking to different people differently, you could absolutely learn that just by watching subbed media. We do that in America here too you know, as well as literally every other country. It's not unique. We regularly change up our speech to be more respectful based on who we're talking to. Of course it's much more shall we say mandatory in Japan, what with the entire population being social prudes, but it's just an exaggerated version of what we have to a certain extent.
This was the best advice I have ever heard any Musician offer anyone! I couldn't agree more. I had the chance to go to a Tech College for Graphic Arts and at the same time (I was 17 y/o) my band got an offer from Massacre Records (Germany). I would have spent the rest of my life wondering what I missed had I did the " more stable, and respected thing". SCREW THAT !!! I was born to hit, smash, break, and DESTROY THINGS!!! Drums keep me out of prison! LOL Thank you Mr. Neely. I'll call you Adam when you say I can.
Hey Adam question for your next q and a: I’m gonna be visiting New York City this summer on vacation. What are your favorite clubs or restaurants to hear live music in? Other than that, what would you recommend to do while I’m there?
So relatable as well. I'm listening to it and it feels just like when you are sitting at the piano while listening to music that you don't know how to play, but trying to noodle along to the melody anyway. You're thinking: "Hey, This doesn't sound half bad!" But you know in your head it definitely sounds terrible.
As a person who is cursed with perfect pitch, I usually take extra interest in music that's tuned differently. I like how unique and otherworldly it can sound. Idk that's just me
D-Rock Wow, you’re one in one million buddy. Perfect pitched people normally can’t hear detuned (or other equal temperament) without getting crazy. I’m blessed with a good ear but no perfect pitch, so I can clearly hear if a note is sharper or flatter, but I can’t identify the note. So yeah, pretty enjoyable actually, when it comes to hear some academic contemporaneous music.
@14:23 Resonator guitars were developed in the 1930's as a response to big-band ensembles. A standard un-amplified acoustic doesn't have the volume or cutting power to keep up with a horn section, and resonators "sit better in the mix".
make hip hop then add a lo fi filter
*s o l v e d*
Hey bro show us how to make lofi hip hop bro
Bro stop
@@derpbot5715 thats great idea bro
slosh watch adam ??
noice
Bro, get back into your garbage can.
I appreciate the existential terror humor
Why are we still here?
Just to suffer?
@Philip Schlaepfer jreg is a god
explore jreg
Its what I subscribed for... Oh and Jazz
thanks Adobe Photoshop
I think all musicians are like this lol
"Gonna be touring a lot more in the coming year" me: oof
M36class LMAO
Bruh
Well that aged like milk...
Yeah Covid-19
f a t a l i t y
When asked about the profitability of jazz guitar, my advisor always told his students about one legendary night in a local bar: "I absolutely killed that night, the audience loved me, we were all vibing on stage, we played some of our best stuff yet, and I made DOZENS of dollars"
Was he the inspiration for Pixars Soul?
Not that I know of, but imagine a 6' tall Fraggle Rock character in purple Corduroy pants, that's him
@@thembo your advisor is a god I hope you realize that
These days you could replace "Jazz Musician" with just Musician.
"we are going to be touring a lot more in the coming year."
-Adam Neely 2019
Famous last words
*Coughs sarcastically*
6:55 This is what jazz does to me. I wasn't looking at the screen and you played that. I thought "Oh that's a cool jazzy-like chord" I rewatched the scene and it's literally you hitting the piano. Great.
Thus is why I am not a fan of jazz... When your music is vastly indistinguishable from a man slapping a keyboard, I simply do not enjoy it.
@@reaganharder1480 A lot of it is more controlled than that
One thing why I love(-ish?) jazz is because it opens me up to appreciate dissonance, opening myself to many more music.
@@reaganharder1480 if you feel so listen to blues. And then come back and listen to jazz. Might make you change your mind
@@deathtrap5556 r/woooosh?
"Saxophone and odd time signatures does not jazz make."
Eat that, Brubeck.
haha
Take five was experimental jazz
Lmao, love that song but, gottem!!
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@@matthewkuhns7303 take five isn't the only Brubeck tune in an odd time. There's tons of stuff on the same album in weird time signatures.
"Getting people engaged with the music by moving along to it"
Dancing. That's called dancing.
no u. u are called dancing,.
Technically it could be, but in reality most rhythm game inputs would not be described by most observers as "dancing." Like would you consider pushing buttons and flapping the strum bar of a guitar hero controller to be a dance, really? What about timed button presses on a normal console controller? Even the classic arcade-style rhythm games where you literally step on giant pads tends to not really resemble "actual dancing" even though it's literally meant to depict dancing and requires moving your entire body with various limb contortions.
At the end of the day dancing can basically be summed up as "movements that people consider to be dancing" in the same way that music is "sounds that people consider to be music," but I don't know if experimental dance has progressed far enough for you to be able to actually find real people who honestly consider these finger movements to be dancing. Even in music it's rare to find people that truly consider 4:33 to be music and that's a widely known landmark work.
Yeah I wouldn't quite call kodt rhythm games "dancing". Except for some of the newer ones because of VR becoming a thing. It's more like most of them are timing games, pressing a button at an exact time and doing it over and over. And some of them are just crazy complicated. It doesn't train you to play an actual instrument but it's probably invaluable for improving your timing and ability to focus on a lot of things at once, which for something like the drums is great, seeing as how drums can be the most complicated instrument to play and being able to count time while everyone is playing not on the beat and stuff like that is such a hard thing to learn.
I have a question though, is that Donkey Kong country game where you move forward by using a conga drum to control it, a rhythm game?
@@TheSquareOnes you should look at Dancerush and Dance Evolution. Two reasonably modern dance games that are basically just dancing but a game.
"Go into music because you HAVE to make music..." Best advice you've ever given Adam. Good on you.
The itchiest itch ever. Like drugs: the first b9 is free.
Instructions unclear, got kindnapped and have to make music or else my family dies.
Bad advice for me because I love learning music, but I'm missing this apparent drive "real" musicians should have.
Makes me feel like this isn't for me, despite that absolutely not being the case.
i can confirm i went into music and i am glad i did
“don’t go into music for profit”
Korean government: impossible
Kpop star? more like kpop *slave*
Pixel Bytes impossibru
You do know that record labels aren’t the government right?
troubled ibe
actually the korean government funds kpop groups as international diplomacy and spends a lot of resources on creating kpop bands
Hahahhahahaha so true
You're a hero for doing this!
Never closed that 1 hour lofi mix so quickly!
"Also 13. Because I'm feeling spicy."
I laughed so hard there.
Deadpool-ish
I’m Greek and I’ve grown up dancing Greek dances. I 110% appreciate what you said about Greek music. Not until I started to really play drum set did I even realize the music I had been dancing to my whole life was in odd time signatures. Just goes to show how natural it felt my whole life...
Adam: 2 Drummer bands are great
Me, a live sound engineer: *REEEEEEE*
I love mixing bands with two drummers, keeps me on my toes.
@@HatfieldCreek that's hell for me
My high-school band used to bust a subwoofer thanks to double drum
As long as the one drummer has a soft beater and the other has a hard beater, it’s not toooo bad.
Or you don't let one have a kick at all: ruclips.net/video/170Z9qBjfkI/видео.html
4:33 , This statement is my entire approach to over 30 years of playing Music. It feel good to have a respected , educated and professional Musician say it. Thank you.
The hardest part is when the flam is really noticeable, like really stops being tight and just sorta floats there...
... I call it the *FLAM BOYANT*
/releases confetti/
Good pun. 5/5 toasters.
*flam bouyant
@@leg-sc1bb... well shit
When it comes to flams when I'm playing drums I try to flam as much as possible I like flams a little too much.
As someone with perfect pitch, I absolutely LOVE your microtonal stuff. It's such a weird effect after years of clearly identified pitch to be lost in a sea of harmony.
The guy at 14:54 has a German sounding name, where "B" is called "H" and "B flat" is "B" (don't ask me why). So he technically was right ;)
h
The stupid h in place of b in German music had been a copy error committed by a stupid monk in medieval times after some tried to cultivate two different b (higher and lower, „b durum“ and „b molle“) Sigh.
Medieval bikeshedding.
The lower b is the minor 7 and thus an entry point for jazz harmonics, among other stuff.
@@AndreasDelleske It's frustrating to see old mistakes live on like that. Like how "island" wasn't even originally spelled with an s :/
Im german and geeez this "h" instead of "b" is awful and cinfusing. Especially because most of the videos about music and music theory I watch in english, so I'm used to the english system but have to switch every time I am in my music class or something. Its annoying.
@S Interesting, thanks! They de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Musiklehre:_Das_Problem_mit_dem_Notennamen_H say that they didn't have the appropriate letter for the "B quadratum" as printing letter so they took the H instead... which looks similar :) Human life is messy :)
This was my first introduction to this man. He is incredibly well articulated. I can tell he has an inherent ability to compose and convey his concepts through any language. Also, the metaphor between with learning japanese was spot on. Excellent content sir. I appreciate the understanding you have of the many possible backgrounds in your audience.
We don’t kink-shame people who like 2 drummers in a band
John Verne
... okay, we kink-shame some people
crea the chi boi Snarky puppy will love you then
I guess it's so filthy you can't find it on PornHub.
What about king crimson? They have 3.
@@thekout 3 drummers?!?!?
how in the hell does king crimson work?
Suggestion for 1M subscriber celebration: have a live stream where you and friends compose and record a song. But not just a "song in 10 minutes" type of exercise, something earnest. Have you seen clips of Esperanza Spalding's write-and-record-an-album-in-77-hours project? Something like that, but just one song. I think having an end product would be a much better use of your talents and time than something like, oh, playing the lick 1M times, or practicing major scales for 5 hours.
what about all the people who hate live streams (like me)?
youtube is about videos, not live streams
@@NoNameAtAll2 Don't watch the live stream and just listen to the final product (the music)
Good idea!
and don't listen to the chat for suggestions this time round lmao
that's a great idea. maybe with some fellow youtubers?
"Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. Find it and keep It lit!"
Thanks!
It’s so cool watching this channel as I go through college learning theory. remember watching as a junior in high school and wanting to understand everything you were saying so bad, and wanting to be able to analyze chords and melodies just by listening. You’ve helped me a lot in my journey through learning theory and improving my improvisation!
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As a full-time musician I play solo acoustic bar gigs at least 4 nights/wk and it can be difficult to stay focused on playing good music and playing it well. My new trick is to imagine Adam Neely sitting across from me in the booth. Really makes me step up my game. Thanks Adam!
Adam: Definitely don't recommend jazz bagpipes.
Me: Oh hell yes, jazz bagpipes.
Christian McCoy If you really are interested in jazz bagpipes, you’ll probably stumble across the work of Rufus Harley. If so, you should probably seek out the jazz-funk albums he did in the seventies, as his earlier attempts to incorporate the bagpipes into traditional jazz were decidedly “meh” by comparison.
Rufus Harley was the first guy I found after searching "jazz bagpipes" here on this site. But I will have to look more into it, thank you
Nice. I'm guessing that the problem with traditional great pipes was that natural drones will quickly de-tune from each other when outdoors. Also conical bore pipes sound nicer.
@@charleslambert3368 I mean if it's the GHBs, I find that it took a lot of playing and time outside to detune. That is, as long as you have a spit trap
Sounds like bagpipes have tons of upper harmonic content like distorted guitar, so even playing the thirds of chords can easily get ugly
A tiny desk style concert for a million sub video. that would be cool.
Bump
broke: adam is starting to get deeper and deeper into the lofi community, and a genre he once hated he now loves!
woke: lofi is cheap, easy, fast content, and adam doesn’t want to do work over the holidays so he’e cranking out a bunch of lofi content
Oh lo-fi 😂 i wondered what lofi was...
‘What key is Sweet Home Alabama in?’
Answer: whichever one you can belt it out the loudest in
Lmao how this comment not popular XD
The key to playing Sweet Home Alabama for our cover band is insisting on a 100 dollar tip in the can. Key is optional.
Just found your channel yesterday. Absolutely mindboggling. Been binge watching ever since. As a life long pro guitarist, at 75 yrs old, I find your channel simply awesome. Best channel on youtube. Thank you so much.
Adam: hip
RUclips: hop
“Are you good on the piano?”
“Yeah, but I suck on the organ...”
Why is this me?
Why tho
Elton John
- What's better than roses on your piano?
- Tulips on your organ.
🥜
"How do you make lo-fi hip hop?
Properly. Like Adam Neely does.
Yes
Just Some Guy without a Mustache WHY ARE YOU EVERYWHERE AAAHHH
Hey Justin II
@MC_ Chickenwing and vinyl record ambience noise
Did you eat Justin Y?
adam you're such an enrichment for my life
Hey Adam! I'm an instructor at a very large music store chain, and our production lessons are pretty popular! They're definitely not as popular as traditional drums/piano/etc, but they're getting there.
I always thought of Pink Floyds song Money as rock with coattails.
I always thought of everything from pink floyd as rock with a fancy hat
"Sorry Jimmy I can't come over after school today I have to go to my ableton lesson" this is the dream
@1:42 as someone with perfect pitch, listening to microtonal music is like watching a David Lynch movie - the experience is submitting to the fear that washes over you
Same. Only more like drinking something brown and it's tasting like thick fresh squeezed orange juice. Marvellous.
I, for one, love it! Jacob Collier FTW!
@3:54 - I believe the formal term for this is 'dancing', rather than rhythm games, and I suspect it may have been around for a little while.
Re: “we let our bodies do the thinking for us,” yes, but only the nuts and bolts of *how* something musical happens. But the improvisation itself, just like conversation, is from the mind.
I have perfect pitch but the microtonal stuff is fine, actually it's even relieving because I don't have to concentrate on the frequencies and it's sometimes easy to hear this new relationships
Having perfect pitch, I loved it.
Imagine if you hated colors like teal, magenta, or insert any other in-between colors, because they weren't the standard.
I feel the same way about the 12 notes.
I would expect that it's only annoying if you know a song perfectly and then someone plays it in a tuning that is just slightly off. And you can't help but notice that above the actual quality of the performance. But, since enjoying the tuning is part of the microtonal thing, there's nothing for it to get in the way of.
Oh, and do you notice when people intentionally tune their thirds to be more accurate so they'll ring better? Choirs and horn bands do this all the time--or, at least, I was always taught to do so in high school band and choir.
I liked it as well, but sometimes microtonal stuff can be overkill for my brain. Adam Neely or Jacob Collier are pretty good at using it in a tasteful balanced way. That stuff I appreciate
When I first checked out microtonal music I was like ''Ohh yeah that's neat'', then I saw your Sevish recommendation and my mind was blown with colors and cadences I never knew were out there. Highly recommend ''In The Zoon'', ''So Thankful'' and everything else.
You should redo “Maple Leaf Rag” when you hit 1M. :1
Well...
I had a music teacher named McNeely
i’m convinced having the last name Neely makes you good at music
Adam's parents are both musicians or music related in some way :)
So did Adam. Might be the same teacher!
So excellent that you recommended H Jon Benjamin's jazz record, a really moving and unexpected jazz record
Carly Rae Jepsen has legit mad skills when it comes to writing catchy pop songs. Her EMOTION album was underrated IMO.
I recently watched a Carly Rae Jepson performance on NPR's Tiny Desk, where she and her band performed acoustic versions of three of her songs, and it was actually really good.
Question for your next Q&A: Do you have any books you recommend for people who want to start learning music theory.
Your videos make me feel very safe. you’re like an older brother. love you, dude.
it's kind of insane that a music theory channel talking about such a niche subject is so close to 1mil, not that it isn't deserved, it's just that I wouldn't have expected it to happen. good job man!
Hey Adam, here's another question for your next Q&A :
Music is a vector of emotions such happiness, sadness, etc. These emotions we feel can partly be explained by the used of certain chords or even key. But what would be the equivalent for feelings like vertigo (or the feeling you can have reading Lovecraft or BLAME!) ?
ECBG
I have a little big idea about listening 1st to the subjective content then 2nd to the objective content. So, the descending arpeggio is;
1. What you wordlessly experience it to be - that is its effect (this is one step more direct than finding descriptors like, ‘mysterious’ or ‘inconclusive’ but might contain that range of meaning).
2. The objective description (named intervals, or as Adam says a “descending Cmaj7 in 2nd inversion).
The big idea is to be primarily conversant with music’s effects and secondarily conversant with objective descriptors.
To give just one interesting example of why this might be practical, if this same phrase were moved to a vibraphone in a large hall, the subjective effect might alter significantly while the objective description would be identical. The idea is that the subjective read takes in “all” of the effect (as an interaction between human and sound) whereas the objective description tells what is measurably true irrespective of a present listener and as a simplification of the felt event.
Everlasting ❤
1 Million cant come soon enough! Congrats!
On quintuplets;
Not the most universal method but for electric guitar, I simply practised continuous quintuplets and the cue I kept in mind was whether each set of tuplets started on an up or down stroke.
Even less universal, theres a section in SikTh's "Bland Street Bloom" which is in quintuplets on the rhythm (so guitar, bass and kick drum), first time it appears is around 3:58 in the track.
I know I'm commenting on an older video but hope it helps anyone who sees it.
I literally was thinking about what quintuplet swing would sound like when you mentioned it in this video.
"I can somewhat play piano" *effortlessly doodles some complex riffs during the video*
right?! I don't think I can do that, and I've been playing since I was 6! grrr
13:52 - Additional Bernstein musicals for your amusement and reference: Wonderful Town and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue - one success and one flop. Lots to enjoy from Wonderful Town - I imagine you might have a fun time with the Wrong Note Rag.
Whether Candide is a musical or an opera is up for debate (and perhaps depends on the production), so no shame in not mentioning it.
Edit: and I forgot about his Peter Pan... The shame is mine.
How does Mass fit in? I've always been confused as to what it is.
@@declanwilcox9445 It's a Bernstein :) Seems to me that the majority of his works straddle a genre boundary or two.
Marin Alsop called it "a multi disciplinary theater work". It was subtitled 'a theatre piece' and it was co-written with Stephen Schwartz... All clues. Perhaps more generally 'music theatre' rather than something following the conventions of 'the Broadway Musical' if such a thing can be said to exist. On the other hand, it's never been produced in a commercial theatre context, as far as I know.
Your guess is as good as mine - there's probably a thesis in it. Or two.
Re DAW lessons. I am Currently writing a masters Thesis on the under representation of DAW studies in High school music curriculum. Totally agree with you!
6:18
Adam: "What's better than 2 people? Well, 3 people"
My dirty mind: O M G
"It's OK to put us in a three-way"
"Yes it is a very kinky thing"
I see Adam Neely, I click.
Instantly.
I like
17:35 "carly rae jepsen. only half kidding"
no adam, no kidding. you are 100% correct. congratulations
accurate. She rips.
Agreed. Carly Rae Jepsen seems to have so much fun with music, and pushes out into more interesting but danceable stuff with people like Charlie XCX and AG Cook in the pop-meets-noise world.
14:57 In german speaking countries (and some others i think) b is called h and b flat is called b
wtf
Yep, same in Poland.
Actually I think it's h and b just about everywhere outside english speaking world. But since english language rules the world B is becoming the standard.
@@olvinjanoisin2255 I think that's right, except that there are also many languages (Spanish, French, Italian) that use a system of note names based on do, re, mi, etc., rather than letters.
Hey if you’re young and you love music, a great mobile digital audio workstation is Caustic 3. It’s 15 dollars, but I fell deeply in love with it because it was my first exposure to music-making and sound-making. It lets you use synthesizers and all kinds of bells and whistles that can let you make whatever music is floating around in your brain, as well as experimenting with all kinds of tools. I think there’s a demo too, it just doesn’t let you save your songs.
That intro was the funniest, realist, most amazing shit ever. Love you bro
Question for the Q&A: thoughts on Dan Briggs of BTBAM, as a bassist and songwriter? He's also a part of Orbs, Trioscapes and Nova Collective.
I must correct you on the Bernstein musical response: He also wrote a musical based on the satirical novel Candide in 1974.
Hayden of Everything And many more ;)
10:55 When Adam accidentally trolls every emo kid ever.
69UM24OSU12 I haven’t watched this video in a while so I don’t remember what’s here, but I already know that it’s just a G
WHEN I WAS A YOUNG BOY
@@GreeceKelly MY FATHER
i dont get it
@@sneddypie My Chemical Romance - Welcome To The Black Parade.
Hey Adam, I'm a tuba player (studying Music Education) with perfect pitch and I actually really like microtonal music!
lol. I love watching your videos, in part for the music theory, in part for your "gate's open, come on in" approach, and in a much larger part for your dry humor and visual punchlines. Thanks!
Question for the next Q/A:
Hey Adam, just subscribed, have been binge watching your content. I'm not sure if this question has been asked, but do you enjoy 'classical' music as a 'jazz' musician? If so are there any particular styles/periods you like? Why or why not? I know this question is very cliché, but I'm justed interested to hear your thoughts on 'classical' music
Highly recommend The Melvins at Hellfest 2011 for how powerful two drummers can be in a live setting. Specifically the drum solo in 'Water Glass'.
3:50
On this subject I had a weeb friend that was SUPER into DDR and more specifically some kind of free and open source knockoff of DDR that I can't remember the name of now. He knew next to nothing about playing music, writing music, etc, but through those games he extrapolated this bizarre dance game centric sense of rhythm that over time evolved into him literally having this savant level system in his head for rhythm that made absolutely no sense to me but seemed water tight on his end. He eventually (like a decade later) took up playing drums because his church band was missing a drummer and he was like "how hard could it be, you're just hitting pads instead of pushing buttons" and for him that observation was 100% correct. He plays in several bands now and has since learned traditional rhythm notation but he claims in his head he still thinks with his weird DDR centered system that I still do not understand. Maybe one day I'll demand he translate it on paper into traditional rhythmic notation.
So the DDR game is Stepmania, and as someone who plays both rhythm games and percussion this is absolutely accurate, but I've never heard of translating the notes on the page into a rhythm game chart you visualize yourself.
The song at 9:46 is Solfeggietto by C.P.E Bach
"we're going to be touring a lot more in the coming year" Adam Neely, 12/30/19... a quote that'll go down in history lol we had no idea
How I learned music theory:
Watching Adam Neely and looking up everything I dont understand.
Yep it was a nightmare...
Edit: That “only half kidding” killed me xD
Big same my dude.
Kinda how we learn vocabulary in most contexts. You just start and then look up what you didn't understand. Soon enough you'll seldom be googling anything during your studies.
moi aussi
Band name idea : *" Microtonal Fusillade "*
I like it
Oh that's how you spell it.
Bro that’s totally “a Scanner Darkly” reference in the beginning and I appreciate it. Even if you didn’t mean that, it instantly reminded me of it lol.
I really appreciating these perfect transitions
So I'm a senior in highschool and I just made the marine band early this school year and your explanation on why you should go in into music just completely validified my decision and I thank you for that😊👍🏻
That intro really took a dark turn
I love how you always just put the short answer in the thumbnail.
And then I click anyway.
4:29 there is a book called “effortless Mastery” by Kenny Werner that talks about this
gotta say the intro to this is my favorite of all your videos i've seen. gotta love existential dread amirite
You know, I hope you'll revisit this Adam. I think that there are some incredibly gifted multi instrumentalists and musicians out there who do make lofi hip hop.
Laziness and low effort isn't tied to any one genre. Yes are a good bunch low effort, sure, but I think there is a lot of good quality and well thought out lofi hip hop tracks out there like Chillhop.
Nobody:
Everybody: *play the licc Adam*
Adam Neely upon hitting 1 million subs: *plays the licc for one million milliseconds*
That’s like 8 days
@@ayooobro Sixteen minutes and 40 seconds.
this "a scanner-darkly-like" intro, love it
So he is saying that watching his videos to learn music theory is like watching anime with subs to learn Japanese 😄
Kind of. The analogy doesn't quite work because Japanese anime is a special kind of slang-spoken Japanese that you would never hear real Japanese speak in public because the form is too rude. There's not really a way to compare it to English because Japan's hierarchical social structure is baked into the language with different expressions, lengthening or shortening your sentences, depending on who you talk to and their social position compared to yours in society. Anime Japanese is a unique slang form that is normally too rude to speak to just about anyone in Japan. It's different enough that Japanese people will recognize you speaking Japanese as if you were in an anime (provided they watch anime. A lot of Japanese don't) as opposed to real life.
@@caladbolg777 yes I’m sure this is how the original commenter wanted people to respond to his joke, an in depth analogy on why is is wrong
@@caladbolg777 As for your first point, some anime does have very realistic dialogue, so not completely incorrect. Although I will admit most shounen or action oriented series will give an experience similar to what you mentioned. It'd be like trying to watch a Deadpool movie to learn how to talk to people, or Pulp Fiction. Many a cuss word and a disrespect those characters have. As for the hierarchical structure and talking to different people differently, you could absolutely learn that just by watching subbed media. We do that in America here too you know, as well as literally every other country. It's not unique. We regularly change up our speech to be more respectful based on who we're talking to. Of course it's much more shall we say mandatory in Japan, what with the entire population being social prudes, but it's just an exaggerated version of what we have to a certain extent.
This was the best advice I have ever heard any Musician offer anyone! I couldn't agree more. I had the chance to go to a Tech College for Graphic Arts and at the same time (I was 17 y/o) my band got an offer from Massacre Records (Germany). I would have spent the rest of my life wondering what I missed had I did the " more stable, and respected thing". SCREW THAT !!! I was born to hit, smash, break, and DESTROY THINGS!!! Drums keep me out of prison! LOL Thank you Mr. Neely. I'll call you Adam when you say I can.
Hey Adam question for your next q and a: I’m gonna be visiting New York City this summer on vacation. What are your favorite clubs or restaurants to hear live music in? Other than that, what would you recommend to do while I’m there?
"Have you ever listened to greek music?"
...does Septicflesh count?
now we're asking the real questions
check out omega btw, top notch greek black metal
In as much as saying i hold a degree in Egyptology from listening to Nile, which btw i fucking adore.
yall gotta listen to Aphrodites Child immediately
Listen to manos hajidakis or rebetika true Greek music
@@raulperez2308 Come on, Septicflesh is not black metal.
- a big Septicflesh fan
Waiting for the day Adam says, "Whats up, slappers!"
@@KahruSuomiPerkele see what you did there... spicy
Adam: A slave to the digital machine of content creation.
Me: Yeah but it christmas tho.
That album of the decade just earned you a life long fan, sir.
One of my professors actually plays live with Thank You Scientist, I think he went touring with them in Brazil during Finals week. He’s a cool dude.
H Jon Benjamin’s “I should have” is one of the funniest albums to date. Brilliant comedy
So relatable as well. I'm listening to it and it feels just like when you are sitting at the piano while listening to music that you don't know how to play, but trying to noodle along to the melody anyway. You're thinking: "Hey, This doesn't sound half bad!" But you know in your head it definitely sounds terrible.
Loving it
tips for lofi hiphop: GET GOOD AT SAMPLING GET GOOD AT FLIPIN SAMPLES
As a person who is cursed with perfect pitch, I usually take extra interest in music that's tuned differently. I like how unique and otherworldly it can sound. Idk that's just me
D-Rock Wow, you’re one in one million buddy. Perfect pitched people normally can’t hear detuned (or other equal temperament) without getting crazy. I’m blessed with a good ear but no perfect pitch, so I can clearly hear if a note is sharper or flatter, but I can’t identify the note. So yeah, pretty enjoyable actually, when it comes to hear some academic contemporaneous music.
@14:23 Resonator guitars were developed in the 1930's as a response to big-band ensembles. A standard un-amplified acoustic doesn't have the volume or cutting power to keep up with a horn section, and resonators "sit better in the mix".
bro the quality of your videos is so fricken good keep it up