i think a lot of people's first binaural beat was lavender town from pokemon red and green

@Dowlphin

11 ай бұрын

My first binaural beat was from discovering the Brainwave Synth feature in Cool Edit. That was decades ago and I used it plenty back then.

@JohnWiku

11 ай бұрын

Pokemon blue is also a thing, green is Japan only, how did you bring green into the conversation but forgot blue? 😂😂

@DangerSquiggles

11 ай бұрын

@@JohnWiku they were remade as FireRed and LeafGreen, which is probably where they get this.

@Vlek

11 ай бұрын

@@JohnWiku firered and leafgreen prob

@JohnWiku

11 ай бұрын

@@DangerSquiggles ahh of course, I guess I'm too old now, everyone only knows the games by their modern remakes and remasters instead of the originals 🤣🤣

Seeing a whole dance floor dancing to Chameleon is a thing of beauty. The speed change is so gradual that people barely seem to realise how fast they're dancing at the end.

@KeithGroover

11 ай бұрын

I know that it was a very intentional choice for Stairway to Heaven, too.

@VeganSemihCyprus33

11 ай бұрын

You have been fooled by the mass media and the education system 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 💖

@varod42

9 ай бұрын

​@@VeganSemihCyprus33i know this is a bot but the sentence but "chameleon isnt actually tempos its a government hoax, the groove just makes time feel faster" is amazing

Hey Adam! What you called Mixolydian Pentatonic with the variable 3rd is a very famous Indian Melodic scale or Raga called Raga Jog. You may wanna check it out for more inspiration. Cheers from India :)

@juliamacdonell

11 ай бұрын

Yes! I got super excited when I recognised this! (It was like my excitement in the first episode of Tansener Tanpura realising the same thing.)

You can tell Adam is a bassist and not a guitarist or singer bc he never mentioned crappy drummers during the elastic time conversation lol. And as a drummer, I really appreciate that. We've actually never messed up any tempos before, it's all feel, and if you don't like the tempo, you just don't understand elastic time. It's an excellent point. Thank you Adam.

@jackinthebox1817

11 ай бұрын

Binaurals are about cord instruments

@spaghettisauce445

11 ай бұрын

this just sounds like coping for not being able to keep time like a metronome

@erictheepic5019

11 ай бұрын

@@spaghettisauce445 While I'm not a musician myself, my brother is a bassist. His opinion on the matter is that whether or not the drummer keeps an exact tempo doesn't really matter; what *does* matter is that the band keeps time with each other. He would rather have a good drummer to work with than have the whole band listening to a metronome track.

@MaddDrEw

11 ай бұрын

As a guitarist that has stumped drummers - false. Granted I do math metal and use poly rhythms and poly metering constantly.

@jackinthebox1817

11 ай бұрын

@@MaddDrEw As a drummer, that gets old pretty fast, and that's why Meshugga and others don't get the recognition they really deserve.

Dear Prudence by The Beatles is my absolute favourite example of elastic time. The tempo changes dramatically, but it never sounds like there's a turning point between one tempo and another, it just gradually evolves into that new tempo and feels entirely natural, and adds so much to the song, especially the end, it is just gorgeous. Maybe it's because Paul was playing drums on it and so he can't keep time as well as Ringo can, because Ringo is a far better drummer. But Paul is still pretty great, and the drums kinda push the song over the top into being an all time classic.

@superdrwholock

11 ай бұрын

True, I also love little imperfections in songs and it always seemed a little imperfect to me? Could be wrong of course but yeah I love that

@morbidmanmusic

11 ай бұрын

Way to much brown lipstick.

@matturner6890

11 ай бұрын

@@morbidmanmusic *too

@GordonPavilion

11 ай бұрын

@@morbidmanmusicis that a suggestion directed towards you whenever you appear outside your home?

@aliyaf9869

11 ай бұрын

Ringo a better drummer? He’s the worst drummer out of all of the Beatles!

The thing about this theory of binaural beats and delta brainwaves is it assuems they are equivalent when we have no real reason to assume that. Like, oscillations of brain waves are electrical, auditory stimulation is movement of air, they are totally different phenomena. This kind of abstraction is a human, or at least sentience/sapience-based phenomena, so its unlikely that the electrical patterns in your brain are noticing that air is moving at the same speed that electricity is oscillating in it, unless you yourself are noticing it. The whole theory is kind of rooted IMO in some very old theories of subliminal hypnosis, as well as some other sort of new-agey, post-hippie wishy washy garbage which have never achieved notable efficacy.

@bigollie006

3 ай бұрын

Sound IS electrical. So, I'm confused about your point.

@WiggyWamWam

2 ай бұрын

@@bigollie006No? It isn’t? It’s pressure waves through a fluid?

@bigollie006

2 ай бұрын

@@WiggyWamWam yes. It is. All of our senses are literally electrical. Literally every. Single. One. Everything you sense is electrical. Why? It has to go to your brain, which communicates only in electric interactions. How do nerves work? Electrically. How do thoughts work? Electrically. This isn't rocket appliance

However, bilateral stimulation is a thing. I’m a therapist that provides EMDR (eye movement desensitization reprogramming) in my practice. It’s a protocol for processing trauma. Originally it was executed with having the client follow a visual stimulus that moved left and right rapidly, forcing the eyes to do the same, which reduces activity in the amygdala (fight or flight center), so they can process shitty stuff without getting triggered. It’s amazing. Yet in recent years people have also delivered this treatment with alternating vibrations in the hands ( holding little buzzers) or having little notes that go left right in headphones: so as long as the client gets a left right alternating stimulus, the amygdala chills. It’s very effective. And thoroughly researched.

@Johnny_T779

11 ай бұрын

Yes! I used intuitively this to heal ptsd. It works!

@rumble1925

11 ай бұрын

All I know is that binaural beats and nothing else can make me sit down and focus on what I have to do. Nothing stresses me out more than managing the finances and book keeping in my company. I postpone and delay doing stuff because it causes me anxiety and stress. Binaural beats is basically the one thing that makes me able to power through it. Gonna do some research on the eye stuff, seems interesting

@Brian-rt5bb

11 ай бұрын

The theory behind bilateral stimulation is pseudoscientific and probably the most controversial, least evidence based part of EMDR. Accepting bilateral stimulation as uncontroversially true because EMDR is as effective as other forms of exposure therapy is like endorsing the existence of Chi because acupuncture is effective.

@johnpienta4200

11 ай бұрын

​@@Brian-rt5bb"Neurobiological response to EMDR therapy in clients with different psychological traumas" is a pretty cool look using EEG to try to validate the mechanisms. Unfortunately it's really hard to get big bucks to do these studies head to head with other forms of therapy, but it does really seem like there's a "there" there. And Chi is very real, it just depends on who you ask 😉. I'm kinda joking here, but I'm also serious, in the sense that one could describe it as the "internal bodily energy" or flow of changes within the "subtle body" then it seems, from my understanding of the world, that it's real. But there's all kinds of frameworks for understanding all kinds of things.

@rumble1925

11 ай бұрын

@@Brian-rt5bb midwit comment

i love the wall of context at 5:35 to explain whether the bass note should be labeled G# or Ab

@calcumore_not_less

11 ай бұрын

Same. I took that text and tried playing the E7/G# there instead of the Fm6 and I am having a great day now.

@VeganSemihCyprus33

11 ай бұрын

You have been fooled by the mass media and the education system 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 💖

@brightblackhole2442

5 ай бұрын

⁠@@VeganSemihCyprus33 you are being [coerced|manipulated|controlled] by the {WordNet.relatedNoun("government")} {random.choice(unicode.charsInBlock("emoji"))}

@Arycke

16 күн бұрын

Easy explanation is Ab is a b4, so you wouldn't name a dominant chord with the formula 1 3 5 b7 i.e. E7 E Ab B D. You get to take advantage of this with scales with b4 and b7 though like Super Locrian. Enharmonic major triad 1 b4 5 (technical name is the cursed susb4 😂)

My favorite example of elastic time is "Run for your life" from clipping. The instrumental is played from stereo systems of passing cars and the doppler effect changes the not only the pitch but also the bpm of the song. Also the rapper uses this freedom to speed up or slow down the song depending on the mood they're trying to induce.

@samescourt3801

11 ай бұрын

W pick. One of the most creative songs of all time.

@ericoschmitt

11 ай бұрын

What about classical music? Basically all of it.

that was a really high effort first answer. it's well appreciated.

@reaganharder1480

11 ай бұрын

It was good enough that I forgot for a moment that this was a q&a video and not a whole video about binaural beats.

I remember hearing Tartini tones while being a very young little kid screaming with other kids in a kid's falsetto/whistle register scream and as our pitches changed the Tartini tones changed. It felt like they were ripping my ears apart. This required at least two kids; usually I was one of them (not that's what we were trying to do).

@liam3284

11 ай бұрын

Reminds me I first heard them with multiple smoke alarms. The pitch of the two piezos is not exactly equal.

Our guy comes off a major tour and puts out a Q&A where the first A could have been a video all to itself. Amazing work Adam!

@VeganSemihCyprus33

11 ай бұрын

You have been fooled by the mass media and the education system 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 💖

this is fantastic! one of the best vids I’ve seen breaking down binaural beats…

Great example of the tempo thing. Queens of the Stone Age is my favorite band and I remember listening to "A Long Slow Goodbye" off of their album Lullabies to Paralyze and getting completely tripped out because there is a point in the middle of the song where they reveal that they've ever so slightly sped up the tempo by suddenly slowing back down. Must be like 10-15bpm, just enough to add some serious mood to the track. I hear it as a tongue-in-cheek breakup song, like they care soooo much (not) that theyve lost track of the tempo.

I’m halfway through but I’m typing the comment already, it’s so cozy and nice to spend the evening listening to you being all clever and friendly thanks for the video, Adam

Wooo! Exactly - that was a fabulous choice with the B flat!

I missed these Q&As, they’re so fun

Super helpful. Best explanation of this stuff I've yet seen.

So many cool ideas in one video, you nailed it with this one.

i love your videos! thanks for making them

That was absolutely gorgeous thank you mr. Neely.

Im so happy these videos are back! Best breakfast entertainment.

COME TO BRAZIL

@blvdes

11 ай бұрын

on god

@murilocostarosa

11 ай бұрын

fr

@lukrinhas

11 ай бұрын

no papo

@AlexandreDuqueque

11 ай бұрын

Mandou

@Muzikman127

11 ай бұрын

Notou águas de março nesse chord progression the the viewer submitted? Amo essa música

I found your exploration of binaural beats and combination tones compelling, especially set against the backdrop of acoustic and psychoacoustic phenomena. Your chord progression example effectively demonstrates the power of bass movement in re-harmonization, while your comments on consistent BPMs and quantization bring up essential considerations about the limitations and merits of digital tools. The Mixolydian Pentatonic scale's versatility, particularly in blues contexts, was my favorite part. Keep up the great work!

I wanted to know about this topic for so long. I'm glad that u r covering it. Love ur videos

Thanks for bringing up Herbie Hancock. Head Hunters is one of the most important and influential albums of all time. All his albums, especially from that era, are essential.

@WiggyWamWam

2 ай бұрын

It’s one of the few albums I’ve discovered as an adult that are just… embedded in me now. As much a part of me as what I grew up with. A masterpiece.

Love it when you’re doing something relatively understandable with chords and bass in music theory and then by just continuing to do it in ways that make sense you hit something you need a 3 paragraph explanation for. Chords are fun ALSO YOOO CHAMELEON I LOVE HERBIE HANCOCK

great explanation!

Yayyyyy. A new Q+A!

I'm almost more interested in your bass than the questions. Sick instrument, dude!

Thanks for the solo. I spend so much time on KZread, but when I see an update from a Nebula creator, I head there to watch. Instead of a “thanks for watching on Nebula” comment, getting a real bonus like that is fucking magical. MAGICAL.

You are a huge inspiration for me dude! I love your videos, and they have provided me with so much knowledge of music theory, as well as encouraging me to try more experimental styles of electronic music. I can confidently say I would not be as talented as I am had it not been for you. Thanks for everything, and hang in there, Neely!

@mc_mc_music

11 ай бұрын

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Finally lol love the videos and can’t get enough brewwww

Those super fast instagram q&a stoped being super fast long time ago and just turned into question and answer time with Adam Neely

@ewnrid

11 ай бұрын

Ah but the theme was written in stone, it's the SU PA FAST INS TA GRAM Q N A *Be duh doh*

Please tell me that you plan to release a tour video once the current tour is over! I've been following your progress over the last few months and all the live clips in your various posts sound absolutely amazing. I'm really hoping to get something long-form and more comprehensive when it's all over, and I'm sure all SUNGAZER fans would appreciate it too ❤

loving the dingwall, idk if this is your first time using it in a video but this is my first time seeing it

Fan fret dawg. Neat.

Thanks for featuring my question! Incredibly well researched and produced as always.

@Dowlphin

11 ай бұрын

They definitely help entrain the brain into the targeted operating frequency. Long ago I used Cool Edit to apply 6 Hz to brown noise, also making sessions with sliding down into and eventually back out of it, and it set me into a dreamy state of consciousness that was like a very refreshing, mind-clearing powernap, but while I could immediately react to if someone spoke to me or such. And it wasn't daydreaming because I wasn't pursuing my own imaginative ideas in my head, but I perceived pretty much what you would in dreams, but a bit more vague and without fading out the surroundings.

Paused to read to read the "Theory Dump" and was not disappointed. More "Theory Dumps" needded.

Wonderful descending line.

very cool, thanks!

Yoooo love the new Dingwall

We missed you, Adam

That floaty time topic was really interesting

"Always with Me" on the Spirited Away soundtrack has some subtle pause/ritardando between phrases that sound really nice.

I met you and you wonderful parents at a club near Ohio State University (more than a dozen years ago...maybe more). There's something special about each one of you. Now I send your videos to my grandkids who are band members at Ohio University. Nice work!

That interval you played at the end of the video sounds like something that belongs in a David Rawlings guitar solo. So *that's* why I feel so good listening to him. ;) I do enjoy listening to that, it's the ultimate tension builder full of melancholy and the hope for resolution.

I'm watching on Nebula. Just popped over here to say: Yes, I DID enjoy that theory dump - thanks!

9:57 Speaking as a physically disabled musician, I can confirm that playing live is a significant drain on my energy and touring is impossible. I'm very glad home recording and self-releasing are options these days!

I definitely enjoyed the theory dump.

been around for like 20 years. Why you doin this now? Actually a really good explanation of it. Nice. And really informative omg.

Nice explanation!

putting an ad at 5:44 is criminal. i was so ready for that resolution

@Martiethaacloud

11 ай бұрын

Like why would he do that ?

@Muzikman127

11 ай бұрын

go listen to águas de março to cleanse your palate lol ;D

Thank you for actually answering the thumbnail first. I'll watch your whole video because you didn't make me wait.

In an interview I did with one of the guitarists of We Lost The Sea - a Sydney post-rock band - he described touring as "rushing to wait" which maps on perfectly to how you painted it.

I just found you. You're so amazing. I'm not a musician by any stretch of the imagination, but I love music.

Bro we need to see you compose a lot of original songs or musical pieces. Looking forward to it.

Still so sad i missed the Sungazer/Plini tour. Come back to Illinois soon please!

Nice Dingwall! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Just discovered that you're coming to Estonia with Sungazer in November! Like..how? WHOA!

I've done a lot of recording over the past few years with "virtual" classical ensembles, and an interesting thing with them is that they often use what has come to be termed a "live" click, meaning the individual clicks of a click track are massaged into place to mimic a naturalistic orchestral performance. It requires a bit more attention from the individual musicians so that they play with the timing of the track and not a steady tempo, but the results are excellent when everything's done.

@Seafroggys

11 ай бұрын

O hi

@thomascordery7951

9 ай бұрын

An interesting experiment might be to have an experienced conductor create a click track manually, while "hearing" an orchestra only in his or her imagination, then have musicians record their parts to the resulting click. (If I played to such a click, I think one or two conductors from my past might suggest that's the only time I ever paid close attention, the cynical buggers lol.) That experiment could also be done using a great drummer or bass player to record the clicks. A "human click track". I offer this free to the world, though if you have great success with the idea, don't forget to mention me in your memoirs. 😅

Good to see pride of place given to Persichetti , seminal book .

6:30 my _rude_ introduction to elastic time was trying to play Run To The Hills on rock band's expert drums. The first like, three beats of the blazingly-fast disco beat is slower than the rest of it, lulling you into a false sense of the true tempo. Once you know it's there you can adjust -- and in fact it's so obvious in retrospect -- but MAN it got me every time until I realized.

I honestly miss songs that speed up and slow down. It builds excitement, and helps to draw you in. It used to be so commonplace, and is now all but gone, and in the right hands it serves a very real purpose.

@tmoore121

11 ай бұрын

"Take Me Out" by Franz Ferdinand never fails to hype me with that huge tempo change.

@KibatsuMusic

11 ай бұрын

recently discovered this with black sabbath. The main riff in iron man speeds up as it goes then slows down in the beginning. so an awesome momentum based feeling

@leumasarc4180

11 ай бұрын

Listen to classical music! It's all elastic time.

Ooo, Adam's got himself a Dingwall. Nice! Also, brilliant content as always.

Cheers Adam, a very important subject along with the 432hz madness

Ocean waves and rains sounds sound more relaxing.

Adam's rocking a Dingwall! Heck yeah!

Nice to see you rocking the Dingwall! Love mine.

@xdoctorblindx

11 ай бұрын

Do you know which model it is? I see a signature on the headstock?

@dckmusic

11 ай бұрын

@@xdoctorblindx Its one of the After Burner models, ABZ, I think.

For binaural beats I have tried a lot of playlists. A lot of them don’t work. A lot of them I like just because of the accompanying music. Some of them help in different ways than what the description would imply it should. But there are a few from Jason Lewis’s KZread channel called something like “wake up without caffeine”, in particular the ones that don’t have any music, if I’m listening to those I am unable to fall sleep. I will stop yawning, and my head will not go beyond a certain point of cloudiness from being tired. It will not wake me up in the morning, nor make me feel energetic. But when I need to stay up all night finishing something and, as a programmer, that’s just a thing that happens, it will keep me up and going all the way to the finish line. I only wish I had this while I was in school.

I really appreciate the fact that Adam does not do clickbait or make us wait until the end of a video to get the content from the thumbnail that made us click in the first place.

good Q+A...btw I have an old 80s Yamaha keytar that has Chameleon as one of the autochord backing songs

A great example of interference patterns in music is the accordion. Some accordions have the reeds purposely tuned a few cents sharp/flat to create those interference beats.

Adam had me increasing the video quality to read the theory dump

Love the multi scale Dingwall! Sheldon makes some pretty cool shit!

wake up baby adam neely dropped a super fast instagram q&a

PS I love your approach. I'm not even close to your level of theory knowledge or ability to play but I write my own songs, pretty much for open mics and anyone else who wants to listen. I take whatever I can from your videos and Thank You very much for that. At the moment, I can only appreciate your work by liking the videos so I do that consistently. When you went to the Bflat "Whoo" ,I'm going to assume that was a Flat Third (I'm lazy and didn't want to break a sweat to figure it out right now)🤠 But I love the feeling in a 1 to the Flat 3 vamp myself. I'm not really asking though as I should definitely do the work so it imprints on my brain ears. Thanks again, for the cool videos.

I've recently discovered the value of ending a piece on an unresolved interval which had been used as a leading tone several times earlier. That allows the listener to resolve it internally since the sound is still fresh. This type of approach takes advantage of the necessary association of the timeliness of pattern memory which information is part of the influence the piece is designed to impart to a listener. Yes, a good composer is, at lest, unintentionally manipulation any voluntary listener. Targeting a captive listener opens up a whole other "can of verms".

Oh wow, Adam. This video had a lot to learn for me, nice. So this whole binaural thing is basically what I experience about 90 % of the time on my badly tuned bass? That‘s it? 😂 The mixolydian Pentatonic in your explanation though was a real eye opener. That thing while band practise, someone asking the guitarist „is that blues riff minor or major?“ and the guitarist answering „yesss!“ Thanks for your content, man. Big inspiration!

Come touring eastern Europe! Come in Bulgaria. Particularly. Burgas if possible... During summertime preferably. Bar-a-bar is an idea for a venue. PLS! Love your work and your channel!

I love using rigidly elastic times in DAW productions, I make a lot of EDM and exp. hip hop beats that make use of the fact that DAWs are so rigidly timed, so I can constantly and consistently speed up or slow down the piece’s tempo over the course of phrases to change the energy of sections. It’s also a lot of fun to do this type of automation with swing too. I wrote a pretty amateur essay recently about how we can use digital technologies to influence groove in interesting ways if anyone wants to read it

@owensmusicalmisadventures2312

11 ай бұрын

So this also applies to the next one about electronic music potentially being groovier than live. I agree with Adam that “probably not” is the answer if you’re only looking at quantisation, but if you’re looking at the preciseness of DAWs’ interesting rhythmic capabilities compared to (relatively) simplistic human rhythmic capabilities, I reckon you absolutely can get (not more, but) very different types of groove, not possible when played live

Thx man

Thank you.

5:34 I can't get enough of this IV/V chord. Jason Robert Brown uses it a lot and I can't describe the emotion it evokes but I just love it.

Beautifully well thought video, very articulate thank you for the content

Hey Adam. Nice Q&A. I suggest you look into isochronic tones as they work by producing the physical beating in the rythms themselves, instead of having it be illusory. I wrote my Bachelors degree in sounddesign on brainwave entrainment. I found that, isochronic tones by far were the superior auditory method, but that tactile and visual entrainment is a lot more effective in producing correlating brainwave frequencies. However.. Being able to entrain specific frequncies in the brain, does not mean being able to cure any health issues (yet). I tried combining isochronic tones with principles from music therapy in some compositions. Only the one to calm anxiety had some noticeable effect. On one subject it made them nauseus. The other one had the desired effect and still use the music today 2 years later. Look into it if you like, there's not enough science to create any new content on the matter though. So don't expect a video to come from it...

I remember discovering tartini tones in the various times I've played Minor Seconds on guitar. As well as tuning my guitar.

Everything about your bass is so cool, and absolutely gives me a panic attack. Adjusting action from the body is so alien to me and it seems like there’d be a lot in the way, and your frets are all slanty, and it’s so cool. And so damn nerve wracking.

Having a binaural beat type thing in my ears my brain would after five seconds run through all the harmonies and beats that could work with that drone tone and therefor not be able to relax at all

@MNbenMN

11 ай бұрын

relax? binaural entrainment is about stimulating certain frequencies of brain activity. ...but maybe we have different ideas of what "relax" and "stimulate" mean.

@ivoryrick7734

11 ай бұрын

​@@MNbenMNwell, it was mentioned that one of the potential uses was relaxing, focusing and/or sleeping

@LAK_770

11 ай бұрын

@@MNbenMN​​⁠ ironically yes, they are working with a different idea of “stimulate” than you, i.e. they’re using the correct idea in this context. The waves are intended to stimulate certain brain wave patterns that in turn cause sensations of relaxation. It’s not stimulation in the general colloquial sense of excitement, it’s stimulation as in “causing a process to occur”

@MNbenMN

11 ай бұрын

@@ivoryrick7734 Maybe you also don't consider filling your brain with thoughts about possible combinations and variations to be relaxing? I kinda do. But anyways, binaural entrainment isn't really about *what* thoughts are running through your head. It's about influencing the general mode of brain activity. Relaxed never means zero brain activity... that would be brain dead. I have a lot of thoughts racing through my head while asleep, while relaxing, and while focusing, (binaural beats or not,) so I still don't follow why hearing a tone and thinking about it necessarily prevents relaxation.

@MNbenMN

11 ай бұрын

@@LAK_770 That is the sense of stimulate I was using, as in stimulating a mode of brain activity known as relaxation.

5:14 Adam Neely playing bass and keyboard at the same time!!?!? The new Geddy Lee!

I seem to remember that many of the iconic “classic” rock songs of yesteryear have some drift and variance in tempo. It’s one of those things that you can’t tell unless you really listen for it.

@addyd.3140

11 ай бұрын

Yes! Like every AC/DC song, and I love it. Feels like a living breathing organism.

5:55 Don Ellis' album How Time Passes is another great example of jazz with elastic time

The first time I really noticed elastic time was the song Belfast by Orbital, with the song slowing down to half speed near the end and then adding additional notes to give the illusion that it was the same speed all along (or at least that’s how i thought of it).

When I first found binaural beats years ago, I was super skeptical. I tested it in the basic form, generating pure tones for each ear. I was using relaxing ones for a while, testing different pitch ranges (and to no surprise low tones were so much more relaxing). One day I needed to focus on a college project and decided I would try that type of beat. While deep into the project, making a ton of progress I got blindsided by waves of anxiety and i turn the beats off and was soon feeling just fine again. Whether this was entirely a placebo or not, I've been a believer since. And hey, if it does something since I believe, that's good enough for me lol But at the same time, I get far more relaxed listening to Heilung and similar music. So I absolutely agree with what you said about how so many songs or videos out there that use binaural beats also have so much more stuff in them too. It always reminds me how powerful music can be.

Very informative

Composers have used change in tempo for hundreds of years. It's right up there with change in dynamic or change in pitch. We should use all the controls at our disposal when making music.

🔥🔥🔥

05:36 - yes, I thoroughly did enjoy that theory dump, thank you! :-)

The commercial cut in right before resolving the chord progression and I swear he did that like the equivalent of a TO BE CONTINUED

5:54 - a rare win for LMMS, all controls can be programmed to curves including BPM (or tempo), allowing for dynamic BPM that edges up. you can even program time signature changes with the same logic. Now i wonder if you could "gate" the BPM with a waveform