Dear Adam, why did you cut off your bald?

@xeroformaxis5609

4 жыл бұрын

It grew too much

@onesyphorus

4 ай бұрын

i just realised this guy chose to be bald in his 20s lol

11:47 When the name is so long the lick has to improvise

@omegaseamaster3005

6 жыл бұрын

Prästen LMAO I HEARD IT AND I HAD TO SEE IF ANYONE ELSE NOTICED

@BeatleJWOL

6 жыл бұрын

yeah immediately came to the comments :D

@Toastyone1

6 жыл бұрын

Prästen I didn’t catch this. Thank you so much!!!

@egilsandnes9637

5 жыл бұрын

That name is actually slightly tongue twisty.

@moadot720

2 жыл бұрын

LOLLLL 😂😂😂😂

Holy shit, hair.

@lucasgrape8576

6 жыл бұрын

I am hair to answer all your Questio... what?!

@2small4theMall

6 жыл бұрын

He looks good with Longthony Hairtano

@scriptosaurusrex

6 жыл бұрын

Hairy shit, hole! Wait. What?

@joaquinvega2705

6 жыл бұрын

Hairy hole, shit.

@sirmissalot9038

6 жыл бұрын

He killed a raccoon and stole its pelt.

Dude... you look great with hair

@dumpsterDeity

6 жыл бұрын

Right?

@Reveticate

6 жыл бұрын

... I actually think he looks better without it.

@jeim376

4 жыл бұрын

Wow thanks! I’m glad you feel that way about me!

@joelstephenson8017

3 жыл бұрын

@@jeim376 😂

Question for Q&A: If your name is Adam Neely, why are you always sitting in these videos? Thanks!

@MisterAppleEsq

6 жыл бұрын

Wow.

@lucianodebenedictis6014

6 жыл бұрын

It's not Adam Kneely, you know

@JoohingDenSeje

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it doesn't add up

@Brian-sh5ne

6 жыл бұрын

HAAAAAA puns

@alexweisbeek5335

6 жыл бұрын

If this were reddit, you would have gotten some gold.

*NEW HAIRSTYLE UNLOCKED*

@ouroya

5 жыл бұрын

1cm, record length

I only JUST realised that the music that plays when you start the questions is the lick. That took way too long to notice.

@PKMartin

6 жыл бұрын

Me too

@thunderfoot11

6 жыл бұрын

Both of you can turn your credibility in at the door on the way out. Thank you (jk - it's so flaky and flouncy I missed the first time I watched a Q & A).

@Repppo

4 жыл бұрын

How can you miss that, it’s like the main reason I watch these Q&As :P

@ratofthecity6351

2 жыл бұрын

this is why aural classes are necessary

@mistershaf9648

19 күн бұрын

Hee hee, I realized that the FIRST time.

A Q for your next video: This is totally hypothetical, but what new music genres do you see in the future? Its easy to look at the history and se why certain music got popular. Most radically different genres has their beginning in new types of instruments or techniques that has been developed IMO. Distortion -> Metal, Electric guitar -> Blues rock, Production -> Pop, Syntheziser -> Synth. But before the syntheziser was invented it would be a enormous leap to envision what synth music would sound like. So, that said, 10 years from now, what do you see happening musicwise and would it fit within our definition of music?

@frida3025

6 жыл бұрын

Lars-David Zackarias Nordin super interesting question! I second this!

@Sixela963

6 жыл бұрын

AI-generated music, maybe?

@mjazzguitar

6 жыл бұрын

Garage pop.

@kristofwynants

6 жыл бұрын

depends if there's still humans around by then, or if so, what level of "civilization" we have by then; maybe electricity will become such a scarse commodity that acoustic will be the norm again.. But yeah, interesting question!!

@ingridayarza

5 жыл бұрын

@@kristofwynants wow, I never thought about electricity and Music in the future.

i thought i was a lesbian. then i saw adam with hair. guess not.

@ricardosilva5379

6 жыл бұрын

OliviaPi You got me ! Ahahah 😂😂😂

@AshPKM69

6 жыл бұрын

I mean he kinda looks like a lesbian soooooo that might be why you find him attractive lmaoooo

@MrMinorChord

6 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure I'm gay. Then I saw Adam with hair. Yeah, definitely gay.

@Demasturbot

6 жыл бұрын

I thought I were straight...

@nathanhardcastle1729

4 жыл бұрын

I thought I was bi but then I saw Adam with hair and nothing changed.

Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima is another example of creepy, unpleasant string compositions related to war.

@jonfieldercomposer

6 жыл бұрын

Kakarotz Funny story, Penderecki never wrote the piece as a reaction to war, and the original title was a timestamp of the duration of the piece. It was mostly an exploration of timbre and Penderecki’s early “sonorous” works. Black Angels was also not meant as a protest piece, and the “In the Time of War” subtitle was added after the fact.

@promerker1892

5 жыл бұрын

Or symphony for the end of time

Dude whats that thing in your head

@CJ-hn1vr

6 жыл бұрын

gabriel77196 his brain

@JohnnyArtPavlou

6 жыл бұрын

His follicles djent! Question answered.

@calebl1004

6 жыл бұрын

gabriel77196 black angels

@pringelsthegamefreak

6 жыл бұрын

gabriel77196 lol

@FunnyFany

6 жыл бұрын

raptor feathers

On the subject of accepting criticism.... It's hard hearing things initially, but you would be shocked at how you feel about those criticisms over time... I'm a music producer and because of that I'm constantly submitting my work to artists, labels, other producers and even blogs. In m case what always happens is that I'll submit a song I produced, get rejected or criticized, and then just feel bad, confused, disheartened and often disagree with the reviewer. However as weeks or months go by, fixes for those critiques manifest in those productions and new productions. Over time, I realize that I may agree with the criticism once my emotions and defensiveness has become numb to it. You don't have to agree with all criticism, but you should be open to the idea that your ego is working against you in this facet of your craft. Given enough time with any valid critique, you may realize how much it helps you.

I absolutely love how Steely Dan incorporates mu chords in their songs!

@patrickmaline4258

10 ай бұрын

don’t we call them add 9?

question and answer time with Adam Hairy

@sabouedcleek611

6 жыл бұрын

byrne You forgot the 'Ya'!

What do you think about Rocksmith as a way to learn bass? I find a lot of people knocking it, but when I ask why they give really absurd reasons that lead me to believe they don't know anything about it and just demean it because it's a "video game." Everyone is different, but for me as a life-long gamer and one who doesn't learn through structured teaching well, it's more my speed. I am very visual and game-ifying my experience has kept me motivated. I also get to stream it on my Twitch channel to my viewers as "gaming content." I understand that it won't teach me theory, or be as comprehensive as if I had a teacher such as yourself (:P), but I think it is certainly better for ME than a random rickety old tutor I could find here in Vegas. I just started watching your stuff and I appreciate the bass info combined with the philosophical discussion. Your brain is sexy. :D

@matthewhennessey5967

6 жыл бұрын

I'd recommend it. It's pretty much guitar hero with a real instrument. It's fun, and I think it would be a good learning tool. It doesn't have much for music theory, or correct hand positions (it tries to do this), or having a straight wrist blah, blah. If you are having trouble with a part, it can't help you figure out how to play it better, only tell you that it isn't hearing the right notes at the right times. I think Rocksmith plus something else would be good.

@jeremiahlossa5317

3 жыл бұрын

Hey! I know this was posted years ago but I used Rocksmith to start on bass (eventually decided I prefer guitar), and it was amazing. Mostly it sparked interest and got me to learn the basics, but it can go even beyond that into more difficult songs. No one should knock it if it works for you

Thanks again for answering my question! It's really helpful to hear your perspective on music. Keep up the good work

Did you say Dadam Neely? At the beginning.

@danilocalic797

6 жыл бұрын

Hose Dadam Neely.

@jesseolsson1697

6 жыл бұрын

Nice hair!

@keremkelleboz6959

6 жыл бұрын

Guess he's a surrealist

@CoryMck

6 жыл бұрын

Holy Shit, He did that!

@natedavid3873

6 жыл бұрын

Steely Dan? Neely Dam.

13:30 This discussion on ego, critique, and performance is just so excellent... and applicable to all professions. Awesome. Thanks.

Great videos Adam! Keep up the great work. You’re a huge source of inspiration and knowledge!

Thank you for your videos. You are a light of genuine curiosity. You have awoken my spark for music. Please keep doing this!

Woo Yay....it's Monday and Adam's posted something

Thanks for another informative video. I wish we had something like this when I was "up and coming" (that would be the late 1960's). Keep up the good work; I always look forward to your new releases.

Thanks for these videos Adam! I always learn something new! Keep it up my friend!

Great job as always. I’m catching up! One of the best things about music is that there’s always more! Thanks Adam, Josh

Jojo Mayer is one of my idols. Creativity overflows in his work.

Like you said at the end of the video jazz influence has really spread in the last 20-30 years. From pop songs with some jazzy bass lines to fusion genres with electronic and personal favorite jazz metal. (Athiest and cynic are killer)

Allan, you're awesome. You help me (and others) to learn more or wander about different subjects even when the subject is not one of my concerns. Thanks a lot man, I hope you keep up the great work for years! I'll colaborate with your patreon ASAP. Hugs from Brazil!

Congratulations for hitting 1m subscribers! Keep up the great work!

Hey, Adam I'm an aspiring composer, and I have loved watching your videos, and thanks to all the things you've taught me about music, and life in general. That being said, I do have a few questions about composing and music in general. (P.S. I'm still leaening music theory so excuse me if I use the wrong vocab at any point) First one is an easy one. I heard from a friend that an easy way to make a harmony is to have another voice play two whole steps down from the main melody, essentially creating a third. (I.e. in the key of C major, having a melody play the notes G E A G in the upper voice, and in the lower voice have them play E C F E) I've been using this method for most of my compositions and it seems to work, though I would like to know a professional's opinion. Secondly, I've found that lately I tend to want to create music as opposed to playing music. (I play the cello and piano). I usually play the cello fine, because I have to in an orchestra, but as for piano, I'm self taught, so everything I do on it is my choice. I'm just wondering if It's a good thing that I'm focusing on the technical and composition aspect, or should I be worried and try to play more music? Thanks

Hey Adam, thanks for your helpful tipps and advices, I really respect your knowledge and your work that you put into these videos. My question is: Do you have any advice on how to get into the music business/scene? How did you became a professional musician after graduating at berklee?

Hey Adam, I don't have a question, but I just wanted to say thank you for you and your channel for essentially getting me back into music again. I had several crises in the past and decided to quite writing and playing altogether for some years. Thanks to your channel I have been inspired to write again, and I've found myself more actively listening to music (mainly prog rock, but some classical and jazz) and getting those influences going again. Keep up the great work!

Long time lurker here. I took part in a perfomance of Black Angels by Pacifica Quartet as Front Of House Engineer. The score is a masterpiece even to look at and Crumb managed to make it incredibly clear even if it includes non musical sounds and notation on how to apply reverb dynamically to the perfomance. Even if that was years ago it's still one of the achievements I am most proud of. Thank you very much Adam for making me think of it!

Hello Adam, I just saw your comment from 9 months ago on one of Tolgahan Çoğulu's videos. What are your thoughts on maqam music (like Tolgahan plays) and microtonal music in general?

How about dyeing your hair pink?

@hi_im_buggy

6 жыл бұрын

PanosOsbourne and becoming a rapper

@berxsol

6 жыл бұрын

PanosOsbourne and playing bari sax

@luchadorito

6 жыл бұрын

Yea Nah that Wouldnt go Well with his eyes. Navy Blue fucboi-dropfade is where It’s at

@luchadorito

6 жыл бұрын

PanosOsbourne but like not super dark navy just dark blue

@wazzap500

6 жыл бұрын

luchadorito Burgundy would work well.

Congratulations on getting to lead your first team to notable performances! Leadership gives you the opportunity to really draw out what is good around you.

I rarely comment... love your channel. Learning lots. Thanks for all your work.

Adam, thanks for doing what you do. For the next Q&A: One of the things you harp on a LOT is proper hand placement when playing bass. Recently I started playing bass in a couple different bands, and I'm noticing that it's nearly impossible for me to play octaves (with the index finger on the root and the pinky two frets and two strings up) way down low on the neck (G or F) without bending my wrist a lot. It hasn't been a problem in my traditional guitar playing, but one of the bass songs I'm doing requires me to alternate between G and F octaves (using a pick to strum all four strings, but muting the A and G strings). I started to get carpal tunnel symptoms this week and I immediately thought about your videos. How do you play octaves that low on the neck properly? Thank you!

@grantolson7200

6 жыл бұрын

Rob Agocs I have the same issue I hope this gets answered

@ZeugmaP

6 жыл бұрын

(just posting an answer here in case of an update)

Question for your next Q&A: Recently, i've been arranging various modern rock and jazz music for wind/marching ensembles for personal use, and i've noticed that a majority of online arrangements transpose from the original key. Is it normal for wind/marching ensemble arrangers to not keep the original key? If so, then why do they do that?

Just been down the PMJ and Dirty loops rabbit hole...Wow! Has to be said one of my favourite aspects of this channel, is all the pointers i get here, to music that i would never have discovered on my own. Great stuff, as ever, Adam.

I've seen your videos, just not enough to sub. But when i saw you in the youtuber collab, and especially as a natural "project leader", you inspired me. I love the kind of bosses like you, and i strive to become one. Much love and thanks for being a boss instead of an asshole.

Hair. Wow

@delve_

6 жыл бұрын

woW .riaH

Hi Adam! Question for your next Q+A: I just visited Boston and auditioned for Berklee on trombone and Tuba for the composition major. I love write for Wind Ensemble, Orchestra, Mixed Choir etc. but in the tour they gave me the focus seemed to mostly be guitar, bass, drumset, and vocal instrumentation and the classical scene wasn't even addressed. For example, they mentioned writing with Ableton live and FL Studio but the idea of primarily using finale or sibelius seemed taboo when I asked about the programs. I loved the campus and the overall feel of the school but I'm beginning to think that maybe Berklee doesn't cater very well to classical composers. Can you attest to this? Would really help with my college decision. Thanks!

@jonfieldercomposer

6 жыл бұрын

I didn’t go to Berklee, but I have friends and colleagues who went there. I can say that other institutions will have much more of a focus on classical and modern concert music in contrast to Berklee which has a much more industry focused approach. That isn’t to say that Berklee won’t give you a good education, but if you’re looking to explore more traditional (Even if on the experimental or electro acoustic side) you might be better off somewhere else. Just my humble opinion.

@philotomybaar

4 жыл бұрын

Ryan Meredith I’m curious as to what you decided. I wish I’d seen this a year ago because I went to Berklee and I’ve had a lot of students ask me about the experience of going there. Did you also check out other music schools? Since you were considering Berklee, does that mean you’re in the Northeast? Did you check out NE Conservatory, BU, or others in Boston? One benefit of the Boston schools is the Pro Arts Consortium, which is the association of six colleges there, including Berklee, that makes it possible to take courses from any of the other schools. So, if you found yourself at BU and wanted to take specific classes from Berklee, that option would be open to you.

The way you approach music is phenomenal. I hope you realize that your ear and empathy encompass the things that people like me who do not have the back ground to access jazz culture and knowledge much less academic insight to composition unless we seek it out via school and thus $$. Bc of you I can hope to be one of the musicians that understands what he is hearing in any genre and is then able to put it back together in a new way that will allow us to find whatever is the next cultural music shift like what it was with rap or blues/rock. You're translating the Bible to vernacular for musicians and I hope you become the Martin Luther of jazz and music education. Much love, a fan and hopefully soon a patron.

Your answer to the "critics // ego- problem" actually were a very motivating speech to me. Thank you so much

I don't understand the "brighter" vs "darker" at all, when talking about going around the circle of 5ths. I feel like the octave range chosen and the closeness of intervals within a chord affects brightness way more than the fact that you added one more sharp/natural to the key signature. Is it all relative to the key that you "started" in? Does it "reset" once you hit the bottom of the circle? (Gb/F#)? And if it doesn't reset, that makes it even more confusing--take for example Scenario (a.) you start in F Major. You go in the "brighter" direction and eventually modulate the G major. G major is brighter! However, take Scenario (b.) You start in G major and modulate in the "brighter" direction around the circle until you finish in F Major. Now F major is the brighter one? Can both be simultaneously true? Were you "constantly getting brighter"? What if you modulated through all 12 keys, are you even brighter than when you started or are you back at square one? Help me Adam.

@MaemiNoYume

6 жыл бұрын

I guess I can help with that. It's not relative to the key you "started" in, it's relative to the key you were just before the key you are now. This answer the first and the scenario (b.) question, I will explain that better. It doesn't reset once you hit the bottom of the circle. (unless you have absolute pitch, or even, actually I don't know how people with absolute pitch feel about it) There's no absolute value of brightness for each key, the brightness is always relative to the previous key. The brightness is more related to the *movement* of modulating, more than with the key itself. About the scenarios. (a.) If you start in F major and go to G major it will be brighter, it's clear. But for scenario (b.) it's actually two scenarios, if you go directly from G to F, it will feel darker, but if you go around jumping in brighter direction going from G to A, to E, to F#, to Eb and then F, you will have to ask this question for each modulation and each one will be a brighter type of modulation. I'm saying it based on the what I understand of the simplest explanation I saw (the major key happy video) and from what I really feel when I try myself to explore modulations. I can really feel what's this brightness and darkness feeling and I'm sure you can feel it too, just don't know that "that special little feeling" is exactly that, you know what I mean? I suggest to you to listen to a song called "Grow Wings" by Maxo, it's a really electronic song with many modulations. At the end (around 2:41 when the woman sings "on my mind") he starts a series of modulations in the bright direction. Try to feel that!! let the song carry you, like when you go to the beach you can force to stay firm on water but you can also relaxe and let the water carry you where it wants you to go. It's hard to explain, but I can both don't feel anything when I listen to that and I can also get carried away if I let and feel really faaaaaaaaaaar. I don't know how to explain that very well, but that moment of the song is a perfect example for that.

@robywill4321

6 жыл бұрын

I think it comes down to context again? Like if you started in Gmaj and modulated clockwise, it might feel brighter when you end Fmaj, it may feel brighter, but is because before you got to the F, you've been on D♭ which would be much darker than either, so comparatively F now feels much brighter than when you started, but only because you've went much darker first. I saw a video with Jacob Collier the other day and I think he was saying that he finds that harmonic progression can express major/minor or dark/bright better than you can by playing a Cmin rather than Cmaj or an Amin rather than Cmaj. I think?

@diebydeath

6 жыл бұрын

I think the deciding factor during modulation is not the color (brightness/darkness) of the keys but, as you said, the octave range and direction of modulation. If you modulated up 12 times by half step, you would be back at square one but a whole octave higher, which would be very tense. Rather than thinking about modulating to a key for its inherent brightness, think about modulating in a direction for more or less tension. How smoothly you modulate (direct modulation versus pivot chord) is also a factor. The brightness/darkness analogy makes the most sense imo when talking about keys individually, statically. Should I make my song in the key of A minor? That would be somewhat bright. If you instead transposed the whole song/piece to Bb minor, as a whole it sounds darker. But having a direct modulation in the piece up a half step? That would introduce a lot of tension, which dwarfs any slight difference in brightness.

@conorreedR2C

6 жыл бұрын

Doug Nulton I don't think I've seen your hair this long since your early lessons

@MaemiNoYume

6 жыл бұрын

I think we have to forget a little the real definition of the words "brightness" and "darkness". There's something that changes one way with clockwise modulations and changes in another way in another direction. Musicians call it "brightness", but because there's no other word to describe it. You guys are talking about what you feel as "brightness" and not exactly what we call "brightness" in the context of modal modulation. And I agree with you. Octave range and spread of voicing is really a key definition of brightness, but this is not the same brightness, it's just one word to describe two different things. The first thing is something we all understand as brightness, the second thing is something different but similar to what we understand as brightness and which is really difficult to describe and that by lack of better word it's called brightness, but, as far as know, it's officially called brightness. About modulating up 12 times by half step, it doesn't necessarily lead to an octave higher, mostly we want a nice voice leading that the notes aren't going in the same direction, and we don't need to modulate to the same mode in each key if we want the best result possible. Half-step is a really far modulation, the first one will already be very tense.

For the next Q & A: I'm a trombone player and I've always wondered something and you may be able to answer it. Like any instrument there are partials, starting with "pedal Bb" for trombone. However an interesting thing about trombone is the "false tones" series. These do not exist in the harmonic series. (Here's video if you're interested in hearing what they sound like: kzread.info/dash/bejne/haOnqqqFepu5m84.html) They don't sound as nice as the normal partials but they still have a clear pitch. Knowing the basic physics behind partials, I'm wondering how these "false tones" exist and if there are other examples in other instruments/sounds.

@AdamNeely

6 жыл бұрын

It may have something to do with "subharmonics," I have an older video where I talk about that stuff! "Subharmonic Music"

@30STM7865

6 жыл бұрын

Adam Neely Thanks! I'll go check it out!

@billygarvey633

6 жыл бұрын

are you referring to notes below pedal E, or notes between low E and pedal Bb on a straight trombone? Either way, I think this is mostly taking the nearest fundamental and bending it down, which can go very far because the partials are so far away down there. EDIT: replying to OP not Adam

@30STM7865

6 жыл бұрын

Billy Garvey it doesn't feel like bending down tho. it feels like an entirely different partial. if it were bending down i could create infinite partials technically

@billygarvey633

6 жыл бұрын

engifear I'm a trumpet player and I know my way around a trombone. I'm guessing the reason most bends feel like they do is because you're balancing lowering the pitch with stopping it from slipping into the next partial. When this barrier is removed, it feels much more open and easy. This could be entirely wrong, or there could be more to it, but this is my take on how false tones work. And yes, bending down infinitely will create lower pitches, but is limited by physics and personal skill, for the same reason you can't ascend infinitely

Good stuff Adam, Keep up the awesome videos

Adam, your comment on critiquing is amazingly insightful, and helpful. Thank you. :-)

Hey Adam, I asked this question last night on your last Q and A, what is a good book to start learning music theory?

More like Adam Hairy

Thank you so much for the thoughtful answer, Adam. Maybe one of these days I'll submit a piece for critique!

@JordanMatthewsDrums

4 жыл бұрын

Hi there, I've just gone back to see this video and really liked your question. Hopefully Adam's advice has helped you! I thought I'd give a piece of advice that my old housemate (now a very successful drummer) once gave me. He said that to receive a criticism or constructive feedback is the highest form of compliment that a musician can receive. For someone to be able to help (and WANT to help) you improve means that they, as an audience member, were listening so closely to what you were playing, how you were performing and everything else that goes along with that, that they were able to pinpoint aspects that can be improved on. For them to give criticism means they had to be significantly engaged in your performance. So don't necessarily think of it as a point against you, it's that they were paying great attention to you and are giving you their input on how you can improve yourself. All the best, Jordan.

I had also previously thought of teaching at university, and am now leaning more to keeping it on KZread precisely because of the creative and editing freedom

Hi Adam! Question For your Next Q&A: If you write a soundtrack for a movie (Ex:Horror) how would you apply the "anxiety" feeling inside the compositional theory! Can you give an example please? P.S: Love your videos!!! P.P.S: sorry for the bad english =/ !

@MaemiNoYume

6 жыл бұрын

Tonny Teixeira you could start by studying twelve-tone row composition, using strings with high notes would give the feeling fragility and using really low notes with a dissonant melody would give the feeling of danger. There are many many many others techniques to invoke all kinds of feelings, the best thing is taking the best horror soundtracks and trying to analize them. See what they are doing and why and then try your own experiments.

@metalheadnick555

6 жыл бұрын

Obviously not Adam, but I would recommend looking into microtonal music or tone clusters. Check out Pendrecki's "Threnody" or Ligeti's "Harmonies for Organ" to see what I mean

I always wanted to play the guitar But the beginning always seemed so slow and frustrating

@jarlath6815

6 жыл бұрын

godtoHrD it is. It only becomes fun when you can play a song you know, then moving on to harder songs until you are relatively dexterous

@gagecoon8741

6 жыл бұрын

Yousician

@kudos4201

6 жыл бұрын

whoosh

How i love these Q+A! They are like condensed classes.

I'm really excited about your coming discussion with Samuel Andreyev!

re 5:44 - what do guitarists do when there are no guitar parts ... watch Queen live tracks. Dr. May was pretty good at this.

what's the best (if there's one) book that explains the concepts of jazz fusion harmony like in Dirty Loops?

@MaemiNoYume

6 жыл бұрын

I wanna know too

@froggyleggy

4 жыл бұрын

20th century harmony

Question for Q&A what are you favorite artists or groups right now and your top 10 of all time keep it up with the videos pretty good job

probably the best Q&A yet imo

Ikea 2x4 Kallax in white? You and me both, homie.

@the_realpapajohn

6 жыл бұрын

Timesink w o a h Why'd you notice that over anything else (Also have one i love the kallax)

@timesink8947

6 жыл бұрын

Hey I can only stare at Adam's dreamy eyes for so long! Start to wander around the frame after a bit.

nice hair adam

Hey Adam, how are you :-) This morning when I decided to play your new video as "light watching" during my breakfast, it struck me that I have been folloing you for almost a year now and that there are so many more topics in one given video now that I can understand lol. Made me feel quite happy and pleased with myself for all the study that I have done over the past year, and then I arrived at the moment in the video where someone asked wether you would like to be a university teacher. That is quite interesting because recently I have also watched a couple of Berklee online videos and I feel that what you are doing is so much more valuable. Not that there wasnt the odd useful bit of information in the Berklee videos that I have seen, there was, but on the whole I feel that every LECTURER that I have seen was totally replaceable and in fact some non-academic youtubers have explained similar content better. What you are doing on the other hand is very unique as far as I can tell, I dont know anybody who could replace you. As I said above, when I started following you, I had a really hard time to understand many of the things you were saying because I had next to no theoretical background. And at the same time, you are not focussing on one topic, you seem to be jumping around to whatever you find interesting or what your followers ask you, so this is a lot like the idea of a "Studium Generale", expanding ones horizon for the sake of becoming more knowledgeable, not for the sake of getting this or that done, and I think that is beautiful. Also I have been thinking many times that you have a really good screen presence which is probably why I have managed to stick around in spite of finding a lot of your content intimidating at first, and to go back once again to my experience of watching Berklee online videos, a lot of these peoples screen presence struck me as ludicrous, very much "teacher on telly" like. So my suggestion would be, if you want to expand your work beyond your current youtube videos, maybe you could think of working as a presentor for other contents as well. Dont do "classical" teaching, it would be such a waste of your talent lol :-D

One of the questions you answered about rhythms physical rhythms effecting the way we perceive or interact with the world, that makes me think about one of my music teachers saying that Brahm's Lullaby was effective at making people fall asleep because it was based on the rhythm of some one snoring.

I think it's pronounced more like "myu" than it is "mu"

@MuzixMaker

6 жыл бұрын

You are correct, sir!

@lydiai.3658

6 жыл бұрын

'myu' is the inexplicable English mispronunciation of the Greek letter μ, which the Greeks pronounce as 'mee'

@MuzixMaker

6 жыл бұрын

@Lydia, that's Greek to me! Seriously, thanks for your reply, I didn't know that... but I don't think the "correct" pronunciation is going to connect with non-Greek speakers.

@luigivercotti6410

4 жыл бұрын

You just wait till you hear about π, φ, ψ, and θ

@luigivercotti6410

4 жыл бұрын

@@victorslin1327 the whole e/η connection is actually quite a thing in erasmic pronunciation, as is the b/β connection, leading to a joke often made by my mother: "How did the sheep go in ancient Greece?" "βη βη"

btw it's called Mu Chord because the Greek letter it's signified by is also used in physics to mean "micro"

@johnathanwhite4878

6 жыл бұрын

Hermes Ahhh, friction

@xenontesla122

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, and it’s pronounced like “mew” with a “you” sound.

Hey Adam. I really dig your Sungazer project as well (what there is of it, anyway. please: more of! and longer!) and thanks for the suggestions on more artists exploring jazz and electronic in similar veins. I was actually planning on asking that very same question posed in the vid, so thanks also to that viewer and to yourself for being secret wizard intelligence spies and not only reading, but responding to the contents of my inner thoughts. Anyways, lately I've been on a kind of deep-dive looking for music that straddles jazz harmony/composition and electronic production, but more importantly also explores each style meaningfully, and not just as some lazy, crass and/or inept mashup of the two. It's been difficult to find stuff that adequately scratches the itch, but I wonder... if fantastic, inspiring, formative musical discoveries weren't rare, would they be as powerful? Also, thanks for the videos, generally speaking. I stumbled on your channel only recently, but it's one of the finer shows on the topic, and I've enjoyed the opportunity to sink into a meaty back catalog (don't you just love discovering something you like and learning there's a lot of it?). Yours is perhaps not the most instructional, but I find it much more thought-provoking and insightful, things far too often overlooked by all but the best kinds of teachers, and which are so important for our education as students AND as people. Btw, I also have a music suggestion for you in line with the original question, if you'd like. There's a fellow by the name of Aaron Wheeler out of the UK who runs a small label called Lydian Label that is home mostly to his own projects. His solo stuff is released under the name Laszlo and he has one or two other one-off collab projects and assorted miscellany. More recently, he's spent a year or more workshopping a 4-piece live ensemble calling themselves the Lydian Collective, and have finally begun releasing stuff. I'm almost certain you'll fall in love if you haven't already been hipped to this guy's output: soundcloud.com/lydianlabel P.S. Do yourself a solid and make a special note to check out this album he put out called Cartoon Hero. It's a baffling and incredible work of art where he deftly lampoons yet lovingly pays homage to the cheese and melodrama defining any given 1980s cartoon music score (and, broadly speaking, the common music production values of that time period as a whole). It's really quite an achievement. He hits all of the right strokes, but rather than merely being a thorough, technically skillful but ultimately soulless reproduction (or worse, some ironic "haha, remember cartoons from the 80s?" shtick) he's somehow managed to make something that you (or at least I) actually want to listen to. Something /beautiful/. I hope you check him out because I haven't found anyone else who can significantly appreciate it on a compositional or sound design level (alas, I don't really know any other music theory nerds or IDM hipsters like myself).

Hey Adam - Here's a question for the next Q&A I am a music teacher here in NYC. A few weeks ago I was introducing my 6th graders to the concept of Musical Form. It turned into a very rich and enjoyable discussion; they eventually arrived at the questions "Does all music have form" and "If not all music has form, then how can you tell if a piece DOESN'T have form"? My response was that "if it has repetition, it has form". I know that is a reductive answer, but it was the best I could do on the spot. I realized that while I can very comfortably explain what form IS, it is much more challenging to describe what form ISN'T (especially since "repetition" is a subjective term). What are your thoughts on this? What constitutes form? Is there such a thing as truly "formless" music? Thanks for the videos!

If you had the chance to take a tour gig with a major pop-artist, would you?

Can you do a video abot math rock

@JSGH-JOE

6 жыл бұрын

Comics Goblin Try to count this one if you can... it is a Time Out for the modern day.. (hint: you can skip first one if gou want, I added it from end of previous album so you can see where the intro on the first song comes from... comment on vid #ProfesorNeelyBass if you get to hear it.

Thanks for such an elaborate response!

Loved your collab with Jared Dines, StevieT et al. So cool to see you play something other than jazz or pop for a change!

Hey nice try, you're not Adam, Adam doesn't have hair like that!

U HAZ HAIR!!!1!

Good answer to the critique question.

Hi Adam, love your videos, keep it up! I have a question for the next q+a: is it necessery to have double bass instead of electric bass in progressive bluegrass (for example: Punch Brothers)? Are there any cases, where you should have one type of bass isntead of the other? (sorry for possible mistakes, i'm not a native speaker)

Who are you?

@liamskeen2884

6 жыл бұрын

God

@rogergarriga3917

6 жыл бұрын

A new american pie character lmao

@MaemiNoYume

6 жыл бұрын

he kinda resembles a guy named Adam Neely that has a nice channel about music, you need to check him out

@Demasturbot

6 жыл бұрын

I'm the lover of your mommy.

@caprianders

5 жыл бұрын

who, who... who, who.

Dude you look overworked, you ok?

@thegreatgambeeno

6 жыл бұрын

He's not used to having to brush his hair yet. In time.

@polygondwanaland8390

6 жыл бұрын

Pratyaksh Gautam he's working so hard his hair is falling back in

@reecedeyoung6595

6 жыл бұрын

I think he's just sober. Am I the only one who thinks Adam looks drunkish in a lot of his videos.

I absolutely love Black Angels. It is just so sort of pleasantly unsettling and comfortingly shaking.

Hey Adam, question for your next Q and A: How do you apply transcribed solos to your own improvisation in jazz? I’m at the point where I feel like I can transcribe just about anything because I’ve trained myself to have good tone memory. I transcribed Gene Ammons solo on Autumn Leaves from the album Boss Tenors, and he has a lot of licks and good ideas, but when I try to improvise with them I either sound bad or I only sound good because I’m just playing his ideas verbatim. Do you have any advice for learning how to improvise with transcribed ideas without completely copying the original player? Thanks

Question for Q&A: What are your thoughts on Black metal? Specifically Depressive Suicidal Black Metal (DSBM)?

@polygondwanaland8390

6 жыл бұрын

DSBM? I prefer BDSM ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

@oatmeal710

6 жыл бұрын

charwhick haha you make the funny. that joke has never been made before hehe!

Hair

I would LOOVVVEE a colab with you and Andrew Huang!! You two are my favourite youtube - musicians!!

@cornebeyers485

6 жыл бұрын

Edit: lol even though I am a violinist.

14:30 It's hard hearing something you dislike about yourself reflected out there in the real world. I like how he acknowledges that it's hard - it's okay that it's hard. Hard things can make us stronger and better when we don't let them break us or rob us of our worth.

Hi, I already commented several times regarding that 5 hour video where you were practicing C major scale all around the neck. Idk if you read my comments and simply ignore them, but I’m gonna keep trying to rech to you. I wanna practice along that 5 hour video. But I cannot figure out what fingering and frets you are using for the C major because the bottom part is cut off. Can you provide the tab please? I watch and like every single video of yours, help your bassist fellow too!

@luchadorito

6 жыл бұрын

Protoss Zerg Idk just go to all-guitar-chords.com search for all notes of a scale and ignore the hi B and e strings on the chart

@computerscientist5953

6 жыл бұрын

luchadorito i know the music theory. I just want to know what frets and fingers he is using exactly

@Marijuana-Johnson

6 жыл бұрын

Dude just transcribe it

@computerscientist5953

6 жыл бұрын

I can. But still, I cannot fully understand where exactly on the neck he is playing it, especially down the neck. I wanna use his fingering specifically

@superdude8266

6 жыл бұрын

There's no way he's gonna write up tabs for every exercise in that video (I know you're only asking for C major), that's 5 hours of content. He is likely using the same fingering to shift up/down the neck as he would in the other keys. You could figure out something comfortable for yourself rather than focusing too much on Adams style. Or if you're struggling with comfortable fingering there are probably other tutorials on youtube or other sites that could help you out with it.

If I made an Adam Neely meme would you watch it? Haha Love your videos and seeing you in collabs!

@fuzzyc

6 жыл бұрын

@the shitposting of jazz to come

Adam mentioning j dilla just made my week!!! I generally assume classically trained musicians don't like hiphop because all the ones I know don't but I'm slowly realizing that's not true. Also Kamasi Washington and his crew are definitely pushing modern jazz forward, whoever asked that should definitely check him out.

Hi Adam, a question for your next Q & A video: In multiple videos, you reference that you have an appreciation for the skill that goes into crafting pop music, but simultaneously, that the genre is often simple in composition and redundant at times. Can you think of a recent occasion that you found yourself truly impressed by the composition of a piece of pop music, or is the production/performance the only way that such music can surprise you, given your musical background?

57th

i didn’t know Elon Musk made youtube videos

Your parts on Dread Machine tho. They were so good!!!(May have downloaded the multitrack and listened to the entire bassline a few times)

Huge fan of your videos! Super informative and entertaining! Quick Q for the big man; What resources would you recommend for someone to learn and explore new chord progressions for composition? I feel like I’ve been hitting a wall with my work in maj/min/phyrg dom and I’m unsure where to learn new ‘emotive’ progressions to help me write... i recently learned of the Radiohead IV iv I and that was fascinating. Anything along those lines would be 11/10.

I'm the 666 view :v

@Eazyrun

6 жыл бұрын

David Gómez me too

@BMF396

6 жыл бұрын

same 😫🙌🙏💪🎅

@thierryvienna6144

6 жыл бұрын

did u modulate to the down side of the circle of the fifhts? :V

Regarding your answer to the key modulation question - it seems rather than thinking about it in terms of 'left is dark, right is bright', thinking about it in terms of clockwise and counter-clockwise makes more sense and fits with the examples shown and their apparent brightness changes.

Question for next Q+A Hello, Adam. Thank you for all the stuff you're talking, it's really interesting and useful. I have two different questions: 1. Thesis of dark and bright tonalities is clearly understood but what are we going to do with enharmonic tonalities as F# major and Gb major? and what are we going to do with tonalities beyond circle of fifth like D-double sharp major (in theory of course). 2. What books about jazz composition can you recommend for studying? Thanks from Russia!

You read all the comments? You're great and your videos are some of the best on the site.

Hey Adam! Love your content. Quick question though: How would you go on about writing a melody over a chord progression? Especially with Instrumental music, so that it doesn't end up being 'a riff followed by another riff' as you've previously mentioned. Keep up the good work :)

Adam, thanks for this video, I was just about to ask what difference does transposing the song makes in the function of the chords Keeping it good like you do

Hey Adam! Great channel! I was hoping for your next Q+A (or maybe for a different video) you could elaborate on The Theory of Musical Equilibration, and the concept of how music and emotions interact. Thanx!

First of all, love your videos man, especially how you jump straight into it without a pointless intro. So I have been playing guitar for almost ten years, and never really bothered with theory. Now I am at a point where my playing skill and technicality is great, but I'd love to write music other than just a cool riff here and there. Where would you reckon that I start? If I start from the way basic, I tend to get bored. Now, if I start at a higher level, I find it really interesting, but seem to miss some of the base knowledge to actually understand some of the (your) lessons/videos that I watch. So basically, what is the route you would have someone go to learn theory when they want to start learning it after playing for such a long time?