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@lucas-nk9mu

8 ай бұрын

Ok

@lucas-nk9mu

8 ай бұрын

I gotchu Adam Needly

"CBAT is a microtonal reharmonization of All I Want for Christmas is You" is the wildest sentence spoken so far this year.

@Mdjagg

Жыл бұрын

Im assuming you haven't heard the president speak this year! Lol

@AlbornozVEVO

Жыл бұрын

@@Mdjagg which president

@Mdjagg

Жыл бұрын

Good question.

@sharpiestealer

Жыл бұрын

tbf i always thought it was more adjacent to dance of the sugarplum fairy which is equally as cursed imo

@AlbornozVEVO

Жыл бұрын

@@sharpiestealer makes sense. both have a descending motif and staccato notes.

“She recognized the rhythm and asked me to stop.” I have never been so devastated at laughing at a sentence in my life.

@RaptorT1V

Жыл бұрын

LMAO 🤣

@amandasunshine2

Жыл бұрын

But like that's how you know he was thrusting to the melody and not the baseline🤣💀

@amandasunshine2

Жыл бұрын

@@titlewave489 but then.. how did she recognize it? It was the melody bro 🤣

@EmeraldLavigne

Жыл бұрын

LMAO owned

@Lucidtundra

9 ай бұрын

yeh but like HAVE U BEEN F'ED IDK BOUT YOU BUT WE CAN FEEL THE RHYTHM

Not gonna lie, when Adam said "putting CBAT to the test", I expected a different story than a band concert.

@ryanconnelly7782

7 ай бұрын

"i decided to test that....last week i was on tour with my band" gave such a mounting sense of dread

@agmass

7 ай бұрын

@@ryanconnelly7782 say gex

@LizordSword

3 ай бұрын

​@@ryanconnelly7782certainly mounting

I’d say it’s a little more like an auditory loss.jpg than a rickroll. It’s simple enough to sneak into compositions without sounding out of place, yet distinct enough that you recognize it almost immediately. I honestly hope this meme sticks around the way rickrolls and loss memes have; it has a lot of creative potential.

@pro-lapser

Жыл бұрын

Kind of like THAT famous "Lick"

@gibbous_silver

Жыл бұрын

like the megalovania 4 notes

@hundredLeech

8 ай бұрын

l lI ll L

@jllemin4

7 ай бұрын

Once I put loss.jpg into my terraria house wall and it took months for my friend to recognize it. It was amazing

@cottoncandiez8872

7 ай бұрын

​@@pro-lapserdunno what lick you're talking about

when you said "putting cbat to the test" i thought the video would take a WAYY different turn.

@tehdopefish

Жыл бұрын

Gotta sign up for Nebula to get that part of the video.

@turtlesarecaredfor

Жыл бұрын

@@tehdopefish NOOOOOOOO 😂😂

@Jellopuff_TAS

Жыл бұрын

@@tehdopefish This reply is undeniable proof that some good can come out of the KZread comment section

@offcenterprofilepicture6274

Жыл бұрын

@@Jellopuff_TAS my joke was better

@Jellopuff_TAS

Жыл бұрын

@@offcenterprofilepicture6274 Not really. You kinda just stole tehdopefish's joke and gave it a worse punchline... All good things must come to an end :(

seeing if a sungazer audience can pick up a rhythm and then declaring it "entrainable" has got to be the most egregious case of sample bias i have ever seen

@BTobiasJ

Жыл бұрын

Underated comment Edit: Now that this is one of the most liked comments it's an appropriately rated comment

@topofsm

Жыл бұрын

Haha reminds me of a particularly frenetic 7/8 rhythm in Animals As Leader’s CAFO that the audience frequently claps along to.

@officaldungeons

Жыл бұрын

Goated comment

@Robert_DROP_TABLE_students--

Жыл бұрын

@@retrocatalog thanks, fixed it.

@wi1dcard192

Жыл бұрын

Also doesn’t help that the musicians are aggressively head banging along to signal the pulse to the audience Granted I think the issue was people can’t follow the _melody_ but Adam’s “experiment” was if people can follow the _meter_ which is considerably easier in this case

This sounds like a song you’d hear in a horror movie while the characters are going through a psychedelic clown maze

@kakolovessharks

Жыл бұрын

This is so specific yet so accurate

@AmstradExin

Жыл бұрын

Never heard of it.

@MaryTheresa1986

Жыл бұрын

🤡 🤡

@FungleFunTime

Жыл бұрын

The 'lead synth' is actually a door creak off a horror themed SFX vinyl, so that actually makes sense

@exodus3015

Жыл бұрын

With a bunch of reverb and sped up in my head

Can confirm the usage of CBAT as a rhythmic rickroll - my choir director used it as a rhythm exercise during rehearsals at one point and no one realized until it was too late.

@PainSled

Жыл бұрын

"...and no one realized until it was too late." To which my mind appends: "The ensuing bloodbath will haunt me to the end of my days." What is wrong with me?

@js-cm9si

8 ай бұрын

​@@PainSledYou're mind thirsts for the glory of battle.

“She recognized this and asked me to stop.” I had to pause and take off my glasses I laughed so hard.

@Monocultured01

Жыл бұрын

Read the whole post. It's glorious.

@billyalarie929

Жыл бұрын

@@Monocultured01 one of the funniest things ever to happen on the internet. Not even trying to be hyperbolic.

@amandasunshine2

Жыл бұрын

That's how you know he was thrusting to the melody and not the baseline 🤣

@debrucey

Жыл бұрын

Not necessarily. She might have recognised it by his facial expression or maybe he was humming under his breath.

@amandasunshine2

Жыл бұрын

@@debrucey do you, in your heart of hearts, believe this? Cuz.. I've had sex with lots of men who don't realize they are very bad at sex, and I just.. can't give him the benefit of the doubt 🤣

I don't know if Adam realizes that when he says CBAT will be a rhythmic rickroll, it automatically means that now CBAT's fate is to become a rhythmic rickroll

@Ugly_German_Truths

Жыл бұрын

I'm not sure that is a thing deserving the future tense anymore as he filled the video with examples of it HAPPENING already. Including by his own band on tour... it's not a prophecy if you did cause it to happen months ago :P

@Geoff69420

Жыл бұрын

@@Ugly_German_Truths I don't really think that using the plural word "months" is appropriate for describing an event from only one singular month ago. "Weeks", yes, but it's still at least one month too early to describe the cbat-roll as something which has been around for "months".

@chuckycharliepeeper-oni9392

Жыл бұрын

A rhythmic rickroll... Like a certain other drum lick...

@user-ty8vz5lj1z

Жыл бұрын

@@chuckycharliepeeper-oni9392 which one?

@chuckycharliepeeper-oni9392

Жыл бұрын

@@user-ty8vz5lj1z How... Oblivious of you... 😏

imagine the feelings of that girlfriend dumping the guy and trying to escape this 2 year nightmare just to encounter later her weekly (or daily) torture have became a popular meme

@tangiers365

Жыл бұрын

It was on reddit where most stories are not true. Probably a virgin who said it

@ridley2333

Жыл бұрын

@@tangiers365 actually I'm pretty sure the girl confirmed it

@SodiumChloride_NaCl

Жыл бұрын

@@ridley2333 that could potentially be fake too tho, maybe just someone else contributing to the joke

@flowergurllll

8 ай бұрын

​@@SodiumChloride_NaClthis is the epitome of paranoia

@danielblank9917

8 ай бұрын

​@@SodiumChloride_NaCl"nothing ever happens"

I am 100% convinced that the "synth" sound is actually a sample of a door creaking.

@aliasella488

Жыл бұрын

I think it's turtles mating

@rainbowkittycat627

Жыл бұрын

Girl what no- as an electronic musician, it is 100% just digital synthesis. Often times to un- trained ears, you can find similarities, but once you start creating a lot of this stuff, it’s fairly obvious the differences between the 2 sounds. It’s like when you start pointing out the perfect fifths that the car alarm makes to you freinds after you go to music school. But the similarities are there, 100%. A lot of synthesis is inspired and interacts with mutated or grandiose versions of real world objects, even when it’s not sample based. SOPHIE was a pioneer of this, she created a lot of sounds inspired by, “what if I had a massive upright bass or grand piano” etc. Check out METAL by SOPHIE and jimmy edgar if you’re interested. But sometimes there are sounds in electronic music that even if they aren’t sampled, can be very closely reproduced with actual physical objects. Take Aphex Twin’s Alberto Balsalm for example, it uses a sound that pretty accurately reflects a chair squeaking on the floor. It might be a sample, it might not, but either way, it can pretty accurately be recreated by an actual chair (look on youtube for this), but the synth in cbat is nothing like that. You will never be able to get a squeaky door hinge that sounds close to cbat, cbat’s synth is just too distinctive. Of course, using a squeaky door sample and enough audio editing you could get close, I mean with how good audio editing tools are now and with a good enough sound designer, you could 100% recreate EVERYTHING in cbat, drums included, with nothing but a sample of a squeaky door, but I don’t believe you’ll be able to get a door to behave like that. Plus, synths have their own characteristics, and Cbat stinks of modern wavetable synthesis, as apposed to lots of sample based synths or just straight up audio processed samples. It’s close, and not at all apparent on most or every song, for example even alberto balsalm I’m split on what that chair sound actually is, and things get even more confusing in the drums. But I personally find it pretty likely that cbat’s synth is a synth, and not a sample.

@theMyRadiowasTaken

Жыл бұрын

​@@rainbowkittycat627 no im pretty sure it like actually IS a door creaking. like geniunely.

@theMyRadiowasTaken

Жыл бұрын

​@@rainbowkittycat627 also no one is reading all of that

@rainbowkittycat627

Жыл бұрын

@@theMyRadiowasTaken If you’re not going to read the explanation I gave, I’m not going respond to you seriously lmao. Unless you have an interview where hudson mohawke explains his process in creating that sound, you can’t just say “it is” without evidence lmao, because it most certainly is not.

One thing that i think gets overlooked in the whole CBat phenomenon is that I'm almost sure the "annoying synth line" is actually an audio sample, in this case, the sound of a very squeaky door. The reason why that's important is that there's been a history of using a sample of the sound of "squeaking bed springs" in hip hop and trap music, for obvious suggestive intentions. It was first used in Trillville's "Some Cut" and spread throughout the late 2000s hip hop scene, making it all the way to Columbia and even Boyband Kpop. I think whoever was using this song for coitus was probably taking a cue from those tracks that used the rhythmic squeak of bedsprings to drive their beats and their sex appeal, but didn't consider that CBat's sample is less like an old bed getting a raunchy workout, and more like a clown falling down an up escalator.

@Champiness

Жыл бұрын

Even on a music-theory level the whole “microtonality” discussion gets a lot simpler when you just note that it’s the same descending squeaky-door sample being played at different pitches

@iantaakalla8180

Жыл бұрын

Cbat 🤝 Alexander Hamilton the song from Hamilton the musical: squeaky door samples

@MoonWalkerTexsRanger

Жыл бұрын

I didn’t knew the origin of that squeaking bed sping! Thanks for the info! I first heard it in a lot of Cashmere Cat songs and so i thought it was his signature sound. Well he contribute to popularize it in all the way.

@masync183

Жыл бұрын

although with the likes of sophie and arca and some modern electronic music, that kind of "annoying" melodic idea/texture has become pretty popular in general and in ways that arent even sex related

@TehAwesomer

Жыл бұрын

@@MoonWalkerTexsRanger For the record, the producer says it was actually the sound of a squeaking chair in the studio, not a bed spring. " The commonly cited ground zero for salacious squeaking in hip-hop is Trillville’s “Some Cut,” a 2004 crunk landmark produced by Lil Jon. “We were in the studio, I was making a beat with my boy Craig Love, who plays guitar, and Le Marquis Jefferson, who plays bass,” Jon remembers. “I’m rocking back and forth in the chair as I’m making the beat. Craig’s like, ‘you hear that?’ ‘What you talkin’ about?’ ‘The chair is squeaking on the beat.’ ‘Holy shit!’ So we mic’d up the chair, I put on headphones, rocked back and forth and we recorded that and put it into the track.” "

"Nothing to get you more in the mood than the screams of an infant" - Those are some metal lyrics

@noesunyoutuber7680

Жыл бұрын

If anything, that's way too softcore for your average Slam Death band.

@tigran2210

Жыл бұрын

Just look him headbang his face off at 8:00 😂 my man is metal af

@WanderTheNomad

Жыл бұрын

Sounds really sus out of context

@coileight

Жыл бұрын

Lostprophets type lyrics

@Johnny_T779

Жыл бұрын

... Or a quote from Conan The Barbarian 😂!

7:59 Two months later, audiences going HAM over an overly intense cover of cbat is still as glorious as it is hilarious.

@joe____

8 ай бұрын

It fucking killed me to see that, they LOVED it lmao

Hearing CBAT get mangled into the lick sent me into a state of shock, like I got my soul forcibly yanked out of my body

Note: The Sungazer audience wasn't headbanging to the rhythm of the melody... They moved to the beat.

@AlexandreDuqueque

Жыл бұрын

Also wrong. They moved to the pulse.

@astrwolf5507

Жыл бұрын

@@AlexandreDuqueque saying they moved to the beat is not wrong lol

@AlexandreDuqueque

Жыл бұрын

@@astrwolf5507 yeah, i'm just playin

@tomb8602

Жыл бұрын

Note: The Sungazer audience wasn't headbanging... They were banging.

@himani8927

Жыл бұрын

yeah kinda weird adam ignored this. like many of the tiktoks he mentioned/showed said that the guy must've been thrusting to the rhythm of the melody, which made it off putting. headbanging to the beat doesn't prove anything

Adam Neely Drinking Game: take a shot every time Balkan rhythms are mentioned

@aliciadalbey1201

Жыл бұрын

odd 9/8 slaps

@Laurabeck329

Жыл бұрын

You'd probably be more drunk than people that created those rythms in the first place

@contrawise

Жыл бұрын

Why not dance a little Balkan dance?

@RusNad

Жыл бұрын

Rakija preferably

@belgianvanbeethoven

Жыл бұрын

Two shots. Repetition legitimises.

I saw Hudson Mohawk back in 2011 at a local fest in Detroit. Can confirm before this song was a meme it functioned very well on the dancefloor. I was a huge hudmo fan in late junior high and highschool and I never expected the rest of the world to discover his music via a meme shitting on the rhythm or microtonality of the wonky synth...

@soriba391

11 ай бұрын

Brother, same here. Big Hud-Mo fan from Germany, also saw him live 2011. And I remember what a banger it was. Worked really well when I was playing it on parties. It's so strange that it get's rediscovered as a joke now. I having fights in the youtube section of this song trying to convince people that if it wasn't for the meme they would've probably liked it

@Sergio-nb4hj

2 ай бұрын

​@@soriba391nah I see where you're coming from, but the goofy sound design of early 2010s trap has aged very poorly in the ears of mainstream music listeners. This kinda thing would not be liked, but also I think it wouldn't be very humorous either because without context it is just kinda goofy

Didn't expect this to be the video that taught me that the disorder affecting my vestibular system might also be the reason I'm so incredibly bad at recognizing rhythms.

@number.0729

2 ай бұрын

Dammit I was incredibly bad at recognizing rhythms as a kid... maybe something went wrong somewhere

That mixture of CBAT and The Lick caught me off-guard, I laughed way harder than normal

@garyermann

Жыл бұрын

It had to be done.

@ZergRushJohnny

Жыл бұрын

Reading this comment thankfully didn't prepare me for how it would be presented, and I still lost it

@abdelilhmanflores

Жыл бұрын

What’s the time stamp?

@Booksds

Жыл бұрын

@@abdelilhmanflores 9:57

@abdelilhmanflores

Жыл бұрын

@@Booksds thank you bro

oh my god adam actually did it

@klaxoncow

Жыл бұрын

He finally, really, did it. You maniac!! He blew it up. Ah, damn you!! God damn you all the Hell.

@weakw1ll

Жыл бұрын

chill down KlaxtonCow

@weakw1ll

Жыл бұрын

Man bro i missed adam

@mihailmilev9909

Жыл бұрын

@@weakw1ll fr

@nugboy420

Жыл бұрын

@@weakw1ll calm out

As a longtime fan of Hudson Mowhawke, I'm super glad this song is getting the meme recognition it absolutely deserves

10:22 i played that line in my head and instantly broke out in laughter and also uncontrollable crying and possibly a manic episode

Has a youtube notification ever made you audibly shout "NO"?

@hashiispep

Жыл бұрын

THIS. THIS RIGHT HERE

@thailai3277

Жыл бұрын

LMAOOO

@CiDK

Жыл бұрын

Not until now...

@ej22_gc86

Жыл бұрын

Yes Not this one though because I had no idea what tf a cbat was

@billyalarie929

Жыл бұрын

Many fucking times.

Adam: Music that we find pleasant is generally easier to entrain to Adam's band: *performs music in weird time signatures and complex tuplet structures*

@lucayaki

Жыл бұрын

To be fair, it is still pleasant

@hammerth1421

Жыл бұрын

Also Adam: _is surprised that the audiences who can dance along to nested tuplets can dance along to a trap melody rhythm which is supposed to be highly syncopated to the halftime trap beat it sits on_

@violet-beck

Жыл бұрын

very easy to get entrained to tho! I remember his video about it, forgot the name, where they were like doing tests with the audiences :D

@LeoMajors

Жыл бұрын

Adam has mentioned that his band's latest album was written with entrainment in mind, and thus actually uses a lot of simpler times, along with a few more complex ones as experiments

@ericchin739

Жыл бұрын

Lol well... I think he means the general listener who doesn't know music theory. They typically like simpler stuff. I mean.... there's a reason why Pop is all basically the same song with the same beat and tempo lol. Because it works, and people buy it.

Funny thing about this tune. Back when this first came out I was touring in Europe with an artist named Jose James. There were some incredible players in the band Brad Allen Williams, Kris Bowers and Richard Spaven, Spaven is from London and deep in the electronic music scene there as well as being an amazing drummer so he introduced this song to us. We thought it was the craziest shit ever, cause it was. The lead synth line is such an odd juxtaposition over a beat that is minimal and quiet but yet it goes SO HARD! Being the jazz musicians we are it instantly became a meme/lick amongst the band, we’d throw it into solos, intros, wherever and have a good time with our injoke. This was probably back in 2013 or 2014. I think you’re right about people playing it in performances and I wonder how it will feel when it happens because it’s not a tiny niche thing anymore. P.S. I have definitely had this song on while being…intimate and it totally works for a certain vibe. I don’t think anyone that’s having sex to music is using the melody to sync up to (at least they probably shouldn’t be) it’s all about the beat! That beat is dope and can definitely inspire some good times. I’ve seen it!

@plankton50

Жыл бұрын

The song almost has a tiny Jamaican dancehall vibe to it. Tiny tiny bit. Hudson Mowhake definitely has a sense of humour, which tbh is missing in some music. He creates an amazing song, really well produced and just genius but also just really funny and some people can't get their head around something being funny but also good.

9:04 i actually want full cover like this, sounds so good

@atlander4204

7 күн бұрын

Same! It’s so jazzy!

The fact that it actually sounded good in the jazz form ,makes this even better in all ways possible

The saxophone is such a good choice for the cbat melody

@surkey5055

Жыл бұрын

Especially soprano or sapraino

@Ambipie

7 ай бұрын

Yeah because soprano is a technically microtonal instrument and can smoothly cat scream if you blow right

6:42 thanks for the representativeness 💙 not just this in this scene, but in all other videos you've used

honestly the griminess of the microtonal melody and the "annoying" synth texture, paired against that simple rhythm just makes it go harder imo. also brian gave me a fistbump from the stage before the cbat part which was awesome >:D

@unslept_em

Жыл бұрын

cbat is a great song, and i can imagine hudson laughing his ass off while he made it. same goes for a song like "young signorino - mmh ha ha ha" which i've seen someone unironically say is the worst song they've ever heard. i don't know why so many people perceive music that's a little goofy/weird as "bad".

@itsaUSBline

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I actually love it. I've been a HudMo fan for ages, and it's funny to me seeing it blowing up.

@The_SOB_II

Жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure that synth texture is a pitch-shifted creaky door shutting. Strange to see nobody bringing this up yet. (Or maybe that's just the glissando at the end tricking me)

@SawtoothWaves

Жыл бұрын

@@The_SOB_II someone make a cbat edit with the squeaky bedframe rocking in the background haha

@Purplesquigglystripe

Жыл бұрын

It’s just the song paired with that context that makes it so uncomfortable. There’s probably stuff I listen to that would sound terrible in the same context.

Adam will stop at nothing to explain the music theory of everything - long may it continue.

@DaneOrie

Жыл бұрын

Long may he reign.

@tjwebb7428

Жыл бұрын

Adam in 2027 - The musical theory of elephants yawning

@mihailmilev9909

Жыл бұрын

@@tjwebb7428 is that new meme that I'm not aware of?

@konstant_ly

Жыл бұрын

@@mihailmilev9909 wait 5 years and you'll see

I want a full version of that orchestral rendition of cbat at 7:26

@De-sync_Cats

8 ай бұрын

By Pastacat Productions

9:56 that's the most genuine apology ive ever heard in my life, and the lick killed me

What's to add to saying it's "just a trap song" is that for the time being, Hudson Mohawkes work for electronic trap was laying a foundation for the popularity of a trap sound in popular culture. In 2011, that was totally unheard of and a kind of underground sound. His breakthrough as a producer was next years "TNGHT" project together with Lunice, which in turn wrecked dancefloors and festivals for the coming years

@tumest

Жыл бұрын

This. He was quietly super influential on a lot of very specific sounds of the subsequent decade or so. Go back to Polyfolk Dance from 2009 and take a listen, you can hear plenty of seeds being planted.

@GizzyDillespee

Жыл бұрын

Trap was a thing in Atlanta in the 90s. It even went mainstream with bands like 36 Mafia... in the 90s. It was stale by the time Hudson Mohawk was being promoted pretty heavily.

@GizzyDillespee

Жыл бұрын

And Sun Ra was making melodies like this 60-70 years ago. Rocket #9 off the top of my head

@jasonmacfarlund2703

Жыл бұрын

@@GizzyDillespee you can't really be telling me that the direction that hudson mohawke took trap music is at all like how Atlanta was taking trap music. Note how op isn't saying he made THE trap sound popular, he said A trap sound.

@Alexander_Grant

Жыл бұрын

@@GizzyDillespee EDM trap vs. Hip-Hop trap. EDM trap taking inspiration from Atlanta trap and putting it into electronic music.

My god, cbat pitch manipulated into the melody of the lick killed me

It's actually kind of a catchy track. The "lead" is kinda harsh but it's a novelty. You're not really going to understand why it's popular listening on headphones though, you kind of have to hear it coming out of a club soundsystem or at least a frathouse's old beat-up PA. This sounds eyeroll-worthy but it's one of those tracks where if you don't have good bass drivers you literally lose an entire instrument. At a party the bass is dominating so much that the lead is almost an afterthought. It's wild that the whole internet thinks this song is objectively terrible because when I was in college shortly after it came out, it was SO overplayed at parties it annoyed the fuck out of me, but other people ate it up.

@qazwsx014jsbd8

7 ай бұрын

Im guessing its because of the context in which it became popular. Like its normal on its own, but when someone says its the 'perfect song to have sex to' people quickly go to the complete opposite end of the spectrum due to how absurd that statement is

I just noticed how the clapping hand syncs with the 5/8 background music, when Adam is talking about non-isochronal pulses, and i just love that detail so much

Hudson Mohawke is an absolute legend, especially here in Glasgow. He's a huge reason why hyperpop became a thing in my opinion. He was playing with taste in electronic music a good few years before a lot of others were. On babies babbling ( 1.40 ) he and Lunice even used samples like that in their TNGHT project.

@bigmistqke

Жыл бұрын

💯 hudmo s legendary. The production on Butter still blows my mind to this day. So playful and quirky. There were some really crazy stuff coming from ur area back then. Really loved mike slott too, must have played Sun Tan a million times. Listening to it rn, still sounds as fresh as ever. And what was that one artist/album again w the big crystal on the cover?

@SteMail926

Жыл бұрын

@@bigmistqke yeah, completely agreed! There was something in the water in Glasgow around 2012. You're thinking of Glass Swords by Rustie, which is still amazing!

@bigmistqke

Жыл бұрын

Found it! Rustie's Glass Swords. Damn, must have been such a crazy scene back then. (edit: lol u beat me to it)

@bigmistqke

Жыл бұрын

Ur so on point w the hyperpop-link too. Listening to Hover Trap rn and it is literally a hyper pop track. Maybe bump the BPM just a little.

@teagancombest6049

Жыл бұрын

@@bigmistqke seriously, these people going crazy over cbat would have their minds blown by Butter.

As someone who is completely out of the loop, I read the title and wondered why Adam chose to analyze an entire Steely Dan album.

@SUP3RP3DR0L1V3

Жыл бұрын

That would've been a 2 hour long video.

@philipgwyn8091

Жыл бұрын

@@SUP3RP3DR0L1V3 I suspect it would have been a weeks' worth of 2 hour videos

watching my friend lose his shit at the Detroit show at 8:16 is easily as entertaining from the stage perspective as it was from next to him. thank you for putting this up, lol

the piano wedding version of cbat sounds like a wedding song they’d play in the sims

The video I didn't ask for, didn't expect, and yet can't stop watching. Lol. Well done.

This is wonderful. I remember hearing CBAT ~10 years ago and its the type of song that really sticks with you even if you don't particularly like it. Great meme.

@Netsuko

Жыл бұрын

It's literally Sandstorm all over again. You can't unhear it anymore.

@risharddaniels1762

Жыл бұрын

@@Netsuko nahhh, sandstorm was kinda hype at least

@maryj306

Жыл бұрын

I heard it on Workaholics way back

@BinglesP

Жыл бұрын

The song is that old???

@alexanderm7270

Жыл бұрын

@@maryj306 You know what? I think that's the money.

you gotta respect the cbat guy for being cultured enough to know who hudson mohawke is

As someone who doesn't know jack about music, the first minute of his theory segment explained shit so coherently that i had to hit sub

10:29 hit me in the face so hard I almost had a panic attack

The other day when Adam tweeted about this, one of my kids saw over my shoulder and asked if I knew about it. I did not. Adam is now partly responsible for the most awkward conversation I've had with any of my children in quite some time, and in this family that's saying something. EDIT: okay, also? I have no formal music theory training, but I dance West Coast Swing and occasionally DJ for said dance and therefore spend considerable brain power thinking about beat and rhythm. So I appreciate the brief discussion of that- I haven't been able to find a lot of good content about music theory for dancing, especially as it relates to specific dances and popular music.

I’m around 6:28 and I’m curious if music therapists ever have people with dyspraxia practice rhythm and music, I am autistic and I have noticed that over the past few years my coordination has been getting significantly better, this has also lined up with when i really started delving into playing music.

@syvvieon

6 ай бұрын

OH HI I have dyspraxia and something causing me to slur words a lot (unsure if that's related to the dyspraxia) and I have been testing this on myself! i can say for that: a. practicing piano/guitar has helped a lot with dexterity in my fingers b. vocal training has helped my voice gain far more clarity it's definitely extremely helpful for someone like me where dancing, for example, is immensely difficult

9:27 Can’t wait to hear megalovania and cbat in the same song…

Adam always fails to disappoint.

@LankyMF

Жыл бұрын

Agreed, Adam never fails to appoint.

@IlBiggo

Жыл бұрын

@@LankyMF He constantly disfails to satisfy.

@pierreaoun9600

Жыл бұрын

this threw me the fuck off

@AppleGameification

Жыл бұрын

Wait what. Wtf was the original phrase

@pierreaoun9600

Жыл бұрын

@@AppleGameification “never fails to deliver”

As someone who likes Hudson Mohawke but has literally never heard of this meme, this was fascinating.

@McBehrer

Жыл бұрын

and then after that, try listening to literally any other music

@lx4079

Жыл бұрын

@@McBehrer tasteless andy over here

@og_dripj

Жыл бұрын

@@lx4079 jerma andy

@idkissausername1667

Жыл бұрын

this whole meme was made 100x funnier for me today because i only just realized it was Hudson Mohawke who made the song, and he also made the soundtrack for Watch Dogs 2, one of my favorite games, which was such a left hook for me but after listening to a few of his songs compared to cbat, its so much funnier

@Billiamwoods

11 ай бұрын

​@@idkissausername1667I think it's more funny that the EP Cbat is on came out in 2011 and from 2012 to 2016, Hudson Mohawke was a producer on multiple Kanye West songs and even a song from Drake's Nothing Was the Same. Meaning that Kanye West could've reasonably heard Cbat and invited this guy to work on songs like Blood on the Leaves, Mercy, and Famous.

When the video that showed that “All I Want for Christmas is You” had the same microtone as this I nearly spat out my drink

I saw you and Sungazer in Atlanta where I live 2 Sundays ago and it was exactly how I pictured it. Following you for a while now, I have seen videos of Sungazer shows you post here so I knew what to expect and everything went off without a hitch. The same songs are in a similar order. It was great. Now as far as the CBAT solo in the set, I agree with you 100%. To each his own. Until you released this video I thought it was just the Saxophonist and you guys having fun as you should on stage for yourself and your audience. But now that I see this video, as a fellow Musician, Bass Player (not a professional like you, but still), who is always learning new techniques and new instruments as I can, and who knows Music Theory from Studying it with my teachers (I don't have a Bachelor or Masters like you do), I love how you take something and break it down. How you choose what to break down is another story, but maybe between my day job and everything else, I don't make the time to be up on the latest Musical stuff like you are LOL. Conclusion: The Brain works in mysterious ways. Just like a Painting realistic or abstract, the artist may have had something in mind when writing a song, hell, in this case, CBAT could be one day fooling around and saying to himself "Yo this sounds dope". Henceforth this song was born. Now I wasn't there so I have no idea, but what I like to call "The Dope Effect" is a non-technical musical term I use to describe something that makes your body move; as far as this song, not that I listen to it, but if played in a context like you guys did when I saw you or on the Radio, will I change the channel or cover my ears LOL. Nope. I'll move to it just like everybody else probably somehow. But that doesn't mean if this song comes on while I am intimate with someone else, I'll stop the motion I am doing to match this beat, LOL. You can match a beat to anything. Some sound better than others, or you can change a song to match a specific rhythm, and it may sound good, it may sound goofy, or it may just make sense. In the end, it's all about perception. What we perceive. The person who did the video that inspired everything here could have been just being silly, having fun, or could have been very serious. What do we know? Until we can interview and ask that person, it's what we perceive that counts. Great video and experiment as all of yours are. Keep them coming. This coming (as clenches as it sounds), someone you influence. LOL

As some others have said, I think a lot of why it feels awkward is because it's a syncopated rhythm without a super steady beat to keep it grounded. The rhythm in itself doesn't seem that bad but when it almost feels right but isn't it's weird.

This wasn’t how I expected HudMo to get popular, but I’m glad it happened

@unadventurer_

Жыл бұрын

Especially when the album he just put out is stupid good.

@kelvint03

Жыл бұрын

Same

@magnopere

Жыл бұрын

He's been around. Produced for Kanye, lmao. Everyone my age knows TNGHT.

@NoName_NoTitle

Жыл бұрын

He was already quite big. People forget TNGHT or that he got to do Watch Dogs 2 soundtrack

@teagancombest6049

Жыл бұрын

I mean he produced for Kanye years ago. He's not unknown.

I'm so proud to have been part of such an important work of scientific research in Atlanta. Great show then, and great video now!

Absolutely cannot get enough of the Sungazer CBAT rework. You're so so right - arrangement is everything. I just can't stop listening to it.

having jared yee come out on stage just to play cbat for 20 seconds in the middle of "drunk" and then leave was one of the most hype and yet most disorienting event to have happen in my life also thanks for coming to the exit/in in nashville it was a blast :)

I can’t quite describe how bizarre it was to see the guy selling merch in the front appear up on stage, apropos of nothing, to play this in the middle of another song. Totally hilarious (the whole show was a riot), but utterly surreal. I’ve never been more on-my-toes at a show in my life!

are we brushing over 1:43????

I've always been interested in music theory, and low and behold, this is the first video I've ever seen from you. Subscribed

Why does nobody talk about how the synth is a sample of a squeaky door hinge

@potterfanz6780

Жыл бұрын

That reminds me of an Andrew Huang video where 4 producers sampled the sound of a squeaky door closing

@teagancombest6049

Жыл бұрын

Because it's not.

@TornaitSuperBird

Жыл бұрын

@@teagancombest6049 It's actually a sample of a squeaky chair

@teagancombest6049

Жыл бұрын

@@TornaitSuperBird as someone who has made and listened to a lot of electronic music, it's clearly not a sample, or at least not entirely. The way it pitch bends down at the end of the phrase is so clearly synthesized, it may have a sample waveform mixed in but it's not just an audio sample being played back at different pitches. Hudson mohaekr uses a lot of weird textural synths in his music, it's way more likely that's some waveform synthesis than it being a sample. It clearly inspired by the squeaky bed spring sound from Baltimore house music though.

This video is already on the national registry of culturally and historically significant films.

By releasing this video you've perhaps kept it more alive by inspiring more musician's to throw this lick in as many stupid places as they can, I say fantastic.

Thank you so much, you finally got the freaking song out of my freaking head.

Some friends were talking about this song earlier today and I had no clue what they were talking about so they started to explain it. When the musical one of the two started to explain the specifics of the song, I immediately thought of your videos and how they probably got that from one of your videos since they’re a fan. And wouldn’t you know it, this pops up in my recommended. Thank you Adam for influencing my friend’s conversations, it makes for some weird conversations for sure

Adam breaking down the music theory of love making. I didn't have this in my bingo card.

@C_cotobuki

Жыл бұрын

*The harmonic style of 18th century European musicians making love

@qwertyTRiG

Жыл бұрын

@@C_cotobuki Okay. That got a laugh.

this video is goddamn incredible. I have a feeling I'm going to be bingewatching this channel. I am so glad I found this

Adam pls, release a full version of your live CBAT cover, it actually slaps

@Jukestar

Жыл бұрын

I 100% agree.

I hate that i looked up the song, and just so happened to find this video after also trying to find this channel again for a couple years. Thank you CBAT

@potroast702

Жыл бұрын

And all of that was done less than ten minutes after it was posted. The universe brought Adam Neely back to uou

@stardynamite3762

Жыл бұрын

LMAO

This video has given me my new pickup line: “Hey girl, I have an internal sense of pulse”

i really hope that cbat will have it's place among the greatest musical memes of all time and in 10 years, i will just randomly be referenced in something i'm listening to, and all my memories of the 2020's will come flooding back

That Cbat lick will haunt me forever

YOOOOO IM THE GUY AT 8:57 WITH HIS HAHDS UP AND THE GOOFIEST SMILE EVER HAHAHA I can die happy

@NicegramSouth_Texas_Roots

Жыл бұрын

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I was just waiting for you to make this

haha I actually didn't know the musical context of that melody when you guys brought it out at the Toronto show, I just thought it was a weird pop/hip hop riff that you guys reference in a more "head banging" orchestration (also your Toronto show was amazing, hope you guys had a good time as well!)

it takes a master to explain a masterpiece

Being someone completely out-of-the-loop when it comes to modern internet culture (TikTok), I thought you were going to talk about Steely Dan's 1st album Can't Buy A Thrill. But this... This is a powerful tool.

This video is so good i will keep rewatching it for the rest of my life and it lives in my head rent free and i give it a little kiss on the forehead

9:05 I need a source I lost my shit at that part lmao

@NicegramSouth_Texas_Roots

Жыл бұрын

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The more I hear Cbat the more I start thinking it actually goes hard lowkey

@awesome346

Жыл бұрын

Jesus loves you!

@jqsm1neS

Жыл бұрын

@@awesome346 tell him I appreciate it but I think we should just be friends

@EphemeralPseudonym

Жыл бұрын

it would with more texture like in adam's arrangement

@whatdoyousuppose

Жыл бұрын

repetition legitimizes…

@jqsm1neS

Жыл бұрын

@@whatdoyousuppose BEEP, BABEEP, BEEP, BEBEBEEP BEEP, BEEP, BABEEP, BEEP, BEBEBEEP BOOOUUUU

gotta respect the guy for putting his playlist on a cd

CBAT is perfect for an alarm. It's loud, obnoxious, and everyone already hates it so there's no fear of disliking the song over time.

Something else that has been blowing up on tiktok is that video from decades ago of the Miami Boys' Choir singing Yerushalayim. I'd love to see your take on why it's so catchy and also some insight into the history of orthodox rock music!

hey so just for context, "Cbat" has been a punchline in jokes in the DJ/dance music circles since it was released. the Reddit troll post (it is a troll post) was the first time our little meme went viral outside of our tiny niche. i'm happy to see more people interacting with it :)

@NicegramSouth_Texas_Roots

Жыл бұрын

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At 5:22 and forward, you are making a very strong case for drummers!

Absolutely fantastic and hilarious to watch you talk about this in all seriousness, just adds to the surreality of the whole thing in the best way 😂

This was one of your funniest videos to date. Thanks Mr. Neely

8:00 I'm sorry, but is that a Nu Metal rendition of cbat with a saxophone lead????

Oh shit I made it into an Adam Neely vid! I arranged the bit at 7:16 and having watched this now...my brain really struggled to hear this melody where it technically falls. It's autocorrecting that F to an E. I played back what I wrote so many times and was like...."yeah I think that's an E. Or an F. Or somewhere in between." The melody is just weird and quirky as fuck and my brain can't handle it.

When I here people use a snare drum build up for songs, I immediately think that Cbat is about to play. It’s not that every song has the same build up, but there is a certain snare sound that Cbat uses that many other pieces use as well. I honestly agree that it will probably become a rick-roll/megolovania/all-I-want-for-Christmas-is-you-kind of meme, and honestly I am all here for it cause it is hilarious.

thanks for this, I watched this video and now my recommendations are filled with CBAT!

How convenient, I heard of CBAT for the first time only a few hours ago Just when I thought Adam would never dare get more innuendal... innuendic? Innuendous? Innuendoal? Anyway, I never thought he'd touch on more suggestive content than his 6/9 chords vid. Man... Adam's headbanging game is strooong

Figured you were going to make a video about this after I saw you guys play this at a concert, I was not disappointed! Good stuff!

Thank you for making the illustrations to this video inclusive.

dude. so smart. talk about how rhythms interact with body mechanics. but focus on sexy time music as a way of doing that. gold. funny approach. kudos. love you show.

PART III: Putting it to the test idk Adam did you really put it to the test tho🤔