Century old composers be like: "Fellas, is it gay to resolve a chord progression on a weak beat?🤔🤔🤔"

@michaelnajoan5104

2 жыл бұрын

pretty sure gay would mean happiness back then, which is funny because the question will get kinda the same answer anyway

@lilybeejones

2 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah this is the comment

@luiggigomez580

2 жыл бұрын

@@nickkellam9155 stfu

@ndescruzur4378

2 жыл бұрын

"if you have your wig on, then's not gay"

@klaxoncow

2 жыл бұрын

"Ooh, it's totally gay, darling. You go, girl." **wink**

Someone with perfect pitch: "Please comfort me about losing perfect pitch." Adam Neely: "Don't worry, you're going to die anyway."

@VemSenhorJesus

2 жыл бұрын

Hahahahahaha So true

@zacharybennett3249

2 жыл бұрын

E.H. agreed.

@4uartaOnda

2 жыл бұрын

Welp... He is not wrong tbh...

@davepowell1661

2 жыл бұрын

Incidentally we call chopin Choppers up here.He suggests you master instrument. He says zzzzz

@nickhydeviolin

2 жыл бұрын

I imagine musicians who accidently develop it when they're young and never really use it, eventually lose it. (classical musicians). I'd be very surprised if actual play-by-ear musicians and composers like myself actually lose it. More studying needs to be done on how perfect pitch is developed and potentially lost though.

Band instructor: "Everyone play a C" Me: Frantically increasing tempo in Ableton on my laptop

@Kayuk

2 жыл бұрын

an

@benjaminperez4570

2 жыл бұрын

@@Kayuk no

@d3vs3b96

2 жыл бұрын

yes!

@gustavholmqvistloved7286

2 жыл бұрын

en

@coryman125

2 жыл бұрын

If you can't train yourself to press the piano key several hundreds of times per second to produce the note, you're not a real musician

Adam, I appreciate you. Thanks. 😁

@mott7913

2 жыл бұрын

Hello nahre my name's tom and I appreciate Adam

@zeynepcanik3947

2 жыл бұрын

♥️♥️🌹💜

@lathankyles687

2 жыл бұрын

Omg my favorite pianist!! Hi!!!!!!

@willemkossen

2 жыл бұрын

I appreciate both Adam and Nahre. You inspire me. Thanks

@felipeveiga5807

2 жыл бұрын

Nahre you are great, i appreciate you and your work. Thanks

The song Yellow, by Coldplay had the following chord progression: C,C,C,C,C,C,C,C,C,C,C,C,C,C,C it's all yellow

@umaroxp5207

2 жыл бұрын

Its actually in B

@davedavem

2 жыл бұрын

@@umaroxp5207 yeah, but why let a fact ruin a good joke, eh?

@violetcitizen

2 жыл бұрын

@@umaroxp5207 It's in C if you play it fast enough

@Aaron628318

2 жыл бұрын

@@violetcitizen Excellent.

@ProbablyNotLapisFox

2 жыл бұрын

@@umaroxp5207 ok, nerd

The “STELLA” scream on the b13 is absolute perfection.

@columbogaming9377

2 жыл бұрын

It pretty much bang on.

@TiqueO6

2 жыл бұрын

I tend to think the "big"-7 or "flat-7 ("dominant"?) is a strong musical analog to a Yell of some urgency but now I might have to rethink that a bit?

@xavierharris9749

Жыл бұрын

*STELLAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!*

Imagine a whole song being played fast enough to be an instrument, and that song is also made up of instruments made by speeding up entire songs into pitches. Fractal music

@Juanus14

2 жыл бұрын

This is all music was and ever will be

@composerjack

2 жыл бұрын

It's the Mendelssohn set.

@joaobaptista4610

Жыл бұрын

I believe Adam has a video on this. If I'm not mistaken he took the whole audio of Giant Steps, repeated endlesly and speed up to ridiculous BPM counts to obtain the pitches of the the notes in the song, you guessed right, Giant Steps. He even named this concept exactly as fractal music as you also did.

@AntonMochalin

11 ай бұрын

Imagine sampling such music not knowing it and then slowing it back down and realizing there's a whole piano concerto inside one note lol... Not actually much posible though

@atthis8142

11 ай бұрын

@@AntonMochalin it's possible with a high enough sample rate

8:21 - _"There's nothing quite like a deadline to get the creative juices flowing"_ - Jim McNeely _"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by."_ - Douglas Adams

@--.._

2 жыл бұрын

i tag myself in the 2nd one

@thedoublek4816

2 жыл бұрын

For me it's either the first or the second case. The latter one especially happens when I realize that there is no way to make it in the time given to finish a task, so I just say "fuck it" and hear the deadline wooshin'. Often I am hating myself afterwards, but that's the life of a master procrastinator.

@JohanJortso

2 жыл бұрын

Precisely what I thought. It’s a mix of both for me.

@kaitlyn__L

Жыл бұрын

@@thedoublek4816 rushing until you finally say “fuck it” is relatable af

“Fingeritis” was my biggest problem for literal years as a hobbyist musician and actually made me avoid playing for awhile. “The Advancing Guitarist”, “20th century harmony”, (books from a video on your channel), and learning drums really helped that and brought music back to a less frustrating love again. For awhile I felt super boxed in and habitually uncreative. Those books and this channel gave me so much insight and reminded me to think like a beginner as much as possible. Weird tangent from one word, but thanks for making such wonderful and insightful content.

@SirNoxasKrad

2 жыл бұрын

I came to the comments because I wanted to learn more about the "fingeritis" cuz thats what I feel kind of stuck with right now. Do you have any tips on how to progress past that? Been meaning to check out 20th century harmony

@salottin

2 жыл бұрын

@@SirNoxasKrad picking up another (different) instrument is a good idea, like the piano (Kiko Loureiro talked about that in his latest video)

@salottin

2 жыл бұрын

Also, try practicing using only new scales or modes. You'll have to think more

@Kreso191

2 жыл бұрын

@@SirNoxasKrad I've been going thru the same thing for a while now, and a few things that helped were: I don't play it on the instrument. I listen music and memorise the phrase or solo I would normally just figure out on guitar. Then I just imagine myself playing it (I don't always know exact notes on the guitar). I just imagine the feeling of playing it, I don't think about any logic or anything, just imagining the feeling of that phrase, why it's beautiful etc. Then I sing it for a while when doing other stuff and only after a couple of days do I allow myself to play it on a guitar. I first deeply enternalise the phrase so it isn't just muscle memory. Second thing is I sing everything, literally everything. Harmonizing with house appliences or car horns on the street or anything. I sing my favourite songs and accompany myself on guitar, I actually consider that practicing guitar. I don't sing because I want to be a singer, but because I want to be better guitar player. Third thing is playing vocal melodies on guitar, preferably from memory. Or some easier solos if you know the in your head. The point is, we've been practicing our instrument so much it became our second nature, but we didn't work enough on our musicality so our body just takes over. But when you sharpen your inner sense for musicality it fights your body and your habits. Your mind is free. I learned this because i've but playing and practicing guitar for 12 years and I realised I wasn't very free. On the other hand, my best friend never practiced, literaly never (he had a few piano lessons as a kid but never stuck with it). He just played melodica or piano when we were drinking and messing around and he could play the best solos and improvised melodies that were so so good and fun and free. His only form of practice was listening to music and singing it. It didn't matter that his tehnique wasn't the best because his solos were so creative and free. Remeber, there is a difference between being a good musician and a good instrumentalist.

@andrewkuder9111

2 жыл бұрын

100% thought that said "fingertits"

The E turning into A experiment is even more insidious. Because you're switching the E on and off at 440 times per second, you're effectively doing amplitude modulation on your basic frequency of the E (329.628 Hz or thereabouts) with 440 Hz being the carrier. This leads to two effects. First off, the E has its own envelope and probably doesn't go to 0 dB peaks - but your 440 Hz switching frequency does because you're doing on-off switching, so the most audible tone becomes 440 Hz and you hear the A. The second effect is, ring modulation also produces tones at (carrier + signal), so about 769 Hz and at (carrier-signal), so about 111 Hz. If you were to take a look at the spectrum, there should be two smaller spikes at 111 Hz and 769 Hz along with a massive one at 440 Hz. There will probably also be repetitions of that "trident" higher up because of the fact you're modulating it by turning the signal sharply on and off (so you're modulating with a square wave, which has an ugly spectrum). I'd love to actually see a view from your DAW.

@JoshSmith-db2of

2 жыл бұрын

I knew I wasn't the only nerd who enjoys both signal processing and music theory! Thank you, sir.

@SimoneProvencher

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! I was looking for this comment ! It sounds pretty much like my square wave ring mod guitar pedal. An oscilloscope would have been neat for that segment.

@borismatesin

2 жыл бұрын

The ring mod and amplitude mod are very similar, it's just that the ring mod inverts the phase during part of the cycle, whereas the amplitude mod preserves the phase. So there will be a difference in tone depending on how it's mixed back with the original. And possibly some uglier overtones because modulation is never "clean".

@TimDuncanofSoccer

2 жыл бұрын

In other words (if I'm understanding you correctly [please correct any misconceptions]), the way Adam performed the ring modulation actually contributed to the amplitude of the observed frequencies. If Adam applied a filter to the post-ring-modulation audio to emphasize the lower and higher of the three frequencies, we would hear a chord consisting of frequencies 111 Hz-440 Hz-769 Hz (which would sound pretty close to A2-A4-G5 with the G5 being a bluesy/flat seventh a.k.a. the 7th harmonic of A2). Let's say that Adam instead used a starting tone of 110Hz, then the carrier-signal would be 330Hz, the carrier would be 440Hz, and the carrier+signal would be 550Hz. This would be a nice, crisp A major chord over E. if the initial signal had been 88Hz instead, then the triad would be 352-440-528 -- a standard F major triad.

@alexthi

2 жыл бұрын

Go signal processing nerds! In my opinion your answer about amplitude modulation is more correct than Adam's, however this is not what is going on here. Since Adam used a repeating sample rather than a volume control, the E was retriggered each time, and so the result is a complex waveform repeating identically 440 times per second. So its spectrum only contains frequencies multiple of 440Hz. If using a single E and fading it in and out without retriggering it, on the other hand, we would indeed obtain amplitude modulation. But we would not hear an A at all: in fact, we would still mostly hear the E, but also the differential tones at all the frequencies present in the original signal, plus or minus multiples of 440 Hz.

Omg I just realized that "Stella by starlight" has the same chord progression Freddie Mercury used in the bridge of "Take my breath away" by Queen. About 3 minutes into the song if anyone is interested, it's the same key as well. I wonder if that was where he got the inspiration from!

@waynecliburn2749

2 жыл бұрын

Good find! ... See/hear also the Chopin #20 Prelude Adam used at time 2:10 is also at start of Barry Manilow's 1973 "Could It Be Magic" .. beautiful at kzread.info/dash/bejne/iJdputakirauXbQ.html

@bairbrediamond

2 жыл бұрын

How observant 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@musamor75

2 жыл бұрын

Excellent observation. I think it’s quite obvious that Freddie had deep musical knowledge; actually some of his music is profoundly classical. This might be explained by the fact that he was was of Eastern European origin- where people have have much more culture than in the West. Education is totally free in those parts of the world.

@columbogaming9377

2 жыл бұрын

Totally fits the mood. The song is like an old movie soundtrack.

@dazza2350

2 жыл бұрын

@@musamor75 what

I love how at 5:45, when he plays the E at 64hz, you can hear the major third with the low C

Isn't the term _feminine cadence_ borrowed from Old French / Middle French poetry, where feminine nouns often ended in an unstressed syllable, while masculine nouns often ended in a stressed one?

@MichaelTurner856

2 жыл бұрын

I have no idea but that seems like a good theory

@markstanbrook5578

2 жыл бұрын

Whichever root if has it's still essentially stereotyping which the woke would claim is bordering on sexism/misogyny. That said I don't advocate for changing it.

@SimoneBattaglia94

2 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure you are right.

@klaxoncow

2 жыл бұрын

Probably. But that's not "woke", so we ignore those kinds of facts. Look, I'm trying to "virtue signal" here, so stop bringing nuance, complexity and context into things, yes? It spoils the underlying message that I'm awesome.

@vAlkemistv

2 жыл бұрын

@@markstanbrook5578 I'd argue the concept of masculinity and femininity are gendered concepts but have nothing to do with gender and even less to do with sex. After all, the 'woke', as it were, would argue males can be feminine and vice versa.

Adam : "Why are these chords SO beautiful?" Me : "I don't know man, you're the music theory guy here you tell me"

@Roxanneredpanda

2 жыл бұрын

Tell me the funny words magic man!

@moo639

2 жыл бұрын

They are beautiful because of the 6-5 (Ab-G), 4-3 (Bb-Ab) and 7-6 (G-F and F-Eb) suspensions in the melody.

And in a stroke of musical genius, the explanation of how you change an E note to an A note begins at…4:40. Bravo…

Adam: "I'm not a KZreadr, music is a lot more fun" Also Adam: Has some of the most impressive video editing skills of all content creators on KZread.

Why does finding out Adam is a coaster nerd make me smile so much? Just hearing coaster manufacturers named on this channel made me giggle immediately!

@int0x80

2 жыл бұрын

Why did I first think this comment was about coasters for drinks?

@sustinance9557

2 жыл бұрын

@@int0x80 same here

@veganskillz

2 жыл бұрын

coaster nerd LMFAO... iykyk

@MinkyBoodle44

2 жыл бұрын

I never once thought I would meet another coaster enthusiast in this area of KZread, but it turns out there is a surprising amount of overlap. It's friggin' dope as heck.

@loki3523

2 жыл бұрын

@@MinkyBoodle44 lmao same

Why is Adam so beautiful? Repetition legitimizes

@jonathankrieger9121

2 жыл бұрын

M a d e m y d a y!

@kazvanrooij

2 жыл бұрын

Models arent hot at all, its just that they upload daily

@michaelnajoan5104

2 жыл бұрын

Repetition legitimizes

@TanguyBlanchard

2 жыл бұрын

Repetition legitimizes

@silentwulffff

2 жыл бұрын

Bass man look gud:)

Your example of how an E becomes an A if you play it enough times a second was very cool

that chord progression is so beautiful man im literally tearing up

I miss the old theme "Question and answer time with Adam Neeeelyyyyy"

@MrGnuifje

2 жыл бұрын

Yah!

@iscream6268

2 жыл бұрын

ya!

@richardrisner921

2 жыл бұрын

bass

Spatial Audio is also an important part of classical music, especially with extended ensembles. One cool example is “The Unanswered Question” by Charles Ives, where the strings are meant to be back stage and the brass and woodwind are meant to be in the rafters of the concert hall. This gives the piece a really ethereal sound. It’s a super cool topic, I bet Adam could do a fab video on it, similar to his “KZreadrs react to Experimental Music” video.

@saqlainsiddiqui1744

2 жыл бұрын

I think Adam has actually mentioned that particular piece before (can't remember the exact video sorry) so it would be awesome if he did a whole video essay on it!

@JoricioCagel

2 жыл бұрын

Henry Brant wrote a lot of spatial music, for example: kzread.info/dash/bejne/YpaLx6aklqXWaLg.html score: issuu.com/theodorepresser/docs/wwcf_score

@jossspear

2 жыл бұрын

Nice! I’ll give it a listen.

@chrisa0001

2 жыл бұрын

There's a whole field of psycho-acoustics around placement of sound in space. This dude in San Francisco does "sound sculpture" in an environment of 176 audio speakers en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audium_(theater)

@wolfgangamadeusmozart6457

2 жыл бұрын

but it's not really a huge part of classical music...

That experiment on frequency was fascinating! I guess I knew that the E would turn into an A but I've never seen that demonstrated.

The way you describe how music works is so incredible. You are in the flow when you share.

4:36 Quick note; their question says "fade in and out", not "play". To me, this seems more like ring modulation, which is where you take the amplitude of some note, e.g. the note E, and then have some waveform applied to the amplitude of that note, with the wave at some frequency. At low, sub-audible Hz values, we hear a "tremolo" effect. At higher Hz values, we hear ring modulation. The effect sounds like two tones going out from the original, center tone. So, if you have, say, E5 (659.25 Hz), and apply a sine wave to its amplitude with a frequency of 150hz, you hear a sum and difference tone, meaning you hear 509.25 Hz and 809.25 Hz together as the resultant tones.

@phillipwalk3r

2 жыл бұрын

You're right probably because I didn't read this

@ilyanoeteuscher6870

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, that was, what I was talking about, thank you so much for the explanation!

@jbh001

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. Because he is playing a sampled piano note, the faster it is played, the more we only get to hear the very initial part of the "attack" of the sample where the hammer strikes the strings without every really getting to play the E pitch. Eventually the attack is shot short of a duration that it is effectively reduced to a click. A hammer strike played 440 times per second is going to sound like A4. A pure E5 pitch faded in and out 440 times per second is going to product some sort of modulated tone instead. kzread.info/dash/bejne/dneE2sdvgJSxh9I.html

@enginerdy

2 жыл бұрын

Otherwise known as Amplitude Modulation where the “carrier” is E and the “modulation” is 440Hz. Note that if the E is below 440, you (I think?) get a wrap around at 0Hz, and a 180 out of phase signal on the low end that is the absolute value of the negative frequency. The other subtlety is that if your modulation is not sinusoidal (ie a triangle wave) its new spectrum should be as if you took the sum and difference with the E to the triangle wave’s original spectrum. If you use impulses like Adam used, you’ll get some kind of square-wavy, odd harmonic mess tho

@sihplak

2 жыл бұрын

@@enginerdy This is mostly right, though there's actually a slight difference! Ring modulation doesn't preserve the carrier signal! If you simply take a signal and modulate its amplitude, and then feed out the direct result, the carrier signal is absent in the end result. Amplitude Modulation preserves it. That is a good thing to point out though!

Are you really a musician first, or do you just want to avoid boxing matches against the Paul brothers?

@isaipineda8028

2 жыл бұрын

This comment is great!

@Roxanneredpanda

2 жыл бұрын

don't we all?

@fhqwhgads1670

2 жыл бұрын

Let's be honest: all sane humans want to avoid those mooks as much as possible, at all times.

@johnfrenette

2 жыл бұрын

@@fhqwhgads1670 I’d fight them for millions tho. Pretty good shot at not having long-term damage for 10 minutes of “work”

@mattwhaley1865

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnfrenette I'd fight them for $20

Your knowledge is simply so vast and your video production going into the 4th wall and coming out again is simple yet ingenious... Great job Adam!

Informative and well put together. Yet again. Kudos Adam! All the best!

Pretty sure the horn counter melody in Stella by Starlight wasn't meant to be triumphant but to evoke an undercurrent of dread. It's a creepy movie.

I appreciate your enthusiasm, makes everything more fun.

Oh snap! Those transitions in the editing were super smooth! Nicely done :)

I love this mix of lessons/questions you deal with in this video! Somehow some relevant content mix for me. Thanks Adam.

(256/60) • 103 = 439.46 Yep! checks out :)

in synthesis, there is a feature called oscillator sync, in which a tonal oscillator can have its waveform position reset according to a second oscillator. so for example, one oscillator could be playing E but be reset 440 times per second. the result varies depending on the frequencies involved: it could sound like new timbres, and/or a blending of notes.

@euronomus

2 жыл бұрын

This is exactly what i was thinking. If you take a 440 tone and repeat it faster than the samples length but below 440 you aren't getting a pure tone, you're getting a mixture of the two.

@btat16

2 жыл бұрын

@@euronomus The perceived tone would definitely still be whatever the oscillation frequency is at. A mixture of pure tone just determines timbre, but when you use it the tones become indistinguishable

@hansigucluer7223

2 жыл бұрын

@@btat16 you hear both notes in oscillator sync/reset

@michaelmendoza2455

2 жыл бұрын

i think a cleaner way to do what the question was asking for would just be amplitude modulation with a carrier (of whatever waveform made you happy) at E Hz and a 440 Hz signal

excellent video and format Adam, well done

1:04 is the coolest transition i have ever seen in my many years on the internet ever even months later. Transition flawless achieved kudos to you for such an amazing bit of editing and thank you for the hard work it must have taken to procure it for us all to enjoy.

Damn, I knew you loved music, but a whole video on the physical attraction of this one chord? I am shocked

@phillipwalk3r

2 жыл бұрын

Oh look a checkmark

@guszuccaro9300

2 жыл бұрын

This feels like a fantano comment

@litigatedparadox8946

2 жыл бұрын

Yo Brad Taste, didn’t expect you here love your videos man.

@zynel413

2 жыл бұрын

wait you watch Adam?

@gingerwithglasses6793

2 жыл бұрын

What's up checkmark

That original Stella bridge is bonkers; I've always learned to play the last two chords as bVII7 to Imaj7 (over its root), but that ivmiMa7 to I/iii is just unreal. So so beautiful. I'm never playing the realbook version of this again lol

Love the camera effects where you are on screen within screen and then back out again!

Hey Adam, just want to say thank you for the awesome work. Finally subscribed.

Relieved that E didnt become "All Star" by smash mouth "somebody once told me" haha when you start playing w Ableton I get fractal flashbacks

11:25 as a child I always connected certain chords and songs with certain colors. When I tried to discuss it, people thought I was strange. Its feels good to know I'm not the only one

I always learn SO much from your videos and really appreciate not just what you tell us but how you educate us! Thank you!!

Very nicely done. Informative. Thanks for making and posting

how on earth is it that I literally had a dream about how beautiful the bridge of Stella is & then this video comes out!? legit

I'd love to see your analysis of Carnatic or Hindustani music, or just generally non-western music, Thanks for the consistently awesome content!

Great teacher of all things musical. Subscribed! Loved the E 440 times demo to become A440! And great use of music graphics. Thanks for your work!

Love your content. You are a world heritage treasure!!! Please tell us how best to support you!!

You made an A of Es.. that was cool to see. That's neat that you can play any note as another note lol

@mrpedrobraga

2 жыл бұрын

Playing music with only one note went to another level

@chrisa0001

2 жыл бұрын

This is how FM (Frequency Modulation) synthesis happens - the engine behind the old Yamaha DX7.

Hi adam pls explain the beauty of 035

Hello Adam, this video was terrific. Thanks

great stuff Adam, this is so useful.

Great video as usual 👍

@minimifetti

2 жыл бұрын

Damn u can watch fast

@kirjian

2 жыл бұрын

Naw he's a prophet. He knows the video will be good even during the first minute

@JKTCGMV13

2 жыл бұрын

@@kirjian you know the truth

E 440 times per second sounds like A. That was insane. Living

Your awesome as usual, great work

Happy you’re back!!

Our ear lobes (the whole outside part of the ear) filter a sound differently depending on its direction. Our brain then uses those timbre differences to help locate sounds. I read something about it a long time ago anyway. something about comb filtering in the brain. so that can be used in reverse to encode location in a track for playback in stereo (two front speakers) system. the limitation is that the listener must sit in a specific spot and keep their head facing forward. one listener. only. no headphones lol

"There is nothing quite like a deadline to get the creative juices flowing" - Me, working on my thesis

Great stuff. Thanks Adam!

You got me man. This is great!

0:58: But is a jazz-based analysis really appropriate? It's clearly inspired by late Romantic symphonic music. Sounds like a Rachmaninoff.

@wolfgangamadeusmozart6457

2 жыл бұрын

The guy is a jazz musician... He's going to compare it to jazz theory, even if it isn't appropriate.

@hugobouma

2 жыл бұрын

@@wolfgangamadeusmozart6457 and why wouldn't it be appropriate? The tune ended up in the Real Book, after all.

@harrys2331

2 жыл бұрын

@@hugobouma I don’t like calling it jazz theory tbh because it’s just music theory. Classical musicians use the same stuff, like Ravel and Debussy. Ravel being the master of the 9ths and augmented chords. And Debussy using extended harmony which is a fundamental concept of jazz. Despite that people like to distinguish the two theories even though they are one. Jazz ain’t nothin special to be categorized into its own genre.

What the muscle memory question reminded me was the "When you learn a riff and put it in everything" Daniel Trasher video. Obviously you should not be guided only by muscle memory, but just as the "Lick" these are common phrases. It's like speaking. You don't always have to invent a new word to discribe something, though repeating other people's ideas can get pretty boring pretty quickly. So I'll be really helpful with this totally exact answer: Just find the balance between old and new.

@SamuelKristopher

2 жыл бұрын

As a language educator and music enthusiast, it's uncanny how similar the art of learning both languages and music are. Common misconceptions exist in both fields, for example that native speakers or virtuoso players are consciously choosing and controlling every motion they make, whereas in reality, both are calling on "chunks" of drilled and deeply-rooted patterns that we string together in coherent ways. Like with any musical instrument, the path to fluency is less to do with grammar exercises and aimless production activities, and more with repetition and drilling of useful patterns and constructions.

Love this Adam. Very clever and well illustrated

YOUR VIDEOS ARE SO GOOD, DAMN MAN

"an important part of confronting our own mortality" damn adam, wasn't expecting this existentialism this early in the day 😂

Musician + Coaster Enthusiast = God tier person

@coasterking9536

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely

I like when we get cool snippets of you playing something more technically complex. I'm very used to watching videos where you describe theory and play in a demonstrative way to reinforce learning concepts, I almost forget that you're a very talented performer!

Excellent video, Adam.

There are some songs that use binaural audio quite brilliantly in their conception, like Chrome Sparks' "Marijuana" by having the intro fade in and swirl around, gradually speeding up. The effect is brilliantly psychedelic.

Your synesthesia crashes so hard with mine: Yellow = E ; Blue = C ; Bb/D is like mint ice cream on a bed of lettuce. We should do something like "5 synesthetes compose over the same painting (or any colorful visual thing)".

@MisterL777

2 жыл бұрын

To me yellow = 5th degree (shines like gold aka dominates), blue = 2nd degree Tonic is white obviously

@ZachMcCordProg

2 жыл бұрын

D is yellow for me lol (the note and the scale)

@DemirSezer

2 жыл бұрын

@@ZachMcCordProg E is the yellowest yellow for me

@shadowbunny7892

2 жыл бұрын

YOURS MATCHES MINE. We're besties now

@AngelGarciaN

2 жыл бұрын

@@shadowbunny7892 oh yeah!

You are one of the only chanels that entretains me and educates me

I am a musician and have been doing it for a while but the beauty of it all is the ability to always learn something new!! Thank you Adam!

Fading E in/out at 440 Hz gives a different result than the experiment you did. If it was E5=659.25Hz, then you should be getting 659.25+440 Hz and 659.25-440 Hz. It should sound like what ring modulator effect does. (except that one is four-quadrant, while fade in/out is 2-quadrant... goes only to 0 volume and never to negative)

Me watching you warp an E to 440Hz like it's a new thing ".... so the new guys haven't watched the all star video huh"

Way to make music so textbook-beautiful! LOVE your channel. Your appreciation for music is obvious, and it makes me want to be a more educated musician.

You delight and inspire me even though I don't understand half of what you're saying. Such is the power of music.

"As we age we lose our faculties and our hearing goes..." WHAT! WHAT WAS THAT, SON? SPEAK UP!

Bassist AND roller coaster enthusiast? Am I Adam Neely?

Fun video today Adam. Thank you very much.

Love the Intro!

I think by “fade in and out” they’re talking about ring modulation Or I guess amplitude modulation but like... same thing

@klaxoncow

2 жыл бұрын

It would still predominantly sound like an A, so the principle "pitch is how many times something happens a second" holds.

@ilyanoeteuscher6870

2 жыл бұрын

I was, but I don't the results would've varied much

@downhill2k013

2 жыл бұрын

@@ilyanoeteuscher6870 it actually sounds pretty different. It’s used in a lot of synths because it makes weird timbres, I wish he kinda went into it

@downhill2k013

2 жыл бұрын

@@ilyanoeteuscher6870 so if you did fade E in and out at 440hz you WOULD hear the interval... BUT (and here’s where it gets funky) You would ALSO get........ a G? I really don’t understand the interval relationships, but it goes into the undertone series or something idk

I can handle dying but the thought of becoming anymore tone-deaf than I already am is terrifying

Very slick editing!

Thanks for your content! I'm so glad I found your channel. I signed up for a year at Curiosity Stream through your channel, I had no idea such a cool platform existed!

Adam Neely was at Cedar Point!? Darn, that's less than an hour from me. Coulda had a celebrity sighting 😆

Alan Parsons did a quadraphonic mix of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon in 1973, which could technically be a very early example of 8d music. The sound effects and instruments all have really cool placements.

Informative - cheers Buddy

Love the rhyme at the beginning Adam 👏

Re binaural audio, here's a bit of a summary about how stuff works: There are four basic ways we work out where sounds come from. The first two are called the interaural time difference (ITD) and the interaural level difference (ILD). If a sound is on your right, it has to travel further to reach your left ear, so it takes longer. Also, your head casts a shadow so it's quieter in your left ear. These two things alone are pretty good for working out where sounds are. The ITDs work better at lower pitches and the ILDs work better at higher pitches, because physics, but there's a bit more nuance to it than that. The problem with these interaural cues is that there's a lot of symmetry. There's no way to tell front vs back vs up vs down. This leads to what we call the Cone of Confusion, an infinite cone of points that all have the same binaural cues. The next thing that helps us resolve this is spectral cues. Those flappy things on the side of your head act as dishes that filter sounds differently depending on the direction they arrive from. For example, a sound in front will reach your eardrum with more high frequencies than a sound from behind. Over time, your brain learns the relationship between different sound spectra and different locations. If you swapped your ears for someone else's, you'd be confused about where stuff was. But after about 2 weeks, you'd be pretty good again. The spectral cues are good, but they tend to work better for things with a spread of frequencies, particularly higher ones. The final way we work out where sounds are in the real world is motion. Say you hear a sound that's either directly in front of or behind you. It reaches both ears at the same time and level. Now say you turn to the right. If the sound was in front of you, it'd now be to your left. If it was behind, it'd be to your right. By seeing how sounds move relative to your head as you move your head, you can pinpoint the correct location. Virtual audio stuff in headphones can replicate the ITDs and ILDs. You can even use some generic ears to replicate the spectral cues to an extent, but it would be so much better with your own ears. However, headphones can't generally replicate motion cues (unless the sounds are being generated in some complicated virtual acoustic environment).

@anachronismic

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this explanation! Do you study this kinda stuff? I just ask because it reads like someone with a deep understanding of the field.

@andymcl92

2 жыл бұрын

@@anachronismic You're welcome, and thanks :) Yeah, I did a PhD in sound localisation, and am a hearing researcher, though in a different area

@anachronismic

2 жыл бұрын

@@andymcl92 Makes sense. Have just enough of a tangential understanding in signal processing to read between some of the lines you provide, it's neat to think about for sure.

Notably the waveform of the E at 440 Hz will look like a chopped up wave with a jump every 1/440 seconds. Hence the sawtoothy sound?

@Mr.Nichan

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, since the E of the sample sounds like it's lower pitched than the 440hz, and thus not actually being played at all. In the examples when the rate at which the samples are being played back is less than the pitch of the E (presumably ~330hz), it should sound less sawtoothy, though it still should have sudden discontinuities, so maybe it still should sound sort of sawtoothy.

Another stellar presentation!

Adam's way of sharing his passion for music is SO beautiful

It's hilarious how much all those early film scores sound like Rachmaninoff

@saqlainsiddiqui1744

2 жыл бұрын

ikr, that rich Romanticism carried itself so far into the 20th century damn

@s1nd3rr0z3

2 жыл бұрын

@@saqlainsiddiqui1744 I think the specific reason is that Rachmaninoff spent the last part of his life in Beverly hills and I think he was friends with a few Hollywood composers but I'm not sure.

@saqlainsiddiqui1744

2 жыл бұрын

@@s1nd3rr0z3 Yeah I think you’re right, his emigration to the US definitely had an impact on his contemporaries. I think it also went the other way too - the works he wrote in the US are sometimes really different from his ‘usual’ style - the often-forgotten 4th piano concerto is a good example of that I think

Does your a synesthesia change over time, or in context? Like “blue” is C now, it was more purple before? Or is the color consistent? If C is blue, is it always blue regardless of the mood of the piece (like sad, or thumping) or might it change for you living inside a piece of music vs in isolation? That’s a lot. I’ll take your answer off the air. I really like your channel.

@princetai5870

2 жыл бұрын

As a synesthete, my experience is that, generally speaking, notes remain the colours that they've always been, but personally, I started on an instrument where you play in a lot of sharps keys, and when I began to play jazz piano (where you run into a lot more pieces in flat keys), found that reading (for example) a Db instead of C# would be different colours. My run down is C= white/cerise (this seems to be the only key which changes, and it is dependant on the mood of the piece) D= mid blue E= yellow F= blue-green G= mid green A= red B= pale blue

@_valfreyja

2 жыл бұрын

I don't have music/colour synaesthesia, but I thought you might be interested in this anyway! Mine is colour/grapheme, so every letter and number and some other things have colours for me. The colours have been completely consistent throughout my life, and a select few do change slightly in circumstances. 2 for example is red for me, but when paired with yellow numbers (like 4), it looks pink. Font, emotional connection to the words, etc, don't affect it at all. If anyone is reading this and has music/colour, I'd love to know what it sounds like to hear microtones. When I see non-letter/numbers in text, like &, %, ~ etc, they have no associated colour. @ takes on the colour of "a", though. I'd also love to know if music/colour synaesthesia works effectively like perfect pitch. Either way, always been super jealous of this type, it seems utterly magical :)

You’re just something else! ♥️

Adam. Thanks. You're awesome and you share with others. Thoughtful person. Best wishes. Dan.

Do people with audio-visual synesthesia actually *see* colours when hearing sounds? Like when you mentioned yellow and blue, do you get the 'feeling' of those colours? Or do you actually like... see them somehow?

@davimariee

2 жыл бұрын

I think Adam was more so talking about the actual letters like C and B, so a letter-color synesthesia. Idk if audio-visual is a thing but it probably is

@lowcostfish

2 жыл бұрын

I'd imagine it's like thinking about (or imagining) a colour. You don't see it overlayed on your visual field. But you still can kind of see it in your mind. Or like if I imagine my house. I don't see it in the same way that I see what is actually in front of me but I can see it in my mind and visually focus in on details etc. I'd say it's analagous to imagining a song in your head. And in fact smells and tastes often have sound to me and it's very much the same sort of thing as how I would usually imagine sounds.

I think your Ableton demonstration is wrong, because it stacks samples instead of manipulating sine waves. Here's why: If there's one thing I learned from my course in signal processing (honestly I hated that course, so there's not much more), it's this: When you add two sine waves with different frequencies, the result is a sine wave with the average frequency multiplied by the difference in frequencies. To illustrate: if you add a 439Hz signal and a 441Hz signal, the resulting signal is equal to a 440Hz signal that fades in and out at 2 Hz. Turning that around, if you take an E, let's say E5 at 659Hz, and fade that in and out at 440Hz, that should theoretically be the same as the addition of two notes at 659Hz - 440Hz = 219Hz, or a flat B2, and 659Hz + 440Hz = 1099Hz, or a Db6. After much fuss I tested this in Audacity, and indeed, when I multiply a 659Hz signal by a 440Hz signal, I get the same result as when adding the 219Hz and the 1099Hz: a high beep and a soft low hum (though the softness could also be due to my laptop speakers being sh*BASS*)

@cactustactics

2 жыл бұрын

I think as well, the fact it's a piano sample means you have the attack of the hammer hitting the string, before you really hear the note it produces. Repeat it fast enough and that initial percussive click is all you get to hear, and you're just getting a... saw pattern I guess? The stuff that sounds like an E isn't part of the waveform anymore The stuff where it was slow enough to hear the E and the effect of the repeats was cool though! I wonder if that came from what you're talking about, where there's one wave (the near-constant E) and another (the repeating attack)

@Felitsius

2 жыл бұрын

what you say about adding sinewaves is wrong. If you add two a sinwaves at different frequencies on top of each other they do not result in a sinewave. The resulting wave consists (as any harmonic wave {can be broken down by fouriertransformation}) of sinewaves but it is not a sinewave. technically even if they were the same frequency - if they weren't in the same phase they would not result in a sinewave, they could even cancel each other out. What happens if you add two sinewaves depends on frequency, phase and amplitude. the only time it would result in a sinewave would be if both sinewaves were oscillating at the same frequency and be locked in the same phase. The amplitude could differ it would only have an effect on the perceived loudness.

@daanwilmer

2 жыл бұрын

@@Felitsius Maybe what I said wasn't completely correct, or maybe worded badly. What I meant is adding two sine waves with frequencies a and b produces the same waveform as multiplying the sine wave with the frequency that's the average of a and b by the sine wave with the difference of a and b. It's not a sine wave by itself, that's true, instead it's like f(x) = sin((a+b)x/2)*sin((|a-b|)x). You can see for yourself if you use audacity to create two tracks, generate a tone of 100Hz in one track and a tone of 101Hz in another track, then select both tracks and mix them down to one track to get the addition, and what you'll see when you zoom in is a sine-like wave with the amplitude that is another sine wave.

@Felitsius

2 жыл бұрын

@@daanwilmer Thank you for your answer! I'm sorry but I think you missed an important detail. I'm coming from a passionate-hobby-sounddesing-background, let me explain where I see the mistake in your assumtion. What you say about adding the two sinewaves is true, it just doesn't represent what was asked in the quetion. What you did is basically just playing two different notes with the same amplitude at the same time - which is not what the question asked. The question asks what happens if you fade an E (659hz) in and out at 440hz. This concept is called "Am-synthesis" (Amplitude modulation). The important detail here is that the modulating oscillator (sinewave) only affects the amplitude of the modulated oscillator. At lower modulating-frquencys this will be perceived as a tremolo-effect. Above arround 30hz we start perceiving the modulation as pitch. Another important factor in the equation is the difference in amplitude of the modulating oscillator and the modulated oscillator. If you amplitude-modulate 659hz with 440hz at a relatively low amplitude, the affected oscillator will start to develop one lower harmonic at 110hz and some higher harmonics at multiples of A and E (I think maybe also B and F it was a bit hard to distinguish in the spectrumanalizer as it is logarhytmic and at higher frequencys the peaks are super close to each other) Since the fundamental now is a 110hz technically it would be an A but as it is a lot less present (also the other harmonics) it will still be perceived as an E but with a different timbre. If you start enlarging the modulating amplitude, at some point the 110hz will become enough present so that the sound wil now be perceived as an A. So yes, I think adams demonstration was wrong and his answer incomplete. But I think yours is wrong as well :) I hope my explanation made sense.

Probably the best music channel on KZread! Keep it up!

Oh, man, what a great video!!