I think the reason I like 5 string is it opens up a lot of new fingerings. Like instead of playing a scale up or down the neck, you can play across it with the extra string. Also I can sorta use all my guitar scales because it now has all the same strings, just in a different order.
Not quite ten, but I did listen to 8 hours of Nyan Cat. At work. In a store with actual customers. The customers were amused and so was I at first. Then came boredom, then resentment and anger followed anxiety and existential terror, but finally a zen-like calm of acceptance. 7/5 would definitely do it again.
At work the owner INSISTS on playing insipid pop-folk in her restaurant, with a few "worst of Americana" albums thrown in. It would be bearable if the playlist didn't repeat 5 times a day... I managed to slowly delete all the very worst songs, but it eventually got to me. Depressing and suicidal isn't the mood for eating pancakes... The music system kept having problems, stopping randomly and playing odd tracks, so I decided to undermine trust in the system a bit by introducing some "non regulation" music. My colleague and his brother jokingly suggested putting on the most brutal Gabber anthem they could find, thinking I'd downgrade it to something a bit less intense. I'd never heard it, but I'd had a BAD day, and chucked it straight in at random. Turns out "Cunt Face" by Nasenbluten goes down like a 50 ton anchor in a restaurant. The moment it properly kicked in I had to sprint out of the building... I'm not able to keep a straight face at the best of times, I cried with laughter until it hurt! Luckily none of the customers who complained saw me laugh, and we managed to convince the owner it was a "bad playlist" that kept importing random songs.
@@Corvid I loved the story, because I like to do the same thing. I once trolled a group of old ladies that were celebrating something at a restaurand that had a dj playing. I was pretty drunk and in the mood for some dumbassery, so I paid him and requested he find Shinji by Moleculez online and play it. One of the old ladies was totally into it lol. Anyway, I was intrigued by your story, so I looked up the Cuntface track and was pretty disappointed. Nice oldschool vibes, but not brutal enough and lacks the modern production neccessary for proper trolling. It needs to be sound punchy, loud and in-your-face. So here's a quick list of my personal favourites to do this with: - Metalshit by Terrorbunny - Motherfucker by Detest - Shinji by Moleculez - Fuck your braincells by Komprex Look them up, people, you won't regret it, I promise =) But u need to find high quality, 128 kbps won't cut it =)
@@luanbravo4401 And wear the bad shirt open over the bad sweater otherwise the bad shirt is denied. Or wear the shirt under the sweater with 'merry' on one side of the collar and 'Dm7b5' on the other.
Sorry for being dumb but I am very confused. Was Adam Neely kidding on the last question? Sarcasm? Are YOU joking? Or like what's going on. Was the guy right on saying that Robert Oppenheimer said it? Was he wrong?
Well there's some uncertainty about who wrote blue in green and donna lee (the former has been credited to miles, but may have been from bill evans, and the latter is supposedly charlie parker, but miles claims to have written it) Also if you type "now i am become death the destroyer of worlds miles davis" on google, the first result is adam's 5h lick video, and with "now i am become death the destroyer of worlds", you get oppenheimer, who said it several years before miles ever appeared on a record, and he got it from a text so old it doesn't even have a date on wiki... So... i'm bettin on sarcasm here
Bryansun68 It is sarcasm. I wrote the same comment...This is the quote from the Bhagavad Gita made famous by Robert Oppenheimer upon witnessing the first detonation of the atomic bomb: th-cam.com/video/ZuRvBoLu4t0/w-d-xo.html...Also, Bill Evans wrote "Blue in Green" which is a track that appears on Miles Davis's "Kind of Blue" album ...Davis got the writing credit but it was pure Bill Evans...
This guy is wise far beyond his decades of living.. his combination of knowledge, sarcasm, facetiousness and musicality makes for a interesting channel
i just noticed that art on his walls and realized i probably wouldn't have much to talk about with him in person but it's really interesting to listen to him
They say that if you want to really learn something, being able to explain it to others is what really ingrains it. He spends almost as much time teaching stuff as he does playing, so he's doing himself as well as us a great service.
Adam surely you must send your recording to Guinness world records, you almost certainly hold a place in its books, they adore obscure self flagelating triumphs and surely , there is something prestigious to say of a man who holds a Guinness world record
I've heard that Guinnes World Records is basically pay to win. It's not about setting a record per se, it's about affording the VERY VERY steep price for the committee to validate the thing.
watched about 2h, too. but i was fascinated of the details and how different it could be played. Sometimes I wondered if his mood was reflected in that nuances. The chat was annoying.
I watched maybe 1.5-2 hours total. It was like, half an hour of it in the background while doing stuff, then I grabbed a guitar, learned how to play for half an hour, then did other stuff and just periodically checked back. 10/10 good stream
Miles Davis also published the book: The Origen of the Species; people often confuse the author with a sailor called Charles Darwin, but that is their ignorance.
Oh yeah, his scores are full of instructions and articulations just to fuck with the performer. i.e. to play a section "like a nightingale with a toothache" etc..
I, for the most part, don’t like the kind of music that you talk about. But you still make it very interesting. I love this and that is why I’m subscribed.
He does Jazz, rock, electronic, pop, and more, so..... Besides, sooooo much new territory was blazed in Jazz, new concepts named, new styles created, that it's hard to be a "serious musician" without delving into Jazz, at least for education's sake.
9:49 How to get better, by Frank Zappa: “Here is the secret. There are two things that you have to do . One of them is to not stop. And the other one is to keep going.”
Woo! Love the shout-out to PBS Idea Channel. That technical memes video is one of my favourite things on TH-cam. Of all the many (MANY) videos I've watched of artists discussing their own, and other's, art none have expanded my horizons and influenced my thinking like that one.
Rafael Ronzoni I learned a lot about new ways to practice hear and appreciate. Also, I noticed if you loop this it is quite fun to improvise over with guitar. It's like Freestyling off Turtle Soup by DJ Food.
Yes! One thing i did was trying to harmonize the lick in fifths, forths, thirds, and all the other intervals. When he was doing four times in a row and stopping to count, i was trying to make some solo over it. It wasn't easy, as i need to practice more.
Rafael Ronzoni so I was trying to determine whether this was some special lick because I had no context going in. I was doing similar things, and a lot of variation. But what I think someone might be able to discover is that it's quite possible to isolate dozens, maybe hundreds or thousands of similar length riffs that are repeatedly used as motifs, cliches or whatever you might call them throughout the history of recorded jazz. So a 'The Lick' video could be made for other, possibly more 'soulistically sophisticated' run. The lick is cheesy. Strangely that's one of it's virtues. It's schmaltzy and the perfect inside joke. It is also super fun to improvise over if it's repeated as an anchoring phrase. I can't explain it, and I'm interested in learning more about it.
Seeing that without context really must sound strange for that who didn't knew Adam Neely and/or The Lick. But as you said, "The lick is cheesy. Strangely that's one of it's virtues. It's schmaltzy and the perfect inside joke." And it is awesome to take a joke, a meme, and make music with it. Music is always serious and funny.
I've been a touring musician/artists for 30 years, performing Metal, Folk to Jazz gigs and your channel and content makes me appreciate more of who I am and the music I play. Cheers to you.
In German the double bass is called "Kontrabass" there is also something called the "Kontraoctave" on the Piano which is the lowest octave if I'm remembering correctly. Not an expert on any of this besides the German language, but yeah, that explanation of yours made sense in regard to that! Awesome as always, learning so much from these videos
In a lot of American music scores (especially of older, classical music) the double bass is called "contrabass," probably because a lot of the most popular classical music from Bach and Handel through Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven, were German and the name stuck. In conversation it's called the double bass, but on scores it's still often called "contrabass."
Adam I have a fucking good question for you : What define a Circus-like Music ? (ie = Clown-Music) Although I don't totally agree with your answer at the end of"What makes a song sound like Christmas?" video, I'd like to know you point of view.
Benoit Adam I’d say circus music is normally heavily chromatic march music played at a faster tempo. It also usually has organs, calliopes and novelty instruments.
Well, I think the most important part is the "tum-tcha" beat. Most circus songs are 2/4 with beats on "1 and 2 and". It has this kind of hop because of the notes in the middle of the beat that makes it sound kinda silly and jumpy.
Some tips for the guy that sent in the comment regarding the jam session: 1. It's ok to not play on a tune you don't know. If you're a harmonic player, then just be part of the rhythm section for a few tunes. You don't have to solo on everything that is called. If you're a horn player, just sit the tune out. 2. When starting out, have a small number of tunes (like 2 med swing, 2 latin, a blues, maybe something more "up") that you know inside and out and can solo on them in your sleep. The reason for the 2 tunes per type is in case someone calls one before you get to play. 3. Gather intelligence whenever you can. Take notes during the jam sessions as to what is being played and what the players like to play on. Tailor what you're working on at home to what they like to play (within reason -- if you're at an "All Blues" level and they're playing "Giant Steps", stick to tunes you can master for the next time. 4. Buy something from the establishment holding the jam session. Food, drink, whatever. That helps support the music by supporting the venue. If the owners don't see any value in hosting the jam session, they might stop hosting it at some point.
Dude. Utmost respect. Just love what are doing here. There was like a 6 year period of my life (long, long time ago) where I had a couple groups of friends who would jam and also converse about chord progressions and scales. This channel would have been like manna back then, and I can only imagine the musicians you are sustaining now. Keep it up ! (ps : gobbled up this 15 minute video like it was 5 mins long and understood 99% of it ! )
I want to point out that the average viewtime of your 5 hour lick playing is probably really inflated because of the few weirdoes like me that actually watched the whole 5 hours of it. It would be cool if TH-cam also gave you the median time. My bet is that it would be a lot smaller, maybe something like 1 minute or 2.
Being a drummer, I still greatly enjoy watching your videos about music in general and even your bass teaching videos because they teach me how to understand other music and instruments!
That question about why you call it a 9th and not a 2nd and had the stacking 3rds answer was on point. I've wondered that for a while and finally have an answer, thanks Adam Neely, you're the man.
Hey Adam, just want to point out Beethoven’s role as an innovator and his influence on bass-writing. You mention Beethoven always using double bass to double the cellos, which is true for a lot of his music but glances over the impact Beethoven especially had on the instrument’s emancipation as a stand-alone member of the orchestra. As for the opposite, I think Mozart would have been a more fitting example since he only wrote independent double bass lines in maybe 5-10 pieces.
Your reaction to being over your head in a creative endeavour says a lot about you as a person. Because when you are in a situation like that, you basically have two options - 1) "this is too hard, why should I even bother?", or 2) "holy crap, I have a lot to improve upon, better get started!"
Hey, Adam - question for your next Q+A. What, in your opinion, is the extent of influence of a composer like Beethoven (who essentially created romantic music) on the popular styles of music today? I ask this because when I look at a composer like Shostakovich, he was contemporary with the Beatles. Did Beethoven only really influence art music the likes of which Shostakovich composed, or is it also fair to say that Beethoven was crucial to developing rock and jazz and pop and so forth? Thanks!
blues had a much more tangible influence on rock, jazz and pop than classical and other forms of old world music. the scales and meters are the only relation.
I just wanna share say: I am NOT a professional or even practicing musician. I stopped playing piano back in middle school, and I tried and failed to pick up guitar one summer in college. Even still, I love your channel and especially your analysis- it's deepened my appreciation for music as a listener, and made me more excited about the music in my life. Please keep doing what you're doing- I dunno if it'll ever make me go back to playing music, but it sure makes me want to.
Hi, guilty as charged, I'm one of those who only looked in for a few minutes. There's a piece of music from Groucho Marx that he plays on piano, it's the same lick over and over as he's talking to someone, sorry I can't remember which movie it's from, but it's funny because each time he repeats the lick, you expect it to go somewhere, but he keeps turning it around and starts it from the beginning. (No, it's not Chico, it's Groucho that does it) I still remember how it goes, if you've ever heard it once, you'll remember it forever because it's so funny.
It goes like this GGGGG F EEEEE D CCCCC A G GAGAGD GAGADE and then it starts over from the beginning, the more you repeat it, the more you expect it to resolve or change but Groucho never does.
I also tried looking for it on TH-cam, but it's not to be found. It's possible its from a movie without the brothers, he did solo films as well. Wish I could remember where it is as well as I remember the lick itself.
Hey Adam, I have two questions I’m hoping you could answer in a future Q+A as an aspiring composer new to the craft: 1. How do you write songs that involve so many instruments and parts? It seems to complex and yet it always seems so fluid. Do you arrange the band into groups like melody, harmony, and chords? 2. How do you write instrumental music that remains interesting for its entire duration? Since there’s no lyrics, it seems hard to have typical song structure like a verse/chorus one. Many thanks, Jeff
Hey Adam, I'm at a loss trying to think about rhythm. I often listen to something I wrote the previous day and realize that I took the song in the wrong direction or made a weird leap at some point. If the chords feel wrong I can apply functional harmony or consider how the voices move to find the problem, but if a rhythm that comes in feels jarring, I don't really know how to analyse why it doesn't work. I don't have any kind of framework for thinking about rhythm and how it develops. What tools are there? Are there any resources on rhythm you can recommend? Btw, I'm not just talking about percussion. And my music's probably some kind of indie pop or thereabout.
I have more or less the same problem. I guess the thing about rhythm is trying to find the right cadence for whatever message the melodies and harmonies are expected to convey. I figure that having some sort of musical reference helps a lot with this. Question yourself: what kind of rhythmic ideas (related to chord progressions or lead melodies, for instance) are better to express the feelings you are going for? Steady grooves? Some sort of change in tempo or feel? Stops and rests? This should help setting up the right context for tension and release patterns created by the notes themselves. I know it's not a lot to start with, but wait for Adam's response for that! This is only what I try to keep in mind while I write, maybe it helps you a little somehow.
Listen to music, and percussively play along. Doesn't have to be on drums, could strum along on a guitar or just drum on a table with your fingers. Focus on ONE INSTRUMENT at a time as well as the whole, and what rhythm it plays (not just which note durations but which ones are accented). I think it's definitely true that (western) musical theory simply haven't developed as many clear concepts around rhythm as harmony, making it harder to "read your way to". So I think you're gonna have to do what I did, and develop intuition over time by just noticing it more in music... except you can probably do it much faster than me by actively trying instead of just passively absorbing it over years while taking drum lessons haha An important part is that you listen to lots of different music, so you reexamine stuff through this new lens and build up a bigger library of phrasing like you have with chords and scales. This is some prejudice on my part, but indie pop brings a sort of "loose" feel to mind, everything's a bit ambient and the melody is more about *which* notes to play/sing rather than *when*. Not that it's necessarily "ambient music" at all, it can be super peppy with a fast drum beat, but it's often steady 8ths on a guitar with very little syncopation. Not very "groove" focused, if you get what I mean. I came from listening to almost only heavy metal, where they emphasis EVERY beat instead. So I kinda recognize this feeling, some songs feel "right" and others don't but you can't quite tell why. I heard and enjoyed other music all the time, but I didn't *listen* in the same way I did a song I wanted to understand and play on guitar. Breaking out of that box helped me a ton, understanding that a wailing guitar solo contains parts of a disco beat. Your box isn't as much of genre as it is your classical theory reference frame and maybe which instruments you play, but I think the approach can be similar!
Quick tips for ez funk: Bass notes often start with the kick drum and stop at the snare. "Land on the one" and syncopate in between to make the meter obvious but not strict. Make the same rhythmic pattern fresh by moving around where it starts in the bar. Look up what a "clave" is, don't just subdivide the "feel" of a measure into neat equal parts. Let the melody sometimes follow the clave, and sometimes contrast it. And most importantly, break all these rules, because it's about finding your common habits and getting out of them. Not discarding them, but making sure you're aware of them and that you choose to do them deliberately and not because you didn't know of other options.
I absolutely love All of that..."can I call you out on something you said wrong!??" hahaha awesome brother!!!so glad you came by SBL so I could find you!! Absolute genius ...can't wait to them all
Hey Adam, what do you think about playing guitar the technical way it is supposed to be played? Is it better to play something better with 3 fingers the "wrong" way or to try modifying your technic to play it the "correct" way with 4 fingers? Sorry for my bad English :p
Hi Adam. I am *NON-MUSICIAN* , though I suppose I can't deny that I "studied" the trombone from 5th grade through sophomore year in college plus a year or two of piano in there some where. I was essentially tone deaf for years until I learned how to at least *listen* to music. Naturally I don't understand a single word of your videos, but I find them *honestly* fascinating in that they broaden my understanding of my near utter ignorance of music. Or to put it in Rumsfordian terms (and if you don't fully understand what I mean by that, good on you mate), I have increased the cardinality of my set of "known unknowns" with respect to music. Anyhow i don't know how often you hear from non-musicians or if you have time in your obviously very busy schedule to care all that much, but I thought I would drop you note. I am also a *very* proud Berklee parent, so I thought I'd suck up a bit there too.
I can't help but feel like you gave some terrible advice to the guy feeling down after his last Jam session. 1) The most practical & helpful answer I think you could have gave would be to take a fake/real book or two to future jams so when a song is called he doesn't know, he can @ least read his way through instead of feeling less than for not having 50k + obscure jazz songs & standards memorized... I also think there are deeper issues @ play here like 2) if he did spend decades learning every jazz song so he could kill in these borderline macho competitive jam situations would the time truly have been well spent? because if you ask me... 3) & I realize this is a strange concept to many university level musicians but, wasn't playing music supposed to be fun? in my experience most of the musicians I look up to in my personal life that I've had the pleasure of knowing, many of whom are quite successful now, gave up playing traditional jazz @ various crossroads in they're lives where they asked themselves some of the very questions I posed in this post...
Your explanations are extremely helpful! The higher the number, the less meat and the more colour. You really make this gigantic vehicle called music less intimidating. Thank you
I have synesthesia. Can you please explain what other non-syn musicians mean when they refer to the notes in extended chords as "color tones"? I perceive colors when I hear sound, so hearing that sometimes interchangeably used to refer to the overall mood of a chord once those extended notes are added to it, for example, is really confusing since how I'm "seeing" what's being played is thought of entirely different than how people who don't see things this way are describing what they hear.
The word "colour" could probably be replaced with something like "spice" or "character", it's thinking of the basic 3-harmony as being "clean" and sort of non-descript, and the extra notes are adding more context, hinting at where the tension wants to be resolved, what scale we're in, stuff like that. Just like how one might describe a pitch as "low/high" interchangeably with "dark/light", or call someone "sour" when they're singing off-key, it has very little to do with the idea of colour specifically, but more trying to find a similar concept to what you're trying to convey. Now I'm curious though, how does your synesthesia manifest? I associate letters and numbers with colours, would be really interesting to hear how other forms of it work!
Okay thank you! I figured it had to do something with that but I wasn't sure exactly. I guess an example of that, based on what you said would be...a major 7 chord wanting to resolve upwards to the root note but the 7 that was added is the "color tone" or the spice that makes everything nice? hahaha I sometimes get the feeling that certain musicians have it but don't know they have it because of the music they play. It works too well with synesthesia listeners for them to not have it but idk. I went to this Cory Henry clinic once and he said he doesn't even have it, meanwhile I got the lucky chance to meet Mark Lettieri after a show, and he said he and Mike League do have some form of it...I bring this up because it amazes me that some people don't even know what their music looks like?? LOL It's an alien concept to me to not just instantly see what's happening, and it's become more and more of an interesting experience as I continue to learn more music theory. I actually have a few kinds of synesthesia haha, um... sounds, letters, numbers, days and months of week, smells, sensations -> color.
To me "color tones" means that they don't really affect the function of the chord much - they just add more color to it. For example in blues you have dominant 7th chords that don't actually have dominant functions. In this case I would call the minor 7th a "color tone" because it doesn't really affect the function of the chord in the same way that it normally would. Anoter good example would be a Cadd9 chord. That's exactly the same thing as C major chord, but it just has a bit more "color" or "spice" to it. The added 9th doesn't really matter functionally. Same with maj7 vs maj9 chords. Those are really the same thing - the maj9 just has a bit more "spice", but it's functionally the same thing. In other words, "color tone" = functionally less important note.
I think the rest of us describe chord extensions as color tones because they add a bit of extra dissonance. Color is synonymous with character or tension.
axeslinger94 colour notes don't really have an affect on the tonality of a chord but act more like different flavours of the same chord. Am9 for example still sounds dark and sad but sounds more mysterious than your typical Am. To me anyways.
Adam, as a double bass player for far longer than I care to think about, I'd heard that the "double" part of double bass could come from the organ stops. 8' is a standard bass-register organ stop to use but adding a 16' stop (doubling.... yay) adds an extra octave to the bottom end. Hence, "double bass". Boom
When ur in over your head... When ur ashamed of how u played, that is the most fertile experience for growth...( Paraphrased) . . . so true man. I got a spot in the jazz big band in highscool because the only other guy trying out was this metal shredder dude that was wildly unpopular with that crowd. I also had started learning chord theory which was vital to me doing that position. I sucked at it. Very humbling experience for a hot shot rock guitarist. It still remains the biggest singular influence on my playing. I am mostly into rythmn guitar nowadays. I was way outclassed by the actual band students but prob'ly learned far more from it than anyone else there as a result. I'm so glad this came up on your show, bro.
Great example of a technical meme: the entire Bee Movie but the script is in alphabetical order. It seems to have been removed but it was a joy to watch parts of it.
THANK YOU for the answer re: tertian harmony. I was just wondering about this within the last week, and asked the very question in someone else's video. I didn't get an answer - until now. Perfect - it makes total sense.
As someone who subscribed to the SF symphony (in college) when Seiji Ozawa was premiering works by all the most current composers, and who once in the 1980s was in a small group discussion with Laurie Anderson, my response to the 5-hour thing was, "Huh, read a lot of performance art manifestos."
I was a little surprised when I saw you uploaded an arrangement of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, because I had been working on one myself to perform for my grandparents (they couldn't fly out for Christmas this year, so I figured it'd be a nice gift to them). Yours actually gave me a little inspiration too, so I just wanted to say a quick thanks for that.
I have recently witnessed a French pianist playing the Véxations by Satie for 24 hours straight (840 actual times, he dropped a sheet of paper in the floor each time he finished one iteration, and every sheet had a different number on it, from 1 to 840). I didn't stay for that long, maybe in total I stayed for about 2 hours, which is already quite long. The pianist seemed to be quite prepared for it (he had already done it before) but it was really an experience, he was focusing on each movement in order to use least possible energy. Yeah, quite impressive
God bless you Adam, you always do your flipping research and give the correct information. This shouldn't be a big deal on youtube, but it really is. Keep doing it!
Hey, Adam, I was a quite good guitar player that followed your channel, now I am a very bad bass player. Thank you very much! But you have so awesome content, that I can't stop watching this. BASS.
'The lick is an inside joke that got old quickly' - Adam Neely
>Plays the lick for 5 hours straight.
Jay Pickard *technical meme* , he says.
Repetition legitimates
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^ THIS comment need more reads.
@@shigekax -children when they make a joke
I honestly think Adam is trying to capitalize the lick so that people reference it to his channel. It's quite genius actually.
I thought he made it before I knew any better.
@@GruntDestroyarChannel social engineering at its sneakiest 😜
I mean... it's kinda working
I think the reason I like 5 string is it opens up a lot of new fingerings. Like instead of playing a scale up or down the neck, you can play across it with the extra string. Also I can sorta use all my guitar scales because it now has all the same strings, just in a different order.
And it’s working
7:26 Your cat is doing the lick.
:D :D
lol
xD
PLEASE PIN THIS
OÄKTA DOPBOK lol
Play it for 9995 hours more to become a master of the lick!
firey ender Great idea for a livestream.
damn!
No 35 hours then u will be ling ling
"I fear not the man who has played 10,000 licks but the man who plays THE LICC 10,000 times" -Bruce Licc
I know this is 3 years old but, still a nice one! 👍
Not quite ten, but I did listen to 8 hours of Nyan Cat. At work. In a store with actual customers. The customers were amused and so was I at first. Then came boredom, then resentment and anger followed anxiety and existential terror, but finally a zen-like calm of acceptance. 7/5 would definitely do it again.
The 7 Phases of long-time meme exposure
At work the owner INSISTS on playing insipid pop-folk in her restaurant, with a few "worst of Americana" albums thrown in. It would be bearable if the playlist didn't repeat 5 times a day... I managed to slowly delete all the very worst songs, but it eventually got to me. Depressing and suicidal isn't the mood for eating pancakes... The music system kept having problems, stopping randomly and playing odd tracks, so I decided to undermine trust in the system a bit by introducing some "non regulation" music. My colleague and his brother jokingly suggested putting on the most brutal Gabber anthem they could find, thinking I'd downgrade it to something a bit less intense. I'd never heard it, but I'd had a BAD day, and chucked it straight in at random. Turns out "Cunt Face" by Nasenbluten goes down like a 50 ton anchor in a restaurant. The moment it properly kicked in I had to sprint out of the building... I'm not able to keep a straight face at the best of times, I cried with laughter until it hurt! Luckily none of the customers who complained saw me laugh, and we managed to convince the owner it was a "bad playlist" that kept importing random songs.
Dactyl Spondee The Zen of Nyan Cat. There’s a book there.
@@Corvid I loved the story, because I like to do the same thing. I once trolled a group of old ladies that were celebrating something at a restaurand that had a dj playing. I was pretty drunk and in the mood for some dumbassery, so I paid him and requested he find Shinji by Moleculez online and play it. One of the old ladies was totally into it lol. Anyway, I was intrigued by your story, so I looked up the Cuntface track and was pretty disappointed. Nice oldschool vibes, but not brutal enough and lacks the modern production neccessary for proper trolling. It needs to be sound punchy, loud and in-your-face. So here's a quick list of my personal favourites to do this with:
- Metalshit by Terrorbunny
- Motherfucker by Detest
- Shinji by Moleculez
- Fuck your braincells by Komprex
Look them up, people, you won't regret it, I promise =) But u need to find high quality, 128 kbps won't cut it =)
This made me laugh out loud way more than I'm comfortable admitting.
the lick except it's harmonized exclusively by different inversions of d m7 b5
Llamamall X M A S V E R S I O N
It would be too powerful... it would destroy the Christmas charts for centuries to come.
Smash mouth but with Dm7b5 in 432hz with the lick
We wish you a merry licksmas
I'm so sorry. It is done: th-cam.com/video/BNFqJDtRqYg/w-d-xo.html
Make a
"Merry Dm7b5!"
Shirt
Patrick Ahearn would buy/10
do this i'll buy it
or a sweater with ugly color
make a shirt and a ugly sweater
@@luanbravo4401 And wear the bad shirt open over the bad sweater otherwise the bad shirt is denied.
Or wear the shirt under the sweater with 'merry' on one side of the collar and 'Dm7b5' on the other.
Fun fact: Robert Oppenheimer was actually Miles Davis.
Mr Bovine Joni I thought it was actually Myles Kennedy?
Sorry for being dumb but I am very confused. Was Adam Neely kidding on the last question? Sarcasm? Are YOU joking? Or like what's going on. Was the guy right on saying that Robert Oppenheimer said it? Was he wrong?
Well there's some uncertainty about who wrote blue in green and donna lee (the former has been credited to miles, but may have been from bill evans, and the latter is supposedly charlie parker, but miles claims to have written it)
Also if you type "now i am become death the destroyer of worlds miles davis" on google, the first result is adam's 5h lick video, and with "now i am become death the destroyer of worlds", you get oppenheimer, who said it several years before miles ever appeared on a record, and he got it from a text so old it doesn't even have a date on wiki...
So... i'm bettin on sarcasm here
(actually, miles was playing as a sideman on bird's records as early as 1944; but he probably wouldn't have said such words back then^^)
Bryansun68 It is sarcasm. I wrote the same comment...This is the quote from the Bhagavad Gita made famous by Robert Oppenheimer upon witnessing the first detonation of the atomic bomb: th-cam.com/video/ZuRvBoLu4t0/w-d-xo.html...Also, Bill Evans wrote "Blue in Green" which is a track that appears on Miles Davis's "Kind of Blue" album ...Davis got the writing credit but it was pure Bill Evans...
This guy is wise far beyond his decades of living.. his combination of knowledge, sarcasm, facetiousness and musicality makes for a interesting channel
Brooks Smith an interesting channel you mean
i just noticed that art on his walls
and realized i probably wouldn't have much to talk about with him in person
but it's really interesting to listen to him
o shit i just remembered my great grandfather played double bass, i now feel like home again on Adams vids
They say that if you want to really learn something, being able to explain it to others is what really ingrains it. He spends almost as much time teaching stuff as he does playing, so he's doing himself as well as us a great service.
Those aren't good qualities.
I just bought "the lick" t-shirt.
-- Miles Davis (2017)
"Uhhhh, no I didn't say that"
-- Miles Davis (2015)
“Wait yes I did”
- Miles Davis (2013)
@Nathan Cheung “Whatttt?? Why do you think I did that, I believe it actually my great uncle’s dog Feet Davis”
-Kilometers Davis(2020)
"D doesn't add any meat." The joke writes itself.
Adam surely you must send your recording to Guinness world records,
you almost certainly hold a place in its books, they adore obscure self flagelating triumphs
and surely , there is something prestigious to say of a man who holds a Guinness world record
Obscure self flagulating triumph is my new religion!!!!
I've heard that Guinnes World Records is basically pay to win. It's not about setting a record per se, it's about affording the VERY VERY steep price for the committee to validate the thing.
his mother would be proud
oh i watched for about 2 hours, was really bored and the chat was fun
Watched for about an hour, was asking whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
the chat was definitely hilarious. remember a lot of jokes about A4 and Adam's super dope cat.
I watched for about 2 hours too, and I played along with him on my guitar.
watched about 2h, too. but i was fascinated of the details and how different it could be played. Sometimes I wondered if his mood was reflected in that nuances. The chat was annoying.
I watched maybe 1.5-2 hours total. It was like, half an hour of it in the background while doing stuff, then I grabbed a guitar, learned how to play for half an hour, then did other stuff and just periodically checked back.
10/10 good stream
Started watching it. Fell asleep woke up at the three hour mark. Heard it throughout my dream. Hope it helps the analytics :p
Question for your next Q+A.
Have you ever played bass in a classical orchestra before?
I've been wondering the same thing.
he got fired
Miles Davis also published the book: The Origen of the Species; people often confuse the author with a sailor called Charles Darwin, but that is their ignorance.
Elmer Perez I'm pretty sure Miles was around at the time, right?
obviusly, he wasn't yet musician
Miles Davis also coined the phrase, "Use the Force, Luke."
He's also known for the quote: "The path of the One is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men"
he also said "Eureka!" twice, while taking a bath
Dm7b5
Sayeedur123 nO NO NO NO
And a happy new year!
Salman
Lol, the name of the chord actually works as lyrics
how about… um… Eb11?
So Adam, you're saying that Satie was a shitposter? :)
LOL, I never thought of him that way before but yes, yes he was.
He liked to shitpost every now and then yeah. His other compositions, though... Such as Gnosiennes and Gymnopédies are just amazing.
The absurdists and Dadaists were basically the shitposters of the early 20th century.
Oh yeah, his scores are full of instructions and articulations just to fuck with the performer. i.e. to play a section "like a nightingale with a toothache" etc..
I think Cage is the shitposter here. As we all knew.
Imagine an alternate universe where Ragusea schools us on music theory and Neely does cooking/food science
happy festivus, to those of you who celebrate
I thought you did it cuz it was a metaphor on the life of a professional musician
He played the lick for our sins
I, for the most part, don’t like the kind of music that you talk about. But you still make it very interesting. I love this and that is why I’m subscribed.
Joshua Wise what do you not like? Jazz?
Joshua Wise I always thought there was a diverse selection of music on this channel.
He does Jazz, rock, electronic, pop, and more, so..... Besides, sooooo much new territory was blazed in Jazz, new concepts named, new styles created, that it's hard to be a "serious musician" without delving into Jazz, at least for education's sake.
9:49 How to get better, by Frank Zappa: “Here is the secret. There are two things that you have to do . One of them is to not stop. And the other one is to keep going.”
adam out here going from concise explanations of changes in music theory to giving in-depth explanations of the growth mindset.
"Color Hierarchy" and "more color, less meat", it's stuff like that keeps me glued to Adam's channel.
"Ever upward and onward." Great advice!
My cat is sitting next me, cleaning herself, as i watch your cat behind you, cleaning himself.
You mean performing the lick
L I C C
Woo! Love the shout-out to PBS Idea Channel. That technical memes video is one of my favourite things on TH-cam. Of all the many (MANY) videos I've watched of artists discussing their own, and other's, art none have expanded my horizons and influenced my thinking like that one.
One of my piano teachers actually wanted his students to perform "Vexations" 840 times in university. Didn't happen.
I kept coming back to the lick meme every 15 minutes or so for a couple of minutes. I've got kids. I admire your tenacity.
Can confirm, I listened for a few minutes, watched all the lousy comments streaming by, and then went elsewhere. Nice performance art though!
There are a lot of great youtubers... but mate, you are super knowledgeable and super awesome. Much love !
I was watching the video for a hour and a half, playing with you for a lot of this time
Rafael Ronzoni I learned a lot about new ways to practice hear and appreciate. Also, I noticed if you loop this it is quite fun to improvise over with guitar. It's like Freestyling off Turtle Soup by DJ Food.
Yes! One thing i did was trying to harmonize the lick in fifths, forths, thirds, and all the other intervals. When he was doing four times in a row and stopping to count, i was trying to make some solo over it. It wasn't easy, as i need to practice more.
Rafael Ronzoni so I was trying to determine whether this was some special lick because I had no context going in. I was doing similar things, and a lot of variation. But what I think someone might be able to discover is that it's quite possible to isolate dozens, maybe hundreds or thousands of similar length riffs that are repeatedly used as motifs, cliches or whatever you might call them throughout the history of recorded jazz. So a 'The Lick' video could be made for other, possibly more 'soulistically sophisticated' run. The lick is cheesy. Strangely that's one of it's virtues. It's schmaltzy and the perfect inside joke. It is also super fun to improvise over if it's repeated as an anchoring phrase. I can't explain it, and I'm interested in learning more about it.
Seeing that without context really must sound strange for that who didn't knew Adam Neely and/or The Lick.
But as you said, "The lick is cheesy. Strangely that's one of it's virtues. It's schmaltzy and the perfect inside joke." And it is awesome to take a joke, a meme, and make music with it. Music is always serious and funny.
You guys are just great
6 string bassist here appreciative of your take on how to think about what our extra range is there to accomplish (along with the rest of the video)
I thought the lick was just the thing you played in the Q&A and made it a meme with the 5 hour video
"It''s always upward and onwards" is quite the saying. I appreciate the wisdom Adam 😌
Was it not also Miles Davies that once made the profound statement "Fool me once, shame on you; Fool me and ya can't get fooled again"
Tech Tins classic miles.
Tech Tins yeah I don’t know if he said that
I love that Novoselic is still thanked and credited for "insightful questions" :D :D :D
4:28 Besides these reasons, chord numbers above 7 imply that the 7 be played - this is what distinguishes a C6 from a C13, for example.
I've been a touring musician/artists for 30 years, performing Metal, Folk to Jazz gigs and your channel and content makes me appreciate more of who I am and the music I play. Cheers to you.
8:00-9:35 needs to be its own video. This is such an important subject, and dealt with in the best way.
In German the double bass is called "Kontrabass" there is also something called the "Kontraoctave" on the Piano which is the lowest octave if I'm remembering correctly. Not an expert on any of this besides the German language, but yeah, that explanation of yours made sense in regard to that! Awesome as always, learning so much from these videos
In a lot of American music scores (especially of older, classical music) the double bass is called "contrabass," probably because a lot of the most popular classical music from Bach and Handel through Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven, were German and the name stuck.
In conversation it's called the double bass, but on scores it's still often called "contrabass."
Both your analysis AND feelings keep me here. You jazz, Adam.
I feel analyzed.
I don't lick it.
Adam I have a fucking good question for you : What define a Circus-like Music ? (ie = Clown-Music) Although I don't totally agree with your answer at the end of"What makes a song sound like Christmas?" video, I'd like to know you point of view.
Benoit Adam I’d say circus music is normally heavily chromatic march music played at a faster tempo. It also usually has organs, calliopes and novelty instruments.
Adam I have a fucking good reply for you: 'calliopes playing marching music' and 'ok.'
Well, I think the most important part is the "tum-tcha" beat. Most circus songs are 2/4 with beats on "1 and 2 and". It has this kind of hop because of the notes in the middle of the beat that makes it sound kinda silly and jumpy.
Benoit Adam the spirit of Mr. Bungle.
Well the Dm7b5 chord, duh
Some tips for the guy that sent in the comment regarding the jam session: 1. It's ok to not play on a tune you don't know. If you're a harmonic player, then just be part of the rhythm section for a few tunes. You don't have to solo on everything that is called. If you're a horn player, just sit the tune out. 2. When starting out, have a small number of tunes (like 2 med swing, 2 latin, a blues, maybe something more "up") that you know inside and out and can solo on them in your sleep. The reason for the 2 tunes per type is in case someone calls one before you get to play. 3. Gather intelligence whenever you can. Take notes during the jam sessions as to what is being played and what the players like to play on. Tailor what you're working on at home to what they like to play (within reason -- if you're at an "All Blues" level and they're playing "Giant Steps", stick to tunes you can master for the next time. 4. Buy something from the establishment holding the jam session. Food, drink, whatever. That helps support the music by supporting the venue. If the owners don't see any value in hosting the jam session, they might stop hosting it at some point.
Dude. Utmost respect.
Just love what are doing here.
There was like a 6 year period of my life
(long, long time ago) where I had a couple groups of friends
who would jam and also converse about chord progressions
and scales. This channel would have been like manna back then,
and I can only imagine the musicians you are sustaining now.
Keep it up !
(ps : gobbled up this 15 minute video like it was 5 mins long
and understood 99% of it ! )
I want to point out that the average viewtime of your 5 hour lick playing is probably really inflated because of the few weirdoes like me that actually watched the whole 5 hours of it. It would be cool if TH-cam also gave you the median time. My bet is that it would be a lot smaller, maybe something like 1 minute or 2.
Being a drummer, I still greatly enjoy watching your videos about music in general and even your bass teaching videos because they teach me how to understand other music and instruments!
Nice cat
boriuu Looks tasty.
Kudos to everyone actually watching that 5 hour clip for more than 3min that is also a great accomplishment.
Play Dm7♭5 for 5 hours
Metal Marauder Christmas overload
I watched you play the lick for over an hour. It was enjoyable.
So a curious thing I realized is I have far more often encountered 5 string basses tuned "tenor" with standard "E" as the low string.
That question about why you call it a 9th and not a 2nd and had the stacking 3rds answer was on point. I've wondered that for a while and finally have an answer, thanks Adam Neely, you're the man.
7:33 Casual ball-lick XD
I actually stayed for almost the entire stream, then I fell asleep before you finished
Hey Adam,
just want to point out Beethoven’s role as an innovator and his influence on bass-writing.
You mention Beethoven always using double bass to double the cellos, which is true for a lot of his music but glances over the impact Beethoven especially had on the instrument’s emancipation as a stand-alone member of the orchestra. As for the opposite, I think Mozart would have been a more fitting example since he only wrote independent double bass lines in maybe 5-10 pieces.
Your reaction to being over your head in a creative endeavour says a lot about you as a person. Because when you are in a situation like that, you basically have two options - 1) "this is too hard, why should I even bother?", or 2) "holy crap, I have a lot to improve upon, better get started!"
Hey, Adam - question for your next Q+A.
What, in your opinion, is the extent of influence of a composer like Beethoven (who essentially created romantic music) on the popular styles of music today?
I ask this because when I look at a composer like Shostakovich, he was contemporary with the Beatles. Did Beethoven only really influence art music the likes of which Shostakovich composed, or is it also fair to say that Beethoven was crucial to developing rock and jazz and pop and so forth?
Thanks!
blues had a much more tangible influence on rock, jazz and pop than classical and other forms of old world music. the scales and meters are the only relation.
You're definitely my favourite TH-camr. Thanks for all the immensely helpful info and analyses. Screw the haters!
Didn't Chopin write Snapple From The Apple?!
I just wanna share say: I am NOT a professional or even practicing musician. I stopped playing piano back in middle school, and I tried and failed to pick up guitar one summer in college. Even still, I love your channel and especially your analysis- it's deepened my appreciation for music as a listener, and made me more excited about the music in my life. Please keep doing what you're doing- I dunno if it'll ever make me go back to playing music, but it sure makes me want to.
Hi, guilty as charged, I'm one of those who only looked in for a few minutes. There's a piece of music from Groucho Marx that he plays on piano, it's the same lick over and over as he's talking to someone, sorry I can't remember which movie it's from, but it's funny because each time he repeats the lick, you expect it to go somewhere, but he keeps turning it around and starts it from the beginning. (No, it's not Chico, it's Groucho that does it) I still remember how it goes, if you've ever heard it once, you'll remember it forever because it's so funny.
It goes like this GGGGG F EEEEE D CCCCC A G GAGAGD GAGADE and then it starts over from the beginning, the more you repeat it, the more you expect it to resolve or change but Groucho never does.
could you tell me the name of the specific clip? I couldn't find it.
I also tried looking for it on TH-cam, but it's not to be found. It's possible its from a movie without the brothers, he did solo films as well. Wish I could remember where it is as well as I remember the lick itself.
Ok, I found it, turns out it was Chico playing it after all...th-cam.com/video/vuoP0SXSHow/w-d-xo.html The name of the 'tune' is I’m Daffy Over You
Oh man this channel is just the best. Thanks Adam! Love your videos!
Why no background music?
Hey Adam,
I have two questions I’m hoping you could answer in a future Q+A as an aspiring composer new to the craft:
1. How do you write songs that involve so many instruments and parts? It seems to complex and yet it always seems so fluid. Do you arrange the band into groups like melody, harmony, and chords?
2. How do you write instrumental music that remains interesting for its entire duration? Since there’s no lyrics, it seems hard to have typical song structure like a verse/chorus one.
Many thanks,
Jeff
This is great Adam. Best Q&A. You've convinced me to be a Patreon too. Merry Christmas
Hey Adam, I'm at a loss trying to think about rhythm.
I often listen to something I wrote the previous day and realize that I took the song in the wrong direction or made a weird leap at some point. If the chords feel wrong I can apply functional harmony or consider how the voices move to find the problem, but if a rhythm that comes in feels jarring, I don't really know how to analyse why it doesn't work. I don't have any kind of framework for thinking about rhythm and how it develops. What tools are there? Are there any resources on rhythm you can recommend?
Btw, I'm not just talking about percussion. And my music's probably some kind of indie pop or thereabout.
I have more or less the same problem. I guess the thing about rhythm is trying to find the right cadence for whatever message the melodies and harmonies are expected to convey. I figure that having some sort of musical reference helps a lot with this. Question yourself: what kind of rhythmic ideas (related to chord progressions or lead melodies, for instance) are better to express the feelings you are going for? Steady grooves? Some sort of change in tempo or feel? Stops and rests?
This should help setting up the right context for tension and release patterns created by the notes themselves. I know it's not a lot to start with, but wait for Adam's response for that! This is only what I try to keep in mind while I write, maybe it helps you a little somehow.
Listen to music, and percussively play along. Doesn't have to be on drums, could strum along on a guitar or just drum on a table with your fingers. Focus on ONE INSTRUMENT at a time as well as the whole, and what rhythm it plays (not just which note durations but which ones are accented).
I think it's definitely true that (western) musical theory simply haven't developed as many clear concepts around rhythm as harmony, making it harder to "read your way to". So I think you're gonna have to do what I did, and develop intuition over time by just noticing it more in music... except you can probably do it much faster than me by actively trying instead of just passively absorbing it over years while taking drum lessons haha
An important part is that you listen to lots of different music, so you reexamine stuff through this new lens and build up a bigger library of phrasing like you have with chords and scales. This is some prejudice on my part, but indie pop brings a sort of "loose" feel to mind, everything's a bit ambient and the melody is more about *which* notes to play/sing rather than *when*. Not that it's necessarily "ambient music" at all, it can be super peppy with a fast drum beat, but it's often steady 8ths on a guitar with very little syncopation. Not very "groove" focused, if you get what I mean.
I came from listening to almost only heavy metal, where they emphasis EVERY beat instead. So I kinda recognize this feeling, some songs feel "right" and others don't but you can't quite tell why. I heard and enjoyed other music all the time, but I didn't *listen* in the same way I did a song I wanted to understand and play on guitar. Breaking out of that box helped me a ton, understanding that a wailing guitar solo contains parts of a disco beat. Your box isn't as much of genre as it is your classical theory reference frame and maybe which instruments you play, but I think the approach can be similar!
Quick tips for ez funk: Bass notes often start with the kick drum and stop at the snare. "Land on the one" and syncopate in between to make the meter obvious but not strict. Make the same rhythmic pattern fresh by moving around where it starts in the bar. Look up what a "clave" is, don't just subdivide the "feel" of a measure into neat equal parts. Let the melody sometimes follow the clave, and sometimes contrast it.
And most importantly, break all these rules, because it's about finding your common habits and getting out of them. Not discarding them, but making sure you're aware of them and that you choose to do them deliberately and not because you didn't know of other options.
Nyuu3 Have you tried rock band drums. Not kidding. Its a good teacher if you arent a percussionist.
I absolutely love All of that..."can I call you out on something you said wrong!??" hahaha awesome brother!!!so glad you came by SBL so I could find you!! Absolute genius ...can't wait to them all
parker wrote donna lee
Lorenzo Kobina omg
That's the joke
Pretty sure it was Smash Mouth
I wish I'd heard your "upward and onward" advice 40 years ago but at least I've restarted. Thankyou
Miles Davis also wrote The Holy Bible.
Yes, THAT Holy Bible.
It would be my second favourite Miles Davis publication after the Dictionary.
I love the analysis and pieces of information you put in your videos. I don't ever find the information anywhere else and it's a lot of fun
Hey Adam, what do you think about playing guitar the technical way it is supposed to be played? Is it better to play something better with 3 fingers the "wrong" way or to try modifying your technic to play it the "correct" way with 4 fingers?
Sorry for my bad English :p
TadEo RupiStape ask yngwie malmsteen
beef wellington Or Hendrix. Ask Hendrix (if you could) why he is playing barre chords “wrong”.
Hi Adam. I am *NON-MUSICIAN* , though I suppose I can't deny that I "studied" the trombone from 5th grade through sophomore year in college plus a year or two of piano in there some where. I was essentially tone deaf for years until I learned how to at least *listen* to music. Naturally I don't understand a single word of your videos, but I find them *honestly* fascinating in that they broaden my understanding of my near utter ignorance of music. Or to put it in Rumsfordian terms (and if you don't fully understand what I mean by that, good on you mate), I have increased the cardinality of my set of "known unknowns" with respect to music. Anyhow i don't know how often you hear from non-musicians or if you have time in your obviously very busy schedule to care all that much, but I thought I would drop you note. I am also a *very* proud Berklee parent, so I thought I'd suck up a bit there too.
I can't help but feel like you gave some terrible advice to the guy feeling down after his last Jam session. 1) The most practical & helpful answer I think you could have gave would be to take a fake/real book or two to future jams so when a song is called he doesn't know, he can @ least read his way through instead of feeling less than for not having 50k + obscure jazz songs & standards memorized... I also think there are deeper issues @ play here like 2) if he did spend decades learning every jazz song so he could kill in these borderline macho competitive jam situations would the time truly have been well spent? because if you ask me... 3) & I realize this is a strange concept to many university level musicians but, wasn't playing music supposed to be fun?
in my experience most of the musicians I look up to in my personal life that I've had the pleasure of knowing, many of whom are quite successful now, gave up playing traditional jazz @ various crossroads in they're lives where they asked themselves some of the very questions I posed in this post...
Great stuff Adam , Thank you .
Your explanations are extremely helpful! The higher the number, the less meat and the more colour. You really make this gigantic vehicle called music less intimidating. Thank you
I have synesthesia. Can you please explain what other non-syn musicians mean when they refer to the notes in extended chords as "color tones"? I perceive colors when I hear sound, so hearing that sometimes interchangeably used to refer to the overall mood of a chord once those extended notes are added to it, for example, is really confusing since how I'm "seeing" what's being played is thought of entirely different than how people who don't see things this way are describing what they hear.
The word "colour" could probably be replaced with something like "spice" or "character", it's thinking of the basic 3-harmony as being "clean" and sort of non-descript, and the extra notes are adding more context, hinting at where the tension wants to be resolved, what scale we're in, stuff like that.
Just like how one might describe a pitch as "low/high" interchangeably with "dark/light", or call someone "sour" when they're singing off-key, it has very little to do with the idea of colour specifically, but more trying to find a similar concept to what you're trying to convey.
Now I'm curious though, how does your synesthesia manifest? I associate letters and numbers with colours, would be really interesting to hear how other forms of it work!
Okay thank you! I figured it had to do something with that but I wasn't sure exactly. I guess an example of that, based on what you said would be...a major 7 chord wanting to resolve upwards to the root note but the 7 that was added is the "color tone" or the spice that makes everything nice? hahaha
I sometimes get the feeling that certain musicians have it but don't know they have it because of the music they play. It works too well with synesthesia listeners for them to not have it but idk. I went to this Cory Henry clinic once and he said he doesn't even have it, meanwhile I got the lucky chance to meet Mark Lettieri after a show, and he said he and Mike League do have some form of it...I bring this up because it amazes me that some people don't even know what their music looks like?? LOL It's an alien concept to me to not just instantly see what's happening, and it's become more and more of an interesting experience as I continue to learn more music theory.
I actually have a few kinds of synesthesia haha, um... sounds, letters, numbers, days and months of week, smells, sensations -> color.
To me "color tones" means that they don't really affect the function of the chord much - they just add more color to it. For example in blues you have dominant 7th chords that don't actually have dominant functions. In this case I would call the minor 7th a "color tone" because it doesn't really affect the function of the chord in the same way that it normally would.
Anoter good example would be a Cadd9 chord. That's exactly the same thing as C major chord, but it just has a bit more "color" or "spice" to it. The added 9th doesn't really matter functionally. Same with maj7 vs maj9 chords. Those are really the same thing - the maj9 just has a bit more "spice", but it's functionally the same thing.
In other words, "color tone" = functionally less important note.
I think the rest of us describe chord extensions as color tones because they add a bit of extra dissonance. Color is synonymous with character or tension.
axeslinger94 colour notes don't really have an affect on the tonality of a chord but act more like different flavours of the same chord. Am9 for example still sounds dark and sad but sounds more mysterious than your typical Am. To me anyways.
Not relevant to the video, but this is a high quality video from a high quality channel! Thanks for all the free info, Adam.
Adam, as a double bass player for far longer than I care to think about, I'd heard that the "double" part of double bass could come from the organ stops. 8' is a standard bass-register organ stop to use but adding a 16' stop (doubling.... yay) adds an extra octave to the bottom end. Hence, "double bass". Boom
When ur in over your head... When ur ashamed of how u played, that is the most fertile experience for growth...( Paraphrased) . . . so true man. I got a spot in the jazz big band in highscool because the only other guy trying out was this metal shredder dude that was wildly unpopular with that crowd. I also had started learning chord theory which was vital to me doing that position. I sucked at it. Very humbling experience for a hot shot rock guitarist. It still remains the biggest singular influence on my playing. I am mostly into rythmn guitar nowadays. I was way outclassed by the actual band students but prob'ly learned far more from it than anyone else there as a result. I'm so glad this came up on your show, bro.
Dude you should not compete against yourself, I was going to see the full video but I googled Satie out of curiosity and now im hooked
Thanks Adam! Your analysis and clear explanations are always enlightening.
Great example of a technical meme: the entire Bee Movie but the script is in alphabetical order. It seems to have been removed but it was a joy to watch parts of it.
THANK YOU for the answer re: tertian harmony. I was just wondering about this within the last week, and asked the very question in someone else's video. I didn't get an answer - until now. Perfect - it makes total sense.
What a bonus on Christmas Day, a TH-cam episode from Adam N. Keep up the good work!
As someone who subscribed to the SF symphony (in college) when Seiji Ozawa was premiering works by all the most current composers, and who once in the 1980s was in a small group discussion with Laurie Anderson, my response to the 5-hour thing was, "Huh, read a lot of performance art manifestos."
Merry Christmas, Adam. Thanks for being awesome.
I was a little surprised when I saw you uploaded an arrangement of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, because I had been working on one myself to perform for my grandparents (they couldn't fly out for Christmas this year, so I figured it'd be a nice gift to them). Yours actually gave me a little inspiration too, so I just wanted to say a quick thanks for that.
I have recently witnessed a French pianist playing the Véxations by Satie for 24 hours straight (840 actual times, he dropped a sheet of paper in the floor each time he finished one iteration, and every sheet had a different number on it, from 1 to 840). I didn't stay for that long, maybe in total I stayed for about 2 hours, which is already quite long. The pianist seemed to be quite prepared for it (he had already done it before) but it was really an experience, he was focusing on each movement in order to use least possible energy. Yeah, quite impressive
watched this video two and a half years after the fact, to get an answer to one question: What even is "the lick"?
I got my answer. I'm satisfied.
Great Q&A, merry Christmas
Low quality, high effort, sh*t post. I like it.
always so on point! Keep fighting the good fight bruda.
God bless you Adam, you always do your flipping research and give the correct information. This shouldn't be a big deal on youtube, but it really is. Keep doing it!
Thank you for responding! Great answer
Hey, Adam, I was a quite good guitar player that followed your channel, now I am a very bad bass player. Thank you very much! But you have so awesome content, that I can't stop watching this. BASS.
The light finally clicked on when he started his stacking thirds rant. Holy crap Adam you brilliant SOB