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  • @lexo30
    @lexo30 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1909

    I like the way that Adam's keyboard just slides out of what appears to be his desk. I imagine that he has keyboards concealed in his kitchen table and countertops, and bedside table, and probably even the bathroom sink.

    • @lailaandu3165
      @lailaandu3165 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      funniest comment looooool

    • @PalerDPTM
      @PalerDPTM 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Out of his pillow cover lol

    • @cameronbegay9016
      @cameronbegay9016 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Only liked to make the 400th comment

    • @johnapple6646
      @johnapple6646 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      now I want keyboards everywhere like this. How convenient will that be!

    • @progdrummer-nenad
      @progdrummer-nenad 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      no I won't imagine

  • @syng8921
    @syng8921 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2217

    I could never imagine Adam saying "fursona"... oh my

    • @Override9636
      @Override9636 3 ปีที่แล้ว +295

      Catam Neely.

    • @nanahyakuman
      @nanahyakuman 3 ปีที่แล้ว +204

      made so much better by him pretending not to know exactly what it means

    • @MereNotilde
      @MereNotilde 3 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      legitimately caught me off guard

    • @beatrixwickson8477
      @beatrixwickson8477 3 ปีที่แล้ว +90

      There is already r34 art of him

    • @davidguthriemusic
      @davidguthriemusic 3 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      when he said that i felt a primal fight-or-flight response in my soul

  • @nicholasromig5506
    @nicholasromig5506 3 ปีที่แล้ว +816

    the quizzical way with which you said "fursona" was just...the best thing that's happened to me all morning.

  • @thechimera5988
    @thechimera5988 3 ปีที่แล้ว +282

    I love how you never refer to any of these intervals or chords as “bad” just that they’re dissonant or a little spicy. It’s all subjective

    • @oscargill423
      @oscargill423 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Very Persichetti of him

    • @AnymMusic
      @AnymMusic 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      "dude that sounds SO bad!"
      *it's not bad, it's SPICY*

    • @pdorism
      @pdorism ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Dissonance is not bad if it resolves

    • @brokensilence3268
      @brokensilence3268 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@pdorism I mean I think one could also find a creative artistic use for unresolved dissonance.

  • @EveOfChaos
    @EveOfChaos 3 ปีที่แล้ว +304

    The way you feigned discomfort when you said, "Fursona" killed me lmao

    • @davidchurchman5771
      @davidchurchman5771 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      It wasn't a feign (I hope)

    • @segmentsAndCurves
      @segmentsAndCurves 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@davidchurchman5771 Are you sure?

    • @pikapool4571
      @pikapool4571 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@segmentsAndCurvesI mean who in the hell discusses furries and fursonas without at least some degree of discomfort?

    • @segmentsAndCurves
      @segmentsAndCurves 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @@pikapool4571 You haven't learnt much.

    • @segmentsAndCurves
      @segmentsAndCurves 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@pikapool4571 Also, it's like a meme inside the fandom to (jokingly) assume that people are furries even when it obviously isn't the case. Sadly, some non-furry doesn't like that.

  • @TheDarkMessiah
    @TheDarkMessiah 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2821

    How dare you interrupt the "repetition legitimizes" joke. I expect this interruption to be repeated in future videos.

    • @jackmerucci2398
      @jackmerucci2398 3 ปีที่แล้ว +204

      Thats the only way I would acknowledge its legitimacy

    • @HugoBass83
      @HugoBass83 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I was waiting for that, godd*** xD

    • @yuvalne
      @yuvalne 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      My exact thought

    • @EmanueleMoriero
      @EmanueleMoriero 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Went straight to the comment section to search for this haha

    • @oldvlognewtricks
      @oldvlognewtricks 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Illegitimacy has to have been repeated enough times by now to reach legitimacy.

  • @leoluzcando2715
    @leoluzcando2715 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1602

    Your hair is looking very E today adam

    • @free_siobhan
      @free_siobhan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +180

      very purplemaj7th indeed

    • @louiszaffino4071
      @louiszaffino4071 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      i don’t get it

    • @oxfordcommaisthegreatest
      @oxfordcommaisthegreatest 3 ปีที่แล้ว +123

      @@louiszaffino4071
      It's ok louis

    • @Aurora-oe2qp
      @Aurora-oe2qp 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Why did I think that this meant his hair was gonna be green?

    • @nanthilrodriguez
      @nanthilrodriguez 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      @@louiszaffino4071 need to watch his video where he talks about Chromesthesia

  • @hugogrubbytoes90
    @hugogrubbytoes90 3 ปีที่แล้ว +504

    "I believe it is called a..."
    Please say Catam Neely, please say Catam Neely, please say Catam Neely -
    "...Fursona"
    DAMNIT!!!

    • @mk_rexx
      @mk_rexx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Catam Furry

    • @FindingTurtlez
      @FindingTurtlez 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I wish id seen this a few seconds earlier lmao

    • @risuban2748
      @risuban2748 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      on the upside now we have a clip of adam saying fursona

    • @AlexSmashX3
      @AlexSmashX3 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      It's official, he's a furry.

    • @Meefer
      @Meefer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Adam Nya-ly

  • @Emmm3018
    @Emmm3018 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    I just wanna say I'm hopeful we get to see a Zappa music analysis anytime soon.

    • @SafetyLit
      @SafetyLit 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I've heard that essentially all of the "improvised" bits for all of the Zappa recordings were carefully written.

  • @PacmanRocks100
    @PacmanRocks100 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    "Tears in Heaven" by Clapton as a wedding song always boggled my mind. Had that a few times. It's a song about Clapton's grieving for his dead son. Talk about setting yourself up with some bad voodoo lol

    • @bordershader
      @bordershader 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      "Smile" by the Cockney Rebels baffles me why people find it all cheery. It's a sarcastic/angry song about his ex-bandmates screwing him over.
      Then you had a spate of people having "Wake me up when September ends" by Green Day as their wedding song when that came out --???!

    • @aaronholmes8568
      @aaronholmes8568 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ive had several ask for Every Breath You Take. I've had to explain to them the song isn't what they think 🤣

    • @J.C...
      @J.C... ปีที่แล้ว

      Being a grieving dad, also, I totally get this. Especially since my daughter was barely older than his son when it happened.
      My daughter would be turning 11 yrs old this year, on Sept 11. Instead, she's forever 22 months old thanks to her mother, who thought that texting was more important than actually paying attention to the road while she was driving. And she wrecked. And that wreck killed our child. Absolute worst day of my entire life.

    • @J.C...
      @J.C... ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@bordershader I don't ever remember hearing When September Ends as a wedding song. It was always used as a graduation song.

  • @Silentknight1171
    @Silentknight1171 3 ปีที่แล้ว +385

    "That jokes not even funny". I dunno Adam, I breathed a little heavier when the joke came up. Id say that counts for something.

    • @beenis08
      @beenis08 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I did slightly exhale the air out of my lungs a bit faster than i had during his previous statements

    • @Dowlphin
      @Dowlphin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I had smoke coming out of my nostrilovs. (Quickly at first, then slaving down.)

    • @jwaj
      @jwaj 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Instructions unclear. Manual breathing mode activated

    • @seanlanders4180
      @seanlanders4180 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jwaj watch the he-man 3 non blondes cover and automatic breathing should reengage
      Edit: I wrote 3. Imagine instead if i had written 4, instead

    • @nathanflood2118
      @nathanflood2118 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      😤

  • @nullinullinullifi
    @nullinullinullifi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +669

    what i expected: dissonant intervals
    what i got: adam neeley fursona

    • @mattbanka7236
      @mattbanka7236 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Glad i wasnt alone in that

    • @ravenecho2410
      @ravenecho2410 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      "Metal music theory" channel has wonderful breakdowns of metal harmony and rhythmic structures

    • @DannySullivanMusic
      @DannySullivanMusic 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Can't complain though!

    • @segmentsAndCurves
      @segmentsAndCurves 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Best treat in years!

  • @bradleyjung6062
    @bradleyjung6062 3 ปีที่แล้ว +103

    HE PULLED OUT THE PIANO FROM HIS DESK AGAIN THIS IS SO COOL

    • @JoeLabisch
      @JoeLabisch 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He's a musician, that's why.
      I pull out a computer keyboard from under my desk...
      What do you pull out?

    • @christiananggoro
      @christiananggoro 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@JoeLabisch I pull out my... Nevermind...

    • @MadnessOpus
      @MadnessOpus 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      MIDI controller, to be precise. Hell of a tool.

    • @stephenshoihet2590
      @stephenshoihet2590 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Now I just want to get a mini piano keyboard and swap it for a coworkers computer keyboard :-D

  • @eliskaprochy4679
    @eliskaprochy4679 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    The “dragon” and “Russian” pun got me :D

  • @Hennu_TRM
    @Hennu_TRM 3 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    "Maybe this is the sound that gets you there."
    MASHES KEYBOARD REPEATEDLY

  • @spicemissile
    @spicemissile 3 ปีที่แล้ว +483

    I'm jealous of your desk that allows to to conjure a keyboard. How do I get one?

    • @dirgmario
      @dirgmario 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Have one custom made for you. That’s how I got mine, and I’m sure Adam got his that way too.

    • @matteofederici302
      @matteofederici302 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      check out zaofurniture and studio desk forniture

    • @conorreedR2C
      @conorreedR2C 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@dirgmario or you could be like rdavidr and just build your own custom desk lol

    • @onesyphorus
      @onesyphorus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I thought he just has a rollable slab of wood attached to it, which he placed a keyboard on

    • @dirgmario
      @dirgmario 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@conorreedR2C yeah, well, I don’t really have the tools nor space to do that, so, why make something myself when I can pay someone else to do it for me 😁

  • @jamesfarmer8463
    @jamesfarmer8463 3 ปีที่แล้ว +80

    Adam saying 'Fursona' has had a collossal effect on my recommended videos.

  • @hermenegildakociubinska6665
    @hermenegildakociubinska6665 3 ปีที่แล้ว +469

    So Adam Neely unironically suggested that 'If you can play it slowly, you can play it quickly'.

    • @HedonesInk
      @HedonesInk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      ..you can though?

    • @Serrot304
      @Serrot304 3 ปีที่แล้ว +71

      Only because he practices 40 hours a day

    • @dvdjrv7976
      @dvdjrv7976 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      sAcRiLegIoUs

    • @CouchEconomyTX
      @CouchEconomyTX 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      inTeResTing

    • @mss11235
      @mss11235 3 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      It's one of those fun colloquial style phrases that people like to use. Instead of using the word "slowly," I would argue using the word "deliberately;" that is to learn to tackle a new muscular movement by understanding exactly what the movement is so that your brain and your body can synchronize and program the movement appropriately to recall at speed later. For instance on guitar, moving from one chord shape to another might require a particular odd jump for a particular finger while simultaneously being more accurate and strong with your pinky stretched on the second chord. If that's the first time you are learning a switch like that, it helps to slow down and understand that movement in order to be able to do it quickly in a fast tempo.

  • @KernelNohman
    @KernelNohman 3 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    Hey Adam.
    I am a partially hearing person as a result of childhood illness and hearing injuries while in the military. According to my audiologist I am 60% deaf, meaning I can’t hear 60% of frequencies. After my later injury my doctor flat out told me I would never enjoy a Tool album again.
    I feel like my hearing loss has deeply affected the music I enjoy. (Mostly jazz and metal for some reason).
    Any thoughts on partially hearing people listening to, or playing music?

    • @masonoaks9807
      @masonoaks9807 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      There was a story on vice a while ago about a punk bar operated in a deaf community center in San Francisco in the 70’s, and apparently a lot of deaf people would frequent the shows holding balloons up to their chests or heads to ‘feel’ the sounds the bands made. I also used to tune timpanis over the sound of the horn line in my school bands by holding a tuning fork to the back of my skull. Idk if that helps your situation at all but I thought I’d mention it

    • @pentaholicproductions5468
      @pentaholicproductions5468 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      bass is your best friend!

    • @Gameboy2007-Official
      @Gameboy2007-Official ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@pentaholicproductions5468 bruh lmfao
      That's just mean

    • @Slashbag69
      @Slashbag69 ปีที่แล้ว

      Did he maybe say that because Tool are bad?

  • @OliviaSNava
    @OliviaSNava 3 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    Hey Adam, I was playing around with Logic 10 because you said it was difficult to do automations like that in non-Ableton DAWs. I found the tool for it actually relatively quickly. It might have been a new addition, but in either case it's there now. It's definitely a little more difficult than Ableton from what I've seen, but it's really very similar and still doesn't cross the threshold of what I would call difficult (as someone who has literally been using Logic for less than a week at this point). It's a slightly different workflow, for sure, but ultimately it's a similar presentation to how you would apply effects in Ableton. Not trying to trash you, Ableton, or come off like a Logic stan haha, but I just felt it should be said. Anyways, love your videos, have a good one!

    • @mal2ksc
      @mal2ksc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I think the main distinction is whether the automation lines appear over the audio track itself, or in a separate space parallel to it. How they actually operate is pretty much the same in every major DAW, I think.

  • @rattrap1009
    @rattrap1009 3 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    If you record yourself and it sounds like you're Russian, try not writing in A or D minor, using fewer dominant 5ths, adding in less over the top harmonic minor violin runs, and using fewer male choirs.
    Also bass playing cat as Adam's sona is so cute and so fitting.

    • @alexeyyy
      @alexeyyy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Хорошо, я учту

    • @xzavierbristol5713
      @xzavierbristol5713 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ahaa this is great lmao

    • @a_makarov
      @a_makarov 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why do I need to hide that I’m Russian?

    • @erikfinkel2717
      @erikfinkel2717 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      daaaaaaaaaaaa

    • @a_makarov
      @a_makarov 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mikubrot It’s more of an ironic question

  • @justinguitarcia
    @justinguitarcia 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    I had to play "How to disappear completely" by Radiohead at a wedding. Excellent song, extraordinarily odd wedding song lol

    • @Atesjb
      @Atesjb 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      damn that's the worst wedding song ever

    • @Patrick-dy3ls
      @Patrick-dy3ls 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wow lol

    • @j_freed
      @j_freed 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Some good advice that you just didn't take...
      And it isn't Ironic.

    • @ricardojmestre
      @ricardojmestre 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Really?? Now that is my type of wedding.

  • @LightsOnTrees
    @LightsOnTrees 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Adam Neely matures into stately meandering Q&A's.

  • @IlliterateBreadsTV
    @IlliterateBreadsTV 3 ปีที่แล้ว +623

    I love how the human brain associates the word “dissonance” with Frank Zappa, as shown by the thumbnail.

    • @TimothyReeves
      @TimothyReeves 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      I associate it with Schönberg

    • @LinktoLinkGamer
      @LinktoLinkGamer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Or Sun Ra

    • @oldgoat381
      @oldgoat381 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@TimothyReeves I associate dissonance with Schönberg by way of his influence on Zappa

    • @ScottNickell
      @ScottNickell 3 ปีที่แล้ว +87

      "You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream." -- Frank Zappa

    • @roy_for_real2674
      @roy_for_real2674 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Idk

  • @deathandcupcakes
    @deathandcupcakes 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I think it's interesting that even though I know intellectually that a major 7th is considered dissonant, in context it can be incredibly beautiful. Even before I learned music theory, I intuitively perceived harmonies or melodies focusing on the major 7th as "pretty" sounding, even more so than other intervals. a piece like satie's gymnopedie no1, which is built around the major 7th, sounds peaceful and serene, rather than harsh. it doesn't sound "tense" or unresolved. context absolutely transforms how we hear dissonances, even if the interval by itself sounds harsh or unpleasant.

  • @KaptainKlein
    @KaptainKlein 3 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    In Jiu Jitsu they say "Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast." I think that holds up pretty well for what you talk about in the high tempo playing section!

    • @chevtothemax
      @chevtothemax 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thats a saying in auto racing aswell

    • @gman1515
      @gman1515 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Same thing in firearms competitions

    • @mattgies
      @mattgies 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Also mountain biking.

    • @schweppes1313
      @schweppes1313 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      also sex

    • @adjoint_functor
      @adjoint_functor 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@schweppes1313 severely underrated reply

  • @dan81685
    @dan81685 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    When Zappa is on the cover, the video goes straight to the top of the line!!!

    • @dallasstiles118
      @dallasstiles118 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      They should pitch those vaccine posts with zappa pics

    • @leaveitorsinkit242
      @leaveitorsinkit242 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Top of the line? How do you mean?

    • @dan81685
      @dan81685 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@leaveitorsinkit242 the line of videos to watch

    • @cmingus2044
      @cmingus2044 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      but why was zappa on the cover? he didn't mention him at all. I clicked for zappa and got nothing :(

    • @dan81685
      @dan81685 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@cmingus2044 I was thinking the same thing. I wasn’t disappointed by the video tho. Adam does a good job.

  • @mikoajp.5890
    @mikoajp.5890 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    10:00 There's a song you'll hear on every polish wedding, "windą do nieba": th-cam.com/video/PWTLbvZRdJw/w-d-xo.html The chorus is a somewhat dreamy piece about how the girl is getting ready for her wedding. The stanza is about the bride saying farewell to her crush, about how she has no feelings for the groom, long story short - about how she is not at all happy with the situation. If one actually follows the text, the song is not dreamy, but quite melancholic - and by no means to be sung at a wedding. Still, you'll hear it at every wedding from Świnoujście to Ustrzyki

    • @CuriousKey
      @CuriousKey 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The entire history of human culture follows the principle of that line from Nirvana's In Bloom - most people are just sort of nodding along with what's going on around them hoping no one notices they haven't got a clue what they're doing. The reproducibility of culture is affected far more deeply by the attempt to fit in than we give it credit for.

  • @ConTejasMusic
    @ConTejasMusic 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    2:27 Kaytranada uses this type of voicing so much in his production! He'll often pan one chord (e.g. B minor with F# on the bottom) in the left ear and another chord a 4th above (i.e. E minor with B on the bottom) that one into the right ear, which can create that dissonant yet harmonious effect (cos you're filling in the minor 9th of F# and G with the notes in between).

  • @aprilkurtz1589
    @aprilkurtz1589 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I love videos where you take questions, Adam. I hope you have the time to do them more frequently! Fursona???!

  • @flochartingham2333
    @flochartingham2333 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    Uster was a piece of rack mount gear called "Russian Dragon" for keeping on beat.

  • @alexp5005
    @alexp5005 3 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    clicked so fast as soon as I saw Zappa in the thumbnail.

    • @gamer966
      @gamer966 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Unfortunately no Zappa to be found on the video :(

    • @mss11235
      @mss11235 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@gamer966 I would argue he is indirectly. Here is a direct quote of Frank's:
      In other words, if you hear in the bass a C and a G, you know, "You're in the key of C, buddy." You are anchored to a tonality, and when a soloist comes along and plays the C#, he's sending you a message. And where that C# goes is part of the adventure of playing the solo. And if he's playing a B natural or an F# against those notes ... they're like ingredients in a stew. I mean, there's a right way and a wrong way to stick a C# on top of a C-G groundbase. If you play all notes that are part of the C major scale, the recipe you have just prepared is oatmeal, know what I mean? So it's like the difference between eating oatmeal and eating salsa.

    • @stueyapstuey4235
      @stueyapstuey4235 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Hmm - me too... we've been click-baited. LOL Neely is very cunning!

    • @Thelocalpsychopath
      @Thelocalpsychopath 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@gamer966 Indirect Zappa quote at the end as well, really thought he would bring it up :(
      “The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it's shitty."

    • @mrfranksan
      @mrfranksan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Is there an unspoken tradition in Neelyspeak that Zappa is to be tiptoed around?

  • @IAmSamuelCharpentier
    @IAmSamuelCharpentier 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    As a graphic designer who knows nothing about music, I can tell you that you do a good job of making your typography interesting and balanced. For a non-initiated, you get my seal of approval!

  • @dankers12
    @dankers12 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I love how you're able to answer the question posed right in the thumbnail and I still click the video.

    • @sneddypie
      @sneddypie 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      anti-clickbait

  • @rowanhollingsworth5231
    @rowanhollingsworth5231 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    3:59 Case in point, that chord is genuinely horrifying enough to make it feel like this moment was taken from a horror film where Adam is an evil piano teacher who murders his kidnapped "students" who make the mistake of not approaching the music on its own terms.

  • @joelkulesha8284
    @joelkulesha8284 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Hey Adam! I'd love to hear you cover a video on how some musicians use certain aspects of music theory as their kind of sound or calling card. People like Zappa or Steely dan with their special chords that they used all the time. And how to make those ideas and calling cards not feel lazy or repetitive etc.
    Might be another interesting video like this one was!

  • @NUGGet-3562
    @NUGGet-3562 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    "That joke's not even funny"
    False. I laughed quite a bit at that joke. Good one, Adam.

  • @themandownstairs4765
    @themandownstairs4765 3 ปีที่แล้ว +203

    he interrupts the "repetition legitimizes" joke, a pattern that settles nicely into 9/8, to talk about how other cultures are more used to music in 9/8? what??

    • @dopaminecloud
      @dopaminecloud 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      if you follow the channel, the joke is at the stage where you hear it without it even needing to be there
      it's become natural like 4/4

    • @Mr.Meowgical
      @Mr.Meowgical 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@dopaminecloud No joke, I hear those words in my head often now whenever a relevant situation (musical or otherwise) arises.

    • @leaveitorsinkit242
      @leaveitorsinkit242 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      The pattern settles nicely into 9/8? How do you mean?

    • @themandownstairs4765
      @themandownstairs4765 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@leaveitorsinkit242 re-pe-ti tion-le-gi ti-miz-es. nine syllables that don't roll off the tongue in 9/8, but can be broken into a pattern of 3 sets of 3 syllables. that's how i metrically percieve it though, results may vary

    • @leaveitorsinkit242
      @leaveitorsinkit242 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@themandownstairs4765 😆 I’ll give you credit for that, but the 9/8 rhythm in his example had three groups of 2’s and one group of 3. So... I don’t know if three groups of 3’s really makes the cut.

  • @HaydenofEverything
    @HaydenofEverything 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    4:47 Local jazz musician grows mad with power (2021, colorized)

  • @8ct8ight11
    @8ct8ight11 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    As a current Berklee student, it's pretty cool when you talk about things that we just so happened to go over in class like two days ago

    • @therealjibrano
      @therealjibrano 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      dude im an engineering student and its also pretty cool when he talks about things that leave me just as confused as the things we just so happened to go over in physics like two days ago
      its like wow im confused again only this time its my own fault lmao

  • @SuperMrdumm
    @SuperMrdumm 3 ปีที่แล้ว +171

    Confirmed: Adam is a flat-niner

  • @crustyfroonchfroo8542
    @crustyfroonchfroo8542 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I physically snorted when Adam said "fursona".

  • @TheUmutus
    @TheUmutus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +583

    these anti-thumbnails are somehow more effective..

    • @Maynard0504
      @Maynard0504 3 ปีที่แล้ว +87

      it works because you want to hear the explanation

    • @FaustinaFalcon8
      @FaustinaFalcon8 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Seriously though

    • @abdelwahabnassim6281
      @abdelwahabnassim6281 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      th-cam.com/video/IImYdIXAz-4/w-d-xo.html

    • @mss11235
      @mss11235 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      In other words, if you hear in the bass a C and a G, you know, "You're in the key of C, buddy." You are anchored to a tonality, and when a soloist comes along and plays the C#, he's sending you a message. And where that C# goes is part of the adventure of playing the solo. And if he's playing a B natural or an F# against those notes ... they're like ingredients in a stew. I mean, there's a right way and a wrong way to stick a C# on top of a C-G groundbase. If you play all notes that are part of the C major scale, the recipe you have just prepared is oatmeal, know what I mean? So it's like the difference between eating oatmeal and eating salsa.

    • @yarlodek5842
      @yarlodek5842 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      It’s Adam’s specialty

  • @NightProductionsDK
    @NightProductionsDK 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I have begun to listen to a lot of Bowie again lately and was fascinated by the chords in "Ashes to Ashes". It involves a lot of major third movement. Would love to see a Neeley take on the functions of this songs chords!

  • @jeff__w
    @jeff__w 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    _Fonts in Use_ calls your particular font choice for those thumbnails “the most prominent usage of *Coolvetica* since the _Catch Me If You Can_ title sequence.” Bravo!

  • @manman-wg1xn
    @manman-wg1xn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    oh boy i cant wait to hear adam talk about frank zappa!
    Edit:😢

  • @johnebert2619
    @johnebert2619 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The fact that you didn't just plug your own video earns my respect. Most creators would have just said to go watch that other video and moved on.
    Much love, my musical friend.

  • @hurrdurrrderp
    @hurrdurrrderp 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Intro to "Killing in the name of" is example of using minor 9th exactly because it creates so much tension

    • @alterI4
      @alterI4 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It’s not played at the same time as a chord though so it doesn’t really count. It does create tension as a dissonant riff but I don’t feel it has any need to resolve harmonically.

  • @squirmyd1234
    @squirmyd1234 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    YOU ROBBED ME OF MY REPETITION LEGITIMISES! That hurt way more than I was ready for. Damn you and your subversion of expectations toying with my emotions, Neely.
    But also I love you, keep up the awesome work you're the one reason I've kept studying music in my own time as an adult. ❤️ Much love from Australia!

  • @bundr
    @bundr 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I was listening to Apostrophe at the exact moment your video showed up. Loved it!

  • @mrnelsonius5631
    @mrnelsonius5631 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    1:44 to 1:55, is a central motif in Tom Waits’ “Alice”. Hauntingly beautiful song.

  • @preferablygeneric
    @preferablygeneric 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    "are you a rusher or a dragger?"
    Yes, I play rythyn games.

  • @jamesrivera4535
    @jamesrivera4535 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The anti clickbait thumbnails make me click so much faster. Adam, you squirrelly goose

  • @UncleWalter1
    @UncleWalter1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    2:17. I love the sound of that chord. Especially the way you balanced the notes of that voicing on the bass. It's a really melancholy take on the major 7th, Lots if cool places that could go. Even if just as a passing chord, it has a real visceral quality.

  • @detectivewiggles
    @detectivewiggles 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    As a visual artist who has a ton of experience using Photoshop, I was amazed the first time I saw someone using Ableton. It's like magic! The changes you can make with such minor adjustments in Ableton blow my mind.

  • @clarinethro1695
    @clarinethro1695 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    11:04
    Broke: Fursona
    Woke: Cat-am Neely

  • @gruforevs
    @gruforevs 3 ปีที่แล้ว +378

    The most important lesson I took away from this video is that Adam Neely has a Fursona

    • @achaea6587
      @achaea6587 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      and it’s a cat, which honestly is a *purr*fect fit. please end me.

    • @polifonikastudio
      @polifonikastudio 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Hearing that hit me like a truck, I was _not_ expecting that

    • @Dowlphin
      @Dowlphin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      There is a furst for everything.

    • @mk_rexx
      @mk_rexx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Question And Answer Time With CATAM FURRY

    • @DannySullivanMusic
      @DannySullivanMusic 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hehehe

  • @zkat_masquerave
    @zkat_masquerave 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    "If you can play it slowly, you can play it quickly" - Ben Lee, sacreligious boi.

  • @RenegadeJ
    @RenegadeJ 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I can't believe that video was released 5 years ago. Still living the content though! Thanks Neely!

  • @davidmcleod1760
    @davidmcleod1760 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The minor 9th is my favourite sound. Along side the major7#11 arpeggiated on a guitar it sounds so mysterious but beautiful

  • @TheDeathdragon401
    @TheDeathdragon401 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    9:05 "if you can play it slowly, you can play it quickly"

    • @mieczyslawposmyk9444
      @mieczyslawposmyk9444 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      This TwoSet quote needs more love.

    • @peterrischel2493
      @peterrischel2493 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Came looking for this

    • @austinhudson6943
      @austinhudson6943 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Very profound but also simple. I’ve heard from drummers that the hardest things to play are slow grooves because it’s tough to keep time. I imagine practicing slow gets you more relaxed at keeping time and thus more comfortable playing fast.

  • @Sv4NNe
    @Sv4NNe 3 ปีที่แล้ว +210

    Q: "Where's the minor 9th useable in western music"
    Me: *djent breakdown noises*

    • @pedropessoa2246
      @pedropessoa2246 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      This comment was GOLD!

    • @yes-du8dc
      @yes-du8dc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Lmao

    • @ks-zc1jh
      @ks-zc1jh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Nods in Frank Zappa.

    • @AsrielKujo
      @AsrielKujo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Listen to Scriabin etude 65 n 1 for beautiful ninths uwu

    • @rafa3lico
      @rafa3lico 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      DJDE

  • @lerotoculteux2139
    @lerotoculteux2139 3 ปีที่แล้ว +137

    I’m a simple man, I see Frank Zappa, I click.

    • @YoCullen
      @YoCullen 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Bingo.

    • @dickiebobradio1304
      @dickiebobradio1304 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      First time I've seen Zappa used as clickbait. Oh well, good video.

    • @DannoHung
      @DannoHung 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@dickiebobradio1304 Here I sit all broken hearted, clicked for Zappa or Captain Beefheart.... ed

    • @infinitygasmask
      @infinitygasmask 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same here lol

    • @EtiKai13
      @EtiKai13 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      i was hoping to hear him talk about fz

  • @daniel2530
    @daniel2530 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    cool video, I can't wait to see more Sungazer's music, the two EPs are so amazing

  • @illuminatibraincontrol
    @illuminatibraincontrol 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I just realized one of your biggest appeals as a youtube is that you never outright say the use of some theory or technique in music is "wrong" outright. Sometimes you meme it but usually you just outright tell people the reality - it may be tough to use it musically but its always possible and if you are of the right mind you can make that typically out of place sound... great, pretty much. Kickass.

  • @jcf1963
    @jcf1963 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    11:50ish. “The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it's shitty. The more your musical experience, the easier it is to define for yourself what you like and what you don't like." - Frank Zappa

  • @yoo571
    @yoo571 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    12:27 I've waiting too long for that, you don't imagine my emotion when I heard that

  • @dolutho
    @dolutho 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Adam's musical skill level is so high he can summon a keyboard out of thin air

  • @smithjedediah
    @smithjedediah 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wait, what, that's exactly how it works in Logic, too, unless I'm missing some major difference in the workflow between the two in regards to automation that you didn't mention? Incidentally love your videos. I'm TAKING YOU TO TASK HERE THOUGH, JABRONSKI BEAT.

  • @smalllhank
    @smalllhank 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love that Adam puts the answer in the thumbnail so I don’t actually have to watch the video, thanks Adam

  • @nix4114
    @nix4114 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    ok glad to see other comments talking about him saying fursona that shit felt weird

  • @iakovzhitomirskiy1569
    @iakovzhitomirskiy1569 3 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    Now we need a shirt with "CLICK. RED LINE. DRAW!" on it xD

    • @Dowlphin
      @Dowlphin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      When I click onto the red line, it is always a draw.

  • @ajx911
    @ajx911 3 ปีที่แล้ว +264

    The problem with the “if it feels good, it is good” mentality is that I’ve found so many people who don’t know theory end up defaulting to only one or two scales/modes because that’s what “feels” natural and good to them. They are limited in their musical vocabulary and experimentation because of it.

    • @ivarhaugseth7973
      @ivarhaugseth7973 3 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      Simplicity isn't necessarily a bad thing, but I do however understand your frustration. If you fully understand the rules, you'd also know when to break them. The problem isn't necessarily lack of knowledge, but rather fear of failure. If something works just fine, you see no reason to change anything, hence you won't change anything, leading to lack of experimentation

    • @emanuel_soundtrack
      @emanuel_soundtrack 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      exactly, the most "dissonant" is a highlighted minor second sforzatto in FFF dynamics and in a consonant context. Best at the C-2 and c-3 range (alt/soprano voice). To low or to high is again more consonant

    • @oscarherrerar.3496
      @oscarherrerar.3496 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I think the problem is yours. If someone is ok, for example, with a blue scale, there's no problem at all. I think musical limitation is a problem from your perspective and ambitions

    • @emanuel_soundtrack
      @emanuel_soundtrack 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      haha total!

    • @emanuel_soundtrack
      @emanuel_soundtrack 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      c major first inversion and g major first inversion are the only things that makes me feel good

  • @rthib1960
    @rthib1960 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I really enjoy your presentation style. Very engaging and enlightening. Thank you!

  • @HotQahwe
    @HotQahwe 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ive seen your vid on the ipenema girl but I'm sold after the piece spin.com wrote about you. Thanks for paving the road for future passionate musicians

  • @jacob.gamble
    @jacob.gamble 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This is the only channel where I look forward to Q&A’s.

  • @putridabomination
    @putridabomination 3 ปีที่แล้ว +77

    I clicked first thing when I saw Frank Zappa in the thumbnail

    • @AkimboCorndogs
      @AkimboCorndogs 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      I was disappointed he didn’t talk about him in the video 😢

    • @putridabomination
      @putridabomination 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@AkimboCorndogs Same

    • @DanYuleo
      @DanYuleo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I was disappointed and then I wasn't. Lol.

    • @euchre90
      @euchre90 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@AkimboCorndogs I don't think you can say the name Zappa nowadays without getting legal threats from his family

    • @mss11235
      @mss11235 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      There is a direct quote for Frank in an interview where he discusses, within an example, using a C# note within an improvised guitar solo over a C and a G within the bass.
      I have studied Zappa for about 2 years now (Specifically the way he composed and improvised guitar from about 1977 through 1988) and plenty of topics in music theory that Adam Neely discusses tangentially augments my Frank studies. His bandmate's, Shawn Crowder, first major TH-cam video discusses in great depth how to tackle Frank's most infamously rhythmically difficult pieces.

  • @nathanfay1988
    @nathanfay1988 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    FL Studio is extremely capable at Automation, I recommend checking it out (demo is free). You can set each line of your automation to be a line, sine wave, step series, half-wave, logarithmic sinusoid, and everything in between.

    • @Dowlphin
      @Dowlphin 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah, I got the impression FL Studio is actually quite intuitive and thus beginner-friendly. I.e. if the entry threshold is low, you can immediately lauch like a rocket, and then if it you grow dissatisfied, it is because of the great energy it unlocked in you that wants to break barriers.

  • @JakHart
    @JakHart 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm sorry, I had to watch the first minute seven times... The smooth glide of the 88 is extremely satisfying to watch, making it extremely difficult to pay attention to Adam.
    I ended up having to flip my phone over to restart the video, so I could just listen.
    (Shoot a video about said awesomely smooth gliding keyboard?!?!)(please?)

  • @davidlikesdrums
    @davidlikesdrums ปีที่แล้ว +2

    0:16
    i genuinely didnt see him pull it out the first time i watched i was like WHAT MAGIC IS THIS
    what a
    *_smooth criminal_*

  • @brendangibson8200
    @brendangibson8200 3 ปีที่แล้ว +200

    First 60 seconds of the video
    Adam: "These are called prime dissonances."
    Me: No, those are panic chords

    • @themandownstairs4765
      @themandownstairs4765 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Prime Dissonance! At The Disco

    • @heavymachete6235
      @heavymachete6235 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      idk how to make a mathcore joke here, i pretty much BOTCHed it

    • @FairyCRat
      @FairyCRat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yep, the whole time he was talking about those intervals, I was like "I know one way to use all 3 of them: in a breakdown between chugs"

    • @SlyHikari03
      @SlyHikari03 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@heavymachete6235 I love botch

  • @polfrankmusic9559
    @polfrankmusic9559 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Zappa in the thumbnail, you won me

  • @zepewto901
    @zepewto901 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    I'm starting a piece with that minor9th voiced major7th chord now.

  • @forestlittke4649
    @forestlittke4649 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    good stuff, always lively and entertaining with an educational twist.

  •  3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love ya for putting the answer in the thumbnail - it should become a norm for everyone!

  • @nicholasmullins3693
    @nicholasmullins3693 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I want a loop of Adam going "CLICK! RED LINE! DRAW!"

  • @MelodicEgghead
    @MelodicEgghead 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    "Will you answer my question?"
    "Yes!"
    LMFAO

  • @juggalopenguin1134
    @juggalopenguin1134 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Clicked for Zappa

  • @chrismodlin6262
    @chrismodlin6262 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    awesome vid! love the way you explain music theory stuff

  • @sunpulseandy6722
    @sunpulseandy6722 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Adam Neely; you are the first person on TH-cam who has given me a nose bleed. Better yet, while talking about dissonance. That was a pretty intense discussion.

  • @sorcyboi2848
    @sorcyboi2848 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I'm a simple man, I see Zappa in the thumbnail, I click

  • @eliasmg9144
    @eliasmg9144 3 ปีที่แล้ว +180

    "I believe its called a... _fursona_ ?"
    No idea what you're talking about man, not in the slightest

    • @Qyver
      @Qyver 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Hey I’ve never seen an Elias randomly like this!

    • @eliasmg9144
      @eliasmg9144 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@Qyver there's a first time for everything

    • @segmentsAndCurves
      @segmentsAndCurves 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@eliasmg9144 Great, a pure human being.

  • @SubtleHawk
    @SubtleHawk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I'm pretty sure I can do that same automation thing in Logic. Just hit A on your computer keyboard and all the automation pops up in the same way with the lines and everything.

    • @TheCloudeGraves
      @TheCloudeGraves 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      FL Studio (which I insist is the most dubby DAW) also makes it really easy. Its not a line on the track like in Ableton but is rather a separate element on the UI, but I like to see it separately anyway and it is still very easy to manipulate and interpret.

    • @Dowlphin
      @Dowlphin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      That's when someone is not an authority on DAWs.
      There is plenty of basic wisdom on DAWs, including stuff that is defying the claim Adam made: Like that the DAW you use is of little relevance; If you have mastered one, you can do everything with it. The point is simply which makes it easiest for your personal taste to master it.

  • @lydiasteinebendiksen4269
    @lydiasteinebendiksen4269 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    apart from all the music stuff, one of the greatest things Adam has shown me is the value of asking questions that... I don't want to call them bad or pointless, but questions many would see as not worth asking, or not very relevant, because the unveiling of anything reveals a lot about how and why we veil things, and how and why we remove it later.

  • @justinlynn
    @justinlynn 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sweet - can't wait for that new album drop! Keep it up Adam and Sungazer :3

  • @untaterbang
    @untaterbang 3 ปีที่แล้ว +115

    "If you can play it slowly..."
    - A certain violinist duo, probably

    • @gradexunderx7452
      @gradexunderx7452 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I was looking for that... We need a TwoSet and Adam cooperation

    • @dallasstiles118
      @dallasstiles118 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Two set!!

    • @thesmashfloydian
      @thesmashfloydian 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Grade X Under X pls no. Too memey and kid-targeted. They’re like the davie504 of violin

    • @gradexunderx7452
      @gradexunderx7452 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@thesmashfloydian Gotta agree about the kid-targeted subject, I’d still want it though

    • @stefanfyhn4668
      @stefanfyhn4668 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@thesmashfloydian funny is for kids now? Adult entertainment are on other websites my dude

  • @GhostPuddle
    @GhostPuddle 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    "Are you a rusher or a dragger?"
    Me: yes

  • @greyjones5633
    @greyjones5633 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    5:12 actually, propellerhead's reason 11 has an automation feature almost identical - other than the automation being on a seperate track, due to the way that effects are visualised

  • @IRRob.
    @IRRob. 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Always good to see zappa recognition

  • @ifer1280
    @ifer1280 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow, an early Adam Neely! I really loved the outro back then