Adam mentioned Shave and a Haircut and I realized it may just be the most powerful musical meme alive, with Dies Irae lurking close behind. At least The Lick is just kind of a musical in-joke. It doesn't carry the connotation of humor or death like Shave and a Haircut or Dies Irae.
@@GuyNamedSean I think the main difference here is the level in which those musical elements operate. "Shave and a Haircut" appears in contexts where the humour is transparent to the audience; it's closely associated with comedy because it's used in comedic contexts, and it's supposed to be funny to the whole audience. Dies Irae is a little more subtle, because I'm not sure how many members of the general public associate that melody with death, but when Berlioz used it for Symphonie Fantastique, its meaning was supposed to be transparent. You weren't "special" for associating it with death; it was right there in the programme. And that's the reason why that melody is associated with death even in pop culture. The lick, though, is an IN JOKE. It's not transparent to the audience, and it's not a joke that's supposed to include the audience in general; in fact, it SEGREGATES the "laymen" from the "people who know it". It's purely exclusionary. The lick isn't funny on its own merits; instead, you laugh at it because you feel smart for getting the reference. Laughing at the lick is a badge of honour, a certificate of erudition, and that's why the lick has become obnoxious whereas Shave and a Haircut hasn't.
This is precisely the type of content we follow you on TH-cam for David. On the one hand theres the humor and amusement, on the other hand theres genuinely beautiful music and a serious topic of discussion with an almost scientific approach.
Dude this makes me so happy. I've been playing around with the licc for brass quintet but I've had little luck making anything good. I'm so glad that someone could make the licc good.
G R E A T !!! *:D* I feel like I´m starting to become a David Bruce fan - - - - looking forward to the whole piece ! Thanks for filming - and of course for WRITING such delightful music !
I've binged watch quite a number of David Bruce's videos these past few days and it is so interesting to hear a composer about music and talk about their work in such wonderful detail. I'm so pleased I stumbled upon this glorious channel. Thank you, David Bruce.
The Lick got me more interested in the art of musical composition. I was learning to sing harmony and play piano when I was 6, but I always saw composition as something that Serious Musicians do. Seeing it as a meme was a way for me to think "hey wait, sometimes all it takes is a fun idea!"
Lovely; to be honest I had not detected the lick in Adam's piece it just worked very well and was captivated with the lyrics and atmosphere he had created. I honestly think it is a lot less of an issue to my ears. Though I agree, that others may experience a very drastically different listening experience. Excellent as always!
9:38 That whole Lydian section really sounded like it was in D, where you're hanging around the G to F#, like IV to iii (or inversion of I). Not sure if that's the case or just conditioning on my part but regardless, I found it very evocative, you're interval choices and how you separated them between the two chords was right up my alley with how I like to hear strings in that kind of staccato feel, or at least as far as the stabs (strings can have stabs right? hah) Sorry I'm not great with my terms. While I'm not on Patreon I'd gladly pay for that track if you have it recorded. As for "The Lick" itself, I've my own story on it. I first came across it through that original video shared on Facebook many years ago, back in around.. 2011 at earliest, 2013 at latest. At that time I was listening to a "jazz" musician who's name I won't mention, a pianist. Hell I was getting into a bit of modern jazz that came out that time in general. But I began liking this _particular_ piano player's music and style up until a point where I noticed something - he had this exact lick, in almost every solo he ever did. In fact, he even had it as part of the melodies of songs. And he had other licks too in almost every single "improvised" solo he ever did, I'm not even joking here, once I found this out, you can imagine how I felt about him now. Lastly on this guy, he had actually used the lick so much throughout his career (and still does), that he even managed, and I kid you not David, to narrow down the lick into its most basic form, that is, in just expressing it as the last 3 notes of the phrase! And to top things off, in 2013 Snarky Puppy used it as the main melody for a collaboration with Chantae Cann called Da Da 'n Da, be fooled not, this is absolutely the lick in a simplified form, and I actually really like this song, don't seem to care about the lick's usage here at all, because it just works. - th-cam.com/video/vRdeFaLubdw/w-d-xo.html So fast forward to subscribing to Adam Neely's content in 2015 or so, man.. all due respect but I already got tired and frustrated with the lick at this point, it was already a meme before a meme for me and couldn't see humor in it since learning how that aforementioned pianist abused it, along with the history of it throughout jazz music too I guess. But when I listen to your piece here, or parts of it since I don't know where to hear it in full as of now, the uneducated part of me can't identify not only the Lydian version of it, (ok I can but I love that section so far anyway), but the rest of it before like where you split the phrase in two, nuh uh can't notice that at all. So I wonder, regarding the In & Out groups, if I was more educated to where I'd be able to notice the themes throughout, the question is would it affect my ability to listen and like the music that's ultimately played for listening pleasure? It might who knows, it's interesting to consider here that ignorance might be bliss, and I'm not saying that as an excuse to not improve ones listening or playing abilities, just that here it might be a coincidence.
All joking aside, this is one of my favorite pieces of yours. It's such a great mixture of complex and accessible, which I feel can be hard to come by in modern classical music
The licc does not "trivialize music". It adds a dimension to it. As Adam said, it's a cultural identifier. A little secret code for members of this little music theory TH-cam community to be able to identify with one another. Granted, there is a tasteless way to play it (like whenever anyone walks into a classroom for instance - I've done that), but when incorporated into a seemingly disparate piece, it adds something to it that you can only get by adding the licc specifically
Dave, amazing as Always. But in comparing theme and meme, the example you gave was strongly based on the concept of motif. Of course, the transposed motif gave the theme on the Beethoven's 5th. Am I being too picky?
I think you did it, David. You broke the lick. You crashed the "joke". I think you successfully created a situation in which, if the audience insists in giggling or having fun at the "joke", then they're refusing to receive the art. You made the "joke" become an undesirable element, and I honestly thought that was highly unlikely at the state we're in. But more shockingly: you took an idea from Jacob Collier and made it listenable! Now *that* made my jaw drop.
Amazing, a masterclass in taking the ridiculous and making it sublime. Camden Shaw not being particularly subtle about his Group Meme membership, though... 😂
Regarding polyrhythmic cycles not needing to complete. I noticed that a couple of years ago in Jacob Collier's Flintstones. Also, as is that case, they don't need to start together. Both are quite obvious in retrospect but I'd never considered either before hearing that. (To be truthful, before seeing June Lee's transcription)
I started writing something more Romantic-era-style based on The Lick, but had dismissed it in my mind as a silly concept. Maybe I should try having another go at it. :)
I think it would be important to note that the prominance of the lick came through improvisation. It's a phrase that you can play easily and accidentaly, thus why it's seen as lazy/cheesy
I think this is comparable to hearing a song in a foreign language and loving it and then listening and noticing it only talks about meaningless things and it ruins the song , or it further improves the song if the lyrics are of your liking.
Funny part is adam mentioning the shave an a haircut. Well I performed bachs cello prelude in g for cello on guitar. But I ended the with piece shave and a haircut.
Humor is as subjective as music, although the latter requires more effort and provides greater fulfillment. Laughing after hearing the lick is as similar as writing the lick and using it in a musical context. that's why using the meme fits with using the theme.
Very Nice vlog! Actually the use of themes and motifs is for me the core of composition, but today Composers not seem to take much use of it. But With this video you give us a brilliant example how use of motifs can shape the whole architecture of also a modern piece of Music. Thank you! It is a great inspiration!!!… In my Music, my Symphony nr. 5 is the most ambisious and large scaled work were I use only one motif consequently throughout the whole work.
Where does The Licc originally originate? Did Adam Neely get it from something in the past? Recently, I heard it distinctly in some black and white film footage of jazz with Brubeck from the 50's/60's which I vaguely recognised to be a Paganini piece. I've tried to find it again but no luck, any ideas? EDIT: Aha!! I have found out where it comes from: 40 Days written in 1965 by Dave Brubeck. I think the Paganini was a detour he went on in the performance I heard originally, or maybe my brain thought it heard something it didn't. Now, my question is, does everybody know this already and I am just late to the show?
To understand the "Shibboleth" reference David's talking about it helps to look to Jewish history, where there was fighting within the tribes of Israel. The Gileadites were at war with the Ephramites, and were guarding a territory border to the Ephramite's land. Because the Gileadite leaders didn't know the number of spies or who had slipped into the nation of Israel, (over 42,000 in the end) they decided on a test. Whenever someone came to cross the border and claimed they were not an Ephramite, they had the man come forward and say the word "Shibboleth". There was a difference in dialect, for the scripture records that the Ephramites could not pronounce the 'sh' sound and would say "Sibboleth" instead.
It's said that during WW II, soldiers in the Netherlands would challenge suspicious people to pronounce Scheveningen. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/Nl-Scheveningen.ogg I think that's harder than shibboleth.
Really cool concept and video, but it raises so many questions. Do the people who commission the piece know you're writing a meme? Or do you just send the piece to them and hope they're okay with it? Did they even know what the licc is before you wrote the piece, or did you explain it to them? And do the musicians know?
It shows how people listen to a piece of music. Both Group meme and theme are actively listening to music. They get from it, what they are trained to listen for. If you were to play this to a 3rd group who know nothing about themes or memes, I wonder what that group would hear with ears not trained to look for specific structures.
You seem to have a number of complete lunatics commenting on this, taking themselves MUCH too seriously. I really really enjoyed your piece, I came from the whole performance to this explanation....
the question that remains is what the composer is actually licking. but maybe we shouldn't go there... on a serious note, the little composing and arranging i have done is really based on the concept of themes, and so is most of it in musical history. whole styles (like the baroque fugues) are based on it. the meaning given to this lick-theme is really specific for a group and has nothing to do with the theme quality of it. beethoven's dadadadaaaah is the same story. that has been memified to the same extend. i guess there are many examples of this like satie's first gymnopedie, orffs carmina burana, etc. etc. just watch old cartoons and find every classical meme you ever wanted. i see how the licc meme is 'hip and happening' now, but it's not new in that sense..... great piece though, i would love to see a video of the whole recording.
@@sanny8716 But the point is that all that Bruce is saying here is false; it's not that the internet has noticed the existence of "The Licc". Jazz musicians used it since forever, to the extent that within the jazz community itself, it became very much a cliche to use it. That's why you can see that in the many videos out there, when someone plays it other jazz musicians laugh - it's not because of the internet meme, it's because they're thinking "wow, that guy really went there" - it's equivalent to a comedian doing a "yo mama" joke. There's a whole youtube channel devoted to Yo Mama jokes, but saying that channel is the origin of the "yo mama joke meme" is just ignorant.
@@crapadopalese people outside like stand up circles knows about yo moma jokes. Nobody outside jazz circles (and probably not even everyone inside jazz circles) knew about the lick before the meme. So, not a fait comparison
@@sanny8716 EVERYONE in the jazz circles knows about it. You learn about it early on when you learn to improvise (that mostly relies on transcribing licks).
Do another 5 composers one theme challenge, but only memes. The Lick, first bar of Megalovania (with the octave leap), the theme from Hall of the Mountain King, Mary Had A Little Lamb, Shave and a Haircut, and whatever that "55_5_23_|1___8" thing is
Dies irae sits in the corner laughing maniacally
Adam mentioned Shave and a Haircut and I realized it may just be the most powerful musical meme alive, with Dies Irae lurking close behind. At least The Lick is just kind of a musical in-joke. It doesn't carry the connotation of humor or death like Shave and a Haircut or Dies Irae.
@@GuyNamedSean I think the main difference here is the level in which those musical elements operate. "Shave and a Haircut" appears in contexts where the humour is transparent to the audience; it's closely associated with comedy because it's used in comedic contexts, and it's supposed to be funny to the whole audience. Dies Irae is a little more subtle, because I'm not sure how many members of the general public associate that melody with death, but when Berlioz used it for Symphonie Fantastique, its meaning was supposed to be transparent. You weren't "special" for associating it with death; it was right there in the programme. And that's the reason why that melody is associated with death even in pop culture.
The lick, though, is an IN JOKE. It's not transparent to the audience, and it's not a joke that's supposed to include the audience in general; in fact, it SEGREGATES the "laymen" from the "people who know it". It's purely exclusionary. The lick isn't funny on its own merits; instead, you laugh at it because you feel smart for getting the reference. Laughing at the lick is a badge of honour, a certificate of erudition, and that's why the lick has become obnoxious whereas Shave and a Haircut hasn't.
This is precisely the type of content we follow you on TH-cam for David. On the one hand theres the humor and amusement, on the other hand theres genuinely beautiful music and a serious topic of discussion with an almost scientific approach.
Agree. This was awesome. Thank you.
@Braindead : That is perhaps the best description of this channel.
Not me, I’m purely subbed for those sexy eyebrows of his.
I just discovered this channel and I am so happy I found it! Good luck!!!
Makes the best video in the world
David bruce:
*there is another*
Dude this makes me so happy. I've been playing around with the licc for brass quintet but I've had little luck making anything good. I'm so glad that someone could make the licc good.
I love this SO MUCH??? Can't wait to see the full video of the performance
what a performance from the quartet!
Can we just appreciate for a moment how amazing of a composer David is?
Would this have happened if meme didn’t rhyme with theme?
G R E A T !!! *:D* I feel like I´m starting to become a David Bruce fan - - - - looking forward to the
whole piece ! Thanks for filming - and of course for WRITING such delightful music !
I've binged watch quite a number of David Bruce's videos these past few days and it is so interesting to hear a composer about music and talk about their work in such wonderful detail. I'm so pleased I stumbled upon this glorious channel. Thank you, David Bruce.
The Lick got me more interested in the art of musical composition. I was learning to sing harmony and play piano when I was 6, but I always saw composition as something that Serious Musicians do. Seeing it as a meme was a way for me to think "hey wait, sometimes all it takes is a fun idea!"
A great example of the Licc id in John O’Reilly’s Concertino for Oboe. It’s incredibly exposed, and definitely deliberate in its placement
"Whining cat moment" - Legit turned round to see if my cat had turned up to annoy me.
Perfect for an internet-based piece.
@@ejb7969 yeah if it was written in 2007
Looking forward to hearing the complete performance once you post it
Lovely; to be honest I had not detected the lick in Adam's piece it just worked very well and was captivated with the lyrics and atmosphere he had created. I honestly think it is a lot less of an issue to my ears. Though I agree, that others may experience a very drastically different listening experience.
Excellent as always!
Whenever I hear the lick my brain goes "lol , nice."
Great video. I was enchanted by the many facets to the music and its analysis. I look forward to you posting the entire performance of the piece.
Should’ve titled it meme theme dream team
Absolutely fascinating! I can't wait to hear the entire piece
FUN pronounciation of J.S.Bach - sounds almost as "Ja(i)zz Bach" and I love it.
18:25 Shostakovich lick??
Honestly, I really can’t wait for the video! It sounds amazing
9:38 That whole Lydian section really sounded like it was in D, where you're hanging around the G to F#, like IV to iii (or inversion of I). Not sure if that's the case or just conditioning on my part but regardless, I found it very evocative, you're interval choices and how you separated them between the two chords was right up my alley with how I like to hear strings in that kind of staccato feel, or at least as far as the stabs (strings can have stabs right? hah) Sorry I'm not great with my terms. While I'm not on Patreon I'd gladly pay for that track if you have it recorded.
As for "The Lick" itself, I've my own story on it. I first came across it through that original video shared on Facebook many years ago, back in around.. 2011 at earliest, 2013 at latest. At that time I was listening to a "jazz" musician who's name I won't mention, a pianist. Hell I was getting into a bit of modern jazz that came out that time in general. But I began liking this _particular_ piano player's music and style up until a point where I noticed something - he had this exact lick, in almost every solo he ever did. In fact, he even had it as part of the melodies of songs. And he had other licks too in almost every single "improvised" solo he ever did, I'm not even joking here, once I found this out, you can imagine how I felt about him now. Lastly on this guy, he had actually used the lick so much throughout his career (and still does), that he even managed, and I kid you not David, to narrow down the lick into its most basic form, that is, in just expressing it as the last 3 notes of the phrase!
And to top things off, in 2013 Snarky Puppy used it as the main melody for a collaboration with Chantae Cann called Da Da 'n Da, be fooled not, this is absolutely the lick in a simplified form, and I actually really like this song, don't seem to care about the lick's usage here at all, because it just works. - th-cam.com/video/vRdeFaLubdw/w-d-xo.html
So fast forward to subscribing to Adam Neely's content in 2015 or so, man.. all due respect but I already got tired and frustrated with the lick at this point, it was already a meme before a meme for me and couldn't see humor in it since learning how that aforementioned pianist abused it, along with the history of it throughout jazz music too I guess. But when I listen to your piece here, or parts of it since I don't know where to hear it in full as of now, the uneducated part of me can't identify not only the Lydian version of it, (ok I can but I love that section so far anyway), but the rest of it before like where you split the phrase in two, nuh uh can't notice that at all. So I wonder, regarding the In & Out groups, if I was more educated to where I'd be able to notice the themes throughout, the question is would it affect my ability to listen and like the music that's ultimately played for listening pleasure? It might who knows, it's interesting to consider here that ignorance might be bliss, and I'm not saying that as an excuse to not improve ones listening or playing abilities, just that here it might be a coincidence.
Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collicctor, by Terry Wrylicc, came to mind at times.
7:43 that guy on the left: "What am I playing? Am I seeing things?"
Yesterday I was thinking about how a song made entirely with the licc sounds like? This is beyond my imagination. Lydian licc is my favorite. :D
All joking aside, this is one of my favorite pieces of yours. It's such a great mixture of complex and accessible, which I feel can be hard to come by in modern classical music
Once a meme, ALWAYS A MEME
Awesome Vid! Thank you!
10:01 That sounds something like I would hear when making my character in The Sims
Regarding B5 example in the intro, not to quote PDQ, but “would you call that idea a theme or a motif?”
The licc does not "trivialize music". It adds a dimension to it. As Adam said, it's a cultural identifier. A little secret code for members of this little music theory TH-cam community to be able to identify with one another.
Granted, there is a tasteless way to play it (like whenever anyone walks into a classroom for instance - I've done that), but when incorporated into a seemingly disparate piece, it adds something to it that you can only get by adding the licc specifically
The opening motive of Chopin op. 9 no. 1 is rather close but sublime.
Looking forward to the full vid !
What a wonderful world we live in that a very chump amateur musician like me can be exposed to content like this. Thank you David Bruce!
Looking forward to the whole recording :)
Dave, amazing as Always. But in comparing theme and meme, the example you gave was strongly based on the concept of motif. Of course, the transposed motif gave the theme on the Beethoven's 5th. Am I being too picky?
1:31
Me: A__DA_UM NEE-LY!!!
Supposedly, JJay Berthume incorporates The Licc into every one of his compositions...
O_o
@@JJBerthume I love seeing the composing youtubers hang out here :)
Have Yourself A Merry Liccle Christmas
I want a shirt with the lick in piano roll notation like at the end of this video!
that's happening!
in fact, it's happened! teespring.com/the-lick-sequencer-style?tsmac=store&tsmic=david-bruce-composer&pid=389&cid=100029
Thanks DB! I show your content to my students all the time, so thank you for the fantastic videos!
I think you did it, David. You broke the lick. You crashed the "joke". I think you successfully created a situation in which, if the audience insists in giggling or having fun at the "joke", then they're refusing to receive the art. You made the "joke" become an undesirable element, and I honestly thought that was highly unlikely at the state we're in.
But more shockingly: you took an idea from Jacob Collier and made it listenable! Now *that* made my jaw drop.
Amazing visuals. Great video.
Amazing, a masterclass in taking the ridiculous and making it sublime.
Camden Shaw not being particularly subtle about his Group Meme membership, though... 😂
Can anyone explain the "it's nearly over" violin concerto joke?
Search on TH-cam for the third movement of Beethoven’s violin concerto. The words “it’s nearly over” sound the same as the rhythm
Pretty upset I didn't know about the Dallas premier considering I LIVE IN DALLAS.
It was listed under “more”.
Can the Dies Irae be considered the first musical meme?
Regarding polyrhythmic cycles not needing to complete. I noticed that a couple of years ago in Jacob Collier's Flintstones. Also, as is that case, they don't need to start together. Both are quite obvious in retrospect but I'd never considered either before hearing that. (To be truthful, before seeing June Lee's transcription)
It's not the quesation of 'why' but 'why not?'
I started writing something more Romantic-era-style based on The Lick, but had dismissed it in my mind as a silly concept. Maybe I should try having another go at it. :)
Enjoyed this very much!
deliccious.
eliquent.
imminently cLickable
I heard a lot of the final movement of Bartok's 4th quartet in that final section!
I think it would be important to note that the prominance of the lick came through improvisation. It's a phrase that you can play easily and accidentaly, thus why it's seen as lazy/cheesy
6:33 - Very nice. Reminds me a bit of the bonkers scherzo of Beethoven's string quartet op. 135.
I think this is comparable to hearing a song in a foreign language and loving it and then listening and noticing it only talks about meaningless things and it ruins the song , or it further improves the song if the lyrics are of your liking.
Kinda like how my profile photo is of imagine dragons because I started listening to them before I was a good English speaker.
Funny part is adam mentioning the shave an a haircut. Well I performed bachs cello prelude in g for cello on guitar. But I ended the with piece shave and a haircut.
as a german, i really appreciate prof. cleverly pronouncing Bach correctly
Humor is as subjective as music, although the latter requires more effort and provides greater fulfillment. Laughing after hearing the lick is as similar as writing the lick and using it in a musical context. that's why using the meme fits with using the theme.
Very Nice vlog! Actually the use of themes and motifs is for me the core of composition, but today Composers not seem to take much use of it. But With this video you give us a brilliant example how use of motifs can shape the whole architecture of also a modern piece of Music. Thank you! It is a great inspiration!!!… In my Music, my Symphony nr. 5 is the most ambisious and large scaled work were I use only one motif consequently throughout the whole work.
ART is it's perception.
That can get you made a Duke or get you your head removed.
Or worst of all (somehow)... ignored.
I like how Adam Neely is the meme king😂😂😂
he played the lick for 5 hours straight on live stream. he's earned it.
Where does The Licc originally originate? Did Adam Neely get it from something in the past? Recently, I heard it distinctly in some black and white film footage of jazz with Brubeck from the 50's/60's which I vaguely recognised to be a Paganini piece. I've tried to find it again but no luck, any ideas?
EDIT: Aha!! I have found out where it comes from: 40 Days written in 1965 by Dave Brubeck. I think the Paganini was a detour he went on in the performance I heard originally, or maybe my brain thought it heard something it didn't.
Now, my question is, does everybody know this already and I am just late to the show?
To understand the "Shibboleth" reference David's talking about it helps to look to Jewish history, where there was fighting within the tribes of Israel. The Gileadites were at war with the Ephramites, and were guarding a territory border to the Ephramite's land. Because the Gileadite leaders didn't know the number of spies or who had slipped into the nation of Israel, (over 42,000 in the end) they decided on a test.
Whenever someone came to cross the border and claimed they were not an Ephramite, they had the man come forward and say the word "Shibboleth".
There was a difference in dialect, for the scripture records that the Ephramites could not pronounce the 'sh' sound and would say "Sibboleth" instead.
It's said that during WW II, soldiers in the Netherlands would challenge suspicious people to pronounce Scheveningen. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/Nl-Scheveningen.ogg
I think that's harder than shibboleth.
Those cats! XD (7:42)
Really cool concept and video, but it raises so many questions. Do the people who commission the piece know you're writing a meme? Or do you just send the piece to them and hope they're okay with it? Did they even know what the licc is before you wrote the piece, or did you explain it to them? And do the musicians know?
Shibboleth is my new favorite word.
that was marvelous
I want that T-shirt!!!
nice video man
Now you need to do a _7;11 String Quartet_
It shows how people listen to a piece of music. Both Group meme and theme are actively listening to music. They get from it, what they are trained to listen for. If you were to play this to a 3rd group who know nothing about themes or memes, I wonder what that group would hear with ears not trained to look for specific structures.
All memes aside the piece slapped HARD
You seem to have a number of complete lunatics commenting on this, taking themselves MUCH too seriously. I really really enjoyed your piece, I came from the whole performance to this explanation....
Is there a full version of the piece available somewhere?
David uploaded it to his channel just now.
What's that piece of string attached to the end of the viola bow? It's particularly noticeable around 17:05.
@@_adamshaaban Thanks!
the question that remains is what the composer is actually licking. but maybe we shouldn't go there...
on a serious note, the little composing and arranging i have done is really based on the concept of themes, and so is most of it in musical history. whole styles (like the baroque fugues) are based on it. the meaning given to this lick-theme is really specific for a group and has nothing to do with the theme quality of it. beethoven's dadadadaaaah is the same story. that has been memified to the same extend. i guess there are many examples of this like satie's first gymnopedie, orffs carmina burana, etc. etc. just watch old cartoons and find every classical meme you ever wanted. i see how the licc meme is 'hip and happening' now, but it's not new in that sense..... great piece though, i would love to see a video of the whole recording.
15:50 so what Violin Concerto was it?
I mean maybe Beethoven but I'm not sure
art
Is that Oyo Como Va?
The theme of the last movement of Beethoven's violin concerto has a "it's nearly over" rhythm. Did I get it?
"Don't let your memes be themes!" -Shia Labeouf
Watching this video while wearing a the licc t-shirt. I feel like a douche.
David Bruce - The OG Mhemer
Beside the content, The edition of your vids are great!!
Brick Piano is afraid of this video
Very, very interesting.
18:25 D Es C H ??
more like A B G Fis
memet
0:54 Sn-WHAT?
Right? In my mind was the Spongebob "you WHAT" meme
It's time to STOP
Very impressive
Guess what!? I got a fevah. And the only prescription there is. . .
I gotta have more cowbell!
do I hear a DSCH at 18:26?
Your 7-7-7-7-1 sounds like Czernowin
What about simon fransman? Eheh
Did you tell the musicians what this was about?
The professor at the top of the video was David wasn’t it? I know it was run through effects but it matched his cadence and accent a bit.
It is definitely his voice, and no doubt his words of course too. So yes, it is him.
The lick was *not* invented on the internet. It has been called "The Lick" since forever and jazz musicians agree it is corny to use it.
It has been called "The Licc" on the internet tho
Until the internet people outside the jazz scene never knew about the lick.
@@sanny8716 But the point is that all that Bruce is saying here is false; it's not that the internet has noticed the existence of "The Licc". Jazz musicians used it since forever, to the extent that within the jazz community itself, it became very much a cliche to use it. That's why you can see that in the many videos out there, when someone plays it other jazz musicians laugh - it's not because of the internet meme, it's because they're thinking "wow, that guy really went there" - it's equivalent to a comedian doing a "yo mama" joke. There's a whole youtube channel devoted to Yo Mama jokes, but saying that channel is the origin of the "yo mama joke meme" is just ignorant.
@@crapadopalese people outside like stand up circles knows about yo moma jokes.
Nobody outside jazz circles (and probably not even everyone inside jazz circles) knew about the lick before the meme.
So, not a fait comparison
@@sanny8716 EVERYONE in the jazz circles knows about it. You learn about it early on when you learn to improvise (that mostly relies on transcribing licks).
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Do another 5 composers one theme challenge, but only memes. The Lick, first bar of Megalovania (with the octave leap), the theme from Hall of the Mountain King, Mary Had A Little Lamb, Shave and a Haircut, and whatever that "55_5_23_|1___8" thing is