Do you have PERFECT PITCH?! | Q+A #49

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  • @sophiaredwood5825
    @sophiaredwood5825 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1922

    Perfect pitch here, I was half-asleep listening to this video and totally jolted awake when I heard a E flat and he called it a D

    • @MartyMusic777
      @MartyMusic777 4 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      Mood.

    • @unfall5521
      @unfall5521 4 ปีที่แล้ว +85

      Same lmao my brain was fucked up

    • @redpractition
      @redpractition 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Sophia Redwood yep same

    • @jeraldhughes7808
      @jeraldhughes7808 4 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      Damn straight. This was a 'Psyche!!' for those with perfect pitch. I really hate it when I see the hand go down on a key, but the wrong pitch comes out.

    • @dz7se
      @dz7se 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Hahaha yes I can totally relate 😂 I was like „wait a minute, this is no D?!“

  • @Patricia_Taxxon
    @Patricia_Taxxon 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4513

    This anti-clickbait is gonna take over youtube.

    • @AdamNeely
      @AdamNeely  6 ปีที่แล้ว +1062

      i shall be leading the charge. join me, comrade.

    • @Patricia_Taxxon
      @Patricia_Taxxon 6 ปีที่แล้ว +150

      I will.

    • @TheCloudeGraves
      @TheCloudeGraves 6 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Oh hey it's you, you're cool.

    • @AndriyVasylenko
      @AndriyVasylenko 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Adam Neely Blessing accepted, sir!

    • @61pokepi
      @61pokepi 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      we will*

  • @Troy_Aesthetics
    @Troy_Aesthetics 4 ปีที่แล้ว +626

    I have imperfect pitch, where I don’t have relative or perfect pitch

    • @heem8814
      @heem8814 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      TONE DEAF HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH WEE WOO WEE WOO

    • @EthanDyTioco
      @EthanDyTioco 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      F

    • @max-tf3vo
      @max-tf3vo 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      F

    • @victorcaetano1144
      @victorcaetano1144 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      E

    • @shadowx2750
      @shadowx2750 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Your pfp goes so well with that comment

  • @imramblin1638
    @imramblin1638 5 ปีที่แล้ว +792

    Imagine learning perfect pitch on an out of tune piano, no longer having the ability to listen to music without the feeling of something being off. That's an upsetting thought.

    • @lifeontheledgerlines8394
      @lifeontheledgerlines8394 5 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      My piano teacher has perfect pitch (starting to fade now, I've heard it starts disappearing/becoming less reliable after you turn 50, and she's going to be 60 in March) and her piano at home was tuned a half step down. She had to constantly alternate between that and standard equal temperament A=440 pianos at her music school and university. Maybe it's for the best that it's fading, it must've been rough for her.

    • @4ourty5ive
      @4ourty5ive 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Well, you don't really learn it, like training standing next to a piano. You just memorize the notes as they are, irrelevant to the location ON the piano. YOu could one piano playing a note and an old piano's notes and know they're all there just lowered by a note or two ON the keyboard

    • @evantwo7862
      @evantwo7862 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      That's not how it works bro. You develop perfect pitch at a super young age, and even if you were to later learn the names of the notes incorrectly, that would be -- while maybe annoying/confusing at first -- a pretty simple fix.

    • @user0-d2r
      @user0-d2r 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@evantwo7862 nah, not really, I have perfect pitch and I learned it in b flat because I play clarinet, so my reference grid is from b flat, if you will. Even when reading music in c, it's still always in b flat and I always transpose the c music into b flat.
      It was confusing to learn to transpose to c, but I believe it would be impossible for me to actually hear a concert f and identify it first as an f and second as a g. Maybe that would be different if I had learned a c instrument at the same time as clarinet, but that's not how it works, at least not for me.

    • @dynaboyjl.4220
      @dynaboyjl.4220 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Ed' I didn’t “learn” perfect pitch, but I did start my musical training with trumpet (thinking in a Bb mindset) and a piano tuned a half step down (in a B mindset). So I guess as a result, C Major does feel a little bit annoyingly high sometimes

  • @DavidM-du7xo
    @DavidM-du7xo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1986

    Adam: I'll play a note
    Me: *guesses D"
    Adam: "it's a D natural"
    Me: "yes!"
    Adam later in the video: "this keyboard is tuned a half step sharp."
    Me: *facepalms*

    • @catatafish6251
      @catatafish6251 5 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      Nailed it, same thing here. I really was enthusiastic for about 2 minutes :D

    • @marioj2425
      @marioj2425 5 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      Yeah I thought that b sounded like c

    • @cameronc1155
      @cameronc1155 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Sammeeeeee I was so happy with myself and then he was like "nahhh"

    • @aylbdrmadison1051
      @aylbdrmadison1051 5 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Me too. But that's quite a coincidence that many of us had it nailed as a D, but we were all off exactly 1/2 step.
      Does that mean we all are only 1 tone away from perfect pitch? lols.

    • @FranciscoGarcia-yt2jm
      @FranciscoGarcia-yt2jm 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I guessed E, but I don't have perfect pitch, I try to use my memory but obviously fails me.

  • @fishwithafez
    @fishwithafez 6 ปีที่แล้ว +604

    A question for your next Q&A
    If humans had 3 legs, would marches be in 3/4?
    Thanks!

  • @lance4842
    @lance4842 5 ปีที่แล้ว +462

    2:52... people with perfect pitch got *PRANK'D*

    • @JJRicks
      @JJRicks 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Lol I already knew

    • @SDPiano
      @SDPiano 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Lol

    • @gtalover1233
      @gtalover1233 5 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      Lanceランス No people without perfect pitch got pranked, people with perfect pitch knew...

    • @annekosakevitch2122
      @annekosakevitch2122 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Lanceランス nope we got hurt

    • @VincentDoesThings
      @VincentDoesThings 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I remember hearing him play a C and suddenly saw his finger on a B. I was so confused XD

  • @jamaaldavis6243
    @jamaaldavis6243 4 ปีที่แล้ว +95

    I *have* perfect pitch and I gotta say, I was pretty enraged when you said that "Eb" was "D"... and then I watched the rest of your video hahaha. You're right on the money 👍🏾

  • @TarksGauntlet
    @TarksGauntlet 6 ปีที่แล้ว +648

    Damn. The first note you played I guessed as D and I was proud of myself.
    ..You monster.

    • @Hulavuta
      @Hulavuta 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Same, but I wonder if I would only recognize it for piano, and not other instruments.

    • @thesaxiest4480
      @thesaxiest4480 6 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      Tarks Gauntlet now we know you don't have perfect pitch

    • @TarksGauntlet
      @TarksGauntlet 6 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @Geoff
      I could have told you that before the video haha.

    • @MisterAppleEsq
      @MisterAppleEsq 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same.

    • @MisterAppleEsq
      @MisterAppleEsq 6 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      +bampf ibus It is an Eb.

  • @cookieprev5176
    @cookieprev5176 6 ปีที่แล้ว +282

    The thumbnail made it so anti clickbait I had to click

  • @TheDreRock
    @TheDreRock 4 ปีที่แล้ว +203

    D sounds like Eb....is youtube acting funny or

    • @TheDreRock
      @TheDreRock 4 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      LOLLLLLL NICE

    • @arya6085
      @arya6085 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Shit it's actually you. Weird seeing you with zero likes lmao

    • @meraldlag4336
      @meraldlag4336 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I think the keyboard is transposed
      Edit: AHA GADDIM

    • @8Phoenix8
      @8Phoenix8 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      One point i began to turn 20ish and my ears changed and everything turned sharp. It was a nightmare. Im prepping for it it at 40. Since i know its gonna get sharper in the future. But now perfect pitch is back. :)

    • @nagoshi01
      @nagoshi01 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Did you actually watch the section before commenting? He explains it completely.

  • @sardonicgoat
    @sardonicgoat 5 ปีที่แล้ว +96

    Hahaha. I thought something was wrong with my ears when you said the first two notes were D and B. Started to think it was possible to lose perfect pitch. Good one.

    • @James-ix5yj
      @James-ix5yj 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ian Dobbins same!

    • @Persun_McPersonson
      @Persun_McPersonson 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      It will actually start to fade in your 50s and 60s, but yeah lol he got you good [has relative pitch so can't be embarrased by being tricked 😎]

    • @Gianna-ff2mg
      @Gianna-ff2mg 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same !!

  • @samwurdemann2637
    @samwurdemann2637 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1281

    0:59 - Is your keyboard a half-step lower or something? I DO have perfect pitch, and I heard that as an E Flat.
    1:31 - And that's a C, not a B!
    2:52 - GOD DAMMIT

    • @TimothyReeves
      @TimothyReeves 6 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Yeah I played his “D” on my horn by playing B flat which means it’s really E flat. :/

    • @DanielElson
      @DanielElson 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Sam Wurdemann that what I have and I thought it was wrong
      I have relative pitch I can identify
      D f# and b

    • @terepanjaitan
      @terepanjaitan 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      i feel you bruh

    • @christopher0310
      @christopher0310 6 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Sam Wurdemann
      Idk why i find this interesting but the way people choose to say if something is a D# vs Eb when there's no given key signature.

    • @MartyMusic777
      @MartyMusic777 6 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Sam Wurdemann THANK YOU, THIS DROVE ME INSANE.

  • @NameIsNotAvailable
    @NameIsNotAvailable 6 ปีที่แล้ว +214

    As a person with perfect pitch, that's an Eb at the beginning.
    OH MY GOSH why do I not wait

    • @evenstevens280
      @evenstevens280 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @OTheB Or you didn't watch the rest of video

    • @spacechicken6316
      @spacechicken6316 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Stove or you didnt read the rest of the comment

    • @juanm1997
      @juanm1997 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Of course he was doing it on purpose, I couldn't help but laugh when he started showing the keyboard and everything was a half-step off haha

    • @evenstevens280
      @evenstevens280 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @spacechicken TH-cam does this funny thing where it doesn't tell you who's replying to who. I was replying to OTheB.

    • @MitkoNikov
      @MitkoNikov 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      I guessed that it was Eb and was surprised at first to hear that was a D... So, we are still right...

  • @aloysiuskurnia7643
    @aloysiuskurnia7643 4 ปีที่แล้ว +256

    *plays a "D major"*
    "Wait this doesn't sound like Canon in D at all"
    Anyone else here use some kind of musical piece to refer to absolute pitch?

    • @nr-ke8qj
      @nr-ke8qj 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Aloysius Kurnia yes, that is how I discovered my perfect pitch.

    • @sage7296
      @sage7296 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      yes. That’s how I remembered notes and chords when I first got into music

    • @jopetdevera
      @jopetdevera 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Yes I have specific songs that kinda relate to a note haha. *of course, the G note is one*

    • @ludvigsundby
      @ludvigsundby 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Penn Josef De Vera *high G note*

    • @Nomatterwhat69
      @Nomatterwhat69 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      It doesn't works for me... It helps but not enough.

  • @theoneeyedfool
    @theoneeyedfool 4 ปีที่แล้ว +113

    "If you had perfect pitch, you'd probably be really annoyed right now."
    YEAH. YEAH I WAS. I thought I was going crazy right after you played the first "D" (Eb) 😂

    • @RDR7891
      @RDR7891 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      me too lol

    • @zanderowens8664
      @zanderowens8664 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I was about to write a comment about how that is definitely not a D and I figured it out, I thought I was crazy

  • @isaacvandoren4733
    @isaacvandoren4733 6 ปีที่แล้ว +412

    Good job having hair

    • @ivyssauro123
      @ivyssauro123 6 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Isaac Van Doren It looks great on him doesn't it?

    • @edyflak
      @edyflak 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Ivo Wilson He has beautiful hair.

    • @omukssbm
      @omukssbm 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      im so proud

    • @natidaho4686
      @natidaho4686 6 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      I can't wait for Adam Neely's "how to not suck at hair" series

    • @duncandrummond726
      @duncandrummond726 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I had grown attached to the lack of hair, but I'm not going to infringe upon an artists desire to express them selves or indeed, to revisit their pre university roots.

  • @wallywutsizface6346
    @wallywutsizface6346 6 ปีที่แล้ว +140

    I want to thank you for your lack of clickbait. You straight up answer the title of your videos in the title a lot of the time, and give actual in-depth explanations in the video.

    • @aylbdrmadison1051
      @aylbdrmadison1051 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      No need to even watch the vid.
      :P

    • @bluegrovyle5480
      @bluegrovyle5480 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I want to thank you for your Pokemon Mystery Dungeon profile picture.

  • @jackhmaynard
    @jackhmaynard 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    The 8 minutes you spent on Sir Duke was some of your best content ever. Also glad to hear you are a Dan Carlin listener. Makes sense, as his approach to history is similar to your approach to music theory. Thanks for doing what you do.

  • @NicuMihai
    @NicuMihai 4 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    7:21 well technically... He wasn't looking...

    • @spidey9556
      @spidey9556 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Godlike intervention here

  • @TAP7a
    @TAP7a 6 ปีที่แล้ว +148

    That’s a goddamn Eb. God that intersensory dissonance was frustrating

    • @vinniebasile9404
      @vinniebasile9404 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Thank you!!! I was going insane

    • @fusiontricycle6605
      @fusiontricycle6605 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Why is his keyboard so off key?

    • @vinniebasile9404
      @vinniebasile9404 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Fusion Tricycle most digital keyboards have a transposition button, where middle C can be set to any pitch. Obviously, all of the intervals shift relatively when you do that. He must have had the transpose button on to +1 half step.

    • @anonimous_user7318
      @anonimous_user7318 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah thank god

    • @zorm_
      @zorm_ 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Ah I see you're a man of culture as well

  • @aarnialeksis
    @aarnialeksis 6 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Ooooohhhhh. You made the lick-jingle even more JAZZZ

  • @Esraug9012
    @Esraug9012 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I’ve always been confused with whether or not I had perfect pitch. I thought maybe I was being too cocky and only had relative pitch. But when you played the D and it came out as Eb I noticed it almost right away. When you played the B and it came out C I instantly assumed you’d address it later or something because I was so confident of the notes I was hearing. That’s the difference between relative and perfect. Perfect needs no introduction. You hear a note and know it. Relative is just everything else. You can hear the differences but not the exact notes without introduction. Great vid as always man

  • @dennis5130
    @dennis5130 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I've never been so scared in my life.... I literally got out of bed to just pick up a tuner just to check lmao

  • @ijimedia
    @ijimedia 6 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    DAMN that lick reharmonization is JUICY

    • @moldefan3544
      @moldefan3544 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      We just got lick-baited.

  • @vitormelomedeiros
    @vitormelomedeiros 6 ปีที่แล้ว +276

    OH BOY DURING THAT SEGMENT WITH THE PIANO TUNED SHARP I WAS LIKE WHAAAAAAT IS GOING ON???????

    • @anderson.ziemmer
      @anderson.ziemmer 6 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Vítor Medeiros hahahaha me too, I was feeling strange

    • @scsviolin
      @scsviolin 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      It was driving me crazy!!!!!
      hahahaha

    • @mychaelmay6321
      @mychaelmay6321 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      FREAKING- YESSSSSSS!!! AAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!! 😣

    • @marioisawesome8991
      @marioisawesome8991 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I sang the “C” and was very confused because it was too high. I was very confused haha.

    • @milograamans2
      @milograamans2 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I also have a well-attuned relative pitch. I could have sworn it was an Eb, but then he said it was a D and I second guessed myself and had to go check it against the piano. Brilliant.

  • @brettgaulke6494
    @brettgaulke6494 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Okay I love that he mentioned his keyboard was transposed. He played the Eb and then he said it was a D and I was like "wuuuuuut is he doing?" Lol

  • @bryanpasian
    @bryanpasian 5 ปีที่แล้ว +610

    Adam: I would correctly identify this note as a D
    Me: THATS NOT A D! That's E FLAT!
    Edit: Just saw 2:52. He got me good.

    • @acedenach
      @acedenach 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      I feel punked. We've been punked.

    • @RN-jq1oh
      @RN-jq1oh 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Ricko Beato did something similar so I knew this time he was not serious the first time

    • @imsohawtomdzii5869
      @imsohawtomdzii5869 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      I know that's an E flat because of Lizst's La Campanella.

    • @dhr.neuteboom4536
      @dhr.neuteboom4536 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I heared it, but I don't think I have PP. RP for sure.

    • @jonathankim1999
      @jonathankim1999 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Bro I thought that was a d sharp because I am writing a song that starts with that note, but I don’t have perfect pitch and I assumed I was wrong when I saw him play a d. He’s fucking with my hearing lol I’m pissed

  • @jeremiahacosta422
    @jeremiahacosta422 6 ปีที่แล้ว +161

    YOU CHANGED THE LICK MUSIC IN TRANSITION! YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE SLICK. NOTHING GETS BY ME. NOTHING.
    Yeah, it’s pretty cool though. Love ya

    • @ArielKennethAmpol
      @ArielKennethAmpol 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Literally scrolled through the comments to see who else noticed lol

    • @LaTortuePGM
      @LaTortuePGM 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      lol same i did notice

    • @malcelinho
      @malcelinho 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      ya!* FTFY


      *edit* just in case you didn't get it: see the intro

  • @NahreSol
    @NahreSol 6 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    I really enjoyed this Q+A, Adam. I love how you answer the questions, and especially liked what you said about the "hyper-real" aspect of the gig vlogs. 👍

  • @TealTactics
    @TealTactics 6 ปีที่แล้ว +93

    I don't have perfect pitch but I knew something was off about the first part of the video because I'm able to identify pitches like C pretty well *sometimes.*

    • @pablox98
      @pablox98 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Same, I didn't catch the Eb that well (althought it did sound a bit weird), but man, that B was totally a C for me (it's like THE note that I've really got internalized)

    • @sargek7
      @sargek7 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@pablox98 Pitches are like a language, you just have to memorize one by one like words, with pretty much effort and patience. You have to practice the "listening" and the "speaking" parts, where:
      1) "Listening" is the ability to identify a specific note (word) in every instrument or thing, like the noise of the motor of a bus (every speaker of a certain language, with their different accents).
      2) "Speaking", is the ability to produce a specific note by yourself, singing it without a reference. This is like when you can express yourself in a foreign language without the help of a dictionary or translator.
      Pablo, you've internalized the "C" note because you've just listened it a thousands of times in your life, in songs and instruments, that was played by other people or by yourself. For the rest of the notes is the same process. You just have to associate the rest 11 sounds with its names, like when you associate the basic colors with its specifics names, or when you associate the "face" of a person with his/her name/age/address (everything is a language, an association).
      There's no such a superhero power where only a few are "gifted" or borned with perfect pitch. The "gifted" are simply the people who were just *immersed intensily* in music (listening or playing instruments); some of them associated the notes involuntary in their lifes, some voluntary and conscious. Again, this is like when some people travel to an another country to stay and live there, but without knowing the language. Years pass by, and with time they can communicate fluently, and that's because they were "immersed" in the foreign language every single day of their lives, listening and speaking, and not because they were born with that language.
      PD: I have perfect pitch by the way.

    • @jonathankim1999
      @jonathankim1999 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Strangenesses The Person wait did you discover you have perfect pitch after learning you can identify e on command?

    • @LukeDayInTheUK
      @LukeDayInTheUK 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Cool, yes C is my memory note too.
      I sing 'all of me' in my head ( C E G) then use relative pitch from there. Sometimes I sing a D or Bb by mistake.

    • @harmitchhabra989
      @harmitchhabra989 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@LukeDayInTheUK hey I know nothing about music, can you please answer a question of mine?
      What does it mean for a song like All of Me to have CEG pitches? I tried singing in front of a chromatic tuner and It went haywire even while saying just words. I also keep hearing singing on pitch and in key... These seem like related questions.
      Thanks in advance.

  • @nicholasthedoor
    @nicholasthedoor 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Adam, Thank you for first answering the question that was in the title of this video. Thumbs up!

  • @captapraelium1591
    @captapraelium1591 6 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    Does the intro song get stuck in anyone else's head or am I weird like that?
    I find myself an hour later in the kitchen like ..'Adam Neelyyyyyy. . . ya!'

    • @auto_ego
      @auto_ego 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I guess there aren't many of us.

    • @Olordrin
      @Olordrin 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      At least three.

    • @chaimean8704
      @chaimean8704 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I actually woke up this morning singing it, I thought I was the only one hahah

    • @Ildskalli
      @Ildskalli 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Oh, it's terrible, I find myself going "question, and answer time, with Adam Neeeeeelyyyyyy!" at the most random moments, and my wife just gives me the evil eye each time I do it.

  • @davidclark9520
    @davidclark9520 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Great answer to the 3rd question! As a music major at UNT, sometimes I feel like I'm so engulfed in learning music I forget about the outside world and all my other interests like math, science, and history and politics, and I love when I can connect music with those other subjects like you did here (and in a lot of your other videos too). When you mentioned the dividing of the Ottoman Empire after WWI, it reminded of these 2 videos by AlternateHistoryHub where he talks about that and what the middle east would be like if it didn't happen. If you haven't heard of it, I'd check it out.

  • @Srcsqwrn
    @Srcsqwrn 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am so thankful I cam across this channel so long ago. Thank you for such in-depth answers. In general thank you for all the information you bestow upon us!

  • @spoto4091
    @spoto4091 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Your videos are by far the best quality in this genre on TH-cam. Please keep them coming!!!!!

  • @MisterAppleEsq
    @MisterAppleEsq 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Adam was so enthusiastic when talking about jazz, it's very cute.

    • @FloydBunsen
      @FloydBunsen 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Mister Apple why are you everywhere?

    • @MisterAppleEsq
      @MisterAppleEsq 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I have way too much free time.

  • @JoshuaConnorMusic
    @JoshuaConnorMusic 6 ปีที่แล้ว +586

    protip: make sure your MIDI keyboard and note names are in the SAME key

    • @Soundaholic92
      @Soundaholic92 6 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      I thought my Mac speakers were fucked up or something

    • @armanarman14
      @armanarman14 6 ปีที่แล้ว +91

      protip: make sure you watch the whole video before leaving a comment

    • @JoshuaConnorMusic
      @JoshuaConnorMusic 6 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      Arman Mohammad protip: make sure you watch Adams video on extreme reharmonization to get the joke before making a reply

    • @Soundaholic92
      @Soundaholic92 6 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      When you try to be a smartass but ends up looking like a dumbass lol

    • @JoshuaConnorMusic
      @JoshuaConnorMusic 6 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      When you realize that this is a long running joke on Adam's channel and the joke goes way over your head

  • @chaseemerson5924
    @chaseemerson5924 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love it! Super glad I waited before commenting on the pitch!

  • @smoekee
    @smoekee 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Much more album recommendations! Thoroughly enjoyed this one, thanks for making cool stuff.

  • @nc0607
    @nc0607 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Omg the lick in this episode was so damned bright and lovely

  • @MarsLos10
    @MarsLos10 6 ปีที่แล้ว +113

    I definitely not have perfect pitch but I have imprinted in my head the sound of C. You said you played the D note (D# on reality) and I was like oh okay nothing's wrong, I can't recognise this note alone, but then you played the B note which was actually a C and immediately I said with so much confidence "that's a C" and I was like "WHAAAT?! I'm sure it's the middle C and usually I'm right, how did I got fooled?" And then I realised... and I was relieved that I can still trust my ear xD

    • @M1k5u.
      @M1k5u. 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      MarsLos10 yeah well you should try imprinting that C harder because the first two notes were actually Db and Bb, not D# and B.

    • @atriyakoller136
      @atriyakoller136 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      dubashroomXD Eb is exactly D# on a piano...

    • @ZipplyZane
      @ZipplyZane 6 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      dubashroomXD No. The first two notes were a D on the piano and a B on the piano. That means they were Eb and C. He even said they were a minor third apart, while your notes were a perfect fourth apart.

    • @atriyakoller136
      @atriyakoller136 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      ZipplyZane exactly.

    • @M1k5u.
      @M1k5u. 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ZipplyZane sorry, meant Db, not Eb.

  • @Footballar09
    @Footballar09 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dude! I love the comparison to history, such a good reference. I am a history major and just finished a Middle East class. It is so important to understand history to correctly interpret our world. Love you Adam!

  • @balthasardenner5216
    @balthasardenner5216 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love all that there are all these think pieces about how to listen to and appreciate jazz, when the only thing you need to do is smoke a bowl.

  • @Hennu_TRM
    @Hennu_TRM 6 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    I gave this video a "like" specifically for the pun about getting down.

  • @congaboris
    @congaboris 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Real life example where perfect pitch actually made my life harder:
    I was in a mandatory choir at uni/college and the choirmaster regularly wanted pieces performed in keys other than what was written in the score.
    If you had relative pitch this was no problem - she would play a V-I on the piano and say there's the key and off we go. Except I was "stuck" hearing the pitches as written so that added extra challenge trying to do the transpostion in my head (which I'm terrible at doing on the spot so yeah...there was a lot of awkward mumbling my way through).

  • @josephzeigler6853
    @josephzeigler6853 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Love the shirt!! What an awesome band.

  • @who7092
    @who7092 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    your analogy with music theory and history was awesome. really well thought out

  • @diazzsama
    @diazzsama 6 ปีที่แล้ว +361

    Why does your D sound so sharp that it's actually D#?

    • @glumbortango7182
      @glumbortango7182 6 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      'Cuz it's on poipose!

    • @christianlitster2418
      @christianlitster2418 6 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      at least the following note was a C, and thus correctly a minor third.

    • @gzozeza
      @gzozeza 6 ปีที่แล้ว +100

      watch the video.... he says the keyboard is transposed

    • @ethangregorymusic
      @ethangregorymusic 6 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Yeah it was to trick people like us lol people with perfect/really good relative pitch.

    • @GrotesqueSmurf
      @GrotesqueSmurf 6 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      How about watching the video before commenting? That is a thing, you know ;)

  • @timmyholiday
    @timmyholiday 6 ปีที่แล้ว +108

    Adam I think you had to record 46 takes of this video before you managed to drop the pen and thus securing a humorous outro bit, before that you unintentionally caught it 45 times.

  • @brickvideos4851
    @brickvideos4851 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    11:36 That, sir, was the greatest pun that has ever graced my ears. I'm subscribing

  • @brett1354
    @brett1354 ปีที่แล้ว

    Glad you brought up story, because stories are how we teach effectively, communicate meaningfully and connect. We think and feel in story, and I have no problem with the idea that we live in story as well.
    Have a good one.

  • @aimiliosspiliopoulos1091
    @aimiliosspiliopoulos1091 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Thanks, Adam! For your next Q+A:
    Do you believe that any instrument can support any genre of music? I would like to hear your thoughts about this, for example bouzouki in Jazz and so on...
    Keep up the good work!

  • @JohnnyArtPavlou
    @JohnnyArtPavlou 6 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    Functional harmony and the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. Adam Neely, you're my 🍒π.

  • @govindoburdwan
    @govindoburdwan 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Your Gig Vlogs are gold. Dont Stop.

  • @dannydscoonz
    @dannydscoonz 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very well thought out response to the third question. I enjoy your theory analysis videos.

  • @daltorb8739
    @daltorb8739 6 ปีที่แล้ว +80

    Hey Adam.
    No question. Just saying hey.

  • @petterhouting7484
    @petterhouting7484 5 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    6:45 random accent change
    So i hoewp

    • @dsblocks
      @dsblocks 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      and i oeup

    • @Bryanomar123
      @Bryanomar123 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hahahahhaahhaa I laughed so much man

    • @haseebrahman1887
      @haseebrahman1887 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      bahahahhaa im dying

  • @peterbrooke7146
    @peterbrooke7146 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Cool what you were saying about Lucky Chops and how infectious it is making you want to dance i remember going to a Too Many Zoos concert and they too play brass instruments in a kinda Dance music way and everyone was getting super into it and going wild such a fun gig.

  • @ramonalvarado5332
    @ramonalvarado5332 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Mind blown by this Music Theory : Music :: History : Present analogy! I'm on board, can't wait to hear more! Deeper awareness leads to deeper appreciation, which leads to deeper enjoyment.

  • @BenjaminKassel
    @BenjaminKassel 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Adam, you are brilliant for annoying me and the rest of your viewers who do have perfect pitch in the way you did. Thank you for so clearly explaining and demonstrating your beliefs.

  • @fudgesauce
    @fudgesauce 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1593

    Perfect pitch? Bah, useless, and I have pity for you.
    Unless, of course, you have perfect pitch A=432. Then the pinata of musical understanding will split open and shower you with wisdom.

    • @anthonyman8008
      @anthonyman8008 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      fudgesauce 444 here

    • @Cowaco
      @Cowaco 6 ปีที่แล้ว +111

      A=420 Hz perfect pitch is all I have and will ever need. #VapeNation

    • @TiagoLageira
      @TiagoLageira 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Im dead

    • @tomwinston7013
      @tomwinston7013 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      A = 420

    • @Kabitu1
      @Kabitu1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Is the transcendent powers of A=432 how you managed to comment on this video before it was uploaded?

  • @flitzmaster_piep
    @flitzmaster_piep 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    i love how excited you get about the get down pun.

  • @yogi4261
    @yogi4261 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I really like these videos. So educational!

  • @boxbird5723
    @boxbird5723 5 ปีที่แล้ว +177

    1:00 it's D sharp not D
    Edit: OK nevermind
    But still so annoyed

    • @K-Viz
      @K-Viz 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      It can be a D in 465 Hz lolz.

    • @scottydscottd
      @scottydscottd 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I was shook

    • @GeometryDashDyno
      @GeometryDashDyno 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Kevin Cordoviz W o K e

    • @reidgowan2670
      @reidgowan2670 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Kevin Cordoviz B A D F R E Q U E N C I E S

    • @NothingXMuch101
      @NothingXMuch101 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lmao just checked on the piano, it is D#

  • @EthanWattsMusic
    @EthanWattsMusic 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    The biggest downside of having perfect pitch is psyching yourself out when playing a transposing instrument. I'm learning saxophone and I've totally abandoned trying to read saxophone sheet music cuz I can't get past the fact that the notes don't line up.
    😭

  • @rosswhitlock3025
    @rosswhitlock3025 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    You're channel is evolving into something cool. The gig vlog is great. I envy your lifestyle. Makes me want to go to New York and play bass. We all now have a window into a world we would otherwise have no insight to so thank you. Also, you're giving your self an edge no other bass player has. Your channel is blowing up, so anyone who uses as their bass player automatically has 543,000 person audience.

  • @macsnafu
    @macsnafu 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    I really liked the analysis of the chord progression in Wonder's Sir Duke. It's the kind of meta- and contextual information that makes music more interesting.

  • @JDProductions76
    @JDProductions76 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Q and A question...
    Can you explain the “Laurel” and “Yanni” situation using the overtone series???

  • @LWWArcher
    @LWWArcher 6 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Yo, you changed up your version of the lick that you use for transitions.

    • @jhoja628
      @jhoja628 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      yeah it's in major now instead of minor

    • @user-dx4rx3bt2l
      @user-dx4rx3bt2l 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah, don’t really like it as much

  • @NickNicometi
    @NickNicometi 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    It is interesting for me to learn that I could sense something off the chord changes played (not an experienced music theory aspiring musician), and when piano tuned properly, my first thought was that it sounded proper/correct, as he explained the piano tuning differential; an AH HA moment. Think I may have a latent perfect pitch talent I've lived 52 years without realizing. Love the color analogy AND the visual color change demo; as a visual artist, it hit right on the mark, as well as the history/music theory analogy. Excellent work by a very articulate musician. Thank you, Mr. Neely.

  • @jessieobscura
    @jessieobscura 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi Adam. I'm a fairly recent subscriber (it feels recent, maybe it's been a couple of months), and I mostly just want to thank you for creating so much interesting music content on youtube. I was involved in music for most of my youth and through college, but since graduating I haven't really kept up with it. I have always struggled with performance anxiety that my instructors never really helped with (their solution was always to practice more, but that didn't help my dry mouth at my trumpet recitals). Part of the problem, I think, is that I also have a perfectionist streak (like so many others), and that really sucked the joy out of playing music for me. Anyway, now I'm over a decade out of college and am slowly finding the joy again. I can play one of your videos in the morning and just listen to you talking about music in a really educated but accessible way. My biggest struggle has been invalidating my own creativity, but your perspective is helping me see past that. On that note, is your critiquing series ("Why you suck at music") going to make a return? I found it really helpful and enlightening. (P.S. I put my money where my mouth is, so to speak, and just joined your Patreon. I hope I can give you more support in the future, because I love what you're doing.)

  • @bassclefgamer6029
    @bassclefgamer6029 6 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Adam you trickster! That was an Eb and the other note was a C!

    • @LowReedExpert1
      @LowReedExpert1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      BassClefGamer nah, it's a D# and an A triple sharp

  • @W7RSON
    @W7RSON 5 ปีที่แล้ว +116

    These anti-clickbait thumbs are more clickbaiting than the actual click baits.

    • @thingonometry-1460
      @thingonometry-1460 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      How so?

    • @Smung
      @Smung 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Clickbaiting would be the wrong term. Attractive is correct though. Just something about its blatant honesty

    • @ErimlRGG
      @ErimlRGG 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@thingonometry-1460 In this video is not the case but in some videos like the one about "Hey Joe" it leads you to think "hmm why is it on E, though?" so you click the video, at least for me. I'm more intrigued by the "why" instead of the answer

  • @SebOrder
    @SebOrder 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    hey Adam ,love all your videos ,for your next Q+A, how did you start in music when you was young ,your influences? your inspirations? your goals ? the music you was linstening to ? sorry for my bad English, thanks keep the good work !!

  • @juandavila4534
    @juandavila4534 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dude ur one of my fav channels

  • @uglyjuel301
    @uglyjuel301 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Question for Q&A:
    What EXACTLY makes for a good rhythm, like what aspects of a rhythm make it enjoyable. I am a drummer who mainly listens to prog metal and I was just wondering to help with composing.

    • @uglyjuel301
      @uglyjuel301 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      For example i love the opening rhythm (after sitar) in Animals As Leaders - Arithmiphobia. It seems pretty sparatic but there might be patterns ( feel free to disregard this part )

  • @nightskyedits8886
    @nightskyedits8886 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    2:47 I thought he was doing this on accident and I thought he’d never say it. I was listening to this with my eyes shut like it was a podcast and jolted awake when this man called Eb a D.

  • @CVGuitar
    @CVGuitar 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Excellent - especially the history tie-in

  • @ahmetkerematakur4247
    @ahmetkerematakur4247 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Putting the answer on the thumbnail is a most dignified act compared to the majority of youtubers. Thanks.

  • @Eta_Carinae__
    @Eta_Carinae__ 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    It's always wise to tread carefully when in historicist waters. I believe your alternative analysis of the Fm7 chord is valid, maybe (although unlikely in this instance) even moreso than the others, because it is my view that every part of an analysis of art, including the viewer/analyser, author, performer and theory, can be wrong.

  • @mythicman95
    @mythicman95 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    3:00 in, you proved that I was freaking out for the right reasons. You sadist.

  • @imthatawsome95
    @imthatawsome95 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Woah!!! Your Hue analogy was SPOT ON!! And so smart!

  • @hastiestudio9866
    @hastiestudio9866 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    The best teacher on TH-cam for music in my opinion.

  • @fredfloyd693
    @fredfloyd693 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Is that a new lick you recorded? It's fancy

    • @Steadman711
      @Steadman711 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fred Floyd sounds like the lick is played in Dm over what starts as a ii-V in F but it goes to a Picardy third in Dmin instead. It’s cool! Gmin-C-D!

  • @amichai345
    @amichai345 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Actually, I have a relative pitch and I knew you were messing with us from the first place. Some people just remember pitch without having a perfect one.

  • @stefanf922
    @stefanf922 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Last year I saw Thomas Dolby in a small venue show, I know the songs, but the story telling between the songs was really what made the show great. I think this style is becoming more popular now.

  • @Davidko65
    @Davidko65 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    liked purely for the fact the comment 2:48 'be annoyed right now' Adam yo a genius , keep it going, love these (long term adam, Rick, SBL , lover)

    • @Davidko65
      @Davidko65 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      and OMG......... 7:08 History.........

  • @-1subswithoutuploadingavid621
    @-1subswithoutuploadingavid621 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Adam, can you grow your hair to metalhead levels? XD

  • @cemvural7245
    @cemvural7245 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Hey Adam,
    I have a question for your next q&a. Why do we have 12 notes? Thx

    • @boptillyouflop
      @boptillyouflop 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I can answer:
      Increasing the pitch by an octave multiplies its frequency by 2.
      Increasing the pitch by a perfect 5th multiplies the frequency by 3/2.
      Increasing pitch by a major 2nd multiplies the frequency by 9/8.
      If you want to split the octave into equal parts, and end up with frequency ratios very close to the ideal ones, the best way is to split it in 12 parts, because 2 to the power of 7/12 is 1.4983 (almost 3/2), and 2 to the power of 2/12 is 1.122462 (almost 9/8). This is why we have 12 notes.

  • @RivieraStudios
    @RivieraStudios 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    I got introduced to jazz music from Vince Guaraldi - A Charlie Brown Christmas, and have always considered it a freaking amazing first step into the jazz world because the melodies and harmonies are known by anyone who grew up with Christmas music.

  • @wavechild445
    @wavechild445 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Adam makes me feel so passionate about music

  • @dhpbear2
    @dhpbear2 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    10:04 - Now we'll need another crew to cover you videoing your performances? ;)
    Better yet. Urge members of the audience to send in their videos and sync them all up (all shot in 'landscape' mode, of course)! ;)

  • @SleepSoul
    @SleepSoul 6 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    Is that a new rendition of the lick?

    • @Roescoe
      @Roescoe 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I figured it was a troll somehow related to perfect pitch.

    • @brettonjohansen1619
      @brettonjohansen1619 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Roescoe yeah same

  • @maxiroberts4395
    @maxiroberts4395 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    That hurt, got me good. Big up dude

  • @zacindabox3481
    @zacindabox3481 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I was relieved when he explained that he knew the keyboard was sharp. Us Perfect Pitch people thrive in this kind of situation.

  • @bkr_vids
    @bkr_vids 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Question for a Q&A, I don’t know of this has been asked before: do you have advice for someone who’d want to get into composition but works full-time? Are there good courses online? What software/books would you recommend?

  • @TimondeNood
    @TimondeNood 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It seems that a lot of people are confused about perfect and relative pitch and this is probably related to how these skills are named. A lot of people tend to think that 'perfect' pitch is somehow superior or something. And that's not so strange if you look at the name of it, PERFECT... It's not perfect in fact, it's absolute. Wikipedia has already adopted the ABSOLUTE pitch naming, calling it by this name will probably help to reduce the confusion! :)

    • @yakmartin5429
      @yakmartin5429 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks for clarifying, I didn't look up the term "absolute pitch" which I'm used to in mofland.
      🐻👌🏻

  • @_Olorin
    @_Olorin 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hey Adam,
    I'm really enjoying your videos and appreciate where your curious mind takes you! I think that this is what makes me like your channel so much, even though I don't understand any of the music theory stuff. I am absolutely uneducated in music theory and all I know about music (arguably not very much in comparison to people such as you) comes from the diversity - I'd say - of what I listen to.
    Which is why I come to you for my first TH-cam comment and a general music/bass culture question, that I hope you could include to your next Q&A and that has been an itch I haven't been able to scratch:
    There is a certain bass line I often hear in more recent and older music and I was wondering if you knew where it first came from and maybe why it is so recurrent - not that I'm complaining about that, it's awesome. It's the bass line in Nina Simone's "Feeling Good" and Portishead's "Glory Box". There is also a version of it in Funkadelic's "I'll Stay" and other songs like Brigitte's "Ma Benz" (a cover from French Rap veterans "NTM", great version from the French music show "Taratata"). These are the instances I remember off the top of my head, but I'm sure there are many more. I feel like it's a more confidential "The Lick" specific for bass. Please help me find an explanation for this, it has been bugging me forever ...
    Cheers from a French music lover who, as a scientific researcher and fellow nerd, shares your analytical curiosity!
    Antoine

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    @kgbstudio 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    ADAM NEELY THANKS FOR EXISTING DUDE!!