Techmoan has an excellent video about the format war between LP and 45s. Basically LP was designed to fit a whole album of 78s on one record. But 45 was designed for automatic players so you could just throw together a playlist. (And stack them without having the grooves touch)
@@juanpablo1834 just play. Also worth mentioning that since they were made of shellac they were super strong but super brittle. So the records lasted forever but you had to replace the needle each play.
Yeah, it bothered me that he said maximum 3 1/2 minutes and then kept emphasizing that it has to be less than 3 minutes. P.S.: Ip can also stand for kung fu. 😜
I think that hyperpop is also the only thematically sensical way to rerelease Friday. Friday was relentlessly mocked for being the worst of pop, and hyperpop is basically a parody of pop.
I think the reason hyperpop resonates with people despite being absurd and over the top is it's completely sincere. It's taking all the stuff people don't like about pop music and saying "no, this shit is cool actually" and amplifying it 100 times.
I think the musical note “personalities” are more about the letters assigned to the than the notes and what people perceive those letters as representing and what they connect those letters to. The personality, or really, character of a note is contextual and based on how it is played.
Completely agree. I kinda associate C with being sorta cheesy but that's because when first learning piano everything was in the key of C and all the music I was being taught was that super happy piano music for kids which I developed a distaste for and now I still associate that with the note C, not because of any actual qualities that note has.
@@jeroenrl1438 I know, but fools can probably neither self-judge that while drunk nor while sober afterwards. Alcohol just unlocks the right state of mind for me. While being sober I tend to care too much about what dark things I know about the world and want to not buy into. (I warn about the demons that turn the world into hell, and I'm also fun at parties.) If I could have the positive effects of alcohol permanently, I could probably manage to build a career in entertainment. (And/or get myself killed by a lynch mob. ... So win-win.) I should probably also mention that my religious faith is puntheism and I sexually identify as an attack roflcopter.
@@shmorange Conductors headbang all the time. Mars needs a headbang. Hands do five four and head does the four-ish beat that makes it still sound like a march.
@@thomaslangford4486 it is! Nile play it on a guitar thru a cool synth that makes the guitar sound like a horn section, very fitting opening to Ramses Bringer of War, it was actually so surprising to hear it here i played the clip again i had no idea!
I used to work on cruise ships as an audio engineer, and I can say that Adam's assessment is spot on. Cheap alcohol, long contracts of playing the same gigs every day, it creates a lot of "lifers" (not just musicians, but dancers, techs, etc.) who don't know what to do with themselves when they go home for vacation. Good to do when you're young, and for a short time, then bail.
"Carinhoso" (1930) by Pixinguinha, which is maybe the most famous song by one of the most important Brazilian choro composers also uses that CESH line cliché and it's absolutely stunning.
There's a legend that when Holst's Planets debuted, the cleaning staff heard the orchestra rehearsing, and sparked a sold-out run through word-of-mouth.
That sounds like a variant of the reason behind the title of that exemplary 1970s BBC music programme The Old Grey Whistle Test. Apparently the cleaners at the Beeb - mainly women in those unforgivably sexist days - were known as The Old Greys (presumably because of their age and the colour of their uniforms). And if they'd heard a musician play in the Beeb studios, and were heard to be whistling it later, then it was deemed to be a catchy tune and most likely a hit!
Yeah, my LP of The Planets recorded in the late seventies said the same thing. Liner notes said the cleaning ladies were at first put off by Mars, but got into it by the end. By Jupiter they were dancing. Also, you've gotta give Holst credit for sound engineering. "NO! They don't sing quieter, we slide soundproof doors in front of them!"
@@Bacopa68 I actually attended a performance of the Planets in Minneapolis with John Williams of all people conducting and they did the doors thing where the singers seemed to be receding into space. It was downright magical.
@@toddmadson8390 In the wake of Star Wars and Close Encounters, The Dallas Symphony Orchestra did a rendition of The Planets, followed by several themes from Star Wars and Close Encounters with Leonard Nimoy narrating. It was pretty cool. Several years later I bought the Emerson, Lake, and Powell album for this: th-cam.com/video/m6I3mmPiG7c/w-d-xo.html
@@D-Man_Jam You two, here's a slightly related browser addon (at least Firefox group - you should probably use Waterfox anyway) that I would highly recommend if you have a tendency to fully watch certain channels and don't want to miss a single one and thus are very annoyed by TH-cam's crappy watch history feature (and maybe also the fact that the bell menu doesn't separate video uploads from comment replies): *TH-cam Watchmarker*
Hey Adam Neely Charlie Mariano is my Grandpa! So cool people still listen to his music. I have one of his saxophones from when he passed away. If you like his solo in that song definitely check out his songs with Eberhard Weber!
One minor correction - LPs were originally the common name for 33 1/3 RPM albums. 78RPM records - the first really standardized play at home records - had a 3.5 minute maximum length. The 7" 45RPM records, popular in the 50s and 60s, were 4-6 minutes. LP which stood for Long Playing were 33 1/3 RPM with roughly 22 minutes per side. Yeah, I know, more trivia from the old guy than you really wanted to know. Keep up with the good work Adam. I'm always learning from your videos.
The alcohol and ship combo is a tale as old as time. My grandfather was a ship's medic in the 40s and 50s and pretty much every crewmember was an alcoholic. One of the radio operators slept with a glass of liquor next to his bed to calm the shakes when he woke up.
Memorizing tempos isn't too hard actually. If you know the tempos of your favorite songs and think about what it sounds like you can get a very close approximation to that tempo and with practice you can become pretty accurate.
True. I've listened to When The Levee Breaks so many times in my life that I can fairly reliably count off something in the region of 80bpm by hearing Bonham's drums in my head. It's not perfect, but it's a decent reference point.
Yeah, please, more Justice Cow level hyperpop! Can we please kill that Friday thing with fire? I hated the original, and this thing somehow made it worse. I’m 20 btw. Way under the 25 threshold. I feel personally attacked by your generalization Adam! /s
To clarify, a compressor only "compresses" the loudest portion of a signal. You can then gain up the entire compressed signal to make it louder, but the "compression" itself only effects the peaks. "It makes the quiet parts loud," is a common misrepresentation of what a compressor actually does. Sure, it shrinks the entire dynamic range, but it's not actually making the quiet parts louder, it just limits how loud the entire track can get so the difference between "loud" and "soft" parts of the recording aren't as big.
I also have the experience of notes having personalities! When I play sheet music, the melody tells me a story and everytime I play the piece I "see" the story in my mind like a day dream
@@adriatic.vineyards At 0:06, an image of 3 notes grouped together appears-a triplet. The audio played at that second corresponds to the notes shown. Other than that, not much to explain, for some reason the sound+image is just hilarious to me. It just BARGES in, out of nowhere. Go home triplet, you’re drunk
@@dougnulton I think feeling-wise, it's the music theory equivalent to a type of shitpost where you superimpose a random funny image with a related funny sound byte (usually bass-boosted) to go with it. Like Ola Englund's "Tha News" segment.
@@rawrelaxationasmr7725 the song Eleanor rigby was originally released on the album Revolver in 1966, not the yellow submarine soundtrack 3 years later
@@jwaj And the Yellow Submarine "songtrack" (which is the cover of the album shown in Adam's video) was released in 1999-- to co-incide with the release of the film on DVD for the first time. (I think I bought it on VHS then....)
the tiktok thing is quite different from the record thing though, because with the LPs it was _technological_ but with tiktok it's _artificially imposed_ , with all the baggage of addictive social media etc.
Yes. For presenting symphonic work on 78 RPM records, publishers bound multiple discs into a book, which looks something like a photo album. LP stands for Long Play. A single 33+1/3 RPM disc can hold around 60 minutes of music, comprising multiple songs. I guess that’s why they call them albums.
Actually Absolute tempo is fairly common in the marching world. Most instructors I've had could identify tempos within 5bpm and drum majors need to be able to count off at very specific tempos with no reference.
@@cosmikrelic4815 - it's just beats per minute. Can you hear a song and identify its tempo? Can you count off within a few BPM without a metronome? That's what the above is talking about. Who cares what is arbitrary. The skill is valuable.
@@Charles.Wright well i care what is arbitrary, you are claiming there is a thing called absolute tempo. note the word absolute. the minute is an arbitrary human construct and cannot be cosnsidered absolute. absolute time and space went out with newton. yes, people can do what you suggest but it isn't absolute tempo.
Re: the length of recorded music, I believe it had to do with the length of music that could be put on wax cylinders for phonographs, not actually vinyl records. Splitting hairs a bit, but there ya go, haha.
Nice video. I wasn't going to comment until you got to the question on triple sharps and flats! I occasionally quiz my music theory classes verbally on hypothetical key signatures, like B quintuple-sharp minor (37 sharps) or A quadruple flat major (25 flats), to "encourage" (LOL) them to apply the logic of the orders of flats/sharps and the circle of 5ths to an extreme. I get a good chuckle and they get exasperated! We laugh together when I remind them that writing in extreme keys like those will only get the composer/songwriter stuffed in a locker somewhere. It is so much easier to write in E minor or F Major!
4:20 I’m a classical musician and I was surprised to recognize this exact chord progression. The place I know it from is Sarasate’s Introduction and Tarantella I believe
7:40 It's interesting, I have similar associations to these notes. A - feminine B - badass C - elegant D - grim E - hippie F - nerd G - wild west xD For # notes these associations are much weaker.
For me, Every note has a song or special significance attached A - My tuning note (sax) B- 2nd Note of fried Noodles chorus by Pink guy C - Lean on me D- 1st note of Fried Noodles Chorus E - Sweden -C48 F- America the beautiful G- Doki Doki Literature club (Your Reality)
Our english alphabet is a descendent of hebraic and proto sainatic, essentially what happened is some Jewish/Cannanite workers (basically slaves) around the mines and Temple of Hathor at Serebit Al Khadim (Tunnel of the servents) in the Sinai Peninsula developed a bastardized form of hieroglyph that was based on phonetic pronounciations, ah, A, was an Ahx, Ox, and the capital A upside down is literally the symbol of a bull and it got flipped over time, all the letters of the alphabet are symbols that morphed over time, this can more easily be seen in Hebrew which is an alpha-numerical-pictograph alphabet (Aleph Bayt) which is why Cabalists, and curious Christian mystery decoders like Sir Isaac Newton can easily loose their minds decoding the Bible, it's like the bridge in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in the Treasury in Petra which seems like its not there but really is, and thats not even counting the astronomical encodings, but I'm digressing. That being said sensing a feel is subjective, I really dont feel that type of stuff so my brain drifts towards another form of analytical.
One other use for an augmented chord is to resolve to a minor chord. C augmented can resolve to Amin, Fmin or C#min, or the major versions of those chords (Amajor, F or Db). It can also resolve up a half step, like in the progression: C - Caug - F. That's similar to the C.E.S.H. he touched on in the video.
The thing about musical notes having personalities! Personality Synesthesia. I didn't know that was a thing but I've certainly experienced it. It really helped me memorize stuff when I played classical violin- I could remember where to put my fingers based on which 'character' I was headed to. My favorite musical note friends were F, D, E# and C.
lol. Yes, LP stands for "Long Playing" format (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LP_record). The technology Adam referenced is actually 78 RPM discs which have a practical limit of less than 3 minutes per side.
@@nino-ciampa He meant a 78-rpm, which were generally about the same size as LP (10 inch or 12".) The 10" could hold 3 mins, or the 12" did about 3 and 1/2.
10:30 Lol this was also the case when the fast folia's played by strumming the baroque guitar started to become popular in the 17th century. Elder folk claimed it was making people rowdy and it was -as the name suggest- madness.
@@martinamakek9608 that's a myth. Mayo Clinic for you: Drinking caffeine-containing beverages as part of a normal lifestyle doesn't cause fluid loss in excess of the volume ingested. While caffeinated drinks may have a mild diuretic effect - meaning that they may cause the need to urinate - they don't appear to increase the risk of dehydration.
I can drink in excess of a liter, my parents sometimes go even higher. Nothing happens to us. There are even studies that suggest it having a prophylactic effect against dementia.
I had heard your version of Hello many many months ago, but I didn’t KNOW it was yours until you played that clip!!! Also, that purple light looks pretty cool actually!
I wanted to play Mars in Symphonic band so bad...and then i got the part. Quarter notes Bb for the entire song. (Tuba player playing the bass part) Also, can you do a video entirely in your Barbra\Funny Girl impression?
Hey, Adam! For your next Q&A - it's actually not a question, I just wanted to say that I googled you online and through your wikipedia page discovered that Exigence, a piece that you composed, won you multiple awards. I was really curious, so I watched it on youtube. I was instantly hooked! The piece is quite entrancing in a very plesant, but also curious way. It perfectly combines so many complex musical information! I don't know how I could describe it better - actually, could you? That would be amazing. Thank you for all of the great videos, I can actually feel myself getting better educated by the day about music through your videos.
THANK YOU!! Thank you for giving me a name (Ordinal linguistic personficiation) for something I've experienced my entire life, but never understood. I've always found it strange that 2 and 3 feel more feminine than 1 or 4. I hadn't really thought about it until I starting reading about it today, but, aside from gender, I do attribute slight variations in personality from one number to the next. There is a color component, but it's not as strong as gender.
That Cmaj7/F# inspired me to write a new song! Chords are rather simple: C G Cmaj7/F# (functions somewhat as 2 chord in a minor key in this instance) then Em I use it as a to set up a bass line I which I play alongside the chords on my guitar. This chord sounds super pretty and to my ear its an amazing way to show sadness and loneliness. Thanks for the inspiration!
Hyperpop is the first musical genre created in my lifetime beyond my ability to "get". As I'm over 40, I legit thought I was "immune" to aging out of music, but this did it. I'll have to remember this whenever my daughter brings home new music I will have never heard of when she's old enough in a few years.
Hey Adam. Thank you very much for sharing your compression & saturator settings. I love how you maintained your signature tone (voice ?) when switching from the P to the Kiesel as your main axe. Thanks for your craft and the inspiration we get from it. Can't wait to land ears on these new Sungazer tracks !
I wasn't familiar with Holst before this video, but am definitely interested now. Also, thanks for the bass mixing tips. Not sure if it will translate well to a metal mix, but it's definitely worth a try.
lp stands for "long play", hence its additional length up to 25 minutes or so. 78's and 45's were around the 3 minute mark
were they short play? or just play? lmao
Techmoan has an excellent video about the format war between LP and 45s.
Basically LP was designed to fit a whole album of 78s on one record. But 45 was designed for automatic players so you could just throw together a playlist. (And stack them without having the grooves touch)
@@juanpablo1834 just play. Also worth mentioning that since they were made of shellac they were super strong but super brittle. So the records lasted forever but you had to replace the needle each play.
Yeah, it bothered me that he said maximum 3 1/2 minutes and then kept emphasizing that it has to be less than 3 minutes.
P.S.: Ip can also stand for kung fu. 😜
@@juanpablo1834 They were singles. One track per side.
Timestamps for anyone who wants to hear a before and after.
0:50 for before bass THICCENS 2:46 for peak THICCNESS
“Let’s get thicc”
This should be the mantra every f***ing workout program ever lmao
I audibly sighed at that I admit.
I think that hyperpop is also the only thematically sensical way to rerelease Friday. Friday was relentlessly mocked for being the worst of pop, and hyperpop is basically a parody of pop.
I think the reason hyperpop resonates with people despite being absurd and over the top is it's completely sincere. It's taking all the stuff people don't like about pop music and saying "no, this shit is cool actually" and amplifying it 100 times.
@@EpicAccount
It's unapologetically pop
@@EpicAccount wow this is spot on
Google post-irony
Kinda agreed, I hate hyperpop but I actually think it's funny how much I hate it
"Lets get thick,"
- Adam Neely
this video's editing is doing the word "thick" justice too, whoever is responsible should be proud
Ah, the great philosopher
T H I C C
I'm just glad this isn't about Lyme disease or that Blurred Lines song.
“Arrangers piano” is now going to be my favorite way to describe my piano playing. Thank you Adam
Same - “ I’m not really a piano player “ doesn’t cut it
Yeah it’s a mood
@@richhillbass Or "I just know chord shapes, note intervals, and progressions" but "still don't really know how to play a piano"
Colonel, this is Adam. I'm trying to play quietly, but I'm D U M M Y T H I C C, and the clap of my bass keeps alerting the neighbors!
Play guitar
you're pretty good
*spank
fucking lost it
I think the musical note “personalities” are more about the letters assigned to the than the notes and what people perceive those letters as representing and what they connect those letters to. The personality, or really, character of a note is contextual and based on how it is played.
Completely agree. I kinda associate C with being sorta cheesy but that's because when first learning piano everything was in the key of C and all the music I was being taught was that super happy piano music for kids which I developed a distaste for and now I still associate that with the note C, not because of any actual qualities that note has.
I did improv & comedy on a cruise ship. The alcohol part is 100% true.
Did/does alcohol improve either one or both for you?
(My funny bone gets funnier when I'm drunk.)
@@Dowlphin Be warned that there is a diffenece between being funny and thinking you're funny.
I don't know you so I can't judge....
@@jeroenrl1438 I know, but fools can probably neither self-judge that while drunk nor while sober afterwards.
Alcohol just unlocks the right state of mind for me. While being sober I tend to care too much about what dark things I know about the world and want to not buy into.
(I warn about the demons that turn the world into hell, and I'm also fun at parties.)
If I could have the positive effects of alcohol permanently, I could probably manage to build a career in entertainment. (And/or get myself killed by a lynch mob. ... So win-win.)
I should probably also mention that my religious faith is puntheism and I sexually identify as an attack roflcopter.
@@Dowlphin So you're just pretending to be an alcoholic and that's the joke? It's not a very good joke.
@@Dowlphin What you're saying isn't making you sound as great as I think you think it is........
"Is it appropriate to headbang to Holst's Mars"
YES.
it’s appropriate to headbang to _anything_ in my opinion
@@shmorange Conductors headbang all the time. Mars needs a headbang. Hands do five four and head does the four-ish beat that makes it still sound like a march.
I'm here to say, I can't believe Mars isn't more famous. It's a BANGER!
@@thomaslangford4486 it is! Nile play it on a guitar thru a cool synth that makes the guitar sound like a horn section, very fitting opening to Ramses Bringer of War, it was actually so surprising to hear it here i played the clip again i had no idea!
Holst’s “Mars” is 20th century head bang music.
"it's got a kind of growl to it"
yes, my dog who's been freaking out for the past 2 min agrees
That's proof of how mighty it is.
the power of B A S S
@@Dowlphin It's proof that TH-cam shouldn't be run thru your home stereo system.
@@JeighNeither not a home stereo system, but a pretty good ad for minirig portable speakers I guess!
Adam needs a signature bass plugin.
I love his tones.
I won't do it this time everyone, be happy
This is the best "I won't do it this time everyone, be happy" comment that I've seen all day
*B A S S*
Jason but I always look forward to these comments don't listen to the haters bro
I used to work on cruise ships as an audio engineer, and I can say that Adam's assessment is spot on. Cheap alcohol, long contracts of playing the same gigs every day, it creates a lot of "lifers" (not just musicians, but dancers, techs, etc.) who don't know what to do with themselves when they go home for vacation. Good to do when you're young, and for a short time, then bail.
"Carinhoso" (1930) by Pixinguinha, which is maybe the most famous song by one of the most important Brazilian choro composers also uses that CESH line cliché and it's absolutely stunning.
I thought of Carinhoso as well
BOA
Doce de Côco do Jacob do Bandolim também!
A lot of things become cliches because they work so well.
There's a legend that when Holst's Planets debuted, the cleaning staff heard the orchestra rehearsing, and sparked a sold-out run through word-of-mouth.
That sounds like a variant of the reason behind the title of that exemplary 1970s BBC music programme The Old Grey Whistle Test. Apparently the cleaners at the Beeb - mainly women in those unforgivably sexist days - were known as The Old Greys (presumably because of their age and the colour of their uniforms). And if they'd heard a musician play in the Beeb studios, and were heard to be whistling it later, then it was deemed to be a catchy tune and most likely a hit!
Yeah, my LP of The Planets recorded in the late seventies said the same thing. Liner notes said the cleaning ladies were at first put off by Mars, but got into it by the end. By Jupiter they were dancing.
Also, you've gotta give Holst credit for sound engineering. "NO! They don't sing quieter, we slide soundproof doors in front of them!"
@@Bacopa68 I actually attended a performance of the Planets in Minneapolis with John Williams of all people conducting and they did the doors thing where the singers seemed to be receding into space. It was downright magical.
@@toddmadson8390 In the wake of Star Wars and Close Encounters, The Dallas Symphony Orchestra did a rendition of The Planets, followed by several themes from Star Wars and Close Encounters with Leonard Nimoy narrating. It was pretty cool.
Several years later I bought the Emerson, Lake, and Powell album for this:
th-cam.com/video/m6I3mmPiG7c/w-d-xo.html
“Hey, I haven’t seen this one yet!”
“Wait, nobody has...”
This is literally me when I click on a video I haven't seen yet.
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@@Dowlphin it was joke
@@D-Man_Jam What is the point of that remark? Did I waste my time?
@@Dowlphin possibly
Binging all of his videos has made me notice how much more Adam messes around and has fun in these Q+As over time. I love it
As a theatre professional, your version of Don't Rain On My Parade sent me. Thank you, Adam.
Hey Adam Neely Charlie Mariano is my Grandpa! So cool people still listen to his music. I have one of his saxophones from when he passed away. If you like his solo in that song definitely check out his songs with Eberhard Weber!
"hyperpop is here to stay"
thanks a lot Adam, I'm not going to be able to sleep tonight now.
hyperpop already exists and it's just lolistep/nightcore lol
@@Ardeact the real thinking man's genre.
gecgecgecgecgec
@@jeremycunningham6008 Mr. Krabs is that you?
@@Ardeact Yeah but hyperpop isn't just for weeb pedophiles.
One minor correction - LPs were originally the common name for 33 1/3 RPM albums. 78RPM records - the first really standardized play at home records - had a 3.5 minute maximum length. The 7" 45RPM records, popular in the 50s and 60s, were 4-6 minutes. LP which stood for Long Playing were 33 1/3 RPM with roughly 22 minutes per side.
Yeah, I know, more trivia from the old guy than you really wanted to know.
Keep up with the good work Adam. I'm always learning from your videos.
Two years later, and it still wasn't corrected by captions, or whatever.
Josh Bailey: 🥁
Adam: (Grooving cat meme)
Adam: "i am not a cat"
The alcohol and ship combo is a tale as old as time. My grandfather was a ship's medic in the 40s and 50s and pretty much every crewmember was an alcoholic. One of the radio operators slept with a glass of liquor next to his bed to calm the shakes when he woke up.
"I'm gonna play a simple bassline that goes along with it"
It: a 17 beat drum pattern with sections of 3 against 5 and no clear strong beats anywhere
big disagree, that beat is super groovy and really highlights the kick on 1 and the snare hit
But it is just 4/4 with tuplet grooves
@@Paradockzz really? I can’t find a groove
@@greyl1 i cant either, i just left a main comment wondering if im the only person who thought it all sounded super awful.
Almost spit my coffee when he started singing Barbara Streisand.
Memorizing tempos isn't too hard actually. If you know the tempos of your favorite songs and think about what it sounds like you can get a very close approximation to that tempo and with practice you can become pretty accurate.
I just estimate off 60bpm=1 beat per second, 120bpm=2 beats etc
A liittle but faster than 1 beat per second or a little less than 2 beats per second
True. I've listened to When The Levee Breaks so many times in my life that I can fairly reliably count off something in the region of 80bpm by hearing Bonham's drums in my head. It's not perfect, but it's a decent reference point.
@@olivierlaborde7887 I tried to do 2 beats a second, then looked at the clock, and it was 4 beats per second lmao
Oh man would I love to collab with Adam!
I’d pay money to see that
Try hat would be THICC
Hey Veritas! Saw you on the stream the other day :)
We all would
I don't think he knows how to play tarkov
I can't wait for hyperpop to take off. hyperpop-jazz fusion time
Justice Cow's track for Adam's 'Ugly Lydian' video kinda fits this bill
Yeah, please, more Justice Cow level hyperpop!
Can we please kill that Friday thing with fire? I hated the original, and this thing somehow made it worse.
I’m 20 btw. Way under the 25 threshold. I feel personally attacked by your generalization Adam!
/s
@@muchozolf the new Friday is a legendary piece. what a comback. what a show. If you don't like it I don't see how you're into hyperpop in general.
To clarify, a compressor only "compresses" the loudest portion of a signal. You can then gain up the entire compressed signal to make it louder, but the "compression" itself only effects the peaks. "It makes the quiet parts loud," is a common misrepresentation of what a compressor actually does. Sure, it shrinks the entire dynamic range, but it's not actually making the quiet parts louder, it just limits how loud the entire track can get so the difference between "loud" and "soft" parts of the recording aren't as big.
Was there an unusually high amount of WOOOO in this episode?
Here, have some more in pink: th-cam.com/video/2e9Bhm6mygI/w-d-xo.html
@@Dowlphin here, have a report
@@jwaj Huh?
I also have the experience of notes having personalities! When I play sheet music, the melody tells me a story and everytime I play the piece I "see" the story in my mind like a day dream
That zoom-in on the triplet during the intro kills me every time, it shouldn’t be this funny, what is wrong with me
Yep same haha
Can you explain to the musically illiterate?
@@adriatic.vineyards
At 0:06, an image of 3 notes grouped together appears-a triplet. The audio played at that second corresponds to the notes shown. Other than that, not much to explain, for some reason the sound+image is just hilarious to me. It just BARGES in, out of nowhere. Go home triplet, you’re drunk
@@dougnulton I think feeling-wise, it's the music theory equivalent to a type of shitpost where you superimpose a random funny image with a related funny sound byte (usually bass-boosted) to go with it. Like Ola Englund's "Tha News" segment.
Yes, it is very funny, and no, I don't know why!
Larry Mullen has perfect rythm. Supposedly the producers adjusted his playing in pro-tools as he was "too perfect".
It's so, so sad that SOPHIE left us right when hyperpop went off
Your collab videos are the best. Love them. I am always surprised, amazed, and entertained. Some great stuff.
Adam...bass face even when just listening to his playing.
I instinctively headbanged to Mars. "Classical" music can be heavy.
Adam really chose to find Elanor Rigby on Yellow Submarine instead of Revolver lmao
Bruh that’s like finding Lucy in the sky on yellow submarine
Could you explain ?
@@rawrelaxationasmr7725 the song Eleanor rigby was originally released on the album Revolver in 1966, not the yellow submarine soundtrack 3 years later
@@jwaj thanks !
@@jwaj And the Yellow Submarine "songtrack" (which is the cover of the album shown in Adam's video) was released in 1999-- to co-incide with the release of the film on DVD for the first time. (I think I bought it on VHS then....)
Is there absolute rhythm?
Adam should've just called Shawn and pointed at him, the man is a machine.
the tiktok thing is quite different from the record thing though, because with the LPs it was _technological_ but with tiktok it's _artificially imposed_ , with all the baggage of addictive social media etc.
k bummer
The way those slides sound,along with some slight string buzz & all that compression sounds soo phatt 😌
Any music question:
Adam Neely: WOO!
putting absolute bangers in your ad segments is a great way to make me watch them
it DAMN WELL is necessary to headbang to mars. metal af
I just watched a ton of videos on bass tones. Not one of them came even close to the sound you get. Amazing absolutely amazing tone
Nothing smoother than Adam sliding that keyboard out of nowhere @3:54
dude these little music parts in these qnas are amazing, like i would genuinely listen to them dude
5:55 Adam is thinking of an earlier technology - 78s. LPs are album or symphony length.
Yes. For presenting symphonic work on 78 RPM records, publishers bound multiple discs into a book, which looks something like a photo album. LP stands for Long Play. A single 33+1/3 RPM disc can hold around 60 minutes of music, comprising multiple songs. I guess that’s why they call them albums.
On how to use augmented chords..., I learned this from Bach's passacaglia (bars 18-19) ; G B Eb G goes to Ab C D F
Actually Absolute tempo is fairly common in the marching world. Most instructors I've had could identify tempos within 5bpm and drum majors need to be able to count off at very specific tempos with no reference.
sure, but what is the absolute time step they are using? is it the second? that is an arbitrary unit. there is no absolute time step.
@@cosmikrelic4815 - it's just beats per minute. Can you hear a song and identify its tempo? Can you count off within a few BPM without a metronome?
That's what the above is talking about. Who cares what is arbitrary. The skill is valuable.
@@Charles.Wright well i care what is arbitrary, you are claiming there is a thing called absolute tempo. note the word absolute. the minute is an arbitrary human construct and cannot be cosnsidered absolute. absolute time and space went out with newton. yes, people can do what you suggest but it isn't absolute tempo.
@@cosmikrelic4815 so is frequency? Cycles per second.
@@cosmikrelic4815 a second is an arbitrary unit so therefore pitch is
Re: the length of recorded music, I believe it had to do with the length of music that could be put on wax cylinders for phonographs, not actually vinyl records. Splitting hairs a bit, but there ya go, haha.
that's it boys. the next randomly generated meme is CMaj7/F#
Love how hype you get nerding out over music. So many WOOOO's
I learned CESH as "Contrapuntal Elaboration of Static Harmony". From my 8 seconds of research just now, it seems both are used.
Yeah me too! Did you also learned it pronounced as Kesh instead of Sesh?
Nice video. I wasn't going to comment until you got to the question on triple sharps and flats!
I occasionally quiz my music theory classes verbally on hypothetical key signatures, like B quintuple-sharp minor (37 sharps) or A quadruple flat major (25 flats), to "encourage" (LOL) them to apply the logic of the orders of flats/sharps and the circle of 5ths to an extreme. I get a good chuckle and they get exasperated! We laugh together when I remind them that writing in extreme keys like those will only get the composer/songwriter stuffed in a locker somewhere.
It is so much easier to write in E minor or F Major!
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@@thejoetandy Oh... Shit
@@thejoetandy Proof?
@@thejoetandy hearsay? I've never even heardsaid.
A_gorith_
This tone was exactly what I needed, thanks! That IR recommendation is killer.
John Lennon’s “Starting Over” is another example of CESH
4:20
I’m a classical musician and I was surprised to recognize this exact chord progression. The place I know it from is Sarasate’s Introduction and Tarantella I believe
"that is not much more than what I drink normally", he thought
**chubbyemu theme plays**
This musician drank 6 cups of coffee everyday for a week. This is what happened to his *BASE*
I liked the bass thickening, in particular the addition of saturation. Thanks, and enjoy your coffee!
7:40 It's interesting, I have similar associations to these notes.
A - feminine
B - badass
C - elegant
D - grim
E - hippie
F - nerd
G - wild west xD
For # notes these associations are much weaker.
WILD WEST!
For me, Every note has a song or special significance attached
A - My tuning note (sax)
B- 2nd Note of fried Noodles chorus by Pink guy
C - Lean on me
D- 1st note of Fried Noodles Chorus
E - Sweden -C48
F- America the beautiful
G- Doki Doki Literature club (Your Reality)
Our english alphabet is a descendent of hebraic and proto sainatic, essentially what happened is some Jewish/Cannanite workers (basically slaves) around the mines and Temple of Hathor at Serebit Al Khadim (Tunnel of the servents) in the Sinai Peninsula developed a bastardized form of hieroglyph that was based on phonetic pronounciations, ah, A, was an Ahx, Ox, and the capital A upside down is literally the symbol of a bull and it got flipped over time, all the letters of the alphabet are symbols that morphed over time, this can more easily be seen in Hebrew which is an alpha-numerical-pictograph alphabet (Aleph Bayt) which is why Cabalists, and curious Christian mystery decoders like Sir Isaac Newton can easily loose their minds decoding the Bible, it's like the bridge in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in the Treasury in Petra which seems like its not there but really is, and thats not even counting the astronomical encodings, but I'm digressing. That being said sensing a feel is subjective, I really dont feel that type of stuff so my brain drifts towards another form of analytical.
A is Red ♥️
B is Green 💚
C is Blue 💙
D is Brown 🤎
E is Orange 🧡
F is Purple 💜
G is Green 💚
One other use for an augmented chord is to resolve to a minor chord. C augmented can resolve to Amin, Fmin or C#min, or the major versions of those chords (Amajor, F or Db).
It can also resolve up a half step, like in the progression: C - Caug - F. That's similar to the C.E.S.H. he touched on in the video.
What a great song Eleanor Rigby is! And what an album, by the way (Revolver).
The thing about musical notes having personalities! Personality Synesthesia. I didn't know that was a thing but I've certainly experienced it. It really helped me memorize stuff when I played classical violin- I could remember where to put my fingers based on which 'character' I was headed to. My favorite musical note friends were F, D, E# and C.
how to get a thicc bass tone:
* turn the volume very high
Yeah the bass was overbearingly loud on headphones (i use ATH m40x so i doubt it's just me). But it was thick nontheless.
3:14 with that Bad Snacks style "woo"
Finnish version of the nickname "refridgerator" is "rantasauna" which means a sauna by the lakeshore.
Because it sounds like a sauna full of large hairy drunk dudes on Midsummer's Eve?
About "Mars, Bringer of War"
Even Nile used that on one of their records, such is the power of it's headbanging
"Let's check that so i don't look like a complete idiot."
*one minute later*
"An LP record can only play 3 minutes per side"
lol
I assume he meant single lol
78s were 3 about three minutes play time.
The 10" diameter are ~3'. But my Dad had a bunch of classical and jazz 78's that were ~5' at 12"diameter.
lol. Yes, LP stands for "Long Playing" format (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LP_record). The technology Adam referenced is actually 78 RPM discs which have a practical limit of less than 3 minutes per side.
@@nino-ciampa He meant a 78-rpm, which were generally about the same size as LP (10 inch or 12".) The 10" could hold 3 mins, or the 12" did about 3 and 1/2.
10:30 Lol this was also the case when the fast folia's played by strumming the baroque guitar started to become popular in the 17th century.
Elder folk claimed it was making people rowdy and it was -as the name suggest- madness.
Bassists : *thicc tone*
Neighbors : 👁>👄
I love that the BBC Proms (my favourite music festival) made it one of your Q&As.
Usually I don't dare contradict Adam Neely but I dare say 5 cups of coffee isn't very much.
Are you ok? Coffee is a diuretic i hope youre staying hydrated
@@martinamakek9608 that's a myth. Mayo Clinic for you: Drinking caffeine-containing beverages as part of a normal lifestyle doesn't cause fluid loss in excess of the volume ingested. While caffeinated drinks may have a mild diuretic effect - meaning that they may cause the need to urinate - they don't appear to increase the risk of dehydration.
I can drink in excess of a liter, my parents sometimes go even higher. Nothing happens to us. There are even studies that suggest it having a prophylactic effect against dementia.
I would say less caffeine can be more. But that's just my cup of tea.
@@Dowlphin if it's not better, it isn't more
I had heard your version of Hello many many months ago, but I didn’t KNOW it was yours until you played that clip!!! Also, that purple light looks pretty cool actually!
I wanted to play Mars in Symphonic band so bad...and then i got the part. Quarter notes Bb for the entire song. (Tuba player playing the bass part)
Also, can you do a video entirely in your Barbra\Funny Girl impression?
The little jokes and general cheeky attitude bring a lot of joy and positivity to this!
“Let’s get thicc” quote of the year
Hey, Adam!
For your next Q&A - it's actually not a question, I just wanted to say that I googled you online and through your wikipedia page discovered that Exigence, a piece that you composed, won you multiple awards. I was really curious, so I watched it on youtube. I was instantly hooked! The piece is quite entrancing in a very plesant, but also curious way. It perfectly combines so many complex musical information! I don't know how I could describe it better - actually, could you? That would be amazing.
Thank you for all of the great videos, I can actually feel myself getting better educated by the day about music through your videos.
Glad to hear Adam's just as cripplingly addicted to coffee as I am
THANK YOU!! Thank you for giving me a name (Ordinal linguistic personficiation) for something I've experienced my entire life, but never understood. I've always found it strange that 2 and 3 feel more feminine than 1 or 4. I hadn't really thought about it until I starting reading about it today, but, aside from gender, I do attribute slight variations in personality from one number to the next. There is a color component, but it's not as strong as gender.
For those who want to get into hyperpop, a record to check out is SOPHIE'S Every Oil of Pearl's Uninsides. RIP Sophie.
Definitely, SOPHIE was a treasure. I would add Charli XCX’s latest album, how i’m feeling now, which is my current favorite in the genre.
Hi Adam. I really like this format. Having a longer explanation in the beginning and put a Q&A afterwards
"Daaaamn Boy, that tone THICC AF!"
-Adam Mcloughin
That Cmaj7/F# inspired me to write a new song!
Chords are rather simple:
C G Cmaj7/F# (functions somewhat as 2 chord in a minor key in this instance) then Em
I use it as a to set up a bass line I which I play alongside the chords on my guitar.
This chord sounds super pretty and to my ear its an amazing way to show sadness and loneliness.
Thanks for the inspiration!
7:45 For me, I associate music with different types of wood and wood textures. Am I an Elf?
An ent, mayhaps
Probably not a plastic elf, though.
@@Dowlphin Fake plastic trees?
Played on ships for 5 years or so ... your answer is spot on!
I need to stop watching music youtube with my phone’s built-in speakers. That meaty thicc bass made my whole phone enclosure rattle.
I really appreciate seeing how you process sounds on ableton, would love to see some more. Always happy to see a new upload!
Fun 'old technology influencing new' fact: the width of train tracks derives directly from the width of two horses arses
Hyperpop is the first musical genre created in my lifetime beyond my ability to "get". As I'm over 40, I legit thought I was "immune" to aging out of music, but this did it. I'll have to remember this whenever my daughter brings home new music I will have never heard of when she's old enough in a few years.
Man, you do NOT look 40.
@@ZachMcCordProg haha, that's just some old photo TH-cam grabbed. I am definitely not 40 in that picture. 😁
That groove was spicy
Hey Adam. Thank you very much for sharing your compression & saturator settings. I love how you maintained your signature tone (voice ?) when switching from the P to the Kiesel as your main axe.
Thanks for your craft and the inspiration we get from it. Can't wait to land ears on these new Sungazer tracks !
"For all you Barbara Streisand fans"
Which apparently you are NOT Adam...shame!
I keep rewatching that locrian video over and over again. All the songs are just so good.
You and I said "hyperpop" almost simultaneously. Kinda sad to think that SOPHIE won't be around to see her imitators dominate the pop landscape
definitely more than just imitators even if the genre has slightly broken more and more through mainstream imo
i like how Glue Compressor soft clips, the tone is much richer, and you get secondary compression too!
I can't decide if I hate that "Friday" remix or love it. Either way, it's definitely more *interesting* than the original song.
I wasn't familiar with Holst before this video, but am definitely interested now. Also, thanks for the bass mixing tips. Not sure if it will translate well to a metal mix, but it's definitely worth a try.