How to J A Z Z S C H O O L
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- What are Soli? What is Counterpoint? What is a "Generational Timbre?" Should you go to school for jazz?
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Adam
here's the hello/twice mashup on my other channel! ua-cam.com/video/3Go0B29LOnA/v-deo.html
Any chance you'll also post the Rihanna one?
Who is the saxophone soloist? He's *3 LITT 5 **-J A Z Z-*
Adam can you make me feel like the only girl in the world and post the Rihanna song too?
I'm also requesting for full Rihanna soli upgrade :-). Sounds amazing.
Plis!!! Upload the rihanna and clean bandit full songs, they are amazing!!
That sax solo in "Hello" is gonna get this video flagged for sexual content.
But the important question is *who is he*
@@isobeldevilliers1484 Zac Zinger, as stated in the description
Saxual content
Hornhub
I know right! Such a gnarly sound. Gave me goosebumps.
Dear Adam, I was there on your first JAZZSCHOOL gig, a French guy in New York for 3 days, it was my birthday on this first of March, and even though you had so much better to do you were really opened and invited me to talk with you and the other artists. I will never forget this night, you are a great musician, composer, interpreter and person. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Thanks for coming by!!!
I don't know Gollum likes some big band
Sounds like the best birthday ever!
So wholesome T_T
Gollum du 8z he's still not gonna let near your precious...
Adam seems to get younger the more his hair grows out.
I think more than anything, your channel is great because it helps musicians discover even more things to be excited about. I wasn't aware of the millennial clave concept and it's cool to think about how historical trends are evolving today.
learning together is the best
"People can't even see what kind of face they're making when they're alone".
This comment is the most ambitious crossover project in artistic history
Surprised you didn’t know the millennial clave, seeing as the person who nearly shares a name with you, Benjamin Levin aka Benny Biancco wrote half the songs that use it.
I'd surely heard the milennial clave before on some songs, but I didn't know it was called that.
6:44 Lickspacito???
lmaooooo
HOLY SHIT
Adam's putting that music degree to good use I see
TSoJTC army will repost this i'm sure
What's TSoJTC
Oh. FUCK. Yes.
Please please start uploading recordings of this! Can imagine it making a really amazing channel in it's own right (Like Post Modern Jukebox as you mentioned)
Great video overall as always, but god I want to hear those full songs!!
oh hey there ockeroid from 4 years ago lol
"Hi, Ravel here from VSauce. Have you ever noticed how the melodic line is important?"
This video confirms Adams is really VSauce.
Maybe that esxplains why Adam's hair length keeps changing.
I can support this conclusion with an anecdote from a different field. I studied engineering physics at university but now work in IT security. Was my education useless? Of course not. My main takeaway from my studies was not exactly how to solve a specific mathematics problem or the specific properties of a certain crystal structure but the ability to grasp problems, break them down into manageable pieces and quickly aquire the tools to solve them. I would imagine that you could easily draw a parallel between this and music and music studies. Nice video btw! Thanks for continuing being awesome.
Calle Svensson but if i know i wont do much physics after studying physics, is it worth it
Cyberschn1tzel that's of course up to you to decide but claiming you know what your life will look like 5 years from now is a fairly bold statement. I thought I would work with AI. I changed somewhere 1/3 into my studies.
Nice to hear! I teach physics at the University level, and I make this basic point all the time. For example - will you need to specifically analyze a network of capacitors? No! Will you need to be able to organize information, analyze patterns, and apply mental procedures and processes? Yes!
Ixenzo Rousseaux Being a linguist, I can assure you, linguistics is pretty useless outside teaching and translating languages, maybe writing. And it is not at all applicable to any technical or engineering or even managerial tasks.
Andrey: And yet in computer science and software engineering schools, we study some things that came out of linguistics like formal languages and grammars, the Chomsky hierarchy, etc. and in advanced applications actually use these things from time to time. So don't be so quick to dismiss your field as irrelevant to technical fields. You might be surprised!
3:59 is the trombonist playing all star?
yes, in fact both are
What the fuck tendie
wait a fucking second you watch adam neely
Being a musician, I find it awesome that I don't understand a lot of the music theory brought up in your videos. But I can still always appreciate your videos because I learned something!
This channel helped inspire me to pick up the horn again
I’ve got my first gig in 2 years in 2 weeks, life is good!
Anyone else one notice All-Star in the trombone section in the Rihanna song? 4:00
Alas, a fitting successor to the lick
Lmao
hey can you check out my channel? tryna crack my first 100 subs if its you're thing maybe subscribe? :)
Copper Fox
Give me 3 reasons why one should
I was down here looking for this comment!
I thought it was just me.
@8:44 Adam this literally applies to EVERY college degree, and it's amazing to be hearing the same advice repeated in your field. I went to engineering school, got a degree in Information Systems. Literally nothing I do on a day-to-day basis in software engineering I learned in school. However, my education is paramount to my success. The basics of physics, math, and science are important as they allow you to reason about the world (sort of like learning what rhythm, harmony, and dynamics are), but applying them in the real world is always left up to the individual. We need to stop thinking as college education as training for career; that happens in the real world. You went to school to become a musician, and Jazz was the vehicle which you learned the basic skills to do so.
Did Adam just inadvertently write the beginning of all-star at 3:58 or was it intentional???
Noah ik, the point of my comment was to point it out to people who missed it, and could hopefully get a laugh out of adam's inside comedy
Thanks for pointing that out, Whovian_Ben 😁
well spoted!
Glad i wasn't the only one who heard that
hey can you check out my channel? tryna crack my first 100 subs if its you're thing maybe subscribe? :)
The "Only Girl In The World" arrangement is honestly so fucking heavy and headbangable
ADAM!!! There is such a living fanbase for swing and big band music in the worldwide Lindy Hop and swing dance community. Lots of great bands have come forward, especially in the last decade, using the arranging styles of the old greats (Fletcher Henderson, Jimmy Mundy, etc) and it's really cool to hear that one of my favorite UA-cam music experts "grew up" in that music.
For me, learning about swing/horn section harmony was a complete shift in my understanding of music theory and how bands (even modern pop bands) work. Thanks for mentioning this type of thing in your video.
Did I just see the new Adam Neely video early without paying on Patreon? Did I just break the system???
I'm going to wait till the actual release though as I shouldn't be watching this yet without paying.
Who gives a shit? What difference does it make if you watch it now, a week ago or in 5 years?
I’ve seen this video a thousand times and I just realized you snuck All Star into your arrangement of Only Girl, this is why I fucking love you Adam
Pet your goddamn cat Adam
It's his girlfriend's. He's not allowed to pet her pussy cat without explicit consent.
Listen to “My Girl’s Pussy” by Roy Oliver to get a sense of why Adam doesn’t stroke it without permission.
This reminds me of how teaching students computer engineering at my university, we cover few concepts / languages / techniques that students will use directly in their jobs, but we provide a foundation of knowledge on which they can build.
One of my favorite videos not only on your channel but also on all of youtube: firstly because the message is so strong and it is apparent how much you care about it, second because not only is that cover awesome (I'm into jazz covers of pop songs as well) but the joke with the sax solo and the monty python "stop that" made me crack up for a full five minutes. Your experience in both music and youtube really shows in that your videos are always really high quality, even when it's just a Q&A. Love the channel, thank you so much for everything you've done.
6:51-7:35 ABSOLUTE GOLD
I had chills all the way through. Thank you for blessing us with this
About to start my junior year going to college for music, and from what I’ve seen since I started and from the things I’ve heard from the musicians I’ve encountered I can’t agree more with your analysis of getting a formal education in music. As a jazz guitarist I don’t believe I’ll be making a living playing jazz, but I most certainly am gonna take what I learned and add some quality s a u c e to my musical endeavours beyond college. Love your vids as always Adam; looking forward to your next upload!
"...so, you can take that knowledge and apply it to music that you didn't explicitly study" - this reminds me of my friends studying theoretical computer science who, when asked what programming languages do they know, were always answering something like: "any one in three days"
People can save tens of thousands of dollars and just take Barry Harris's workshop once a week. It will be a lifetime of information for 10 dollars each class. You'll learn standards, how to think of harmony and how to improvise. All of this from a Master musician who worked with basically everyone you're going to study about in music school. He's a national treasure.
Where do you find these and how do they work?
On Tuesdays at 244 W54th street 10th floor. You can also check out a bunch of Barry Harris videos on youtube. You might enjoy my channel which shows some things i've taken away from studying with him.
I hope this was helpful.
Hi. Yes thanks. Seeing as I am Brisbane Australia the weekly meetup might be hard...but definitely keen to check it out. There is so much stuff coming through the net it gets very confusing and complicated to find the path for basic straight forward learning...I have had Barry recommended to me by others in the past as a good source for traditional input and knowledge...
That "Hello" cover sax solo is too amazing man , too amazing !!!
We need that fine pieces of music in FULL SIZES
3:55 is just such a beautiful J A Z Z F A C E
7:03 oh das sweet
Inyrth - Fireeee
I'm not a wind player in any respect but I got asked to do a quartet piece for saxophones of varying range and while teaching myself to write for winds I accidentally discovered soli. I may have over did it, but it just amazes me the chord voicings you can use from separate instruments or voices that come together to form the color of the chord.
9:20 DUDE I'M SUCH A GOOD BASSIST
I play saxophone and I just found your channel. I’m currently playing in a concert band in high school and I’m thinking of doing music and jazz in college. I love your content and I’m actually learning from your videos while laughing. Keep up the good work
Musical euphoria with a Monty Python boost. What a great start for the week!
Your conclusion reminded me of why I think it's important for students to learn mathematics. Like okay maybe you'll never need to learn how to solve a quadratic equation but the skills you employ to solve a quadratic will serve you well in all of your decision making.
"meow"
"i know parallel fifths just dont show up"
Duke Ellington was bloody brilliant at harmonising saxophones. His orchestration is just so rich, beautiful and expressive. Like in Take the a train it’s really joyful and exited to be here, I love it.
Why is this unlisted?
it's supposed to be Patreon-only, iirc
Right now it was listed on the channel's front page under New horizons in music. Exciting to see the new band and those arrangements!
oh, interesting. posted a day too early, I guess
J A Z Z S C H O O L HYPE
(also sungazer later this year)
the bass trombone and 1st alto were killing it
This is great Adam, I completely agree. A school/education has failed you if your takeaway from it isn't a broad appreciation of the nuances of your domain, and how you can effectively apply yourself to it.
Where can we see the rest of your concert?! That looks awesome!
I appreciate that you write for trombone. It seems like the trombone is an antiquated instrument even from the bebop Era! There were only a select few bebop trombonist mainly because it's so hard to play the fast, intricate lines on it. Modern bands like Snarky Puppy leave trombone out and so I appreciate that you continue to use them, especially when they hide memes in your melody. 😂
Adam, how do I find out when you're playing a show?
Wow.. I can't stand basically any of the original versions of the songs you covered here, but your covers are, and I can't stress this enough, *phenomenal.*
In portuguese literature, we have a writer named Fernando Pessoa who is famous for releasing poetry under more than a hundred different personalities, each with their own distinct style, which he called heteronyms (heterônimos). I was wondering, on a way way smaller scale, would the members of Gorillaz or the personalities of David Bowie constitute examples of this in music? As in, do they set themselves apart enough from the original creative mind to be considered more than just pseudonyms? Do they really represent something that could be considered another artist?
Love this.
My answer to the “should I go to J A Z Z S C H O O L?” is totally different: even though there isn’t a lot of demand for jazz musicians, it can still widen your musical palette and you can incorporate tensions that can be found in jazz fusion in your own music for example. When I watched your jazz reharm video for the first time, I had nose bleeds throughout, but now, I have a song that has an interlude which is Cm Bb13 Abmaj7(#11) Gb7 C/E D7b9. The song is basically a jazzy early Muse song in Gm.
Dude that gig looked sick, I totally want more of that style
This is wonderful. All is not lost. There’s good stuff like this in the here & now. Music is the best.
I loved that xo tour life inclusion for the explanation of 808s, 808s sound amazing because they make you pay attention to the music
man that sax solo was killer. made me glad I never gave up on the instrument
Adam, you say Soli isn't used anywhere else, but don't guitar harmonies in Metal (like Iron Maiden is famous for) fall into that category?
Or any orchestral piece in any movie or videogame
I don't think so, harmoning a melody by thirds, ir sixths, dates froms around 11th century (English polyphony, fauxbourdon) and orchestration has it birth in vocal polyphony from the renaissance
Not every case, but there are some cases where they arent simply harmonizing the melody
Chiptune uses soli a lot too
That sax solo and the singers in Adams band, are fantastic!
Wish I lived in the US just so that I could visit NYC and listen to you band live; sounds amazing!
Inspired and intimidated at the same time, so many sauces and so many melodic lines!
Is there a strict definition of soli? I'm guessing it's a plural of Italian 'solo' (alone/only), which makes it sound kind of oxymoronic. Is playing chord melody on guitar considered soli, or would each string have to be played by a different guitarist?
One significant oversight in College Jazz Big Band programs (that was a major development largely attributed to Count Basie in the early part of his career) was how to develop Head Arrangements.
At 4:08, Nice pedal Bb. You da man! And Adam, you're my spirit guide through the musical realm. I don't think I have enough thank yous to express my gratitude.
Do guitar harmony parts (such as those found in metal songs like Orion) count as soli?
YES! Power metal still uses a lot of the soli technique, although most times it's just doubling an octave or playing the third or the fifth on top of a melodic line. Actually, classic power metal bands like Angra employ a lot of these 'traditional' harmonization techniques and counterpoint as well.
I bet that gig was epic!!! Would be cool to see the whole performance! Great Channel, great content!
"It only seems the technique of soli is generational". But as far as I can see - from the success of various New Orleans (or New Orleans style) brass band and stuff like Brass Against the Machine, strong jazzy brass sections, as a timbre is for sure making a huge come back.
Rockwood Music Hall! Great joint; they always seem to treat their musicians favorably. Not once have I played there and not received a cut of the door, no matter how weak my draw.
Neely's sauce analogy is pretty spot on IMO.
To me jazz sauce sounds like taking every single flavour in the pantry (or at least all of the ones you are familiar with and combining them into this nebulous melange of flavours that while being technically impressive, tastes less impactful and interesting than tinned tomatoes with a little salt lol
Yes give me the *T H I C C E S T* melodies pls
What a lusciously dense video! Love the variety of content!
Thanks for illuminating content as usual, Adam. Did you notice @ 1:47 that you said "so little relevance?" I enjoyed your first (probably unintentional?) 4 uttered letters: soli which subliminally underlined your topic (sort of!) Language and music are filled with subtle nuance. I am remembering when first listening to Maynard Ferguson recordings although not knowing the name for it, that his arrangements featured "soli." His stratospheric trumpet lines combined with full bodied soli created major energy.
Modern day Frank Zappa?
no
Coltrain. It is one of my favourite things. Thanks for the reminder. The Millenial Clave was a new name to learn. Great tone from the bones. The sax solo starting around 7mins gave that pop tune a whole new dimension. Sweet arrangement. Thanks.
Did the trombone use an octave pedal and something else in effects? 4:10
I see what you did there.
Man I've just been loving your videos. I love the breakdown of all the different music theory facets and making things applicable. Really refreshing. Also FRIGGIN LOVED the Hello reharm
I believe that jazz and blues will always be music we will fall back on.
I love how to describe counterpoints you used the example from South Park, not the obvious Les Mis song it was parodying
Holy shit. Your singer's got pipes and your sax player's got chops.
this is soli(t) haha xDD
sorry I'll see myself out ._.
I'm sure academic Jazz composition is very different compared to classical composition, but I feel both ways to some extent. I'm currently studying composition at the Juilliard Precollege program and (while it could be because I'm young) I feel like I'm really learning a lot from teachers that I wouldn'tve been able to learn on my own. However, I don't think these things are impossible to learn without going to conservatory. I think a big part of going to school for music is that there are so many like minded musicians and opportunities all around you to take advantage of, and I think that's just as important as the actual things one learns there.
This is just as true of academic learning as it is of academic music learning.
Few enough people go on to earn a living directly from what they study in any field.
“The best example of this is this song from the South Park movie”
...or you could use the scene from West Side Story that South Park is parodying
It’s actually les mis. I did a whole video on the music theory of mashup and theatrical quodlibet, check it out!
Adam Neely I will definitely watch your mashup video; I like how you explain things. I just take issue with South Park in general.
It's a good example from pop culture that I bet everyone got. :D
Olordrin South Park is one, and perhaps the most pervasive, of the reasons hate speech has become normal in our society. By treating discriminatory words and actions as nothing more than cheap laughs, it has promised a generation of young white men that the way to become loved is to embrace and express racist, sexist, antisemitic, anti-Islamic, homophobic, transphobic, and otherwise facist sentiments. When your only contact with oppressed minorities is through popular media in which oppression is a punch line, you start to believe that oppression itself is a thing to be encouraged for cheap laughs.
That's why I don't like South Park. It may have occasional moments of cleverness, but the world would suck a lot less if it didn't tell people that the world is supposed to suck. And don't tell me I shouldn't care because it's "just a parody." Ignoring the power of parody to (accidentally?) promote the thing it mocks is how we got here.
I haven't seen a ton of South Park, but it always seemed like it was making fun of those undesirable elements by making the characters that are portraying these aspects to be so stupid and ridiculous that they can't help but be ridiculed. Sure, the less intelligent among us are going to see a poorly drawn cartoon with crude humor as a guidebook to life, but they weren't going to be model citizens to begin with.
You are a gem for the masses, sir.
The Jazzy mobility scooter is an underrated joke in this video
Great arrangements Adam, hairs on my neck tingled. Please dedicate a gig Vlog to Jazzschool!
Fun generational timbre quote are the saxes (the Vox organ also, on re-listen) in the chorus from the The Revivalists' "Wish I Knew You."
I really liked the use of the trombones pedal A's at 4:07!
Ah... Good. I love soli. It's so beautiful and captivating. I used to refer to it as (instrument) choir or just multi layered harmonies, but soli feels right. It's one of the things that makes bands like Queen, Boston, and Journey so great.
Also, God DAMN, Adam!! Your music Fluffing ROOOCKS!!!
Your kittycat is so helpful. You are so lucky to have that help. A tremendous asset to your whole operation. :-)
it must be amazing to live in a city where so much talent and creativity is concentrated and readily available. good on ya, adam! great work. i just wish i lived close enough to come have a drink and hear your sets!
A sub genre within house music called future bounce frequently uses soli to thicken the sound (bassline, melody and chords all playing the same rhythm)
I actually, literally, in real life, started crying at the beauty and awesomeness of the Hell/Twice mashup.
Adam, that's cool that you studied big band music. While you're right that it's not in the zeitgeist, big band music still has a scene around it mostly consisting of dancers. Have you ever seen the Lindy Hop?
Every video of yours with a trombone makes me so happy
DAAANNNNGGGG Adam Neely! That Rihanna cover sounded awesome! Do you find yourself getting lost in a band like that with all those horns, synths/keys? Ever have to talk to the keys to maybe "scoot over" out of the lower frequencies a little? Great as always, my friend.
This video really hits home. I love music written for the types of concert bands/wind ensembles you find at high school, but I hate how they seem to be going down the road of having awful arrangements of pop songs or fairly standard instrumentation on original tunes. I wrote a wind ensemble piece inspired by trap music that needs that 808 kick, I just wish I had the knowledge of EDM to make it happen.
even though Coltrane's version was not very well received by the greater jazz community, because they wanted "Coltrane", I believe he also said he was not very fond of how it turned out, but it was what made his career take off, first break in the mainstream market, and got so much exposure to a group of people that weren't particularly just jazz fans.
Can we PLEASE have the footage from this consert uploaded in a full consert? i would pay for it! (insert "the lick" here.
I don't care what they say that old school sax soli was killing it... and for that matter so was that sax solo.
Will you release the rest of the songs you recorded with the guys? This is pure gold, i'm gonna buy them no question!
I love how you had the live Stairway playing with the picture of Page
Im still wanting to hear the whole version of Rather Be - I always come back to this video just to watch this part :P
Adam: Parallel fifths
Cat: *𝗱 𝗶 𝘀 𝗽 𝗹 𝗲 𝗮 𝘀 𝗲 𝗱*
I still love the fuck outta that ET cover by Drewsif and Anup
thx for the suggestion on where to get my next electric wheelchair adam i really appreciate it
I'm so happy I started learning how to read notes lately so I understood that reference 3:05
Whoa Adam discounting the massively popular genre of electro swing 😂😂😛
Adam does thinking about music keep you up at night, because it does me.