Drummer brought memes to the NYC jazz fusion gig...
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- Опубліковано 9 тра 2024
- Played an all-improv gig with memes at Rockwood in new yawk.
0:00 Intro
1:15 1st tune (that we got bored of)
2:08 The tune that's called E
4:08 "Sultry"
6:14 "Emo rock in Bb/G minor"
8:14 "Frustrated"
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Eitan Kenner - keys
Shubh Saran - guitar
Adam Neely - bass
Josh Bailey - durms
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Peace,
Adam
"That was frustrated, we are band practice"
I only know that one the other way round
Hats off to you!
Full marks, right here. I legit belly laughed at that! Too good.
@@JerGol thank you :)
👏
Very good!
This band should put set lists and sheet music on stands around the stage but they’re all blank
nice profile picture
emo rock Bb
Ur pfp is cool af
Are you a lesbien?
50 pages of sheet music with no notes and then one random bar has "railroad track" written in the margin.
“We are Band Practice” such a great name for a band made for live jam session!
During the first quarantine I started a band called "banned practice", because we couldn't play together and we had to brainstorm in voice call and then recorded separately from our own homes 😂
Nightmare name for being found in internet search results.
@@FunkyMonk6 Oh, in the end the project failed, we haven't shared anything... but I really liked the name
@@FunkyMonk6 lmao
@@jacopogenovese4728 I think it was a really cool concept and name
"No mistakes allowed". Unless repeated, right?
So you’re saying…
*REPETITION?*
Repetition does what?
@@ladinark1672 it legitimi zang
Just don't define it as a mistake ;)
wow you're that guy on quora
Josh (durms): Chaotic Good
Eitan (keys): Chaotic Neutral
Shubh (guitar): Lawful Good
Adam (bass): True Neutral
WOW I did not expect this comment to be posted to adam's twitter. On the off-chance that you see this, I wanna lyk that over my musical journey I've really enjoyed your videos and found a lot of educational value in them. As someone who makes video essays myself too it's just really cool to get recognized by someone I look up to, so thank you :]
That snare hit on *_that_* was so satisfying.
h a v e y o u e v e r h a d a d r e a m
T H A T
the fact it worked so well was shocking to me
Holy shit. That moment in frustrated where you were all just stopped, waiting for someone to break the tension... and he plays that sample, and you're all just absolutely in sync coming back into the energy you had before, and even amplifying it.
That was amazing. Maybe one of my favorite moments in music history. lol
Cause the drummer counted them in I guess OwO
"Let's just see how locked in we can make some completely improvised shit"
1.)*swell*
2.)*twang*
3.)*boop*
4.)*some*
Just perfect.
I just wanted you to know that I come back to this video about two-three times a year and I make sure to return to this comment because it is also perfect
Adam, you really know to edit an engaging video :)
Comment boost + I agree this was very well edited. Loved the back and forth between the conversation and the set
Josh became my favorite drummer when I found out he was on “Boobs In California” from Kimmy Schmidt. That’s legendary.
Magnificent results wth that samples, really liked it :D
Awesome concept... Luv it
1. Josh is a genius. 2. Sometimes ya gotta have a curveball to throw everyone out the loop a bit 😂.
Good stuff as always my dudes!
Man, this has to be one of the coolest gig-vlogs to watch ever. I wouldve LOVED to experience it live! Your chemistry as a band is just astounding and the way you engaged with your audience was so nice. Also id love to see more of that shit your drummer was doing 😆
Experiencing this live. That is the first place my mind went. Fun. Entertaining. Engaging. Stimulating. Most anything else I could say right now falls into the "words are hard" category.
@@jasontrebilcock6496 Indeed this would have been awesome
It's like he inviting us to this awesome gig as a buddy to join and wonder
This is such an unbelievably cool concept for a live band. I can’t even begin to process the amount of practicing that has to go into something like this. For now I’ll just stick to playing straight ahead tunes - I’ll get there one day though! Thanks Adam for the awesome content.
It's a "classic" stuff for actors
If you know your band mates by heart you can improvise all night long with them, the magic of music
@@xMTLKx I mean, technically I can do this too, but it will sound just a lot more... bland. And sloppy lol
If you like this kind of stuff (live composition + arrangement), check out some live performances from Umphrey’s McGee. They’re true masters of their craft.
@@toebs_ of course, they are on another level ahah
You should check out Henry Cow. More rock than jazz but all their stuff is completely improvised.
When he hit the drum and it went bonk… I felt that
The emo rock/boogie jive bit was nuts, wish that was a track, but then again that's kind of the magic of the improvised composition
“Uhhhh, E” is my new favorite song
The “ever had a dream” sample is EXACTLY in key with the jam. How did you manage that?
ears
probably pitch tuned in their favor
josh specifically tuned it to fit Bb major, hence why they planned the g minor emo rock bit which is the relative minor to Bb
Integrating the conversation with the live performance turns this video from hey check out to this vlog to telling an interesting story with a narrative that both goes somewhere and also doesn't paralleling the gig. Great editing. I enjoyed the video immensely and came away inspired.
Fucking hell, didn't expect the "have you ever..." meme to fit in SO WELL
That's like the highest level of game, right there- and really the ultimate form of "playing live". Because you have to BE alive to everyone and everything you're working with on that stage; which is very much harder than it seems. Much respect.
this couldn't come at a more perfect time, I am researching meme music's influence on jazz fusion for my Honours degree paper and this fits in so perfectly.
What a niche, love that
What meme music has influenced jazz fusion?
That's really interesting, if anything I'd say it would be more of the other way round, but by the same logic, the converse would also prove true. Meme music is steeped heavily in popular culture and it would have this pervasive almost effect where, it would be on top of the minds of people, due to sheer repetition; and when you come to fusion jazz, a genre that is reliant on improvisation, the mind would prefer to go the latest sonic memory in one's head and due to its sheer pervasive nature, the likeliness that meme music is on that list would be very high; furthermore due to meme music being so due to popularity, when an audience hears something similar, their net positive reaction would also prompt the band to further pursue a very similar sonic variety of music. This really is interesting, So-El, please do share the link to the paper once you're done with it, many of us here would love to read it!
@@MatthewPherigo well it has not necessarily influenced jazz fusion at its origin, but most current fusion artists have an aura of memeness around them. If you think of how prevalent the lick has become in meme music - but the meme music I refer to is mainly the type where people directly transcribe viral videos and then add complex harmony and polyrhythms to it (like Charles Cornell and MonoNeon)
@@rexbenny1553 thanks for the input 😃 I’m planning on putting it into video essay format when finished and will be sure to post it here.
This video made me laugh so many times... like.. too many bands seem to forget the goofiness of some grooves and sounds, and seeing pros like you goof around is certainly upfreshing ^^
What's upfreshing supposed to mean
@@boarderking133 that its up and freshing
@@boarderking133 uplifting and refreshing! I guess
I love the humor in this. So much live music is so serious. I used to jam and make up songs on the spot with a previous band of mine and used to quote all sorts of stuff in my solos - Jurassic Park theme, old school Nokia ringtone, of course Smash Mouth, etc. Definitely breaks any tension and gets the band just having fun again
There's a band that's been doing this on the reg for DECADES. They're called Phish. Yeah they have tunes for a starting or landing point but there's literally MONTHS of improvised material to listen to dating from back to the early 80's. And their composed stuff is pretty entertaining too.
"Conviction" great term in these circumstances. I had a very experimental phycadelic rock band when I was 17-20 and we used to have up to 45 minutes long continious jam sessions. The energi, focus and involvment would ofcourse go up and down but now and again when the mood dropped one of us would scream at the top of our lungs something stupid like "show me the fucking money!" or "bring me the cow!" While playing with a rythmical and melodic assertiveness that kicked the whole band into a new gear. I think those kind of collaborations makes you a better musician than any classroom ever could. To anyone who is truly set on making music a big part of your life, you need to find people to play with who tests and pushes you forward.
That’s so fucking Great That sounds sooo fun !
That truly is what it’s all about
The Dead basically recorded every live show they had, you should 100% do the same and upload the full show. I love your music, I think you uploading your live shows would be sick
i love josh
his playing is amazing and what he did with the samples was so thoughtful towards the audience
hope someday i'll be able to improvise on the drums like him ^^
I love at 6:26 when Eitan leans over and asks what key it's in. Very relatable for piano players playing with guitars and basses where it's easier to find the key or at least play in tune
This is actually the musical equivalent of a podcast
I like the editing structure of putting discussions around songs, I was engaged thar whole time. Getting a concept and like a game being tasked with finding the idea in the next bit of playing. Well done
The camera work around 6:33 is just priceless and the nodding hahaha
Having the band meeting intercut with songs from the gig was a super cool way to put this together
You guys eating pizza and planning out how to not have a plan is one of the coolest things I've ever seen lol! Well done.
Jazz musicians playing rock makes me feel so much better about when I play anything I feel is remotely jazz.
Will you be doing more tours like this? I would pay obscene amounts of money to watch one of these performances live.
As I do not possess obscene amounts of money, I would pay moderate amounts of money to see this in person
Ill givem bout tree fiddy and we can all enjoy obscene amounts of food/drinks
This video is gold. The conversation you guys had about what happens during improvisation is one of the most fascinating parts of jazz / improv to me. I played (trombone) from elementary through high school and then just kind of stopped at college (and I regret it). There's a nonverbal conversation that happens between band members and it's amazing when all of the members can really click and read each other.
It especially tickles me when you get a great percussionist who is picking up on subtle things that other people are putting down, or vice versa. Hearing a crazy sax or piano or guitar riff then get echoed back in snare + cymbal + tom, but then tweaked slightly, and then that back and forth exchange that happens... it's magical, and one of the biggest things I love about this form of music.
I'm kicking myself for not making the time to see Sungazer when you stopped in Cleveland...
I really don’t understand why but 6:34 is for some reason extremely funny to me, the editing is perfect and everyone is just standing there lmao
I reaaaaallllyyyy loved the idea of improvised concert
And so far i am just amazed of how all 4 of you can match with eachother and create extraordinary moments without being prepared beforehand
Not to downplay these guys at all because this was legitimately awesome. But if you’re decent on an instrument, have a good feel for the pocket, and are playing with people you know well musically then it isn’t really to hard to show up with nothing and jam it out. It’s honestly harder to get the right 3-5 people than it is for each of those people to get the skills.
I’m no musical pro by any stretch. I’ll happily tell anyone who asks that I kinda suck. But I’ve got a good feel for my pocket. I’ve jammed with many groups and only twice did it not suck. One was a three piece that just clicked. And one was a one off “song” with one other guy who barely played the drums but had an amazing pocket feel and musical intuition but with no other hard musical skills or practice. He didn’t even own a drum set and I was playing someone else’s guitar since I was the bassist for the night. The only decent music the night produced was during this smoke and bathroom break. The guy who owned the drums got butthurt and kicked my bro off the set so he could continue footfucking his double kick setup he couldn’t even do clean triplets on and the guy I borrowed the guitar from asked for his Gibson SG back and relegated me to bass so he could continue to dead note his daddy’s money through a distortion stack in our failing quartet jam sesh.
@@regularguy2200 to be fair, they are absolutely killing it for not being a specific type of group. Improv jams are standard for psych rock and blues for e.g., but it's not quite the same as the diversity of background and musical possibility that 'band prac' are pulling from, particularly you can just ride, say, the pentatonic for 20 minutes. It seems harder to improv 'songs' for a whole set, than to have a jam style set. You're right though, its about the spirit of the jam between the group in the room. I've got a purely jam band with shitty garage tracks (matteblackcandyvan on bandcamp), and we primarily improv with a few common jam songs. Still we only one we did (spij), that was with four people and vox....and man its a fine line between chaos and emptiness just trying to make something from nothing. Very different to a 2 piece doing the same. You can't really blame everyone in that jam you describe for being themselves as that's what it demands (of course there's still got to be a bit of give and take). Like you said though, when you sync and hit those points during the jam it feels like you're on holy fire haha.
@@ripvanwando first off, Band Pracitice is amazing and I definitely do not mean to downplay them. Just wanted to point out that with something like this, your chemistry and your ability to play well with others is more important that your actual skill level (assuming you're past a certain skill threshold)
Second, everyone in that jam sesh I described was hot garbage in both of those areas. No ability to play well with others and minimal ability on their own instruments. You cannot blame someone for "being themselves" in a jam, but they have to be themselves with other people. Not just be themselves, by themselves, around other people doing the same. The only reason I brought up that two piece jam was to point out that chemistry and pocket are so much more important than raw skill that the only music made that night featured a guy on drums who doesn't actually play drums. His pocket and chemistry completely overrode his total lack of "skill".
"Frustrated" really reminds me of good jam bands like Dopapod or Umphrey's, and I've always wondered how you feel about that scene as you have a bit of an overlap between that fanbase and your own.
The head nod from Josh in the intro when he hits that snare is the funniest thing I've seen this year
love these gig vlogs, hope you keep filming these. keep up the amazing work you guys and especially Adam
Insanely cool concept! Y’all work so well together
I have enjoyed this video so thoroughly. This is was absolutely amazing.
This was a perfect lunch/inspiration/motivation video! Love that we're in a place culturally that a one beat sample is all we need to go from jazz to comedy 😂
Cory Wright, I guess you're Cory Wong's secret nemesis
I really enjoyed watching you guys make music at Rockwood and was looking forward to this vlog. Thank you so much!
Such a cool vibe on stage and good reactions from the crowd, I love it
I love that the gig vlogs are back again! Keep it up :)))
Great editing Adam! And of course the music was awesome.
Bloody amazing stuff I’m both jealous and in awe what a great project and a special bunch of players!
I find this stuff truly amazing. Can't wait to see more Band Practice!
I watched the entire video with a big smile on my face, thank you, Adam.
This was so cool to watch an hear you guys give your interpretations of performing something like this. I'd love to have seen the whole show
Absolutely love these concerts! Always so great to listen to and really makes me feel good when listening
Great editing. I like how you were able to combine the thought process with the performance.
Would love to see the full recordings of your gigs man, always super entertaining and fun to listen to!
I really enjoy these free improv esque videos you’ve been doing!! I am a player myself but I never know how to put the experience into words and it’s so nice that you guys are describing it perfect. Super inspiring!
Thanks Adam. I didn't know I needed this video today, but it worked really well. You and the rest of band practice improved my evening :D
Your best video ever!! I enjoyed this soooooooo much
more of this format please- love this
Love the vibes on this set so much! Y'all clearly having lots of fun but it does sound cohesive in the end. Great gig! Sounds like such a fun experience - and for the audience, too!
loved the editing of this video! the narrative is awesome! and as a musician.... those gigs are great!!!!
genuinely NEED more Band Practice videos. This is amazing and makes me sad that I'm in London!!
really love the storytelling and editing style for this kinda videos. it has a great flow.
The editing and storytelling in this video is just perfect. Well done!!!!
This is awesome! Good job on the edit. It was a blast to watch and listen :)
I. Loved. This. Style. Video. Seriously, I loved how you gave us these cutaways from the music to give info that just made it way more interesting and entertaining.
This is such a cool idea, and you guys are so locked in with each other that it works so well!!!
That was such a cool approach to music making! Showing your audience what an improvisation session looks like in a band is such a brilliant idea!! Also, allowing your audience to determine the mood of a song/piece? Very inclusive! Loved the video from beginning to end!
What a show! You guys totally killed it, and the editing in of the vlog to show your discussion was really well done too.
One of the things i love about these videos is how adam builds this amazing narrative through editing. Truly awesome
i think this has been my musical dream for a long time and your video made me realize that.
thx lol
This idea if improvising a full gig gave an incredible result! You guys should do it more often!! I enjoyed every second of the music you guys came up with and I also think it's fun for you 😜
band practice + first of october perfect collab
the editing and the music was on another level!
Dude i thoroughly enjoyed this. Amazing 😂👏
Loved the return of the "Have you ever had a dream" sample from exigence!!
I'm doing an improv evening tonight at a friend's studio and this is making me SO EFFIN PUMPED!!!!!!!! Thanks Adam for the great vid, as always!!!!!
Awesome ideas and great editing!
I love seeing videos about this group. More of this please
Ok that was honestly some of the most talented shit I've ever seen. That was fantastic. Also the mid jam memes are HILARIOUS! If I ever make it to New York I gotta see this live.
this i s my favorite video you have made. It was very refreshing and enjoyable
SOME...
Seriously though, all of this is beyond amazing. Super fun!
Fantastic video and fantastic music. So cool to see the set woven in with the conversation.
Adam just have this amazing energy on stage, and such a good stage precance that I actually tought he was the guitarist for half the video. Never seen a bass player, yet alone a jazz bass player, that plays such a large role on stage. Great to see!
Absolutely brilliant!
My favorite track from this vlog was absolutely the "Sultry" and currently running out of adjectives to describe on how all of you are just extremely master at your own instruments.
This is sublime. There's music, there's improv, and then there's empathic mirroring within the context of music. To your guy's point near the end of the video, it's definitely still music but you've turned music into the medium of your communication with each other and the audience, gauging reactions and reacting to those. Music becomes the backdrop for the non-verbal one-night stand you're having with the people in the room at that moment. I think that's distinct from simply "making something up on the spot". Always love your content Adam, I'd love to see more of these types of shows and behind the scenes breakdowns!
this is my absolute favorite ever gig vlog on this channel. thank you all so much for this
damnnnnn sick!
wish I can ear you guys live, or at least the entire show with no cuts
thanks for this video
I can see how this could so easily go completely wrong,
But you all pull it together so well
2:43 “what” truly gold moment when Adam groove’s like that and said that lol
Friggin awesome. I love this style of video.
Man, this video was so fun and engaging to watch! What a wild ride!
I would absolutely love to see an improv set from yall live. incredible stuff
Yes! What a fun change from your normal videos! Awesome. 🙏
Great gig vlog man, no spelling mishaps at all, loved the precision
Thanks 😊
This was so cool to watch! Great tunes
Mesmerizing! Congratulations!
Stoked to see you in Seattle!