That... (what do I call it?) 'dimensional shift' between the chords on the standard keyboard and the one tuned for quarter tones is incredibly interesting. It really does sound great.
This "advanced theory" is just stuff some guys made up, dont go thinking we do that in hip hop or lo fi, he's a music theorist not a producers so he doesnt know hpw its done in reality
I was thinking the same thing. The first thing that came to mind when Adam started playing bass was Brian Eno's Over Fire Island (from Another Green World). Phil Collins on drums, Percy Jones on fretless bass, and Eno on synthesizer, guitars, and tapes. ua-cam.com/video/tZItWvebsXc/v-deo.html
@@HECKproductions it's a steep learning curve to be sure but I've found it feels fairly natural to play in just about any equal temperament that's a multiple of 5 on bass and especially guitar. The place to begin is to train yourself to hear different shades of the same interval. The perfect 5th and minor 2nd in 10edo are both 1/5th of a semi tone wider than we're used to, and the 4th and major 7th are that much flatter. That's close enough that you'll never unhear the similarities but far enough that you can clearly hear the difference. Once you internalize those "flavors" as distinct shades you can start to really dig in. This kind of training has actually helped my 12 tone ear quite a bit as well but your mileage may vary
I love the fact that Adam went from strongly disliking microtones and not understanding why they would be used in any context, to challenging himself to use them in a foreign context in order to understand how they can fit. It shows his willingness to keep learning about the different topics of such a dense subject like music.
@@Terrezed www.huygens-fokker.org/docs/intervals.html Difficult. Better hope you can tell apart your undecimal semi-diminished fifths and septimal semi-diminished fifths for that aural skills test.
Me, a CS major looking into music theory: In modern Windows operating systems, drive letter names start at C. This is due to the fact that, starting at C, you can build up a major scale. Drive letters A and B were reserved for floppy drives, and aren't nornally used these days as drive names, especially since the locrian mode, starting at 🅱️, is usually regarded as unusable.
With your synesthesia, what colours do you see when you hear these microtonal notes? Is it any different than a note tuned in 12 tone equal temperament for you?
I dont know about adam, but I do have synesthesia and I struggle to see colors when he plays microtonal chords, there are some colors but they are really not flashy at all and hard to see (it's quite the opposite of what I would see in a 12 tones temperament system chord)
@Matthew Aubeuf You should check out the song Dsilton by the band Dsilton, which is a transcription of a Gyil-duet off a field recording CD. I can send you the original but this is there arrangement: ua-cam.com/video/ldr-8NPZSHA/v-deo.html
Wow haven't watched the video yet, but seeing your comment has me extra excited, heard your Droplets track a few years ago, got me fascinated in college, gave me some advice too, thanks!!
Adam should really look at 17 EDO. It's close enough to 12 that you can even use the same notation system but it provides a lot of new scales. It's also great for extended jazz chords. I like the sound of 17 EDO major 7 chords better than 12 EDO major 7 chords.
Phebe Palmer Still, it had only barely crept into the jazz lexicon outside of blue notes at the time, and while Alice had probably introduced him to similar ideas from Hindustani classical music by the end of his life, I can only imagine what Trane could have done with some of these ideas as early as his hard bop days, particularly given how he used multi-tonic systems.
@@CarlSong From Wikipedia: "The eighth month in the old calendar of Romulus c. 750 bc, October retained its name (from the Latin and Greek ôctō meaning 'eight') after January and February were inserted into the calendar that had originally been created by the Romans." So it used to be the 8th month! Mystery solved.
I have perfect pitch, and expected to absolutely hate listening to all the microtones in this video, but it was actually really cool! Thanks for helping to expand my musical horizons as always, Adam!
I have a pretty good sense of pitch (can recall C and G, and the pitch of songs, but otherwise need relative pitch) and I honestly struggle to even hear microtones. My mind just wants to snap it up or down to the normal pitch scale.
First Observation: microtonal music sounds less "off" when there's more than one instrument playing a microtonal scale Second Observation: could just be that bass makes everything sound good.
Microtonal music sounds far less off once you get used to it. If you listen to a microtonal song, it takes only about 30 seconds at most for your ears to adjust to the new tuning. As Adam himself is fond of saying, repetition legitimizes.
First observation approved: the brain is kind of "dumb" and easily suggestible if presented with a coherent ensemble (multiple elements instead of just one). The ears are also very adaptive under the threshold of pain because the brain is obsessed with patterns Second observation approved: bass is gel, bass is salt, bass is the big brother, bass is *fundamental* (pun intended) It's all a question of CONTEXT
I so appreciate how accepting you are of all different types of music. I know some music snobs think Lo-Fi is "cheap" music, but you actually went into the nuances of the style of music and it feels validating as a fan of Lo-Fi music
Hello microtonalist here! Adam is not an expert but he is a great teacher. Some people/theorists who have helped me learn about microtones are Erv Wilson, Kraig Grady, Terumi Narushima (she has a great book), Kyle Gann (he has a great intro to microtones on his website), Stephen Wiegel and many others who donate their time online to educating. It can be a hard field to get into, I commend Adam for reaching a wider audience with his videos.
I love how you kept the clip of you debating whether or not the idea was good at the end, but then decided to run with it. I've found that just going with the gut reaction is so much fun and a big part of discovery when playing around with stuff like this. Love it!
that's so weird. I've actually had moments where I was working on harmonies for a new track and it happened that in my head there was this idea for a specific note that whenever I thought I had found what I was looking for never sounded quite right. although I knew about them, it never occurred to me that by using microtonal or different spaced systems I would actually be able to find the notes I was looking for. thanks to you now I have the opportunity to actually solve that problem. i checked out sevish and I found some melody patterns in a few songs that sounded quite close to some of those ideas I had. that's so damn satisfying
As a composer intrigued by microtonal music, the idea of using two keyboards tuned a quarter tone apart is so beautiful simple, I never would have thought it! Thanks!
Adam Neely👱🏻♂️ is one of the coolest and smartest musician on UA-cam. He is the best. Excellent video. All his videos are very systematic and he explains the topic in detail. Keep up your good work. Waiting eagerly for your 1M Subscribers Mark. Regards from India🇮🇳
Living life being able to hear minor imperfections in pitch seems awful. Basically all music that uses physical instruments features slightly out of tune playing. They just don't hold perfect tuning.
Hey someone with perfect pitch here! I assure you, hearing micro tonal music can be very jarring upon first hearing. Eventually, I’ve built an ear for this kinda of thing and now it’s sort of an extension of my perfect pitch. I’m training myself to learn how notes between notes sound if that makes sense. So yes, at first, microtonal music is terrifying. But it ends up being an extension of my musicality if I view it the right way.
ConvincingPeople yup! And it definitely helps when my friends try to troll me by messing up timpani tunings. I just say it’s “f half sharp” and move on :)
Jack Place yeah for me it’s not painful or uncomfortable. I understand why it can be weird or uncomfortable for other people but it’s just a cool music phenomenon that can be used for expanding ideas in music.
digitaljanus it is like over 3 years old so he should do another, also the main part is how he’s planning on paying off college debt which I don’t think he’s talked about yet.
I've been playing with this idea today and I discovered a ridiculously smooth switch between the two tunes. E diminished and F half sharp minor together sound crazy natural...
i've just started experimenting too after watching this video and I checked out what you said - you're right! Actually, I am really impressed by the fact that microtones can convey any emotional value. I've always thought of those quarter cents as something that is just "halfway", non-harmonious and somewhat blank but that shift between microtonal A flat and a normal one at 2:30 proved me wrong and I was amazed it actually sounds not only nice but harmonious.
It's also the same scale Sevish used in "Vidya..." if you listen you can hear some similarities due to the intervals, even though the song takes a wildly different approach.
THANK YOU Adam for calling it "lofi hip hop" and not just "lofi" like most music youtubers tend to do, as a lofi ambient musician it frustrates me to no end when people use the word "lofi" as if its a specific musical style and not a general descriptive term for low fidelity music thats been used for decades. That viral "lofi hip hop to relax and study to" stream has done irreparable damage to the lofi music community fr
Thanks for the inspiration. Just made my first track on SoundCloud using this idea. And that made me realize that this video isn’t an instructional video but a tool that creators can use. Thanks
This is like a whole new world to me, I didn’t even think about that. Damn I love producing there is always new stuff to learn. Inspires me to try creating microtonal psychedelic trap
This actually taught me how to use cent-detuned notes in music, helped solidify the concept of playing more than one key signature at once, and even brought me more towards jazz improvisation. Thank you, Adam!
@@jaebird3077 I understand completely. I took a music theory class for the heck of it. I also had basic guitar and piano and can operate them to play a few songs, but I'd not call myself a musician. Just dabbled enough to appreciate music more.
@@billytran3692 I mean, knowing music theory at a level that makes you understand these videos, you might as well try and make some music just for fun. You might end up creating something decent, maybe upload it. You don't have to have a carreer in music to enjoy making it, and who knows, maybe trying it might inspire you and make you end up in a cool creative process!
Growing up I remember seeing movies where people visited far off lands and there being a band greeting the visitors, playing 'out of tune'. When I learned about microtonal music I thought back to those movies and my brain suddenly snapped those memories into this new mental framework. It was quite a feeling!
i just imagine making a beat like this and showing it to my friends and only for them to look confused and think ive lost my mind if i think this sounds good..
When i sing in the shower, i actually have broken free from the confinements of the hegemonic western standard of 12-tone equal temperament
video or it didn't happen
You avant guardist you!
@@undeunitas1190 It takes more refinement than that to see me naked
If someone turns the hot water on elsewhere in the house you get a fantastic glissando to the high notes.
were you also just watching TMBS new episode about gramsci?
Tone is stored in the balls
-Miles Davis
I think this is the most funny thing I've read in 2019. Good job sir
🤔
i feel honored to give this the 420th like
Just tuning my balls to Bb. Good tone. Good tone.
Hmm. Lefty is a quarter tone flat.
Tuning fork feels a little cold.
Wise words from a sax addict.
That... (what do I call it?) 'dimensional shift' between the chords on the standard keyboard and the one tuned for quarter tones is incredibly interesting. It really does sound great.
A damn shame you only got 13 likes Tantacrul
Oh hi Tantacrul
Oh hi man!
...he's yet again figured out how to teach advanced music theory to people via a popular genre. I'm onto your tricks, Neely
This "advanced theory" is just stuff some guys made up, dont go thinking we do that in hip hop or lo fi, he's a music theorist not a producers so he doesnt know hpw its done in reality
Why this have 412 likes but 1 comment
@@MrFree-vj8qj At the hip hop and lo fi meetings where you decide how to do stuff? :-)
@@pinescent1 Sleeper phenom
mills what
I bet this would be really fun with a fretless bass.
Oh boy, that intonation though...
I was thinking the same thing. The first thing that came to mind when Adam started playing bass was Brian Eno's Over Fire Island (from Another Green World). Phil Collins on drums, Percy Jones on fretless bass, and Eno on synthesizer, guitars, and tapes. ua-cam.com/video/tZItWvebsXc/v-deo.html
difficult*
i think it would be an actual nightmare to actually hit the proper notes because we are so used to 12 TET
@@HECKproductions it's a steep learning curve to be sure but I've found it feels fairly natural to play in just about any equal temperament that's a multiple of 5 on bass and especially guitar.
The place to begin is to train yourself to hear different shades of the same interval. The perfect 5th and minor 2nd in 10edo are both 1/5th of a semi tone wider than we're used to, and the 4th and major 7th are that much flatter. That's close enough that you'll never unhear the similarities but far enough that you can clearly hear the difference. Once you internalize those "flavors" as distinct shades you can start to really dig in. This kind of training has actually helped my 12 tone ear quite a bit as well but your mileage may vary
Adam: What's between C and C#?
Me: Object Orientation?
Adam: C half-sharp
Me: Oh...
Ah, a fellow programmer. (nods sagely)
(Insert ‘i got that reference’ meme here)
And the symbol looks like a vertical stack of 2 plusses too.
Heh. Programming joke. Don't see enough of those
*Hello world!*
2:41 and almost as smooth as that transition into the sponsored bit
Elias H the video came out like a minute ago and you posted this comment 17 mins ago
McCreeper Plays MC he’s a wizzard
@@kirbymiller3061 this was probably on Patreon first. UA-cam changes the publish date but not the comment publish date.
BassasaurusRex Yup, it was because of Patreon.
I accidentally cut myself while loling...
I love the fact that Adam went from strongly disliking microtones and not understanding why they would be used in any context, to challenging himself to use them in a foreign context in order to understand how they can fit. It shows his willingness to keep learning about the different topics of such a dense subject like music.
That was the smoothest plug I've ever seen. Like a clean shave with Harry's
Taylor Anhorn underrated comment
l just couldn’t skip it
that comment just slid so easily. Like a new blade from Harry’s
No I'm not singing out of tune, I'm just using the 24-tone equal temperament
dont show this message to billie eilish please)
The equipentitonic scale sounds like a birthday card music player that’s ran out of battery.
That's literally _exactly_ the sound holy shit
It's similar to gamelan music too
Loool, perfect description
Run*
I was hearing an old electric door bell from the 60's or 70's
Playing music through the sponsored section so that I'll actually listen to the ad? That's some big brain moves right there
Me: spends hours and hours on ear training and finally begins to hear intervals
Modern music: M I C R O T O N A L A E S T H E T I C
UltraMarine LMAOOOO
I'm sure naming the intervals for microtonal music would either be simple or hell.
exactly!
LMAO MOOD
@@Terrezed www.huygens-fokker.org/docs/intervals.html
Difficult. Better hope you can tell apart your undecimal semi-diminished fifths and septimal semi-diminished fifths for that aural skills test.
Person: I'm a bad singer.
Me: No you're not... you're just singing... microtonally.
no, i really am. i sound a lot like a bear trying to give birth to several kitchen appliances
@@intergalacticspacecanoe4659 Wow if you can really pull that off sounds like you need to join a band
*puts on sunglasses*
ua-cam.com/video/j1z_BEQBQMg/v-deo.html
😂
Microtonal music is so complex.
Turkish art music,İndian music or little bit meditarian music,japanese traditional music.Check out Tolgahan çoğulu
"we have an out of tune player here"
*walks towards the drummer*
@Gernot Hassknecht ah yes, snare must ring at the high C ;)
Gernot Hassknecht “ah yeah sorry guys let me grab my other drum kit. This ones in drop D”
i'm mad because the toms of the drums in my school of rock class are tuned to C, F, and Bb, but the snare is in F#, not Eb
@@sl1pz369 ugh reminds me of the time i had to play a gig with the kick being 1.3 semitones and the snare 23 cents off of the rest of the kit ...
@Gernot Hassknecht dude, how you tune a hat?
The long awaited, much anticipated, how to make "millennial jazz" tutorial.
more like Gen Z
Vaporjazz
da na na na tepetepetepetep BAH da na na na Tepetepete NA NANA
Jazz is just boomer lo-fi lol
@@ricsouza5011 no
Never knew I needed microtonaal Lo-Fi Hip Hop, Earl Sweatshirt would body this kind of beat
The equapentatonic sounds so much like a Deltron beat
Yeah. Sounds a lot like Between Friends by Flying Lotus and Earl Sweatshirt
Adam: "What is between C and C#?"
Me: C++!
r/ProgrammerHumour
C# to C is what JavaScript is to Java
@@darkgreninja8349 Thus Javascript and Java are a half-step ahead...
Me, a CS major looking into music theory: In modern Windows operating systems, drive letter names start at C. This is due to the fact that, starting at C, you can build up a major scale. Drive letters A and B were reserved for floppy drives, and aren't nornally used these days as drive names, especially since the locrian mode, starting at 🅱️, is usually regarded as unusable.
@@ganaraminukshuk0 Wait, that explains everything.
With your synesthesia, what colours do you see when you hear these microtonal notes? Is it any different than a note tuned in 12 tone equal temperament for you?
Carlen MacFarlane This had better be answered in his Q+A
🤯
Excellent question. I do hope he answers this one
indeed
I dont know about adam, but I do have synesthesia and I struggle to see colors when he plays microtonal chords, there are some colors but they are really not flashy at all and hard to see (it's quite the opposite of what I would see in a 12 tones temperament system chord)
Hey Adam, gyil is pronounced jeel. Been studying and performing this instrument for the past 10 years. If you have any questions ask away!
*Rob Scallon had entered the chat*
@@RandoBox Rob: Aight fellas it's Gyil metal time
Do you have any videos or recordings with it? I honestly liked the sound of it better than the piano in 10 tone equal temperament.
@@straightXjessedge did you check his channel?
@Matthew Aubeuf You should check out the song Dsilton by the band Dsilton, which is a transcription of a Gyil-duet off a field recording CD. I can send you the original but this is there arrangement:
ua-cam.com/video/ldr-8NPZSHA/v-deo.html
Me: *trying my best to learn how to distinguish intervals*
Adam: *plays C half sharp*
I mean, we all knew this was coming since his 7 levels of harmony video
Whoa Adam thanks for the mention at the end of the vid. My mind would be blown if we all got to hear some microtonal Sungazer one day!
never ever thought of seeing a comment of yours on one of adam's video
You rule!
Wow haven't watched the video yet, but seeing your comment has me extra excited, heard your Droplets track a few years ago, got me fascinated in college, gave me some advice too, thanks!!
Adam should really look at 17 EDO. It's close enough to 12 that you can even use the same notation system but it provides a lot of new scales. It's also great for extended jazz chords. I like the sound of 17 EDO major 7 chords better than 12 EDO major 7 chords.
@@e8heterotic649 and 17edo supermajor 7 chords kick 19edo major 7 chords' ass
Good news guys the lofi hip hop girl passed her test
!!
With all these years of studying 24/7 i really hoped she would, thank god.
You got me. Took me a moment to remember all those live streams. The ones that play while my eyes are closed 😁
Oh thank goodness...
Good. Good for her.
3:25 love that howtobasic energy lol great vid adam
me too
this shit sounds surreal. so dreamlike. imagine if john coltrane was still around to hear and try to mess around with this stuff.
Cosmic Stardust as a sax player I agree
micro tonality has been a thing for a veryyy long time and part of experimental canon during his time. it's not new.
@@pirateunicorn42 word
Phebe Palmer Still, it had only barely crept into the jazz lexicon outside of blue notes at the time, and while Alice had probably introduced him to similar ideas from Hindustani classical music by the end of his life, I can only imagine what Trane could have done with some of these ideas as early as his hard bop days, particularly given how he used multi-tonic systems.
giant steps in 24-TET
*Even larger steps*
“I’m talking of course about dividing the octave into ten evenly spaced notes.”
Me: “ah, of course”
possibly the first comment that had actually made me laugh out loud
france called
Well if OCTober is the 10th month of the year, of course it makes sense that an OCTave has 10 notes.
*Please don't take this comment seriously.
@@CarlSong thanks for frying my brain...
@@CarlSong From Wikipedia: "The eighth month in the old calendar of Romulus c. 750 bc, October retained its name (from the Latin and Greek ôctō meaning 'eight') after January and February were inserted into the calendar that had originally been created by the Romans." So it used to be the 8th month! Mystery solved.
*Broke:* Out of tune
*Woke:* Microtonal
Get microtonal, go out of tune?
best comment right here
Bespoke: Xenharmonic
Hahhha - nice one
Release the vocal only of the Harry’s ad so we can make remixes, because that was naturally rhythmic.
I have perfect pitch, and expected to absolutely hate listening to all the microtones in this video, but it was actually really cool! Thanks for helping to expand my musical horizons as always, Adam!
I have it too, and I totally agree with what you say
I have a pretty good sense of pitch (can recall C and G, and the pitch of songs, but otherwise need relative pitch) and I honestly struggle to even hear microtones. My mind just wants to snap it up or down to the normal pitch scale.
listening is nice, creating would be a nightmare (especially with 10-TET lol)
Dat microtonal “the lick” at the beginning got me good.
First Observation: microtonal music sounds less "off" when there's more than one instrument playing a microtonal scale
Second Observation: could just be that bass makes everything sound good.
Microtonal music sounds far less off once you get used to it. If you listen to a microtonal song, it takes only about 30 seconds at most for your ears to adjust to the new tuning. As Adam himself is fond of saying, repetition legitimizes.
Davie504-approved comment
Slap like now
@@chroni3659 slapp
First observation approved: the brain is kind of "dumb" and easily suggestible if presented with a coherent ensemble (multiple elements instead of just one). The ears are also very adaptive under the threshold of pain because the brain is obsessed with patterns
Second observation approved: bass is gel, bass is salt, bass is the big brother, bass is *fundamental* (pun intended)
It's all a question of CONTEXT
Adam: teaches us about some good ol microtonal goodness.
Also Adam: makes the lick out of shaving gel.
Lmao
I think this is proof that the Lo-Fi Hip Hop Girl is caught in a time loop.
Why does this make sense
Josh Fredman we must save her
@@IamINERT who put her there obviously knew more than us.We better leave her in her trap
It was probably Yoshikage Kira.
@@alexgherghiceanu2094 But we must protect the waifus 😞.
Maybe she knows the secret to reincarnation into another world.🙆🏽♂️
Omg..
And they said that Fantano was the internet’s busiest music nerd
Complaining about music is not the same as understanding it
He's the internet's busiest music *hipster* . Big difference.
He's so busy with music that he runs another you tube channel dedicated to drama.
Lmao, he reviews stuff and got a reputation for hating popular music. He's got nothing on this dude
Fantano is more of a geek than a nerd and he should use Adam's sponsor to shave his pizza hut logo mustache off.
Now, the rhythm needs to be attacked. The 4/4 just doesn’t cut it!
3.14/12
_microbeat rhythm_
-77.4/45
4/20
7/19
3:27
I too am fond of playing the lick on the Foaming Gel
You are super cool to be approaching micro-tonality with such humility and joy. You've got the music in you.
I loved what you did also.
I so appreciate how accepting you are of all different types of music. I know some music snobs think Lo-Fi is "cheap" music, but you actually went into the nuances of the style of music and it feels validating as a fan of Lo-Fi music
adam: i'm not an expert at this...
me: you're the only expert at this
Jacob Collier too
There are real experts at this, just almost nobody knows them
Fernando Pérez may not be an expert but he plays amazing microtonal music
@@antoniusnies-komponistpian2172 Communication is a separate skill. Some experts can absolutely get their ideas across; others can't.
Hello microtonalist here! Adam is not an expert but he is a great teacher. Some people/theorists who have helped me learn about microtones are Erv Wilson, Kraig Grady, Terumi Narushima (she has a great book), Kyle Gann (he has a great intro to microtones on his website), Stephen Wiegel and many others who donate their time online to educating. It can be a hard field to get into, I commend Adam for reaching a wider audience with his videos.
9:51 love when Adam drops that chill-ass R2-D2 lyric
Low-key best comment
This could fit really well as a soundtrack for a Legend of Zelda water dungeon.
Athos Birra That is true. It has the feel of inverted Stone Temple in Majora’s Mask, so it would not be out of context either
I love how you kept the clip of you debating whether or not the idea was good at the end, but then decided to run with it. I've found that just going with the gut reaction is so much fun and a big part of discovery when playing around with stuff like this. Love it!
that's so weird. I've actually had moments where I was working on harmonies for a new track and it happened that in my head there was this idea for a specific note that whenever I thought I had found what I was looking for never sounded quite right. although I knew about them, it never occurred to me that by using microtonal or different spaced systems I would actually be able to find the notes I was looking for. thanks to you now I have the opportunity to actually solve that problem.
i checked out sevish and I found some melody patterns in a few songs that sounded quite close to some of those ideas I had.
that's so damn satisfying
997ET that’s awesome!
I wish I could hear what you were hearing or wanting to achieve. That sounds Divine and so special.
That first progression with the quarter-tones mixed in was fire. Tbh probably my favorite piece in the video.
The music of entering an alternate dimension where the sky is purple and the floor is art deco.
club penguin box dimension
Next video: Actually playing the Lo-fi Hip-Hop Beats To Study/ Relax To 24/7
For 24 hrs and 7 mins straights.
All of it in a 24:7 tempo
24 hours and 7 minutes?
As a composer intrigued by microtonal music, the idea of using two keyboards tuned a quarter tone apart is so beautiful simple, I never would have thought it! Thanks!
"Western music is dominant"
And here I was thinking it had tonic quality. Smh my head
Lol
aaaaaaah.
👍
shaking my head my head
*Ba doop tst*
Adam Neely👱🏻♂️ is one of the coolest and smartest musician on UA-cam. He is the best. Excellent video. All his videos are very systematic and he explains the topic in detail. Keep up your good work.
Waiting eagerly for your 1M Subscribers Mark.
Regards from India🇮🇳
I love nice Indian people on the UA-cam comments section 😂
lmao
When I was a kid, my mom sang microtonal kids tunes to me every night.
Niki Kovacs this is the recipe to create 200+ IQ kids
or serial killers
@@Allen____ why not both?
Was your mother arabic?
lmaoo
Imagine being one of those perfect pitch snobs that can't stand when a piano is tuned a little flat (but still in tune with itself) listening to this
Living life being able to hear minor imperfections in pitch seems awful. Basically all music that uses physical instruments features slightly out of tune playing. They just don't hold perfect tuning.
Hey someone with perfect pitch here! I assure you, hearing micro tonal music can be very jarring upon first hearing. Eventually, I’ve built an ear for this kinda of thing and now it’s sort of an extension of my perfect pitch. I’m training myself to learn how notes between notes sound if that makes sense. So yes, at first, microtonal music is terrifying. But it ends up being an extension of my musicality if I view it the right way.
Jjynja That strikes me as an extremely healthy and thoughtful way to approach it! ^w^
ConvincingPeople yup! And it definitely helps when my friends try to troll me by messing up timpani tunings. I just say it’s “f half sharp” and move on :)
Jack Place yeah for me it’s not painful or uncomfortable. I understand why it can be weird or uncomfortable for other people but it’s just a cool music phenomenon that can be used for expanding ideas in music.
This video answered questions I didn't even know I had.
we have an out of tune *thinker* here
Adam: I'm not an expert at this...
Also Adam: *improvises a really good lo-fi piece with little effort
Great vid tho lmao
*king gizzard has left the server*
RATTLESNAKE
Dspangs RATTLESNAKE
King Gizz fans have entered the chat
I was looking for someone who talks about king gizzzzzzzzz ty
Alter me !
Reminds me of adult swin old Interstitials.
stg adult swim is a hub for great fuckin music
@@yourrealdad9442
Adult Swim is a hub for all that is true in this universe.
Good that you kept playing through that ad. Gave me something nice to focus on
"It's played through bad frequencies!"
we got an out of tune *intellectual* here...
The "n" is (kinda) silent
Bro, the 10 tone sounds like an evil themepark ride.
This the type of music you'd listen to between adult swim shows
Sounds like something you'd hear on [adult swim].
Microtonals: exist
Adam: vibe check
The fucking 7th level of jazz harmony Intro gets my every time
After being surprised by Adam in yesterday’s Contrapoints episode I was almost prepared for her to pop in to this video 🙃
Who's contrapoint episode?
Contrapoints is the channel; not a video about contrapuntal music. It's the most recent one on Opulence.
@@samflake4466 oh okay cool. I'll check that out. I was wondering why he hadn't posted in a while.
@@starrk7158 Have you tranistion to a nebulous lesbian froglady yet?
@@mondker I have not. That video creeped the hell out of me. I couldn't watch it all.
the 10 tone equal temperament, sounds like a wind chime.
we have an out of tune player here.
That slide from Admaj9 to Abmaj9 is just so nice
Questions for your next QnA:
How do you support yourself as a musician, aren’t the Berklee fees a hassle? Also, Adam, hows your love life?
Lol at how the question is scripted like the scene from The Room
He did a video on this a few years back (ua-cam.com/video/M6dm131twOQ/v-deo.html) but maybe he's due for an update.
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digitaljanus it is like over 3 years old so he should do another, also the main part is how he’s planning on paying off college debt which I don’t think he’s talked about yet.
The beat in the background sounds like someone's chopping onions. Sounds cool!
Hello fellow Finn
were you hungry when you watched this?
3:48 this man really just wrote the lick in shaving cream. God
Next microtonal episode: Adam adds aditional frets to his bass OR buys a microtonal bass.
Can't wait to see it
Fretless bass would be the natural thing. Now I want to know if there are microtone expert violin players!
"The chords are fine and everything, but it could really use some *j a z z h a r m o n y* "
microtonal music counts as jazz
First and only guy that has the ability to make the sponsor-segment feel interesting. Adam, you are indeed a legend.
Damn I really feel like studying/relaxing/chilling 24 hour stream right now
Haha, the goddamn riff in its microtonal interpretation at 00:07!! EDIT: Yes, I meant "The lick".
tyskstil I think you mean T H E L I C C
D A R I F F
This is where fretless instruments come in handy.
...and microtonal fretted instruments too! (saz, tanbur, lavta, etc.)
I'm gonna be taking a go at hi-fi microtonal hip hop
I just uploaded an experiment to my channel if anyone cares :D
2:40 "There is a smoothness that I really love" - yes, in fact that transition was what was the smoothest
I've been playing with this idea today and I discovered a ridiculously smooth switch between the two tunes. E diminished and F half sharp minor together sound crazy natural...
i've just started experimenting too after watching this video and I checked out what you said - you're right! Actually, I am really impressed by the fact that microtones can convey any emotional value. I've always thought of those quarter cents as something that is just "halfway", non-harmonious and somewhat blank but that shift between microtonal A flat and a normal one at 2:30 proved me wrong and I was amazed it actually sounds not only nice but harmonious.
This is ridiculously sick and amazing! For a professional musician who’s studied music and a lofi artist, this is quite satisfying. Thank you!
Calling it now: That's what the next King Gizzard album will sound like.
fact
Flying microtonal banana maybe?
David Loren flying nonagon rat’s nest with lo-fi characteristics
@@harpsarp66 and of course it would sound sick.
Flying Microtonal Cucumber
매번 자세하게 설명 해주고 샘플 보여주고 응용보여주면서 이해시켜줘서 너무 좋음
I recognized that Sevish-type of tone at the end. I love his music.
It's also the same scale Sevish used in "Vidya..." if you listen you can hear some similarities due to the intervals, even though the song takes a wildly different approach.
Me: I tuned my guitar to 432hz and think i'm cool
Adam: Hold my beer..
your guitar? each string is a flat A? heheh
@@iggykad hahahhaha. You got me. 😅
@@iggykad Bro are you stupid he tuned his guitar to 432hz means the whole guitar resonates at that frequency 🤦
@@aixide sheesh...it was clearly a joke.
@@iggykad I was joking too lol was worried I'd come across as serious
THANK YOU Adam for calling it "lofi hip hop" and not just "lofi" like most music youtubers tend to do, as a lofi ambient musician it frustrates me to no end when people use the word "lofi" as if its a specific musical style and not a general descriptive term for low fidelity music thats been used for decades. That viral "lofi hip hop to relax and study to" stream has done irreparable damage to the lofi music community fr
the only thing that came to my mind is king gizzard
and the flying microtonal banana!
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melting
hell ye baby
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wow that "flute" sound he used at 9:35 reminded me of Vangelis, more specifically the Blade Runner soundtrack
adam being sponsored is the most unpredictable thing ever; you never know when that message is.
What about a fretless bass guitar, that would be sick af. Just imagine the possibilities
Victor Brandao you can get double bass hybrids
3:20 how to basic: the lick (morning routine rendition)
Thanks for the inspiration. Just made my first track on SoundCloud using this idea. And that made me realize that this video isn’t an instructional video but a tool that creators can use. Thanks
Nobody:
Adam: E AND D STRINGS
Get a fucking life
Thomas Jackson I hope you get well soon bro. Having a rod that long stuck up your ass must not be nice
@@ayooobro christ that's brutal
This is like a whole new world to me, I didn’t even think about that. Damn I love producing there is always new stuff to learn. Inspires me to try creating microtonal psychedelic trap
Yes man as soon as I heard the high pads I thought of making goa with it
This actually taught me how to use cent-detuned notes in music, helped solidify the concept of playing more than one key signature at once, and even brought me more towards jazz improvisation. Thank you, Adam!
Yes! Lo Fi one of my favs and im glad to see one of my fav music youtubers making some analysis videos about this :)
Lo Fi isn't a genre mate.
Who else aint a musician but just watches cuz it's interesting?
1 like. there's your answer
I only mess with music not a musician because I feel i haven't put in the time. I never apply his information so I guess I watch for fun
@@jaebird3077 I understand completely. I took a music theory class for the heck of it. I also had basic guitar and piano and can operate them to play a few songs, but I'd not call myself a musician. Just dabbled enough to appreciate music more.
@@billytran3692 I mean, knowing music theory at a level that makes you understand these videos, you might as well try and make some music just for fun. You might end up creating something decent, maybe upload it. You don't have to have a carreer in music to enjoy making it, and who knows, maybe trying it might inspire you and make you end up in a cool creative process!
You don’t have to be musician to be one.
Growing up I remember seeing movies where people visited far off lands and there being a band greeting the visitors, playing 'out of tune'. When I learned about microtonal music I thought back to those movies and my brain suddenly snapped those memories into this new mental framework. It was quite a feeling!
i just imagine making a beat like this and showing it to my friends and only for them to look confused and think ive lost my mind if i think this sounds good..
Where is Louie Zong, he's gonna love this
That’s sooooo chill. I love the idea of two keyboards and two detuned bass strings. Very clever.
FLYING MICROTONAL BOOMBOX