What is the slowest music humanly possible?

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  • s l o w d o w n.
    you might hurt yourself.
    𝄢 MOST BRUTAL BREAKDOWN EVER playlist
    • Most Brutal Breakdown ...
    𝄢 Marche Funébre: Lento from Chopin’s Piano Sonata no. 2 performed by Donald Broils
    𝄢 Murdered by Grief by Frowning (Funeral Doom Metal)
    • Frowning - Murdered By...
    𝄢 Resources on the Perceptual Present
    books.google.com/books?id=A3j...
    kuldoc.com/download/cognitive...
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciou...
    𝄢 Steve Lehman’s Doctoral Thesis
    academiccommons.columbia.edu/...
    𝄢 Alex Rehding - The Discovery of Slowness in Music
    dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/ha...
    𝄢 Compositions 1960
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composi...
    𝄢 Performances of Composition 1960 #7
    • Composition 1960 #7 La...
    • VENI Academy - "To be ...
    • La Monte Young - Compo...
    ………the official ASLSP………..
    N • John Cage - Organ2/ASL...
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    X • John Cage - Organ2/ASL...
    𝄢 The official ASLSP website
    www.aslsp.org/de/
    𝄢 ASLSP Sheet music
    thomasmoore.info/wordpress/wp-...
    𝄢 ASLSP Note change headlines/videos
    news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/152... (2001)
    articles.latimes.com/2004/jul/... (2004)
    www.nytimes.com/2006/05/06/art... (2006)
    www.theguardian.com/music/mus... (2008)
    www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/... (2011)
    • John Cage Organ2/ASLSP... (2013)
    𝄢 “It doesn’t mean anything…it’s just, there.”
    www.dw.com/en/one-thousand-hea...
    𝄢 Leonard Bernstein talks about Mahler’s 9th Symphony
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 6 тис.

  • @AdamNeely
    @AdamNeely  5 років тому +5857

    if you are watching this now and are wondering why there is no audio from 14:22, it's because SONY has blocked Gustav Mahler's 9th Symphony. So I can't play it for you. Sorry! Go check out Mahler's 9th, it's amazing.

    • @mitchinatr7093
      @mitchinatr7093 5 років тому +576

      Well ain’t that some bullshit.

    • @garrettmillaway5325
      @garrettmillaway5325 5 років тому +142

      Thought you were trolling us that made it to the end of the video... cool video man keep it up

    • @sagetx
      @sagetx 5 років тому +29

      Arrgh, ok. But what's the guy saying? Is that Carl Sagan?

    • @ianthc8486
      @ianthc8486 5 років тому +31

      I love that piece but with Leonard narrating and what he is saying it just adds another level of emotion. :')

    • @noenken
      @noenken 5 років тому +64

      Thanks Sony. Bunch of c.....
      @Adam Cool video, even for non musicians like me. :)

  • @Catishcat
    @Catishcat 6 років тому +13301

    The thumbnail was so anticlickbait that I actually clicked it.

    • @VeilStar
      @VeilStar 6 років тому +1068

      I absolutely get what you're saying, but I have to say that in my eyes it was clickbait done right. It gives you the answer, but leaves you wondering why. And with that curiosity, you click on it.
      Kudos to that. The video was also very well organized, edited, and narrated.

    • @TyDie85
      @TyDie85 6 років тому +85

      Clickbait? ........ok, sure.... because apparently everything is clickbait these days

    • @VeilStar
      @VeilStar 6 років тому +254

      If you clicked because of the thumbnail, it functioned as bait. So yes, clickbait. Clickbait doesn't mean it has to be over-dramatized, inaccurate, false, a trap, or anything along those lines. Refer to the first sentence in my previous comment.
      I never said everything is clickbait. I simply said I believe it was clickbait, but not in the conventional usage of the word.

    • @pawebojarski7878
      @pawebojarski7878 6 років тому +79

      Reverse psychology at work.

    • @GrafHaesslich
      @GrafHaesslich 6 років тому +45

      whatever they did, they made me click

  • @Mysteri0usChannel
    @Mysteri0usChannel 4 роки тому +6362

    *1 beat per age of the universe*
    That's just... The Big Bang?

    • @AssistantCoreAQI
      @AssistantCoreAQI 4 роки тому +646

      The Big Beat.

    • @systemafunk
      @systemafunk 4 роки тому +273

      @@AssistantCoreAQI Played by the Big Band. Which makes it a jazz song. Damn that jazz....

    • @unblorbosyourshows9635
      @unblorbosyourshows9635 4 роки тому +26

      @@AssistantCoreAQI wait no-

    • @AssistantCoreAQI
      @AssistantCoreAQI 4 роки тому +91

      @@unblorbosyourshows9635
      Intergalactic Progressive Jazz.

    • @jusme2038
      @jusme2038 4 роки тому +11

      Lonnie Liston Smith and the Cosmic Echoes

  • @str1fe13
    @str1fe13 4 роки тому +3207

    Adam: "The next note is scheduled to be played in 2020"
    2020: "lol nope"

  • @fritzfxx
    @fritzfxx 4 роки тому +303

    "To be fair you have to actually have a pretty high IQ to get Rick and morty...."
    Caught me off guard. Many laughs

  • @TheRealXenosapien
    @TheRealXenosapien 5 років тому +6539

    You never stop clapping. The intervals between claps just get longer.

  • @peaceoutman
    @peaceoutman 5 років тому +2544

    600 years from now, when the piece finishes, how long will the audience applaud for?

    • @krispayy6076
      @krispayy6076 5 років тому +210

      2 + 1 = 7

    • @awesomenokes
      @awesomenokes 5 років тому +81

      Humans will be gone, so 0 seconds

    • @erinbaker5120
      @erinbaker5120 5 років тому +15

      Forever in their hearts

    • @cerystalgaming84
      @cerystalgaming84 5 років тому +53

      @@krispayy6076 A human can live for 122 years roughly. But remember, you never stop clapping, only that the time between them is longer.

    • @blue-tb2fd
      @blue-tb2fd 5 років тому +16

      Cerystal Gaming - Jeanne Calment is an outlier. The current average is roughly 80 or so.
      Can a human live to be 122? Yes. Will they? Probably not.

  • @lmaolmao2544
    @lmaolmao2544 4 роки тому +429

    6:43
    The real question is how that guy with the bassoon managed to blow into it for 45 minutes straight.
    Monster.

    • @lucasmucas9072
      @lucasmucas9072 4 роки тому +79

      Circular breathing

    • @bbaby7102
      @bbaby7102 4 роки тому +57

      he is a plant and absorbs air constantly

    • @JAY-zf6jw
      @JAY-zf6jw 3 роки тому +26

      Circular breathing should not exist

    • @robotronixgaming2933
      @robotronixgaming2933 3 роки тому +20

      Must have been part of Eminem's bloodline

    • @kisawisa1769
      @kisawisa1769 3 роки тому +5

      Circular breathing

  • @joshualepon5676
    @joshualepon5676 4 роки тому +741

    "The next note is scheduled to be performed in the year 2020..."
    2020: *gives pandemic*

    • @user-lt7qb5vf2p
      @user-lt7qb5vf2p 3 роки тому +25

      I guess it was a one of those depressing notes

    • @haalfnhaalf
      @haalfnhaalf 3 роки тому +22

      positively cataclysmic

    • @alicecallahan1746
      @alicecallahan1746 3 роки тому +1

      that was 2019

    • @danballe
      @danballe 3 роки тому +3

      Certainly did NOT age well.

    • @niklas3686
      @niklas3686 3 роки тому

      @@alicecallahan1746 but it hit Germany 2020

  • @james.randorff
    @james.randorff 6 років тому +1591

    In the year 2640, it is revealed that the 639 year performance of ASLAP was recorded onto a digital cloud server. Adam's great-great-great-great-[etc]-granddaughter, Morticia Neely (named for the famed intellectual wizard Morty) takes the video, speeds it up 2^24 times (with a resultant tempo of 60,000bpm) and releases a musical fractal to UA-cam (Google still exists and is the heart of our new AI overlords), discovering what we knew all along:
    ASLAP actually stands for "All Star, Long-Ass Playback."

  • @eddieavakian
    @eddieavakian 4 роки тому +1893

    I clicked on this expecting a “non answer” to the question but you actually answered it, and in a couple different ways. Nice work Adam.

    • @lolkayleen2757
      @lolkayleen2757 4 роки тому +15

      Eddie Avakian Like **cough** *vsauce* **cough**

    • @Mugen_YG
      @Mugen_YG 4 роки тому +6

      The answer is in the thumbnail though lol

    • @eddieavakian
      @eddieavakian 4 роки тому

      lol my thumb nail 7 months ago was not the same as yours. They change over time.

    • @Mugen_YG
      @Mugen_YG 4 роки тому

      @@eddieavakian ah, I see.

    • @irock58
      @irock58 4 роки тому

      @@lolkayleen2757 That was my thought as well. But he does it well. I like him.

  • @DesDownunder1
    @DesDownunder1 4 роки тому +91

    Silence is "still" music

  • @SupahflyJazzguy
    @SupahflyJazzguy 3 роки тому +25

    Adam Neely - "It's a multigenerational performance. No human being will see its beginning and its end."
    The Queen of England - "u wot m8?"

  • @chasetalks2much
    @chasetalks2much 4 роки тому +3519

    The slowest beat is 0 bpm just walk away and don’t play

    • @iKn-ft2bc
      @iKn-ft2bc 4 роки тому +62

      Rule 34 0bpm? Thats pause not a beat . OR IS IT NOT🧐

    • @chasetalks2much
      @chasetalks2much 4 роки тому +71

      iKn0wThingz Well that’s just a theory a game theory

    • @AbsoluteAbsurd
      @AbsoluteAbsurd 4 роки тому +3

      Sleepy Vibes xD are you alright

    • @joel8236
      @joel8236 4 роки тому +26

      -1 bpm

    • @mac6na6na26
      @mac6na6na26 4 роки тому +34

      What if it’s actually infinitely fast and finishes before you even try to start

  • @masonwant
    @masonwant 5 років тому +2364

    Slowest thing we have ever committed to would be Brexit

    • @valentin5336
      @valentin5336 5 років тому +70

      No. The slowest thing ever is building the BER-airport in Berlin(Germany)

    • @guser436
      @guser436 4 роки тому +58

      Development of Half Life 3

    • @suit1337
      @suit1337 4 роки тому +25

      Brexit Metal, the pinncacle of brutally slow music

    • @alexanderdornier7245
      @alexanderdornier7245 4 роки тому +9

      And the sagrada familia xD

    • @licinigi9969
      @licinigi9969 4 роки тому +2

      What about the Heavy update for TF2?

  • @dynoburger
    @dynoburger 4 роки тому +110

    Ohhhh buddy you sure had no idea how “cataclysmic” 2020 was gonna be

    • @10thletter40
      @10thletter40 3 роки тому +4

      Id say it isnt even top 8 in the worst years of the past 100 years though. 😅

    • @NikodAnimations
      @NikodAnimations Місяць тому

      ​@@10thletter40
      What if you exclude WW2?

    • @10thletter40
      @10thletter40 Місяць тому

      @@NikodAnimations Then probably, due to the worldwide effect it had.

  • @theproletkulttn
    @theproletkulttn 3 роки тому +19

    I remember talking to one of my audio Engineering professors about slow music and one thing that he brought up was that when we have a beat that is too slow to truly feel, our brain finds things to fill in the gaps such as bringing to light specific changes in the tone of the instruments or weaker percussive elements, or even mild hallucinations to fill in the gaps. This also brings to light the point where our beat goes into a sort of rhythmic daze or confusion where we have lost the sense of beat when he was slowing down the tempo to make the point of our brains not being able to feel beats below roughly 33bpm.
    Also I love your use of Steve Roach's Structures from Silence during your mention of Ambient music. I love that album so much!

  • @howardselden5157
    @howardselden5157 5 років тому +1595

    This is Vsause, but music

    • @kristerrs
      @kristerrs 4 роки тому +62

      or is it?
      John Cage - ASLSP starts playing

    • @HimTortons
      @HimTortons 4 роки тому +19

      Hey Neely, Adam here!

    • @eddbajrai4411
      @eddbajrai4411 4 роки тому +10

      *VSauce for Music*

    • @chaichai49
      @chaichai49 4 роки тому +8

      I had the exact same feeling

    • @Leonardo-G
      @Leonardo-G 4 роки тому +2

      Renatus And doesn’t stop for a while

  • @jessethane6910
    @jessethane6910 4 роки тому +598

    "What is the slowest thing we've ever committed to?"
    Bureaucracy.

    • @hcrrobloxstudios7023
      @hcrrobloxstudios7023 4 роки тому +3

      No it’s brexit

    • @ta33370
      @ta33370 4 роки тому +16

      @@hcrrobloxstudios7023 Brexit is an example of bureaucracy. So it's still bureaucracy.

    • @Marquploads
      @Marquploads 4 роки тому

      yes

    • @irock58
      @irock58 4 роки тому

      10/10

  • @ahobimo732
    @ahobimo732 4 роки тому +26

    That whole "perceptual present" thing really blew my mind. Like... intensely so.

  • @MinecraftPlayer-nw5kq
    @MinecraftPlayer-nw5kq 4 роки тому +61

    “The next note is in 2020”
    Coronavirus: Not anymore!

  • @poombie
    @poombie 6 років тому +1456

    Im currently playing one measure of rest. I will finish my performance in 10,000 years.

  • @SgtMCButterball
    @SgtMCButterball 5 років тому +785

    I love how a basic answer is in the thumbnail yet so many people still watched it

    • @jacoborozco4585
      @jacoborozco4585 5 років тому +14

      BruteBall because with Adam Neely, it’s never simple

    • @ploopybear
      @ploopybear 5 років тому +16

      It's like how you always finish a Vsauce video

    • @Hi-vf9wx
      @Hi-vf9wx 5 років тому +6

      Bold of you to assume that I know how 33bpm sounds like

    • @ploopybear
      @ploopybear 5 років тому +1

      @@Hi-vf9wx ha I do

    • @doctor_whoey3857
      @doctor_whoey3857 5 років тому +1

      Clickbait done right

  • @ListenToJef
    @ListenToJef 3 роки тому +31

    I’m watching this in 2020 and I’m so bored in quarantine I’m actually excited for “John Cage’s” next note in September.

  • @88HEATHENWOLF
    @88HEATHENWOLF 4 роки тому +70

    "the slowest music possible is about 33 Bpm"
    Sunn O)))) "hold my reverb Pedal"

    • @sinistreabscission
      @sinistreabscission 3 роки тому +4

      every doom/drone metal band:

    • @richardharrold9736
      @richardharrold9736 3 роки тому +1

      Olivier Messiaen says hold his red wine.

    • @noesunyoutuber7680
      @noesunyoutuber7680 3 роки тому +1

      You can't headbang to Sunn O))), and I say that as a big fan of them. They routinely hold a single chord for upwards of a minute, that's miles below the threshold of 33 BPM for the perceptual present. The rhythm, if there is any, is only provided by the faint beating of the sustained chords. Like most drone acts, they care not for rhythm.

    • @richardharrold9736
      @richardharrold9736 3 роки тому

      @@noesunyoutuber7680 who says you can't headbang to each chord change?

    • @richardharrold9736
      @richardharrold9736 2 роки тому +1

      @@tsuyune3443 I did.

  • @sikaydalapixia5924
    @sikaydalapixia5924 4 роки тому +732

    "demisemihemidemisemiquaver"
    You'll find that this knowledge very useful one day

    • @Tonatsi
      @Tonatsi 4 роки тому +18

      Sikayda Lapixia I like this reference

    • @weewooweewooweewoo
      @weewooweewooweewoo 4 роки тому +2

      Yesssss

    • @noteworthy5911
      @noteworthy5911 4 роки тому +5

      You want to know something ironic? I see two "demise"s in there...

    • @overmountain
      @overmountain 4 роки тому +10

      There’s no form of irony in that. Only coincidence. Learn things.

    • @thegreendragon9628
      @thegreendragon9628 4 роки тому +2

      I love this

  • @fgvcosmic6752
    @fgvcosmic6752 5 років тому +2794

    _creates music at 32.9 bpm_
    *uses offbeat triplet as main beat*
    Im not sorry

    • @WardancerHB
      @WardancerHB 5 років тому +89

      I would like to hear that. But since your channel has no content I'm calling you a liar.

    • @theleftuprightatsoldierfield
      @theleftuprightatsoldierfield 5 років тому +167

      *Uses -7/12 time signature*

    • @kevinstephens9019
      @kevinstephens9019 5 років тому +16

      @@theleftuprightatsoldierfield There's no such thing as a 12th note, ya dunce.

    • @theleftuprightatsoldierfield
      @theleftuprightatsoldierfield 5 років тому +10

      Kevin Stephens ua-cam.com/video/cQ9yI4dtuGQ/v-deo.html

    • @denialfalls2724
      @denialfalls2724 5 років тому +7

      Can someone explain the joke to me please?

  • @maxaks2594
    @maxaks2594 3 роки тому +17

    "Make sure to mark your calendars for the next note"
    yeahhhhhh 2020 doesnt agree with that one

  • @oouziii4679
    @oouziii4679 3 роки тому +5

    I just discovered your channel, this feels like the vsause of music theory, im loving it

  • @DarkNytik
    @DarkNytik 6 років тому +358

    Possibly the least clickbait thumbnail on youtube?

    • @faktorial2
      @faktorial2 6 років тому +36

      Depends on your definition of clickbait. Giving people an answer in the thumbnail to the question in the title makes people think "Wait... why the hell is 33BPM the slowest?!", thus making them perhaps more interested in clicking on the video than if they had only seen the title.
      It's a kind of anti-clickbait, that still accomplishes the goal of making you interested in the video's contents. I feel like this technique hasn't been used all that much until more recently on UA-cam.

    • @aboutmonkey5471
      @aboutmonkey5471 6 років тому +2

      I really like this style

    • @xxXthekevXxx
      @xxXthekevXxx 6 років тому +5

      Exactly. It gives an answer to the title’s question, making you wonder “why 33 bpm? That seems odd.”

    • @JohannesWiberg
      @JohannesWiberg 6 років тому

      I love this comment.

  • @prestonwilder4086
    @prestonwilder4086 5 років тому +1220

    This man a legend, a 15 minute with no ads

    • @bibasik7
      @bibasik7 5 років тому +111

      Or maybe he just got demonetized for saying “shitpost”.

    • @dsblocks
      @dsblocks 5 років тому +79

      Or Frédéric Chopin filed a copyright strike.

    • @luibredsted7342
      @luibredsted7342 4 роки тому +2

      preston wilder for Real ❤️❤️

    • @Sebbir
      @Sebbir 4 роки тому +14

      dsBlocks typical Chopin

    • @Kementeri
      @Kementeri 4 роки тому +16

      Actually classical music often gets copyrighted because it somehow recognizes it as specific orchestral recordings, I used some Debussy once and immediately had it claimed

  • @evavonblon2151
    @evavonblon2151 4 роки тому +62

    "High effort sh*tposting"
    Wait, that's illegal.

  • @tcatking9761
    @tcatking9761 3 роки тому +10

    8:08
    Plot twist: We are living the longest beat now. The big bang was the first beat...
    10:50
    Oh God we all knew what happened.
    The note was a c for Covid...

  • @DeathRunningTerror
    @DeathRunningTerror 6 років тому +137

    240bpm ''Too fast to be useful'' *Techdeath intensifies*

    • @Sean-Ax
      @Sean-Ax 6 років тому +1

      *T E C H D E A T H*

    • @raulperez2308
      @raulperez2308 6 років тому +2

      Santeri Salminen *S T A Y T E C H*

    • @JohnJillky
      @JohnJillky 6 років тому

      Splittercore* yuh

  • @janreiafrica
    @janreiafrica 6 років тому +3118

    *Vsauce looks weird*

    • @jonahyogman6282
      @jonahyogman6282 5 років тому +40

      Hi there. Michael here.

    • @dirtyconsole2247
      @dirtyconsole2247 5 років тому +15

      *W E I R D B E A R D*

    • @RJ-mk6ep
      @RJ-mk6ep 5 років тому +31

      HEYYY VSAUCE MICHAEL HERE

    • @BookooZenny
      @BookooZenny 5 років тому +11

      While the influence is obvious, he's clearly made his own thing

    • @sweetart256
      @sweetart256 5 років тому

      Esther Yogman i

  • @brianfox340
    @brianfox340 4 роки тому +1

    I'm always impressed by how thoroughly and completely you answer these kinds of questions.

  • @lego5745
    @lego5745 4 роки тому +14

    6:02 I was honestly quite surprised to see that someone else knew about Steve Roach. Not to say that I’m the only one out there to know about his work, but you know what I mean.
    I highly suggest for those interested in taking a look into his work to start off with his “Worlds” album, I think it’ll help you get a taste for the tunes that he would put out after that.

  • @benjaminadams9607
    @benjaminadams9607 6 років тому +734

    "I only listen to real music."
    *plays John Cage*
    *dies*

  • @alexanderhough9175
    @alexanderhough9175 3 роки тому +4

    1:03
    Then: Funeral March
    Now: Coffin Dance

  • @beenis08
    @beenis08 3 роки тому +9

    "I just invented heat death DJENT"

  • @gangstar662
    @gangstar662 6 років тому +996

    "Too slow to be useful" ... reminds me of my Honda

    • @pluto8404
      @pluto8404 6 років тому +21

      I dont know about that........
      Hector is going to be running 3 Honda Civics with spoon engines. And on top of that, he just went into Harry's, and he ordered 3 T66 turbos, with NOS. And a Motec exhaust.

    • @UnstoppablePhoenix
      @UnstoppablePhoenix 6 років тому +1

      roasted

    • @xbox360e9
      @xbox360e9 6 років тому

      Stupid bitch ricers

    • @boostaddict_
      @boostaddict_ 6 років тому +4

      Shane Smithler Civics can actually be extremely fast. They can make lots of power naturally aspirated with an agressive enough cam and a well tuned head. Add a turbo an 700hp is fairly easily possible.

    • @DatShepTho
      @DatShepTho 6 років тому +4

      Shingo Shoji disapproves

  • @AdamNeely
    @AdamNeely  6 років тому +4901

    there is a piece called longplayer that in theory will last 1000 years. length is not the same thing as slowness, which is why i did not include it in this video.

    • @whycantiremainanonymous8091
      @whycantiremainanonymous8091 6 років тому +6

      Right you are. Sorry.
      (And, after checking, it appears that the attribution is uncertain even to Mallory, but not because someone else said it, but because it's not clear whether or not he actually used the phrase in the interview it appeared in, but it definitely wasn't Hillary. Mea culpa).

    • @kommandre
      @kommandre 6 років тому +40

      how about Bull of Heaven's ΩΣPx0(2^18×5^18)p*k*k*k, which lasts about 3.343 quindecillion years?

    • @Veepee92
      @Veepee92 6 років тому +17

      In fact, there is a similar piece I saw live in the Finnish Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma last year. It's a gif file running for 1000 years, counting from 1 to 48 140 288 appr. once per 10 minutes. It is so close to the Cage piece, it even references ASLSP in its name (ASLAP). The artwork has websit at www.aslongaspossible.com/

    • @jamesstonehouse3448
      @jamesstonehouse3448 6 років тому +23

      Some drone doom Sunn O))) etc has no discernable tempo (or even melody).
      The joke in doom circles is being 20 minutes late to a gig, and only missing the first riff.
      Tune low, play slow!

    • @HDChubbydude
      @HDChubbydude 6 років тому

      Adam Neely lots of love from Hong Kong ❤️How do you think of these references (Like simpsons or memes) ? Do they like come off the top of your head or what?

  • @parasyteghoul_
    @parasyteghoul_ 4 роки тому

    I was scrolling through my recommendations watching whatever caught my eye and this did, and I’m not disappointed. Very well done I was thoroughly entertained. Cheers.

  • @TheMister123
    @TheMister123 3 роки тому +3

    8:10 - "Oh yeah? One beat per infinity plus one!"

  • @LillianAredhel
    @LillianAredhel 6 років тому +3410

    643 years, you mean the time when the next Tool album will be released?

    • @LillianAredhel
      @LillianAredhel 6 років тому +84

      And yes, i do know they have a new album announced

    • @AnduNinicu
      @AnduNinicu 6 років тому +6

      I know the pain !

    • @XiyuYang
      @XiyuYang 6 років тому +29

      They've been talking about new studio album for YEARS so I don't think it's coming out in 2018

    • @richpiana7011
      @richpiana7011 6 років тому +21

      What about Necrophagist's new album?

    • @PierreMiniggio
      @PierreMiniggio 6 років тому +14

      Pretty sure by these 200 years there gonna be one guy who'd find a way to hack into the server and leak the whole thing though before the 200 year mark xD

  • @MalahkAngel
    @MalahkAngel 6 років тому +171

    I'm starting to think Adam finds these interesting topics just to weave elaborate shitposts into them. I'm entertained either way.

    • @tuckersmith7991
      @tuckersmith7991 6 років тому +1

      Chris B I’ve been thinking the same thing!

  • @cinder.squire1122
    @cinder.squire1122 4 роки тому +3

    "Anybody can have an idea, but do you have the technique, the time, and the energy to actually do it?"
    As an artist, this is thought provoking.
    I look at artist like Salvador Dali, Theodor Seuss (Dr. Seuss - see his midnight paintings), and Zdzisław Beksiński and marvel at how much they produced over a life time. Hundreds, if not thousands, of pieces completed. It makes me wonder if they created every idea they ever conceived instead of pausing to contemplate the useless question of, "Is it worthy of my technique, time, and energy?"
    Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

    • @salty_3k506
      @salty_3k506 7 місяців тому

      you only know if it was worth it, if you have done it, so might as well do it. and you have to make bad ideas in order to find something good.

  • @dayradebaugh
    @dayradebaugh 3 роки тому

    An incredibly insightful, clever and well-done video. Your work is exceptional.

  • @TheJuicyTangerine
    @TheJuicyTangerine 6 років тому +575

    Hey Adam, a correction. The word "Grave" in the context of a "burial ground' is from a different etymology than the word "grave" in the meaning of heavy. "Zombies rise from the grave" comes from a germanic root, whereas the term "grave danger" comes from a latin root instead. "grave danger" and the musical notation grave comes from the word heavy, which is used in Latin both literally and figuratively (i.e. heavy stone, heavy heart). So although they are similar, they actually come from completely different roots!

    • @AdamNeely
      @AdamNeely  6 років тому +126

      neat! didn't know that, thanks!

    • @xxXthekevXxx
      @xxXthekevXxx 6 років тому +6

      I thought that sounded funny. I knew the Latin ”gravis” meant “heavy”, because of Delusions of Grandeur’s Gravis EP (which I highly recommend if you like progressive melodic deathcore/death metal). The album is, indeed, heavy.

    • @mishkamcivor409
      @mishkamcivor409 6 років тому +1

      It seemed to me like he meant grave as in "grave danger" when I was watching the video but Etymology is pretty damn interesting to me anyway and I guess not everyone sees or hears the same meaning that I do when I watch something

    • @bearyboy9088
      @bearyboy9088 6 років тому +18

      I speak german and learned latin for a long time and just as I was seeing an oppurtinity to use the useless stuff I learned, somebody else was already faster

    • @pepkin88
      @pepkin88 6 років тому +1

      Doesn't it all come from Proto-Indo-European anyway?

  • @fullup91
    @fullup91 4 роки тому +871

    But is it slower than the plot of The Walking Dead?

    • @loserlucas1113
      @loserlucas1113 4 роки тому +25

      Rembrandt impossible

    • @busterpremiumproductions5840
      @busterpremiumproductions5840 4 роки тому +45

      What plot

    • @MrMegaMetroid
      @MrMegaMetroid 4 роки тому +9

      The walking deads plot is goddamn racing wtf. They put an entire seasons worth of events into literally their pilot episode. From then on its just a non stop chain of events. Have you watched breaking bad? THAT show is slow

    • @overmountain
      @overmountain 4 роки тому +2

      Not slower than me lmao

    • @freindmaker4473
      @freindmaker4473 4 роки тому +24

      @@MrMegaMetroid yeah but does any actual overarching plot ever happen. No. They always end up in the exact place where they started

  • @YurisNotHere
    @YurisNotHere 3 місяці тому +5

    Hearing BIABs name in a normal context in 2024 is a fucking jumpscare

    • @oakenclient
      @oakenclient Місяць тому

      'i was never taught what laws there are'

    • @averywow
      @averywow Місяць тому

      yo nice pfp

  • @vaggosgeorgousis6153
    @vaggosgeorgousis6153 3 роки тому +14

    Gf in the car: One more song and then I get the aux chord.
    Me: ok
    639 years later:

  • @ericburnett8163
    @ericburnett8163 6 років тому +2120

    A+ with the editing and production on this one.

    • @syruphi
      @syruphi 6 років тому +4

      Eric Burnett "Sprial Galaxy"

    • @theKOmorita
      @theKOmorita 6 років тому +3

      Superb "article", if we can actually call this video an article...

    • @iqux7349
      @iqux7349 5 років тому

      1 question who r you

  • @andreasd1132
    @andreasd1132 6 років тому +569

    Anti-clickbait thumbnail, nice!

    • @ExtraPizzaZ
      @ExtraPizzaZ 6 років тому +4

      It gave me the answer but I still clicked to find out more… it's a trap

    • @fastertrackcreative
      @fastertrackcreative 6 років тому +5

      It's like skipping to the end of a book (not something I do) then going back to learn how they worked it out.

    • @ImMora1
      @ImMora1 6 років тому +1

      Literally the reason I clicked! Glad I did

    • @ellenorbjornsdottir1166
      @ellenorbjornsdottir1166 3 роки тому

      Modern art of clickbait

  • @elmaroque
    @elmaroque 3 роки тому +1

    Man, your channel is incredible

  • @remirussin7240
    @remirussin7240 3 роки тому +3

    Discovered this video in October of 2020 and devastated that I missed the note change.

  • @djmix4ya
    @djmix4ya 4 роки тому +572

    Adam: “33bpm is the slowest musical tempo.”
    DJ Screw: “Hold my lean!”

    • @letmesleepproductions4771
      @letmesleepproductions4771 4 роки тому +4

      DC2_Tork WHY DIDNT THIS GET MORE LIKES

    • @orenthiadillard8993
      @orenthiadillard8993 4 роки тому +9

      Hell yeah! I thought the same shit concerning DJ Screw. RIP to one of Houston's finest.

    • @gilbertlopez
      @gilbertlopez 4 роки тому +3

      young infamous not enough Houston natives ig

    • @utopianstructures8434
      @utopianstructures8434 4 роки тому +2

      Never expected to see him here damn

    • @clustercrash2995
      @clustercrash2995 3 роки тому

      Man, this man's music very expertly makes my body produce very specific chemicals

  • @ToraNagumanova
    @ToraNagumanova 6 років тому +191

    I like how The Lick can be heard even in some club dubstep music

    • @Amozmusicmaker
      @Amozmusicmaker 6 років тому

      examples?

    • @alvin_row
      @alvin_row 6 років тому +20

      Amozmusicmaker 1:48

    • @daolchang
      @daolchang 6 років тому +44

      obviously made by Adam Neely so the cheeky fucker can slip the lick right under our noses

  • @jasonforster9445
    @jasonforster9445 4 роки тому +2

    11:55 "Local organizers"
    We see what you did there! Love the content btw.

  • @SinanAkkoyun
    @SinanAkkoyun 4 роки тому +1

    Your thumbnails are so definitive, they attract the ones curious about your "savage" definitive awnsers on your thumbnails, thus creating kind of something opposite of clickbait, being so much stronger of an attraction force.
    If that is exactly what you knew would happen to all of us, filtering out the ones who get lost in clickbait and the ones who are really curious, then you are extremely smart.

  • @fatguy338
    @fatguy338 6 років тому +507

    I love the anticlickbait thumbnail.

    • @aHedgerowFrog
      @aHedgerowFrog 6 років тому +12

      ? i came here to listen to slow music instead i got a high brow lecture

    • @fatguy338
      @fatguy338 6 років тому +30

      It's anti-clickbait in that a lot of thumbnails ask a question that either never gets answered or is unsatisfying in some way. This vid states the answer in the thumbnail, and then goes into more depth about that answer in the rest of it.

    • @FrostDirt
      @FrostDirt 6 років тому +3

      It's clickbait-- good video requires clickbait. People just abuse clickbait and thus creating a "misleading thumbnail" (which the word clickbait became somewhat related and often misunderstood).

    • @fatguy338
      @fatguy338 6 років тому +2

      FrostDirt right, we just have different definitions of clickbait.

    • @QwertyuiopThePie
      @QwertyuiopThePie 6 років тому +1

      If you came to a video with a question as a title expecting the subject of the question to not be explained, that's on you. An interesting explanation about *why* the question is answered the way it is ends up being a whole lot more interesting than just listening to really slow music.

  • @koye4427
    @koye4427 4 роки тому +334

    1:49 did this man really hit us with the lick

    • @allesundmehr
      @allesundmehr 4 роки тому +20

      Kazoo you haven‘t watched many adam neely video, have you? :D

    • @thebananaman2003
      @thebananaman2003 3 роки тому +4

      Thank god im not dreaming, i thought i was the only one who heard it😂

    • @cybergen49
      @cybergen49 3 роки тому +3

      Lol same, shoots fear down my spine waiting for someone to knock on my door and ask what that was.

  • @BrianGossard
    @BrianGossard 4 роки тому +2

    Diane Luchese was my Music Theory teacher at the time when she performed As Slowly As Possible. She performed it on the organ in the main auditorium, using small weights to hold the keys down so she could leave in between beats to use the bathroom. She really committed to it though. The sound was something like I’ve never heard before. The dissonances in the chords seemed to swirl around in the auditorium. Very eerie. We loved professor Luchese (pronounced Lou-Kay-See). She was a little different. We affectionately referred to her as LuCrazy but it was out of love and admiration. She was one of my favorite teachers of all time.

  • @96annihilator
    @96annihilator 3 роки тому

    5 sep is rather close, so u2be recommended this to me so i dont forget to visit the note change. thanks.
    u2be recs are on another lvl.

  • @shayakoo1
    @shayakoo1 6 років тому +87

    Damn! That last speech gave me some goosebumps.

    • @ajadrew
      @ajadrew 6 років тому +3

      Me too!!

    • @hosemarino
      @hosemarino 6 років тому +13

      Every time I watch that lecture (that is the fifth one on The Twentieth Century Crisis) I get goosebumps. The whole lecture cycle is indeed amazing and very thought provoking. Everyone here should watch them.

    • @y__h
      @y__h 6 років тому

      hosemarino You make me curious, at least let me re-finish this video, mate!

    • @Floral_Green
      @Floral_Green 6 років тому

      Gave me a vicious boner

  • @derrrtee
    @derrrtee 6 років тому +501

    That's so trippy to think about.
    A song that would be played for more than 600 years and the fact that this song began its performance in my birth year.

    • @keedt
      @keedt 6 років тому +58

      you found a way to make it about you eh?

    • @derrrtee
      @derrrtee 6 років тому +24

      keedt why not? That coincidence is pretty cool and kind of creepy.

    • @lucasponsock
      @lucasponsock 6 років тому +6

      I was born a month into the beginning, so you're not alone! 😂

    • @midflight_art
      @midflight_art 6 років тому

      I was born 4 days late...

    • @aldenwilner3300
      @aldenwilner3300 6 років тому

      Time to go read Anathem again.

  • @Noah-vk6kg
    @Noah-vk6kg 4 роки тому

    something so intriguing that you literally gave the answer in the title. It's so daring, yet so bold.

  • @hopelessdove
    @hopelessdove 6 років тому +103

    The slowest music possible is the one I listen to through my shitty internet connection

    • @btat16
      @btat16 6 років тому +2

      Carlos Méndez What if you listened to John Cage’s piece on the internet?

    • @eyondev
      @eyondev 6 років тому +1

      1/bpw?
      (bit per week)

    • @hopelessdove
      @hopelessdove 6 років тому

      Not Happy It would be all silence as well, but it would definitely take longer than 4:33 lol

  • @Michael.Helsel
    @Michael.Helsel 6 років тому +876

    jeez... V Sauce looks younger here

    • @aaronaguirre6714
      @aaronaguirre6714 6 років тому +5

      Lmao thinking same thing

    • @Timon-IrishFolk
      @Timon-IrishFolk 6 років тому +2

      Michael Helsel
      I think Adam was nearly as old as Michael

    • @ghoulbuster1
      @ghoulbuster1 6 років тому +1

      Vsauce♪

    • @DavidBadilloMusic
      @DavidBadilloMusic 6 років тому +3

      Exactly what I was thinking! The Vsauce of Music!

    • @demixed
      @demixed 5 років тому +4

      Michael Helsel You mean PsychedSubstance ?

  • @sixfingr
    @sixfingr 4 роки тому +2

    Cage's piece reminds me of an observation I made at the MOMA once upon a time. The more devoid of apparent aesthetic a work of art is, the longer the wee accompanying description gets.

  • @GibusWearingMann
    @GibusWearingMann 4 роки тому +2

    this is a reminder to remember to go to that church in September to hear that note

  • @eisteelegendeyt7789
    @eisteelegendeyt7789 5 років тому +268

    *watches video about slow notes*
    *slows down youtube video to 25%*

    • @flukymaze
      @flukymaze 5 років тому +4

      next level

    • @StephJ0seph
      @StephJ0seph 5 років тому +4

      Sounds pretty painful!

    • @sbiegs3885
      @sbiegs3885 4 роки тому

      HA!! Made me actually laugh!

  • @boomchacle6717
    @boomchacle6717 6 років тому +224

    in around 600 years, the elderly man playing that last note on that 1000 year old organ will release the note, the crowd of ten thousand people will cheer loudly, and he will stand up, stretch, and say... "Wtf did I just do?"

    • @gabopalacios2028
      @gabopalacios2028 6 років тому +68

      I guess it's pretty common everywhere but, from my personal experience... Here in Mexico, everytime a musician or a band end their show the audience tend to yell "¡Otra!, ¡Otra!, ¡Otra!" wich means "one more! one more! one more!"... It'd be hillarious if the audience asks for one more song! XD

    • @DirkGently04
      @DirkGently04 6 років тому +8

      Reminds of Deep Thought and "the Day of the Answer"

    • @avd7288
      @avd7288 6 років тому +16

      - "Sorry, I guess I got a little carried away there. And from year 250 onwards I improvised a little."

    • @TorreFernand
      @TorreFernand 6 років тому +1

      It's usually translated as "encore"

    • @jonispatented
      @jonispatented 5 років тому

      Fernando Torre sure but it means other or another. As in “La otra casa” which means “the other house”

  • @dmanisthebest1
    @dmanisthebest1 3 роки тому +2

    In Hindustani Classical music, we have a form known as Vilambit Khayal which can be presented as slow as 10 or 11bpm

  • @sundidj
    @sundidj 4 роки тому

    I play (among other things) singing bowls. I always wondered what meter I play them in. Thanks to this video, I now see I am playing temporal music, something which has a sense of time, but not of meter. Thank you, Adam.

  • @Taikamuna
    @Taikamuna 6 років тому +1477

    Wow, this got deep

  • @someonespecial1329
    @someonespecial1329 4 роки тому +167

    10:51
    My oh my, what a time to be alive.

    • @tangocat670
      @tangocat670 4 роки тому +1

      Livin in a picture blowing up my hotline

    • @shanerobertcooperramirez1726
      @shanerobertcooperramirez1726 4 роки тому +1

      and boom no more note change

    • @nqrtzy8765
      @nqrtzy8765 4 роки тому +4

      shane robert cooper ramirez It’s still gonna change even if no one hears it LOL

    • @sparklymop
      @sparklymop 4 роки тому +3

      Oh yes. Definitely. With a global pandemic

    • @13_cmi
      @13_cmi 3 роки тому +1

      And so many people dying.

  • @MagesIncorporated
    @MagesIncorporated 4 роки тому +3

    10:58 I love how we'll probably be in lockdown for the rest of the rest... Maybe as soon as the note plays we'll all be let out

  • @hanb2499
    @hanb2499 4 роки тому +8

    Hey, there’ll be a note change this year! Also: I love your cat.

  • @LewysC
    @LewysC 6 років тому +136

    2:37 I genuinely burst out laughing, there is no more perfect paragraph you could have inserted there XD

    • @youfreaker
      @youfreaker 5 років тому +2

      Ive never watched RIck & Morty, so forgive me if im completely off. But from that paragraph I understand the following:
      as R&M is a science fiction comedy, its main purpose is to make people laugh (as science fiction is a setting, not an objective).
      But most of the jokes rely on a person's pre-knowledge of theoretical physics, or people will not even realise its a joke. Doesn't that make pre-knowledge of physics a necessity to properly enjoy R&M, as most of the humor is based on that, rather than having a high IQ which is "only" requierd to understand some deepness and less important references?

    • @Arch-Tau
      @Arch-Tau 5 років тому +4

      No, it's a copypasta meme is why it's funny.

    • @famatu
      @famatu 5 років тому

      Would you be able to show us the original it refers to?

    • @Arch-Tau
      @Arch-Tau 5 років тому +2

      It is the original.

    • @snowman486cold
      @snowman486cold 2 роки тому +1

      do you know what's the song?

  • @benjaminenders8762
    @benjaminenders8762 6 років тому +39

    thats actually pretty funny. The whole video I've been waiting for you to talk about the John Cage Organ. As I live in Germany, I've been there several times, and it is really a magical place. Even the silence part is a very interesting experience, when you think about it as purposefully placed silence.

  • @ettchicago
    @ettchicago 2 роки тому

    Great video! Very astute. Keep up the great work man! Thank you

  • @1918dawson
    @1918dawson 4 роки тому

    Subbed just because the thumbnail. Cheers
    And because ur contents great lmao

  • @tanutchankasem1291
    @tanutchankasem1291 6 років тому +378

    this is vsauce of music

    • @ollelundin5567
      @ollelundin5567 6 років тому +6

      Tanut Chanakasem was going to say the same

    • @qukoongames5830
      @qukoongames5830 6 років тому +4

      Tanut Chanakasem "Hey vsauce! Adam here"

    • @rozasinromanin7007
      @rozasinromanin7007 6 років тому +1

      *w h e r e a r e y o u r f i n g e r s*

    • @MateusAuri
      @MateusAuri 6 років тому +1

      With a bonus clip of Carl Sagan of music at the end

    • @williw.5815
      @williw.5815 6 років тому

      Indeed

  • @onceuponasynth
    @onceuponasynth 6 років тому +723

    Incredibly well done. The breadth of knowledge shared, the editing, the questions posed.. it was like a philosophical poem. Time is a fascinating thing.

  • @SamanthaBartonYAY
    @SamanthaBartonYAY 4 роки тому

    spent this whole video waiting for as slow as possible and it was super suspenseful

  • @ghettorockthehiphoprebel3769
    @ghettorockthehiphoprebel3769 3 роки тому +1

    That trail you walked down in the end looks a lot like my weekly trek to the post office back when I attended Vassar College. Man, did time go slow there.

  • @themennissvids
    @themennissvids 6 років тому +476

    I was waiting for ASLSP. Wasn't disappointed, it just took a while.

  • @ChadMojito
    @ChadMojito 6 років тому +304

    This might be your best video ever. I love it so much. Thanks, Adam! You're awesome!

    • @zygimantaspetrosius4971
      @zygimantaspetrosius4971 6 років тому +2

      Is this loss?

    • @ChadMojito
      @ChadMojito 6 років тому +4

      you kids beware or I'll turn Loss into a song

    • @ChadMojito
      @ChadMojito 6 років тому +4

      Modal Polyrhythmic Harmonization in 26/4 (2/2; 4/2; 4/2; 3/2)

    • @pzooka
      @pzooka 6 років тому +1

      Really exploding fish really

    • @ChadMojito
      @ChadMojito 6 років тому +1

      Peter Virden Yes. I can and I probably will.

  • @adiscourse9489
    @adiscourse9489 4 роки тому

    It’s like learning communication theory, only in music. Love your channel!

  • @dusparr
    @dusparr 4 роки тому +1

    When you got to the letters; my brain picked out a line and went "This is the rick and morty shitpost" way before you expected.

  • @maxmaidment96
    @maxmaidment96 6 років тому +32

    Videos like this really solidify you as the Vsauce of music

  • @Banschmitz
    @Banschmitz 6 років тому +144

    "Hey Vsauce, Adam here..."

    • @Roescoe
      @Roescoe 6 років тому +1

      Yep my exact thought. He certainly has an overlap.

    • @dlee645
      @dlee645 6 років тому +1

      Kuba I was thinking the same thing. LOL!

    • @velocitylk
      @velocitylk 6 років тому +1

      He really need to collab or something and be Vsauce4!

    • @Roescoe
      @Roescoe 6 років тому

      heh that would be cool

  • @gayhomelesswithpinknails4424
    @gayhomelesswithpinknails4424 4 роки тому

    This is the type of videos i like most in UA-cam to help us have more musical awareness

  • @ricardojmestre
    @ricardojmestre 3 роки тому +1

    This is brilliant and mind-blowing

  • @jdraper12
    @jdraper12 6 років тому +389

    8:41 Hey, Vsauce, Michael here

  • @bebettoninja
    @bebettoninja 6 років тому +318

    The effort you put into this is simply amazing!

  • @Suraj2561997
    @Suraj2561997 4 роки тому +1

    He explained it too nicely than he should be. He has done justice to the love of science.

  • @nazarenovettore
    @nazarenovettore 3 роки тому

    Hands down the best video I've ever seen

  • @danielsjohnson
    @danielsjohnson 6 років тому +28

    I'm surprised to see a UA-camr answer their own clickbait-y titlein their thumbnail. Thanks for that.