How to explain music to Aliens? | Q+A #53
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
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I’m pretty sure all of the people who are upset at me saying that Les Claypool sucks are not actually Primus fans.
Adam Neely But Primus still sucks
sheeeeeeeeeeet I love Senator Clay Davis
I was questioning whether you knew the in-joke or if you actually don't like Les Claypool...
I came to the comments just for this
obviously
0.5x speed sounds like Adam is drunk speaking at a normal rate.
I know this guy
😂😂
0.75 speed is just him talking at a normal speed
Who do you hang out with if you consider that "normal rate"? 0.o
when you accidentally leave 0.5x speed on when you click a new video
Protip: make sure the air wiggles are in the same key
*not in the same key
Keep that air wiggling.
Wiggly air
the wigglier the betterer
"Is jazz dead?"
"No it just smells funny"
Grade A+ Frank Zappa reference
👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌
A Modular Synths facebook group I am in says "get your kid into modular synths so they never have enough money for drugs."
"heroin is a gateway drug to modular synths"
unless they discover LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER
well, kinda - I sell drugs so I can afford synths... (it's a joke mr. FBI, don't worry)
Or get them into cars 😂😂😂 my dream vehicle is a resto modded 73 suburban with a Duramax swap... One day, I will achieve that goal of mine...
On the tip for composing: "Don't write bad music" I get you were just going fast and being funny, but I think writing bad music is a really important step for a lot of people.
agreed, especially if you struggle with perfectionism - making something bad on purpose can be insanely liberating
100%
I know this is old, but I agree. You will never make good music unless you're OK with making some bad music along the way.
if i didnt write a couple of my worst songs ever i wouldn't be where i am, making what i think is pretty decent music. so yeah i agree.
@@strawberryavalunch yeah I agree. It's like it gets you both used to making things that are bad, but also it gets you used to actually FINISHING something. I struggle with this do much. I've been playing music for over a decade and I still never finish my songs and I think I need to actually start intentionally writing bad songs just so I can get used to it and not take it so poorly, cuz I end up not finishing anything because of that perfectionism. I have this energizing rush when I start a new song, but start to lose it once I start to worry about the finished piece, and I basically psych myself out and stop working on it in favor of starting yet another song. I have hundreds of unfinished songs
*a i r w i g g l e s*
where did this spaced out bold writing meme come from?!
*a e s t h e t i c*
4chan
Competetive Age of Empires II is not weird, it's the most natural decision in the world!
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I have seen my favourite aoe player commenting on my favourite UA-cam musician.
There is nothing more i can expect of this life
Edit: do you make music Viper?
(I know its been 2 years since your comment, but who knows. You might as well read this ^^)
Adam y no reply
The Viper is here!
10:50 "What can you do about feeling inferior to others?"
That reminds me of a comic a saw. A chef baked a cake, and he saw another chef's cake, and he thought to himself, "Aw dang, that guy's cake is so much better than mine. What am I going to do? Why would anyone want my cake?"
Then there's a customer, and he's thinking to himself, "Oh boy, two cakes!"
This helps me so much. Thank you.
Needed this
Wholesome. Love it.
Another wholesome ending could perhaps be that two customers come, with different tastes, one liking their cakes more sophisticated and the other more simple.
Or maybe not the complexity, but just generally different tastes.
Just to throw in another opinion about the social change question. I think art stuff makes people less cranky so they can think a little clearer and make better decisions. But, nonetheless, we live in a time with amazing music in abundance and people are still pretty dang cranky.
Maybe people don't like to listen to amazing music
Yeah most people prefer listening to endlessly recycled rap and pop music that's been distilled to the point where it just feels like ambient noise with no distinguishing features. I find that people who listen to more unusual music tend to be lesser dicks on average, unless they're only doing it so they can feel superior to other people.
Do you really smell like charcoal and strawberries?
Gerald Maus on a good day, yes
I think it's the curse and blessing of the internet aswell, really. People have the opportunity to reach an audience via platforms like UA-cam or Soundcloud, but who, in this day and age, has the time to dig so deep and really look for those lesser known, upcoming musicians when it is much easier (also thanks to the internet) to just listen to computer-generated recommendations, suited to your taste like the Discover Weekly-feature by Spotify? I think this is the problem with the abundance you mentioned. People are easily overwhelmed when met with whatever thing when there is an abundance of it. They tend to just go like "fine, whatever, just give me something, I don't wanna browse through all of this" and rarely browse through other playlists or just randomly click at stuff.
that 'su-per-fast-ins-ta-gram-q-+-a' music is beautiful, sounds like some thundercat n flying lotus type of jam
Yep. What an accurate description. I need at least a couple more minutes of that
Anywhere we can find that tune? :O
Would be good to have on Spotify, or an album by Adam in that style
ah flying Lotus jam on toast; I remember the days.....
It’s like bill wurtz
Not just basslines, but whole arrangements is what makes ABBA great. They really know how to write a memorable song. And then repeat that about a bajillion times without ever becoming repetitive or tiring. Truly legends IMHO!
Very, very few groups have as many songs that so many people know.
Plus, you can checkout Funky Abba by the Nils Landgren Funk Unit to get more of an idea of just how funky Abba's songs can be. A little bit cheesy, but a whole heap of funky too.
A lot of this is due to the close working relationship composers Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus have with their arranger, Anders Eljas. From what I can recall, during their work on ABBA and writing the musical Chess neither Andersson/Ulvaeus could read or notate music, but were very talented musicians that had a very clear idea of what they *wanted* from the sound of the arrangements. So from their composition and creating demos they were able to effectively communicate the sound of the song to Eljas, who in turn would notate the song out and create the parts for additional instruments (eventually a full orchestra for Chess).
Honestly the entire career of Andersson/Ulvaeus is fascinating. After ABBA ended they co-wrote Chess with Tim Rice, which is infamous for its problems on stage but was huge as an initial album, and then retreated to their homeland to write Kristina fran Duvemala, a complex three hour opera that blends classical, traditional scandinavian folk, and that ABBA rock sound, before founding Benny Andersson's Orkester, a Swedish supergroup of sorts that again blends traditional folk and ABBA-style pop with a whole slew of instrumentalists and singers. It's a long and endlessly delightful history of musical invention and canny, catchy songwriting.
After hearing Neeley's explanation of music I'm pretty sure he is an alien himself.
meme maybe you just aren’t down enough with the wiggly air man
Bluemon lmao bro whats ur problem
meme YES
topo logic oooooooooooh
Bluemon, at least it's an animated child and not a real one.
Can’t wait to hear djiant steps!
still waiting @Adam Neely
ua-cam.com/video/-mLaoK2XFUE/v-deo.html | Panzerballett has a cover of Giant Steps and (like all their stuff) it is premium Djazz
Also, I love the Zappa quote about jazz smelling funny
For the next Q&A: What is your favorite civilization in AoE2?
Also: What would you say how much did the invention of the one-way-sign change the gameplay of roller coaster? I think it was pretty huge.
The Japanese, obvi
@@solbermartinez6657 get out of here sotl
Has to be the BASSantines
“You have to treat your passion with a degree of dispassionate calculation” - Can’t agree with this more.
"'D E F G E C D.' I don't get it"
he's gotta be trolling right? He gets it!
D Eb F G Eb C D phrygian licc
Michael Stevens and Adam Neely Podcast. Now that would be amazing.
Yes
"...but what makes something... a-MAZE-ing? *BONG*" :D I once looked for what that VSauce chord is, but couldn't find anything accurate, and didn't get around to doing the Fourier breakdown myself.
I read that first sentence and thought it was a real thing, so dissapointed.
Sorry my guy
@@MathAndComputers The "Vsauce chord" is a tritone (C-F#)
I have an odd feeling that Adam is a Tim Commerford fangirl.
Doesn't help that Tim lost his shirt 30 years ago and hasn't found it since
Jack Rota Can't fault him there. Tim's tone rules.
Drew P. Weiner he made his own shirt tho
I know it's a joke, but "don't write bad music" is terrible advice that some beginners might take seriously. Sitting down and giving yourself a permission to write garbage is a great way to get at least something written. You'll paint yourself in a corner if you think you'll write a masterpiece every single time.
The recording of "Suicide is Painless" on that Bill Evans album is amazing!!
I studied jazz music but at the end of the day I didn't manage to make any money in my country. I now do Online marketing. I respect and admire this mans ability so much. He gives me the passion to start playing jazz again.
Rewatching old videos and I just recalled that this channel is the reason I heard about Julian Lage, who has then become my top listened artist on Spotify for the last three years.
I came to learn music theory and I learned so much more. Thanks for all the videos Adam!
3:34 The first person on UA-cam to not only admit that his content is good, but also reason it correctly, yet humbly! If I wasn't already sure to give this video a thumbs up, I am now!
Adam, that tip about getting a gig and practicing not to look like a fool is actually the best! I used this so many times, getting a gig a little bit higher than your skill level so you actually have to practice and get better. You are awesome, keep up the good work! Lots of love from a brazilian music student!
In Czech Republic, the phrase used to play quintuplets is "půllitr piva" (půl-li-tr-pi-va), which literally means "half a litre of beer". Yup. We Czechs love our beer. It's everywhere.
The Polish equivalent is "wódeczka piwo", which means "vodka and beer".
In Russia I heard an advice of subdividing odd time signatures into 2 and 3... which is basically the way it is. But you say "pivo" (beer) for 2 "and "vodochka" ("my dear vodka") for 3. So a quintuplet would be "pivo vodochka". And you could go further with "pi-vo pi-vo vo-do-chka" for ⅞, etc. We slavs all love our alcohol, I guess. xD
Holly shit! I love beer but in spanish (in Colombia) we tend to use "elefantico" (e-le-fan-ti-co), which means "little elephant", to teach quintuplets to kids...
"I watch a lot of competitive age of empires 2 on twitch."
Wow, that might be the first time somebody mildly famous is into the same obscure thing as me, without me knowing the for said obscure thing.
Dude, AgeOfEmpires II is a hell of a game!
"Thoughts on Les Claypool"
"He sucks"
I almost got offended but then I remembered that Primus sucks :D
LoneC inhales
Primus sucks!
Same, i had to do a double, then a triple take. WE SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE ADAM
11:53 This question resonates with me quite a bit. In Chile and probably the rest of South America the persecution of musicians in our past dictatorships is still fresh in the collective mind. They were seen as a threat towards the state, and there's now still a generalized feeling that songs bring Change.
While I agree that they aren't the catalysts, songs _do_ help to consolidate the feelings of discontent in the general public, and some serve as hymns for the groups of people that are fighting against a cause.
Yep, as a Chilean myself, I can think of quite a few examples of music that had a measurable social impact, but it's always in the lyrics. For a jazz musician, and especially someone as intellectual as Adam, it's something that they'd probably love to do with the harmony and melody themselves, and that's why they might be skeptic.
Quite honestly, Violeta Parra, Víctor Jara, or even Tiro de Gracia (for a more contemporary example) didn't bring anything to the table that was revolutionary - it's always been their lives and lyrics that moved people.
Nicely put!
My sense of it is that music can be used by social change actors, so making a contribution for musicians would be to tap into the feelings, the needs and dreams the social change actors are fighting for. Then the music can help spread the ideas and ideals, and act as a rallying cry, political statement in context, and as a soundtrack for the work of it.
Yes, music can be a powerful vehicle for ideas and feelings. But it can be difficult or even dangerous to be the front figure in a movement. Bob Dylan famously tried to avoid being the front figure people wanted him to be, John Lennon on the other hand seemed to love the attention. And we all know how that turned out. But I'm sad to say that the death of Chilean musicians seldom make it to the world news.
I think Adam is speaking from his culture, where there hasn't been much political protest music that didn't quickly become a joke, or outdated and abandoned.
I mean, yeah, but dude, as a Jazz musician how can he not recall that Bossa was born as a form of protest in Brazil?
your Q+A videos are the only ones i can stand watching for more than a couple minutes. most other youtubers just don't realize when they've already satisfied the question and keep talking, whereas you knock out 138 q in 15 min
I like it when the air wiggles
This is by far the fastest super fast Q+A I have seen Adam do so far...as a newish (less than a month) follower.
I watch 90% of youtube videos at at least 1.5 speed, yours are the only ones I sometimes consider going to .75, lol
I got bored, so I did this:
0:15 - If you were teaching music theory to aliens, where would you start?
1:10 - True temperament bass frets
1:23 - Hey Adam, how's it going?
1:25 - Why do I love you?
1:27 - Recommend a fictional book?
1:33 - Who are your favorite bass players?
1:42 - What's your opinion on Darkglass Electronics?
1:46 - Will you ever make a video on "How to listen to Jazz"?
1:48 - When did you start playing bass?
1:58 - Why do people hate on new rock music artists like Greta Van Fleet?
2:02 - Be my guru?
2:04 - Do you djazz?
2:07 - D E F G E C D
2:09 - How much time should I spend on music per day?
2:14 - How many tetrachords do you chug in a day?
2:18 - Everytime you read a new "?" on your channel, you play the lick in a dissonant sound. What's the theory behind it?
2:23 - What's your favorite jazz album and why?
2:28 - How can one develop a natural feeling of applying quintuplets in, for instance, one's soloing?
2:43 - Trying to start teaching Bass and Theory Lessons online and don't know where to start!
2:57 - Why bass?
2:59 - Best audition songs?
3:03 - Wine or cheese?
3:04 - Why Kandinsky?
3:09 - Favorite decade for pop music?
3:13 - How do I find love?
3:15 - I have gotten into jazz lately, can you suggest me what to study first?
3:26 - The key to good bass lines?
3:34 - Why is your content so good?
3:39 - Favorite instrument besides bass?
3:43 - Can I be on your Q & A again?
3:44 - Have you tried playing the violin before?
3:47 - Should I give up on music knowing I'm never going to achieve anything with it?
4:03 - Could you analyze some Latino-American music?
4:06 - What are your thoughts on "No Wave" music?
4:09 - About to go to Boston Conservatory as a Composition major. Any advice? Thanks!
4:22 - How long have you known Josh Bailey?
4:24 - Can you choose between Art Tatum and Oscar Peterson?
4:34 - What are the pedals on your pedal board?
4:36 - Tips for teaching music?
4:40 - Why didn't you get a bass solo in the dread machine?
4:45 - What are your tips for up and coming musicians?
4:56 - Could you talk about all of your gear for bass and music production?
4:59 - Is taking a semester off before college a good idea?
5:03 - Thoughts on Les Claypool?
5:04 - Do augmented chords have a function? How can I use them if they don't occur naturally?
5:17 - How did you get from when you began bass, to where you are now?
5:21 - Could one potentially use all 12 notes simultaneously "functionally"?
5:43 - Why aren't there more famous bari players?
5:55 - Is jazz dead?
5:56 - Bass to treble ratio?
5:59 - Is there an upper limit to how many notes can be in a chord until it sounds bad?
6:02 - I'm music ed going into a four-year university, but I feel like I really want to focus on jazz. Advice?
6:14 - Is going to school for music worth it?
6:18 - How many strings do you recommend for a bass?
6:20 - How often do you get the opportunity to play a gig?
6:29 - Are you ever going to visit Australia?
6:31 - What was the worst gig you've done so far?
6:38 - How do you prevent tinnitus in your ears from playing too much?
6:42 - Why do we play music?
6:47 - Is djent the new dad rock?
6:52 - What do you think about disco?
7:10 - Apartment sessions: How many takes does it usually take before you guys have the Good One?
7:23 - When are you going to choose one of my questions for a Q&A?
7:26 - Suggestions for a more efficient practice routine?
7:34 - How did you learn to use Sibelius?
7:39 - What's your favorite album bass-tone wise?
7:42 - Should I get a comp bachelor?
7:50 - How do you fight the apathy of practice?
7:58 - If you lost the use of your left hand, what instrument would you play?
8:04 - Animals as Leaders?
8:06 - Describe the harmony of the spheres in emojis.
8:10 - Favorite K.E.$.H.A. album?
8:12 - Tips on help with teaching/explaining basic music theory?
8:18 - What's bass?
8:21 - Should Jazz musicians overthrow a government?
8:26 - Could you recommend me an octave pedal?
8:28 - Advice on composing?
8:30 - With which instrument can you express more of your feelings while playing it?
8:47 - What's your thought with Audiophiles?
8:52 - What is the music scene going to be like for musicians in a few years?
9:08 - Upgrade bass or amp first?
9:12 - Can you analyze Rob Scallon's "Djazz"?
9:19 - Why is it bad to have two bassists date for 6 months?
9:24 - Is Music a science?
9:26 - What, in your opinion, makes the bass so enjoyable to play?
9:30 - How do you cope with the mild fame?
9:32 - Will this be in another video?
9:34 - Please make a Djent version of Giant Steps?
9:39 - Have you ever played on a ukulele?
9:45 - Is switching degrees the wrong decision?
9:57 - Have you ever tried flatwound or tapewound strings?
10:08 - I find music theory interesting but I just want to write music. Can I still be in the club?
10:15 - How to jazz ballad?
10:19 - Do you like modular synths? Would you ever get one?
10:28 - Should I listen to my music teacher, or you?
10:33 - Why buy a bass guitar if I have an octave pedal and a guitar?
10:38 - What is your political ideology?
10:40 - How do you deal/cope with feeling inferior to other musicians?
11:08 - Would the Earth implode if you served as the officiant at June Lee and Jacob Collier's wedding?
11:15 - Favorite Miles album?
11:20 - Tips about counting in odd times?
11:24 - You got games on your phone?
11:34 - Best track off of Bitches Brew?
11:36 - Who's your favorite musician in Duke Ellington's Orchestra?
11:41 - Why jazz and not deathcore?
11:44 - If the plural of Foot is Feet, why isn't the plural of shoes, sheet?
11:49 - How old were you when you took up music?
11:54 - How do you think we can use music as a Social Change Agent on this era?
12:12 - Opinion on playing/being hired as a musician on a cruise ship?
12:33 - Is Ray Brown the best Jazz upright bass player?
12:35 - Thoughts on Charles Mingus?
12:39 - How well can you Jazz?
12:41 - How do you drink your perfect coffee?
12:43 - What are your thoughts on Leonard Bernstein?
12:45 - Lenin or Stalin?
12:47 - What's your opinion on Vaporwave, and Lofi Hip-Hop/Jazz?
12:52 - What is the thing you hate most on doing music?
12:55 - Any favorite bass solo?
12:59 - Do you tell the difference between jazz played in NY/USA and in other parts of the world?
13:08 - From the path of Pop music to now, do you think we can predict the next big thing?
13:16 - What do you do in your free time?
13:24 - How would an analysis with a Western approach to theory view a piece in a Hindustani raga?
13:45 - What does Ben Levin smell like?
13:48 - Favorite tuning system besides 12 Tone Equal Temperament?
13:52 - One bass line that took you a long time to master but made you a better musician in the long run?
14:00 - Are you a quintuplet or a septuplet guy?
14:04 - Can we get an Adam Neely/Jordan Peterson collab?
14:09 - Thoughts on Eric Whitacre's music and way of writing/arranging?
14:21 - Do you ever see any female drummers at gigs?
14:27 - Ever gigged while stoned?
14:31 - How tall are you?
14:32 - If you could meet a 12-year-old you for a moment, what would you tell yourself?
14:36 - Which types of gigs give you the most satisfaction?
14:40 - Collab with Bill Wurtz?
14:42 - Are you aware of your presence on /mu/?
14:45 - How'd you get started with UA-cam?
14:54 - Do you still practice the crazy bass stuff you used to do like "The Maple Leaf Rag but on 7 string bass"?
15:03 - Favorite beer?
15:10 - Are micro Q&A's gonna be your new thing?
Not sure if the number typo at 3:40 was accidental or a joke about paying attention to detail...
Declan Maybury Definitely attention to detail. Caught me off guard and I love that.
It's was not accidental. It was jazz.
Wow, I didn't even notice that 😂😂😂
Declan Maybury 🤣
I don´t get it. Can someone explain?
"Get a gig. The terror of looking like a fool on stage will motivate you past any apathy you have against practising." so well said ahahahahaha Thank you Adam
On the modular synth thing: VCV rack is free (some modules cost extra, but you can spand ages just exploring the freebies). And of course Reaktor is another option if you want to explore sound (I started with some eurorack modules bach when it was just the A-100 system and Doepfer was the only actual manufacturer. When I went to college I sold it due to space constraints and got Reaktor soon after that).
Adam is the first channel i'd ever subsribed to, basically because it's just the best channel out there. Dude, you're the youtubers youtuber-- they all jealous. Thanks for consistently great content.
Can you please do an extreme jazz reharmonization of the Age of Empires 2 theme song?
Jonatann Peigne omg yessssss
I'd nut, it's actually a really good tune
I came from just reading this
That would be awesome!!! :D
Adam gets the icepick.
"[Art] is a means of understanding ourselves, and the world around us"
I really like this quote
The djent = dad rock question cuts deep
I don't get it. How come djent is already dad rock? Am I too old?
I guess it just became generic at a faster rate than most genres. And maybe that's true of everything that the Internet produces. Anyways I'm still a fan haha.
OK, metal was 000000000, djent was 01001000100001, what the next thing will be ?
But djent is not a genre. It's a technique, a musical aesthetic. Like shredding. Any kind of metal that has shredding can be called Shred Metal but it's not a genre.
And the Internet didn't create djent, Meshuggah did. The internet just made a meme out of it.
ErebosGR If I have my facts straight, the term for the technique originated with Meshuggah, but an online metal forum (which Misha Mansoor was a member of) used the term to put a name to their style of metal. So a lot of the Meshuggah inspired bands that followed were known as djent bands. So the Internet turned the technique into a "genre."
HeadbangoO next is 111111111111111 haha
Dude the bassist and drummer from RATM are so underappreciated. I love Tom's insane guitar technopowers and Zack's unadulterated angst against the world but the basslines in Bombtrack and Take the Power Back are phenomenal
Yeah I feel that. I also don't know why audioslave doesn't get any love. I love rage but something about Chris cornell has always been my jam. I mean audioslave was definitely more pop leaning, but in the early 2000s they were basically the only good rock band on the radio for the most part and because of that I think they got a tiny bit of overexposure, but to this day I don't really see people bring them up and I have no clue why. I do wish they were more political like rage was, but they still did do some of the political stuff they still continued to do as audioslave like having local activist groups at shows to sign people up for getting active in their community and such.
Roller Coaster Tycoon is my childhood game and I play it still. I gotta get that IOS port
thing guy person ?
RTC and Age of Empires accompanied me through med school more than they should have.
Hey listen to this *air wiggle* sounds pretty cool
It does explain why we wiggle our bodies in response.
"Okay, cool"
Dude! watching AoE2-streams is killer! the level these guys are on is beyond my comprehension! Greets from Sweden
Adam and Rick are the only two people I think are capable of adequately communicating with aliens...........
RC32 I come to Adam and Rick for a more philosophical approach to music as a whole. But there are more... *clears throat*, better, video creators demonstrating specific things, like techniques and skills. But that’s taking NOTHING away from Adam and Rick- they are both capable of doing just that. They just do what THEY do excellently!
I LIKE WHAT YOU GOT
Rick from Rick and Morty? I know you meant Beato, but still :D
Nah we meant Beato lol. But I still get it haha!
LogicalFallacyinMyPants and such, I used to do “demonstrating specific things” videos (for a decade in fact) they didn’t get as many hits. So I branched out.
Question for the next Q&A: I want to combine a sampler/groovebox with live elements to perform on stage. You have experience with a lot of live gigs, what kinds of synthesizers, drum computers, samplers, grooveboxes or other electronic gear have you seen work well in a live setting? Do other musicians frown upon samplers or drum machines on stage? Do you see crossovers happening between live electronic productions and traditional band gigs? Also congratulations on growing hair.
"what is the music scene going to be like for musicians in a few years. As in gig and job wise"
*audible crying*
Holy crap I adore this fast-paced format, It's pretty hilarious. However, I don't think it should replace the typical format, make them two different series!
WHAT! ROLLERCOASTER TYCOON IS AVAILABLE ON MOBILE? :O thanks Adam!!!
oh yeah and thanks for the tips.
Dude the fact that you play both Rollercoaster and Age of Empires 2 is tripping me out... those were like EASILY the two games I put the most time into as a kid. I legit think the RC Tycoon series is part of why I ended up getting a ME degree.
8:09 That protractor looks a lot like a set square. Also, Vonnegut is amazing and I'm definitely gonna read Galapagos now.
Galapagos is awesome.
When first learning quintuplets I used Lollobrigida - because then for septuplets I could use Gina Lollobrigida. That tip was given to me by the drummer Matt Whittingdon when, many many years ago, we played in the West Midlands Youth Orchestra.
One can learn much from ABBA. How to rock sequins and a cape, perhaps being the most important. 🕺
Holy shit I also watch competitive AoE 2! The music for that game is so great that I transcribed and recreated a bunch of it for fun :) Love this quickfire style of Q+A
10:25 My life is complete because Adam Neely knows Andrew Huang.
"How do you cope with the mild fame?"
"Pretty terribly, actually."
I'm glad Adam is being honest, cuz the energy he has for most of this video does suggest some amount of overwhelmnment.
'Djentle Giant Steps'
That would be madjentic
Djiant Steps
I just have to say: I'm not really a musician (I played guitar for a few years but was too lazy to keep practice) but I love music and I always wanted to learn about music theory. I love watching your videos because I always feel like I'm learning. Keep it up man!
Hi adam, I'm Mexican and I qould like you to suggest some latin american rock bands: Soda Stereo, Molotov, Enanitos Verdes, Hombres G (not technically a latin rock band but still), Cafe Tacvba and Caifanes. They have some certain sound to it. I think you would really enjoy them by listening and analizing them...
Have a nice day and BASS
Elías MG i know soda stereo because of my GF, theyre pretty enjoyable!
Whoa, these are so good (I especially like Café Tacvba's sound + beats).
Tons of fantastic bass tones on Soda Stereo albums, many of which are very different from each other.
Also the "Ska" is pretty amazing, you should listen to "Los Fabulosos Cadilacs" (I know, it is not exactly ska but whatever)"Panteón Rococó" "La Maldita Vecindad" specially Kumbala was jawdropping for me the first time I heard it and whatever youtoube recomends afterwards.
BASS /,,/,
That first Caifanes album tho...
Also, while talking about latin music, how can we not talk about my dude Ruben Blades?
Please keep these short and savage responses coming. I have already commented 3 times on this one video, I am still giggling, and am only 5 min in.
I couldn't fucking breathe after imagining the Adam Neely x Jordan Peterson crossover episode. I literally can't think of a worse crossover right now.
--The Lick has broken down
--Customer 17: "I want to get off The Lick"
--Customer 23: "The Lick looks too scary for me"
YES!!! You Must Believe in Spring!
Something you didn't mention about using all 12 notes at once is that it can be used as a drum beat in black midi songs
Another great video Adam. I agree with you totally about Victor Wooten, I love his approach to music and he is so talented and creative as a bassist. He was the first bass player that I ever saw playing chords on the bass. Until I saw him, I didn't even know anyone did that. BTW, I really appreciate and enjoy your approach to music and the bass as well. I have learned a lot from you and have been greatly encouraged by your content.
"All 12 notes functionally" - a good candidate is Johnny Greenwood in Radiohead's "All I Need" with a cello. Pretty sure it was with octaves of the 12 notes too.
man, you're working hard. the quality of the production is incredible.
The Viper or DauT?
John Keats toplo
DauT
Asking the real hard questions
Pilgrims or Forest Nothing?
*insert copious T90 emojis*
Tati
to the question about music vs. engineering - try to do both if you like both. That's what I did. It took longer, but I'm glad I did it.
Competitive AOE2 is the shit. Favourite player?
Simon Provencher obviously toplo
Has to be DauT
could be L_Clan_Ruso
MembTV #1 BF player :)
Nili of course! They are cousins! hahaha
Adam, ever read The Sparrow? It's a quite odd science fiction novel that develops two unusual theses: 1) the first signal we receive from aliens will be music, and 2) the first interstellar voyage will be financed by the Catholic Church, who will go to proselytize (hint: it doesn't turn out so well). Love the videos, learned a lot.
I love Galapagos and I’m glad somebody else does too
Oh my gosh! My question got answered and is the title of the video! I think I'm gonna melt.
"is jazz dead? no it just smells funny"
👏👏
3:34 'I pay attention to detail'
3:39 *goes from 28 to 1 in question number, then back to 29*
We play music to have lots of sex is the new answer Adam gave
For your next Q and A: What do you think about Konnakol? You mentioned some aspects of it when talking about quintuplets. It seems to be a great way to perform difficult rhythyms.
Please continue with your great videos!
man, I had to slow down the video. I do like your explanation, and sure the aliens would understood it.
Wow yeah. I usually listen to talking videos at 2x and realized this one was at normal speed.
yeh I do too, but don't forget you already did this and listened to yourself in like 0.5x speed, but it's new for us so we have to digest it. I know you like math and science; 15min/0.75X speed that I watched in = 20min.138 questions in 20 minuets. Believe me, not everyone can handle Joe Satriani's tempo. Thanks for the good work.
ABBA’S DANCING QUEEN BASSLINE IS SO SOLID, Neely knows what’s up
Yeah Les Claypool, and Primus in general sucks
As a big Primus fan, I didn't even get his joke at first and was about to type a raging comment. Wow
I still don't get the joke, nor Neely's... was it a joke? I mean, I like Les, but I'm fine with people disagreeing with me... Is there a reason not to like Les? Or is there a reason to claim to not like him while actually liking him? :S
@@JohannesWiberg Primus sucks = Primus is great (It only works with Primus)
is this a reference to a song of theirs?
dunno if it's still true but last time I checked primus's web domain is www.primussucks.com
Yes! You must believe in spring and I will say goodbye are must listens!!
Haven’t watched this yet but “music is just B O N E L E S S air?”
i was shook when i heard samuel barber’s adagio for strings (i love that piece so much)
1:49 literally *EVERY* bass player starts out like this. Every. Single. One.
“hey we don’t need a guitarist for our band, but we could use a bassist? I promise the bass is very cool 👍”
Finding out Adam Neely plays RCT is likez the best news of the day.
Hi Adam :)
For your next Q&A
What do you think about Davie504?
He only takes stuff off of twitter for the Q&A videos.
That explanation was far too well thought out to have been answered spontaneously
CHANGE MY MIND
Hey man, don't throw no shade at Abba as if the godlike basslines is a surprise. Swedish rhytms are superior.
I jest, partially.
ilikezelda64 jest not for they are brilliant
Oh I agree completely!
Tend to be very skippy and fun to play.
ilikezelda64 The keyboards, vocals and Basslines are sick as hell and ABBA spelled forwards is the same as Backwards which is a 17+.
Question for Q&A: From my own studies in visual art school and from the couple things I've read/watched on music theory over the years, I've noticed an multiple uncanny similarities between artistic concepts within all realms of creativity. I guess an example off the top of my head would the rise of twelve tone composition at the same time as Italian Futurist movement.
What I would like to ask is do you think all human creativity (no matter the field) is bred within the bubble created by the combination of humanities inherent habit to make sense of things/systematize what we perceive and the stories/experiences one anecdotally or personally know (ie the stories which shape our basic understand of how reality works such as how to pee in a toilet, how to pay for food, etc)? If so, do you think by that logic, human creativity in any field is applicable to any other field of creativity, it's simply a matter of understanding the benefits of the medium to what you want to communicate (I guess kinda like Marshall McLuhan's "The Medium is the Message")? If creativity is simply one’s ability to express by bringing order to chaos, does that mean being creative in one thing makes one automatically creative in another thing should one learn the rules behind the medium?
Also, are there any readings good readings on music theory and it's relationship to semiotics/abstraction?
People hate Greta Van Fleet because change is scary? I think the opposite is true in that example.
Yeah, that was a weird response about what is effectively Led Zep cosplay. What they're doing is old as dirt.
I don't know if Adam understood the context of that question
...change for worse is scary :D
I'm pretty sure Adam was ripping on GVF there
He probably didn't look into what greta van fleet actually is.
I don't know why, but "It's kind of like the orchestra, but in black and white" made me laugh hysterically for a minute straight.
And yes, 22 is very cool for actually being a manageable size. 17 is real cool too.
I actually never heard of Greta Van Fleet until this video.
They sound exactly like Led Zeppelin...
Like, it's seriously uncanny.
I don't know if you'd call that change because imitating the sound of one of the most popular rock bands of all time is honestly one of the safest ways to go, but I don't think that deserves hate because musicians steal from each other all the time so it's unfair to single out these guys.
I'm paraphrasing but "It's only plagiarism when it sucks."
They are the only modern band I love because they have skill and most songs are not repetitive like modern music.
I second that - also, as far as the vocalist goes, guy can't help it that he sounds just like Plant, it's F*** uncanny dude. Not many people can pull that off.
The thing I learned from listening to GVF was just how many unique and distinct things there were about Led Zep.
This is going to sound super-hipster-y, but over time the stuff I like most about Zep isn't the heavy blues-rock hits. It's the epic-length songs, it's the folk stuff, it's the synthesizer songs, it's the songs with the weirder influences like gospel and South Asian/Middle Eastern stuff.
I'm having an existential crisis: I am 100% PIANIST, but 110% an Adam fan, lol. Adam, you've given me back the joy of playing. Can I just say...BASS? (That translates as "thank you")
I just listened to wiggly air to learn about wiggly air
To those wanting a djent version of giant steps, the band sound struggle did that a few years ago. The track’s called djiant steps
"he sucks" :thumbs up on this video