Are BINAURAL BEATS real? | Q+A
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0:00 Intro
0:02 Are Binaural Beats real?
4:50 Thoughts on this reharmonized bass progression?
5:53 Why are BPM's so consistent?
7:04 Can quantized performances be groovier?
7:56 What's the deal with the mixolydian pentatonic?
8:46 What are your thoughts on Musicophilia?
9:28 Does touring ever get boring or exhausting?
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Seeing a whole dance floor dancing to Chameleon is a thing of beauty. The speed change is so gradual that people barely seem to realise how fast they're dancing at the end.
I know that it was a very intentional choice for Stairway to Heaven, too.
You have been fooled by the mass media and the education system 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 💖
@@VeganSemihCyprus33i know this is a bot but the sentence but "chameleon isnt actually tempos its a government hoax, the groove just makes time feel faster" is amazing
i think a lot of people's first binaural beat was lavender town from pokemon red and green
My first binaural beat was from discovering the Brainwave Synth feature in Cool Edit. That was decades ago and I used it plenty back then.
Pokemon blue is also a thing, green is Japan only, how did you bring green into the conversation but forgot blue? 😂😂
@@JohnWiku they were remade as FireRed and LeafGreen, which is probably where they get this.
@@JohnWiku firered and leafgreen prob
@@DangerSquiggles ahh of course, I guess I'm too old now, everyone only knows the games by their modern remakes and remasters instead of the originals 🤣🤣
Hey Adam! What you called Mixolydian Pentatonic with the variable 3rd is a very famous Indian Melodic scale or Raga called Raga Jog. You may wanna check it out for more inspiration. Cheers from India :)
Yes! I got super excited when I recognised this! (It was like my excitement in the first episode of Tansener Tanpura realising the same thing.)
You can tell Adam is a bassist and not a guitarist or singer bc he never mentioned crappy drummers during the elastic time conversation lol. And as a drummer, I really appreciate that. We've actually never messed up any tempos before, it's all feel, and if you don't like the tempo, you just don't understand elastic time. It's an excellent point. Thank you Adam.
Binaurals are about cord instruments
this just sounds like coping for not being able to keep time like a metronome
@@spaghettisauce445 While I'm not a musician myself, my brother is a bassist. His opinion on the matter is that whether or not the drummer keeps an exact tempo doesn't really matter; what *does* matter is that the band keeps time with each other. He would rather have a good drummer to work with than have the whole band listening to a metronome track.
As a guitarist that has stumped drummers - false. Granted I do math metal and use poly rhythms and poly metering constantly.
@@MaddDrEw As a drummer, that gets old pretty fast, and that's why Meshugga and others don't get the recognition they really deserve.
Dear Prudence by The Beatles is my absolute favourite example of elastic time. The tempo changes dramatically, but it never sounds like there's a turning point between one tempo and another, it just gradually evolves into that new tempo and feels entirely natural, and adds so much to the song, especially the end, it is just gorgeous. Maybe it's because Paul was playing drums on it and so he can't keep time as well as Ringo can, because Ringo is a far better drummer. But Paul is still pretty great, and the drums kinda push the song over the top into being an all time classic.
True, I also love little imperfections in songs and it always seemed a little imperfect to me? Could be wrong of course but yeah I love that
Way to much brown lipstick.
@@morbidmanmusic *too
@@morbidmanmusicis that a suggestion directed towards you whenever you appear outside your home?
Ringo a better drummer? He’s the worst drummer out of all of the Beatles!
My favorite example of elastic time is "Run for your life" from clipping. The instrumental is played from stereo systems of passing cars and the doppler effect changes the not only the pitch but also the bpm of the song. Also the rapper uses this freedom to speed up or slow down the song depending on the mood they're trying to induce.
W pick. One of the most creative songs of all time.
What about classical music? Basically all of it.
I remember hearing Tartini tones while being a very young little kid screaming with other kids in a kid's falsetto/whistle register scream and as our pitches changed the Tartini tones changed. It felt like they were ripping my ears apart. This required at least two kids; usually I was one of them (not that's what we were trying to do).
Reminds me I first heard them with multiple smoke alarms. The pitch of the two piezos is not exactly equal.
The thing about this theory of binaural beats and delta brainwaves is it assuems they are equivalent when we have no real reason to assume that. Like, oscillations of brain waves are electrical, auditory stimulation is movement of air, they are totally different phenomena. This kind of abstraction is a human, or at least sentience/sapience-based phenomena, so its unlikely that the electrical patterns in your brain are noticing that air is moving at the same speed that electricity is oscillating in it, unless you yourself are noticing it. The whole theory is kind of rooted IMO in some very old theories of subliminal hypnosis, as well as some other sort of new-agey, post-hippie wishy washy garbage which have never achieved notable efficacy.
Sound IS electrical. So, I'm confused about your point.
@@bigollie006No? It isn’t? It’s pressure waves through a fluid?
@@WiggyWamWam yes. It is. All of our senses are literally electrical. Literally every. Single. One.
Everything you sense is electrical. Why? It has to go to your brain, which communicates only in electric interactions. How do nerves work? Electrically. How do thoughts work? Electrically.
This isn't rocket appliance
However, bilateral stimulation is a thing. I’m a therapist that provides EMDR (eye movement desensitization reprogramming) in my practice. It’s a protocol for processing trauma. Originally it was executed with having the client follow a visual stimulus that moved left and right rapidly, forcing the eyes to do the same, which reduces activity in the amygdala (fight or flight center), so they can process shitty stuff without getting triggered. It’s amazing. Yet in recent years people have also delivered this treatment with alternating vibrations in the hands ( holding little buzzers) or having little notes that go left right in headphones: so as long as the client gets a left right alternating stimulus, the amygdala chills. It’s very effective. And thoroughly researched.
Yes! I used intuitively this to heal ptsd. It works!
All I know is that binaural beats and nothing else can make me sit down and focus on what I have to do. Nothing stresses me out more than managing the finances and book keeping in my company. I postpone and delay doing stuff because it causes me anxiety and stress. Binaural beats is basically the one thing that makes me able to power through it.
Gonna do some research on the eye stuff, seems interesting
The theory behind bilateral stimulation is pseudoscientific and probably the most controversial, least evidence based part of EMDR. Accepting bilateral stimulation as uncontroversially true because EMDR is as effective as other forms of exposure therapy is like endorsing the existence of Chi because acupuncture is effective.
@@Brian-rt5bb"Neurobiological response to EMDR therapy in clients with different psychological traumas" is a pretty cool look using EEG to try to validate the mechanisms. Unfortunately it's really hard to get big bucks to do these studies head to head with other forms of therapy, but it does really seem like there's a "there" there.
And Chi is very real, it just depends on who you ask 😉. I'm kinda joking here, but I'm also serious, in the sense that one could describe it as the "internal bodily energy" or flow of changes within the "subtle body" then it seems, from my understanding of the world, that it's real. But there's all kinds of frameworks for understanding all kinds of things.
@@Brian-rt5bb midwit comment
that was a really high effort first answer. it's well appreciated.
It was good enough that I forgot for a moment that this was a q&a video and not a whole video about binaural beats.
i love the wall of context at 5:35 to explain whether the bass note should be labeled G# or Ab
Same. I took that text and tried playing the E7/G# there instead of the Fm6 and I am having a great day now.
You have been fooled by the mass media and the education system 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 💖
@@VeganSemihCyprus33 you are being [coerced|manipulated|controlled] by the {WordNet.relatedNoun("government")} {random.choice(unicode.charsInBlock("emoji"))}
Our guy comes off a major tour and puts out a Q&A where the first A could have been a video all to itself. Amazing work Adam!
You have been fooled by the mass media and the education system 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 💖
Great example of the tempo thing. Queens of the Stone Age is my favorite band and I remember listening to "A Long Slow Goodbye" off of their album Lullabies to Paralyze and getting completely tripped out because there is a point in the middle of the song where they reveal that they've ever so slightly sped up the tempo by suddenly slowing back down. Must be like 10-15bpm, just enough to add some serious mood to the track. I hear it as a tongue-in-cheek breakup song, like they care soooo much (not) that theyve lost track of the tempo.
this is fantastic! one of the best vids I’ve seen breaking down binaural beats…
I’m halfway through but I’m typing the comment already, it’s so cozy and nice to spend the evening listening to you being all clever and friendly
thanks for the video, Adam
i love your videos! thanks for making them
I missed these Q&As, they’re so fun
Super helpful. Best explanation of this stuff I've yet seen.
That was absolutely gorgeous thank you mr. Neely.
So many cool ideas in one video, you nailed it with this one.
I've done a lot of recording over the past few years with "virtual" classical ensembles, and an interesting thing with them is that they often use what has come to be termed a "live" click, meaning the individual clicks of a click track are massaged into place to mimic a naturalistic orchestral performance. It requires a bit more attention from the individual musicians so that they play with the timing of the track and not a steady tempo, but the results are excellent when everything's done.
O hi
An interesting experiment might be to have an experienced conductor create a click track manually, while "hearing" an orchestra only in his or her imagination, then have musicians record their parts to the resulting click. (If I played to such a click, I think one or two conductors from my past might suggest that's the only time I ever paid close attention, the cynical buggers lol.)
That experiment could also be done using a great drummer or bass player to record the clicks. A "human click track". I offer this free to the world, though if you have great success with the idea, don't forget to mention me in your memoirs. 😅
Yayyyyy. A new Q+A!
I wanted to know about this topic for so long. I'm glad that u r covering it. Love ur videos
Wooo! Exactly - that was a fabulous choice with the B flat!
For binaural beats I have tried a lot of playlists. A lot of them don’t work. A lot of them I like just because of the accompanying music. Some of them help in different ways than what the description would imply it should. But there are a few from Jason Lewis’s UA-cam channel called something like “wake up without caffeine”, in particular the ones that don’t have any music, if I’m listening to those I am unable to fall sleep. I will stop yawning, and my head will not go beyond a certain point of cloudiness from being tired. It will not wake me up in the morning, nor make me feel energetic. But when I need to stay up all night finishing something and, as a programmer, that’s just a thing that happens, it will keep me up and going all the way to the finish line. I only wish I had this while I was in school.
Thanks for bringing up Herbie Hancock. Head Hunters is one of the most important and influential albums of all time. All his albums, especially from that era, are essential.
It’s one of the few albums I’ve discovered as an adult that are just… embedded in me now. As much a part of me as what I grew up with. A masterpiece.
9:57 Speaking as a physically disabled musician, I can confirm that playing live is a significant drain on my energy and touring is impossible. I'm very glad home recording and self-releasing are options these days!
I definitely enjoyed the theory dump.
Im so happy these videos are back! Best breakfast entertainment.
Nice explanation!
Love it when you’re doing something relatively understandable with chords and bass in music theory and then by just continuing to do it in ways that make sense you hit something you need a 3 paragraph explanation for. Chords are fun
ALSO YOOO CHAMELEON I LOVE HERBIE HANCOCK
Please tell me that you plan to release a tour video once the current tour is over! I've been following your progress over the last few months and all the live clips in your various posts sound absolutely amazing. I'm really hoping to get something long-form and more comprehensive when it's all over, and I'm sure all SUNGAZER fans would appreciate it too ❤
Thanks for featuring my question! Incredibly well researched and produced as always.
They definitely help entrain the brain into the targeted operating frequency. Long ago I used Cool Edit to apply 6 Hz to brown noise, also making sessions with sliding down into and eventually back out of it, and it set me into a dreamy state of consciousness that was like a very refreshing, mind-clearing powernap, but while I could immediately react to if someone spoke to me or such.
And it wasn't daydreaming because I wasn't pursuing my own imaginative ideas in my head, but I perceived pretty much what you would in dreams, but a bit more vague and without fading out the surroundings.
Thanks for the solo. I spend so much time on UA-cam, but when I see an update from a Nebula creator, I head there to watch. Instead of a “thanks for watching on Nebula” comment, getting a real bonus like that is fucking magical. MAGICAL.
I found your exploration of binaural beats and combination tones compelling, especially set against the backdrop of acoustic and psychoacoustic phenomena. Your chord progression example effectively demonstrates the power of bass movement in re-harmonization, while your comments on consistent BPMs and quantization bring up essential considerations about the limitations and merits of digital tools. The Mixolydian Pentatonic scale's versatility, particularly in blues contexts, was my favorite part. Keep up the great work!
I love using rigidly elastic times in DAW productions, I make a lot of EDM and exp. hip hop beats that make use of the fact that DAWs are so rigidly timed, so I can constantly and consistently speed up or slow down the piece’s tempo over the course of phrases to change the energy of sections. It’s also a lot of fun to do this type of automation with swing too.
I wrote a pretty amateur essay recently about how we can use digital technologies to influence groove in interesting ways if anyone wants to read it
So this also applies to the next one about electronic music potentially being groovier than live. I agree with Adam that “probably not” is the answer if you’re only looking at quantisation, but if you’re looking at the preciseness of DAWs’ interesting rhythmic capabilities compared to (relatively) simplistic human rhythmic capabilities, I reckon you absolutely can get (not more, but) very different types of groove, not possible when played live
You are a huge inspiration for me dude! I love your videos, and they have provided me with so much knowledge of music theory, as well as encouraging me to try more experimental styles of electronic music. I can confidently say I would not be as talented as I am had it not been for you. Thanks for everything, and hang in there, Neely!
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I met you and you wonderful parents at a club near Ohio State University (more than a dozen years ago...maybe more). There's something special about each one of you.
Now I send your videos to my grandkids who are band members at Ohio University. Nice work!
Fan fret dawg. Neat.
Yoooo love the new Dingwall
6:30 my _rude_ introduction to elastic time was trying to play Run To The Hills on rock band's expert drums. The first like, three beats of the blazingly-fast disco beat is slower than the rest of it, lulling you into a false sense of the true tempo. Once you know it's there you can adjust -- and in fact it's so obvious in retrospect -- but MAN it got me every time until I realized.
Finally lol love the videos and can’t get enough brewwww
putting an ad at 5:44 is criminal. i was so ready for that resolution
Like why would he do that ?
go listen to águas de março to cleanse your palate lol ;D
Still so sad i missed the Sungazer/Plini tour. Come back to Illinois soon please!
loving the dingwall, idk if this is your first time using it in a video but this is my first time seeing it
Those super fast instagram q&a stoped being super fast long time ago and just turned into question and answer time with Adam Neely
Ah but the theme was written in stone, it's the SU PA FAST INS TA GRAM Q N A *Be duh doh*
We missed you, Adam
I'm almost more interested in your bass than the questions. Sick instrument, dude!
Cheers Adam, a very important subject along with the 432hz madness
Bro we need to see you compose a lot of original songs or musical pieces. Looking forward to it.
very cool, thanks!
I honestly miss songs that speed up and slow down. It builds excitement, and helps to draw you in. It used to be so commonplace, and is now all but gone, and in the right hands it serves a very real purpose.
"Take Me Out" by Franz Ferdinand never fails to hype me with that huge tempo change.
recently discovered this with black sabbath. The main riff in iron man speeds up as it goes then slows down in the beginning. so an awesome momentum based feeling
Listen to classical music! It's all elastic time.
Thank you for actually answering the thumbnail first. I'll watch your whole video because you didn't make me wait.
In an interview I did with one of the guitarists of We Lost The Sea - a Sydney post-rock band - he described touring as "rushing to wait" which maps on perfectly to how you painted it.
That floaty time topic was really interesting
Paused to read to read the "Theory Dump" and was not disappointed. More "Theory Dumps" needded.
Wonderful descending line.
Nice to see you rocking the Dingwall! Love mine.
Do you know which model it is? I see a signature on the headstock?
@@xdoctorblindx Its one of the After Burner models, ABZ, I think.
The first time I really noticed elastic time was the song Belfast by Orbital, with the song slowing down to half speed near the end and then adding additional notes to give the illusion that it was the same speed all along (or at least that’s how i thought of it).
That interval you played at the end of the video sounds like something that belongs in a David Rawlings guitar solo. So *that's* why I feel so good listening to him. ;) I do enjoy listening to that, it's the ultimate tension builder full of melancholy and the hope for resolution.
I have started writing my parts and sections in the tempos they ought to be, and then I program the click track to smoothly go between the different tempos. It works very well.
been around for like 20 years. Why you doin this now?
Actually a really good explanation of it. Nice.
And really informative omg.
Ooo, Adam's got himself a Dingwall.
Nice!
Also, brilliant content as always.
Regarding the constant BPM, recently I directed an album recording and I made custom metronome beats for each piece. In two of them I simulated varying BPMs, one starting at 125 and ending at 140, but the changes are so gradual and small that it honestly flows really really well.
There other one is a Calypso piece that goes from 125 to 128 after the solos so the ending feels more energetic.
I really liked the results! In fact, while listening to the recordings (still not fully mixed), I honestly forget that we played it that way!
Composers have used change in tempo for hundreds of years. It's right up there with change in dynamic or change in pitch. We should use all the controls at our disposal when making music.
Ocean waves and rains sounds sound more relaxing.
I really appreciate the fact that Adam does not do clickbait or make us wait until the end of a video to get the content from the thumbnail that made us click in the first place.
Very informative
5:34 I can't get enough of this IV/V chord. Jason Robert Brown uses it a lot and I can't describe the emotion it evokes but I just love it.
When I first found binaural beats years ago, I was super skeptical. I tested it in the basic form, generating pure tones for each ear. I was using relaxing ones for a while, testing different pitch ranges (and to no surprise low tones were so much more relaxing). One day I needed to focus on a college project and decided I would try that type of beat. While deep into the project, making a ton of progress I got blindsided by waves of anxiety and i turn the beats off and was soon feeling just fine again. Whether this was entirely a placebo or not, I've been a believer since. And hey, if it does something since I believe, that's good enough for me lol
But at the same time, I get far more relaxed listening to Heilung and similar music. So I absolutely agree with what you said about how so many songs or videos out there that use binaural beats also have so much more stuff in them too. It always reminds me how powerful music can be.
Another Mahavishnu Orchestra snippett, their tune 'Birds of Fire' starts at 380BPM for the quaver beat (18/8 - according to the official sheet music) but finishes 6 minutes later at 460BPM. There was no holding them back!!
One of the best records ever
Adam's rocking a Dingwall! Heck yeah!
I just found you. You're so amazing. I'm not a musician by any stretch of the imagination, but I love music.
PS I love your approach. I'm not even close to your level of theory knowledge or ability to play but I write my own songs, pretty much for open mics and anyone else who wants to listen. I take whatever I can from your videos and Thank You very much for that. At the moment, I can only appreciate your work by liking the videos so I do that consistently. When you went to the Bflat "Whoo" ,I'm going to assume that was a Flat Third (I'm lazy and didn't want to break a sweat to figure it out right now)🤠 But I love the feeling in a 1 to the Flat 3 vamp myself. I'm not really asking though as I should definitely do the work so it imprints on my brain ears. Thanks again, for the cool videos.
On the subject of elastic time I think of Child in Time by Deep Purple, the live recording from Made in Japan. Great song, great band, great performance. I'm thinking a song like that absolutely wouldn't work in a constant tempo production, as the tempo shifts are such integral parts of the songs emotional expression.
Nice Dingwall! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
5:53 BT's latest album has a song called "Berlin" which very noticeably speeds up and slows down in tempo during multiple or even single phrases to create a strong "push/pull" effect between the ostinato piano figure and the glitchy beats.
I study bassoon in Italy and I always used the Tartini's tone in a different way when playing in ensemble... Tartini's tone appears when you play a perfect fifth. So when checking the intonation of a chord whem rehersing we start with the fundamental and then add the fifth. If we hear that Tartini is there then we stack up the other intervals.
I'm watching on Nebula. Just popped over here to say: Yes, I DID enjoy that theory dump - thanks!
Re floating time. We have a song in our band "Phoebe builds a machine" that starts at about 130 and ends up a blistering 190. Intentional, the song is supposed to feel more desparate and frantic as it goes on, and really all we did is just set the DAW metronome to go up steadily up over 7 minutes. Was a little hard to get the feel for playing at first as we're all pretty used to a locked metronome, but we're pretty happy with the end result.
Thx man
"Always with Me" on the Spirited Away soundtrack has some subtle pause/ritardando between phrases that sound really nice.
Having a binaural beat type thing in my ears my brain would after five seconds run through all the harmonies and beats that could work with that drone tone and therefor not be able to relax at all
relax? binaural entrainment is about stimulating certain frequencies of brain activity. ...but maybe we have different ideas of what "relax" and "stimulate" mean.
@@MNbenMNwell, it was mentioned that one of the potential uses was relaxing, focusing and/or sleeping
@@MNbenMN ironically yes, they are working with a different idea of “stimulate” than you, i.e. they’re using the correct idea in this context. The waves are intended to stimulate certain brain wave patterns that in turn cause sensations of relaxation. It’s not stimulation in the general colloquial sense of excitement, it’s stimulation as in “causing a process to occur”
@@ivoryrick7734 Maybe you also don't consider filling your brain with thoughts about possible combinations and variations to be relaxing? I kinda do. But anyways, binaural entrainment isn't really about *what* thoughts are running through your head. It's about influencing the general mode of brain activity. Relaxed never means zero brain activity... that would be brain dead. I have a lot of thoughts racing through my head while asleep, while relaxing, and while focusing, (binaural beats or not,) so I still don't follow why hearing a tone and thinking about it necessarily prevents relaxation.
@@LAK_770 That is the sense of stimulate I was using, as in stimulating a mode of brain activity known as relaxation.
Beautifully well thought video, very articulate thank you for the content
I love recording acoustic guitar and piano in freetime. It makes the music so much more emotive. As a soli artist, it makes building other instrument parts over it more difficult. That's why I use it for solo tracks. And in a daw, I will often vary the tempo. Sometimes almost imperceptibly and sometimes in your face. It's another knob to twist. Creating is all about knowing where all the knobs to twist are hiding.
The binaural beats were great but your other half of that tasty chord progression was awesome.
You can still automate the bpm in ableton and as far as I know pretty much in every DAW, I do it all the time. Although you might not get the same effect as opposed to doing it more organically.
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A great example of interference patterns in music is the accordion. Some accordions have the reeds purposely tuned a few cents sharp/flat to create those interference beats.
saw a research demonstration where two high frequency (inaudible) sources played sounds such that the combination tone was a song. Since the diffraction of high frequencies is much less than lower frequencies, you could play the song *at* someone and only they would hear it
Thank you.
Just discovered that you're coming to Estonia with Sungazer in November! Like..how? WHOA!
Everything about your bass is so cool, and absolutely gives me a panic attack. Adjusting action from the body is so alien to me and it seems like there’d be a lot in the way, and your frets are all slanty, and it’s so cool.
And so damn nerve wracking.
I seem to remember that many of the iconic “classic” rock songs of yesteryear have some drift and variance in tempo. It’s one of those things that you can’t tell unless you really listen for it.
Yes! Like every AC/DC song, and I love it. Feels like a living breathing organism.
Jungle artists use sine wave interference patterns on the low end, probably most famous example being in the prodigy's trip into drum & bass version of Charley on experience
when you first encounter a new form it can have such a strong effect on you that you may believe anything people tell you abut it. If you are accustomed to a wide variety of forms it becomes less mysterious and more of a tool for you to use to create new forms.
I remember discovering tartini tones in the various times I've played Minor Seconds on guitar.
As well as tuning my guitar.
The commercial cut in right before resolving the chord progression and I swear he did that like the equivalent of a TO BE CONTINUED
I've recently discovered the value of ending a piece on an unresolved interval which had been used as a leading tone several times earlier. That allows the listener to resolve it internally since the sound is still fresh. This type of approach takes advantage of the necessary association of the timeliness of pattern memory which information is part of the influence the piece is designed to impart to a listener. Yes, a good composer is, at lest, unintentionally manipulation any voluntary listener. Targeting a captive listener opens up a whole other "can of verms".
5:36 getting blasted with that wall of text was an insane experience