Do you have PERFECT PITCH?! | Q+A #49
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- Опубліковано 13 тра 2018
- Also, how to listen to jazz, and the relationship of music theory to history.
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0:11 Do you have perfect pitch?
4:29 How to listen to Jazz
6:56 Music analysis and history
9:28 The hyperreality of gig vlogs
10:31 What are your thoughts on Lucky Chops Brass Band?
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This anti-clickbait is gonna take over youtube.
i shall be leading the charge. join me, comrade.
I will.
Oh hey it's you, you're cool.
Adam Neely Blessing accepted, sir!
we will*
Perfect pitch here, I was half-asleep listening to this video and totally jolted awake when I heard a E flat and he called it a D
Mood.
Same lmao my brain was fucked up
Sophia Redwood yep same
Damn straight. This was a 'Psyche!!' for those with perfect pitch. I really hate it when I see the hand go down on a key, but the wrong pitch comes out.
Hahaha yes I can totally relate 😂 I was like „wait a minute, this is no D?!“
I have imperfect pitch, where I don’t have relative or perfect pitch
TONE DEAF HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH WEE WOO WEE WOO
F
F
E
Your pfp goes so well with that comment
Adam: I'll play a note
Me: *guesses D"
Adam: "it's a D natural"
Me: "yes!"
Adam later in the video: "this keyboard is tuned a half step sharp."
Me: *facepalms*
Nailed it, same thing here. I really was enthusiastic for about 2 minutes :D
Yeah I thought that b sounded like c
Sammeeeeee I was so happy with myself and then he was like "nahhh"
Me too. But that's quite a coincidence that many of us had it nailed as a D, but we were all off exactly 1/2 step.
Does that mean we all are only 1 tone away from perfect pitch? lols.
I guessed E, but I don't have perfect pitch, I try to use my memory but obviously fails me.
Imagine learning perfect pitch on an out of tune piano, no longer having the ability to listen to music without the feeling of something being off. That's an upsetting thought.
My piano teacher has perfect pitch (starting to fade now, I've heard it starts disappearing/becoming less reliable after you turn 50, and she's going to be 60 in March) and her piano at home was tuned a half step down. She had to constantly alternate between that and standard equal temperament A=440 pianos at her music school and university. Maybe it's for the best that it's fading, it must've been rough for her.
Well, you don't really learn it, like training standing next to a piano. You just memorize the notes as they are, irrelevant to the location ON the piano. YOu could one piano playing a note and an old piano's notes and know they're all there just lowered by a note or two ON the keyboard
That's not how it works bro. You develop perfect pitch at a super young age, and even if you were to later learn the names of the notes incorrectly, that would be -- while maybe annoying/confusing at first -- a pretty simple fix.
@@evantwo7862 nah, not really, I have perfect pitch and I learned it in b flat because I play clarinet, so my reference grid is from b flat, if you will. Even when reading music in c, it's still always in b flat and I always transpose the c music into b flat.
It was confusing to learn to transpose to c, but I believe it would be impossible for me to actually hear a concert f and identify it first as an f and second as a g. Maybe that would be different if I had learned a c instrument at the same time as clarinet, but that's not how it works, at least not for me.
Ed' I didn’t “learn” perfect pitch, but I did start my musical training with trumpet (thinking in a Bb mindset) and a piano tuned a half step down (in a B mindset). So I guess as a result, C Major does feel a little bit annoyingly high sometimes
Damn. The first note you played I guessed as D and I was proud of myself.
..You monster.
Same, but I wonder if I would only recognize it for piano, and not other instruments.
Tarks Gauntlet now we know you don't have perfect pitch
@Geoff
I could have told you that before the video haha.
Same.
+bampf ibus It is an Eb.
2:52... people with perfect pitch got *PRANK'D*
Lol I already knew
Lol
Lanceランス No people without perfect pitch got pranked, people with perfect pitch knew...
Lanceランス nope we got hurt
I remember hearing him play a C and suddenly saw his finger on a B. I was so confused XD
I *have* perfect pitch and I gotta say, I was pretty enraged when you said that "Eb" was "D"... and then I watched the rest of your video hahaha. You're right on the money 👍🏾
I was too
A question for your next Q&A
If humans had 3 legs, would marches be in 3/4?
Thanks!
4/4 triplets.
Everyone upvote this comment right now
Deffo!
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This....
Depends on the gait.
As a person with perfect pitch, that's an Eb at the beginning.
OH MY GOSH why do I not wait
@OTheB Or you didn't watch the rest of video
Stove or you didnt read the rest of the comment
Of course he was doing it on purpose, I couldn't help but laugh when he started showing the keyboard and everything was a half-step off haha
@spacechicken UA-cam does this funny thing where it doesn't tell you who's replying to who. I was replying to OTheB.
I guessed that it was Eb and was surprised at first to hear that was a D... So, we are still right...
*plays a "D major"*
"Wait this doesn't sound like Canon in D at all"
Anyone else here use some kind of musical piece to refer to absolute pitch?
Aloysius Kurnia yes, that is how I discovered my perfect pitch.
yes. That’s how I remembered notes and chords when I first got into music
Yes I have specific songs that kinda relate to a note haha. *of course, the G note is one*
Penn Josef De Vera *high G note*
It doesn't works for me... It helps but not enough.
Hahaha. I thought something was wrong with my ears when you said the first two notes were D and B. Started to think it was possible to lose perfect pitch. Good one.
Ian Dobbins same!
It will actually start to fade in your 50s and 60s, but yeah lol he got you good [has relative pitch so can't be embarrased by being tricked 😎]
Same !!
The thumbnail made it so anti clickbait I had to click
Good job having hair
Isaac Van Doren It looks great on him doesn't it?
Ivo Wilson He has beautiful hair.
im so proud
I can't wait for Adam Neely's "how to not suck at hair" series
I had grown attached to the lack of hair, but I'm not going to infringe upon an artists desire to express them selves or indeed, to revisit their pre university roots.
"If you had perfect pitch, you'd probably be really annoyed right now."
YEAH. YEAH I WAS. I thought I was going crazy right after you played the first "D" (Eb) 😂
me too lol
I was about to write a comment about how that is definitely not a D and I figured it out, I thought I was crazy
The 8 minutes you spent on Sir Duke was some of your best content ever. Also glad to hear you are a Dan Carlin listener. Makes sense, as his approach to history is similar to your approach to music theory. Thanks for doing what you do.
0:59 - Is your keyboard a half-step lower or something? I DO have perfect pitch, and I heard that as an E Flat.
1:31 - And that's a C, not a B!
2:52 - GOD DAMMIT
Yeah I played his “D” on my horn by playing B flat which means it’s really E flat. :/
Sam Wurdemann that what I have and I thought it was wrong
I have relative pitch I can identify
D f# and b
i feel you bruh
Sam Wurdemann
Idk why i find this interesting but the way people choose to say if something is a D# vs Eb when there's no given key signature.
Sam Wurdemann THANK YOU, THIS DROVE ME INSANE.
I want to thank you for your lack of clickbait. You straight up answer the title of your videos in the title a lot of the time, and give actual in-depth explanations in the video.
No need to even watch the vid.
:P
I want to thank you for your Pokemon Mystery Dungeon profile picture.
D sounds like Eb....is youtube acting funny or
LOLLLLLL NICE
Shit it's actually you. Weird seeing you with zero likes lmao
I think the keyboard is transposed
Edit: AHA GADDIM
One point i began to turn 20ish and my ears changed and everything turned sharp. It was a nightmare. Im prepping for it it at 40. Since i know its gonna get sharper in the future. But now perfect pitch is back. :)
Did you actually watch the section before commenting? He explains it completely.
7:21 well technically... He wasn't looking...
Godlike intervention here
Ooooohhhhh. You made the lick-jingle even more JAZZZ
OH BOY DURING THAT SEGMENT WITH THE PIANO TUNED SHARP I WAS LIKE WHAAAAAAT IS GOING ON???????
Vítor Medeiros hahahaha me too, I was feeling strange
It was driving me crazy!!!!!
hahahaha
FREAKING- YESSSSSSS!!! AAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!! 😣
I sang the “C” and was very confused because it was too high. I was very confused haha.
I also have a well-attuned relative pitch. I could have sworn it was an Eb, but then he said it was a D and I second guessed myself and had to go check it against the piano. Brilliant.
I’ve always been confused with whether or not I had perfect pitch. I thought maybe I was being too cocky and only had relative pitch. But when you played the D and it came out as Eb I noticed it almost right away. When you played the B and it came out C I instantly assumed you’d address it later or something because I was so confident of the notes I was hearing. That’s the difference between relative and perfect. Perfect needs no introduction. You hear a note and know it. Relative is just everything else. You can hear the differences but not the exact notes without introduction. Great vid as always man
Adam: I would correctly identify this note as a D
Me: THATS NOT A D! That's E FLAT!
Edit: Just saw 2:52. He got me good.
I feel punked. We've been punked.
Ricko Beato did something similar so I knew this time he was not serious the first time
I know that's an E flat because of Lizst's La Campanella.
I heared it, but I don't think I have PP. RP for sure.
Bro I thought that was a d sharp because I am writing a song that starts with that note, but I don’t have perfect pitch and I assumed I was wrong when I saw him play a d. He’s fucking with my hearing lol I’m pissed
DAMN that lick reharmonization is JUICY
We just got lick-baited.
That’s a goddamn Eb. God that intersensory dissonance was frustrating
Thank you!!! I was going insane
Why is his keyboard so off key?
Fusion Tricycle most digital keyboards have a transposition button, where middle C can be set to any pitch. Obviously, all of the intervals shift relatively when you do that. He must have had the transpose button on to +1 half step.
Yeah thank god
Ah I see you're a man of culture as well
I've never been so scared in my life.... I literally got out of bed to just pick up a tuner just to check lmao
I am so thankful I cam across this channel so long ago. Thank you for such in-depth answers. In general thank you for all the information you bestow upon us!
Perfect pitch? Bah, useless, and I have pity for you.
Unless, of course, you have perfect pitch A=432. Then the pinata of musical understanding will split open and shower you with wisdom.
fudgesauce 444 here
A=420 Hz perfect pitch is all I have and will ever need. #VapeNation
Im dead
A = 420
Is the transcendent powers of A=432 how you managed to comment on this video before it was uploaded?
YOU CHANGED THE LICK MUSIC IN TRANSITION! YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE SLICK. NOTHING GETS BY ME. NOTHING.
Yeah, it’s pretty cool though. Love ya
Literally scrolled through the comments to see who else noticed lol
lol same i did notice
ya!* FTFY
*edit* just in case you didn't get it: see the intro
I love it! Super glad I waited before commenting on the pitch!
I don't have perfect pitch but I knew something was off about the first part of the video because I'm able to identify pitches like C pretty well *sometimes.*
Same, I didn't catch the Eb that well (althought it did sound a bit weird), but man, that B was totally a C for me (it's like THE note that I've really got internalized)
@@pablox98 Pitches are like a language, you just have to memorize one by one like words, with pretty much effort and patience. You have to practice the "listening" and the "speaking" parts, where:
1) "Listening" is the ability to identify a specific note (word) in every instrument or thing, like the noise of the motor of a bus (every speaker of a certain language, with their different accents).
2) "Speaking", is the ability to produce a specific note by yourself, singing it without a reference. This is like when you can express yourself in a foreign language without the help of a dictionary or translator.
Pablo, you've internalized the "C" note because you've just listened it a thousands of times in your life, in songs and instruments, that was played by other people or by yourself. For the rest of the notes is the same process. You just have to associate the rest 11 sounds with its names, like when you associate the basic colors with its specifics names, or when you associate the "face" of a person with his/her name/age/address (everything is a language, an association).
There's no such a superhero power where only a few are "gifted" or borned with perfect pitch. The "gifted" are simply the people who were just *immersed intensily* in music (listening or playing instruments); some of them associated the notes involuntary in their lifes, some voluntary and conscious. Again, this is like when some people travel to an another country to stay and live there, but without knowing the language. Years pass by, and with time they can communicate fluently, and that's because they were "immersed" in the foreign language every single day of their lives, listening and speaking, and not because they were born with that language.
PD: I have perfect pitch by the way.
Strangenesses The Person wait did you discover you have perfect pitch after learning you can identify e on command?
Cool, yes C is my memory note too.
I sing 'all of me' in my head ( C E G) then use relative pitch from there. Sometimes I sing a D or Bb by mistake.
@@LukeDayInTheUK hey I know nothing about music, can you please answer a question of mine?
What does it mean for a song like All of Me to have CEG pitches? I tried singing in front of a chromatic tuner and It went haywire even while saying just words. I also keep hearing singing on pitch and in key... These seem like related questions.
Thanks in advance.
I really enjoyed this Q+A, Adam. I love how you answer the questions, and especially liked what you said about the "hyper-real" aspect of the gig vlogs. 👍
Hey Adam.
No question. Just saying hey.
Daltorb hey
Hey
Rudy Ayoub hey
Asmodean Underscore hey
Hey
Adam, Thank you for first answering the question that was in the title of this video. Thumbs up!
Okay I love that he mentioned his keyboard was transposed. He played the Eb and then he said it was a D and I was like "wuuuuuut is he doing?" Lol
Does the intro song get stuck in anyone else's head or am I weird like that?
I find myself an hour later in the kitchen like ..'Adam Neelyyyyyy. . . ya!'
I guess there aren't many of us.
At least three.
I actually woke up this morning singing it, I thought I was the only one hahah
Oh, it's terrible, I find myself going "question, and answer time, with Adam Neeeeeelyyyyyy!" at the most random moments, and my wife just gives me the evil eye each time I do it.
Adam was so enthusiastic when talking about jazz, it's very cute.
Mister Apple why are you everywhere?
I have way too much free time.
Your videos are by far the best quality in this genre on UA-cam. Please keep them coming!!!!!
Much more album recommendations! Thoroughly enjoyed this one, thanks for making cool stuff.
protip: make sure your MIDI keyboard and note names are in the SAME key
I thought my Mac speakers were fucked up or something
protip: make sure you watch the whole video before leaving a comment
Arman Mohammad protip: make sure you watch Adams video on extreme reharmonization to get the joke before making a reply
When you try to be a smartass but ends up looking like a dumbass lol
When you realize that this is a long running joke on Adam's channel and the joke goes way over your head
Great answer to the 3rd question! As a music major at UNT, sometimes I feel like I'm so engulfed in learning music I forget about the outside world and all my other interests like math, science, and history and politics, and I love when I can connect music with those other subjects like you did here (and in a lot of your other videos too). When you mentioned the dividing of the Ottoman Empire after WWI, it reminded of these 2 videos by AlternateHistoryHub where he talks about that and what the middle east would be like if it didn't happen. If you haven't heard of it, I'd check it out.
I really like these videos. So educational!
Glad you brought up story, because stories are how we teach effectively, communicate meaningfully and connect. We think and feel in story, and I have no problem with the idea that we live in story as well.
Have a good one.
I definitely not have perfect pitch but I have imprinted in my head the sound of C. You said you played the D note (D# on reality) and I was like oh okay nothing's wrong, I can't recognise this note alone, but then you played the B note which was actually a C and immediately I said with so much confidence "that's a C" and I was like "WHAAAT?! I'm sure it's the middle C and usually I'm right, how did I got fooled?" And then I realised... and I was relieved that I can still trust my ear xD
MarsLos10 yeah well you should try imprinting that C harder because the first two notes were actually Db and Bb, not D# and B.
dubashroomXD Eb is exactly D# on a piano...
dubashroomXD No. The first two notes were a D on the piano and a B on the piano. That means they were Eb and C. He even said they were a minor third apart, while your notes were a perfect fourth apart.
ZipplyZane exactly.
ZipplyZane sorry, meant Db, not Eb.
Omg the lick in this episode was so damned bright and lovely
Your Gig Vlogs are gold. Dont Stop.
Very well thought out response to the third question. I enjoy your theory analysis videos.
Functional harmony and the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. Adam Neely, you're my 🍒π.
6:45 random accent change
So i hoewp
and i oeup
Hahahahhaahhaa I laughed so much man
bahahahhaa im dying
Dude! I love the comparison to history, such a good reference. I am a history major and just finished a Middle East class. It is so important to understand history to correctly interpret our world. Love you Adam!
your analogy with music theory and history was awesome. really well thought out
Adam, you are brilliant for annoying me and the rest of your viewers who do have perfect pitch in the way you did. Thank you for so clearly explaining and demonstrating your beliefs.
Adam I think you had to record 46 takes of this video before you managed to drop the pen and thus securing a humorous outro bit, before that you unintentionally caught it 45 times.
Love the shirt!! What an awesome band.
Mind blown by this Music Theory : Music :: History : Present analogy! I'm on board, can't wait to hear more! Deeper awareness leads to deeper appreciation, which leads to deeper enjoyment.
Real life example where perfect pitch actually made my life harder:
I was in a mandatory choir at uni/college and the choirmaster regularly wanted pieces performed in keys other than what was written in the score.
If you had relative pitch this was no problem - she would play a V-I on the piano and say there's the key and off we go. Except I was "stuck" hearing the pitches as written so that added extra challenge trying to do the transpostion in my head (which I'm terrible at doing on the spot so yeah...there was a lot of awkward mumbling my way through).
SAME
I gave this video a "like" specifically for the pun about getting down.
I love all that there are all these think pieces about how to listen to and appreciate jazz, when the only thing you need to do is smoke a bowl.
i love how excited you get about the get down pun.
Thanks, Adam! For your next Q+A:
Do you believe that any instrument can support any genre of music? I would like to hear your thoughts about this, for example bouzouki in Jazz and so on...
Keep up the good work!
These anti-clickbait thumbs are more clickbaiting than the actual click baits.
How so?
Clickbaiting would be the wrong term. Attractive is correct though. Just something about its blatant honesty
@@thingonometry-1460 In this video is not the case but in some videos like the one about "Hey Joe" it leads you to think "hmm why is it on E, though?" so you click the video, at least for me. I'm more intrigued by the "why" instead of the answer
hey Adam ,love all your videos ,for your next Q+A, how did you start in music when you was young ,your influences? your inspirations? your goals ? the music you was linstening to ? sorry for my bad English, thanks keep the good work !!
11:36 That, sir, was the greatest pun that has ever graced my ears. I'm subscribing
Adam you trickster! That was an Eb and the other note was a C!
BassClefGamer nah, it's a D# and an A triple sharp
Yo, you changed up your version of the lick that you use for transitions.
yeah it's in major now instead of minor
Yeah, don’t really like it as much
Dude ur one of my fav channels
Hi Adam. I'm a fairly recent subscriber (it feels recent, maybe it's been a couple of months), and I mostly just want to thank you for creating so much interesting music content on youtube. I was involved in music for most of my youth and through college, but since graduating I haven't really kept up with it. I have always struggled with performance anxiety that my instructors never really helped with (their solution was always to practice more, but that didn't help my dry mouth at my trumpet recitals). Part of the problem, I think, is that I also have a perfectionist streak (like so many others), and that really sucked the joy out of playing music for me. Anyway, now I'm over a decade out of college and am slowly finding the joy again. I can play one of your videos in the morning and just listen to you talking about music in a really educated but accessible way. My biggest struggle has been invalidating my own creativity, but your perspective is helping me see past that. On that note, is your critiquing series ("Why you suck at music") going to make a return? I found it really helpful and enlightening. (P.S. I put my money where my mouth is, so to speak, and just joined your Patreon. I hope I can give you more support in the future, because I love what you're doing.)
The biggest downside of having perfect pitch is psyching yourself out when playing a transposing instrument. I'm learning saxophone and I've totally abandoned trying to read saxophone sheet music cuz I can't get past the fact that the notes don't line up.
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1:00 it's D sharp not D
Edit: OK nevermind
But still so annoyed
It can be a D in 465 Hz lolz.
I was shook
Kevin Cordoviz W o K e
Kevin Cordoviz B A D F R E Q U E N C I E S
Lmao just checked on the piano, it is D#
The best teacher on UA-cam for music in my opinion.
Excellent - especially the history tie-in
3:00 in, you proved that I was freaking out for the right reasons. You sadist.
Q and A question...
Can you explain the “Laurel” and “Yanni” situation using the overtone series???
You're channel is evolving into something cool. The gig vlog is great. I envy your lifestyle. Makes me want to go to New York and play bass. We all now have a window into a world we would otherwise have no insight to so thank you. Also, you're giving your self an edge no other bass player has. Your channel is blowing up, so anyone who uses as their bass player automatically has 543,000 person audience.
Putting the answer on the thumbnail is a most dignified act compared to the majority of youtubers. Thanks.
2:47 I thought he was doing this on accident and I thought he’d never say it. I was listening to this with my eyes shut like it was a podcast and jolted awake when this man called Eb a D.
Question for Q&A:
What EXACTLY makes for a good rhythm, like what aspects of a rhythm make it enjoyable. I am a drummer who mainly listens to prog metal and I was just wondering to help with composing.
For example i love the opening rhythm (after sitar) in Animals As Leaders - Arithmiphobia. It seems pretty sparatic but there might be patterns ( feel free to disregard this part )
ADAM NEELY THANKS FOR EXISTING DUDE!!
as a music theory and history nerd i totally agree, it’s not that you NEED to know it’s just very helpful at least to me to have an understanding of what’s being behind what you’re doing in real life and in music
It's always wise to tread carefully when in historicist waters. I believe your alternative analysis of the Fm7 chord is valid, maybe (although unlikely in this instance) even moreso than the others, because it is my view that every part of an analysis of art, including the viewer/analyser, author, performer and theory, can be wrong.
Is that a new lick you recorded? It's fancy
Fred Floyd sounds like the lick is played in Dm over what starts as a ii-V in F but it goes to a Picardy third in Dmin instead. It’s cool! Gmin-C-D!
I was relieved when he explained that he knew the keyboard was sharp. Us Perfect Pitch people thrive in this kind of situation.
Cool what you were saying about Lucky Chops and how infectious it is making you want to dance i remember going to a Too Many Zoos concert and they too play brass instruments in a kinda Dance music way and everyone was getting super into it and going wild such a fun gig.
Adam, can you grow your hair to metalhead levels? XD
Hey Adam,
I have a question for your next q&a. Why do we have 12 notes? Thx
I can answer:
Increasing the pitch by an octave multiplies its frequency by 2.
Increasing the pitch by a perfect 5th multiplies the frequency by 3/2.
Increasing pitch by a major 2nd multiplies the frequency by 9/8.
If you want to split the octave into equal parts, and end up with frequency ratios very close to the ideal ones, the best way is to split it in 12 parts, because 2 to the power of 7/12 is 1.4983 (almost 3/2), and 2 to the power of 2/12 is 1.122462 (almost 9/8). This is why we have 12 notes.
liked purely for the fact the comment 2:48 'be annoyed right now' Adam yo a genius , keep it going, love these (long term adam, Rick, SBL , lover)
and OMG......... 7:08 History.........
Woah!!! Your Hue analogy was SPOT ON!! And so smart!
Question for a Q&A, I don’t know of this has been asked before: do you have advice for someone who’d want to get into composition but works full-time? Are there good courses online? What software/books would you recommend?
Same question sir.
Why does your D sound so sharp that it's actually D#?
'Cuz it's on poipose!
at least the following note was a C, and thus correctly a minor third.
watch the video.... he says the keyboard is transposed
Yeah it was to trick people like us lol people with perfect/really good relative pitch.
How about watching the video before commenting? That is a thing, you know ;)
Ahhh Yeah!! Dan Carlin and how brass music hits your body in one vlog!! That is why I dig your channel so much.
Hey Adam,
Did you ever notice how your videos, from years back, now seem to be about "simple" stuff? At times someone would ask something more spicy, encouraging others to do so - and over time, your channel became an excellent source on obscure knowledge. Glad it worked out that way - I come to learn about things I didn't know even existed!
Also, regarding the "new kind of groove" lesson at Scott's channel, any more tips on the quintuplet swing? I feel like always dragging them for too long.
Keep it up, cheers!
Actually, I have a relative pitch and I knew you were messing with us from the first place. Some people just remember pitch without having a perfect one.
It seems that a lot of people are confused about perfect and relative pitch and this is probably related to how these skills are named. A lot of people tend to think that 'perfect' pitch is somehow superior or something. And that's not so strange if you look at the name of it, PERFECT... It's not perfect in fact, it's absolute. Wikipedia has already adopted the ABSOLUTE pitch naming, calling it by this name will probably help to reduce the confusion! :)
Thanks for clarifying, I didn't look up the term "absolute pitch" which I'm used to in mofland.
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That hurt, got me good. Big up dude
Hey Adam,
I'm really enjoying your videos and appreciate where your curious mind takes you! I think that this is what makes me like your channel so much, even though I don't understand any of the music theory stuff. I am absolutely uneducated in music theory and all I know about music (arguably not very much in comparison to people such as you) comes from the diversity - I'd say - of what I listen to.
Which is why I come to you for my first UA-cam comment and a general music/bass culture question, that I hope you could include to your next Q&A and that has been an itch I haven't been able to scratch:
There is a certain bass line I often hear in more recent and older music and I was wondering if you knew where it first came from and maybe why it is so recurrent - not that I'm complaining about that, it's awesome. It's the bass line in Nina Simone's "Feeling Good" and Portishead's "Glory Box". There is also a version of it in Funkadelic's "I'll Stay" and other songs like Brigitte's "Ma Benz" (a cover from French Rap veterans "NTM", great version from the French music show "Taratata"). These are the instances I remember off the top of my head, but I'm sure there are many more. I feel like it's a more confidential "The Lick" specific for bass. Please help me find an explanation for this, it has been bugging me forever ...
Cheers from a French music lover who, as a scientific researcher and fellow nerd, shares your analytical curiosity!
Antoine
Is that a new rendition of the lick?
I figured it was a troll somehow related to perfect pitch.
Roescoe yeah same
10:04 - Now we'll need another crew to cover you videoing your performances? ;)
Better yet. Urge members of the audience to send in their videos and sync them all up (all shot in 'landscape' mode, of course)! ;)
It is interesting for me to learn that I could sense something off the chord changes played (not an experienced music theory aspiring musician), and when piano tuned properly, my first thought was that it sounded proper/correct, as he explained the piano tuning differential; an AH HA moment. Think I may have a latent perfect pitch talent I've lived 52 years without realizing. Love the color analogy AND the visual color change demo; as a visual artist, it hit right on the mark, as well as the history/music theory analogy. Excellent work by a very articulate musician. Thank you, Mr. Neely.
I really liked the analysis of the chord progression in Wonder's Sir Duke. It's the kind of meta- and contextual information that makes music more interesting.