Can you guess the interval by its emotion?

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  • @mishibijiwpiano3481
    @mishibijiwpiano3481 5 років тому +3938

    Clearly they're just played through the wrong frequencies.

    • @DezMonKei
      @DezMonKei 5 років тому +56

      Spiritual Neely In The Building
      Sungazer Neely In The Building

    • @malcelinho
      @malcelinho 5 років тому +15

      damn, I heard the end of that sentence in my head

    • @drumsforever101
      @drumsforever101 5 років тому +119

      B A D
      F R E Q U E N C I E S

    • @cuev8025
      @cuev8025 5 років тому

      @@malcelinho XJ. XJ

    • @daybrink1267
      @daybrink1267 5 років тому +40

      someone needs to align their A=432 chakras

  • @DezMonKei
    @DezMonKei 5 років тому +3025

    Protip: Make Sure The Interval And The Emotion Are In The *Same Key!!*

    • @marcelloestemiele
      @marcelloestemiele 5 років тому +51

      Are in the same tempered system

    • @maximo.7240
      @maximo.7240 5 років тому +155

      Emotion=432

    • @davidemura4444
      @davidemura4444 5 років тому +11

      I dieth

    • @settratheimperishable4093
      @settratheimperishable4093 5 років тому +6

      @@maximo.7240 AH 42 LIKES I CANNOT DESTROY THIS

    • @TwinBroz
      @TwinBroz 4 роки тому +3

      Doesn’t matter, just transposed. Tomato, Tahmahto. (I know its spelled wrong, but for context, its spelled in phonetics)

  • @kanjosidr
    @kanjosidr 5 років тому +889

    "I've seen cartoons."
    - Ben Levin, 2019

    • @TMmodify
      @TMmodify 5 років тому +20

      Death Grips- I've Seen Cartoons

    • @KanarisTM
      @KanarisTM 3 роки тому

      lol

  • @DBruce
    @DBruce 5 років тому +542

    Ah yes, how to cook that perfect al dente cadence. I love it.

    • @sameester
      @sameester 5 років тому +7

      David Bruce Composer love your channel!

    • @jeffirwin7862
      @jeffirwin7862 5 років тому +1

      Don't you think that line is a bit cliche?

    • @AntActApp
      @AntActApp 5 років тому

      what ingredient/sauce/flavor would accordion be? I think it depends on context heavily. In a baroque setting, I'm getting a coffee bean and parsley combination

    • @carlsong6438
      @carlsong6438 5 років тому

      Hi David

  • @alexganje1715
    @alexganje1715 5 років тому +2204

    Tritone mildly anxious? Who are those people? Bomb difussers? Retail assistants during a Zara sale?

    • @unicornhorn6662
      @unicornhorn6662 5 років тому +43

      People who think tritone is highly dissonant are untalented and have badly trained ears

    • @jacobname4310
      @jacobname4310 5 років тому +415

      ...or they don’t like the sound of an unresolved tritone

    • @AxCYeR
      @AxCYeR 5 років тому +73

      just because his mom's called lydia.

    • @lucianodebenedictis6014
      @lucianodebenedictis6014 5 років тому +31

      People who scrub with sandpaper. Mildly abrasive

    • @Faulheit
      @Faulheit 5 років тому +197

      @@unicornhorn6662 this screams music major elitist

  • @aleksinuutila2315
    @aleksinuutila2315 5 років тому +556

    Do you know the thing from futurama?
    -No, but I have seen cartoons.

    • @realhippie5368
      @realhippie5368 5 років тому +3

      wanted to like but it's on 420 and I don't wanna disturb the balance

    • @princereechaos133
      @princereechaos133 4 роки тому +7

      Well now it’s 432, the perfect tuning of A

    • @thomaslivingston4890
      @thomaslivingston4890 4 роки тому +7

      Prince Reechaos Well now it’s 440, the perfect tuning of A

  • @doddleoddle
    @doddleoddle 5 років тому +239

    I LOVE THIS VIDEO the particular feelings are definitely not universal

    • @tonicogsf
      @tonicogsf 4 роки тому +4

      Hey, nice to see you over here. You're so good!

    • @tedhanlon7822
      @tedhanlon7822 4 роки тому +1

      Feelings are like stars...

  • @AndyChamberlainMusic
    @AndyChamberlainMusic 5 років тому +316

    I think we can all agree the main takeaway is that LANDR is a microwave

  • @44tharia46
    @44tharia46 5 років тому +226

    uber driver: is the car at a good temperature for you?
    me: i’m feeling mildly precarious

    • @TacticsTechniquesandProcedures
      @TacticsTechniquesandProcedures 5 років тому +2

      Uber driver: *pulls out a sharp one* [knife]...ugh that joke just doesn't cut it.

    • @Arkansya
      @Arkansya 5 років тому

      No, it's the uber driver whos mildly precarious

  • @DWA4707
    @DWA4707 5 років тому +39

    Major 7ths are only "itchy" in the cotext of a minor third. You stick a major third in there and it's completely the opposite: calm, pleasant, and maybe a little wistful.

    • @bobsmith12345
      @bobsmith12345 Рік тому

      i would also imagine a sung major 7th sounds better than a major 7th on a piano

  • @brharley0546
    @brharley0546 5 років тому +190

    When i started practicing ear training I assigned each interval with what it made me imagine or feel.
    m2: Dark, muddy, ancient
    M2: Bright, hopeful, fresh, sunrise
    m3: sad, cold, deep
    M3: energetic, lively
    P4: gentle, soft, sensual
    #4/b5: hot, spicy, fear, pain
    P5: bold, confident, solid
    m6: Mysterious, mystical
    M6: open, pale, plain
    m7: Airy, thin, naive
    M7: Restless, longing, warm
    It's interesting some of the descriptions matched mine

    • @tarosykes
      @tarosykes 4 роки тому +1

      BrHarley054 sPiCy

  • @HyperManic1000
    @HyperManic1000 5 років тому +1356

    All intervals make me feel anxiety. Why? Because of the hearing tests, that’s why.
    Edit: I’m a drummer turned percussionist, I’m finally starting to get a solid grasp on tonality and harmony. Damn did it suck tho lol

    • @jch123-r6v
      @jch123-r6v 5 років тому +12

      I feel bad for you

    • @woomy8971
      @woomy8971 5 років тому +30

      ptsd but you get panic attacks from all music

    • @AnnaKhomichkoPianist
      @AnnaKhomichkoPianist 5 років тому +3

      Hahaha that’s sooooo true 😂

    • @HyperManic1000
      @HyperManic1000 5 років тому +2

      WOOMY Just like that. I only listen to drums lol

    • @HyperManic1000
      @HyperManic1000 5 років тому +2

      SonicHandsK99 Me too :(

  • @SawtoothWaves
    @SawtoothWaves 5 років тому +51

    6:56 I really like this guy 😂

  • @Onemanband410899
    @Onemanband410899 5 років тому +257

    13:16 I've never heard a better setup for a poop joke in my life! 😂

  • @smashingairguitars
    @smashingairguitars 5 років тому +92

    "I've seen cartoons"
    Ben Levin. Explains....E V E R Y T H I N G

  • @AimeeNolte
    @AimeeNolte 5 років тому +196

    I’ve seen cartoons too, Ben. 😂

  • @wkingston1248
    @wkingston1248 5 років тому +30

    "intterupted flow to the dominat" never knew that was an emotion.

  • @loejewis
    @loejewis 5 років тому +99

    "interrupted flow to dominant"? This is just straight up music theory analysis, not an emotional description

    • @keithklassen5320
      @keithklassen5320 4 роки тому +12

      The way they mixed emotion and theory without a clear delineation between the two was very unhelpful.

  • @giuseppedeluca4465
    @giuseppedeluca4465 5 років тому +137

    "Lydian it up"
    Ben Levin, 2019

  • @xZerplinxProduction
    @xZerplinxProduction 5 років тому +618

    What interval presents the emotion of banging your toe on a chair leg

    • @mariobrenes4264
      @mariobrenes4264 5 років тому +92

      Zerplin tritone

    • @sophias8382
      @sophias8382 5 років тому +162

      Minor 9

    • @lifeontheledgerlines8394
      @lifeontheledgerlines8394 5 років тому +169

      Minor second. Tritone seems more generally unsettling to me than like a stark, sharp burst of pain. However, you can play a minor second,tritone, and major seventh all at the same time for maximum effect.

    • @104ist
      @104ist 5 років тому +15

      Zerplin or the feeling of a door handle wrenching the cord of your earphones out

    • @sophias8382
      @sophias8382 5 років тому +12

      @@lifeontheledgerlines8394 but when I stub my toe, my voice goes up by more than a second

  • @wizkida981015
    @wizkida981015 5 років тому +41

    New challenge: Rank each interval by how anxious it makes you feel.

    • @naught101
      @naught101 5 років тому

      == mathematical discordance?

  • @KungFuPanda1223
    @KungFuPanda1223 5 років тому +20

    "what do these two notes make you feel"
    MAJOR THIRD

  • @inkeys6244
    @inkeys6244 5 років тому +113

    when the major 7th went 😔🥀🔪💔 🎹🎸 i felt that

    • @apothecurio
      @apothecurio 4 роки тому

      Major 7th is 100% saddest interval. When it’s paired with other notes

    • @iantaakalla8180
      @iantaakalla8180 3 роки тому

      When Final Fantasy VII, a very tragic story, has a theme song with a major seventh.

    • @combo306
      @combo306 3 роки тому

      I get a sense of happiness from major 7th, does anyone else?

    • @triad5766
      @triad5766 3 роки тому +1

      @@combo306 maj7 feels nostalgic for me

    • @combo306
      @combo306 3 роки тому

      @@triad5766 This is exactly the same for me. Play root, 5th, 7th, octave, 12, and 14, and it gives this exact vibe.

  • @cerealbloodx
    @cerealbloodx 5 років тому +60

    I'm using some of this for my tinder bio

  • @loganwilbur5131
    @loganwilbur5131 5 років тому +20

    The "what's-it-called-when-you-run-out-of-options" at 11:17 is called "the process of elimination" ;)

  • @romanstudia
    @romanstudia 5 років тому +1045

    Very soviet, wants to build communism, skeptical about capitalist system
    (answer: ascending perfect 4th)

    • @easonwang6654
      @easonwang6654 5 років тому +56

      Роман Товстенко the first two notes of the Chinese national anthem is a perfect 4th

    • @TurtleGamers1
      @TurtleGamers1 5 років тому +3

      literally made this same joke just now

    • @philter820
      @philter820 5 років тому +1

      XD

    • @egorm8952
      @egorm8952 5 років тому +13

      @@easonwang6654 or a Soviet anthem. Or a Russian anthem. Which is the same song with different lyrics. Those Russians 🤷‍♂️

    • @Fopenplop
      @Fopenplop 5 років тому +4

      Found the Trot

  • @mArs0x0h
    @mArs0x0h 5 років тому +43

    "Do you know that thing from futurama..-"no but I've seen cartoons.." 😂

  • @yyyyyyyyachym
    @yyyyyyyyachym 5 років тому +691

    Do face reveal at 1 million subs

    • @gqh007
      @gqh007 5 років тому +67

      How about a reverse and he makes vids without showing his face after that

    • @henryrichard7619
      @henryrichard7619 5 років тому +22

      @@gqh007 Anti-Face Reveal (to go with his anti-clickbait)

    • @ahmeddjeghri6879
      @ahmeddjeghri6879 5 років тому +16

      *Davie504 wants to know your location*

    • @quieres8614
      @quieres8614 5 років тому +4

      Too common, I'm thinking of a left foot reveal?

    • @fatherfountain1906
      @fatherfountain1906 5 років тому +3

      Are you dumb? He's already shown his face in videos 🤦🤦🤦 if look very carefully in some vids you can see his face in some frames but it's very subtle

  • @drakonyanazkar
    @drakonyanazkar 5 років тому +5

    Context matters, it seems. The conversation at the end was also really insightful. I can totally see how you can think music with culinary, like Ben said. I, myself, understand musical compositions as relations between characters in a story. IDK why is that, but it has always been like that. For me each lick and phrase is a character and they interact throughout the story. Missing a note is like the character just missed his line. It has always been like that and making my own arrangements is like writing my adaptation of a theatrical piece.

  • @TheLonelySoundboard
    @TheLonelySoundboard 4 роки тому +2

    There's something beautiful about someone who is willing to indulge why they're wrong. Ben Levin is quite the treat.

  • @applehack97
    @applehack97 5 років тому +38

    the description of the major 6th also made think of the perfect 4th, so I'm curious to know the context of the musicians that were tested, maybe the styles of music they play have a different meaning for the intervals and thus would completely change the result

  • @bbbndddl
    @bbbndddl 2 роки тому +1

    I love how every one of these is guessed right and changed to the wrong one

  • @RekenberGlastenheim
    @RekenberGlastenheim 5 років тому +169

    5:37 I'm curious, Adam: are there clips of you laughing that's more than 5 seconds, and with audible sounds aside from a "suppressed laugh"?

    • @onkelpappkov2666
      @onkelpappkov2666 5 років тому +81

      Be glad you have never heard Adam's harmfully loud, deep, bolshevik bellowing.
      "Like cutting meat with a fork."
      "Cutting cheese with a spoon."
      "HA-BUUAAARHHAAARRRBBHHAARRR!"
      The rich Baritone's explosion echoing through the abruptly silent hallways. Children cry, women faint.
      He exhales audibly with restraint. It is a burden, a sacrifice. I am grateful.

  • @meurtenbaguette
    @meurtenbaguette 5 років тому +716

    I was the 432nd like, clearly the video is now at the right frequencies

    • @Chaosdude341
      @Chaosdude341 5 років тому +10

      Cheeky boi

    • @jacksonschwarz2134
      @jacksonschwarz2134 5 років тому +6

      keep this comment on 432 likes

    • @rogerheathcote3062
      @rogerheathcote3062 5 років тому +5

      I would vote this down but we're at 440 now so that would feel deeply wrong.

    • @retrodiisiac
      @retrodiisiac 5 років тому +6

      𝘽𝙖𝙙 𝙛𝙧𝙚𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙨

    • @owlofathena1247
      @owlofathena1247 4 роки тому

      I was the 666th like

  • @timnewsham1
    @timnewsham1 5 років тому +48

    interesting, but unconvincing.
    1) The most helpful descriptions were not emotional ('airy") but functional ("wants to descend further").
    2) interestingly, I had a lot of the same wrong guesses as Levin did. I wonder if you group people by similar answers what you can learn about those people.
    3) A description of emotional reactions to intervals that excludes the angsty-teenagers of intervals, minor sixth and minor third!? come on!

  • @andythedishwasher1117
    @andythedishwasher1117 4 роки тому +1

    This feels like matching musical tarot cards with their descriptions in the little book that comes with the deck.

  • @dylan-dylan-dylan
    @dylan-dylan-dylan 5 років тому +4

    I cannot for the life of me figure out if Adam Neely is hot or not. It switches between videos. This is a hot one.

    • @rainbowrotcod
      @rainbowrotcod 10 місяців тому +1

      he is cute in all of them.

  • @andrewblawson
    @andrewblawson 5 років тому +71

    After a while I just thought everything was the minor 6th.

  • @koalanights
    @koalanights 5 років тому +6

    Interesting idea, great video! I feel like the timbral characteristics, whether they are played together/ascending/descending, the dynamics, and the rhythm are all similarly relevant to our emotional interpretation as the interval itself. It seems as if the book privileges the abstract concept of interval and refers to it divorced from a context. Like an orchestra playing a low, rumbling minor second that ascends slowly compared to a piano playing a high minor second descending more quickly is the difference between Jaws and Fur Elise .

  • @Fanchen
    @Fanchen 5 років тому

    Dude I think so much like Ben, pretty much agreed with most of him.

  • @TurtleGamers1
    @TurtleGamers1 5 років тому +17

    Perfect 4th is the interval of comradeship and seizing the means of production.

    • @lavendelle_swift
      @lavendelle_swift 5 років тому

      What did you mean?

    • @remyzsacka8670
      @remyzsacka8670 4 роки тому

      @@lavendelle_swift USSR anthem starts with a perfect 4th

    • @MaggaraMarine
      @MaggaraMarine 4 роки тому +1

      True, but it is actually dominant - tonic, not "subdominant". The descriptions in the book were referring to certain scale degrees, not to melodic intervals. In other words, when they were talking about the description of a "perfect fourth", the book was actually talking about the description of the "subdominant" scale degree.

  • @AlexandraZernerRocks
    @AlexandraZernerRocks 5 років тому

    Probably because I am a guitar player too, my answers, with two exceptions, were like Ben's. That's definitely a very interesting topic. I've been trying for a long time to utilitise the way keys, chords, and progressions induce certain feelings and I wonder how further such research could go while still being reasonable. I will be glad to see more from you on the topic.
    P.S. Awesome video, as usual!

  • @AndyChamberlainMusic
    @AndyChamberlainMusic 5 років тому +44

    I had all the same answers as Ben, maybe the exact way the intervals had been played for participants originally would have been helpful information, because for the first few until you mentioned flat 2 and sharp 1 were different I assumed we were talking harmonic intervals not melodic, and then with melodic we didn't know if there was context or in what direction stuff was going.
    Fun stuff regardless!

    • @simongunkel7457
      @simongunkel7457 5 років тому +3

      The study didn't look at either melodic or harmonic intervals, but at scale degrees. No music was played. A total of 10 musicologists from one university were asked to associate words with scale degrees in the context of any piece in major (hence no minor 3rd, but a sharp 2nd). They've all read lots of scores, so they might remember a few #1 or b2s and thus put them into the context of a number of pieces. Not a great study design and I'm surprised Huron put it in his book (the original study was shown in a conference paper, he didn't get it published in a journal).

  • @MrKONEWKO
    @MrKONEWKO 5 років тому +3

    Perfect fourth is so final to my ears! Because opera. The classic cadenza ending: a turn, followed by perfect fourth. Its a massive TA-DA!!!

  • @wesleydonnasson838
    @wesleydonnasson838 5 років тому +21

    I think taking these intervals out of any rhythmic context is going to alter the associated emotion somewhat

  • @stevenschelling8452
    @stevenschelling8452 5 років тому

    The two of you get together and make videos like this regularly. I loved those videos of the improv games you guys would play, the interviews you did of each other way back, these little discussions. They make me feel all warm.

  • @josemarcelino1826
    @josemarcelino1826 5 років тому +53

    Hey Adam!! I have a question for your next Q & A: Why do some bossa nova songs are listed as Jazz Standards? Keep Up The Good Work!!!

    • @cornifer_lv
      @cornifer_lv 5 років тому +11

      its probably because south-american music was brought to america at the 'dawn of jazz'. it was automatically integrated.
      my best guess

    • @djb903
      @djb903 5 років тому +2

      Jazz chord voicings and progressions

    • @TLMuse
      @TLMuse 5 років тому +2

      Bossa nova is largely a fusion of (Brazilian) samba rhythms and (American) jazz harmony.

    • @TLMuse
      @TLMuse 5 років тому +3

      @Bryan: Of course the jazz harmony was written into the songs; Gilberto was fusing samba and jazz. He was already familiar with American jazz. Read up on the history; it's well-documented that the bossa nova pioneers were fusing elements of samba and jazz.

  • @sallyconradconradsally5940
    @sallyconradconradsally5940 3 роки тому +1

    Litteraly saw the thumbnail, clicked. And then the ad comes in : "If you are practicing interval exercises i should warn you that you're wasting a lot of precious time"

    • @flyingskyward2153
      @flyingskyward2153 3 роки тому

      I'm getting that advert before half the Adam Neely videos I watch

  • @Tx72everywhere
    @Tx72everywhere 5 років тому +11

    Adam: "Do you know the thing from futurama?"
    Ben: "Yeah I've seen cartoons."
    Lmao 😂
    Also, I agree a hundred percent with Ben's emotional interpretations of the intervals. Except for the major 7th, I actually find it such a peaceful interval.

    • @Andrey.Balandin
      @Andrey.Balandin 5 років тому

      Except he said no but I've seen cartoons

  • @ertwro
    @ertwro 5 років тому +1

    Never made me so happy seeing a book. I read sweet anticipation like a decade ago and had not seen anyone who had read it. Oh, man :)

  • @SophisticatedBanjo
    @SophisticatedBanjo 5 років тому +7

    "Strong, upward, bold, edgy, unstable, uncertain, upwardly mobile, mildly precarious."
    If you say you wouldn't swipe right on this raised tonic, you're lying.

    • @shmunkyman33
      @shmunkyman33 5 років тому +1

      Honestly some of these would make great Tindr profile bios

  • @kazisamagicaldolphin
    @kazisamagicaldolphin 5 років тому +1

    OMG the idea of relating music to flavor is mind blowing! Please collaborate with a food UA-camr like Alex to explain music in terms of food! Would love to see this idea expanded upon.

  • @benjaminjones3351
    @benjaminjones3351 5 років тому +64

    I wished the author interviewed non-musical people, as well as people of different cultures

  • @JM-ig4ed
    @JM-ig4ed 5 років тому +3

    Wow Neely - 27,522 views and its on first day! Congrats on your continuing success.

  • @JohannesWiberg
    @JohannesWiberg 5 років тому +11

    Comparing a microwave to a bad mastering website is just brilliant.

  • @grymscape2611
    @grymscape2611 5 років тому

    on the second interval decribed, i immediately thought major 7th or maybe the dim 5th, and when ben proceeded to say "the tritone, or maybe the major 7th" it honestly filled my heart with joy as its the first time since starting to learn theory that i feel like ive truely internalized it, ur vides have helped heaps with theory, ur q&a vids are so informative tbh, so cheers for the knowledge man

  • @ivyssauro123
    @ivyssauro123 5 років тому +3

    5:34
    "Do you know the thing from futurama?"
    *"No but I've seen cartoons"*
    😂😂😂😂

  • @travisyee8739
    @travisyee8739 5 років тому

    I was always enjoy watching Adam and Ben's synergy together. Adam does a lot of features with other musicians but he seems the most comfortable and open around Ben. This was a cool idea for a video!

  • @bacicinvatteneaca
    @bacicinvatteneaca 5 років тому +62

    0:04 they make me feel angry at equal temperament

  • @srvfan42
    @srvfan42 5 років тому +2

    These descriptions are like "Strong, steady, certain, unstable and confused, moderately weak"

    • @TheMmvukici
      @TheMmvukici 5 років тому

      😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @samljones
    @samljones 5 років тому +24

    11:19 I think he means process of elimination 😂

  • @jonathanbyrdmusic
    @jonathanbyrdmusic 3 роки тому

    It’s fun to think about why certain intervals are harder to define. Like a perfect fifth seems to “assert itself” whereas a sixth might feel different depending on which parts of the chord it is made of. Without any context, when I hear a sixth it sounds like a major chord to me, just missing the root. Like the beginning of Crazy by Willie Nelson.

  • @yuvalne
    @yuvalne 5 років тому +130

    I literally made the same guesses as Ben.
    I'm not sure about this study.

    • @NotAStranger2440
      @NotAStranger2440 5 років тому +4

      Me either. Exact same guesses

    • @tratixmusic8884
      @tratixmusic8884 5 років тому +6

      Everyone will be different and different cultures and areas in the world might perceive intervals different. Like I got most of these correct but a lot of that is probably what I've been exposed to in the past which will be different for everyone. At the same time, I also agree with the guesses that Ben had as well, but I noticed his way of thinking them out were different than mine.

    • @cleaningagent101
      @cleaningagent101 5 років тому +3

      Most of my answers were the same as the book's

    • @JoePas
      @JoePas 5 років тому +4

      @@NotAStranger2440 That undermines the whole point of the study though. The experience of intervals isn't universal for everyone. Which is fine, but it doesn't comport with the study's findings.

    • @n0handles
      @n0handles 5 років тому

      I somehow guessed all but 3

  • @marybeth808
    @marybeth808 2 роки тому

    Omg I guessed along with Ben and made every single guess he did. While he didn’t hit every one, I was right there with his reasoning! I always thought I was crap at music theory so this kinda boosted my esteem a little bit - like maybe I *do* kinda understand music a little bit!
    I studied Music Composition and “The Harmonic Style of 18th Century European Musicians” (to borrow a meme from your other video) in college but I truly sucked at it.

  • @Valeria-th4ql
    @Valeria-th4ql 5 років тому +5

    When I was in 1st grade of my music school and knew little of music theory, I always recognized flat 6 fastest of all, because it has such YEARNING in its sound. So hearing tests were at first purely emotional on my part, no theory behind it all. (:

    • @Valeria-th4ql
      @Valeria-th4ql 5 років тому

      Flat 6 kinda represented seven-year-old me's thoughts about unhappy (or at least unresolved) romance I saw in movies.

  • @kingstupid8447
    @kingstupid8447 5 років тому

    Just want to let you know I appreciate your videos. Long time musician (been playing longer than you've been alive), but I always feel like a beginner, and your videos help me clarify what I'm doing and want to do.

  • @XanderElion
    @XanderElion 5 років тому +3

    I never thought I would hear a Landr microwave joke. This has been a fulfilling experience.

  • @FoxymoronOfficial
    @FoxymoronOfficial 5 років тому +1

    The only time I've spotted an error in an Adam Neely video - the spelling of drifting @ 15:52

  • @pogchamp7983
    @pogchamp7983 5 років тому +10

    ""Do you think salt is bright?" :')

  • @Chaosdude341
    @Chaosdude341 5 років тому +1

    Man, it's crazy to watch the progress your channel is making. Thank you for the content you make, you're the only creator I support on Patreon (don't have great finances, but I think what you're doing is really important)

  • @StonyBlazestation
    @StonyBlazestation 5 років тому +4

    I made the exact same guesses as Ben. So clearly that book is wrong and we're right.

  • @ricardorodriguez5549
    @ricardorodriguez5549 5 років тому

    The conversation around the linkage between taste and sound is one worth its own episode. My father in law and I speak in these analogues as well. He was a top flight jazz drummer in Vegas and the West Coast back in that town’s glory days, and I’ve been doing my best to work my machine since I was wee. Clearly, umami is the bass and sweet is the soprano. So when you’re cooking, if you need more “bass” in your dish, then add some meat stock or fat. If the “cymbals” aren’t loud enough, add a dash of caramelized onion.
    Does anyone else who both loves to play and prepare food for framily feel this way?

  • @lifeontheledgerlines8394
    @lifeontheledgerlines8394 5 років тому +23

    9:27 *sweats in still having failed to watch West Side Story*

    • @MuseDuCafe
      @MuseDuCafe 3 роки тому

      You're not missing a thing, including a lot of schlock music -- well-written schlock, but, nonetheless.

  • @christopherandhobbes9846
    @christopherandhobbes9846 5 років тому

    I absolutely love Ben's livestreams where he improvised music with buddies, it would be awesome to see you guys do that.

  • @vierisbandati856
    @vierisbandati856 5 років тому +5

    It would be really cool to see the same game and analysis with chord qualities

  • @yyguuyg
    @yyguuyg 4 роки тому

    I totally agree with the cooking/music parallel. I am pretty into both. You are making something new and wonderful from raw and basic ingredients, its very process-oriented, and requires use of all your senses. Building flavors and figuring out what goes with what is the same as making music. Both evoke feelings and memories. Glad someone else thinks this way too.

  • @peytonwm
    @peytonwm 5 років тому +4

    My choir teacher told me about the “guess the interval” game she used to play in choir when she was in college, but THIS is something new to me. I think I’d suck 😂

  • @datguyonthecorner
    @datguyonthecorner 5 років тому

    I feel good that my answers lined up with Ben's for most of those. Even if we weren't right its comforting to have the same train of thought as a much better musician than myself.

  • @nickthecatowner
    @nickthecatowner 5 років тому +36

    Hello! I like your videos a lot and, since you did the you did the video on Japanese music notation, maybe you should check out Ethiopian music theory. I don't know much about it but what I know seems pretty entertaining. Theres like four different music modes and there all pentatonic. It would be interesting for me and your other viewers to learn about. Thanks for making cool videos!

  • @heyhato
    @heyhato 5 років тому

    how come such nerdy video is soooo entertaining for such musical noob like me??? I mean I showed it to some non-musician friends and they also love it! Adam and Ben are right men on the right place, best pair for the job

  • @semiotik_musik
    @semiotik_musik 5 років тому +50

    Almost Major 6th makes me feel like a loser

  • @ethanjyoungmusic
    @ethanjyoungmusic 5 років тому +1

    Maybe this should be a survey, ask non music people (as opposed to musicains) what a certain or a few intervals make them feel? I'm curious about the sample the researcher used

  • @sebastianzaczek
    @sebastianzaczek 5 років тому +13

    Interesting how I actually scored 7/11 in this

    • @stefan1024
      @stefan1024 5 років тому +4

      Seems you found an easter egg!

  • @indigo1324
    @indigo1324 5 років тому +2

    I would describe the perfect 4th as a relaxed, calm interval, personally. Not an unfinished-sounding interval.

    • @tonioene2262
      @tonioene2262 3 роки тому

      Maybe it depends on whether it is 5 to/and 1 or 1 to/and 4. 🤔

    • @indigo1324
      @indigo1324 3 роки тому

      @@tonioene2262 maybe. Both still sound pretty relaxed to me though. Especially since 5 to 1 is really just an inverted version of 1 to 5.

  • @omricohen1072
    @omricohen1072 5 років тому +16

    Man the guy talks like frusciante in the forth dimension

  • @ParanormalBanana
    @ParanormalBanana 5 років тому

    OMG you guys are great together, and this comes from a guy who doesn't usually like Adam's videos. I think you should definitely make more videos like this with the both of yous

  • @randyhochuli4540
    @randyhochuli4540 5 років тому +3

    Hearing you describe a perfect 5th and feeling as confident as Ben Levin in answering was one of the most exciting moments of my life

  • @polinavetsen2843
    @polinavetsen2843 5 років тому

    I have so much love for you two. Glad ya'll exist, keep it up.

  • @blenjamin
    @blenjamin 5 років тому +4

    Love a dissection of how one of the most basic elements of music makes you F E E L

  • @INTOTHEFOLD
    @INTOTHEFOLD 4 роки тому

    Dude, Ben is much more than a guitarist and youtuber. That dude is a fucking artist. One of my favorite.

  • @יובלזרצקי-צ6ס
    @יובלזרצקי-צ6ס 5 років тому +24

    Just intonation gang rise up

  • @andymiller5138
    @andymiller5138 4 роки тому +2

    Watching back I think it would be interesting to have Adam’s synesthetic response to these intervals represented somehow, like how he highlights the notes with colours

  • @kdokoliijiny3939
    @kdokoliijiny3939 5 років тому +44

    When you're a drummer so you don't understand a word... Eh...can i get more polyrhythm vids ?

    • @martinisbutik
      @martinisbutik 5 років тому

      Only once you master playing 7/11 :)

    • @peterbull3955
      @peterbull3955 5 років тому

      Yeah, but like.. you should learn about notes and stuff. YOU SHOILD!!!

  • @leosokol0v
    @leosokol0v 3 роки тому +1

    Ben looks sooooo high, especially when he composed his brilliant piece of composition at 12:55
    Although it may seem so because I'm high...

  • @yoyojoe22
    @yoyojoe22 5 років тому +3

    Hey Adam, have you ever thought of time signatures as having an emotion attached to them? I think they can be very useful for creating tension but I'm curious what a jazz guy thinks of it.

  • @NotAStranger2440
    @NotAStranger2440 5 років тому +1

    Yeeeessss. Ben leviiiiiiiin

  • @Yanb57479
    @Yanb57479 5 років тому +4

    11:19 You’re thinking of the process of elimination.

  • @LightsOnTrees
    @LightsOnTrees 4 роки тому

    The two of you are feckin brilliant together

  • @billylardner
    @billylardner 5 років тому +5

    4:43 He sung a major 3rd, not a perfect 4th :P

  • @thenikfm
    @thenikfm 5 років тому

    12:53 ben is such a riot. this is such a great conversation.