mmmm fries... I feel your pain on the accelerando pronunciation. Coming into jazz from a contemporary classical background I had to change a lot of terminology, tempos instead of tempi, "with wood of bow" instead of col legno, etc.

Listening to the midi was simultaneously incredibly confusing and super enlightening, lol. Mindblowing stuff, thanks for sharing

your composition is lit l i t l i t

Nice video. I liked your examples for metric modulations. It was especially intriguing to see the tuplet pivots that then go to a non tuplet measure length. I've never considered that idea before. I'd love to see a whole video on that concept. I think it's going to make a big impact on my music. btw there are a lot of slow long tempo changes in some balinese gamelan pieces.

I'm definitely stealing this idea. Thanks Brian! Great video, as always.

I don’t know if you’ll be interested in this, but I had a similar slow-down-speed-up idea quite a while back, and I created an electronic track that does that, called Geometric Rhythm. No live musicians at all though, and I wouldn’t have any idea how to notate it for live musicians. Anyway, I accomplished my tempo experiment using pitch-and-tempo bends (in Macromedia Soundedit 16! I’m old). I created a track that was just a bunch of minor chord arpeggios, and then I used a pitch bend on each measure that slowed it down and lowered the pitch, and then I used another pitch/tempo bend on the whole track to speed it way up and increase the pitch significantly. I’m proud of it, even if it is pretty simplistic (I’m no great composer. I play around and I publish what I make for free for anyone who wants it. I’ve been learning a lot from KZfaq to improve my actual musicianship, but I haven’t applied what I’ve learned much yet. Perhaps I will sometime. I actually got really distracted from some stuff I was working on several years ago and never picked it back up. It’s sad.) Anyway, if you are interested in hearing what I’ve just described, here’s a link: antmanmusic.bandcamp.com/track/geometric-rhythm Enjoy, and thank you for the great videos. I dig your style.

This videos get so little views for how inspiring and well made they are.

I made it till the end! What a lovely idea! Might be a bit much for pop, but you definitely inspired me to try somethings out with tempo variations, and I'm grateful for things that inspire :) So thanks Brian! :D

Great video!! That tecnique reminds me "pacific 321 - A. Honegger". It's a kind of exercise of make the music faster when the tempo is going down

this idea has a very unique musical expression that I enjoyed alot🐞 thanks for making it

Yes!!!Great video once again...Accelerando by Vijay Iyer was the first thing that came to my mind too - and also the polyrhythmic and polytemporal music of Greek genius pianist Sami Amiris (a hidden gem in the world of rhythm...).

Hi Brian, I love your videos, keep them coming! Love from Austria.

A very similiar idea is achieved in Autechre's track 'Fold4, Wrap5' (Warp records, 1998) where the tempo constantly decreases from bar 1 til the end, and the subdivisions get busier as the tempo decreases. It's very cool. Much simpler to realise with electronic music obvs, I've not seen it attempted with live musicians before, well done! Also check out Canon X by Nancarrow (for player piano), in which one part accelerates while the other decelerates, througout... it's bonkers!

In the same way gamakas modulate pitch in a circular way, there are other "shapes" by witch the pitch is altered. I'd love to notate the exact "shape" of a note bend, in guitar for example there's no way (that I know of) to notate a "gamaka" style of bend vs any other short bend.

Love the channel Brian, always looking forward to new videos.

Here for the rubato! ❤ Also, coming from a classical music background, the accelerando pronunciation with the 'ch' sound doesn't sound douche-y to me, but calling it ak-sell-er-an-do, kinda does. It's probably just all up to what we're used to. 👍 P.s. Really appreciate you not telling me to smash my extensive tech. 😁

That MIDI gave me some Zelda dungeon vibes, with a little post modernist flair. Quite unique, I should say

I recently wrote a piece where with each successive section has a slower tempo, but a shorter durational unit. It also features a section where everyone is in a different tempo/meter! Great video yet again.

Ligeti inspired my use of this in my music ..posting this before halfway thru vid so maybe Ligeti is mentioned later.. or not

There is so many to explore. As a drummer I work to play the HiHat between Shuffle and 8th notes and it works. I don't know how to measure or notate it. But I like the feel of the groove. It's round and feels perfekt. Your work is inspiring!

Intro is pretty good. Production quality is pretty good and the content is pretty nice also. You will get more subscribers soon I guess.

Who are some of the mystical elastic drummers?

I had this idea of combining rational and irrational time signatures together, and was wondering how it can be notated and composed in a notation software, (All of the time signatures in the phrase goes 3/4, 3/4, 3/8 + 2/12, 2/4, 3/4, 3/4, 3/8 + 2/12, and 2/4,) I remember seeing additive time signatures being used in classical music so I thought it might be interesting to take it to the extreme.

Hey Brian, check out a song by Autechre called "Fold 4, Wrap 5". Was reminded of it when I saw the thumbnail of this video re: slowing down and speeding up at the same time.

More important than the rhythms, how do you notate coffee stains on your score in Finale?

italians dont pronounce the R like in the english language, so you`re actually wrong on both pronunciations of accelerando

hey brian how do you make unusual metric modulations in sibelius? I want a quarter note = half note + an eighth note. Thanks so much!