*not in the same key

Keep that air wiggling.

Wiggly air

the wigglier the betterer

Adam Neely But Primus still sucks

sheeeeeeeeeeet I love Senator Clay Davis

I was questioning whether you knew the in-joke or if you actually don't like Les Claypool...

I came to the comments just for this

obviously

👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌

I know this guy

😂😂

0.75 speed is just him talking at a normal speed

Who do you hang out with if you consider that "normal rate"? 0.o

when you accidentally leave 0.5x speed on when you click a new video

where did this spaced out bold writing meme come from?!

*a e s t h e t i c*

4chan

"heroin is a gateway drug to modular synths"

unless they discover LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER

well, kinda - I sell drugs so I can afford synths... (it's a joke mr. FBI, don't worry)

Or get them into cars 😂😂😂 my dream vehicle is a resto modded 73 suburban with a Duramax swap... One day, I will achieve that goal of mine...

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I have seen my favourite aoe player commenting on my favourite KZfaq musician. There is nothing more i can expect of this life Edit: do you make music Viper? (I know its been 2 years since your comment, but who knows. You might as well read this ^^)

Adam y no reply

The Viper is here!

agreed, especially if you struggle with perfectionism - making something bad on purpose can be insanely liberating

100%

I know this is old, but I agree. You will never make good music unless you're OK with making some bad music along the way.

if i didnt write a couple of my worst songs ever i wouldn't be where i am, making what i think is pretty decent music. so yeah i agree.

@@strawberryavalunch yeah I agree. It's like it gets you both used to making things that are bad, but also it gets you used to actually FINISHING something. I struggle with this do much. I've been playing music for over a decade and I still never finish my songs and I think I need to actually start intentionally writing bad songs just so I can get used to it and not take it so poorly, cuz I end up not finishing anything because of that perfectionism. I have this energizing rush when I start a new song, but start to lose it once I start to worry about the finished piece, and I basically psych myself out and stop working on it in favor of starting yet another song. I have hundreds of unfinished songs

meme maybe you just aren’t down enough with the wiggly air man

Bluemon lmao bro whats ur problem

meme YES

topo logic oooooooooooh

Bluemon, at least it's an animated child and not a real one.

This helps me so much. Thank you.

Needed this

Wholesome. Love it.

Another wholesome ending could perhaps be that two customers come, with different tastes, one liking their cakes more sophisticated and the other more simple. Or maybe not the complexity, but just generally different tastes.

he's gotta be trolling right? He gets it!

still waiting @Adam Neely

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y9N8lNJ8l76qhXk.html | Panzerballett has a cover of Giant Steps and (like all their stuff) it is premium Djazz

Yep. What an accurate description. I need at least a couple more minutes of that

Anywhere we can find that tune? :O

Would be good to have on Spotify, or an album by Adam in that style

ah flying Lotus jam on toast; I remember the days.....

It’s like bill wurtz

Maybe people don't like to listen to amazing music

Yeah most people prefer listening to endlessly recycled rap and pop music that's been distilled to the point where it just feels like ambient noise with no distinguishing features. I find that people who listen to more unusual music tend to be lesser dicks on average, unless they're only doing it so they can feel superior to other people.

Do you really smell like charcoal and strawberries?

Gerald Maus on a good day, yes

I think it's the curse and blessing of the internet aswell, really. People have the opportunity to reach an audience via platforms like KZfaq or Soundcloud, but who, in this day and age, has the time to dig so deep and really look for those lesser known, upcoming musicians when it is much easier (also thanks to the internet) to just listen to computer-generated recommendations, suited to your taste like the Discover Weekly-feature by Spotify? I think this is the problem with the abundance you mentioned. People are easily overwhelmed when met with whatever thing when there is an abundance of it. They tend to just go like "fine, whatever, just give me something, I don't wanna browse through all of this" and rarely browse through other playlists or just randomly click at stuff.

Very, very few groups have as many songs that so many people know.

Plus, you can checkout Funky Abba by the Nils Landgren Funk Unit to get more of an idea of just how funky Abba's songs can be. A little bit cheesy, but a whole heap of funky too.

A lot of this is due to the close working relationship composers Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus have with their arranger, Anders Eljas. From what I can recall, during their work on ABBA and writing the musical Chess neither Andersson/Ulvaeus could read or notate music, but were very talented musicians that had a very clear idea of what they *wanted* from the sound of the arrangements. So from their composition and creating demos they were able to effectively communicate the sound of the song to Eljas, who in turn would notate the song out and create the parts for additional instruments (eventually a full orchestra for Chess). Honestly the entire career of Andersson/Ulvaeus is fascinating. After ABBA ended they co-wrote Chess with Tim Rice, which is infamous for its problems on stage but was huge as an initial album, and then retreated to their homeland to write Kristina fran Duvemala, a complex three hour opera that blends classical, traditional scandinavian folk, and that ABBA rock sound, before founding Benny Andersson's Orkester, a Swedish supergroup of sorts that again blends traditional folk and ABBA-style pop with a whole slew of instrumentalists and singers. It's a long and endlessly delightful history of musical invention and canny, catchy songwriting.

Doesn't help that Tim lost his shirt 30 years ago and hasn't found it since

Jack Rota Can't fault him there. Tim's tone rules.

Drew P. Weiner he made his own shirt tho

Also: What would you say how much did the invention of the one-way-sign change the gameplay of roller coaster? I think it was pretty huge.

The Japanese, obvi

@@solbermartinez6657 get out of here sotl

Has to be the BASSantines

Yes

"...but what makes something... a-MAZE-ing? *BONG*" :D I once looked for what that VSauce chord is, but couldn't find anything accurate, and didn't get around to doing the Fourier breakdown myself.

I read that first sentence and thought it was a real thing, so dissapointed.

Sorry my guy

@@MathAndComputers The "Vsauce chord" is a tritone (C-F#)

LoneC inhales

Primus sucks!

Same, i had to do a double, then a triple take. WE SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE ADAM

Jonatann Peigne omg yessssss

I'd nut, it's actually a really good tune

I came from just reading this

That would be awesome!!! :D

Adam gets the icepick.

The Polish equivalent is "wódeczka piwo", which means "vodka and beer".

In Russia I heard an advice of subdividing odd time signatures into 2 and 3... which is basically the way it is. But you say "pivo" (beer) for 2 "and "vodochka" ("my dear vodka") for 3. So a quintuplet would be "pivo vodochka". And you could go further with "pi-vo pi-vo vo-do-chka" for ⅞, etc. We slavs all love our alcohol, I guess. xD

Holly shit! I love beer but in spanish (in Colombia) we tend to use "elefantico" (e-le-fan-ti-co), which means "little elephant", to teach quintuplets to kids...

Declan Maybury Definitely attention to detail. Caught me off guard and I love that.

It's was not accidental. It was jazz.

Wow, I didn't even notice that 😂😂😂

Declan Maybury 🤣

I don´t get it. Can someone explain?

RC32 I come to Adam and Rick for a more philosophical approach to music as a whole. But there are more... *clears throat*, better, video creators demonstrating specific things, like techniques and skills. But that’s taking NOTHING away from Adam and Rick- they are both capable of doing just that. They just do what THEY do excellently!

I LIKE WHAT YOU GOT

Rick from Rick and Morty? I know you meant Beato, but still :D

Nah we meant Beato lol. But I still get it haha!

LogicalFallacyinMyPants and such, I used to do “demonstrating specific things” videos (for a decade in fact) they didn’t get as many hits. So I branched out.

Yep, as a Chilean myself, I can think of quite a few examples of music that had a measurable social impact, but it's always in the lyrics. For a jazz musician, and especially someone as intellectual as Adam, it's something that they'd probably love to do with the harmony and melody themselves, and that's why they might be skeptic. Quite honestly, Violeta Parra, Víctor Jara, or even Tiro de Gracia (for a more contemporary example) didn't bring anything to the table that was revolutionary - it's always been their lives and lyrics that moved people.

Nicely put! My sense of it is that music can be used by social change actors, so making a contribution for musicians would be to tap into the feelings, the needs and dreams the social change actors are fighting for. Then the music can help spread the ideas and ideals, and act as a rallying cry, political statement in context, and as a soundtrack for the work of it.

Yes, music can be a powerful vehicle for ideas and feelings. But it can be difficult or even dangerous to be the front figure in a movement. Bob Dylan famously tried to avoid being the front figure people wanted him to be, John Lennon on the other hand seemed to love the attention. And we all know how that turned out. But I'm sad to say that the death of Chilean musicians seldom make it to the world news.

I think Adam is speaking from his culture, where there hasn't been much political protest music that didn't quickly become a joke, or outdated and abandoned.

I mean, yeah, but dude, as a Jazz musician how can he not recall that Bossa was born as a form of protest in Brazil?

I don't get it. How come djent is already dad rock? Am I too old?

I guess it just became generic at a faster rate than most genres. And maybe that's true of everything that the Internet produces. Anyways I'm still a fan haha.

OK, metal was 000000000, djent was 01001000100001, what the next thing will be ?

But djent is not a genre. It's a technique, a musical aesthetic. Like shredding. Any kind of metal that has shredding can be called Shred Metal but it's not a genre. And the Internet didn't create djent, Meshuggah did. The internet just made a meme out of it.

ErebosGR If I have my facts straight, the term for the technique originated with Meshuggah, but an online metal forum (which Misha Mansoor was a member of) used the term to put a name to their style of metal. So a lot of the Meshuggah inspired bands that followed were known as djent bands. So the Internet turned the technique into a "genre." HeadbangoO next is 111111111111111 haha

That would be madjentic

Djiant Steps

It does explain why we wiggle our bodies in response.

"Okay, cool"

thing guy person ?

Galapagos is awesome.

I agree. I also thought there were some questions that actually deserved a proper answer, like the one about tips for composing

I think he should mix the two, sometimes make the quick QA mostly for memes and fun, and others the longer format for more serious in-depth topics (but not in-depth enough to deserve a separate video)

John Keats toplo

DauT

Asking the real hard questions

Pilgrims or Forest Nothing? *insert copious T90 emojis*

Tati

Elías MG i know soda stereo because of my GF, theyre pretty enjoyable!

Whoa, these are so good (I especially like Café Tacvba's sound + beats).

Tons of fantastic bass tones on Soda Stereo albums, many of which are very different from each other.

Also the "Ska" is pretty amazing, you should listen to "Los Fabulosos Cadilacs" (I know, it is not exactly ska but whatever)"Panteón Rococó" "La Maldita Vecindad" specially Kumbala was jawdropping for me the first time I heard it and whatever youtoube recomends afterwards. BASS /,,/,

That first Caifanes album tho... Also, while talking about latin music, how can we not talk about my dude Ruben Blades?

Yeah I feel that. I also don't know why audioslave doesn't get any love. I love rage but something about Chris cornell has always been my jam. I mean audioslave was definitely more pop leaning, but in the early 2000s they were basically the only good rock band on the radio for the most part and because of that I think they got a tiny bit of overexposure, but to this day I don't really see people bring them up and I have no clue why. I do wish they were more political like rage was, but they still did do some of the political stuff they still continued to do as audioslave like having local activist groups at shows to sign people up for getting active in their community and such.

“hey we don’t need a guitarist for our band, but we could use a bassist? I promise the bass is very cool 👍”

Simon Provencher obviously toplo

Has to be DauT

could be L_Clan_Ruso

MembTV #1 BF player :)

Nili of course! They are cousins! hahaha

Wow yeah. I usually listen to talking videos at 2x and realized this one was at normal speed.

yeh I do too, but don't forget you already did this and listened to yourself in like 0.5x speed, but it's new for us so we have to digest it. I know you like math and science; 15min/0.75X speed that I watched in = 20min.138 questions in 20 minuets. Believe me, not everyone can handle Joe Satriani's tempo. Thanks for the good work.

As a big Primus fan, I didn't even get his joke at first and was about to type a raging comment. Wow

I still don't get the joke, nor Neely's... was it a joke? I mean, I like Les, but I'm fine with people disagreeing with me... Is there a reason not to like Les? Or is there a reason to claim to not like him while actually liking him? :S

@@JohannesWiberg Primus sucks = Primus is great (It only works with Primus)

is this a reference to a song of theirs?

dunno if it's still true but last time I checked primus's web domain is www.primussucks.com

Why have a viola if you can just put an octave pedal on a cello? 🤔 Why have a tuba if you can just put an octave pedal on a trumpet? 🤔

Yeah, that was a weird response about what is effectively Led Zep cosplay. What they're doing is old as dirt.

I don't know if Adam understood the context of that question

...change for worse is scary :D

I'm pretty sure Adam was ripping on GVF there

He probably didn't look into what greta van fleet actually is.

He only takes stuff off of twitter for the Q&A videos.