A fun challenge would be to try and create music in a genre you've never listened to, based on descriptions by other people

Microtonal funk should be called Drunk, love it

"microtonal funk has never been done" king gizzard a week before: step down son

This guy seriously underestimated my knowledge of obscure music

ngl I was hoping sammy g was gonna dress up as a Japanese school girl himself for the last one

Attempting Your Musical Challenges w/ Adam Neely is when lowercase first appeared on this channel

Bruh. That "pop lowercase" bit sounded unironically amazing. Very calming and nostalgic.

Microtonal sounds like I just woke up drunk on a boat heading to an unknown island with pig who speaks Latin, like I am incredibly confused but kinda enjoying it

Me at 9:47: "Oh, he put on a massive wig". Ten seconds later: "Oh, that is what happens when his hair isn't in a bun." Much respect, long hair Sammy G.

Pop Lowercase is one the coolest things I’ve ever heard

Pop lowercase sounds like all those early 00's indie folk / math rock / Mike Kinsellas. I love it

Those microtonal funk riffs were actually incredibly dope sounding

Microtonal Funk sounds like what i imagine when i think of Primus but in the style of Sublime. Deadly.

Can't wait for an angry lowercase fanboy response about how you misrepresented the genre to your massive audience and ruined the music

"We've passed Ludicrous speed...oh God, we've gone to Black Midi!"

The black midi piece sounds like something you might hear while playing a kirby game in a nightmare

I actually was aware of a couple of these, and wow I really like microtonal funk now. Also, props for finding an excuse to break out the Miku.

Oh boy i used to listen to black midi, those were dark times indeed.

"king gizzard and the... Vulfpizzard" I appreciate the effort

Okay, so here are my thoughts: The Microtonal Funk honestly sounded more enjoyable than most Funk I've heard... Black MIDI... Sounds like my computer is glitching out... Simpsonwave sounded very enjoyable to me. Pop Lowercase sounded pretty much like some chill Country. I think the video you did with Adam Neely, where you perform "4:33" is a better example of Lowercase, really... Kawaii Metal was kinda... weird. But then again, everything gets weird once the Korg Miku is involved. Overall rating: 5/5 - Would listen again.

The Black Midi part truly sounded epic for what it's worth in my opinion.

Microtonal funk is just talking heads

1:55 "ChickenTonal Funk" - Sammy Pastorius from Album MicroWay Blues

That microtonal funk was pretty dope

You did lowercase with Adam Neely on the “Attempting your musical challenges” video

DUDE THIS IS INSANE!! why do I want to try and dance to every track you made lolol

Dude, at 4:06 I think you wrote the same modulations that appear on the theme of Attack of Titans! There's definitely a hint of it there :)

Playing quartertones is the "nice and simple" version of microtonal music, but a lot of microtonal musicians actually choose to divide the octave in a number of equal divisions other than the standard 12. The album Spidermilk by "mathrock" band The Mercury Tree is in 17 EDO (17 equal divisions in an octave), and Cryptic Ruse"s doomy/sludgy "Our Crumbling Psychic Infrastructure" uses 13, 17, 21, 22 and 46 EDO. Both are incredible in my opinion, not only because of the weirdness factor, but also as works of music. Also, I think both lowercase and "kawaii metal" (Babymetal, basically) were featured in a "Top 10 weird genres" video that went out years ago... so that a lot of people heard of at least these two genres :)

I'm fairly certain you played lowercase with adam neely in the musical challenges video. Sounds way better than it did then.

Interesting enough, there is already a metal genre quite similar to synthoid kawaii metal called vocaloid metal . The main theme of the genre is that the vocals are created with the Vocaloid synthesizer software. However, what separates vocaloid metal from kawaii metal is that popular vocaloid metal artists like Utsu-P write their lyrics more around edgy subjects than kawaii subjects. It is really amazing how vocaloid metal artists can create death growls and other metal vocal techniques just from synthesizer software.

I didn’t know any of these obscure genres, but I enjoyed all of your interpretations.

The microtonal funk was one of my favorites you've done.

I make music in obscure genres when I'm trying to make music in everyday genres. I can't help it, it just comes out that way.

I could listen to the pop lowercase one for a lifetime

Thanks for the free Pentatonic Mastery Course - looks great!!

Can’t wait to try out your new course! The first two are excellent.

Okay but when are you going to take a deep dive into recreating all of the various obscure subgenres of folk punk?

I think this is what you are talking about when you said you did a video that features lowercase: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/etJ5aZV5rZjUYYE.html

Dude its so good to see someone put so much effort in their videos. I enjoyed the lowercase, black midi, and simpsonwave demos. You should try writing something in the Cape Verdean Morna style.

Dude, that funk jam with the microtonal guitar ripped!!! Super sick!

Love it make it a series my guy

8:22 You remember lowercase because you did the video with Adam neely and one of the challenges someone gave you on Insta was to make music in an obscure genre. So you picked lowercase.

That last one would have either made my childhood scared or headbanged to it. Literally looked exactly like one of my favorite guitarists with the same exact guitar and hair.

4;47 something that came to my mind just before what you were wondering: You can convert an audio track into midi, and that will sound like a cluster of notes, so much that sometimes you can even hear the words of the original file. It might depends on settings. But if you do that, clean it a bit up and tweak it to preferences it could easily be a way to incorporate millions of notes without being Too random.

Imagine if Ron Jeremy’s background music was microtonal funk

The one you did lowercase in was the musical challenges video you did with adam neely.

4:02 and on sounds an epic video game theme

That 'Pop lowercase' piece kinda touched something deep within me. Love what you do, Sammy G.

Well, I figured Folk Metal was obscure. At least that's what I get when I tell people I'm in such a band. Also, Black Midi seems like it could be inspired by Zappa's "The Black Page."

That microtonal funk gave me an aneurysm in a good way.

What a FANTASTIC video!!! Really fun to watch and listen to and as usual very well made! Hats off. Thank you! 😃

Excellent video man. Your "Pop Lowercase" was great. I'm going to play around with it for fun too.

It’s a good day when the Miku makes an appearance

8:21 You did do Lowercase before it was in your video "Attempting Your Musical Challenges w/ Adam Neely" at 2:20, don't ask how i remember that lol.

your black midi is just the touhou OST and the lowercase pop sounds like my hipster friend would tell me it changed their life, love it!

That black midi is almost ready for some 2d rpg videogame, castle boss fight or final castle maze etc

Microtonal Funk was awesome!!!! I love Funk music. [I was happy at the Vulfpeck reference] Black Midi was interesting, and weird Simpsonwave doesn't really seem like a music genre, since it does not have a unique sound, it's just Vaporwave, but with specific music video styles. Really more of a visual art movement "NOISE ART?!" All music is "noise art". That's what makes it music. Pop Lowercase wasn't quite lowercase, but it was certainly interesting. ...

baby metal live was one of the weirdest things ive ever experienced

I have always wanted to see someone use the behind-the-nutt strum and I'm glad you incorporated kt

Your enthusiasm was magnificent. Keep up the good work! 👷‍♂️

I've heard of Micronesian funk, but not microtonal funk. Cheers, SammyG....

The microtonal funk wasn’t bad. Of course some of that might have been watching you have fun with it. Have a good day.

This is awesome. Congratulations on challenging yourself and creating your version or alter version of these genres.

micro-tonal funk sounds like a delay knob with ADD..i love it

"Sounds like my guitar's been drinking all day" sounds like a good song title

I wonder if Mozart would say “Too many notes” to black midi...?

Baby Metal ROCK! Also, that microtonal funk track worked really well! Amazing talent and composition in such a tight spot.

simpson wave, and pop lowercase were so relaxing

Microtonal funk actually slaps

if youre interested in microtonal funk check out altin gün. they have loads of good stuff inspired by 70s turkish music

This is really nostalgic. For some reason when I was 13 I was really in to Black midi videogame cover songs. Mainly the game series call touho, so this brings back good memories

your lowercase song reminded me of so many things wow it was so calming

“Some of the blackers out there” -Samurai Guitarist 2020

The microtonal funk makes me want to see you on Scary Pockets. pop lowercase is one of the more beautiful things I've heard. You originally did lowercase in the collab video with Adam Neely.

This was amazing! Good job on all the genres!

I loved this! It was definitely a surprise when you got to kawaii metal. I enjoyed that part the most because I’m a pretty big fan of Babymetal. And, I was sure you were going to bring out the Miku pedal. You didn’t disappoint. The metal Celine Dion shirt was a nice touch. The microtonal funk was really interesting too.

I suppose Sammy G laughs internally every time he mentions his overwhelming enthusiasm, I know I would

8:19 you played lowercase in a video named "Attempting Your Musical Challenges w/ Adam Neely " from 2018. You're welcome.

You are a amazingly talented man that continue to inspire and motivate me with the guitar! Thank you so much!

This was actually brutally cool! More of this please!

shoegaze vid would be cool...this channel needs some big muff action!

I'd sure listen to a whole album of Black Midi. The band "Black Midi" that is. (They're almost as obscure though)

I enjoyed the experiments, they turned out well. I called the funk sound you put together, "Elevator funk". It sounded recognizable, it wasn't bad, but was missing a certain something.

I absolutely love sammy g freaking out for a split second at the very end of microtonal funk, where his camera falls off

yo nice

If i'm not mistaken you played lowercase with Adam Neely in an instagram challenge video.

This is probably by favorite video I’ve seen from you. Super fun idea, I’d love to see this as a series! 💙

Damn, that Microtonal Funk is way Cooler than I expected. Since you play them as Passing Notes it really wicky wobbly. Great.

Last time I came this early I got kicked out without my pants on

las time I was this early, Dave Mustaine was still in Metallica

I dig the microtonal funk, this is an instant vibrato feel but with ultimate velocity

I loved this one and I'd be psyched for Round 2!

Alternate title: misrepresenting a bunch of obscure genres

Fucking great video brotha, love seeing more of your personality come through!

I would totally watch an animated samuraiguitarist tv show. Fantastic. Love the unusual genres used here.

Finally!!! A Sammy G class for pentatonics! I’ve finished both the rudiments and beyond the basics with you and I’ve been waiting for something for the blues!

I had no idea I'm secretly a fan of microtonal funk and lowercase (which reminds me of musical ASMR)! Thanks for helping me reveal this to myself.

That Vulfpeck impression is spot on. Well done.

Blackmidi is even more fun on a player piano. One composer was writing these 100 years ago. Crazy stuff.

Also. Your "simpsonwave" is amazing. Please make a longer version I can fall asleep to