What is the TIME SIGNATURE of the Bluey Theme? | Q+A
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0:00 Intro
0:03 What time signature is the Bluey theme song?
6:45 Was the major 6th illegal in the renaissance?
9:18 Music is for the listener, but the first listener is the player
10:12 Ebm(maj7) and a discussion on register/emotion
12:12 Drink more coffee
12:20 What string gauges do you use?
12:28 congrats!
12:59 How does a guitar player stay out of the way of the bassist?
13:27 Tips for walking a bass
14:41 What's a good song in 5/4
14:46 What's your opinion of fake musicians that go viral?
15:00 How do you impress people at an audition?
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@LBAW Жыл бұрын
As a media composer, my initial instinct with the Bluey theme is that it's a full song written in 4/4 with pauses done in music editing to match picture.
@CarlSmithNZ Жыл бұрын
Same!
@gottib Жыл бұрын
I had the same thought!
@JamesCalbraith Жыл бұрын
That's the fermata version
@philwoodring Жыл бұрын
But it’s in time. You could set a metronome to it.
@ChunterInfo Жыл бұрын
It's a freeze dance game. They stop, one of them is out and that's the name call. There's no extra beat, the music just stops and restarts.
@DavidBennettPiano Жыл бұрын
6:16 that was the most impressed I’ve ever been watching someone count 4/4 😂
@ZachMcCordProg Жыл бұрын
yoooo David!
@orangecatactually Жыл бұрын
lol you were here early
@MathyMuso Жыл бұрын
Not going to lie, I got “Messhugah Counting” vibes when he got there. 😂😂
@skramzrave Жыл бұрын
thats literally how i count that song, i dont know anything about music so i dont know whats wrong with that
@iota-09 Жыл бұрын
@@skramzrave the dad's "4" came 1 beat shorter than the actual "Dad" beat, hene it's not 4/4, literally can't by definition. source: i dunno, wikipedia and the video? i barely know anything about music myself all things considered.
@misha_B_Barkin Жыл бұрын
Watching Adam brute force a slow 4/4 pattern over the Bluey theme wasn't what I expected to see this week
@3SPR1T Жыл бұрын
Furry moment
@misha_B_Barkin Жыл бұрын
@@3SPR1T ikr cringe
@xCessivePresure Жыл бұрын
That was insane hahahaha
@moadot720 Жыл бұрын
When I first read this, I thought that it was going to be the same until the 5/4 part... ...This was MUCH more cursed 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@tauon_ Жыл бұрын
@@misha_B_Barkin how's that cringe
@MechanicalRabbits Жыл бұрын
very cool of Adam to quickly run back to his house in the middle of the tour to record and upload this week's video and then run back to Europe without anybody noticing. True commitment to his youtube channel
@InventorZahran Жыл бұрын
He probably has a private jet...
@fudgesauce Жыл бұрын
@@InventorZahran -- yup, bought with razor money.
@InventorZahran Жыл бұрын
@@fudgesauce *Bought with the money he saved from not buying expensive 5-bladed razor cartridges.
@J.C... Жыл бұрын
So, how did he do it? This was recorded before he left? 🤷
@yetsumari Жыл бұрын
@@J.C... no he brought his house on tour with him.
@ZimbobWheysk Жыл бұрын
Its crazy to see this as a musician and seeing my 2 year old neice (who is OBSESSED with Bluey) PERFECTLY call out the names on beat lmfao
@InventorZahran Жыл бұрын
After hearing the theme so many times, she's probably developed a 'muscle memory' for when those moments occur.
@browncoat697 Жыл бұрын
Get that girl a drum set
@salmonflavored Жыл бұрын
She's ready to join TOOL
@woodfur00 Жыл бұрын
If she's watching the animation at the same time, that's full of cues
@jessemontano762 10 ай бұрын
Yeah. My kid hits it properly. When he was 3, he started talking all UK. Suddenly he started saying petrol station. I live in California, btw
@_mels_ Жыл бұрын
Adam: "Time signatures are not real, we made them up" definitely has a vibe of "they can't hurt you" followed by some prog for the meme
@Evie_Enby Жыл бұрын
*ominous "The Dance of Eternity" in background*
@Whatismusic123 Жыл бұрын
That's like saying "colors aren't real we made them up" Sure, we made up the terms, but pretending that it's not real is just ignorance, and looking at his inability to count the bluey theme, incompetency.
@dirtfriend Жыл бұрын
@@Whatismusic123 colors are real though, it's energy vibrating at specific wavelengths. a better comparison would be the free market, another thing that isn't real
@Whatismusic123 Жыл бұрын
@@dirtfriend colors aren't real, what we see is only a mental representation of those wavelengths of light. Same with music, specifically, time signatures.
@BlueMiaou Жыл бұрын
@@Whatismusic123 I don't think you understand science or music for that matter. Time signature is more like color theory than color itself, and color is more like tempo than time signature. Color and tempo, even though we use made up words to describe broad ranges of them, have physical truths in them; you can measure color much in the same way you can measure tempo, because they depend on wavelengths, a physical truth. If you tried measuring color theory you'd get wet shlop and if you tried measuring time signatures you'd end up debating the mathematical axiom of choice hidden away in a stranger's basement with a tin foil hat on your head.
@TristanAlricMusic Жыл бұрын
I'm not exactly sure why I am surprised that Bluey eventually reached Adam Neely, but of course it did.
@Steveofthejungle8 Жыл бұрын
The music from the show is so good!
@syoung_io Жыл бұрын
This is the same guy who did an arrangement of Castaways from Backyardigans.
@scotwilcox1771 Жыл бұрын
Bluey will eventually become the world government, and the world will finally know peace.
@MarcTamlyn Жыл бұрын
If you haven't watched Sleepytime yet, you must. Then you can cry. And then you can go listen to Holst again. Or was that just my morning?
@SaltpeterTaffy Жыл бұрын
Wait, are you surprised or not? You said you're surprised, but "of course it did" is a non-surprised kind of thing to say. o.O
@benhasic Жыл бұрын
Hey Adam! My partner works for Bluey and every time you said "freeze dance", she really wanted to let you know that it's called "Musical Statues" 😘 great video!
@LoverOfMuch Жыл бұрын
is Bluey a fair boss?
@benhasic Жыл бұрын
@@LoverOfMuch she gets distracted a lot
@squeakonline 10 ай бұрын
Haha brilliant I was wondering if freeze dance was musical statues. You saved me having to look it up 😂
@emdivine 6 ай бұрын
If that's official to the show then cool! This sounds like a tag/tig/it type of deal, the game can have multiple names and both of those are plausible to me :)
@me-myself-i787 5 ай бұрын
@@emdivineThe game's tag, one of the players is it. But some people get confused. But I've never heard anyone call it "tig".
@scoreunder Жыл бұрын
that "everything is 4/4" 17/4 polyrhythm was exactly the thought that made me take so long to understand what a time signature was as a kid lmao
@vincentfreddoyle7555 Жыл бұрын
Same
@kaitlyn__L Жыл бұрын
That “all music is 4/4” thing I’ve usually seen as “if you wait long enough” rather than “if you don’t count like a nerd” but either way it’s true lol
@vincentfreddoyle7555 Жыл бұрын
Bruh that was like my entire struggle with time signatures summarized. I still can barely tell the time signatures of songs
@The_SSSlopper 2 ай бұрын
@@vincentfreddoyle7555It’s usually pretty simple
@bahlalthewatcher4790 Жыл бұрын
The biggest error in Adam's sheet for Bluey isn't the time signature, it's that he wrote the lyric as 'Mom!' instead of 'Mum!'.
@agoofypolishguycalled5ive Жыл бұрын
Because Americans say Mom, while in the intro it's written Mum, because that's how Brits and Australians spell it. And yes, Bluey is Australian, that's why it's written Mum.
@paper2222 Жыл бұрын
@@agoofypolishguycalled5ive ugh those bloo'y bri'ishes
@paper2222 Жыл бұрын
@@agoofypolishguycalled5ive coloUr programME why me, why not you, why don't i just programyou
@agoofypolishguycalled5ive Жыл бұрын
@@paper2222 oi'm nawt bri'ish whot you torking about
@peenweinerstein9968 11 ай бұрын
Came here to say thus
@davetoms1 Жыл бұрын
Biggest audition impression I made was just doing what I do. The band sent me 5 MP3s to learn. Showed up to the audition and nailed 3 of the 5 tunes. The remaining two I admitted "Hey, I can fake my way through them and might do an okay job. But I tabbed out the sheet music so I _know_ them and can continue practicing. But I don't have them memorized yet." They were so blown away that I'd tabbed out _their_ songs, showing that I knew the material and could pull off everything written, they hired me for the gig on the spot.
@5thearth Жыл бұрын
Reminds me of how Steve Vai started working with Zappa--he showed up with accurate transcriptions.
@davetoms1 Жыл бұрын
@@5thearth that's such a lovely comparison. Thank you for mentioning it!
@rohiogerv22 Жыл бұрын
Impress your auditor at an audition by being prepared to play the whole piece straight through, and making sure the thing you're worst at is still pretty good. If you insist on playing Giant Steps real fast for an audition, the judge is automatically going to switch to looking at clarity, articulation, consistency, and expression. I got passed over on an audition playing a difficult contest solo by the seat of my pants; the next year, I got in playing a G.H. Green rag with all of the fun, confidence and mastery it deserved. A professor can't see how you handle interpretation and expression if you never actually make it that far in your study of the piece.
@gabriellegeorge2648 Жыл бұрын
Well put.
@coastersplus Жыл бұрын
I think rushing more than you're comfortable with is the absolutely worst thing you can do, because if you get nervous you can end up playing even faster and so on until you mess up or get stuck. Plus, trying to keep to a strict tempo makes it more obvious if you fall off; something a bit more relaxed lets you pass it off as expression.
@luisrocha26 Жыл бұрын
Well said! As an amateur musician I spent years trying to impress others by trying to play hard solos and riffs. Since I started doing more music production, however, I noticed how much BETTER I sound when I'm playing something that comes from the heart instead of doing it like an exercise
@arronviolin Жыл бұрын
Adam vibing to the “Bluey” theme while demonstrating how the dad’s “rest countdown trick” works is so fun and wholesome.
@roxassora2706 Жыл бұрын
It's a catchy theme
@TValoy Жыл бұрын
In Ken Scott's biography he talked about recording an album with the mahavishnu orchestra. When listening back to the recording, the band members started discussing the time signature of the piece. It turned out they didn't agree. They counted the time differently. And no one noticed!
@Steeyuv Жыл бұрын
When I heard Ranjit Barot discussing a track he had just recorded with John McLaughlin and saying ‘I’m getting three’, I just thought - we are not worthy!
@deep_fried_analysis Жыл бұрын
The mahavishnu orchestra is a jam band, and the whole point during jams is to not (over)think :) So yeah, it makes sense that they didn't agree, in your example!
@TValoy Жыл бұрын
@@deep_fried_analysis Yeah, but if they groove together while counting differently, it is an excellent example of what Adam is talking about
@jazzpunkt40 Жыл бұрын
This is my drummer and I playing "Walking on the Moon" by the Police. We count it completely different but always hit the 1. LOL
@Kweesh Жыл бұрын
This is the reason why I trawl KZfaq comments
@wfly81 Жыл бұрын
The thing about Bluesy (and I think Adam was hinting at this without actually saying it), is that it's all of those things...but none of those things exclusively. It's whatever feels right for you and helps you get through it. Because that's what music theory is. It's not "the rules" as so many think. It's a language we use in order to express intent conversationally. But when that conversation is with ourselves, then count in whatever way feels most comfortable for you.
@joashchechet1675 Жыл бұрын
"Time signature isn't real, we made it up"- Adam Neely
@wfly81 Жыл бұрын
@@joashchechet1675 That's not really a revelation. That could be said of music general, really.
@thebasedgodmax1163 Жыл бұрын
@@wfly81 it's actually in 24/2 bc I said so
@JoshLeRose Жыл бұрын
6:16 Nice 4 : 17! The original tempo is 176bpm. That means that to achieve a 4 against 17 poly rhythm, you’d have to clap quarter notes at about 41.41bpm.
@InventorZahran Жыл бұрын
Now I want to see Sungazer challenge their audince to clap in 4:4 at that tempo while the band plays in 4:17...
@Tandemdesigns Жыл бұрын
Animator here, we often break up music to match the animation, though following the composition is preferred, musicians are the masters of timing that just feels "good" As a new parent, the Bluey theme song is addictive.
@roxassora2706 Жыл бұрын
I learned about that in an Alvin and the Chipmunks video. The guy was talking about musicality (or Mickey Mousing) in animation.
@atrus3823 Жыл бұрын
I have two little kids and have noticed that Bo Diddley beat seems to be the basis of every kids' show theme! I guess it gives it an upbeat, fun feeling, exciting feeling.
@AidanMmusic96 Жыл бұрын
I love the whole idea that the "major happy; minor sad" thing is simply invented. Also WILD THROWBACK to the walking bass line video - I replayed that thing so many times at college!
@Winspur1982 Жыл бұрын
Yes, it's important to realize that. For example, Dvořak's "New World Symphony" is in E minor (and it does have very sad parts), but I think it has one of the most sublimely happy endings of any symphony.
@miro.georgiev97 Жыл бұрын
@@Winspur1982 Well, the symphony does end on a major chord, so the major=happy dynamic is maintained. I think a real case of a major key work not at all sounding happy is Franz Schmidt's Symphony No. 4. You're told it's in C major, but you'll struggle to actually _hear_ C major as you normally understand it because it's a deeply sad and melancholy work (fitting given he dedicated it as a requiem for his daughter, who died in childbirth).
@alastaircollins1145 Жыл бұрын
For an added piece of fun, in Australia, we call 'Freeze Dance" "Musical Statues"
@apupper.9283 5 ай бұрын
I don’t know why he was calling it freeze dance, the majority of the population here actually calls it musical statues.
@PokeWaffles Жыл бұрын
I wasn't expecting a Bluey crossover today. Glad to see it!
@BrussoCanada 11 ай бұрын
I work in China as a composer and arranger of children's music, and I wouldn't be surprised if it was written in 4/4, but the client requested more of a gap for the vocalisations, so another beat was added post arrangement to satisfy those needs. It happens to me a lot. The client requests things that don't necessarily fit with your original vision, but you have to add them anyway.
@andrewsterling2477 Жыл бұрын
I love Bluey has made you talk this long about its theme tune. Best kids show of the decade.
@mide8845 Жыл бұрын
Adam could talk for hours on end about actual subjects
@blorblin Жыл бұрын
@@mide8845 define "actual subject"
@1happboy Жыл бұрын
8:00 Sweet Child O’ Mine is officially classical music now
@marcelodavanzo Жыл бұрын
I was expecting the rest of the notes after he played that
@jessieobscura Жыл бұрын
I remember figuring out the pulse of songs in high school with a friend of mine so we could ballroom dance to it. Usually it was 4/4, but the pulse informed what step we could do.
@jessieobscura Жыл бұрын
Oh, and re: auditions! Auditioning for trumpet chairs in college concert band. My warmup was (still is, whenever I play) "Stormy Weather" from a book of jazz standard solos I had. Played a quick bit of it before going into the audition piece and the director stopped me and was impressed enough with my warmup to place me. Had a ton of performance anxiety so that was a great outcome.
@taviswardlaw Жыл бұрын
In my experience, people with no musical training seem to have an easier time singing along relatively accurately to a song with odd time or odd numbers of bars in a phrase than musicians who’ve learnt just enough to know it’s ‘wrong’.
@meri7108 Жыл бұрын
5:58 I was recently in a choral performance and for one of the pieces we added some movement, and our choreographer and our musical director started counting in at the same time... only the choreographer counted "5, 6, 7, 8" while the director counted "1, 2, 3, 4" and we all lost it. I bet this happens a lot.
@oscargill423 Жыл бұрын
16:27 I can't speak with absolute certainty, nor can I confirm that this is universal, but I reckon playing in a heartfelt way will be what impresses the judges. My jazz teachers often mention the "high school sound": shredding a million notes a second because you can. In contrast, the things that elicit a positive response from them are 1. a particularly "funky" lick (I'm still trying to figure out what exactly quantifies that), and 2. heartfelt playing. So, in my opinion from my own observations, if you want to impress the "judges", pick a chart based on how much you like it, learn it well, then play your heart out on it. They're not looking for the composition. They're looking for what you bring to it. Okay well Adam just said most of what I said so yeah reinforcement
@shtuffs Жыл бұрын
QA*2$**Q
@capeleto Жыл бұрын
This whole Bluey discussion brings me so much joy, and watching Adam dance and dance along and yell BLUEY at the screen every time made my inner child SHIINE. Thanks Adam.
@OBGynKenobi Жыл бұрын
You should do The Pointer Sister's 12, from Sesame Street. Now there's some crazy time signatures on that funky tune.
@ptronicmusic Жыл бұрын
Damn you beat me to it 😆 The fact that they are singing counting on top of the weird changing bar counts makes it so difficult to count at first.
@defenestrated23 Жыл бұрын
Awesome example of taking what is basically straight eighths, and adding accent or dropping notes, to get a real funky syncopation. Also the freestyle breakdowns are really... I don't even know the word. They're wild, off the grid. And SPICY. Like some of the chords, muoy picante. Completely obliterates the idea that kids need "simple" music. I attribute Sesame Street and Mr Rogers for much of my early interest in jazz.
@FluxTrax Жыл бұрын
Check out the theme song for "Kalles klatraträd"
@fretlessman71 Жыл бұрын
I saw a local funk rock band cover that song 25 years ago. It was fantastic!
@FluxTrax Жыл бұрын
kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ouB5i6-Hm8vKm2w.html there was also made a Norwegian version by Jahn Teigen that is a whole lot more funky
@QuandaryMusic_ Жыл бұрын
I WAS JUST WATCHING BLUEY WTF
@NightDangerRPG Жыл бұрын
The countdown method for the kids is interesting because my kids watch this show in french, where the character names all have 2 syllables (mama, papa, bingo, bluey) so the countdowns are more uniform and easier to sing
@westonlundquist9202 Жыл бұрын
Was not expecting this much depth in Bluey today but I’m here for it.
@maxchapman5549 Жыл бұрын
Your love for music (& everything vaguely related to it) is infectious. Never stop loving.
@DanielAbernathy Жыл бұрын
Your point about the orchestration is exactly why I think The National is so successful. The notes they're playing can be simple, but the layering, the timbre, and all the other pieces come together magically. I'm sure it helps to have a classically trained musician in the band!
@skyr4tMusic Жыл бұрын
You answered my question with a question that has officially made me question my music. Thank you Neely.
@lepus6511 Жыл бұрын
I thoroughly enjoyed Adam's dancing at 2:25
@Thedrummersalmanac Жыл бұрын
Great stuff, Adam!
@smokinfasts1973 Жыл бұрын
I love the intellectual aspect of your videos. Thank you Adam!
@oly_olympiadis Жыл бұрын
10:53 I like very much this chord
@panpolypuff Жыл бұрын
When I auditioned for my spot as an Army tuba player, I was told to prepare 3-5 pieces of contrasting styles. I played a Bordogni vocalise, a Baroque cello solo, a modern concerto movement, and my favorite multiphonics/beatbox technique piece. The last one was what I was truly interested and engaged in, and my audition rep made it clear that he could tell. It was that piece, played truly from my heart, that made me a standout and effectively got me the gig I’ve been doing for 10 years now. If you wouldn’t perform it, don’t audition with it.
@guroh6795 Жыл бұрын
So happy to see the How to Walk a Bassline video again! It's one of my favorite videos of yours, with every watch you can find a new detail. And I still know the lyrics by heart :D
@_AndreSix Жыл бұрын
Awesome as always. And your studio is getting more beautiful with every video, kudos !
@sazarod Жыл бұрын
Never laughed so much in a music Q&A before, well done Adam Neely
@nexuseclipse Жыл бұрын
OK I love the fact that Bluey has made its way into Adam's videos. I hear this at least 10 times a day...
@mide8845 Жыл бұрын
Age estimation: 38-45
@deadjunior258 Жыл бұрын
The way you vibed to the theme song at 2:17 is so 🥹🥹🥹😌 I thoroughly enjoyed it
@copycatlyn Жыл бұрын
you're show in Richmond was amazing! Thank you for it! :)
@TheTimeMachine67 Жыл бұрын
I actually always considered the major sixth to be dissonant, but the most pleasant sounding dissonance. To me it just sounds extremely unresolved, which makes it fantastic as a note to use melodically or when creating suspense.
@mantictac Жыл бұрын
1:02 I've never died laughing by looking at sheet music before but that killed me.
@parreiraleonardo4189 Жыл бұрын
I missed the Q+A so much!!! Please keep on going with it!!
@tastefulthickness4652 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for all the great content you make adam!!!
@JoshWalshMusic Жыл бұрын
Donna Lee, Giant Steps and Bluey theme all in one video. What more can you ask for?
@InventorZahran Жыл бұрын
The Lick
@duncathan_salt Жыл бұрын
The second approach for counting is remarkably similar to how I count the ending of my favorite song, 1901 by Jim Guthrie. It introduces pauses in the middle of the chorus that last exact numbers of beats (until the last one), increasing in length. In that case, the pauses are held by every instrument, so it'd be more intuitive for performance to be written that way than it would be for Bluey.
@GiantBugs Жыл бұрын
I’m seeing you live tomorrow, can’t wait !
@SecurityBagels Жыл бұрын
I love these videos, always some great music and life advice nuggets thrown in
@lavatar3562 Жыл бұрын
Glad to see Australian Culture is reaching a wider audience. You nailed 4 over 17!😮
@unboundboundarie211 Жыл бұрын
The medieval major 6th was tuned differently (Pythagorean tuning). This made it further in tune from the just 6th and still sounds somewhat dissonant to modern ears. 9:00
@gardenofadam79 Жыл бұрын
Was going to mention the whole temperament discussion, that of course Adam has delved into. Our sixth is not their sixth, but “sixths” is one of my favorite words to say.
@MicJaiy Жыл бұрын
After remixing the track myself several times, I never thought the time signature of the theme song was such a debate. However, I found the breaks in silence (the fermatas) were done to build tension and excitement for the opening. Great video my man!
@assortedproduce8053 Жыл бұрын
Awesome video. I enjoyed it very much. Please continue making videos.
@xymaryai8283 Жыл бұрын
coming from a dance background, we always counted in 8 beats, that could be 8/8 but more likely 8/4, when you're practicing and counting in its always "5, 6, 7, 8" which for the bluey theme i guess would be one bar of 8/4, and another of 9/4. but yeah, we'd count that as just an "uh" not a 9, and frequently count to a difficult move instead of counting the whole bar, then reset when we feel the bar change.
@tzor Жыл бұрын
Just a thought on the question of the medieval sixth. Just as the old song "You can't play barbershop on that old piano" is true, the same is true with Medieval music, given the use of temperament at the time to highlight the fifth (as opposed to the true temperament of modern instruments). So, you must compare the medieval sixth with the even better (due to the temperment) medieval fifth. Then you need to adjust to the simpler harmonics at the time.
@chilley2603 Жыл бұрын
Hey Adam, it's my birthday on Sunday and just wanted to say I'm excited to see Sungazer perform in Glasgow to celebrate the start of my 20s
@jessiebullock Жыл бұрын
I love this so much!
@EpreTroll Жыл бұрын
Theres this Touhou track, Mysterious Purification Rod, that does the same. 17/4 time?
@HighKingTurgon Жыл бұрын
ASKING THE REAL QUESTIONS-Joff Bush is an absolute legend. He is giving these kids (and me, their father) so much better music than we asked for. Above and Beyond, that guy.
@Winspur1982 Жыл бұрын
I guess you can blame him for "Dad" always being 4 beats behind "Mom," as well.
@ferretyluv 8 ай бұрын
I had never heard the Bluey intro before this and I was blown away how good it was.
@RobertAcurso Жыл бұрын
That was maybe the only ad promo I've ever watched in it's entirety. It was riveting the entire time, presented in just as interesting a manner as the rest of his content. Holy smokes.
@ChronoTango Жыл бұрын
I watched one episode of this show with friends and suddenly I am seeing it everywhere.
@sachs6 Жыл бұрын
6:45 If a major sixth is dissonant depends on personal interpretation, background and context. 10:12 The pathos of these chords in these registers and these voicings are unambiguously and undisputably those. Great Q&A, I've loved the mini beginning essay on metrics. Please, put a reference to the book on history of consonance concepts in the description. I would love to see a Bluey theme analysis by the engine developed by Sethares in his Rhythm and Transforms.
@undeniablySomeGuy Жыл бұрын
7:30 the first time i heard the tritone, it felt to aggressively dissonant, but nowi hear it and it feels positively curious and inquisitive. venti's theme from genshin impact makes very strong use of the flat 5 in its main melodic vamp
@orangecatactually Жыл бұрын
I love how during the ad-read, ur were blasting sequence start in the background
@jonathanlennard2472 Жыл бұрын
This bluey time signature breakdown is exactly why I always come back to Adam Neely
@calebkulfan9301 Жыл бұрын
Love the tangent about dancers! I remember playing Firebird Suite in high school and our conductor told us that the dancers would count in sets of 8 even though the finale was in 7/4, can anyone verify? Was always so baffling to me how that would work!
@USALeonHeart Жыл бұрын
11:53 I believe is a special guest appearance by one of Steely Dan's favorite chord voicings, the "mu" chord I think they called it, more formally known as "add2". And if my relative pitch is working today, I believe that a C#add2
@Nomen_Latinum Жыл бұрын
If my vision is working correctly it's a Cadd2 :)
@USALeonHeart Жыл бұрын
@@Nomen_Latinum within a half tone I'll take it. The "E" that I measure everything against is constantly floating between E and Eb.
@MaggaraMarine Жыл бұрын
Relative pitch isn't about identifying notes outside of context, though - that's pitch memory or absolute pitch. So, whether the root of the chord is C# or C is not a question relative pitch alone can answer.
@billyalarie929 Жыл бұрын
This discussion is so neat
@insidejazzguitar8112 Жыл бұрын
Very interesting and learned a lot, as always.
@seedmole Жыл бұрын
Prescriptivism vs Descriptivism !!!! I started making music not because I thought I had something interesting to add, but that I wanted more extremely uninteresting ambient soundscapes to listen to while studying. It was peak seflishness: I couldn't find enough studying music, everything was too poppy, too made for active listeners. I needed things that *weren't* made for typical listeners, but for those who do not have your attention. And it wasn't out of some esoteric belief that the world of art needs such a thing, but that *I* needed it. Selfishness in art is essential.
@NickHoad Жыл бұрын
kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bdGPrbt6vafJc58.html idk if this is the kind of thing you're after but it's a great listen in any case
@BarryTheElephant Жыл бұрын
The Bluey theme song was written well before the pandemic, first episode aired 2018.
@Sammut92 Жыл бұрын
Answers the video title in the first question and puts the ad at the end of the video, adam is the best KZfaqr!
@johnnytheyoungmaestro 11 ай бұрын
I always thought of it to be in 4/4, with the cutoff at beat 2. But I love the idea of it being three measures of 4/4, with one measure of 5/4. It adds a bit of uniqueness to it, especially since you don't hear anything in 5/4 with lyrics that often. Fantastic video! Also, I really adore Bluey. Such a cute show! :)
@i_cam Жыл бұрын
i always found the major 6th to be just kind of hard to place, when i was learning interval training, if i wasn't sure what it was, it was major 6th just by process of elimination. like it sounded bigger than a b6 and smaller than a b7 but i couldn't quite just like "yes this is a major 6th and im sure of it" until much later
@elementscity4204 Жыл бұрын
4:27 Time is also something we made up, to convey our relationship to the order in which things happen.
@uncroppedsoop Жыл бұрын
no, time is absolutely happening. we just made up units of measurement for it
@elementscity4204 Жыл бұрын
@@uncroppedsoop damn you're right. Although does time really exist? If you send someone in a spaceship moving in the speed of light away from earth and back, although the same "time" have passed, the person who stayed on earth and and person who was in the spaceship have aged differently
@uncroppedsoop Жыл бұрын
@@elementscity4204 relativity. I believe it's often cited as proof of space and time being tied together
@elementscity4204 Жыл бұрын
@@uncroppedsoop yeah, I know, I'm not sure what I tried to convey other than "what is even reality"
@uncroppedsoop Жыл бұрын
@@elementscity4204 verrrrrry good question lmao
@Margar02 Жыл бұрын
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@StefanTeufert Жыл бұрын
8:08 I would be very interested in the source of that appendix - could someone enlighten me? Thank you very much! Edit: Found it: A History of 'Consonance' and 'Dissonance' by James Tenney; Excelsior Music Publishing Company, New York
@tayniloalves7089 Жыл бұрын
“All music is in 4/4 if you count it like a nerd” is a very good meme
@almightyhydra Жыл бұрын
The demonstration of how register and chord structure affects the perception of the chord reminds me of a moment when I gained more appreciation for Beethoven's genius. Playing the Pathetique sonata for the first time after a while I had reached the end of the final Grave section which ends with Fm6, G7. I couldn't remember the left hand note(s) before the Fm6 chord and everything I tried didn't sound right. I checked the book and... it's just a single F! Nothing else was needed. Beethoven's choice in these aspects is always just right.
@billyalarie929 Жыл бұрын
I never saw that video on walking bass lines but holy shit that was SO NEAT
@stefevr Жыл бұрын
1:27 you're making me nervous almost spilling everything 😢
@dazed_david Жыл бұрын
i came all the way down here to find this. thx i already thought i have to write this myself.. phew but made me pretty nervous too! u can't wag your cup like bluey is wagging his tail adam! but your cup aside when you're excited!
@ARR0WMANC3R Жыл бұрын
8:03 I really wanted him to break out into the opening riff of Sweet Child o' Mine.
@aaronluke3731 Жыл бұрын
Ah peep the HX Stomp XL in the background, I see you have upgraded Adam!
@gavinluthermusic3276 Жыл бұрын
Super fast Instagram q&a? More like super in depth Instagram q&a. Love your stuff Adam!
@gabrielhenschen9665 Жыл бұрын
Adam! You didn't really answer the question about the sixth in renaissance music. What you were talking about is much earlier. In renaissance music such as Palestrina and the likes, the sixth was sometimes a dissonance and sometimes a consonance. It was a dissonance when played together with the 5th and a consonance with the 3rd or 4th. This is the way they thought of it: 6th between bass and another voice is ok if there is no 5th between the bass and another voice. In our terminology: the 6 in 1st and 2nd inversion chords are consonances, but a 6th chord (356) is dissonant and therefore needs preparation. The 4th in second inversion chords was still a dissonance though, so it needed preparation. Renaissance people didn't really think of inversions in the same way that we do. That's why figured bass works the way it does, because they thought in intervals, not in chords.
@uncroppedsoop Жыл бұрын
bold of you to assume my brain is big enough to think in anything other than intervals
@MaggaraMarine Жыл бұрын
_6th between bass and another voice is ok if there is no 5th between the bass and another voice._ Sure, but that has little to do with the 6th being dissonant. It has to do with the dissonant 2nd between the two voies that form a 5th and a 6th against the bass. So, in that case, all intervals against the bass would be consonant, but there would be a dissonance between two higher voices. The interval that is sometimes a dissonance and sometimes a consonance is 4th. It is a dissonance against the bass, but a consonance when it's between two higher voices. In two-voice counterpoint, 4ths are dissonant. I think the person who asked the question was asking about melodic (not harmonic) intervals, because major 6th leaps (well, leaps greater than a minor 6th - although octaves are fine) are commonly forbidden in counterpoint books.
@gabrielhenschen9665 Жыл бұрын
@@MaggaraMarine Perhaps the second between the 5th and the 6th is the reason it is not allowed, but the way I described it is the way it is described in several treatices.
@Whatismusic123 Жыл бұрын
In a 5/6 chord the fifth is the dissonance a majority of the time. However, it depends on harmonic context, is it an add6 chord or is it a 1st inversion 7th chord? The dissonance is dependent entirely on the root.
@gabrielhenschen9665 Жыл бұрын
@@Whatismusic123 7th chords were not really used in the renaissance
@AlexBrogan96 Жыл бұрын
I’m just starting the video, but I’m hoping he mentions that the shouting always occurs on beat 2 if you count the whole thing in 4. Edit: He did not, but he almost had me when he said all music is in 4/4. I should have seen the 17 against 4 coming though.
@ricardor6388 Жыл бұрын
THANK YOU for the Bluey part !!!!!
@alio2269 Жыл бұрын
Unrelated but I missed out on going to a sungazer concert this week but I've enjoyed rediscovering the discography and just nerding tf out good luck to the gang
@joyuh4191 6 ай бұрын
“All music is in 4/4 if you don’t count it like a nerd”
@devinfrench4924 12 күн бұрын
Honestly... yes it is possible, but WAYYYYY MORE DIFFICULT
@AnthonyArroyoFilms Жыл бұрын
"All music is in 4/4 if you don't count it like a nerd" 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀 Get that on shirts and stickers ASAP
@disaidra Жыл бұрын
The music stopping and starting was the way I heard it and never even considered there could be other interpretations, so thanks for making me think about this every time I hear the bluey theme now 😅 I guess........
@dangerousdoodle2410 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for putting the title topic first
@michaelLaderman-pk5mn Жыл бұрын
Adam, I think you sold changes in tuning way too short in considering why a Medieval theorist considered a 6th very dissonant. To the best of my knowledge (I could stand to be corrected on anything I might be overgeneralizing about), they used Pythagorean tuning in the Middle Ages, so that their perfect 5th and 4ths were in just intonation and their 3rds and 6ths were very out of tune. It's no accident that the change in attitudes toward 3rds and 6ths in the Renaissance coincided with a change in tuning to something closer to a mean tone style that made the major 3rds smaller. Very big M3s and very small M6s are genuinely dissonant intervals.
@MaggaraMarine Жыл бұрын
The important question is, which came first - meantone tuning system or the use of 3rds and 6ths? Was the tuning system changed because people started liking the sound of 3rds and 6ths, or did people start using 3rds and 6ths because they discovered a new way of tuning those notes (that made them sound a lot more pleasant)? The tuning system does play a part in it - there's no doubt about it. But it could be that people started liking 3rds and 6ths, which is why they decided to change to a tuning system that favored those intervals. Because why would you change the tuning system if Pythagorean tuning worked just fine for the consonant intervals?
@michaelLaderman-pk5mn Жыл бұрын
@@MaggaraMarine I think it was a gradual change, so it was a little bit of both. But Pythagorean thirds and sixths are really dissonant.
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