Adam, how can I get better at following a metronome?

Why this pinned comment says "15 hours ago" when this uploaded just not even an hour?

So a question for your next Q+A vid: What do you think of Gareth Coker's work?

Adam will pick up the Sitar before voluntarily playing a guitar.

I am currently learning to play the piano, totally by myself. Its kind of on a hobby basis. My learning curve has stagnated a little bit so i was wondering if piano lessons worth opening my wallet for? If i want to take my piano playing to the next step, maybe? Idk, any opinion is much appreciated. Greetings from Norway

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True on several levels

@@ziruini5071 hey your profile pictures are the same color

Best comment

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Bass > guitar

A common accident injury in Hell.

@@srirachanoodles6914 Gutair has 2 more string so it must be 50% better though right?

@Cryonic Family ????????????

Lynnlo I will report you to Davie504

*Insert .jpg of arthur clenching his fist here* I was so pissed!

*Cry*

@@TheUnderscore_ Don’t reproduce.

Then they should study the sound attack for so many years and use it.

Exactly

Upright players understand this and play on top of the best knowing it will sound ‘later’. Also the tone of an upright is not very ‘attacky’. I think of horn sections and see Tower of Power and Chicago. Their sections were always grooving, but relaxed during solos. It’s all about emphasis, on time or something else. My 2 cents

Randall J Clay exactly! Players have to compensate for their respective instruments

I call BS on this lame excuse, I was taught to play (trombone) on time by anticipating all that mechanical stuff.

Lucky Chops 3 minutes respond.

fancy seeing you here

Everywhere Cubes more like full heart fancy seeing you here HA feel free to kill me at anytime

Lol I feel attacked by this video title

I'm starting sax, been playing drums and bass. Will get back to you in 10 years when I'm able to play a simple melody and be very offended.

I thought the exact same thing!! He should put a black bar at the top of the frame to complete the illusion.

@Cryonic Family ¿que?

Its true! lol very cool effect

What has been seen..

I’m so glad it wasn’t just me that saw that 😂. I swear I thought he did some lens perspective fix in editing and forgot to zoom in until I saw his hands move through it lol.

I had a stroke reading this

May lol

"He a little confused, but he got the spirit!"

He's a little confused, but he's got the spirit.

He's a little spirit, but he got the confused

So funny how many people start to impress girls :D

Bass is ireelevant with 8+ strings, anyway. 🤭

Hope your music adventure works out!! Sorry to hear that, but it's awesome that you stay motivated :)

Yes, please use your ear and the musicality that you possess in whatever way works for you. As much as music is fundamentally abstract, I have to imagine that your particular relationship with it is unique and compelling, and I’m sure you’ll find a way to express that. I wish you good travels!

All the best to you!

Have fun, hope you get to keep on enjoying music

Sorry to hear all of that. It’s awesome to know that you’re not giving up though. As music technology continues to progress you’ll find yourself with more and more amazing options for making music though, and I’m sure you will/are putting out wonderful work for the world to hear. We live in a wonderful age where pretty much anyone, no matter who they are, can make wonderful music. And it’s a blessing because everyday someone somewhere is working on a new song that the world needs to hear.

Fisher Sexton I don’t accept paper money from sax players.

@@counterfit5 yea it's called pimping if you profit off of sax ... ..playing ?

True. If you have no control, you are always ahead

I'm assuming they mean it in the jazz sense, where horn means any wind instrument. As a classical musician who also dislikes inaccurate terminology, this definition irritates me. A horn should refer to a french horn or a sax horn, not to be confused with a sax, which is not a horn. But then thinking about it, I would generally only refer to the tenor horn aka the alto horn as a horn colloquially out of the sax horns, and I would refer to the flugelhorn and the baritone horn by their names. But then as I normally play in concert bands aka wind bands aka wind orchestras (not to be confused with concert orchestras), I would usually lump the baritones in with the euphoniums so as not to get confused with the baritone sax. And then you could argue that the cor anglais/English horn is a horn, considering it has "horn" in its name despite the fact it is a member of the oboe family, so maybe an oboe is a horn too, and if an oboe is a horn, then maybe calling all wind instruments horns IS somewhat accurate. And then I remember we are musicians which means that everyone disagrees on the correct terminology to the point where there is no real standard, and I should know this very well considering I own an alto flute which has historically also been referred to as an tenor or bass flute despite the fact that it is a 4th lower than the concert flute (called the tenor flute during the Renaissance), a 2nd/3rd lower than the flute d'amour (aka the tenor flute), and a 5th higher than a bass flute (aka a tenor flute) which is a 4th/5th higher than a contra-alto/contralto flute (aka a bass flute). So basically 4 flutes have been called tenor flutes at various times, of which two of those have been also called bass flutes, along with a third bass flute that is otherwise called a contralto flute. This also ignores the fact that many people/languages refer to recorders as flutes, and the recorder family ALSO has alto, tenor, bass, etc. variants. Tl, dr: welcome to my TED mental breakdown of inconsistent terminology in music.

BambiTrout, yes, this both made complete sense to me yet now my brain hurts. I applaud you for your ability to confuse yet be concise

​@@BambiTrout The classical music use whereby horn means French horn is a modern invention. Fifty years ago it wasn't in use.

@@josephruby2981 Oh, please. imslp.org/wiki/Horn_Concerto_in_E-flat_major%2C_K.447_(Mozart%2C_Wolfgang_Amadeus) (note the holograph manuscript heading, reading "Concerto per il Corno Solo". This goes back to ~1785, and it was written for a natural horn - basically a valveless French horn. The part for the solo instrument is labelled "corno principale". There are plenty of earlier examples too. The IHS 1971 definition (which incidentally has no authority to dictate vocabulary, and is a _recommendation_ ) refers to all types of horn, not specifically to the modern, valved "French" horn.

Came here to say this. Would be curious to learn Adam's response to that.

@@AalbertTorsius This is it, and I'm late to the party.

Makes sense but like those it make horns objectively more off beat

I think that’s partially to be inferred from what they meant by anticipating the beat but are used to running off visual cues for rhythm

So, should a composer or arranger who know this, write the horns score according to each flow rate of each different instrument in that section, or simply the music in his/her head (or both)?

Seriously, they really blow.

Yeah we kinda do ngl but I’m still upset about it lmao

@Cryonic Family Okay, thank you for the synopsis. What does that have to do with his comment?

@@TheNutshaq I kinda like what they blooooow, so I am cool with you...Practice, Practice, Practice! I don't even play Bass, I play Voice, Guitar, and Violin. I have tried Trombone, fun but not easy!

At least we all blow, together

I really like you guys

Omg 8 bit big band I love u guys ur guy's music is some of the only I listen too as much and really like to share

NOT ALL styles of music are RHYTHIM BASED. SOME are more MELODIC than rhytmic.

@moserbite You're spamming this everywhere yet every single time you spelled "rhythm" wrong. TWICE.

yeah chord spelling is important not just for reading but functionally

@insaneintherainmusic do all youtuber musicians just watch each other? Lol

There would have to be at least 5 sinnoh songs on there

Loloco _ I think so.

duude imagine sitting in at a jam session and like hearthome city is called and everybody pulls out their real books

Cakerton Jubilife City as a funk

Type that into Google and be amazed.

But was it the chord that pleased the lord?

@@ganaraminukshuk0 I heard it's a secret

My friend Jesus is nicknamed Gsus, he also is an amazing pianist

I dunno, looks sus

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NOT ALL styles of music are RHYTHIM BASED. SOME are more MELODIC than rhytmic.

Thats exactly what I was thinking too. Im pretty sure its the anwser.

Yep! My horn is a double horn (meaning it’s in F and Bb), they can be around 20-25 feet long and it takes a while for the air to travel through the instrument. Some horns have more tub length than standard tubas! it also doesn’t help that the bell faces backwards- with a trumpet or trombone the noise travels towards the audience, with the French horn the sound travels away from the audience and bounces off of the wall behind you so there is a delay of when the noise “hits”your ears.

​​@@ohnoourtableitsbroken9572That may be the total length of tubing, but you are never going to have more than 16.7ft in use at one time. That's the F side, with all 3 valves down. That's still longer than the open length of 84% of the tuba sizes (French C=8ft, Euphonium=9ft, F=12ft, Eb=13.5ft, C=16ft, Bb=18ft).

I love how after 8 months still nobody got the reference lol

trumpets rise up

Just so you know, I disliked your comment, and I dislike you as a person.

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​@@samwhite7693 nope

It's just liquid cotton candy

"Protip" if anyone like me has little self control regarding sugar and has maybe considered getting cotton candy machine "just for fun" or whatever excuse is being generated in head: DO NOT, I repeat, _DO NOT_ get cotton candy machine. It's too good, too easy, too fluffy, and, as you say, too sugar. Basically legal crack.

@@Bisquick Oh god

They ain't wrong

@@_BirdOfGoodOmen 🤔

What's rhythm? Melody is king. They can tap out 1,2,3,4 all they want but I'm play quarter, quarter, eighth, either, quarter or whatever the melody is... I have no conception of beat. If they're a melody then that's what I'm hearing and moving with. The visuals from the conductor help, but we can barely hear your puny rhythm instruments. How are we even supposed to hear your bass while playing our horn?

@@zvxcvxcz bruh

You're right, that was cool trivia!

Definetely had to check that.

@Cryonic Family I see what you did there.. (I think?)

Mike Crowley While Ludwig Wittgenstein denounced all philosophical problems as misinterpretations of language outside their 'language games', Paul Wittgenstein denounced all musical problems with the phrase 'just play the notes on the page lol'

i was wondering if they were related

As a fellow trombonist, can relate *more sad trombone noises*

I add my ~sad trombone noises~ to yours.

Don't worry you don't suck at rhythm as much as us string players

*blames it on the acoustic guitarist*

I played with amazing (unknown) horn sections, having said that, back in university it was at times next to impossible to play a hit with the bones, you just never knew when it would happen 😅

Yes! I was wondering if someone would point that out. I think it's an inattention mistake though 😊

he played an F# on his left hand and G on the right, I think sevens are implied in these chords even though not in the name.

Ok, but just for kicks, I still want to hear what kind of sound the horn players will make as try to duck a piece of furniture hurled at them :))

This. I have to literally anticipate everything I play. And then some, because I sit at the back of an orchestra and sound takes time to travel up the fron of the stage. If it's a super low pedal that responds extremely slowly I could be anticipating that articulation by any entire beat, if it's an upbeat tempo. I actually got reprimanded by an incredibly famous violinist, who came back to play a concerto with my school, because I wasn't playing with her. I couldn't play "with" her sound, one because it's hard to hear a violin facing the wrong direction over my own trombone, and two because I was literally always late to her. If I anticipated enough so my sound caught up to hers, I wouldn't be playing with her, I'd be playing despite her. I wound up being in a weird middle-ground of just not sounding right. Sadness :-(

I must have picked this up naturally like a lot of other things, because when i write for horns, I purposely play around a lot with when they come in, particularly in slow passages, of course. Sometimes I want them late, but sometimes I also want them very early.

As a horn player, and going off of the imprecise attack, we also have to get the air moving all the way through the horn in order it produce sound. Too much air too fast, you sound loud and obnoxious. Too little and it sounds like a nervous mistake.

​@@chipmonkey7266 I think there's a common myth that you have to 'fill' the horn with air. Not sure if that's what you mean here, but I've definitely heard that said. The sound is made by vibrating the air column that's already inside the instrument. Think about it: if you had to fill a saxophone with air to get a note, you couldn't play a contrabass saxophone at all. You couldn't exhale that much air in one breath.

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@Cryonic Family Stop.

"sometimes my genius is almost frightening"

No, but what tune will you be playing?

No you're not

what if you suck when you blow?

@@davidbonar5190 Time to hang up your high heels and go back to secretarial school D~

*You, a musician from a German-speaking country. Not every European country uses this horrible H=B and B=Bb rule.

@@duVillage no I'm not from a German speaking country but its the best rule tbh, BACH all the way!

@Salim Sivaad so the Aeolian mode predates the Ionian? You sure about that?

They use it in Finland as well and it is currently not a German-speaking country. And the H makes no sense.

Only used ,until 1990, in northern European countries were the gothic letter B resembles a H.

At least he plays the bass, as Gsus intended.

@Cryonic Family I don't understand this comment. Why do you spam it over this comment section? Yes, I know who this guy is; I'm watching his videos.

To this day the original Diablo score gives me chills. Video game music not real art... what?

"Smells like cotton candy. Tastes like pure sugar" I mean, those attributes are nearly inseparable.

Instrument wars are annoying I agree, and theyre not just guitar and bass Theyre also trumpets & trombones vs flutes & clarinets, Or, violin vs viola Our music community has became a pile of childish people w/ ego

@@ItsMe-ic5oc for real! I'm a classical musician and everyone wants to start music wars. Why cant we just enjoy the beauty of music and our own instruments!?

This distinction slowly murdered classical music over the course of the 20th century, along with the Germanization of European classical music education. Instead of an entire tradition of musicians across a continent making music for all sorts of reasons over the span of centuries, we must study the Great Works of the Great Men who played Serious Music, render their music in the most unpleasant and workmanlike way possible to divest it of all its entertaining qualities, and invent mathematically perfect types of music that provide no entertainment at all and sound like a supercomputer's impression of a cat walking across a piano.

@@tankermottind ouf. you're not wrong

@@tankermottind what are you even talking about when referring to classical music? Music from them classical and romantic period? Music for orchestra? Either way none of your statements make sense as the period is over by a long time (only lives on in film music) and the music for ororchetsra has changed a lot in the last 100 years. It's not they fault of Beethoven that new orchestral music is often not as popular anymore.

@@Apfelstrudl European art music from ~1500 to today, the default thing people are talking about when they say "classical music" in a Western culture. And you knew that, but you're an obtuse pedant who wanted to score points.

@@tankermottind that's not classical music's fault inherently, it's our more modern cultures fault. Classical music wasn't meant to be stiff and proper really until beethoven.

Exactly, what is rhythm when you have melody?

Well the main thing is that playing fast or technically proficient isn’t a requirement for music. Slow songs and solos often have a better sense of musicality and sensitivity than fast solos.

@@THVEssays yes I think that is very true, and if it needs something more, music is a very good communal activity so (excepting worldwide contagions) you can often have others help fill the gaps!

This might be sick, but I've often thought about what instrument I could play if I lost the use of one or both of my hands (I have had some kind of RSI, so it's not that much of a stretch). Natural trumpet was the only one I could think of that didn't require hands at all, but I hear it is very difficult!

If working in a DAW or composing does not scratch that itch to *play*or *perform*, there are always instruments out there, and ways to play them, that conform to almost any ability. True, most commonly played instruments are fine-tuned to fit the most common people, but there are a lot of interesting niche instruments and instrument builders out there. If electronic music is something you are into, physical analog electronic instruments are almost arbitrarily variable and can be set up to your every need. Tuned percussion might also be an interesting field to consider as there is an amazing amount of variety that can be combined in so many new and interesting ways.

just learn how to adjust and play through it. to do otherwise is making excuses

Don't worry, at least you're heard, bass players are not 😂

It's not so bad. You could be a tuba player.

Plus it's a joke...and if you're not willing to put in the work to sound good, then Adam is absolutely right. Guitars sound like shit if the player is not great.

@@grievuspwn4g3 I do think that's also a consequence of the genre he works within generally having less of an emphasis on really honing the bass skills seen in jazz or soul, etc. A lot of amateur rock bassists do just chill on root notes to let the guitar take centre stage.

Same!

Same! I did a double-take when he said that

@@brrrrrg92 yep, couldn't trust my ears at first too

where it is??

@@rotkvan 15:44

ah yes, the REAL answer 😒

ah yes, the REAL answer 😒

There's also the fact that there's more than one space of attack, ie most wind instruments also involve moving around of keys and/or valves.

ah yes, the REAL answer 😒

ah yes, the REAL answer 😒

I was pleasantly surprised!

me too

Adam is Fatslob and he walls in so he can practice in peace.

I know. As if I wasn't questioning my sexuality enough already.

@@1000GayOwls XD

The fact that no one except AoE2 players would get it made it all the funnier.

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@@shaders3864 Facts, I don’t play it and I don’t get it

Same. My confusion when he said "focus on improvisation" was immeasurable.

Same here 🤣 That can be such a long topic to discuss as orchestral musicians. Like, we're reactive to the conductor and principal horn player so we gotta be a unit, also focusing on articulations that can be heard in the back of the hall. Also, in my horn studio in my conservatory, we all struggle with rhythm for our mock orchestral audition, excerpt subdivisions can be tricky! We're like acrobats

Sk0lzkiy that was when I knew they meant the horn section from jazz charts

@@Tkibbs14 I knew what he meant right away by context. I think there is something to the origin concept. Just about everyone who plays brass or woodwinds started off in school bands. On horn, I pretty much much play orchestra stuff only, while I just play by ear on guitar.

@@craigkowald3055 well done

Yeah, it's pretty obvious.

There’s also response time. There’s a varying delay between starting the sound and the sound being heard by others. Said delay can grow in brass instruments depending on valves in use, and overall length of the instrument.

@@counterfit5 That's the first thing I thought off -- the latency. I was a little surprised that the Aberdeen guy didn't mention it.

Hurr durr, horns suck! 🙄 Ugh. I enjoy Adam's channel for the most part; but I wonder if he has ever seriously tried to play a wind instrument? They are, fundamentally, in your own word, unpredictable. I play piano, poorly, but I do try; and while THAT is complexity on complexity, do you know what's nice? Every fucking time I plunk a chord, IT'S TUNED. Sometimes it's a relief to sit down and not have to worry about: breath support Posture affecting breath support Attacking the note correctly Sustaining an even tone Adjusting embouchure constantly And oh, yeah, PLAYING ON THE BEAT. But these aren't excuses. I'm just trying to explain to others why there's more to horns than "lmao shitty horns, go away I am stringed instrument god." Of course we should learn to compensate for the unpredictability. It's half the struggle, and for me, half the fun. I have spent hours during COVID doing nothing BUT practicing intonation, and I've played for six years. When you get it right, a wind instrument becomes your voice. It becomes an extension of you, a part of you, in a way a guitar or bass or piano can never be. I really don't like to stir up shit, but I just...got a sense of snobbery from this video that I don't normally feel when watching his other stuff. Between that and the guitar...c'mon. I know it was mostly a joke--was it a joke? I'm pretty sure it was. He must have a guitar for a reason. I'm a musician, and I like ALL instruments. Yours, and yours too. Okay, maybe not trumpets. Just kidding. Saxes and trumpets are the O.G. jazz bromance. Oh, look: Here's Rob Scallion trying to play a saxophone, failing almost completely, and having fun doing it without acting like a snob. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g916fK19rb7GqIk.html Signed, A saxophonist who doesn't bash your instrument just to feel better about mine.

@@NyanPoptartCat Who dissed? He had a subject matter expert answer that question.

@@jpabcede5016 Well, it's just the impression I got, and it certainly doesn't mean it's right. They probably WERE just joking; but "Why do horn players suck" (which wasn't even the original question) was answered by "Short answer: I don't know," so jokingly or not, said subject matter expert was essentially agreeing with him one way or the other. The question, worded in a different way, would have prompted a different reaction. Maybe it was a self-effacing answer on the expert's part. Maybe I'm just defensive because there has always been snobbery against the saxophone, subtle and not-so-subtle, especially in the classical world, that persists to this day. For instance, there's a condition called "saxophone lung" that can affect you if you don't clean your horn well enough. Why isn't it called "clarinet lung" or "flute lung"? Clarinet players can get it too. You can even read an article about a clarinet player who got it and they still called it "saxophone lung." Okay, that was a tangent, but you get it. Then he DOES diss the guitar. Maybe this is an Adam Neely in-joke that I don't know about. In that case, I get that! I'll diss the sax for fun because I play it and have the right to do so. Like, "How do you get two sopranos to play in tune? Shoot one of them." Maybe that was it. I could be completely wrong about any or all of this. I actually think being wrong can be a good thing, because it means I learn something! So I'm happy to be better informed.

Side note on video game music: would you ever review some video game music?I'm a fan of hollow knights music.

Kind of like lord lokrhead from nocturnal depression

Tony Melendez was born without arms and has made a career as a singer, guitarist.

This is also why they tend to rush in orchestral music. Especially trumpets and flutes which tend to have more aggressive lines and a distinct tonguing system from other wind instruments.

As a former brass player, I would account for the short lag to peak volume by tonguing earlier. But you definitely hear that surging of sound after the beat in beginners or in very fast music. I've also been a drummer all my life so I'm accutely aware of how bad it can be.

@@DanielHatchman yeah. It's trickier when you get into double and triple tonguing, which trumpet and flutes do differently from most other wind instruments, so there's a certain velocity that builds up. Patterns that alternate tend to have the most obvious input lag, for lack of a better term.

@@MyDearFrodo I learned about it in my 10th year of playing trombone, after that it is quite hard to remove the wrong habit.

@@drunkenfarmerjohn42 what other wind instruments? your argument is full of sand

Wait where?

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@@3ldad226 חיים... איך אתה?

Yes sir

הוד גרשנזון סתם סבבה כזה כיף לראות לה ישראלי

היי

I have a question. How do you know when it is no longer on the screen if there is no audio cue to indicate? Do you just keep having a quick look now and again?

@@robertszynal4745 Having a little bleep when it ended would probably have been great to be honest. I'm not that sensitive so I'll just toss a quick glance at it. There are people on the platform who'll just blast strobe light in your face without any warning so credit where credit is due.

Gonna mark this as the first time I bumped into an epileptic person. How rad.

Super fast Instagram QnA **DU NU NU**

whats the intro song called. Is there a full version?