What is the most dissonant interval? | Q+A
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I like the way that Adam's keyboard just slides out of what appears to be his desk. I imagine that he has keyboards concealed in his kitchen table and countertops, and bedside table, and probably even the bathroom sink.
funniest comment looooool
Out of his pillow cover lol
Only liked to make the 400th comment
now I want keyboards everywhere like this. How convenient will that be!
no I won't imagine
I could never imagine Adam saying "fursona"... oh my
Catam Neely.
made so much better by him pretending not to know exactly what it means
legitimately caught me off guard
There is already r34 art of him
when he said that i felt a primal fight-or-flight response in my soul
the quizzical way with which you said "fursona" was just...the best thing that's happened to me all morning.
He kinda said it like Raymond Holt would ahahah
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I am so 0
88feet of course
As a furry, I absolutely agree-
That was hilarious!
“I think you would call that a- uh… *fursona..?* “
I love how you never refer to any of these intervals or chords as “bad” just that they’re dissonant or a little spicy. It’s all subjective
Very Persichetti of him
"dude that sounds SO bad!"
*it's not bad, it's SPICY*
Dissonance is not bad if it resolves
@@pdorism I mean I think one could also find a creative artistic use for unresolved dissonance.
How dare you interrupt the "repetition legitimizes" joke. I expect this interruption to be repeated in future videos.
Thats the only way I would acknowledge its legitimacy
I was waiting for that, godd*** xD
My exact thought
Went straight to the comment section to search for this haha
Illegitimacy has to have been repeated enough times by now to reach legitimacy.
Your hair is looking very E today adam
very purplemaj7th indeed
i don’t get it
@@louiszaffino4071
It's ok louis
Why did I think that this meant his hair was gonna be green?
@@louiszaffino4071 need to watch his video where he talks about Chromesthesia
The way you feigned discomfort when you said, "Fursona" killed me lmao
It wasn't a feign (I hope)
@@davidchurchman5771 Are you sure?
@@segmentsAndCurvesI mean who in the hell discusses furries and fursonas without at least some degree of discomfort?
@@pikapool4571 You haven't learnt much.
@@pikapool4571 Also, it's like a meme inside the fandom to (jokingly) assume that people are furries even when it obviously isn't the case. Sadly, some non-furry doesn't like that.
I love how the human brain associates the word “dissonance” with Frank Zappa, as shown by the thumbnail.
I associate it with Schönberg
Or Sun Ra
@@TimothyReeves I associate dissonance with Schönberg by way of his influence on Zappa
"You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream." -- Frank Zappa
Idk
"I believe it is called a..."
Please say Catam Neely, please say Catam Neely, please say Catam Neely -
"...Fursona"
DAMNIT!!!
Catam Furry
I wish id seen this a few seconds earlier lmao
on the upside now we have a clip of adam saying fursona
It's official, he's a furry.
Adam Nya-ly
what i expected: dissonant intervals
what i got: adam neeley fursona
Glad i wasnt alone in that
"Metal music theory" channel has wonderful breakdowns of metal harmony and rhythmic structures
Can't complain though!
Best treat in years!
"Tears in Heaven" by Clapton as a wedding song always boggled my mind. Had that a few times. It's a song about Clapton's grieving for his dead son. Talk about setting yourself up with some bad voodoo lol
"Smile" by the Cockney Rebels baffles me why people find it all cheery. It's a sarcastic/angry song about his ex-bandmates screwing him over.
Then you had a spate of people having "Wake me up when September ends" by Green Day as their wedding song when that came out --???!
Ive had several ask for Every Breath You Take. I've had to explain to them the song isn't what they think 🤣
Being a grieving dad, also, I totally get this. Especially since my daughter was barely older than his son when it happened.
My daughter would be turning 11 yrs old this year, on Sept 11. Instead, she's forever 22 months old thanks to her mother, who thought that texting was more important than actually paying attention to the road while she was driving. And she wrecked. And that wreck killed our child. Absolute worst day of my entire life.
@@bordershader I don't ever remember hearing When September Ends as a wedding song. It was always used as a graduation song.
I just wanna say I'm hopeful we get to see a Zappa music analysis anytime soon.
I've heard that essentially all of the "improvised" bits for all of the Zappa recordings were carefully written.
HE PULLED OUT THE PIANO FROM HIS DESK AGAIN THIS IS SO COOL
He's a musician, that's why.
I pull out a computer keyboard from under my desk...
What do you pull out?
@@JoeLabisch I pull out my... Nevermind...
MIDI controller, to be precise. Hell of a tool.
Now I just want to get a mini piano keyboard and swap it for a coworkers computer keyboard :-D
So Adam Neely unironically suggested that 'If you can play it slowly, you can play it quickly'.
..you can though?
Only because he practices 40 hours a day
sAcRiLegIoUs
inTeResTing
It's one of those fun colloquial style phrases that people like to use. Instead of using the word "slowly," I would argue using the word "deliberately;" that is to learn to tackle a new muscular movement by understanding exactly what the movement is so that your brain and your body can synchronize and program the movement appropriately to recall at speed later. For instance on guitar, moving from one chord shape to another might require a particular odd jump for a particular finger while simultaneously being more accurate and strong with your pinky stretched on the second chord. If that's the first time you are learning a switch like that, it helps to slow down and understand that movement in order to be able to do it quickly in a fast tempo.
"Maybe this is the sound that gets you there."
MASHES KEYBOARD REPEATEDLY
The “dragon” and “Russian” pun got me :D
"That jokes not even funny". I dunno Adam, I breathed a little heavier when the joke came up. Id say that counts for something.
I did slightly exhale the air out of my lungs a bit faster than i had during his previous statements
I had smoke coming out of my nostrilovs. (Quickly at first, then slaving down.)
Instructions unclear. Manual breathing mode activated
@@jwaj watch the he-man 3 non blondes cover and automatic breathing should reengage
Edit: I wrote 3. Imagine instead if i had written 4, instead
😤
I'm jealous of your desk that allows to to conjure a keyboard. How do I get one?
Have one custom made for you. That’s how I got mine, and I’m sure Adam got his that way too.
check out zaofurniture and studio desk forniture
@@dirgmario or you could be like rdavidr and just build your own custom desk lol
I thought he just has a rollable slab of wood attached to it, which he placed a keyboard on
@@conorreedR2C yeah, well, I don’t really have the tools nor space to do that, so, why make something myself when I can pay someone else to do it for me 😁
The problem with the “if it feels good, it is good” mentality is that I’ve found so many people who don’t know theory end up defaulting to only one or two scales/modes because that’s what “feels” natural and good to them. They are limited in their musical vocabulary and experimentation because of it.
Simplicity isn't necessarily a bad thing, but I do however understand your frustration. If you fully understand the rules, you'd also know when to break them. The problem isn't necessarily lack of knowledge, but rather fear of failure. If something works just fine, you see no reason to change anything, hence you won't change anything, leading to lack of experimentation
exactly, the most "dissonant" is a highlighted minor second sforzatto in FFF dynamics and in a consonant context. Best at the C-2 and c-3 range (alt/soprano voice). To low or to high is again more consonant
I think the problem is yours. If someone is ok, for example, with a blue scale, there's no problem at all. I think musical limitation is a problem from your perspective and ambitions
haha total!
c major first inversion and g major first inversion are the only things that makes me feel good
First 60 seconds of the video
Adam: "These are called prime dissonances."
Me: No, those are panic chords
Prime Dissonance! At The Disco
idk how to make a mathcore joke here, i pretty much BOTCHed it
Yep, the whole time he was talking about those intervals, I was like "I know one way to use all 3 of them: in a breakdown between chugs"
@@heavymachete6235 I love botch
Adam saying 'Fursona' has had a collossal effect on my recommended videos.
Oh no.
*J O I N U S*
these anti-thumbnails are somehow more effective..
it works because you want to hear the explanation
Seriously though
czcams.com/video/IImYdIXAz-4/video.html
In other words, if you hear in the bass a C and a G, you know, "You're in the key of C, buddy." You are anchored to a tonality, and when a soloist comes along and plays the C#, he's sending you a message. And where that C# goes is part of the adventure of playing the solo. And if he's playing a B natural or an F# against those notes ... they're like ingredients in a stew. I mean, there's a right way and a wrong way to stick a C# on top of a C-G groundbase. If you play all notes that are part of the C major scale, the recipe you have just prepared is oatmeal, know what I mean? So it's like the difference between eating oatmeal and eating salsa.
It’s Adam’s specialty
4:47 Local jazz musician grows mad with power (2021, colorized)
"That joke's not even funny"
False. I laughed quite a bit at that joke. Good one, Adam.
When Zappa is on the cover, the video goes straight to the top of the line!!!
They should pitch those vaccine posts with zappa pics
Top of the line? How do you mean?
@@leaveitorsinkit242 the line of videos to watch
but why was zappa on the cover? he didn't mention him at all. I clicked for zappa and got nothing :(
@@cmingus2044 I was thinking the same thing. I wasn’t disappointed by the video tho. Adam does a good job.
I had to play "How to disappear completely" by Radiohead at a wedding. Excellent song, extraordinarily odd wedding song lol
damn that's the worst wedding song ever
Wow lol
Some good advice that you just didn't take...
And it isn't Ironic.
Really?? Now that is my type of wedding.
3:59 Case in point, that chord is genuinely horrifying enough to make it feel like this moment was taken from a horror film where Adam is an evil piano teacher who murders his kidnapped "students" who make the mistake of not approaching the music on its own terms.
As a current Berklee student, it's pretty cool when you talk about things that we just so happened to go over in class like two days ago
dude im an engineering student and its also pretty cool when he talks about things that leave me just as confused as the things we just so happened to go over in physics like two days ago
its like wow im confused again only this time its my own fault lmao
The most important lesson I took away from this video is that Adam Neely has a Fursona
and it’s a cat, which honestly is a *purr*fect fit. please end me.
Hearing that hit me like a truck, I was _not_ expecting that
There is a furst for everything.
Question And Answer Time With CATAM FURRY
Hehehe
oh boy i cant wait to hear adam talk about frank zappa!
Edit:😢
9:05 "if you can play it slowly, you can play it quickly"
This TwoSet quote needs more love.
Came looking for this
Very profound but also simple. I’ve heard from drummers that the hardest things to play are slow grooves because it’s tough to keep time. I imagine practicing slow gets you more relaxed at keeping time and thus more comfortable playing fast.
"If you can play it slowly, you can play it quickly" - Ben Lee, sacreligious boi.
Ling Ling 40 hrs!!
In Jiu Jitsu they say "Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast." I think that holds up pretty well for what you talk about in the high tempo playing section!
Thats a saying in auto racing aswell
Same thing in firearms competitions
Also mountain biking.
also sex
@@schweppes1313 severely underrated reply
Confirmed: Adam is a flat-niner
Wow... that's a great movie reference.
Facts
Hey Adam.
I am a partially hearing person as a result of childhood illness and hearing injuries while in the military. According to my audiologist I am 60% deaf, meaning I can’t hear 60% of frequencies. After my later injury my doctor flat out told me I would never enjoy a Tool album again.
I feel like my hearing loss has deeply affected the music I enjoy. (Mostly jazz and metal for some reason).
Any thoughts on partially hearing people listening to, or playing music?
There was a story on vice a while ago about a punk bar operated in a deaf community center in San Francisco in the 70’s, and apparently a lot of deaf people would frequent the shows holding balloons up to their chests or heads to ‘feel’ the sounds the bands made. I also used to tune timpanis over the sound of the horn line in my school bands by holding a tuning fork to the back of my skull. Idk if that helps your situation at all but I thought I’d mention it
bass is your best friend!
@@pentaholicproductions5468 bruh lmfao
That's just mean
Did he maybe say that because Tool are bad?
I love how you're able to answer the question posed right in the thumbnail and I still click the video.
anti-clickbait
clicked so fast as soon as I saw Zappa in the thumbnail.
Unfortunately no Zappa to be found on the video :(
@@gamer966 I would argue he is indirectly. Here is a direct quote of Frank's:
In other words, if you hear in the bass a C and a G, you know, "You're in the key of C, buddy." You are anchored to a tonality, and when a soloist comes along and plays the C#, he's sending you a message. And where that C# goes is part of the adventure of playing the solo. And if he's playing a B natural or an F# against those notes ... they're like ingredients in a stew. I mean, there's a right way and a wrong way to stick a C# on top of a C-G groundbase. If you play all notes that are part of the C major scale, the recipe you have just prepared is oatmeal, know what I mean? So it's like the difference between eating oatmeal and eating salsa.
Hmm - me too... we've been click-baited. LOL Neely is very cunning!
@@gamer966 Indirect Zappa quote at the end as well, really thought he would bring it up :(
“The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it's shitty."
Is there an unspoken tradition in Neelyspeak that Zappa is to be tiptoed around?
Adam Neely matures into stately meandering Q&A's.
Hey Adam, I was playing around with Logic 10 because you said it was difficult to do automations like that in non-Ableton DAWs. I found the tool for it actually relatively quickly. It might have been a new addition, but in either case it's there now. It's definitely a little more difficult than Ableton from what I've seen, but it's really very similar and still doesn't cross the threshold of what I would call difficult (as someone who has literally been using Logic for less than a week at this point). It's a slightly different workflow, for sure, but ultimately it's a similar presentation to how you would apply effects in Ableton. Not trying to trash you, Ableton, or come off like a Logic stan haha, but I just felt it should be said. Anyways, love your videos, have a good one!
I think the main distinction is whether the automation lines appear over the audio track itself, or in a separate space parallel to it. How they actually operate is pretty much the same in every major DAW, I think.
0:16
i genuinely didnt see him pull it out the first time i watched i was like WHAT MAGIC IS THIS
what a
*_smooth criminal_*
If you record yourself and it sounds like you're Russian, try not writing in A or D minor, using fewer dominant 5ths, adding in less over the top harmonic minor violin runs, and using fewer male choirs.
Also bass playing cat as Adam's sona is so cute and so fitting.
Хорошо, я учту
Ahaa this is great lmao
Why do I need to hide that I’m Russian?
daaaaaaaaaaaa
@@mikubrot It’s more of an ironic question
Clicked for Zappa
The Prime Dissonants would be a great name for a band.
The anti clickbait thumbnails make me click so much faster. Adam, you squirrelly goose
"If you can play it slowly..."
- A certain violinist duo, probably
I was looking for that... We need a TwoSet and Adam cooperation
Two set!!
Grade X Under X pls no. Too memey and kid-targeted. They’re like the davie504 of violin
@@thesmashfloydian Gotta agree about the kid-targeted subject, I’d still want it though
@@thesmashfloydian funny is for kids now? Adult entertainment are on other websites my dude
10:58 Catam Neely
I think it's interesting that even though I know intellectually that a major 7th is considered dissonant, in context it can be incredibly beautiful. Even before I learned music theory, I intuitively perceived harmonies or melodies focusing on the major 7th as "pretty" sounding, even more so than other intervals. a piece like satie's gymnopedie no1, which is built around the major 7th, sounds peaceful and serene, rather than harsh. it doesn't sound "tense" or unresolved. context absolutely transforms how we hear dissonances, even if the interval by itself sounds harsh or unpleasant.
Intro to "Killing in the name of" is example of using minor 9th exactly because it creates so much tension
It’s not played at the same time as a chord though so it doesn’t really count. It does create tension as a dissonant riff but I don’t feel it has any need to resolve harmonically.
he interrupts the "repetition legitimizes" joke, a pattern that settles nicely into 9/8, to talk about how other cultures are more used to music in 9/8? what??
if you follow the channel, the joke is at the stage where you hear it without it even needing to be there
it's become natural like 4/4
@@dopaminecloud No joke, I hear those words in my head often now whenever a relevant situation (musical or otherwise) arises.
The pattern settles nicely into 9/8? How do you mean?
@@leaveitorsinkit242 re-pe-ti tion-le-gi ti-miz-es. nine syllables that don't roll off the tongue in 9/8, but can be broken into a pattern of 3 sets of 3 syllables. that's how i metrically percieve it though, results may vary
@@themandownstairs4765 😆 I’ll give you credit for that, but the 9/8 rhythm in his example had three groups of 2’s and one group of 3. So... I don’t know if three groups of 3’s really makes the cut.
11:04
Broke: Fursona
Woke: Cat-am Neely
2:27 Kaytranada uses this type of voicing so much in his production! He'll often pan one chord (e.g. B minor with F# on the bottom) in the left ear and another chord a 4th above (i.e. E minor with B on the bottom) that one into the right ear, which can create that dissonant yet harmonious effect (cos you're filling in the minor 9th of F# and G with the notes in between).
I love videos where you take questions, Adam. I hope you have the time to do them more frequently! Fursona???!
I physically snorted when Adam said "fursona".
10:00 There's a song you'll hear on every polish wedding, "windą do nieba": czcams.com/video/PWTLbvZRdJw/video.html The chorus is a somewhat dreamy piece about how the girl is getting ready for her wedding. The stanza is about the bride saying farewell to her crush, about how she has no feelings for the groom, long story short - about how she is not at all happy with the situation. If one actually follows the text, the song is not dreamy, but quite melancholic - and by no means to be sung at a wedding. Still, you'll hear it at every wedding from Świnoujście to Ustrzyki
The entire history of human culture follows the principle of that line from Nirvana's In Bloom - most people are just sort of nodding along with what's going on around them hoping no one notices they haven't got a clue what they're doing. The reproducibility of culture is affected far more deeply by the attempt to fit in than we give it credit for.
I want a loop of Adam going "CLICK! RED LINE! DRAW!"
Repetition Legitimizes, after all
Same lol
The minor 9th is my favourite sound. Along side the major7#11 arpeggiated on a guitar it sounds so mysterious but beautiful
I’m a simple man, I see Frank Zappa, I click.
Bingo.
First time I've seen Zappa used as clickbait. Oh well, good video.
@@dickiebobradio1304 Here I sit all broken hearted, clicked for Zappa or Captain Beefheart.... ed
Same here lol
i was hoping to hear him talk about fz
I clicked first thing when I saw Frank Zappa in the thumbnail
I was disappointed he didn’t talk about him in the video 😢
@@AkimboCorndogs Same
I was disappointed and then I wasn't. Lol.
@@AkimboCorndogs I don't think you can say the name Zappa nowadays without getting legal threats from his family
There is a direct quote for Frank in an interview where he discusses, within an example, using a C# note within an improvised guitar solo over a C and a G within the bass.
I have studied Zappa for about 2 years now (Specifically the way he composed and improvised guitar from about 1977 through 1988) and plenty of topics in music theory that Adam Neely discusses tangentially augments my Frank studies. His bandmate's, Shawn Crowder, first major CZcams video discusses in great depth how to tackle Frank's most infamously rhythmically difficult pieces.
I really enjoy your presentation style. Very engaging and enlightening. Thank you!
Uster was a piece of rack mount gear called "Russian Dragon" for keeping on beat.
The fact that you didn't just plug your own video earns my respect. Most creators would have just said to go watch that other video and moved on.
Much love, my musical friend.
2:17. I love the sound of that chord. Especially the way you balanced the notes of that voicing on the bass. It's a really melancholy take on the major 7th, Lots if cool places that could go. Even if just as a passing chord, it has a real visceral quality.
cool video, I can't wait to see more Sungazer's music, the two EPs are so amazing
Q: "Where's the minor 9th useable in western music"
Me: *djent breakdown noises*
This comment was GOLD!
Lmao
Nods in Frank Zappa.
Listen to Scriabin etude 65 n 1 for beautiful ninths uwu
DJDE
When your thumbnail is so anti-clickbait that it creates interest again
11:50ish. “The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it's shitty. The more your musical experience, the easier it is to define for yourself what you like and what you don't like." - Frank Zappa
A cat is the most accurate impersonation of Adam’s personality
"are you a rusher or a dragger?"
Yes, I play rythyn games.
"I believe its called a... _fursona_ ?"
No idea what you're talking about man, not in the slightest
Hey I’ve never seen an Elias randomly like this!
@@Qyver there's a first time for everything
@@eliasmg9144 Great, a pure human being.
As a visual artist who has a ton of experience using Photoshop, I was amazed the first time I saw someone using Ableton. It's like magic! The changes you can make with such minor adjustments in Ableton blow my mind.
Sweet - can't wait for that new album drop! Keep it up Adam and Sungazer :3
Now we need a shirt with "CLICK. RED LINE. DRAW!" on it xD
When I click onto the red line, it is always a draw.
I remember Rick Beatos wise words were: DISSONANCE = EMOTION
I remember, “Hendrix chord”.😉😅👍🏻
good stuff, always lively and entertaining with an educational twist.
"Will you answer my question?"
"Yes!"
LMFAO
As a graphic designer who knows nothing about music, I can tell you that you do a good job of making your typography interesting and balanced. For a non-initiated, you get my seal of approval!
Zappa in the thumbnail, you won me
awesome vid! love the way you explain music theory stuff
I was listening to Apostrophe at the exact moment your video showed up. Loved it!
I'm a simple man, I see Zappa in the thumbnail, I click
I'm starting a piece with that minor9th voiced major7th chord now.
my favorite q and a yet :)
I love that Adam puts the answer in the thumbnail so I don’t actually have to watch the video, thanks Adam
Adam's musical skill level is so high he can summon a keyboard out of thin air
Lost it at 11:03, never thought i'd hear that from the neelster
I can't believe that video was released 5 years ago. Still living the content though! Thanks Neely!
1:44 to 1:55, is a central motif in Tom Waits’ “Alice”. Hauntingly beautiful song.
"If you can play it slow...."
-Adam Neely 2021
Sacrilegious
I'm pretty sure I can do that same automation thing in Logic. Just hit A on your computer keyboard and all the automation pops up in the same way with the lines and everything.
FL Studio (which I insist is the most dubby DAW) also makes it really easy. Its not a line on the track like in Ableton but is rather a separate element on the UI, but I like to see it separately anyway and it is still very easy to manipulate and interpret.
That's when someone is not an authority on DAWs.
There is plenty of basic wisdom on DAWs, including stuff that is defying the claim Adam made: Like that the DAW you use is of little relevance; If you have mastered one, you can do everything with it. The point is simply which makes it easiest for your personal taste to master it.
Great advice about learning to play bass fast! This concept applies to drumset as well
YOU ROBBED ME OF MY REPETITION LEGITIMISES! That hurt way more than I was ready for. Damn you and your subversion of expectations toying with my emotions, Neely.
But also I love you, keep up the awesome work you're the one reason I've kept studying music in my own time as an adult. ❤️ Much love from Australia!
"Hammers might be pretty but houses might be more useful."
I'm gonna put that over a picture of the sunset and post it all over facebook, so inspirational.
The funniest part of this is that hammers are definitely more useful. An apartment can provide shelter, but a hammer helps build both as well as hundreds of other objects in life.
@@mss11235 Also, seriously, hammers are pretty? What a home improvement nerd.
@@Dowlphin Never fucked a hammer? While taboo, Roger Waters definitely recognizes the psycho-sexual evocation of the hammer's shape when he satirizes the Nazi movement in the Wall with hammer imagery.
@@mss11235 - Still more useful to be lazy around a house than be homeless with a hammer.
Hey Adam! I'd love to hear you cover a video on how some musicians use certain aspects of music theory as their kind of sound or calling card. People like Zappa or Steely dan with their special chords that they used all the time. And how to make those ideas and calling cards not feel lazy or repetitive etc.
Might be another interesting video like this one was!
This is the only channel where I look forward to Q&A’s.
Always good to see zappa recognition
I was expecting Frank Zappa to make an appearance.
He's dead. Yeah, died.
ZAPPAAAAAAA 😍😍
_Fonts in Use_ calls your particular font choice for those thumbnails “the most prominent usage of *Coolvetica* since the _Catch Me If You Can_ title sequence.” Bravo!
I prefer automation in FL Studio. You can easily make automation clips, link whatever you want to any automation clip, and place them wherever you want on the timeline.
FL Studio is extremely capable at Automation, I recommend checking it out (demo is free). You can set each line of your automation to be a line, sine wave, step series, half-wave, logarithmic sinusoid, and everything in between.
Yeah, I got the impression FL Studio is actually quite intuitive and thus beginner-friendly. I.e. if the entry threshold is low, you can immediately lauch like a rocket, and then if it you grow dissatisfied, it is because of the great energy it unlocked in you that wants to break barriers.