How do you make lo-fi hip hop? | Q+A
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0:53 How do you make lo-fi hip hop?’
1:36 Do you want to collaborate with Davie504?
1:42 How do you think people with perfect pitch feel about microtonal music?
2:53 Are you good at piano?
3:26 Is Pink Floyd’s “Money” jazz?
3:36 Cmaj7#11?
3:49 Rhythm games becoming a means of enjoying a song?’
4:04 How to listen to jazz?
4:17 Song/Album of the decade?
4:21 Motown or Atlantic
4:25 Hablas español?
4:27 Is music profitable?
5:04 What are the practical uses of microtones?
5:25 How do you stay fresh with rhythms while composing?
5:45 Who is your favorite male jazz vocalist?
5:52 Is it hard playing with two drummers?
7:26 Have you ever listened to Greek music?
8:08 Why is 12TET the vibe in Western Music?
9:07 Why haven’t we seen a microtonal jazz fusion cover of single ladies in 4/20 yet?
9:15 How to develop a good work ethic with practicing?
9:32 Is it more important to study technique or theory?
10:28 Thoughts on Thank You Scientist?
10:32 What am I supposed to be thinking about while soloing?
11:27 How do you write velocity more accurately in sheet music?
12:32 Do you think the future of music will be DAWs?
12:59 Why all the microtonal stuff lately?
13:09 What are your thoughts on Simon Fransman?
13:19 Are you related to Blake Neely?
13:24 How do you internalize quintuplets?
13:52 Favorite Bernstein musical?
14:24 Why aren’t resonator guitars used in jazz music?
14:50 PleAse stop showing up in my nightmares
14:54 What key is Rihanna’s Umbrella in?
16:07 Ever play Jazz Crimes by Joshua Redman?
16:15 Why is music theory so daunting to learn?
17:15 Can you play the lick 1 million times when you hit 1 million subscribers?
17:33 What pop artist has the best music?
17:40 Is sungazer touring again?
I appreciate the existential terror humor
Why are we still here?
Just to suffer?
@Philip Schlaepfer jreg is a god
explore jreg
Its what I subscribed for... Oh and Jazz
thanks Adobe Photoshop
I think all musicians are like this lol
make hip hop then add a lo fi filter
*s o l v e d*
Hey bro show us how to make lofi hip hop bro
Bro stop
@@derpbot5715 thats great idea bro
slosh watch adam ??
noice
Bro, get back into your garbage can.
"Gonna be touring a lot more in the coming year" me: oof
M36class LMAO
Bruh
Well that aged like milk...
Yeah Covid-19
f a t a l i t y
When asked about the profitability of jazz guitar, my advisor always told his students about one legendary night in a local bar: "I absolutely killed that night, the audience loved me, we were all vibing on stage, we played some of our best stuff yet, and I made DOZENS of dollars"
Was he the inspiration for Pixars Soul?
Not that I know of, but imagine a 6' tall Fraggle Rock character in purple Corduroy pants, that's him
@@thembo your advisor is a god I hope you realize that
These days you could replace "Jazz Musician" with just Musician.
"Saxophone and odd time signatures does not jazz make."
Eat that, Brubeck.
haha
Take five was experimental jazz
Lmao, love that song but, gottem!!
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@@matthewkuhns7303 take five isn't the only Brubeck tune in an odd time. There's tons of stuff on the same album in weird time signatures.
"we are going to be touring a lot more in the coming year."
-Adam Neely 2019
Famous last words
*Coughs sarcastically*
“don’t go into music for profit”
Korean government: impossible
Kpop star? more like kpop *slave*
Pixel Bytes impossibru
You do know that record labels aren’t the government right?
troubled ibe
actually the korean government funds kpop groups as international diplomacy and spends a lot of resources on creating kpop bands
Hahahhahahaha so true
"Also 13. Because I'm feeling spicy."
I laughed so hard there.
Deadpool-ish
"Getting people engaged with the music by moving along to it"
Dancing. That's called dancing.
no u. u are called dancing,.
Technically it could be, but in reality most rhythm game inputs would not be described by most observers as "dancing." Like would you consider pushing buttons and flapping the strum bar of a guitar hero controller to be a dance, really? What about timed button presses on a normal console controller? Even the classic arcade-style rhythm games where you literally step on giant pads tends to not really resemble "actual dancing" even though it's literally meant to depict dancing and requires moving your entire body with various limb contortions.
At the end of the day dancing can basically be summed up as "movements that people consider to be dancing" in the same way that music is "sounds that people consider to be music," but I don't know if experimental dance has progressed far enough for you to be able to actually find real people who honestly consider these finger movements to be dancing. Even in music it's rare to find people that truly consider 4:33 to be music and that's a widely known landmark work.
Yeah I wouldn't quite call kodt rhythm games "dancing". Except for some of the newer ones because of VR becoming a thing. It's more like most of them are timing games, pressing a button at an exact time and doing it over and over. And some of them are just crazy complicated. It doesn't train you to play an actual instrument but it's probably invaluable for improving your timing and ability to focus on a lot of things at once, which for something like the drums is great, seeing as how drums can be the most complicated instrument to play and being able to count time while everyone is playing not on the beat and stuff like that is such a hard thing to learn.
I have a question though, is that Donkey Kong country game where you move forward by using a conga drum to control it, a rhythm game?
@@TheSquareOnes you should look at Dancerush and Dance Evolution. Two reasonably modern dance games that are basically just dancing but a game.
We don’t kink-shame people who like 2 drummers in a band
John Verne
... okay, we kink-shame some people
crea the chi boi Snarky puppy will love you then
I guess it's so filthy you can't find it on PornHub.
What about king crimson? They have 3.
@@thekout 3 drummers?!?!?
how in the hell does king crimson work?
Adam: 2 Drummer bands are great
Me, a live sound engineer: *REEEEEEE*
I love mixing bands with two drummers, keeps me on my toes.
@@HatfieldCreek that's hell for me
My high-school band used to bust a subwoofer thanks to double drum
As long as the one drummer has a soft beater and the other has a hard beater, it’s not toooo bad.
Or you don't let one have a kick at all: czcams.com/video/170Z9qBjfkI/video.html
6:55 This is what jazz does to me. I wasn't looking at the screen and you played that. I thought "Oh that's a cool jazzy-like chord" I rewatched the scene and it's literally you hitting the piano. Great.
Thus is why I am not a fan of jazz... When your music is vastly indistinguishable from a man slapping a keyboard, I simply do not enjoy it.
@@reaganharder1480 A lot of it is more controlled than that
One thing why I love(-ish?) jazz is because it opens me up to appreciate dissonance, opening myself to many more music.
@@reaganharder1480 if you feel so listen to blues. And then come back and listen to jazz. Might make you change your mind
@@deathtrap5556 r/woooosh?
Adam: Definitely don't recommend jazz bagpipes.
Me: Oh hell yes, jazz bagpipes.
Christian McCoy If you really are interested in jazz bagpipes, you’ll probably stumble across the work of Rufus Harley. If so, you should probably seek out the jazz-funk albums he did in the seventies, as his earlier attempts to incorporate the bagpipes into traditional jazz were decidedly “meh” by comparison.
Rufus Harley was the first guy I found after searching "jazz bagpipes" here on this site. But I will have to look more into it, thank you
Nice. I'm guessing that the problem with traditional great pipes was that natural drones will quickly de-tune from each other when outdoors. Also conical bore pipes sound nicer.
@@charleslambert3368 I mean if it's the GHBs, I find that it took a lot of playing and time outside to detune. That is, as long as you have a spit trap
Sounds like bagpipes have tons of upper harmonic content like distorted guitar, so even playing the thirds of chords can easily get ugly
“Are you good on the piano?”
“Yeah, but I suck on the organ...”
Why is this me?
Why tho
Elton John
- What's better than roses on your piano?
- Tulips on your organ.
🥜
"Go into music because you HAVE to make music..." Best advice you've ever given Adam. Good on you.
The itchiest itch ever. Like drugs: the first b9 is free.
Instructions unclear, got kindnapped and have to make music or else my family dies.
Bad advice for me because I love learning music, but I'm missing this apparent drive "real" musicians should have.
Makes me feel like this isn't for me, despite that absolutely not being the case.
i can confirm i went into music and i am glad i did
The guy at 14:54 has a German sounding name, where "B" is called "H" and "B flat" is "B" (don't ask me why). So he technically was right ;)
h
The stupid h in place of b in German music had been a copy error committed by a stupid monk in medieval times after some tried to cultivate two different b (higher and lower, „b durum“ and „b molle“) Sigh.
Medieval bikeshedding.
The lower b is the minor 7 and thus an entry point for jazz harmonics, among other stuff.
@@AndreasDelleske It's frustrating to see old mistakes live on like that. Like how "island" wasn't even originally spelled with an s :/
Im german and geeez this "h" instead of "b" is awful and cinfusing. Especially because most of the videos about music and music theory I watch in english, so I'm used to the english system but have to switch every time I am in my music class or something. Its annoying.
@S Interesting, thanks! They de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Musiklehre:_Das_Problem_mit_dem_Notennamen_H say that they didn't have the appropriate letter for the "B quadratum" as printing letter so they took the H instead... which looks similar :) Human life is messy :)
A tiny desk style concert for a million sub video. that would be cool.
Bump
Suggestion for 1M subscriber celebration: have a live stream where you and friends compose and record a song. But not just a "song in 10 minutes" type of exercise, something earnest. Have you seen clips of Esperanza Spalding's write-and-record-an-album-in-77-hours project? Something like that, but just one song. I think having an end product would be a much better use of your talents and time than something like, oh, playing the lick 1M times, or practicing major scales for 5 hours.
what about all the people who hate live streams (like me)?
youtube is about videos, not live streams
@@NoNameAtAll2 Don't watch the live stream and just listen to the final product (the music)
Good idea!
and don't listen to the chat for suggestions this time round lmao
that's a great idea. maybe with some fellow youtubers?
I’m Greek and I’ve grown up dancing Greek dances. I 110% appreciate what you said about Greek music. Not until I started to really play drum set did I even realize the music I had been dancing to my whole life was in odd time signatures. Just goes to show how natural it felt my whole life...
‘What key is Sweet Home Alabama in?’
Answer: whichever one you can belt it out the loudest in
Lmao how this comment not popular XD
The key to playing Sweet Home Alabama for our cover band is insisting on a 100 dollar tip in the can. Key is optional.
Never closed that 1 hour lofi mix so quickly!
Adam: hip
CZcams: hop
You should redo “Maple Leaf Rag” when you hit 1M. :1
Well...
6:18
Adam: "What's better than 2 people? Well, 3 people"
My dirty mind: O M G
"It's OK to put us in a three-way"
"Yes it is a very kinky thing"
broke: adam is starting to get deeper and deeper into the lofi community, and a genre he once hated he now loves!
woke: lofi is cheap, easy, fast content, and adam doesn’t want to do work over the holidays so he’e cranking out a bunch of lofi content
Oh lo-fi 😂 i wondered what lofi was...
"How do you make lo-fi hip hop?
Properly. Like Adam Neely does.
Yes
Just Some Guy without a Mustache WHY ARE YOU EVERYWHERE AAAHHH
Hey Justin II
@MC_ Chickenwing and vinyl record ambience noise
Did you eat Justin Y?
It’s so cool watching this channel as I go through college learning theory. remember watching as a junior in high school and wanting to understand everything you were saying so bad, and wanting to be able to analyze chords and melodies just by listening. You’ve helped me a lot in my journey through learning theory and improving my improvisation!
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I really appreciating these perfect transitions
The hardest part is when the flam is really noticeable, like really stops being tight and just sorta floats there...
... I call it the *FLAM BOYANT*
/releases confetti/
Good pun. 5/5 toasters.
*flam bouyant
@@leg-sc1bb... well shit
When it comes to flams when I'm playing drums I try to flam as much as possible I like flams a little too much.
As someone with perfect pitch, I absolutely LOVE your microtonal stuff. It's such a weird effect after years of clearly identified pitch to be lost in a sea of harmony.
This was my first introduction to this man. He is incredibly well articulated. I can tell he has an inherent ability to compose and convey his concepts through any language. Also, the metaphor between with learning japanese was spot on. Excellent content sir. I appreciate the understanding you have of the many possible backgrounds in your audience.
I had a music teacher named McNeely
i’m convinced having the last name Neely makes you good at music
Adam's parents are both musicians or music related in some way :)
So did Adam. Might be the same teacher!
"Sorry Jimmy I can't come over after school today I have to go to my ableton lesson" this is the dream
I always thought of Pink Floyds song Money as rock with coattails.
I always thought of everything from pink floyd as rock with a fancy hat
Just found your channel yesterday. Absolutely mindboggling. Been binge watching ever since. As a life long pro guitarist, at 75 yrs old, I find your channel simply awesome. Best channel on youtube. Thank you so much.
Almost 1 million, way to go Adam
"Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. Find it and keep It lit!"
Thanks!
@1:42 as someone with perfect pitch, listening to microtonal music is like watching a David Lynch movie - the experience is submitting to the fear that washes over you
Same. Only more like drinking something brown and it's tasting like thick fresh squeezed orange juice. Marvellous.
I, for one, love it! Jacob Collier FTW!
As a full-time musician I play solo acoustic bar gigs at least 4 nights/wk and it can be difficult to stay focused on playing good music and playing it well. My new trick is to imagine Adam Neely sitting across from me in the booth. Really makes me step up my game. Thanks Adam!
So excellent that you recommended H Jon Benjamin's jazz record, a really moving and unexpected jazz record
Having perfect pitch, I loved it.
Imagine if you hated colors like teal, magenta, or insert any other in-between colors, because they weren't the standard.
I feel the same way about the 12 notes.
I would expect that it's only annoying if you know a song perfectly and then someone plays it in a tuning that is just slightly off. And you can't help but notice that above the actual quality of the performance. But, since enjoying the tuning is part of the microtonal thing, there's nothing for it to get in the way of.
Oh, and do you notice when people intentionally tune their thirds to be more accurate so they'll ring better? Choirs and horn bands do this all the time--or, at least, I was always taught to do so in high school band and choir.
I liked it as well, but sometimes microtonal stuff can be overkill for my brain. Adam Neely or Jacob Collier are pretty good at using it in a tasteful balanced way. That stuff I appreciate
That intro really took a dark turn
Hey Adam! I'm an instructor at a very large music store chain, and our production lessons are pretty popular! They're definitely not as popular as traditional drums/piano/etc, but they're getting there.
1 Million cant come soon enough! Congrats!
You're a hero for doing this!
4:33 , This statement is my entire approach to over 30 years of playing Music. It feel good to have a respected , educated and professional Musician say it. Thank you.
lol. I love watching your videos, in part for the music theory, in part for your "gate's open, come on in" approach, and in a much larger part for your dry humor and visual punchlines. Thanks!
Re: “we let our bodies do the thinking for us,” yes, but only the nuts and bolts of *how* something musical happens. But the improvisation itself, just like conversation, is from the mind.
Carly Rae Jepsen has legit mad skills when it comes to writing catchy pop songs. Her EMOTION album was underrated IMO.
10:55 When Adam accidentally trolls every emo kid ever.
69UM24OSU12 I haven’t watched this video in a while so I don’t remember what’s here, but I already know that it’s just a G
WHEN I WAS A YOUNG BOY
@@GreeceKelly MY FATHER
i dont get it
@@sneddypie My Chemical Romance - Welcome To The Black Parade.
adam you're such an enrichment for my life
bro the quality of your videos is so fricken good keep it up
"I can somewhat play piano" *effortlessly doodles some complex riffs during the video*
right?! I don't think I can do that, and I've been playing since I was 6! grrr
Band name idea : *" Microtonal Fusillade "*
I like it
Oh that's how you spell it.
This one was great, Adam!
Adam,
I really enjoy your sense of humor!!
I have perfect pitch but the microtonal stuff is fine, actually it's even relieving because I don't have to concentrate on the frequencies and it's sometimes easy to hear this new relationships
When I first checked out microtonal music I was like ''Ohh yeah that's neat'', then I saw your Sevish recommendation and my mind was blown with colors and cadences I never knew were out there. Highly recommend ''In The Zoon'', ''So Thankful'' and everything else.
gotta say the intro to this is my favorite of all your videos i've seen. gotta love existential dread amirite
Hey, I recently started composing and I just discovered your channel. Its really interesting to see music theory explained in a humoristic way
Really wasn’t expecting a reference to H. Jon Benjamin’s jazz album. What a gem.
I recently watched a Carly Rae Jepson performance on NPR's Tiny Desk, where she and her band performed acoustic versions of three of her songs, and it was actually really good.
Thanks for these videos, love the content and conversation it provides
So I'm a senior in highschool and I just made the marine band early this school year and your explanation on why you should go in into music just completely validified my decision and I thank you for that😊👍🏻
I see Adam Neely, I click.
Instantly.
I like
Adam: A slave to the digital machine of content creation.
Me: Yeah but it christmas tho.
Your videos make me feel very safe. you’re like an older brother. love you, dude.
Happy new year, Adam!
I literally was thinking about what quintuplet swing would sound like when you mentioned it in this video.
17:35 "carly rae jepsen. only half kidding"
no adam, no kidding. you are 100% correct. congratulations
accurate. She rips.
Agreed. Carly Rae Jepsen seems to have so much fun with music, and pushes out into more interesting but danceable stuff with people like Charlie XCX and AG Cook in the pop-meets-noise world.
I just love that sincere intro mate
Hey Adam thanks for the great content this year best wishes and hope to see more in 2020!
I know the intro was supposed to be a gag but you alright my dude?
Yeah, Adam. We will still love if you decide to take a brake from making videos. (A short break, please)
Even if fans don't mind, the CZcams recommendation algorithm places a lot of value on a consistent, frequent upload schedule.
It was better when he wasn't attacking other genres that are actually gaining in popularity.
Man, he's kind of a dick right now.
@@Been.Here.Since.2007 K buddy
@@nickl2854 yeh k
Hey Adam, here's another question for your next Q&A :
Music is a vector of emotions such happiness, sadness, etc. These emotions we feel can partly be explained by the used of certain chords or even key. But what would be the equivalent for feelings like vertigo (or the feeling you can have reading Lovecraft or BLAME!) ?
Your channel is so inspiring. Thanks so much!
dude, you been polishing that piano!! excellent-the rewards of practice!!
YES - THANKYOU SCIENTIST ARE THE BEST AND I WILL LOVE THEM FOREVER AND EVER
So he is saying that watching his videos to learn music theory is like watching anime with subs to learn Japanese 😄
Kind of. The analogy doesn't quite work because Japanese anime is a special kind of slang-spoken Japanese that you would never hear real Japanese speak in public because the form is too rude. There's not really a way to compare it to English because Japan's hierarchical social structure is baked into the language with different expressions, lengthening or shortening your sentences, depending on who you talk to and their social position compared to yours in society. Anime Japanese is a unique slang form that is normally too rude to speak to just about anyone in Japan. It's different enough that Japanese people will recognize you speaking Japanese as if you were in an anime (provided they watch anime. A lot of Japanese don't) as opposed to real life.
@@caladbolg777 yes I’m sure this is how the original commenter wanted people to respond to his joke, an in depth analogy on why is is wrong
@@caladbolg777 As for your first point, some anime does have very realistic dialogue, so not completely incorrect. Although I will admit most shounen or action oriented series will give an experience similar to what you mentioned. It'd be like trying to watch a Deadpool movie to learn how to talk to people, or Pulp Fiction. Many a cuss word and a disrespect those characters have. As for the hierarchical structure and talking to different people differently, you could absolutely learn that just by watching subbed media. We do that in America here too you know, as well as literally every other country. It's not unique. We regularly change up our speech to be more respectful based on who we're talking to. Of course it's much more shall we say mandatory in Japan, what with the entire population being social prudes, but it's just an exaggerated version of what we have to a certain extent.
I wish you the best for the next year. thank you for many, many videos....
please don`t stop.
greatings from frankfurt
As a bass player and CRJ fan I love that that answer came so quickly to you
it's kind of insane that a music theory channel talking about such a niche subject is so close to 1mil, not that it isn't deserved, it's just that I wouldn't have expected it to happen. good job man!
I must correct you on the Bernstein musical response: He also wrote a musical based on the satirical novel Candide in 1974.
Hayden of Everything And many more ;)
I'm a drummer and I recently found your channel and have been watching a ton of your videos and this was the first mention of marching percussion I've heard! Yay! Blue Devils, baby
Never expected the nerdy stuff to be so interesting. Good work!
Question for your next Q&A: Do you have any books you recommend for people who want to start learning music theory.
3:50
On this subject I had a weeb friend that was SUPER into DDR and more specifically some kind of free and open source knockoff of DDR that I can't remember the name of now. He knew next to nothing about playing music, writing music, etc, but through those games he extrapolated this bizarre dance game centric sense of rhythm that over time evolved into him literally having this savant level system in his head for rhythm that made absolutely no sense to me but seemed water tight on his end. He eventually (like a decade later) took up playing drums because his church band was missing a drummer and he was like "how hard could it be, you're just hitting pads instead of pushing buttons" and for him that observation was 100% correct. He plays in several bands now and has since learned traditional rhythm notation but he claims in his head he still thinks with his weird DDR centered system that I still do not understand. Maybe one day I'll demand he translate it on paper into traditional rhythmic notation.
So the DDR game is Stepmania, and as someone who plays both rhythm games and percussion this is absolutely accurate, but I've never heard of translating the notes on the page into a rhythm game chart you visualize yourself.
That intro was the funniest, realist, most amazing shit ever. Love you bro
Top-tier speaker setup in the background!
this "a scanner-darkly-like" intro, love it
tips for lofi hiphop: GET GOOD AT SAMPLING GET GOOD AT FLIPIN SAMPLES
Got hooked on lo-fi hip-hop mere days ago, and just started using this video after learning some Japanese.
I know it means nothing, but I got the spooks. ローファイヒップホップが好き！
i really appreciate the candor here
Question for the next Q/A:
Hey Adam, just subscribed, have been binge watching your content. I'm not sure if this question has been asked, but do you enjoy 'classical' music as a 'jazz' musician? If so are there any particular styles/periods you like? Why or why not? I know this question is very cliché, but I'm justed interested to hear your thoughts on 'classical' music
A Moon Hooch/Sungazer tour sounds amazing
One of my professors actually plays live with Thank You Scientist, I think he went touring with them in Brazil during Finals week. He’s a cool dude.
Yes to Shawn Crowder's quintuplet swing playlist. Also to his quintuplet swing video.
"Well I should have..." is amazing! :D
"Have you ever listened to greek music?"
...does Septicflesh count?
now we're asking the real questions
check out omega btw, top notch greek black metal
In as much as saying i hold a degree in Egyptology from listening to Nile, which btw i fucking adore.
yall gotta listen to Aphrodites Child immediately
Listen to manos hajidakis or rebetika true Greek music
@@raulperez2308 Come on, Septicflesh is not black metal.
- a big Septicflesh fan
Loved the Godspeed You! intro
Moon Hooch is rad! You guys are the perfect openers