Adam Neely
@its_adamneely
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I talk to people about music sometimes on the internet, Bassist for Sungazer, he/him, black lives matter
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video games are art, yes, but gamers are annoying, so I vote we oppress them with wokeness
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the AI people are really good at writing some dystopian as hell tweets
Endless Spotify
> who cares who makes the music
> when it’s generated in real time
> the real artist is the prompter
> ideacel, curator, tastemaker
> an artist of vibes
Service
> will look like Twitter
> follow someone
> to listen to their promptstream
> like individual…
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The Blues uses a unique harmonic, melodic, timbral and rhythmic vocabulary that draws influence from a wide variety of sources including West and North African, and is definitely not “99% copied from European classical music.”
No, early blues was not "influenced by or derived from," it was 99% copied from European classical music.
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The $27 billion dollar music recording industry went all in on TikTok/streaming, and is now wondering why they now don't have marketable IP.
To put this into perspective, this would be like if the Hollywood went all in on 15-second Family Guy clips.
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“oh, you’re a musician? What kind of music do you play?”
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Game to play reading these replies…
White 1950’s jazz critic?
Or blue checkmark?
Thelonious Monk performing “Blue Monk” with Charlie Rouse on tenor saxophone, Larry Gales on bass and Ben Riley on drums live at the University Aula in Oslo, Noway, 1966.
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Music is the universal language the same way English is, in that it isn't
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fuck this, and fuck the crypto culture that spawned this
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My favorite music is music made specifically to spite me
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consequences of hinging the entire music industry on gaming streaming numbers through viral Tik tok audio
Music executives are “increasingly depressed” as they’re having trouble finding artists that can sell-out shows and not be known for just one viral hit.
Olivia Rodrigo and Ice Spice are named as rare breakthrough artists in today’s music. (Billboard)
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good.
Ed Sheeran did not copy Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On when composing Thinking Out Loud, US court rules
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Key changes do not equal musical complexity, nor musical value
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true story, yesterday i learned what a present participle is, and now i can't speak english
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In my most recent video, I said a truck horn was an E, but it was actually an F, and I left it in because I knew I'd get a boost in engagement from people with Perfect Pitching leaving...
...their F's in the chat.
😎
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I agree that the requirement to read sheet music for music school is unfair.
Unlike many of the professors here, I don’t agree that reading music is “trivially easy,” because if it was, you’d just spend an afternoon on YouTube, and the problem would be solved.
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hmm. i seem to have pissed off a lot of people today who don't know much about music theory.
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Did you know? Major scales are actually minor scales if you play them differently.
Follow for more music tips!
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the “pop songs no longer modulate” discourse has inevitably moved to 432Hz discourse, and the internet internets once again
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broke: hey ya is in 11/4
woke: hey ya is in changing 4/4 and 2/4 meters, and has a regular hypermeter.
bespoke: just feel it, man
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When established professional musicians lose their shit hating on Jacob Collier on a public forum it feels like some angsty goth kid typing "JUSTIN BIEBER SUCKS ASS"
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merry catmas! may your new year be filled with things that are good like cats and music
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our jazz fusion band (Sungazer) is ignored by all establishment jazz press, but metal blogs write about our upcoming tours, so that’s neat.
Come check out our US tour with Plini!
PLINI Announces North American Tour With JAKUB ZYTECKI & SUNGAZER
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run away with me is the greatest pop song ever recorded
In honor of Carly Rae Jepsen’s 38th birthday, tell us your favorite song or album by the star! 💿
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Lol, I make a viral video defending Dark Horse/Katy Perry...then Warner claims the video for "covering Dark Horse" as a cover song...but the content that they claimed was during the section where I was playing JOYFUL NOISE.
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um actually
A riff with the devil’s interval, banned by the Roman Catholic Church in the 13th century… can you guess what riff we’re talking about? 🎸
Greatest Guitar Riffs starts tonight 9pm on Sky Arts, with Tony Iommi. Freeview channel 36.
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Did you know?
The major scale was invented because the notes sounded pretty good to the people who invented it.
Follow for more music theory trivia!!
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cant wait for her to drop a jazz record and revive another dying genre
Beyoncé revives a dying genre on instantly timeless country album ‘Cowboy Carter’: review
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now announcing the newest member of Sungazer,
@_charlescornell
! Can’t wait to shred with him
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UM ACTUALLY
it's Gmaj7, voiced kinda weird
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As much as I'd like to remove my music from Spotify, I really can't. Booking live shows for Sungazer is based on how many Spotify listeners we have in a given market. At our level, Spotify is the industry de facto source for those analytics.
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music is like math in that it’s really fun to do for some people, and that’s honestly about it.
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AP music theory isn't suitable for advertisers, so why are we teaching it to high school students?
smh
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the trick to playing in 5 is to count to 5.
Fun fact! Follow for more useful music advice
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Did you know?
diminished chords are just minor chords but one note is different
follow for more music theory tips!
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I play Giant Steps in all 12 keys
I play the right chords to Round Midnight
I play Autumn Leaves in the original time signature of 3/4
I’m an alpha male and no I won’t apologize for it.
I drink my coffee black.
I eat my steaks rare and seafood raw.
I lift weights.
I eat my chicken wings hot.
I take my shots without chasers.
I like my beer domestic.
I sit with my legs spread wide open.
I read my Bible nightly.
I am an alpha male and no I won't apologize for it.
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in the US, when you replace a musician for a gig, the term we use is "subbing,"
ie, you "subbed" on a gig.
in the UK, the colloquial term is "domming."
fun fact.
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The more I learn music purely by ear, the more I realize I'm not directly perceiving "time signatures," so much as rhythmic relationships to pulse.
Hard to describe, but a lot of it is just "is it on or off the beat?" and, "what is the "vibe" of the subdivision?" Kinda wild.
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If the estate of Ed Townsend beats Ed Sheeran, the same musicological arguments could be applied to Ed Townsend’s first hit, For Your Love.
For Your Love is a doo-wop song that sounds...suspiciously similar to another doo-wop classic - At Last.
How similar?
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Charles Mingus once punched Jimmy Knepper in the mouth and ruined his embouchure, so yeah, jazz beef is when you maim your opponents so they can no longer play.
jazz beef would go so crazy. imagine you diss someone and they invent a new time signature about it
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Honestly, I think the US copyright office's definition of music is my favorite.
"Music is a succession of pitches and rhythms, or both, usually in a pattern.
basically, "idk, bro, shut up"
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this should be illegal
What if I told you...
... you could record in stereo...
... with no XLR cables?
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“repetition legitimizes” isn’t mine.
I got it from Dave Johnson at Berklee, who said it often. Probably to get us to write projects for Harmony class that weren’t just a non-stop assault of chords.
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Just watched a video of
@its_adamneely
at a show shouting “Are you ready for some time signatures???” and the crowd raucously cheered
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Oh shit the chuds made a literal 5 hour reaction to the music theory and white supremacy video.
Its so adorable seeing them try to talk about music theory. Really cute!
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I have a gig tonight in Brooklyn, but don’t know where it is, because all the details are in Instagram DM’s.
So if you know where I’m supposed to play tonight, let me know, because I don’t.
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Did you know?
Bb and A# aren’t the same note, even though they look the same and sometimes sound the same. Very tricky!
Follow for music theory tips!
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I’m not going anywhere, guys, haha.
I soft quit YouTube two years ago without really telling anybody, and nothing is going to change - I’ll still upload stuff whenever I feel like it, like I have been for the past two years.
You can’t get rid of me that easy!
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the author blames this trend on 1) hip hop and 2) DAW’s.
…and I mean, sure, but James Brown didn’t change keys either. I pretty sure it wasn’t because he was producing his stuff in Ableton.
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Am11b5 Musk
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this is a rhythm on sungazer's new record, but tbh it just looks like i'm shitposting in sibelius
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yes, i was in the dark queen
@ContraPoints
' latest opus. yes, this is far and above the highlight of my career.
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Talked to my daughter (5) about the use of chord scales in jazz education this morning.
She said “The widespread adoption of chord scale theory in higher education has led to generations of improvisers deeply removed from vocabulary and practice.”
So wise!
Talked to my daughter (8) about the covid situation this morning.
She said “It’s just like climate change. They won’t do anything because they say it’s too expensive, but it will end up costing humans.”
She’s more correct than she knows, the parallel’s run deeper.
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we used to be a country. a proper country.
we became cowards when we decided electronics shouldn’t look like this
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I'm being accused of plagiarism right now because 4 years ago I gave an unpaid, unscripted interview to Vox for Estelle Caswell's piece on Giant Steps, and the answer I gave on camera to a question about the circle of fifths was the same as how
@Sideways440
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it took me 10 seconds to record this tik tok, which in 24 hours has over a million views. some of my video essays take months of research and editing for half as many views.
screw it, ima be a tik tok star.
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i made a video arguing why Cb is not the same as B natural.
I’m so sorry.
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Actually, it's called Live and not Ableton. Ableton is the company that makes Live, which is why it is called Ableton Live. They make other products too, including Ableton Push, Ableton Note, and Ableton Link. What you think you are referring to as "Ableton" is actually Live
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28 alternate takes of Giant Steps.
28.
60th anniversary reissue of John Coltrane’s Giant Steps will include 28 alternate takes.
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you literally can’t make this shit up.
it’s beautiful, in a way
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lies.
Jazz is good for you.
When you listen to jazz, the music stimulates a calming effect on your body, signalling your central nervous system to lower your respiratory rate and heart rate.
@HopkinsMedicine
@JazzizMagazine
@NIH
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The problem with the Marsalis definition of jazz as having 1) swing, 2) blues, and 3) improvisation...
...is that bluegrass music fits that definition perfectly, and Bossa Nova has none of it, but jazz school students study Jobim, not Earl Scruggs.
Genre is a weird thing.
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because human beings live in texas
wow Twitter really sucks doesn’t it
Why are we wasting vaccinations on Texas if Texas has decided to join the side of the virus?
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One of the more depressing things to read are the reactions of Flight Attendants to my video on how hard it is to fly with musical instruments.
They are...not sympathetic.
To put it mildly.
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