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The Music Theory of Sea Shanties

Arrr you ready to analyze some sea shanties?!

Yes, I'm getting in on the Tik Tok Shanty trend. I learned a lot over the past week about Sea Shanties...and damn, are they cool!

Thanks so...

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Making a NEVER-ENDING Neural Net Bass Solo (ft. Dadabots)

So about a month ago, CJ from Dadabots, an AI audio hacker group, reached out to me asking me for 20 minutes to 2-hours of raw bass solo so they could train a raw audio neural net to produce a stre...

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Christmas Songs, but they're in a 15/16 time signature

Hey guys!

New video coming atcha, bonus material coming soon for y'all too, so stay tuned. Hope you're staying happy and healthy.

Adam

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Can you play the Mario Kart Lick on BASS? | Q+A

New q+A! Thanks guys so much for your continued support!

Adam

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Thelonious Monk's 25 Tips for Musicians

Going through a list of tips Thelonious Monk gave young saxophonist Steve Lacy with the help of Brian Krock, who has a very excellent2020-11-23 09:34:00 +0000 UTC View Post

I played a concert during a pandemic

!!!

Adam

(The India vlog will go up for $10 patrons later today)

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What is the "Misty Chord?" | Q+A

Midweek Q+A vidya coming atcha!

Atcha! (Hindi word for "OK")

-Adam

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Music Theory is Racist

Spicy video essay today! This represents several months of work and research, hope you enjoy it.

Adam

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White Privilege and Music

I made this short video speaking more to what white privilege is in music, and the circumstances in which it's created. I know this isn't music theory, but I've been thinking a lot about these thin...

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The ****ed up legacy of the arrest of Miles Davis

I wasn't planning on making a video this week, but to be a major voice of music education online and not make something addressing my feelings of the past week was not an option. 

Americ...

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Groove! (how to get good at music)

Hey guys!

New viewer critique video out, hope you enjoy! 

Adam

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Benedetti's Puzzle (mathematically impossible music)

Italian mathematician Giovanni Battista Benedetti wrote several letter to the composer Cipriano de Rore, the contents of which contained several puzzles that demonstrate the issues of tuning music ...

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14 Years of YouTube

THANK YOU SO MUCH everybody for being my Patron, and continuing to support this channel and what it is that I do here!

I'm sitting here at the end of a long week and a half of scripting, edit...

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How to Emoji Music

Goofy stuff with Ben Levin - we sit down to try and figure out a way of representing a conversation we had in nothing but Emojis. Yes, I do realize that this thumbnail is obnoxious. No I don't regr...

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Why are these chords so cool? | Q+A

Hey guys, stay safe and stay healthy! New Q+A

Adam

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Are these two rhythms the same?

A fun discussion among friends/musicians about the psychology of notation.

Adam

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Touring with a Prog Rock Big Band

Hey guys! Got a chance last October to tour with Sara McDonald's NYChillharmonic, did a gig vlog. Enjoy!

Adam

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Learning to like Contemporary Christian Music (the music that I hate)

I hate CCM, or Contemporary Christian worship music, and so I spent a long time acclimating myself to the style in hopes that I learn how to not hate it. I didn't really succeed, but I did learn a ...

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Every Melody has Been Copyrighted (and they're all on this hard drive)

I sat down with lawyer Damien Riehl and his associate Noah Rubin to talk brute forcing melodies as a means of exposing flaws in the current copyright system. 

Adam

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Analyzing Demi Lovato's arrangement of the Star Spangled Banner at the Super Bowl

Hey guys!

I had some thoughts on the arrangement of the Star Spangled Banner that Demi Lovato sang last night at the super bowl!

Adam

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Run Away with Me reharmonized!

WOOO!

Hot on the heels of the Hello reharmonization, we have Run Away With Me by Carly Rae Jepsen reharmonized with a 17-piece ensemble of horns, strings, and 7-string djents. This one is the...

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Christmas Microtonal Lo-Fi Hip Hop

Yes, I went and did it. 3 Microtonal Christmas songs rendered out in glorious Lo-Fi Hip Hop. I'm trying out some vloggy stuff, hope you enjoy it!  

This one took a while to put together ...

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Sungazer's First Tour

Hey guys!

This is a MASSIVE vlog that I've been working on for a while on the tour that I did with my band Sungazer a couple weeks back. It was not only an undertaking to do the tour, it was ...

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Shawn Crowder learns Shubh Saran's music

Hey guys,

Just wanted to share a video I think you'd really like, it's my bandmate Shawn Crowder's most recent YouTube video where he learns the music for Shubh Saran's band in under 24 hours...

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4/20 time signatures

Yes, they can exist, and here is how Shubh Saran and his band use this forbidden fruit of memey time signature. #playsober, guys.

Adam

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I played 10 gigs in 1 weekend (lol)

Sorry I haven't been around guys as much as I would have liked, I have been off playing multiple tours, and prepping for another tour that I have coming up. I'm trying to get out as much vloggy con...

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How to make Microtonal Lo-Fi Hip Hop

Hey guys!

New video out! How to make Microtonal Lo-Fi Hip Hop, where I explore a couple practical concepts surrounding writing harmony in 24-tone equal temperament as well as 10-tone equal te...

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Vince’s bonus composition game

This was a bit too long to include in the most recent video about composition games, so I’m adding it here as some bonus content, hope you guys enjoy!

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5 Composition Games (to play with your musical friends)

A couple weeks ago I took the Amtrak up from NYC to hang out with my friends in the prog rock band Bent Knee at Big Nice studios in Lincoln, RI. We played a couple musical games and shot contentTM,...

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The gig ended with a really, really, really long V7 chord

Hey guys!

Hope you enjoy this gig vlog, it was in Annapolis, MD, with the great sax player/singer Grace Kelly. 

Adam

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