adamneely

Does gear matter?

Hey Patreons!

This is video-essay-ish vlog about having nice instruments, and your relationship to nice instruments. I hope you enjoy!

I play a Fender Mexican P-Bass, so I clearly am not one t...

Do you have PERFECT PITCH?! | Q+A #49

Hey guys!

I just crammed in a new video at least 4-5 days earlier than expected since I won't have that much time to work on things over the next week or so. So hope you enjoy a new Q+A!

Adam<...

Janek Gwizdala and the Sour Patch Kids | Gig Vlog #23

This week brings you a goofier video, after the heaviness of last week. Enjoy this (fake) beef between me and bass fusion phenom Janek Gwizdala, as well as a tasty Aberdeen gig vlog.

Adam

What does music mean?

Hey Patreon Patrons!

Here it is! A video about how music is pointless and meaningless...in the sense of semantic meaning. Otherwise, it's very powerful as an expressive tool, and is very similar to ...

No Video This Week!

I did it finally.

For the past three years I have uploaded a new video every Monday without fail, and today, Monday April 23rd, I finally did it. I failed.

But for good reason, I think! <...

The Pulitzer Prize is NOT a Charity

I have OPINIONS.

I am very, very, very much in favor of DAMN winning the Pulitzer, even though I think it's the inferior work compared to To Pimp a Butterfly. I also think that it's a form of "conso...

100 Musicians play "Wake Up" by Arcade Fire | Apartment Sessions Vlog

This was actually done about a month and a half ago, but it's only being released now. Almost 100 musicians crammed into 3 apartments across several buildings to play Arcade Fire's Wake Up. This was a...

A note on my "write a song in an hour" livestream

Hey everybody!

A couple of days ago, I did a live stream where I composed a goofy little tune in an hour. I thought it would be fun to take suggestions from Patreon and from the chat and mold a song...

Can you learn Synesthesia? | Q+A #47

Hey everyone!

Here's a new Q+A for you! Hope you enjoy.

Adam

Interview with Samuel Andreyev

Hey guys! I did an interview with Samuel Andreyev, who runs a very excellent musical analysis YouTube channel you should definitely check out! It was an honor to be interviewed by him.

2018-03-19 00:50:30 +0000 UTC View Post

Irrational Time Signatures

Well guys, it's a week just chock full of weird time signature things. Today we're talking about something that definitely DOES exist, and they're called Irrational Time Signatures. I sat down with my...

Negative Time Signatures

This was a goofy short one! Hope you enjoy.

Adam

New Apartment Sessions - Slip

Hey guys!

I don't have a Vlog scheduled for this one, but I took part in another apartment sessions with Shubh Saran, a great guitarist I play with a lot. I played synth bass and keys on this one, a...

I played a show using only the 1991 Casio Rapman

This video is a little more in the vein of "waxing philosophic" than "check out this cool theory stuff," so apologies if you are all about the theory. It's an essay on limitations and what they might ...

Modulation Music Theory | Q+A #46

Hey guys!

Have a Q+A! A TON of stuff was covered in this one, I really should be breaking these up into a bunch of smaller videos, but...meh. 

Adam

Interview with The Milk Crate

Hey guys,

I did an interview with a small school blog, and I thought it turned out OK! Hope you enjoy it.

2018-02-17 16:12:52 +0000 UTC View Post

LIVESTREAM arranging

Hey! We're back on the stream.

Adam

Gig Vlog M I X T A P E vol. 1

Hey everybody,

I just released my "gig vlog mixtape." I've been posting snippets of these songs for a while now, but I figured I'd get it all out there and release it as a thing. 

FREE.50...

This gig was, as the kids say, lit | Gig Vlog #21

Yes, I hate the title of this vlog, but clickbait gets the clicks ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The horn band that I'm part of played a particularly high energy gig with Childish Japes and Lauren Desberg. Childish ...

I hung out with Aimee Nolte and did a thing

Aimee Nolte is an awesome jazz YouTuber, and I got to hang out with her at her place while I was on the West coast for NAMM this weekend. Check out this video we did on her channel! More stuff is goin...

What is the slowest music humanly possible?

Yes, I realize I'm giving away the answer in the thumbnail, but I spent a long time ruminating on what slowness MEANS, and what a ridiculous project in Halberstadt Germany means for understand what Im...

Ben Levin and I are live right now doing ear training stuff

BETTER LINK

Adam

Is a perfect 4th dissonant? | Q+A #45

Thanks for being so awesome, everybody! Here's this week's video, there was a video essay scheduled to be released this week, but unfortunately, that had to get pushed back. Instead, here's a Q+A, don...

Please don't use Eb11 chords! - How to NOT suck at music #6

Hai guyz!

Here's this Monday's video, a How To Not Suck episode! Hope you enjoy, lots of stuff in this one.

Adam

Lesson with SBL

Hey guys! 

Just thought I'd let you know of a lesson/performance I did with Scott Devine over at SBL, it's all stuff I've talked about on my channel before, but with the added bonus of a live p...

Coming to London/Paris in February...need help?

Hey Patrons! 

Happy 2018, I hope the coming year will be as delightfully musical, artistic and expressive as we can make it, and I'll see you at the other side with another year worth of videos...

Have a merry Dm7b5! (MINORLY REVAMPED PATREON REWARDS)

Hey everybody! Hope your holidays are going well.

I just did a minor revamp to the Patreon rewards to better reflect what I've actually been doing for Patrons over the past year, an...

Christmas day Q+A!

Hey Patreon people,

Here is tomorrow's Christmas Day Q+A, today! Hope you enjoy.

Adam

REUPLOAD - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (with the original lyrics) | feat. Justina Maria Sóto

Hello Patreon People,

So after a lot of feedback, as well as some time away from the mix and time to listen back properly, I redid the mix on the last tune. It was really unbalanced - too heavy on t...

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (original lyrics) | feat. Justina Maria Sóto

Hey guys!

I did another session with strings, this time with amazing jazz/R&B singer Justina Maria Sóto. We wanted to do a Christmas song, but do it very NOT Christmassy (sleigh bells, Dm7b5 lo...