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 much guys for being my patrons!
Adam
2021-01-19 08:06:53 +0000 UTC View Post
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 stream of basslines. I was so pumped because I was already a fan of their work with SampleRNN that they had used to make Relentless Doppleg...
2020-12-21 04:09:32 +0000 UTC View Post
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
2020-12-15 03:24:38 +0000 UTC View Post
New q+A! Thanks guys so much for your continued support!
Adam
2020-11-30 05:02:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Going through a list of tips Thelonious Monk gave young saxophonist Steve Lacy with the help of Brian Krock, who has a very excellent YouTube channel!
Thanks for being my Patrons, guys! You guys make videos like this possible, and I'm very grateful.
Adam
2020-11-23 09:34:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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Adam
(The India vlog will go up for $10 patrons later today)
2020-11-02 15:19:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Midweek Q+A vidya coming atcha!
Atcha! (Hindi word for "OK")
-Adam
2020-10-29 06:50:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Spicy video essay today! This represents several months of work and research, hope you enjoy it.
Adam
2020-09-07 15:55:24 +0000 UTC View Post
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 things, and I hope you guys find this stuff useful.
Adam
2020-06-07 20:23:37 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
American music is Black Music.
Adam
2020-06-04 07:33:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys!
New viewer critique video out, hope you enjoy!
Adam
2020-05-26 08:05:13 +0000 UTC View Post
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 to pure intervals. “Comma Pump,” is the phenomenon that Benedetti describes. What is it? And why should we care??
Thanks for being Patrons, guys! I put a lot of work into this one.&nbs...
2020-04-13 06:30:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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, editing, filming and working on this retrospective in the midst of (hopefully) the worst calamity of a generation, and I'm totally exhausted. Not just because it was a lot of work - but because of the loo...
2020-04-02 08:06:58 +0000 UTC View Post
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 regret it. We had fun with the challenge!
Love you all, hope you are staying safe.
Adam
2020-03-23 07:20:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys, stay safe and stay healthy! New Q+A
Adam
2020-03-13 19:49:31 +0000 UTC View Post
A fun discussion among friends/musicians about the psychology of notation.
Adam
2020-03-10 22:39:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys! Got a chance last October to tour with Sara McDonald's NYChillharmonic, did a gig vlog. Enjoy!
Adam
2020-02-24 20:03:41 +0000 UTC View Post
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 little bit more about why I hated it, and how maybe to circumvent that.
Musicking!
Adam
2020-02-15 04:27:44 +0000 UTC View Post
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
2020-02-08 17:17:09 +0000 UTC View Post
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
2020-02-03 22:12:58 +0000 UTC View Post
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 true spiritual successor to that Clarity reharmonization I did a couple years ago, and amps everything up to 11. There'll be behind the scenes analysis and stuff that comes out in a couple days, but ...
2020-01-07 18:23:43 +0000 UTC View Post
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 because of the insanely un-user-friendly nature of microtonality, and I burnt myself out a bit trying to get it all done before Christmas, so the next video might have to wait an extra week or so, but...
2019-12-23 05:25:43 +0000 UTC View Post
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 quite the undertaking to do the vlog too!
Hope you enjoy.
Adam
2019-12-16 19:37:44 +0000 UTC View Post
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 while on tour. Shawn's editing/musicianship/storytelling are all just top notch, so if you like my videos enough to support this Patreon, I'm sure you'll dig this video!
There will be a lot mor...
2019-12-02 02:06:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Yes, they can exist, and here is how Shubh Saran and his band use this forbidden fruit of memey time signature. #playsober, guys.
Adam
2019-11-25 16:16:38 +0000 UTC View Post
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 content as I can!
This one was from this past weekend when I played the Guinness Jazz Festival in Cork, Ireland. What a trip!
Adam
2019-11-04 23:23:39 +0000 UTC View Post
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 temperament as they pertain to lo-fi hip hop. I always though that the general "out-of-tune" feeling that comes with Lo-Fi works really well with microtonal systems, so I made a couple little tracks tha...
2019-10-14 05:05:28 +0000 UTC View Post
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!
2019-10-01 17:38:30 +0000 UTC View Post
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, so I hope you enjoy!
Adam
2019-10-01 04:07:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys!
Hope you enjoy this gig vlog, it was in Annapolis, MD, with the great sax player/singer Grace Kelly.
Adam
2019-09-24 15:59:50 +0000 UTC View Post