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What are 6/9 Chords? | Q+A

Hey everybody, hope you enjoy this Q+A! Thank you so much for being my patrons. 

Adam

YouTubers React to Experimental Music

I played a piece by Maryanne Amacher to a bunch of YouTubers and filmed their reactions. Insane stuff!

Listen to the full album that “Chorale” is off of! (It starts at 51:25)

Maryanne Amacher ‎– Sound Characters (Making The Third Ear) - 1999

https://vimeo.com/88559973

-Adam

The 7 Levels of Jazz Harmony

Hey everybody!

This video goes through the 7 levels of Jazz Harmony. We'll explore each of them through reharmonizing the chorus of one of my favorite tunes from 2019 - Lizzo's Juice.  

These 7 levels aren't meant to be exhaustive in terms of the harmonic techniques of jazz musicians - there really are way too many to get into for a single YouTube video - but they can be useful...

What are Slash Chords? | Q+A

Hey guys

Quick Q+A coming atcha! This one is really meaty, hopefully you're hungry. 

Adam

Demystifying Songwriting

Let’s demystify songwriting! Guitarist/YouTuber/Animator Ben Levin and I wrote a song, and we documented the whole process through the initial sketch to the demo to the final live recording.

There will be some bonus Patreon content related to this video in the next couple of days, so stay tuned!

Adam

Why the Katy Perry/Flame lawsuit makes no sense

I really rushed this one out, but even still, Rick Beato beat me to the punch by a couple days. Oh well, here's my analysis on the Katy Perry/Flame lawsuit!

Adam

Can you guess the interval based on its emotion?

Hey Patrons, new video coming atcha!

I asked my friend Ben Levin to guess what intervals matched with which emotional reaction based on the research of music cognition scientist David Huron. Can you guess along with him?

Adam

Is playing to track cheating?

Hey all!

I did it, I finally managed to get a video posted here earlier than when it goes live. Hooray! The videos keep getting long and more technically ambitious, and this one is no exception. A video essay on performing with live playback of backing tracks, and the aesthetic and moral questions that possibly brings up. Hope you enjoy!

Adam

Testing 432 Hz Frequencies (and temperaments)

Hey guys!

Here's this week's video, 4 days late, but it's still here! Thank you for your continued support.

Some exciting things are on the horizon! But I've been struggling a bit the past couple months to keep these uploads weekly, so I apologize. I might go to something closer to 3 videos per month rather than 4, shortly, but I'll still be just as committed to making the best vide...

Polyrhythmic Juggling

Hey guys!

I'm sorry I've been away for so long, I hope this video makes it up to you! It took a while to put together, as you can probably tell, but it's one I'm proud of. 

Paul Davids and I invented a new sport...polyrhythmic juggling! This video teaches you how. 

Adam

LIFE UPDATE (sorry!)

Hey guys! Regular uploads will start again on Monday - this past month has been absolutely nuts for me, and I haven't been able to create videos to the same caliber that I want.

The thing is...I totally could have churned out videos at my normal once-a-week pace this past month, but that would have been totally to the detriment of my mental health, and also to the detriment of upcoming pr...

Rewriting the lick in 5/8 for Chamber Ensemble

Hey guys, I recently participated in an awesome collaboration with David Bruce, Nahre Sol, Tantacrul and Ben Levin over at David Bruce's channel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWDITMZW1XE), so I made a little vlog exploring my experiences with it. Hope you enjoy!

Adam

Who owns the copyright to AI music? | Q+A

Hey guys, I'm about to go out on a tour (more on that in a post coming in a few days), so I'm scrambling a bit to get content out before I'm preoccupied. Until then, here is a meaty Q+A! 

Adam

Mixing J-Pop and Jazz

Hey guys!

Wanted to share this quasi gig-vlog with you guys. I had a blast playing with the J-Music Ensemble last week, and had a great chat with bandleader Patrick Bartley about the similarities and differences between J-Pop and Jazz. 

Adam

I played until 1am | Gig Vlog

Monday's video is now available early! Hope you enjoy. A vlog with the NY/Nashville Connection, and some kickass singers.

Adam

How to count 32nd notes | Q+A

Hey everybody,

Thanks to all the new patrons! New patreon-exclusive content is on the way, here is this Monday's video! Chill Q+A

Adam

Reharmonizing thank u, next

HEY GUYS!

So, here is Monday's video, but there is a bit of a strange history behind it.

As you all know, I rarely take on sponsored projects. You might notice that all across YouTube there are educational channels taking regular sponsors, and I...definitely haven't. Part of that is ideological - I don't like to sponsor any product that I don't 100% actually endorse...

My Worst Trainwreck

A tale of how the band once completely disintegrated playing Can You Feel The Love tonight at a wedding in Stamford, Connecticut. 

Hope you enjoy! This one was mega-rushed for some behind-the-scenes reasons, but I think it turned out all right. 

Adam

Music that is read from right to left

Hey guys,

It's been a little while! My schedule has been messed up a little bit - last week's video was early, and this one is late, but I'm still churning out that sweet, delicious content for you all.

This week I interview Zac Zinger about the traditional Japanese bamboo flute the Shakuhachi, and discover why Shakuhachi notation is written so differently.

Adam

Analyzing the Bach Harmonizer Doodle

Hey guys,

Early video this week! I couldn't resist playing around with the Machine Learning Bach harmonizer doodle a bit, and analyzing what it spit back, trying to figure out exactly what it was "thinking." Answer...I have no idea, but it's interesting to see what it created.

Adam

Balancing on 1 leg improves your rhythm

I received an interesting question from a viewer that prompted me to do some digging into embodied cognition and why balance might be an extremely important part of the puzzle when it comes to feeling rhythms.

So, weirdly, it might make sense to practice standing on 1 leg!

Hope you enjoy.

Adam

How to play 21:22 (Shawn Crowder's polyrhythm video)

Hey guys, I just wanted to share an awesome video that my bandmate Shawn Crowder just made on polyrhythms - it's a different and likely more well-informed take on the subject, and it's just so good! Shawn's YouTube game (and drumming game!) is so strong.

Adam

7/11 Polyrhythms

This video took a very long time to put together for what essentially was just a joke. I take you through exactly how to play 7 against 11, and hopefully inspired you a little bit to try out polyrhythms of your own. We go through things like the composite rhythm, and tools for feeling it across different kinds of polyrhythms.

I'm not kidding, I probably spent the most time on this one vid...

Should You Learn to Read Sheet Music? | Q+A

New Q+A for you all!

This one was fun, because I spliced in some footage from a long conversation I had with my good friend Elliott Klien when I was out in California for NAMM. More of that conversation will be uploaded for patrons this week!

Adam 

I played 23 Video Game Covers at the Bit Awards

Hey Everybody,

This is a gig vlog I recorded this past week, and I edited it in a similar style to my "learning the music in an Uber" video, where I show both the rehearsal and the performance in the same narrative. Hopefully it makes sense, I'll be uploading some more behind-the-scenes footage later on.

Thank you so much for supporting me here on Patreon!

Adam

How to Play Music in 9/8

Hey guys,

This is coming a day late because...well, hopefully you'll see! What started as a simple video (they all do) turned into a bit of a research project. I went down the deep rabbit hole of Balkan folk dances, and I honestly just scratched the surface for myself - it's pretty nuts! Hope you enjoy this essay/lesson/explainer on 9/8, and how to feel it.

Adam

Sungazer Vol 2 is out Today!

Hey everybody!

My duo project Sungazer just released our second EP today, and it's available wherever you listen to music online (Spotify, iTunes, bandcamp, etc)

LISTEN:
https://spoti.fi/2sbNXEr
https://sungazermusic.band...

Sungazer - ELECTRO (animation by Ben Levin)

Hey everybody!

My band Sungazer's album is out Jan. 7 (for many of you, that's tomorrow), and we collaborated on a cluster%$#% of a music video with Ben Levin for our track ELECTRO.

I'll be doing a breakdown of this track later on, but for now, enjoy this craziness!

Adam

How to practice without your instrument!

2018 is ending, and all of the other YouTubers are doing recap videos, but I didn't for some reason. Oh well, hope you enjoy this one, I'm trying some new editing/pacing things out, and I think I finally figured out how my camera works. 

Adam

Q+A #55

Slightly different format on this one, just experimenting a bit. I've done 54 (!!) Q+A videos before this one, so I wanted to try something slightly different. 

Adam