5-hour major scale practice routine

[@K1indar0]

Contents: 00:00:00 Hey! Welcome! (Introduction) Pt. 1 00:01:33 The Major Scale (2 octaves) 00:08:53 The Major Scale in 3rds 00:33:36 The Major Scale in 4ths 00:57:01 The Major Scale in 5ths 01:19:41 Coffee Break 01:21:45 The Major Scale in 6ths 01:52:20 The Major Scale in 7ths Pt. 2 02:18:20 Introduction 02:18:57 Diatonic Triads (for C) 02:24:58 Diatonic Triads (11 more times) 03:22:11 Conclusion I 03:23:20 Diatonic 7th Chords 04:47:20 Conclusion II And until next time -- bass!

[@Shadow_Warri0r]

Thanks

[@OomBok]

You the real MVP

[@FossilFishy]

1:09:18 "Great! We're flying through these."

[@ZippyLeroux]

Thanks for the linked contents comment!!!

[@tomilchik]

Awesome - thanks for the ideas! That will expand my practice quite a bit. Few questions: * you are starting from the root, not the lowest available note of a scale. By design, or?.. * what's your view on how to work shapes into this? E.g. 6ths can be 2- and 3-string; triads - 2-, 3-; 7th chords - variety of. You are doing it all automatically, and in mixed way - separate exercises, or?.. * (not a question) jumping to next key: tritone jump (C to F#) works even better for context switch - only 2 overlapping notes.

[@uenotakao578]

Hi,Adam. I'm Japanese. So I can understand 20% maybe. But so interesting and educational. And You have a lot of intelligence and humor. Thank You so much.

[@soyboymia136]

ベースが弾きますか？

[@stephenoneil4266]

Hi, I'm Looking to make Japanese friends to talk with about music as I study the language.

[@uenotakao578]

@@stephenoneil4266 Sorry my English is very poor. So I can't help you.

[@uenotakao578]

@@soyboymia136 いえ。私が演奏するのはフルートとサックスです。

[@pyrotoast8009]

@@uenotakao578 Hi! How's your English now?

[@arrestedshrimp]

Great! after 5 hours of hard practice I have finally finished practicing in all 12 keys in all 4 variations including all diatonic triads and their inversions including 7th chords. Now its time to practice the minor scale.

[@miguelangel_ms]

But, why?

[@legoblox01]

Should have called this "Adam Neely's Masterclass on Why You Don't Know Your Scales"

[@spacevspitch4028]

The thing about watching this video is it makes me wonder why I'm watching it instead of practicing myself.

[@Woolley_like_sheep]

KIBanshee9 true, I’m gonna watch this vid today till I get bored then tomorrow gonna actually try practice all this, or as much as I can take m

[@danielacanva9824]

Same.

[@greenchilaquiles]

For the same reason we watch porn and wonder why we aren't doing it

[@tylerbenjamin3842]

@@greenchilaquiles Because it'll result in death?

[@Red_chair]

@@christopherdowning1701 cool

[@matthewharper8266]

5:45 you can see him visibly stop himself from saying "boom" a fourth time

[@l0serk1d49]

😭😭😭

[@MichaelFClef]

You're killing me bro. This is the best bass exercise I have ever seen on the internet. You just gave me about 10 years homework. Thank you for sharing.

[@JensLarsen]

I used to think that the video I did on my practice routine was too long 😃Thank you for changing that perspective!

[@simonfivez2947]

Zalig om Jens Larsen hier te zien! Twee grote muzikale en muziekeducatieve voorbeelden! :) Awesome to find Jens Larsen here in the comment section! Two of my biggest musical and educative examples.

[@Wildepicureism]

I d love to see a complete practice routine of yours no cut editions.

[@johndenos1403]

Link please good sire?

[@umermalik1721]

@@DexNeXuS1 jruurjrjrtvvdux/

[@TheSuperCommentGuy]

This seems like a major accomplishment. I want to die

[@parasti0]

Are these two statements related in any way?

[@durcheinander5554]

parasti0 most statements go well with "i want to die", that's the beauty of it

[@Kost3k]

Of course they are. The first one was a bad pun.

[@DUANEYAISER]

An organist playing the bass part would say that it's no minor feet.

[@spacevspitch4028]

That was a super comment...guy.

[@jsswift87]

Adam, you nut. Good discipline. We all need a reminder of how much hard work/suffering goes into being an accomplished musician. Was really hoping you would eat on stream. Oh well, maybe next time. Much love.

[@jsswift87]

P.S. we started an Adam Neely fan club discord @ discord.gg/WfZjRmw

[@clearlenscap9707]

Join it :D

[@Algo1]

Or anything in life really.

[@danielacanva9824]

Did you "munch" love??

[@abhishekbhatia6092]

No suffering. It's all the joy.

[@Elze77]

Intro - 0:00 The Major Scale (2 octaves) - 2:10 3rds - 9:24 4ths - 34:08 5ths - 57:32 6ths - 1:23:21 7ths - 1:52:46 Diatonic Triads - 2:18:58 Diatonic 7ths Chords - 3:23:41

[@Shadow_Warri0r]

Awesome dude

[@rudicci]

Elze77 🏆🏆🏆Thanks

[@berdenflacks2732]

🏆🏆🏆 thanks you are my champion

[@pringelsthegamefreak]

Elze77 thank you

[@rysriffs]

I love you

[@kylev1228]

What I love about this video is that it shows the kind of work it takes to get to the highest level. So many non musicians just see it as talent alone. It’s these 5 hour sessions that make people look talented!

[@DannOfSteel]

Can't wait for the ultimate phrygian dominant scale practice routine.

[@teromakinen9919]

This was weirdly entertaining to have in the background... please don't delete it

[@AndyChamberlainMusic]

video is 4:49:24 and not 5 hours. Dislike, unsubscribe, angry comment.

[@samuelbrown4055]

Andy Chamberlain Music hello I found you

[@rasterdude]

Literally unwatchable.

[@kieranoconnor333]

Literally ruined my life.

[@XxBeastWTFxX]

Literally don't know how I'm alive.

[@woolierthanthou6184]

Literally want to come up with a clever comment starting with the word literally.

[@danielarturofajardojaramil4393]

Perfect for this "stay at home" days and mostly nights. Your whole channel is awesome, hilarious and very educational so thanks for that

[@FossilFishy]

Who knew that watching Adam descend into an arpeggiated diatonic delirium would be so entertaining?

[@Yotrymp]

sounds like a math metal band name

[@devonteezell1807]

Fossil Fishy diatonic delirium, I call dibs.

[@FossilFishy]

Devonte Ezell You can have it with my blessings. My nine year old daughter and I play a game while travelling. (Anything to avoid goddamn I Spy.). I say three letters and she uses them to make up a band name. Then I have to tell her what kind of band it is. We've been doing this since she was four; I have more crazy band name ideas than I'll ever use.

[@benmcfee]

"Arpeggiated Diatonic Delirium" That is the name of a great funk band. Or at least it should be.

[@TheOutZZ]

+Fossil Fishy Open to share some?

[@koomber777]

Please send help. I just wanted to learn the piano and have fallen in an Adam Neely hole. I have no idea what day it is and I think time is decending and ascending in thirds.

[@dynaboyjl.4220]

This video inspired me to incorporate scales into my guitar practice. Took me a half hour to do just the major scales in two octaves lol. Thank you for this.

[@ScottTK]

I was practicing a bit today and I could hear Adam's voice in my head going "ascending-descending-ascending-descending".

[@Shadow_Warri0r]

hahahaha .... me tooo

[@theoreticalphysics3644]

next up: minor scales

[@shibadoge5349]

Theoretical Physics Three kinds of minor scales = 15 hour video ;)

[@TheOutZZ]

Natural, Harmonic AND Melodic... Oh boy.

[@Alexonaut5000]

We can skip aeolian, it's the same shapes as the major scales... just to save some time ;) so only a 10 hour video... haha

[@theoreticalphysics3644]

Alexonaut5000 have a "mini" episode for that then

[@shibadoge5349]

Alexonaut5000 That's smart of you to point out! I know some people learn all 7 mode scales and never learn they're related :P

[@FlyLikeAPgasus]

Is it just a coincidence that Davie504 is doing a 5 hour slap live stream or is this a new trend among bassists

[@MidlifeRenaissanceMan]

Blahiesfkns Vvadik I thought the same. I started to watch live, but had work to do. Between he and the big D, that's 10 hours I should be practicing instead of watching.

[@jkdbobby]

Chris Wilson play along and you will be doing both!

[@jkdbobby]

Chris Wilson I hear you. Sometimes it is difficult to find time with instrument when you have other responsibilities. I also use travel time to work on ear training, including singing. Since music is how Adam makes a living, he needs to have a more rigorous practice (training) schedule just like a professional athlete. There is both a physical and mental component to both and you need to have both to keep up with the work.

[@MidlifeRenaissanceMan]

True. I am trying to run a business, be a dad and a husband, renovate a house, play guitar in one band (not may main instrument), bass in another with a bitchin' drummer, and learn to sing so I can get out and do some solo / duo work as well as make better jingles for the No Agenda Podcast I occasionally contribute to. The challenge with the jingles is, following an episode, I have around 2 - 3 days to, rewrite the lyrics, find or make a backing track, and learn how to sing the song, get a half decent vocal take, or two that works and get it to them a few hours before the twice weekly show. If that's all I did, not a problem. Add the above and it becomes a challenge. Its voluntary, and not for every show. Just part of my value for value contribution to the community around the show, but I have standards, so it has to be relevant, funny, well played, well sung, well recorded and mixed, and, if possible squeezed into 30 seconds, along with a full length version for the end of show. I managed to get one out in a couple of hours yesterday, from hearing the _opportunity_ to writing the lyrics, finding a backing track, and smashing out a contra bass vocal that goes to a C1. It was over a 6 hour period, and I rewrote the lines 4 times to get the best comic delivery. The hardest part is singing it convincingly, whereby you own the song, and deliver it in a genuine natural passionate way, even though its a complete farce, and you can barely remember the lyrics that you wrote out half an hour ago. When you listen back, you hear the problem notes, so you concentrate on those and miss a lyric as you're fighting against the original lyrics of the song you are parodying. There are a whole bunch of us that send stuff in. The best was @SecretAgentPaul (I think) who put Yoko Ono's scream performance in response to DJT getting elected to Pink Floyd's Great Gig in the Sky. Truly awful. I cried when I first heard it. He also did on with Careful With That Axe Eugene. Just as terrible. New show comes out on Thursday or Friday 2:00AM Sydney time. Hopefully the jingle will make it.

[@jkdbobby]

Chris Wilson Sounds like you are staying much more involved in music than I am able to. I would be happy to have those projects even if they are challenging. That is part of the fun. Best to you on your projects.

[@declanbrown]

It took a year (very on and off) but I finally made it through all of this material on piano playing with both hands. I feel a LOT more familiar with all of the scales and diatonic chords! Sang along while doing a whole lot of it too, I feel like it has improved my ear, and familiarity with the instrument. Feels good to have completed it! Thanks for the video Adam, was really nice to have a structure and a thing to watch through. Pretty wild that you got through it all in such a dense session! Cheers, and onto the next thing!

[@samwilcox-brown1483]

I've just started trying to do this, not exactly sure how to find the correct fingerings for the intervals especially when you get into the harder keys so well done!

[@TheTourtopoulais]

@@samwilcox-brown1483 Where are you in your practice as of now ? Did you manage to keep up ? I once started working on my scales while following this stream then forgot about it, and I'm back at it today, so I'm trying to get motivation wherever I can hehe (also congrats to you Declan !)

[@TheTourtopoulais]

Also sorry for the double post, but how do both of you dive into this practice ? Do you do it as a whole every time, or did you first focus on 3rds, then weeks later went on the 5ths when you got it down, and so on ?

[@declanbrown]

TheTourtopoulais :) thanks!! Exciting that you’re doing it now too! I went about it in the order Adam did, except over a longer time period. I definitely took long breaks sometimes, and would generally sit down to practice and start my session with this. I would generally tell myself to do one key at a time, and if I had the motivation/time/focus I would do more. That said, some days I would sit down and do one chord shape and my mind was totally fried, but that was okay because I made progress. I kept a small notebook (which I carry around with me) with my progress so that I didn’t lose track of where I was at when KZbin decided to skip me back in the video (it happened a few times and I reckon I would have repeated a few keys haha) This was also interspersed with other random practice and trying to learn songs. I did this while working 4 days a week and being busy on weekends. I found that my motivation came from finding a small amount of time to squeeze in that bit of practice, and the thought that at the end I could tell my friend Kevin that I had completed it. In regards to fingering, I definitely was not practicing the “correct” or “best” fingering the whole time. I think that that’s good to focus on, and as one of my teachers said, the best fingering was the one that felt most comfortable. I don’t know if that’s actually the case, but by attempting the things you are progressing more than you would be if you weren’t trying to do it. You can always improve, and you can do so while doing the practice. I’m still quite a new player, so seek advice elsewhere too, but I feel like with most things it’s best to dive in, forgive your mistakes and learn by failing. Slow it down really slow (like 60bpm) if it’s not comfortable and then ramp it up. Change up the rhythm. Name the chords as you play them. Sing the note names or sing the note scale function number. Name the types of chords! Do anything to make it more interesting and that’ll improve your other skills while you are playing. I feel like if you blast through it and move on once you have done it, while also paying attention to what can be improved, then you will implicitly get better at all of the scales. The patterns are one thing, dynamics are another, and timing and hearing and naming. If you come up with more ideas for making it more fun than a grind I’d love to hear them :D it sucks sometimes. Sometimes you’ll sit down and do one inversion and that’ll be all you can do, but hey, it’s progress. I think you can probably do it if you want to do it! Just try to do it with intention and a focus on whatever aspect of the practice speaks to you at that particular practice session. I might make a video about this at some point haha :) hope this essay helps!!!!! All the best with your practice 🌝

[@declanbrown]

Sam Wilcox-Brown thanks friend!! I hope you’re still going or if not you feel like trying again! :) I replied to the comment below with my thoughts around the practice if you feel like reading that, don’t know if it’ll help, but hey :) thanks for the well done :) all the best!

[@indiejam1273]

Peak excitement at 2:31:09 when Adam's pad falls down before he plays E major 2nd inversion :O

[@NeroOx9]

man you give us the greatest thing a motivated musiciens want to.. 5 hours.. straight... you're just the best hundreds thousands time thanks you! i will do a killin use!

[@arikayemusic]

Suggestion for piano people: I highly recommend that you use consistent fingering up&down unlike what Adam said for bass. On bass, you can simply move your hand a position on the strings and transpose the key, but the shape is not so uniform on piano. For each key, set a fingering you will use, and practice with that fingering on that scale. When finished, move to the next key with the fingering you assigned that individual scale. You are already training your hands to get adapted to new situations with consistent fingering on the piano, but I completely understand why someone would want to change things for bass or a stringed instrument

[@jakubhladik5898]

I’m so bad at this. I never memorized all 12 fingerings. So I tend to stick with certain keys I know well and when I go outside those keys or use weird scales I just wing it. So my fingering isn’t correct or consistent, but at the same time, those quirks and limitations are part of my style. If I was in classical music It would be bad, but because I’m a songwriter it’s a good thing. Being unique in 2021 isn’t easy so anything helps.

[@arikayemusic]

@@jakubhladik5898 I'm not classical either. When I took Herbie Hancock's Masterclass, he had mentioned in the workbook that there's nothing wrong with using c-major fingering for every scale. I tend to default to that lol

[@GiantButterKnife]

*six minutes into the video* I should learn how to play bass.

[@laserjeesus]

Yes. Yes you should.

[@meme-oh8kz]

How I can tell you don't play guitar either lol.

[@nandn5269]

If you play guitar I think it's easier to learn. Many bassists are frustrated guitarists.

[@antianti328]

@@nandn5269 I started with bass, then moved to guitar. But now I'm getting annoyed and wanna go back to bass. It's also just cooler But, truthfully, I'm a drummer gal

[@safir2241]

Alex Whybrow Bass girls are everyone’s fetish

[@Monkeygroover]

I once read in an interview Coltrane's wife said that he practiced Major scales for 4 hours straight, everyday...

[@alexstone5408]

Of course he did lmfao

[@GabrielAlves-ty5oc]

@@alexstone5408 ?

[@jobejobe123]

1:52:28 Special guest

[@awesomeuio]

Jobe Johnson love how she laid down in the one spot she would be in frame, right in the middle

[@mikedalrymple8357]

I used to play back in the 90’s in my 20’s now I’m 47 and just want to get some understanding of the neck I never had. This routine seems right up my ally for relearning theory. I have been trying to figure out what it was that I should be practicing and this is a good start. Thanks for all you do Mike

[@0equals1ao]

Love seeing the eyes deadening the further we go into the video. It's like watching your soul die.

[@alexstone5408]

Cheers to the life of a musician

[@UVjoint]

Probably the best way to learn intervals as patterns on the fretboard, thereby getting to know the fretboard thoroughly. Thank you very much, Adam!

[@sadafviolin]

i wonder if Adam ever saw us crying in the comments for him to stop or to take a break

[@luukipuuk3537]

you always seem so serious in your videos. it was awesome to see you on a long livestream, relaxed and unprepared. Loved it! keep up the work!

[@elijahparsons4530]

“3+1=4” Thanks Adam I really needed that today

[@witneyskye5556]

Nourishment for the musical mind! Brilliant approach to the years of never-ending practice of scales/technique. I am a flute player and like many other flutists, concentrate on learning much of our scales/technique from Taffanel & Gaubert and other practice routine books. So much ink to read and then the necessity to memorize in order to break free from the exercise book. I learn best by listening and playing, not by reading and memorizing. Thanks to you, my ears and practice routine are on the path to revision. I can see how that my improvisational skills will be improving. Thank you for the inspiration.

[@FaelCacilhas]

"You can see that it makes a triangle...". Yeah, I think that if you pick any three diferent tones in the circle you will have a triangle!

[@sealogic4552]

Advanced jazz musician discovers basic geometry

[@trangium]

I think he meant equilateral triangle

[@BassDawStew]

I do not know if people really understand how valuable of a resource that this video is. I'd also like to point out that Adam is speaking the note names while playing them. To anybody working on their fretboard fluency - speaking the name of the note is a huge catalyst to embedding this into your subconscious memory.

[@schelsullivan]

sing along everyone.

[@bobbyhallmusic]

hahaha. that is recommended. I have just invested way more energy into sining my exercises. It really helps me to hear and internalize what I am working on. The most obvious fruits of this is when playing new scales for me like diminished. Working the entire guitar neck with the diminished scale is so easy to lose tonic. It is much easier to keep tonic in my mind when I spend 10 minutes singing the tonic that I am working at the beginning (with and without the guitar's aid and in two octaves). I will also spend time running the exercises while humming the tonic - not just putting tonic on a loop either. It just seems to internalize better. Oh yeah... I got all these ideas from Mike Stern videos. It seems to really help. I can't play like Stern, but I figure he prolly knows a little something about this stuff. :)

[@josephmpumelelomusic5680]

One of the most eye opening KZbin videos I've seen in a while. Thanks bro.

[@doggoboii]

i’m just perplexed by the fact that he had a coffee sitting out for 80 minutes and _still_ chugged it

[@thisisaboguaname3423]

Thank you Adam, for showing the kind of work that is required to become a better musician.

[@will1718]

Your most recent video you say you’re a “music communicator” well you’re just as much of a teacher/entertainer. You too modest lol. This lesson is amazing I’m only 20 in and imma master it at the end of quarantine.

[@debrahudson2243]

So? Update?

[@KrayKow]

@@debrahudson2243 covid got him

[@DannOfSteel]

Man, this seems like the ultimate chops routine for improvisation.

[@WassylAldais]

I've been practicing for 12 years, and i couldn't figure out how to do it effectively. Watching your video i'm following your way of practicing , and i can see how much this could help me , thanks a lot Adam. Come see my channel one day if you have time , i'll post new videos showing my improvements because of your videos. Great work , thank you man.

[@anderscarlsson3387]

Great and crazy post!. Another great tip when practice and playing is to stop look at the fretboard while you play. You don't need to. Just close your eyes and start simple(scales). Play a scale in all the ways possibly. You will, after some time hear yourself much better. Let the ears, brain and heart take over. It will.

[@philxan]

Well done, Adam, this is an amazing achievement! I wish I had 4+ hours to sit down and do something similar. Another way I practice the major scale is in fragments, much like in thirds (or 4ths, 5ths etc), but also playing the intervals in between. So for C major scale fragments in thirds, (with |'s between the cells) you get C D E D | D E F D | E F G F etc.. and in 4ths: C D E F E D | D E F G F E | etc.. Thanks again for the inspiration. Time to get in the shed

[@pakoti96]

Fragments? Never heard those called this before. I learned them as "sequences". They're pretty great though.

[@renichbon]

Awesome example of what it is to practice, tenacity and discipline. Your example dragged me into practice.

[@MrFree-vj8qj]

1. Don't forget to also practice everything in the open position using only the 4 first frets and open strings, its very important. going as low as possible near E2 and high as possible near G#4 2 .Also don't look at the fretboard when practicing, you want your ears to guide your hands not your eyes, you want to learn and develop that by doing it. you make a lot of mistakes when you look because you cant use your ears fully. 3. Keep correct posture by not looking at the fretboard, concentrate on hearing and you'll forget about your sight. also allows you to rest your eyes. 4. You also Need a metronome or keep the beat AND something to give you the drone note continuously.

[@dallaspalumbo9889]

Practicing the scales in this triangular formation is already proving helpful!

[@jakubhladik5898]

I do the same thing but with mixolydian. The major scale is boring and I used to practice up to 10 hours a day when I was starting out and couldn’t stand hearing it for that long. So if someone’s like - this song is in C major - I just play G mixolydian. I do the same with the harmonic minor scale. I play the East Asian Major version (my name for it. Never learned what it was called). So if someone’s playing it in F I play the C easy Asian major. I did of course learn the major scale in all the positions cuz you have to. But just couldn’t stand playing it for hours. Mixolydian is where it’s at baby! And Dorian. Though I technically play modal chromatically. Meaning, I don’t stick with any scale. I use whatever notes sound interesting. So I may start out in mixolydian but change modes 3 times over one chord. Like C mixolydian, to C Lydian, to C East Asian major to D Dorian to D blues, to D Josh Homme scale (1,2,3b,5b,5,7b), to D harmonic minor to A East Asian major for example. I’m sure there’s a term in Jazz for changing modes with every chord / changing modes multiple times within one chord but I don’t know the term. At that point you’re just playing chromatically - using all 12 notes at will because you’re familiar with what each note does at any time and know for how long you can use resolved or unresolved notes and have them still sound good. On another note, limiting the keys or modes you use can help develop your own “sound”. I was at a friends house one day and he was playing The Clash. I was never a fan but I had a guitar and was jamming along. Every single song was in A. Ever since then I gave up the notion that I need to play in a bunch of keys. It doesn’t matter. These days I only use a different key if I can’t sing a certain note and need to transpose. I’ve also had key “periods”. A had a span of 3 years where my guitar was in drop D or open D and everything was in D. Then I had an E year. Then a year where I had this weird open G tuning on my guitar and stuck with that. Now I write on my iPhone a lot in the Maschine app and they keyboard is only 2 octaves so everything is in C mostly. I think having “key periods” can help glue a bunch of songs together to help form a sonic period in your career. And of course I’ll favour certain instruments. I barely play guitar anymore because everything you play on guitar sounds it’s been done already. It’s hard to write something fresh so I stick with synths and loops and add highly processed guitar at the end. At this point the sound of an acoustic guitar makes me wince. It’s been done to death. So I’m always super impressed when a band comes out that uses acoustic guitar and they can make it sound new. Sufjan Stevens is a great example. He has a very distinct style of fingering on an acoustic (and banjo. He actually makes the banjo sound pretty and not lame). I would love to see a video just on Sufjan Stevens theory. Anyways, this comment is a bit all over the place so I’ll leave it at that. Great content! I thought I knew almost everything about music theory until I found this channel. Amazing!!!

[@SkylerAcord]

I loooooove when people that are dope at music put up their practice routines.

[@bigman1688]

hate when youtubers pad their videos to hit 10 min

[@espowari]

Mind blown. I've practised major scales in a similar way (2 octave, and with 3rds), but had not taken that next step. Great stuff Adam!!

[@nickpollockpiano]

Haha omg what a beast, 5 hours no break

[@thefrunter4596]

nick piano and remember in the beginning he had to stand because he was there for two hours already 😳

[@nickpollockpiano]

yeah but I think it was still a total of 5 hours

[@error.418]

He had a coffee break, did you even watch? :P

[@thefrunter4596]

Anonymous User no I haven't had the time sadly.

[@emmywillow6599]

What about the coffee break

[@bluegtr2001]

Great way to pass the social distancing. If we ever have gigs again, my fluency will be astounding

[@tykjpelk]

Rich Piana: 8 hour arms Adam Neely: 5-hour major scale practice routine

[@masonmurphy675]

And they said endgame was the most epic crossover

[@lTestPilotl]

i watched the whole thing and i've never even held a bass

[@Nicole-fx3ei]

ahahaga

[@brendanmattson]

Wow its one thing to do something patiently over an extended period of time, but to do the thing and talk about it, explaining it, is super exhausting. I teach Tai Chi, and by far the hardest thing about that is talking about Tai Chi while attempting to demonstrate it. Thank you Adam for your efforts!

[@topiporkka8413]

Cool, gotta implement this to my routine!

[@chrisoh995]

Adam, I sincerely thank you for taking the time and effort to post this video. It is so comprehensive and has helped me discover new intervals and sequences that I had not considered in the past. Really looking forward to incorporating this in my own practice routine! Thank you so much!

[@Ampullae]

Daaang, okay time to practice

[@1Aldreth]

This gives me flashbacks to my youth! :D I play Cello and used to practise this stuff everyday for at least half an hour. In addition I not only had to play those scales, but also added different rythmic variations and techniques for the bow. I had literally two books full of these exercises that I worked through over the years. There were so many in one book alone, that they didn't even write down the whole scale, but only the bars needed to demonstrate the specific pattern. I did that for 10 years and mostly hated it.^^ But in hindsight it was probably one of the best exercises I could have done to improve. So for people wanting to improve in the longterm, practise all the scales and make them harder if you realise it's getting to easy.

[@jamiebertram9744]

There is something mesmerizing about watching someone spend so much time focusing on one task. Have you considered incorporating charitable fundraising into this sort of marathon-like live stream?

[@dvened]

way ahead of the curve ;) he should definitely do it now!

[@tomlane6502]

This. This is the ultimate practice guide. Thankyou. I wish something like this had been around when I was a kid and that I had the wherewithal to recognize the importance of this type of practice. I am a self taught bass player, and in retrospect I was a bad teacher. I've been playing for quite a while now, but I know that I have gaps in my playing. This may be the most practical approach to practice and improving overall confidence on a bass guitar as I have ever seen and developing an almost reflexive understanding of music theory. This seems like at least a years worth of learning, the practice method of teaching a person to fish rather than giving them one. This seems like a sure fire way to get that 'aha' moment that feels so good when it comes. mad props guy!

[@guystryche]

#stayhydrated

[@saturatedneowax]

820

[@southsidebrazilianjiujitsu7849]

Thank you for sharing this. I think a lot of teachers miss the boat and don’t teach students “how” to practice and what to practice. Thanks again 🙏🏽

[@AustenBallard]

Your practice routine is very thorough and efficient - actually you remind me of the practice routines classical musicians drill on. Do you think you'd ever make a condensed version of this video going over your practice routine for reference, or consider publishing it as an ebook/book? I (and I'm sure many other people) would pay money for this.

[@rodrigocortez6099]

Adam, thanks for this effort. This video makes not only a great point but also brings up some ideias on how to dive in music. But dive for real, blunt grueling and fucking inevitable path to dig music for real. In other words, this video is a quarantine candy!

[@DaMonster]

45:08 is my favorite part in the whole thing edit: 2:03:10 is good too

[@andrewnordan]

Adam you are insane! Thanks for showing us the way. this is truly "putting the time in" or "working it out"

[@thytom8534]

how is he even able to talk when playing the major scale in thirds ascending but descending but actually it's transcending

[@Wendolynn_Jane]

Just noodling around with you on the piano on a lazy Tuesday afternoon around 4pm. Best! :)

[@Wendolynn_Jane]

...and today I'm grading papers while scales play in the background...

[@POKERJUGGERNAUT]

A good musician is a hard practice musician.

[@ABlackMan9]

Here I am at 2 and a half hours subtly complaining...time to step it up! Thanks for the inspiration man

[@TheSkaBouncer]

holy shirt my dude

[@ahsanzaidi6568]

The most honest reply to "How to be good at playing an instrument? ". I believe anyone who practices this 5 hour session over a week every week for only 6 months can be an amazing musician. But one mustn't stop after 6 months either. This is something one can incorporate more ideas into. It is actually fun.

[@Malchotheracoon]

If you ever have trouble sleeping just come to this video go to the middle and listen for 5 minutes .... Thank me later

[@bak1386]

Dude, u are a samurai of the bass. Very inspiring to keep learning this game of music

[@Pcgonzal]

Great stuff, once again this verified there's no shortcuts to mastery!

[@enok11]

Thanks Adam, This practice made me to rethink about my scale knowledge and plan my upcoming scale related practice totally in different perspective. Many professional guitar players could be thinking this is joke or waste of time, but in my case, It definitely helps... It really did my brain blown imagining and calculating about notes and the scale and intervals. Thank you again.

[@goranmitrovic77]

OK, and do minor scales now! :P Over 4 hours of scales... you are a "scale animal"! :) Bass community should raise you a monument. I loved the video and will practice watching it. Tnx!

[@spacevspitch4028]

Goran Mitrović All patterns are the same for natural minor. Harmonic minor and jazz minor are different animals though :p

[@thenathanstone]

stealing this for guitar. Cant believe I hadnt thought of this, thank you.

[@alxjones]

I think you should very rarely, if ever, practice your scales like this. By "like this", I mean going through a cyclical pattern of keys playing each scale pattern once. Playing something once is not practicing, and playing something wrong once and right once even less so. Take these patterns and focus on a few patterns for a few scales each session. You should spend about 15 minutes minimum on each scale. If you can already play it perfectly, run through it 3 times in a row to make sure, then replace it with something else you can't play perfectly. Running through all 12 keys for a single pattern is a good spot check for the beginning and end of a session to see what you need to work on and what you've improved on. Once you've worked on all of them enough that you have been great at every pattern at some time, you can refresh on these by taking a few patterns and a few scales randomly drawn and running through them to remind your body what it feels like to play the patterns. If you do exactly as in this video, you will waste 5 hours of your life and not get much improvement out of it. All the patterns and exercises are great, just take a smaller, more focused subset of them for each individual practice session.

[@CARROTMOLD]

I agree, this dude messed up a couple 2 octave scales and went on without even redoing the scale correctly. Not to mention the timing

[@johnnduaguibe7912]

The least you could have done is appreciate effort. Just 10 lines of criticism for someone who spent and recorded 5hrs of his life playing through scales and uploading for our benefit. Your comments are valid, but even if he did it wrong, sandwich your points with some appreciation, not many people have sat through 5 straight hours of practice this way. Especially to contribute to the world.

[@jercki72]

he didn't practice, he showed what you can do to practice so that's a bit different

[@SkinoGreeneVu]

You missing the point... Adam can do it cause he knows all the spots he needs to hit... for a person who doesn't know or not as skilled this would.be counter intuitive. morons

[@DebbieinNH]

My piano teacher always said. "Good practice isn't doing it over and over until you get it right, it's doing it right over and over." Same for any motor task, really. I agree that practicing each pattern once isn't efficient, especially skipping over errors or only correcting them once, and at speed. Goes against principles of motor learning.

[@michaelm8265]

I love the dry and biting masochism in this video. Nicely done!

[@pablocontreras967]

Gracias. Aprecio mucho lo que haces.

Pablo Contreras Hola, nos llamamos igual :P

[@luznis139]

Even though its 6 years later, i wanna thank you for doing this, i really enjoy your content and have followed along with parts of this exercise routine, dont think ive ever done the full 5 hours, might just have to do that today

[@jasonforster9445]

I found in practice of this I could only do at first 3rds in one day. I couldn't at first do the whole thing in one day. I first did the whole five it took me a couple weeks. After a couple go throughs I can do it now in a couple days. 5 hours is impressive though.

[@solitario769]

*Imagine he forgot to record*

[@royviveash7563]

Thanks for the huge effort in producing this video. As a sax player I found it very useful and I like the way you group 3 scale in the cycle of 5th/4th's. As I don't have a fretboard to practice the scale in different place I found it useful to continue around the cycle after arriving at B, i.e. move to E.. I realise that this was the second scale that was played but it was approached from B and not C which makes a slight difference in sound of the scale and the mental process of remembering where you are in the series. I chose to memorise the whole exercise regime. clearly this would extend the number of hours needed to complete the whole thing but I've spread it over several days which also helps with my musical memory practice. Thanks again for the effort you have put in

[@Kosmo999]

going into this i wonder if i will hear BOOM the whole video?

[@captainpiefox9133]

kosmo spacejams boom

[@achokarlos]

I´ve been practicing along with your video, thanks a lot for this!! If it makes sense to anybody, instead singing all notes while practicing, I´ve been singing all grades of the scale, which helps a lot on identifying the intervals features a lot better than just playing it by ear throwing out the scales patterns...

[@MyTube4Utoo]

I let this play in the background so I felt like I had company. Yeah....my life sucks and everyone hates me.

[@Marc_Miller]

Adam briefly hates himself too at 46:53

[@karimahsan341]

BROOOO🥺 you okay my guy?

[@CosminZeed]

not sure about that buddy. Hang in there. We all have dark days

[@Uniirband]

I love this! some may joke, but you got out what you put in! and it shows when it's time to play. Those demanding concerts and long nights on the stage this type of practice with get you through. And when it is your time to solo it's a breeze! Thanks Adam all the way from Miami Florida.

[@pjlk00]

Hey Adam, pretty cool video, tons of respect for your persistence! We all know you would give it up halfway if you weren't streaming, so that's a pretty inventive way to keep your composure through exposure (lol). Unfortunately I had to fast forward just to write down the methodology you use. I have a question though, through all these exercises can you highlight some schemes or patterns that help you find your way on the fretboard?? I know these things come with experience and practice, but we want shortcuts please, if any

[@eeobeeob]

this showed up at the right time in my learning. Thanks Adam, spiritual guide!

[@totty2524]

Only 5 hours? LING LING PRACTICE 40 HOURS EVERY DAY, YOU'LL NEVER MAKE FAMILY PROUD

[@syndicateaudio863]

Brilliant chanel, im not a bassist but then i dont feel as though one needs to be to take something of value from your videos, keep it up! You keep the concept of theory complex enough to stay challenging but simple enough to be engaging, no nonsense muci chanel, love it!

[@ivan_paul77music]

How not to suck... Hahaha I'm definitely taking that seriously...Thanks Adam!! Btw, really like the structure in your practice.

[@PabloHernandez-ln6qp]

This is great! I've been through all of those and you've inspired me to go right back to it. Your next 5 hour video could be about shedding a tune or shedding an tonal concepts, upper structures, playing out, or playing over the time.

[@djoverkin]

we, guitarists, need this as well. please ? someone ?

[@dudefolife210]

Overkin I got you fam