What are 6/9 chords? | Q+A

[@Davie504]

69. *LMAO*

[@windmillwilly]

Nice

[@kasrizvi_]

Davie504 O M G.

[@Luke-ic6xe]

nice

[@rtbeerzi]

aye

[@MilesPerGaming]

I slap like now

[@michaelsotomayor5001]

"to be fair, you have to have a high IQ.." saw that coming lol

[@sprszrbr2471]

I actually laughed out loud. A brilliant reference.

[@StoryS.]

I just had one of those moments where he said that exact quote as I read it.

[@Noelciaaa]

me too but still lost it when he was saying that XD

[@mgu3241]

Pls guys can u explain the joke

[@lllucas44]

@@mgu3241 These are the beginning words of a famous Rick and Morty meme/copypasta: knowyourmeme.com/memes/to-be-fair-you-have-to-have-a-very-high-iq-to-understand-rick-and-morty

[@twirlincurtis]

"There's gonna be longer tours next year" Oh, our collective innocence in 2019 :(

[@amosw766]

Imagine having that much confidence about the future :'(

[@Camilink94]

Came back to this video, and... yeah :(

[@macer941]

Literally came down to the comments to find/make this.

[@rumikazbar8228]

we back to it soon

[@enshen2190]

Then…a person in 2027: “oh, the innocence we had in 2020”

[@wolfetrax]

6/9 Chords. Nice.

[@jonnydjackson]

Nice.

[@fooflghters3027]

Nice.

[@metalosaur]

Nice.

[@Andrew-qq8fb]

Nice.

[@BladezifyHD]

Nice.

[@bayleev7494]

he said the sex number im literally crying rn i can't even

[@SkippyZii]

Baylee Verzyde nice

[@GrumpyStormtrooper]

nice

[@gusiontrashtalks2819]

Nice

[@Crunch2222]

Nice

[@xTurtleDood]

nice

[@AntonymofBright]

Not exaggerating, my heart rate climbed at the sight of D being teal as opposed to lipstick red It’s kind of interesting how synesthesia varies so aggressively between person to person-

[@holdencovington151]

For me D’s like a yellow to a green? No idea how to actually describe the color I’m seeing in my head 😂

[@winterblue6022]

D is always navy/standard blue for me

[@thiccnicc3657]

To me, D is a sort of golden brown color

[@nemilu]

@@winterblue6022 same

[@EvilRubberBiscuit]

Does anyone else hear only the individual pitches as specific colors, or do the harmonies also take on colors for you too? For me, the tonic in a major triad determines the color for the triad, but also the relative minor is determined by the same note (the third in that case.) For example, the note “C” is a bright shiny red to me and accordingly, both C Major and A minor are also red (albeit the minor is a more subtle or “muted” shade to me than its relative Major). I also hear Major 7 chords as polychords. I.E. CMaj7 to me is red from the tonic note of C, but also has a distinct color presence from the E minor (accents of a distinct purple from its third “G”). Any thoughts from my fellow syntesthetes?

[@crimfan]

I think it was Frank Zappa who said the a major 7 chord felt like "Missing your girlfriend really bad" while a major 6 chord was "Wistful about your grandma's cookies."

[@jan_Travis]

Zappas the man.

[@gabreshaa8234]

Frank Zappa said a bunch of stupid bullshit

[@Marie-qv6on]

Gabreshaa shut up

[@ARZiehm]

@@blockbros.communitylevels7123 Ok but he named his kids Moon and Dweezil the dude is weird

[@TheSteelDialga]

@@ARZiehm doesn't mean he's stupid

[@yuvalne]

"To be fair, you have to have very high IQ to understand jazz harmony level 7' I started laughing SO hard

[@calvinlee8103]

Justinroilandtonation

[@Magmoormaster]

hahahah me too@@

[@tmage23]

Yes he does have a Jazz Harmony Level 7 tattoo. And no you cannot see it.

[@singsang9460]

@@tmage23 Tattoo has two meanings, as far as i know.....

[@stanaron]

Adam in 2019: There's gonna be longer tours next year, I swear. 2020: NOPE!

[@RC32Smiths01]

69 Chords are literally all I want to play now for the rest of my musical career. Thanks Adam

[@m.a.g.4881]

LMAO

[@RC32Smiths01]

@@m.a.g.4881 Ayyy alas it is true haha

[@neko_aple]

Lih-mao.

[@RC32Smiths01]

@@neko_aple Lily Mo

[@m.a.g.4881]

@@RC32Smiths01L Mao Zedong

[@anubeia]

It's good to know that you can use "minor" and "69" in the same conversation without being arrested.

[@oriolrodriguezhernandez6786]

Yes funny, yes laugh

[@infernalchaos1066]

@Anubeia @Dom Simpson That's the funniest thing I've heard in months!! Jimmy Carr and Anthony Jeselnik would be proud of you!

[@andresfelipemarquezochoa9804]

nooooooo

[@tomasgarciafunes5582]

Same sentence

[@kimgkomg]

You can't. He's in jail now

[@anandihouben]

Moving the fourths around instantly takes me back to the field sound design done in The Legend of Zelda, Breath of the wild, very atmospheric indeed!

[@SlyHikari03]

Same. Favorite game that has come out in the last decade btw.

[@Bloxy123]

Adam Neely: Down with vibing! Me, a vibraphonist: :( *throws away mallets*

[@musiciseverywhere5878]

Anyone who makes the effort to bring a vibraphone to a gig should never be considered "lazy".

[@tweer64]

Underrated comment

[@conormcelroy158]

"The miracle catch-all cure to stage fright has always been-" "Booze." "- breathing." "Oh."

[@monkeybusiness673]

Jup...even though he made a big point of "PLAY SOBER!" I was expecting that answer :-D

[@crimsonking2177]

I absolutely agree on the "vibing" part. Spot on. It is well established in psychology that positive reinforcement is a lot more beneficial. Let's encourage others, don't bring them down. I think one of the reasons this happens is that music is such a competitive field with so many great musicians all fighting for scraps, particularly in jazz.

[@kaitlyn__L]

The irony is when I say “I’m totally vibing with this track” it means the precise opposite of what was said in this video

[@m.f.3347]

"minor 6/9 chords" *Tekashi starts sweating*

[@CalculusDaddy]

Underrated comment 1000%

[@IamAMenaceToS0ciety]

Lol MINOR

[@joycesanders4898]

..faces decades in the pen...really starts sweating. 🏳️‍🌈

[@beatrixwickson8477]

Pro tip: makes sure your notation and your colours are in the same key.

[@sdoom1101]

adam i swear. please man make a Spotify playlist with all your most inspiring jazz bands/musicians. i honestly would love to hear more modern jazz artists! like if agree!

[@low_effort_Q1]

Oh yes please

[@ejomon_27]

Jacob collier multitrack songs

[@EddieEntertainment]

hey adam, question for your next Q&A: how to anime fusion?

[@giacomocasartelli5503]

Oh, yeah! owo It's so KAWAII

[@NoNameAtAll2]

KA-ME-HA-ME- *HAAAAA*

[@devoncampbell3607]

Everything you write will be cute and cuddly, like Jotaro in a tub of lard.

[@trioadhitiyawan9912]

This: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qX3GY4eeqa-enMk

[@DavePollack]

I love that video but the sax solo sucked

[@noahfaber8303]

3:02 I hear Spirited Alway's main theme "One Summer's Day" and it makes me hapoy

[@KriegdenSeekrabben]

That 6/9 explanation was on a whole other level of accessibility. Great job adam

[@ernestokrapf]

next: "What are 4/20 chords? | Q+A"

[@tomasgho]

I always notate maj #11 13 as maj #4 20

[@Ranipla]

@@tomasgho I'm gonna do that now.

[@joelyaw5389]

Lol nice

[@lawrencewei3583]

nice

[@tonhueb429]

You could make that an irrational time signature. (Basically a bar of 4 quintuplets, am I right?)

[@whatskraken3886]

"there are going to be longer tours next year, I swear" I call cap

[@benimoo7894]

what’s cap?

[@markkeilys]

favorit band: sungazer favorit drink: sunnyD favorit food: eggs(sunny side up) favorit theme: solarized favorit charicter: sunbutt favorit day: sunday **wispers under breath "if only i could be so grossly incandescent"**

[@iota-09]

Favorite character nit being solaire, what a heathen.

[@markkeilys]

@@iota-09 he is the one true mentor, not a character

[@launder0]

I'm so satisfied with the "you've got to ave a high IQ" meme hahaha

[@ChazWick4]

I also "see colors" in not only music; but days of the week, numbers, etc. Always interesting to see other people's perspective. To me, C is red, D green, E yellow, F orange, G dark blue, A purple or red, and B blue. Also, make anything flat and it's a darker shade of that color. I also color code things how I see them when mixing a song. Drums dark red, bass purple, guitars bright green, vocals blue, piano orange/brown.

[@asunderwolf20]

So then let’s take C sharp, is that the same color as c or do you think of it as D flat, is it just a spur of the moment thing or is C sharp and d flat just always the same

[@ChazWick4]

Definitely depends on the letter. It's also more about what key I'm in. In it's major key I'll always call it Db (green-ish), but C# minor definitely darker red

[@sara_wolk]

I color coded my notes when I first started and to me E is absolutely red and then the colors circle the 12 tone color wheel from there.

[@AvantsPianoScores]

10:00 “Just because you are correct doesn’t mean you are right” Where my fate stay night fans at

[@baguettedepain3975]

Damn, this is so it. It also makes perfect sense in the context, just like Shirou's line.

[@ds1futurehndrxx649]

Bro you completely called it with the people you think that are gonna be inspirational and influential in the piano/keyboard world

[@ilias1419]

0:36 he is kidding btw, please dont make him apologize again

[@gabreshaa8234]

No

[@ilias1419]

@@gabreshaa8234 hmm, yes

[@chienbanane3168]

Dear Adam Neely, your subjective color synesthesias are objectively wrong. Best regards.

[@francisgudatama6274]

HAHAHA NICE

[@blorblin]

I wholeheartedly agree.

[@optimusprimesavannah]

Exactly!

[@jond532]

objectivity is subjective

[@hugoclarke3284]

@@jond532 But only when you are making a joke about something subjective being objective.

[@tromboneJTS]

At 3:10 "quartals" are like a Mr. ROGERS interlude -- philosophizing

[@wheelchairfly]

Question for your next Q&A: When I audiate, I often imagine songs as being faster than they actually are. Sometimes when I listen back to the original recording, I find myself disappointed with the slowness of the song, compared to the version I imagined in my mind. Is this something everyone experiences, and if so, why?

[@maxian2132]

Not an expert but I heard once heard that people remember slow songs fast and fast songs slower. might be wrong

[@IuriSigma]

I think I experienced something like that for the most part of my audiating when I was just starting music, but when I gained a better grasp of rhytmn, tempo and measures (by ear) than before, this seemed to vanish from my perception or at least I don't remember this happening again in the past few years as often as it did back then (and when it happens, I think I can notice it without actually playing the recording). My theory is that when you don't have that specific grasp in your ear perception, you tend to hear things quite linearly, so it's harder for you to recall a deeper sense of order, thus variations in tempo will happen without you noticing. On the other hand, if you start to organize those chronometric structures in your perception (learning to play the keyboard with two hands helped me immensely in that regard and learning how to hear on and off beats in actual music as well), there will be places in your memory to record how the actual song played timing-wise. Another thing that can cause this is maybe that you're hearing music focusing on the notes and chords, so in a sense you're seeking the melodic and harmonic patterns, skipping rhytmic and chronometric information in the process (I don't know if that's the case with you, but most certainly it was my case back then, since harmony and melody were the main focus in my hearing). I can be wrong though.

[@carlpowell0]

Interesting. I do the opposite

[@hezekiahdaggett2179]

Yeah this happened to me when listening to a song in the airport. It's a song yall prolly heard a while ago but couldn't find like me. It's called "Dead Man" by Jars of clay its fire. but yeah similar phenomenon

[@elisesimone613]

I always imagine songs not faster or slower, but 20+/- cents lower. When I listen to the original songs it always sounds kind of sharp to me.

[@xyshomavazax]

Shaun Martin’s “I’m OUT” moment when Corey Henry starts doubling his lines at the climax of he solo is one of the best things ever.

[@NCG337]

i have LITERALLY no idea why i watch your videos as i've never made music before nor do i know anything about music theory but god damn your videos are interesting even tho i don't know what you're tlking about three quarters of the time i feel like i'm learning... something. I don't know what i'm learning, but it's definetely something. Keep up the good work!

[@spht9ng]

Download the demo for Ableton and try it out. It's hella fun making music. I know no music theory but got into making beats on the PC just clicking in notes and drum hits. so fun

[@MediHusky]

Y'all need to buy a bass guitar and slap it. It's pretty fun. You just have a bass now. It's a good life.

[@benimoo7894]

@@spht9ng begone bot

[@spht9ng]

@@benimoo7894 how tf am i a bot lol

[@benimoo7894]

@@spht9ng idk cause I seen a lotta bots in the comments nowadays and I feel like every damn comment is a bot. some bot syndrome lmao 😂 wtf indeed

[@nichagarncomposer]

What about Hiromi Uehara as a jazz pianist?

[@TomE1248]

Not to mention her fantastic hair! I wish I could play like that and have amazing hair :)

[@GuidoMichaelis]

I thought he was going to mention her as well

[@corah3544]

I'm so impressed by the control you displayed in not saying the word nice once during the 69 question

[@GabrielMisfire]

Eh, 2:41

[@montikore]

I also don't usually like jazz, however, there is IMMENSE value in the things you've taught via your videos, for all genres. Fuck yeah thanks Adam

[@GHRiz]

Can we just talk about how amazing Danae Greenfield sounds in that outro clip? Ya. That's the stuff.

[@lowenbad]

0:37 The best trolling I’ve seen in a minute... delivery is everything! 😂

[@AnnaH-qt9nl]

Quarantine got me thinking “collective breathing” is the most intimate thing you can do with someone. Feels man. Times are weird

[@gannon1074]

Nice throwback to the Rick and Morty "tbh you have to have a high IQ" meme

[@triplechingod6786]

That shit got me, I like how serious he was about it

[@Zdballard]

Ah 69 chords, or as I like to call them "dinner for two" chords

[@MrYeet-ip4qj]

That means 69 cords sound like 69

[@Daplin1]

With the two lumps in the picture I'm gonna modify your killer joke to reflect a Thanksgiving feast.

[@Cloudstrife7070]

Jesus Molina is definitely another Jazz Pianist to give a shout out too also, his technicality and ease of playing is unfathomable.

[@stevenklavins5714]

Tigran Hamasyan is amazing and super underrated, for someone who loves Djent and Jazz his music is a dream come true. If you listen to just one track "Entertain me" or "The Grid" are amazing tracks

[@ErebosGR]

My introduction to Hamasyan was through Drip and Court Jester and I can't recommend them enough.

[@VincentLloydM]

To Negate...Oh mmyyyy gooddd it gets me feeling things that I freaking LOVE. I need to know if there's more musicians or bands or anything like that because it's so good!! As someone who loves listening to prog metal and more "underground" prog metal bands Tigran was such a gem to find.

[@HappyIce-e3z]

I love 6/9 chords. They bring on a beautiful feeling that just warms the heart. Thank you Adam Neely. Love your work.

[@MrModez]

Nice

[@TomasIlluminato]

LOL that deadpan high IQ requirement for Rick And Morty meme reference at 0:38 applied to the music, which had been compared to a rick and morty joke was tight

[@majdnemkocka]

I went and watched Lingus. Oh boy. I know sh*t about music but am literally crying. Thank you.

[@mattsnyder4754]

I like to call Quartal voicings “Mr. Rodgers chords”

[@mattsnyder4754]

Andy Ferra I can’t say definitively either way. But when Adam started playing around with them up high, I immediately had images of trolleys and fish feeding in my head lol

[@iskandertime747]

Yeah, I had the same thought. Sounds a little like the incidental piano music on Mr. Roger's Neighborhood.

[@canman87]

Exactly where my head went too.

[@RSTAR2009]

Adam Neely you're a phenomenal jazz piano theory instructor! That video about non-functional chords, etc. and singing was great

[@Octaw333]

Thanks for recommending Tigran Hamasyan's music. I started listening to his music and I immediately fell in love with it. He is just insane. Couple of days ago I said to my friend that I really would like to see him playing live and the next day I found out he is coming to Poland in November; I got the tickets and I'm really looking forward to going to the show. Thanks again, Man! Cheers ;)

[@dmtgallardo]

Definitely listen to his album RED HAIL

[@snickpickle]

I know I'm writing this three years later, but how did you like the performance? (I now need to check out his music, as up until now, I had never heard of him.)

[@danchase3333]

adam: you can also have minor 69 WSJ: WHAHHHHATT?!

[@WexPower]

Loved the emphasis on breath awareness. Focusing on breath anchors us to the present moment, which eliminates overthinking in all of its forms (i.e. stage fright). And breathing with others is magical. 10/10

[@ltlauch]

Hey Adam, I'm spending a voluntary service as a teacher in Namibia. When I hear the children sing and clap I notice that they feel rhythm in a very different way, e.g. not adhering to 4/4 patterns. Also some of them have problems feeling western time signatures when they are singing along with western songs. Why might that be given that 4/4 feels so inherently natural to us?

[@ViliamVadocz]

We hear it from birth. It’s a lot like languages. The reason why you speak your native language is because you have been exposed to it from a young age and internalised it. Just my two cents.

[@Byzycx]

In my layman's opinion it's probably just exposure. From the youngest age we are exposed to 4/4 songs by the bucket in the west, so we learn to internalize it. It's very similar to how we use a native language, our alphabet and our numbers.

[@ivyssauro123]

It might not be as different but I know for a fact most Brazillians(this was truer in the past tho) can more naturally feel 2/4 tha 4/4 because of our exposure to samba.

[@rosiefay7283]

@@ivyssauro123 Do Brazilian children naturally clap in claves then?

[@ivyssauro123]

@@rosiefay7283 Yes! Nowdays specially carioca funk clave

[@1980rlquinn]

Love how you've incorporated that painting into the background!

[@ksenos69]

I still have no idea what you're talking about, but as long as you play, it makes absolute sense! Great teacher!

[@InstrumentManiac]

These videos are so helpful with learning theory. Thanks Adam!

[@TheDarkDragOn99999]

Adam: There's gonna be longer tours next year, I swear. Coronovirus: *no*.

[@basslinephunk3441]

That's a nice little piano 'trick' for me to sound like I can play piano. 4ths are great.

[@RandomAwesomeism]

Bassline Phunk yeah I love 4ths they sound even more advanced than regular chord extensions but so easy

[@Arkouchie]

"... The one, the only, 6/9 chord." "one of the *nice* things about the 6/9 chord..." I see what you did there, Neely. I've read your book!

[@nickhaas9185]

I also found sungazer before discovering your chanel. Then you mentioned it was your project in a video and I realized you were the man behind that red background 8-bit dude with the crazy eyes that I found in my "fans also like" section for Sevish. I really am learning a lot from your videos and it makes me motivated to play around with new things musically!!!

[@gavinp3575]

Why is this on my feed? I don’t even listen to jazz

[@deadeyes2803]

you play cod bo2 tho wanna play with me hit me up i play nukejacked all day, lots of hackers tho.

[@gavinp3575]

deadassx311 wait people still play black ops 2?

[@crookbrother]

Never too late to start

[@MrKennyBones]

Why is this on my jazz? I don’t even listen to feed

[@snickpickle]

I was taught to use masking tape (or painter's tape) around my fingers when doing an extended pizz gig on upright bass. I've used this technique for over 40 years now, with great results in keeping my fingers reasonably pain-free, and definitely blister-free! A couple of downsides to this method include that the tape does change the sound of the plucking, and that it is much more difficult to "feel" the string, and thus how to "address" the string. But to me, it's a small sacrifice to make, in order for my fingers to heal from something that never really happened to me in the first place! 🙂

[@musik350]

minor 69 does not sound like a good idea

[@windmillwilly]

Woah woah

[@hirokokueh3541]

it feels like at home

[@reevsey4421]

😂😂😂👏🏼👏🏼

[@cynicaldrummer286]

Oh

[@reub2338]

Bb9 is owned and distributed by the Band Baggage belt 9 © 2015

[@mantlepicture]

Like hell they do! I own the Bb note, so if those bastards are using ANY derivative chords, they will be hearing from my lawyer.

[@lividphysics1237]

I own F! Any of you use an F or any of it's derivatives (F#, Fb, any chord containing F, F#, Fb, or playing in the key of F) shall be tried and hung!

[@arctic7526]

LividPhysics *Pulls out E#*

[@lividphysics1237]

You're on thin ice buddy

[@mantlepicture]

@@arctic7526 Just stay the hell away from Abbbb. Me and my lawyers will only warn you once.

[@MonoIce350s]

14:19 "There are going to be longer tours next year, I swear." [RON HOWARD VO]: "There wasn't."

[@carlosgarciarincon3758]

Question for next Q&A: I play the keyboard and I notice that when I use the standard piano sound, the chords I play (specially the spicier ones) sound really cacophonous, but there are some other sounds in which I can play almost anything and it'll sound really good, and I'll just run freely and feel the jazz, my question is, why is this? I think it has something to do with the harmonics in the timbre of different sounds, some sounds with more harmonics may crash more, is there any theory behind this? Or anything else I should know? Thanks!

[@naoyukisasanami]

Make sure it's equal temperament in tune setting.　just temperament etc with jazzy tension sounds mess

[@carlosgarciarincon3758]

@@naoyukisasanami it is equal tempered, and I mean It doesn't sound bad... it is hard to explain

[@naoyukisasanami]

@@carlosgarciarincon3758 　Cheap sampling keyboard used to use short loop for sustain. that may cause like phase shift even pitch cycling

[@jesseclark7966]

There are plenty of possible factors here. One is that a real piano will accentuate shared overtones by sympathetic vibration while your keyboard likely won't, which may make chords sound off. Another possibility is that the different sounds you are using have different envelopes (attack, sustain, decay, etc.) which allow them to blend better and be heard as one sound, as opposed to slightly different attacks of different keys of a piano causing the different notes to be heard differently. But yes overtones will affect how chords sound as harmonics from overtones and frequency ratios of chords are two parts of the same effect. Though it's also possible that you just have a bad piano sound on your keyboard. Unfortunately I've encountered that many times.

[@downrangefuture6493]

It's for sure the timbre. For instance, the guitar can get away with breaking a lot of chord building rules because of its timbre. Take any open or barre chord from any rhythm guitar in any pop song. If you played those exact same notes on the piano, it will sound either harsh or muddy depending on how low or high it is. It's actually really annoying as a guitarist to have to play chords around a piano because we wind up with oddly arranged triads and strange stretches. I mean, you get used to it, but the intermediate guitarist that starts playing with a band is usually off-put. (Some of that is liking keys in piano that are hard to play on guitar. All we can agree on typically is G. Which is why so many pop songs are in G.)

[@jayrose-ham8834]

DAMN those 'quartal voicings' make me think of the 'Spirited Away' soundtrack!

[@ricardorodriguez5549]

Love the note about “vibing”. Used to play with a keyboardist who knew a load of tunes and could be a gas during the show...but who insisted on sending emails to the band after every show with “notes” on everything each player did “wrong” during the course of the preceding show. Fun, fun stuff. Dude wasn’t the leader and his constant vibing chased away plenty of players including me. With his talent, he should have been bigger but he had a gift for turning what was supposed to be a rewarding (dare I say, “fun”?) experience into a slow drag through wet caca.

[@Terrible_Peril]

Adam: explains ‘that fourths feel’ Chihiro: fusses in her seat on the car ride

[@alexrubin3450]

As a jazz bassist, how much of an influence has Charles Mingus had on you?

[@carloscalatayud6003]

He answers that question in his video “How to count 32nd notes?”

[@sataprescott7588]

Come to Chicago with Sungazer! We want you out here, too!

[@jackpasternak7586]

A - Red B - Navy Blue C - Yellow D - Sky Blue E - Forest Green F - also red (can’t really explain how that works but it does) G - Lime Green

[@momish392]

A- Red B- Blue C- Yellow D- Green E- Light Green F- Purple G- Brown

[@chillingFriend]

So does it consequently feel "wrong" for you, how he assigned the colours?

[@jackpasternak7586]

@@chillingFriend yes it does

[@chillingFriend]

Thanks for the quick answer. That's so interesting, yet so hard to imagine for me, how this must be!

[@jakobmorningstar]

You played the C6 and I felt like I was ready for a nap

[@Sh4dySam]

*Adam in 2019:* "There's gonna be longer tours next year, I swear" *2020:*

[@ClockWerkOrange]

Sounds like Mr. Rogers used the 6th and 6/9 chords with the parallel 4ths as the backing track for his show.

[@jasonlitherland4270]

Haha my exact thought. The Mr Rogers progression

[@RekenberGlastenheim]

2:40 My battery was at 69% when this blazing moment happened. Hey-yo! 😂

[@LubaFan]

Proof of intelligent design. You just destroyed atheism. 😜

[@blvck_mvgic]

the microtonal lick kills me everytime

[@hornzbiddle1189]

At the seventh level of jazz harmony, that C _better_ be a B#!

[@ashtarbalynestjar8000]

I don’t think so, the augmented second 75/64 is really distant and though it’s still an overtone of A, it’ll clash with everything unless the seventh is actually an even more dissonant augmented Pythagorean sixth 225/128. I like the sound of 7#9 chords with a 7/4 for the seventh and 7/6 for the minor third, so: A - C# - E - 7G - 7C.

[@cagethefoxtrick3852]

0:09 ignore this comment, is just to replay that perfect intro

[@drewajv]

Re: performing level 7 live Given enough experience, any musician with a monophonic instrument or one that’s not locked into equal temperament (piano, fretted instruments though pitch bending is a thing) can make micro-adjustments in their playing to tune individual notes to their relative harmonic positions (eg pitching the third in a major triad down slightly). Maybe not with the same level of control as Jacob Collier or Ben Johnston, but definitely possible

[@vroomoon]

This video is literally just a rundown of my KZbin history.

[@bradlucid]

Hi everyone, I don't know who's watching this but I just wanna let you know, That's killin'... yeah man!

[@raffilevy2029]

Does the fact you play bass change the way you would play bass on the piano?

[@Frahamen]

2019 musician: "we're going to tour" Oh sweet summer child.

[@marctelfer6159]

"Why did this appear on my feed? I don't even like jazz". I am wholly, and almost singularly, into various forms of heavy/extreme metal. The moment Adam uploads a new video, I'm here. It's to give myself a better understanding of musical vocabulary, to better express what I like a dislike (same with 12Tone), but also to increase the range of music I'm aware of (aksak being an example brought up by 12Tone, and Adam some time ago). Music theory isn't a bad thing, regardless of genre.

[@mvolle]

at this moment this video about 6/9 has 4200 views. nice.

[@2m7b5]

Domi and JD Beck are amazing. I've been a big fan for a while.

[@JantzBlackMusic]

Breathing is great for handling stage fright and I 100% agree it’s a physiological response more than a mental response. A few other helpful tips I’ve used: -get your body in the performance location ahead of time. Acclimate to the space. Stand on the stage. Play your instrument. Do anything you can do to make the place/atmosphere/sequence feel familiar ahead of time and your fight and flight response will be reduced. -it’s easier to control stage fright by breathing at the very fist onset. Once you let the stress hormones rage out of control, it’s over and just a matter of time before your body can process them out. -I actually find some sort of exertion helpful. Don’t just “breathe.” Purse the lips tightly and blow long breaths so your abs have to work harder. Tense all your muscles intentionally and then relax them intentionally. It’s a kind of biofeedback mechanism that tells your body you have “defeated” the threat and to stop cranking out stress hormones. -again, the key is to recognize the stage fright at the first onset and get on top of it.

[@maccormac_]

14:14 and then 2020 hit..

[@JDODify]

I really thought you were gonna say "The miracle catch all cure for stage fright is: Drinking"

[@livingroomviewing2987]

Thumbnail was worth it all! Perfect facial expression.

[@bazeblackwood]

Mehldau and Hiromi both come to mind as well.

[@RadityoPramAdi]

Hiromi fans right here!

[@martinkrauser4029]

Maybe a generation or two before the ones he mentioned, though.

[@heavyreynald]

4:42, so...there you have it: G is the brown note! (sound)

[@photogenic2010]

As a kid I lived 2 miles away from a night club that had a band (that played at club's outdoor garden), and I could here just a tiny bit of the band. and they always finished each song with one of those magnificent chords that you talk about. So now I have subscribed here to reminisce more of my childhood. Your talks are electric... Thanks :-)

[@DESTA.]

0:36 My god 30 seconds in and I'm already wheezing. (It's the reference to that cringy Rick and Morty reddit comment). This is why I love watching your stuff Adam.

[@Liggliluff]

(7:20) "jazz" starts with "j", which is /dʒ/ in phonetics (for English) "d" is /d/, so when you say "djazz" like that, it's /də.d͡ʒæz/

[@Benjermin7]

Hearing you discuss your synesthesia is so interesting, being someone who does not experience it. I play jazz piano at a university level and I cannot imagine associating colors with notes. Loved your explanation of why writing a C natural is better than a B# for a #9 as well. Your sharing of knowledge is quite appreciated!

[@EllingtonReborn]

Can't forget Rob Araujo and Jesus Molina, both Berklee grads.