How to improve your rhythm

Drastically improve your timing and rhythmic feel by tapping into your natural ability to speak language, all without the aid of a metronome. Science is on your side!
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[@martinkrauser4029]

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[@stephenbenner4353]

OMG! You're right! Now I can't unsee it!

[@tonyhakston536]

Pft... You guys are delusional.

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[@denniscochran1878]

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[@jarlfenrir]

You are trying to say it's not his brother? O_o

[@sengroagers1111]

My band director says that he had a freshman student (percussionist) with absolutely terrible rhythm. Even entrances on upbeats were tricky for them. But the next year, they came back to band with much greater ability, along with an amazing sense of rhythm. When my director asked the kid how they were able to improve so much, the kid said, "Well, it became a lot easier when I tried counting to 4 while I played."

[@ZombieLove]

Ufking unfee

[@anapaulafarano3070]

bahAHA oh man

[@vitamin9165]

yeah honestly as a drummer sometimes I forget to count, lemme tell you you need to count

[@kozhikkaalan]

Holy shit, your political correctness made it really hard for me understand whether you were talking about one student or a bunch of students at first

[@sandpaperduvet1455]

@@kozhikkaalan imgur.com/v9tUVOf Gee wow, this must've been really tough on you

[@legoblox01]

> By counting while you play All wind instruments just died a little inside

[@ch0rkie]

And everyone who sings and plays simultaneously

[@Andrei.Christop]

actually you can vocalize sounds while playing wind instruments but you cannot say words

[@mollylane4346]

and vocalists

[@themysteriousdude757]

Why is everybody saying how this is difficult for woodwinds as if brass just doesn’t exist no more

[@adrianguev1294]

Vibrato the the count

[@PlayTheMind]

Adam: "Were you *rushing* or were you *dragging*?" Also Adam: "I-I don't know."

[@adamozzy5698]

PlayTheMind Also Adam: Start counting Adam: 5 6 7- Also Adam: IN 4 DAMMIT!

[@onixtheone]

PlayTheMind "Oh my dear God. Are you one of those single tear people? Do I look like a double fucking rainbow to you?"

[@claudiaventura1644]

"Not quite my tempo"

[@Footballar09]

PlayTheMind idk but you better get the heck out of there cause that's a Russian dragon

[@alexzamora5285]

PlayTheMind lol

[@jjajaz]

My drum/percussion teacher had this thing where he'd think of a weird phrase (i.e. "the maths department stole my mug, oh what a shame") and then come up with a fairly complex rhythm which fit with the words. It's incredible how much easier it made learning long rhythmic parts

[@variousthings6470]

That technique works for simple rhythms, too. For the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony, they had to teach several hundred volunteers, most with no previous drumming experience, to play the same beat. To help teach them the rhythms, they used some memorable phrases like "play the drum - so your mum - can see - you on TV". The BBC documentary about the production process is on KZbin, but the site will probably eat this comment if I try to link to it. Just search for "One Night in 2012 - An Imagine Special" and skip to about the 30min mark.

[@thefakedeal]

jjajaz this is a widely used technique in indian classical music . idk about western classical music tho. Ben Levin made a video about it.

[@encroachingchaos6208]

Samir Shrestha It's referred to as Konakol and uses different syllables according to whether from North or South India

[@sizasman]

jjajaz On that note, you should check out David Dockery's YT channel. He has a couple of videos where he syncs some ridiculously complex drum rhythms with movie/tv dialogs.

[@MattMusicianX]

Thanks for mentioning! I never heard of David Dockery. Also check out Dan Weiss doing the same thing to tv dialog and hip hop lyrics on his channel =D

[@Corvid]

When I was training as a paramedic my instructors were always confused as to how I managed to maintain such a relentlessly precise rhythm of 110/minute chest compressions... even under the stress of real resuscitation. I never got on with the tempo of "Staying Alive"... I used the morbidly appropriately titled Rammstein song Ich Tu Dir Weh (literally translated as "I hurt you"), the first song I ever mastered playing as a brand new guitarist by sheer brute force. Very fitting, given that textbook CPR fractures the ribs from the sternum almost immediately, resulting in an extremely painful recovery for the tiny percentage of cardiac arrest patients who regain some form of consciousness. Three people survived to hospital discharge during my 4 year career, with me literally miming the guitar rhythm in my head... wonderful non musical application for good rhythm! (From a technical perspective, the heart needs a fairly precise tempo of chest compressions to allow the upper chambers of the heart to passively fill with the maximum amount of blood, for the most efficient artificial circulation of blood. Certainly worked OK for a few lucky people :D Ich tu dir weeeeeh! Tut mich nicht leid!) Perhaps it was more the aggressive resucsitation... I hated the "Nah mate, don't bother trying too hard, no one survives cardiac arrest" mentality of some oldshool paras. Fuck that. 50 year old heart attack? I don't care how many thousand pounds the air ambulance costs to turn out... the words "What the fuck happened... why does my chest hurt" are worth every second, and every hour of hard guitar practice :D

[@matthewsheehan1589]

The papyrus font for the "meditation" was hysterical. I love all your little humorous nuances, Easter eggs and inside jokes. Its really great when coming back and rewatching videos I notice things I haven't in the past. Your internet speak is on point

[@SuperDaveOkie]

As a vocalist, I can tell you that the great conductor Robert Shaw required all of his choirs to learn their pieces through "Count Singing." Under his method, the words to every song is the subdivided beats "One-ee-and-uh two-ee-and-uh" and so forth. "Three" is pronounced "Tee," "Four is "Fo," "Five" is "Fie" and "Six" is "Sic." He pointed out that you could use the same method to zoom in and subdivide subdivisions if that level of precision is necessary. As an example, a symphonic choir may be performing the last movement of Beethoven's Ninth in eight weeks of rehearsal. Robert Shaw would ban words for the first five weeks of the rehearsal process, forcing the choir to learn the musical language for its own sake before adding the actual language of lyrics. Only when there was three weeks to go in the rehearsal process did he give the choir precisely one phoneme at a time, which was filled in at the specific spot formerly occupied by the subdivision name. By substituting this way, each singer knows down to the 16th note where to place an ending consonant. It's revolutionized the way I learn sheet music as a singer.

[@MusicisWin]

There's no end like low end.

[@allenhudson7988]

Music is Win Tyler, you and Adam need to do a collaboration!

[@ejipuh]

Music is Win BASS

[@OEpistimon]

Music is Win Hi Tyler!

[@ldahui]

I was just watching one of your videos haha

[@ronzonirafael]

Bass is win too

[@JonI-vc5mm]

TFW you play a wind instrument so you can't count out loud and play at the same time

[@tobiasobsen1287]

Count with multiphonics and sing while playing at the same time, should be ez. /s

[@breadmoneymusic]

>Multiphonics >easy pick one.

[@tobiasobsen1287]

oh, I am deeply sorry that my obvious irony AND the marker for sarcasm (the /s) weren't enough to make clear that it wasn't meant serious :D

[@JoshDanielGuitar]

Tap with your foot! That is how I keep rhythm when I practice guitar.

[@BigDaddyWes]

Although tapping your foot or making some bodily movement can help you keep time, if your mouth is available to, count out loud. Involving your voice helps you internalize and make neural connections. Tapping your foot isn't something you need to think about in order to do. Counting requires more focus. If nothing else, think the numbers, but actually speaking them is infinitely better for your practice.

[@tobiasobsen1287]

using your a pic of yours to picture "humans" may be the most basic, yet best joke I have ever witnessed in such subtleness

[@shudigga5246]

Tobias Obsen He is a human right?.....right?!0.0

[@TheJuicyTangerine]

That's exactly what a robot would want you to think

[@MysticKoolAidMan]

Tobias Obsen especially given the Hebrew origins of his name (humanity)

[@WritingOnGames]

This is quickly becoming my favourite channel. Reignited a love of theory in me and has actually got me *studying* my craft again. So yeah, thanks!

[@OscarBedford]

Hi Adam! Great clip, as usual! I just wanted to touch upon Patel’s ‘vocal learning’ theory, which you reference around minute 4:00. This is a highly enticing theory which has its roots in the field of music cognition, particularly in the realm of beat processing. Yet, as with every theory, it must be taken with a pinch of salt. As you aptly point out in the video, the theory revolves around the ability to vocalize complex sounds, which is shared by a select number of animal species, including humans. In essence, Patel focuses on the fact that all animals capable of entraining their body movements to an external rhythmic source also seem to be capable of learning and reproducing complex vocal patterns from their peers, and to use these patterns in a communicative and adaptive way. This convergence would seem to point to a causal, perhaps even evolutionary, link between these two seemingly disparate abilities. However, in a more recent paper by Pattel himself (2014), the author cautions the reader by explaining that the ability to synchronize to a beat has also been verified in sea lions, which are animals that do not happen to express complex vocalizations, nor vocal learning. This does not necessarily mean, however, that the theory is irrevocably flawed or incorrect. In fact, Patel goes on to explain that, although sea lions do not exhibit vocal learning characteristics, the other members of the sea lion’s evolutionary lineage (namely seals) do express this ability. Thus, it is possible that sea lions inherited the brain structures needed for vocal learning and beat processing but only expressed the latter, due to particular evolutionary constraints affecting this species alone. If this turned out to be true, the ‘vocal learning’ theory would remain intact. A radically different but plausible explanation would be that these two abilities are typically expressed concomitantly, but are in fact functionally and evolutionarily independent from each other, which would explain why sea lions exhibit one but not the other. If this second explanation turned out to be true, the ‘vocal learning’ theory would be in jeopardy. In any case, we will never know for certain unless we peek into the sea lion’s brain and ultimately compare it to the brain of other vocalizers (and beat tappers!). For now we can neither prove nor disprove Patel’s theory and, thus, must wait for more evidence to come our way. I hope you found this information interesting! Here’s a link to Aniruddh D. Patel’s 2014 paper, titled 'The Evolutionary Biology of Musical Rhythm: Was Darwin Wrong?': journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1001821

[@johnlamb7309]

Forget ALL of that noise and read up in Music Therapy journals. There's a massive amount of research on how music affects the brain and body already existing. This isn't where Patel is coming from - he's a cog scientist and even tried repeat/improve research whether people were "beat deaf" (spoiler: they don't exist) Rhythm isn't a thing, it isn't a noun and subdivisions don't really exist. I mean, they do on the page, but that's just how we write out the directions. Rhythm is fundamentally harmonic in nature, and subdivisions aren't divisions at all, but multiples. You wouldn't say that G is a subdivision of C. Anyway, I could type alllll day but I gotta get back to work.

[@johnbuell8035]

john lamb you left the party a bit too early. You stated what rhythm is not ( a noun), but you didn’t really define what it is. Tell me more about this concept of rhythm. And what is the ‘spoiler alert’ test which demonstrated that there are no ‘beat deaf’ people?

[@Exploshi]

Lots of typing here

[@frankiejohnson2702]

Wasnt Darwin's theory of evolution proven to be fraudulent

[@Bob13454]

@@frankiejohnson2702 Is this a joke?

[@awall1831]

Holy crap! I have been playing guitar for 8 years now and singing for longer. And for almost all of that time I have struggled with rhythm. Tons of people have told me to count before, but I always over think it and try to MAKE my counting rhythmic, causing my counting to be off. But, the way you explained how we naturally count in rhythm, made a lightbulb go off. I just picked up my guitar and started counting how I would naturally, and I have never been more in rhythm in my life. THANK YOU!

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Notification from Adam Neely: the day is saved

[@rajin95]

The notes Galileo sung were the lick right?

[@AdamNeely]

all star

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I love you even more right now

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I see a little silhouetto of a man...

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i got you to 200 likes.

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@@rbbBeast Scaramouche, scaramouche, will you do the fandango?

[@paurullan]

The timing of this video is impeccable! I have been focusing on my piano rhythm and have become so frustrated I was going to ask this for a Q&A. Thank you!

[@Charlyfromthenuclearcity]

"Who knew practice was actually work ?! Oh my gooood."

[@DimiKaye]

"AdAaaam Neelyyyyy's Count LesoooOooons!" Another interesting video mate, sweet :)

[@caelio_629]

I play clarinet... This stuff is super inspiring to someone like me, who loves learning and applying the theory, rather than just sitting in a class or working on scales. This kind of thing helps me practice in new different ways, and helps me keep an interest when banging my head against a wall against the altissimo register.

[@DavidDiMuzio]

Wow! This is one of the best music education videos I've ever seen. Mind blown! I will definitely start implementing counting out loud into my metronome practice. Thank you 💜💜💜💜

[@crimfan]

I'm glad you've returned to having the intro song! Anyway, I very much agree that vocalization really helps. I know that working on singing has really helped my ear but it's also made my improvisation a lot stronger in terms of feel and time, too.

[@maxbasilone3026]

Now I'm not a cognitive scientist or a music teacher. I actually study language and play music and I'm doing research on aesthetics and neuroscience. It's great when findings like the ones you shared can be such eye openers for different disciplines. This was really helpful, Adam. Thanks so much. My brother and I really enjoy your videos.

[@AkshayKumar-sd1mx]

My music teacher actually told me to count myself without using a metronome to improve timing,I didn't really pay much attention now I can't wait to try it out.Thanks Adam

[@SonicXRage]

6:50 Friends and relatives wonder why I never dance at parties even when they so kindly insist. Little do they know, I'm actually protecting them from myself.

[@NewYorkActingCoach]

Thank Heaven - a guy who knows his subject AND ( yes and, folks,) knows how to talk about it. Clear even though fast, easy to follow even though so much is said. Thanks. Bad speakers drive me insane, and your speed is certainly better than mine. John Windsor-Cunningham

[@oboejdub]

As a wind player, I can't count out loud, but we do subdivide continuously in our minds, always. My teacher had an exercise for training our subdividing chops to make it more natural, consistent, and effortless, so that our artistic brain can go elsewhere without sacrificing rhythmic integrity. The exercise is to clap sixteenth notes (with a metronome on slow quarters) while speaking fluidly, out of rhythm (or in different rhythm, perhaps). Basically, holding a conversation without letting your clapping rhythm falter. As you get better at this, your ability to subdivide while playing improves. This is the inverse of what you are proposing - we are not taking advantage of the innate rhythm of speech. Maybe we could flip the exercise over, and subdivide out loud with the voice while doing something arrhythmic with the hands - writing, doodling, playdough, or something.

[@cleangoblin2021]

Cant you guys use feet?

[@MrMapacheco]

The perfect combination between passion, information and entertaintment. One of youtube's finest channels

[@darkt00th2]

EXACTLY the thing I have been looking for! Thanks Adam!!! You rule!

[@alanhuffbass]

Thanks, Adam, for putting out a public video explaining exactly what I try to explain to every person that tells me they have no "talent" for music. Been two years since I've been working with music education and I got to that conclusion by watching how people learn and what difficulties they have and how to solve them without saying "MUSIC COMES FROM THE SOUL" nor "REPEAT THIS EXERCISE UNTIL YOU GET IT" Even the ruler analogy is pretty basic to show what rythm really is. I think every music educator should work by standards like this, being "down to earth, objective world" oriented.

[@danieljacobsonmusic]

Brilliant! I always teach my students to count out loud and play, this explains on a much deeper level WHY this works, thank you Adam!

[@josephfilipow]

The concept you touch on at 5:20 is gold! This is how I approach “independence “

[@CD-rt8wj]

Loved the ruler analogy. One of the best things my band teacher ever told us was that constant subdivision isn't just helpful for playing fast passages. It's also the only way that you will come in on time after a rest or change on time after a held note. Thinking about that helps me so much when I play, and I think that ruler analogy illustrates it really well. Thanks man keep it up!

[@reganxmas]

What a fantastic video!! As a teacher of music and dance, this is an issue that I deal with daily. So many people believe the false reality that they have no rhythm. Fact is that there is nothing in the known universe which does not duplicate some form of rhythm. Deep stuff. Any way, this really struck a chord for me ;-)

[@GiovaniGatto]

cognitive scientist here. as of the Matthew subject, my suggestion is somewhere between lack of contextualised learning and/or lack of sensorial integration (which is surprisingly important in learning beyond stimulus pairing). I suggest you take a look. Keep up the good work!

[@GarketMardener]

>humming All-Star >Mouth Sounds fucking great dude. This is what i subbed for. Lessons with a spice of interest.

[@MakeSomething]

this was brilliant! Thanks!

[@seattlevkk]

I love this video because I’ve always felt my rhythm sucks and this speaks to tapping into an inner awareness we aren’t aware of but possess.

[@IferMasterofFire]

And now I'm practising counting unmetronomically, just because I can.

[@AdamNeely]

+Ivo van der Hoeven it's not hard to count unmetronomically, just count like guitarists play.

[@ejipuh]

Adam Neely :O Burn.

[@nashj.3238]

Jeff Berlin thinks you won't ever need a metronome in the first place, so why the hell not.

[@sarasiliquini5533]

Adam Neely Wouldn’t it be better to, as you play, count out loud WITH a metronome going?

[@timeck7033]

I absolutely love the 'conversation' you have with your 'dumb you' in those videos. It helps to really understand what you're explaining.

[@Fopenplop]

spoiler: its the same thing your music teacher tells you

[@surveil3548]

Fopenplop He is a music teacher, after all.

[@ashleyblack3941]

Adam is brilliant, can't get enough, real teacher, real integrity, thank you Adam you are genuinely helping people. BASS!

[@RodneyOSRS]

I like how he just assumes his average viewer has more confidence than a cockatoo

[@aylbdrmadison1051]

They are rather cocky. For such little peckers.

[@swine13]

And another word used to describe the cockatoo that I've not seen here yet is: Asshole.

[@jeanenviedapprendre]

Everything you say makes perfect sense. I guess I believe it by I can't explain why I've heard audiences of several dozen people be so out of sync with each other while clapping to a song that it sounded closer to an applause than a rythm. With at least a third of the people so far off-beat in different places it's hard to imagine that it wasn't intentional (but it wasn't).

[@MrChong-sc2gk]

"violin players even more-so." I fucking love you Adam

[@Gab25485]

Dude, you totally made my day, keep making videos forever, please.

[@13TeK11]

ye counting while you play just changes everything, once you get used to count in 4/4 try goin odd 5/4, 7/8 etc, or mixing it playing grooves with triplets in it

[@WayneMemphisMojo]

I truly believe this "Bass Rhythm" effect to be true. When I played tuba as a part of the Memphis State University (now University of Memphis) marching band, the tubas were always fussed at most for tempo issues. May have been our playing due to having to "fill" a large instrument with air (which means we had to think ahead of the beat) or the director could hear our tempo variations more due to this :Bass Rhythm" effect.

[@isramint]

Adam: count while you play Me: a sax player *Credits start rolling*

[@urmero67]

Guys like J Berlin are absolutely right in the fact that knowing where the notes, chords, etc are on every corner of your instrument is the best way to improve your rhythm ...there's no two ways about it...I just experienced it myself so I know I'm right. Once I was able to understand my instrument and developed my ear...My rhythm improved ...which was always there by the way, I was just having problems whenever I had doubts and milliseconds of wondering where the next note is ...where am I going next etc , followed by the "was I correct" afterwards thought, all those milliseconds count towards affecting time...I think this idea is easily overlooked

[@joekessell92]

Hi Adam, interesting idea. Q+A question: I've heard you mention a few times that you found rhythm especially challenging as a beginner/intermediate player and that you had to work really hard to correct it. As a bass player who also struggles with this I was wondering if you could elaborate on how you overcame it? Is it just down to metronome exercises and practicing? Or was it changing your mindset and approach to rhythm that made the real difference (like the concept featured in this video)? I'd be grateful if you could also speak on how your weakness with rhythm affected your ability to play professionally with others? In other words how accurate is a bass players rhythm generally expected to be? Is there any margin for error or are you likely to loose your gig to someone else who has it down completely?

[@bluehampar]

Going to dance classes before I learned music meant that counting came naturally. It makes sense that it helps I have actually managed to accurately measure time by tapping a 60 BPM beat and counting taps in my head which was quote cool Also there is a reason why the instructions of singing stayin alive works so well for CPR

[@matsomo]

Who needs rhythm with dance moves like that

[@IOxyrinchus]

I love this KZbin channel, Adam goes into every hypothesis and theory about certain (mostly complex) areas of music and it's extremely fascinating and insightful, this channel is like the Vsauce of music, btw Adam got some sick dance moves

[@Chanur2394]

Can you do a video about what you've learned from Carnatic music and/or other non-Eurocentric music? Just any cool history facts or pieces developed outside our standard thinking that might inspire? Not all of us can take a Berklee class on the subject but you must have learned a lot of interesting things.

[@callahanconnor7762]

The training of rhythm sense through vocalization is a major part of Konnakol, the 'spoken percussion' system that's part of mridangam training in Carnatic music but is also totally its own thing. If anyone hasn't seen or heard it and is intrigued, there are a ton of fascinating training videos on youtube - some great names to search for are Henrik Andersen, Bernhard Schimpelsberger and Manjunath BC. I just love it and I very much recommend checking it out. :)

[@craigstephenson7676]

adam: count while playing wind players and singers: aww man

[@onceuponasynth]

Thanks Adam! This is a timely video as I was just looking for ways to improve my rhythm.

[@timothyrice1621]

"Now I'm not a cognitive scientist, but I am a music teacher" lol let there be memes

[@EtainMcCloud]

I have been binging your videos. This one is my favorite. I am inspired to pick up clarinet again and to keep trying with ukulele. I played clarinet all through middle School and high school, but didn't keep it up because I didn't think I was very good. I am in my early thirties now and wanting to connect with something that would make my dad proud. He's the sort of guy who can't read music but can literally play anything on anything. I think that this is something I can do between practice and way you explain things. Thank you so much for offering your insight. It is valuble and did not come easy. It's obvious that you have put in a great deal of work and passion to get where you are. Thank you.

[@epiczeven6378]

*it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing* ;)

[@rtwilson145]

That's so awesome! I was just thinking how much I suck at rhythm and suddenly, as if by magic, this Adam Neely video appears. Thanks Adam!

[@sorrysir3133]

Counting to 4 - With Adam Neely

[@jamesbrooks9321]

figured this out years ago, it was really eye opening, anyone who i play with who i coach into counting while playing improve their rhythm chops noticeably in just a couple weeks, counting is key and i would also recommend vocalizing, use your mouth sounds to map out melodies and harmonies you want to make or just count aloud, that can really help with subdivisions (one-ee and-ah two-ee and-ah three-ee and a four-ee and-ah)

[@ktezri]

Hey Ad (if I may) Great video. The all-too-quick Shatner reference - can you say more about 23rd-century speech cadence and its impact on rhythmic competence? Thanks, Ez (if you like)

[@lemonderangello]

your editing out your silences/mistakes between phrases interrupts your natural rhythmic cadence, thus simultaneously teaching me the subject matter and destabilizing my ability to do so.

[@alfonso5026]

*counting backwards with adam neely*

[@gradyvaughn2647]

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ha!

[@irvinsanpedro6825]

I'm so happy when adam neely releases a video.

[@feliperojas-doomride]

My band used to have a drummer who just couldn't count to four, it was so frustrating. He could never keep a 4/4, always used fills that dragged over to 5/4 and never even noticed it. The funny thing is that people who didn't knew him thought that he was such a technical player because he went through so many different rythms XD

[@VincentBakker1964]

thats really torture....

[@emersonlmak1625]

@@VincentBakker1964sry bro I just suck ass at counting 😅

[@RubenGarcia-kc3op]

I am believer, I watched one of your videos about counting few years back, and gosh! it really got me into the correct rhythm when playing in assemble, now these days I don't need to count that much, it's much easier now !!! Thanks

[@BillDeWitt]

I'm wondering about the ear's ability to divide notes into time periods. Notes less than 100 hertz have much fewer divisors than notes in the range of lead guitars and violins. Therefore we need bass notes to be more regular so that they harmonize in our audio memory. High notes, on the other hand, can be just about anywhere in the beat and find a vibrational match with previous note placements. I hope you get what I'm saying. It's like how our brain remembers the first note in a scale and requires the last note to match it, even though it's been seconds since you played it. If you could see my hands right now I'm completely demonstrating this in the air.

[@johnbuell8035]

Shame the hands aren’t visible - that would clear it right up

[@robashley7721]

Excellent example of "Communication (or education in this instance) is ALL about the message received" not given. Thanks for re-phrasing and the connection...

[@JPPWB]

Camels are natures camels.

[@martyg8137]

xD

[@johnbuell8035]

Jack Pepper - thanks Jack.

[@swine13]

And they fill their humps with water - nature's fruit juice. 😊

[@NicklasNylander87]

Been dancing around this channel for awhile. This was spot on for me, gives me hope for getting better rythm, SUBSCRIBED.

[@kl808]

Hi Adam, you seem to reference academic studies quite often in your videos. I was wondering if there were any academic music journals you would recommend subscribing to?

[@kainreaverz]

Material para un q+a

[@robertthegreek]

Or books you might recommend? I'm currently reading "Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy" by Robert Jourdain. I've also read "The World in Six Songs" by Daniel Levitin and "Music and The Mind" by Anthony Storr. I think these books line up pretty well with what you've talked about. Do you have any other suggestions, Adam?

[@Tillit_01]

How did you know I needed that video? 🙀 (preparing for the upcoming entrance exams, last year they told me I need to work on my rhythm amongst other things, and the exam is happening by the end of this month, again) thank you.

[@Tillit_01]

Hey Adam, thanks for all the great content, and sorry that at the moment I'm unable to support the channel on Patreon... I try this but I'm still rushing/dragging... (I've made an exercise metronome that clicks on 2&4, and every twelfth bar or eleventh&twelfth bars, would go silent) I find myself "landing" wrong and not on the click (after the silenced bars) Know peace ✌️

[@kitcutting]

"Meditation" with Adam Neely "Counting Backwards" with Adam Neely Hahahah.

[@RemyTrahant]

That counting while playing the Journey song exercise is so helpful! Thanks, Adam!

[@krisztiannagy3261]

Could you make a video in which you dance to different pieces of music? 😅😅😅

[@johnbuell8035]

Krisztian Nagy simultaneously

[@zvonkovelickovic3107]

Man you should definitely check Ekrem Jevric's "Kuca poso" out. This guy sings 7/8 over 4/4 time and he seems to be doing it so spontaneously and fluently! Might be another example of what you mentioned at the end of the video.

[@Scratch_Gobo]

1:59 HAD ME FOOLED OMG

[@Dom_Hubsub]

This is a crazy useful exercise. Thanks for sharing it Adam!

[@chicktapus463]

Hey, Adam, I love your lessons, but I don't really play a lot of jazz and I worry that all the music theory is only really applicable if I were to play jazz or classical music, which I largely don't play. Does advanced music theory really have a place in other genres? Am I right in thinking this or am I being ignorant? Sorry for my bad English by the way, it's my first language

[@AChadWardenProduction]

Music theory is just a rational attempt at mapping the fundamental components that actually make up music... Yes advanced theory has it's place in every genre(even in pop), it's just a matter of combining knowledge, experience and practice Most people will end up trying hard to label your music just because you incorporated technical aspects that are proper to certain other genres That's why there's combined genres like Jazz funk, blues rock, fusion metal, etc... Just for the sake of referencing the symbiosis between both dominant characteristics merging together

[@rodolfoamaralguitar]

THe drummer Garu Chester talks about this in his book: ´´Ability to hear and feel the quarter note. One of the first things you have to sing is the quarter note, along with the metronome, as you sight-read. The quarter note is the daddy of the bar; singing it really helps you hear exactly where the quarter is, and how everything you play relates to it. This will result in better time feel and better execution.´´

[@chicktapus463]

How to improve your rhythm: don't be a classical musician. Right, Adam?

[@chicktapus463]

is just joke

[@kjarrij]

Not at all true, playing Mozart requires you to be extremely rythmic, as well as Bach and others from classical/barroque period. Romatic period however, is a whole other story.

[@chicktapus463]

is just joke

[@Ziggerath]

glenn gould would say otherwise...

[@KiwiUkulele]

this method of counting as your playing is literally what every classical musician learns. :)

[@Cryptocurrent1]

Adam, great video as always. This is my all time favorite KZbin channel!

[@micahsnyder7299]

Could you do an analysis on the rhythm in Meshuggha's music? Particularly in 'New Millennium Cyanide Christ' and 'Bleed'

[@juanborjas6416]

K r e e Just a bunch of polymeters based on 4/4. Look at muyaki's videos on polymeters.

[@alexanderpurkis3508]

The way they use rythmic patterns isn't "just a bunch of polymeters based on 4/4".

[@dennisgarryowen8885]

I think I would love to have the opportunity to spend a few days going through your book collection. I don't have any education in music, but I watch your videos and pick up valuable information that is quite helpful. Having the ability to simplify complex concepts AND provide examples outside of the focused target of thought is rare, and you are really, really good at it. Thanks for all the videos. As I am just starting my musical journey I think I have found someone is confident (Competence breeds confidence IMO.) enough speak of music without having to figure out ways to conceal inadequate knowledge and experience. Great job!

[@vladocvijetinovic]

Galileo: there's gotta be a better way to measure time than humming freaking songs all the time *invents pendulum*

[@ant123ps3]

This channel has been the best discovery in a while, even for someone like me who has minimal music knowledge (basic stuff from teaching myself how to play the drums). I just love the way you presents your videos and the stuff you expose is so damm interesting. Keep it up!

[@slickgreen2813]

Christ i cant even keep up with seven nation army. I tried the counting thing but i still couldnt get it after 30 mins. Should i trade my instruments for a triangle?

[@ananda_miaoyin]

and now everybody knows about it....from the Queen of England to the hounds of Hell.

[@joshvadas5500]

Playing a triangle *well* requires as much focus as other percussion instruments. To make the most poignant statement, it must be played at precisely the right time. Not to mention having to count the 53 bars of rest leading up to that moment...

[@eghlrowetabiliran2024]

After watching this video, I do believe that I am suffering from beat deafness. Keeping up with rhythm is a big struggle for me despite practicing guitar for almost 10 years. It is really frustrating to me since it hinders me from my passion to music.

[@Viterkim]

is there a full version of the outro song?

[@ABCD27814]

It's called Sungazer Sequence Start (Sungazer is a band Adam has with Shawn Crowder). Search for it on KZbin and you should find it :)

[@BAwesomeDesign]

And the intro, for completeness sake? Love it too

[@donbonlin7471]

Great video, this reminds me of Indian classical percussionists who make extensive use of vocalization to communicate and internalize rhythms

[@AaronLevyDrums]

Christ I lost it when you showed the image of William Shatner LOL

[@thebeastoffeasterpark]

I would have shown Max Wright! Lol

[@stigmatube]

Hey Adam, watched this video like 3 years later after the post. I was a musician for a while and I am also a stuttered with a very hard time talking in rythmn. I am pretty fluent but, still, if you put along with a metronome you can notice how I lack rythmn on my speech. It was something my therapist pointed out from the begining. I eventually improved to the fluency I have today but all I am saying is, some people lack this internal clock you mentioned midway through the video and, at the time, it affected my rythmn as a musician too. Nowadays, I am pretty fluent but can still feel this lack of natural rythmn if I am not concentrated on it.

[@freeradicalpanda]

But isn't our rhythm feel linked to our heart rate as well? I mean most people consider a regular old 4/4 rhythm around 70-95 bpm as "normal", while 120 bpm would be considered fast, and 40 bpm slow. A normal (ie. non-pathological) heart rate would be from 50-100 bpm with the average being around 60 bpm. The normal, steady R-R interval on an ECG also makes the heartbeats tick along like a, slightly unreliable, metronome, giving an innate time feel. There must be a link right?

[@hatebreeder999]

You are absoluetly right

[@brianfunshine]

My favorite line in this video is, ‘Well, I‘m not a cognitive scientist but, I am a music teacher. Well said. You are an amazing teacher.

[@EvilDragon666]

Captain Kirk reference nearly had me choking to death... :D

[@SunnyFloridaGirl]

I have a handful of internal phrases I sometimes say in my head while swing dancing "step, step, triple, step, step, triple" for 8 count basic or "step, step, triple, triple" for 6 count basic. I'm more likely to use them when I'm dancing as a lead than a follow though. Some Lindy Hop dancers use the technique of vocalizing a tricky rhythm with nonsense sounds to coincide with fancy footwork or other movements.