Can We Write A Song In 30 Minutes??

[@GreggOliverBass]

I got to tell you... I've been playing music my whole life well since I was three and I'm 70 now so a long time. I so wish I was in the room with you guys... I'm in a band now, and except for making music it's a slog. All the promotion and management and non-music-related aspects are just crushing the life out of it. I know you guys have to do all that stuff too. But seeing two guys just enjoying playing music together the way I've done my whole life is a treat. I applaud you

[@tabor503]

get a social media. Improvise on your own and post clips.

[@tabor503]

KZbin works.

[@Marklar3]

Whoever is doing the mixing and tech setup for this podcast is doing great job btw. The sound is super clear and well balanced. Good choices for camera angles too. It's not easy, and even a lot of music focused creators get it wrong.

[@Don2Rich]

I find composition mind boggling. Herbie said Donald Byrd told him to come up with chords first and melody latter. Jimmy Heath said modern songs aren't melodic and we should come up with melodies first. Wayne whould write complete songs in a sitting. Monk wrote amazing songs and could make standards sound like he wrote them. I was told by a older musician when i was young that musicians that don't compose get forgotten. It's hard trying to come up with something that doesn't sound like something I've heard. This was great to experience.

[@nicksimons7391]

42:50 this whole section till the end gave me chills, the way they spontaneously decide to dig a little cavern into that ending section just because it feels so good, relentless stank and feeling.

[@jazzgreens]

Please let this be a recurring episode theme! It’s not just the amazing music created but how you two do it with minor cuts, scrapes or bruised egos! ❤

[@Ambidextroid]

43:41 Adam takes a deep breath and then lays down one of the coolest lines I've ever heard! Damn that was insane guys

[@hugo54758]

Thanks for leaving the laughter here, it made me smile and laugh, thank you some much!

[@EzraTF2]

38:12 is when they start playing their song. Saving this time stamp for later listening.

[@OTR392]

Love it! This channel is the best jazz channel ever!!! You guys are great together too!

[@patzimmusic]

I'm glad y'all kept the intro in, that cracked me up. This was really cool to watch, sometimes collaborating can be intimidating or doesn't go smoothly so it was cool to see the legends at work

[@thomasboucher3087]

We need the full band version !

[@sanferrera]

Nice!! Watching them do the arrangement would be super cool!

[@ElliottMilesMcKinley69]

I've been a professional composer and teacher for 30+ years (and my dad was a composer and jazz pianist and worked with a number of the "heavys" in his day), and I always learn something new when I watch the two of you - not to mention the joy of music making. Thanks for this!

[@stevenvo8191]

Good lord. So much joy. So much creativity. Just two guys having the best time, the best banter, casually writing a superb tune together. Love it! Goosebumps.

[@robertoramirez1780]

I was cooking my breakfast, and you kept me hooked to your channel because it's so good that I couldn't stay away!! Love it!

[@Account81658]

Came here from Spotify just to follow along with the sheet music. This is incredible! Next episode, I would love to see an explanation what went through your head with some of these decisions, especially with the choice of harmony. Long live the GALA!

[@Wasin1403]

Can you guys make a video to analyze this song, what’s the concept behind the chord progression like Abm Em Cm Am Fm? It’s so interesting to see insights behind this song. It may be a great knowledge for composition.

[@LanceThomasRecordProducer]

Brilliant show, great laugh. I'm hearing Robert Glasper doing a 70s cop TV theme...fantastic.

[@Daniel-gh4sq]

yes! i was hearing robert glasper the whole time

[@luisvpar]

It is often thought that musicians have super powers, and it is true that some talent come with it... but... it is all hard work put into music that makes you reach that level. It is amazing and I have to say that the entire channel's mood makes, at least me, feel great. Lovely guys! I wish I had what it takes to reach that level of writing, reading, and interpreting music skills. May the Jazz be with you!

[@BethDeVolder]

Hear the leaves in the storm; Heaven breathes in their song Spinning in the autumn wind, they are fallin’. And still, there is one holdin’ on Caught up in the current, it turns and twists just barely holdin’ by a thread. Caught up in this moment, I watch it sadly, madly holdin’ in my breath Spinning in the crazy wind, things are fallin’. But, I just can’t help holdin’ on

[@daveincalgary1205]

Love it! I sang along with a big smile on my face!

[@BethDeVolder]

@@daveincalgary1205 Thanks Dave in Calgary! Hope you're getting enough water. I'm Beth in Nanaimo. Made my day. I don't usually post. I'd love to hear it sung.

[@Xarthis]

I hope this gets a lot of reaction videos of people improvising over this.

[@synckeys]

Fantastic! Record and release this song.

[@guitarfumar]

Love the new reaction camera angles!!

[@msgflava]

Bob James, Norah Jones, with a little Herbie's "Tell Me a Bedtime Story" - enjoyed the content!

[@geocosmicvalentine]

As much as I love the software demo, and I really want some composition software for myself, I really believe you could have written this thing much faster with pencil and manuscript paper - even with correcting mistakes and then copied the completed written manuscript into the software in the same period of time that it took you to write it directly into the software. BUT…I get that this was necessary for visually showing us the composition process with excellent clarity, before our very eyes. Truth be told, I don’t want to tell you what other tunes I hear, I don’t want to search for other tunes. This is unique. Example: If George Harrison knew he was re-writing “He’s So Fine” in the moment he was writing it, we’d never have his very awesome song “My Sweet Lord”. Truth be told, I only hear FROM MOO TO YOU and it’s bringing sizzle to the gorgeous! 🥰🔥😍😎👍🏽

[@pianoman_JP]

GALA, gentlemen - thanks for sharing your joint 'process'!

[@talentunburied]

You Guys did Great! I grew up on Jazz...I hardy had 9 Months of Being Taught piano over 40 years ago...yet Thank you for your great report with each other...Great Composition!

[@canastraroyal]

Love the new camera angles. You have an amazing video crew!

[@deltavistastudio124]

I hear a little "Taxi" - but I love it!

[@guitatronik-lab]

I hope live composing will become a new thing on yt now! It was so fresh and enjoyable. Also, I can't get this tune out of my head now! I agree with other commenters, that it'd be so great to hear about the thought process.

[@Jazman493]

Already playing off the lead sheet on the video in the last five hours and love the vibe especially the moving inner voices at the end of the A section.

[@Dandilion21]

Deciding when to keep it in the pocket and when to open it up a bit more... fantastic blend! Definitely Bob James with the Rhodes sound and melodic phrasing, Kirk Franklin and some gospel influence... It's the first time in a long time that I'm sitting back and calling out chords and you're making many of those changes... It was such a creative space with purpose because you were under the gun with time. Great exercise, guys! You work so well together and appreciate the different influences. My wife was like, "what are you getting so excited about?" "It's the joy in this process!" IDEA 1): For a composition exercise, what if you took an artist, a key and did something like this in that vein but with requests from the audience? Be really fun. Little more prep, but still! Or IDEA 2) from a harmonic state, have someone send in the melody and write 3 or 4 harmonic variations on the melody AKA Jacob Collier's harmonic series. From a skill level and understanding, you are both "Geniuses of Joyful Expression." Thanks for sharing that with the rest of the world.

[@micjec5917]

Absolutely love seeing you two geniuses working! ❤

[@djbrady]

Beautiful! Mootiful!

[@adentravis]

This is so good!!

[@ederdiaz1639]

14:12 20:12 20:28 24:25 27:24 27:37 28:39

[@thomascordery7951]

Just wow, internet jazz magic! How much fun was this, watching Adam and Peter set this mad challenge then make it happen, a compositional sprint right up to the wire! Adam, "We really wasted that first twenty seconds!", as his tech collapses at the end. Of course it did, lol! But still got it done. What a blast, what a ride! Peter and Adam, thank you so much for this epic demonstration! Next up, building a full band arrangement in 30 minutes??

[@taagenletter6454]

Wow. Thats a great experiment. I like that it is possible to see all the different tools come into action in half an hour. Thanks Guys.

[@benjibenj7]

This is so great! Please do more episodes where you write music 🙏🏻

[@fergusbyett8088]

Love how the title fits with the melody b. 3-4 ❤

[@talentunburied]

Laughing and Sneezing and Deep thinking in a podcast could be a wash yet your mind's are melding...Makes The Difference!

[@mxtxc]

Oh my. I'm sweating watching this. My Thanks to You 🙏

[@CaptnRich737]

Taxi meets “just the way you are”

[@rohannmoresky-madhavan9710]

brilliant - couldnt place what the ending riff remind me of

[@djshmul1]

Great one , can we get pdf to play? P.s saw the pdf in description Thank you a lot Adam and Peter

[@johnpanfili1062]

This makes me think a bit about Joey Alexander's music. Love it.

[@mrkikstv]

What a joy, one of the best episodes 🙏🏽

[@talentunburied]

The BEST Laugh Ever!! Peter! Adam honors you with Such a Laugh! I'd take it like that! Friends for many years!? Awesome! Now I trust you both even more! Good Medicine!

[@deaddaedalus]

I wanna see Peter on a silent retreat after this haha 5:55

[@geocosmicvalentine]

🤣👍🏽 Wasn’t that the cutest thing. He’s that kid will lose the “Let’s see who can be quiet the longest!” Contest. 🤣🤣🤣 Oooooh yeah…he’s got a lot on his mind! That’s why I love him. 🤫🗣️

[@cometoyoursenses9310]

I dont know why but i love these guys a lot ❤

[@tomsiegel9759]

I loved this so much. Listened on Spotify twice and watched on YT once. Haha! I say record this with bass and drums and maybe a horn and make it your theme song. Nothing against the current theme song. Love that, but how cool would it be to have a new theme song every year that is created this way. Make it an annual thing?

[@clillbintonhwow]

the more jokes the better dont worry about cutting things out

[@godoyfg1]

I’m no where near you guys but I love what you do , and if some how I can play 50% what you play I will be very happy 😂

[@DaveZeichner]

Maybe it's just the keyboard voicing, but I definitely heard Taxi back in there somewhere. Nice!

[@WinItReigns]

Take the finished track. Add drums, strings, and some winds, and brass. And a Female vocalist😊 Lets Go Open Studio

[@HS-fk6hb]

43:43

[@orion410]

Great stuff, the start reminds me of Curtis Mayfield's People Get Ready

[@jonasaras]

The key is the dibi-dabi-doobi-doo thingie

[@Rhekon]

Singing, yes.

[@morpheen718]

Amazing…. It gave me goosebumps

[@youngmonkreturns5973]

Awesome per usual. 🎉❤😮

[@brw4807]

Earworm. Beautiful.

[@Account81658]

This was the funniest and most charming intro to date

[@bucksmusic]

I was certainly thinking of a Bob James influence, soon after you started. So when you mentioned it at the end I gave myself a smart arse pat on the back 🙂. Seriously though, great work guys.

[@f0tr265]

love u guys. Awesome and inspiriring!

[@Csharpflat5]

Great ideas❤

[@user-ih7gc7dt9l]

Of course! You are both greatly talented so duh!

[@lewis2868]

The A-section reminds me of Isn't She Lovely with the chords jumbled up a bit. A big band I conduct plays it in Cm/Eb, so maybe that's why that's where my ear went.

[@DullDishwater]

Exciting to watch!

[@brandonjamar]

this is so fun!!

[@flpsnk4848]

I am very grateful you didn't cut the start.

[@vjwm]

I'm really starting to admire you guys 😄👍🏼

[@andylee3114]

That was FUN! Plus, I looked up "mu chord" and learned something.

[@politicalscience983]

Awesome tune, so wholesome

[@Lauraraksin77]

Does it take a lifetime to hear chords and be able to find where you're at? I got into this 12 years ago and I still need time to find where I'm at when it comes to that.

[@agent2-lb7nc]

This is just amazing!

[@young1cv]

Awesome!! Thanks!

[@emmanuelborboa-ht2lw]

This intro will NEVER get old, what’s the song? Is it out on all platforms or whattt

[@ZephirJuillerat]

Beautiful !

[@mdleavitt]

That 20seconds of silence was epic!

[@BethDeVolder]

Just for fun. The melody of this song inspired the image of leaves twirling, falling in the wind. Here's my stab at a lyric. The B Section would be a challenging melody to sing, but.... Anyone else game??? Thanks for the continued inspiration Adam and Peter. Beth DeVolder June, 18 2024 Hear the leaves in the storm Heaven breathes in its song Spinning in the autumn wind, they are fallin’ And still, there is one holdin’ on Caught up in the current It turns and twists just barely holdin’ by a thread Caught up in this moment I watch it sadly, madly holdin’ in my breath Spinning in the steady wind, things are fallin’ But, I just can’t help holdin’ on

[@marcforte6949]

This is great❤

[@MrRemi1802]

I love this idea 💡 I hear accents of Chick Corea. You should do that again with other genres. Swing, bebop, bossa, ...

[@midnight_llama8920]

What is that synth tone and how can I replicate it? It’s beautiful.

[@Guy0904]

Are you talking about the sound Adam uses? That's a fender rhodes sound.

[@johndegnan4894]

These guys are amazing musicians and players. Its such a shame that modern music has devalued those kind of skills.

[@tabor503]

This literally made me cry

[@SamuelJFord]

Yes!

[@rosaliedeneubourg3225]

❤ I use staffpad. What is the advantage of Sibelius?

[@wendellhicks]

This was.so dope!

[@sab8328]

Great stuff

[@jdiaz4877]

That was fun to watch gets me excited to write something, I've never been good at composing tunes but maybe I'll come up with a decent Bob James rip off! Hahaha God bless you guys!

[@rasolzamini8678]

Thanks

[@JulianFernandez]

sounds good!

[@MrRossharrell]

Great song! love it

[@geoffknot]

great fun!

[@nezkeys79]

Love the banter at the start 😂

[@eli.purdyflacks]

24:16

[@tomsiegel9759]

I want another song made from that spot!

[@NewBrothersTV]

That was awesome

[@ruscruz7976]

What a nice Journey gentlemen...get work !

[@pierregiaume645]

So inspiring dudes…

[@NoteSmoking]

Bridge lick and chords have serious Russell Ferrante vibes.

[@talentunburied]

Bop On!

[@TJATJA1982]

Great tune and video, but four dotted quavers in a row?! We need to see the beats and the division of the bar! Get yo’ ties out!