The Elements and Principles of Music | ANDY'S SUNDAY SCHOOL

[@richierugs6544]

the first time I ever touched a piano: I was 12 at wedding and in the hallway there was a piano with the over down over the keys. There was no one around so i got bold and sat down and lifted it up revealing the keys which looked like opening a pirates; treasure chest. Some how I started to play it sticking to the white keys only, always never hitting the very next key. It sounded nice and I realized I was able to sculpt the sound to my liking. After about 10 minutes an adult came by and lit a cigarette and I guess was listening. I got distracted and brought it to a conclusion. He said to me 'that was very nice, was that Chopin?'--I told him I didn't think so and left. Probably 9 years went by until I touched a piano again.

[@LordHasenpfeffer]

As a teenager in the early/mid-1980s, I ran around with a portable tape recorder capturing "found sounds" in my environment - at home, at school, or while out and about. One day in May '84, a friend of mine was working on his van and I was bored. I found 2 screwdrivers and went around his van - inside and out - and recording myself "drumming" on various random surfaces... just like you did with the 2 posts. I still have the tapes. John & Yoko, "Two Virgins" and "Life With The Lions" inspired me to begin doing this. I didn't know about digital sampling in 1984 but in the 1990s, I found myself creating new musical compositions using the sounds from my 1980s cassettes as sound sources. I considered my tapes in the 1980s to be "almost symphonies but not quite"... so I called them "Ymphony!s". While watching you play those two posts, I thought "Wow! Andy's making an Ymphony!" #brethren

[@nazznate]

I'm a private music teacher (primarily guitar and bass) working from a music store. One of my students is currently 8 years old I affectionately refer to as my little genius student. To explain why would take too long, but he understands where you are coming from, Andy. Today for instance we explored the sounds that a heavily distorted guitar can make with a slide and harmonics. To many people it can be frustrating noise, but he puts a frame around it, as you say. To him he's making an artistic statement.

[@user-cv8ud8qo9f]

I'm 60 ... I started playing piano/keys when I was about 15, by noodling on my Dad's acoustic piano in the house ... then I started jamming with friends, which became playing in bands and I've been doing that ever since ... then I got a 4-track cassette recorder I found a new avenue to explore, then I moved to a digital 8-track and then a DAW ... I've never had a lesson in my life, but I can hold my own and write and produce in most genres from prog rock to blues /jazz, pop, soul, electronic etc etc ... I've played with some extremely good and pro musicians and been lucky enough to have fully enjoyed almost all of it. Yesterday I was recording a friend's band's album. It's been a wonderful journey without an end and as I said, I've never had a lesson, just learnt from the experience of playing with other musicians, drawing from their knowledge and incorporating it into what I've learnt along the way. That's not to say people shouldn't take lessons, it speeds up the learning process, but for me, I wouldn't have it any other way ... oh and this series is great, sometimes we forget to take it back to basics and this does just that in an entertaining and engaging way!

[@stephenmccarthy1795]

I love the timbre of the drums in the second piece which was captured very nicely in the recording. Also, the rhythm was relaxed, nice and easy; these things are only possible after years of practice, building into muscle memory. Once achieved it takes relatively less effort to keep it. This is the form of virtuosity that I respond to, nothing flashy, just the ease of familiarity with one’s instrument.

[@WizardOfArc]

I love this reminder of the core elements and principles…. Inspiring

[@jerrypotente872]

Some great explaining by you, Andy and I’m very impressed by your musical skills not only on drums but guitar and keyboard. I Remember when you did the’ birds of fire’ video- and I meant to write in and I got busy so yeah some great work there man very motivating. Keep it up brother will be listening Peace from USA !

[@nathanlowry3764]

“Andy’s Sunday School OF MUSIC” will make your objectives more quickly apparent to the folks browsing.

[@DavidJLevi]

Excellent. Well explained and well demonstrated.

[@ianrossmusic]

Brilliant video! While you were playing the found objects I joked to myself that you'd interpreted the composition with too much technicality, evaluating by my subjective aesthetic criteria, a point you then addressed perfectly. The following bit about simply working towards one's own 'nice sound' is one of the best and unfortunately most oddly taboo things I've heard someone say in this space, although you've done so before, but maybe not with this conciseness. This one goes near the top of your YT work for me, narrowly trailing the crisps of course!

[@4hodmt]

I liked the performance of Composition Number One. The repeating pattern fades out like an ending, but it stops mid-pattern to give a sense of incompleteness. Then there's enough pause to build tension, then the real ending plays with a completely different pattern. There's a kind of storytelling here, with the real ending acting like a plot twist. Andy is secretly teaching us another important aspect of music.

[@kdakan]

Three element of music, the composer, the performer, and the audience, music is a language for communication between these human elements. The greatest gap in this conversation is usually the assumption that the performer has the skill to hear as good as the composer to get the feeling of the composition and perform accordingly, and the other is the assumption that the audience has the skill to hear pitches and identify rhythmic elements as good as the composer and the performers, another is cultural mismatch. When music fails to deliver, it's for these reasons.

[@stewarttiley9683]

Best thing I’ve heard on your channel! Seriously though; this is extremely generous of you! I’ve just paid for and successfully finished a three month bass coarse (being a guitarist who always wanted to play bass) and it’s amazing having all these lessons available in a nano second! I love your approach above every one else currently out there! Yes-technique is really just “method”! Look at how Pat Metheny and Marty Friedman hold their picks! What’s disturbing is that I really like your composition! You can hear your love of Zappa subconsciously in there! Wow that last surprise piece has got a lot of McLaughlin in it! Nice! I wish I could play like that!

[@jdrtube]

Great stuff - I'm very much looking forward to the series!

[@martinhanson4281]

Love it! Looking forward to future episodes ♥️

[@davidarchibald3755]

Thank You. Not much to say other than I send my best wishes for you and yours.

[@EixtremeDrummer]

Your two metal posts in the garden gave a nice third!

[@jeffsimard8846]

As a trained musician I was pleasantly surprised watching this video

[@dbird-do3yt]

Great, thank you

[@Lordofmrak]

What a great series to find when I just bought my first guitar!

[@delorangeade]

As a self taught guitar player I recognise those processes of discovery and creativity. I also gradually learned that the cliches exist for a reason and they were something I eventually needed to address if I wanted to have a satisfactory musical vocabulary.

[@JohnDegen_aka_Jeehannes]

Nice going Andy Shredwards!

[@WizardOfArc]

Nice fusion jam at the end too 🎉

[@patrickselden5747]

An absolutely brilliant video - thank you very much indeed... ☝️😎

[@AndyEdwardsDrummer]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@tonyschnobel3522]

Cool guitar Andy

[@Marklar3]

Jacob Collier often talks about some of the same concepts in interviews and such. Particularly the idea about not caring about it something is good or not while you're making it, just to create. One of the points he makes is that even if you later decide that something isn't very good, you'll find some beauty in it that can lead to other music. The point is just to create and explore. The end of this video is a good example of how one finished piece of music can lead to another.

[@justicelovingskunk9910]

Thank you

[@andrewking8123]

This is so helpful

[@JustaGuy-c8o]

Very insightful stuff! Thanks for this 👍

[@Michel-r6m]

Playing music and creating music are two things. As a kid I had weird ideas about music that later I found out were already done 😅

[@gregorygreene1940]

I quite enjoyed the jam at the end. You should do more short videos of that kind of thing. I would take every opportunity to use that studio space while you've got it. Keep it up!

[@gospelaccordingtojohn8959]

The reasons musicians need to learn the rules, is so they will know how they can break them.

[@JJJJJVVVVVLLLLL]

very good 👍🏻 this is a good series

[@user-mad7max11dystopia]

Brilliant Andy! Thank you for that gift of creativity. Much appreciated and thoroughly enjoyed.

[@AndyEdwardsDrummer]

My pleasure!

[@elementsofphysicalreality]

Your “two towers” song was pretty cool not gonna lie. It grooved.

[@SpookyLuvCookie]

It is, indeed, what it is.

[@NorthernCitrusParrot]

Nice artwork on the wall behind you

[@espillier]

excellent, thinking about the way I can explain this to a 10-year old who's learning music theory and playing the piano (the traditional way) to make sure he liberates his creativity

[@AndrewjWilson]

Great video. Very interesting

[@kdakan]

In the beginning of the video, where's the reflection of the white umbrella coming from? It's not the window reflection. Ghost in the machine?

[@lozruston2204]

Creativity for the win

[@Pwecko]

I quite enjoyed the random piece. I didn't think it was depressing at all. It made me think of Can and Egg a bit.

[@Franchoancho]

I loving it. Postmodernism is falling apart. I hope reggaeton take care of music industry as well

[@daicullinane7746]

Andy, so your saying the guitar has "got wires that vibrate " . I recognise that guitar tune "Anyone Can Fall in Love" by Mrs May

[@kdakan]

Elephant in the studio room. I don't release my music yet because I play the drums like you're playing the guitar and the keys.

[@paulhenderson2653]

A great introduction to your educational philosophy! I'm really looking forward to see how the Sunday videos develop. If you're going where I think you're going with this then describing a composition as a prescription rather than a description might be useful to tie in with or draw parallels between the differences between a prescribed curriculum and a learner determined curriculum (check out Fred Garnett's work on heutagogy where he explains the concept using George Martin's educational methodology when producing/educating the Beatles). I don't know if I'd use the term 'improvisation' in relation to a classical performance; I'd stick with the term 'expression' and maybe compare it with someone who can read a story out loud with their own expressive and animated voice and someone who reads it with a monotonous voice. These are just minor points - overall I think the direction you've sarted in is great - keep up the vital work!!!

[@aminahmed2220]

What a fantastic video have a great day Andy and also I played drumssss piano and also bass ❤😊 to be honest ❤😊

[@psychomoonrider8700]

Damn, I didn't know you could play guitar like that, Andy!

[@callmeal3017]

Wonderful!! Where I live. 1 ? Tho.. is instrumentation definition real a necessary element of ANY description. That is can you perform the thing with other instrumentation?

[@yourdogsnews]

19:50 The bicycle as a tone wheel…….

[@sinenkaari5477]

You need to play a full improvised set with the Andy Edwards Clone Band

[@clevertrevor7360]

Channeling John McLaughlin at 39:16

[@operator1717]

I’m pretty sure Composition 1 is off Live Evil.

[@callmeal3017]

Ok I'll wait B4 asking more ??

[@carlosgaspar8447]

a blank canvas needs a frame?

[@Mister_Jahn]

teaching intention and pragmatism... interesting , have you read CS Peirce?

[@blanketjackson8075]

I wanna rock

[@boudiccamarchestorome9475]

Loved the end jam: ain't no Moon and Townshend, but inspirational nonetheless.

[@nicka3697]

I don't know how good Pete was on the drums, or Keith on the bass guitar. I think Andy might be the better drummer but I'm no expert. I know he does better KZbin videos than either Pete or Keith but that's a low bar when they're dead 😂.

[@boudiccamarchestorome9475]

@@nicka3697 Bass guitar? Also, Pete's still alive and pretty active for an 80 yr. old.

[@stephenvelden295]

Move over Captain Beefheart!

[@mnick0962]

Outstanding playing. Your guitar skills are on point. Your drumming is astonishing. Bravo, mate!

[@Carboggg]

Like all top quality drummers and musicians, Andy makes it look effortlessly easy, which we all know it certainly isn't.

[@LowKeyTired-q7d]

😂😂😂

[@MrLcowles]

Are birds making music? They seem to be which implies if a non intelligent bird can make music more or less from birth is it really an intellectual subject?

[@AndyEdwardsDrummer]

They are not making the music, but what they do is music if you frame it

[@MrLcowles]

@@AndyEdwardsDrummer But I'm not framing it right? These are sounds impinging on my senses yet without any for knowledge I can tell that there is something different about them. I could sense this before I even had acquired language.

[@AndyEdwardsDrummer]

The artists creates a frame around sound which identifies that sound as music. Whether it is good us the decision of the listener. What you are describing is the quality of your aesthetic reaction. The same as the reaction I had when I first struck those posts

[@MrLcowles]

@@AndyEdwardsDrummer Is the artist in the bird? Where did their frame come from? I guess from what you've said I gather that my intellect? or reason? or something I possess is creating the impression of music?

[@MrLcowles]

I gather from your frame theory that music is an inherent property of humans because of the type of intelligence we have imposes structures on certain combinations of sounds and not others. And apparently birds, which are ancient creatures far down on the evolutionary scale have the same ability.

[@eriqn868]

Principles of copying. X-copy

[@eriqn868]

I dont even remember making this comment. :( I like you Andy. Your a good dude, and you got great taste in music.

[@TheRealCompensator]

This was one of the most boring and musically untalented lectures ever.

[@stevepi1]

From that comment, if it's a serious one, I would guess you have missed the point of the lecture. It's about creativity, art, outlook, mindset and motivation not musical talent or quality.

[@TheRealCompensator]

@@stevepi1 Yes, that’s why I iterated on the “lecture” the way I did. It was very unproductive.

[@Amptronique]

Thank You