Video essays, lessons and vlogs on new horizons in music and music theory. NYC-based bass player and composer Adam Neely brings you a new video every Monday exploring what music means, and what it means to be a musician.
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46:23698K views · 11d ago · 46:23
Come see me on tour! Adam Neely & Lau Noah Sungazer NYTimes article I talk a lot about Franco Fabbri’s paper on genre 12tone’s video on the paper
Topics: Part 1 - Democracy · Part 2 - Autocracy · Part 3 - Jazz · Part 4 - Genre · Part 5 - Money
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📰 Mentioned news: Article on nytimes.com
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55:21165K views · 4mo ago · 55:21
This big band concert film was recorded over the course of two days, July 1-2 2025, at the Blue Note in NYC. Different video of different sets from each night were combined to create this full concert film. One day we'll release an album, but until then, please enjoy this set!
Topics: Cool 7 · Macchina · Skrontch · Hot Saturn · Threshold · Anthem
18:17467K views · 5mo ago · 18:17
Berklee College of Music now teaches classes in AI songwriting, and that's a really dumb idea. Adam
Topics: Student Backlash · Berklee President’s ties to Suno · “book burning” · Problem 1 - Branding · Problem 2 - Berklee is out of touch · Problem 3 - “AI Music” and Suno
1:29:401.2M views · 9mo ago · 1:29:40
Get $200 off a lifetime Nebula subscription Intro animation by Ben Levin Sources Pete Seeger - What Side are You On?
Topics: Challenge accepted · Three Questions · Why no influences? (deskilling/narcissism) · Profiles of the Future · Good uses of Suno · Futurism/Techno-Optimism
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23:26401K views · 1y ago · 23:26
Trying to learn how to hear 1 in Roll Out by Ludacris. Come see Sungazer on tour in the UK/Ireland / ! Trying to learn how to hear 1 in Roll Out by Ludacris. If you have been tapped into music theory discourseTM for the past couple years, you're probably familiar with Ludagate - the discussion about where the downbeat is in Roll Out by Ludacris.
Topics: Attempt #1 - Count & move along · Attempt #2 - Change the song a bit · Attempt #3 - Count & PLAY the song · Attempt #4 - Noodle (for science) · Attempt #5 - Rap/sing the hook · Epilogue - Final Thoughts
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19:49367K views · 1y ago · 19:49
Lau Noah knows every chord, and how to use them. Listen to our EP together - the Way Under - out now! Go listen to Lau Noah’s music wherever you stream her music also!
Topics: Harmonizing guitar voicings note-by-note (La Belleza) · Developing a deep harmonic vocabulary (You are too Beautiful) · Americana and storytelling (Wooden Chair) · Chutes and Ladders with harmony · Adam’s thoughts on naming things · Recording the Way Under
▶️ Mentioned videos: Listen to our EP together - the Way Under - out
17:31130K views · 1y ago · 17:31
Me - Bass Shawn Crowder - Drums Joshua De La Victoria - Guitar Jared Yee - Sax Sean Richards - TM/FOH Tour dates for this summer May 15 – Shenzhen – Hou Live May 16 – Shanghai – Blue Note Shanghai May 17 – Beijing – Blue Note Beijing May 18 – Beijing – Blue Note Beijing May 23 – Tokyo – Unit (+) June 27 – Edmonton – Edmonton Jazz Fest June 28 – Victoria – Victoria Jazz Fest June 30 – New York – Blue Note Jazz Fest July 1 – New York – Sungazer Plus…
52:09976K views · 1y ago · 52:09
Watch my exclusive interview with a Virtue Ethicist about fake guitar Get a lifetime subscription to Nebula Sources Music from the Introduction Gustav Holst - The Planets (Mars, Bringer of War) National Youth Orchestra of Canada, Michael Francis (conductor) (In the spirit of fake performances, I altered this recording a bit to better fit the timing of the YouTube video)
Topics: Part I - A Brief History of Faking Performances · Part II - How to Fake Musical Performances · Part III - Why Faking Performances is WRONG · Part IV - Why Faking Performances is OKAY (the noble lie) · Part V - Genre and Morality · Part VI - “Let’s Talk about Jazz”
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4:50128K views · 1y ago · 4:50
Listen to Sungazer - Against the Fall of Night wherever you stream your music! Come see us on tour EDM/Prog/Jazz version of Bulgarian/Macedonian trad dance. Adam
18:56390K views · 1y ago · 18:56
Donate to high-impact, cost-effective charities today with Give Well. This is how we built Sungazer's latest IEM rig using an analog audio over ether net split. Come see us live! My last in-ear monitor video Company that does these kinds of builds (and way better than us)
Topics: Defining the problems · Building the Analog Audio over Ethernet IEM Rig · Solution 1 - D'Addario Modular Snake · Solution 2 - Sound Tools Cat Rack · Putting it all together · Weird Quirks with this kind of system
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3:44201K views · 1y ago · 3:44
Listen to Sungazer - Against the Fall of Night wherever you stream your music! Come see us on tour I realized that I haven't had a video of me playing bass on this channel for like, a decade, so here's a video of me playing bass! Enjoy.
11:151.2M views · 1y ago · 11:15
COD IN THE MID00000l - why does every pop singer of the past 20 years sing in like that? Come see Sungazer on Tour! Peace, Adam
Topics: Examples of "caught in the middle" · Question #1 - Why is this happening? · Reason 1 - Tone Painting · Reason 2 - Prosody · Question #2 - Why is this only happening in the past 20 years? · Reason 1 - Scotch Snaps
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17:33210K views · 2y ago · 17:33
Ari Hoenig QUINTET Live at Smalls Jazz Club - Billie's Bounce ⦿ Adam Neely T-shirts! ⦿ Peace, Adam
Topics: Can you improve your internal clock without a metronome? · Is REAL JAZZ in NYC? · What's the early history of the double bass drum? · What do you think about the Finale shutdown? · What was your experience at Radar Festival like? · How did you get that sound on the Sungazer track
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12:36165K views · 2y ago · 12:36
Dancing to some metrically modulating polyrhythms! Come see Sungazer on TOUR this fall! Listen to Cool 7 wherever you stream your music, and be sure to dance to it as well. As well as ShawnCrowder's
27:42687K views · 2y ago · 27:42
Watch the exclusive Sungazer Belgrade vlog LISTEN TO AGAINST THE FALL OF NIGHT wherever you stream your music! Full new album out Sept 27 Come see Sungazer on tour! Some music psychology sources
Topics: Hypertuplets · The Language of Undectuplets · Hypertuplet Aksak · 7-Eleven Polyrhythms
14:46627K views · 2y ago · 14:46
Topics: Why does Meet the Grahams sound scary? · Is A# and Bb the same? · How do you jam over the internet with latency? · Have you ever played in a professional big band? · Cool guitar chord? · Does E7 resolve to Cmaj7?
🎵 Mentioned music: Track on sungazermusic.bandcamp.com · Track on insideoutsidemusic.bandcamp.com · Track on adamneelymusic.bandcamp.com
26:50479K views · 2y ago · 26:50
AI will get vibed at the jam session, and there's nothing that it can about it. Watch Tibees video on the original Turing Paper Get lifetime access to Nebula for $300 Sources Valerio Velardo's channel on AI music. ⦿ Adam Neely T-shirts! ⦿
Topics: Part I - Musical Turing Tests · Part II - Thinking Like a Human · Part III - "Not music"
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10:22546K views · 2y ago · 10:22
Chechnya's Cultural Minister just banned all music outside of 80-116BPM...why? well.... This is probably just a clever way to make sure that Lezginka is legal (which is crazy fast, but whose half time tempo fits within this window) but foreign music like House and Techno does not.
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17:06218K views · 2y ago · 17:06
Sungazer toured Europe last November, and a lot of things happened along the way. Come see us live. ⦿ Adam Neely T-shirts! ⦿ Peace, Adam
Topics: OETELDONK · Arrival in Haarlem · Soundcheck/setup and stuff · Avant George in Haarlem · Sungazer in Haarlem · Traveling to Helsinki
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11:10376K views · 2y ago · 11:10
This is not a youtube quitting video, but also, it's not not a youtube quitting video. Corridor Cast's interview of Freddie Wong ⦿ Adam Neely T-shirts! ⦿ Peace, Adam
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16:42317K views · 2y ago · 16:42
Continuing the Tantacrulian tradition of chess metaphors in music notation. Get $100 in donations matched at ⦿ Adam Neely T-shirts! ⦿ Peace, Adam
Topics: Part 1 - Music notation is kinda hard, actually · Part 2 - Music notation as a “professional tool” · Part 3 - What is Music School even for?
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33:452M views · 3y ago · 33:45
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11:33359K views · 3y ago · 11:33
Answering your music theory questions! Watch the shubhgazer india vlog here ⦿ Adam Neely T-shirts! ⦿ Peace, Adam
Topics: Are Binaural Beats real? · Thoughts on this reharmonized bass progression? · Why are BPM's so consistent? · Can quantized performances be groovier? · What's the deal with the mixolydian pentatonic? · What are your thoughts on Musicophilia?
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