Wait, it's all just in 4/4?

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0:00 Intro
4:21 Hypertuplets
11:17 The Language of Undectuplets
16:39 Hypertuplet Aksak
20:34 7-Eleven Polyrhythms

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[thejulinks]

"Everything is in 4/4 if you stop counting like a nerd" will forever be my favourite musical joke.

[AberdeenTheBand]

It’s in 3. Please don’t fight me on this

[dominic]

''I have a feeling that 3 is like crabs, it is the evolutionarily most optimal way to groove to hyper-tuplets''
Yeah, okay maybe my friends are right. I'm too deep in this music nerd shit.

[Cochu]

"Don't fight me on this" at the guys that made the god damn song is insane lmao

[MrCharliebassman]

that 7/11 challenge was the sleeping agent to start liking sungazer years later 😂❤

[frthlvfchrt]

"It's the microplastics of time signatures" so you're telling me 4/4 is stored in the balls?

[CheddarKungPao]

It's been 6 years since I offhandedly said "Everything is in 4/4 if you don't count it like a nerd." to you in Thomann's kitchen. I'm glad it's still funny, and that Sungazer is so awesome.

[crisoliveira]

I'm gonna write a song called Aphelion, based on the groundbreaking conception of a 4/4 time signature, with four evenly divided beats each bar.

[koreandersim]

I deeply need people to understand that serious and silly are not enemies

[marianabeatriz]

Why is nobody talking about the amazing LEGO sets Adam owns

[paulweyer]

When you want to fight someone on a topic, but they break out "don't fight me on this."

[AFN]

In my view, there are four real ways to look at the time signature of any tune:
1) how the person writing it was feeling it
2) how the audience feels it
3) how it’s easiest to put in sheet music for a new performer
4) writing it weirdly for fun (you can write anything in 3/11 if you try hard enough)

Aside from #4, none of them are wrong, just different use cases

[theavocadoguitarist.]

Part IV made me realize that Adam Neely literally starts with the music memes, and then they become *refined* ideas backed by musical pedagogy and cool songs.

[matthewbertrand]

imagine walking up to Adam god damned Neely and telling him you know more about music than him, let alone music that he composed. can i have some of that confidence?

[Ruija]

That's basically Meshuggah as a band, isn't it. 4/4 underneath it all

[lazyjake]

New sungazer means new adam neely video breaking it down

[tmbgfan]

If you follow the adage "listen to the notes they are not playing, " Sungazer is silence.

[Dimitar_Tsanev]

Dude, come to Bulgaria next. There are people here that would absolutely eat your music up.
Also, I have the feeling that even people who don't like traditional folk music (such as myself) still have a respect and a sort of natural understanding of it. Meaning that counting in 7, 9, 11 or 13 comes really naturally to many of us.
I know I definitely would be trying to headbang to your music if you decide to come here.

[GAJake]

We had a drumline warmup in highschool like the martian mambo called "7/8" it basically moved around the 2-2-3 pattern each phrase so 2-2-3, 2-3-2, 3-2-2 etc. We had a variation where all drums played the pattern in the same order, but we had a "big-split" version where the snares, quads, and bases would start at a different phrase. Like playing "in a round"

[Packbat]

Honestly, whatever the struggles in the club, I always find "simultaneously slow and fast" super fun when I'm sitting at home listening.