What is the TIME SIGNATURE of the Bluey Theme? | Q+A

0:00 Intro
0:03 What time signature is the Bluey theme song?
6:45 Was the major 6th illegal in the renaissance?
9:18 Music is for the listener, but the first listener is the player
10:12 Ebm(maj7) and a discussion on register/emotion
12:12 Drink more coffee
12:20 What string gauges do you use?
12:28 congrats!
12:59 How does a guitar player stay out of the way of the bassist?
13:27 Tips for walking a bass
14:41 What's a good song in 5/4
14:46 What's your opinion of fake musicians that go viral?
15:00 How do you impress people at an audition?

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[LBAW]

As a media composer, my initial instinct with the Bluey theme is that it's a full song written in 4/4 with pauses done in music editing to match picture.

[misha_B_Barkin]

Watching Adam brute force a slow 4/4 pattern over the Bluey theme wasn't what I expected to see this week

[MechanicalRabbits]

very cool of Adam to quickly run back to his house in the middle of the tour to record and upload this week's video and then run back to Europe without anybody noticing. True commitment to his youtube channel

[DavidBennettPiano]

6:16 that was the most impressed I’ve ever been watching someone count 4/4 😂

[TristanAlricMusic]

I'm not exactly sure why I am surprised that Bluey eventually reached Adam Neely, but of course it did.

[_mels_]

Adam: "Time signatures are not real, we made them up"
definitely has a vibe of "they can't hurt you" followed by some prog for the meme

[bahlalthewatcher]

The biggest error in Adam's sheet for Bluey isn't the time signature, it's that he wrote the lyric as 'Mom!' instead of 'Mum!'.

[zdubwatson]

Its crazy to see this as a musician and seeing my 2 year old neice (who is OBSESSED with Bluey) PERFECTLY call out the names on beat lmfao

[kaitlyn__L]

That “all music is 4/4” thing I’ve usually seen as “if you wait long enough” rather than “if you don’t count like a nerd” but either way it’s true lol

[scoreunder]

that "everything is 4/4" 17/4 polyrhythm was exactly the thought that made me take so long to understand what a time signature was as a kid lmao

[davetoms]

Biggest audition impression I made was just doing what I do. The band sent me 5 MP3s to learn. Showed up to the audition and nailed 3 of the 5 tunes. The remaining two I admitted "Hey, I can fake my way through them and might do an okay job. But I tabbed out the sheet music so I _know_ them and can continue practicing. But I don't have them memorized yet." They were so blown away that I'd tabbed out _their_ songs, showing that I knew the material and could pull off everything written, they hired me for the gig on the spot.

[rohiogerv]

Impress your auditor at an audition by being prepared to play the whole piece straight through, and making sure the thing you're worst at is still pretty good. If you insist on playing Giant Steps real fast for an audition, the judge is automatically going to switch to looking at clarity, articulation, consistency, and expression.

I got passed over on an audition playing a difficult contest solo by the seat of my pants; the next year, I got in playing a G.H. Green rag with all of the fun, confidence and mastery it deserved. A professor can't see how you handle interpretation and expression if you never actually make it that far in your study of the piece.

[benhasic]

Hey Adam! My partner works for Bluey and every time you said "freeze dance", she really wanted to let you know that it's called "Musical Statues" 😘 great video!

[arronviolin]

Adam vibing to the “Bluey” theme while demonstrating how the dad’s “rest countdown trick” works is so fun and wholesome.

[wfly]

The thing about Bluesy (and I think Adam was hinting at this without actually saying it), is that it's all of those things...but none of those things exclusively. It's whatever feels right for you and helps you get through it. Because that's what music theory is. It's not "the rules" as so many think. It's a language we use in order to express intent conversationally. But when that conversation is with ourselves, then count in whatever way feels most comfortable for you.

[TValoy]

In Ken Scott's biography he talked about recording an album with the mahavishnu orchestra. When listening back to the recording, the band members started discussing the time signature of the piece. It turned out they didn't agree. They counted the time differently. And no one noticed!

[atrus]

I have two little kids and have noticed that Bo Diddley beat seems to be the basis of every kids' show theme! I guess it gives it an upbeat, fun feeling, exciting feeling.

[Tandemdesigns]

Animator here, we often break up music to match the animation, though following the composition is preferred, musicians are the masters of timing that just feels "good" As a new parent, the Bluey theme song is addictive.

[JoshLeRose]

6:16
Nice 4 : 17! The original tempo is 172bpm. That means that to achieve a 4 against 17 poly rhythm, you’d have to clap quarter notes at about 40.47bpm.

[AidanMmusic]

I love the whole idea that the "major happy; minor sad" thing is simply invented. Also WILD THROWBACK to the walking bass line video - I replayed that thing so many times at college!