How do you make lo-fi hip hop? | Q+A

Also, lots of other questions like “What’s it like playing with 2 drummers?” “What key is Rihanna’s Umbrella in? and What are your thoughts on Thank You Scientist?”

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Ted Gioia’s How to Listen to Jazz

How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and why you should care)

Shawn Crowder’s sweet quintuplet playlist

Leonard Bernstein’s On the Town musical recording that you should actually listen to (other recordings aren’t nearly as badass, this shit slaps. give it an afternoon to listen to. you won’t regret it. its spicy and delicious)

Tonal Ambiguity in Popular Music’s Axis Progressions

0:53 How do you make lo-fi hip hop?’
1:36 Do you want to collaborate with Davie504?
1:42 How do you think people with perfect pitch feel about microtonal music?
2:53 Are you good at piano?
3:26 Is Pink Floyd’s “Money” jazz?
3:36 Cmaj7#11?
3:49 Rhythm games becoming a means of enjoying a song?’
4:04 How to listen to jazz?
4:17 Song/Album of the decade?
4:21 Motown or Atlantic
4:25 Hablas español?
4:27 Is music profitable?
5:04 What are the practical uses of microtones?
5:25 How do you stay fresh with rhythms while composing?
5:45 Who is your favorite male jazz vocalist?
5:52 Is it hard playing with two drummers?
7:26 Have you ever listened to Greek music?
8:08 Why is 12TET the vibe in Western Music?
9:07 Why haven’t we seen a microtonal jazz fusion cover of single ladies in 4/20 yet?
9:15 How to develop a good work ethic with practicing?
9:32 Is it more important to study technique or theory?
10:28 Thoughts on Thank You Scientist?
10:32 What am I supposed to be thinking about while soloing?
11:27 How do you write velocity more accurately in sheet music?
12:32 Do you think the future of music will be DAWs?
12:59 Why all the microtonal stuff lately?
13:09 What are your thoughts on Simon Fransman?
13:19 Are you related to Blake Neely?
13:24 How do you internalize quintuplets?
13:52 Favorite Bernstein musical?
14:24 Why aren’t resonator guitars used in jazz music?
14:50 PleAse stop showing up in my nightmares
14:54 What key is Rihanna’s Umbrella in?
16:07 Ever play Jazz Crimes by Joshua Redman?
16:15 Why is music theory so daunting to learn?
17:15 Can you play the lick 1 million times when you hit 1 million subscribers?
17:33 What pop artist has the best music?
17:40 Is sungazer touring again?

[RudyAyoub]

make hip hop then add a lo fi filter
*s o l v e d*

[thembo]

When asked about the profitability of jazz guitar, my advisor always told his students about one legendary night in a local bar: "I absolutely killed that night, the audience loved me, we were all vibing on stage, we played some of our best stuff yet, and I made DOZENS of dollars"

[dclass]

"Gonna be touring a lot more in the coming year" me: oof

[squeeps]

"we are going to be touring a lot more in the coming year."

-Adam Neely 2019

[PixelBytesPixelArtist]

“don’t go into music for profit”
Korean government: impossible

[jonathanmorabito]

I appreciate the existential terror humor

[TMAziz]

"Getting people engaged with the music by moving along to it"
Dancing. That's called dancing.

[Albeit_Jordan]

"Saxophone and odd time signatures does not jazz make."

Eat that, Brubeck.

[lorenzodavidsartormaurino]

6:55 This is what jazz does to me. I wasn't looking at the screen and you played that. I thought "Oh that's a cool jazzy-like chord" I rewatched the scene and it's literally you hitting the piano. Great.

[urbansocrates]

"Go into music because you HAVE to make music..." Best advice you've ever given Adam. Good on you.

[AJ-vwnn]

broke: adam is starting to get deeper and deeper into the lofi community, and a genre he once hated he now loves!
woke: lofi is cheap, easy, fast content, and adam doesn’t want to do work over the holidays so he’e cranking out a bunch of lofi content

[constantinoskayafas]

I’m Greek and I’ve grown up dancing Greek dances. I 110% appreciate what you said about Greek music. Not until I started to really play drum set did I even realize the music I had been dancing to my whole life was in odd time signatures. Just goes to show how natural it felt my whole life...

[teamakesgames]

Never closed that 1 hour lofi mix so quickly!

[felixkick]

The guy at 14:54 has a German sounding name, where "B" is called "H" and "B flat" is "B" (don't ask me why). So he technically was right ;)

[HiCharity]

"Also 13. Because I'm feeling spicy."

[Gongasoso]

The hardest part is when the flam is really noticeable, like really stops being tight and just sorta floats there...

... I call it the *FLAM BOYANT*

/releases confetti/

[yuvalne]

As someone with perfect pitch, I absolutely LOVE your microtonal stuff. It's such a weird effect after years of clearly identified pitch to be lost in a sea of harmony.

[hatchetairsoft]

Adam: 2 Drummer bands are great
Me, a live sound engineer:

[schrodingersmoth]

‘What key is Sweet Home Alabama in?’
Answer: whichever one you can belt it out the loudest in

[stevenochoa]

This was my first introduction to this man. He is incredibly well articulated. I can tell he has an inherent ability to compose and convey his concepts through any language. Also, the metaphor between with learning japanese was spot on. Excellent content sir. I appreciate the understanding you have of the many possible backgrounds in your audience.