Can you Improve your Internal Clock WITHOUT a metronome? | Q+A

0:00 Intro
0:02 Can you improve your internal clock without a metronome?
4:09 Is REAL JAZZ in NYC?
7:24 What's the early history of the double bass drum?
8:41 What do you think about the Finale shutdown?
10:09 What was your experience at Radar Festival like?
11:00 How did you get that sound on the Sungazer track
12:14 Why high C instead of B?
13:03 How was Serbia?
13:48 Are you going on tour anytime soon?

Ari Hoenig QUINTET Live at Smalls Jazz Club - Billie's Bounce

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[smizmi]

I just mindlessly clicked on this thinking "how did I miss this one during the pandemic?" just to realize it was posted 6 minutes ago. So happy to see more of these.

[Splattle]

00-04.00. You're describing my experience of playing tricky guitar parts while singing a rhythmically-unrelated vocal. It's like having a stroke, but without the headache.

[IrukaLP]

Adam Neely Channl for life, I always comeback to it and i never had more the urge to make music after wwatching one o your videos <3

[AinsleyStarr]

Thai, Lao, German, Russian, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Faroese, Dutch, European Portuguese, and Iranian Persian. Those are other stress-timed languages if you are curious if you can use what Adam said using your own native language

[dipkatTO]

Thank you so much for your CLEAR explanation of counting rhythm out loud while playing. I’m an amateur pianist and currently struggling to learn Arlington Jones’ Wrongfully Accused - a smash of a jazz piece! This is SO handy.

[JohnInder]

Dear Adam, thanks for this and so many videos!
On the metronome question; I showed it to my wife (Professor of music education). I knew she would have an interesting reaction, which I will try to relate here.
Counting. That is a lot of work for the brain. This may work for you, but as an expert musician you have many aspects of performance now running on auto-pilot and not taxing your brain. This frees up processing power to count. Yet it is only Western musicians who try to do everything in their heads. I many parts of the world the rhythms are expressed in body movements and that is more effective.
She said 2 things. If you want to talk, say the rhythms, as in Ta Ki Ta. You want to internalize the rhythms and this is best done by body movements. For those learning music, this leaves the brain more able to cope with all the rest of what is going on. She also says that educators, after being shown research that shows counting is less effective at a conference, fill out surveys and admit they intend to go back to their jobs -- and use counting! So habits are hard to change.
You were right to stress that what you said about talking was only for native English speakers. She teaches in French and English. French has much less varying stress over the syllables. But even specific genres of music spill over linguistic barriers. Surely learning music would not depend on the traits of one language.
She also agreed when I told her about the next segment on visiting Germany to understand Bach. She says that, had Bach been a Catholic, he would likely have worked in a large reverberant cathedral. What he did write would have been lost in the building and he would have done things very differently.
Thanks again for such an interesting channel!

[jacefairis]

as a bassist/guitarist and finger tapping enthusiast: its kinda crazy how much easier it is for me to tap that syncopated rhythm with one hand and the beat with the other hand, than it is to tap the rhythm and Count the beat Out Loud. It's like I can feel a different part of my brain turning on when i start counting. I've always heard from music teachers that counting out loud is important, but its nice to be reminded Why that is lol

[JordanKiener]

Loved at 1:36 that "Easier said than done" is in reference to literally saying it.

[Yupppi]

This is how I've tried to learn to sing while playing. It's insanely hard, I can't understand how people do it. Adding not only more rhythmic links, but also specific words to every rhythm and then adding pitch and tone nuances to the words.

"You didn't even exist back then"
"Lady, how many centuries old are you?"

Shoutouts to Sibelius for few reasons: that's what I encountered in high school in a local music technology school course, as well as the national composer here in Finland. I was kinda excited to see if Sibelius would come up in the discussion and it almost didn't, but then you got me at the end. I must say I approved using freaking Guitar Pro over Sibelius on my first try, so I probably second your opinion. Ironically I think often times it really does come down to efficiency. You can have the fanciest sugar coated UI and deluxe options, but if something gets your work done noticeably faster, is just really efficient for your work flow, you end up using it. So they probably had the development focus in the right place and it was some engineer who made it. But would it be too much to ask for for them to improve some things without hurting the efficiency?

Talking about metal festivals, I don't know how but this Finnish joke humppa band Eläkeläiset has been getting on metal festivals, not only in Finland but all the way to Wacken. I believe metal people are oddly receptive to unorthodox or funny stuff.

Oh how I wish restaurants these days had a smooth live band that doesn't get in the way of conversation yet still live music.

[BusyCLMusic]

Loved the bass rendition of Overjoyed at 12:15. :D

[lousku]

dear god that nessun dorma bit was nice, more plz

[UrbanGarden-rfop]

Nice to hear that intro music again.
Like a dear old friend reaching out.

I consider my brain my most important muscle.
And like all muscles it needs exercising.
So I try to go to the brain gym as often as possible.
Repetition not only legitimises,
it also strengthens the synapses needed to retain 
and know where to find the things I learn.
Thank you for being my personal trainer😎

If you'd like to understand more about Bach's music,
check out people like Christopher Hogwood
and the Early Music Consort.
They used period correct instruments
tuned to the standard pitch and temperament of the time.
It is a very different listening experience.
They also recorded works of other baroque 
composers using the same concept.

On the double bass drums you didn't mention Keith Moon.
There is very little focus on the hi-hat in The Who's music.
He was too busy with the bass drums and the toms.

Of course I watched this on Nebula.
A perfect platform for long form deep dive videos
without the need of a clickbait strategy.

[drstephanierea]

Good Lord, you are amazing. Nebula. Fascinating. Thank you.

[demejiuk]

Classical guitar sensei Rafael Elizondo calls this "tu metronomo interno". Glad its being touched on.

[burning_trash]

I discovered this on my own the past year I feel validated that you made a segment about it! Obviously I still use s metronome but taking it away when playing super slow and using my b
voice helped.

[Jusu]

Oh wow, I had no idea you were coming to Tallinn! See you there! 😊

[caffeinum]

I did that with Lose yourself and it improved my rap skills literally overnight. Now I could suddenly rap

It was very painful and I had to slow it down 4x to be able to say the words correctly, but I had the same thing where my time was free flowing and I could miss the time, but I was doing some mental movement of counting where I still knew if I meant to time it correctly or not

[AndresAcostafamily]

I'm a latino from Miami. I've been told the Miami accent is when second and third generation Latinos import South American Spanish speaking cadences into the English language. "White People" up north at my university in Gainesville Florida remarked on this all the time

[cdsteig]

Your gig in Portland is the same night I'm premiering a composition with a local wind orchestra! Wish I could do both!

[tnder-pe]

01:31 "One and two and d and hukh huakh haukg grrr". Thanks. That's counting while playing...