When I was a kid, I was taught classical violin at 7 but hated it - it put me off learning music till I was 12. I've known my entire life that all I wanted to do was be a musician and I'm lucky enough to do it as a job now.

Even now, the implicit white supremacy of so much of the classical music world annoys the fuck out of me.

Here's a better explanation than I can give:

https://youtu.be/Kr3quGh7pJA

#AdamNeely #ClassicalMusic #HeinrichSchenker #MusicTheory #Racism

i have to fly with a guitar maybe once every four or five years and it's, let's say, not fun. i can't even imagine what it's like for people who travel with their instruments for a living.

https://youtu.be/lazSHKZ1xmI

#adamneely #flying #guitars #basses #instruments

A new video by #AdamNeely is always a good news, even more when it's about #WayneShorter
https://youtu.be/siHfCV6vuSc

"The #Nintendo-fication of #Jazz"

#AdamNeely #Ludomusicology

https://iv.melmac.space/watch?v=oKWgLe-jQjc

A fantastic video looking into the video #game music #jazz scene by Adam Neely. If you are into the intricacies of music this is a great channel to keep an eye on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKWgLe-jQjc&t=540s

#videogame #videogamemusic #adamneely

"it gives me a bit of an uneasy feeling that the person who runs the company that owns #bandcamp has such profound misunderstanding of music" -- #AdamNeely on Tim Sweeney's (CEO of Epic Games) suggestion that musical notation is silly and inefficient and that it would be much better if everyone moved to piano roll notation, since it's symmetric across octaves and much more visually intuitive (i will not link to his birdsite, but that's where this is from)

yikes. damn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZftrA-aCa4

"At the core of it a bass solo is just a bass line that the audience notices. It contains all the characteristics of what makes a good baseline: rhythmic tightness with the drummer, logical outline of chord tones over a chord progression and a steady driving pulse. It's just that the audience is made to notice … a bass line that for whatever reason, orchestrationally or otherwise the audience has to pay attention to." 💯 #basssolo #AdamNeely https://youtu.be/HieSFxyBy9Q?t=783

I really like #AdamNeely...

...and this is probably the best video he ever released:

#MusicTheory and #WhiteSupremacy

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Kr3quGh7pJA

bring #adamneely the bassist to mastodon

Music Theory is Racist | #AdamNeely

https://youtu.be/Kr3quGh7pJA