Composing Canons! 

Awesome! Sounds like counterpo-

My mind really wants to hear a harpsichord instead of a piano lol

That is so cool. And with modern software it's so easy to write and instantly hear how it sounds. We live in a golden age of music.

06:06 - "Let's hear it." Great lesson! Thanks!

You explained this really well, and I would love to see more videos on composition methods like this! I really appreciate that you're able to teach so efficiently while still getting all the necessary information across.

"Awesome! Sounds like counterpo--" *End of video.*

ADAM! I am using this video in my counterpoint class tomorrow. My students are tired of listening to me, and you explain it exactly the way I would have. Plus, they all think you're cooler than I am, so....

Needs...more...cowb......reverb.

You make it look so easy x.x I know you studied years to get to that level, but... Damn.

I would have ended the canon on A instead of C.

Nicely done Adam, you explained that clearly and concisely. I'd love to see more videos like these where you explore concepts like Canons and other things within music theory. Thanks for making these!

take a shot everytime he says "woohoo"

Ive been a fan of yours for a while, and my school didn't have music theory or much music classes (my current college major) and you and 12 tone were super helpful learning music stuff and these old videos are still wildly helpful and fun!

Euphonious, was the word you were looking for, I believe.

Wow Adam, I learned two new major things about music and I JUST discovered your channel. Brilliant work!

Wow! You make it look so easy and casual!

This is exactly what I wanted to see, that fact that your narrating your thought process is great!

Dude this was the single most useful video for understanding how to make stuff sound "classical" (forgive the generality, I mainly listen to metal music) I've ever seen. I'd love it if you did more writing explanation videos like this! Keep up the badass work brother!

YOU DIDN'T EVEN LISTEN TO IT?!

The infamous Pachelbel's Canon popped into my mind as soon as I saw the title, but I'm glad I watched the whole thing. I stumbled across your channel not long ago and I enjoy your content. I've already learned some of the material through either college, or doing my own research, but it's nice to be able to go back and do some review with a sometimes different perspective. I like how you dive into most of the aspects of music, not just learning how to play an instrument.

This video helped me test out of Music Fundamentals and into Theory I. Thanks muchly.

This looked so fun that I just had to try it out for myself. I'm pretty happy with the result!

wtf?? THAT WAS FANTASTIC

YES watched this one over a few times while tinkering with Sibelius, love you

My new favourite channel :)

I should get this program when I compose canons I just do it in my head. This looks much easier

I'd love to have more of this. I'm looking through your other videos to see if you have some. This could be a format - short composition videos. Just saying... I'd watch lol

Thank you for uploading this.

this is literally a person explaining the composition process and i love it

Genial! grettings from Brazil!

That was awesome! Thank you.

This gives me some good ideas! Thanks

Thanks for this video. Didn't know what a cannon was before this

Brilliant!

super cool!!

Great video Adam, watched it a couple times and its really helping me. I was wondering what program you're using? Is it apple exclusive? Cheers!

great !

It would be cool to see more videos like this where you take a theoretical concept and show how it would be used in a compositional environment, as well as/instead of existing examples. One way to get around the demonetisation, maybe?

Can ylu do the same but for a fugue please? I'd imagine you do a similar thing, but there's a lot more variety that i think would make it very tricky

I love finding old adam neely videos accidently

wow! genius!

So... it was, it was just that?!? Wow. You make complex things seem easy.

That was cool.

I love this letsplayer

OMG IM STEALING THIS xD kidding, but it sounds so beautifull

i llove you ur so good

Just imagine what Telemann would have done with good software! He'd have written a whole set of canon sonatas!

Thanks a bunch for pointing out I should approach this like counterpoint, rather than setting up chords. That makes sense :-)

Can we get more of this kind of video please?

These are fun! I did one in cubase!

When it suddenly ended I found myself wishing the video was an hour long.

check out Telemann's Canonical sonatas! they are all canons, and they change keys, and sound amazing.

nice!

WOW!!!

its look like Sibelius just annoying you when you working with as mine !! i mean drawing notes ...lol anyway...thanks for great video...*_* !

good video

Could you incorporate a third voice into this by doing the same thing with mirroring the preceding half bar? Any tips for this?

Woohoo!

I had Arthur Welwood for this class...2009.

CONSONANT, ADAM

Love how bored he is by the end. Top music school graduate attitude.

Quick question here. What is your opinion on linear counterpoint? Do you use it at all or do you always think in intervals? I use it a lot in my band and I find it a lot of fun.

I tried this out and it was really fun! Would I waste my time as a composer if I wrote a four measure canon like this everyday for practice?

Would the middle section of Prophets Song by Queen be considered a canon

Wow that actually sounded good. You're very fluent at composition Adam. Why don't you write more counterpoint?

cool

Boom!

"Sounds like counterpoint." Well, I sure hope it does.

I think you just blew my mind. About parallel fifths... I took theory in school, I know it's a classical no-no... but also as a metal guitarist it's definitely a solid tool that brings a lot of heaviness (especially when you write a riff in drop D and just play the same riff on the A string simultaneously). This will work on steel and nylon acoustic as well(No drop D required). If you play parallel fifths the guitar brings out this crazy aggressive natural "distortion"...Probably all the harmonics working together? I also like it when I record Rock vocals because I feel like my separate tracks blend well... but like you said it definitely does not bring out a second voice... only accentuates the root note in a way that makes it sound like an effect(like a 'Fifths Synth'.) Thank you for bringing meaning to some previously discarded knowledge! I also learned not to throw away anything I learn from anybody.

Can you make a video on 12 tone Canons? If that even makes sense?

Wahoo

I understand that fugues are similar, but what would you do differently for them?

MOAR

@adam Neely, do you prefer this software youre using compared to others? I use finale notepad and often find it frustrating to use.

This is so fucking cool!

Great video! I just hope that you would have talked a bit more about when it is ok to use dissonances (on weak beats), since a beginning composer watching this can get an impression that only 3rds, 6ths, 5ths and 8ths/unisons are allowed.

"Woo-hoo" -Adam Neely

Woo hoo !!

3:10 To me, Adam sounds like Mr. Garrison when he says "strange"

That sounds counterpoints

Just a quick question, and I know it's a matter of taste these days, but for "traditional" harmony, when you are harmonizing a run of notes, how do you treat passing notes? Harmonize the on-grid ones?

ahaha thank you for beeing totally non elitist that was really fun :)

Every time I hear that F, I expect the rest of we are number one to play

holy shit how did you do that

Tres fooli napsty

Hey adam do you know of any programs that have a voice to text feature for writing music? It be cool to sing notes and there name and have it be transcribed.

so you can consider the delay effect a canon since it does pretty much the same thing in a wider scale.

1:48 Great. Now I only hear Moanin' by Art Blakey...

What is the difference between a fugue and a canon? They seem really similar in their use of counter point.

I would expect a little bit more thinking done on the horizontal aspect of the voice as well rather than just considering what intervals work best each time and not discussing the continuity and cohesion of the whole. At the end of the day, counterpoint is all about the coexistence of musical lines that already sound complete in themselves, so I would like to hear more about how one can achieve that when writing a canon or any other kind of counterpoint rather than just discussing which intervals work best.

hahahaha i was just about to begin writing a fugue in Sibelius and this was just a bit too real for me

I'm definitely not great at composing music, but I feel like that last note in the bass should be an A. Since the treble is a C the last note being a B to me doesn't really feel like an end to the song, it's almost like it's leaving me on a cliffhanger. Please explain the thing I'm either missing or hearing wrong!

Gah! The bass wants to end on A as well!

Should not the motif started on beat 3 of bar two (treble) end on an A (so bar 3 treble beat 1 is an a), so that bar 3 beat 3 in the bass is an A and you have a satisfying cadence? Love your vids

We're gonna start in the key of a minorrrrrrrrrr

I want the whole of music to be based upon canons. I even have a dream that one day, everything will be realized to be a canon. Just play the Final Countdown over itself. Seriously.

Adam. I have been playing guitar for several years but I feel that I have no musical knowledge. so I want to learn music theory but I do not have the money to do so. Do you suggest any book to to learn music theory and harmony?

first melody kinda sounds like that one song from blank banshee

What software for composing do you use? I’m using Finale, I’m not a big fan

That would sound awesome on harpsichord... if it were to end ( i know there is a term but idk it)