Mixing Jazz and J-Pop 

3 2 1 LET'S JAM

The seatbelts are great

A slightly too fast, also no conga/bongo :(

@@natheniel almost every live performance is faster

@@natheniel Not too fast. Just different. If every performance were the same, what fun would that be?

couldn't have said it better myself

IKR AND THE MUSIC IS SOOOO GOOODD

SOOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD

I wholeheartedly agree. :D Entertained all the way through and learned new things.

Agreed

7:09 yup u right

so true

He blew my mind back to last week lol

Stickerbrush Symphony in Smash Ultimate is almost the opposite of that, and still amazing.

7

I for sure wanna see more of them.

Hell yes!

Omg yes

Yes, please

Yes!!!

video upload date: *32 minutes ago* this comment: *8 hours ago* HMMM

@@markocon1598 Are the video released early to Patreon subscribers maybe?

@@markocon1598 -- I have a time travel pass. Get yours here: www.patreon.com/adamneely/overview

Can't agree more, he needs some kind of award.

the the what

U know what is the title of the song they playing?

@@yuukistraussable it's a persona 5 theme for one of the character. The girl with a glasses and an otaku onr

toccino. The days when my mother was there

And in the end of his solo he achieved his final form!

Just passed it and I knew I would find that timestamp down here. He's got it for sure.

He started the video by saying "OK" which is the first word in the song. He puts so much effort in to these videos.

I see what you did there;)

@@KOME11 the first word in the song is "i"

​@xleepy4006 yeah, the "OK" is after the "Let's blow this thing, get everybody and the stuff together"

I know right? I've been trying to explain why Japanese music speaks to me so much to my writing partner and I've never been able to explain it quite so *right*.

Yup! I've been trying to put that feeling into words forever but could never quite put my finger on it, Patrick really nailed it with that description.

Haha this also describes pop punk too !

It's interesting how a lot of stories that come from Japan can echo this same feeling too.

Aah, so that's why I detest it.

For real dude, that quote right there is what's gonna make me remember this video

that line alone gives me insight on how to write awesome and powerful melodies.

Yeah, It makes you understand why your favorite upbeat anime songs make you feel really sad at the same time.

Dude is spot on with the explanation. I'd love to hear a fusion of Japanese melodies with my country's music

This was EXACTLY it. It's why so many of the melodies feel so powerful, in the classic Japanese bittersweet style.

Well Grimes is married to elon musk and blue man group collabed with ajr it truly is a weird world

How did Adam not know this Song? He seems so confused haha

Wait hold up, I listened to him sing it and then listened to the song, and same key. Does he have perfect pitch? Did they play it before? We may never know.

​@@ANZARIZ_43 not anymore lol

The legend of the vibing cat

AnnoyedSpy I thought exactly the same. Why is that drummer not being interviewed?

Diego Luyo i mean i like Bartley being interviewed and he’s also extremely talented but id like some kind of mention of Norman (the drummer) apart from a casual zoom-in

Agreed! He's having so much fun at 8:10... I'm pretty sure that was him yelling in excitement at 8:22

Debashis Biswas lol yeah he likes playing drums

Debashis Biswas also in 4:15

I just pointed this out in my own comment before reading others, it's nice to know others appreciate how important that statement was

Same here. I couldn’t have explained it better 😊

That’s my impression of 6451 progression

@@LoveYourself-un5ct how tho

BENZDIK 3.0 whoops I just realized a typo in my comment. I meant “couldn’t” not “could’ve” my bad

agree

agreed

Agree

Genius, and also really passionate and energetic about the music and mad skilled too.

Your English is great. keep your head up! ;)

banaantjexx164 Thank you so much! ありがとう！🙌

日本のヒップホップの方が最高だ。Basi, Evisbeatsかどうか Nujabesが勧める。

Your English is good, and your music is awesome! So glad people are waking up to music from Japan. There is some freakishly good japanese soul, groove, Jazz, rock and so much more. (Don’t tell anyone, but the Chinese have funk grooves in their orchestra music! I kid you not!)

あなたの英語が完全じゃない。かんたんに分かるのができました。自信を持って下さい！私の日本語がどうであるかわからない...

SAME

Yeah, to understand a musical concept and to articulately explain it in an understandable and clear way with passion is a great combination indeed

I feel like Adam might look like he just doesn’t have a lot to say, but it’s just that everything Patric says just makes a shit and a half tons of sense so you just listen, make sense of it and honestly can’t help to do anything but agree 😂

does anyone know what the song is called?

​@@08_benawajavapermadi_xiimi74 it's Life Goes On from the Persona 5 OST. This band has a recording of their version on Spotify with Adam on bass too, though the solo is diff I think

Well didn't it happen already with the Shakuhachi video?

Waiting for the "Why vocaloids are awesome" video

YESSSS

Waiting for the "Why Love Live is awesome" video

Gentlemen, and gentlemen with fem avis, we got em! XD

I really like how Adam edited the video starts with Tank! & ends with it, sounds just right!

Lol, actually, J-Music has a full version of tank with them solos

Goosebumps at the end of that song every time.

WE NEED IT

they only put up 4 of the songs ru-vid.com/show-UCp961nPXSI1Wp-WkE2sRaQwvideos

oehayo

@@HarrisTheHypnotist do you mean Ohayo which means Hello in Japanese? If so, Ohayo to you too! Have a good day bro

Konichiwa, watashiwa

@@ashaypallav4158 tu indian hain?

Ashay Pallav lmao tf

Listen to tabun kaze by sakanaction please haha

one of us, one of us, one of us

Never thought I would share this playlist but here it is: ru-vid.com/group/PLXSteZ0hwE--tCL1wRBD7HMNr2iRog1x0 Some of them are arrangements, some are original, all Japanese.

Damn, you`re so right! I want this study about my language now, but it`s too unpopular :D

@@natheniel I literally came in the comments to ask for some playlists because THIS IS AWESOME! Thank you! PS: Daumn, Baccano! Ur one intellectual!

Yes!!!

stephen0793 plus current bands like Polkadot Stingray mixing vocal J-rock with jazz!

Yes! I really love that old-school j-pop, it's so soothing. I didn't know it was called city pop. Also, everyone should read Blue Giant.

When you mention Japanese "city pop" 1980s, and right now I'm addicted to Plastic Love by Mariya Takeuchi, can't get enough with that masterpiece music.

@@nhr3107 you should listen to the song Magic Ways by Mariya's husband

50 seconds in and I'm already *H A R D*

Tank!

Adam's 'OK" after intro, though.

3-2-1 let's go.

I wanna hear that full song O_O

I really need to know the name of the song

It's called "When My Mother Was There" from Persona 5. It's one of my favorites from the game.

Christian Marin It literally says.

Dat scream of the sax tho

right? i was shocked when i heard it, im euphoric rn, somebody said it!!

I got chills!!

Yeah it's almost like it's... his job, his life's passion

from what i understand the Japanese take on Jazz is referred to as "Light music" which came about when Japanese musicians used reference from their own traditional music to create their own brand of Jazz, while playing with instruments considered non-traditional in their culture

Yep! It's Finnish music of an eastern European genre. After all, Finnish cultural heritage is a mixture of east and west. In the context of this video, it could just be that Ievan Polkka is a viral Finnish song that got picked up by Hatsune Miku because of its appealing melody and rhythm (from eastern music) and the gibberish lyrics that transcend language barriers.

@@S3lvah Most likely the melody and tune that combined with the Finnish language to create a special sort of rhytm. I'm swedish and the japanese used our language aswell in Carameldansen to make a J-Pop style song that went viral.

@@Fillkarre Yeah, well, it's Finnish-sounding gibberish rather than actual Finnish, but I suppose it retains a lot of the rhythm that you mention, and I get what you mean.

@@S3lvah The gibberish is basically just nonsensical japanese phonetics sung in the rhytm of real finnish. Would've been cooler if they actually used real finnish though :/

Indeed!

Helimination1 I flipped when I heard polyrhythm. Just saw perfume live a couple weeks ago!

WHAT WAS THE SKNG AT 7:36

@@SynGates771981 I'm pretty sure it's Persona 5 - Days when my mother was there

You know, you can have the understanding of music without going through the music school and vice versa.

@@WhooshWh0sh the point is that these people are well-educated in music theory, yet J-Pop still seems mind-boggling to them. Just further proof of how amazing J-Pop is. 😁

Who says bass solos suck? THAT was pretty sweet!

@@alanhirayama4592 Adam said it (not all of them but most)

@@hectorvader4436 Yes, I saw his video, so this is a rebuttal, LOL.

@@alanhirayama4592 Some would call what you have done a rebuttal, but a rebuttal first indicates some understanding of the position and then provides evidence to the contrary. You have done neither. You do not recount someone's position, nor do you prove it wrong, therefore what you have done is not a rebuttal. A rebuttal ^

Finn Kenyon I must agree with you! My comment does not make logical sense, but I still like Adam’s bass solo!

Yuji Ohno song with Sawashiro miyuki is Soo good.

Lupin III vol.1 soundtrack is CLASSIC!!!

Lupin good period.

@@kaitotatsuya is that the same person who voice sinon from sao ?

@@sukma6487 sorry i don't watch Sao

Still waiting for "Cruel Angel's Thesis" ... ;)

this is true i was the scream

I can confirm i was the beginning

this is true I was the name

KONO DIO DA

Simon Boholm hi dad

日本人おった

Big same fam

Lol yeah

Oh god please!!

Yeah I need that.

It is the single greatest song. Honestly, Tank is one of two songs I could put on repeat for an entire day, and not get tired of.

Yes!

Might as well leave another comment agreeing to this. You hear Adam, full video of Tank!

indeed.

@@that44rdv4rk AND the end

THE ENDING THOOOO

God damn, I knew the video was going to be good, but I didn't know that it was going to be "Adam Neely opening a video with Tank! of Cowboy Bebop" good

You are a lucky one

This! I kind of stopped the video after how inaccurate was his description of Japanese. "Japenese is flat" is a very common misconception. Again, not his fault, he isn't a linguist and probably hasn't studied phoneticsm but it kinda rubbed me in the wrong way to describe japanese language with such confidence without the knowledge to back himself

I did not know this, thank you for clarifying!

an odd candy or a bridge made of chopsticks

You can hear it in the way Adam says sakura matsuri. The Americanised way Adam says it, saKUra matSUri, puts a longer emphasis on the middle syllable, which produces that swing rhythm. In the Japanese, it's Sakura Matsuri, with accents on the first syllable without elongating it, so both words come out as even groups of 3.

@@arbitrarygreay subaru and yamaha seem to be the only japanese brands anyone knows how to stress correctly.

Man, He's a great musician and gamer?! *I NEED TO FIND HIM AND SAY THANKS!*

AlanKey86 I don’t know Davie Bruce so pick Adam

clearly you at least came here

@@AndyChamberlainMusic Hey, I'm subbed to you! Love your content, man!

@@lifeontheledgerlines8394 thank you! :)

You can see that with Persona 5 having an acid jazz soundtrack, for example. And bands like Indigo Jam Unit and SOIL & "PIMP" SESSIONS

Love Mondo Grosso, eventually led me to listening to Japanese city pop

Bossa Nova as well.

I mean he was playing the intro

Seatbelts!

No mention of it. Was a bit shocked as well

3..2...1 let's jam

I always feel like this particular intro from CB is just a remarkable concentrated fusion of jazz/blues grooves. Like a lesson for students. But... how fuckin' awesome it sounds!

I also like Detroit scam rap

Saaame, except I was like 19 or 20, introduced me to a whole new world of my favorite music: modern Japanese jazz

Finland is in the eastern half of Europe. And covering a song from a region is literally borrowing their music….?

@@SpencerTwiddy I’d argue that “borrowing from” would imply a lesser degree of “replication” and more of a reinterpretation, or some kind of musical citation. Or at least that’s what I think I was thinking at that moment. I do recognize that me from 3 years ago was having a typical “AKCHUALLY” moment with that message tho

@@alessandrorumbo490 that's fair enough, and yeah it happens

That's what I aspire to be.

That is what I am striving to be

add me to this chain lmao

Me too

Same. A weeb already, but not an expert yet.

Do you have a source on that? I have a hard time believing she was a greenhorn to jazz

@@brandonvu5429 Went back to my primary source ( daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2014/11/yoko-kanno-interview ) to double check and I admit I was off by about a decade. I had misremembered her first major exposure to jazz as coming years after university graduation (which would have been when she was working on Macross Plus), rather than *during* her uni years. That whole interview is a wild ride into her mind. It's still pretty amazing that she barely had a good idea of drums and rhythm (her own admittance) until she was a full grown adult. You can even kind of feel how rudiment some of the rhythms are in the first Cowboy Bebop OST, like Too Good Too Bad, which is more like a march than big band swing. Or Piano Black, which has this very droning sense of syncopation, a clockwork waltz relentlessly pounding out those offbeat 3s. Not that it works against the feeling of jazzy grooves, but moreso a fascinating variance that works well with her strengths of melody and instrumentation.

@「 OKAY 」 HAHA!!!

And bass

Persona fans when they realize saxophones exist

@@fanman021 slap bass

Darcmatter I hate this comment so much

PS: I just finished watching and I have goosebumps all over my body! Especially the KH one.

The feeling after achieving the top of the mountain is a bit quieter and more breathtaking, like the nature is

Reminds me of the last day of school or graduation. That celebration of a journey and sadness it has ended

It helps to feel the music and to not look like you want to die if you stand still with a blank face lol

@@carterulery yeah of course in this setting it's ok, but for more professional gigs you wouldn't want to be dancing

@@--TOM-- true, but in pro stuff you still should move a bit in a chair to show a bit of emotion in your playing

@@carterulery sure

@@--TOM-- lol that's what i think is good anyways

I know, it was such a profound and accurate description! I've always loved the unique emotions that J-pop gives, and it's nice to hear that others have a similar experience when they listen to songs from the genre. I'll definitely be exploring using that theme of marrying happiness and sadness in my own music!

can't forget 4:35

You clearly don't know what otaku means

@@Naku_u Is there a single, definitive definition?

crnkmnky Yeah, the Japanese one, not the one people obsessed with anime have that they use to describe themselves with

The Japanese definition is along the line of "geek" in English. A person obsessed with something. Yes, most of them do face some stigmas from the public

Otaku is someone who stays at home a lot A degenerate that doesn’t go outside This is the meaning my mans

FACTS

*hironyx* 6:20 😉

Adam is always rocking the bass duck face :)

its called a stank face

that's called "stank face" it's for when you play a riff so dirty you can smell it

You cannot, absolutely cannot, play a jazz or funk bass solo without strong facial expressions.

Also 4:37

Almost at 5:20

what is that song?

WHAT IS THAT SONG? I am losing hope...

I have that same question, what is the name of that song?????

@@felixneman3132 I think it's an original composition J-Music Ensemble did for their shows.

@@MrShuthefukup name is on screen. It's literally the J Music ensemble theme song