Nobody can play that fast... (feat. Ben Levin) | How to Not Suck at Music #5 

Adam Neely Oh, we thought you were lovers...

What kind of friends?

Is Ben a Brooklynite too? - A Brooklynite

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This was so much fun to watch

...baby!

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I almost pissed myself when he said that xD

Ben Levin Great stuff 😊

Ben Levin thanks for your awesome advice on my piece, I think I could put those lines through some midi synths and change the flute and bass clarinet lines to the arpeggios Adam mentioned

I really enjoyed it!

Ben Levin hi! what is the name of the song that you teached? I never got the name of it from the video

That was great! I really enjoyed it.

Adam Neely fanfic? Is it really fanfic if it's about real people?

Justin Scott I'd say so. It's a fictional story writren about 2 real people by a fan of theirs. To me that's a fanfic

"let me be your fretboard"...

OTP right here.

as frank jav cee once said, once you have your own subreddit, it's all down hill from there (www.reddit.com/r/adamneelyfaces/)

I personally think it's really sad

I could totally relate to that. Most of the time being alone is no problem, and when you do get to interact with other people (who are friendly) that you're suddenly hit with how nice it is to have company.

is it odd that it is theopposite for me? when i feel it i mean. must be low key depression or something.

Same

relatable as shit

about that... is that really prog? it felt more like... i dunno, just not prog, i don't have the genre in mind as the only song i can think that is similar to that is from an obscure indie game whose song composer afaik made nothing else,but it just doesn't feel like prog, yet the guy who send that cover wrot "prog rock" in the tags...

A lot of stuff has been mistaken for prog in the last few decades

i can see how that cold've happened. also something interesting i've noticed nowadays is that as time goes on, in pretty much all kinds of medias genres as a whole are disappearig or merging all together, wonder where that'll bring us one day...

I don't think I ever mentioned prog At all

@@iota-09 Then it's just a short passage of an entire song out of an entire album of a definitely prog band, I think it can get away at not being supper progy.

Freddy Labots When I heard his feedback I actually thought of like a middle school band teacher (not in a bad way) being like, "well... Maybe do this a little differently" as they try not to cringe at Jimmy playing a plastic recorder. Really made my day XD

Feedback guitar omegalulz

I'd buy those for sure, at least the "Let me be your fretboard" one

peter wurst Were you drunk when you wrote this? Lol

@peter wurst what the actual fuck

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@peter wurst breathtaking

lmao

fudgesauce just fucking go to wattpad already

"How to not SUCC while listening to music"

Do double C's also mean fellatio? I'm not so hip on my gay lingo

How is male affection funny? I feel like men are their own worst enemies sometimes. It's really sad. I am a man btw.

Bigode Mcbeagles yup. Such a broad spectrum of styles and skill levels. Really great vid!

I was crying imagining that at the wedding as she's walking down The trumpet player's eyes are all bug-eyed

Everyone in the building goes deaf

4 now :(

Berklee*

Ah, right you are. My bad.

10:49 ...

Sandwhaler yup. Berkley is a fraud

@@pribanovaterka But they know CHALUMEAU!!

Super cool that you're a teacher doing that, feels like too few teachers I've had (even otherwise really good ones) thought about it that way. A tendency I saw when helping classmates with maths, was that many of them would erase the entire solution and do something completely different if they had the wrong answer. Problem is... often that first try was almost right, with only a small error, and the second time was even more wrong. The teacher wasn't actively negative or anything, but of course only focused on the aspects that needed change when correcting them. When you dont't have any confidence, your first assumption is that everything is wrong/bad. It's so important that you get to hear what you did right too, so you don't throw the baby out with the bathwater and ignore what you did right. Prune the dead branches and keep the good ones, instead of letting the whole tree wither. Of course you can be overconfident too, but I think it's the same thing, in a way. You want to do a good job, you feel bad cause your work is flawed. Underconfidence and you dismiss your work as worthless, overconfidence and you dismiss the negative feelings themselves. Dissing won't get through to either of the two

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Oisin Smith yep 😉

Just friends! Nope, nope, nothing else! Nothing more than that!! hahahaha

Bendam Neeley

I personally like, Bendem Lovely.

Bend the Knee or....... Bent Knee I smell a conspiracy

Bam Nevin

Adam levin

I think it was the Amazon Black Friday sale, I saw some pretty cool ones but they were sold out. High demand.

I was fortunate to find one at a garage sale.

I built my own for only 100 bucks Pretty amazing

You can find one anywhere stuffed toys are sold.

Joseph Rollins omg same!!

Me too lmao

Me either!

I'm the same with how he reacts to Jared Yee's sax solo in the 'making of' part of the Clarity video

I know this is a from a while ago but if you are still struggling with this you might want to check out Benny Greb's book Effective Practicing for Musicians. I've been using his system for maybe half a year and have found it to be really good at getting me to actually advance. And it has gotten me past much of the more psychological frustrations I had before about learning an instrument. Can't recommend it enough.

Billy Lipoff both of those things I agree with. High D (concert f)is really not a "screechy" note for good sax players and that low concert G is well outside the range of a sax which stops at the Db above that.

Fellow alto player... came here to say this exact thing. With a full embouchure and breath support high D can sound really nice. If paired with the clarinet dropped down an octave, I think that opening would work just fine

Billy Lipoff Another fellow sax play here. I agree with you guys, that high D is totally fine and if anything makes the song really grab your attention at the beginning. If you really want to hear screeching saxophone, I'd reccomend listening to the sax quartet XAS by Iannis Xenakis, which requires the alto sax player to play the same Super high concert Bb that was written for the trumpet in this piece. Anyway, I'd also like to point out that the low g is well within the range of an alto sax, which goes to the Db below that on the bass clef (or low C if you cover the bell with your knee). I also disagree with the point about the sax's low register. It's very expressive and beautiful, and Sousa wrote a lot for that range in the trio sections of his marches.

Billy Lipoff for the middle octave D you can fix the intonation by adding the low B key.

otherwise, i totally agree with it. that top D can really sing, and we all hate playing low.

Don't know about sax, but I learned to hit notes like that gently on clarinet. It's hard as heck to keep it in tune, but it's not easy to keep the upper register in tune anyways. That said, even in this form, it was too much I feel. So bringing it down could be better.

TravisPilgrim Awwwwwww

Haze Anderson pro tip: move further away from the screen ;-)

I did that but then ... DANCINGS!! :O

How would a composer signal the desire for the embrouchure change? Is there good notation for that?

3countylaugh I’m pretty sure there’s no notation for that , you’d just have to write “played softly” above the stave, and the player should be able to adjust naturally 😜