Q+A #34 - What is your opinion of music critics like Anthony Fantano?

The Q+A Podcast with Adam Neely

1:02 Can you introduce my question without the Lick? 1:10 All about the Double Harmonic minor scale and its weird intervals 4:07 Why is your audience almost exclusively male? 5:35 What is your opinion on contemporary music reviewers like Anthony Fantano? 7:05 What is the life cycle of pop tunes in your cover band? 7:48 Playing a sax with drumsticks isn’t as valid as with a mouthpiece. 10:09 What do you think about having 8 string guitars and no bass player? 10:57 What do you think about bass tremelo bridges? 11:37 Were you playing to a track when you played on Kelly and Ryan? Is that cheating? 12:45 Do you consider yourself a musician or a youtuber? 13:04 Pop music is pretentious branded garbage 15:39 Have you ever had to play in very tall buildings? 16:08 Is there a style you dislike playing? 16:17 Do you answer questions on youtube? 16:22 Do melodic minor and harmonic minor have that “modal brightness” thing you’ve talked about? 17:16 How would you analyze that E7#9 chord in Purple Haze? 18:49 200k video? 19:00 Weren’t violin strings made out of cats guts? 19:30 Why aren’t you employed as a professor?

BONUS VIDEO - Dorian Bright Theory Madness (exploration of brightness in unusual modes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAgd_3inRt8

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