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A YouTube video about Adam Neely's selective presentation on classical musicians' rhythm, bullying of Adam Ragusea and subsequent failure to retract his fallacious claims, and potential plagiarism of Sideways.

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[–] davethecomposer 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Good take. My knowledge of music theory barely runs beyond what I am interested in as a composer (have forgotten so much, of course) so I don't really have a good way to judge his other theory videos.

The tritone video was one that I was thinking of that I liked and then also his anti-432 video. After that, I am realizing that I don't really watch many of his videos. Very few, actually, so who knows what gems I'm missing out on.

He basically makes undergraduate research essays with a budget. And people pay him for it and take it for gospel.

That's definitely a problem. I think he does try to be accurate but when he messes up he doesn't handle it well.