My new ear training mobile app, Sonofield Ear Trainer, which is based on this method, is nearly ready! Sign-up to be notified when the app releases: www.sonic-sorcery.com/set
I asked my piano teacher, "How you are able to find the correct chord/melody instantly" and he said to me "Use *Feeling*". I never really understand this concept until i watch this video. AMAZINGG
Feeling the music and writing based on emotion and not just structure will make a song that brings out those feelings in a real way for everyone to know exactly how that song was born.
Just started but I think it just might be. I've been playing guitar all my life but I still have trouble with hearing notes and intervals instinctively.
Inspired by this video, I started singing solfege in the car with a single note drone on loop. But instead of trying to hear the intervals (like I've done all my life, to negligible progress), I've been trying to hear the notes themselves (the feeling of the notes, like max says) before I sing them. Recently I heard a tune on the radio, and knew for certain that the melody started on the fifth. It was like magic. Still a long way to go, but I've gotten more progress in the last 2 months than I have in the last 10 years.
@@maxkonyi Hey, thanks for your video. Thats a very interessting concept. Did you do 1 hour listening-session videos/Podcasts/audiotracks that we can put on play in the car, like you mentioned? Thank you!
This is the only method that I have tried (and in 45 years I have tried a lot) that really works. Picked it up from your Udemy course and have been practicing consistently for around 2 months. My wife had the TV on and the music leapt out at me, I knew without doubt what the melody was. Checking it against the keyboard confirmed it. To practice the skill I used bugle calls and graduated to traditional Chinese music to play back in real time. What is remarkable is that when you hear it in terms of feeling there is no doubt, just complete certainty. Great presentation and a real service to your community.
I've gained this skill by practicing guitar and listening to various types of music and melody. It took a me a while to get it right but now I can quickly find out the scale, melody and chords of any song I listen to. I didn't have any music teacher I've done all by myself using RUclips only.
@@mathew5968 one thing I would suggest that never give up, there'll be time when you'll feel exhausted, pissed off and think of quitting. But you should keep on practicing and listening.
Before he started talking, I forgot I was supposed to be actively exercising my brain😅 That was so peaceful. Better than the brown noise I put on to help me fall asleep.
This was fantastic! Regarding your future plans of doing a video like this for chords, there's actually a great book that explains the "psycho-acoustic" tendencies of both chords and melodic intervals called "How Music Really Works" by Wayne Chase. It goes into a lot of detail about the harmonic version of this circle which actually has a name that's different than the circle of fifths, called "harmonic circular scale" because it's based on an actual parent key referencing a tonic, and features an organizational directional flow based on interval forces (whereas the COF doesn't do that). A lot of those concepts were also referenced from an older book in 1959 by Victor Zuckerkandl called "The Sense of Music," which Wayne said was a source in his research. I highly recommend checking out HMRW first before releasing a video on the chords, as there's some interesting patterns and types of progressions that aren't mentioned on youtube yet. Cheers!
@@maxkonyi The book is better priced on his own website, whereas someone marked up the copies on amazon to a ridiculous amount so make sure to not give Bezos any cash haha
The simplicity of this is mindblowing! It's like for the first time in my 20 years history of playing guitar, I am actually listening properly the instrument I'm playing, and also understanding music itself. Kinda astonished my guitar teacher never spoke any of this when learning scales, intervals, modes etc.
I remember as a boy, hearing the drone of powered machinery and doing this exact thing to create melodies and harmonies in my head. Exercises like this are truly the foundation of all musical ear training. Once you master this and apply the theory to an instrument, you can play most music without even looking at a musical score, lead sheet, or chord chart.
There’s something about this that is so hypnotizing that it transcends education and becomes a performance in and of itself? Thank you for sharing your knowledge and your humor so clearly and so vibrantly. 🎉
Max, the other thing I wanted to say was that a very simple app with this exact interface would be a beautiful meditative ear training exercise in sure everyone would like.
OMG I LOVE YOU. I WATCH FOR LONG. I’ve been alive for 105 years, and I’ve never figured this out… you make me feel things I never thought I would thank you
Some memorable quotes in here: “The next fractal layer of the fiveness”. Quite deep! “Only the thing is the thing” obvious but so true! - great work on the video. Very helpful
I'm surprised to be able, already after 25 min. watching, to predict the sound of each number so far. Never thought I would ever manage this. Thanks a lot!
I can’t thank you enough for this. I’ve been trying to get a grip of this for a decade and this is the way someone needed to say it for me to understand. The whole experience of listening to music for me is completely different now.
I’ve never really had any proper exposure to music theory or a chance to see how people who are musically minded actually connect with it. This video gave me a glimpse into how sounds relate to each other and how we can feel that intuitively. Honestly, it’s one of the first times I’ve actually enjoyed learning something like this-it just feels good and natural to “feel out” the sounds and their meaning without having to define its specific meaning, find its purpose, quantify it, set KPIs, and add a back-linked markdown version to the company wiki for quick reference. Thanks for that-it’s a refreshing change.
I always thought I was just bad and telling myself I'm "tone death" all the time. but after this I understand EXACTLY what was going on and why I struggle with hearing curtain notes, as I hear them as other notes etc etc etc... almost like the fact that I mess up so much is because my ears are actually perfectly fine, and not the other way around haha. this is the best video I've seen on ear training. this is gold!
Man this is great, thanks a lot. I play music and you just put words on things I felt whithout knowing it. Will sure help a lot in my comprehension of music, and how it's linked to emotions.
Really appreciate your emphasis of how words cannot ever convey the feelings of the pitch relationships, that it’s something you need to connect with experientially
On the overtones subject, the easy thing to do there is to play a sine wave in comparison, which has no overtones, to make it obvious. Another thing maybe to point out about 3 is that, because of our immersion in this scale system, 4 and 5 sound like intervals, but 3 sort of sounds like a chord. It introduces major'ness, which anyone born into the western system will feel in a certain way.
This is the most locked in I’ve ever been with a RUclips video. Eyes are glued to the screen. Only took a break to write this comment. Fantastic work, amazing teacher, changed my whole perspective completely!
This is brilliant. This is the most comprehensive and coherent lesson I have ever had on ear training and I have been searching since 2018. You lined everything up for me. Thank you for putting this out there. You got my sub and like!
excellent presentation, great work. I always preferred hearing things in the context of a key, vs intervals. Once the Harmony starts changing quickly you will still hold on to the relationships you drilled, when working with the drone.
I love your phenomenological approach to music. Thanks for this explanation and ear training videos. I’ve noticed an increase in my musical flexibility since shifting my perspective to this method.
Progress Checks and Goals 1:24:39 1. Can you recognize the tonic? This should be done first 2. Can you produce/sing the tonic given a drone? 3. Can you produce/sing the tonic given a particular piece of music? 4. Can you recognize each scale degree given in isolation over a drone? 5. Can you transcribe simple melodies by ear? 6. Can you transcribe simple melodies by singing them after hearing them? (listen, pause the audio, transcribe it without using an instrument) 7. Can you transcribe in the moment without pausing the music, and call out the notes as they flow by?
I love this! It resonates (pun...unavoidable!) with how I help people navigate "the unknown" via this kind of primordial approach to piano improv. It's about the sound itself and the feelings that each note (and each combination of notes) generates in our bodies and our moment-to-moment experience. From this level of presence, we connect more deeply with our creative channel. It's fun to hear sentences coming from you that are so similar to how I express these experiences/ideas/concepts. Grounding our understanding of sound in an awareness of how the overtone series works brings us to a much more experiential understanding of it all. Great stuff, Max, good to find out about you. :-)
This is wonderful.I have been exploring my own melodies in my songs as well as my fave songs since watching/hearing this video.It's a form of travel. Thank you.
I started doing this: hanging with the notes. Like over the past 3 years. I’d say today were doing the major third. And then I’d think about that one, an play it. It’s so cool because the notes carry so many potential harmonies in it. So there’s like this whole world of potential in this one simple note. It’s made practicing music much more peaceful, less result driven. I’m content digging these colors for the rest of my life! Thanks for this video was nice to hear your perspective.
I have a fan that has a distinct fundamental note. Singing various pitches along with it allowed me to quickly familiarize myself with all the intervals . Very useful exercise
Great stuff! Feeling is so important to spend time developing- together with audiation, singing and playing your instrument. One thing I wanted to contribute: It's very common, and I catch myself calling them notes sometimes, but when speaking about tones in an absolute sense like this, I was taught to refer to them as musical "pitches", reserving use the word "notes" for when they have a rhythmic value, a definitive beginning and ending (in the context of a musical phrase). It may be that both words are correct to use in certain situations, but it's a distinction that I think is not widely known.
Dude. Thank you. This approach is so radical and so cool. Amazing video, I love your teaching style, the visualiser, and the head in the circle is *chefs kiss*
Great video, thanks for this. The circle of 5ths arrangement is simply awesome. One thing I just noticed is that if instead of #4 we use b5 the circle goes on the same order moving clockwise (1, 5, 2, 6, 3, 7, b5, b2, b6, b3, b7, 4) just adding the flat in front of the number. To me it's easier to memorize.
I hear you on that, however, it's set as #4 because that is a much more common sound. In case it's unclear, #4 and b5, despite being the same key on the piano, actually sound and feel different. Since the numbers on the circle are meant to be attached to particular sounds/feelings, I'm using #4 instead of b5 because that is what you're really hearing when played over a drone.
I can tell a Maj chord from a min, thanks for not saying one is happy and one is sad, you saying "feelings" are not emotions, thats a helpful statement for me, i always get frustrated with people who can hear scale degrees, this is the area that broke my guitar progress... I'm trying to rededicate myself because i want so badly to break free of mindlessly playing scales and modes and gaining no musicianship.
please keep making videos! i truly felt like i found gold coming across your channel. i was in the dark for so long not knowing how to find what i didn’t know, and this info was exactly what i needed!! so grateful i found this, many gems in your videos and you teach/explain so well. love the vocabulary, the word choice completely resonates with me and makes me understand🥳 the visual is extremely helpful too, but id love to see what you’re doing on the piano. i’m confused about octaves and how melodies relate to chords.
Thanks for the encouragement! Happy to hear it's helpful. When I feel it's important to show what I'm doing on the keyboard, I show it, otherwise it can actually be a hindrance..
I have been playing various instruments (piano being my main) for my whole life and I could never get why people could transcribe on the spot. I always needed to test out on the piano. Thank you for this!! Also after going through the first 6 notes I paused and went to my keyboard and played twinkle twinkle little star to try out the feeling. Then I came back to the video and realized you did it right after!!
1:20:45 you can also choose not to play resolution in that app. In the "Play!, Listen, Advance" menu choose "Settings" and switch action to different one
I tried to develop perfect pitch and didn't know that I was training my relative pitch, started with the C Major scale, and got the feeling of the notes and know it's the same for every major scale
Great video! Your sharing Big time valuable lssons! I cant wait for the app. I guess It Will have plenty of those exercicies.to.educate our feelings! Thanks for the work and keep at it! From Madrid.
My new ear training mobile app, Sonofield Ear Trainer, which is based on this method, is nearly ready! Sign-up to be notified when the app releases: www.sonic-sorcery.com/set
I asked my piano teacher, "How you are able to find the correct chord/melody instantly" and he said to me "Use *Feeling*". I never really understand this concept until i watch this video. AMAZINGG
What a great teacher lul JUST FEEL IT BRUH
@@em_the_bee😂yeah just feel it bro duh! I can't understand how people just feel it. Makes no damn sense 💀
It's very easy. How to feel it.
Step 1. Do *it*
Step 2. Don't do something else
Feeling the music and writing based on emotion and not just structure will make a song that brings out those feelings in a real way for everyone to know exactly how that song was born.
r kelly told me the same advice. i never felt the same since
Does anyone else feel like this is the video they’ve been looking for, for about 20 years?
YES I DO
Sure do, bro.
Just started but I think it just might be. I've been playing guitar all my life but I still have trouble with hearing notes and intervals instinctively.
Inspired by this video, I started singing solfege in the car with a single note drone on loop. But instead of trying to hear the intervals (like I've done all my life, to negligible progress), I've been trying to hear the notes themselves (the feeling of the notes, like max says) before I sing them. Recently I heard a tune on the radio, and knew for certain that the melody started on the fifth. It was like magic. Still a long way to go, but I've gotten more progress in the last 2 months than I have in the last 10 years.
Hahx si
No idea what im watching but i like it!
Best music theory RUclipsr. Criminally underrated. Don’t change when you get famous and keep the down to earth, unpretentious yet deep vibes going.
Much appreciated 🙏🏼
@@maxkonyi Hey, thanks for your video. Thats a very interessting concept. Did you do 1 hour listening-session videos/Podcasts/audiotracks that we can put on play in the car, like you mentioned? Thank you!
@@SchultiTube Not yet but they are coming!
@@maxkonyi That's great news, I'm literally checking every day if those are available yet. Thank you in advance, Max!
@@dunker20 Good to know!
This is the only method that I have tried (and in 45 years I have tried a lot) that really works. Picked it up from your Udemy course and have been practicing consistently for around 2 months. My wife had the TV on and the music leapt out at me, I knew without doubt what the melody was. Checking it against the keyboard confirmed it. To practice the skill I used bugle calls and graduated to traditional Chinese music to play back in real time. What is remarkable is that when you hear it in terms of feeling there is no doubt, just complete certainty. Great presentation and a real service to your community.
Very nice! That's great to hear.
Does he have a course on ear training?
@@i-is-alive In the works...
Can you review on the use your ear method and tell us where is it good and over(like where other ways can be applied too)
@@maxkonyi I wish it covers every aspect of ear training step by step
Man i assumed this would be a background trainer to sleep too, was slowly drifting off when softly, "haha, I'm in the circle" starts up
I've gained this skill by practicing guitar and listening to various types of music and melody. It took a me a while to get it right but now I can quickly find out the scale, melody and chords of any song I listen to. I didn't have any music teacher I've done all by myself using RUclips only.
Nice!
Congrats dude, I am aiming to have this skill as well but I'm just a beginner at the moment.
That’s awesome!
It makes it really fun
@@mathew5968 one thing I would suggest that never give up, there'll be time when you'll feel exhausted, pissed off and think of quitting. But you should keep on practicing and listening.
Before he started talking, I forgot I was supposed to be actively exercising my brain😅 That was so peaceful. Better than the brown noise I put on to help me fall asleep.
Brown noise? That sound makes you crap 💩 *south park reference
I would LOVE a podcast of an hour of guided practice. I've wanted something like that for years!
Agreed!
+1 :)
+1
Yes! Please do this, Max!
Yep!!
This was fantastic! Regarding your future plans of doing a video like this for chords, there's actually a great book that explains the "psycho-acoustic" tendencies of both chords and melodic intervals called "How Music Really Works" by Wayne Chase. It goes into a lot of detail about the harmonic version of this circle which actually has a name that's different than the circle of fifths, called "harmonic circular scale" because it's based on an actual parent key referencing a tonic, and features an organizational directional flow based on interval forces (whereas the COF doesn't do that). A lot of those concepts were also referenced from an older book in 1959 by Victor Zuckerkandl called "The Sense of Music," which Wayne said was a source in his research. I highly recommend checking out HMRW first before releasing a video on the chords, as there's some interesting patterns and types of progressions that aren't mentioned on youtube yet. Cheers!
Cool! I will definitely check that out today. Thank you. Always looking for more stuff on this topic.
@@maxkonyi The book is better priced on his own website, whereas someone marked up the copies on amazon to a ridiculous amount so make sure to not give Bezos any cash haha
Protect this man… he’s onto big things!
probably the best series on yt about this. Avoiding the nonsense information and just practice the feeling.
This is genuinely the most useful ear training video I’ve come across
The simplicity of this is mindblowing! It's like for the first time in my 20 years history of playing guitar, I am actually listening properly the instrument I'm playing, and also understanding music itself. Kinda astonished my guitar teacher never spoke any of this when learning scales, intervals, modes etc.
I remember as a boy, hearing the drone of powered machinery and doing this exact thing to create melodies and harmonies in my head. Exercises like this are truly the foundation of all musical ear training. Once you master this and apply the theory to an instrument, you can play most music without even looking at a musical score, lead sheet, or chord chart.
I do this all the time haha even use my footsteps as a beat when I’m walking.
I used to vacuum a lot at my job and i would hum songs along to the drone like a bagpipe!
NOBODY teaches music like this. its always about theory and memorizing. but this is what its all about
Came for music theory, stayed for zen, great work Max ❤
I feel like I've learned things about life listening to this video.
Such a powerful message around the 1h22m mark about all the tools and past experiences and getting the job done.
Your direct and focused speech is excellent, it’s something a lot of other educators don’t have. Great stuff.
tho we all talk, really speaking is a skill
This circle is so useful, please keep developing it!
This is by far the best ear training video I’ve ever stumbled on.
I’ve watch this more than 5 times, I just can’t thank you enough
Wow I'm glad you find it so helpful!
There’s something about this that is so hypnotizing that it transcends education and becomes a performance in and of itself? Thank you for sharing your knowledge and your humor so clearly and so vibrantly. 🎉
That's the hope! Glad you enjoyed it 🌞
This helped me so much!! I feel like I finally get what I’ve been trying so desperately hard to understand for a decade. Thank you!!!
Max, the other thing I wanted to say was that a very simple app with this exact interface would be a beautiful meditative ear training exercise in sure everyone would like.
Good to know!
I can build one
OMG I LOVE YOU. I WATCH FOR LONG. I’ve been alive for 105 years, and I’ve never figured this out… you make me feel things I never thought I would thank you
105 years?? wow
@@OliveBardicBirdyes I’ve been alive very long
You could like... not lie, kid. What do you even gain? Pathetic.
@@Therealdangerboy54 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 best comment ever
@@scoutbane1651 bruh chill it’s all vibes here
Some memorable quotes in here: “The next fractal layer of the fiveness”. Quite deep! “Only the thing is the thing” obvious but so true! - great work on the video. Very helpful
Glad to hear it!
THIS is the exact 💯 information ihv been expecting all this while ❤😊God bless u..i will come back with a testimony 🙏higherheights always
It did tickle me when he appeared in the circle 😊
this felt like an impactful meditation session.
With my limited knowledge I think this is Brilliant ....this opens a window for music for me.
I'm surprised to be able, already after 25 min. watching, to predict the sound of each number so far. Never thought I would ever manage this. Thanks a lot!
I can’t thank you enough for this. I’ve been trying to get a grip of this for a decade and this is the way someone needed to say it for me to understand. The whole experience of listening to music for me is completely different now.
wow it felt like a meditation. a lot of listening, real listening and understanding.
When you said only the thing is the thing, I felt that and I subscribed.
im not sure how much o the visuals are needed for this to truly sink in, but i would love this as a podcast.
I’ve never really had any proper exposure to music theory or a chance to see how people who are musically minded actually connect with it. This video gave me a glimpse into how sounds relate to each other and how we can feel that intuitively. Honestly, it’s one of the first times I’ve actually enjoyed learning something like this-it just feels good and natural to “feel out” the sounds and their meaning without having to define its specific meaning, find its purpose, quantify it, set KPIs, and add a back-linked markdown version to the company wiki for quick reference.
Thanks for that-it’s a refreshing change.
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it 🌞
If all forms of teaching had this vibe I would be a genius. This so eye opening it’s crazy.
I always thought I was just bad and telling myself I'm "tone death" all the time. but after this I understand EXACTLY what was going on and why I struggle with hearing curtain notes, as I hear them as other notes etc etc etc... almost like the fact that I mess up so much is because my ears are actually perfectly fine, and not the other way around haha. this is the best video I've seen on ear training. this is gold!
tone death destroyer of chords
Man this is great, thanks a lot. I play music and you just put words on things I felt whithout knowing it. Will sure help a lot in my comprehension of music, and how it's linked to emotions.
Really appreciate your emphasis of how words cannot ever convey the feelings of the pitch relationships, that it’s something you need to connect with experientially
I join the chorus of appreciation for your insight and clarity in sharing it with the rest of us. Thanks so much
As a Music Sciences PhD scholar, I'd say this is a brilliant approach. Keep up the good work 👏🏻
Thanks!
On the overtones subject, the easy thing to do there is to play a sine wave in comparison, which has no overtones, to make it obvious.
Another thing maybe to point out about 3 is that, because of our immersion in this scale system, 4 and 5 sound like intervals, but 3 sort of sounds like a chord. It introduces major'ness, which anyone born into the western system will feel in a certain way.
Thank you Max! This is pure gold! I struggle to understand ear training and this is what i needed. Please do more videos like this! ❤❤❤❤
Thanks for the comment and the tip! Much appreciated. Glad it was helpful 🌞
This is amazing. This is the key to everything. This is exactly what I was missing. Thank you!
The direct listening really hit home this time. That familiarity before its mentally labelled, can only be pointed to with words. 😎🙏🌌
thanks bro, this is probably the only video I watched without x1,75 speed on youtube on this decade
I don’t know what that was at the beginning but i could listen to it my whole life
Everything you say makes sense this is what I’ve been looking for! Also giving Buddhist vibes great humble approach!
can't believe I've found this, just what I had in mind. Thanks!
truly eye and ear opening to me. big realisation. thank you ! forms a by the ear basis for understanding and creating music brilliant
This is the most locked in I’ve ever been with a RUclips video. Eyes are glued to the screen. Only took a break to write this comment. Fantastic work, amazing teacher, changed my whole perspective completely!
Wow! Great to hear 🌞
This turned into a meditation very quickly❤
This is brilliant. This is the most comprehensive and coherent lesson I have ever had on ear training and I have been searching since 2018. You lined everything up for me. Thank you for putting this out there. You got my sub and like!
Wow great!
excellent presentation, great work. I always preferred hearing things in the context of a key, vs intervals. Once the Harmony starts changing quickly you will still hold on to the relationships you drilled, when working with the drone.
This is really great. Love the intro when you popped into the circle, genius :).
I love your phenomenological approach to music. Thanks for this explanation and ear training videos. I’ve noticed an increase in my musical flexibility since shifting my perspective to this method.
Progress Checks and Goals 1:24:39
1. Can you recognize the tonic? This should be done first
2. Can you produce/sing the tonic given a drone?
3. Can you produce/sing the tonic given a particular piece of music?
4. Can you recognize each scale degree given in isolation over a drone?
5. Can you transcribe simple melodies by ear?
6. Can you transcribe simple melodies by singing them after hearing them? (listen, pause the audio, transcribe it without using an instrument)
7. Can you transcribe in the moment without pausing the music, and call out the notes as they flow by?
you are such a good teacher. I normally struggle with paying attention for longer periods of time, but this was super interesting all the way.
Bro got me to sleep and taught me ear training at the same time. Crazy double win 🔥🔥
在本来极其平凡的一天，发现了这个视频，让这一天变得意义非凡，感谢你，来自中国的问候。
This is a great explanation of movable do solfege but with numbers instead of " do re mi..."
I love this! It resonates (pun...unavoidable!) with how I help people navigate "the unknown" via this kind of primordial approach to piano improv. It's about the sound itself and the feelings that each note (and each combination of notes) generates in our bodies and our moment-to-moment experience. From this level of presence, we connect more deeply with our creative channel. It's fun to hear sentences coming from you that are so similar to how I express these experiences/ideas/concepts. Grounding our understanding of sound in an awareness of how the overtone series works brings us to a much more experiential understanding of it all. Great stuff, Max, good to find out about you. :-)
Absolutely fantastic video (and I'd LOVE to have that as an app on my phone).
Thank you so much for this video. It is helping me a lot on my journey with music. I'm very excited for your future content!
1:12:08 to 1:12:46 thats a great great idea please materialize it 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 I love the idea of training while ur in a car!
It was a nice way to reframe and visualise your point, it's cool that you keep evolving your approach on this subject.
I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS FOR YEARS
This is wonderful.I have been exploring my own melodies in my songs as well as my fave songs since watching/hearing this video.It's a form of travel.
Thank you.
I started doing this: hanging with the notes. Like over the past 3 years. I’d say today were doing the major third. And then I’d think about that one, an play it. It’s so cool because the notes carry so many potential harmonies in it. So there’s like this whole world of potential in this one simple note. It’s made practicing music much more peaceful, less result driven. I’m content digging these colors for the rest of my life! Thanks for this video was nice to hear your perspective.
Nice!
@@maxkonyi thanks! will be looking out for more on this :)
I have a fan that has a distinct fundamental note. Singing various pitches along with it allowed me to quickly familiarize myself with all the intervals . Very useful exercise
I love doing that!
Great stuff! Feeling is so important to spend time developing- together with audiation, singing and playing your instrument. One thing I wanted to contribute: It's very common, and I catch myself calling them notes sometimes, but when speaking about tones in an absolute sense like this, I was taught to refer to them as musical "pitches", reserving use the word "notes" for when they have a rhythmic value, a definitive beginning and ending (in the context of a musical phrase). It may be that both words are correct to use in certain situations, but it's a distinction that I think is not widely known.
Out of all the videos I’ve seen yours are by far the best ones! Thank you so much for uploading this awesome content, I’m really grateful! ❤
Dude. Thank you. This approach is so radical and so cool. Amazing video, I love your teaching style, the visualiser, and the head in the circle is *chefs kiss*
Nice! Happy to hear that. Thanks
Great video, thanks for this. The circle of 5ths arrangement is simply awesome. One thing I just noticed is that if instead of #4 we use b5 the circle goes on the same order moving clockwise (1, 5, 2, 6, 3, 7, b5, b2, b6, b3, b7, 4) just adding the flat in front of the number. To me it's easier to memorize.
I hear you on that, however, it's set as #4 because that is a much more common sound. In case it's unclear, #4 and b5, despite being the same key on the piano, actually sound and feel different. Since the numbers on the circle are meant to be attached to particular sounds/feelings, I'm using #4 instead of b5 because that is what you're really hearing when played over a drone.
this is gold, ive beem looking for so long a guided practice like this
Every time it went from 3 to 2 but didn’t resolve at 1, that tickled my mental
I can tell a Maj chord from a min, thanks for not saying one is happy and one is sad, you saying "feelings" are not emotions, thats a helpful statement for me, i always get frustrated with people who can hear scale degrees, this is the area that broke my guitar progress... I'm trying to rededicate myself because i want so badly to break free of mindlessly playing scales and modes and gaining no musicianship.
Thanks, this is so helpful. Having used Functional ear training I feel the ‘pull’ to the tonic. Looking forward to your app.
this is a revelation to me for something i sought for long. thanks, mate.
This is incredibly well done! Highly educational!
please keep making videos! i truly felt like i found gold coming across your channel. i was in the dark for so long not knowing how to find what i didn’t know, and this info was exactly what i needed!! so grateful i found this, many gems in your videos and you teach/explain so well. love the vocabulary, the word choice completely resonates with me and makes me understand🥳 the visual is extremely helpful too, but id love to see what you’re doing on the piano. i’m confused about octaves and how melodies relate to chords.
Thanks for the encouragement! Happy to hear it's helpful. When I feel it's important to show what I'm doing on the keyboard, I show it, otherwise it can actually be a hindrance..
I have been playing various instruments (piano being my main) for my whole life and I could never get why people could transcribe on the spot. I always needed to test out on the piano. Thank you for this!!
Also after going through the first 6 notes I paused and went to my keyboard and played twinkle twinkle little star to try out the feeling. Then I came back to the video and realized you did it right after!!
1:20:45 you can also choose not to play resolution in that app. In the "Play!, Listen, Advance" menu choose "Settings" and switch action to different one
Love the sonofield! This is by far the best method👍🏼
1:12:00 YESS please! That would be awesome
And drag to start.
I tried to develop perfect pitch and didn't know that I was training my relative pitch, started with the C Major scale, and got the feeling of the notes and know it's the same for every major scale
We do this when we start to learn indian classical music or any instrument we learn in Indian traditional learning style.
I know! Would be nice if it was this way in the west..
And in three or four incarnations, you get it. Many notes. So many notes.
In all seriousness, this video is soooooo good!!! Thank you so much!
Very interesting! I will definitely give it a try. Thank you for the organized, coherent video!
I think time will pass but this will be legendary
What a phenomenal video, thank you very much!
Wow thank you and PLEASE do the podcast or series of ear training that would be so helpful!!
Great video! Your sharing Big time valuable lssons! I cant wait for the app. I guess It Will have plenty of those exercicies.to.educate our feelings! Thanks for the work and keep at it! From Madrid.
You are THE GUY I was looking for, thank the gods
Ear training exercises yes please!!
Keep the amazing job
This study by numbers of intervals worked better for me. Thanks
My choirs maestro taught me a very similar method for solfeggio five years ago. It is the best method to sight sing melodies, by far.