Essential Ear Training - Feeling the Major Scale
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- Опубликовано: 28 июл 2024
- Learn to hear and feel each degree of the major scale in a melodic context. This is essential training for developing an accurate musical ear!
The Secret of Ear Training:
• The Secret of Ear Trai...
Stephen Malinowski - Harmonic Coloring:
www.musanim.com/HarmonicColor...
• Harmonic Coloring
Chapters:
00:00:00 - Musical Opening
00:02:27 - Introduction
00:04:45 - Understanding the Feeling of Scale Degrees
00:05:56 - The Visualizer
00:07:46 - Prerequisite Knowledge
00:09:08 - Introduction to Scale Degrees
00:11:49 - 1st Degree
00:15:54 - 5th Degree
00:17:41 - 4th Degree
00:20:55 - 3rd Degree
00:26:25 - 6th Degree
00:33:17 - 2nd Degree
00:39:56 - 7th Degree
00:41:33 - Realistic Expectations
00:43:56 - Practice Methods
00:50:35 - Listening in a New Key
00:56:53 - "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"
01:02:10 - Transcibing Real Music (exercises)
01:10:30 - Audience Test
01:14:18 - Degrees Outside the Major Scale
01:17:56 - Using Reference Songs and Resolutions
01:21:55 - How it Works in Practice
01:30:00 - Melody in the Wrong Key
01:33:28 - Audience Questions and Various Topics
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Due to popular demand, a fully-realized version of the circle visualizer seen in this video (now called Sonofield) will soon be available! Sign-up here to receive updates regarding the launch of Sonofield: m.schulz.audio/sonofield
Sonofield is a real-time harmonic visualizer. It displays all the relevant information about the chords and melodies you play on your MIDI controller in a visually intuitive way. The version I'm using in this video is just a simple prototype...
Is there a particular reason tonal center is Blue?
@@majikmuzik8036 The colours are based off the work of Stephen Malinowksi's Harmonic Coloring (link in description). There is no real reason beyond it being a calming color. In the full version of Sonofield, this can all be changed.
I already register my email through that link but there's no reaction yet. plz,,,, hurry up!!!!!! I can't wait!!!!!
@@user-vh3qu6tf6q Haha. Working on it!
Will it be commercial? Available on iPhone? And will the code be open source? - just asking silly questions 👍🎵
No idea what im watching but i like it!
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
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
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.
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
this felt like an impactful meditation session.
Protect this man… he’s onto big things!
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!!
I feel like I've learned things about life listening to this video.
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!
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.
Came for music theory, stayed for zen, great work Max ❤
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-me 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
It did tickle me when he appeared in the circle 😊
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
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 🌞
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 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!
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.
I join the chorus of appreciation for your insight and clarity in sharing it with the rest of us. Thanks so much
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!!!
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!
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
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.
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!
This is genuinely the most useful ear training video I’ve come across
This is really great. Love the intro when you popped into the circle, genius :).
For relative scale notes, the solmization "do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti" methode is used (rather than numbers). The circle of fifths related more on the chord functions and the notation in the sheet music in practice, even if there is the obvious connection to a given distance of notes as well... due to based on the overtone content, the fifth distance appears as a feeling.
That is the way things have been done, in some circles anyway!
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
im not sure how much o the visuals are needed for this to truly sink in, but i would love this as a podcast.
As a Music Sciences PhD scholar, I'd say this is a brilliant approach. Keep up the good work 👏🏻
Thanks!
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'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!
This was really great Max, thank you very much. It's an ear-opener!
Such a powerful message around the 1h22m mark about all the tools and past experiences and getting the job done.
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.
This circle is so useful, please keep developing it!
probably the best series on yt about this. Avoiding the nonsense information and just practice the feeling.
Very interesting! I will definitely give it a try. Thank you for the organized, coherent video!
It was a nice way to reframe and visualise your point, it's cool that you keep evolving your approach on this subject.
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!
Thanks for making this useful video!! Hope you continue with your series of ear training
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.
Such a great, intuitive explanation. Definitely going to share this with my students!
I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS FOR YEARS
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! ❤
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!
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. :-)
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!
The direct listening really hit home this time. That familiarity before its mentally labelled, can only be pointed to with words. 😎🙏🌌
I don’t know what that was at the beginning but i could listen to it my whole life
This is incredibly well done! Highly educational!
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.
This study by numbers of intervals worked better for me. Thanks
truly eye and ear opening to me. big realisation. thank you ! forms a by the ear basis for understanding and creating music brilliant
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?
In all seriousness, this video is soooooo good!!! Thank you so much!
I'm so fucking thankful for this video. I've been searching for something like this for so long, learning the language of music, the language of the feeling of music from the ground up to understand music completely and express myself perfectly
this is gold, ive beem looking for so long a guided practice like this
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
This is brilliant thanks so much for creating!
This is the most important video tutorial about musice for me ! ! Absolutley gamechanger
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Incredibly helpful. Thank you!
I have perfect pitch --- this has actually cursed my ability to "feel" intervals. The pitch of the note always gets in the way and distorts my perception of the interval before I have a chance of truly feeling and hearing it. Worse is that I learned fixed solfege, so I can't hear the tones without a little voice singing it to me. When I hear C, I hear a little voice singing "Dooo" and when I hear E I hear a little voice singing "Mi." Hopefully the more I tune into feeling the more I can develop the intuition, but my god, I've been playing the piano for 20 years now and if I can get out of this curse one day and hear music in its pure form, I would cry.
That's interesting! I've always assumed this must be the case but hadn't chatted with anyone in-depth about it. Thanks for chiming in. Also, I find the idea of fixed do very bizarre!
fantastic teacher! thank you 🙏🏽
This video changed my life, thank you!!!
What a wonderful video. Very helpful. I have already begun doing something similar with my students. Very inspiring.
Wow, such a good work! Thank you! Thanks for sharing your thoughts, this is pure gold!
Everything you say makes sense this is what I’ve been looking for! Also giving Buddhist vibes great humble approach!
The best video on topic ever. Thank you.
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 great explanation of movable do solfege but with numbers instead of " do re mi..."
more vids like this please i love being able to see the degrees
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
I really appreciate what you're tying to do. Very nice presentation.
When you said only the thing is the thing, I felt that and I subscribed.
Bro got me to sleep and taught me ear training at the same time. Crazy double win 🔥🔥
Wow thank you and PLEASE do the podcast or series of ear training that would be so helpful!!
This was so amazingly helpful! I would love to see more videos like this when you have the time. The only hard part is if I'm only listening then I cant see the circle, just as feedback
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 🌞
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..
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.
Every time it went from 3 to 2 but didn’t resolve at 1, that tickled my mental
You are THE GUY I was looking for, thank the gods
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
Absolutely fantastic video (and I'd LOVE to have that as an app on my phone).
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.
Ear training exercises yes please!!
Keep the amazing job
The music training interactive podcast idea is fantastic. I 100% would support you launching that I’m a Patreon.
Great video Max. I missed it live unfortunately (4am start for me!), but really enjoyed the stream - thank you!
this is a revelation to me for something i sought for long. thanks, mate.
This was awesome. Thank you for sharing this with us.
This is so amazing to my synesthesia
Thanks for the video. My first time exposed to that. It was fantastic. Thanks❤
OMG love this channel so much
Probably the best video on ear training I've seen on youtube. I think I was recommended this video because it is very similar to a video I just uploaded. A way simpler take on what you say in this video. Very nice, you got a new subscriber!
Can you help me understand this I sont understand
Love the way you teaching this!