Why Learning Jazz By Ear is WAY Better than Sheet Music
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- Not everyone likes it when I say this, but it's true: learning jazz by ear is way better than sheet music.
Haters will hate, but I do have some good reasons why. In this video I give my explanation and how I think learning music by ear will make you better for it.
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Another great video 😊
Definetely agree!! That's why also the Suzuki method is successful too. Music is a language and we should treat it as such. Babies learn to speak THEN they read.
Reading Is necessary for many reasons, but when you want to truly experience, not just understand a [musical] language you must listen more and imitate more and then if you go and read everything feels different 😄
Right now I'm studying a baroque Violin concerto and before I even touched the violin I listened to it countless times, learned it, did some mental practice, sang it and now when I picked up the sheet music everything is going smoothly!!
We need the 2 because both have different purposes. I can't imagine learning that concerto without paper but I needed a reference for the style 😊 or a very complex arrangement of a jazz tune.
in my experience it's always been better to learn by ear than by sheet music. I easily forget what i've just read but not the things I learn by ear
Exactly.
I like to listen to lots of recordings of jazz standards: not necessarily as an exercise with a tangible outcome. I want to be familiar with the tunes, maybe to sing along with them, before I try them out on my instrument. Merely knowing and enjoying the repertoire is part of the culture of jazz. I don't usually spend any time on sight reading, but I always make sure I do my ear training exercises every day.
Sight Reading is good, Muscle Memory is great, Ear Training is King!
MyRackley sounds like a great process!
I love playing by ear and its much more emotional, but I need to make a note of inspirational riffs so need sheet music to capture "the spirit of the moment jazz".
That's great David! Notating down ideas you learn for later is a great practice.
I agree. Because I am too lazy to learn how to read sheet music :)
I like both. I learn licks and heads from tunes but I also work on solo piano arrangements of standards. I draw from both!
Great video. And I think you’re right, that it’s BETTER to learn by ear, but don’t discount learning from sheet music. Music alone is bad, both is good, ear is best. I wouldn’t want to think I that I should never use sheet music, because I’d feel guilty if I couldn’t figure out a certain part and had to find the music for it.
I liked your story about learning from your teacher in person. Something else that is going on there is that you are forgetting and recollecting. When the brain tries to recollect numerous times it is working harder at remembering and makes you retain things better. Forgetting helps you remember.
Thanks for the video. Looking forward to the next one!
As a child you learn language by hearing and speaking THEN learn to read and write. Music is a language. Learn to read and write when you get to the point where it's required.
I agree 100% with what you said.
For me, it's got to be both. I've neglected development of sight-reading skills, but intend to work on it. Learning tunes by Ear is great for developing situational awareness and spontaneity and just being able to Jam when the Flow Starts. But, sight reading and transcription skill helps to solidify harmonic & structural concepts and functional awareness ... In My Humble Opinion.
Interesting topic. Looking forward to the transcription is published so i can finally learn what is being said - i don't learn by ear :(
totally agree with your opinions
Like the master teacher Hal Galper said: You are learning a sound, not a theory. As Miles Davis said: You can't play it if you can't hear it. As Jazzbo Zarathustra said: Yes, I can read music but not well enough to screw up my creativity and ruin my fun.
My method is learn the melody by ear and then find a lead sheet to see what notes go over what chords. But learning it by ear lets me learn how to make it my own version
Anakin Dey me too :)
I’m severely dyslexic. I don’t read music well. I have big ears so that’s how I learn. However. I am working on my reading.
Nice T-shirt! Where can I find one to me? 😁
I agree, ear is king, what was that cool bebop peace you learnt?
Suggest some jazz piano books that are good for people who play by ear
Do you think writing down tunes or solos learned by ear negates any of the benefits? Or do you think the process of keeping it in your head completely while figuring it out is the best process? I tend to transcribe a measure at a time and write it down.
Justin Armstrong I definitely do not think it negates it. Writing down can be a great skill and helpful for analyzing or referencing for later.
I avoid doing it because then I tend to remember notes on staffs instead of sounds, but it may not be your case. I write things down for accurate transcriptions involving voicing though (piano parts etc).
Definitely write it down! Writing stuff down actually makes you memorize stuff better.
I have noticed, after learning the head by ear, how intimidating the tune looks on paper. I'm a little uneasy about the possibility of learning someone else's interpretation.
This seems to make a lot of sense. But how should a person that is used to mulling over piles sheet music slowly start to learn by ear. What are the steps?
When learning by ear, would you learn the chords too and then verify with music or just go with the chords you figured out
A street performer ok to do ear playing with others you're left outside
in my opinion, sheet music is only good if you write it by your self (at least for popular music)
Ear training is a great way to learn guitar but as far as I'm concerned both are better! Also your examples weren't very good especially when you said you went to a guitar workshop and the instructor wanted you all to learn something by ear. Sounds more to me like you learned it by rote, not by ear. Also you said back in the day all musicians learned jazz by ear and that’s simply not true. Sure, plenty of jazz guitarists learned plenty by ear but not horn players, piano players and everyone else. No harm, no foul I got the gist of your video and it was good. ~Cheers!
Right words man ;-)
my teacher always tell me to read before!haha...but I cannot start from sheet.
Couldn't agree. more, Brent. Why do we choose to play music? Because it looks good? Because it tastes or smells good? No!! Because it SOUNDS good! So, your ears must be the captain of your musical ship, not your eyes.
I can play anything on any instrument by ear.
First by ear,like a language.
Need I say more?
I disagree COMPLETELY with this video.
This shouldn’t be exclusive to jazzers!
Thought you were milo yinaopolous by the thumbnail.
Was ready to learn some republican jazz.
Haha! Thankfully I am not.
Lol. You look as much or more like Norwegian musician Sondre Lerche. But your guy/joke was funnier and at all relevant to non-norwegians :p
The argument against using Intervals for ear training isn't that you "shouldn't work on fundamentals". It's that Intervals aren't the fundamentals of ear training. It's better for beginners to focus on hearing in a tonal context than to play random disconnected Intervals.
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