This guy is the real deal..and this RUclips should be mandatory viewing for all beginners on all instruments, especially drums. Drummers [i am/was one] begin their life with rudiments and an obsession for speed. The concept of music being a language is fundamental to the progress of any musician. What is the point of knowing every word in the Dictionary [technique] if you can't describe a sunset?
He's definitely not saying not to learn intervals. He's telling us to use our ears and our souls to create the melodies within us, instead of being tied down by "intellectual, intervallic" playing. He's saying that our music is not represented by what "hip" thing we could write out on a piece of paper, but by what we as individuals hear, whether it's intervallic, stepwise, whatever. As long as we hear it before we play it, and truly mean it, then it is melody and true to ourselves.
He's right, but what he calls intervallic playing, is just pattern based playing. As musicians, we desperately need to know intervals inside and out in order to express ourselves. I believe the real problem Pilc is outlining is that players absorb a lot of musical vocabulary without achieving real intimacy with them (knowing them only in their fingers, but not in their inner ear). If someone uses big words without really understanding them, it sounds silly and disconnected. Yet, if one uses language he or she has absorbed deeply, there is the possibility of making a profound statement. Most musicians pile on patterns and abstract structures on their plate before really training the ear to instantly distinguish the intervals in a simple melody.
+hermease yeah my paino teacher in middle school just taught us how to play sheet music and read it i always wanted to learn how to play by hear shit i cant even remember how to play and read sheet music just the pattern i used and moved my fingers along the keybard for a song i remebered you have any pointers on learning how to play by ear
Yeah Jean-Michel - Looks that simple and fresh. I've made more progress in 3 minutes than the 3 years before. Another great musician who teaches good lessons is Bill Carrothers
no he's not saying not to learn them, rather not to "think" intervallically and to think musically instead - basically if you just vamping over C major for example, don't think ok I'm going from this G down a fifth to a C and then up a 3rd to C and its okay because those are chord tones, rather try to hear a melody or a single phrase/line and play that. You'll sound more musical, and the trick to creating stronger and better lines is through a lot of active listening.
Fantastic, I wish I had a teacher like him!!!
This guy is the real deal..and this RUclips should be mandatory viewing for all beginners on all instruments, especially drums.
Drummers [i am/was one] begin their life with rudiments and an obsession for speed.
The concept of music being a language is fundamental to the progress of any musician.
What is the point of knowing every word in the Dictionary [technique] if you can't describe a sunset?
He's definitely not saying not to learn intervals. He's telling us to use our ears and our souls to create the melodies within us, instead of being tied down by "intellectual, intervallic" playing. He's saying that our music is not represented by what "hip" thing we could write out on a piece of paper, but by what we as individuals hear, whether it's intervallic, stepwise, whatever. As long as we hear it before we play it, and truly mean it, then it is melody and true to ourselves.
Thank you for your answer. So if I wanted to learn how to play by ear I should learn intervals and then learn melodies.
He's right, but what he calls intervallic playing, is just pattern based playing. As musicians, we desperately need to know intervals inside and out in order to express ourselves. I believe the real problem Pilc is outlining is that players absorb a lot of musical vocabulary without achieving real intimacy with them (knowing them only in their fingers, but not in their inner ear). If someone uses big words without really understanding them, it sounds silly and disconnected. Yet, if one uses language he or she has absorbed deeply, there is the possibility of making a profound statement. Most musicians pile on patterns and abstract structures on their plate before really training the ear to instantly distinguish the intervals in a simple melody.
+hermease yeah my paino teacher in middle school just taught us how to play sheet music and read it i always wanted to learn how to play by hear shit i cant even remember how to play and read sheet music just the pattern i used and moved my fingers along the keybard for a song i remebered you have any pointers on learning how to play by ear
Yeah Jean-Michel - Looks that simple and fresh. I've made more progress in 3 minutes than the 3 years before. Another great musician who teaches good lessons is Bill Carrothers
no he's not saying not to learn them, rather not to "think" intervallically and to think musically instead - basically if you just vamping over C major for example, don't think ok I'm going from this G down a fifth to a C and then up a 3rd to C and its okay because those are chord tones, rather try to hear a melody or a single phrase/line and play that. You'll sound more musical, and the trick to creating stronger and better lines is through a lot of active listening.
Is he saying not to learn intervals, if so how would i learn to play melodically without learning the intervals?
There is a lot of substance here.