Guitar edition out now: ruclips.net/video/W1lN1qdrCtY/видео.html 32:44 CORRECTION There should be a Db descending to Ab displayed. I inverted the interval by mistake. Sorry!!! Don’t worry- if you are using the audio, it is still 100% correct and valid for ear training purposes. Thanks to DreamPurpleFloyd for pointing it out. LESSONS 1-3 OF MY EAR TRAINING COURSE ARE NOW FREE ON PATREON: www.patreon.com/collection/90196 FOLLOW ME Facebook: facebook.com/JoeLuegersMusicAcademy Instagram: instagram.com/joeluegersmusicacademy Website: www.luegerswriter.com/ TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@joeluegersmusicacademy
One time I fell asleep listening to a podcast, and I heard it in my sleep. I woke up remembering all these weird details about it that turned out to be true. So who knows?
this video changed my life. thanks to this video i graduated school and got into college, where i met the love of life and got married and had 5 kids and now i travel the world with these superior knowledge. i’m eternally thankful.
just a comment, I am 76 years old. About 2 year ago, it took a while, but I was able to hear the diatonic intervals at least in the ascending order. However, two years later, and I am having troubles with the same diatonic intervals I learned before. You were right when you said learning intervals needs to part of your life, or leaves much faster than most academic skills. I was a geophysicist professor at Texas A & M. I like teaching, but I was born and raised in Long Island. Texas too me was a moral waste land. Everybody was into church and even though the people spent decades in church, its like they leave what they learned about others at the church door after their sermon. Unless you were in the church, most of people did not like others or where afraid to interact with strangers. I left my tenured position, and decided to go back to school, I spent most of the next 10 years at school. I became a physician, eventually a psychiatrist to allow me to get out of Texas. I want to comment at your course, when you used different instruments, some of the instruments were in the tenor clef region of frequency: something my ears stopped hears ago. I not complaining, just giving you feedback. There is nothing that can be done to grow back my hair cells in my inner ear. I play guitar, that is why I started listening to your web page. Please keep up the great work. You are helping a lot of people trying to learn some new skills. Thank you very much. I really like your sense of humor. Its important to keep the listener engaged learning how to hear notes. What is funny to me, I always thought that music was a field like professional sports; requiring a natural ability. However, as I play a lot of guitar, I noticed that music is not some innate skill. It, like everything else, are skills you acquire (at least of them) by spending time studying, Even our voices get better. I was a physicist and always believed music was a skill that is totally wired from birth. I recently learned, their are some people that have perfect pitch and are good singers. However, lots singers like Eric Clapton was a skill he acquired by playing guitar for nearly 50. He no doubt as natural skills, but practicing music makes one better at hearing music. Music is like all other skills, it requires work, lots of it. Thank you
Great to hear from you Robert, and thank you for sharing your story. My aural skills steadily declined after college because I wasn’t using the skill a whole lot, but now that I’m working on these videos every single day it is better than it’s ever been. I’ve been working on a video that is an hour of intervals played on a classical guitar sound. I’d be interested to know which registers of the guitar you have an easier time discerning. The guitar sounds down an octave so it dives into the bottom of the bass clef on the low e string, but it also some prominent overtones which might make it easier to hear.
Glad it’s helping! I think a lot of people try to jump into the deep end of ear training and it’s too much. With my exercises, I try to ramp up the difficult so gradually that you might not notice it.
@@joeluegersmusicacademy yes, the way you compartmentalize the intervals in groups and separate sections makes it a gradual progression that is easy to grow with. That's a brilliant idea!!! I am guessing you do this with the diatonic scale degrees for key training, too...???
Wow! I've had 2 years of theory and ear training period I've returned to playing chess on the piano, and this is such a phenomenal refresher period your format is outstanding, the way that you will pair a major second and then a minor second, and then. Major seventh and a minor seventh period outstanding work thank you. Namaste 🙏
Thanks! I looked for ear training videos years ago that weren’t just people talking about it and couldn’t find anything of quality. Wish I would have jumped on this idea sooner. I checked out your channel- good stuff! I come from a more classical background on piano and have never felt more out of my league than when I’m around good jazz musicians.
Thanks for watching! Just take it a level at a time, not moving on until you can reliably get every answer right. Learn these intervals on an instrument, and practice singing them. Do all of these things and it will transform how you make and hear music.
Attaching feelings, memories, emotions, ideas, experiences and even chord qualities that are evoked by the interval sound, to the interval, helps to recognise the interval.
Three things: 1. I rarely comment on anything, but this needs algorithm juice. 2. I learnt differently (through relating melodies to intervals) but was later told this is the way (hearing the intervall ascending, descending and harmonic along with the intervall name). 3. I will share this with my students. I learnt in highschool with peers taking turns at the piano but kids today do everything internet. Great job 👍
I appreciate the sweet, sweet algorithm juice. I haven’t really settled on a “best” way to learn intervals. Ultimately it’s probably good to approach them from many different perspectives. My go to method has become to associate them with scale degrees of the major scale.
Your grouping of these is excellent, and your recommendation to continue to repeat them all the time is really working! Thank you so much for your work!
Just wanted to let you know I’m finally really getting things!😊 The sections in this video where you categorize CONSONANCE, IMPERFECT CONSONANCE, DISSONANCE & SHARP DISSONANCE really made things click for me. Having them categorized like that has helped more than anything. Hopefully I can continue to progress and get to your more difficult stuff. Thank you for the Patreon downloads.
Hurray for you!!! Thanks for this comment. I’m not going to lie, sometimes I wake up at night and a I’m like “Are these working for people? Am I wasting my own and other people’s time? Will Earth ever make extra terrestrial contact? Have we already?” Thanks for answering most of my questions, and keep it up!
one of the most useful videos on the entire internet,.... top three!!!!!! you are a very good person! love to you and your beloved and what you ever like and have a nice day
This was very Helpful! Your video is an important part of Developing as a Musician & Songwriter. I also saw the video on different types chords. Thank you & Keep up the Good Work!
Thank you so much! If you ask me, this is my best video for developing your ear: ruclips.net/video/e5c-37Rbeu0/видео.htmlsi=HGMobU-ydG_SyBhq For some reason sight singing doesn’t have as much traction on RUclips as intervals.
I am currently taking a sight singing and ear training course at college and your videos have helped me a BUNCH. I greatly appreciate the effort that goes into all of your content, thank you!
Thanks for watching! A lot of people try to rush through learning ear training, but it really takes years of slow practice, like anything else worth learning.
This is amazing, thanks for putting this together. I was using apps, but them requiring my input made it not ideal when at work or driving, so these videos are perfect.
The fastest way to get that stuff into your ears is to sing it instead of just guessing intervalls. Its not about winning a contest in singing it just seems to be the fastest way to internalise the sound. First select an Intervall, choose a root note, hit the root note and sing the intervall from that root then play it for example on a keyboard to verify your tone, but dont cheat and play the note before you sang it, you really first need to sing it before playing it. repeat until you hit it than continue with the next note and the next intervall. Than come back and do the video. No or few errors. Do it with intervalls/scales/chords/inversions.
Yes yes yes! My ear never improved more than when I started teaching choir and was singing every day. This internalizes the sound and makes it muscle memory. For people who have trouble with that, I encourage them to use videos like this but to sing along to the piano as they do it.
20 minutes in and ive gotten every one of these right. This isn't to brag, but to thank my choir teacher for pounding these into my head over the course of 3 years.
Singing intervals is definitely the best way to learn them, as well as learning them gradually over a long period of time, so you’ve got the best possible head start.
I’m just not sure that this training translates well into practice. I mean is it also easy for you to recognize intervals in songs? Does it help you find melodies faster on piano?
@@dmitrii839 You have a good point. Ear training is like physical exercise, where it’s not good to do only one exercise. Functional ear training and sight singing are actually the best forms of ear training, in my opinion, but interval ear training helps you hone in on the distance between notes. In music without a clear tonal center, you really have to rely on intervals. It also helps with figuring out the individual notes of a chord. Any entry-level music theory class with have you pass an intervals test fairly early on.
Glad to help! Check out this playlist for all of my ear training content. I add to it weekly: The Ultimate Ear Training Playlist ruclips.net/p/PL40pFkWbVtdlfiS6YGQ3zr9mQRj7naT19
I missed a lot of the 'obvious' intervals (sounded together). I confused Perfect 4th with Perfect 5th; also minor 6th with Major 3rd! I guess my ear is hearing inversions!
@@joeluegersmusicacademy This exercise may have turned up one of my 'weaknesses'. A assume these notes are 'pure MIDI', in that they are sounded at EXACTLY the same time. There's no chance of hearing one note played by itself, even for an instant. I wonder how I'd do if those notes were played 'by hand'! :)
Hello. I just discovered your channel. This is pure gold. Thank you for your work. Could you please make these videos available as a podcast on platforms such as spotify? I couldn't find you on there :'(
Thanks! That’s part of the plan eventually. Right now I’ve been focused on scheduling these hour long videos, which take a while to edit. I’m also writing/recording a book of about 100 ear training exercises. Once I have enough of these videos, it wouldn’t be hard to take the audio and break it up into multiple podcast episodes
Thanks a lot for this video! I think I have it mastered now. I was hoping you could do a similar video that includes intervals beyond the octave (9 b9 #9 11, #11 13 etc). Either that, or one where the chords have certain extensions and we try to hear the chord. It would help me with jazz
Glad it was helpful! I might do larger intervals at some point, but honestly they are so uncommon that I haven't had much demand. As far as chords go, I think you're looking for this video: ruclips.net/video/YA-TXGYxOSw/видео.html&lc=UgwdLwCPoRDq8EBHUbJ4AaABAg Please check my pinned comment for this video though- there is a single error on a question where the correct answer is displayed but I speak a wrong word. I'll fix this at some point, but just wanted to make you aware.n
Up..down..together. What a great training routine. The Tritone is a monster & I can't hear who's on 1st who's on 2nd. (like the Abbot & Costello routine about Baseball). Hey, I'm Horn player & have to consider the next note to play in an idea. You are helping our Brains to catch up with our Ears. Thank you.
@@christopherfreud5894 Great example. The thing that helped me the most with 6ths is that they sound like someone yodeling, because 99% of songs that use yodeling move in 6ths. This doesn’t help with Major vs minor, but it at least narrows it down.
Glad you found my channel! If any of this video is difficult, take a look at this playlist where I break down the diatomic intervals more gradually: Ultimate Intervals - Ear Training for Musicians ruclips.net/p/PL40pFkWbVtdnOR1cDcS_uQvW7Zff68xXT Also make sure you learn on the interval shapes on your instrument, and that will really help.
I would love to see more of this. Maybe an hour of chromatic intervals organized by ascending, descending, and harmonic. Also the bell notification between would be nice to either not be there or be neutral (not on a pitch). Also, since you asked for feedback I’ll keep going 😝It would be super cool to listen to a clip of unrelated music and be thrown off and THEN put a random interval to figure out. Thank you SO much for this video! I’ve learned so much.
Thanks for the comment! On my newer longer videos like this I’ve taken out the bell, I just say “question 1” and “answer.” You can see my new format in this video: ruclips.net/video/W1lN1qdrCtY/видео.htmlsi=0onubnEIMA2JwHjW
@@joeluegersmusicacademy I’m gonna look at that soon. Thanks to your one-hour chromatic training video I was able to get through most the levels of the difficult interval video - except the singing descending 😝 Thank you so much for this stuff. It’s been really helpful.
thank you! I'm happy to have found your channel. Can you play 2 intervals together, like P5 and then m7, Tr and then M6...please. maybe in high register and low register.
Thanks for watching! I’ve got something kind of like that. Check out my advanced intervals video: ruclips.net/video/EGpg7SQxRLE/видео.htmlsi=4EMm4u-JO6r4-ve4
Wow! This is so good. I spend a lot of time driving. Now I have something constructive to do. Basically, I hum the lower note and construct a major scale and pick the next note accordingly. Thanks again. Liked and subscribed.
It is so frustrating. Two days ago I was just guessing, and miserably falling. Today I still miss lots of them. Ok, I suck, I get it, and I accept. Now, let's do that again. Come on, that was a 4th! ... Ok, this time I will just listen. Ok, 4th again... ok that too 5 in a row YEi! (wasn't I supposed to be just listening) miss ... ok, again. (thanks for the video)
It’s like learning a language. You’re not going to make much progress in a few days, but you will with consistent practice over weeks, months, and years.
@@joeluegersmusicacademy I am very happy with the results. I know I must be patient, and I will. Also, I will keep challenging myself for the next video. until there... again.
Punching in again. This morning, I got all the Perfect consonances right. Yei, progress. Now, let's get back to the learning process (and again, and again, and again...). This is getting fun!
Thank you for this. It's way overdue for me personally. I struggled the most with descending intervals and larg intervals. I was kinda surprised being a guitarist that often gets compliments on my accurate bends as well as playing fretless bass pretty well. The only intervals I got 100% were minor 2nds. Sometimes I even had trouble with the perfect intervals which really surprised me. Any tips other than listening repeatedly? I might try slowing down the video to 75% next time.
You’re welcome! The best thing you can do is practice singing intervals. Honestly, people make fun of vocalists for not knowing theory (sometimes), but they have the best ears of all. Guitarists like us are guilty of thinking in shapes and patterns without really internalizing what things actually sound like.
As a singer I think in intervals, as a guitarist I think in shapes. Just started learning piano and starting to think in different shapes. All such fun. Using these exercises to improve on piano.
Thanks for watching! Learn your interval shapes on both the piano and mandolin, use this video to learn how to hear them, and I think you’ll see some good results.
you must have had those jingles on youtube music or something because my scrobbler keeps picking it up. i swear if i start getting recommended interval training in my mixes BECAUSE OF YOU!!! I guess you can never escape the intervals...
Hey! This is an awesome video, I love listening to this on loop to sleep but I have one complaint, the transition melody/chords inbetween the sections is way louder than the intervals and ends up jolting me awake, so I have to turn it down but it makes the intervals a bit harder to hear. Same for the Start and end parts. I'd absolutely love a version of this without the talking at the start and end, and a bit of a quieter transition between the sections for that precious night time practice. Great work man! Thanks so much for this!
Thanks for the comment! This was the first video in this format I ever made, and I’ve made a lot of changes since. This video has much quieter transitions, and can be used by non-guitar players: ruclips.net/video/W1lN1qdrCtY/видео.htmlsi=BzPsPu03VJGS8s1F As far as the talking goes, I may make a video in the future specifically to listen to passively without any abrasive sections. Until then, you could also check out this series that is only exercises:ruclips.net/p/PL40pFkWbVtdlAY_g71Pf9RBy97mqXpQHK&si=2bu2EipS5u0sNupm Or you could embed the videos in a Google slide and program them to start and end on a certain timestamp.
No problem! I’ve got all my ear training videos on this playlist if you are wanting more: The Ultimate Ear Training Playlist ruclips.net/p/PL40pFkWbVtdlfiS6YGQ3zr9mQRj7naT19
Glad to hear it! If you want a deeper dive into intervals, I have a series on the topic: ruclips.net/p/PL40pFkWbVtdnOR1cDcS_uQvW7Zff68xXT&si=GLbHeDqPG3a39lpA
Thanks! I actually did that for a weirdly specific reason. Each level begins with ascending intervals from middle c, and then descending intervals that end on middle C. If I displayed the upper note first on those descending intervals, it would give away the answer without you having to hear it. Hope that makes sense.
@@albertcavaliero4392 C down to Bb is a major 2nd. C up to Bb is a minor 7th. These are known as inverted intervals. Even though the letter names of the notes are the same, the distance is different.
@@joeluegersmusicacademy right but I can still get a seventh sound using “major 2nd” in the key of C, a different inversion etc. it’s been hard for me to not always put it in the context of a key but I want to expand. In B flat major It’s major second and in C it’s a 7th so what I’m trying to say is I rely the key not the interval. And I ask besides the brain expansion ( which is always great thing) what’s this used for musically?
@@albertcavaliero4392 So a major second and a minor 7th have a very similar sound. I call both of them “soft dissonances” because they are both slightly dissonant. Yes, you can get a similar sound using one or the other. Think of it as different shades of the same color. Interval ear training is just a way to train your ears to perceive the distance between notes more accurately, which especially helps when you are learning songs that go outside the key (chromatic.)
In the multiple course I've taken online, in high school, at two colleges, and on CD, I've never had a descending interval quiz give you the second note of an interval and you have to name the first.
I know it’s weird, lol, but believe it or not there is a reason. All of the lessons begin with a fixed root of middle c. If I displayed the first note, rather than the second, it would actually give away the answer without you having to listen to it. Example- an A is displayed, and you know we’re in the fixed root round, so the answer would have to be Maj6, which defeats the purpose of the exercise. That being said, if I made this video again I probably would make a few adjustments to eliminate some of these awkward choices. Fortunately most people only seem to use the audio.
Thanks! For a while I kept thinking “I need to find the best way to do this”, and then I realized that it’s actually good to approach it from multiple angles. If you look at my follow up to this video, I throw in all of my weirdest ideas for interval ear training to see what sticks. ruclips.net/video/EGpg7SQxRLE/видео.html
This is really cool I just saw how long the video is I’ll have to come back to this tomorrow. Iv been brushing up on my singing and want to learn how to understand pitch better , I feel this can help. Thing is many scales are major pentatonic scales for singing I believe . And I feel I get stuck in that mode and singing songs tends to have smaller jumps in notes or Atleast that’s what it feels like to me. I feel like I get programmed to sing with a lot of space and then when I try songs my pitch is off for certain notes because I’m stuck with taking bigger leaps in between notes . I think I need to get a keyboard to practice different scale types or find song melodies on piano. Something doesn’t help translate well when it comes to note selection
This video is wonderful!! Only thing I would like to see in the future is the addition of three or four note chords and rhythm as well, as it’s much more practical is songs, and with that one video could take a beginner to understanding actual songs. Thanks for the information source!!
Thanks for watching! I have a series on chord progressions coming up next Saturday. This one was mostly focused on getting chord formulas into the listeners head, but yes I’d like to do one of these that includes different voicings, inversions, and no fixed root.
@@joeluegersmusicacademy Great tip! I'm not too bad at ascending, but descending and harmonic are a whole other game! When I get ear fatigue (quickly in this case) I even mess up thirds and sixths! One step at a time ;)
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32:44 CORRECTION There should be a Db descending to Ab displayed. I inverted the interval by mistake. Sorry!!! Don’t worry- if you are using the audio, it is still 100% correct and valid for ear training purposes. Thanks to DreamPurpleFloyd for pointing it out.
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The Ab should also be an octave lower but ty for pointing this out to prevent confusion!
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My 2 year old hates you. Thanks
I’m going to use this on loop during my sleep consistently so I am always grinding even in my sleep
One time I fell asleep listening to a podcast, and I heard it in my sleep. I woke up remembering all these weird details about it that turned out to be true. So who knows?
Thought I was the only one!! lol
I prefer a different type of grinding before I sleep
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@@LBT-sy4dp sweet n sour
this video changed my life. thanks to this video i graduated school and got into college, where i met the love of life and got married and had 5 kids and now i travel the world with these superior knowledge. i’m eternally thankful.
Woah! Busy 6 months.
Yet, you haven't cured cancer.
So, basically, you've accomplished NOTHING.
Mind you, neither did I.
Lmao that’s such a stretch 😂
Thanks to this comment I suddenly have the urge to laugh
WTH 😭
Thank you for putting your time and energy into something that is solely to serve others. I appreciate you for this!
You are so welcome!
Finally!!!! An ear training video that I can use without having to watch!!! Thank you!!!!
Thanks for listening! I’ll have at least one hands-free lesson a month. My next one is August 12th where I start a series on chord progressions.
My first tought, omg he should be initiated the to saint patron of relative pitch for this sentence. Such a cool thing to think about.
just a comment, I am 76 years old. About 2 year ago, it took a while, but I was able to hear the diatonic intervals at least in the ascending order. However, two years later, and I am having troubles with the same diatonic intervals I learned before. You were right when you said learning intervals needs to part of your life, or leaves much faster than most academic skills. I was a geophysicist professor at Texas A & M. I like teaching, but I was born and raised in Long Island. Texas too me was a moral waste land. Everybody was into church and even though the people spent decades in church, its like they leave what they learned about others at the church door after their sermon. Unless you were in the church, most of people did not like others or where afraid to interact with strangers. I left my tenured position, and decided to go back to school, I spent most of the next 10 years at school. I became a physician, eventually a psychiatrist to allow me to get out of Texas. I want to comment at your course, when you used different instruments, some of the instruments were in the tenor clef region of frequency: something my ears stopped hears ago. I not complaining, just giving you feedback. There is nothing that can be done to grow back my hair cells in my inner ear. I play guitar, that is why I started listening to your web page. Please keep up the great work. You are helping a lot of people trying to learn some new skills. Thank you very much. I really like your sense of humor. Its important to keep the listener engaged learning how to hear notes. What is funny to me, I always thought that music was a field like professional sports; requiring a natural ability. However, as I play a lot of guitar, I noticed that music is not some innate skill. It, like everything else, are skills you acquire (at least of them) by spending time studying, Even our voices get better. I was a physicist and always believed music was a skill that is totally wired from birth. I recently learned, their are some people that have perfect pitch and are good singers. However, lots singers like Eric Clapton was a skill he acquired by playing guitar for nearly 50. He no doubt as natural skills, but practicing music makes one better at hearing music. Music is like all other skills, it requires work, lots of it. Thank you
Great to hear from you Robert, and thank you for sharing your story. My aural skills steadily declined after college because I wasn’t using the skill a whole lot, but now that I’m working on these videos every single day it is better than it’s ever been. I’ve been working on a video that is an hour of intervals played on a classical guitar sound. I’d be interested to know which registers of the guitar you have an easier time discerning. The guitar sounds down an octave so it dives into the bottom of the bass clef on the low e string, but it also some prominent overtones which might make it easier to hear.
I swear you saved me so much time. I was ready to record this myself. Seriously God bless 🙏🏼
Glad you found it! Thanks for watching.
I feel you!! I totally get what you're saying. I needed to refresh intervals.
Wow, this video is just amazing. The internet already provides us with so many ways to practice, but this is a whole nother level. Huge thanks man 🙏
I’m just glad people are watching it and learning!
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I always had problem with hearing exercises, i find your channel very helpful. Keep up with great work!
Glad it’s helping! I think a lot of people try to jump into the deep end of ear training and it’s too much. With my exercises, I try to ramp up the difficult so gradually that you might not notice it.
@@joeluegersmusicacademy yes, the way you compartmentalize the intervals in groups and separate sections makes it a gradual progression that is easy to grow with.
That's a brilliant idea!!!
I am guessing you do this with the diatonic scale degrees for key training, too...???
@@jeffgarrison7056Yes I generally try to follow that formula of gradual progression.
Wow! I've had 2 years of theory and ear training period I've returned to playing chess on the piano, and this is such a phenomenal refresher period your format is outstanding, the way that you will pair a major second and then a minor second, and then. Major seventh and a minor seventh period outstanding work thank you. Namaste 🙏
You're very welcome!
I try to learn music theory on my own and this video is very useful&helpful. thank you!!😊
You're very welcome!
I wish I would have thought of this - excellent way to teach/train ear training! I appreciate the work that went into this!
Thanks! I looked for ear training videos years ago that weren’t just people talking about it and couldn’t find anything of quality. Wish I would have jumped on this idea sooner. I checked out your channel- good stuff! I come from a more classical background on piano and have never felt more out of my league than when I’m around good jazz musicians.
My exam is in a week and I'm dying inside, so this video is saving me 😭
Thank you so much!
This is so awesome! Thankyou ❤
I am so bad at this right now but I am determined to master my ears 🎉
Thanks for watching! Just take it a level at a time, not moving on until you can reliably get every answer right. Learn these intervals on an instrument, and practice singing them. Do all of these things and it will transform how you make and hear music.
The initial best way to train the ear . Thank you for teaching
Yes- intervals are the foundation of just about all Ear training. Thanks for watching!
Attaching feelings, memories, emotions, ideas, experiences and even chord qualities that are evoked by the interval sound, to the interval, helps to recognise the interval.
Three things:
1. I rarely comment on anything, but this needs algorithm juice.
2. I learnt differently (through relating melodies to intervals) but was later told this is the way (hearing the intervall ascending, descending and harmonic along with the intervall name).
3. I will share this with my students. I learnt in highschool with peers taking turns at the piano but kids today do everything internet. Great job 👍
I appreciate the sweet, sweet algorithm juice. I haven’t really settled on a “best” way to learn intervals. Ultimately it’s probably good to approach them from many different perspectives. My go to method has become to associate them with scale degrees of the major scale.
Your grouping of these is excellent, and your recommendation to continue to repeat them all the time is really working! Thank you so much for your work!
Glad to hear it’s working! Thanks
Wow, i needed it so much! My ears are so bad but with these exercises I started to hear the difference. I appreciate your work!
That’s great to hear! Keep it up, and thanks for watching.
Perfect video, exactly what I needed
I’m glad! I have a similar hour long video in the works about identifying chords, should hopefully be done in a week or so.
You're a wonderful human being for making this! Wow and thanks ❤️
No problem!
Just wanted to let you know I’m finally really getting things!😊 The sections in this video where you categorize CONSONANCE, IMPERFECT CONSONANCE, DISSONANCE & SHARP DISSONANCE really made things click for me. Having them categorized like that has helped more than anything. Hopefully I can continue to progress and get to your more difficult stuff. Thank you for the Patreon downloads.
Hurray for you!!! Thanks for this comment. I’m not going to lie, sometimes I wake up at night and a I’m like “Are these working for people? Am I wasting my own and other people’s time? Will Earth ever make extra terrestrial contact? Have we already?” Thanks for answering most of my questions, and keep it up!
This is great because you don’t need to be looking or touching the screen so I can do housework while listening, very helpful thanks!
Glad you like it! I made a whole playlist based around that idea: Hands-Free Ear Training
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one of the most useful videos on the entire internet,.... top three!!!!!! you are a very good person! love to you and your beloved and what you ever like and have a nice day
This was very Helpful! Your video is an important part of Developing as a Musician & Songwriter. I also saw the video on different types chords. Thank you & Keep up the Good Work!
Thank you so much! If you ask me, this is my best video for developing your ear: ruclips.net/video/e5c-37Rbeu0/видео.htmlsi=HGMobU-ydG_SyBhq For some reason sight singing doesn’t have as much traction on RUclips as intervals.
This is, what I am looking for
I am currently taking a sight singing and ear training course at college and your videos have helped me a BUNCH. I greatly appreciate the effort that goes into all of your content, thank you!
So difficult…. Gifted ears, I envy you. 😅😊
lost me at the first exercise aha
You are a legend for doing this
Stories of the Great Interval Video will be passed through the generations. Or, that’s hope at least.
After months, I FINALLY made it to the end! Thanks for this amazing video.
Thank you so much! Always needing ear training videos!
Happy to help! Check out my playlist “Epic Ear Training” for more like this. I add one each month, all an hour long.
Saved this and will come back to listen often.
Since I don't have music in my head, it will take me longer, but I've overcome bigger handicaps.
Thanks for watching! A lot of people try to rush through learning ear training, but it really takes years of slow practice, like anything else worth learning.
This is amazing, thanks for putting this together. I was using apps, but them requiring my input made it not ideal when at work or driving, so these videos are perfect.
You’re welcome! I’m not sure why more hands-free ear training doesn’t exist, because the audio portion is really kind of the whole point.
The fastest way to get that stuff into your ears is to sing it instead of just guessing intervalls. Its not about winning a contest in singing it just seems to be the fastest way to internalise the sound. First select an Intervall, choose a root note, hit the root note and sing the intervall from that root then play it for example on a keyboard to verify your tone, but dont cheat and play the note before you sang it, you really first need to sing it before playing it. repeat until you hit it than continue with the next note and the next intervall. Than come back and do the video. No or few errors. Do it with intervalls/scales/chords/inversions.
Yes yes yes! My ear never improved more than when I started teaching choir and was singing every day. This internalizes the sound and makes it muscle memory. For people who have trouble with that, I encourage them to use videos like this but to sing along to the piano as they do it.
Great set up for continuous ear training! 😊
Where has this video been my whole musical career?????
Right here, waiting for you.
Fuck yea and you bet your ass I'm coming back!!!!
20 minutes in and ive gotten every one of these right. This isn't to brag, but to thank my choir teacher for pounding these into my head over the course of 3 years.
Singing intervals is definitely the best way to learn them, as well as learning them gradually over a long period of time, so you’ve got the best possible head start.
I’m just not sure that this training translates well into practice. I mean is it also easy for you to recognize intervals in songs? Does it help you find melodies faster on piano?
@@dmitrii839 You have a good point. Ear training is like physical exercise, where it’s not good to do only one exercise. Functional ear training and sight singing are actually the best forms of ear training, in my opinion, but interval ear training helps you hone in on the distance between notes. In music without a clear tonal center, you really have to rely on intervals. It also helps with figuring out the individual notes of a chord. Any entry-level music theory class with have you pass an intervals test fairly early on.
The best training video on the internet
woah! That means a lot.
This is great, now I can finally learn music theory by ear and not with the math/counting involved
That’s the goal! I used to think that music theory = notation, but that doesn’t have to be the case.
Have a music theory final on Monday and I’ve been using this video and it helped me out so much and taught me so much about what I know and don’t know
That’s great! Keep it up!
This is my favourite ear training video ❤ if this could be posted on spotify it'd be the best 🥺 anyways thanks a lot for creating this :Dd
Thanks a lot! I’m currently building a playlist for music streaming services, so hopefully I’ll have that done by the end of the summer.
Thank you so much!
I was looking for similar exercise during the last month and I couldn’t even imagine that I could find that.
Happy to help!
Congrats! I wanted this video for years
This for you!
I was really struggle aural at school, hope this will help, thank you for the hard work.
between C and C# there is indeed a distance of 1/2 tone (obviously), but for it to be called a 2nd minor, the C# has to be seen as Db
Correct. I should have double checked the way my notation program rendered this.
You're song selection for the Interview Review section is amazing. Thank you, earned my sub!
Awesome! Thanks so much.
great my first hour of ear training thank you so much I've not seen your way of doing
Glad to help! Check out this playlist for all of my ear training content. I add to it weekly: The Ultimate Ear Training Playlist
ruclips.net/p/PL40pFkWbVtdlfiS6YGQ3zr9mQRj7naT19
I missed a lot of the 'obvious' intervals (sounded together). I confused Perfect 4th with Perfect 5th; also minor 6th with Major 3rd! I guess my ear is hearing inversions!
Yes that’s exactly what’s happening. It’s always a good sign when your mistakes at least make sense.
@@joeluegersmusicacademy This exercise may have turned up one of my 'weaknesses'. A assume these notes are 'pure MIDI', in that they are sounded at EXACTLY the same time. There's no chance of hearing one note played by itself, even for an instant. I wonder how I'd do if those notes were played 'by hand'! :)
The Man IS an ARTIST 🙏🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
Hello. I just discovered your channel. This is pure gold. Thank you for your work. Could you please make these videos available as a podcast on platforms such as spotify? I couldn't find you on there :'(
Thanks! That’s part of the plan eventually. Right now I’ve been focused on scheduling these hour long videos, which take a while to edit. I’m also writing/recording a book of about 100 ear training exercises. Once I have enough of these videos, it wouldn’t be hard to take the audio and break it up into multiple podcast episodes
Thanks a lot for this video! I think I have it mastered now. I was hoping you could do a similar video that includes intervals beyond the octave (9 b9 #9 11, #11 13 etc). Either that, or one where the chords have certain extensions and we try to hear the chord. It would help me with jazz
Glad it was helpful! I might do larger intervals at some point, but honestly they are so uncommon that I haven't had much demand. As far as chords go, I think you're looking for this video: ruclips.net/video/YA-TXGYxOSw/видео.html&lc=UgwdLwCPoRDq8EBHUbJ4AaABAg Please check my pinned comment for this video though- there is a single error on a question where the correct answer is displayed but I speak a wrong word. I'll fix this at some point, but just wanted to make you aware.n
I appreciate your comments. You are putting out some great content!
Thank you for ear training method. Excellent.
Up..down..together. What a great training routine. The Tritone is a monster & I can't hear who's on 1st who's on 2nd. (like the Abbot & Costello routine about Baseball).
Hey, I'm Horn player & have to consider the next note to play in an idea.
You are helping our Brains to catch up with our Ears.
Thank you.
This video has so much good practices! I imagine most people already playing 🎹 🎸 who're watching this
Just got a keyboard, and now this video drops?! It’s a Christmas miracle!
I had dozens of unpaid elves working around the clock to get this video out by Christmas
Im using this for my uni entrance, thx for the video!
I love this video... Im gonna try to listen to it every day.... Im having a really hard time with Major 6
Glad it’s helping! 6ths are the worst. I like to imagine a major 6th resolving down by a whole step and a minor 6th resolving down by a half step.
Maj 6th is the verse of "My way" :"And now, the end is near..."
@@christopherfreud5894 Great example. The thing that helped me the most with 6ths is that they sound like someone yodeling, because 99% of songs that use yodeling move in 6ths. This doesn’t help with Major vs minor, but it at least narrows it down.
Now that's something great I found on here....
Really amazing for self learners(like me)...
Glad you found my channel! If any of this video is difficult, take a look at this playlist where I break down the diatomic intervals more gradually: Ultimate Intervals - Ear Training for Musicians
ruclips.net/p/PL40pFkWbVtdnOR1cDcS_uQvW7Zff68xXT Also make sure you learn on the interval shapes on your instrument, and that will really help.
Lol the chord that’s played before every new portion is the most ear training for me in this video
Cmaj13#11. In my opinion it’s the chord with the most notes that doesn’t sound horrible
I would love to see more of this. Maybe an hour of chromatic intervals organized by ascending, descending, and harmonic. Also the bell notification between would be nice to either not be there or be neutral (not on a pitch).
Also, since you asked for feedback I’ll keep going 😝It would be super cool to listen to a clip of unrelated music and be thrown off and THEN put a random interval to figure out.
Thank you SO much for this video! I’ve learned so much.
Thanks for the comment! On my newer longer videos like this I’ve taken out the bell, I just say “question 1” and “answer.” You can see my new format in this video: ruclips.net/video/W1lN1qdrCtY/видео.htmlsi=0onubnEIMA2JwHjW
@@joeluegersmusicacademy I’m gonna look at that soon. Thanks to your one-hour chromatic training video I was able to get through most the levels of the difficult interval video - except the singing descending 😝 Thank you so much for this stuff. It’s been really helpful.
My go-to ear training exercise!!❤
Awesome! Thanks so much for watching.
Thank you dearly for your hardwork!!
I’m very surprised that I can recognize and play very complex chords in any setting but I can’t hear basic intervals😭 is this common?
Thanks for giving great gift of Music
Thanks for watching!
It helps a lot, thank you very much ❤
Thank you so much for this music theory lesson❤
I’m glad it’s been helpful!
Thanks so much. I use this when doing boring repetitive work. I might not be fully concentrated but it is still very useful
Using your passive time like that can be a really powerful thing.
I like this a lot, being a singer this is good exercise for the ears and it keeps me sharp
thank you! I'm happy to have found your channel. Can you play 2 intervals together, like P5 and then m7, Tr and then M6...please. maybe in high register and low register.
Thanks for watching! I’ve got something kind of like that. Check out my advanced intervals video: ruclips.net/video/EGpg7SQxRLE/видео.htmlsi=4EMm4u-JO6r4-ve4
Please make more of these! These are awesome!
For sure!
Wow! This is so good. I spend a lot of time driving. Now I have something constructive to do. Basically, I hum the lower note and construct a major scale and pick the next note accordingly. Thanks again. Liked and subscribed.
It is so frustrating. Two days ago I was just guessing, and miserably falling.
Today I still miss lots of them. Ok, I suck, I get it, and I accept. Now, let's do that again.
Come on, that was a 4th!
...
Ok, this time I will just listen.
Ok, 4th again... ok that too
5 in a row YEi!
(wasn't I supposed to be just listening)
miss
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ok, again.
(thanks for the video)
It’s like learning a language. You’re not going to make much progress in a few days, but you will with consistent practice over weeks, months, and years.
@@joeluegersmusicacademy I am very happy with the results. I know I must be patient, and I will.
Also, I will keep challenging myself for the next video. until there... again.
Punching in again. This morning, I got all the Perfect consonances right.
Yei, progress. Now, let's get back to the learning process (and again, and again, and again...). This is getting fun!
Thank you for this. It's way overdue for me personally. I struggled the most with descending intervals and larg intervals. I was kinda surprised being a guitarist that often gets compliments on my accurate bends as well as playing fretless bass pretty well.
The only intervals I got 100% were minor 2nds. Sometimes I even had trouble with the perfect intervals which really surprised me.
Any tips other than listening repeatedly? I might try slowing down the video to 75% next time.
You’re welcome! The best thing you can do is practice singing intervals. Honestly, people make fun of vocalists for not knowing theory (sometimes), but they have the best ears of all. Guitarists like us are guilty of thinking in shapes and patterns without really internalizing what things actually sound like.
As a singer I think in intervals, as a guitarist I think in shapes. Just started learning piano and starting to think in different shapes. All such fun. Using these exercises to improve on piano.
Nice thank you so much starting piano lessons soon I ay the mandolin now hope it helps me
Thanks for watching! Learn your interval shapes on both the piano and mandolin, use this video to learn how to hear them, and I think you’ll see some good results.
Best video of all time
This absolutely rocks! You should do one for minor scales too
We need to associate a song with each of the 12 intervals. For examples, I use “My Bonnie” for major 6th and “The Entertainer” for minor 6th.
you must have had those jingles on youtube music or something because my scrobbler keeps picking it up. i swear if i start getting recommended interval training in my mixes BECAUSE OF YOU!!! I guess you can never escape the intervals...
Hey! This is an awesome video, I love listening to this on loop to sleep but I have one complaint, the transition melody/chords inbetween the sections is way louder than the intervals and ends up jolting me awake, so I have to turn it down but it makes the intervals a bit harder to hear. Same for the Start and end parts.
I'd absolutely love a version of this without the talking at the start and end, and a bit of a quieter transition between the sections for that precious night time practice.
Great work man! Thanks so much for this!
Thanks for the comment! This was the first video in this format I ever made, and I’ve made a lot of changes since. This video has much quieter transitions, and can be used by non-guitar players: ruclips.net/video/W1lN1qdrCtY/видео.htmlsi=BzPsPu03VJGS8s1F
As far as the talking goes, I may make a video in the future specifically to listen to passively without any abrasive sections. Until then, you could also check out this series that is only exercises:ruclips.net/p/PL40pFkWbVtdlAY_g71Pf9RBy97mqXpQHK&si=2bu2EipS5u0sNupm
Or you could embed the videos in a Google slide and program them to start and end on a certain timestamp.
I am working on improving my pitch when singing and this is exactly what I was looking for, thank you so much!
No problem! I’ve got all my ear training videos on this playlist if you are wanting more: The Ultimate Ear Training Playlist
ruclips.net/p/PL40pFkWbVtdlfiS6YGQ3zr9mQRj7naT19
this is the best ear training exercise hat I'd never had, thanks a lot!
Glad to hear it! If you want a deeper dive into intervals, I have a series on the topic: ruclips.net/p/PL40pFkWbVtdnOR1cDcS_uQvW7Zff68xXT&si=GLbHeDqPG3a39lpA
Just wanted to say thank you😊
Makes me happy that people are enjoying these!
I deeply appreciate this, Sir. It absolutely helped. I thought while, getting to the end of the video about ear training for keys.
Great to hear that it help! Thanks for watching!
This is about to make me superpowered just listening in my sleep
You don’t want to let your ears grow too powerful. They’ll destroy the city.
I'm vietnamese. Thank you! Your exercise so great. Vietnamese need this exercise. Let follow national music, classical.
Thanks so much! Glad you found my channel.
Thank you so much, this was great. Listen to it in the mornings while I'm getting ready
That’s great! Thanks so much
i love watching, hearing your videos
Thanks!
Fun way to learn
This is amazing! It would be better if the descending pieces were also graphically descending on your piano there
Thanks! I actually did that for a weirdly specific reason. Each level begins with ascending intervals from middle c, and then descending intervals that end on middle C. If I displayed the upper note first on those descending intervals, it would give away the answer without you having to hear it. Hope that makes sense.
Yes thank you, and I know I’m revealing my ignorance here….from C down to Bb is Dom 7 OR major 2nd?
@@albertcavaliero4392 C down to Bb is a major 2nd. C up to Bb is a minor 7th. These are known as inverted intervals. Even though the letter names of the notes are the same, the distance is different.
@@joeluegersmusicacademy right but I can still get a seventh sound using “major 2nd” in the key of C, a different inversion etc.
it’s been hard for me to not always put it in the context of a key but I want to expand. In B flat major It’s major second and in C it’s a 7th so what I’m trying to say is I rely the key not the interval. And I ask besides the brain expansion ( which is always great thing) what’s this used for musically?
@@albertcavaliero4392 So a major second and a minor 7th have a very similar sound. I call both of them “soft dissonances” because they are both slightly dissonant. Yes, you can get a similar sound using one or the other. Think of it as different shades of the same color. Interval ear training is just a way to train your ears to perceive the distance between notes more accurately, which especially helps when you are learning songs that go outside the key (chromatic.)
Excellent training video. Thank you!
Thanks for watching!
I like this. First time I try but I get it. Thanks.
It’s not something you can learn fast. I suggest repeating each level for a while until it has totally soaked in.
In the multiple course I've taken online, in high school, at two colleges, and on CD, I've never had a descending interval quiz give you the second note of an interval and you have to name the first.
I know it’s weird, lol, but believe it or not there is a reason. All of the lessons begin with a fixed root of middle c. If I displayed the first note, rather than the second, it would actually give away the answer without you having to listen to it. Example- an A is displayed, and you know we’re in the fixed root round, so the answer would have to be Maj6, which defeats the purpose of the exercise. That being said, if I made this video again I probably would make a few adjustments to eliminate some of these awkward choices. Fortunately most people only seem to use the audio.
@@joeluegersmusicacademy Yeah, that makes sense. And it's not a bad thing. It forces you to think in a little bit different way.
Thanks! For a while I kept thinking “I need to find the best way to do this”, and then I realized that it’s actually good to approach it from multiple angles. If you look at my follow up to this video, I throw in all of my weirdest ideas for interval ear training to see what sticks. ruclips.net/video/EGpg7SQxRLE/видео.html
Insanely helpful! Thank you for this 🔥
Thanks for watching!
This is really cool I just saw how long the video is I’ll have to come back to this tomorrow.
Iv been brushing up on my singing and want to learn how to understand pitch better , I feel this can help. Thing is many scales are major pentatonic scales for singing I believe . And I feel I get stuck in that mode and singing songs tends to have smaller jumps in notes or Atleast that’s what it feels like to me. I feel like I get programmed to sing with a lot of space and then when I try songs my pitch is off for certain notes because I’m stuck with taking bigger leaps in between notes .
I think I need to get a keyboard to practice different scale types or find song melodies on piano. Something doesn’t help translate well when it comes to note selection
This is very helpful and motivating. Thank you 🙏 greetings from 🇧🇪
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for the video!!!!
De nada! Yo hablo un POCO español. Thanks for watching.
This video is wonderful!! Only thing I would like to see in the future is the addition of three or four note chords and rhythm as well, as it’s much more practical is songs, and with that one video could take a beginner to understanding actual songs. Thanks for the information source!!
Thanks for watching! I have a series on chord progressions coming up next Saturday. This one was mostly focused on getting chord formulas into the listeners head, but yes I’d like to do one of these that includes different voicings, inversions, and no fixed root.
Stuck on minor and major sixth for now. Excellent video thanks I'll grind to excellence haha
6ths are definitely the hardest. I like to imagine a minor 6th resolving down by a half step to a perfect 5th. Major 6th can’t really do this.
@@joeluegersmusicacademy Great tip! I'm not too bad at ascending, but descending and harmonic are a whole other game! When I get ear fatigue (quickly in this case) I even mess up thirds and sixths! One step at a time ;)
Wow. This is actually really cool. And rewarding.
Glad you found it useful!
im going to loop this video the entire duration of the year to see how good i get passively learning
Wow... thank you so much for this..Just what I needed.