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
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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 TH-cam 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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
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
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...
@@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’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.
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
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!
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 TH-cam video. Eyes are glued to the screen. Only took a break to write this comment. Fantastic work, amazing teacher, changed my whole perspective completely!
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!
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 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!
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
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.
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. :-)
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 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.
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.
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*
I love the idea of chords as their own little worlds. The philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine (I think) once said that one of his pastimes was to imagine very simple universes composed of only a small number of basic particles or other elements. I get the same sense of restfulness from improvising over a drone. Along this line, Liebniz said that music is metaphysics you can feel (to paraphrase). And speaking of metaphysics and Leibniz, your explanation of scale degrees as irreducibly *themselves* - as uniquely identifiable as human individuals - evokes the idea of monads. The "feeling" of each scale degree is monadic. I've been listening to the music of Allan Holdsworth a lot over the past year or so. I would describe listening to his music as following the travels of a spacefarer who hops from world to world, sometimes eccentrically orbiting, sometimes skidding over the surface, before swooping at just the right velocity to go geosynchronous.
Nice! Thanks for the for the quotes and comments. I've never dug into Holdsworth's music very deeply, so I should give it a shot. My favourite music moves into new universes all the time...
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!!
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.
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.
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
Hey Max, this is excellent. I just wanted to say that I would love to hear a series of videos/podcasts from you that were simple melodies with drones in a given key, and then maybe progress through modes throughout a long video, and perhaps have separate videos/episodes that would even deal in different scales, like the harmonic minor family of modes. It would be nice if there was still an auditory number every once in a while just to keep us all on track, but if it was slow enough it should be easy enough to follow. TH-cam doesn't actually have very good playlists for this kind of thing, and you seem to be the guy who's equipped and inclined to do it!
I wish my music theory and aural skills classes in college had been explained this way. I was so awful at ear training even though I tried to work on it. This is a much better way to explain it, it’s a shame ideas like this were pushed to the side in favor of a textbook.
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..
This is really so helpful! I'd Definitely love to hear the "Podcast" Ear training on Spotify! Such a cool Idea and really well done. Almost meditative even!
You are very right about the resolution being a crutch. Even more it’s hard to break the habit of using it…….even when you don’t need it. Very frustrating.
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
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
No idea what im watching but i like it!
Best music theory TH-camr. 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
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!!
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 TH-cam 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.
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
NOBODY teaches music like this. its always about theory and memorizing. but this is what its all about
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
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!
I feel like I've learned things about life listening to this video.
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.
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
It did tickle me when he appeared in the circle 😊
Came for music theory, stayed for zen, great work Max ❤
This circle is so useful, please keep developing it!
Such a powerful message around the 1h22m mark about all the tools and past experiences and getting the job done.
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 🌞
'Though a semitone apart, horrible together' is such a love-hurt song vibe
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!
With my limited knowledge I think this is Brilliant ....this opens a window for music for me.
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
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?
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!
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!!!!!
@@조명보-n3t Haha. Working on it!
Will it be commercial? Available on iPhone? And will the code be open source? - just asking silly questions 👍🎵
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!!!
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 🌞
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
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.
If all forms of teaching had this vibe I would be a genius. This so eye opening it’s crazy.
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!
im not sure how much o the visuals are needed for this to truly sink in, but i would love this as a podcast.
this felt like an impactful meditation session.
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
When you said only the thing is the thing, I felt that and I subscribed.
THIS is the exact 💯 information ihv been expecting all this while ❤😊God bless u..i will come back with a testimony 🙏higherheights always
wow it felt like a meditation. a lot of listening, real listening and understanding.
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 🌞
As a Music Sciences PhD scholar, I'd say this is a brilliant approach. Keep up the good work 👏🏻
Thanks!
I join the chorus of appreciation for your insight and clarity in sharing it with the rest of us. Thanks so much
Every time it went from 3 to 2 but didn’t resolve at 1, that tickled my mental
I don’t know what that was at the beginning but i could listen to it my whole life
This is the most locked in I’ve ever been with a TH-cam 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 🌞
The direct listening really hit home this time. That familiarity before its mentally labelled, can only be pointed to with words. 😎🙏🌌
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
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.
thanks bro, this is probably the only video I watched without x1,75 speed on youtube on this decade
This is a great explanation of movable do solfege but with numbers instead of " do re mi..."
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!
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!
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.
Bro got me to sleep and taught me ear training at the same time. Crazy double win 🔥🔥
I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS FOR YEARS
I think time will pass but this will be legendary
Everything you say makes sense this is what I’ve been looking for! Also giving Buddhist vibes great humble approach!
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. :-)
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。
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.
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.
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 turned into a meditation very quickly❤
This is really great. Love the intro when you popped into the circle, genius :).
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!
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.
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.
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.
This is amazing. This is the key to everything. This is exactly what I was missing. Thank you!
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 love the idea of chords as their own little worlds. The philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine (I think) once said that one of his pastimes was to imagine very simple universes composed of only a small number of basic particles or other elements. I get the same sense of restfulness from improvising over a drone. Along this line, Liebniz said that music is metaphysics you can feel (to paraphrase). And speaking of metaphysics and Leibniz, your explanation of scale degrees as irreducibly *themselves* - as uniquely identifiable as human individuals - evokes the idea of monads. The "feeling" of each scale degree is monadic.
I've been listening to the music of Allan Holdsworth a lot over the past year or so. I would describe listening to his music as following the travels of a spacefarer who hops from world to world, sometimes eccentrically orbiting, sometimes skidding over the surface, before swooping at just the right velocity to go geosynchronous.
Nice! Thanks for the for the quotes and comments. I've never dug into Holdsworth's music very deeply, so I should give it a shot. My favourite music moves into new universes all the time...
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!!
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! ❤
It was a nice way to reframe and visualise your point, it's cool that you keep evolving your approach on this subject.
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 :)
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.
Please make those long practice videos 🙏🏼🙏🏼
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.
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
Hey Max, this is excellent. I just wanted to say that I would love to hear a series of videos/podcasts from you that were simple melodies with drones in a given key, and then maybe progress through modes throughout a long video, and perhaps have separate videos/episodes that would even deal in different scales, like the harmonic minor family of modes. It would be nice if there was still an auditory number every once in a while just to keep us all on track, but if it was slow enough it should be easy enough to follow. TH-cam doesn't actually have very good playlists for this kind of thing, and you seem to be the guy who's equipped and inclined to do it!
Something very similar to this coming soon! Working on it at the moment...
1:12:00 YESS please! That would be awesome
And drag to start.
I wish my music theory and aural skills classes in college had been explained this way.
I was so awful at ear training even though I tried to work on it. This is a much better way to explain it, it’s a shame ideas like this were pushed to the side in favor of a textbook.
this is a revelation to me for something i sought for long. thanks, mate.
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!
Absolutely fantastic video (and I'd LOVE to have that as an app on my phone).
This is amazing, would love a thing on spotify of you just playing notes and saying their number a couple seconds after
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.
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..
Please do a video like this is chords! I find those a lot more difficult to hear than melodies.
This is really so helpful! I'd Definitely love to hear the "Podcast" Ear training on Spotify! Such a cool Idea and really well done. Almost meditative even!
Check out my latest video! Preview of my new app which does what I wanted the Spotify list to do but better since it is customizable...
Thanks, this is so helpful. Having used Functional ear training I feel the ‘pull’ to the tonic. Looking forward to your app.
You are very right about the resolution being a crutch. Even more it’s hard to break the habit of using it…….even when you don’t need it. Very frustrating.
Wow thank you and PLEASE do the podcast or series of ear training that would be so helpful!!
very cool, nice addition to visualisation will be oscilloscope, where we can se mathematical relations between intervals
Yeah I've considered that...