You're a fantastic teacher! I love these videos I wish I had this back in school when they were teaching music theory for vocal ensemble. It would've made my life a lot easier lol
Thank you, yes, I think teaching music theory gets pushed to the wayside in favor of performance preparation in a lot of school music ensembles. But it's the grammar of the music language! And knowing it gives us the authority to make certain choices in performance. So I think it's important to know. 😊
It is much harder to identify the stacked intervals. Also, after a while I feel like the ear or the brain gets tired because I managed to convince myself a third was a seventh.
I totally agree when you say: "music theory (= ear training) ...is the grammar of the music language and that knowing it gives us the authority to make certain choices in performance."
I had an 8 year gap between undergrad ear-training courses and finishing my masters, so my ear-training ears have become very rusty. Videos like these have helped me to get my aural skills back and feel more confident applying for Theory/Aural Skills positions. Thank you!
WHAT NO WAY!!! SHERDBERT?!! I was searching for a video to give my students and I found this and was like THIS IS DOPE...then I saw it was you! Congrats!!!! xoxoxo
For a beginner everything sounds the same this video is excellent to distinguish between specific sounds with names, Thank you ❗️love this presentation 🙂
Wow, I crushed it today! Only missed one descending and only missed seven overall (90.2%). A really big jump from just a few days ago. It felt like something clicked, especially on the descendings. Stephanie, this might be an ambitious request, but as something to consider: if there were a way incorporate both ear training and reading notes into a single test or exercise, I think that would be amazing. Many TH-cam tests include a piano keyboard (anyway, I'm learning guitar), but I haven't seen one that uses a staff. My mom is extremely musical, and when I told her I was working on ear training, she recommended combining it with reading music. I don't even know how that would be done, exactly, but I will be looking for it on TH-cam once I've completed at least one of the ear training tracks that I'm working on now.
Hey, nice work! I've thought about doing something like this before. Or maybe a sight-singing video, where you see the interval and I give the beginning pitch and the student sings the next one and sees if it matches. I'm sure I have some means of producing graphics for something like that, but it would take some time for me to figure it out. Hopefully I'll have some more time to play around with that concept when school gets out.
@@StephanieDouglassMusic Thanks! Sure thing. No expectations on my side; I just thought I'd mention it since you asked for suggestions. Good luck this semester!
Please make more of these. All mixed, descending ascending and block intervals. This is such great help for my daughter that is studying to be a music teacher and also for me. Getting that ear sharp is what it’s all about. Thank you for taking your time to do these. Please more like this video. Thank you 🙏🏻
This is a great exercise. Thank you. I just want to make a sugestion: after the answer is given, you could say what notes were played, so that we can start to try to figure out what is the relationship between one example to the next one just from the beginning and maybe know what notes are sounding before you give the answer. ☺
I like hearing minor 6 as “Johanna” from Sweeney Todd, Major 6 as the little “NBC” tune, and minor 7 as “Somewhere” from West Side Story! Major 7 is still tricky for me because I get it mixed up with Tri tones (Augmented 4th/Dminished 5th) for some reason but i try and hear “Take on Me”...it hasn’t really helped though but that’s the only one using those songs hasn’t helped me for
Namasthe, A very good tutorial. If you can add the notes for each interval example that wd be more helpful for the students. I do appreciate your sincere efforts. It's very kind of you. Namasthe.🙏
I watched this video about two years ago and got a lot of them wrong. Now I got most of them right. I still had some difficulties with the stacked intervals but definitely an improvement.
Just a word for all that are sucking at first. When it comes to ear training for the first time, everybody sucks. For your information, I’m sucking at this rn! 😀😀
Thank you for the ear training video. I had my class listen to it and identify the qualities of the chords. Hope they learned how to listen ascending and descending.
The only way I could remember these for exams would be to associate them with songs. Anybody else do this.? Songs I used were Somewhere over the rainbow for an octave , Swing low sweet chariot major third. And a few others .
Excellent tutorial. Not sure I got them all right, but I never played too much by ear. I learned to read music young and it becomes a crutch! Hello from Texas L12 S 391
Frank C. Graves I know exactly what you mean! I find it so useful for teaching though, to be able to look at a score and know what it should sound like. I didn't cover any of the reading aspects in this particular video though. 😁
Very helpful video! I stopped formal music lessons almost 3 years ago and tried this to see how much skill I’ve retained, and it seems like I can no longer distinguish between m6, M6, and m7, and some trouble with TT and M7, but otherwise I’m mostly still fine. Does anyone have suggestions of songs to identify m6, M6, and/or m7?
Yes! I've recorded one on major and minor chords, but haven't worked on putting it together yet. I have one on I-IV-V7 and their inversions, that I uploaded a few weeks back. I'm thinking of also doing one on each kind of 7 chord.
@@StephanieDouglassMusic Awesome, I'll also use that video for ear training. That would be great if you followed through with that video on 7th Chords.
This is great! Thank you very much for the help! I'm getting a lot better with the ascending. Descending is bad. Stacked is so-so. Seems like I especially have trouble with the sixths. I've improved since working your video though
I already knew all of these by ear without the names. I don’t study music theory but came across a question online regarding intervals of which i had no clue. Is the point of studying this for language and communicative purposes? I don’t mean to sound pretentious or anything, but how are these used according to the technical teachings? When I write music I just do what sounds good to me and so I use theory based on a self discovery basis so I’ve heard these before and I’ve even used them, but I wasn’t aware they were defined and could be used on a technical level. I thought writing music was one big guessing game essentially.
In beginning ear training classes, this is the starting point to hearing melodies. Students learn where theses intervals are in relation to the scale and then can transcribe what they hear. It can seem a bit arbitrary but it's helpful when you start modulating and playing things outside of the Western classical modes.
You're a fantastic teacher! I love these videos I wish I had this back in school when they were teaching music theory for vocal ensemble. It would've made my life a lot easier lol
Thank you, yes, I think teaching music theory gets pushed to the wayside in favor of performance preparation in a lot of school music ensembles. But it's the grammar of the music language! And knowing it gives us the authority to make certain choices in performance. So I think it's important to know. 😊
Stephanie Douglass Agreed!!
Thank you.
It is much harder to identify the stacked intervals. Also, after a while I feel like the ear or the brain gets tired because I managed to convince myself a third was a seventh.
I've done the same thing. Glad I'm not the only one.
at some point i thought an octave was a p5 and vice versa. i think i need a break
Relatable
It’s almost a third if you invert it down.
Whew, the descendings kicked my butt. Still, I'm showing definite improvement overall! Thanks again for these great workouts!
I'm so glad you've found them useful!
Same, I aced the ascending but the descending always sounded so minor
I got an ad before this about how interval training is useless hahaha
I skipped it XD thanks for the video!
Wow me too !! I skipped it right away..
Free Webinar bullshit 😒
Same
Skipping the ad does not actually help the owner of this wonderful video.
I totally agree when you say: "music theory (= ear training) ...is the grammar of the music language and that knowing it gives us the authority to make certain choices in performance."
I had an 8 year gap between undergrad ear-training courses and finishing my masters, so my ear-training ears have become very rusty. Videos like these have helped me to get my aural skills back and feel more confident applying for Theory/Aural Skills positions. Thank you!
0:40 major 2nd
0:59 major 3rd
1:17 minor 7th
1:35 perfect octave
1:54 major 6th
2:13 minor 3rd
2:31 major 7th
2:47 perfect 5th
3:06 minor 2nd
3:24 perfect 4th
3:43 minor 6th
4:03 tritone
3:06 minor 2nd
0:40 major 2nd
2:13 minor 3rd
0:59 major 3rd
3:24 perfect 4th
4:03 tritone
2:47 perfect 5th
3:43 minor 6th
1:54 major 6th
1:17 minor 7th
2:31 major 7th
1:35 octave
This is not helpful..
@@jcdenton616 then don’t use it, i didn’t take my time to write it out for you
Very helpful! One would like to quickly reference the sound of the interval. Here they are nicely ordered. Thank you!
Thanks a lot! This should be pinned! 🙂 I wish someone made the same for the other categories (stacked/block) as well.
thank you
Kiitos!
Thank you! I am now master of church music in Finland thanks to you. You are great! Amen.
Watching this on the bus before my exam ✨
Make the most of your practice time and do this in the car!
That's an awesome idea! Practice your intervals on the treadmill ;)
Great idea
Practicing in the car is my latest commute!
This is really helping me study for college ear training, thank you!
WHAT NO WAY!!! SHERDBERT?!! I was searching for a video to give my students and I found this and was like THIS IS DOPE...then I saw it was you! Congrats!!!! xoxoxo
Yeahhhh it's me! For some reason I have a famous ukulele channel and I don't know how this happened!
I really really like these! I have trouble hearing M7 at times. I’ll keep working at it. Thank you 😊
Same m7 and m6 always throw me off
Same
“Take on Me” has that M7 that then leads to the root, an octave up. Every time I hear that interval I hear the sweet sounds of A-ha.
The song the entertainer is a minor 6th and the Major 7 is the take on me song from the 80s if you can hear that!
To me it is EXACTLY the train horn sound (at least french trains) before entering a tunnel
This was sooo helpfull 🥰 thank you💕. It’s currently 2:32 am and watching this before my music aural test 😬
Glad it was helpful!
For a beginner everything sounds the same this video is excellent to distinguish between specific sounds with names, Thank you ❗️love this presentation 🙂
Wow, I crushed it today! Only missed one descending and only missed seven overall (90.2%). A really big jump from just a few days ago. It felt like something clicked, especially on the descendings. Stephanie, this might be an ambitious request, but as something to consider: if there were a way incorporate both ear training and reading notes into a single test or exercise, I think that would be amazing. Many TH-cam tests include a piano keyboard (anyway, I'm learning guitar), but I haven't seen one that uses a staff. My mom is extremely musical, and when I told her I was working on ear training, she recommended combining it with reading music. I don't even know how that would be done, exactly, but I will be looking for it on TH-cam once I've completed at least one of the ear training tracks that I'm working on now.
Hey, nice work! I've thought about doing something like this before. Or maybe a sight-singing video, where you see the interval and I give the beginning pitch and the student sings the next one and sees if it matches. I'm sure I have some means of producing graphics for something like that, but it would take some time for me to figure it out. Hopefully I'll have some more time to play around with that concept when school gets out.
@@StephanieDouglassMusic Thanks! Sure thing. No expectations on my side; I just thought I'd mention it since you asked for suggestions. Good luck this semester!
Thanks so much for your kindness and proficency. Stay musical, stay alive!
Thank you for the free ear training.
Thank you so much, this helps me a lot when I'm doing ear training !
I'm so glad it can be helpful!
Thank you! I just learned that stacked m6 and M6 are trouble spots for me!
Today is gloomy, so I’m resting my eyes in bed listening to this to feel productive 🙌🏻☺️
Please make more of these. All mixed, descending ascending and block intervals. This is such great help for my daughter that is studying to be a music teacher and also for me. Getting that ear sharp is what it’s all about. Thank you for taking your time to do these. Please more like this video. Thank you 🙏🏻
I'm better than I thought I was, but definitely room for improvement. Great video!
Thank you so much for this. I'm totally screwed for my ap test it seems and these are big help in giving me a chance to pass. 😵💫
I hope it's getting more comfortable!
I absolutely love these videos - thank you very much for taking the time to create this content :)
Thank you for the kind comment! I'm so glad people are finding this useful!
This is a great exercise. Thank you.
I just want to make a sugestion: after the answer is given, you could say what notes were played, so that we can start to try to figure out what is the relationship between one example to the next one just from the beginning and maybe know what notes are sounding before you give the answer. ☺
Great content! Very useful. Thank you and greetings from Germany! :)
These videos are amazing especially right now. I shared this with my Music Theory teacher and she loves them thank you so much.
Hooray! If you have anything else you need help with, let me know!
Stephanie Douglass thank you, have you ever thought about doing maybe one video for ear training about cadences. Just a thought and 😊
@@Ian_Larson I like that idea!
Stephanie Douglass 😊
Great video Stephanie!!
thankyou steph helps me with my rock n roll guitar playing
Nice! This was helpful! I have trouble hearing major and minor 6 and 7s.
I like hearing minor 6 as “Johanna” from Sweeney Todd, Major 6 as the little “NBC” tune, and minor 7 as “Somewhere” from West Side Story! Major 7 is still tricky for me because I get it mixed up with Tri tones (Augmented 4th/Dminished 5th) for some reason but i try and hear “Take on Me”...it hasn’t really helped though but that’s the only one using those songs hasn’t helped me for
Namasthe,
A very good tutorial.
If you can add the notes for each interval example that wd be more helpful for the students.
I do appreciate your sincere efforts.
It's very kind of you.
Namasthe.🙏
I watched this video about two years ago and got a lot of them wrong. Now I got most of them right. I still had some difficulties with the stacked intervals but definitely an improvement.
Very useful to do daily I can feel the progress of my ear getting more in tune with the intervals
Hooray!
The video is very helpful. Thanks for the time invested and for sharing it.
Just a word for all that are sucking at first. When it comes to ear training for the first time, everybody sucks. For your information, I’m sucking at this rn! 😀😀
Very helpful! Any help with recognizing cadences and chord progressions please? Thanks
Thank you for the ear training video. I had my class listen to it and identify the qualities of the chords. Hope they learned how to listen ascending and descending.
Thanks for your videos! Love them! They've helped me greatly in developing my ear.
I started to hear the blocks better. I will keep doing it.
Hooray!
The major seventh has a very malinchonic, recognizable sonority to it.
Thanks! Your work helps a lot of people!💚❤
Great video! You’re so talented and such a great teacher!
This really helps me as a self-taught musician!
Thank you to spend your time doing this. Helpful.
Thank you so much for making this!
Merci beaucoup. I find descending intervals are much more difficult for me.
The only way I could remember these for exams would be to associate them with songs. Anybody else do this.? Songs I used were Somewhere over the rainbow for an octave , Swing low sweet chariot major third. And a few others .
descending example 14 are the same notes from coltranes i love you, I dont have perfect pithc but they made me start singing the song
I have given a name to my pain; and it is descending Min and Maj 6ths
So helpfull!!! Thank you
descending is hard af!!!!!!
Amazing resource! thank you so much :)
Excellent tutorial. Not sure I got them all right, but I never played too much by ear. I learned to read music young and it becomes a crutch! Hello from Texas L12 S 391
Frank C. Graves I know exactly what you mean! I find it so useful for teaching though, to be able to look at a score and know what it should sound like. I didn't cover any of the reading aspects in this particular video though. 😁
It is helpful, it is great! Gratitude! Thank you!
Thank you. This video is very helpful.
This is very useful! It can help with understanding the keys!
Muy buenos ejercicios!!! Genial para agudizar el oído!
You played the two first notes of Claire de Lune and I could tell the interval just based on that :D
When stacked, I cant tell M2 and m3 apart, also m6, M6 and m7.
This is so helpful, thank you. Could you do a video on recognising chromatic chords like dim 7th, aug 6th and neopolitan 6ths?
thank you, this is so helpful 🤠
Excellent video helped me a lot
Very helpful video! I stopped formal music lessons almost 3 years ago and tried this to see how much skill I’ve retained, and it seems like I can no longer distinguish between m6, M6, and m7, and some trouble with TT and M7, but otherwise I’m mostly still fine. Does anyone have suggestions of songs to identify m6, M6, and/or m7?
Thank you for the video. Have you thought about doing one on many chord qualities or chord progressions? I'd appreciate either.
Yes! I've recorded one on major and minor chords, but haven't worked on putting it together yet. I have one on I-IV-V7 and their inversions, that I uploaded a few weeks back. I'm thinking of also doing one on each kind of 7 chord.
@@StephanieDouglassMusic Awesome, I'll also use that video for ear training. That would be great if you followed through with that video on 7th Chords.
Thank you! Subscribed.
This is very good music quiz! l enjoy a lot! I
lovely video once again..thanks a lot!
This is great! Thank you very much for the help! I'm getting a lot better with the ascending. Descending is bad. Stacked is so-so. Seems like I especially have trouble with the sixths. I've improved since working your video though
I have perfect pitch and I’m having trouble identifying seventh and sixth intervals
These were great! Thanks so much!
Thank you so much!! Very helpful. Any chance you could do just block intervals? Thank you
Could you possibly make an all 6th and 7th interval video? Ascending and descending? Thanks!!!
Thanks, strangely enough I got most of the descending right 😳
Great video . Thanks!
Thank you Stephanie, very nice. What about triads but starting easy and then adding more complex ones;-) 🙏🏽💫 very usefull
Very helpful thank you
Thank you for posting this. Helped a lot!
I'm so glad I could help!
Thank you! Great video :) Can you make a video with Nonen and Dezimen? (I think ninths and tenths in english)
Really helpful thank you SOOO much :)))
I can match intervals correctly to the beginning of songs but struggle to remember which song goes with which interval.
This is very use ful
For some reason i have the hardest time with basic maj and min 3rds, but tritones minor 2nds and major 7ths i get right every time lol.
Love this!!!
Love it ❤️
this is nice, thank you
Thank you!!! Very helpful
thank you! nice lesson
so good!! thank you tons
awesome video!
Good exercise, but I was hoping to find a video that included the note names used in the intervals.
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7and
I already knew all of these by ear without the names.
I don’t study music theory but came across a question online regarding intervals of which i had no clue.
Is the point of studying this for language and communicative purposes?
I don’t mean to sound pretentious or anything, but how are these used according to the technical teachings?
When I write music I just do what sounds good to me and so I use theory based on a self discovery basis so I’ve heard these before and I’ve even used them, but I wasn’t aware they were defined and could be used on a technical level. I thought writing music was one big guessing game essentially.
In beginning ear training classes, this is the starting point to hearing melodies. Students learn where theses intervals are in relation to the scale and then can transcribe what they hear. It can seem a bit arbitrary but it's helpful when you start modulating and playing things outside of the Western classical modes.
@@StephanieDouglassMusic that’s really helpful! Thank you so much!
Thanks for this!
Even after all these years, some stacked intervals I can't get without an instrument in my hands.
Fantastic ☺️☺️😂☺️😂!!!!
Glad you liked it!!
Great lesson, very helpful!
Thanks.
So helpful!! Thank you!
I'm glad you found it helpful!
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