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- The secret of ear training is in the feeling. All musical structures have a particular feeling-state associated with them which we can learn to recognize. This video outlines a practical method for gaining familiarity with recognizing THE TONIC - the most fundamental and important sound/feeling in music.
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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
01:20 - The "Tonic"
03:28 - Level 1 - Scales
04:55 - Level 2 - Chords
06:15 - Level 3 - Real Music
12:56 - Final Remarks
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When you have played the scale up to the last note - say B in the C major scale - the feeling, a felt tendency, *evokes an interior image of the tonic* that you can hum, sing or play.
Lol when the note doesn’t resolve I feel ANGER
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when the note doesn't resolve I usually feel excited, lmao
WHERE ARE WE GOING???
@@luckas221adats cool!! :3
Anger leads to suffering… 😂
When it resolves on the wrong note , it's JAZZ
I feel like some jazz players are trying to piss me off
Musical Edging
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precisely my brother
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1. Love the video. Wonderfully produced.
2. Thank you for actually playing the final note and not leaving me with that terrible “feeling” 😅
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True. A video on tension and release would be great
@@ELLIOT8209 Agreed!
Can ya drop what it actually is for us plebs
Same, that was the huge take away feeling, that terrible cliffhanging feeling of the note right before the tonic.
(Pretty confusing since, it seems like he is saying that is the feeling on the tonic.)
This makes me think of the episode of The Office where Andy starts singing a song about the other businesses in a building and Pam cuts him off before he can finish singing on the tonic…so he begs her to let him resolve the melody 😂
lol
As a singer, I’ve always felt insecure about my note / Interval / chord recognition abilities, but after being able to recognize the tonic note in all the exercises in the video, this renewed my confidence and made me want to make music moving forward. THANK YOU 🙌🙌
Also, OMG man, you have the most transfixing eyes 👁️👁️ I have ever seen
That's great! So glad that this approach has been genuinely helpful for people. I appreciate the comment 🙌🏼
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As a music teacher, I always like to keep watching content from other teachers, to see if I can come up with new approaches. I've never seen this approach to ear training, and it makes so much sense. I will surely use it in my future lectures
Great to hear!
The delay with you hitting the last note is so painful!
This was probably the best course I had on ear training. Thanks.
I side with you!
Easy to understand.
You got my rest!
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@@kestineniiquaye6110 same here. Amazing work! Thank you!!
Musical Blue balls is crazy, love this
A nice tool analyzing music in your head is the fact that about 95 - 99 % of all melodies in Western music (classic, jazz, pop, rock, anything), end on the tonic.
Check it out (without touching an instrument if you are trained).
Indeed!
I can freaking feel it
When it comes to feeling, I have benefited in an immense way from studying Indian classical music. Look up Navtej Singh who teaches masterly. I have learned from him in 4 months what would have taken 10 years. Hard to explain but you will thank me a billions. Navtej Singh also plays amazing harmonium you will most definitely enjoy if you are music lover.
Nice! Thanks for the recommendation. Will definitely check him out. I love Indian classical! That's where the method I teach originates...
This is definitely one of the best ear training tutorials I’ve seen. It almost feels like unlocking a new superpower after watching this.
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Agreed
This was pretty illuminating. I got all of the ones in this video but after watching I tried to hum the tonic in some of my favorite songs and got them all wrong 😂 people play with the key a lot in the real world ig. I’m a 16 yr old violinist and trying to get into music theory, this is the first I’ve really seen about ear training and I really liked it
Gustav Mahler's Adagietto (Symphony #5) ... The most breathtaking resolve you'll ever hear ❤
Will check!
Yrs ago in an Army Band while we were having lunch, a Cornet player would stick his bell though the window & play a Maj scale from 1 to 7 & walk away laughing.
Our reaction was always "Resolve it you Bastard".
Music is fun when you know how to listen.
Today I learned that I'm really good at tonic recognition. I do it all the time when I'm doing solos.
Nice! That's very fortunate
Thanks for revealing the secret of ear training, feeling is the main ingredient that most of the music teacher never mention, thanks for guiding us in the right track as always.
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This was really helpful as a self taught musician. I didn't know how to improve or test my own hearing ability and i was surprised to nail the real music part! (Level three)
Nice!
I just cant believe this content is free. We live in the future, no doubt about it.
This is why I think most people who play lots of instruments started out on drums. It speeds up the feeling process necessary to make learning scales and chords less stressful and easier to apply to your music. You can't force precision, it's a slow crawling into more fluid movement. Just like with correcting your bodies movements....no amount of adjustments, massage, nor pushing through it, or over-working will 100% fix anything, since you have to train the mind/body connection to function as one to allow free flow. The mind and body already know natural movement, it's just lost at a very early age. Music is no different of a sense to the brain. Rhythm literally opens the body up without conscious effort.
You make some good points there! Do you really think most multi-instrumentalists started on drums? I don't think that's been my experience with people I've met, though I haven't considered it deeply...
@@maxkonyiI play drums as well as keyboard/piano and I’m learning guitar right now. I think the main thing about learning percussion that lends itself to learning multiple instruments is that drums are literally multiple instruments. Like I had to learn how to play marimba, which is very different from a snare drum, which is very different than a timpani, which is very different than a drumset. You essentially learn how to learn if your first instrument is drums. But I know plenty of multi-instrumentalists that have never played drums, like my girlfriend who plays guitar, bass, piano, and clarinet (I showed her drums and she was better at them her first time than anyone else I’ve seen). I definitely think ear training adds to this though, because it’s really easy for me to learn guitar because I know the order I can play notes in based on piano and I can just figure out how to do that on guitar. I don’t feel like I did a good job explaining that, but hopefully it made at least a little bit of sense.
I love it when an artist and/or a composer plays something you don’t expect.
I always expect some tonic resolution, but i love when that expectation is broken but still harmonizes.
A pianist comes to mind, Michel Petrucciani.
Listening to his music is a wild ride and you never know what comes next, yet it all ties together in the very very end.
I especially like his performance of Round Mindnight.
Agreed!
Ah! This is an interesting approach - I remember studying this with my piano teacher when we went through a (terrifying) book on harmony in music. The theory of it made me stress out to such an extreme point that we eventually ended up with me ditching the book and he taught me to learn by “feeling”. Seeing a visual element added to that is fascinating! Took me back to when I was in school. Good video :)
After my retirement I started learning the piano.
Moi? The piano?
I lived my whole life joking that I was born with two left ears.
I went through 6 years of choir class where the teachers told me to move my lips and not make a noise.
And now, I'm looking at videos like this. BTW this was one of the most surprising ear training videos I've seen. And you started by descending the scale. So the leading tone is leading us away on a journey, and not leading us back home. I've asked two piano professors what would happen if someone taught students scales by descending to start with. Would that alter their musical creativity?
Great to hear! Regarding your last question there - I don't know! Despite scales generally being taught in ascending form, humans have a great propensity towards descending melodies...
Great comment! My piano teachers always had me ascend-descend in things like scales, arpeggios, etc. I had thought about why from a mechanical sense, but I hadn’t really thought about the ear training aspect of it.
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this process will be easier for you if you are learning to sing western or classical or any type of music
i swear to god i just needed to think in the manner that this gentleman thought us to do. but i got everything right and I can safely say its because of learning to sing in key
oh! I've been doing this unknowingly since I was a kid. I liked to try to guess what note would come next in a song, or I'd make up little tunes to hum and try to find notes that made the most sense together. I've never had any musical training so it's great to finally have a word for this.
Same here. Had a organ growing up and played that same game until it came naturally.
What's weird was when I was older and picked up a guitar, found I could play the tune by ear also.
Thanks for this clear explanation. Years of playing the guitar and years of vocal entonation issues. Finally I am getting there.
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thanks again for the help in discord, I honestly dont deserve to know all of this so quickyl tysm
My pleasure!
Never realised that I have always done this naturally and since learning music theory It's been making so much sense. Feeling really is key.
Your idea of feeling is really true in my experience. I was practicing ii V I in ascending keys, but instead of doing it logically I was trying to hear the next key centre each time, then working backwards to ‘hear’ V and then ii. It’s hard but rewarding. Respect to you and anyone who gets into this.
Oh interesting exercise. I'll have to give it a go...
i think this concept exists in language learning too. in our native tongue, we won't always be able to say exactly how we know something is gibberish, or why someone's accent doesn't sound native - we just know that it sounds 'off'. (maybe two words that should rhyme don't, or a word is unusual for a certain context, etc.) spelling as well - if it looks off we keep trying different things until it's resolved/familiar. this intuition is built somewhat passively over time as a child, but can still be achieved as an adult, especially with active learning.
all to say, listening is super important to build a strong foundation! thanks for sharing ♥
I consider myself to have a “bad ear” when it comes to pitch. So, I was cynical whether a video like this would be helpful.
But, man! You crushed it. The idea of stopping music, finding that “feeling”, then attempting to sing that tonic note. This is gold!
You earned a subscriber and I hope many more follow my subscription.
You deserve it!
Much appreciated! I also considered myself to have a bad ear when I was younger...really bad!
Man, it should be the GOAT video for Ear training...... Awesome 💯
This is wonderful. It's the kind of lesson a beginner should learn on day one. Most of us, unfortunately, won't do this for many years in, especially if we're self-taught.
Amazing video & great explanations,really helpful! Cheers for it mate 😊
Great lesson. thanks for the post ......
Incredible - had in me all along! Thanks for this Max!!!!
Thank you so much for giving actual ways to practice these!
I learned how to play by ear and music theory from a very young age and i can say hands down it is the most important thing you can learn as a musician that will separate you from others
Excellent video, thank you!
Thats an awesome class! I'm a music teacher myself and I just feel you nailed it on explaining the basics of ear training in such little time. I loved how you bring the concept of "feelings that we label". In my personal view, everything in music theory is exactly this - names we give to specific feelings caused by specific techniques of phenomena. Congratulations, and thank you for this lesson!
Agreed! I'm glad it resonated with you as well
Very interesting approach. I’d LinkedIn to try.
Cool ... loving these lessons Max!!!
Very good, thank you, this help me a lot.
You're an excellent teacher. This is the first time that ear training has really made sense to me.
I didn't know I needed to see that video that much. Thank you, very eye-opening (ear-opening!) content!
So well presented!
Ground breaking. Thanks a lot
Excellent, thank you !
Very insightful, thank you!
the quality of this channel insane!! def subscribed
What a great and useful video! Thanks
What a fantastic way of teaching this!
Great video!! Thanks for the incredible content
Very good advice mate, good vid. Music is all about feeling.
thoroughly enjoyed this presentation. I think I would really enjoy a sequel to this, where you go into more advanced territory. If you mastered recognizing the Tonic, where do you go from there? How do other Notes FEEL in relation to the tonic? I know there's plenty of material out there already, but if you feel like making a series out of this, it would be much appreciated!
Thanks! Appreciate the feedback. More videos in this series coming soon...
@@maxkonyi Can't wait for exercises beyond the tonic!
Awesome explanation and study examples 😊
praise be sent to ya whole lineage, this was so helpful in understanding
Yeah, i loved that first track you played at the ending section! it was the bassoon playing the tonic most of the time. Killer!
THE SONG YOU PLAYED SOUNDS AMAZING. Will def check out all your playlists, especially weekly productions
Really great way of thinking about it!
Wonderful video Max.
Thank You Very Much!
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Amazing video, thanks for the tips
Thanks, I needed this!
this just came up on my recommended..thankkyouu universe
Adorei a dica, obrigado!
so helpful, thank you very much
Absolutely brilliant.
Amazing video. I didn't think it could be so easy to get the tonic in a complete song.
Thank you for the videos sir you have an enormously wonderful mind 🙏🤙
You have a great storytelling ability. Thank you for this video
Amazing concept video.
Wonderful !a revelation ! A great thank❤
amazing ..very helpfull and true information
great vid, thank you
Impeccable vidéo production for a very engaging narrative.
Always look forward for your video.
Thankyou so much . It will surely help to make a better choices for my music prod
Very important things you talking about! ❤
Thank you very much for a perspective I have not seen before and more importantly I relate to seemingly innately. Congratulations and again thank you.
Really helpful, Thanks ❤
Subscribed after the intro. That tickled my brain in the perfect way
SUCCESS
I got chills
Same here, sinestesic ❤
Stumbled across this vid today and I felt compelled to say that your delivery is fantastic! These demo tracks sound amazing too, definitely going to deep diving your discog! +1 Sub
This was a really refreshing and I think approachable way to think about ear training. Also it got the listener involved and all around this was really helpful.
In addition to the importance of your presentation, I really liked the depth/fullness of the piano or keyboard you were playing. Please tell us the make, model, etc. - thank you.
I believe I was using a plugin called Keyscape for this. An amazing sounding piano. I'm playing on a MIDI controller, not a digital piano. The controller is a NI S61 mk2
A new and interesting point of view. I will certainly try it to see if it helps me learn
I can't describe how much I appreciate this video! This is the best ear training I've seen so far! You're amazing! Thank you very so much!
Can you do more videos like this? it's so good.
What a superbe video about music ! Thank you guy !
Amazing my brain automatically do that, especially when the radio stopped in the car and I will finish the note or the sound ... So cool and I have no idea... 😊 Thanks
Excellent thank you
Ive never thought about music like a feel. Mind blown 😲
Great Teacher
Very valuable content❤
Thanks you so much Max! Such a great teacher
Production is also on point! Love the colors and visualization
Great to hear! Thanks 🙌
Did this in realtime w/ my midi keyboard. Great breakdown!
Excellent!!
You are the best teacher i have ever seen 🙌🙌🙌
Great video!!!