Major 3rd - 1:03 Minor 3rd - 2:45 Major 2nd - 3:55 Minor 2nd - 5:40 Perfect 5ths - 6:55 Perfect 4ths - 8:35 Major 6ths - 10:00 Minor 6ths - 11:50 Major 7ths - 14:15 Minor 7ths - 15:15 Tritone - 16:15

I've always struggled with my ear and I have to say, jusy a few minutes every day with this method for the last week and already I can hit any note and sing fifths, fourths, and thirds all the way through the cycle. Just gotta work in the other intervals!

You have no idea how much I love your channel.

If this is 101, I need a 001 course.

I started crying when I realized how balanced your ego is for someone of your mastery. You make the world a little less cynical

This is one of THE MOST important lesson of my modest musical life. Had I learned this early on, I can only imagine where I'd be today. Thanks. I know incorporate this DAILY!

The clearest intervals class EVER. Thank you so much for all your videos, Rick. You are beyond awesome!

Whenever I hear a minor second, I just think Für Elise or the Jaws Theme immediately and that works

This was the best method I've ever seen! I will put in practice right now!

I'm a junior undergrad theory major. The ear training was kicking my butt! This has unlocked something in my brain and things are clicking finally. Thanks!

"Fifths are tricky for people especially descending fifths. I'm not sure why, probably from not practicing." OKAY OKAY I'LL PRACTICE MORE *runs away sobbing*

7:07 lmao almost fell off my chair

This lesson is priceless. So glad I chose Rick Beato as my guide in music. Gotta enroll to Beato's ear training program for sure.

this has been REALLY helpful. thank you so much, please keep doing whatever you're doing. it's helping us so much!

great info. I've never heard anyone explain it like that. you're the man!

Thanks so much for this Rick! I’m a pro musician but have never dedicated enough time to ear training. Your videos have inspired me to get to work!

As a performance major at CCM, this ear training and method of practice is so much better than what my school offers. Thanks for your insightful approach, I will put this to the practice room, and I can't wait to show it off in class on Tuesday!

This. Is. Fantastic. I love the idea of practicing based around a symmetrically made chord, and I love the idea of learning the melodic and harmonic sounds together his way. It's like a twofer. Thanks as always, Rick.

Thanks for posting, you explained not only intervals but also the logic behing "Aug" and "Dim" chords.

Learning these from a guitar POV right now, and this was amazing! Take a step back and think about them from a piano perspective and attack the ascending/descending simultaneously. Thank you!!!

first two minutes are already better than what I've been struggling with for a couple of hours now thanks again Rick!

This is great lesson to excercise your hearing especially when you do productions but you stopped singing for many years.Thank you Rick.

Rick!.........your films really are the best on youtube that deal with ear training, keep up the great work!

Cool In addition I'd play random tones from different octaves and then sing them in the same octave. For example, C2 (~65Hz) and D5 (~587Hz) to -> C3 (~131Hz) and D3 (~147Hz) Squeezing the tones as close as possible.

Domoarogato Mr. Beato... I never thought of this before. I struggled for years with ear training, only got marginally better... I think this idea of using symmetrical chords to train 3rds is genius.. I'm going to start trying to train my ears again.

Thanks for this. This is where I'm at with my musical journey and I've been finding it challenging. This is very helpful!

Wow, I like this method as you are using the augmented triad to find both the upper and lower of the same interval-genius and because we know our triads we can check ourselves for correctness. Thank you!

Rick out All you Ear training videos this the best one because I can see and hear and I can understand thank you God Bless

This is an excellent lesson. Thank you. I am going upstairs to work on intervals now.

Great new approach for me Rick! I will be trying this for sure ... Thank you so much! 🙏

This is amazing Rick! In my experience the fifth and the fourth are the easiest for people, and they struggle with the thirds. Also the octave gets the student confused a lot, I don't know why!

Thank You so much Rick! You have so many great lessons. Thanks again for sharing them.

thank you for this advice. i am in my first year at university and this part of theory class always gets me. i have a hard time distinguishing the 4’s and 6’s. i will try to train with this method and practice more.

Thank you so much, this helps tremendously!

Thanks, Rick! But about those songs -- I'm old so they might help me! ;-) A really cool idea might be to call on your many followers to make suggestions and put together a list. There might be dozens of examples for every interval -- sometimes old ones, sometimes new ones, some from jazz standards or Broadway, some from Blues standards, some from classic rock, some from '80s new-wave pop or grunge rock or metal. That way students can look at the list and pick out the ones they know.

Hello Rick. I'm so glad I found your channel a week ago. your videos are well made and the content is great. Are there any videos for learning music theory basics, like from the really beginning? Keep up the great work :)

As always, solid advice, Rick :) Keep up the good work!

I love these videos, I needed help with this a lot.... And you helped me with it he y much so. Thanks man!

just what I needed right now, thank you very much ;)

Love the exercise, many thanks!

Tremendous help, Rick

Great method. There's a simple brilliance in the practicing of basic intervals, M2's/M3's/etc. by having an above and below note, and moving in whole notes. You're learning basic intervals, from both sides, while also exposing your ear to the more "dissonant," exotic, and advanced sounds of the whole tone scale, diminished chords, augmented chords, quartal and quintal stacks, clusters, etc.

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Thanks Rick, these are great exercises. I can identify intervals by ear but I have trouble singing them from a given tone. This should help impove it!

This is fantastic.

I seem to have hit a brick wall at harmonic thirds. I thought I was making progress, then make several mistakes. I did well with 2nds. I came here for help and will try this while continuing with the Beato ear training. Practice, practice practice.

Excellent lesson and easy to remember the method for practicing.

Excellent excercise, thanks!!

Thanks man! These tricks definitely gonna help me to be a better musician!

You've a truly brilliant channel here, many thanks indeed :)))

Excellent tips thanks Rick.

Awesome video. I'm understanding it!

Just took some notes. Looking forward to trying it out.

Can't wait to try these, I've been using the Tenuto app but I've been looking for something else to help supplement that for my ear training! Thanks.

Great advice, Rick. You just make all this seem so straightforward. We just have to add the labor. :-)

Excellent, straightforward and eminently practical. Many thanks!

I definitely know what you mean about developing a weakness on the descending side. When I hear a descending interval, I often have to reverse it in order to determine the interval. I hope this exercise helps with that.

Amazing interval training, seen no where else. Keep up the college level education ffreaken free of charge people an I'll forsure buy a Beato book

Ótimo video!!! .. I need a good teacher like this one in Brazil !!!!

Hi Rick, I have a question, Will you make a video in the future about use of melodic minor scale, in classical way (ascending, descending) as well as only using ascending? I cannot find any good video on yt about it and your videos are always very clear and useful.

Amazing, this channel is beautiful!

Thanks Rick!

Good morning Mr. Beato, perhaps you can enlighten us on George Russel's Lydian chromatic concept one day. Your channel is great!

Fantastic job!

Great method, thank you!!

The symmetrical idea is smart. I should have thought of that.

Great video lesson, i think this method is similar to the David Lucas Burge relative pitch. I gonna try for a year and see my results. You are great Rick thank you! I’m learning music from you, but also i’m learning english too. Saludos desde Mexico.

Great lesson, as usual. I'm adding this to my regimen immediately! Like...NOW!!!! LOL!

Thank you! Great tip!

This is amazing thank you

Hey Rick nice and helpful video! at 8:27 you said people have a harder time hearing a descending fifth, but for me it's easier because in my ear it's an obvious perfect cadence and helps to hear a nice resolution. Conversely the same with an ascending fourth sounding like a perfect cadence as well. Is this a bad way to train my ear though?

@7:57 My brain: “Seasons of Love”

Thank you, I'm sure they work. It just makes perfect sense to me. Regards.

u have no idea hove much I love your channel Kind Regards Henrik af Ugglas

7:08 that falsetto! haha Thanks for the lesson!

A little trick that will help is to find song snippets that contain the intervals. For example: P4 asc: "Here Comes" the Bride, Min7 asc: Have you driven "a Ford" lately, etc...

Thanks Rick I feel that musical part of my soul long thought almost dead returning to life...at the very least I will have it back for me.

Finally, I am able to get over my M2/m2 handicap! Thanks!

Brilliant!!

fantastic tutorial if i had 1% of your knowledge i'd be happy many thanks

After you hit the chords on augments and diminished; do you hit the middle note and go up then hit the middle and go lower or do you play the chord and let it ring and play the upper and lower. This is revolutionary to me.

Thank you so so much. Really. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you for this!!! :)

Fantastic lesson

What a convoluted approach. Just find songs you know well that feature each interval, and associate them with the interval. A couple examples: Major 5th up: Twinkle, Twinkle. Major 3rd down: Beethoven’s 5th. … and so on Much, much, much easier.

Hey Rick, I've got a question about over lapping chords that I use in a jazz composition of mine. Right before the B section of the tune I place two Major 7(b5) chords a whole step apart from one another in root position. My question is can you think of any reasons why it's functional? Verses it sounding like a bunch of clusters? I play a Eb Major 7(b5) over Db Major 7(b5) resolving to a G minor 7. When I was in college I asked my theory professor and he answered "just sounds like a chord with too many notes". When played delicately I think it has a very hauntingly beautiful, and complex sound. Anyway, love your videos! They're apart of my morning studies. ~XF

thank you so much maestro

Hey rick, do you have a video on how we can practice this same thing on the guitar fretboard?

Thank you so much

Hey Rick. Do you recommend doing all these every day or does one should stick to the major third for a while then move to the next set of intervals ? Thanks

Nice method for practicing this stuff

Oooh just realized my problem is I only practice up, I need to work on descending intervals!

Rick would you suggest working on one at the time or multiple at once ?

Great lesson, I should practise this stuff more. One thing that is never mentioned here though: how do I reliably recognise the interval within the context of a tonality? I can usually tell the basic intervals when isolated but when it's not the major/minor tonic my ears seem to get fooled, even into mistaking major chords for minor in some cases. But I guess I should really work on getting all of this right on its own before I have any chances of using it in a more complex scenario.

Very helpful✨

i was having a hard time with m6 m7 M6 M7 but after doing this exercise daily for a week i can hear the difference 90 percent of the time. Of course I do a lot of other ear training but seemed to take me over a speed up. and the super charge one but not as often as i used to. thanks man for the knowledge

I am in the process of finally training my ear after many years of playing guitar, maybe I'm alone in this but I personally find b2 and 7 to be the easiest intervals to hear, its usually 3's and 6's I struggle with the most.

Starting out , would one recommend doing a single interval one 30-45 minutes a day for a week then doing 5 minutes of each old interval?

great advice to reduce complexity by choosing AUG and DIM chords as a reference für 3rds.… an learning these chords accidentally btw :-)

YES thank you so much. i don't even play piano but this helps SO much :)