I studied musicology. One stormy day one of our professors interrupted our course (like he just ripped open the door) to tell us, that the wind was blowing in F minor.

So it’s my parents fault that I’m not musically inclined

I want to be reincarnated as a kid whose parents secure that perfect pitch bag.

“But either way you know it sounds like a perfect fifth.” Me who thought it was a third: oh yeah definitely

Note to self: teach my kid to have perfect pitch

I don't need this nonsense, i play the triangle.

My college choir director once got the entire choir together in the middle of a retreat just to make us sing the chord he heard from a dying light bulb in the men's room.

Before they graduate to retail management. Sick burn.

"We only play the white notes because we're racist like chess" LOL

me, a European, upon hearing “ti” instead of “si”: *unconsciously cringes*

"and we only play the white notes because we're raccist like chess"

that story about the laptop fan feels like the music school equivalent of when i was on a trip with my art school class and we saw two nearly identical postboxes and started discussing that one of them was a slightly warmer yellow than the other

Ohmygod I'm suddenly scared of every musical student I've ever met

Imagine what we could do if we all had a photographic memory and perfect pitch.

I have perfect pitch but I never really thought about it and now I'm like "hold tf up was it those xylophones I played with as a kid. _Was it the damn xylophones_ "

My parents wouldn't let me play with matches while watching power rangers and eating macaroni and cheese. So now I'm doing all of that in my 20s.

“This is where we get to the nightmare level” *WE WEREN’T ALREADY THERE???*

"you didn't come here for quality did you?" subscribed.

As someone who has been learning music for just over 10 years, ever since I was 5, this still confused me. This still might have taught me more than my teachers have in 10 years.

Star Wars ends with Rey. LOL. No I get it I will show myself out.

"Ear training, and its sister nightmare, sight singing, are the two extraordinarily narrow and archaic techniques that all music students have to master before they graduate to retail manager." This is literally my life. BM in music education, to Senior Assistant Manager at my local movie theater.

I just started learning piano and stumbled across this video; I'm currently very confused and scared.

This guy just taught me what my music teacher in Elementary never could.

Disappointed my teachers never tortured me with the full scale of solfege

Glad everyone now knows how music school is a lengthy process of going insane that you pay for.

Fun things to do with perfect pitch: -Take AP music theory and then sleep in class -Play random songs off the top of your head -Transpose all of your music a half step down to make your friends mad -Memorize all of your music so you don’t have to worry about a music binder -play the other instruments parts in a band entirely by ear -Bet random unsuspecting people $1 that you can guess the note -write entire songs by memory using Minecraft noteblocks -listen to the person ahead of you play the sight reading piece in an audition, then finger along so you know the piece before you audition -determine the note that the fluorescent lights in your local Walmart buzz at -memorize the frequencies that correspond with each note, and use that to determine the rpm of a car engine and other various objects -find the chord that your car horn makes

me, a brazillian, upon hearing “ti” instead of “si”: *que porra é essa?*

Then there's me "developing" perfect pitch from age 15 by recognizing that the first note in Megalovania is D

So like, if you have perfect pitch, you're already 90% of the way done with this.

"You didn't come here for quality." * shows alto clef * As a Viola player I feel attacked lol

I'm so glad my Theory teacher did sight singing quizzes in his office NOT in front of the class.

0:00-10:50 me: oh this makes sense so glad I took all those lessons 10:51 me: *internal screaming*

I remember I was in my bathroom and I farted and the fart caught me by surprise so I clenched my buttcheeks a bit and that made the fart go higher in pitch, and I heard a perfect fourth interval between both farts. Never did I think that ear training could pay off to such glorious degrees.

When he said *_"Mi Re Re"_* I felt that

A little late, but a tip: "The Entertainer" by Scott Joplin is a great source for a Minor 6th

I discovered that ”The Rains of Castamere” had a minor 6th interval, that’s how I learned it.

man this is really interesting and helpful and all but,,,do you need a hug

I chose to play an instrument because I cannot sing. I get to theory and what do I have to do? SING

Bruh I’m so mad I’m studying music and I don’t have perfect pitch so I have to learn intervals and it’s super fucking hard. My friends out here with perfect pitch and he hasn’t even learned intervals. Mans just figured out what the two notes are and counts the distance between them smh

That bit at the end about hearing music differently really touched me because I think I've finally found someone who has put my thoughts about computer fans and pop songs into words.

oh. this is why my dad, a musician and composer, deeply hates "simple repetitive pop songs"...

"Is that an F sharp?" "No that's a 383+(1/3) hertz note."

I don't have a collegiate-level music education, but I did choir from age 7 through the end of high school and a few years in college, I think a total of 12 years. I am endlessly grateful to my first choir for making us learn the basics of music theory, because it transformed my whole life. I don't remember a time where I could listen to music and just *feel* it without thinking about it too much. In college I became a leader in our musical theater troupe and an a capella group because I could sightread so well. Maybe I'll never be able to recognize a major 13 sharp 11 on the spot, but I can pick up a piece of sheet music and sing it, and that makes me happy. Music is a language. You have to learn it for years and years to become fluent.

I'M HAVING FLASHBACKS TO SEVENTEEN YEARS AGO AND MY TEACHERS ARE YELLING AT ME THAT I JUST DON'T GET IT. BUT NOW I DO AND I ALMOST WISH I DIDN'T. Okay... I feel better now. I am so sorry for yelling in the comments section, but holy god, it's insane how much I didn't get, that I never thought I would. I didn't think about it for years, because I just HATED how it felt at the time. I traumatized myself for the love of music, then ran. Finding your channel this last year, and slowly working through your videos, is possibly one of the best things to come out of 2020 for me. I rediscovered everything that made me passionate about theory, about composing, and it's been amazing.

Note to self: music is not a viable backup

i actually almost started to cry at the anxiety of having to learn all of this and i'm not even in music school

I am currently stu(dying) music in my country (composición musical), and i was barely crying because all of this pandemic got the worst of my institute and well, i got an exam in a couple of hours but this video helped me a lot (more that 1 year and 3 classes) and light me up a little bit. Thanks and amazing video!

If no one else already gave an example, the synth melody in Ushers "Yeah" goes from Root to the Perfect 5th and then from Root to the *Minor 6th* !!!

I didn’t read the title, I actually just saw the chord and was like “ooh music”

"I never found one for the minor sixth..." Doctor Who Theme: am i a joke to you?

"Before they graduate to retail manager" Thanks for the motivation

I'm a music minor and it surprised me how much I understood from this video. I once heard a note in a song that sounded similar to a different song, played them both back-to-back, and guessed that the two notes were a minor third apart. imagine my joyful surprise when they were!!

Half way through I realized... "Oh, Sideways isn't exactly teaching us... He's letting out years of stress and mania" (This was very informative though)

"Teenagers on FL Studio that make more money than you." As a musician, this is the bane of my existence.

This just makes me depressed that my parents didn’t train perfect pitch to me. Would be really nice having as a musician

This is totally spot on. Had to use this to explain to my 12 year old student that music class will never end. It’s only just the beginning...

Yknow, as someone who is not a music student, nor has ever been a music student, nor musically inclined and is extremely confused as to what any of this actually means, I'd just like to say that I think you did a pretty good job with this video. I definitely learned something from it - even if I don't know what that something is ^^

I felt special for the first 30 seconds of the video and then you called me out for feeling special

It's super weird watching this video as a current music theory student just knowing that rn we are doing aural training and listening to my teacher play a random rhythm on the piano and us having to write down the rhythm AND the note qualities. Thank god I've been a choir student for 8 years.

Now if my music theory teachers could explain ear training and sight singing like this, I would be so much more interested in it!

Sir-- Good video. Here's a way that I've taught it to many students over the years. It's not important that you know all these tunes, but here are some examples I used to use: Unison---One Note Samba, a Bossa Nova by Antonio Carlos Jobim Ascending Minor Second--Jaws Theme Descending Minor Second---Hernando's Hideaway (The Pajama Game) Ascending Major Second--Do, A Deer (Sound of Music) Descending Major Second--Cheek to Cheek, Satin Doll Ascending Minor Third--In The Mood, main theme (Glenn Miller) Descending Minor Third--The Star Spangled Banner Ascending Major Third--The Marine's Hymn Descending Major Third--Good Night, Ladies, theme from Beethoven's Fifth Ascending Perfect Fourth---Here Comes the Bride Descending Perfect Fourth--I've Been Workin' On the Railroad Ascending Tritone--Cool (West Side Story) Descending Tritone--Something's Coming (West Side Story) Ascending Minor Sixth--Black Orpheus (another great Bossa Nova) Descending Minor Sixth--Theme from the movie Love Story Ascending Major Sixth--Take the A Train (Duke Ellington) Descending Major Sixth--Music of the Night (Phantom) Ascending Minor Seventh---Somewhere (West Side Story), I'll Close My Eyes Descending Minor Seventh--Something Wonderful (The King and I) Ascending Major Seventh--The Pajama Game Descending Major Seventh---the beginning of the last line of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas on the words "So have yourself a...." Ascending Octave--Somewhere Over the Rainbow, My Sharonna Descending Octave--Seven and a Half Cents (Pajama Game), the lead in to the verse on the lyrics "I figured it out..." Each example starts with the interval listed. If you have other tunes that you find easier to remember that's ok. It's important that they are tunes you know well. As far as solfege goes, or solfeggio as they call it in Italian, the names Do, Re, Mi, Fa, etc., are the actually names of the notes. The A, B, C thing is a later development and is basically kind of a North American thing, if I remember correctly. The Italians always call Do (our C) Do. You never move it in their system. (And remember, they are the ones who thought this up.) Also, if the Do is flat (Cb), they still only sing "Do." The have a word for flat (bemole) and sharp (diesis) but they only teach that to the kids when they're young. Otherwise the syllables for the Cb, C, and C# major scales are all Do, Re, Mi, etc. The flat or or sharp parts are just understood. So......there is NO movable Do. You are IN the key of Do (C) or the key of La (A) or Fa diesis (F# minor) and so on. In America we have the two schools of thought---fixed Do and movable Do. The idea with fixed Do is that you learn that each note has a different name Do, Di, Re, Ri, etc., and you learn that the intervallic structures are always the same. In other words, Do is always a major sixth below La, or a minor third above it. Di is always a minor sixth below La or a major third above it. And you learn about enharmonics (Di and Ra, etc.) and enharmonic keys (key of Se vs the key of Fi) and everything relates back to the center, even in an atonal piece. The counter argument on the side of moveable Do is that the intervallic relationships between, say, Do and La are always the same in every key, so you start associating that sound with those syllable names. There are merits to each approach. Lastly, learn to sing all major triads (up to the octave and down) minor triads, sixth chord arpeggios, sevenths, ninths, elevenths, and thirteenths. Learn to sing these in all twelve keys with the notes both altered and unaltered. And learn to sing all major scales, minors, and modes in all twelve keys. Learn to tack them together in cycle of fourths and fifths and chromatically. I realize that for a many people this will seem like a LOT of work. But these are the basic building blocks of music for a large majority of classical works and most of the pop music in the West. (Meaning Western Europe and the Americas. Asia, Oceana, etc have somewhat different rules.) And even if you don't really want to use the material like a jazz musician would on a gig in improvisation, just doing this opens up your ears immensely, like you said in the video. Good job and thanks for posting! Respectfully, Peter M. Harrison MSgt(ret) USAF and US Army Bands, 1981-2009 BA Music Theory, SUNY Potsdam, NY, 1980 MM Jazz Studies, New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, MA, 1994 Owner, Quality Music Services, Huntsville, AL

Once during a high school band practice, the fire alarm was being tested for like 20 minutes and after 5 the band started debating what note it used. We never reached an agreement.

Oh my God, you just enflamed a Passion I didn't know existed! I just wish this happened in grade school

Dude!! This was the most entertaining explanation of ear training and sight singing I've ever heard! LOVED it!

Are we going to ignore the, “I’m having a crisis, this is a cry for help” ?

My brain hurts.

Wow, that's awesome man. Thanks for the complete comprehensive overview. I'm definitely going to put all that stuff into my long term, bit by bit, practice routines (no hurry, just enjoying it).

Informative, well paced, nicely illustrated, well edited both clip and sound -today I've stumbled upon the perfect KZfaq clip. Wow.

I recently started taking my music training seriously (self taught) and there's an app that practices my pitch. I keep getting the f# note right away because it's the first note to all star by smash mouth and is engraved in my musical memory

I haven't even gone to music school, but as someone who plays classical piano as a hobby, it's scary how my mind had an involuntary thought 'fifth' as soon as you played that interval. Just makes you think about how musical theory was drawn out of our humanity, it was always there even when we didn't know it. Maybe that's what makes people go crazy, becoming so intimate with one aspect of human nature, it's like unweaving the rainbow.

me, with no training, but, according to my 5th grade piano teacher, "an exceptional ear"; i understand nothing but this note and this note smashed together just so sure do sound nice!

Don’t you love it when you can hear all the pitches and melodies going on around you and your mind just can’t stop 🥲

Idk why this was recommended for me. I know jack shit about music or music theory. But 10:49 minutes into the video "the real fun begins" and I'm still trying to figure out how 3rds and 5ths make an 11th.

Video : *C D E F G A B C* Subtitles : *fedora foss hola tito fahmy faure lot a doe tail uh sophie mere a doe* See, even them have given up

I've been recently really motivated to get started in learning music, and I know I'm signing up for a world of pain, but I didn't imagine I'd be this masochistic :^)

My dude, you're ON FIRE in this video! You're covering some great info, don't get me wrong, but your humor is so on point that I'm actively having to pause and cackle! Thanks so much for this.

This entire video felt like someone pulled a hyperfixiation infodump buffed by years of learning musical theory straight from my brain but somehow structured it in a logical way

I have never been so hopelessly confused by a KZfaq video in my life. I love it.

Hey, great video. I like your balance between humor and serious material - you really hit the mark for me. Content is great too.

your amazing explanation with your amazing humour just gained you a sub, keep it up

Dear Mr Sideways, We love you.

I feel like this is Garrett Watts ear training and teaching me to sight read and I honestly love it so much.

I freaking love your videos, all of them (and appreciate how hard you try to pronounce German words) but this here? It’s amazing. So amazing. I learn so much from your videos!

Hey! You! Refresh my music school memory!! Miss you Sideways. I still use thia video to study.

when you never got the chance to get involved with a musical instrument until age 12 and can only sing back a note when played, but not tell what note it is or literally any other skill he listed

I’m watching this at 1 am and it’s hurting my brain

This was fun and way to much for me to learn more thst a basic idea, but you have my goal straight on as at the end, I want to appreciate what is around me more.

One of the many things i'm grateful to my parents for is giving me music lessons as a little kid lol

My second year at Humber music starts in four days and this video got me pumped as hell

Holy shit that last bit is the most relatable thing/rant/descent into madness I've heard in a very long time. You don't really catch yourself doing it until you're sitting in the shower and humming intervals above and below the pitch of your bathroom fan and making melodies around it and then suddenly that precise interval sounds exactly like a song you heard the other day so you go to a website where you can hum into your mic to find the name of songs and sure enough you find that specific one, and its in the exact same key as your humming-bathroom fan YIKES I need help.

This is hands down the funniest video sideways has ever put out

This was so far away from what I expected, but so much more entertaining that what I would have imagined 😂

I used to think perfect pitch was some holy grail thing--not anymore. Relative pitch is arguably more useful. If you understand how pitches are relative to each other... that's essentially the bulk of what a melody is... Perfect pitch or not, gotta know your intervals. Even without perfect pitch, I can tell when pitches are off and I can still learn songs by ear without an issue. There are a few songs that I have memorized the starting notes and keys of. So, using that, I can figure out other pitches / notes relative to that ones I do know by memory. Also, could you imagine being a piano tuner with perfect pitch? Sometimes, tuning is not about having everything perfectly 'in tune', but rather finding the optimal tuning since everything is relative to each other.

Studying music was a satisfying mistake

Hey, Go Rams! Love your videos but I kept doing a double take when you’d show your music building. It’s supper cool to see someone so interesting with a fascinating take on things come from my alma matter. Keep up the good work!

This is an awesome video that struck a note with me. Reminded me of sight screaming and ear straining classes at North Texas back in the 80s. Everything you said is entirely 100% entirely true, I feel your pain. I sympathize and empathize. Thanks for bringing a smile to my face after years of therapy trying to get over the torture of my musical education. ;)

Fancy Music Guy: "And now you know-" Me: "W-Wait a minute, what? No, I don't know anything here."

For the minor 6th interval I used the chorus in “We Are Young” by Fun. “So let’s set the world on fire! We can go brighter! Than the suuuuuun!” With Fi-re and bright-er bring the minor 6ths. Hopefully this helps!! :)

I'm having flashbacks to my days in ear training class. All those scales, those notes. Haunting memories

been playing guitar for 10 years, and piano for a few months.. this was the most educational and helpful video I’ve EVER seen!