Essential Ear Training - Feeling the Major Scale
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Күн бұрынLearn to hear and feel each degree of the major scale in a melodic context. This is essential training for developing an accurate musical ear!
The Secret of Ear Training:
• The Secret of Ear Trai...
Stephen Malinowski - Harmonic Coloring:
www.musanim.com/HarmonicColor...
• Harmonic Coloring
Chapters:
00:00:00 - Musical Opening
00:02:27 - Introduction
00:04:45 - Understanding the Feeling of Scale Degrees
00:05:56 - The Visualizer
00:07:46 - Prerequisite Knowledge
00:09:08 - Introduction to Scale Degrees
00:11:49 - 1st Degree
00:15:54 - 5th Degree
00:17:41 - 4th Degree
00:20:55 - 3rd Degree
00:26:25 - 6th Degree
00:33:17 - 2nd Degree
00:39:56 - 7th Degree
00:41:33 - Realistic Expectations
00:43:56 - Practice Methods
00:50:35 - Listening in a New Key
00:56:53 - "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"
01:02:10 - Transcibing Real Music (exercises)
01:10:30 - Audience Test
01:14:18 - Degrees Outside the Major Scale
01:17:56 - Using Reference Songs and Resolutions
01:21:55 - How it Works in Practice
01:30:00 - Melody in the Wrong Key
01:33:28 - Audience Questions and Various Topics
Musical Warp Drive, my series of courses on theory and composition, is available now on Udemy! Check it out here:
- Music Theory Fundamentals, Mind & Ear Training: maxkonyi.com/mwd1
- Melody, Scales & Modes: maxkonyi.com/mwd2
- Chord Progressions & Harmony for Composition: maxkonyi.com/mwd3
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@maxkonyi Ай бұрын
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 Ай бұрын
Is there a particular reason tonal center is Blue?
@maxkonyi Ай бұрын
@@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.
@spencerjones2302 8 күн бұрын
Protect this man… he’s onto big things!
@jarrettonions3392 17 күн бұрын
No idea what im watching but i like it!
@bryanchristopher75 17 күн бұрын
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
@em_the_bee 17 күн бұрын
What a great teacher lul JUST FEEL IT BRUH
@DrkstrX 16 күн бұрын
@@em_the_bee😂yeah just feel it bro duh! I can't understand how people just feel it. Makes no damn sense 💀
@Mighty_Atheismo 10 күн бұрын
It's very easy. How to feel it. Step 1. Do *it* Step 2. Don't do something else
@ryguydavis 14 күн бұрын
I would LOVE a podcast of an hour of guided practice. I've wanted something like that for years!
@user-tv7dk8ly3f Ай бұрын
Does anyone else feel like this is the video they’ve been looking for, for about 20 years?
@gilboewer4107 Ай бұрын
YES I DO
@michaelhackethal8187 Ай бұрын
Sure do, bro.
@michaelknight4041 Ай бұрын
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.
@StrangeLeap Ай бұрын
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.
@hectorgarciamarin9736 Ай бұрын
Hahx si
@yiyuan8 14 күн бұрын
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.
@zaidsayeed326 12 күн бұрын
I feel like I've learned things about life listening to this video.
@Ratstick58 3 ай бұрын
Best music theory KZfaqr. Criminally underrated. Don’t change when you get famous and keep the down to earth, unpretentious yet deep vibes going.
@maxkonyi 3 ай бұрын
Much appreciated 🙏🏼
@SchultiTube 27 күн бұрын
@@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!
@maxkonyi 26 күн бұрын
@@SchultiTube Not yet but they are coming!
@dunker20 21 күн бұрын
@@maxkonyi That's great news, I'm literally checking every day if those are available yet. Thank you in advance, Max!
@maxkonyi 21 күн бұрын
@@dunker20 Good to know!
@azizjabi 18 күн бұрын
Came for music theory, stayed for zen, great work Max ❤
@gabby_mma 17 күн бұрын
I don’t know what that was at the beginning but i could listen to it my whole life
@SongSecretsMomNeverTaughtYou Ай бұрын
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 Ай бұрын
Cool! I will definitely check that out today. Thank you. Always looking for more stuff on this topic.
@SongSecretsMomNeverTaughtYou Ай бұрын
@@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
@raybart5604 3 ай бұрын
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.
@maxkonyi 3 ай бұрын
Very nice! That's great to hear.
@I-is-me Ай бұрын
Does he have a course on ear training?
@maxkonyi Ай бұрын
@@I-is-me In the works...
@I-is-me Ай бұрын
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)
@I-is-me Ай бұрын
@@maxkonyi I wish it covers every aspect of ear training step by step
@twiggygordon3980 11 күн бұрын
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.
@shoeeeeee8113 2 күн бұрын
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! ❤
@hhFaktor 3 ай бұрын
probably the best series on yt about this. Avoiding the nonsense information and just practice the feeling.
@Therealdangerboy54 19 күн бұрын
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
@OliveBardicBird 19 күн бұрын
105 years?? wow
@Therealdangerboy54 17 күн бұрын
@@OliveBardicBirdyes I’ve been alive very long
@scoutbane1651 17 күн бұрын
You could like... not lie, kid. What do you even gain? Pathetic.
@pseudoblackie 17 күн бұрын
@@Therealdangerboy54 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 best comment ever
@OliveBardicBird 17 күн бұрын
@@scoutbane1651 bruh chill it’s all vibes here
@josemelrose5465 Ай бұрын
Your direct and focused speech is excellent, it’s something a lot of other educators don’t have. Great stuff.
@johanjotun1647 29 күн бұрын
tho we all talk, really speaking is a skill
@MGM261 12 күн бұрын
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!
@maxkonyi 11 күн бұрын
Wow great!
@mcgoogs 21 күн бұрын
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. 🎉
@maxkonyi 21 күн бұрын
That's the hope! Glad you enjoyed it 🌞
@TheSSEssesse 2 ай бұрын
This is genuinely the most useful ear training video I’ve come across
@Pasta221 Ай бұрын
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!
@Qwerty-qv5fp 10 күн бұрын
Everything you say makes sense this is what I’ve been looking for! Also giving Buddhist vibes great humble approach!
@Benz-wz5ku 3 ай бұрын
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!
@tepumasutasauno8671 Ай бұрын
I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS FOR YEARS
@michaelknight4041 Ай бұрын
It did tickle me when he appeared in the circle 😊
@Noel_Svartsjo 3 ай бұрын
Every time it went from 3 to 2 but didn’t resolve at 1, that tickled my mental
@benjammin4840 Ай бұрын
Incredibly helpful. Thank you!
@loveslayer718 3 ай бұрын
This circle is so useful, please keep developing it!
@_christianlowe Ай бұрын
This is brilliant thanks so much for creating!
@zara11135 3 ай бұрын
Thanks for making this useful video!! Hope you continue with your series of ear training
@tigermoosearmy Ай бұрын
more vids like this please i love being able to see the degrees
@brianferris1 Ай бұрын
Such a powerful message around the 1h22m mark about all the tools and past experiences and getting the job done.
@mg-lh3ig 17 күн бұрын
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.
@ketzal.delatierra Ай бұрын
fantastic teacher! thank you 🙏🏽
@bjornstromberg1254 3 ай бұрын
It was a nice way to reframe and visualise your point, it's cool that you keep evolving your approach on this subject.
@ezolnier Ай бұрын
This study by numbers of intervals worked better for me. Thanks
@mrwakacorp Ай бұрын
This is incredibly well done! Highly educational!
@dragoivasile1375 3 ай бұрын
THANK YOU! Really helpfull!
@kumbukanibanda9559 Ай бұрын
This is amazing
@gravityiskey 16 күн бұрын
OMG THIS VIDEO SHOWED ME WHERE A BEGINS AND Z ENDS OMG
@danielfuentes6055 3 ай бұрын
¡Gracias!
@BenjaminDeRoeck 28 күн бұрын
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!
@paul7188 3 ай бұрын
Great video Max. I missed it live unfortunately (4am start for me!), but really enjoyed the stream - thank you!
@zalinabrooks1198 3 ай бұрын
Excellent ❤
@moniquewrites9046 11 күн бұрын
This is surprisingly relaxing
@StratsRUs Ай бұрын
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.
@renddnguyen 26 күн бұрын
OMG love this channel so much
@AltarToRememberance 12 күн бұрын
This video changed my life, thank you!!!
@mondavou9408 Ай бұрын
I really appreciate what you're tying to do. Very nice presentation.
@arielhill5711 19 күн бұрын
Wow thank you and PLEASE do the podcast or series of ear training that would be so helpful!!
@westleybenson1188 Ай бұрын
What a wonderful video. Very helpful. I have already begun doing something similar with my students. Very inspiring.
@sonic.180 8 күн бұрын
what a great video, thanks you so much
@Sara-ik9bl 7 күн бұрын
Thank you so much, if I could give you a million likes, I would.
@kiplukewhitehead8522 Ай бұрын
Genius method, more please sir 👏
@Therealdangerboy54 17 күн бұрын
In all seriousness, this video is soooooo good!!! Thank you so much!
@neglakaybon Ай бұрын
Thanks for the video. My first time exposed to that. It was fantastic. Thanks❤
@LostSoulAscension 29 күн бұрын
This was so amazingly helpful! I would love to see more videos like this when you have the time. The only hard part is if I'm only listening then I cant see the circle, just as feedback
@gilboewer4107 Ай бұрын
I'm so fucking thankful for this video. I've been searching for something like this for so long, learning the language of music, the language of the feeling of music from the ground up to understand music completely and express myself perfectly
@cirasvira 16 күн бұрын
thanks for this knowledge
@DanielBarberMusic Ай бұрын
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. :-)
@daynemin 3 ай бұрын
The direct listening really hit home this time. That familiarity before its mentally labelled, can only be pointed to with words. 😎🙏🌌
@vaptan_beatz Ай бұрын
This is the most important video tutorial about musice for me ! ! Absolutley gamechanger 🍩🍩🍩
@benjamingennesaret7103 3 ай бұрын
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.
@maxkonyi 3 ай бұрын
Good to know!
@nz7166 3 ай бұрын
very helpful thanks
@SPW1981 3 ай бұрын
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
@maxkonyi 3 ай бұрын
Glad to hear it!
@bfinkk Ай бұрын
Great video, very useful, thanks a lot !
@samgee2275 11 күн бұрын
Very helpful! Thank you.
@magnusfahlstrom3262 3 ай бұрын
Absolutely fantastic video (and I'd LOVE to have that as an app on my phone).
@SamuelGfeller 27 күн бұрын
1:12:00 YESS please! That would be awesome
@vusgaldafda7889 25 күн бұрын
And drag to start.
@itsTatwice Ай бұрын
Please make those long practice videos 🙏🏼🙏🏼
@nadyaluizafernandes1528 11 күн бұрын
thank you ❤
@Harrier_DuBois Ай бұрын
Really interesting!
@m27363 16 күн бұрын
Amazing video
@classicbasslines 3 ай бұрын
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*
@maxkonyi 3 ай бұрын
Nice! Happy to hear that. Thanks
@michaelknight4041 Ай бұрын
SERIES!✊ SERIES! ✊SERIES!
@shima1963 Ай бұрын
Thank you! 🙏🏻🎶🍀
@MegaHsiang Ай бұрын
I love it. 感謝！
@kyleolin3566 Ай бұрын
Hey, I just found your channel and subbed. This is a great concept. I like how you name the intervals and have a visual aspect as well. I am always on the go and never have enough time to work on music, so I like having something I can listen to in order to exercise my ears. I think it would be cool to do a series on different scales, and another on chords.
@maxkonyi 29 күн бұрын
Coming soon!
@cg13- 28 күн бұрын
@@maxkonyi Ah I'm so looking forward to that as well! This came in exactly the right moment for me and I really appreciate your patient and thorough approach in making this.
@Resewnio Ай бұрын
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.
@buxycat 11 күн бұрын
This is the Pink Floyd circle of fifths lesson. About to get my head around this was where I was when I had to give up 20 years ago. Getting back to music again now, I will definitely be referring to this video a lot and checking your other channel for the guides I need, thank you. I like the way you do things. p.s. it's kinda hard to sing when you have a MIDI wind controller in your mouth;)
@danielfuentes6055 3 ай бұрын
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! ❤❤❤❤
@maxkonyi 3 ай бұрын
Thanks for the comment and the tip! Much appreciated. Glad it was helpful 🌞
@mariaponomareva1242 2 ай бұрын
Your work is just incredible! So happy I found you !!! Thanks a lot this is sooooo Gooodddddd
@maxkonyi 2 ай бұрын
Nice! Glad you're enjoying it 🌞
@DanielSymphonies 2 ай бұрын
Probably the best video on ear training I've seen on youtube. I think I was recommended this video because it is very similar to a video I just uploaded. A way simpler take on what you say in this video. Very nice, you got a new subscriber!
@girirajdk1420 28 күн бұрын
Can you help me understand this I sont understand
@eurometrixproductions7 12 күн бұрын
Hello
@RA-qr8gc Ай бұрын
You're awesome. Never smashed sub button harder.
@johanjotun1647 29 күн бұрын
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.
@yobroh0 11 күн бұрын
Oh God I love this 🪷🪿
@martoneill Ай бұрын
This is great stuff- thank you. Definitely going to give this space in my practice schedule. The circle of fifths representation of the scale degrees is a really interesting way to conceptualise this. I’d be interested in an app. Any training materials/structured course on this would be really interesting. Thanks!
@oliverkuko5738 3 ай бұрын
man thx a lot im struggling at musicology university with that ! man keep doing this thx a lot
@classicbasslines 3 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@maxkonyi 3 ай бұрын
Hey thank you! Much appreciated 🙏
@philjames1019 12 күн бұрын
This was an awesome lesson my friend. I grabbed a mug of coffee and my guitar, and watched it all in its' entirity. It was so educational, and strangely enough, so relaxing as well. I even created a link to promote it in my normal guitar lesson channel (no names mentioned). You've also got a new subscriber!!!
@maxkonyi 11 күн бұрын
Nice! Happy to hear it. Much appreciated 🙏
@itorres008 Ай бұрын
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?
@pattidowdy258 3 ай бұрын
This is a great explanation of movable do solfege but with numbers instead of " do re mi..."
@nils8584 Ай бұрын
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.
@maxkonyi Ай бұрын
Nice!
@nils8584 Ай бұрын
@@maxkonyi thanks! will be looking out for more on this :)
@LukeIcardMusic 22 күн бұрын
You need more recognition sir I wish you the best of luck.
@maxkonyi 21 күн бұрын
Much appreciated!
@deanroddey2881 Ай бұрын
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.
@benjamingennesaret7103 3 ай бұрын
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. KZfaq 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!
@maxkonyi 3 ай бұрын
Something very similar to this coming soon! Working on it at the moment...
@henriquearroxelas1510 3 ай бұрын
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.
@maxkonyi 3 ай бұрын
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.
@papamashas 18 күн бұрын
wooooow its wow. Thanks a lot! Чувак, это очень круто! Я смотрю и все перевернулось с головы на ноги! У тебя дар объяснять так, что бы понял каждый, даже такой безнадежный ученик как я)
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