Thanks for having me, Levi! I had a blast chatting with you!

Great to see Frank be interviewed. He produces such great content. It's great to peek behind the curtain and see how he works his magic!

I developed the ability to play songs by ear pretty early on in my guitar studies. My advice is to do what I did: put on the radio (these days, it could be a streaming playlist) and try to play along with every song. Try to figure out the chord progressions, the riffs, and the melodies. Even if you can only pick out one or two notes at first, you will improve quickly.

I’m a pianist and if, indeed, Frank had never heard that piece before, then it is astounding to me that he could immediately recreate this song and all of its intricacies in one go, just like that! Definitely a skill I’d like to learn!

That explenation 20:55 is GOLD. Thank you both!

Frank is an absolute legend, and this chat was spectacular, thanks both of you for bringing this to us.

I'm glad I found this video. I had been hoping he would release a video similar to this because Frank is such a huge inspiration to someone without perfect pitch wanting to learn to play by ear.

You used the word "magical" about learning about music. I was told to move my lips and never make a noise as a child. I tried to learn to sing at University but the teacher asked me if it wasn't too late to be reimbursed for the tuition. It was. She apologized, but the harm was done. I told everyone I had been born with two left ears. And I started playing piano at 65 yoa last year, like my Mum. I watch your videos as I row, and I use a pitch monitor. And the other day I hit a C spot on. Merci beaucoup since I now have motivation to progress.

I soooooo appreciate all the work Frank has put in. He is BY FAR the best that I've ever seen. I never miss a video.

Helpful to see somebody illustrate that level of skill and hear him speak to the difficulty, which we all know but fear our own difficulty is due to individual inabilities..

When I was learning guitar, I had a really hard time finding a teacher who taught me music theory and how to apply it on the guitar. Most of them went straight to some exercise and I could not agree with that method. I strongly believe that learning music theory, learning where the notes are, the scales, etc. really helps you to be a better musician. You need to understand what you're playing, if you do that, technique, speed and everything else becomes much, much easier. Frank is fantastic btw. Relative pitch aside, his ability to arrange the song in his head in a matter of seconds is incredible. His playing is also beautiful.

Thank you so much for asking Frank to show and explain his wonderful skills. I never miss a video of his, not because I like the songs requested, but I am blown away by his interpretation and expression of the music. Imo he breaks it down to the beauty of the melody no matter what genre. I am amazed watching him. Wish I could do that! lol ... btw I don't even own a instrument nor have a musical background, except listening to radio and playlists.

I am so thankful for this video! I watch Franks videos whenever I want to make my day a little brighter and as a musician I’ve been so curious about the process. This is like a magician revealing their trick but you’re still just as amazed as before. You’re both fantastic content creators! Thank you!

Grt clip Levi!! U both r great musicians. Helpful to many amateurs like us. :)

These are two very grounded and talented people having such a helpful mature conversation without any antics or showiness. Great interview. Ta

Frank refers to learning intervals many times, but I believe he is actually talking about functional ear training, where he relates melody notes to the tonic. In this video, he specifically related melody notes to the tonic and didn't look at the intervals between the intermediate notes. I think when people mention interval training, the isolated two-note interval without a reference tonic is what usually comes to mind. I tried doing that for a while and had to use simple songs to remind me of the intervals, but I was never able to apply it to real songs because it would be too slow and taxing. Then I found out about functional ear training and downloaded the functional ear training app for free. After a few days, I was able to hear a song, immediately know the tonic, and start to see the numbers (scale degrees) of the melody notes. I'm still trying to improve my speed but it's been a night and day difference. Ted at Piano Fluency has many videos about this and he recommends this app as well. It's strange why the default interval training is about isolated notes.

This was awesome. I started learning guitar in 2019 and ear training was one of those things I've neglected. One thing I've started doing is pick a key, then spend 5 minutes on a chord progression singing the chord names, singing a improvised melody, singing the degree. When practicing arpeggios and scales, sing those as well. I wish I would have done that from the get go. I know what I have to do & I know the amount of time to get my ear that good is probably greater than the many hours I've spent learning guitar. With that, would it make sense for me to get a keyboard, even a small one to work on ear training while say watching some hockey or baseball? Don't need the sound on for those. Also having a small keyboard on my desk during the day I could just fire it up when I hear a song to try and figure out. Thanks Levi!

Everyone professional pianist plays good and well but this MAN (frank) is from another world, his performance are just interesting and incredible. (FRANK, I always hope meeting you everyday and i have many songs to request you to play 😢)

So cool to see Frank gain more and more traction and being recognized...Followed his content since his channel was relatively small..so cool!

I went too far down the ear training path to go back and learn reading notes despite trying, I just couldn't give up the fluidity I had to go back and focus on starting over slow reading of complex rhythms from notes on a page. Having a piano teacher mother and hearing music played from birth, I quickly gravitated to plunking around on the piano by ear before any training. Then when finally taking lessons from mom, I would quickly recognize the melody and stop reading when playing it and simply playing from ear/memory! Then taking up guitar I quickly started doing the same thing there, picking notes out and getting strong relative pitch developed to the point that I dug in deep in smooth jazz and was learning George Benson Breezin' tunes by ear. I got relative ear good enough to handle tons of melodies and would set a goal to try and play as close to them (predicting where they might go next) on the first play of a new CD. I can now hear up to fairly busy melodies and play them "air guitar", simply moving my fingers on imaginary strings to match the melody, regardless of what strings I'm "using", but usually among those on the top 3 or 4 strings of a guitar. I peaked at being able to play through some key changes on smooth jazz songs I fell in love with and then writing my own melodies and counter melodies playing over the top of the music. Frank is the best though.

guitarist shifting to pianist here, great video man. big fan of frank t

I'm new to your channel, I was so excited to see this video pop up on my feed! I've been listening to Frank for a while now and I also enjoy popping on songs and trying to play them by ear. Always trying to get better so it's really nice to hear some of his thoughts in this format! Thanks for the cool vid and I'll subscribe and check out more of your stuff

Been watching loads of Frank's content, chuffed you got to hang with him! Great minds colliding

For me the biggest thing that has helped my ear was learning how to play video game melodies on guitar because I couldn't find tab for them, Now my ear is pretty good and I can learn some pretty complicated songs/solos by ear. The only struggle now is notating it...

Thanks for interviewing this beautiful person. Big fan of his.

Loved the explanation and wow!!! How Frank instantly played a version of the song is mindblowing. Thank you

I've been watching a TON of Frank, Marcus, and The Doo these past few weeks, and they've gotten me through a hell of a chapter of life, but I'm now on the other side. I was inspired to get back to playing keyboard more (life-long player, casually, by ear primarily), and this video came up automatically after one of Frank's. The information provided here, from the difference between perfect pitch and relative pitch (I believe I have the latter!), the advice to play in all 12 keys, etc, is just infinitely valuable to where I am as a player. I played clarinet for 5 years in school (hated it, was constantly back at the xylophone, guess why!), so I have some rusty music theory in me, and I have played by ear so long I can play most basic melodies on many keys (not all 12, will work on this!). Really eager to pinpoint what I should be working on, but this video is certainly giving me food for thought. Thanks a ton to both of you for this entertaining, and highly informative interview!

After hearing Mr. Beato claim 10 minutes ear training per day is all you need, I appreciate a dose of reality. Feeling totally inspired to continue 1-2 hours practice per day after watching this upload.

Incredible!

Relly good interview man. frank is one of a kind for sure. he's unique!

That was a fantastic video. Amazing to hear both you and Frank talk about this with such passion. Oh and the song you chose! So great I had to look it up. What a great song and performance. I really enjoyed that as well. Thank you.

Thank you Levi and Frank for all of your videos! I am actually living in Denver right now! I'm also a pianist and am going to school for music

Frank is such a lovely human being.

Hey man never watched you before but just saw the first 4 minutes and I wanna say I love your attitude! I usually don't comment but I just felt I needed to say that. Keep it up!

This was awesome! Thanks for this interview. Frank is the live YT musical theory OG next to Veltri and Landes. I always say he’s a like human a.i. piano music machine but he’s better than a.i. because he plays the songs he just hears so eloquently and with soul…which a.i. cannot.

I also was a percussionist first and played piano. I transitioned from Marimba in Marching Band into Piano because I love the melodic side of both

My teacher and I spend a ton of time ear training. I can play any tune I hear and always have been able to. It’s understanding what I’m hearing and music theory we are tackling currently. It’s is very in depth and a TON to dissect.

This is so awesome! Frank is so inspiring

Frank is an inspiration to us all!

Frank is my all time favorite improve musician. There's really nobody who can play, loop and improvise melodies like Frank. He creates masterpieces in minutes. Loved your interview with him and getting to hear more details about how he does things.

Frank is awesome! I am his subscriber :) .

Frank is one of my favorite content creators. Thank you so much for this video.

Awesome interview!!

Such a great video! Thank you both!!!

I started learning piano for a week now Its the best instrument for composers

That skill is so crazy

Great interview really interesting stuff 🎹🎹🎹🎹🎸🎸🎸🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼

Beautiful singing !

Reminds me that something I would love to see is some material about adopting piano material/licks to the guitar. Obviously, a lot of the time that would only be right hand parts, since ... well ... guitar. But would be cool to see your approach to stuff like that. Thanks for the vid, both of you.

This was a very interesting and learning interview. Thanks for sharing his point of view 👏

I love Frank. He seems to be an amazing and intelligent person, and a brilliant musician at the same time. Thank you for making this video. I’ve just started learning piano at the age of 40. Will see how it turns out later. :)

Wow Frank is such a talented and humble guy!

This guy! He's awesome.

Great video - thanks for the knowledge and insight! 😊

I watch all of Frank,s channels , he is my main inspiration .

Amazing and thanks for be so open and honest.

Banger episode!!! Absolutely love Frank ♥️

Very helpful for any musician. Great video, thanks.

I played piano from like she 10-13 or 14, HATED the music I was learning, but hadn't got into rock yet as I would in middle school and high school. Now I'm 33 and bummed I never learned songs I liked or I'd have stuck with it. I can still learn stuff when I want to, but I wish I could find sheet music easier that wasn't a dumb easy version, or over-complicated pro version. I've played guitar now for like 15yrs but wish I could remember theory and scales

Frank is a class act… 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Lotta great beard energy here

Frank is absolutely magic

Great stuff! Time to get back to practicing 💪🏻

Wow I learned a ton from this!

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Great video Levi!

Frank is the Beans, love that fkn guy. Good stuff here

I'm pretty sure I've seen all the Frank Tedesco videos. Hense why I'm here.

Great talk together Thank You 👍👍👍👍👍😊

Frank is simply brilliant!

This was great

Frank Tedesco is the best! He's one of the handful of KZfaqrs I subscribe to and I always look forward to his posts. I love music, but I never had an opportunity (or the time) to learn how to play any instrument, so I guess I just live vicariously through talented folks like Frank. There are many other KZfaqrs with similar content as Frank's, but I really like Frank's personality and talent and make his videos consistently enjoyable and entertaining. Frank deserves to have a billion subscribers, so hit that Subscribe button, folks!

Thats unreal

20:09 about fighting against the attention span is so real

Time to pick up some theory

Would be great to learn more about him just pressing a B and then identifying the piece is in E minor 🤯

20:23 Frank shows his method of recognizing and playing requests on the fly.

I would love to watch Tedesco hear Frank Zappa's guitar solo on Inca Roads and have him play it!

Please somebody translate his arrangement of Melisa Kelly and the smokin' crows - I never 23:20 to music sheets. Ill buy them instantly.

15:00

The dude is very talented, especially when he starts to compose with loops and such. But to be fair, for the music he plays by hear, it’s mostly easy pop song. I’m much more impressed by his composing skills than the “replay” one.

Didnt like the song until frank played it on the piano. Beautiful

Frank definitely lived in Japan for a few months... Spotted the can of Asahi ;)

I want to so play by ear😢 I need easy tutorials

Frank's videos on Omegle are amazing

I really want to become a musician and have a good ear, but I haven't been able to get to the point where I can see any marked progression in my skill I've been floundering endlessly with nothing I can latch onto and grind my way up. I can absolutely recall songs in my head, and tell when it's right or wrong, but no ability to reproduce the tunes I recall... Work ethic is not my issue but I have no frame of reference to grow my skill, I have the entire catalog of KZfaq videos on the subject committed to memory, I'm just too dull to find the jumping of point to start the climb

Any suggestion for learning to play the piano? I already have played violin for many years and know music theory. Have no clue how to improve my piano skills...

This part: 15:40 was so helpfull for me! Thanks!

You can't break the theory rules unless you know the theory rules.

Next up, thedoooo

Frank showing his thought process is like this meme: "how to draw an owl"

I must have missed the question on how he trained his ear for relative pitch.

7:00 @FrankTedescoOfficial Don't say "there's nothing to latch on to" when they ask you to play Rap. Say, sorry there's no music in this. 😄

I like what he said about it not being an unconscious thing despite his skill, it never ends

do you see the notes on the keybaord in your head. or is it the chords name in whay key, or you remember the melody and only need the key and play it like singing the notes. or how do you think all of it? a

Been playing guitar for a few months but am now hearing that piano is better so what should I do

If you’re a guitarist, get Levi’s latest book ‘Guided Practice for Intermediates’. You will be playing all over the neck in every key, making it far easier to play by ear with different shapes. He’s no BS, tho. It takes practice.

16:17 “Take everything you’re learning and apply it to all 12 keys” **laughs in classical music** 😂🔪

I wish he would have revealed which chords he was playing to see if I heard it correctly.

Like when someone says, "oh, it's in threes." No idea what that means.