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I was a tone deaf drummer my whole life until college. I started school as a percussion and switched to piano because I realized it would be more fruitful. So I started playing piano and ended up finishing with a piano performance degree. In regards to jury’s and barriers aural skills and ear training were my biggest set backs. The best thing to do for it is just emerge yourself in music. Now that I’ve been playing piano 10 years it’s so effortless. Playing piano really is a theory/ear training hack because you’re constantly applying it just playing the instrument

I think "solfegge" is underestimated. For me it was a game changer for ear training. I recommend any one who struggles to learn it.

Oh my god this is such a godsend. I was looking everywhere and didn't know what to follow because there were so many 'tip' videos that didn't provide long term solutions. But this app seems to teach you in a linear way where you just need to practice and it's just the type of thing I was looking for. Thank you!!

From personal experience, it is 100% possible to learn to "hear" chords. I had no proper musical experience until around 2 years ago. I never used any apps, I simply played a lot each day, listening to a variety of songs and trying to identify the chords, and 2 years later, it is like second nature. An interesting thing is that I don't so much listen for the root (as you can have inversions, etc. which can make it a bit more ambiguous), but I assign a certain feeling to each chord, "getting to know" each chord in a way. It's incredible the amount of freedom it grants. If a song is stuck in my head, or I've even just heard a song, I can play it instantly on the piano, rather than spending a month learning it as I used to when I started out.

This is exactly the video I was looking for. Thanks so much! Hope this gets more view over the years

Playing a local production of Kiss Me Kate on guitar right now. It’s been a while since I had to do this much reading and one of the ways I’m keeping up with the task of reading as chords go flying by in cut time is to identify common progressions, key changes, etc. being able to hear a I VI II V when I see it on the page is really helpful - though the skills of reading and hearing chord progressions feel like they developed separately for me and have only recently started to merge.

Thank you so much for your tutorials keeps my music theory fresh for producing.🎵🎶🎵

Great tool I will definitely check it out!

First video I've seen of your channel. haha, I just bought my own "app", a piano. I've always joked that I was born with two left ears but at 65 it's time to learn a new language. I'll work on my fingers and hopefully that'll tickle my ears into learning this. But it looks very interesting.

Nice explanation.

Ryan, thank you so much for all the tips you offer for us on your channel! You made the difference for me to start mine! 🎻🎺📯🎷🥁🎹

Awesome

Thank you for these type of videos! Usually when I'm making something I just do things until it sounds good, but now I'm starting to actually feel like I'm not faking it until I make it 😅

Good Topic Ryan

one of the biggest roadblocks in developing good aural skills is the way we teach music in schools. inevitably the most optimal way to teach 100-200 kids music at the same time will fail a certain percentage of overperformers and underperformers and sadly there is not an easy or obvious solution to this problem (other than lessons, we cannot count on lessons being the solution to this however, because there is not built in quality control to taking music lessons) that doesnt hurt the other % of students that are not affected. I learned harshly when I got into college that some people are destined for failure by their upbringings. I had to overcome a lot of barriers directly set by this huge emphasis on UIL myself and I even knew my junior and senior year not to spend all my time working on 3 etudes for UIL or whatever scholastic competition is regional and had I been given time (like in my senior year) to learn and ask high level questions in a 1 on 1 setting (outside of lessons, in mine and a lot of other cases, lessons do offset this problem a decent bit) its possibly I would have been more prepared for the polarizing shift in the level of material being presented. Surprisingly (its not suprising at all we have known this and the statistics back this up) stuffing 500+ kids in a building and teaching all of them at the same time will fail to a certain percentage. Lowering that percentage to the lowest possible point tends to again, hurt certain over and underperformers, in math, music, english, science. I could go on all day. Aural skills and having a good ear are devalued because of this method of teaching. The kids who will play the UIL etudes the most proficiently have likely spent less time practicing applicable music skills and (like with countless people I see now in college at UNT) they end up being behind when they arrive at college. and just like with so many before them, if they do end up underperforming, they switch to music education, which again failed these students in the first place. So the cycle continues. Videos like these are so increibly valuable for these kids, dont stop what you do. The actual effective solution to part of this problem is a universally available, free educational system to provide the knowledge typically only recieved from the most prestigious directors or from private lessons. for some students, this is the only way this information is presented.

Thank you for this precious knowledge sir 🙇🏾‍♂️

That thumbnail is everything

Idk why I watched all the way through, but I did. Hope this helps the algorithm

Great lesson!

Thanks I was just wondering about this yesterday!

Nice

I’m looking to learn music theory but I don’t know where to start. I already have a pretty basic understanding and are doing grade 8 guitar. Any suggestions for how I should learn?

I imagine this would be very good for helping one imagine chord progressions in one's "mind's ear" when working with theory/harmony questions.

Why the heck do they charge $49 per year? Seems like they’d sell a butt load of them if they just charged even $9.99 once.

I have been using Chord Crush for a while now, but don't get further than level 3 unfortunately. I somehow can't tell the difference, even mixing up minor and major at a certain point, even though I have been playing the piano for years to a satisfactory level. Any tips how to approach this? It's very frustrating.

Thanks for your time. I’m just tired of the subscription services. I prefer free with ads or one time but. Sorry

Hello! Do you know how to train the ear in order to hear a lot of notes played simultaneously?

Cheeky shoutout to Rick Beato's ear training course!

I've tried Chord Crush before but it was too easy for me. Maybe I should try again at least until I get to where it's challenging. Edit: I just tried the training mode (I think for the first time) and it actually is kind of challenging! I like it! It uses real songs from KZfaq if you want!

Just tried Chord Crush. It's honestly a good project but REALLY lacks finition right now. I strongly suggest waiting before buying anything.

5:09 xDDDD

Wait but I don’t get how notes transcend instruments,,, like I don’t know bass so how am I to know that’s a C ,someone please explain how this works😭😭😭

I associate chords with emotion and how they impact behaviors. Music can influence certain behaviors in some.

Thank you for the video. Too bad chord crush is not working on iPhone and iPad (You can't hear the chords). Is there other app that is working on mobile devices ?

Wow, this is really very helpful! Thanks so much! Maybe I can actually write something decent now, haha. ~ Ana P.s. Could you do some sort of video that involves the Fantastic Beast soundtracks by James Newton Howard? I just find the soundtrack(s) absolutely incredible and _fantastic_, and would love to hear what you generally think about it!

This lesson was really interesting and informative. Would you be so kind as to do an example following this video?

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Im afraid that i might be tone deaf 😢

Major chords can be sad depending on how you use them likewise with minor chords

Is not true the statement that some people are tone deaf. Of course, some people have it really easy to find out intervals and coping melodies from ear (without absolute ear), and other people struggle more. But careful with that kind of statement Ryan, I love your channel, I know how you work hard in it (you can tell for the quality) and is amazing the information you bring to musicians around the world, but with statements like that, maybe people interesting in music say "naah, is not for me, I could never do it". And that's simple not true. If you want to hear more about why everyone disting tones and timbres, there are some talks from Benjamin Zander, where he explains that if exist people that are tone deaf, they can never drive a manual car, or recognaince in a milisecond the voice of their mother on the phone. And not only that is their mother, but how is she, just with "Hello". Again, I know you have the best intentions, I really love the channel, but statements like that can be discourege for people that struggle in the first years of music formation, and music is for everyone. And hope we don't lose in translation here (english is not my first language), the comment is with the best intention. Hope the channel keep growing, because is unique and really useful. Thank you Ryan, and best wishes!

This is an 8 minute commercial....

If you're tone deaf, your mother-in-law may just be able to assist.

You can learn to HEAR chord changes FOR $79** I guess you've made it as a youtuber when you give your viewers the most basic tutorial on X disguised as an ad.

Such a poor/babyish looking app interface, even if it might work that puts me off completely.