Basic Ear Training Exercises and Techniques for COMPLETE BEGINNERS

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  • @PresidentMystry
    @PresidentMystry 4 роки тому +2200

    As soon as you said “Now here’s the second note.” I prepared for a single note and closed my eyes. Then an ad started playing of a guy playing a jumpy tune on his piano and I thought, “Is this a trick question??” So I opened my eyes and saw the skip ad button

    • @opasnajovana
      @opasnajovana 4 роки тому +100

      same, i got so scared

    • @NoahKellman
      @NoahKellman  4 роки тому +242

      hahaha oh man sorry that's awful timing! Didn't realize that's where the ad was setup. Did you end up getting the question right after you recovered from the shock?

    • @PresidentMystry
      @PresidentMystry 4 роки тому +57

      I had to skip back a few seconds but yes

    • @thembelihlezwane4226
      @thembelihlezwane4226 3 роки тому +20

      😂😂😂😂

    • @DanielLearnsPiano
      @DanielLearnsPiano 3 роки тому +21

      I did exactly this. I had the Simply Piano We Will Rock You ad.

  • @kcreative7293
    @kcreative7293 2 роки тому +234

    The biggest secret and most challenging part of ear training is...."CONSISTENCY" .....you have to do it everyday!!!!!!!! the consistency part is where people fail and quit. I know cuz I was one of them. its hard and frustrating and it makes you want to quit. Believe me if you do it every day every day every day it does get easier and you'll be amazed of the results.

    • @thebeloved25
      @thebeloved25 2 місяці тому

      God bless you for this.
      I will try it.

  • @GiftsofMusicNW
    @GiftsofMusicNW Рік тому +20

    I like how you explain it as a new language. Takes the pressure off getting it right away.

  • @MsVikings100
    @MsVikings100 Рік тому +31

    I got the G in the first question. Fun, and awesome teaching video, just what I needed. Thank you

  • @tuttilynn3791
    @tuttilynn3791 4 роки тому +357

    I've been looking for a good ear training course for a new student, this is it. Thank you.

  • @ninij9692
    @ninij9692 2 роки тому +158

    The snow outside is mesmerizing, it goes really well with this video.
    Thank you for doing these videos for those of us who have struggled with ear training and singing on pitch.
    💜☮🎶

  • @chaleureusenikolai3741
    @chaleureusenikolai3741 4 роки тому +435

    Im distracted by the background its so beautiful

  • @dedrg470
    @dedrg470 3 роки тому +57

    I love this, he shows the difficulties we may encounter, makes me feel less lost, worrying if I am doing it wrong

  • @thisyearwithkate9504
    @thisyearwithkate9504 2 роки тому +10

    I just started learning the piano and this has truly helped me in recognizing the notes.....Thank you so much for keeping it so simple. Love from Nigeria.

  • @elainegroom1989
    @elainegroom1989 2 роки тому +16

    Excellent training. I have trained my ear to hear middle C. The rest falls into place with repetitive singing. I hope that came out right. Thank you. (Just keep singing)

  • @claudiachestelson8289
    @claudiachestelson8289 2 роки тому +8

    This video and you are what I've been looking for...I kept thinking we've got to recognize the SOUND of notes to actually find and play them. And that definitely is like learning a new language. Thank you...for un-complicating this!!!

  • @LivingGuy484
    @LivingGuy484 4 роки тому +158

    My teacher recommended making an association between intervals and a popular song (or one we could make up). Eventually, you'll pick it out super easily
    Ex: Perfect 4th going up, in every key, is the start of "Here Comes the Bride"
    Perfect 5 is starwars theme
    A major third going down sounds kinda like a doorbell
    So on, so forth. You can find handy charts with other example songs for free online. I would highly recommend still doing the exercises that he suggests though, because they allow you to internalize the sound better and really get a grasp on what you're hearing

    • @TechTins_Projects
      @TechTins_Projects 4 роки тому +8

      Don't do this. It will make it much harder. I tried that for months and yes eventually I was able to recognise those pitches. But was of zero help when trying to find notes in melodies. The method described in this video is the easiest and best way. You need to use your instrument at all times for this. Learning all the intervals two note associations does not help, believe me.

    • @kaussey4
      @kaussey4 3 роки тому

      This helped a lot for me , you just have to make sure you put it in music context and remember how the interval sounds in relation To the 1 and in relation to notes that are played in sequence (which is the hard part imo) for ex. 1-4-7 in a min key sounds like two perfect 4th back to back

    • @Ana_crusis
      @Ana_crusis 3 роки тому +1

      Yes that's a good way to do it. I did that and could recognise all the intervals in a couple of weeks. After a while you stop thinking of the song you used as you know the interval so well

    • @Ana_crusis
      @Ana_crusis 3 роки тому

      @@TechTins_Projects nonsense

    • @neongrave5414
      @neongrave5414 3 роки тому

      @@Ana_crusis well i have a test on monday i can tell the intervals because of the music but when it comes to melody or randomly generated notes i get lost and its only c major scale what should i do?

  • @witchenette
    @witchenette 2 роки тому +31

    This is so helpful! I might be able to finally overcome the trauma from when I was in elementary school. Where I live, arts and music are obligatory subjects up until 18 yo, the end of high school. When I was about 10 yo I think, the music teacher was forcing the whole class to write down the notes she played on the piano. She would run through the basic chords first and then she played some random sequence. Of course, the whole excercise was always graded. That was impossible for me then, as was for the majority of the class, and it's still impossible now. I hated music because of that so much, each lesson was so stressful. It was maaaany years ago and I still remember that lessons vividly, the trauma is real.... It seemed very wrong to force kids to do something like that at such age... Your video wasn't stressful at all, I even feel motivated to practice and learn now :) Thank you so much for that!

    • @noragraffkleven1215
      @noragraffkleven1215 29 днів тому

      So sorry to hear you've had trauma take away your joy in music. Hope you are finding your way back to the fun in music. I'm on that path too. How are you doing?

  • @alasdairvaler
    @alasdairvaler Рік тому +4

    As a person who always had an issue with understanding notes and sounds because I didn't know how to learn the pattern for that I must thank you. Just at the beginning, with the language metaphor you explained it to me like no-one else. Your way of describing thing is very similar to my thinking and I am really gratefull I've found your YT!

    • @Shreya-vs6bh
      @Shreya-vs6bh Рік тому

      I'm also really struggling but it takes 3 months to 3 yrs to develop relative pitch. I thought i was slower and its just my day 2 😅

  • @lancashireliberty7603
    @lancashireliberty7603 2 роки тому +6

    I'm a drummer trying to learn music theory just started playing bass so cheers for this!

  • @WillsJazzLoft
    @WillsJazzLoft 2 роки тому +26

    Wow! I already do well at recognizing tonal centers for a few of my favorite jazz tunes ( example C minor for Footprints ). But this also is an enormous help. It's in almost deceptively simple and yet effective methodology. I think that I will try it out on relatively simple tunes however

  • @k_drive
    @k_drive 4 роки тому +94

    that snowfall in the back is majestic

    • @jtolibov
      @jtolibov 3 роки тому +1

      I wasn't the only one staring at it haha

    • @SOMYALMIGHTY
      @SOMYALMIGHTY 3 роки тому

      Time stamp

  • @gaylecheung3087
    @gaylecheung3087 3 роки тому +1

    I was talking at six years old by the greatest vocal teacher ever in Toronto back in the 70s

  • @botanicalERB
    @botanicalERB 3 роки тому +21

    I love this video!!! I took choir all through high school and have been trying to tune my ears again to play bass, you're a wonderful teacher!! ☺️ This is really helping me get a grasp on it all again!

  • @JSDJerry
    @JSDJerry 2 роки тому +4

    Best eat training ideas I’ve heard. Now I need a syllabus to follow.

  • @Ashleybmakingvideos
    @Ashleybmakingvideos 3 роки тому +16

    This video was super helpful! I hope you continued this series, because this made me realize I'm more advanced than I thought. Guess those years of high school choir paid off lol

  • @reaganburton5601
    @reaganburton5601 Місяць тому

    So super helpful to watch and hear. Watching this at night, but can’t wait to practice tomorrow! 🎹👂

  • @Sunlineish
    @Sunlineish Місяць тому

    Thanks. Hard to find a good teacher. You were so good I was concentrating, so no time for me to recognise snow. I need to develop better aural skills with my flute playing.

  • @MFJMD564
    @MFJMD564 2 роки тому +9

    If playing the piano, it might be good to listen to the interval and then reproduce it on the keyboard, not only try to think for the interval. Why? Because it will train your muscle memory at the same time. You'll train your ear to identify the sound, and your muscle memory to instinctively play that interval. With time, you'll be able to play fast melodies by ear.

  • @jamesrusso2523
    @jamesrusso2523 2 роки тому +3

    Simple and efficient . Best lesson on you tube , I have been searching a long time .

  • @couch6126
    @couch6126 3 роки тому +27

    Him:here’s the second note...
    Ad:I found a loove
    lol

  • @christinamilioni6325
    @christinamilioni6325 4 роки тому +16

    Great content! Thank you! Looking forward to more beginner ear training videos!
    Have a great 2021!

  • @KipIngram
    @KipIngram 3 роки тому +9

    2:50 - Ok, given that the only possibilities were E and G, it was clearly a G. But I don't know if I'd have known that if it could have been any note of C. If F and A had been possibilities... well, not sure.

  • @pasihirvonen4023
    @pasihirvonen4023 6 місяців тому +2

    I realize this is an old video but I still have to drop a comment. I don't usually comment on videos so this is a special occasion. :)
    It's wonderful to discover an ear training video with "beginner" in the title that is.. actually for beginners. I swear 99.9% of ear training videos in youtube that claim to be for beginners are actually aimed at people who were beginners a year ago.

  • @bembambimbombum
    @bembambimbombum Рік тому

    I do have an APD and this really helps me a lot. Thank you so much!

  • @OwlMeat6
    @OwlMeat6 Рік тому

    One of the best music tutorials I've seen in a while

  • @worm91237
    @worm91237 2 роки тому +2

    wow this lesson is the best I've come across. Thank you!

  • @Jeff-xy7fv
    @Jeff-xy7fv Рік тому +1

    4:00 - I've always been singing the notes by number rather than A, B, C, etc. C=1, D=2, E=3, etc.

    • @LuciusLucius
      @LuciusLucius Рік тому

      Thats not right
      Its either the letters or Do re mi fa sol la ti

  • @jackwilloughby239
    @jackwilloughby239 Рік тому

    I think it would be more profitable to start with the Harmonic Series. An Octave of C in the Bass followed by the fifth, root, third and fifth in the right hand. this is Still a triad, but the 5th is doubled. These are the four notes of a standard Bugle Call which are prevalent in almost all Western Music. These 4 Notes Frame the Pentatonic Scale, which Frame the Blues Scale. Once you have these notes down you can apply the standard Morphology that Arrangers use, Minor, diminished, sus 9, sus 4, Altered, Sharp 5, sharp 5 to the Ninth ( which Miles uses in Airegin and which the first four bars of the Melody by Sonny outline this Methodology I'm talking about). Ear Training is sort of misrepresented these days because teachers play random intervals without a tonal center. The Harmonic Series just fits the ear like a glove and if you don't start there you are sort of Lost in the woods. The fact that thousands of even tone deaf Soldiers could Learn, Recognize and Respond to a wide variety of Bugle Calls (as many as 100), is sort of embedded in our Musical DNA.

  • @trevorfox3759
    @trevorfox3759 4 роки тому +27

    This video quality is good bro. Keep it up

    • @NoahKellman
      @NoahKellman  4 роки тому +1

      Crimson Lightning Music thanks appreciate it!

  • @hitoshishinsou3125
    @hitoshishinsou3125 4 місяці тому

    I showed a picture of you to my friend and she said theres no way you have any money im crying dawg youre doing gods work with this you didnt desrve tha ti love you broksi i hope you get a free milshake🥶

  • @lynnesteele9682
    @lynnesteele9682 4 роки тому +10

    Nice foundation for building a bigger sound vocab. Thank you!

  • @yesido7304
    @yesido7304 2 роки тому +13

    Great lesson. Btw i'm a guitar player and generally i'm not so trained on identifying single note, but i'm very good on identifying chord (harmony created by the chords) or the sound created by the bass guitar. Any suggestion to improve my hearing abbilities sir?

  • @willfoster2635
    @willfoster2635 11 місяців тому

    Many thanks. I'm tuning my guitar so I need this help. Power to you.

  • @Phily231
    @Phily231 11 місяців тому

    This is an excellent video - so helpful. Now it seems possible. Thank you!

  • @stephensufian4127
    @stephensufian4127 4 роки тому +65

    Yes. I recognized G because it seemed substantially higher rather than a bit higher

  • @prodbycilson
    @prodbycilson 3 роки тому +1

    This is the first vid that I understand. Thank you for your vid.

  • @TheKalemba777
    @TheKalemba777 2 роки тому

    You are officially my new piano mentor !!!!!

  • @pallavisreetambraparni6995
    @pallavisreetambraparni6995 9 місяців тому

    Your method to identify intervals is pretty good

  • @SANNYKUMAR1
    @SANNYKUMAR1 3 роки тому +2

    Very helpful. Thank you for sharing.

  • @aurum6249
    @aurum6249 5 місяців тому +2

    watching this in 2024. restarting my music journey.

  • @sadglad8967
    @sadglad8967 9 місяців тому

    I got E! Im so proud c:
    Wonderful beginners guide!

  • @juneclarke7618
    @juneclarke7618 3 роки тому

    Thanks Noah
    Looking fwd to some more videos.
    Stay safe God bless🌻

  • @max101victory
    @max101victory 3 місяці тому

    This was very helpful, thank you

  • @allangaus9761
    @allangaus9761 2 роки тому

    Thank you for your gentle tutorial for a beginner :) dig the sweater- wonder if its still around 3 years later lol

  • @petertarsio7168
    @petertarsio7168 2 роки тому

    Numbers and solfegge is the way to go. Singing is the basis of it all independent of the instrument. 1 3 5 =. c e g = do mi so. Auditation!

  • @stephanielupercio3168
    @stephanielupercio3168 2 роки тому

    im excited for this journey!

  • @thegoodinfluencer15
    @thegoodinfluencer15 7 місяців тому

    Beginner friendly! Thank you!

  • @abcxyz-nd6xh
    @abcxyz-nd6xh 3 роки тому +1

    At 2:30 I counted on my mnd to have got "G"
    Thanks for the exercise!

  • @milagrosramos2601
    @milagrosramos2601 2 роки тому

    Thank you for the ear training class.

  • @v0vee
    @v0vee 4 роки тому +9

    Glad I’m recognized all three correctly.. I thought I wouldn’t

  • @donnagadde5152
    @donnagadde5152 2 роки тому +3

    Hi Noah! Thank you for this great information. I have a question. I can listen to a favourite song a few times and then have it play back in my head, almost as it it were recorded on tape. I can hear the melodies and instruments like I was listening to it again. This is true even with songs like the Piano riff played by Edgar Winter in the song "I'm Not Sure" on the Second Winter album. I've been told that I have a good ear for music. I am currently learning to play Tin Whistle and want to start with Piano. Is my ability to hear music after listening to it a benefit to learning an instrument?

    • @NoahKellman
      @NoahKellman  2 роки тому

      Hey Donna, yes, absolutely. That ability will likely make it far easier for you to naturally absorb melodies and chords as you are learning. For many people, it can be difficult to get away from the page, meaning it takes a long time to memorize. That means they are always simultaneously reading and working on skills. If you can easily memorize music, you can quickly step away from the page and focus on the skills themselves. Hope that makes sense, and keep up the great work!

    • @donnagadde5152
      @donnagadde5152 2 роки тому

      @@NoahKellman Thank you for your reply Noah. You are so right! I amazed myself! Just 3 or 4 days after buying my first keyboard, I'm playing the right hand melody of the Intro. to Fur Elise. That's with correct posture and fingering as well. The scales and fingering are coming really easy to me with my right hand so far.

  • @corettaha7855
    @corettaha7855 3 роки тому +10

    Scuse me, but where is the class for people who can’t tell if they are singing the note or not, even as it plays?

    • @Ana_crusis
      @Ana_crusis 3 роки тому +1

      Two doors down . Labelled Woodwork

  • @josereyesguizar4449
    @josereyesguizar4449 3 роки тому

    thank U so mch 4 ur Time...i L0ve Music.. sadly I am a beginner, but I have one Question?, what is the concept behind playing any given NOTE and having the next one play in harmony with it on an instructment. Pretty much, the making of a song; Not whole in theory but if you were to play Gmajor for example within the next 3-5 notes play; would there be such a musical equitaion that 2 or more of those NExt 5 notes played would have to be specific notes carry the beat with structure. How you do put notes together to create a BEAT/SOUND/RHYTHM. ( Not reading them) is kind of hard to explain myself. Thank U...

  • @devanand5031
    @devanand5031 9 місяців тому

    Super, very useful video, thank u

  • @bickydas4471
    @bickydas4471 2 роки тому +1

    Do you recommend using solfege in this practice? Like, is it better to use do mi Sol instead of saying c e g?

  • @ksch1177
    @ksch1177 6 місяців тому +1

    i really don't get it. How do I know if my sung notes are matching up? that would require already a level of pitch, which I don't have.

  • @Praiseofgodministries
    @Praiseofgodministries Рік тому

    The fact that I got all the questions and this is my first time. 😮😮

  • @gangofgreenhorns2672
    @gangofgreenhorns2672 4 роки тому +8

    This is great. Thank you.

  • @ВикторСавченко-щ1ш
    @ВикторСавченко-щ1ш 2 роки тому +3

    Greatings everyone! I haven't got a lot of experience in singing but if I'm not mistaken You're singing an octave lower than you actually playing (6:15). Please help me somebody out with clarifying this. THX!!!

  • @JJdavidson2013
    @JJdavidson2013 10 місяців тому

    Nice work on the site

  • @samueljohnson163
    @samueljohnson163 2 роки тому

    Really very good teaching..well done..

    • @NoahKellman
      @NoahKellman  2 роки тому +1

      Thanks, Samuel. Glad you enjoyed it!

  • @ORagnar
    @ORagnar Рік тому

    This is good. I could do the equivalent on my guitar. I'm curious about another aspect of ear training, and that is listening to music and being able to pick out the instruments that are playing. Is that a fundamental part of ear training?
    5/27/23

  • @Eduardsax
    @Eduardsax 2 роки тому +1

    Good tip. A good place to star ear training. Thank you!

  • @tasniabintewasiq6718
    @tasniabintewasiq6718 3 місяці тому +1

    Can you please explain what you mean by “C major scale”

  • @ratnakarpandey5240
    @ratnakarpandey5240 6 місяців тому +1

    Looks like Sargam of 7 surs of India -
    Saa Re Gaa Maa Paa Dhaa Nee Saa .
    Am I right?
    Love from India .

  • @prashantkumar2963
    @prashantkumar2963 4 роки тому +1

    thank you sir for your valuable lesson.
    how much time one should practise this and what are its application?

    • @jonathanallen2560
      @jonathanallen2560 3 роки тому +1

      The ability to learn to play a song just by listening to it is usually what drives people to get good at this. Also impressing your non musician freind's by saying you have "perfect pitch. "

  • @klaara_
    @klaara_ 2 роки тому

    Thank you for this video.
    P. S. I love the snow in the background.

  • @samjeshrakbca488
    @samjeshrakbca488 3 роки тому +1

    Thank you bro . For a awesome tutorial

  • @Simranjit-f6u
    @Simranjit-f6u 4 місяці тому

    Thanks a lot for this 👍❤

  • @LibraryofMusic
    @LibraryofMusic 2 роки тому +1

    This is truly helpful. Thank you

  • @jenmartin2870
    @jenmartin2870 10 місяців тому

    thank u . very helpful

  • @SourCabbage4U
    @SourCabbage4U 3 роки тому +6

    I play by ear, i lean forward tilt my head and play the notes with my ear.

  • @AKANOBOLA
    @AKANOBOLA 3 місяці тому

    I love tis channel

  • @Georgia13-mastorakis
    @Georgia13-mastorakis 4 місяці тому

    My whole family has a music ear my dad plays guitar my mom sings my grandpa and his siblings used to have a band in the streets and my uncles play too I'm tryna play keyboard for now and hope that if I get in music high school i can learn the violin in 1 year

  • @benjaminhawthorne1969
    @benjaminhawthorne1969 10 місяців тому

    I really appreciate your verbal introduction/explanation. I just received Rick Beato's Ear Traing Method and he explains NOTHING! He simply plays a note or a chord and you have a choice, major or minor? 😕

    • @NoahKellman
      @NoahKellman  10 місяців тому

      Oh! I’ve never used Rick’s but maybe his is more of an exercise-focused approach or training application, whereas this is specifically a tutorial. In any case, glad this helps!

  • @pericologan
    @pericologan 3 роки тому +1

    The snowfall is beatiful!

  • @danielbair8722
    @danielbair8722 4 роки тому +2

    Hey, so you said if you've had experience with ear training to check out some of the other videos. Do you have any more advanced ear training videos? I grew up with a basic concept of Perfect Pitch that I developed on my own, and now I want to work on hearing cords, Etc instead of just hearing single notes. Do you have any videos that are about that? If not, do you have any channels you would recommend? Also, just a quick side note I am mostly blind, so I would need something where the instructions are read out loud rather than being text on the screen in the video

    • @NoahKellman
      @NoahKellman  4 роки тому

      Hey Daniel, I don’t have any videos about perfect pitch specifically, but I do have other more advanced relative pitch ear training videos!

    • @NoahKellman
      @NoahKellman  4 роки тому

      Here’s a video I released recently: ua-cam.com/video/HB_jl6xAaZ0/v-deo.html

  • @alfiemarie
    @alfiemarie 2 роки тому

    love this. one question tho, how come it starts with C and not A? sorry. :C

  • @kineticslides
    @kineticslides Рік тому

    love that sweater. where did you get it?

  • @AdmMusicc
    @AdmMusicc 4 роки тому +20

    Great video. I feel like having a partner to play you the notes will make learning this so much faster. I have no one because I am self taught so far T_T

    • @NoahKellman
      @NoahKellman  4 роки тому +4

      Yeah this stuff works great with an ear training partner. Maybe you can find someone to work with via zoom!

    • @marLamaDeo
      @marLamaDeo 4 роки тому +5

      There’s websites for this

    • @NoahKellman
      @NoahKellman  4 роки тому +4

      @@marLamaDeo any recommendations?

  • @pandadncr4825
    @pandadncr4825 4 роки тому +19

    Why do all assume you can automatically sing a note in the correct pitch and therefore find it on the piano 😂 I can't sing like shit lol but just hearing the note in your head works too xD

    • @NoahKellman
      @NoahKellman  4 роки тому +1

      panda dncr hahah I know what you mean. Totally cool to sing it in your head too! I just find that for many people singing it out loud is helpful.

  • @mbulelombiko5032
    @mbulelombiko5032 2 роки тому

    Thank you
    . This helped a lot.

  • @ravensdark01
    @ravensdark01 3 роки тому +5

    I am not playing an instrument but I got every note except the last one. going down with the notes is much harder than up from the C. Good explained! maybe I will now learn to play the piano : D

  • @beatsfromyhwh
    @beatsfromyhwh 3 роки тому

    cool, this is helpful! wish you greatness 🎹

  • @desinatdjeffson5522
    @desinatdjeffson5522 3 роки тому +1

    I would like to know how intervals can help me to recognize the chord progression of a song

  • @jude4736
    @jude4736 2 роки тому

    Very good Nohal bhai

  • @anastasiyatrukhanova5056
    @anastasiyatrukhanova5056 2 роки тому

    Thank you! I will try!

  • @makemoneyjourney7864
    @makemoneyjourney7864 2 роки тому

    Wow amazing video and not to sound like a hater. this C d e etc like this will take ETERNAL LIFE..... But better than nothing. Of course this is youtube might not want to give everything here since it needs much work and people might not even watch and follow all you need to give them to perfect their ear, So I get it. good job sir.

  • @emmettadair4015
    @emmettadair4015 9 місяців тому

    Thank you so much!!!😊

  • @serirracional
    @serirracional 3 роки тому +1

    That was useful. Thanks a lot!

  • @ramonalee392
    @ramonalee392 3 роки тому

    Super super helpful, thank u so much!!!!

  • @johnmclaughlin9004
    @johnmclaughlin9004 2 роки тому +1

    So... if i cant tell what note is what and im trying to train my ear how do you expect me to be able to sing it?
    Nevermind just needed to watch some more.

  • @alexpianoplayer15
    @alexpianoplayer15 Рік тому

    4:08 Do you sing these notes (C4 etc)but an octave below?

  • @curtpiazza1688
    @curtpiazza1688 2 роки тому

    Great lesson!