how I learned music by ear
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2:09 ugh my life. said "I V IV VI", but meant "I V VI IV".
Tessa Violet I love you
Tessa Violet this is a very interesting video. I never thought about chords that way
Annotation in the video would help.
why are u at dodie's room????
stalk much XD?
I think Tessa was staying with/visiting dodie and hazel before she went on tour with bry
this is pretty off topic but i was talking to my friend the other day about the way we listen to songs, because i pointed out that she doesn't know the lyrics to even her favourite songs. and she said that she never listens to the words, only the chords, beat, instruments used etc. which i thought was fascinating because lyrics are the thing i immediately focus on when it comes to songs, and is usually the thing that draws me in. if a song is a favourite of mine, it will most likely be because of the words. i just think it's so interesting how different people listen to music. okay, really what i'm saying is i wish i was a musican and was cool and knew if my favourite songs are technically good or not. but anyway.
Miriam Gallacher hm yes i'm a (mostly classical) musician and i definitely don't listen to the words of a song the first time i hear it, and i find it almost the least important element of a song.
ngaire that's so !! interesting !!! i'm glad everyone interprets music in a different way it's so cool
emma exactly! tbh i'm just impressed with anyone who can sing and play an instrument at the same time
emma true sorry! i phrased it a bit strangely, i just meant i'd like to be able to appreciate the instrumental and technical side of music more
i go to a music school my whole life and i dont know anyone in my school who does this except for me ¿ but idk why i listen to music that way, i just kind of forget about the lyrics and focus on everything you mentioned, including the feelings you can pick up from the vocals but its kinda annoying sometimes because i literally never know the lyrics of any song even if i've listened to it a 372963 times so i often worry that people will think that i like a certain band just because it's popular and don't actually listen to it (since i never know the lyrics)
Dodie's shirt,room and uke??????
Hannah Johnston yeah she's currently touring part of europe and stayed at dodies house
Hannah Johnston and Veda clap????
Hannah Johnston and hair tie
no that's actually Dodie
Dossa Flat? :D
as a music student this explanation is SO interesting. i'm used to the teaching of intervals in the traditional way but this technique is really helpful and not mathsy which i am a fan of :)) this video is intriguing and full of that good knowledge that im always craving !!!
izzie winter I was just thinking the same thing! I’m pretty musically trained as well
I thought about how much easier it was to memorize certain thoughts in German and Hindu after hearing so many mantras over the years that I figured sentences in German would be easy if I just simplified everything to sounds and then just loosely associated those sounds with the meaning of the actual words.
I don't hope I'll play a musical instrument anymore. It's just very nice hearing people with pretty voices talk about it.
No music knowledge on my side. But now somehow I want to try...
For me it's similar to screenwriting in terms of "sucking magic out of it." When I'm watching a tv show, I notice things and am like "THANKS WRITERS FOR GIVING A CHARACTER DIALOGUE TO EXPLAIN SOMETHING THAT WE CAN SEE HAPPENING OURSELVES." Whenever a show isn't doing well, there's a lot of technical reasons why that could be. Same with shows that are amazing. It's fun though to have the knowledge and be able to make your own stuff! I guess that's the cost of the magic not being shattered, not being able to replicate it or make your own. :)
i always do this with colours in film/animation!! like "oh look that character is having a happy memory and it's tinted yellow"
maybe creative people and depression correlate because knowing the tricks shatters the magic everyone else gets to experience.
I totally get what you're saying but I just wonder if the magic everyone is talking about is not magic at all, just some form of delusion that lets us leave our reality because many find reality to sucky or whatever. There is so much hollywood and music crap, just like fast food that is designed to do that; leveraging the feel good factor. I think the real magic is much less common and is impervious to us destroying it by deconstructing it, it's all tied up with sincerity and 'ringing true'. Lyrics / melodies or plot / visual presentation that actually speak to the audience without needing the tricky 'wow' factor, that is the true magic in my opinion :)
dodie's dress! friendship goals!!
Sarah Hold up...THATS A DRESS???
I always thought it was like pajamas or a shirt
Good basic explanation of music theory! Its nice that you're educating your viewers about the science, even if it's not super complex jazz fusion polyrhythms
dodie's shirt, dodie's hairstyle, background really similar to dodie's, ukulele, are you actually becoming dodie?
oh wait it IS dodie's room and dodie's uke. oh my god.
Nicoletta Lampa what’s a dodie?
Lucas Chacon Dodie is her friend and also a youtuber
DODIES SHIRT DODIES SHIRT (great vid btw) DODIES SHIRT
DODIES ROOM DODIES UKE
Ipsita Kapoor
HER HAIR IS PUT UP LIKE DODIE PUTS HER HAIR UP
its also dodies room and dodies ukelele
OMG RIGHHTTT
LMAO OMG I WAS THINKING THE SAME
This is a really unique way of describing music. Thank you for sharing this with us Tessa! Your mind is beautiful for being able to recognize chords as "feelings" and ALSO to be able to describe to us as an audience how you feel music!
TROYE I wasn't ready
itsbee IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO SAY TROYE YESS
itsbee me too! I literally just came from rewatching his music videos too! 😂💗
itsbee yeahhhhh troyeeeee❤😂
itsbee I was squealing when I heard her sing that 😂
i knew it was dodie's uke right away why am i such trash
Fiona Johnson same
It’s dodies top too 😂😂
"I think of 2 [Dm] as like, 'I've never considered that...'" Oh my god that was so funny to me hahaha. I will never play Dm the same again.
Tessa this is SO COOL AND INTERESTING especially because I essentially also learn music by ear but in a totally different way and it's so fascinating to know that even though learning by ear is ~one way to learn~ there are so many different categories within that ~one way~. music!!!!!! brains!!!!! learning!!!!!
I love it!!!!!!
I find this fascinating, especially hearing your opinion on the emotional behind certain chords. Thanks so much Tessa, I'd love to see more like this :)
THIS IS SUCH A GOOD VIDEO TESSA I MEAN IT! As a person who has studied music theory I can say that what you just did is awesome. It is SO hard to understand chord progressions and as "I, V, etc" when you start playing and you just described them perfectly.
I'm gonna share this with everyone it is so useful omg
This video is so handy omg, I've been wanting to try learning mysic by ear but just didn't know where to start and I feel like now I have somewhere to begin
lol she's using a bunch of dodies stuff
I think dodies clothes look good on her
shelter?
First of all, this video was SO interesting and super helpful...
Secondly, you and Dodie and friendship goals; the uke, the top/dress, filming in her room, everything
It was really fun to hear you explain chords in a different way. I'm in my second year of music theory in college, so I'm used to all the super technical explanations. Explaining it with feelings is cool and I hear exactly the same emotions.
From a person who is a little further than a beginner but not doing great, this video was so nice and helpful. I love ya Tessa.
music comes from the heart of a soul that cries out for someone to hear the emotions of a loving soul.
I love how you explain the different chords! Great video :) Stay strong Tessa! 💙❤️
Wow i never even thought of seeing chords as feeling/emotion whenever playing a song, thanks for making this video this was really helpful and interesting 🙌
WOAH SO MUCH STUFF IN ONE VIDEO THAT I LOVE
1. Tessa
2. Dodie's DEER shirt (and ukele and room)
3. YOUTH BY TROYE SIVAN
Oh and not forgetting the awesome informative content
Love the lipstick you are wearing here Tessa!!
Mandeville Sisters omg heyyyyyy
Mandeville Sisters 😄😄😄
Mandeville Sisters Oh hey Amelia 😂😂 xx
Mandeville Sisters 😘😘
Mandeville Sisters Ameliaaaaa💕
i love your descriptions of chords 'personalities' like ii is 'i hadn't considered that?' love the simple way of understanding theory which really helps people understand them!! x
Whoooaa, it's one of the best and inspirational videos about music theory I've eved watched! We need more stuff on this pleaseeee
As someone who's been studying music theory since I was about eight LOL I'd just like to say that this is a brilliantly accessible and comprehensive way of explaining honestly quite a complicated concep and it's really interesting for me as someone who's been thinking of music in this way for ages and ages to hear it explained like this but it's fab. I'm awful at words. But yes this is good
You sang 'YOUTH', I just died. 😻😭
Emir Saldierna me too
understanding music is such an amazing privilege to have tbh!
this video actually really helped me. i've been taking guitar as an elective and i always kind of understand but not completely. however, this video really helped to clear up some questions i had. you should definitely make another 'music lessons with tessa' video because i really enjoyed it and learned from it. thanks xx
Faith Skariah She REALLY should make more music theory vids! why?!? bcuz she makes so much SENSE out of it!!!
this is SO FRIKIN INTERESTING!! hearing another person’s thought process about interpreting music is so fascinating. you see, i’m a sophomore in high school and i’ve been in band, choir, musical theatre and other instrument classes since middle school. i think of music as very structured, since i learned theory in classes growing up. i think of chords very... officially, per say. i always like to ask my non-music friends how they feel about a song because they always have betty VERY different opinions than my friends from my music classes.
As a person who's in college for music and taking music theory classes, I really appreciate this perspective! At first I felt like "uhhhh wait but that's, not how, bluhh" but after listening to what you actually had to say, I totally understood what you meant. You've got some cool ideas and I love when people talk about stuff they care about.
And also for anyone who's curious, bc I'm an insufferable music student, the seven chord is actually a diminished chord (p much extra minor) and it's like the V, except it wants to get back to the root chord (I) even more
i have a bachelor's and a master's in music so i'm so used to hearing/applying the technical side of music theory, but your little descriptions of each chord are SO MUCH MORE FUN.
I love how this is a very emotional way to figure out chords, rather than technical. I find it very interesting as someone studying music theory and I might give this a go!
FULL cover of Youth PLeeeeeease tessa
Louise I literally just commented this lmao 😂😂😂💗
I LOVE THIS VIDEO. As someone who is currently taking AP Music Theory (but as a homeschool course from my friend's dad), this resonates so much with me. Connecting the way you see it with the technical terms I know is actually so helpful for me, and the idea of chords as feelings is one my teacher/friend's dad has tried to explain before but never in a way that got through to me. And it's also really cool to know the theory behind why a I V vi VI chord progression works. I am rambling, but this was awesome!
I found the descriptions of chords based on feelings really interesting. I always hear chords solely based on their resolutions and baseline melodies when i'm figuring out a song by ear, and i think that's just a product of my upbringing in a very musical family, having been in formal piano lessons for the majority of my life. It's always cool learning about how other people hear music though :)
The Dm “i’d never considered that” is just lovely lovely lovely.
this was kinda how i used the memorise the timetables as a child ! i made stories about the numbers so i could rmb them , which now makes no sense but it helps me rmb them !
This is wonderful.
Also, I adore your outro music. It gets me every time.
Really falling for your videos. You have such a wonderfully enticing way of explaining things. Even on a topic I'm unfamiliar with, I'm still drawn to every word. Just your simple voice, no background music needed. It's honest and authentic and so needed in this UA-cam realm. So thank you.
Also I'm totally dying my hair pink because of you 😘
Recently I've started analysing music to figure out what it was in the song that related to the emotional reaction, and I actually think it makes listening to music so much more enjoyable because you get to appreciate the composition and technical skill involved as well as feeling everything on a deeper level because you're completely absorbed in the music.
As a result I end up picturing the artist performing in my head, even if I have no idea what they look like; I find it helps me keep track of the instruments.
I loved this way of thinking of music! I have never really been fully able to comprehend progressions using A B C ... but using numbers makes sooo much more sense!!!!
I love the little "woof" at the end its sassy and adorable
MORE LIKE THIS. I'm a musician, and i love seeing other musicians give different perspectives on how to learn. This is wonderful, Tessa. :)
Tessa, I also first learned music and chords on guitar the same as you - looking up the fingerings to pop songs (the Beatles). Then I went on to some college level music classes and theory. Then officially dropped studying music for forty years but played sometimes/ once in a while. Oddly, over the decades, I've kept up the capability of hearing nearly any song's chord progressions by the numbers! So I think you've nailed the secret- absolutely! And I've recently seen some other Music Theory vids explain it all in terms of moving further from and closer to "home" (the Tonic) with some fancy animations, etc. But none of these other vids had your character and charm and CLARITY of a lot of info in a little bite!
I WILL RECOMMEND THIS BEGINNERS MUSIC THEORY VIDEO TO ALL OF MY ASPIRING MUSICIAN FRIENDS! (And even a few who think they are already musicians!)
Please please PLEASE make a video explaining/demystifying The Circle of Fifths! That's a topic that can certainly benefit from your insights and level-headedness!!!
why did this make so much sense to me? at first when you were explaining i thought i wouldn't understand it at all but now it makes so much sense? like matching the sounds with a feeling, color, etc. idk. but this helped a lot so that's cool ! xx
This is honestly so useful! As someone who is really into the way that music is put together but gets terrified and bewildered by the technical explanations of things, this is really interesting! Thank you!
Music is definitely a language all on its own! I used to explain everything as if it were in the key of C; even if a song was in G and it went to E minor, I called it "the A minor" just 'cause that's what it was relative to the key it was in. The numbering system indeed does make it so much simpler!
1 is definitely home. I have never thought of 4 as female before but now I can't un-hear it! I had always thought of 4 as sort of a sad chord (as in the usual "Amen" chord sequence, 4-1), but different strokes for different folks. 5 to me is like the "anticipation" chord, like "Hey, something's changing here, can't wait to see where it goes next." 6 minor always struck me as sort of like the "fear" chord. 3 minor is no doubt the saddest chord in existence, although 2 minor can put up some major competition (as in "Taking It All Too Hard" by Genesis).
3 major is freaking awesome, it's sort of like the "weird" chord. When "Smooth" by Santana came out (6 minor, 4 major, 3 major), every artist for miles jumped on that 3 major train. Suddenly you couldn't turn on the radio without hearing it for a few years. Even country music jumped in on it, e.g. "One" by Faith Hill. Thankfully, it died off and now 3 major is awesome again. Best use of 3 major in a song, though, has got to be "Hello" by Oasis. (Although I think technically it's a 5 major because the A minor is considered "home" when it's in a minor key, but I still can't get used to thinking of E as a fifth)
5 minor is surprisingly good as a "sad" chord that has a sort of anthemic undertone to it, like hopeful in the face of great adversity. ("Every Time I See Your Face" by Live is the only semi-example that springs to mind) I guess because it shares two notes with the A#-D-F chord, which heck if I know what that chord is even called! 6 1/2 maybe, but it's also a really "victorious" kind of chord.
Anyways holy moly how did this turn into War & Peace over here? See ya later~
It's so interesting hearing you describe chords! I've never thought of music in that way... I guess I always relied on chord charts. This will be fun to implement!
That jab at 7. My heart lol.
Got me chuckling at your emotional chords! I've taught myself guitar/ukelele and piano by ear! Have tried to learn to read sheet music but once I know how a piece should sound I play it be ear until I can play it perfect, the joy and struggle of learningby ear!
ive been subscribed to you since you were living and working in asia which seems like a trillion years ago BUT i remember when you posted a video and mentioned that you bought a guitar and were going to start making music- so so so cool to get to watch it happen!!! permanently a meekakitty fan and also permanently rooting for you tessa!
I very very rarely (I meant the repetition) comment on UA-cam videos (maybe once or twice a year). But I've been going through a rough time this year and your video was both illuminating and funny - you cracked me up halfway through the videos when it came to feelings and chord progressions. I will absolutely be using your technique with my uke for ear training which is something I want to learn. Thank you for brightening my day and teaching me something new while I use music to heal! :)
I'm currently taking a music theory class for songwriting and this was so helpful! You really explained it in a way I can comprehend!😊
+Brianna Lanzen glad to hear that! Good luck!
Tessa Violet Thanks!😄
I didn't know other people learned music like this! I learned piano by doing the same kinda thing, I learn songs in sections, and i remember the order by a color, or a feeling, or just random things. I don't know anything about the piano, I don't know any notes, I don't know any thing about it, and when I learned my first song on the piano, I memorized each part by something. The begging is like a garden made of glass, and the left hand of the first part is a snake , the second part is kinda like a sunset, the third part of the song is a library, and the end is a bunch of stones next to each other. I also do this with objects, peoples voices, colors and everything honestly. I describe color in sound, and I describe sound with color and and moving my hands in a certain motion. Like to me, a glass jar is light pastel blue and yellow, but its not like half is blue, and half is yellow, its not striped or color shifting, its just both at once somehow. I don't know, it's hard to explain with words, I'd rather just tell you, all of this to me is just kinda like pink on a flat rock while moving my hand straight forward in front of myself, but that doesn't make sense to you like it does to me.
Dodie's shirt,room,uke and hair thingyyy CUTEEE I LUV IT
This has to be one of my favourite videos from you. I always try to learn instruments on my own but always get discouraged. The way you laid it out makes it easier to learn it! I'm gonna use this for piano :)
this is so interesting. like i have never thought that each chord could represent a feeling and then together the cords almost make a poem where it forms a more complex emotion! so so so so creative love it now i want to hear other artists talk about what chords make them feel. if you have more to talk about i wouldn't mind another vid :) awesome like always
I OWE MY LIFE TO YOU!!I have a guitar since past 7 years and this 5 minute video taught me so much *happy tears*
Thank you for kind of explaining the Nashville number system there towards the beginning. I pretty much learned by ear too and I never know how to explain this stuff to people. I'll direct them to you from now on thankssssss
as a music student who had been struggling with chord progression during my theory lessons, this explanation has made it SO much clearer to me!
I love how you explain this. I play the Cello and tend to hear more the base in all music. I have to really focus to hear the melody in a song. Love your channel. Xx from australia
I was so happy to see this video in my sub box. I've been taking guitar lessons for about three years now and I've found that they haven't quite helped me into a very good understanding of the guitar, nor the music itself. The advice in this video gave me a new way to look at it. I'll try to use this advice to my advantage. Thanks Tessa - love you and your videos/music tons💞 Keep doing what you do. :)
I love how you describe the chords, that's a great way to really 'hear' them!
your explanations for the chords are so perfect! I'd never thought of it that way before
heyy I feel music in colors too!
Hope you're doing good ! Your make me a robot speech in Sheffield really helped me have self worth 💖
that sounds like it would have been good ._. (really happy you got to hear it anyway haha)
I've always approached chords analytically and mathematically so this is such an interesting perspective. It makes so much sense why they would stick when you give emotions to them. So cool.
Haven't seen your videos in my sub box for years, and then I see this gem! So glad I can play a little guitar now. Also just seen you're touring through my city in the UK. whaaaaa
I've never thought about chords this way! This is so helpful. I mess around with writing little ditties a lot, and this will make them seem so much more meaningful. Thank you so much!!!
3:14 "I've never considered that" is going to keep me up at night I laughed so hard
I was a classical composition major and this was great! A basic song will typically be I IV V I. I can be subbed with iv. IV can be subbed with ii and V can be subbed with a vii chord if you wanted to get away from the traditional step up. Or you can add or subtract that order/subbed chords too. But this was great. Easy and accessible I think to new players.
after having graduated and now doing my masters for music theory I have to say you do a really really good job at explaining a lot of these principles. its always nice to know a musician you respect knows the mechanics of music ^_^.
Videos like this make me smile A LOT!
I've always struggled to build any intuition learning music with chords themselves. I have never thought of putting numbers on them! Thank you for this.
super interesting to watch as a music student; that's not far off from how we're taught to recognize chords and chord qualities tbh. also- that E chord that you said was major III is actually a dom7
Thank you for this, Tessa. T-T
I've been in love with music all my life, and I've studied music for some time, and you just put everything I've ever thought about music into words in a way I could never do.
I was struggling so hard trying to understand this and you just made it so simple, THANK YOU for this video
love love love the ribbon in your hair
I've just wrote a lil song and I felt like I could have done better but didn't know how(writers block or whatever). And this video helped me gain motivation to fix it up a bit thank youuuu
Cute shirt!!!
Such an interesting way to think about music.
Also I LOVE that you have been mentioning being compassionate to yourself so often recently. I'd never even considered this wording when thinking about the way we talk about ourselves negatively. Does that even make any sense? Anyway, I love it. Thank you.
This is literally the best lesson for theory and how to do this. You explained it so well omggg. Thanks sm!!
you're brilliant . . i adore your videos . . i looooved this one
really insightful way to think about music!! would love to see more of these vids :)
I just checked back into this channel after like 3 years and I have no idea what I missed. I think it must have been amazing.
Slowly learning this! Super awesome video Tessa!
Love you Tessa you are amazing!!!!!!!!
Before I played ukulele I uses to only really listen to the singing in songs. But I've come to realise that I now listen to the instruments in the background a lot more.
Omg, I always feel emotions when I play different chords. But I never told anyone about this because I thought it was silly. I am so glad you mentioned all this because now I know that I am not just being silly. Thanks Tessa!
As amateur jazz musician who deals with chord changes and what they mean a lot, I think you explained this beautifully for a beginner in any genre. Love your videos ❤️
Thanks, Morgan!
This completely opened up my mind. Thank you!
As a person who learned a lot of music theory, this was very strange to watch. But it was interesting to see the comparison of how you learned it versus how I learned it. It was neat trying to translate your ways of teaching into what I already knew. BRAINS ARE COOL.
Thank you so much for this video! I've been wanting someone to make a video like this for a while
Was not prepared for her to start singing troye
avery nicole me neither!
this made sooooo much sense!! i'm trying to learn music by ear, because i think that's the only way that's gonna work for me. i've tryed with sheet music and a real prof piano teacher, but it just didn't work for me. for me music is about doing and feeling and the theory behind is interesting, but it's not what i care for.
This is super helpful. Saving for a uke right now. Definitely coming back to this video. 😘